On Thursday 13 December 2007, Dave Singer wrote:
I'm a little confused. Are you saying there is a
transformation {s.count}
that can be applied to avp's to get the number of items in an avp
list/stack?
I don't see any documentation for one at the link that you sent me. I had
already scoured it looking for something to help me, but checked again in
case something had changed.
It sound more like you are saying that there is no such functionality and
suggesting that I code/create a new transformation.
Hi Dave,
yes, i wanted to say something like that. :-) Just wanted to start a
discussion about the possibility of a new transformation function.
Unfortunately my "Programing" experience is
quite rusty, the last time I
looked at C/C++ was in College almost 15 years ago. Not to mention already
not enough time in a day to get done what I'm supposed to do. Maybe some
time in the future I/we will be able to contribute code to openser and/or
modules, but not now. We are pushing hard to have a quality sell able
product/service.
Or company is planning to contribute back to openser in several ways. When
we get our servers setup and working, providing a stable, load-balanced,
scalable platform that our sales team can sell our services with
confidence, we are planning to post our openser.cfg files highly commented,
along with database structure changes(added tables, views, colums,
indexes...), example data, and a way to manage the data.
Sounds great!
So for now (assuming you are saying there isn't
something there now) I'll
have to use what is currently available and hope that someone else with
more experience and time finds these features valuable enough to implement
them. I like the idea of a transformation but maybe like this:
$var(step_count) = $(avp(s:list){ary.count})
while ( $var(step_count) != 0 ) {
$var(working_var) = $(avp(s:list){ary.index,$var(step_count)});
# do some stuff on this reverse process list.
# also we are not deleting list items to get to other list items.
}
and later used like...
$var(step_count) = $(di{ary.count}); # if $di was a list/array of all
the Diversion headers
# same as in avp example above with other PV that could be lists/arrays
Also as the original email for this conversation stated, we need a
{s.count,seperator} to compliment {s.select,index,seperator}
You could open a feature request on the tracker [1] with the proposed
enchancements.
Cheers,
Henning
[1]
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=139143&atid=743023