Parse.com database logic for pointers - database

Just for my info because I tried to figure out last time even asked their support but unfortunately still no answer.
It's a simple problem I think but I can't wrap my head around.
Let's say I have a object A,object B, object c.
I query to object A that has a pointer to object B. I get all the data back with include key and it works nice. But object B has also a pointer to object C. That data is empty. How can I get that pointer data too in the same query ?

Assuming these columns:
ObjectA:
pointerToB : Pointer<ObjectB>
ObjectB:
pointerToC : Pointer<ObjectC>
You use dot-syntax, in JavaScript:
objectAQuery.include("pointerToB.pointerToC");
You have to use the column names, the above will cause both to be populated.

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Object name as variable in Logtalk

Is this possible to get the name of an object as a variable? I’m trying to make a database where each object represents each person. I’ve got objects with [name/1, surname/1], but when I ask e.g.
X::name(john).
it gives me an error. Ofc there is no problem to get the atom by using this method:
object_id::name(X).
The ::/2 message sending control construct indeed requires a bound first argument at call time. But you can enumerate existing objects using the current_object/1 built-in predicate:
| ?- current_object(Person), Person::name(john).
...
However, this solution may also result in errors as we will be enumerating all objects by backtracking and not all of them will understand a name/1 message. A better solution is thus to only enumerate objects that understand the name/1 message. Assuming that all objects representing a person implement (directly or through inheritance) a person_protocol, we can use the conforms_to_protocol/2 built-in predicate:
| ?- conforms_to_protocol(Person, person_protocol),
Person::name(john).
...
See https://logtalk.org/manuals/refman/predicates/conforms_to_protocol_2_3.html for details.

Identify one particular field with RegEx

Apologies for the basic question but I'm new to regular expressions and am really struggling to find a solution to the problem I am facing.
I am trying to pull out a particular field from a json response dynamically, which can change each time I call it.
The response is:
[{"colorPartNumber":"10045112022164298","skuPartNumber":"0400218072057","productColor":{"identifier":"Dark blue","label":"Dark blue","hex":"#0000A0"},"productSize":{"identifier":"0","label":"0","name":"Designer","scaleLabel":"apparel-wmn","schema":{"name":"UK","labels":["8"]}},"soldOut":true,"onlyOneLeft":false,"limitedAvailability":false,"preorder":false,"comingSoon":false,"visible":true,"displayable":true,"buyable":false,"availableInPhysicalStore":false,"expectedShippingDate":null},{"colorPartNumber":"10045112022164298","skuPartNumber":"0400094632819","productColor":{"identifier":"Dark blue","label":"Dark blue","hex":"#0000A0"},"productSize":{"identifier":"1","label":"1","name":"Designer","scaleLabel":"apparel-wmn","schema":{"name":"UK","labels":["10"]}},"soldOut":true,"onlyOneLeft":false,"limitedAvailability":false,"preorder":false,"comingSoon":false,"visible":true,"displayable":true,"buyable":false,"availableInPhysicalStore":false,"expectedShippingDate":null},{"colorPartNumber":"10045112022164298","skuPartNumber":"0400218072040","productColor":{"identifier":"Dark blue","label":"Dark blue","hex":"#0000A0"},"productSize":{"identifier":"2","label":"2","name":"Designer","scaleLabel":"apparel-wmn","schema":{"name":"UK","labels":["12"]}},"soldOut":true,"onlyOneLeft":false,"limitedAvailability":false,"preorder":false,"comingSoon":false,"visible":true,"displayable":true,"buyable":false,"availableInPhysicalStore":false,"expectedShippingDate":null},{"colorPartNumber":"10045112022164298","skuPartNumber":"0400468014814","productColor":{"identifier":"Dark blue","label":"Dark blue","hex":"#0000A0"},"productSize":{"identifier":"3","label":"3","name":"Designer","scaleLabel":"apparel-wmn","schema":{"name":"UK","labels":["14"]}},"soldOut":false,"onlyOneLeft":true,"limitedAvailability":false,"preorder":false,"comingSoon":false,"visible":true,"displayable":true,"buyable":true,"availableInPhysicalStore":false,"expectedShippingDate":null}]
I am trying to pull out the skuPartNumber, but only when the "buyable" value is set to true.
Every thing I try I cannot seem to get just this one value :(
So in the example above the only value I want to pull out is 0400468014814.
This json is dynamic so there could be 100 values coming back, but the principle is the same.
One example of a failed attempt is skuPartNumber(.*?)"buyable":true, which only gives me the very first value (0400218072057), which is wrong.
Once again sorry for the basic question.
Try the following regular expression:
\"skuPartNumber\":\"(\d+)\"(?:[^}]*?\}){3}[^}]*?\"buyable\":true
Your answer is in the first match group.

