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  • MDX Filter a dimention with another dimension

    - by John Hartsock
    To all excuse my ignorance, but im new to MDX below is the query im trying to run SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Task Burn Down] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([Calendar].[Date].[Date].ALLMEMBERS * [Priority].[Priority Code].[Priority Code].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT ( { Filter([Calendar].[Date].AllMembers, [Calendar].[Date].CurrentMember <= [Sprint].[Sprint].CurrentMember.Properties("Stop Date")) } ) ON COLUMNS FROM ( SELECT ( { [Sprint].[Sprint].AllMembers } ) ON COLUMNS FROM ( SELECT ( { [Team].[Team].AllMembers } ) ON COLUMNS FROM [Backlog2] ) ) ) WHERE ( [Team].[Team].&[27], [Sprint].[Sprint].&[9] ) CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS When I run this I expect to get 1 value for [Measures].[Task Burn Down] for each day of the month. But I only want one month. My Sprint dimension has a stop date and I do not want to return any values after the stop date. What am I doing wrong?

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  • Sorting By Multiple Conditions in Ruby

    - by viatropos
    I have a collection of Post objects and I want to be able to sort them based on these conditions: First, by category (news, events, labs, portfolio, etc.) Then by date, if date, or by position, if a specific index was set for it Some posts will have dates (news and events), others will have explicit positions (labs, and portfolio). I want to be able to call posts.sort!, so I've overridden <=>, but am looking for the most effective way of sorting by these conditions. Below is a pseudo method: def <=>(other) # first, everything is sorted into # smaller chunks by category self.category <=> other.category # then, per category, by date or position if self.date and other.date self.date <=> other.date else self.position <=> other.position end end It seems like I'd have to actually sort two separate times, rather than cramming everything into that one method. Something like sort_by_category, then sort!. What is the most ruby way to do this?

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  • How can I define pre/post-increment behavior in Perl objects?

    - by Zaid
    Date::Simple objects display this behavior. In the case of Date::Simple objects, $date++ returns the next day's date. Date::Simple objects are immutable. After assigning $date1 to $date2, no change to $date1 can affect $date2. This means, for example, that there is nothing like a set_year operation, and $date++ assigns a new object to $date. How can one custom define the pre/post-incremental behavior of an object, such that ++$object or $object-- performs a particular action? I've skimmed over perlboot, perltoot, perltooc and perlbot, but I don't see any examples showing how this can be done.

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  • Why does this PHP script interfere with my CSS layout?

    - by CT
    This page uses $_GET to grab an asset id and query a mysql database and return some information. If 'id' does not match anything, no results are displayed but the page looks fine. If 'id' is null an error would occur at $id = $_GET["id"] or die(mysql_error()); When this occurs, they page layout is not displayed correctly. How do I fix this? Bonus question: How would I get a message like "No matching results found" or something when the id does not match any id in the database or is null. Thank you. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> <title>Wagman IT Asset</title> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="header"> <img src="images/logo.png" /> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="container"> <div id="main"> <div id="menu"> <ul> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td><li><a href="index.php">Search Assets</a></li></td> <td><li><a href="browse.php">Browse Assets</a></li></td> <td><li><a href="add_asset.php">Add Asset</a></li></td> <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </ul> </div> <div id="text"> <ul> <li> <h1>View Asset</h1> </li> </ul> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2"> <?php //make database connect mysql_connect("localhost", "asset_db", "asset_db") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("asset_db") or die(mysql_error()); //get asset $id = $_GET["id"] or die(mysql_error()); //get type of asset $sql = "SELECT asset.type From asset WHERE asset.id = $id"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $type = $row['type']; switch ($type){ case "Server": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,server.manufacturer ,server.model ,server.serial_number ,server.esc ,server.user ,server.prev_user ,server.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN server ON server.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $location = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $esc = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr>"; } break; case "Laptop": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,laptop.manufacturer ,laptop.model ,laptop.serial_number ,laptop.esc ,laptop.user ,laptop.prev_user ,laptop.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN laptop ON laptop.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $location = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $esc = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr>"; } break; case "Desktop": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,desktop.manufacturer ,desktop.model ,desktop.serial_number ,desktop.esc ,desktop.user ,desktop.prev_user ,desktop.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN desktop ON desktop.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $location = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $esc = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr>"; } break; } ?> </table> <br /> <br /> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td><a href="#">Add Software</a></td> <td><a href="#">Edit Asset</a></td> <td><a href="#">Delete Asset</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="footer" align="center"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div id="tagline"> Wagman Construction - Bridging Generations since 1902 </div> </body> </html>

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  • How do I copy input from one textbox to another via checkbox using jQuery?

