Hi Developers!

As discussed in previous parts of Package Manager stories to turn your IRIS application into a deployable package you just need to introduce the module.xml file into the root folder of the repository and describe all the resources.

I’m pleased to introduce you to a new project template on Open Exchange which contains examples of how to make different types of resources of your InterSystems IRIS application a part of the ObjectScript package and so make the deployable ObjectSctipt package.

Let's see how you can describe your application resources using this template project as an example.

See the details below.

Hi Developers!

Recently we announced two new challenges on Global Masters: 'Bugs Bounty' and 'Pull Requests'.

And we are getting a lot of submits to the challenges which are not the thing we are expecting there. So I hope this post will give some shine to this quest.

'Bugs Bounty'

Ok! What are we expecting from 'Bugs bounty'?

There are a lot of Open Exchange solutions that come with public open-source repositories on Github: project and repo, another project and the repo, another one and its repo, and many more on Open Exchange.

Hi Developers!

Here is the release of what's was enhanced and fixed in the DC engine in October 2019.

• New look-and-feel and features for the Developers Events;
• "Smart" social sharing in Twitter;
• 5 min delay before sending emails, nested tags for group tags, better articles linkage, and other small enhancements and bug fixes.

See the details below.

Hi Developers!

Those who use Dockerfile to work with InterSystems IRIS often need to execute several lines of ObjectScript. For me, this was a game of "escaping this and that" every time just to shoot a few commands on ObjectScript to IRIS. Ideally, I'd prefer to code ObjectScript without any quotes and escaping.

Recently I found a nice "hack" on how this could be improved to exactly this state. I got this from @Dmitry.Maslennikov's repo and this lets you use Objectscript in a way as you would type it in IRIS terminal.

Here is what you have in dockerfile:

///
COPY irissession.sh /
SHELL ["/irissession.sh"]
RUN \
  do $SYSTEM.OBJ.Load("Installer.cls", "ck") \
  set sc = ##class(App.Installer).setup()
# bringing the standard shell back
SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
CMD [ "-l", "/usr/irissys/mgr/messages.log" ]
///

Hi Developers!

This is the digest of new solutions and applications submitted to InterSystems OpenExchange in September 2019!

New applications in September 2019

web HERALD by Martin Weber

web HERALD is a Highly Extensible Rapid Application Development framework, the ultimate server-based platform for Caché Developers created by our inhouse Caché Developers.

objectscript-docker-template by Evgeny Shvarov

A simple template to start coding in InterSystems ObjectScript with preset dockerfile and settings for VSCode to start compiling and debugging.

angular-material-iris-starter by Sergey Shutov

A template project for Angular frontend with InterSystems IRIS. The main goal of this repository is to provide an up to date example of Angular application following all recent best practices

cache-iris-app-tools by Sergey Mikhailenko

Solution for technical support and DBMS administrator. View globals arrays, execute queries (including JDBC/ODBC), sending results to email as XLS files. Viewer class instances with СRUD editing. A few simple graphs on the protocols of the system.

IRIS OData Client by Sean Connelly

A simple IRIS client for connecting and consuming RESTful OData API services.

ObjectScript-Foreach by David Crawford

The beginnings of a foreach function equivalent in ObjectScript.

Kano MDM by Liudmyla Valerko

Kano MDM is an efficient Master Data Management software product with a complete set of features for successful implementation of interoperability solution.

Output-Capture by David Crawford

Captures the output of common objectscript terminal verbs, such as zwrite.

dasha-iris-adapter by Vladislav Chernyshov

Dasha.ai is a platform for designing human-like voice interactions to automate business processes.

This repository includes the first version of Dasha.ai IRIS Interoperability Adapter and demo Interoperability Production to show how to connect IRIS and Dasha.ai platform.

Hi Developers!

When you prepare your modules for ZPM (InterSystems Package Manager) it expects the certain directory structure for ObjectScript source files.

ObjectScript in your source folder need to be stored by types in the following subfolders. E.g. if you have the source folder named as /src the structure should be as follows:

/src

/cls - for classes

/inc - for include files

/mac - for mac files

/int - for interpretable files

Hi Developers!

If you happen to visit Global Summit 2019 don't hesitate to stop by Developers Community Booth (table 9 on Tech Exchange, 3rd floor) - we can help to submit your Open Exchange solution to ZPM Package Manager.

One package Output Capture by @David Crawford is already packaged and can be installed with the following command:

zpm:USER>install output-capture

Also, come to chat on your dev experience and collect your GlobalMasters badge from @Anastasia Dyubaylo ;)

Hi Developers!

Often I find questions on how to install IRIS, connect to IRIS from IDE, setup the environment, compile, debug, maintain the repository.

Here below possibly the shortest way to set up all the environment and start development with ObjectScript on InterSystems IRIS.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Git, Docker, and VSCode installed

Install Docker and ObjectScript extensions into VSCode

Sign in or Create an account on Github

Here we go!

Hi Developers!

Suppose I have a project where I want to build an IRIS container with two different dockerfiles depending on goals. How can I make it?

The issue is that docker-compose is looking for the file with name 'dockerfile'

Are there any #IF constrations in a dockerfile syntax?

Commenting works but sometimes it's more than one line.