InterSystems ObjectScript is a scripting language to operate with data using any data model of InterSystems Data Platform (Objects, Relational, Key-Value, Document, Globals) and to develop business logic for serverside applications on InterSystems Data Platform.
When there's a performance issue, whether for all users on the system or a single process, the shortest path to understanding the root cause is usually to understand what the processes in question are spending their time doing. Are they mostly using CPU to dutifully march through their algorithm (for better or worse); or are they mostly reading database blocks from disk; or mostly waiting for something else, like LOCKs, ECP or database block collisions?
Maven is a tool, hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, for building and managing any Java-based project. Apache Maven is the best source of information.
Based on the successful solution for my 2nd contribution to the Contest I used an adapted version for this package. And have some findings I'd like to share.
Multiple communication steps over CPIPE may take time. You won't recognize it on a fast machine. But a slower box with Windows + Docker Desktop + your browser (and more) is neither "Speedy Gonzales" nor a "Road Runner". 🙂
Currently, I'm working on a project that requires highly dynamic event management. In the context of the Java programming language, my first instinct should be to opt for the "Observer Pattern", which is an approach to managing interactions between objects by establishing a notification mechanism. It allows multiple observers to react to changes in the state of a subject autonomously, promoting code flexibility and modularity. If you are not familiar with this design pattern, check out Wikipedia to find more information about it.
While it's natural and commonly used in certain programming languages as Java and C++, in ObjectScript, it's quite a different story.
Here in %SYS, we have already examined users, resources, and roles. Now that we know how to set all of that up, we should give it a purpose. Next we will talk about applications! As you may expect, we will see various identical class methods defined here that we have seen in the previous classes. However, some of them will have some tiny yet significant differences.
ObjectScript allows you to pass any number of arguments using arrays. Do it by adding ... after the argument name.
An example is as follows. In the example statement, the argument information is set in a global variable (a variable stored in the database) so that it can be easily checked after the method is executed.
In the sample below, an image file is encoded into a Base64 string in a class property, saved, decoded again with Base64, and restored to another file.
【Usage class】
Class User.test Extends %Persistent
{
Property pics As %GlobalBinaryStream;
}
The related package avoids adding %JSONAdaptor to each class but uses instead SQL functions JSON_OBJECT() to create my JSON objects. With this approach, you can add JSON to any class - even deployed ones - without any need for change or recompiling.
The trigger was the Export of M:N relationships as JSON objects or arrays.
Earlier this year I announced availability of a VS Code extension for coding in ObjectScript, Embedded Python or SQL using the notebook paradigm popularized by Jupyter. Today I published a maintenance release to correct a "getting started" problem.
Here's a video of the installation steps from the extension's README:
In this article, I'll show you how to run code at compile time with ObjectScript macros.
Here's a use case that recently led me to use this feature:
As part of a medical application developed for more than 20 years, we have a large number of parameters. Although we have procedures for documenting these settings, it can be helpful to have a quick view of which settings are actually used by the application code.
As noted in the previous article Native API has some limits. So I did some research on a more Terminal-like interface that provides me with access like a console or the IRIS terminal to allow my $QUERY over a global and other nice commands that are not supported/mapped in NativeAPI for ObjectScript.
Hi Developers, I'm currently doing a demo about building a front end UI doing data analytics and setup a performance test with large data objects, therefore using "Populate Utility" could help me auto generate some sample data that I can play with.
Within this post I would like to share my experience of using Populate Utility, including using POPSPEC Parameter.
The InterSystems ObjectScript language does not allow you to define methods of the same name with different arguments. It is generally classified as a programming language called a dynamic language.
In ObjectScript, you can freely control which arguments are used when executing a method, so unlike languages such as Java, which are not dynamic programming languages, there is no need to strictly distinguish methods by the number of arguments at the compilation stage.
First of all, let us have a brief overview of the framework.
The entire world is talking about ChatGPT and how Large Language Models(LLMs) have become so powerful and has been performing beyond expectations, giving human-like conversations. This is just the beginning of how this can be applied to every enterprise and every domain!
Excuse if this is obvious to Python programmers but for those crossing over from ObjectScript this may be a useful tip.
The scenario is developing some Embedded python commands.
Testing out functionality is being confirmed via the shell:
$SYSTEM.Python.Shell()
Python 3.9.5 (default, Mar 14 2023, 06:58:44) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type quit() or Ctrl-D to exit this shell.
>>>
When Python evaluates an expression in the shell, it prints the result of the expression to the terminal.
We are looking at what we need to do to migrate from our current usage of Zen reports to InterSystems Reports. One of the hurdles for us is figuring out ways to interact with InterSystems reports programmatically from ObjectScript routines. There is a Java API for it, but it is possible to generate a report from InterSystems reports to a stream object in ObjectScript without diving into Java by using a %Net.HttpRequest. Here is a code example, followed by an explanation:
Methods written in ObjectScript can use pass-by-reference arguments to return information to the caller. Python doesn’t support pass-by-reference arguments, so Embedded Python in IRIS doesn’t support them either. That's it, that's the end of the post, hope you liked it. 😉 But wait, what about the Classic Rock & Roll?
Using the Config.Configuration class and SYS.Database class methods, you can create and register a namespace database from the terminal.
Below is a series of execution examples that create database file /CacheDB/AAA/cache.dat and register database AAA and namespace AAA in the configuration file (cache.cpf). * Execute in the %SYS namespace. *
* Make sure that this script runs as the user that is used for all IRIS processes to ensure that the directory has appropriate ownership and permissions *
Creating your own commands or shortcut is one of the strongest features of ObjectScript If you create your own Language Extensions to ObjectScript you mostly have to find the proper %ZLANGC00 or %ZLANGV00 or %ZLANGF00 and add the extensions manually.
A few utilities do it already automatically (ZPM, ZME, ..) This utility allows you to add your extensions also programmatically.
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