ArrayCollection reverses order of my objects - apache-flex

I'll show you the function first.
private var areaCollection:ArrayCollection;
private function generateAreaCollection():void
{
areaCollection = new ArrayCollection();
areaCollection.addItem({Areal: "Totalareal:", Verdi: int(totalArea * 100) / 100 + " kvm"});
areaCollection.addItem({Areal: "Hovedtakets areal:", Verdi: int(result.area* 100) / 100 + " kvm"});
//Lots of other stuff omitted (just more addItems).
}
As you see, the order i put the items in the ArrayCollection is Areal, then Verdi (area, value)
When i loop through the collection later, the order changes. Now it is Verdi then Areal (value, area).
Does anyone have an idea of what might be the problem?
It really ruins things when I pass it over to a PHP-script for table-making in html later.
(I have several different dynamic DataGrids that differs in size and "values", so I can't really point directly to f.ex "Areal" in my PHP-script)
And by the way, does anyone know how i can remove that pesky mx_internal_uid?

Raw objects in AS3 (Object class, or things defined by {} ), have no sorting. That is, the order is unpredictable. You're confusing two ideas here I think. The Areal and Verdi strings are keys within an object map. The array collection is a list composed of two such objects. So any sorting applied to the array collection will sort those objects, but not within the object.
So you need to refer to areaCollection.source[0].Areal to get "Totalareal". And areaCollection.source[1].Verdi to get int(result.area* 100) / 100 + " kvm"
If you do for(var s:String in areaCollection.source[0]) { } you will iterate twice, with the value of "s" being "Areal" and "Verdi" or vice-versa (e.g, order not guaranteed).
Make sense? If you need order, you can make the object an array instead ["Totalareal", (int(totalArea * 100) / 100 + " kvm")], and then access "Verdi" using [1].
P.s. not sure how to remove the mx_internal_id.

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Populating an Apex Map from a SOQL query

// I have a custom metadata object named boatNames__mdt and I'm using two methods to get a list of picklist values in a String[];
First Method
Map<String, boatNames__mdt> mapEd = boatNames__mdt.getAll();
string boatTypes = (string) mapEd.values()[0].BoatPick__c;
// BoatPick__c is a textarea field (Eg: 'Yacht, Sailboat')
string[] btWRAP = new string[]{};
**btWRAP**.addAll(boatTypes.normalizeSpace().split(','));
Second Method
string[] strL = new string[]{};
Schema.DescribeFieldResult dfr = Schema.SObjectType.boatNames__mdt.fields.BoatTypesPicklist__c;
// BoatTypesPicklist__c is a picklist field (Picklist Values: 'Yacht, Sailboat')
PicklistEntry[] picklistValues = dfr.getPicklistValues();
for (PicklistEntry pick : picklistValues){
**strl**.add((string) pick.getLabel());
}
Map with SOQL query
Map<Id, BoatType__c> boatMap = new Map<Id, BoatType__c>
([Select Id, Name from BoatType__c Where Name in :btWRAP]);
When I run the above Map with SOQL query(btWRAP[]) no records show up.
But when I used it using the strl[] records do show up.
I'm stunned!
Can you please explain why two identical String[] when used in exact SOQL queries behave so different?
You are comparing different things so you get different results. Multiple fails here.
mapEd.values()[0].BoatPick__c - this takes 1st element. At random. Are you sure you have only 1 element in there? You might be getting random results, good luck debugging.
normalizeSpace() and trim() - you trim the string but after splitting you don't trim the components. You don't have Sailboat, you have {space}Sailboat
String s = 'Yacht, Sailboat';
List<String> tokens = s.normalizeSpace().split(',');
System.debug(tokens.size()); // "2"
System.debug(tokens); // "(Yacht, Sailboat)", note the extra space
System.debug(tokens[1].charAt(0)); // "32", space's ASCII number
Try splitting by "comma, optionally followed by space/tab/newline/any other whitespace symbol": s.split(',\\s*'); or call normalize in a loop over the split's results?
pick.getLabel() - in code never compare using picklist labels unless you really know what you're doing. Somebody will translate the org to German, French etc and your code will break. Compare to getValue()

Correct parameter binding for SELECT WHERE .. LIKE using fmdb?

