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USoft as a Nuget client Viewing installed nugets Installing an available nuget version Deleting an installed nuget version Delivering a nuget version as part of your USoft applicationUSoft as a Nuget clientNuget, also NuGet, is the package manager for .NET. It allows developers to create, share and consume .NET libraries. Also, by extension, “a nuget” (as a countable noun) is one such .NET library.USoft Definer is able to act as a Nuget client. You can install nugets in USoft Definer and then use them in RDMI C# components of your USoft solution.USoft installs certain nugets automatically as part of the USoft setup. In addition, a “Find Nuget” tool allows you to install other available nugets from https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json .Dependencies between nugetsA (version of a) nuget may depend on another (version of a) nuget. The “Find Nuget” tool allows you to find out about such dependencies.in USoft 10.1.BETA you need to include any necessary dependencies manually. A feature for aut

RDMI Components

Component Example 5: Creating a PDF report

This is a preview article. This functionality has been added in USoft 10.1. In earlier versions of the product it may not exist, or it may not exist as stated.You can use a USoft XSL Stylesheets component to instantly create a PDF report from data retrieved from a Rules Engine.If the component source is an XSL stylesheet that produces XSL-FO formatting objects and has the following top-level namespace declaration:xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"then, at the time when you have the component checked, extra methods are automatically generated that allow you to export the result of the stylesheet transformation to PDF or HTML; notably:Method Name Description CREATEBASE64PDF Converts XSL-FO XML to PDF CREATEPDFFILE Converts XSL-FO XML to PDF Writes the result to a file CREATEHTML Converts XSL-FO XML to HTML CREATEHTMLFILE Converts XSL-FO XML to HTML Writes the result to a file The PDF generator uses version 1.0.5 of the Fonet.Standard Nuget. This n

BatchRunner internal component

BatchRunner.StartJob

This article is about the StartJob method of the BatchRunner internal component.BatchRunner.StartJobThe BatchRunner.StartJob() method was deprecated in USoft 8 and is supported only for backward compatibility. Use BatchRunner.job methods instead.The StartJob method cannot be called from a constraint.ExampleTo start the EXPORT_TOURS batch job with job input parameters DESTINATION and YEAR, execute the following statement: INVOKE BatchRunner.StartJob WITHSELECT 'EXPORT_TOURS' JobName, 'DESTINATION=AUSTRALIA' JobParameter, 'YEAR=2003' JobParameterThe job parameters must be named. The JobName parameter is required. Using JobParameter items, you can pass parameters to the job. You can pass: '-quiet' JobParameterto run the job without displaying any information messages or prompts. Error messages are still displayed. If a log file has been specified, all the usual information is logged, irrespective of whether or not -quiet has been spec

Patterns (Regular Expressions)

You can use a regular expression (regex) pattern to define the subset of values that is acceptable for a domain.If you do that, in columns based on the domain, only input values that match the regex pattern will be accepted.ExampleUse this pattern:^[A-Za-z]*$ to express that a domain must only accept all-letter (ie., alphabetic) values.Define the pattern as follows. A user who attempts to input "AUSTRALIA23” in a column based on the domain will get the error: “Value must contain only letters. AUSTRALIA23 rejected.”Name ALPHABETIC Description Letters only, no digits or special characters. Pattern ^[A-Za-z]*$ Custom Message Value must contain only letters. <input> rejected. A regular expression only allows you to create restrictive rules: if an input value does not match the regex, it is rejected, and an error message is given.To create productive rules (input value is automatically changed to an acceptable version), use a domain constraint.Finding or creating the regex

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Server configuration: RerouteMappings element

In a config.xml server configuration file, the <RerouteMappings> element contains reroute mappings for REST services:<RerouteMappings> <Mapping class="service-name" connection="connection-name" hostname="" targetPath="short"/></RerouteMappings>Reroute mappings allow shorter URLs for accessing USoft web resources.targetPath is the short text string that is a placeholder for the longer underlying URL.hostname must be empty.Within a server, a reroute mapping is specific to the combination of a REST Service identified by the class attribute, and a Connection identified by the connection attribute.For details, go to Reroute mappings.

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USoft Service Definer objects

Reroute mappings

A reroute mapping is an arrangement that allows your user's browser to access USoft web resources by a shorter, simpler URL than the traditional, standard USoft URL.In the examples that follow, the word "short” is not a keyword but just a random example word that allows you to get a feel of how the URL can become shorter.Example 1You can create a reroute mapping for a REST Service that has Functional Type = USoft Page Engine Resource. This allows users to browse your USoft web application through a short URL of this type:https://host:port-number/shortinstead of through a traditional, long USoft URL of this type:https://host:port-number/service-name/connection-name/app.usoftIf you apply a reroute mapping, the longer URL will still work, but the user will automatically see it replaced by the shorter URL in his browser address bar.Example 2You can create a reroute mapping for a REST Service that has Functional Type = USoft Job Resource. This allows a REST API to execute a job on the Rules

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In USoft Web Designer 9, the creation of HTML has moved to the client. The server has become a hatch that serves files on request. The advantages of this approach are:The processing power of the client is used. The client has knowledge of the local conditions like type of browser, available resolution, locally stored data, etc. JavaScript can be used, which is a much more powerful language than XSLT which was used in USoft 8 to produce HTML server-side. Network load is reduced.This innovation has been made possible by the recent sophistication of web client devices. The clients of today are no longer the simple machines they were a couple of years ago. Also, standards are now much better implemented, making it easier to create websites that can be interpreted by different browsers. Even smartphones have more than enough power to perform this task.In the processing that USoft Web Designer 10 expects clients to perform, aspects of data interaction are carefully separated from user interf

Maintaining a USoft Production environment

Service Framework server healthcheck

You can run a health check utility on a USoft server. A USoft server is part of the USoft Service Framework. A USoft server exposes a collection of web services for the benefit of USoft applications. A USoft server is developed and published from the USoft Service Definer tool.You can also run a health check on a USoft Rules Service.To run a server health check, browse:host:port/healthwhere port is the Windows Service port number of the Service Framework server you want to check, for example:http://localhost:8092/healthExposing the health check utilityTo expose the health check utility on the server, make sure that in the config.xml file for the server, the advertise attribute has the HealthCheckResource mention: for example:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Config> <Server name="..." ... advertise="GenericResource,AdminResource,LoggingResource,HealthCheckResource,GenericExceptionHandler," ...Service Definer generates this HealthCheckResource mention for you

USoft command line syntax

creapp.exe

Creates or re-creates database tables for a USoft application, or for a user application built with USoft.The table below lists the command line options available for use with the creapp.exe command.Option Purpose -A Starts the Authorizer. -D Starts the Definer. Works only in combination with the -ddfile option, because the repository of USoft Developer itself is only presented in a file. -app name Creates tables for the application named by name. USoft Developer will read table definitions from the name.CON file, except when reading from repository. -database name Specifies which database is to be used. Use oracle for Oracle, oledb for SQL Server, odbc for ODBC. This parameter is mandatory for SQL Server (OLEDB) and for ODBC, and optional for Oracle, but USoft recommends you specify this parameter also for each Oracle connection. -ddfile Reads table definitions from flat files instead of from your RDBMS. If you use this option

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