Hi folks. This may qualify as “the dumbest newbie question ever”. I was hoping to be able to catalog the elements of the solution I am working on. I noticed that I can export the repository, according to the documentation, “as xml”, and I thought this might be the key to being able to “create a database about my database”.
Any xml docs I have ever looked at are i plain text structured with tags. I’m sure you all know what I"m talking about! This is what I expected to see, especiallly as the doc’n about exporting the repository warns: “Protecting your solution will not protect intellectual property. The business logic in your methods can be read as plain text in an exported solution file…”
I WISH! When I open the exported file in a text editor (BBEdit), I don’t see a single word of plain text. My business logic is nowhere to be found.
This is an example of what I see. I used no special export options, just clicked “Export to File” as per the instruction. I scrolled through all 3179 lines in the resulting doc, and it’s just made up of stuff like this:
[5 minutes later trying to post this message!]
WOOPS, the phpBB will not let me post the stuff I see in the text editor. It looks like “gobbledy-gook”, you know, all the weird characters you see when you open a binary in a text editor. It ain’t readable by normal humans. You know the stuff I mean.
So … ummm, where is the xml?
Where is the “plain text”?
What did I miss?
Thanks to anyone who can help me understand whatever flew over my head,
But i must ask: WHERE do people find out about so much stuff like this that is shared on this forum but not documented? (I am not referring to things like universally accepted javascript knowledge, for which the reply would be “read a Javascript book” … I’m talking about Servoy-specific stuff.)
The docs say you can export the solution in XML format, period. (And on mac there are no creator/type codes assigned so one is clueless without at least an extension, but none is suggested). Why mention that the export is in XML format but not that it is zipped? Knowing that it is in XML is entirely useless unless one is also clued in that you can only “get to” the XML if you decompress the export which is actually in zip-archive format.
So am I missing a manual that I need to download from somewhere? I have searched for “zip” in …
… and the only places zip format is discussed is in connection with skins. Or perhaps was it not anticipated that anyone would want to see/use the file exported from the repository for more than importing it on another server? And if it was not anticipated that anyone would want to see/use the XML, then why mention it at all???
Well, I’ll move my day along now, to solving bigger and more important mysteries.