#ObjectScript

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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.

Documentation.

Article Gevorg Arutiunian · Sep 20, 2018 2m read

This code snippet determines the day of the week associated with a date. The class method "test" takes a date as a string in "mm/dd/yyyy" format, and returns an integer corresponding to a day of the week:


Class cartertiernan.getDayfromDate Extends %RegisteredObject
{
	classmethod test(date) as %Integer {
		//Set date = $ZDATE(date) //  Looks like: mm/dd/yyyy
    Set monthList = $LISTBUILD(0,3,3,6,1,4,6,2,5,0,3,5) // (Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,...)
    Set centuryList = $LISTBUILD(6,4,2,0) // first two digits divisiable by 4, then subsequent centuries. EX (2000, 2100, 2200, 2300)
    Set dayList = $LISTBUILD("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday") // Index goes from 0-6
     
    Set day = $PIECE(date,"/",2) // get the day 
    Set monthVal = $LIST(monthList,($PIECE( date,"/",1 ))) // get the month value
    Set first2DigsYear = $PIECE( date,"/",3 ) \ 100 // get the last 2 digits of the year
    Set last2DigsYear = $PIECE( date,"/",3 ) # 100 // get the first 2 digits of the year
     
    // Used for DEBUG perpouses
    /*write !,"day: ",day
    write !,"Month: ",monthVal
    write !,"last2: ",last2DigsYear
    write !,"first2: ",first2DigsYear
    write !,"cen Val: ",$LIST(centuryList,(first2DigsYear # 4) + 1),!!*/
     
    // Look here for formula explination (its the "Basic method for mental calculation")
    // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination_of_the_day_of_the_week
    Set dayOfWeekVal = ( day + monthVal + last2DigsYear + (last2DigsYear\4) + $LIST(centuryList,(first2DigsYear # 4) + 1 ) ) # 7
 
    Quit dayOfWeekVal
}

}

Here's a link to the code on GitHub

(originally posted to CODE by Carter Tiernan, 6/18/14)

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Question Santhosh Gladson · Sep 20, 2018

Hello Experts,

I have a silly question of using InsertParam method and usage. I understand it is name value pair. I am using GET method to send a url and to get the details from server. URL has multiparameter

URL -  api/Identifier/Image/?Verify.EDD={EDD}&Verify.Ethnicity={ETHNICITY}

I have used the URL in a method and called that method directly in the business operation. I am using Insertparam method -

do httpRequest.InsertParam("EDD",..Data.Verify.EDD)
do httpRequest.InsertParam("ETHNICITY",..Data.Verify.Ethnicity)

where httpRequest is an object of

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Question Scott Roth · Sep 13, 2018

We have the need to write a function that can loop through say a field in an OBX segment within HL7 and compare it to a string passed. Is it possible to have the user enter the Operator ( >,<,=,<>) as a variable inside Cache object script? Does anyone have any examples they can share?

Thanks

Scott Roth

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

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Question Galena Teneva · Jul 5, 2018

Hi,
it is possible to convert a csv file to json file?

I want to stream json files and output the data as it comes in from the files. So my files are "csv" type and I want to convert these files to "json" type.


I can read csv file as follows:

ClassMethod ReadFile()
{
    set stream = ##class(%Stream.FileCharacter).%New()
    set sc = stream.LinkToFile("*.csv")
    do stream.Rewind()
    while'stream.AtEnd {
        set line=stream.ReadLine()
        write line,!
}
What should I add to convert it to "json" and read it again?

Thank you

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Question Stephen De Gabrielle · Sep 6, 2018

Hi,

I have a routing rule that calls some utility classmethods, but for some reason the compiled version insists on linking to a utility function in a different package.

The call to 'SendToEaling(HL7)' in  isn't compiling to a call to the LNWTIEPackage as expected:

##class(LNWTIEPackage.RoutingRules.Utility).SendToEaling((pContext.HL7))

but is instead becoming a call to the LNWDeploy package

##class(LNWDeployRoutingRules.Utility).SendToEaling((pContext.

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Question Sylvie Greverend · Sep 6, 2018

I am trying to initialize a list of %string property to an empty list, and after add eleements.
d ##class(Test.Test).Test("hello") ; works perfectly
d ##class(Test.Test).Test("") ; does not work, the list stays empty

How can I do that. Thank you so much

Class Test.Test Extends %Persistent
{
Property ReviewedBy As list Of %String;
ClassMethod Test(val = "")
{
 Set = ##class(Forerun.Test).%New()
If val'="" Do t.ReviewedBy.Insert(val)
Else  Do t.ReviewedBy.Clear()       ;  does not work also Set t.ReviewedBy = ""
$$$THROWONERROR(tSC, t.%Save())
Set id = t.%Id()
Set user = "me"
&SQL(UPDATE Test.

