Yes, something like that could work. I personally won't spend time on this, as I refuse to use the browser editors for this reason. I still use Studio for everything. It has it's annoyances, but at least it doesn't destroy my work for no good reason.

(This whole conversation astonishes me. We are talking about ideas and votes, like this is some minor inconvenience to some, instead of a prio 1 bug that InterSystems should fix yesterday.)

I agree with the problem (and the emotional effect it has!), less with the solution. The moment I e.g. take a call, the BPL/DTL may not be in a state fit to save it. Making the server handle this seems overly complicated. My personal preference would be to just have a simple JavaScript method keep the web session alive as long as the browser is open. That would also alleviate the need for these constant "Your session is about to expire" popups in the Ensemble production portal.

And for completeness: setting a property with a name not known until runtime can be done with the counterpart of getattr, setattr:

USER>do ##class(%SYS.Python).Shell()

Python 3.10.6 (main, Mar 10 2023, 10:55:28) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type quit() or Ctrl-D to exit this shell.
>>> e=iris.cls("%Exception.PythonException")._New("MyOops",123,"def+123^XYZ","SomeData")
>>> e.Name
'MyOops'
>>> setattr(e,'Name','TheirOops')
>>> e.Name
'TheirOops'

In our case, it adds 2.3s to a build that takes way longer than that. (Our build creates Foundation namespaces, and loading the FHIR resources takes insanely long.) I expect this to be Python startup time, plus some time proportional to the amount of data to copy (roughly 300MB in my test).

Thanks, this is very useful. I've just tested this on an image with various build steps, and this saves us quite a bit of image space. The copy step now adds a little under 300MB to the base image, instead of almost 5GB (!). Squashing an image has the same effect, but prevents layer caching, so each push to a docker repository would upload the entire image. Your way, after the first time, presumably just the 300MB. Nice!

Interestingly, we've had already contacted our sales engineers about the massive amount of image disk space used after our build steps. I couldn't find what it's used for; the actual Linux filesystem is way smaller. The build steps also don't visibly use significant disk space, that I could find. I'm hoping InterSystems manages to do something about this in the future. In the meantime, we've got a nice workaround. Thanks again!

I would file this with WRC. The settings documentation suggest that you can specify the in- and output encoding with the Charset (Tekenset) setting. That implies that you should set that to utf-8, but that doesn't actually work. From looking at the source code, it appears that the business service (EnsLib.REST.Service) hardcodes a %GlobalBinaryStream response stream, which will output the bytes as they are.

As a workaround you could convert (encode) the stream to UTF-8 yourself before sending it.

I like to second Dmitry's concerns. I can somewhat see the reasoning behind removing as much as possible from the docker images. Especially if convenient docker or docker-compose recipes are made available, this could perhaps be of limited inconvenience. But for the Windows installers, I really don't see the point. Especially on a developer system, if/when the internal server is not accessible from the outside world, security is not an issue at all. If it is, an option not to install the built-in apache could be added. Giving us choices, instead of taking them away. I consider removing the built-in SMP server a major inconvenience.

Just to be clear: in future IRIS installations, the System Management Portal will be unavailable, unless you have a web server installed and configured?

Separate question: the EAP program page mentioned above requires a login, and then offers to download an evaluation version of IRIS. I just want to look at that FAQ, which I couldn't find. Could that be made available more easily?

I'm not sure about the meaning of the Distributed column, but this does indeed look suspicious. If you have that option, I'd stop and start IRIS (which should clear existing licenses), and try the web terminal again. If it now works, you have at least found the cause.

As to a more permanent solution, I don't know. I don't use web terminal all that often, but I would hope that, when you log in, it adds a connection to a license that login may already have. Perhaps the web socket connection plays a part in this. Like I said, I haven't really investigated this; I just mentioned it so you'd have something to check.

You can check whether you still have licenses available in the management portal: System Operation -> License Usage. If Current License Units Used equals License Units Authorized, web terminal can't allocate a new license, which it does seem to need. If not, yours is a different problem.

I've seen this happen on a CE docker instance; in this case the cause was that licenses ran out. I did not investigate further, but it appeared each start of a web terminal caused a new license to be consumed. Perhaps this could be your problem?

Method %JSONImport returns a %Status, which tells you what the problem is (using $System.Status.DisplayError()):

ERROR #9406: Unexpected format for value of field, appointmentid, using AthenaAppointment mapping

That value is a number in JSON, but you defined it as a %String in the class. The JSON import code disapproves. There are more fields like that, and additionally field reasonid is not defined in the mapping. If you fix these problems, the data will import.

(I'd also remove the %DynamicAbstractObject superclass, it is unneeded and gives errors on object destruction.)

Just a quick response to your "topic for a different discussion", as it is relevant in this one. A Scope inside the loop allows one to examine the exact error, and if it is not fatal, decide to handle/ignore it and continue with the next iteration. A Scope outside the loop makes this a lot harder.

What BPL structure shows the problem solution most clearly depends on the problem and sometimes, as you note, on personal preference. It is therefore important to specify exactly which conditions are not supported, rather than "certain conditions". This allows the programmer to choose the easiest and/or clearest solution path, and not have to worry about things breaking if iterations exceed a certain (unspecified) number.

To purposefully withhold that information, as you suggest the documentation does, is saddening.

Actually, on closer examination, it appears that in your example the problem is that the Continue is inside the Scope. If you move it outside the Scope, the problem doesn't occur (as you noted). The cause is that the fault handler that was pushed on the stack for the Scope is not removed, because the Scope is not exited "normally". Therefore, each iteration adds a fault handler to the stack that is never removed.

Having one or more scopes in a loop is a perfectly normal thing to do, if you want fine-grained error handling and/or recovery. I have just done some tests, and they work perfectly. If "best practice" dictates that this should not be done, "best practice" is wrong. A Continue inside a Scope, however, is never needed (even if perhaps convenient sometimes).

Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what I did when I ran into my handler stack issue (it's been a while). Perhaps I also did a Continue inside a Scope. In that case, it was a bug on my part.

Perhaps this can be better documented? The description of the limitation you quoted above is rather vague. Even better would be if the compiler recognized this construct, and removed as many fault handlers from the stack as were pushed on it, when it encounters a Continue inside a Scope in a loop.

Thanks, this is useful information. I have encountered this bug in the past, but did not have the time to figure out exactly what triggered it, and restructured my code.

It would be nice if this bug was fixed, though.

Thanks, but a terminal command (requiring you to install the preview release) is not what I call documentation. But I did install it. To give an example of what the "Help()" gives me:

Help(method)
     Write out a list of the methods of this object to the console.
addToPath(path)
     <p>
createServer(serverDef)
     Create a new server.  This function requires the "%Admin_Manage" resource.

Interestingly, on the local installed preview, the class documentation does show the %SYSTEM.external class (with ever so slightly more information, btw.). I really hope that this lack of documentation is fixed before release, because as it is now, it is unusable.

Regard,
Gertjan.