Ben Spead · Aug 23, 2017 go to post

There is a huge benefit from two perspectives:

- If you need to refresh data in your Dev or Test environment, you can just grab the globals DB from Live and drop it in and not worry about overwriting any code in Dev or Test

- If you choose to deploy your code via a DB drop, you can drop in a new DB to replace the existing routines DB

NOTE - for either of these to work, you may need to map configuration into the routines DB (so you don't bring back Live config into Dev for instance)

HTH!

Ben

Ben Spead · Aug 8, 2017 go to post

Robert - thanks for posting, and it's great seeing that you're still doing awesome work in this space!

All the best,

Ben

Ben Spead · Aug 8, 2017 go to post

FYI ... we will have several sessions covering this topic at the Global Summit - attend if you can, otherwise check out the material afterwards!

For internal application development within InterSystems we use a variety of approaches, but the most common is as follows:

1) We use an internally developed issue tracking system, but we plan to eventually migrate to JIRA

2) We use Perforce for all of our source control 

3) We have BASE, TEST and LIVE environments for every application, typically BASE and TEST being cloned from VM snapshots of LIVE.  In addition to the Shared BASE VM, for those applications which are undergoing the highest rate of change, developers will create a local copy of the application to do their development work.  Some apps have all changes being developed on Shared BASE and the changes are progressed (via our Change Control tool) to TEST and the LIVE.  For applications where developers use Private BASEs, they commit there and then push the changes to Shared BASE and then to TEST and LIVE.

Feel free to ask questions (here or at Global Summit)!

Thanks for asking.

Ben Spead · May 22, 2017 go to post

Yes of course :)  Once you create a library of unittests you can script them to run automatically.  If you are using a continuous integration / build server then you can script the tests to run after the build has completed successfully.  We have some teams using Jenkins for this.  

Ben Spead · May 9, 2017 go to post

John,

If you haven't already done so, please contact the WRC to let them know how important it is to get the Production Class UI to respect source control hooks (I am with you all the way on this one, but Product Management needs to hear it from customers).

Thanks,

Ben

Ben Spead · May 9, 2017 go to post

John - if you haven't already done so, please contact the WRC and let them know how important it is to get the Production Class UI to respect source control hooks (I am with you all the way on this one, but Product Management needs to hear it from customers)

Ben Spead · May 5, 2017 go to post

Jennifer - Angular 2 is not supported by Angular Material.  By picking Angular 1.x Chris was able to demonstrate the stack selection that we're using for many internal applications as well as what many of our large customers are using (REST+AngularJS 1.x + Angular Material).

Ben Spead · May 4, 2017 go to post

Brendan - I think you are missing a ( in:

    do file.WriteLine(^Global1key))

Ben Spead · Apr 20, 2017 go to post

Kyle,

The macros are intended to prevent developers from having to refactor code at the same time as they perform an upgrade, as well as make it easier for application providers who have code running on a number of versions.

I've learned from experience that it is always best to have the fewest moving parts when possible when doing an upgrade so you can quickly find the cause of any issues that pop up.  Therefore, I always try to write forward compatible code and only after all of my systems for a given codebase have been upgraded and are stable do I start to introduce backwards incompatible changes.  These macros allow that very nicely.  In addition, using the macros means that you have more flexibility to upgrade without having to schedule a concurrent refactoring project (even if it is just a find and replace refactoring project :) ).

All that being said, the macros are not intended for long-term use with-in an application.  Once the 2016.1 > 2016.2 hurdle has been cleared then my recommendation would be to pull out the macros (find & replace) and stick with Caché's native JSON access going forward.  But that can then be a project that takes place post-upgrade, thus simplifying the upgrade and lowering risk.

Ben Spead · Apr 18, 2017 go to post

Fabio - does this work if you make changes via Object access as well, or just SQL?

Ben Spead · Mar 31, 2017 go to post

Sven,

I know that customers have set this up before.  Here are some old notes that I found which may point you in the right direction.  NOTE - I have never done this myself so I con't be of much help beyond pointing out this starting point:

Implementation Outline:
1. Configure CSP to accept IIS's authentication headers and pass them to Caché

2. Set up delegated authentication to use existing security model to assign $username and $roles 
based on the user's domain accountname and/or domain groups. (Implement ZAUTHENTICATE.MAC)

3. Enable delegated authentication for any desired services and CSP applications -- in this case 
the system management portal.
·  Configuration (e.g. CSP application definition)
·  Login Page Logic decides based on Gateway Service User, whether to trust REMOTE_USER HTTP 
header, or to prompt for username/password (other fields such as PIN are also an option).

HTH,

Ben

Ben Spead · Mar 31, 2017 go to post

Steve,

Here is some sample code that should help get you going in the right direction.  NOTE - the byRef LD argument is a handle for the connection to the LDAP server and it needs to be cleaned up when you're done if you're going to fetch any attributes.  

