Hi Eliot,
Both branches of try/catch must either be updating or non-updating, and I
assume that acrolinx:getUserDataMap() is non-updating.
Hope this helps,
Christian
Eliot Kimber <eliot.kim...@servicenow.com> schrieb am Sa., 19. Aug. 2023,
00:33:
> In BaseX 10:
>
>
>
> In an updating function I have a call to another updating function that
> uses update:output() to log messages.
>
>
>
> If that function call is included, BaseX says that expressions must be all
> updating, but if I remove the call, BaseX is happy.
>
>
>
> The calling function is:
>
> declare %updating
>
> %rest:path('/now/rest/analytics/store-latest-acrolinx-users' )
>
> function now:storeAcrolinxUsers() {
>
> let $acrolinxMap as map(*)? :=
>
> try {
>
> acrolinx:getUserDataMap()
>
> } catch * {
>
> util:logToConsole(
>
> 'storeAcrolinxUsers'
>
> ,``[`{$err:code}` - `{$err:description}`]``
>
> ,'warn'
>
> )
>
> }
>
> return
>
> if (exists($acrolinxMap))
>
> then
>
> let $doc as element() := acrolinx:serializeAcrolinxUserMap($acrolinxMap)
>
> let $fileName as xs:string := 'acrolinx-users_' ||
> replace($doc/@timestamp, ':', '~') || '.xml'
>
> return db:put(analyticsmgmt:getAnalyticsDatabase(), $doc,
> relpath:newFile('acrolinx/users', $fileName))
>
>
>
> };
>
>
>
> The offending function is util:logToConsole(), which is declared as:
>
> declare %updating function util:logToConsole(
>
> $functionName as xs:string,
>
> $message as xs:string,
>
> $logLevel as xs:string
>
> ) {
>
> let $logMessage as xs:string := '[' || upper-case($logLevel) || '] ' ||
> $functionName || '(): ' || $message
>
> return
>
> (
>
> update:output(prof:dump($logMessage)) ,
>
> update:output($logMessage)
>
> )
>
> };
>
>
>
> This is declared as an updating function and returns “updating” functions.
>
>
>
> If I comment out the call to util:logToConsole() in the first function,
> then BaseX is happy.
>
> If I use the non-updating version of logToConsole(), util:logToLog(), then
> BaseX is also happy.
>
>
>
> So my question is: why is BaseX complaining about the use of this updating
> function in an updating function?
>
> There must be some subtlety that I’m missing but I have not yet figured
> out what it is.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Eliot
>
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