Parsing unnamed parameters from urls

I'm working on an api server and needed a way to grab parameters from the url by their placement. i.e., from "/api/people/uuid/" I want the table name and the uuid. If I received /api/?table=people=uuid then 4D's Web Get Variables would work just fine. So, I came up with this (cribbed from

Re: Parsing unnamed parameters from urls

For a different take, here's the old school version I get to parse URL items into an array: // WebRequest_ParseURLItems // Strip parameters off URL and parse the remainder into items. // 4D automatically URL decodes the incoming data before it arrives. // Otherwise, this routine would need to

Re: Questions about workers

I have many of the same questions you do about Workers. I only discovered the new concept of Workers three days ago and am running experiments to try to figure them out myself. But I can offer up the following. As for High Velocity: I created an iteration loop that called a Worker. The

Execution Control Buttons in V15R5 Debugger

4D: "because we can" is *not* a good reason to change the sequence of buttons in the debugger. *Please* — put the buttons back the way they were OR add a compatibility setting OR allow us to configure the button bar. Thank you. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902

Editing object arrays in dynamically built columns

Hey Wendell, Glad it helped. I know how frustrating it was! John... > HI John. > > I got stuck on this issue for a half day before seeing your response below. > Thanks for pointing it out. > > Wendell Turner > >> On 25 Sep 2016, at 22:43, truegold wrote: >> >> Hey

Re: HTML Tag Mismatch Finder!

Not a WYSIWYG editor, but BBEdit has a nice document syntax checker. John DeSoi, Ph.D. > On Oct 16, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Sujit Shah wrote: > > Has anyone got suggestions on WYSIWYG editors other than DW and MS Visual > Web? Something more basic..

Re: Spacebar doesn't advance cursor

Only in the case of a right justified text field, but I don't know of a solution. Keith - CDI > On Oct 17, 2016, at 1:59 PM, David Rose wrote: > > In a 4D v15 client/server db on Windows 7, more than one user has reported > that when typing in any alpha or text field they

Spacebar doesn't advance cursor

In a 4D v15 client/server db on Windows 7, more than one user has reported that when typing in any alpha or text field they press the spacebar one or more times, the cursor does not advance. Only when they type any other character (following the spacebars) does the cursor jump ahead. Anyone

Re: HTTP Request not working on macOS Sierra (4D 13.5)

Hi Peter, I think there is a bug in 13.5, fixed in 13.6, that HTTP Authenticate only sends 38 characters of password... > On Oct 17, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Peter-Christian Miest wrote: > > Can anybody confirm that the command HTTP Request works correctly on macOS > Sierra