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Explorations in Component Interface
This is part one of a multi-part series exploring some quirks in using Component Interfaces with Application Engine programs. If nothing else, hopefully, these will give new developers some insight...
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Explorations in Component Interface: PeopleCode
This is a continuation of the following posts: Part 1: Creating the Component Interface Part 2: Security Now, we need to write some code to use the Component Interface. Let’s use the Application...
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Explorations in Component Interface Revisited
This is a continuation of the following posts: Part 1: Creating the Component Interface Part 2: Security Part 3: PeopleCode Part 4: Handling Errors This time, we are trying some of the suggestions from...
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PeopleCode: Unzipping
I come upon a requirement to unzip a file in a platform independent way. Jim Marion got me most of the way, but his code didn’t write it to file. Here’s my adjustment to make a function that wrote it...
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Scheduling a Process from PeopleCode
The process scheduler provides a good standard way to launch a process. You simply add a subpage to your run control page, and the delivered “Run” button does all of the work for you. But sometimes,...
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Null Date in PeopleCode
Just the other day, I needed to set a Date to null or blank, and I couldn’t remember how to do it. Here’s my notes so that I can remember next time. Javier’s blog came to the rescue: Javier’s...
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New PeopleCode Dump Method
One of my old tricks was to create a PeopleCode dump from the system. Then I could use a text editor tool such as gVim or Ultraedit to search through the code to find examples or certain uses of...
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Pinging and Posting from PeopleCode
I had a need to Ping a server to see if the server could get to it. I also tried to post to it. This code could be helpful for others, so I want to share it. A post should normally go through the...
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A question came up today that I have wondered about for a while: how does break and evaluate work in PeopleCode? I think I have been telling it wrong, so I decided to do a little experiment. Note: This...
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PeopleCode to Add to Every Fluid Page
I find myself adding these same lines of code in the PreBuild of every fluid component. (As Jim Marion would say, there’s no such thing as a Fluid page, and I would get in trouble for my title.)...
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