How to apply a patch to soap rtl in Delphi? - web-services

I have corrected an error in a soap unit (Soap.OPToSOAPDomConv.pas), but I don't know how to rebuild soaprtl170.bpl (Delphi XE3).
I need to do this as I have a component to install in the ide that requires that bpl, and when dropping it in a form and activating it makes webservice calls in design mode.
In design mode it seems to use the soaprtl instead my modified Soap.OPToSOAPDomConv.dcu.
In runtime it works as I'm not using runtime packages and my dcu is taking precedence.
Any help on how to recompile the bpl would be appreciated.
The concrete patch I want to apply in that file is the following:
function TOPToSoapDomConvert.InvContextToMsg(const IntfMD: TIntfMetaData; MethNum: Integer;
Con: TInvContext; Headers: THeaderList): TStream;
...
(line 1446)
if not IsBareLiteral then
MethNode := BodyNode.AddChild(ExtMethName, SoapMethNS,true)
else
MethNode := BodyNode;
...
The patch consists in adding the true to the addChild.

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Call a method or function from Objective-c in AppleScript

I'm trying to use LestMove to be more precise
the second implementation method where it says:
Option 2:
Copy the following files into your project:
PFMoveApplication.h
PFMoveApplication.m
If your project has ARC enabled, you'll want to disable ARC on the above files. You can do so by adding -fno-objc-arc compiler flag to your PFMoveApplication.m source file. See How can I disable ARC for a single file in a project?
If your application is localized, also copy the 'MoveApplication.string' files into your project.
Link your application against Security.framework.
In your app delegate's "-[applicationWillFinishLaunching:]" method, call the PFMoveToApplicationsFolderIfNecessary function at the very top.
but I'm not able to call the method / Class, could someone help me with this issue? Thanks in advance!
In general, there are a couple of ways to set up an Objective-C class in your AppleScriptObjC project:
Add the file(s) to the project - the Objective-C class name will be
the one used in the #interface/#implementation declarations
Add an outlet property in the AppleScript class/script you are using, e.g. property someProperty : missing value
Instantiate the class programmatically:
set someProperty to current application's ClassName's alloc's init()
or
Connect stuff up with the Interface Builder:
Add an NSObject (blue cube) from the library to your project
Set the class of the object/cube to the class name of the Objective-C file(s) in the Identity Inspector
Connect the AppDelegate IB Outlet to the object/cube in the Connections Inspector
After setting up the outlet property, the Objective-C methods can be used like any other script/class:
someProperty's handler()
That LetsMove project wasn't really set up for AppleScriptObjC, but I was able to tweak it a bit to get it running. I'm not that great at writing Objective-C, but the following worked for me using a new default AppleScript project with Xcode 10 in Mojave (the original file is over 500 lines long, so I'm just highlighting the changes):
Add PFMoveApplication.h and PFMoveApplication.m files to the project (the class name is LetsMove)
Add Security.framework to Link Binary With Libraries in Build Phases
As described in the original project README, add the compiler flag -fno-objc-arc to the Objective-C file in Compile Sources of the Build Phases
-- Now to alter the Objective-C files a bit:
Move the #interface declaration to the .h file and include the redefined method signatures below in it:
The PFMoveToApplicationsFolderIfNecessary and PFMoveIsInProgress methods are redefined as instance methods:
- (void)PFMoveToApplicationsFolderIfNecessary;
- (BOOL)PFMoveIsInProgress;
Redefine the above method signatures in the .m file, and include those methods in the #implementation section - to do this, move the #end to just before the helper methods (after the PFMoveIsInProgress method)
Remove the isMainThread statement at the beginning of the PFMoveToApplicationsFolderIfNecessary method - this is not not needed (AppleScript normally runs on the main thread), and fixes another issue
There is still a little stuff in there from the original app such as NSUserDefaults, so for your own project, give it a look to see if anything else needs changing (dialog text, etc)
And finally, in the AppDelegate.applescipt file, the following was added to applicationWillFinishLaunching:
current application's LetsMove's alloc's init()'s PFMoveToApplicationsFolderIfNecessary()

