HTML form to invoke XQuery files - forms

We have quite a number of .xqy files in several folders.
Sometimes, I need to invoke an .xqy file (via Marklogic's CQ) to test if it's working.
But I find it rather cumbersome to have to know what parameters to pass in and specify them in the xquery in CQ.
Is there a tool out there that would generate an HTML form that presents to me the parameters of a given .XQY file and invokes it when I press a "submit" button ?
If there is none out there, would somebody here know of how to make such an HTML form ? Right now, I can't seem to find any readily-available xdmp or xquery commands to tell me if an .XQY file is invocable or what parameters it expects to be fed.
Danny

The XQuery standard doesn't support introspection, nor does MarkLogic provide any functions that help with that. The closest you can get with this is using the XQDoc documentation code that is capable of parsing the XQuery code itself and producing descriptions of all function signatures within modules.
You can find more details about it here: http://developer.marklogic.com/code/xqdoc-ws
It doesn't provide a 'Submit' button, but using the XML output of xqdoc, you could make that yourself..
Good luck!

Another option would be to convert your XQuery to XQueryX and you can then process this as XML using XQuery (or XSLT) to generate an XForm or XHTML Form.

Since Danny mentioned unit testing, I'll risk plugging my own framework for that: https://github.com/mblakele/xqut
I usually run XQUT test suites in a cq buffer, but it would be easy enough to wrap one in a simple web page - with or without a form.

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Combine two TCPDF documents

I'm using TCPDF to create two separate reports in different parts of my website. I would like that, in the end of the first report, the second report should be loaded.
It's different than import a PDF file, because the second report is also generated by TCPDF. Is there a way to do this?
I assume from your question that what you ultimately want to provide is one PDF file that consists of the first PDF concatenated with the second PDF.
One quick and dirty solution is to utilize the pdftk command line PDF processor and call it from within your PHP code using the exec() function. The pdftk command has many features and concatenating files is only one of them, but it does an awesome job. Depending on your hosting situation, this may or may not be an option for you.
The other option would be to use FPDI to import the two PDF files and concatenate them within your PHP code and then send the concatenated version to the user.
More information on using PFDI here:
Merge existing PDF with dynamically generated PDF using TCPDF
Given that you're already using TCPDF, importing the pre-existing file that you want to concatenate with the one you've just created shouldn't be too difficult.
Just add FPDI to your project/composer from:
https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/downloads/
Can you still used tcpdf.
FPDI support all the methods of tcpdf, just used new FPDI() instead new tcpdf() the result will be the same in your report, after you create your report marge the files with the code from this page:
https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/
In a loop, once set the first file and after this set the second...
If you will need help i am here for you.

Custom Search Results in REST MarkLogic

So new to MarkLogic am stuck and not finding the documentation of use. I know what i need to do, just do not know how to do it.
I have a keyvalue? search on my REST server which returns ML's standard search results and XML snippet. I want to create my own custom search result which will output a title element for my XML files.
I am aware that i need to create an XSLT transformation document and upload that to the server but do not know how to target ML's search function or how to write this out.
I have basic knowledge of XSLT, if i just created something that targets each files title using xPath will this work, or does ML require use of their custom functions?
I know its a bit broad, but hopefully someone can point steer me.
Sounds like you are talking about the GET /v1/keyvalue endpoint of MarkLogic REST API. Unfortunately that does not allow you to choose a transform. You can probably use GET /v1/search with a transform param instead though, using a structured query for an element value query. The docs contain a good syntax reference on that.
Docs on creating and managing transforms can be found here:
http://docs.marklogic.com/guide/rest-dev/transforms#chapter
HTH!
You can use extract-metadata in your search options with search:search or the /v1/search/ REST API endpoint to include the title element in a metadata element or JSON property in your results:
import module namespace search = "http://marklogic.com/appservices/search"
at "/MarkLogic/appservices/search/search.xqy";
search:search(
"my query string",
<options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">
<extract-metadata>
<qname elem-ns="" elem-name="title"/>
</extract-metadata>
</options>)
If you need more flexibility, you specify a custom snippet implementation or a results decorator function in your search options.
Is this key-value or full text? For key-value you could use XPath. Any XPath that starts with / or // or fn:collection() or fn:doc() will search the entire database. You can search specific document(s) or collection(s) too.
For full text you'd probably want to use https://docs.marklogic.com/search:search - or possibly https://docs.marklogic.com/cts:search for really low-level control.
There's some example code using search:search from XSL at https://github.com/marklogic/RunDMC which might help. It doesn't use the REST API: it's a traditional form-submit web page. But the view/search.xsl code might give you some idea how to call the search API from XSLT.
That RunDMC code might also help you if you need to call XSL from XQuery: take a look at controller/transform.xqy.

