Tools plugin 1.7 (improved zip & unzip)

[john.allen]

Hi Paul,

I'm working on a Dynamic WebService Invoker plugin for Servoy.

I was wondering if this might be applicable to our situation here. As a cancer center we track survival of patients (different disease stages, treatments, etc.) to help find cures. If a patient has been lost to follow up, there is a website (the social security death index) in which one can enter the patient's social security number to see if their death has been reported. I developed a way within FileMaker to have it automatically query the website with the patient's SSN although I never developed a way to extract the date of death if there was one. In moving to Servoy do you think your bean might help with this? This website is subscription based. If you think it might be possible could I copy what I think are the relevant html pages and the relevant data within them to further explore this? A bean such as you are describing, combined with a method to place extracted data from the web page within the solution would be a huge step up in our efforts to track this in a timely fashion.

John

[pbakker]

John,

It depends if the information can be accessed through webservices, based on the SOAP protocol.

Your best bet is to check with the party that hosts the service. If it is SOAP webservice based, it will be easy to implement in Servoy.

Paul

[tweetie]

Guys I'm kinda new to the bean thing concept.....
I put it2be_tools bean in the folder Servoy\beans.....and restarted Servoy 2 times

When i use this code I get NO

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if (!plugins.it2be_tools)
   application.output("no");

So...does this mean the bean is not installed....if not...what am I missing.

Another question....if i use getMaxDay would this be the correct syntax to use it?

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var lastday=plugins.it2be_tools.getMaxDay (globals.datum)

or

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var lastday=plugins.it2be_tools.getMaxDay (year, month)

[IT2Be]

wow, I thought I had developed a plugin but I was wrong all along... It is a bean

But, tweetie, what happens when you throw the bean in the plugin folder. Does it work then?

And, the right syntax for getMaxDay is

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plugins.it2be_tools.getMaxDay(number [month], number [year])

[Jan Aleman]

Meanwhile, do you have any other suggestions for an address lookup web service for the UK that would work with your plugin.

http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/products/default.aspx

If the webservice doesnt work well I have a method that uses stringparsing to get the data out. Not as nice and error proof as a SOAP service I have to say.

[tweetie]

wow, I thought I had developed a plugin but I was wrong all along... It is a bean

VEWY FUNNY

Ehm....yeah....well.....what can i say....like I said before....I'm kinda new at beans

Excellent plugin by the way

[SteveInLA]

When I attempt to use the numberFormat function on a number with a decimal, I get an error. For instance where 'price' = 1.1:

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return plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(price.toString(), '0.00');

I get this error:

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1.1"

If the number is a whole number, there is no error.

Any ideas?

[IT2Be]

Ah, now I see...

Why don't you do this:

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return plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(price, '0.00');

[SteveInLA]

That's close, but not quite 100%. What confused me was the usage example that reads:

plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(String number, String formatString)

Now, I no longer get an error, but when the number is less than 1, the result is not formatted. For example,

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plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(1.2, '0.00');

returns $1.20 but

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plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(.12, '0.00');

returns 0.12 (no currency symbol) and

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plugins.it2be_tools.numberFormat(.0001, '0.####');

returns 1.0E-4. This is not a theoretical case. My application needs to return thousandths of a dollar.

[IT2Be]

Strange but you are right. I'll have to dive into the code to see what I can find. Althought, it's a straight Java implementation.

I'll try to find some time in the next few days.

[xtsr]

Hi Marcel
I'd love to try your plugin, but how/where can I download? Is this just the settings of my browser or is the link missing?
Thanks,
Reto

[IT2Be]

Hai SteveInLA,

It took a while before I was able to renew my efforts for the tools plugin but the issue is solved.

When you want I can release it over the weekend with 4 new added functions additionally:

getClientIP()
getClientHostName()
getServerIP()
getServerHostName()

Please let me know...

[Westy]

This sounds very good. Looking forward to it.