First time user of fmdb here, trying to start off doing things correctly. I have a simple single table that I wish to perform a SELECT WHERE .. LIKE query on and after trying several of the documented approaches, I can't get any to yield the correct results.
e.g.
// 'filter' is an NSString * containing a fragment of
// text that we want in the 'track' column
NSDictionary *params =
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:filter, #"filter", nil];
FMResultSet *results =
[db executeQuery:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE '%:filter%' ORDER BY linkNum;"
withParameterDictionary:params];
Or
results = [db executeQuery:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE '%?%' ORDER BY linkNum;", filter];
Or
results = [db executeQuery:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE '%?%' ORDER BY linkNum;" withArgumentsInArray:#[filter]];
I've stepped through and all methods converge in the fmdb method:
- (FMResultSet *)executeQuery:(NSString *)sql withArgumentsInArray:(NSArray*)arrayArgs orDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionaryArgs orVAList:(va_list)args
Depending on the approach, and therefore which params are nil, it then either calls sqlite3_bind_parameter_count(pStmt), which always returns zero, or, for the dictionary case, calls sqlite3_bind_parameter_index(..), which also returns zero, so the parameter doesn't get slotted into the LIKE and then the resultSet from the query is wrong.
I know that this is absolutely the wrong way to do it (SQL injection), but it's the only way I've managed to have my LIKE honoured:
NSString *queryString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE '%%%#%%' ORDER BY linkNum;", filter];
results = [db executeQuery:queryString];
(I've also tried all permutations but with escaped double-quotes in place of the single quotes shown here)
Update:
I've also tried fmdb's own …WithFormat variant, which should provide convenience and protection from injection:
[db executeQueryWithFormat:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE '%%%#%%' ORDER BY linkNum;", filter];
Again, stepping into the debugger I can see that the LIKE gets transformed from this:
… LIKE '%%%#%%' ORDER BY linkNum;
To this:
… LIKE '%%?%' ORDER BY linkNum;
… which also goes on to return zero from sqlite3_bind_parameter_count(), where I would expect a positive value equal to "the index of the largest (rightmost) parameter." (from the sqlite docs)
The error was to include any quotes at all:
[db executeQuery:#"SELECT * FROM items WHERE track LIKE ? ORDER BY linkNum;", filter];
… and the % is now in the filter variable, rather than in the query.

Flex - sorting a datagrid column by the row's label

I'm creating a table that displays information from a MySQL database, I'm using foreignkeys all over the place to cross-reference data.
Basically I have a datagrid with a column named 'system.' The system is an int that represents the id of an object in another table. I've used lableFunction to cross-reference the two and rename the column. But now sorting doesn't work, I understand that you have to create a custom sorting function. I have tried cross-referencing the two tables again, but that takes ~30sec to sort 1200 rows. Now I'm just clueless as to what I should try next.
Is there any way to access the columns field label inside the sort function?
public function order(a:Object,b:Object):int
{
var v1:String = a.sys;
var v2:String = b.sys;
if ( v1 < v2 ){
trace(-1);
return -1;
}else if ( v1 > v2 ){
trace(1);
return 1;
}else {
trace(0);
return 0;
}
}
One way to handle this is to go through the objects you received and add the label as a property on each of them based on the cross-referenced id. Then you can specify your label property to display in your data grid column instead of using a label function. That way you would get sorting as you'd expect rather than having to create your own sort function.
The way that DataGrids, and other list based classes work is by using itemRenderers. Renderers are only created for the data that is shown on screen. In most cases there is a lot more data in your dataProvider than what is seen on screen.
Trying to sort your data based on something displayed by the dataGrid will most likely not give you the results you want.
But, there is no reason you can't call the same label function on your data objects in the sortFunction.
One way is to use the itemToLabel function of the dataGrid:
var v1:String = dataGrid.itemToLabel(a);
var v2:String = dataGrid.itemToLabel(b);
A second way is to just call the labelFunction explicitly:
var v1:String = labelFunction(a);
var v2:String = = labelFunction(b);
In my experience I have found sorting to be extremely quick, however you're recordset is slightly larger than what I usually load in memory at a single time.

