Can objectgenerators see compile flags?

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David Hockenbroch · Sep 22, 2022

If I'm using an objectgenerator, is there a way to check the compile flags and have it behave differently based on which flags are set?

And as a tangent, is there a list somewhere of what compile flags there are?

Product version: Caché 2018.1

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Lorenzo Scalese · Sep 22, 2022

Hello @David Hockenbroch

I tested this simple method using CodeMode = Objectgenerator :

Method test() [ CodeMode = objectgenerator ]
{
    Write
    Quit 1
}

Do $SYSTEM.OBJ.Compile("User.NewClass1","ck")
We can see a lot of variable values at compile time :

....
%qstruct="ck"
....

%qstruct contains compile flags and qualifiers

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Eduard Lebedyuk · Sep 22, 2022

If I'm using an objectgenerator, is there a way to check the compile flags and have it behave differently based on which flags are set?

A very exciting way to introduce some unexpected behavior down the line.

What is your use case?

And as a tangent, is there a list somewhere of what compile flags there are?

Sure:

do $system.OBJ.ShowFlags()
do $system.OBJ.ShowQualifiers()

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2022-09-22T12:57:08-04:00

Do you know that you can just do ZWrite in objectgenerator method, and see the all variables?

So, you would find %qstruct variable, where you could check all the compile flags

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2022-09-22T14:40:32-04:00

That shows me what I wanted. Thank you!

My use case has to do with change logs on our development server. Having looked at your and Lorenzo's answers, I've got a class set up with an objectgenerator method. It looks at the flags, and if there's an "a" or "v" it adds an entry to a versioninfo table I've made that contains a major version number, a minor version number, the username who compiled the class, and a field for notes which we can fill in later. If it's the "a", the new entry keeps the most recent major version and increments the minor version. If it's a "v", it increments the major version and sets the minor version to 0.

Now I can go into Studio and Compile with options adding either of those flags to get the desired results.

This is a pretty immature idea so far. I just wanted to see if it was possible before I went too much further in depth on it.

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2022-09-23T03:34:47-04:00

I'd suggest using source control and CI/CD to track changes.

Additionally you can add parent commit hash and compile time automatically.