Hybris: 6.3.0.0-SNAPSHOT (the behavior is the same with 6.3.0.21)
When exporting impex, we noticed a difference when exporting a non-multivalue Type attribute versus exporting a multivalue Type attribute.
When exporting String attribute data without colon, a non-multivalue attribute can be exported as Experts, while a multivalue attribute can be exported as Experts|Hybris.
When exporting Type with String attribute data with colons (e.g. URL), the colon is escaped with a double backslash (for multivalue only). A non-multivalue attribute can be exported as https://experts.hybris.com, while a multivale attribute can be exported as https\://experts.hybris.com if there is only 1 value or as https\://experts.hybris.com|https\://help.hybris.com if there are 2 values.
How can I stop the export from escaping the colon? Is there a method I can override to change this behavior? I would like to change the result to https://experts.hybris.com|https://help.hybris.com or to "https://experts.hybris.com"|"https://help.hybris.com".
Business Case: We want to copy the URL from the exported impex, but the URL contains double backslashes. The exported impex is not meant to be reimported.
Notes #`: The URLs are stored in a collection (e.g. Product.newAttribute, where newAttribute is a collection of custom types which has a String). So, the Impex header looks something like "INSERT_UPDATE Product;newAttribute(data)"
Notes #2: (UPDATE: Didn't work) Currently, I'm checking if it's possible with a CSVCellDecorator; this is for import only.
Notes #3: Currently, I'm checking if it's possible with AbstractSpecialValueTranslator.
For this specific case, I created a new translator, extending AbstractValueTranslator. Then, I implemented the exportValue method, joining the string data (which are URLs), without escaping them.
public String exportValue(final Object value) throws JaloInvalidParameterException
{
String joinedString = "";
if (value instanceof Collection)
{
final Collection valueCollection = (Collection) value;
if (!valueCollection.isEmpty())
{
final ArrayList<CustomType> list = (ArrayList<CustomType>) valueCollection;
final StringJoiner joiner = new StringJoiner("|");
for (final CustomType customType : list)
{
// data is a URL
joiner.add(customType.getData());
}
// value would be something like "https://experts.hybris.com|https://help.hybris.com"
joinedString = joiner.toString();
}
}
return joinedString;
}
Reference:
Customization: https://help.hybris.com/1808/hcd/ef51040168d743879c015b7de232ce40.html
I think that might not be possible, since the colon is used to separate keys for referenced types. As in
...;catalogVersion(catalog(id),version);...
...;myCatalog:Staged;...
Why not run search/replace on the result?
Related
I am trying to replicate the following type of SQL query that you can perform in SQL Server...the important part here is the WHERE clause:
Select InventoryCD from InventoryItem WHERE InventoryCD IN ('123123', '154677', '445899', '998766')
It works perfectly using the IN3<> operator and a series of string constants:
i.e. And<InventoryItem.inventoryCD, In3<constantA,constantB,constantC>,
However, I need to be able to do this with an arbitrarily long list of values in an array, and I need to be able to set the values dynamically at runtime.
I'm not sure what type I need to pass in to the IN<> statement in my PXProjection query. I have been playing around with the following approach, but this throws a compiler error.
public class SOSiteStatusFilterExt : PXCacheExtension<SOSiteStatusFilter>
{
public static bool IsActive()
{
return true;
}
public abstract class searchitemsarray : PX.Data.IBqlField
{
}
[PXUnboundDefault()]
public virtual string[] Searchitemsarray { get; set; }
}
I think maybe I need an array of PXString objects? I'm really not sure, and there isn't any documentation that is helpful. Can anyone help?
This shows how to do it with a regular PXSelect: https://asiablog.acumatica.com/2017/11/sql-in-operator-in-bql.html
But I need to be able to pass in the correct type using Select2...
For reference I will post here the example mentioned by Hugues in the comments.
If you need to generate a query with an arbitrary list of values generated at runtime like this:
Select * from InventoryItem InventoryItem
Where InventoryItem.InventoryCD IN ('123123', '154677', '445899', '998766')
Order by InventoryItem.InventoryCD
You would write something like this:
Object[] values = new String[] { "123123", "154677", "445899", "998766" };
InventoryItem item = PXSelect<InventoryItem,
Where<InventoryItem.inventoryCD,
In<Required<InventoryItem.inventoryCD>>>>.Select(Base, values);
Please note that In<> operator is available only with Required<> parameter and you need to pass array of possible values manually to Select(…) method parameters. So you need to fill this array with your list before calling the Select method.
