I would like to generate dynamic text without the need to create webhooks whenever possible. I understand that the only way to create dynamic text is by either creating different routes depending on parameters or by using inline system functions like $sys.func.ADD(1, 2) within text fulfillments.
But inline system functions like $sys.func.ADD(1, 2) do not work for me if used in text fulfillments. System functions just don't get executed for me. I.e. instead of uttering "3" my bot just utters "$sys.func.ADD(1, 2)" as a result of a test fulfillemnt. What am I doing wrong here? Does anybody have an example for using inline system functions in text fulfillment?
Thanks!
To resolve this issue, you need to check the result of system functions in order to identify the error that occurred.
For the system function $sys.func.ADD, when using it as a text response in your fulfillment, you need to convert it to type STRING to be embedded in text since the output of this system function returns a type DOUBLE.
You can convert the output of the $sys.func.ADD function to STRING by creating a nested function in your text response and utilizing the $sys.func.TO_TEXT which converts a value of other types to string.
Here’s an example for reference:
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I intent to use gsdll32 to display postscript in a Win32 window (not ghostview).
I need help with the parameters needed by gsdll_init_with_args.
The function immediately returns error -0x12 or -0x100.
I tried several parameter combinations in various sequences:
-sDisplayFormat=16#030804
-dDisplayHandle="1234"
-dDisplayResolution=96
-sDEVICE=display
postscriptfile.ps
As a second question:
What should the parameters be if I want to pipe in the postscript data programmatically ?
Examples would be nice.
Seppe
The supplied source code for Windows uses gs_dll_init_with_args(). If you look in /ghostpdl/psi/dwmain.c, function new_main(int argc, char *argv) then at about line 328 you can see the call happening.
You can follow this through in a debugger to see what the arguments look like (they get sanitised before arriving here). Get it to work the way you want on the command line, then break here with those arguments and you can see what your own code should be providing.
To send the data buffer-by-buffer, we don't have an example. However, you start by calling gsapi_run_string_begin(), then repeatedly calling gsapi_run_string_continue() until you exhaust the data, then call gsapi_run_string_end(). Obviously you will have to check the return code to see if an error occurred.
Finally; please check the AGPL to be sure you can conform to the license restrictions.
I'm writing a ruby webdriver test that needs to store a dynamic value such as an order ID to use later on in the text. I think I need to extract the value from the string and then store it as a variable to call for future use.
The string looks like this and I just need to extract/store the numeric value.
<span class="receiptNum hidden-xs">Receipt #: 12303430</span>
Any tips or examples on how to extract that value and create a variable for future use would be great!
To extract the text (only numbers) out of the this element, try using the following code:
#numbers = #driver.find_element(:css=>'receiptNum').text.scan(\d+)
Currently I am saving this number in an instance variable which can be used again in the same test as it will flow around with the test object till the test finishes.
Other option include saving it in a temp txt file and reading from it when required.
Note: Fetching data now and using it later is not a good practice, try not to use this very frequently.
Hope it helps!!!
How can I get the value of important id and ValueType?
I have tried using web_save_param_regexp (but unfortunately I don't fully understand how the function works).
I have also tried using web_save_param (with the help of offset and length).
unfortunately once again I cannot get the accurate value some values change in length specially when the total amount values dynamically changes per run.
<important id=\"insertsomevalueshere\" record=\"1\" nucTotal=\"NUC609.40\"><total amount=\"68.75\" currency=\"USD\"/><total amount=\"609.40\" currency=\"USD\"/><out avgsomecost=\"540.65\" ValueType=\"insertsomevalueshere\" containsawesomeness=\"1\" Score=\"-97961\" somedatatype=\"1\" typeofData=\"VAL\" web=\"1\">
Put these lines of code before the line of code which does your web request:
web_reg_save_param_regexp("ParamName=importantid","Regexp=<important id=\\\"(.*?)\\\"",LAST);
web_reg_save_param_regexp("ParamName=ValueType","Regexp= ValueType=\\\"(.*?)\\\"",LAST);
You will then have two stored parameters 'importantid' and 'ValueType'
Dynamic number of elements to correlate? Your path for resubmission is through web_custom_request(). You will need to build the string you need dynamically with the name:value pairs for all of the data which needs to be included.
