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11/17/2020

06:04 PM Feature #5009: add OS-USERID function as 4GL extension

We have a customer that needs to access the OS user id/name. It seems a poor approach to force the customer to write... Greg Shah

05:50 PM Feature #5009 (Closed): add OS-USERID function as 4GL extension

Greg Shah

11/11/2020

03:43 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

Nevermind, I guess that it is meant to exclude the persistent trigger form of the @ON@ statement. Greg Shah

03:37 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

What is the purpose of the @and !upPath("KW_ON/KW_PERSIST")@ exclusion in @convert/control_flow.rules@ line 935 which... Greg Shah

11/09/2020

04:10 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

Greg Shah wrote:
> Is there anything significant that is missing from @InvokeConfig@ support today?
>
> All forms... Constantin Asofiei

04:05 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

Is there anything significant that is missing from @InvokeConfig@ support today?
All forms of function are support... Greg Shah

04:02 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

Greg Shah wrote:
> Can @InvokeConfig@ be used as a full replacement for all forms of @CFS.invoke*()@ usage?
Yes, In... Constantin Asofiei

03:52 PM Feature #1970: improve ControlFlowOps method resolution by reflection

Can @InvokeConfig@ be used as a full replacement for all forms of @CFS.invoke*()@ usage?
The more I look at CFS, t... Greg Shah

08:06 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Our extreme focus on compatibility is not absolute. There are many bugs in the OpenEdge implementation which we do n... Greg Shah

02:29 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Greg, there are definitively some bugs in the 4GL implementation that simple were not discovered yet... some of the o... Marian Edu

11/04/2020

06:40 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

> but the issue is they might just want to extend the default one :(
If someone does this, we will implement a fu... Greg Shah

04:54 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Greg Shah wrote:
> Is ABLSocketLibrary required here? Is there some public interface of the HTTP client that requri... Marian Edu

08:09 PM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

> This, however, makes the implementation not 100% compatible and anything beside the main `execute` method in ABLSoc... Greg Shah

06:34 AM Feature #3853: implement LOG-MANAGER runtime

Please see #4384-396 for some discussion about logging in the built-in OO classes. There will be work there to test ... Greg Shah

06:01 AM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

Greg Shah wrote:
> Does this happen on both Linux and Windows?
We were only working on Windows for now but this m... Marian Edu

05:57 AM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

Greg Shah wrote:
> What JDK do you use (post output of @java -version@)?
java version "1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runt... Marian Edu

05:51 AM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

What JDK do you use (post output of @java -version@)? Greg Shah

05:50 AM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

Does this happen on both Linux and Windows? Greg Shah

04:16 AM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

Just to clarify, it looks like the issue comes from opening the file read-only. We open, close the log file constantl... Marian Edu

08:20 PM Bug #4992: File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

From Marian:
> There seems to be a locking issue that we're experiencing with @ParseFile@ (ObjectModelParser) and ... Greg Shah

11/02/2020

08:44 AM Bug #4992 (New): File lock with JSON Parse/Write File

Marian Edu

02:30 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Greg, for the HTTP client in 4GL a plain client socket is used for making all requests while in FWD the Apache Http c... Marian Edu

10/23/2020

10:50 AM Bug #4978: Static method call in base class

I'm going to copy in the testcase code so what we are discussing is clear to future readers.
@Base.cls@:... Greg Shah

10:23 AM Bug #4978: Static method call in base class

I don't recall why we needed to distinguish between internal and non-static method lookup. Hierarchy lookup is perfo... Constantin Asofiei

10:16 AM Bug #4978: Static method call in base class

I don't think this is correct. With this change, @internal@ will always be @true@. Greg Shah

09:41 AM Bug #4978: Static method call in base class

Marian, this patch solves the issue.
Greg: if this looks OK, I'll commit to 3821c.... Constantin Asofiei

09:51 AM Feature #4965: Parameter annotation - qualified

Marian Edu wrote:
> There the method is qualified so it's not a problem, the problem is that @_BaseObject_@ (input) ... Constantin Asofiei

10/22/2020

08:34 AM Bug #4977 (Closed): Temp Table with P.L.O field

Greg Shah

07:41 AM Bug #4977: Temp Table with P.L.O field

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Fixed in 3821c rev 11731
>
> Marian, you can use this patch with your WIP branch:
> ... Marian Edu

07:31 AM Bug #4978: Static method call in base class

From Marian:
> The 4GL seems to allow calling a static method defined in the base class as if it is part of the cl... Greg Shah

06:14 AM Bug #4978 (Review): Static method call in base class

Marian Edu

06:46 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Friday is fine. Greg Shah

02:24 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

Greg Shah wrote:
> When is a good time to merge 4384g back into 3821c?
Working on @Class@ for @invoke@ and @Param... Marian Edu

06:46 AM Support #4951 (Closed): Longchar input parameter

> Understood, the only thing that bothered me there was the boxing to longchar when we had to call a method with a ch... Greg Shah

02:09 AM Support #4951: Longchar input parameter

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > Question, is there a 'rule' for this as in do we must leave it longchar, can we use Te... Marian Edu

02:06 AM Feature #4965: Parameter annotation - qualified

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Do you have an example for this?
The only one we stumble upon is for @MapEntry@ that... Marian Edu

10/21/2020

11:56 AM Bug #4971 (Closed): Object array resize

Greg Shah

10:02 AM Bug #4971: Object array resize

The fix in 4384g rev 11706 looks OK - when resizing to zero, the type is extracted from the array's first element and... Constantin Asofiei

10:11 AM Feature #4384: Builtin OO Implementation

When is a good time to merge 4384g back into 3821c? Greg Shah

10:07 AM Support #4951: Longchar input parameter

> Question, is there a 'rule' for this as in do we must leave it longchar, can we use Text instead or this is actuall... Constantin Asofiei

09:48 AM Support #4951: Longchar input parameter

From Marian:
> Since 4GL allows passing a character (variable or string) for a longchar input parameter I thought ... Greg Shah

09:49 AM Feature #4965: Parameter annotation - qualified

> > When a class is instantiated a 'constructor' method that matches the arguments is searched and then depending on ... Constantin Asofiei

09:21 AM Bug #4977 (WIP): Temp Table with P.L.O field

Fixed in 3821c rev 11731
Marian, you can use this patch with your WIP branch:... Constantin Asofiei

07:07 AM Bug #4977: Temp Table with P.L.O field

From Marian:
> There are some issues when trying to pass a temp-table as parameter if it contains at least one P.L... Greg Shah

03:15 AM Bug #4977 (Closed): Temp Table with P.L.O field

Marian Edu

10/19/2020

08:49 AM Bug #4971: Object array resize

From Marian:
> When an non-fixed extent variable of type @object@ is resized the actual object type previously sav... Greg Shah

08:40 AM Bug #4971 (Closed): Object array resize

Marian Edu