Also, the Required<> parameter should be used only in the BQL statements that are directly executed in the application code. The data views that are queried from the UI will not work if they contain Required<> parameters.
I ended up creating 100 variables and using the BQL OR operator, i.e.
And2<Where<InventoryItem.inventoryCD, Equal<CurrentValue<SOSiteStatusFilterExt.Pagefilter1>>,
Or<InventoryItem.inventoryCD, Equal<CurrentValue<SOSiteStatusFilterExt.Pagefilter2>>,
Or<InventoryItem.inventoryCD, Equal<CurrentValue<SOSiteStatusFilterExt.Pagefilter3>>,
Or<InventoryItem.inventoryCD, Equal<CurrentValue<SOSiteStatusFilterExt.Pagefilter4>>,
etc...etc...
You can then set the value of Pagefilter1, 2, etc inside of the FieldSelecting event for SOSiteStatusFilter.inventory, as an example. The key insight here, which isn't that obvious to the uninitiated in Acumatica, is that all variables parameterized in SQL Server via BQL are nullable. If the variable is null when the query is run, SQL Server automatically disables that variable using a "bit flipping" approach to disable that variable in the SQL procedure call. In normal T-SQL, this would throw an error. But Acumatica's framework handles the case of a NULL field equality by disabling that variable inside the SQL procedure before the equality is evaluated.
Performance with this approach was very good, especially because we are querying on an indexed key field (InventoryCD isn't technically the primary key but it is basically a close second).
If I just set one file type, it'll filter properly and allow for the image to be uploaded.
If I try multiple file types in the property, it may filter them, but it will always error (screen shots below). I've tried inputting the two types I want as "png, jpg", "png jpg", "pngjpg", and ".png, .jpg", but none of them work. Some of the formats will auto set the filter to show both *.png, *.jpg, but when I select the file I get an error. Can this work with multiple file types?
Setting field values:
Showing images:
Error on selecting image:
Did you try semi-colon ; separator?
This is the standard Windows extension separator and there's indication Acumatica uses this character for parsing.
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets string representing file types which are allowed for selecting.
/// </summary>
[Category("Behavior")]
[Description("The string that lists the file types that are allowed for selecting.")]
public string AllowedFileTypes
{
get
{
return this.allowedFileTypes;
}
set
{
this.allowedFileTypes = "";
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
return;
this.SetAllowedFileTypes(value.Split(';'));
}
}
I created an ActivityNode (an Entry) and I can add custom fields with the
setFields(List<Field> newListField)
fonction.
BUT
I am unable to modify these fields. (In this case I try to modify the value of the field named LIBENTITE)
FieldList list = myEntry.getTextFields();
List<Field> updatedList = new ArrayList<Field>();
//I add each old field in the new list, but I modify the field LIBENTITE
for(Field myField : list){
if(myField.getName().equals("LIBENTITE")){
((TextField)myField).setTextSummary("New value");
}
updatedList.add(myField);
}
myEntry.setFields(updatedList);
activityService.updateActivityNode(myEntry);
This code should replace the old list of fields with the new one, but I can't see any change in the custom field LIBENTITE of myEntry in IBM connections.
So I tried to create a new list of fields, not modifying my field but adding a new one :
for(Field myField:list){
if(!myField.getName().equals("LIBENTITE")){
updatedList.add(myField);
}
}
Field newTextField = new TextField("New Value");
newTextField .setFieldName("LIBENTITE");
updatedList.add(newTextField );
And this code is just adding the new field in myEntry. What I see is that the other custom fields did not change and I have now two custom fields named LIBENTITE, one with the old value and the second with the new value, in myEntry.
So I though that maybe if I clear the old list of Fields, and then I add the new one, it would work.
I tried the two fonctions
myEntry.clearFieldsMap();
and
myEntry.remove("LIBENTITE");
but none of them seems to work, I still can't remove a custom field from myEntry using SBT.
Any suggestions ?
I have two suggestions, as I had (or have) similar problems:
If you want to update an existing text field in an activity node, you have to call node.setField(fld) to update the field in the node object.
Code snippet from my working application, where I'm updating a text field containing a (computed) start time:
ActivityNode node = activityService.getActivityNode(id);
node.setTitle(formatTitle()); // add/update start and end time in title
boolean startFound = false;
// ...