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Article Gevorg Arutiunian · Sep 6, 2018 1m read

This code snippet allows for a file on the web to be saved into the file system. Specify the server and GET request, as well as the directory the file should be saved to. The class method "test" runs the code:


Class objectscript.saveFileHTTP Extends %RegisteredObject
{
	classmethod test() {
		Set httprequest = ##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New()
		Set httprequest.Server = "docs.intersystems.com"
		Do httprequest.Get("documentation/cache/20172/pdfs/GJSON.pdf")
    Do $System.OBJ.Dump(httprequest.HttpResponse)
	 
	Set stream=##class(%FileBinaryStream).%New()
	Set stream.Filename="c:\test.pdf"

	Write stream.CopyFrom(httprequest.HttpResponse.Data)
	Write stream.%Save()
}

}

Here's a link to the code on GitHub

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Discussion Francis Galiegue · Apr 4, 2016

Hello community!

At the global summit in Phoenix, we (Lite Solutions) will be presenting a tool performing static code analysis on ObjectScript source files. You can see it in action at this URL:

https://demo.cachequality.com

Technically, the tool is a language plugin over SonarQube (http://sonarqube.org) and consists of three main parts:

  • parsing the language,
  • collecting metrics,
  • collecting issues.

The third point is where we kindly request for feedback.

Explanation: issues are the result of rules being triggered by inspecting the source files.

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Question Mack Altman · May 26, 2016

Does anyone have any experience with getting, unfortunately, an older version of Cache to authenticate via SMTP to send email? I have verified that the settings are set up properly on the mailbox as I have successfully sent an email from a LAMP server, which comes from the same IP address.

If you have any thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

This is the error I receive

ERROR #6034: SMTP server connection failed during MAIL FROM command: <READ>zSend+105^%Net.SMTP.1.

when I run the following.

S() Public {
server=##class(%Net.SMTP).%New()
server.smtpserver="smtp.office365.com"
server.

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Announcement Daniel Tamajon · May 21, 2018

As a developer, usually I'm concerned about how my code health is, and how the other coders code can affect to my own work.  And I'm quite sure most of us feel very similar.

In our company we use a Static Code Analysis tool to analyze code for different languages to ensure we are writing high quality and easily maintainable code by following a few best practices in terms of code structure and content. And the question was: why should be different for Caché ObjectScript language?

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Question Stella Ticker · Jul 20, 2018

The REST webservice works perfectly when run on SOAP UI. This end point server is an https site that uses basic authentication (uname and pwd).  But when I run the request through an Enslib.Rest.Operation using a configured SSL and stored credentials, I get an "unauthorized" error, unless I explicitly hard code the password in the operation class. HS Version is 2014.1 .

I have 2 questions. Pardon me, they are both related!!

1: How can the httprequest object be viewed in

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Article Benjamin Thorne · Jul 24, 2018 1m read

The following code allows a user to view the audit settings of their instance. Run the code by running the class method "test":


class objectscript.checkAudit Extends %RegisteredObject
{
	classmethod test() {
		w "Checking for Auditing.",!
		Set SYSOBJ = ##class(Security.System).%OpenId("SYSTEM")
		If +SYSOBJ = 0 Set SYSOBJ = ##class(Security.System).%New()
		i SYSOBJ.AuditEnabled {
			w "Security Auditing is enabled for the following services",!
			s rs=##class(%ResultSet).%New("Security.
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Discussion Evgeny Shvarov · Apr 22, 2018

Hi, Community!

Have a question for general discussion. 

In ObjectScript we have cls for classes and mac code, which both compile into int code. 

Is there any reason when you use mac instead of cls  for non-persistent classes?

For me the benefits for cls are:

1. Inheritance and other OOP features

2. Auto-documented code 

For mac one visible benefit is easier call in terminal:

do method^Utils(p1,p2)

vs

do ##class(Package.Utils).method(p1,p2)

What is your choice and why?

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Question Laura Cavanaugh · Jul 12, 2018

I have a class that has a property calledTags (like DescriptiveWords, but tags), where multiple tags are possible.  I am trying to decide on list of Objects vs. array of Objects.

Based on this post: https://community.intersystems.com/post/querying-list-property-sql, sounds like using an array of Objects is the better way to go. Indeed, I already noticed that it's not possible to have duplicates when using an array of Objects.

However, I am unable to make my queries on the array of Object use an index.

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Question Jasenko Donlagic · Jul 3, 2018

Hi everyone,

I am still learning the platform for a student project and have to do some streaming and data analysis next. Since for my case I have no "live api" I wanted to just stream json files and output the data as it comes in from the files. (basically to emulate a incoming data scenario)

So thanks to the documentation and community posts I have figured how to create a stream and read data from a JSON but since I'm also new to JSON I have some parsing problems. I don't know how to access subarrays/sub-objects via objectscript.

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Question Stephen Wilson · Aug 8, 2017

I came across this behaviour when debugging some Cache ObjectScript code.  I have provided a simple example below.

Example 1:

 START
 ZBREAK /TRACE:ON:"C:/temp/zbreak_trace.log"
 ZBREAK *VAR1:"T"
 ZBREAK *VAR2:"T"
 ZBREAK *VAR3:"T"
 Set (VAR1,VAR2,VAR3)=""
 Kill VAR1,VAR2,VAR3
 Quit

Trace Output:

Trace: ZBREAK SET VAR3="" at START+5^TRACE

Trace: ZBREAK KILL VAR1 at START+6^TRACE

Trace: ZBREAK KILL VAR2 at START+6^TRACE

Trace: ZBREAK KILL VAR3 at START+6^TRACE

$ZV value:

Cache for Windows (x86-32) 2017.
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