CSIDE - creating objects under root

Hi,

I've noticed that you now cannot create an object in CSIDE unless you have a package. Typically in CS10.0 and before, we would often create a Utils child object under our ospace which would be referenced as $OURMODULE.Utils. In CSIDE, is one able to still do that? If so, are there any requirements as to the package name we need to add? Perhaps I need to find an old module and import it and see how it gets laid out in 10.5.

-Hugh

PS Expect a few questions from me. I now have time to really dig into CSIDE.

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Darcy_Casselman

Yes.

Packages are just folders, really. They help you organize your code. They give you a way to directly access an object in your scripts (I'll get back to this in a minute), but, for the most part, they are ignored by Content Server.

When you import an existing module, we put your source code in packages based on object hierarchy. This is not the way we'd recommend laying out your ospace in the future. You can pay out packages any way you like, really, but ideally, you'd structure your code around functional areas. So if you were creating a new node type called "Contacts", for example, you might create a package called "OURMODULE::ContactNode" which would contain your LLNode orphan and your WebNode orphan and any other objects related specifically to the node.

As for your Utils object, yes, you can absolutely continue to create the global for it and call it that way, but you might not want to.

Globals only exist at run time. The compiler can't see them. So you don't get any auto-completion in the editor or type checking in the compiler. If you used "OURMODULE::Utils" instead of "$OURMODULE.Utils", you get those things, plus it's marginally faster (there's no runtime global lookup) and we can optimize the call. But no, it's not mandatory.

Darcy.

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CSIDE - creating objects under root

Posted by hugh@hferguson.ca (Ferguson, Hugh) On 05/16/2014 05:35 PM

Hi, I've noticed that you now cannot create an object in CSIDE unless you have a package. Typically in CS10.0 and before, we would often create a Utils child object under our ospace which would be referenced as $OURMODULE.Utils. In CSIDE, is one able to still do that? If so, are there any requirements as to the package name we need to add? Perhaps I need to find an old module and import it and see how it gets laid out in 10.5.-HughPS Expect a few questions from me. I now have time to really dig into CSIDE.

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HFCDev

Thanks for the clarification. Just to go back to the Utils example again. Let's say I have a module, say ClientCustom, and I create a package called ClientCustom::Utils, and I place a function in it called DoMyStuff(). Now let's say I put a custom request handler in ClientCustom::RequestHandlers. From the Execute method of the custom request handler, what would be the format to call DoMyStuff() assuming I'm no longer using globals as before? Is it ClientCustom::Utils.DoMyStuff()?

-Hugh