Querying database in Grails

The values in database are saved as such
::{"rating1":"2","rating2":"4","rating3":"5","rating4":"0","rating5":"0"},
Now I need to acces the individual values like 2,4,5 etc.
I made a variable "rating" of the Domain Class type and tried accesing as object using (.) operator but it wont work and gives error:
:exception::groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: rating1 for class: java.lang.String
, I tried casting to array and list (as Array, as ArrayList, as List) etc but that wont work either.
Casting to List gives exception:exception::org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast object '{"rating1":"2","rating2":"4","rating3":"5","rating4":"0","rating5":"0"}' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'java.util.List' .
Accessing like "rating[3]" gives answer "a". Should I use "rating[11]" to get value 2 or is there any way around.
What could be the possible solution. Please help.
You're storing a string, so you only have string operations available. You need to parse that string to get at the attributes individually (JsonSlurper perhaps?).
rating[character-position] is a bad idea IMO.
Maybe transients (check the GORM docs) would be useful.
class YourDomain {
String yourField
String getRating1() { new JsonSlurper().parseText(yourField).rating1 }
}
Maybe. Totally untested, just an idea.

Storing the value with the Ref, as long as it's not in the datastore

I'm have a List<Ref<Entity>>. I add new entries to the list like this:
entities.add(Ref.create(new_entry));
modified.add(new_entry);
When I store the entity that contains the list, I store the list itself and all the entities that are in the modified list. This works fine.
The problem is, that I have to work with the entities-list, while I add new entries to it. This requires iterating the list multiple times. The problem here is, that the refs in the list point to old entries (which are already in the datastore) and new entries (which are not yet in the datastore).
This causes the Ref.get()-method to return null for all the yet unstored entries in the list (the ones that are still in the modified-list).
I worked around this by doing this when inserting:
Ref<T> ref = new DeadRef<>(
Key.create(data),
data
);
this.entities.add(ref);
this.modified.add(data);
This way, I can mix stored and unstored entries in one list and Ref.get() always returns a value.
This works, but I have noticed that the refs in the entities-list stay DeadRefs when I store them to the datastore and load them in again.
Will this be a problem? Is there maybe even a better way to accomplish this?
This seems like a bad idea, although I don't know what specific problems you will run into.
The "right answer" is to save your entities first.
Edit: Also look at the documentation for ofy().defer().save(), which can prevent you from issuing a lot of unnecessary save operations.

How to initialize a Ref<?> field in objectify to a dummy value

I have a collection(arraylist) of Ref `s ,the objectify documentation says that I need to initialize collections for them to be persisted and hence modified in the future.....
Now , Ref points to an object but when I launch my app for the first time I dont have any objects in the data store...so whats the best way for me to initialize a dummy value......
Is my assumption that a Ref<> needs to point to a real object in the data store?
Two things:
You should just initialize an empty collection. You don't need to add anything to it. eg, field = new ArrayList<Ref<Thing>>();
It's actually not even required that you initialize the collection. It's just a good idea for reasons that will become apparent if you use the system for a while.

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