Question
· Apr 11, 2019

SQL projections of dictionaries in IRIS NLP (a.k.a iKnow)

In Cache'/Ensemble, by specifying the objectsPackage parameter, dictionaries (and other objects) get projected to tables that can be accessed by SQL queries.

But in IRIS (IRIS for UNIX (Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers) 2019.1 (Build 507U) Mon Feb 25 2019 13:47:16 EST), when I created a dictionary with ##class(%iKnow.Matching.DictionaryAPI).CreateDictionary(), it does not get projected to a table.

The class APIs correctly retrieve information about this dictionary.

Am I missing something with IRIS, or is there any issues about this?

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Horita-san,

not sure whether you mean the projection (table) itself is missing or the row you created through the API isn't showing up. This works fine for me, but in order to combine the use of APIs with a domain definition, you have to set the allowCustomUpdates flag to true (off by default).  See also the notes in this article on the dictionary builder demo

When set to false, the API methods like CreateDictionary() will return an error (passed by reference, the returned ID will be below zero to indicate a failure).

Hope this helps,
benjamin