Overriding configure does not work for the initial configuration - redhawksdr

I need to override configure() on my waveform and I tried to do it as suggested in the manual, by overriding PropertySet_impl::configure in my .[h,cpp] but calling the PropertySet_impl::configure in my override. It works when I configure my component using a python script, but it does NOT appear to be called for the initial configure by DomainManager using .prf.xml in the domain profile.
Do you send in this initial configure some other way and is there a way I can override for these too?

Try using the setPropertyConfigureImpl for properties that need custom configure logic instead of overriding configure. I believe this is invoked on the initial call to set properties.

Starting with REDHAWK 2.0, components support a new method initializeProperties() that is called once when the component is created, prior to the call to initialize(). Any properties of kind "property" are given their initial values via this call, using overridden values if provided. Legacy "configure" kind properties are still initialized via a configure() call following initialize().
If setting configure functions for your properties is sufficient, I'd encourage that approach. If you expect them to be called at initialization time, you'll want to set them in the C++ constructor, though, not the REDHAWK constructor() method.
Based on your question, property listeners are probably not suitable; property change notification is not triggered by initializeProperties(), only configure(). Note that the C++ interface is addPropertyListener(); registerPropertyListener() is a CORBA method that supports external notification of property changes.

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Customize Controller from commercewebservices in SAP Commerce Cloud

From what I understand, from SAP Commerce Cloud 2005 onward the way to customize the REST-endpoints within SAP Commerce Cloud for Spartacus is to use commercewebservices (non-template) and then add own occ-extensions with your REST-endpoints.
That works fine for new endpoints, but what if I want to customize an existing controller from within commercewebservices? Since I am not using the template anymore commercewebservices cannot be modified anymore. I don't see a way how I could for example customize de.hybris.platform.commercewebservices.core.v2.controller.CartsController.
Swapping out commercewebservices with your own extension generated from the template does not work since multiple OOTB (e.g. cmsocc) extensions depend on commercewebservices hence it will always be loaded and clash with our own extension derived from commercewebservices.
Customizing commercewebservices with an addOn also does not solve the problem since, as I understand, it is not possible to add your own controller and bind it to the a url-pattern already used from a controller within commercewebservices
If you want to override an existing API endpoint (CartsController in our case), you can do so with the #RequestMappingOverride annotation.
Using this annotation, you can "shadow" the existing request mapping of the out-of-the-box controller with your custom controller in your own OCC extension.
You can find more details and an example here:
Overriding the REST API [help.sap.com]
EDIT
And let's not forget:
All of the action happens in the facades anyway, and you can also extend the API responses without overriding the Controller using the WsDTO concept plus additional converters. (see Extending Data Objects[help.sap.com] for more details)
Thanks for the response.
The annotation RequestMappingOverride works fine. There is one problem with this approach, lets assume I do following:
Introduce an new called MyController extending the CartsController
Override a single method and annotated this method with RequestMappingOverride
Starting up the system I do get now ambiguous mappings on all mappings of CartsController which I did not override
The reason is, I have now two Controllers registered with the same mappings. The CartsController and MyController which inherits all the methods which are not overriden from CartsController. The only solution I found is to override every single method of the CartsController, annotate all methods with RequestMappingOverride and then just do a super call. That is a bit clumsy and leads to a lot of boilerplate code. I wish the annoation RequestMappingOverride would work on class-level rather than only on method level

How to retrieve post data, validate it in controller and save it in database using GORM in Micronaut?

I come from Grails background and have recently started a project in Micronaut using GORM.
I tried to find required information in documentation but its not clear how we retrieve post data in controller, validate it similar to Command Objects offered in Grails and save it into database using interface service provided in documentation
PS : I know I can map every field to action argument in controller, and also declare a interface method specifying each argument as property but that does not seems right thing to do as my domain class has so many properties.
Making the action #Transactional or any method would work for saving data as far as I know but I want to know the proper way in Micronaut.
My requirement is simple, save post data in database using GORM in Micronaut.
If I were you I would look back at the documentation, sections 6.4 to 6.11:
https://docs.micronaut.io/snapshot/guide/index.html#binding
https://docs.micronaut.io/snapshot/guide/index.html#datavalidation
http://hibernate.org/validator/
Micronaut is very annotation based, unlike Grails which uses convention over configuration. However in Grails 4, Micronaut will toke over the application context, giving you some of the benefits of Micronaut, but still maintaining the convention over configuration.

