Varnish 4 VCL type conversions? - varnish

I'm using Varnish4 with the geoip vmod and I'm trying to use client.ip as a string.
geoip.country_code(client.ip);
When doing this, I am presented with the error Wrong argument type. Expected STRING. Got IP.
If I really wanted I could just do something like
set req.http.X-Client-IP = client.ip;
geoip.country_code(req.http.X-Client-IP);
and the problem would go away but that doesn't seem like a clean implementation.
Is there a way to return client.ip as a string instead of type IP that doesn't involved setting another variable or is that the proper way to do that?
As a note, I'd prefer not to use req.http.X-Forwarded-For because I'm testing wether or not I get predictable results using that vs client.ip.

Turns out, you can just concat with a blank string to return a string.
set req.http.X-Country-Code = geoip.country_code("" + client.ip);

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Is there a way to pass a parameter to google bigquery to be used in their "IN" function

I'm currently writing an app that accesses google bigquery via their "#google-cloud/bigquery": "^2.0.6" library. In one of my queries I have a where clause where i need to pass a list of ids. If I use UNNEST like in their example and pass an array of strings, it works fine.
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/parameterized-queries
However, I have found that UNNEST can be really slow and just want to use IN on its own and pass in a string list of ids. No matter what format of string list I send, the query returns null results. I think this is because of the way they convert parameters in order to avoid sql injection. I have to use a parameter because I, myself want to avoid SQL injection attacks on my app. If i pass just one id it works fine, but if i pass a list it blows up so I figure it has something to do with formatting, but I know my format is correct in terms of what IN would normally expect i.e. IN ('', '')
Has anyone been able to just pass a param to IN and have it work? i.e. IN (#idParam)?
We declare params like this at the beginning of the script:
DECLARE var_country_ids ARRAY<INT64> DEFAULT [1,2,3];
and use like this:
WHERE if(var_country_ids is not null,p.country_id IN UNNEST(var_country_ids),true) AND ...
as you see we let NULL and array notation as well. We don't see issues with speed.

Azure Function Route Parameter Reading: context.bindingData.paramName vs context.req.params.paramName

I have a route definition in function.json: entity/{paramName}
When I make a GET request: http://localhost:7071/api/entity/50043e-315
In context.bindingData.paramName I get surprising 5.0043e-311, while context.req.params.paramName contains 50043e-315.
I noticed that here both ways of reading can be used; and here the same is meant, though the links are dead by now, while the example here mentions only context.bindingData.
Question: What is more preferable? And what is the difference?
I believe the problem here is that the somewhere (if I were to make a guess, here) the param is being parsed as a double before being stored as binding data. But when fetching it from the request object, it is fetched as a string from the URL directly. Hence the difference.
I believe there are only a few cases where this might happen and this is one of them.

Exposing the current combo selection index for the CGridCellCombo class

For several years I have been using the CGridCellCombo class. It is designed to be used with the CGridCtrl.
Several years ago I did make a request in the comments section for an enhancement but I got no replies.
The basic concept of the CGridCellCombo is that it works with the text value of the cell. Thus, when you present the drop list it will have that value selected. Under normal circumstances this is fine.
But I have places where I am using the combo as a droplist. In some situations it is perfectly fine to continue to use the text value as the go-between.
But is some situations it would have been ideal to know the actual selected index of the combo. When I have a droplist and it is translated into 30 languages, and I need to know the index, I have no choice but to load the possible options for that translation and then examine the cell value and based on the value found in the array I know the index.
It works, but is not very elegant. I did spend a bit of time trying to keep track of the selected index by adding a variable to CInPlaceList and setting it but. I then added a wrapper method to the CGridCellCombo to return that value. But it didn't work.
I wondered if anyone here has a good understanding of the CGridCellCombo class and might be able to advise me in exposing the CComboCell::GetCurSel value.
I know that the CGridCtrl is very old but I am not away of another flexible grid control that is designed for MFC.
The value that is transfered back to the CGridCtrl is choosen in CInPlaceList::EndEdit. The internal message GVN_ENDLABELEDIT is used, and this message always use a text to set it into the grid.
The value is taken here via GetWindowText from the control. Feel free to overwrite this behaviour.
The handler CGridCtrl::OnEndInPlaceEdit again calls OnEndEditCell. All take a string send from GVN_ENDLABELEDIT.
When you want to make a difference between the internal value and the selected value you have to manage this via rewriting the Drawing and selecting. The value in the grid is the GetCurSel value and you have to show something different... There isn't much handling about this in the current code to change.
More information
The key is CInPlaceList::EndEdit(). There is a call to GetWindowText (CInPlaceList is derived from CComboBox), just get the index here. Also in CGridCellCombo::EndEdit you have access to the m_pEditWnd, that is the CInPlaceList object and derived from CComboBox, so you have access here too.
I have found this to be the simplest solution:
int CGridCellCombo::GetSelectedIndex()
{
int iSelectedIndex = CB_ERR;
CString strText = GetText();
for (int iOption = 0; iOption < m_Strings.GetSize(); iOption++)
{
if (strText.CollateNoCase(m_Strings[iOption]) == 0) // Match
{
iSelectedIndex = iOption;
break;
}
}
return iSelectedIndex;
}

Geoserver WFS Cross Layer Filtering and String IDs

I have a Geoserver WFS request with a cross layer filter based cql in it, that looks like this:
...&CQL_FILTER=INTERSECTS(the_geom, querySingle('myLayerName','the_geom','the_id = F338'))
This does not work. Geoserver is giving me this error message:
java.lang.NullPointerException: PropertyDescriptor is null - did you
request a property that does not exist?
if I change the filter to this:
&CQL_FILTER=INTERSECTS(the_geom, querySingle('myLayerName','the_geom','INCLUDE'))
it is working.
What could be going wrong in the first example? The id with the value F338 in fact does exist.
Could it be that Geoserver is expecting a integer as id? In CQL filters can be strings, but they have to be quoted. In my example, i obviously cannot really quote the value because the whole parameter to the querySingle function is a quote itself.
For string comparison, you need to put two single quotations, so i.e.
'the_id = ''F338'''. (one double quotation doesn't work)
This stupid undocumented little thing cost me 5 hours of try and error...

Using 'querystring.parse' built-in module's method in Node.JS to read/parse parameters

Scenario:
Consider the following code:
var querystring = require('querystring');
var ParamsWithValue = querystring.parse(req._url.query);
Then I am able to read any query string's value.
E.g: If requested string is http://www.website.com/Service.aspx?UID=Trans001&FacebookID=ae67ea324
I can get the values of query string with codes ParamsWithValue.UID & ParamsWithValue.FacebookID respectively.
Issue: I am able to get the values of any number of parameters passed in the same way described above. But for second time onwards I am getting the following error in response on browser.
Error:
{"code":"InternalError","message":"Cannot read property 'query' of undefined"}
Question: What is wrong in the approach to read the query string from the URL.
Note: I don't want to use any frameworks to parse it. I am trying to depend on built-in modules only.
Update: It responds correctly when the value of any of the parameter is changed. But if the same values requested again from even different browser it throws same error.
I think you need req.url rather than req._url.
req.url is a string, if you want a URI instance use require('url').parse(req.url)
So, you should finally have:
var ParamsWithValue = querystring.parse(require('url').parse(req.url).query);
Edit: I corrected a typo in point 1, the last req.url -> req._url

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