    - by Jesse
    I'm cleaning up a simple form that has a Start Date textbox and an End Date textbox. I want to add a checkbox in between these fields that the user can check if the End Date is the same as the Start Date, so when they check it, the Start Date input value (e.g., 04/01/09) will automagically appear in the End Date textbox, so they don't have to type in the same date twice. Does that make sense? BTW, I'm using the sexy jquery datepicker UI, and it's sweet, but I just can't figure out the above problem. I know there's a simple solution (event handler?) but I'm stumped.

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  • Why is this unwanted ">" character being displayed when displaying this PHP document in a browser?

    - by CT
    This page takes an asset id from $_GET of the url and displays some info about the asset after querying a mysql database. When I view the page in my browser there is an unwanted "" character within the page and I have no idea why. I've commented where it appears. It appears before the < table create tag right afterward. The < table tag was originally outside the php script section but I threw it in to see if it made a difference. It did not. Thank you all. I am viewing the page in Firefox. The web server is running on an Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtual machine on my laptop. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> <title>Wagman IT Asset</title> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="header"> <img src="images/logo.png" /> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="container"> <div id="main"> <div id="menu"> <ul> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td><li><a href="index.php">Search Assets</a></li></td> <td><li><a href="browse.php">Browse Assets</a></li></td> <td><li><a href="add_asset.php">Add Asset</a></li></td> <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </ul> </div> <div id="text"> <ul> <li> <h1>View Asset</h1> </li> </ul> //UNWANTED > CHARACTER APPEARS HERE <?php echo "<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='2'>"; //make database connect mysql_connect("localhost", "asset_db", "asset_db") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("asset_db") or die(mysql_error()); //get asset $id = $_GET["id"]; //get type of asset $sql = "SELECT asset.type From asset WHERE asset.id = $id"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $type = $row['type']; switch ($type){ case "Server": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,server.manufacturer ,server.model ,server.serial_number ,server.esc ,server.user ,server.prev_user ,server.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN server ON server.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $company = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $escy = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr></table>"; } break; case "Laptop": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,laptop.manufacturer ,laptop.model ,laptop.serial_number ,laptop.esc ,laptop.user ,laptop.prev_user ,laptop.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN laptop ON laptop.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $company = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $escy = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr></table>"; } break; case "Desktop": $sql = " SELECT asset.id ,asset.company ,asset.location ,asset.purchase_date ,asset.purchase_order ,asset.value ,asset.type ,asset.notes ,desktop.manufacturer ,desktop.model ,desktop.serial_number ,desktop.esc ,desktop.user ,desktop.prev_user ,desktop.warranty FROM asset LEFT JOIN desktop ON desktop.id = asset.id WHERE asset.id = $id "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Asset ID:</td><td>"; $id = $row['id']; setcookie('id', $id); echo "$id</td></tr>"; echo "<tr<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>><td>Company:</td><td>"; $company = $row['company']; setcookie('company', $company); echo "$company</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Location:</td><td>"; $company = $row['location']; setcookie('location', $location); echo "$location</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Date:</td><td>"; $purchase_date = $row['purchase_date']; setcookie('purchase_date', $purchase_date); echo "$purchase_date</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Purchase Order:</td><td>"; $purchase_order = $row['purchase_order']; setcookie('purchase_order', $purchase_order); echo "$purchase_order</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Value:</td><td>"; $value = $row['value']; setcookie('value', $value); echo "$value</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Type:</td><td>"; $type = $row['type']; setcookie('type', $type); echo "$type</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Notes:</td><td>"; $notes = $row['notes']; setcookie('notes', $notes); echo "$notes</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Manufacturer:</td><td>"; $manufacturer = $row['manufacturer']; setcookie('manufacturer', $manufacturer); echo "$manufacturer</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Model / Description:</td><td>"; $model = $row['model']; setcookie('model', $model); echo "$model</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Serial Number / Service Tag:</td><td>"; $serial_number = $row['serial_number']; setcookie('serial_number', $serial_number); echo "$serial_number</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Express Service Code:</td><td>"; $escy = $row['esc']; setcookie('esc', $esc); echo "$esc</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>User:</td><td>"; $user = $row['user']; setcookie('user', $user); echo "$user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Previous User:</td><td>"; $prev_user = $row['prev_user']; setcookie('prev_user', $prev_user); echo "$prev_user</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Warranty:</td><td>"; $warranty = $row['warranty']; setcookie('warranty', $warranty); echo "$warranty</td></tr></table>"; } break; } ?> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="footer" align="center"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div id="tagline"> Wagman Construction - Bridging Generations since 1902 </div> </body> </html>

