Embarrasing UDF question

I can't believe that I haven't been able to find this answer,
but where do UDF (.cfm) pages get stored on the hard drive?
Thank you in advance.

> I can't believe that I haven't been able to find this
answer, but where do UDF (.cfm) pages get stored on the hard drive?
Wherever you like. Stick your functions in a CFM file;
include the CFM
file before you need to call the function. So as long as
you've got a CF
mapping to the dir the file is in, the file can be anywhere
you like.
There's nothing magic about a CFM file full of UDFs that
require it to be
handled any differently than any other CFM file.
UDFs do not even have to reside in a separate file: if you
have the
requirement for a specific function on one specific template,
there's
nothing stopping you from sticking the function code within
the template
itself. One would only do this if there was never any intent
to re-use
that function, though.
Adam

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Quick java udf question

Hi sorry for this completely stupid question but the below piece of code I am trying to dissect and understand.
I understand the first line I am creating a new global container but the second line I am not so sure what the (integer) would be for. Is this meant to be a variable or a return type? What could that possibly be for I mean a type in parenthesis after the equals sign.
GlobalContainer gc = container.getContainer();
Integer counter = (Integer) gc.getParameter("counter");
Thank you for your help.

GlobalContainer is a container object stores values and can be retrieved by UDF during runtime. This GlobalContainer stores values and can be accessed by any UDF in the same namespace. This is similar to class variable or static variable of java class.
In your case, It has a parameter which is set as ("counter", Integer) . Basically it is a key value pair and very similar to Hashtable in java.
Example
setParameter(String str , Object Integer);
>What could that possibly be for I mean a type in parenthesis after the equals sign.
typecast to integer in paranthesis, because we store the value here as Integer object.
Integer counter = (Integer) gc.getParameter("counter");
expecting return type is Integer.
Also refer this [link |global container;for further refereence

UDF question - how detect a non existing sender element

Hi all,
i have a question according UDF. I have a sender message that contains a field, that sometimes has a content ans some time not. If no content then als the element doesn't exists (occurrence 0...1). The target element of this one has the occurrence status 1.
So i have to create a function, that writes an empty string in case of no sender element. I know that i can configure this function with the MM Blocks (if exists ...). But for re-using reasons i'd like to create a UDF for this function.
Now my question, how can i detect if no data in the sender (src) file?
Here my try, which doesn't works:
AbstractTrace trace = container.getTrace();
trace.addInfo("container: "container);+
trace.addInfo("iData: "iData);+
if(iData == null){
+     trace.addInfo("NO ELEMENT found!");+
if(container == null){
+     trace.addInfo("NO container found!");+
if(iData.length() < 1){
+     trace.addInfo("Empty or No element found - insert empty entry (space)");+
+     return " ";+
return iData;
Thanks in advance
Michael

Hi Michael,
Create a UDF of type value,
Suppose in is the input and out is output of UDF..
Then Code as follows:
if(in==null)
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else
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return out;
Use this code...and get ur problem solved!!!
Regards,
AshwinM
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Mapping UDF Question.

All,
We have the following structure from the input XML... We want to extract the PSTLZ node value into the target structure where PARVW = "WE" - Im trying to use a UDF but - im getting an error because the PSTLZ is an optional node under E1EDKA1 and not all the E1EDKA1 segments have this field. i was trying to UDF to take 2 parameters - PARVW (context at IDOC level) and PSTLZ (context at IDOC level).
Any help would be appreciated...
<IDOC>
      <E1EDKA1 SEGMENT="1">
         <PARVW>AG</PARVW>
         <PARTN>1</PARTN>
         <TELFX>XXXXX1</TELFX>
         <BNAME>Mike</BNAME>
         <PAORG>100</PAORG>
         <ORGTX>US Purchasing</ORGTX>
         <PAGRU>UG1</PAGRU>
      </E1EDKA1>
      <E1EDKA1 SEGMENT="1">
         <PARVW>RE</PARVW>
         <NAME1>SomeName</NAME1>
         <STRAS>Street 1</STRAS>
         <ORT01>City1</ORT01>
         <PSTLZ> 12345</PSTLZ>
         <REGIO>NY</REGIO>
      </E1EDKA1>
      <E1EDKA1 SEGMENT="1">
         <PARVW>LF</PARVW>
         <PARTN>2</PARTN>
         <SPRAS>E</SPRAS>
         <SPRAS_ISO>EN</SPRAS_ISO>
      </E1EDKA1>
      <E1EDKA1 SEGMENT="1">
         <PARVW>WE</PARVW>
         <LIFNR>XYZ</LIFNR>
         <NAME1>NAME1</NAME1>
         <NAME4>Name4</NAME4>
         <STRAS>some street</STRAS>
         <ORT01>BUFFALO</ORT01>
         <PSTLZ>12345</PSTLZ>
         <LAND1>US</LAND1>
         <ABLAD>YYY</ABLAD>
         <PARNR>YYY</PARNR>
         <SPRAS>E</SPRAS>
         <REGIO>US</REGIO>
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</IDOC>

