I am writting a widget for Sonar. It has to upload a string and put it in the sonar database. (Table "properties", "prop_key" = "views.def", It change the structure of views for the plugin porfolio manager).
I coded a little form where the user can copy/paste the string. It appears on my sonar web UI. But I don't know what to do now...
I need to put that string into the sonar DB. How can I communicate with the DB from a widget (with API tools) ?
I searched in Sonar API documentation, but I am a bit overflowed by the informations, and it is not everytime clearly explained.
Thanks for the time you will spend on my question.
EDIT : I found how to access to the database table "properties", by the org.sonar.api.config.Settings class. (method setProperty to write, getString to read (a String :p)).
But this methods havn't access to the DB for writting, so the modifications made by setters are not saved :/
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I would like to accesss the sitecore DB and items from console application like
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Context.Database
or
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Data.Database.GetDatabase("master")
how do I configure and setup my console application to access the DB as above?
Thanks Everyone for the suggestion, I am really interested in config changes, I used webservice, but it has very limited methods. For example, if I would like create an Item with the template and insert the item with prepopulated value, there is no such option. The reason I am looking for the console apporach is I would like to import the contents from XML or excel sheet and push those to the sitecore tree, eventually use the scheduled task to run the console app periodically. I do not want to copy the entire web.config and app_config. If anyone has already done this, could you please post your steps and necessary config changes?
You have two options I think:
1) Import the Sitecore bits of a website's web.config into your console application's app.config, so that the Sitecore API "just works"
I'm sure I read a blog post about this, but I can't find the reference right now. (I will have another look) But I think the simple but long winded approach is to copy all of the <sitecore/> element and all the separate files it references. I'm fairly sure you can whittle this down to a subset of the config required for data access with a bit of thinking.
2) Don't use the Sitecore API directly, connect to a web service that exposes access to it remotely.
There are a few of these that already exist. Sitecore itself exposes one, Sitecore Rocks has one, and Hedgehog TDS has one too. And you can always write your own (since any web service running inside the Sitecore ASP.Net app can make database calls and report values back and forth - just remember to consider security if this web service might end up exposed externally for any reason)
John West links to some relevant stuff here:
http://www.sitecore.net/Learn/Blogs/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2013/09/Getting-Data-Out-of-the-Sitecore-ASPNET-CMS.aspx
-- Edited to add --
I've not found the blog post I remember. But I came across this SO thread:
Accessing Sitecore API from a CLI tool
which refers to this blog post:
http://www.experimentsincode.com/?p=232
which I think gives the info you'll need for option 1.
(And it reminds me that, of course, when you copy the config stuff you have to copy the Sitecore binaries into your app's folder as well)
I would just like to expand on #JermDavis' post and note that Sitecore isn't a big fan of being accessed when not in a web application. However, if you still want to do this, you will need to make sure that you have all of the necessary configuration settings from the web.config and App_Config of your site in your console application's app.config file.
Moreover, you will never be able to call Sitecore.Context in a console application, as the Sitecore Context sits on top of the HttpContext which means that it must be an application and have a valid request for you to use it. What you are looking for is something more along the lines of Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master").
Good luck and happy coding :)
This sounds like a job for the Sitecore Item Web API. I use the Sitecore Item Web API whenever I need to access Sitecore data from the master database outside the context of the Content Management server or outside of the context of the Sitecore application. The Web API definitely does not allow you to do everything that the standard Sitecore API does but it can act as a good base and I now extend upon the Web API instead of writing my own custom web services whenever possible.
Thanks to JemDavis's advise.
After I copied the configuration and made changes to config section to get rid of conflicts. I copied almost all of Sitrecore, analytics and lucene dlls, it worked great.
Only thing you have to remember is, copy the app_config folder to the same location where your dlls are.
Thanks again JemDavis....
I'm still new to Liferay and using Liferay 6.2
what i'm doing:
I am trying to add a document manually into my database using insert statement.
I inserted into dlfileentry, dlfileversion and AssertEntry.
