is there a way to get the prefix name of a managed package in apex?
I have a SOSL query but the app is in a developer org and in a managed package, if I have a way to get the package name, it would be great, because I don't have to hard code it.
Thanks.
The only way to do this, AFAIK, is to use the Metadata API. You can call describeMetadata() and then evaluate the organizationNamespace (String) value returned in describeMetadataResult.
From within Apex you could do a less elegant try/catch approach with dynamic SOQL/DML, at least to determine if something you suspect is there is actually there. Though this won't tell you what namespace prefix actually IS there like the Metadata API will.
Lacey is correct that you don't need the prefix, though name ambiguity can become a problem. So for example, if you have a custom object Expense__c and have installed an accounting package which includes ACCT__Expense__c, you definitely want to explicitly include the ACCT__ prefix if intending to access the managed package object as opposed to your own.
The UserInfo.isCurrentUserLicensed('nsPrefix') will throw a TypeException if the namespace passed in is not a valid namespace of an installed package (or managed package you're developing). I think this is the closest you're going to get without the metadata API.
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I recently downloaded a Single Page Web Application (Angular) from https://aspnetboilerplate.com/Templates using 3.x target version.
I just simply added a few entities and then started to follow the steps on this page https://aspnetboilerplate.com/Pages/Documents/Application-Services
Things do work well for me to Get, List, Update, and Delete entities when my app service class is just inheriting AsyncCrudAppService<Entities.PhoneBook, PhoneBookDto, long, GetAllPhoneBooksInput>, however when it is inheriting AsyncCrudAppService<Entities.PhoneBook, PhoneBookDto, long, GetAllPhoneBooksInput, CreatePhoneBookInput, and UpdatePhoneBookInput> the swagger definition will no longer load.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/woodman231/MyPhoneBooks
(which currently does not work and will not load Swagger page).
I can get the swagger page to load by removing CreatePhoneBookInput and UpdatePhoneBookInput from
https://github.com/woodman231/MyPhoneBooks/blob/main/aspnet-core/src/MyPhoneBooks.Application/SimpleCrudAppServices/ISimplePhoneBookCrudAppService.cs#L9
and
https://github.com/woodman231/MyPhoneBooks/blob/main/aspnet-core/src/MyPhoneBooks.Application/SimpleCrudAppServices/SimplePhoneBookCrudAppService.cs#L14
However, again I am still unable to create entities using this default implementation. Any ideas?
I have cloned your repo and run it and I figured out the error, first as I tell you in comments I verified the text log, and it said the next:
System.InvalidOperationException: Can't use schemaId "$CreatePhoneBookInput" for type "$MyPhoneBooks.SimpleCrudAppServices.Dtos.CreatePhoneBookInput". The same schemaId is already used for type "$MyPhoneBooks.PhoneBooks.Dtos.CreatePhoneBookInput"
What happenig is that you have these two classes UpdatePhoneBookInput, CreatePhoneBookInput repeated in SanokeCrudAppServices\Dtos and PhoneBooks\Dtos
You have the classes in both folders with same exact name, and thats the problem, if you change the name in whatever place the swagger definition will load without errors, I have do it like this and everything works fine!
Change the name in one of the places, and all will be working fine
Personally I don't like to use a different Dto for Create and Update for me is easier to user just one Dto for all.
Ok I figured it out. I had also made a DIY AppService and some of the DTO Class Names associated with the DIY App Service clashed with the DTO Class Names associated with the Automated Service. It was acceptable in .NET since they were in different name spaces but once the swagger definition was configured I assume that there was multiple instances of the same DTO Defition. I checked the AbpLogs table but they didn't give me much details as to the specifics of the internal server error while loading the definition. It sure would have been useful to know that.
I have projects that are developed with xml and python code mostly (Odoo modules). There is a bit of .po files for translation and csv fields for data.
I would like to enforce specific policies in xml files, for example:
No duplicate id attributes.
A specific attribute must be present if child elements contain a specific tags.