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  • has_many association, nested models and callbacks

    - by fl00r
    Hi! I've got model A and model Attach. I'm editing my A form with nested attributes for :attaches. And when I am deleting all attaches from A via accepts_nested_attributes_for how can I get after_update/after_save callbacks for all of my nested models? Problem is that when I am executing callbacks in model A they are executed right AFTER model A is updated and BEFORE model Attach is updated, so I can't, for example, know if there is NO ANY attaches after I delete them all :). Look for example: my callback after_save :update_status won't work properly after I delete all of my attaches. model A after_save :update_status has_many :attaches accepts_nested_attributes_for :attaches, :reject_if => proc { |attributes| attributes['file'].blank? }, :allow_destroy => true def update_status print "\n\nOUPS! bag is empty!\n\n" if self.attaches.empty? end end model Attach belongs_to A end I am using rails 3 beta

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  • SQL GROUP BY with "default values"

    - by Christoph Schiessl
    I'm trying to create SELECT statement with a GROUP BY clause, which should return "default values". Imagine the following simple MySQL table: CREATE TABLE `tracker` ( `id` INTEGER PRIMARY KEY auto_increment, `date` DATETIME NOT NULL, `customer_id` INTEGER NOT NULL ); The table contains only one record: INSERT INTO `tracker` (`date`, `customer_id`) VALUES('2010-05-03', 1); After wards I'm executing the following SQL query: SELECT DATE(`date`), COUNT(customer_id) FROM tracker WHERE DATE(`date`) >= '2010-05-01' AND DATE(`date`) <= '2010-05-05' GROUP BY DATE(`date`) ORDER BY DATE(`date`); And get the expected result set: +----+---------------------+-------------+ | id | date | customer_id | +----+---------------------+-------------+ | 1 | 2010-05-10 00:00:00 | 1 | +----+---------------------+-------------+ However, I would like the result set to look like this: +--------------+--------------------+ | DATE(`date`) | COUNT(customer_id) | +--------------+--------------------+ | 2010-05-01 | 0 | | 2010-05-02 | 0 | | 2010-05-03 | 1 | | 2010-05-04 | 0 | | 2010-05-05 | 0 | +--------------+--------------------+ Is it possible to achieve this behavior?

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  • How do set default values in django for an HttpRequest.GET?

    - by Mike
    I have a webpage that displays data based on a default date. The user can then change their view of the data by slecting a date with a date picker and clicking a submit button. I already have a variable set so that if no date is chosen, a default date is used.... so what's the problem? The problem comes if the user trys to type in the url page without a parameter... like so: http://mywebpage/viewdata (example A) instead of http://mywebpage/viewdata?date= (example B) I tried using: if request.method == 'GET': but apparently, even example A still returns true. I'm sure I'm doing some obvious beginner's mistake but I'll ask anyway... Is there a simpler way to handle example A other than passing the url to a string and checking the string for "?date="?

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  • Overriding fetch in multiple spine models

    - by Adam Charnock
    I need to override Spine's @fetch() method in all of my Spine models. Currently I have code duplication as follows: TastypieEndpointMixin = fromJSON: (data) -> return unless data return Spine.Model.fromJSON(data.objects) class App.models.Position extends Spine.Model @configure 'Position', 'code', 'name' @extend Spine.Model.Ajax @extend TastypieEndpointMixin @url: '/api/v1/position/?format=json' validate: -> 'code is required' unless @code @fetch: -> defer = $.Deferred() @one "refresh", -> defer.resolve() super return defer class App.models.Player extends Spine.Model @configure 'Player', 'first_name', 'last_name', ... @extend Spine.Model.Ajax @extend TastypieEndpointMixin @url: '/api/v1/player/?format=json' @fetch: -> defer = $.Deferred() @one "refresh", -> defer.resolve() super return defer My question is: How can I create some form of parent class which contains @fetch()? I know this should be a simple problem to solve. I have tried many options (including extending Spine.Model and Spine.Model.Ajax), but nothing works and I cannot seem to get my head around it.