Also, i created a folder with the valid name and file.
The issue:
upon entering the Documents and Media portlet, i can see the document name there but when i click on checkout, it will prompt a error saying that Documents and Media is temporarily unavailable. however i am still able to download the valid document.
Am i doing something wrong? Personally, i feel that i am missing one more table for the database but i'm not sure .
Thanks!
Yes, you're doing something wrong: You should never write to Liferay's database with SQL, as there might be more data required than what's directly visible to you. Obviously, you're running into exactly such an issue.
Liferay has an API which you can use locally, from within the same application server, or remotely as JSON or SOAP service. You should exclusively use this for write access to the database.
Alternatively, you might consider WebDAV access to your document repository as the way to add more documents to the document library.
I am trying to create a Google Chrome Extension which Needs to store Data from users for login authentication. Can you please advise me which Database I can try to have with the app? I already tried the SQLite but I am not sure that end users can update the tables by inserting or deleting rows? I also saw some posts about Web Databases but didn't find any thing really useful for it! now my question is:
1- Is SQLite capable to be updated by end users(While eht do not have SQLite on their Machine?)
2- If not, what kind of Secure database I can use instead?
Thanks,
In an extension you can use webDB (apps cannot, however), indexedDB, localStorage and/or the chrome.storage api. The later has the added bonus of not being visible if an end user figures out how to inspect your extension with devtools. If you're worried about credentials being stored as plain text, you can always find a js crypto Implementation somewhere.
This seems like a repeat of the question : Connecting to DB from a Chrome Extension?.
It basically says you should use an intermediary webapp for db calls, and use AJAX to communicate between the chrome extension and that app.
I have a situation that override my knowledge. Here is situation:
A simple web based system store a Word files. Users create them locally, then upload them to server. After that, another user can download, edit and upload again. All that is okay, but that steps of repeating Download/Upload cause troubles - in case when user forgot to upload after he make changes. The prerequisites is that they want to use only Word, so i can't use any web editors like CKEditor or Google Documents.
So - a question - is there a way to let users open/save that DOC files with Word without setting a VPN?
Server is a Windows 2008, and language is ASP.NET / classicASP. User access system via browsers.
I think you can embed a plugin called aceoffix in your web system, if the customers do not have to download, upload and save back to server. With aceoffix they can edit online and save back to the server directly. It is exactly the same interface as MS Office. Hope this will be helpful.
How about a tiny app (on clients) to act as a syncronizer (using FTP) ?
I think an embedded Word viewer would be something quite complex to pull off - especially if they require the native, proper and exact Word look/menus.
One alternative is to provide a plugin to your users, where they can access/sync documents directly from/to the server. But then you aren't using the a web site but a local plugin, which comes with its own headaches of course.
Creating a Word plugin is a nice way to make it seem like something "in the Office program" when you have actually created it yourself, so that your user don't have to feel like they are using another program. My idea is that you could create a way for users to load a Word file from the server, do changes to it and then upload them back to the server automatically.
I am using a SQL Server for ASP.Net session state. However, I am only able to retrieve the connection string at runtime and for that reason cannot store it in the web.config file. Usually it would be in:
<sessionState
mode="SQLServer"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;user id=<username>;password=<strongpassword>"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"
/>
How can I set that connection string at runtime? (i.e. after the web app spins up.)
Have you looked at doing it in the Application_Start event in Global.asax? This seems like the logical place to set something like that.
From MSDN's documentation:
Called when the first resource (such
as a page) in an ASP.NET application
is requested. The Application_Start
method is called only one time during
the life cycle of an application. You
can use this method to perform startup
tasks such as loading data into the
cache and initializing static values.
You should set only static data during
application start. Do not set any
instance data because it will be
available only to the first instance
of the HttpApplication class that is
created.
I would think you can set that string somewhere within System.Web.SessionState, hopefully that will help you get to the right place. Sorry I can't give a better answer, I'm still trying to figure it out myself. If I do, I'll let you know. GL