Using strings to access custom methods dynamically

I am creating a two-dimensional list that has consecutive numbers at the end of "day", for use as dataProvider for a DataGrid
i have been accessing them via the command
dg1.selectedItem.day1
dg1.selectedItem.day2
dg1.selectedItem.day3
etc...
is there any way to take the string ("day"+i) and convert it into a (what is it? variable name?)
so that i can do something along the lines of:
for(var i:Number=1; i<numFields; i++)
{
dg1.selectedIndex = i-1;
dg1.selectedItem.(mysteryFunction("day"+i)) = 42;
}
if there's a function that i could use for mysteryFunction, or what data type to use, any info would be very helpful
this is what i've been using (so tedious):
<mx:XMLList id="sched">
<field>
<day1></day1>
<day2></day2>
<day3></day3>
</field>
<field>
<day1></day1>
<day2></day2>
<day3></day3>
</field>
...
</mx:XMLList>
The "mystery function" you are looking for is as simple as indexing with brackets:
for(var i:Number=1; i<numFields; i++)
{
dg1.selectedIndex = i-1;
dg1.selectedItem["day"+i] = 42;
}
And it is called, surprisingly, an attribute.
Use an Array or if you are going to bind it (which I am kind of betting on) use ArrayCollection instead of naming these variables individually.
If the members are generated by some program, you better put all of these in one of the collection classes I mentioned above and then start the processing. It makes life easier in the long run.
E4X is the way to go when dealing with XML. The Mozilla guys have an arguably better explanation of that technology. So, if your XML is stored in a variable as:
var tree:XML = <field>
<day1></day1>
<day2></day2>
<day3></day3>
You can simply do:
tree.day1 = 42;
Why would you want this mysteryFunction()? A dataProvider object is just a collection of some Type. You know the type already, right? Read this.
Anyway, there is no such mystery function. Note, however, string concatenation with a number converts the number to a string. Try
trace("str " + 42);

Full text search on a mobile device?

