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Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 13, 2023 go to post

@Timothy Leavitt, help me, but it looks like git-source-control gets the elements from module.xml

if you have this classes or packages in module.xml, they are in source-control.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 13, 2023 go to post

With this approach nothing is needed: no global and all the elements of production are already “in source-control”. no manual adding via UI needed too.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 12, 2023 go to post

Turned out, the following call should be executed to let source control start working:

do ##class(%Studio.SourceControl.Interface).SourceControlClassSet("SourceControl.Git.Extension")

Check Interoperability template to discover Git integration for Interoperability UI components. Production, Business Rules (old UI), Business Process and Data Transformations are supported.

Things to know:

1. Make sure the settings export changes in the folder you want, can be adjusted in the git-control UI.

2. Every Interoperability component should be first added to source control manually (in the git-control UI, add button).

3. Make sure you export the git-control settings too! They are in ^SYS global. @Timothy Leavitt , we also need source control for git-control settings ;) (Could be a ^git-control global name ?)

For now I use the following line to export it in a proper format and in a proper place, which I still call in a Terminal:

do $System.OBJ.Export("SYS*.GBL","/irisdev/app/src/gbl/SYS.xml",,.errors)

And I import it with the following setting in module.xml:

<Resource Name="SYS.GBL"/>,

a full module.xml example. 

4. @Timothy Leavitt , Would be great to have the UI to have the editable list of all the source-controlled elements. E.g. to easily transfer ^SYS global between projects. As the majority of settings for docker-enabled setups are the same, but the list of source-control elements is different.

@Guillaume Rongier , have a look! )

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 11, 2023 go to post

I think we are heading the NPM route. Quantity does not mean better. Quality does. We are all strong developers and individuals, and we all want to make a difference and contribute. We all also want that contest prize, to be honest. The contest prize I think pushes the people, which is good, but maybe contributes towards the single contributor packages. I am not saying the contests should stop, but maybe when doing something for a contest, try and do it and take part without making a new package. Chat with the Repo owner - I am sure the owner will not mind if you improve on their repo and get the prize.

Regarding it. First of all, thank you for the feedback. This is very important and we are looking for such a feedback all the time.

Yes, we have 700 apps, and 4 years ago we had zero and contests helped to have some variety.

Also, I hope every member of this developer community could participate in a contest with the new app, as it as we think gives a habit to stand-out from your own dev-bubble and consider docker, ipm, online demos, unit-testing and sometimes provide a feedback!

But on contrary we encourage very much re-applying with already created apps and we see several improved apps even in the current contest.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 11, 2023 go to post

If there is a step-by-step instruction how to setup python environment on Mac I’d appreciate very much

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 11, 2023 go to post

Hi Stefan!

There is a special field in the app description on OEX regarding the video. If you do this it appears on the apps page in Videos section. e.g. like here.

Otherwise it's not clear where to look for it.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 10, 2023 go to post

Also, we encourage participants of the contests to apply again with the existing apps and add new features into them. And developers do that.

On the team forming: we invite developers to participate as teams - and some of them do that. We have a team of 3 developers from Brazil who participate in a recent contest with iris-trippleslash. But of course it'd be great to see more teams like that.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 10, 2023 go to post

Hi @Stefan Cronje !

Thanks for raising this topic! In fact we are aware of the problem and introduce different features and services that can increase the level of quality of the applications.

1. We give the bonus for the ObjectScript quality, and all the templates contain ObjectScript linter, that free of charge monitors ObjectScript public code upon a set of rules. 

And we introduced a special filter on OEX that shows only such apps.

2. We encourage developers to review applications. And to simplify the review, we encourage usage IPM (and we have a special filter) and applications with online demos, as this saves the time of reviewers greatly.

3. We'd love to see projects with multiple contributions and the first thing that could help contributors is to easily setup the dev environment - and here nothing is best than docker environment. That's why we encourage docker usage so much and dockerfile is presented in each and every template.

4. We have InterSystems supported samples and templates to show the set of trusted applications and establish the code guidelines.

Actually, you can see the focus of the enhancements if you look what bonuses we suggest for the applications in contests - they are all connected to what we think can increase the quality of applications and engage its usage.

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 7, 2023 go to post

Sounds like a good enhancement request.

I'd place this as a embedded link (like debug and copy invocation) but above the classname, like "goto line" - you click it, place the copied debug string and it goes to the line. And opens "Other code" in neighbor window if needed.

Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 27, 2023 go to post

Hi Stefan! Usually not. We know, that rules changing doesn’t help.

But sometimes, very rarely, we add bonuses on-the-go. Like this time we believe that this bonus will help to pay attention to ideas, published by community members, and implement solutions, that community requested and voted for. And there is still 10 days to submit the app and one week more to polish it. We believe this bonus will not harm anyone. If it does - we can discuss it.

Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 23, 2023 go to post

What a contest!

It'd be great if someone could implement the tool to export Interoperability components into a local folder with every changes saved in the interoperability UI?

Currently git-source-control can do the job, but it is not complete. Some Interoperability components (e.g. business rules) are not being exported. And lookup tables are exported in an not importable format.

I published and idea regarding it.

Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 23, 2023 go to post

Never mind. 

Turned out I didn't %Source to %Source data copy in transformation thus there were no filename in the result file.

The only question left - how to manage Headers line in such a production? If possible?

Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 22, 2023 go to post

Thank you, Robert!

This could work but for some reason '%f' doesn't work for record mapper:

I'm getting <NOTOPEN> error if it is only the '%f'

and if I use the default setting of FileOperation as '%f_%Q%!+(_a)' I get the file name that starts from '_' symbol and looks like:

_2023-01-22_13.10.49.784

Maybe it is the way to update this setting on-the-go somehow? E.g. with a callback?

Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 21, 2023 go to post

Indeed, it works! Thank you, Robert!

One issue though: as a result of Operation I have one new file per new message/record in a source file. Any chance to ask Production to put all the same amount records as were in the initial file?