I trying to learn captures in Lasso 9, but I am struggling to figure out how to access the #1 local variable from within a conditional that's inside an array->forEach capture. Maybe my approach is all wrong. Is there a reference to the parent capture that I need to use? Following is the working code:
define paramstovars() => {
local(p = web_request->params)
#p->foreach => {
local(i = #1)
if(#i->type == 'pair') => {
var(#i->first->asstring = #i->second->asstring)
}
}
}
Following is the code I am trying to get working without relying on a redundant local variable definition:
define paramstovars() => {
local(p = web_request->params)
#p->foreach => {
if(#1->type == 'pair') => {
var(#1->first->asstring = #1->second->asstring)
}
}
}
In this second example, I receive an error that Position was out of range: 1 max is 0 (Error Code -1) on the line calling var().
Obvious security concerns with this custom method aside, what's the most efficient way to make #1 available inside nested conditionals?
#1 is replaced within each capture — so yes, you will need to assign it to another local in order to use it in deeper captures. If you need to work with the local again try using query expressions instead:
with i in web_request->params do {
if(#i->type == 'pair') => {
var(#i->first->asstring = #i->second->asstring)
}
}
Also, I wouldn't recommend settings variables in this fashion — it posses a security risk. It would be better to store the parameters in a single variable and then potentially set specific variables from that. There's a set of tags that does something similar here: getparam / postparam
It is my experience that #1 is consumed when called first time. At least I have never ben able to call it twice in the same capture.
If I need the value more than once I make it a local first. As you do in your example 1.
Some experiments later.
You can call #1 several times, contrary to what I wrote, but what trips your effort is that you have a capture inside the capture (the conditional).
The second capture will have it's own input params.
Here's a working, tested example to do what you want to do:
local(
myarray = array(1, 2 = 'two', 3 = 'four', 4),
mypairs = map
)
#myarray -> foreach => {
if(#1-> isa(::pair)) => {
#mypairs -> insert(#1 -> first -> asstring = #1 -> second -> asstring)
}(#1)
}
#my pairs
The result will be map(2 = two, 3 = four)
The trick is the sending of the foreach param to the conditional capture : `{some code}(#1)
Now, with all that worked out. I recommend that you take a look at Ke Carltons latest addition to tagswap. It will solve the same problem way better than creating a bunch of dynamic vars as you are attempting to do:
www.lassosoft.com/tagswap/detail/web_request_params
Related
I am trying to change a variable in a function but even tho the function is producing the right values, when I go to use them in the next sections, R is still using the initial values.
I created a function to update my variables NetN and NetC:
Reproduction=function(NetN,NetC,cnrep=20){
if(NetC/NetN<=cnrep) {
DeltaC=NetC*p;
DeltaN=DeltaC/cnrep;
Crep=Crep+DeltaC;
Nrep=Nrep+DeltaN;
Brep=(Nrep*14+Crep*12)*2/1e6;
NetN=NetN-DeltaN; #/* Update N, C values */
NetC=NetC*(1-p)
print ("'Using C to allocate'")
}
else {
print("Using N to allocate");
DeltaN=NetN*p;
DeltaC=DeltaN*cnrep;
Nrep=Nrep+DeltaN;
Crep=Crep+DeltaC;
Brep=(Nrep*14+Crep*12)*2/1e6;
NetN=NetN*(1-p);
NetC=NetC-DeltaC;
} } return(c(NetC=NetC,NetN=NetN,NewB=NewB,Crep=Crep,Nrep=Nrep,Brep=Brep))}
When I use my function by say doing:
Reproduction(NetN=1.07149,NetC=0.0922349,cnrep=20)
I get the desired result printed out which includes:
NetC=7.378792e-02
However, when I go to use NetC in the next section of my code, R is still using NetC=0.0922349.
Can I make R update NetC without having to define a new variable?
In R, in general, functions shouldn't change things outside of the function. It's possible to do so using <<- or assign(), but this generally makes your function inflexible and very surprising.