rkk,
Try this
Parvw[Change Context to IDOC] --->UDF
PSTLZ[Don't Change Context] --->Map With Default[] -->Remove Context---> UDF
If there are no values from PSTLZ what u want to do? According to the above logic, it will give blank value are u ok with it?
raj.

UDF question.

Hello,
I have following code in UDF that pads string to 9 characters long (fills with leading spaces) and adds to SQL query. Please look at the following code.
public void getStatement(String[] companyId,ResultList result,Container container){
int len = companyId.length;
StringBuffer ids = new StringBuffer();
   int totalLen = 9;
for (int i=0; i<len;i++)
<b>     int len2 = companyId<i>.length();
     StringBuffer paddedId = new StringBuffer(totalLen);
     int pad = totalLen-len2;
     while(pad>0)
         paddedId.append(" ");
         pad--;
     paddedId.append(companyId<i>);</b>
     ids.append("'"paddedId.toString()"'");
     if(i != len-1)
       ids.append(",");
result.addValue("selectemp_no, emp_name from employee where emp_no in ("ids.toString()")");
I tested above function using test mapping. The following is the output.
16:57:44 Start of test
Document start
Start tag [ns1:MT_Cma_Customer_Select_Request]
Add raw attribute [ xmlns:ns1="http://freemanco.com/xi/Get_Customer"]
Start tag [Statement]
Start tag [LawsonCustomer]
Add attribute: [action]=[SQL_QUERY]
Start tag [access]
Put value [<b>select emp_no, emp_name from employee where emp_no in(' 45632')</b>
Close tag [access]
Close tag [LawsonCustomer]
Close tag [Statement]
Close tag [ns1:MT_Cma_Customer_Select_Request]
Document end
Executed successfully
16:57:44 End of test
As you see the bold code is used to pad leading spaces and after test the I do not see leading spaces in the select statement.
Can some tell me what am I doing wrong?.
Thank you for the help.
Balaji

Balaji,
I'm sorry u want Leading spaces right? My program will give u Trailing spaces. So change one line of code.
Remove sb.append(test[m]); before the 2'nd for loop and add the same in the end of seconf for loop. So now ur code b'come
StringBuffer sb= new StringBuffer();
sb.append("Select * from employee_tbl where employee_id in (");
                                int len;
          for(int m=0;m<test.length;m++)
               len= test[m].length();
               for(int k=len;k<=9;k++)
                    if(!(len==9))
                    sb.append(" ");
                          sb.append(test[m]);
               if(m==test.length-1)
                    sb.append(");");
               else
                    sb.append(",");
          result.addValue(""+sb.toString()+"");
Best regards,
raj.

Simple UDF question.

My requirement is that I need to seperate out all the special characters in a string and take only the numbers.
If phone number contains any brackets or hyphens, they need to be removed to form only the number.
Since my datatype is string type.. I needed to use the string argument for my function.
Please can anyone tell me how do I achieve this?.
I was looking for a for loop to check the charAt every position.. but how do I seperate the chars of a string to form a new one?.
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Hi
If you need to do it only for Numbers then use this in UDF
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Concat UDF question