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  • MySQL Join issue

    - by mouthpiec
    Hi, I have the following tables: --table sportactivity-- sport_activity_id, home_team_fk, away_team_fk, competition_id_fk, date, time (tuple example) - 1, 33, 41, 5, 2010-04-14, 05:40:00 --table teams-- team_id, team_name (tuple example) - 1, Algeria Now I have the following SQL statment that I use to extract Team A vs Team B SELECT sport_activity_id, T1.team_name AS TeamA, T2.team_name AS TeamB, DATE_FORMAT( DATE, '%d/%m/%Y' ) AS DATE, DATE_FORMAT( TIME, '%H:%i' ) AS TIME FROM sportactivity JOIN teams T1 ON home_team_fk = T1.team_id JOIN teams T2 ON ( away_team_fk = T2.team_id OR away_team_fk = '0' ) WHERE DATE( DATE ) >= CURDATE( ) ORDER BY DATE( DATE ) My problem is that when team B is empty, I am having irrelevant information .... it seems that it is returning all the combinations. I need a query that when team B is equal to 0, (this can occur in my scenario) I get only Team A - Team B (as 0) once.

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  • Mysql on duplicate key update + sub query

    - by jwzk
    Using the answer from this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/662877/need-mysql-insert-select-query-for-tables-with-millions-of-records new_table * date * record_id (pk) * data_field INSERT INTO new_table (date,record_id,data_field) SELECT date, record_id, data_field FROM old_table ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date=old_table.data, data_field=old_table.data_field; I need this to work with a group by and join.. so to edit: INSERT INTO new_table (date,record_id,data_field,value) SELECT date, record_id, data_field, SUM(other_table.value) as value FROM old_table JOIN other_table USING(record_id) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date=old_table.data, data_field=old_table.data_field, value = value; I can't seem to get the value updated. If I specify old_table.value I get a not defined in field list error.

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  • MVC design pattern - who loads view initially

    - by enableDeepak
    This query is about MVC design pattern in general and not ASP.net MVC framework I understand in MVC (desktop application): 1. User clicks something in view 2. this is passed on to controller to manage 3. controller makes some changes in Model 4. Model calls method on view which has the logic to refresh UI Questions around these: Q1) Can controller also modify View or Model only updates View? Q2) When screen loads for the first time, there is no Model change. Then, who fetches data from model and populates view? View directly calls Model and populates itself OR controller gets data and passes to view method OR some dummy event is raised at Model which updates View?

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  • How do I reference the other object in django models

    - by UserZero
    Hi, first post here.In Django, I want to have many files be associated with a particular model, so I'm doing a seperate model called files and have model 'A' 'have many' files. But I want my files to be saved in director named by model 'A'. So For example I want something like this: class Show(models.Model): name = models.CharField() showfolder = models.FilePathField() class Episode(models.Model): show = models.ForeignKey(Show) name = models.CharField() files = models.ManyToManyField(mp3) class Mp3(models.Model): file = FileField(upload_to=Episode.show.showfolder) So hopefully that last line expresses what I WANT it to do(get the folder name from Show object associated with the episode). The question is how would I really write that?(besides jumping through hoops in the controller.) Thanks.

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  • Cross-referencing UML models in VS 2010

    - by cheaster
    I am just starting to explore/use the UML modeling support in Visual Studio 2010 Umltimate. I have created two model projects within a single solution. Let's call them Model A and Model B. I have some data types (classes) defined in Model B. I want to use them as return types for operations in Model A. However, I cannot figure out how to make the types defined in Model B show up in Model A when attempting to set return type on an operation. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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  • UITableView animations for a "lazy" UI design?

    - by donuts
    I have a UITableViewController that allows the user to perform editing tasks. Now, once a user has committed his change, the table view doesn't directly change the model and updates the table, rather "informs" the model what the user wants to do. The model in turn updates accordingly and then posts a notification that it has been changed. As far as I've seen, I need to begin/end updates on the tableview and in between change the model to its' final form. My changes though, are asynchronous and cannot guarantee to update the model before 'tableview endupdates' is called. Currently, each time I receive a 'model did change' notificaiton, I reload the entire table. So, how can I really make cell animations (delete/insert) work? Should the model fire a notification for each little change instead of the entire table?