Instead, functions should return values (which yours does nicely), and if you want to keep those values, you explicitly use <- or = to assign them to objects outside of the function. They way your function is built now, you can do that like this:
updates = Reproduction(NetN = 1.07149, NetC = 0.0922349, cnrep = 20)
NetC = updates["NetC"]
This way, you (a) still have all the other results of the function stored in updates, (b) if you wanted to run Reproduction() with a different set of inputs and compare the results, you can do that. (If NetC updated automatically, you could never see two different values), (c) You can potentially change variable names and still use the same function, (d) You can run the function to experiment/see what happens without saving/updating the values.
If you generally want to keep NetN, NetC, and cnrep in sync, I would recommend keeping them together in a named vector or list, and rewriting your function to take that list as input and return that list as output. Something like this:
params = list(NetN = 1.07149, NetC = 0.0922349, cnrep = 20)
Reproduction=function(param_list){
NetN = param_list$NetN
NetC = param_list$NetC
cnrep = param_list$cnrep
if(NetC/NetN <= cnrep) {
DeltaC=NetC*p;
DeltaN=DeltaC/cnrep;
Crep=Crep+DeltaC;
Nrep=Nrep+DeltaN;
Brep=(Nrep*14+Crep*12)*2/1e6;
NetN=NetN-DeltaN; #/* Update N, C values */
NetC=NetC*(1-p)
print ("'Using C to allocate'")
}
else {
print("Using N to allocate");
DeltaN=NetN*p;
DeltaC=DeltaN*cnrep;
Nrep=Nrep+DeltaN;
Crep=Crep+DeltaC;
Brep=(Nrep*14+Crep*12)*2/1e6;
NetN=NetN*(1-p);
NetC=NetC-DeltaC;
}
## Removed extra } and ) ??
return(list(NetC=NetC, NetN=NetN, NewB=NewB, Crep=Crep, Nrep=Nrep, Brep=Brep))
}
This way, you can use the single line params <- Reproduction(params) to update everything in your list. You can access individual items in the list with either params$Netc or params[["NetC"]].
the problem is quite simple. We have some store with many products.
For example each item has fields (and many others):
Height
Weight
Length
Name
Color
Price
We implement some page where we can filter items by range for numbers (like price, length) and string (color).
So, the problem is here:
- we need to allow people to filter items by any of criteria above (color+price, color+length+weight).
The basic approach with predefined SELECT+WHERE is too hard to main.
Is there any other option?
Thank you.
Jonathan is right. I think using if cases would be easiest and would look something like this.
var res = _dbContextorSource.table.Where(x => x.ID > 0); //something to get all of them
//or (x => x.ID >= 0 && x.ID <= 50) if you're showing 50 on a page
if(FirstFilterIsUsed){
res = res.table.Where(x => x.FirstField == FirstFilter);
}
if(SecondFilterIsUsed){
res = res.table.Where(x => x.SecondField == SecondFilter);
}
//etc
I think you could implement a more clean solution that loops through each filter. This is super pseudo but I've used solutions like this.
var filters = GetUserFilters();
foreach(Filter filter in filters){
res = res.table.Where(x => x.GetType().
GetProperty(filter.MatchingName).GetValue(x) == filter.FilterValue);
}
var result = res.ToList();
Common Solution
The most common solution is performing a big if` case. It takes some time to support all your fields but will work great at the end.
However, if you want to do it dynamically, 2 third-party libraries can help you with this
LINQ Dynamic
https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Linq.Dynamic.Core/
The syntax required is a little bit different from C# but work great. It's the most popular library to do such a thing.
C# Eval Expression
Disclaimer: I'm the owner of the project C# Eval Expression
The library is not free, but you can do pretty much any dynamic LINQ using the same syntax as C#.
So you will be able to build a string to evaluate and the library will do the rest for you.
