Hopefully, such functionality will be appreciated if it covers exclusion of invalid records by row from the input flat text files and only allowing the remaining rows from the input to pass through the process flow.
I thought ExtFilter component might work as so, but not certain yet.
The expected encoding is being set per file during CloudConnect project implementation. Either in the Reader component or in the metadata connected to the Reader component.
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I'm creating an application in which users can create notes that are displayed in a grid. When a note is created, a corresponding text file is also created. When a user opens the application, the application reads the directory of note files, retrieves the content of each note file, and then displays it in the grid.
The idea is to make the grid of notes rearrangeable via drag-and-drop.
I've never done anything this before, so I'm struggling to devise an efficient way to cache or remember the order in which the user has arranged the notes. I thought of storing the position of each note in the filename itself.
1_note3.txt
2_note7.txt
3_note4.txt
4_note2.txt
5_note6.txt
6_note8.txt
7_note5.txt
8_note1.txt
This doesn't seem like a good approach since, anytime the the notes are rearranged, I'll have to rename a bunch of the files. For example, say the user creates a new note — which would be inserted as the first child of the grid for the sake of user experience — all of the filenames would have to be renamed.
1_note9.txt
2_note3.txt
3_note7.txt
4_note4.txt
5_note2.txt
6_note6.txt
7_note8.txt
8_note5.txt
9_note1.txt
Further, say a user now rearranges the notes by moving the first note to the fourth position in the top row. I'd now have to rename that file and all of the following files.
2_note3.txt
3_note7.txt
4_note4.txt
5_note9.txt
6_note2.txt
7_note6.txt
8_note8.txt
9_note5.txt
10_note1.txt
I could also store the order or arrangement in a separate file, and exclusively manipulate the content of this file instead of the actual filenames.
arrangement.txt
note3.txt
note7.txt
note4.txt
...
Although this may be superior to the last approach, it also doesn't seem that great since there is still additional overhead. For instance, when the application is launched, I'll first have to read that file in order to obtain the user arrangement before sorting files accordingly.
Does anybody have any experience implementing something like this? Is there a better way to go about it?
You may like to maintain state of your note grid in a key-value map data structure. you can cache this map in-memory or persist it in a separate file. This key-value map will store note grid data where "Key" will have position order in the grid and "Value" will have name of the corresponding text file. In case notes are rearranged you only need to update value of two keys.
Purpose: Track privileged user activity in Windows logs.
Logic:
If logon event contains token_elev %1937 or %1938 save the logon_id (hex value) to a dynamic priv_logons list.
For subsequent events, if the logon_id in the event matches one of the entries in priv_logons list, add a 'privileged' tag to the event.
When receiving a logoff event with one of the logon_ids saved in priv_logons list, remove it from the list.
Is this doable in LogStash? If yes, how?
Not with Logstash alone.
Logstash does not maintain internal states or data objects in between events, it is simply a parsing engine.
Logstash may help you create this kind of solution by doing the parsing work and then passing clean and sensible data to a program which performs the logic you are looking for.
I am automating Sharepoint list testing, filling up some field with values,
and like to save data I supplied to the field after.
Is there a way to automate saving the field value in a excel or csv?
In order to keep it simple, I would create two recordings and write to a text file (csv).
The first one would get the text values from the desired fields and return them in bound variables using Ranorex GetValue action.
The second recording would write the content of the bound variables to a text file, separating fields with ',' (or any other character that is suitable for the kind of data that is present in the fields) in a user code function.
If you have no idea how to write to a file in .NET, take a look at System.IO.File.AppendAllLines or similar functions.
You could also combine the 2 recordings in one, but then, re-useability would be limited the scope of the SharePoint page you are testing.
Do not forget that since Ranorex is using the .NET framework, you have access to all the functions provided by the framework in user code. With Ranorex, the usual question is not ask if something is possible. The real question is "how can it be done" and is the solution simple enough for testers to be able to use it!
Hope this helps!