Liferay: perform an action when a -LocalServiceUtil is available

I have implemented a functional Liferay service using service builder and I want to call a method on the -LocalServiceUtil class just as soon as I possibly can. This is a task I wish to perform when the service starts and also when the service is redeployed.
Even though all the methods on the -LocalServiceUtil class are static, they will throw a BeanLocatorException if they are called too soon.
com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.BeanLocatorException: BeanLocator has not been set for servlet context portal-navigation-impl
Is there any way to call a method on the -LocalServiceImpl instance or otherwise so that I can do this?
Thank you
As you speak about the initialization order: I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'd write a startup action. This gets run everytime a hook (or plugin) starts up - including a redeploy. Sounds like what you want - and if the initialization order works, this is your solution.
Otherwise: Create a separate hook that's dependent on the one that you're currently using. That will be restarted as well, but only run once the hook providing the *-LocalService did already start up. (dependency is declared in liferay-plugin-package.properties, with the key required-deployment-context - this is from memory - somebody correct me if I'm wrong.)

Apply IHasRequestFilter to Plugin registered service dynamically

I have a set of Services that I want to use in various ServiceStack projects (okay, two) so I have created a ServiceStack Plugin that registers them.
However I want to allow users to determine their own method of securing access to these services.
Currently I have an IHasRequestFilter in one my projects that can determine which services a user should be able to access. I do not want a reference to this in the Plugin project, so I want to add this dynamically after the fact.
I want to somehow get a reference to the Service Definition in AppHost to add this IHasRequestFilter to the pipeline for a specific set of services.
Ideally I should be able to do something like this:
new CustomPlugin(new CustomPluginParams {
RestrictTo = CustomRestrictions,
RequestFilters = [],
ResponseFilters = []
});
This should use those properties to configure their services without having a previous typed reference.
Edit:
Investigating further it appears that the IHasRequestFilter and IHasResponseFilters are only parsed once, in the ServiceExec<TService> class. I could get round this by creating my Services with a Proxy which adds the attribute I require to the MemberInfo of the operations, however I don't regard that as a clean approach.
Does anyone have recommendation?
In ServiceStack all configuration should happen within AppHost's Configure() method and remain immutable thereafter.
Lifecycle Events
To help with LifeCycle events there are IPreInitPlugin and IPostInitPlugin Plugin Interfaces which your Plugins can implement so they will get called back before and after all plugins are registered.
There's also an IAppHost.AfterInitCallbacks plugins can use to get called back after the entire AppHost has finished initialiazing.
Typed Request/Response Filters
Attributes are typically statically defined on Services, to dynamically add logic that apply to specific Request/Responses you can use a typed Request/Response filter.
The nice thing about ServiceStack Filters is that they share the same API (IRequest, IResponse, object) which makes them easily composable, e.g:
RegisterTypedRequestFilter<CustomRequest>(new RequestAttributeFilter().Execute);
Dynamically adding Attribute filters
As all ServiceStack libraries use ServiceStack.Text's Reflection API's you're able to extend ServiceStack's attribute-based code-first API dynamically by adding attributes to types or properties at runtime, e.g:
typeof(CustomRequest)
.AddAttributes(new RuntimeAttributeRequestFilter());
This can be done for most of ServiceStack's code-first API's inc. Request/Response Filters.
Route attributes and Action Filters
There is sometimes an issue for Services Route attributes and Action filters that already pre-configured and autowired before the AppHost's Configure() is called.
One solution is to add them in the AppHost constructor (or by overriding AppHost.OnBeforeInit) so they're added before the Services are configured. Otherwise you can reset the action filter caches by calling the AppHost's ServiceController.ResetServiceExecCachesIfNeeded().