Hi all,
I have a requremnt in the map.
Source looks like this,
Description (Node) 1-many >   It has 2 fields in it namely :
1. Indicator(String) 0-1
2. Comment(String) 1
Now target looks like this
ProductDescription(Node) 1-many > it has just 1 node namely :
1. Comments
Requirement:
Map description to target> productDescription as follows:
1. If(Indicator Doesn't exist ) then map each Description.Comment to ProductDescription.Comment
Ex: Source
<Description><Comment>Red hammer</Comment></Description>
<Description><Comment>Blue hammer</Comment></Description>
then Target is
<ProductDescription><Comments>Red hammer</Comments></ProductDescription>
<ProductDescription><Comments>Blue hammer</Comments></ProductDescription>
2. If(Indicator equals *) then map the Concat the prev Comment along with the current comment into 1 target "Comments"
Ex: Source
<Description><Comment>Red hammer</Comment></Description>
*<Description><Indicator>(astrix ie )</Indicator><Comment>Red pencil</Comment></Description>
then Target is
<ProductDescription><Comments>Red hammer Red pencil</Comments></ProductDescription>
Can anyone help me in what way i have to approach this to achive the map? In this case a UDF is inevitable is it?
Any reply / leads is very much appreciated
Thanks,
Hank
Edited by: hankovak jovani on Sep 30, 2009 4:50 AM if Indicator field is * then it indicator that the sender is sending the current comment in a NEW LINE hence have to concat it with the prev one......

comment(context MT_Src)---->SaveComment(UDF)----->ProductDesc
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sonstant[*]---/      comment--->getPreviousComment--> then
              Label---> then
indicator---->exist---->if--------------->comment
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declare a global variable using Edit Java section (one of the Functions of the Object Toolbar in Mapping Editor )under global variable
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SaveCommentUDF
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comment<i>=a<i>;
result.addValue(a<i>);
GetPreviousCommentUDF
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How to select Oracle Home

Probably an embarrasingly simple question but nevertheless it has me stuck. I just installed Oracle 11gR1 on a windows server 2008 box and now have both Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle 11gR1 installed. The Oracle Home Selector is no longer available from the start menu and the installation guide suggests using the Universal Installer to choose between homes. I am unable to figure out how to do this. Please guide me. Thanks.
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Trying to add guestmap, new to MassReplaceIt

I'm sure I'm asking an embarrasing newbie question here, but I'm looking at this page (http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/Aardvarkland/Popup%20Guest%20Map.html) and going through the steps. I've downloaded MassReplaceIt and I am terrified of running it. I am a total total newbie about all of this, but I'm biting my nails here thinking my whole site is going to become corrupted and permanently lost, if not my entire computer.
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Num rows inserted by DML query

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Newbie question about component and UDF usage.

This will be the 1st time I'm coding a component and UDF. I
kind of understand the concept but not sure about how to write it
in detail.Such as passing the parameter, etc.
I'm starting to write a user login, verifying users before
allowing them to enter into the app.
So I have 2 fields in my login form, Login and password.
Upon submitting this form, on the actionpage.cfm I'm calling
a component. This is how I call the component:
<CFINVOKE Component="cfc/loginaction"
Method="AuthentiCateUser" ReturnVariable="UserInfo">
Then in my Component I have the following:
<CFCOMPONENT>
<CFFUNCTION Name="AuthentiCateUser" RETURNTYPE="Query"
hint="Use for user login">
<CFARGUMENT Name="login" Type="Structure"
Required="true">
<CFARGUMENT Name="password" Type="Structure"
Required="true">

<CFQUERY NAME="Authenticate" DATASOURCE="sendfast">
SELECT * FROM tblcustomer WHERE Login = '#Login#' AND
Password = '#Password#'
</CFQUERY>
<CFRETURN AuthentiCateUser>
</CFFUNCTION>
</CFCOMPONENT>
When I run this code, I got error, it said :
The parameter LOGIN to function AuthentiCateUser is required
but was not passed in.
The error occurred in
C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\KDt_Mod\userloginaction.cfm: line 18
16 : <CFSET
UserLoginInfo["Password"]="#Form.Password#"> 17 : 18 :
<CFINVOKE Component="cfc/loginaction" Method="AuthentiCateUser"
ReturnVariable="UserInfo">
19 :
My question is:
What should I do in order to pass #Form.Login# and
#Form.Password# to my UDF within my component?
I'm using CFMX 6 and Micrisift SQL 8

