Summary: My simple website now successfully communicates with Google Spreadsheets, but the inconvenience of adding this Google Spreadsheets API is that deployments of my website (via deployhq.com) now take 50 minutes when they used to take 30 seconds!
Details:
I created a simple webpage using PHP that accepts parameters and then appends a new row of data to a Google Spreadsheet. Getting it working felt like a miracle because Google's documentation was so sparse and often outdated.
Following the example there and on Google's Github page, my composer.json file is:
{
"require": {
"google/apiclient": "^2.0"
}
}
Can I somehow avoid requiring all of those Google dependencies for all of their PHP APIs?
I'd love not to download all of the irrelevant Google API code that has nothing to do with Google Spreadsheets.
I think the massive amount of files is what is causing my deployments to take 50 minutes instead of 30 seconds.
My super basic webpage pretty much just uses the Google_Service_Sheets class and related classes. I want anything extraneous.
If you download a release of the client library it will include the core library and all of its dependencies, without the auto-generated classes. Then you can then download the Sheets API generated classes separately and add them to your project. Using composer is the preferred method, as it makes it easy to get updates later.
P.S. - There are ~4200 generated files downloaded with the library. That's not trivial, but any process that takes 50 minutes to copy those over likely has room for improvement.
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I'm thinking about developing an Excel add-in as described here.
Would that be possible with Svelte - and do you know of any guides/help if yes?
I have looked through the video here, and I'm about worried about the usage of webpack.
Well... let's break it down
Is it possible?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: the documentation clearly states that Excel add-in still uses jQuery for logic manipulations. If your question was about Angular or react it would probably be a hard NO since those frameworks use an engine that should be included as part of solution. This kind of dependencies when dealing with plugins development are pretty hard to implement and maintain as a function of time so it's better to use very lightweight, non-core dependencies instead. Since you are asking about svelte - it is "compiled" into a bundle that contains pure code (based on your app logic). So - as long as your app rely on the load event sequence described in the docs - you are good to go.
Do you really need Webpack?
Short answer: no
Long answer: svelte can be deployed using rollup instead - which is more suitable for micro-applications (such as yours). So, if you feel that webpack (somehow) is blocking your work pipeline - just use svelete default configuration with rollup and you are ready to go
Your workflow
Create a very simple svelte app (my suggestion - try to take the example in the docs and implement it using svelte)
Test it locally (just verify it works)
Build it (you should ended up with 3 files - 1 html file in public directory and 2 other files in public/build directory - 1 js file and 1 css file (both called bundle)
Here's the tricky part - the html file does nothing - just loading the css and js files. In your case - you don't really need it
Change the bundle.css file to Home.css file
Change the bundle.js file to Home.js file and put your app inside the add-in main function
'use strict';
(function () {
Office.onReady(function() {
// Office is ready
YOUR SVELTE APP CODE SHOULD BE PLACED HERE
});
})();
Pack your add-in and test it
Technical notes
If Excel blocks the creation of new elements (using dynamic injection) - this approach will NOT work (since your entire app is generated by your js file)
Please refer to this article for more information about packing your app
Try to make your app as lightweight and small-size as possible just to avoid the risk of exceeding the limits allowed for add-ins
I need to develop a simple CRUD console app to update a list of Trello cards from a CSV file. I'll run the app in TaskScheduler every night. I've installed #gregsdennis Manatee.Trello packages (impressive code!) but cannot find a single (complete example) of anything like this anywhere. All I've managed to do is auth in with app key and tokedn.
Is there a resource out there that shows simple (full) examples of how to get started? #gregsdennis—the C# libraries are extensive and obviously well thought out—I just need a jump start to get me going. Thanks to all in advance!
Here's the documentation site: https://gregsdennis.github.io/Manatee.Trello/usage/getting-started.html
I'm interested in using Hot Module Replacement with a newly created React app.
Facebook Incubator's create-react-app uses Webpack 2 which can be configured to support HMR, however in order to do so, one needs to "eject" the create-react-app project.
As the documentation points out, this is a "one way" operation and cannot be reversed.
If I'm to do this, I want to know what I might be giving up. I've been unable to locate any documentation that explains the potential drawbacks of ejecting.
The current configuration allows your project to get updates from create-react-app core team. Once you eject you no longer get this.
It's kind of like pulling in bootstrap css via CDN as opposed to downloading the source code and injecting it directly into your project.
