In this article I would like to present the RESTForms project - generic REST API backend for modern web applications.

The idea behind the project is simple -after I wrote several REST APIs I realized that generally, REST API consists of two parts:

• Work with persistent classes
• Custom business logic

And, while you'll have to write your own custom business logic, RESTForms provides all things related to working with persistent classes right out of the box.
Use cases

• You already have a data model in Caché and you want to expose some (or all) of the information in a form of REST API
• You are developing a new Caché application and you want to provide a REST API

As stated in title, I want to log everything I type/get in the terminal to a log file, is there a setting like this somewhere?

Preferably I'd like to enable it once and that's it.

I have a following ZEN report:

Class ZENApp.Report Extends %ZEN.Report.reportPage
{

/// Class name of application this report belongs to.
Parameter APPLICATION = "ZENApp.SampleApp";

/// Specifies the default display mode used for this report if
/// the URL parameter, <var>$MODE</var>, is not present.
Parameter DEFAULTMODE As STRING  = "xlsx";

/// This XML defines the logical contents of this report.
XData ReportDefinition [ XMLNamespace = "http://www.intersystems.com/zen/report/definition" ]
{
<report xmlns="http://www.intersystems.

I had default csp application: /csp/<namespace>  for a namespace.

Later I created another application: /csp2/<namespace>  and  made it default.

Yet all namespace-specific (Ensemble, DeepSee, SQL, etc.) links in management portal still point to/csp/<namespace>.

Is there any way to make the links in management portal point to /csp2/<namespace>?

In this article I would like to tell you about macros in InterSystems Caché. A macro is a symbolic name that is replaced with a set of instructions during compilation. A macro can “unfold” in various instruction sets each time it is called, depending on the parameters passed to it and activated scenarios. This can be both static code and the result of ObjectScript execution. Let's take a look at how you can use them in your application.

Recently I wrote about automatic removal of system methods from the codebase.

Today, I'm ready to present you a working solution (codename: SMR) for this task.

End users sure love Excel tables. So, how can you deliver the second to the first? Read this post to find out.

I have a class with a string property with DISPLAYLIST and VALUELIST parameters specified.

When I query this class via ODBC I receive logical value as it is and not a display value.

Is there any way (without stored procedure) to get display value?

As we've all heard 2016.2 draws near and brings the removal of system methods with it.

There are two ways to make the code compatible with 2016.2:

• Replace system methods with new methods
• Replace system methods with macros

We're developing Ensemble PoC and one day our frontend developer (who doesn't have Ensemble production running) said that Populate just doesn't cut it and he needs to see the real data. He needed only one object, but the problem was - it's a big object. Still, I checked ids of everything related and wrote this command (parts omitted, but you get the idea):

w
$SYSTEM.OBJ.Export("project.model.contract.ContractD(6456).gbl,project.model.coA7F9.ObjectAddressD(6741).gbl,project.model.meter.DeviceD(23398).gbl,project.model.StatusHistoryD(7977).gbl,project.model.StatusHistoryD(48006).gbl,project.

Let's say I have a global named ^a and I need to export its nodes 1, 2, 3, 5 only.

Currently I write something like this:

Write $SYSTEM.OBJ.Export("a(1).gbl,a(2).gbl,a(3).gbl,a(5).gbl", "C:\Users\eduard\Desktop\a.xml")

Is there a way to write it shorter? I want to write global node once and list all the subscripts I need.

    In the previous article, I had just started working with Arduino, and got a meteorological station to show as a result. In this article, let's go further: we will set  up authentication via RFID cards and Arduino against the InterSystems Caché  application.

Let's say we have two serial classes, one as a property of another:

Class test.Serial Extends %SerialObject
{
Property Serial2 As test.Serial2;
}

Class test.Serial2 Extends %SerialObject
{
Property Property As %String;
}

And a persistent class, that has a property of test.Serial type:

Class test.Persistent Extends %Persistent
{

Property Datatype As %String;

Property Serial As test.Serial;

}

So it's a serial, inside a serial, inside a persistent object.

I have the following Ensemble request:

Class MyApp.MyRequest Extends (%Persistent, Ens.Request)
{
Property idToTokenArray As %ArrayOfDataTypes;
}

On SMP Testing service page it looks like this:

But my attempts to set idToTokenArray have not yielded any positive results so far. How do I need to fill it?