I've applied cfinvokeargument and my login and password were
passed to my component.
But I'm facing new problem: Where should I write my
authentication? should I write user authentication within my
component or
loginaction.cfm (the calling template)
What I mean by authentication is something like this:
<CFIF #Authenticate.RecordCount# IS NOT 0>
<cfset session.CustomerID
="#Authenticate.customerid#">
<cfset session.Name ="#Authenticate.Name#">
<CFCOOKIE NAME="UserLoginIn"
VALUE="12345_pn#Authenticate.customerid#">
<cflocation url="index.cfm?loc=home">
<CFELSE>
<script language="JavaScript">
alert("Username/password is not found, plese try again");
history.go(-1);
</script>
<cfabort>
</CFIF>
If I keep this code in my loginaction.cfm what is returned
from my function is not recognized by the component, the error said
Authenticate.RecordCount is not recognized.
Also I'm still confuse with what should I put in the
RETURNTYPE. If I put query, it gave me error, also, what is
returned by CFRETURN.
This is my component:
<CFCOMPONENT>
<CFFUNCTION Name="AuthentiCateUser" RETURNTYPE="Query"
hint="Use for user login">
<CFARGUMENT Name="login" Type="Structure"
Required="true">
<CFARGUMENT Name="password" Type="Structure"
Required="true">

<CFQUERY NAME="Authenticate" DATASOURCE="sendfast">
SELECT * FROM tblcustomer WHERE Login = '#Login#' AND
Password = '#Password#'
</CFQUERY>
<CFRETURN AuthentiCateUser>
</CFFUNCTION>
</CFCOMPONENT>

1st UDF and questions

Ok, I got some code working on a page, and would like to now
see about
putting it in a UDF...
The UDF right now looks like:
<cffunction name="classSort" output="false">
<cfargument name="eventType" type="string"
required="yes">
<cfset temp_var=1>
<cfloop list="arguments.eventType" delimiters=","
index="i">
<cfset full_var_temp_var=#i#>
<cfset temp_var=temp_var+1>
</cfloop>
<cfswitch expression="full_var_1">
<cfcase value="f">
<cfif var_temp_2 gte 15>
<cfif rates.C gte 2>
<cfif rates.B gte 2 or rates.D gte 2>
<cfif rates.A gte 2 and rates.B gte 2>
<img src="images/A1.gif" width="94" height="29">
<cfelseif rates.D gte 2 and rates.E gte 2>
<img src="images/C1.gif" width="94" height="29">
<cfelse>
<img src="images/B1.gif" width="94" height="29">
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
</cffunction>
And I'd be passing arguments in the form of functin(f,30)
What I'm trying to do is get the image filename sent back so
I can display
it on the page.
Am I on the right track here???

Well, I changed the function to:
<cffunction name="classSort" output="false">
<cfargument name="eventType" type="string"
required="yes">
<cfif eventType gte 15>
<cfif rates.C gte 2>
<cfif rates.B gte 2 or rates.D gte 2>
<cfif rates.A gte 2 and rates.B gte 2>
<cfset retImage="images/A1.gif">
<img src="images/A1.gif" width="94" height="29">
<cfelseif rates.D gte 2 and rates.E gte 2>
<img src="images/C1.gif" width="94" height="29">
<cfelse>
<img src="images/B1.gif" width="94" height="29">
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
<cfreturn retImage>
</cffunction>
Now my question is, in the code that's calling the function,
the image isn't
displaying..... I tried <img
src="#classSort(foilCount.recordcount)#">
Is that not correct?
"Ian Skinner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Steve Grosz wrote:
>> Ok, I got some code working on a page, and would
like to now see about
>> putting it in a UDF...
>>
>> The UDF right now looks like:
>>
>> <cffunction name="classSort" output="false">
>> <cfargument name="eventType" type="string"
required="yes">
>>
>> <cfset temp_var=1>
>> <cfloop list="arguments.eventType" delimiters=","
index="i">
>> <cfset full_var_temp_var=#i#>
>> <cfset temp_var=temp_var+1>
>> </cfloop>
>>
>> <cfswitch expression="full_var_1">
>> <cfcase value="f">
>> <cfif var_temp_2 gte 15>
>> <cfif rates.C gte 2>
>> <cfif rates.B gte 2 or rates.D gte 2>
>> <cfif rates.A gte 2 and rates.B gte 2>
>> <img src="images/A1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> <cfelseif rates.D gte 2 and rates.E gte 2>
>> <img src="images/C1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> <cfelse>
>> <img src="images/B1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfcase>
>> </cfswitch>
>>
>> </cffunction>
>>
>> And I'd be passing arguments in the form of
functin(f,30)
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is get the image filename sent
back so I can
>> display it on the page.
>>
>> Am I on the right track here???
>
> Wow that is some obtuse logic there. I'm going to go
with that you know
> why you are doing all that looping at the beginning.
>
> The first thing I'm seeing is an incompatibility with
output="false" and
> <cfif...>...<img ...> logic.
>
> This code is attempting to output <img...> tags
but that is disallowed in
> the <cffunction...> tag. You either need to allow
output - which would
> also include all the white space in the function if
steps are not taken to
> control it. Or save the <img....> tag code into a
string variable and
> then return that variable at the end of the function
with a <cfreturn ...>
> tag.
>
>

