Need help with scenario design
I need to design a scenario,
Data is coming from two tables in mainframe.....that data i need to combine and process it and insert to ECC.
How to design?.
What will be the steps using BPM?.
Can u please give me broad view on designing this scenario.
Thanks Prabhu..for the input.
Thanks Bhavesh. You got the point...that is what i am going to do.
I have a select with join....then i update the records selected from database.
But now, i want to resign the scenario..
What i want to do is...write a sync send. Then use the join sql to get data, send to BPM.
Then inside BPM, use select with for update only and update sql.
For getting records on fly and send to BPM, how can i do?. Can u please elaborate this?.
What all i need to do to run the join sql against table and get data to BPM?.
(Advanced mode in JDBC Adapter setting to serializable queries is not working). So i need to do this step to overcome.
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I want to design and use one or more classes for a particular project I am working on.
I need some advice hopefully from someone who has experience in this area. Basically,
for this particular problem I have two database tables. I want the first class to
represent the first database table and the second class to represent the second
database table. An object of the first class will be created first, and then if certain
criteria are met then an object of the second class will be created.
Question:
Should I use classical inheritance and let the first class inherit from the second class?
Or should I use the containment delegation model and embed an object of the second
class in the first class?
----Tables------
For example, my first table ET_UserData looks something like this:
ET_UserData
(PK)UserName
Password
FirstName
LastName
My second table ET_DetailedUserData looks like this
ET_DetailedUserData
(FK)UserName
WorkAddress
WorkPhoneNumber
CityWhereEmployed
SocialSecurityNumber
City
State
StreetAdress
PrimaryTelephoneNumber
AlternatePhoneNumber
HasRegistered
RegistrationDate
RegistrationTime
CreditCardNumber
NameOfPrimaryContact
DateOfBirth
Weight
EyeColor
Height
Member
Here is are some pseudo classes for the two classes.
Class UserData
string UserName
string FirstName
string LastName
Class DetailedUserData /* For a classical approach, sub class off of class UserData */
/* UserData ThisUser --> Containment delegation model */
string (FK)UserName
string WorkAddress
string WorkPhoneNumber
string CityWhereEmployed
string SocialSecurityNumber
string City
string State
string StreetAdress
Int PrimaryTelephoneNumber
Int AlternatePhoneNumber
Bool HasRegistered
Int RegistrationDate
Int RegistrationTime
Int CreditCardNumber
String NameOfPrimaryContact
Int DateOfBirth
Int Weight
Int EyeColor
Int Height
bool Member
}Thank you for your help. If you can continue to help me I would appreciate it.
I and another developer did the database design. Pretty solid design. Plus we have all of the requirements
which are very good too.
Originally I wanted just one table to contain all of the data associated with a user. Instead of ET_UserData and ET_Detailed user data I wanted just one table. But I decided to break this table up into the two tables for the following reason.
1.) This is a web application where each user logs into a web form. At a minimum, in order to use the website the session associated with each user needs the UserName, Password, First and last name.
This is the data in the first table.
If they choose to do more specialized functions on this website, then they will need all of the information (Attributes) that are located in the second table. In general 40% of the time all users will need information located in the second table.
My reasoning for breaking the table into two seperate tables is that I wanted to minimize the amount of data involved in a result set, created from the sql query. The math tells me that 60% of the time most of the data in the result set will not be used.
2.) If I create one class to represent all of the data/attributes in both tables, then my reasoning is that their will be alot of overhead in the single class because 60% of the time, a majority of the attributes are not needed and used.
I would deeply appreciate your help with this. You seem to have great insight and advice. Please help me as I increase the duke dollars Sir. -
Need help with security design!
Hi,
I haven't worked with security design very much. Currently I'm about to develop an application to my father which should implement some sort of security.
One of the reasons for this application besides making my father happy is educating myself.
The application is an online image album.
The security could be divided in role-based security and instance level security.
Role-based (NO PROBLEM):
A user cannot delete another user, an administrator can delete users.
Instance-level (DON'T KNOW HOW):
A user can load other users image albums if he/her is allowed/granted to view the album and its images. Note that the user could be granted to view the album, but not all of its images.
My problem is how I should design the "instance-level" security? Should I keep a ACL (Access Control List) with each instance of album and image?
