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Michael Davidovich · Mar 11, 2019

@Ben Spead @Evgeny Shvarov 

I watched the video, thank you!

As a new Cache developer, I'm curious to know if TestCoverage will ever be implemented in a future release of ObjectScript in the %UnitTest framwork versus why it stands alone as in InterSystems developed OpenExchange project.

Still learning the differences between Cache, ObjectScript, all the InterSystems' applications and how it all intersects with what my company has been doing in Mumps for the past 30 years.  

If I can reel back to some basics, however.  Because I never really written a complex applications, my sense of testing as always been "write a little, run it, write a little run it," and usually that was in Java.  It was easy to write a driver class or main method to test the code and see what was going on.  I suppose in a more complex system that is always growing, you need something like this unit test framework to single out these classes to run without writing a separate driver class, or at least in this case TestManager is acting as that driver class.  Am I on the write track on how to think about this?

Thanks for everyone's help!

Michael Davidovich · Mar 8, 2019

Thanks @Roberto Cahanap 

The catalyst for my initial post was simply reading the package and class documentation for %UnitTest.  I noticed that whoever set up our unit testing framework here was only using the %TestCase class and %Manager class.  There are many other classes in the package, and I'm trying to get a sense if we are utilize the tools in the package to the greatest extent.  

The other half of it is that I'm a very new programmer (brand new pretty much) and I'm not accustom to unit tests.  I'm curious to know how others do it so I can see where's there common ground and where people differ.

I'm going to watch the presentation linked above and then get back with more questions.

MD

Michael Davidovich · Jan 3, 2019

Ah yes, I see this now!  Thank you!

I can see the ^(Package).PersonD global created in our global exploration tool, however it won't let me read it.  When I load and run the routine in the terminal and do a ZW I get data that looks like this:

person1=<OBJECT REFERENCE>[1@Test.MXD.Person]

The status indicator for the %Save shows success (1).  

Now how do I do it the other way around?  Let's say a global ^PEOPLE already exists?   How do I create a class do deal with that?  If I create a class User.People, the global ^User.PeopleD will be created when I want it to use ^PEOPLE.

MD

Michael Davidovich · Jan 3, 2019

Right, I've been working with the documentation and training, but I came here because I don't think it's always very clear.

In your example here you've use .%Save() to save to the Person table.  Is that the same thing as the ^PERSON global? 

Based on what I've tried, I would say it is not.  So you see I'm trying to use ObjecScript and object to update my ^PERSON global.

Does that make sense?

MD

Michael Davidovich · Jan 3, 2019

Thanks, Scott.  

What you explained about IRIS was what someone told me about Cache, lol!  I'd be interested to know other perspectives on the grouping of products and what they are, but what you've said makes sense.

I might rephrase my problem with globals: let say I've been using Cache/MUMPS for many years and all my data is in globals.  With the advent of ObjectScript and studio, I would like to take a more object oriented approach to manipulating my data.  How would I create a class to do that?

^PERSON(1) = "MIKE|MALE|DEVELOPER"

^PERSON(2) = "SCOTT|MALE|MASTER PROGRAMMER"

How would I create a class to do the CRUD ops on these existing globals?

Thanks!

Mike