Question for support of community for an UDF

Hello,
because we are not really able to write Java-Code we have a question for support to the community!
We have a mapping were we get some strings. These strings containing data which we have to map to certain fields in target structure.
Example:
001GIE;002090429;0030853;005D ;007TCT ;010TTNU9457423 ;01140;01296;013SCI01;019
4N ;02145G1;027E;0300;033V;03508388;03604508;03703880;039003054 ;040003054
The requirement is that we have to identify the fields to map by it's number, like "001GIE" means 001 field in target structure.
So how to do an UDF? We need to parse the string and put the found strings into right position in an array e.g. But how to get this result to the single target-fields in target structure?!
And another problem in example: how to get data if the identifier (019) and the data (4N) is divided by an end of line (see example)?!
Do you have some ideas?! We highly appreciate your help!
br

Hi Fritz,
Let us address the problem one by one.
1. You might need to change the source structure to :
-root 1..1
--Value 1..unbounded
Please note root and Value are the names given by me you can use any names as per your wish. But we cannot have the source as you specified, will this source be ok for you?
2. Give File content conversion parameter
recordset name = Vale
Value.endSeparator 'nl'
By doing this there will be a Value node created when the source file has a newline character
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*UDF1 (Simple ?UDF with input field named *input )
for (int i=0;i<input.length;i++)
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return output
*UDF2 (Simple UDF with input field named input)*
int i = 1;
String [] value = new String[112];
while (input.indexOf(";") != -1)
String counter = "";
Integer i_int = new Integer (i);
if (i<10)
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else if (i>9 && i<100)
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if (input.startsWith(counter)) {
value<i> = input.substring(3, input.indexOf(";"));
if (input.indexOf(";") != -1 )
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else
value <i> = "";
i++;
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globalContainer.setParameter("Output", value);
Now do a mapping like this
Value (context root)--> UDF1 > UDF2> target root node (ie Bewsatz)
By this step you set all the values in global container named Output
3. Now for each target field call this UDF
*UDF3 (Simple UDF with input field named pos)*
GlobalContainer globalContainer = container.getGlobalContainer();
String[] Value = (String[] )globalContainer.getParameter("Output");;
String outvalue;
if (Value != null) {
outvalue = Value(pos) ;
return outvalue;
Call this UDF for each output field with positions like 1, 2, 3, ...111
Please try this
Regards
Suraj

Formatted search with UDF and syntax question

Can you explain the syntax with when to use the dollar sign and negative in writing a query for a formatted search based on user entry?
I now want to create a formatted search to pull values based on the user's entry into a UDF on the item master screen.
User entry into UDF U_Customer Code
to create Formatted search for UDF U_Rep01
I tried the following, but it does not work.
SELECT T0.U_REP01 FROM dbo.OCRD T0
WHERE T0.CARDCODE = $http://$OITM.U_CUSTOMERCODE
Thanks.
Please advise.

The right syntax would be like this:
SELECT T0.U_REP01 FROM dbo.OCRD T0
WHERE T0.CARDCODE = $[OITM.U_CUSTOMERCODE\]
However, the logic of query may not be correct. Select something must be already in the system and Where should also be locatable.
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