Mike: +1 very helpful, thanks. I will try it. Jason: I prefer "artisinal code". I started with an old OSRF Java library made it work in the Android runtime. If you want to dig deeper shoot on over to https://github.com/kenstir/hemlock/tree/master/opensrf/src/org/opensrf
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ken, > > The open-ils.pcrud service is written in C. The attrs column on the > view behind that is an hstore, which is a key-value data type > available in Postgres. What you're getting there is what is actually > in the database. You might want to use mraf > (metabib.record_attr_flat) instead. > > HTH, > > -- > Mike Rylander > | President > | Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: mi...@esilibrary.com > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Ken Cox <kens...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, that helps. I implemented a generic string-or-int-to-integer > > method, and will be on the lookout for other places where it might be > > needed. I guess it goes without saying that it feels a bit awkward to be > > dealing with Perl vagaries when consuming the API from a different > language. > > (I'm looking at you, open-ils.pcrud.retrieve.mra, and your devilish > > perlishness) > > > > Ken > > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Mike Rylander <mrylan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Ken, > >> > >> Any time a variable is used as a string (or a number), perl starts > >> treating it that way for stringification purposes. As the code > >> changes version to version, and even as different code paths are taken > >> within one version depending on settings, perl may change the variable > >> type. Like Bill says, if you expect a number it's best to just use, > >> say, parseInt() from JS or it's equiv. > >> > >> HTH, > >> > >> -- > >> Mike Rylander > >> | President > >> | Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library > >> | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > >> | email: mi...@esilibrary.com > >> | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Bill Erickson <beric...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Ken, > >> > > >> > I can't say why they vary in this specific case, but it's not uncommon > >> > for > >> > numbers to be packaged as JSON strings throughout Evergreen / OpenSRF. > >> > Generally, Perl and JavaScript don't care and the OpenSRF JSON C > library > >> > is > >> > well-equipped to handle it. It's probably best to assume that any > >> > number > >> > might be delivered as a JSON number or a JSON string. > >> > > >> > -b > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Ken Cox <kens...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I have a bug report that searching the Missouri Evergreen catalog > >> >> crashes > >> >> the Android Hemlock App. I tracked it down to different results from > >> >> the > >> >> open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass.query . The server at > >> >> issourievergreen.org returns an "ids" list containing integers, and > the > >> >> other servers I tried return an "ids" list containing strings. > >> >> > >> >> Is this expected? Handling this one mismatch is straightforward, but > >> >> I'm > >> >> wondering how many similar issues lurk behind this one. > >> >> > >> >> Sample search queries and excerpted results for "pride and > prejudice": > >> >> > >> >> missourievergreen, version 2-11-0 > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> https://missourievergreen.org/osrf-gateway-v1?service=open- > ils.search&method=open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass. > query¶m=%7B%22org_unit%22:1,%22default_class%22:% > 22keyword%22,%22offset%22:0,%22limit%22:2,%22depth%22:0%7D& > param=%22pride%20and%20prejudice%22¶m=1 > >> >> ... > >> >> "ids":[[32673,null,"0.0"],[886843,null,"0.0"]] > >> >> > >> >> gapines, version 2-11-1 > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> https://gapines.org/osrf-gateway-v1?service=open-ils. > search&method=open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass.query¶m= > %7B%22org_unit%22:1,%22default_class%22:%22keyword% > 22,%22offset%22:0,%22limit%22:2,%22depth%22:0%7D¶m=% > 22pride%20and%20prejudice%22¶m=1 > >> >> ... > >> >> "ids":[["503610",null,"0.0"],["502717",null,"0.0"]] > >> >> > >> >> cwmars, version 2-10-7 > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> http://bark.cwmars.org/osrf-gateway-v1?service=open-ils. > search&method=open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass.query¶m= > %7B%22org_unit%22:1,%22default_class%22:%22keyword% > 22,%22offset%22:0,%22limit%22:2,%22depth%22:0%7D¶m=% > 22pride%20and%20prejudice%22¶m=1 > >> >> ... > >> >> "ids":[["1805532"],["2385399"]] > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> -Ken > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -Ken > -- -Ken