Process-private Globals  can be used as a data global in storage definition. That way, each process can have its own objects for the class with ppg storage. For example lets define a pool, which can:

• add elements to a pool (ignoring duplicates)
• check if an element exists in the pool

Here's the class:

/// Stores unique identifiers
Class Utils.Pool Extends %Persistent
{

Property Value As %String;

Index IDKEY On Value [ IdKey, PrimaryKey, Unique ];

Method %OnNew(Value As %String = "") As %Status [ Private, ServerOnly = 1 ]
{
    Set .

Today, I was reading some source code, and encountered the following method signature:

Method SendRequestSync(pRequest As %Library.Persistent, ByRef pResponse As %Library.Persistent)

And I immediately thought, why is there a ByRef?

I have the following problem:

• There are several classes with method generators, which needs to be compiled during every compilation
• I have "ckub" qualifiers enabled in studio
• I don't want to remove "u" qualifier because I need it very much in another namespaces

So how do I force classes with method generators to recompile when "u" qualifier is present?

For each defined property, query or an index, several corresponding methods would be automatically generated on a class compilation. These methods can be very useful. In this article, I would describe some of them.

Go to My Content -> Collaborations and scroll down. After hitting the bottom of the page, the more results are loaded and the page becomes longer, but the view jumps back to the beginning of the page.

Expected behavior:  the view stays where it was after loading more results.

Here's  a code snippet to calculate the length of a class or a package in lines of code:

ClassMethod ProjectLength(Mask As %String = "%Package%")
{
    Set count = 0
    Set sql =     "SELECT Name "_
                "FROM %Dictionary.ClassDefinition "_
                "WHERE NOT Name %STARTSWITH '%sqlcq' AND Name LIKE ? AND GeneratedBy IS NULL"
    Set rset = ##class(%SQL.Statement).%ExecDirect(, sql, Mask)
 
    While rset.%Next() {
        Set class = rset.%Get("Name")
        Do ##class(%Compiler.UDL.TextServices).GetTextAsArray(, class, .

Long story short, I created some test data, then deleted it. The database (cache.dat) is 67 GB in size (was around 1 GB before tests).

How do I compact that?

I have a MySQL server with "posts" table.

I also have a Caché server with "downloadedposts" table. 

They are connected from Caché to MySQL via SQL Gateway

I want to keep Caché table synced with MySQL one  (MySQL "posts" table is a master copy), so periodically Caché queries MySQL server and downloads data. So far so good, and if a record appears or changes in MySQL table, Caché downloads the changes.

The problem I'm encountering is that sometimes rows would be deleted from  MySQL "posts" table.

How do I synchronize deletions?

Problem: Caché instance connects periodically to an Oracle database via jdbc and downloads data. Sometimes data on a remote server would change.

When I open a Business Process in Studio I am shown a BPL diagram.

 I want to see a class definition directly.

Is there any way to achieve that behaviour in Studio?

Let's say I open a stream/file.

If it's not in UTF8 i need to call $ZCVT, and if it's already in UTF8, then I don't need to call $ZCVT.

Is there any way to determine character encoding for input stream/file?

Problem: I have a REST broker, and if I hit a code block, which does IO redirection, the REST reply becomes broken in one of the following ways:

• Binary output
• No output
• First 4096 characters of the reply are missing

Consider the following REST broker:

Class A.REST Extends %CSP.REST
{

XData UrlMap
{
<Routes>
<Route Url="/Test/:redirect" Method="GET" Call="Test"/>
 </Routes>
}

ClassMethod Test(Redirect As %Boolean = {$$$YES}) As %Status
{
    Set str = $TR($J("",4098)," ","1") // Get a string with the length of 4098 symbols
    
    Do:Redirect .

In MySQL I have the following table:

CREATE TABLE `info` (
   `created` int(11)
);

And it is linked (via JDBC SQL Gateway) to Cache table mysql.info.  `created` field stores unix timestamp. So when I execute  this SQL in SMP:

SELECT created FROM mysql.info

I receive the following output (which is expected):

But I want to to display `created` field converted to ODBC timestamp format. To do that I call this SQL procedure

Class mysql.

I need to call Ensemble Business Operation by sending authorised (basic auth, cache user) HTTP request (REST-like). How can I achieve that?

Maybe configure a Business Service, but which one has this functionality?

Introduction

I have a Cache classes with %TimeStamp (e.g. 2016-04-18 12:29:11) and %Date (eg. 64027) properties. And I have a javascript client app, which needs full CRUD over this properties.

But in javascript date/time are defined by ISO8601 (e.g. timestamp 2016-04-18T12:29:11Z, date 2016-04-18).