This seems to be a common functionality to add view/load/read/write permissions to an instance in runtime to let a certain user to operate on an asset?
Have searched the Internet but haven't found any nice framework to help me.
Could anyone with some experience please help me out?!
Kind regards, AndreasHi,
I ran into the same problem. Could you resolve it?
please give me your feedback. -
Need Help With Spreadsheet Design
Hi,
I write about diabetes on various Internet Forums and am currently involved in testing various blood glucose meters to determine the accuracy of the different makes/models. I am trying to design a spreadsheet in Appleworks to help me evaluate the meters but have very little experience with spreadsheets so am finding it tough going.
In comparing the various blood glucose values delivered by the meters I am trying to come up with a way to automatically compare 2 readings and then display how much a particular reading is above or below another percentage wise. The difficulty is that a particular meter might sometimes display a value higher than another one time, and lower than another the next time so I'm not sure how to design the speadsheet to automatically calculate the percentages.
For instance in sample one Meter A reads 115mg/dl and Meter B reads 87 mg/dl so by dividing the 115 into 87 I can determine that Meter A is reading 24% higher than Meter B. But then in sample two Meter A reads 89 mg/dl while Meter B reads 121 mg/dl so in this case Meter B is reading 26% higher than Meter A.
Is there a way to structure the spreadsheet so that it can compare the two readings and then based upon which one is higher divide the result into the lower one can come up with a percentage?
Thanks!
WinstonHi Winston,
Leaving aside any discussion of the actual test design, here's a rundown of how to make the spreadsheet do (most of) what you want it to do.
What I want the spreadsheet to do is to accept the data from meter 1 and meter 2 in side by side columns of cells. I next want the spreadsheet to compare the 2 bG values obtained from the same blood sample with these meters to one another and then divide the smaller value by the larger value to determine the amount in percent that one meter is higher or lower than the other.
This division (r/R) compares the smaller value (r) to the larger (R) and reports the result as a fraction.
eg. 75/100 = 0.75 The smaller reading is 75% of the larger reading, or the smaller reading is 25% lower than the higher reading.
But that does not mean the higher reading is 25% higher than the lower. That percentage is given by comparing the larger reading to the smaller (R/r). For the same pair of readings:
100/75 = 1.33.. The larger reading is 33% higher than the smaller.
As the percentages will be listed in columns labeled "Meter x higher", the R/r division is the appropriate one.
This is comparison is complicated by the fact that meter 1 will sometimes return the higher of the two readings, and at other times meter 2 will be higher. Thus it's not a simple matter of asking the spreadsheet to divide the result of meter 1 by the result of meter 2 each and every time or vice versa.
Next on the agenda I want the spreadsheet to put the result obtained by the above calculation in one or the other of two additional columns of cells. In other words the spreadsheet will compare the value of meter 1 to meter 2, divide the smaller value by the larger value to determine percentage, and finally place the result obtained in one of two additional columns of cells. One of these additional columns of cells would be labeled Meter 1 Higher and the other would be labeled Meter 2 higher.
All of the formulas given previously will make a comparison.
Niel's and Barry's report the percentage by which the higher reading is higher than the lower.
Brie's and Terry's report the percentage by which the lower reading is lower than the higher.
All put the results into the same cell (column) without regard to which reading is highest. (Barry's set includes labels to identify the higher meter.)
Here's mine again, with revisions to place the results into separate columns:
Labels in Row 2: C2: Meter A, D2: Meter B, E2: A Higher, F2: B Higher
Tests results in Row 3, Meter A in C3, Meter B in D3
Comparison results in E3 and F3
E3: =IF(C3<D3,"",C3/D3-1) Set the Number Format of this cell to percent.
F3: =IF(D3<C3,"",D3/C3-1) "
Note: the IF() statement suppresses the result in the column reporting "is higher" results for the meter with the ;ower reading. Written as above, the formulas will report in both columns where both meters show identical readings.
Note2: As written, the formulas will return a #DIV/0! error if no results have been entered on that line. The version below suppresses any results until readings have been entered in column D.
E3: =IF(D3,IF(C3<D3,"",C3/D3-1),"") Set the Number Format of this cell to percent.
F3: =IF(D3,IF(D3<C3,"",D3/C3-1),"") "
Roughly 1,000 tests will be performed over a several month timespan and all the meter readings referred to above will each be compared by the spreadsheet.
