Hi Leif,
>From my understanding of SODA assosciative arrays are
treated as objects.
__
Raymond Irving
--- Leif W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a tip for debugging those IOElement and SODA
> server side scripts as
> we translate to other languages.
>
> I've just spent all day yesterday working on the PHP
> version and was writing
> to Josh Ferrell about this same issue. I guess all
> this talk should be on
> the DynAPI-DEV list. :-)
>
> Basically, what I was doing, was to just output the
> data whereever I wanted
> to look at it (in ws__Var2SODA).
>
> if ( $vtype == "array" )
> {
> $data = "<a$lvl>";
>
> // PHP code to output an array
> print_r( $v );
>
> Then in ioelmsrv, in ws__docWrite:
>
> "var mySODAResponse = \"$h\";\n" .
> "$h;\n" .
> # DEBUG
> # "make.error\n" .
> "</script>\n" .
>
> Then in your browser, you can hopefully see that
> there's some JavaScript
> error (I use Mozilla Firebird, and from the
> JavaScript console, I can see an
> error and click on it, and it brings up the source
> of the server-side
> script-generated page). Should look something like
> this (I added the ####
> lines for clarification ####):
>
> #### begin outputted data ####
> Array
> (
> [name] => PHP SODA Test
> [comment] => This Web Service was created using
> PHP
> [login] => ok
> [SYSCall] => 1
> )
> #### end outputted data ####
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <html>
> <script language="javascript"
> type="text/javascript">
> var ioObj,dynapi=parent.dynapi;
> if (dynapi) ioObj=parent.IOElement.notify(this);
> else alert('Error: Missing or invalid DynAPI
> library');
>
> // DEBUG
> // var mySODAResponse = "var
>
wsSODAResponse='<envelope><method>SYS:WebServiceConnect</method><body><a1><u
>
2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2></a1></body></envelope>
> '";
> var
>
wsSODAResponse='<envelope><method>SYS:WebServiceConnect</method><body><a1><u
>
2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2><r1/><u2>0</u2></a1></body></envelope>
> ';
> // DEBUG
> make.error
> </script>
> </html>
>
>
> Now I have all the information I need to debug my
> script. As you can see
> above, my envelope isn't being created properly.
> The data is clearly in the
> array, but there's unknown / 0 in the array in the
> envelope. It should
> probably be returned as an object for the
> client-side JavaScript, although
> there's only one array type in PHP for both numeric
> and assosciative indexed
> arrays. Hmm... And also, you can count top-level
> items in an array, but
> you can't use numeric indexing to reference the
> assosciative indexes ( for i
> = 0 ;; i++ ), and you can't use assosciative indexes
> to reference the
> numeric indexes ( foreach array as key => value ).
> So we have to handle the
> cases when an array might be sent with both numeric
> and assosciative
> indexes, and use both methods, and keep count
> separately, and check that
> they add up to the total, and put them in the proper
> place in the envelope.
> :-\
>
> It's ambiguous, do I create an object for the
> assosciate indexed elements,
> and an array for the numeric? Does that then break
> the original structure?
> Do I create an object for the entire thing? How
> does JavaScript handle
> mixed arrays? I think it allows using numeric
> indexing even for the
> assosciative indexes, but I'm not sure.
>
>
> Leif
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Sonnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Leif W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:15 AM
> Subject: RE: Dynapi - PERL version
>
>
> > I have made quite a bit of progress so far.
> > I have the PERL calc working and the SODA tester
> working ~ dates and
> > booleans need some work. However, I have run into
> a problem.
> >
> > I did all my work so far on a windows box running
> IIS.
> > I just pushed the stuff over the UNIX ~
> FreeBSD/Apache and the same code
> > fails.
> >
> > I put in some debugging stuff on the server side -
> it appears to be
> writing
> > out the HTML correctly. The client side fails
> with a "Request timeout".
> >
> > Can you give me clue how I could capture what is
> coming back from the
> > server?
> > Really any advice on debugging this
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joseph Sonnier
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leif W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:03 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Dynapi - PERL version
> >
> >
> > Ahh yes. I started by copying the JScript version
> and converting on my
> > first pass. I guess I didn't make it too far.
> ;-) The SODA version
> needs
> > converting, the ioelmsrv.pl version needs testing,
> and I think needs a new
> > function added that was added to the JScript and
> VBScript version a while
> > ago. The PHP versions I was working on a while
> ago too but some are in
> > various states of conversions from JScript to PHP.
> I don't have the
> > examples as I don't have the libraries done yet.
> ;-) More hands needed,
> > definitely, as other things have drawn my
> attention.
> >
> > Leif
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: Dynapi - PERL version
> >
> >
> > > I took a look in the CVS library and I found
> > >
> > > ioelmsrv.pl - PERL
> > > ioelmsrv.soda.pl - This seems to be in
> Javascript
> > >
> > > Did you only do the first function?
> > > Or is this a CVS issue?
> > >
> > > Do you having like
> dynapi.util.ioelement-soda-calc.php that can
> > > give me an example of how to use it from the
> server side?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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