Here are some example using EF Classic:
https://dotnetfiddle.net/Otm0Aa
https://dotnetfiddle.net/mwTqW7
I'm actually using the original Deus Ex game from the year 2000. I created a child class of "DeusEx.Flare" and called it "rflare" and saved it to my own package. I have successfully compiled it, and it works, but not the way I intended. I want to override the function "LifeSpan = 30" and give it "LifeSpan = 120". The problem is the documentation. There practically is none. And the documentation I can find generally is too confusing and does not give good enough examples for what I'm tryng to do. here is the code. I know I'm supposed to be using the "super" expression but I have exhausted all the ways I know how to use it. I simply cannot get it to work. However, I can get it to work if I dont' mind throwing both the normal flare (which goes out in 30 seconds) and my own flare, which only drops to the ground without a sound but will in fact last 120 seconds. So my code would end up throwing 2 flares. 1 normal flare that goes out in 30 sec. and the other that does last 120 but does not get thrown like the normal flare does.
here is the code from DeusEx.Flare script that I'm trying to change.
function LightFlare()
{
local Vector X, Y, Z, dropVect;
local Pawn P;
if (gen == None)
{
LifeSpan = 30;
}
}
My first attempt was to copy this and change it in my own package. It worked but again, it shot 2 flares, 1 normal and 1 that sorta worked. I want to do only one. So here is my attempt at correcting the code.
function LightFlare()
{
Super(Flare).LightFlare();
if (gen == None)
{
LifeSpan = 120;
}
}
All this does is spawn the normal flare, with no difference in the time it lasts. Can someone please help me?
I would suggest copying the LightFlare function in it's entirety from the parent class and not calling super. You don't want the original function to run, as that will mess with the lifetime variable.
For instance:
class RFlare extends Flare;
function LightFlare()
{
local Vector X, Y, Z, dropVect;
local Pawn P;
// Original function here, change lifetime when specified.
if (gen == None)
{
LifeSpan = 120;
}
}
defaultproperties
{
}
I'm currently implementing a SBT plugin for Gatling.
One of its features will be to open the last generated report in a new browser tab from SBT.
As each run can have a different "simulation ID" (basically a simple string), I'd like to offer tab completion on simulation ids.
An example :
Running the Gatling SBT plugin will produce several folders (named from simulationId + date of report generaation) in target/gatling, for example mysim-20140204234534, myothersim-20140203124534 and yetanothersim-20140204234534.
Let's call the task lastReport.
If someone start typing lastReport my, I'd like to filter out tab-completion to only suggest mysim and myothersim.
Getting the simulation ID is a breeze, but how can help the parser and filter out suggestions so that it only suggest an existing simulation ID ?
To sum up, I'd like to do what testOnly do, in a way : I only want to suggest things that make sense in my context.
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Pierre
Edit : As I got a bit stuck after my latest tries, here is the code of my inputTask, in it's current state :
package io.gatling.sbt
import sbt._
import sbt.complete.{ DefaultParsers, Parser }
import io.gatling.sbt.Utils._
object GatlingTasks {
val lastReport = inputKey[Unit]("Open last report in browser")
val allSimulationIds = taskKey[Set[String]]("List of simulation ids found in reports folder")
val allReports = taskKey[List[Report]]("List of all reports by simulation id and timestamp")
def findAllReports(reportsFolder: File): List[Report] = {
val allDirectories = (reportsFolder ** DirectoryFilter.&&(new PatternFilter(reportFolderRegex.pattern))).get
allDirectories.map(file => (file, reportFolderRegex.findFirstMatchIn(file.getPath).get)).map {
case (file, regexMatch) => Report(file, regexMatch.group(1), regexMatch.group(2))
}.toList
}
def findAllSimulationIds(allReports: Seq[Report]): Set[String] = allReports.map(_.simulationId).distinct.toSet
def openLastReport(allReports: List[Report], allSimulationIds: Set[String]): Unit = {
def simulationIdParser(allSimulationIds: Set[String]): Parser[Option[String]] =
DefaultParsers.ID.examples(allSimulationIds, check = true).?
def filterReportsIfSimulationIdSelected(allReports: List[Report], simulationId: Option[String]): List[Report] =
simulationId match {
case Some(id) => allReports.filter(_.simulationId == id)
case None => allReports
}
Def.inputTaskDyn {
val selectedSimulationId = simulationIdParser(allSimulationIds).parsed
val filteredReports = filterReportsIfSimulationIdSelected(allReports, selectedSimulationId)
val reportsSortedByDate = filteredReports.sorted.map(_.path)
Def.task(reportsSortedByDate.headOption.foreach(file => openInBrowser((file / "index.html").toURI)))
}
}
}
Of course, openReport is called using the results of allReports and allSimulationIds tasks.