If you want more control over your webpack, there are ways to configure/customize it without ejecting:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/custom-react-scripts
I've started investigating alternatives to my project and a few questions came out that I couldn't answer by myself.
The problem is: I want to create a web page able to access multiple Magento instances installed in the same server. Currently, I have one Magento instance per client and this project will access several Magneto instances to export reports from each one (for example).
The alternatives I thought til this moment are:
Have another Magento instance, create a new module within it that changes its 'database target' before triggering operations/queries;
Questions until this moment:
Can I 'change the database target' of a Magento instance?
How can I access data from a Magento instance without appeal to SOAP/REST?
I want to re-use some components (grids, tabs, forms..) from Magento, that's why I'm not considering an independent project (Zend, for instance) that can access this code from another projects. Does it make sense?
Any other idea?
==Edited==
Thanks by the tips and sorry by my ignorance. The comments let me believe that I'm able to execute something like this:
// File myScript.php
require '/home/DOMAIN1/app/Mage.php';
Mage::app('default');
// get some products from DOMAIN1
require '/home/DOMAIN2/app/Mage.php';
Mage::app('default');
// get some products from DOMAIN2
Is it right? Can I execute require twice (and override things from first require)?
==Edited2==
I'm still trying to connect to several Magento instances from a single third party file. Is there any tip? I'm facing several/different errors at this moment.
The only thing I know is that I can still rely on SOAP to get the information I need, but this will be expensive.
Thanks!
The easiest way would be to include Mage.php from each shop instance. You would need to use namespaces or some other trickery to be able to load more then one.
Or if that doesn't work - make your own API in a separate file to get what you want from one shop, and combine the results in the PHP-file that calls the API.
Here's a sample on how to use Magento functionality outside of Magento:
require 'app/Mage.php';
if (!Mage::isInstalled()) {
echo "Application is not installed yet, please complete install wizard first.";
exit;
}
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
// your custom code here, for example, get the product model..
$productModel = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
I'm collecting GitHub issue statistics over time on our project: total number of issues, number of issues with a particular label, number of issues in a given state (open/closed). Right now, I have a Python script to parse the project webpage with the desired labeling/state for the info I want, e.g., http://github.com/<projectname>/issues?label=<label_of_interest>&state=<state_of_interest>
However, parsing the HTML is fragile since if the GitHub API changes, more often than not, my code fails.
Does someone describe how to use the GitHub API (or barring that, know of some other way, preferably in Python) to collect these statistics without relying on the underlying HTML?
May I be so forward as to suggest that you use my wrapper around the GitHub API for this? With github3.py, you can do the following:
import github3
github = github3.login("braymp", "braymp's super secret password")
repo = github.repository("owner", "reponame")
open_issues = [i for i in repo.iter_issues()]
closed_issues = [i for i in repo.iter_issues(state='closed')]
A call to refresh may be necessary because I don't honestly recall if GitHub sends all of the issue information upon the iteration like that (e.g., replace i.refresh() for i in <generator> as the body of the list comprehensions above).
With those, you can iterate over the two lists and you will be able to use the labels attribute on each issue to figure out which labels are on an issue. If you decide to merge the two lists, you can always check the status of the issue with the is_closed method.
I suspect the actual statistics you can do yourself. :)
The documentation for github3.py can be found on ReadTheDocs and you'll be particularly interested in Issue and Repository objects.
You can also ask further questions about github3.py by adding the tag for it in your StackOverflow question.
Cheers!
I'd take a look at Octokit. Which doesn't support Python currently, but does provide a supported interface to the GitHub API for Ruby.
https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit
Although this doesn't fully meet your specifications (the "preferably Python" part), Octokit is a fantastic (and official - it's developed by GitHub) way of interacting with the GitHub API. You wrote you'd like to get Issues data. It's as easy as installing, requiring the library, and getting the data (no need for authentication if the project is public).
Install:
gem install octokit
Add this to your Ruby file to require the Octokit library:
require 'octokit'
Although there are a lot of things you can get from Octokit::Client::Issues, you may want to get a paginated list of all the issues in a repository:
Octokit.list_issues('octokit/octokit.rb')
# => [Array<Sawyer::Resource>] A list of issues for a repository.
If you're really keen on using Python, you might want to have a look at the GitHub API docs for Issues. Really, it's as easy as getting a URL like: https://api.github.com/repos/octokit/octokit.rb/issues and get the JSON data (although I'm not familiar with Python, I'm sure these some JSON parsing library); no need for authentication for public repos.