Define or suppress WebStorm Code Analysis for a specific object

I'm having trouble with the WebStorm code analysis tool.
In a node express server I send an object:
var configSummary = {
'siteDirs': siteDirs,
etc...
};
res.status(200).send(configSummary);
In a web app I use jQuery to ask the express server to send back a JSON object:
$.getJSON('/makers/config', function(configSummary) {
configSummary.siteDirs.forEach(etc...
})
The code runs without error, but the WebStorm code analysis annotator for my web app quite reasonably complains that configSummary.siteDirs is an unresolved variable. I know how to suppress the error in the editor with a comment, but I don't like that solution. Instead, I would like to teach WebStorm about the configSummary object or tell it to ignore that "type" in the client side JavaScript file. How can I do that?
In cases when the actual data is only known at runtime (for example, when data is a value set through ajax call), it can't re resolved during static analysis, thus the error.
It's not possible to suppress analysis for specific error type - you can only suppress it for statement using comments. But you can let the IDE know what your data looks like.
Possible solution using JSDoc annotations:
/**
* #typedef {Object} configSummary
* #property {Object} siteDirs
*/
...
$.getJSON('/makers/config', function (/** configSummary */ configSummary) {
configSummary.siteDirs.forEach(...)
})
See also https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-17419#comment=27-1058451, http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5504337#5504337 for other possible workarounds.
You can open any of .js library files from plugins/JavaScriptLanguage/lib/JavaScriptLanguage.jar!/com/intellij/lang/javascript/index/predefined/ to see what stub definitions look like

Can I use all the functionally I see exposed by the .TLH file?

Background:
I have an existing code that uses functionality provided by Microsoft, to post XML data over HTTP. Specifically, IServerXMLHTTPRequest (included in MSXML3 and up) from msxml4.dll (COM). I am moving to msxml6.dll as msxml4.dll is not supported anymore (superseded by MSXML6). More information about MSXML versions.
Code:
#import "msxml6.dll"
using namespace MSXML2;
…
IServerXMLHTTPRequestPtr spIXMLHTTPRequest = NULL;
hr = spIXMLHTTPRequest.CreateInstance(__uuidof(ServerXMLHTTP40));
Problem:
When building my app with msxml4.dll as well as msxml6.dll the following is included in the msxml4.tlh and msxml6.tlh respectively:
struct __declspec(uuid("88d969c6-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5"))
ServerXMLHTTP40;
// [ default ] interface IServerXMLHTTPRequest2
As I understand, looking at msxml6.tlh, I can use ServerXMLHTTP40 (and not change the code to ServerXMLHTTP60) with msxml6.dll (same for DOMDocument40, FreeThreadedDOMDocument40, XMLSchemaCache40 etc.).
Now, searching the registry in a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate installation, I cannot find the uuid above. As a result, this code fails on this machine:
hr = spIXMLHTTPRequest.CreateInstance(__uuidof(ServerXMLHTTP40));
Questions:
If msxml6 is exposing ServerXMLHTTP40, why is it that I cannot find it in the registry? Can I use ServerXMLHTTP40 when msxml6 is installed (msxml4 is not installed)?
Need additional information? Just let me know. Thank you!
.TLH file (as a product of import from .TLB, which is in turn a compiled version of .IDL file) is a description of interfaces, structures, methods etc. which ones uses to talk through COM to another object. There is no guarantee or promise that the other party implementing these interfaces is installed or otherwise available, or even exists at all.
Yes you have the signatures defined for you convenience. You might need to install runtime that implements the functionality. MSXML 4 might need a separate install regardless of where you obtained the development details from.

How can I create a JSON webservice to store and retrieve data from a simple properties file?