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  • passing an extra parameter in jobschedule in node.js

    - by Sush
    Is there any possible way to pass any extra parameter instead of date in schedule.scheduleJob(date,function(id)) The below code is not working var id =record.id; var date =record.date; jobsCollection.save({ id: record.id }, { $set: record }, function (err, result) { var j = schedule.scheduleJob(date, function (id) { return function () { console.log("inside----------") console.log(id) }; }(id)); if (!err) { return context.sendJson([], 404);; } }); i want to pass the date along with another data to schedule jobs. so that i can perform other operations based on the date schedule and that id

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  • Extract rows for the first occurrence of a variable in a data frame

    - by user2614883
    I have a data frame with two variables, Date and Taxa and want to get the date for the first time each taxa occurs. There are 9 different dates and 40 different taxa in the data frame consisting of 172 rows, but my answer should only have 40 rows. Taxa is a factor and Date is a date. For example, my data frame (called 'species') is set up like this: Date Taxa 2013-07-12 A 2011-08-31 B 2012-09-06 C 2012-05-17 A 2013-07-12 C 2012-09-07 B and I would be looking for an answer like this: Date Taxa 2012-05-17 A 2011-08-31 B 2012-09-06 C I tried using: t.first <- species[unique(species$Taxa),] and it gave me the correct number of rows but there were Taxa repeated. If I just use unique(species$Taxa) it appears to give me the right answer, but then I don't know the date when it first occurred. Thanks for any help.

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  • MVC 3 AdditionalMetadata Attribute with ViewBag to Render Dynamic UI

    - by Steve Michelotti
    A few months ago I blogged about using Model metadata to render a dynamic UI in MVC 2. The scenario in the post was that we might have a view model where the questions are conditionally displayed and therefore a dynamic UI is needed. To recap the previous post, the solution was to use a custom attribute called [QuestionId] in conjunction with an “ApplicableQuestions” collection to identify whether each question should be displayed. This allowed me to have a view model that looked like this: 1: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 2: [DisplayName("First Name")] 3: [QuestionId("NB0021")] 4: public string FirstName { get; set; } 5: 6: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 7: [DisplayName("Last Name")] 8: [QuestionId("NB0022")] 9: public string LastName { get; set; } 10: 11: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 12: [QuestionId("NB0023")] 13: public int Age { get; set; } 14: 15: public IEnumerable<string> ApplicableQuestions { get; set; } At the same time, I was able to avoid repetitive IF statements for every single question in my view: 1: <%: Html.EditorFor(m => m.FirstName, new { applicableQuestions = Model.ApplicableQuestions })%> 2: <%: Html.EditorFor(m => m.LastName, new { applicableQuestions = Model.ApplicableQuestions })%> 3: <%: Html.EditorFor(m => m.Age, new { applicableQuestions = Model.ApplicableQuestions })%> by creating an Editor Template called “ScalarQuestion” that encapsulated the IF statement: 1: <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %> 2: <%@ Import Namespace="DynamicQuestions.Models" %> 3: <%@ Import Namespace="System.Linq" %> 4: <% 5: var applicableQuestions = this.ViewData["applicableQuestions"] as IEnumerable<string>; 6: var questionAttr = this.ViewData.ModelMetadata.ContainerType.GetProperty(this.ViewData.ModelMetadata.PropertyName).