re-using ServiceStack validation in Winforms offline client

We have a working website using ServiceStack as the back end that amounts to a complex data-entry form.
My users have requested an "offline editor" for the forms. To use the offline program, the user will have to connect to the ServiceStack service, create empty instances of the forms, and then I will save the POCOs from the service to disk using ServiceStack's JSON serializer. From there the user can log off the service and edit the POCOs. When they're done, they reconnect to the service, and post/put the edited POCO object.
This all works great. My question involves validation. The validation logic is built into my Service.Interface library, which isn't available offline. The winforms program references only the POCO library and the ServiceStack "common" libraries, which do not look like they include the ServiceStack.Validation namespace.
Is there a way I can rearrange my project so that both the service and the Winforms client can run Validation against the POCOs, so that they can have data validation while offline?
UPDATE:
getting closer, I think - I moved all of the Validation classes into their own project. From my Winforms project, I can now manually set up a validator for a POCO class like this:
ServiceStack.FluentValidation.IValidator<SomePOCO> IValidator;
IValidator = new Tonto.Svc.Validation.SomePOCOValidator();
ServiceStack.FluentValidation.Results.ValidationResult vr =
IValidator.Validate(_rpt);
I can see the validator constructor being set up and the rules being initialized, but the .Validate method doesn't seem to do anything. (object comes back as valid, and breakpoints into custom validator code never get there).
UPDATE #2
I discovered my validator code wasn't running from Winforms because my validators all specify a servicestack ApplyTo Put/Post only (see sample code below). When I remove the entire Ruleset clause, though, then validation happens in my service on GETs - something I never want.
Can anyone think of a way to configure the validator rules to run for POST/PUT only when called from ServiceStack, but to also always run when NOT in servicestack? So close!
public class SomePOCOValidator : AbstractValidator<SomePOCO>
{
public SomePOCO()
{
RuleSet(ApplyTo.Put | ApplyTo.Post, () =>
{
(rules)
});
}
}
If your validation is doing anything interesting, then it probably HAS to be done "online".
Maybe just allow your client to save the POCOs locally until they go back online, at which point you send them up to your server. Any transactions that are okay, get processed normally, and any that fail, get returned for the user to edit (so your client will need some smarts to have a working set of POCOs for editing)...
If you don't want ANY extra stuff on the client, just have the transactions that fail to validate get stuffed into a "needs_corrections" table on the server, and then code up a supervisor-sort of screen to manage that table.
The validation framework that ServiceStack uses is named FluentValidation. There is no WinForms support in it. Jeremy Skinner the creator of FluentValidation answerd a question about this back in 2010 on his forum here.
Personally I don't use FV with WinForms - the vast majority of my projects are web-based with the occasional WPF project.
However, if I was going to do this then I probably wouldn't validate the controls directly, but instead use a ViewModel which is bound to the controls. I'd use a fairly strict convention where the names of the controls would match the names of the properties that they're bound to. Then, after validation completes I'd walk the control hierarchy to find the control with the name that matches the property that failed validation (I'm not sure how you'd do this in WinForms, but in WPF I'd use LogicalTreeHelper.FindLogicalNode) and then use the ErrorProvider to set the appropriate error.
Jeremy
I was able to work out a solution that allowed me to use ServiceStack validation libraries on both a ServiceStack client and an offline client. Here are the details.
Move all AbstractValidators to their own project: Proj.Svc.Validation.
get rid of all RuleSets in your AbstractValidators.
Reference Proj.Svc.Validation from Proj.Svc.Interface and Proj.OfflineWinformsClient projects.
Turn OFF the ValidationFeature() plugin in your service. All validation will have to be done manually. This means no iOC injected validators in your service classes.
When it's time to validate, either from your service or the offline client, manually declare the validator and use it like this.
IValidator validator = new
Tonto.Svc.Validation.SomePOCOValidator();
ServiceStack.FluentValidation.Results.ValidationResult vr =
validator.Validate(poco);
if (!vr.IsValid)
(throw exception or notify user somehow);

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