I think I'm close to a functioning input task but I'm still missing something...
Def.inputTaskDyn returns a value of type InputTask[T] and doesn't perform any side effects. The result needs to be bound to an InputKey, like lastReport. The return type of openLastReport is Unit, which means that openLastReport will construct a value that will be discarded, effectively doing nothing useful. Instead, have:
def openLastReport(...): InputTask[...] = ...
lastReport := openLastReport(...).evaluated
(Or, the implementation of openLastReport can be inlined into the right hand side of :=)
You probably don't need inputTaskDyn, but just inputTask. You only need inputTaskDyn if you need to return a task. Otherwise, use inputTask and drop the Def.task.
EDIT: I accidentally misrepresented the problem when trying to pare-down the example code. A key part of my code is that I am attempting to sort the array after adding elements to it. The hang appears on sort, not insert. The following abstracted code will consistently hang:
<?=
local('a' = array)
#a->insert('test1' = map('a'='1'))
#a->insert('test2' = map('b'='2')) // comment-out to make work
#a->sort
#a
?>
I have a result set for which I want to insert a pair of values into an array for each unique key, as follows:
resultset(2) => {
records => {
if(!$logTypeClasses->contains(field('logTypeClass'))) => {
local(i) = pair(field('logTypeClass'), map('title' = field('logType'), 'class' = field('logTypeClass')))
log_critical(#i)
$logTypeClasses->insert(#i) // Lasso hangs on this line, will return if commented-out
}
}
}
Strangely, I cannot insert the #i local variable into thread variable without Lasso hanging. I never receive an error, and the page never returns. It just hangs indefinitely.
I do see the pairs logged correctly, which leads me to believe that the pair-generating syntax is correct.
I can make the code work as long as the value side of the pair is not a map with values. In other words, it works when the value side of the pair is a string, or even an empty map. As soon as I add key=value parameters to the map, it fails.
I must be missing something obvious. Any pointers? Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.
I can verify the bug with the basic code you sent with sorting. The question does arise how exactly one sorts pairs. I'm betting you want them sorted by the first element in the pair, but I could also see the claim that they should be sorted by last element in the pair (by values instead of by keys)
One thing that might work better is to keep it as a map of maps. If you need the sorted data for some reason, you could do map->keys->asArray->sort
Ex:
local(data) = map('test1' = map('a'=2,'b'=3))
#data->insert('test2' = map('c'=33, 'd'=42))
local(keys) = #data->keys->asArray
#keys->sort
#keys
Even better, if you're going to just iterate through a sorted set, you can just use a query expression:
local(data) = map('test1' = map('a'=2,'b'=3))
#data->insert('test2' = map('c'=33, 'd'=42))
with elm in #data->eachPair
let key = #elm->first
let value = #elm->second
order by #key
do { ... }
I doubt you problem is the pair with map construct per se.
This test code works as expected:
var(testcontainer = array)
inline(-database = 'mysql', -table = 'help_topic', -findall) => {
resultset(1) => {
records => {
if(!$testcontainer->contains(field('name'))) => {
local(i) = pair(field('name'), map('description' = field('description'), 'name' = field('name')))
$testcontainer->insert(#i)
}
}
}
}
$testcontainer
When Lasso hangs like that with no feedback and no immediate crash it is usually trapped in some kind of infinite loop. I'm speculating that it might have to do with Lasso using references whenever possible. Maybe some part of your code is using a reference that references itself. Or something.