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(QuestionIdAttribute), true) as QuestionIdAttribute[]; 7: string questionId = null; 8: if (questionAttr.Length > 0) 9: { 10: questionId = questionAttr[0].Id; 11: } 12: if (questionId != null && applicableQuestions.Contains(questionId)) { %> 13: <div> 14: <%: Html.Label("") %> 15: <%: Html.TextBox("", this.Model)%> 16: </div> 17: <% } %> You might want to go back and read the full post in order to get the full context. MVC 3 offers a couple of new features that make this scenario more elegant to implement. The first step is to use the new [AdditionalMetadata] attribute which, so far, appears to be an under appreciated new feature of MVC 3. With this attribute, I don’t need my custom [QuestionId] attribute anymore - now I can just write my view model like this: 1: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 2: [DisplayName("First Name")] 3: [AdditionalMetadata("QuestionId", "NB0021")] 4: public string FirstName { get; set; } 5:   6: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 7: [DisplayName("Last Name")] 8: [AdditionalMetadata("QuestionId", "NB0022")] 9: public string LastName { get; set; } 10:   11: [UIHint("ScalarQuestion")] 12: [AdditionalMetadata("QuestionId", "NB0023")] 13: public int Age { get; set; } Thus far, the documentation seems to be pretty sparse on the AdditionalMetadata attribute. It’s buried in the Other New Features section of the MVC 3 home page and, after showing the attribute on a view model property, it just says, “This metadata is made available to any display or editor template when a product view model is rendered. It is up to you to interpret the metadata information.” But what exactly does it look like for me to “interpret the metadata information”? Well, it turns out it makes the view much easier to work with. Here is the re-implemented ScalarQuestion template updated for MVC 3 and Razor: 1: @{ 2: object questionId; 3: ViewData.ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues.TryGetValue("QuestionId", out questionId); 4: if (ViewBag.applicableQuestions.Contains((string)questionId)) { 5: <div> 6: @Html.LabelFor(m => m) 7: @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m) 8: </div> 9: } 10: } So we’ve gone from 17 lines of code (in the MVC 2 version) to about 7-8 lines of code here. The first thing to notice is that in MVC 3 we now have a property called “AdditionalValues” that hangs off of the ModelMetadata property. This is automatically populated by any [AdditionalMetadata] attributes on the property. There is no more need for me to explicitly write Reflection code to GetCustomAttributes() and then check to see if those attributes were present. I can just call TryGetValue() on the dictionary to see if they were present. Secondly, the “applicableQuestions” anonymous type that I passed in from the calling view – in MVC 3 I now have a dynamic ViewBag property where I can just “dot into” the applicableQuestions with a nicer syntax than dictionary square bracket syntax. And there’s no problems calling the Contains() method on this dynamic object because at runtime the DLR has resolved that it is a generic List<string>. At this point you might be saying that, yes the view got much nicer than the MVC 2 version, but my view model got slightly worse.  In the previous version I had a nice [QuestionId] attribute but now, with the [AdditionalMetadata] attribute, I have to type the string “QuestionId” for every single property and hope that I don’t make a typo. Well, the good news is that it’s easy to create your own attributes that can participate in the metadata’s additional values. The key is that the attribute must implement that IMetadataAware interface and populate the AdditionalValues dictionary in the OnMetadataCreated() method: 1: public class QuestionIdAttribute : Attribute, IMetadataAware 2: { 3: public string Id { get; set; } 4:   5: public QuestionIdAttribute(string id) 6: { 7: this.Id = id; 8: } 9:   10: public void OnMetadataCreated(ModelMetadata metadata) 11: { 12: metadata.AdditionalValues["QuestionId"] = this.Id; 13: } 14: } This now allows me to encapuslate my “QuestionId” string in just one place and get back to my original attribute which can be used like this: [QuestionId(“NB0021”)]. The [AdditionalMetadata] attribute is a powerful and under-appreciated new feature of MVC 3. Combined with the dynamic ViewBag property, you can do some really interesting things with your applications with less code and ceremony.