FieldList textfields =node.getTextFields();
Iterator<Field> iterFields = textfields.iterator();
while (iterFields.hasNext()) {
TextField fld = (TextField) iterFields.next();
if (fld.getName().equals(Constants.FIELDNAME_STARTTIME)) {
fld.setTextSummary(this.getStartTimeString()); // NOTE: .setFieldValue does *not* work
node.setField(fld); // write updated field back. This seems to be the only way updating fields works
startFound=true;
}
}
If there is no field with that name, I create a new one (that's the reason I'm using the startFound boolean variable).
I think that the node.setField(fld) should do the trick. If not, there might be a way to sidestep the problem:
You have access to the underlying DOM object which was parsed in. You can use this to tweak the DOM object, which finally will be written back to Connections.
I had to use this as there seems to be another nasty bug in the SBT SDK: If you read in a text field which has no value, and write it back, an error will be thrown. Looks like the DOM object misses some required nodes, so you have to create them yourself to avoid the error.
Some code to demonstrate this:
// ....
} else if (null == fld.getTextSummary()) { // a text field without any contents. Which is BAD!
// there is a bug in the SBT API: if we read a field which has no value
// and try to write the node back (even without touching the field) a NullPointerException
// will be thrown. It seems that there is no value node set for the field. We
// can't set a value with fld.setTextSummary(), the error will still be thrown.
// therefore we have to remove the field, and - optionally - we set a defined "empty" value
// to avoid the problem.
// node.remove(fld.getName()); // remove the field -- this does *not* work! At least not for empty fields
// so we have to do it the hard way: we delete the node of the field in the cached dom structure
String fieldName = fld.getName();
DeferredElementNSImpl fldData = (DeferredElementNSImpl) fld.getDataHandler().getData();
fldData.getParentNode().removeChild(fldData); // remove the field from the cached dom structure, therefore delete it
// and create it again, but with a substitute value
Field newEmptyField = new TextField (Constants.FIELD_TEXTFIELD_EMPTY_VALUE); // create a field with a placeholder value
newEmptyField.setFieldName(fieldName);
node.setField(newEmptyField);
}
Hope that helps.
Just so that post does not stay unanswered I write the answer that was in a comment of the initial question :
"currently, there is no solution to this issue, the TextFields are read-only map. we have the issue recorded on github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK/issues/1657"
I've got a problem here. (C#)
There's a collection in another assembly (I cannot change it) that takes a string as parameter and returns an object.
Like:
object Value = ThatCollection.GetValue("ParameterName");
The problem is, for each parameter string, it returns a DIFFERENT type as object.
What I want is to cast those objects to their respective types, knowing the types only at runtime by their string names.
I need to do some operations with those returned values.
And for that I need to cast them properly in order to access their members and so.
Limitations:
I cannot use "dynamic" since my code needs to be done in an older framework: 3.5 (because of interop issues).
I need to do operations with MANY returned values of different types (no common interfaces nor base classes, except "object", of course)
All I have is a table (containing string values) correlating the parameter names with their returned types.
Yes, I could transform that table into a biiig "switch" statement, not very nice, don't want that.
Any hints??
You want to look into reflection, something like the following should work to cast an object to type T. Set up a simple cast method:
public static T CastToType<T>(object o)
{
return (T)o;
}
Invoke this using reflection:
Type t = Type.GetType(stringName)
MethodInfo castTypeMethod = this.GetType().GetMethod("CastToType").MakeGenericMethod(t);
object castedObject = castTypeMethod .Invoke(null, new object[] { obj });
I'd like to take a string and create a typed List based on the
"Type" documented in the string. For example, suppose str is "System.string". I'd
like the method to create a List for me. Of course, the string could contain text
that "references" any object in the assembly. I've unsuccessfully tried the following:
Type classType = Type.GetType(str);
List<classType> wgList = new List<classType>();
I get a message stating that "classType is a field but is used like a type"..
How do I fix this up to get what I need ?
The following code provided a nice solution:
Type ty = Type.GetType(ItemType);
wgList = (IList)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(ty));
You can not do that or i don't understand what is your purpose?
Use List< object > instead.
You may use Extension method is Cast< T>() in System.Linq namespace to convert your List< object > to List< T >.
List<Entry> entries = wgList.Cast<Entry>().ToList()