Perl Catalyst, pass to stash 2 template parts

I started learning Perl Catalyst and its awesome!!! However, I am having a little issue here with templateing.
I am trying to pass two template variables to the page (header and footer), what I did in the Controller function is
$c->stash(template => 'header.html');
//other page contents
$c->stash(template => 'footer.html');
but this only outputs the footer.html (which it should and seems logical)
What would be the way for this approach? I searched google but could not find many helpful results (at least results that I could understand and use)
You need to create a view.
https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::02_CatalystBasics#Hello-World-Using-a-View-and-a-Template
Also, have a look at how wrappers work in TT -- they are really cool.
http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Directives.html#section_WRAPPER
You cannot pass 2 templates in stash.Only the last value will be kept.However the to way to do this, is to include the footer template inside the header.The commands include and process are very helpfull.

cfscript Code Assist in CFBuilder

I'm increasingly using cfscript, and like it where appropriately used.
One problem is that there doesn't appear to be any code assist for cfscript in CF Builder, so I find myself writing the tag of a function to leverage the code Assist, then converting to cfscript (which is silly).
For example:
addParam() is the cfscript equivalent of <cfqueryparam >. I get code assist when writing the the tag version, but not the script equivalent.
Does anyone know if there is a code assist library available for cfscript in cfBuilder? Or is this just a downside of working with cfscript?
Many Thanks in advance!
Jason
Your example is not using native CFScript, it's using the hack-solution Adobe provided for some shortcomings of CFScript's coverage of CF tags, which are implemented as a bunch of CFCs in the custom tags dir of your install. This stuff is not representative of CFML & its CFScript support as a whole.
I find that CFB gives hinting for most native functionality... is this not the case for you? What if you try listAppend() for example? Do you get code-assist for that?
UPDATE
I wonder if you get a warning in CFB on your line equivalent to this:
o = new Query();
? I do, by default. I have to make a link to the CustomTags/com dir, and then use this syntax:
o = new com.adobe.Query();
Then I don't get a warning, and indeed I get the code assist you're expecting. I cannot get it to give me hinting on just the non-qualified path to Query.cfc though.
Not ideal. Or maybe I'm missing something, too.

Query with toLocalizedTime in Plone

I'm using toLocalizedTime to output a date, as below
<span tal:content="python:here.toLocalisedTime(date.get('start_date'))"/>
This outputs eg. 2007/08/02, I'm just curious as to how one would alter the output so that it reads 02/08/2007
I'm not having much luck finding much info on toLocalizedTime, would someone point me in the right direction?
This depends on whether you have English selected as the site language (Site Setup >> Language). If so, then the default settings are used. You can change the defaults by dropping down into the ZMI, then into 'portal_properties', then 'site_properties'. The fields to change are either 'localTimeFormat' or 'localLongTimeFormat' depending on whether you pass in 'long_format=1' to the toLocalisedTime function.
If on the other hand, you have translations set up, the format may instead be pulled from the translation file for the locale selected. I'm not sure what is the easy way to change the format in this case (other than switching the site back to English). I guess you can register your own translation file but I've never needed to do that so you're going to have to look up the details.
Date string formatting follows the Python rules (http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime).
Perhaps even more detail than you need:
here.toLocalizedTime()
is defined in the plone browser view at...
CMFPlone/browser/ploneview.py
which looks up the 'translation_service' utility, to call its 'ulocalized_time' function, defined at...
CMFPlone/TranslationServiceTool.py
which itself calls the 'ulocalized_time' function defined at...
CMFPlone/i18nl10n.py
As always, you can learn interesting things by grepping the source code ;-)
For an up to date answer for Plone 4.3 (after going through the source code)
These fields are now in the registry found at:
http://localhost:8080/yoursite/portal_registry
Then filter on "i18nl10n", which should give you the 4 fields you need to change.