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  • API Message Localization

    - by Jesse Taber
    In my post, “Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users” I talked about the internationalization and localization difficulties that can arise when you sprinkle static localizable strings throughout the different logical layers of an application. The main point of that post is that you should have your localizable strings reside as close to the user-facing modules of your application as possible. For example, if you’re developing an ASP .NET web forms application all of the localizable strings should be kept in .resx files that are associated with the .aspx views of the application. In this post I want to talk about how this same concept can be applied when designing and developing APIs. An API Facilitates Machine-to-Machine Interaction You can typically think about a web, desktop, or mobile application as a collection “views” or “screens” through which users interact with the underlying logic and data. The application can be designed based on the assumption that there will be a human being on the other end of the screen working the controls. You are designing a machine-to-person interaction and the application should be built in a way that facilitates the user’s clear understanding of what is going on. Dates should be be formatted in a way that the user will be familiar with, messages should be presented in the user’s preferred language, etc. When building an API, however, there are no screens and you can’t make assumptions about who or what is on the other end of each call. An API is, by definition, a machine-to-machine interaction. A machine-to-machine interaction should be built in a way that facilitates a clear and unambiguous understanding of what is going on. Dates and numbers should be formatted in predictable and standard ways (e.g. ISO 8601 dates) and messages should be presented in machine-parseable formats. For example, consider an API for a time tracking system that exposes a resource for creating a new time entry. The JSON for creating a new time entry for a user might look like: 1: { 2: "userId": 4532, 3: "startDateUtc": "2012-10-22T14:01:54.98432Z", 4: "endDateUtc": "2012-10-22T11:34:45.29321Z" 5: }   Note how the parameters for start and end date are both expressed as ISO 8601 compliant dates in UTC. Using a date format like this in our API leaves little room for ambiguity. It’s also important to note that using ISO 8601 dates is a much, much saner thing than the \/Date(<milliseconds since epoch>)\/ nonsense that is sometimes used in JSON serialization. Probably the most important thing to note about the JSON snippet above is the fact that the end date comes before the start date! The API should recognize that and disallow the time entry from being created, returning an error to the caller. You might inclined to send a response that looks something like this: 1: { 2: "errors": [ {"message" : "The end date must come after the start date"}] 3: }   While this may seem like an appropriate thing to do there are a few problems with this approach: What if there is a user somewhere on the other end of the API call that doesn’t speak English?  What if the message provided here won’t fit properly within the UI of the application that made the API call? What if the verbiage of the message isn’t consistent with the rest of the application that made the API call? What if there is no user directly on the other end of the API call (e.g. this is a batch job uploading time entries once per night unattended)? The API knows nothing about the context from which the call was made. There are steps you could take to given the API some context (e.g.allow the caller to send along a language code indicating the language that the end user speaks), but that will only get you so far. As the designer of the API you could make some assumptions about how the API will be called, but if we start making assumptions we could very easily make the wrong assumptions. In this situation it’s best to make no assumptions and simply design the API in such a way that the caller has the responsibility to convey error messages in a manner that is appropriate for the context in which the error was raised. You would work around some of these problems by allowing callers to add metadata to each request describing the context from which the call is being made (e.g. accepting a ‘locale’ parameter denoting the desired language), but that will add needless clutter and complexity. It’s better to keep the API simple and push those context-specific concerns down to the caller whenever possible. For our very simple time entry example, this can be done by simply changing our error message response to look like this: 1: { 2: "errors": [ {"code": 100}] 3: }   By changing our error error from exposing a string to a numeric code that is easily parseable by another application, we’ve placed all of the responsibility for conveying the actual meaning of the error message on the caller. It’s best to have the caller be responsible for conveying this meaning because the caller understands the context much better than the API does. Now the caller can see error code 100, know that it means that the end date submitted falls before the start date and take appropriate action. Now all of the problems listed out above are non-issues because the caller can simply translate the error code of ‘100’ into the proper action and message for the current context. The numeric code representation of the error is a much better way to facilitate the machine-to-machine interaction that the API is meant to facilitate. An API Does Have Human Users While APIs should be built for machine-to-machine interaction, people still need to wire these interactions together. As a programmer building a client application that will consume the time entry API I would find it frustrating to have to go dig through the API documentation every time I encounter a new error code (assuming the documentation exists and is accurate). The numeric error code approach hurts the discoverability of the API and makes it painful to integrate with. We can help ease this pain by merging our two approaches: 1: { 2: "errors": [ {"code": 100, "message" : "The end date must come after the start date"}] 3: }   Now we have an easily parseable numeric error code for the machine-to-machine interaction that the API is meant to facilitate and a human-readable message for programmers working with the API. The human-readable message here is not intended to be viewed by end-users of the API and as such is not really a “localizable string” in my opinion. We could opt to expose a locale parameter for all API methods and store translations for all error messages, but that’s a lot of extra effort and overhead that doesn’t add a lot real value to the API. I might be a bit of an “ugly American”, but I think it’s probably fine to have the API return English messages when the target for those messages is a programmer. When resources are limited (which they always are), I’d argue that you’re better off hard-coding these messages in English and putting more effort into building more useful features, improving security, tweaking performance, etc.

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  • git push merge error, but git pull is already up-to-date. Tried reclone, same problem.

    - by Jasie
    I do: git commit . git push error: Entry 'file.php' not uptodate. Cannot merge. Then I do git pull Already up-to-date. What do I do? I just want to get the latest version from the remote copy, and overwrite anything on my local copy. Edit: I tried everything. I deleted my local repo, and git clone ssh://[email protected]/directory ... Checking out files: 100%, done. git status On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) All looks good, right? Pull just in case. git pull Already up-to-date. I make a one line change in a file to see if I can push it. git commit . [master 1e18af1] Rando change 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) git push Counting objects: 13, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done. Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 646 bytes, done. Total 7 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0) From /directory d6d61aa..1e18af1 master -> origin/master error: Entry 'someotherfile.php' not uptodate. Cannot merge. Updating b8f9a54..1e18af1 To ssh://[email protected]/directory d6d61aa..1e18af1 master - master I have no idea what's going on! How can I commit/pull again normally? Thanks very much!

