Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Some tips about XoTcl development best practices

Ok, I've found it, didn't look for xo::db::select_driver without trailing semicolons, sorry.

I've just refreshed my installation to freshest cvs (upgrading everything from apm) and now /xotcl page gives me a complain:

unable to dispatch sub-method "superclasses" of ::nx::BootStrapVariableSlot info; valid are: info children, info class, info configure, info configure defaultmethod, info configure parameters, info configure syntax, info filter guard, info filter methods, info has mixin, info has namespace, info has type, info heritage, info info, info instances, info lookup configure parameters, info lookup configure syntax, info lookup filter, info lookup method, info lookup methods, info lookup slots, info lookup variables, info method args, info method body, info method definition, info method definitionhandle, info method exists, info method handle, info method origin, info method parameters, info method postcondition, info method precondition, info method registrationhandle, info method returns, info method submethods, info method syntax, info method type, info methods, info mixin classes, info mixin guard, info mixinof, info name, info object filter guard, info object filter methods, info object method args, info object method body, info object method definition, info object method definitionhandle, info object method exists, info object method handle, info object method origin, info object method parameters, info object method postcondition, info object method precondition, info object method registrationhandle, info object method returns, info object method submethods, info object method syntax, info object method type, info object methods, info object mixin classes, info object mixin guard, info object slots, info object variables, info parameter default, info parameter name, info parameter syntax, info parameter type, info parent, info precedence, info slots, info subclass, info superclass, info variable definition, info variable name, info variable parameter, info variables, info vars
while executing
"error "unable to dispatch sub-method $ref; valid are: [join [lsort $valid] {, }]""
(procedure "unknown" line 11)
::nx::Class::slot::__info ::nx::EnsembleObject->unknown
::nx::BootStrapVariableSlot ::nx::Class->info
invoked from within
"$o info superclasses"
(procedure "::xo::getObjectProperty" line 45)
invoked from within
"::xo::getObjectProperty $cl $key"
(procedure "info_classes" line 4)
invoked from within
"info_classes $cl superclass"
("foreach" body line 6)
invoked from within
"foreach cl [lsort $classes] {
if {!$all_classes && [string match "::xotcl::*" $cl]} continue

append output "

[::xotcl::api..."
("uplevel" body line 60)
invoked from within
"uplevel {
ad_page_contract {
Show classes defined in the connection threads

Antonio, please get the newest version of nsf/nx from git and recompile+install it to get the xotcl class browser with the newest version of xotcl-core working on your local instance (e.g. use the HEAD option for xotcl in install-ns.sh). Most of the other stuff is robust against the latest changes, but the detailed introspection is not).

The head version of nsf/nx/xotcl2 will be released quite soon.

xotcl-core generates at startup automatically interfaces to all stored procedures in the database. For every package (in the oracle terminology) an object in the ::xo::db::sql namespace is generated. By calling e.g.

::xo::db::sql::acs_attribute create_attribute

one is calling actually in an postgres installation the stored procedure

acs_attribute__create_attribute

This interface is much faster than the usual OpenACS interface and allows to handle defaults for attribtues, give error messages about expected attributes, etc.

btw, i've updated xotcl-core once more, it should be now more backwards compatible (not tested), so you might not have to update nsf/nx.

all the best
-gn