This path will place a premium on your string manipulation skills in the language of the tool. The default path is through C, but you have other language options if your skills are more refined in another language.
Am trying to read the lotus notes document using VB6.I can able to read the values of the but suddenly type mismatch error is throwed.When i reintialise the vb6 variable it works but stops after certain point.
ex; address field in lotus notes
lsaddress=ImsField(doc.address)
private function ImsField(pValue)
ImsField=pValue(0)
end function
Like this I am reading the remaining fields but at certain point the runtime error "13" type mismatch error throwed.
I have to manually reintialize by
set doc=view.getdocumentbykey(doclist)
The type mismatch error occurs for a certain field. The issue should be a data type incompatibility. Try to figure out which field causes the error.
Use GetItemValue() instead of short notation for accessing fields and don't use ImsField():
lsaddress=doc.GetItemValue("address")(0)
The type mismatch is occurring because you are encountering a case where pValue is not an array. That will occur when you attempt to reference a NotesItem that does not exist. I.e., doc.MissingItem.
You should not use the shorthand notation doc.itemName. It is convenient, but it leads to sloppy coding. You should use getItemValue as everyone else is suggesting, and also you should check to see if the NotesItem exists. I.e.,
if doc.hasItem("myItem") then
lsaddress=doc.getItemValue("myItem")(0)
end if
Notes and Domino are schema-less. There are no data integrity checks other than what you write yourself. You may think that the item always has to be there, but the truth is that there is nothing that will ever guarantee that, so it is always up to you to write your code so that it doesn't assume anything.
BTW: There are other checks that you might want to perform besides just whether or not the field exists. You might want to check the field's type as well, but to do that requires going one more level up the object chain and using getFirstItem instead of getItemValue, which I'm not going to get into here. And the reason, once again, is that Notes and Domino are schema-less. You might think that a given item must always be a text list, but all it takes is someone writing sloppy code in an one-time fix-it agent and you could end up having a document in which that item is numeric!
Checking your fields is actually a good reason (sometimes) to encapsulate your field access in a function, much like the way you have attempted to do. The reason I added "sometimes" above is that your code's behavior for a missing field isn't necessarily always going to be the same, but for cases where you just want to return a default value when the field doesn't exist you can use something like this:
lsaddress ImsField("address","")
private function ImsField(fieldName,defaultValue)
if doc.hasItem(fieldName) then
lsaddress=doc.getItemValue(fieldName)(0)
else
lsaddress=defaultValue
end if
end function
Type mismatch comes,
When you try to set values from one kind of datatype variable to different datatype of another variable.
Eg:-
dim x as String
Dim z as variant
z= Split("Test:XXX",":")
x=z
The above will through the error what you mentioned.
So check the below code...
lsaddress = ImsField(doc.address)
What is the datatype of lsaddress?
What is the return type of ImsField(doc.address)?
If the above function parameter is a string, then you should pass the parameter like (doc.address(0))
Excel AddIn using Excel DNA, VS2008, C#,
MyUDF(param1, parm2)
when I type in "=MyUDF" and hit enter, Excel displays a huge number like 970063926
and my c# code for MyUDF is not run
Anyone know what is this huge number?
thanks
This is just a bit of weird behaviour of Excel. The number being returned is an internal identifier for the UDF function, and by entering the function name without any brackets, you're causing it to be treated like a named range not a function. If you want to call the function with no arguments, use:
=MyUDF()
...if you type =MyUDF then you're asking Excel to dereference the function name, in the same way that it would dereference =A1 to the value in cell A1 or =MyNamedRange to whatever that named range referred to.
I don't think there's any practical use for the behaviour you've observed, but it certainly isn't going anywhere near your code to get this value that is being returned, so don't worry you haven't done anything wrong!
Is there any way to avoid this behavior?
If no parameter is specified, I would like the =MyUDF to return error instead a number.