Refresh embedded view

Here is the classic old issue. I've a form with embedded view on it (Show single category is used as well). There is an action on a view that create a new documents (which should be displayed in that embedded view). These solutions most likely wont work

• ws.ViewRefresh will not help
• Refreshing NotesUIDocument may cause a Notes client to crash, so it is not a way to go as well.

Here are some possible ways to solve it:

Refresh view by simulating of pressing F9

While searching for an example I found it on my blog :-), so you can easily find it here: how to emulate F9 key and save some minutes.

Refresh view by changing focus to another fields

The idea is to have 2 fields (let's call them FieldA and fieldB). Once you need to refresh embedded view - set focus to fieldA and then change it to fieldB. You also need either add refresh logic on Exiting property of fieldA (I prefer it, as it will not cause the perfomance on a form) or enable Automatically Refresh fields.

Refresh embedded view using hidden formula

Here the idea is to make sure we have hidden formula on Embedded View (even such like 1 = 0) and use Refresh

And here is code examples

  Call ws.ViewRefresh
  Call uidoc.RefreshHideFormulas
  Call ws.ViewRefresh

Please have a look on these 2 articles that inspired me:

1. Refreshing an embedded view
2. How to refresh NotesUIDocument from categorized embedded view

Find Orphan pages on website

You have a website and want to be sure that there are no Orphan pages? Not sure how to develop it? If so - you found a right place to go :), let's talk about most important steps.
I assume you have a list of all pages you want to verify (otherwise - it will be your first task)

Here is a logic/snippets

1. We need functionality that can extract HTML from a web page. Later we will scan it and get internal links.

   private String getPageContent(String pageurl) throws Exception {
      StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
      URL url = new URL(pageurl);
      InputStream is = url.openConnection().getInputStream();
      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( is )  );
      String line = null;
      while( ( line = reader.readLine() ) != null )  {
         buf.append(line);
      }
      reader.close();  
      return buf.toString();
   }

2. Make a logic that can deal with DOM. I use jsoup to manipulate with HTML and I really recommend it (easy and fast). The method below select all links that begin with baseurl (it's domain of your website), in that way we can cut all external links and get only internal links.

   private List<string> getAllInernalLinks(String html, String baseurl) throws Exception {
      List<string> res = new ArrayList<string>();
      String select = "a[href^="+baseurl+"]";
      org.jsoup.nodes.Document dom = Jsoup.parse(html);
      Elements links = dom.select(select);
   
      for (Element link : links) {
         String src = link.attr("href");
         res.add(src);
      }
      return res;
   }

3. Now we must build a List with all internal links from all pages on your website.

   String List<string> alllinks = getAllInernalLinks(html_from_all_pages, baseurl);

4. We need to make sure that pageurl can be found in alllinks more then in pagelinks (to avoid case when page has link to itself).

   private boolean isOrphan(List<string> pagelinks, List<string> alllinks, String url) throws Exception {
      if (Collections.frequency(alllinks, url) > Collections.frequency(pagelinks, url)) {
         return false;
      }
      return true;
   }

Formatting a URL link in Drupal using function l

Another nice function in Drupal. It's called function l.
It formats a URL link as an HTML anchor tag.
I know it looks really easy and simple, it's just nice to use it after doing that manually many times.

$option = array();
$option['attributes'] = array('title' => $label);
l($label_trimmed, $uri['path'], $option));// will output [a href="$uri-path" title="$label">[/a]

Truncating a string on a word boundary in Drupal

Typical task: "truncate a string only on a word boundary and add a some postfix to resulting string". Every developer did it many times, I'm sure. Here is a how Drupal solves it with it's api: function views_trim_text

define(MAX_LENGTH, 30);

$alter = array(
    'max_length' => MAX_LENGTH,
    'word_boundary' => TRUE,
    'ellipsis' => TRUE
);

$mystring = "truncate a string only on a word boundary and add a some postfix to resulting string";
$mystring = views_trim_text($alter, $mystring); //result is 'truncate a string only on a...'

Issues when importing WSDL files into Web Service Consumer

Recently I faced up with WSDL which I couldn't import into Web Service Consumer. Our consumer worked well from last 5 years but it is a long period and during that time our Service Provider was updated a lot so we decided to update our Consumer as well. Guess everything went fine?

No WSDL was returned from the URL

I simply created new Consumer in Domino Designer, set URL to our WSDL, picked Java and clicked OK. Oops...

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Domino Designer
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No WSDL was returned from the URL:
https://api.ourserver.com/secure/api1/WebService?WSDL
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OK
---------------------------

The requested operation failed: no import files

Wow, thought I :) let's try to import WSDL as Lotus Script then (just to see if it is not related to Java)

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IBM Domino Designer
---------------------------
The requested operation failed: no import files
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

Name too long

Hey, what? This WSDL is used by many another applications without any issues, what is going on!? I downloaded WSDL as file to my local PC and tried to import it as Lotus Script again. This time it went fine (except issues with Name too long). Well, great news anyway, at least everything works when WSDL is a local file.

The Web Service implementation code generated from the provided WSDL could not be compiled, so no design element was created

Ok, it worked for Lotus Script, let's set now Java...

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IBM Domino Designer
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The Web Service implementation code generated from the provided WSDL could not be compiled, so no design element was created.  Please correct the WSDL and try again.  The errors are located in the following file:: C:\Users\dpa\AppData\Local\Temp\notes90C43B\47238811.err
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

OK, it's time to blame Designer and IBM! Why it is so difficult just to import WSDL? All another application that use WSDL from our server did not have such issues. It's just not fair :). Found a file with error and quite typical line: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space. I knew what to do, I increased HTTPJVMMaxHeapSize and JavaMaxHeapSize to 512M, restarted Designer/Notes and tried again. Worked well! I restored original values to HTTPJVMMaxHeapSize and JavaMaxHeapSize after that.

The system is out of resources.
Consult the following stack trace for details.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at com.sun.tools.javac.util.Position$LineMapImpl.build(Position.java:151)
at com.sun.tools.javac.util.Position.makeLineMap(Position.java:75)
at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Scanner.getLineMap(Scanner.java:1117)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parse(JavaCompiler.java:524)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parse(JavaCompiler.java:562)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parseFiles(JavaCompiler.java:816)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:739)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:365)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:291)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:282)
at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:99)
at lotus.notes.internal.IDEHelper.compile(Unknown Source)

Simple thing however it costed few hours for me. Hope it will save some time for other people.