This article will describe processes for running unit tests via the InterSystems Package Manager (aka IPM - see https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/InterSystems-Package-Manager-1), including test coverage measurement (via https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/Test-Coverage-Tool).

Unit testing in ObjectScript

There's already great documentation about writing unit tests in ObjectScript, so I won't repeat any of that. You can find the Unit Test tutorial here: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=TUNT_preface

It's best practice to include your unit

I need to obtain the records of the last  2 hours with format (HH:MM:SS), it only leaves me specifying the exact time

Hi,

I am using embeded python to utilize some pythonic library but i got a problem on my hand.
One of the python function i am using return multiple values

in python you would do something like that :

val1, val2, val3, = function(params)

In COS I got something like that :

lib = ##class(%SYS.Python).Import("lib")
val1 = lib.function(params)

And I don't know how to get the second and third values.
Is there a way to get them?

Have successfully installed the Intersystems ObjectScript Extension Pack (version last updated 2024-03-26) in VS Code version 1.88 and when creating a new Class (in a New File of type ObjectScript-class) I am presented only with the following snippets:

When watching the Intersystems training videos (I am fairly new to IS) I notice there are far more options provided. For example from the video "Creating a Custom HL7 V2 Search Table" the following snippets are presented:

Is there an additional extension I am missing or possibly a configuration setting?

Hello,

I have a variables X="1,4,6,8,9,12"  and I want to write a For loop with this variable in similar with the loop below:

For Y=1,4,6,8,9,12 {

  Write Y,!

}

Can someone help?  Thank you.

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If you have system tables implementing the "VERSIONPROPERTY" functionality, you may encounter error 5800. This article explains how this error occurs and provides solutions to resolve the issue.

When version checking is implemented, the property specified by VERSIONPROPERTY is automatically incremented each time an instance of the class is updated (either by objects or SQL).

For example:

ClassMethod RunVersionChange() As %Status
{
    Set sample = ##class(dado.TblSample).%OpenId("42")
    Write !,"VERSIONPROPERTY value: "_ sample.VersionCheck
    
    Do sample.StatusSetObjectId("AL")
    DO

Developing with InterSystems Objects and SQL – IN PERSON (Cambridge office) April 29-May 3, 2024   9:00am-5:00pm US-Eastern Time (EDT)

• This 5-day course teaches programmers how to use the tools and techniques within the InterSystems development environment to build high-performance transactional applications. Learners build a complex application using an IDE, object-oriented design, SQL and unit testing.
• This course is applicable for users of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform and Caché.
• Many benefits are offered by being physically in the classroom with our instructors for a more

Hi Developers!

With InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL recently becoming Generally Available, some of you may have had a chance to try it out. Or maybe you used it for your contest entry or during the EAP period. We're curious to learn what YOU think of it. So, have you already tried the new service InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL? 

We have launched a new Ideas Portal category dedicated to this database-as-a-service (DBaaS) where we're looking for your ideas on how we can improve InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL. 

Or share your experience with the service in the comments to this post. 

Hello,

I have my server setup a resource server.  When a user calls our API they submit a bearer token as authorization and in our dispatch class AccessCheck() we validate the JWT using ##class(%SYS.OAuth2.Validation).ValidateJWT(). 

If I include a scope to check in that method I get the error Scope check may only be done on requesting client and I'm not sure what this means. The method works without include the scope and will let me know if I have an unsigned token or an expired token.  

I noticed that the implementation of the method calls Set

Hi community,

I'm calling to a API that it is retrieving the content of a file as Content of response. I'm catching the binary but I need to convert this Stream to a Base64 string.

I'm trying to convert a %Stream.GlobaBinary to a Base64 string using the following code, but it doesn't work.

do stream1.Rewind()
set response = ""while 'stream1.AtEnd {
    set temp=stream.Read(4000)
    set temp=$system.Encryption.Base64Encode(temp)
    set response = response_temp
}

The content is not correctly converted to Base64

Also, I've tried to convert it as dynamic JSon and get the stream as base64

do

I'm currently making some changes to legacy code and I've noticed that it uses "i $i("  all over the place. Testing in terminal seems like this does the same thing as "do $i()". Is there a difference between these two (and if not is there some interesting history around this)?

Hi, 

I'm trying to send alerts in Ens.Alert process to a teams channel. 

I have already created a production that transforms the incoming alerts and send to a set of user's email but I also wanted to sent it to the teams channel

Any thoughts around this?

I have two timestamp values and also I have interval time, I need to split the timestamp based on the interval time. Like 
Start Time is '2024-01-01T10:00:00'
End Time is '2024-01-01T11:00:00'
Interval Time is 15 minutes
I expected the result is:
'2024-01-01T10:15:00'
'2024-01-01T10:30:00'
'2024-01-01T10:45:00'
'2024-01-01T11:00:00'

Good afternoon!
Has anyone successfully configured connection from Oracle DBLink DG4ODBC to InterSystems Cache or IRIS ? Who can share working configuration for Unicode database? Thx!

Hello and welcome to the Developer Ecosystem Winter News!

This winter was full of online and offline activities in the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem. In case you missed something, we've prepared for you a selection of the hottest news and topics to catch up on!

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 12 applications 🔥 

The 2024.1 release of InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA).

❗This announcement does not apply for InterSystems IRIS^®

Release Highlights

In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:

1. Support for Smart on FHIR 2.0.0
2. FHIR R4 object model generation
3. Improved performance of FHIR queries
4. Removal of the Private Web Server (PWS)
5. and more.

Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

Documentation

Details on all the highlighted features are available through

Hi,

We are setting up FHIR SQL builder analysis set up in cloud but it is refused the connection. Could anyone please help to share your idea to resolve the issue. Why it is throwing connection refused. Any configuration missing?

Thanks,

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Tech Talks:

Hi Guys,

Any Idea on how can make a dynaTree with 4 levels hierarchy (attached), I'm using the below code but sometimes works and other cases it doesn't?  

Set locId=..locId,pos=1,(pLineArr,astArr,compArr)=""
&Sql(Select Parent->Name,ID into :Fac,:kLoc from MSDS_COM.Loc where Parent=:locId)
Set:SQLCODE (Fac,kLoc)=""Set pTree(0,"ch",1) = ""Set pTree(1) = $LB(Fac,locId,1,"","")
Set Sql="Select ProductLine from MSDS_Serenity.ProdLineDetails where Active=1 and Loc="_kLoc_" group by ProductLine order by ID"Set RS = ##class(%ResultSet).%New()
Do RS.Prepare(Sql)
Do RS.Execute()
While

We are writing a custom Business Operation to interact with a downstream SOAP web-service. Classes for the SOAP operation were originally generated using the SOAP Wizard, then modified. This is functioning OK, but we'd now like to set the ReplyCodeActions setting on the operation and are struggling to make it visible via the management portal. How can we achieve this?

The classes are structured like this:

• The Operation uses class TNHS.SOAPclassExtra
• TNHS.SOAPclassExtra  Extends TNHS.SOAPclass
• TNHS.SOAPclass  Extends Ens.BusinessOperation
• Ens.BusinessOperation has a property ReplyCodeActions

Hi everyone.

Is there a sensible approach to having a lookup table in Namespace A, and then accessing this from Namespaces B, C, D (etc)?

I'm trying to avoid creating a Global mapping of the lookup table global (^Ens.LookupTable) as I fear that it would then link all other lookups in that global and lead to some unexpected behaviour, but would be open to trying something in this realm if it's the best option.

Another approach I have considered is creating a custom lookup function that is run from the secondary namespaces that does some namespace hopping, but it feels messy. Something like:

//Get

The following code call the method of the same name as defined in the nearest superclass:

Class MyClass Extends%Persistent
{
  ClassMethod Foo()
  {
  }
}

Class SubClass Extends MyClass
{
  ClassMethod Foo()
  {
      do##super() // <----
  }
}

Not let's say I want to call Foo() super class method but from another method :

Class SubClass Extends MyClass
{
  ClassMethod AnotherMethod()
  {
      do##super().Foo() //will not work
  }
}

This is possible in some other programming languages such as C# or Java.

I cannot find anything in documentation

HealthShare Patient Index – Virtual April 30-May 2, 2024   9:00am-5:00pm US-Eastern Time (EDT)

• This 3-day course teaches the installation, configuration, and use of HealthShare Patient Index.
• Day one focuses on patient identification issues, and the tools that can be used for reviewing records identified by the system for human attention.
• This session is appropriate for both technical staff and administrative staff who manage patient identification issues.

InterSystems has encountered a defect that causes some upgrades of HealthShare® Health Connect to fail. This only affects instances that are not licensed for the use of FHIR® and that have interoperability-enabled namespaces. Under these conditions, the upgrade fails with an <HSFHIRErr> error.

This defect only impacts upgrades to version 2024.1 of HealthShare Health Connect.

The affected version, 2024.1.0.263.0, has been removed from distribution.  A new Point Release is available:

If you have any questions regarding

Hot on the heels of our announcement last week about our ultra-high-performance mg-dbx-napi JavaScript interface for IRIS, we are now pleased to announce a significant new technology - mg_web - which not only represents a new paradigm for JavaScript Web Frameworks, but also delivers significantly higher performance than even the fastest of the established Node.js Web Frameworks, whilst leveraging all the benefits of the big-three industry-standard Web Servers.

Designed with the use of mg-dbx-napi in mind, it's allows straightforward creation of robust, high-performance server-side JavaScript

InterSystems' team is heading to the MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack 2024, taking place from April 19-21 2024!

MIT GrandHack is a premier event that brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, and healthcare professionals from around the world to collaborate on solving some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare through technology and innovation.

InterSystems is pleased to sponsor and support this event, offering our technology to hackers and presenting the "The GenAI in Healthcare" challenge.

We're excited to see the innovative projects that will arise from this event!

EnsLib.File.PassthroughOperation has File Name property with default value: %f_%Q%!+(_a)

The Management Portal documentation description of the property:

Name of file to output the document(s) to. May include timestamp specifiers. The %f specifier if present will be replaced with the name of the document's original source filename (stripped of characters illegal in target filenames).

See the method Ens.Util.File.CreateTimestamp() for documentation of timestamping options.

More documentation describing the behaviour of %f:

We have JSON type data in a Dynamic Object.  Is there a simple way to export / dump that data to a delimited string or file?

e.g.

Results={"ClassA":{"ClassName":"ClassA","ACount":367191880,"BCount":367191880,"CurrentDiff":0,"PreviousDiff":0,"ReportDate":"2024-03-02 00:00:00"}
"ClassB":{"ClassName":"ClassB","ACount":5352149227,"BCount":5352149227,"CurrentDiff":0,"PreviousDiff":0,"ReportDate":"2024-03-02 00:00:00"}}