Is there any adequate design pattern that should be used in order to do number of validations?
For example, let's say that I have an application containing a toolbar with icons, each representing a picture on my file system. I am dragging an icon on a document. Validations during the drag and drop operation could be:
check if the file exists in file system
check if the user has access rights to drag the icon
check that the document is open in order to drop the picture on it
and so on...
I thought of using the Chain of Responsibility or Decorator patterns.
Thanks!
Actually, what you're after, or rather what I'd suggest, is Continuation Passing Style. It's not so much a design pattern as a way of writing code where validation would be defined as a pipeline of methods that an object would go through. This pipeline would use an accumulator to collect all the validation problems encountered by the code.
I am using the test plugin for VS 2012 (although have just installed 2013), and need to know:
Is it possible to have a parameter pass a different value from a selected list while load testing?
I have used the sample load test located here: http://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/load-test-your-app-vs and created a new web test that meets my needs as below.
I have a simple journey recorded that is an email registration web page. The journey is essentially completing name & address, email, conf email, password, conf password. On submission of the form, a verification email is sent.
I need to check that this process can handle around 3000 users. The email to actually send the verification has been hardcoded for test purposes, but I need a unique email to submit the form. I would essentially like to run 3000 test cases through, and just change the email address each time.
What is the best way to do this?
The simple answer is do a web search for data driving (or data driven) Visual Studio web performance tests. You should find many articles and tutorials.
In more detail:
Outline of how to data drive a test
Firstly, Visual Studio distinguishes different types of test. A Load Test is a way of running individual test cases many times, as if by many simultaneous users, gathering data about the test executions and producing a report. The test cases that a load test can execute include Web Performance Tests and Coded UI Tests; both of these can be data driven.
Data driving a Web Performance Test requires a data source. The data can be CSV, XML, Spreadsheet, database and in TFS. I will describe using CSV.
Create a CSV file, containing something similar to the following. Note that the top line of field names is required and those names are used within the test.
Name,Email,Telephone
Fred,fred#example.com,0123 456789
George,george#example.com,0123 456790
Harry,harry#example.com,0123 456791
See also CodedUI test does not read data from CSV input file for some notes CSV file creation.
Open the test project in Visual Studio and open the .webtest file for the test. Use the context (right-click) menu of the top node of the test, ie the test's name (or use the corresponding icon) and select "Add data source ...". Follow the prompts to add the CSV file into the project.
Within the Web Performance Test expand the request to show the form parameters or query string or whatever that is to use the data. View the properties panel of the relevant field and select the appropriate property, in many cases it is the Value property. Click the little triangle for choosing a value for the property. The popup should show the data source, expand the items shown and select the required field. After selecting the field the property will show a value such as {{DataSource1.FileName#csv.Email}}. The doubled curly braces ({{ and }}) indicate the use of a context parameter. All the used data source fields are available as context parameters. All of the data source fields can be made available by altering the Select Columns property of the data source file. Data source field can be used as part of a property value by using values such as
SomeText{{DataSource1.FileName#csv.Email}}AndMoreText
Data source access methods
The data from the datasource can be read and used in four ways. The default is Sequential. Other orders are selected using Solution Explorer to access the properties of the file (eg FileName#csv). The Access Method property can be set to one of:
Sequential data is read sequentially through the file. After the last line of the file is read, the first line of the file will be next line to be read. Thus each line may be read more than once.
Random data is read randomly.
Unique data is read sequentially through the file. After the end of the file is read the test will not be executed again. Thus each line in can only be read once.
Do not move cursor automatically intended for more complex tests where the cursor is moved via calls from plugins.
A web test may use more than one data source file. These files may have different access methods. For example one file containing login names and passwords could be accessed Sequentially and another file with other data could be accessed Randomly. This would allow each login to try many different sets of the other data.
Data sources and loops
Web performance tests may contain loops. The properties of a loop include Advance data cursors. This allows, for example, a data source file to contain items to be found and added to a shopping basket such that each loop iteration adds a new item.