On python, I want to enforce rules like:
Look for SQL queries, and make sure that they use specific parameter methods to prevent SQL injection
Follow a specific naming convention
Some attributes are required in classes that inherit a specific class
I hope that the idea is clear.
Is there any open source solution for this? Preferably linked with github and checks on every commit!
I found a python package made specifically for this, pylint-odoo, here.
It can also be installed with pip install pylint-odoo.
An example .pylintrc config file can be found at the web OCA module, here. They also have another file named .pylintrc-mandatory.
There is even a warning for duplicate xml id attribute W7902.
I'm trying to get my head around the workings of an xAPI package authored in Rise which has been supplied to me so I can build a test PoC app.
I can see the functions built into the index.html page, and that things like progress and quiz scores are genrated, but where do I find the end-point for a LRS within the package?
I have incorporated the package into a test app I built, but rather than generate and send statements myself I would like use what comes as part of the package.
If I import and play the package in SCORM Cloud, I get generated statements returned.
The only thing I can see is an entry in the tincan.js file, this.recordStores=[] other than that I'm unsure where to go next, any suggestions?
Generally this kind of package implements a set of guidelines that were released with the 0.9 version of the specification (at the time named the Tin Can API and then later changed to xAPI). Those guidelines provide for a packaging and launch mechanism which is what Rise has implemented. The launch mechanism indicates that the endpoint and authentication credentials will be passed on the query string to the launched content where it can retrieve them. The TinCanJS library used by Rise implements functionality to digest the query string and set up objects, those you find in this.recordStores to communicate with the xAPI LRS identified in the query string parameters.
You have two primary options,
Get the query string parameters directly from the launch URL and
process it yourself, potentially using the same global library objects
(TinCan.LRS) already available to get an LRS object that you can
then interact with as you see fit,
Leverage the object already created for you via the this.recordStores list that is already prepared by the package itself
There are pros/cons to both methods and they largely depend on your familiarity with JavaScript and how flexible you need/want to be.
I see there are a number of classes available in the package freemarker.template.utility. Is there a way for these to be exposed in the data model so that they can be used inside a template?
It seems like that might be what they are for but I can't figure out how to access them from my templates.
Thanks!
You can create an instance of the desired object, and drop it into the data-model like anything else. Or, you can set said objects as Configuration-level "shared variables", via Configuration.setSharedVariable.
I'm using the Check package to validate parameters passed to Meteor methods. And I'm using Audit argument checks to enforce this.
However, I've added another package, Meteor Tags and when I try to use methods from the Tags package, I get a server error "Exception while invoking method '/patterns/addTag' Error: Did not check() all arguments during call to '/patterns/addTag'".
I think I understand why this error happens - the method in the Tags package doesn't check its inputs, so Audit Argument Checks generates an error. But I can't find any way around this, apart from 1) don't enforce checking, or 2) hack the Tags package methods so they use check. Neither of these seems like a great option - checking server parameters is a good idea, and hacking a package is not very maintainable.
Does anybody know if there is any smart way to use 'Audit argument checks' with packages that provide new server methods? I have looked at the Check documents, and searched online, but I haven't found an answer.
I hope this question makes sense.
Using audit-argument-checks is like saying: "I want to be serious about the security of the methods in my app." It's global to all methods in your app's codebase, including the methods from your installed packages.
There is no way to specify which parts of the app get checked, as that would be the equivalent of saying: "I want to be serious about the security of the methods I've written, but I don't care about the security holes created by some pacakges" (which doesn't make a lot of sense).
Note to package authors
Check your method arguments. It's not hard, and it prevents this situation from happening. Frankly, a package without this basic security really shouldn't be installed in the first place.
What you should do
Unless you have a throwaway app, I wouldn't recommend removing audit-argument-checks. Instead I'd do the following (assuming the package really has something of value):
Open an issue on github and let the maintainer know what's up.
Fork the code, and add the required checks. Keep this version as a local package.
Submit a pull request for the changes.
If all goes well, your PR will be accepted and everyone can benefit from the change. In the worst case, you'll still have a local copy that you can use in your app.