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· Feb 15, 2016 1m read

Announce: Java package to import XMLs/export as sources

#Tools #Caché

Hello,

This package may be of interest...

Link: https://github.com/litesolutions/cachedb-import

I have programmed this over a hunch, in order to facilitate the retrieval of source code from a Caché installation. It makes use of the Java API provided by Caché.

Right now, I use it as a means to salvage sources in order to analyze them using the SonarQube plugin I develop for my employer. Unfortunately this plugin is not open source.

I am calling for help here, on two fronts:

  • improve the code,
  • obtain source samples to analyze!
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Francis Galiegue · Mar 3, 2016

I am theoretically not allowed to show the site but here goes:

https://demo.cachequality.com

As to "what I do", it is just writing a language plugin, and that implies filling basic metrics (number of files, classes, methods, etc) and writing code checks...

Feel free to have a look around but please note that I am not a seasoned COS developer, therefore some checks may be grossly {over,under}estimated as to their severity and time to fix... I'm happy to receive any feedback!

Note that I already know that there _are_ false positives on the reports; I'm working to fix them.

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Francis Galiegue · Mar 7, 2016

Hello,

As to the release date: I cannot really say more than "end of Q1", sorry. I'm the tech guy, not the project manager :)

As to an option to write your own checks, all I can say is this: there will be a presentation of this plugin at the InterSystems summit in Phoenix; and a plan is to collect user feedback. It is already being considered to include this feature, however its cost is non negligible... But man, it'd be nice. In short, I sincerely believe that this will be a feature, but maybe not in the very first version!

Again, sorry, I cannot say more and I have already said waaaay too much.

In the meanwhile, I know the rules not to be perfect in any way, so if you have feedback, please send it to me by mail :p It should be in my profile!

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Francis Galiegue · Mar 3, 2016

Those are indicators; rather, metric evolutions.

Metrics are numeric values, and an up arrow means an increase and a down arrow means a decrease, so far it's rather obvious.

As to green and red, those represent the perceived direction, and this is defined in the metric. As could be guessed, green means better and red worse, but it may be that for some metrics a _higher_ value is in fact better.

In the image you posted here, the metric on the right hand side is the technical debt and a higher value is considered worse; the other column is the number of lines of code and it is shown as increasing because I solved a parser error for a file in that project.

Note that this view displays the tendency over 30 days. The rhythm at which you run analyses is yours to choose. And I need to update the plugin... There are quite a few false positives, and the technical debt of a few of these projects may drop as a result!

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