How can I create a Java or Javascript JSON webservice to retrieve data from a simple properties file? My intention is to uses this as a global property storage for a Jenkins instance that runs many Unit tests. The master property file also needs to be capable of being manually edited and stored in source control.
I am just wondering what method people would recommend that would be the easiest for a junior level programmer like me. I need read capability at miniumum but, and if its not too hard, write capability also. Therefore, that means it is not required to be REST.
If something like this already exists in Java or Groovy, a link to that resource would be appreciated. I am a SoapUI expert but I am unsure if a mock service could do this sort of thing.
I found something like this in Ruby but I could not get it to work as I am not a Ruby programmer at all.
There are a multitude of Java REST frameworks, but I'm most familiar with Jersey so here's a Groovy script that gives a simple read capability to a properties file.
#Grapes([
#Grab(group='org.glassfish.jersey.containers', module='jersey-container-grizzly2-http', version='2.0'),
#Grab(group='org.glassfish.jersey.core', module='jersey-server', version='2.0'),
#Grab(group='org.glassfish.jersey.media', module='jersey-media-json-jackson', version='2.0')
])
import org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpServerFactory
import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature
import javax.ws.rs.GET
import javax.ws.rs.Path
import javax.ws.rs.Produces
#Path("properties")
class PropertiesResource {
#GET
#Produces("application/json")
Properties get() {
new File("test.properties").withReader { Reader reader ->
Properties p = new Properties()
p.load(reader)
return p
}
}
}
def rc = new org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig(PropertiesResource, JacksonFeature);
GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer('http://localhost:8080/'.toURI(), rc).start()
System.console().readLine("Press any key to exit...")
Unfortunately, since Jersey uses the 3.1 version of the asm library, there are conflicts with Groovy's 4.0 version of asm unless you run the script using the groovy-all embeddable jar (it won't work by just calling groovy on the command-line and passing the script). I also had to supply an Apache Ivy dependency. (Hopefully the Groovy team will resolve these in the next release--the asm one in particular has caused me grief in the past.) So you can call it like this (supply the full paths to the classpath jars):
java -cp ivy-2.2.0.jar:groovy-all-2.1.6.jar groovy.lang.GroovyShell restProperties.groovy
All you have to do is create a properties file named test.properties, then copy the above script into a file named restProperties.groovy, then run via the above command line. Then you can run the following in Unix to try it out.
curl http://localhost:8080/properties
And it will return a JSON map of your properties file.

A quick way to remove properties from .dfm files in Delphi

I have recently modified one of my components, and it so happens it is no longer using one of the properties it used before.
However, those properties are written in multiple .dfm files throughout the project.
Now, when i try to compile the project, i get
"Error reading .: Property <...> does not exist"
The complicated part is that the property value is binary data (stored in multiple lines), and i cant just delete it with Delphi replace or notepad++ regexp (since they are single-line based).
So my question would be:
Are there any third party tools or ways to easily remove properties from multiple .dfm files?
Try this tool Delphi DFM properties remover, works with old versions of delphi but maybe can help you.
One possible approach is to modify your component so that it is capable of simply ignoring these properties. That way you don't have to hunt them down in each and every .dfm file.
For example:
type
TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper = class
public
class procedure IgnoreBooleanProperty(Reader: TReader);
class procedure IgnoreIntegerProperty(Reader: TReader);
end;
{ TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper }
class procedure TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper.IgnoreBooleanProperty(Reader: TReader);
begin
Reader.ReadBoolean;
end;
class procedure TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper.IgnoreIntegerProperty(Reader: TReader);
begin
Reader.ReadInteger;
end;
type
TMyComponent = class(...)
....
protected
procedure DefineProperties(Filer: TFiler); override;
....
procedure TMyComponent.DefineProperties(Filer: TFiler);
begin
inherited;
Filer.DefineProperty('MyLegacyBooleanProperty',
TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper.IgnoreBooleanProperty, nil, False);
Filer.DefineProperty('MyLegacyIntegerProperty',
TIgnoreFormPropertyHelper.IgnoreIntegerProperty, nil, False);
end;
The Jedi VCL contains a tool called DFMCleaner:
DFMCleaner is a tool to remove unsupported properties from DFMs. If
you save a dfm file in one version of Delphi and want to use it in an
earlier version, chances are there are some unsupported properties in
it, generating an error when the form is opened in Delphi. What's even
worse, if the dfm is part of a design-time package, Delphi will
install the package without errors but when you try to access the form
at design-time (f ex if the form is used by a property editor), Delphi
generates an AV instead.
It is located in jvcl-install\devtools\DFMCleaner (project with source code and example configuration file)
In my case simply closing the project and deleting the DProj file helped.