Monday, October 8, 2007

One Liners in LotusScript

Update, 15.10.07
Discovered that Run/RunOnServer also is "chainable"

Call s.CurrentDatabase.GetAgent( "TestWQO1" ).Run()
Call s.CurrentDatabase.GetAgent( "TestWQO1" ).RunOnServer()

Call s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" ).GetAgent( "TestWQO1" ).Run()
Call s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" ).GetAgent( "TestWQO1" ).RunOnServer()

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Actually two lines, since you have to have a NotesSession-variable.
Dim s As New NotesSession

Get document:
s.CurrentDatabase.GetView( "viewname" )._
GetDocumentByKey( "key" )

You'd normally want to assign this to a variable -> more lines..

Based on the above, I thought you could do:
s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" ).GetView( "viewname" )._
GetDocumentByKey( "key" )

But it seems that a NotesDocument needs it parent database in memory. CurrentDatabase is a property of NotesSession.

Empty a view:
s.CurrentDatabase.GetView( "viewname" )._
AllEntries.RemoveAll( True )

s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" ).GetView( "viewname" )._
AllEntries.RemoveAll( True )

Empty a db:
s.CurrentDatabase.AllDocuments.RemoveAll( True )
s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" ).RemoveAll( True )

Delete documents based on form/etc:
s.CurrentDatabase.Search( |Form="SomeForm"| )._
RemoveAll( True )

s.GetDatabase( "server", "path" )._
Search( |Form="SomeForm"| ).RemoveAll( True )

AllDocuments and Search returns NotesDocumentCollection, so you could also use StampAll, etc.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

If the collection returns empty, does it not fail?

William Beh said...

I don't see much point to create one liner like those. In most cases you will always need to reuse the db / view objects. Thus it is always better to declare separate variables for them.

Tommy Valand said...

@Charles: It most certainly will :)

@William: There are several occasions where I've used a DB/View-variable to get to a document or a collection.

With a document, it has mostly been getting a config/keyword-document.

Collections for doing cleanups.

Most recently I used the .Search one-liner to clean out one of my earlier applications, which I discovered created a document for each search. There were 2000+ search document.

I fixed the form, made an agent ...Search..RemoveAll. Ran the agent onserver, using the AgentRunOnServer toolbar button. Done in 60 seconds (well, almost).

One-liners are in most circumstances bad practice, but I believe they have their place, at least in my code. :)

Nate said...

William, chaining methods is an honored tradition and can dramatically improve the readability of much of your code. I've been known to use lines like...

If Me.p_refDoc.document.universalID <> Me.cache.workspace.refWorkspace.currentDocument.document.universalID Then...

...frequently. (Yes, I did just go copy that from a library.)

cue said...

how can you get a listing of the available views for GetView and available items for GetItemValue ??