We'll soon be embarking on the development of a new mobile application. This particular app will be used for heavy searching of text based fields. Any suggestions from the group at large for what sort of database engine is best suited to allowing these types of searches on a mobile platform?
Specifics include Windows Mobile 6 and we'll be using the .Net CF. Also some of the text based fields will be anywhere between 35 and 500 characters. The device will operate in two different methods, batch and WiFi. Of course for WiFi we can just submit requests to a full blown DB engine and just fetch results back. This question centres around the "batch" version which will house a database loaded with information on the devices flash/removable storage card.
At any rate, I know SQLCE has some basic indexing but you don't get into the real fancy "full text" style indexes until you've got the full blown version which of course isn't available on a mobile platform.
An example of what the data would look like:
"apron carpenter adjustable leather container pocket waist hardware belt" etc. etc.
I haven't gotten into the evaluation of any other specific options yet as I figure I'd leverage the experience of this group in order to first point me down some specific avenues.
Any suggestions/tips?
Just recently I had the same issue. Here is what I did:
I created a class to hold just an id and the text for each object (in my case I called it a sku (item number) and a description). This creates a smaller object that uses less memory since it is only used for searching. I'll still grab the full-blown objects from the database after I find matches.
public class SmallItem
{
private int _sku;
public int Sku
{
get { return _sku; }
set { _sku = value; }
}
// Size of max description size + 1 for null terminator.
private char[] _description = new char[36];
public char[] Description
{
get { return _description; }
set { _description = value; }
}
public SmallItem()
{
}
}
After this class is created, you can then create an array (I actually used a List in my case) of these objects and use it for searching throughout your application. The initialization of this list takes a bit of time, but you only need to worry about this at start up. Basically just run a query on your database and grab the data you need to create this list.
Once you have a list, you can quickly go through it searching for any words you want. Since it's a contains, it must also find words within words (e.g. drill would return drill, drillbit, drills etc.). To do this, we wrote a home-grown, unmanaged c# contains function. It takes in a string array of words (so you can search for more than one word... we use it for "AND" searches... the description must contain all words passed in... "OR" is not currently supported in this example). As it searches through the list of words it builds a list of IDs, which are then passed back to the calling function. Once you have a list of IDs, you can easily run a fast query in your database to return the full-blown objects based on a fast indexed ID number. I should mention that we also limit the maximum number of results returned. This could be taken out. It's just handy if someone types in something like "e" as their search term. That's going to return a lot of results.
Here's the example of custom Contains function:
public static int[] Contains(string[] descriptionTerms, int maxResults, List<SmallItem> itemList)
{
// Don't allow more than the maximum allowable results constant.
int[] matchingSkus = new int[maxResults];
// Indexes and counters.
int matchNumber = 0;
int currentWord = 0;
int totalWords = descriptionTerms.Count() - 1; // - 1 because it will be used with 0 based array indexes
bool matchedWord;
try
{
/* Character array of character arrays. Each array is a word we want to match.
* We need the + 1 because totalWords had - 1 (We are setting a size/length here,
* so it is not 0 based... we used - 1 on totalWords because it is used for 0
* based index referencing.)
* */
char[][] allWordsToMatch = new char[totalWords + 1][];
// Character array to hold the current word to match.
char[] wordToMatch = new char[36]; // Max allowable word size + null terminator... I just picked 36 to be consistent with max description size.
// Loop through the original string array or words to match and create the character arrays.
for (currentWord = 0; currentWord <= totalWords; currentWord++)
{
char[] desc = new char[descriptionTerms[currentWord].Length + 1];
Array.Copy(descriptionTerms[currentWord].ToUpper().ToCharArray(), desc, descriptionTerms[currentWord].Length);
allWordsToMatch[currentWord] = desc;
}
// Offsets for description and filter(word to match) pointers.
int descriptionOffset = 0, filterOffset = 0;
// Loop through the list of items trying to find matching words.
foreach (SmallItem i in itemList)
{
// If we have reached our maximum allowable matches, we should stop searching and just return the results.
if (matchNumber == maxResults)
break;
// Loop through the "words to match" filter list.
for (currentWord = 0; currentWord <= totalWords; currentWord++)
{
// Reset our match flag and current word to match.
matchedWord = false;
wordToMatch = allWordsToMatch[currentWord];
// Delving into unmanaged code for SCREAMING performance ;)
unsafe
{
// Pointer to the description of the current item on the list (starting at first char).
fixed (char* pdesc = &i.Description[0])
{
// Pointer to the current word we are trying to match (starting at first char).
fixed (char* pfilter = &wordToMatch[0])
{
// Reset the description offset.
descriptionOffset = 0;
// Continue our search on the current word until we hit a null terminator for the char array.
while (*(pdesc + descriptionOffset) != '\0')
{
// We've matched the first character of the word we're trying to match.
if (*(pdesc + descriptionOffset) == *pfilter)
{
// Reset the filter offset.
filterOffset = 0;
/* Keep moving the offsets together while we have consecutive character matches. Once we hit a non-match
* or a null terminator, we need to jump out of this loop.
* */
while (*(pfilter + filterOffset) != '\0' && *(pfilter + filterOffset) == *(pdesc + descriptionOffset))
{
// Increase the offsets together to the next character.
++filterOffset;
++descriptionOffset;
}
// We hit matches all the way to the null terminator. The entire word was a match.
if (*(pfilter + filterOffset) == '\0')
{
// If our current word matched is the last word on the match list, we have matched all words.
if (currentWord == totalWords)
{
// Add the sku as a match.
matchingSkus[matchNumber] = i.Sku.ToString();
matchNumber++;
/* Break out of this item description. We have matched all needed words and can move to
* the next item.
* */
break;
}
/* We've matched a word, but still have more words left in our list of words to match.
* Set our match flag to true, which will mean we continue continue to search for the
* next word on the list.
* */
matchedWord = true;
}
}
// No match on the current character. Move to next one.
descriptionOffset++;
}
/* The current word had no match, so no sense in looking for the rest of the words. Break to the
* next item description.
* */
if (!matchedWord)
break;
}
}
}
}
};
// We have our list of matching skus. We'll resize the array and pass it back.
Array.Resize(ref matchingSkus, matchNumber);
return matchingSkus;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Handle the exception
}
}
Once you have the list of matching skus, you can iterate through the array and build a query command that only returns the matching skus.
For an idea of performance, here's what we have found (doing the following steps):
Search ~171,000 items
Create list of all matching items
Query the database, returning only the matching items
Build full-blown items (similar to SmallItem class, but a lot more fields)
Populate a datagrid with the full-blow item objects.
On our mobile units, the entire process takes 2-4 seconds (takes 2 if we hit our match limit before we have searched all items... takes 4 seconds if we have to scan every item).
I've also tried doing this without unmanaged code and using String.IndexOf (and tried String.Contains... had same performance as IndexOf as it should). That way was much slower... about 25 seconds.
I've also tried using a StreamReader and a file containing lines of [Sku Number]|[Description]. The code was similar to the unmanaged code example. This way took about 15 seconds for an entire scan. Not too bad for speed, but not great. The file and StreamReader method has one advantage over the way I showed you though. The file can be created ahead of time. The way I showed you requires the memory and the initial time to load the List when the application starts up. For our 171,000 items, this takes about 2 minutes. If you can afford to wait for that initial load each time the app starts up (which can be done on a separate thread of course), then searching this way is the fastest way (that I've found at least).
Hope that helps.
PS - Thanks to Dolch for helping with some of the unmanaged code.
You could try Lucene.Net. I'm not sure how well it's suited to mobile devices, but it is billed as a "high-performance, full-featured text search engine library".
http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

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