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  • Validate MVC 2 form using Data annotations and Linq-to-SQL, before the model binder kicks in (with D

    - by Stefanvds
    I'm using linq to SQL and MVC2 with data annotations and I'm having some problems on validation of some types. For example: [DisplayName("Geplande sessies")] [PositiefGeheelGetal(ErrorMessage = "Ongeldige ingave. Positief geheel getal verwacht")] public string Proj_GeplandeSessies { get; set; } This is an integer, and I'm validating to get a positive number from the form. public class PositiefGeheelGetalAttribute : RegularExpressionAttribute { public PositiefGeheelGetalAttribute() : base(@"\d{1,7}") { } } Now the problem is that when I write text in the input, I don't get to see THIS error, but I get the errormessage from the modelbinder saying "The value 'Tomorrow' is not valid for Geplande sessies." The code in the controller: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(Projecten p) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { _db.Projectens.InsertOnSubmit(p); _db.SubmitChanges(); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } else { SelectList s = new SelectList(_db.Verbonds, "Verb_ID", "Verb_Naam"); ViewData["Verbonden"] = s; } return View(); } What I want is being able to run the Data Annotations before the Model binder, but that sounds pretty much impossible. What I really want is that my self-written error messages show up on the screen. I have the same problem with a DateTime, which i want the users to write in the specific form 'dd/MM/yyyy' and i have a regex for that. but again, by the time the data-annotations do their job, all i get is a DateTime Object, and not the original string. So if the input is not a date, the regex does not even run, cos the data annotations just get a null, cos the model binder couldn't make it to a DateTime. Does anyone have an idea how to make this work?

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  • How to use NInject (or other DI / IoC container) with the model binder in ASP.NET MVC 2 ?

    - by Andrei Rinea
    Let's say I have an User entity and I would want to set it's CreationTime property in the constructor to DateTime.Now. But being a unit test adopter I don't want to access DateTime.Now directly but use an ITimeProvider : public class User { public User(ITimeProvider timeProvider) { // ... this.CreationTime = timeProvider.Now; } // ..... } public interface ITimeProvider { public DateTime Now { get; } } public class TimeProvider : ITimeProvider { public DateTime Now { get { return DateTime.Now; } } } I am using NInject 2 in my ASP.NET MVC 2.0 application. I have a UserController and two Create methods (one for GET and one for POST). The one for GET is straight forward but the one for POST is not so straight and not so forward :P because I need to mess with the model binder to tell it to get a reference of an implementation of ITimeProvider in order to be able to construct an user instance. public class UserController : Controller { [HttpGet] public ViewResult Create() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(User user) { // ... } } I would also like to be able to keep all the features of the default model binder. Any chance to solve this simple/elegant/etc? :D

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  • SimpleDOM sortedXPath date sorting works on localhost but not on remote server.

    - by Imminent
    Here's what i'm trying to do: 1) Take a basic XML page (data.xml) 2) Load it with simpleDOM 3) Use simpleDOM sortedXPath to sort all XML items by their pubDate 4) Display sorted output Here is the code I currently have. My code below outputs exactly what I need when run it on my localhost (XAMPP w/PHP 5.3) but on my remote server (which has at least PHP 5.0+) all is lost and a completely blank page is output. It will output the $xml array with print_r though. Here is my code: <?php include('SimpleDOM.php'); $xml = simpledom_load_file('data.xml'); $dateformat = "D j M, g:ia"; /* print_r($xml); <-array will output on remote server if put here, but alas nothing else beyond this point */ /*Output First 5 items sorted by pubDate*/ foreach($xml->channel->sortedXPath('item','pubDate', SORT_DESC) as $i => $item){ if ($i > 4){ break; } print "<p>This Weeks Deal:<strong> ".$item->title."</strong></p>"; print $item->description; print "<p>Date Posted:<strong> ".date($dateformat, strtotime($item->pubDate))."</strong></p>"; } ?> Like I said, this code seems to work great on my localhost... but not being able to run it on my remote server is making me crazy. Any ideas ?? Any help will be far beyond appreciated.

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  • Query to find the data for every month of last year from the given date using mysql?

    - by Salil
    Hi All, I want data for the the last 1 year from the given date For ex:- I have date "2013-06-01" and i want data as follows also data i want is from three table using Group By or something else Month             Amount         Total_Data June 2013     100                5 May 2013       80                  4 -                     100                5 -                     100                5 July 2012       10                  2 I try following query but didn't workout SELECT DATE_FORMAT(rf.period, '%M %Y') as Month , sum(p.amount * ((100-q.amount)/100)) as Amount ,count(distinct q.label_id) as Total Data FROM table1 rf , table2 p , table3 q ,table4 a where rf.period BETWEEN '2013-06-01' AND '2013-06-01' and q.royalty_period BETWEEN '2013-06-01' AND '2013-06-01' and a.id = q.album_id and p.file_id = rf.id and p.upc = a.upc and p.local_revenue is not null GROUP BY Month Thanks in Advance, Salil Gaikwad

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