I have a custom developed share dashlet that has hardcoded values in use (For example the name of a Workspace to use as a default).
I would rather have the values placed into a configuration file and have the dashlet read the fileup at server start and work from there. I have two questions:
Which file can I use and where can I place the file?
How can I get the share dashlet to read the file contents and load the data into local variables?
I would advise you to leverage the PreferenceService, which can be accessed from a Share Web Script by consuming the following API exposed by the repository:
GET /cms-repository-5.0.0/service/api/people/{userid}/preferences?pf={preferencefilter?}
POST /cms-repository-5.0.0/service/api/people/{userid}/preferences?pf={preferencefilter?}
DELETE /cms-repository-5.0.0/service/api/people/{userid}/preferences?pf={preferencefilter?}
In this way you will probably need to define some hard coded meaningful defaults, then let the user customize his experience and store the customized settings as user preferences.
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I often run scripts on remote machines and sometimes create custom html dashboards to monitor progress. I was wondering if something like that would be better done taking advantage of vscode's ssh extension, which I use to edit files remotely anyway.
For example, I'd like to display a custom panel with information derived from a list of files in the remote server. My traditional approach would be to run a web server to get the file contents in some custom json format and create a custom html client to display the data. Would it be possible to skip the web server part and instead create some custom vscode extension that gets the data via some ssh api?
It might be your case to use LogTail extension to fetch your data and then proceed with your desired display method.
VSCode Marketplace for LogTail: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tiansin.logtail
I hope it helps :)
I am using CloverETL Designer for ETL operations and I want to load some csv files from GCS to my Clover graph. I used FlatFileReader and tried to get file using remote File URL but it is not working. Can someone please detail the entire process here??
The path for file in GCS is
https://storage.cloud.google.com/PATH/Write_to_a_file.csv
And I need to get this csv file into the FlatFileReader in CloverETL Designer
You should use the Google Cloud Storage API to GET the file; Clover's HTTPConnector component will allow you to pass in the appropriate parameters to make a GET request (you will presumably have to do an OAuth2 authentication first to get a token), and send the output to a local destination specified in "Output File URL." Then you can use a FlatFileReader to read from that local file.
GCS has several different ways to download files from your buckets. You can use the console and the Cloud Storage browser. Steps: open the storage browser, navigate to the object you want to download, right click, and save to your chosen local folder. If you use Chrome the save appears as “Save Link As…”.
To use the GS Utility, use this command:
`gsutil cp gs://[BucketName]/[ObjectName] [ObjectDestination]`.
Or you can use client libraries or the REST APIs to download files. With these last options you could work with a number of files or create a job to download them. Once they are in a location known to Clover ETL the process is straightforward.
Within Clover designer, under the navigation pane you can right click a folder and choose import. Pick the one in which you placed your GCS file. Once the file is imported then you can use data from it like any other datafile in Clover. Since this is a .csv file, remember to edit your metadata (right click the component, choose extract metadata then edit inside the Metadata Editor -- for data types, labels and such.) Assign metadata to the edges of your components so they know what is coming in/going out of that step. Depending on your file, this process may be repeated many times.
Even with an ETL tool, getting the data and data types correct can be tricky. If you have questions about how to configure data types or your edges in an ETL project, a wiki may help. The web has additional resources may help you get the end analysis you’re looking for.
I'm thinking about how to extend RT (and also with the IR extension, but I don't think this makes a difference) in regards to retrieving files from external sources (e.g. sftp) and adding them as attachments to tickets. I'm asking for suggestions of how I might go about this, as I've not used RT much and never programmed in Perl before.
I'm thinking of adding an input and button in the ticket to allow the user to provide a unique ID for the file and for them to be able to click when they want to retrieve the file from the external source, so not an automatic retrieval, unless it only does it once.
I'm thinking of creating a MakeClicky (http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/MakeClicky) which creates a link to a cgi script (something like 'getfile(abc.txt)'), providing the ticket ID and the UID for the file. This script would then retrieve the file and post it as a comment/reply to the ticket. A couple of things to ask:
Are comments and replies to tickets really the only way to add an attachment? I read this somewhere but cant find the source now
How would I modify the existing ticket from a cgi script? Its on the same host, would I still need to use the REST api? Or can I just import the RT modules and add a attachment/comment/reply with the attachment without using the REST api?
The other option would be to create a scrip for on create/comment/reply that would search the contents of the ticket for an identifier for the file, retrieve the file and attach it.
I'm open to suggestions, unless one of these is a good way to do it!
TIA!
Essentially I'm trying to see if I can use file picker to manage user assets.
With they accelerate bundle you can specify a custom s3 source, but only on their dashboard.
I want users to pick and store to their own folders ( which appears to be possible )
but then also be able to re-use those files they have already picked and stored using filepicker.
Is this possible? by reading through the doc it appears not.
Such a feature is not available so far.
I think the only solution here would be to create a database with user filepicker filelinks.
How do you distribute other files needed by your application that aren't in a jar file? For example, the application at http://www.javabeginner.com/java-swing/java-swing-shuffle-game . The download contains Shuffle.jar, Shuffle.bat, Score.dat, and an images folder with 3 images in it. I can see possibly putting the images directly in Shuffle.jar, but you wouldn't want to put Score.dat in the jar file because it changes. Is there somewhere you could identify this type of file in the jnlp?
The non-java files should be stored as resources. For files that change, you store the original or template file also as a resource in your jar. When the program starts, you have it check the local system to see if that file exists. If not, it creates the local file by copying the template file from the JAR resource. If the file already exists, then it is used as is.
To save files to the local system, even when running in the sandbox (unsigned), you can use the PersistenceService (javadoc / example). If your java application is signed, then you can use the regular File apis to write the file to the local machine, such as in a ".yourgame" subfolder under the user's home folder.
You can put all those files (except the scores file) in your jar file and load the contents using resource loading.
I've just deleted and restarted my reply twice now, changing my answer each time; this is confusing and needs a bit more clarification.
Are you SURE that application is supposed to be a Web Start app? On the site you linked to, it doesn't appear to be. Are you trying to take an application that was not designed as a Web Start application and change it into one that can be Web Start?
If it's not a Web Start app as your tag implies, then this question is open ended. You can distribute it 100 different ways.
If you are indeed trying to convert it into a Web Start app, you can start by packaging the images into the jar and that will alleviate your first headache if you just read them from there instead of from a File(). If it's going to be Web Start, then you need to decide how you want to keep scores. You have to decide what the scoring system is like before you can decide on how to go about it; will all the scores be kept on the web site hosting the Web Start app? Will that part still be local? If you want to get access to the local file system, you need to sign the jar, then you can extract the score.dat to the file system and do whatever you want with it if the end user accepts.
You need to figure out what you want to do before you can do it, or at least clear it up for us if you already know more than we know you know.