(sorry for the messed up indentation)

 /// Authenticates against the configured domain, with username/password, passing a resulting a status ByRef and a returning success/failure value
ClassMethod Authenticate(username As %String, password As %String, ByRef Status As %Status, ByRef LD As %Integer) As %Boolean
{
Set Status=$$$OK, ret=0
If ('$data(username))||('$data(password)) 
    Set Status=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"Both fields are required") 
    Quit 0
}

Set sc=$$$OK
Try {
//Connect to the LDAP server
Set LDAPServer="myldapserver.mydomain.com"
Set sc=$$$OK
Set LD=##class(%SYS.LDAP).Init(LDAPServer)
If LD=0 {
        Set LDAPStatus=##class(%SYS.LDAP).GetLastError()
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP Init Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
Else {
    //Authenticate the passed in user by using the Binds command 
    Set Domain=..GetDomain()
    If ($$$isWINDOWS) {
        Set LDAPStatus=##Class(%SYS.LDAP).StartTLSs(LD)
        If LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP StartTLSs Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
    Else {
        Set LDAPStatus=##Class(%SYS.LDAP).Binds(LD,"",$lb(username,Domain,password),$$$LDAPAUTHNEGOTIATE)
        If LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP Binds Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
    } 
}
ElseIf ($$$isUNIX) {
    Set cert = ..GetCert()
    Set LDAPStatus=##Class(%SYS.LDAP).SetOption(LD,$$$LDAPOPTXTLSCACERTFILE,cert)
    If LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP SetOption Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
        Do ..RotateOnFailure(sc)
Else {
        Set LDAPStatus=##Class(%SYS.LDAP).StartTLSs(LD)
        If LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP StartTLSs Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
    }
}
If LDAPStatus=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
    Set LDAPStatus=##Class(%SYS.LDAP).SimpleBinds(LD,username_"@"_Domain,password)
    If LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS {
        Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP SimpleBinds Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
    }
}
Else {
    Set LDAPStatus=$$$LDAPAUTHMETHODNOTSUPPORTED
}
If (LDAPStatus'=$$$LDAPSUCCESS)&&($$$ISOK(sc)) {
    Set sc=$$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"LDAP API Error: "_##class(%SYS.LDAP).Err2String(LDAPStatus))
}
} 
Catch err {
    Set sc = $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,err.Data) 
}
If $$$ISOK(sc) {
     Set ret = 1
Else {
    Set Status = sc 
}

Quit ret
}
Ben Spead · Mar 30, 2017 go to post

I certainly hope that the mystery parties who have been moderating that site are reaching out to Google in order to get it reinstated.  There was certainly a lot of valuable information on that site!

Ben Spead · Mar 24, 2017 go to post

You can use $system.OBJ.Load() or LoadDIr() to load source from disk.

Ben Spead · Mar 23, 2017 go to post

Personally, I would do this via Source Control and not via Studio.  The approach to this will depend on your source control structures, etc, but the easiest way to handle this for me would be:

1) Make sure that everything in my package was checked into my branch, e.g. /MyApp/cls/MyFirstPackage/...

2) Since my source tree is structured according to package names, I would copy /MyApp/cls/MyFirstPackage/... to /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/... 

3) Check in /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/... into source control

4) Check out /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/... 

5) Do a Find & Replace in /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/... to replace all instances of "MyFirstPackage" with "MySecondPackage"

6) Diff /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/...  and make sure all replacements are desired

7) Check in /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/... 

8) Run my build routine to pull all of /MyApp/cls/MySecondPackage/...  into my namespace and Compile it (or just use $system.OBJ.LoadDir() if you don't already have a build routine)

Voila!  Package is duplicated and all checked into source control ready for further changes :) The above process should only take a couple of minutes.

Ben Spead · Mar 16, 2017 go to post

The lock controls the source control hooks, so anything relying on the hooks should prevent changes to items under source control.  Parts of the Ensemble Management Portal and the DeepSee portal tie in the hooks for that namespace, so I can see there being a possible interplay there.  I have never used the "Deploy Production Changes" utility so I can't say for certain if the source control lock is coming into play there.

You should work through this with Managed Services to find a resolution. 

Ben Spead · Mar 16, 2017 go to post

No - CCR is not a 'released product'.  But there are implementation sites partnering with InterSystems that use it.  

Ben Spead · Mar 15, 2017 go to post

Scott,

See the Documatic for the following methods in %Studio.SourceControl.ISC:

classmethod Lock(Admin As %Boolean = 0) as %Status

Lock the source control hooks for this instance.

The default setting will be "Locked". Passing a '1' for the Admin parameter will set the instance to AdminLocked.

See Locked for more details.

classmethod Locked() as %String

Returns value that shows whether or not this instance is "Locked"

Return values are:

  • "": Instance has never been Locked or Unlocked (default)
  • 0: Instance is Unlocked
  • 1: Instance is Locked
  • 2: Instance is AdminLocked

When the instance is Locked or AdminLocked, no changes can be made via Studio. It is possible to change from Locked to NotLocked via different UIs. When an instance is AdminLocked it should only be possible to unlock it via the Unlock method.

classmethod Unlock() as %Status

Unlock the source control hooks for this instance.

Ben Spead · Mar 10, 2017 go to post

Andreas - should this be cross-posted on the InterSystems Compatibility blog?

http://blog.intersystems.com/compatibility/

My guess is that there may be some people who follow that who might miss this significant announcement on the Developer Community.  I know I missed this when it was originally posted.

Ben Spead · Mar 10, 2017 go to post

You should never do that.  That is a stripped down version of apache which should only be used for the Management Portal.  You need to install your own full web server

Ben Spead · Mar 7, 2017 go to post

Thanks Tim!!  Very helpful.

One question /comment - your approach doesn't allow for case insensitivity of the http(s)/ftp prefix.  I would prefer to set the case insensitivity flag for the whole pattern.

According to the ICU documentation (http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp#TOC-Flag-Options):  

[quote]

(?ismwx-ismwx) Flag settings. Change the flag settings. Changes apply to the portion of the pattern following the setting. For example, (?i) changes to a case insensitive match.

[/quote]

So I was able to make it work as follows:

set matcher=##class(%Regex.Matcher).%New("(?i)(\b(https?|ftp)://[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|])",string)
set string = matcher.ReplaceAll("<a href='$1' target='_blank'>$1</a>")
 

Thanks for the tips and pointing me in the right direction!