So you're saying you don't want to just use xpath for that?

seeing that that would be handled by the webserver, I don't see how there would need to be explicit support from ISC.

If you're saying you'll fork things. How often are you going to update from the source repo? (i.e. you didn't fork the latest version of yape)

Aside from the security concerns already raised (you should never direct accept user input), I feel the whole approach violates the statelessness of a REST architecture? Thoughts?

Best guess:

your server responds to ICMP but HTTP.

Please clarify if you need more details.

first thing to check is if the mapping configured in your apache is actually forwarding your URL /csp/healthshare/fcoffice/rest/ping to the csp gateway. In this case a wild guess would be: your apache only maps *.csp*.cls.. but not an url like just ping.

Thanks! Here's a resource I use to reference quite often: http://kunststube.net/encoding/

Use ##class(%PopulateUtils).StringMin(minlen,maxlen)

http://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls?PAGE=CLASS&LIBRARY=%25SYS&CLASSNAME=%25Library.PopulateUtils#METHOD_StringMin

Two questions:

• why are you restarting your servers all the time?!
• have you considered using %ZSTART for that? (http://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=GSTU_customize_startstop)

Did you mean to attach anything to this? 

Phase 8 means your databases are being updated. You want to look at more metrics to see what's going on. I.e. the disk write queue and write times would be a good first step to look at in this case. 

What's your big picture problem you're trying to solve? There might be better ways to do that. 

Why do want to use basic for that?

Ultimately the columns are split out using $P(columnHeaders,",",n), so since there is no way to escape the, out of $P, there currently is no way to do that.

Nice, thanks! :) Are you going to discuss the problems with the react license at some point?

As Dan already explained, there isn't a way to say this in a generalized manner. Code, and especially Ensemble code, is highly specialized to each customer's needs.  You are actually in the best position to gauge the impact of adding a field to a class: how much code is touching the class? How much of the code is going to rely on your new fields? etc. 

PDF is a binary format. It is quite ugly and you don't really have any control over what you are getting. The text could be in there as text, as vector image, or even as pixel image. So short of implementing full OCR in Caché, you'll not find a way to do this without using external tools (and even those are not 100% reliable).