The default size of an AppleWorks spreadsheet is 40 columns by 500 rows. Go Format > Document... to increase the number of rows to 1050 to allow room for 'roughly 1000 tests.'
For 1000 tests, fill the formulas above down through rows 3..1002 (aasumed in examples below).
Next I want the spreadsheet to examine all the cells in which meter 1 returned the higher result and perform the following calculations:
lowest percentage over meter 2 obtained
highest percentage " "
The second is easy: =MAX(E3..E1002)
Place the formula where you want this result reported.
The first runs into a problem: empty cells, or those with non numeric data are evaluated numerically as "0" by the MIN() function. There is a workaround.
Use an empty column to the right of the active part of the spreadsheet. (I've arbitrarily chosen column M)
M3: =IF(E3>0,E3,1000)
Fill down M3..M1002
This copies all greater than zero values into column M, and inserts a value of 1000 wherever the value in column E is 0.
The minimum value in this column (which is also the non-zero minimum of column E) is given by:
=MIN(M3..M1002)
Place the formula where you want this result reported.
number of identical readings obtained
I'm assuming you mean 'identical differences' in terms of percent higher.
There are a couple of difficulties here:
1. AppleWorks does not include a MODE() function which would extract the number appearing with the greatest frequency.
2. What constitutes "identical" depends on the (mathematical) precision of the results. AppleWorks can display results to 11 significant places (eg. 12.345678901), and actually does the calculations to a few more places than that. Given that precision, many results that are not significantly different willl not be identified as "identical."
Probably doable, but more detail needed before jumping in.
average percentage " "
average deviation
Not sure what you're asking with these. Can you elaborate?
Regards
Barry -
Hi All,
I have a peculiar requirement and would appreciate your suggestions/inputs in designing this.
The client needs a custom UI from where they can select the different letters/documents they want to generate. But they want to preview the document and make any changes to it before they print it.
For example, the user select letter1, letter2 and letter4 to be generated. He clicks on the 'preview' button and the 3 documents (MS Word) are created. But he wants to change some data in one of the letters (for example 'Need by Date') and then when he is satisfied, he clicks on the 'Generate' button. The generate button should merge all the 3 documents (with the changes made by user) as 1 pdf and email it to a particular email account.
I can handle the dynamic template and merge/delivery part, but how can I take care of the case where a user makes changes to the generated report? We are on EBS R12.0.6
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ashishyou need some kind of reverse engineering, client change generated report and the change should reflect to template
use xsl templateEdited by: arjamit on Nov 4, 2009 1:47 AM -
Might Be OT - Need Help With DW Design
I am in the midst of transferring Access reports to Oracle. A lot of these reports display percentage data. What is a best practice for storing percentage data in a data warehouse? Should I add on the percentage calculations at the fact table level? I am trying to make the data warehouse design as simple as possible for the report writers.
Hi Adrienne,
IMHO, warehouses should never store a percentage. They should store the components that make up that percentage. For example, the warehouse should not store "% of total sales" column, but should instead store sales $ amount and from there analytics can be performed to calculate a percentage. A data mart is more of a place where you would materialize calculations, like %, for easier reporting.
That being said, straight-up warehouse design questions are better suited over Warehouse Builder
Good luck and hope that helps!
-Joe
Edited by: Joe Bertram on Dec 17, 2009 1:06 PM
Edited by: Joe Bertram on Dec 17, 2009 1:06 PM -
Need help with scenario BPM Http-RFC Sync/async bridge
hi all!
i've got the following scenario: HTTP-BPM(XI)-RFC synchronous both of them. for that, i'm using S/A bridge in the BPM, but i'm getting the error 'Timeout condition of pipeline reached'. i think the problem is that the process gets lost in the sync/async communication, because in the trace level shows CL_XMS_PLSRV_CALL_BPE-ENTER_PLSRV" and after that every message are 'wait time starting'.
don't know the reason of the error. Maybe I missed something to configure?
the BPM is like this:
Receiver(Open Sync/Async bridge) -> Transformation (mapping from http request to RFC request) -> SyncSend (RFC request and response) -> Transformation (mapping from rfc response to http response) -> Send (Close S/A Bridge)
the IR is configured like this:
Message Types u2013 External Definitions u2013 Imported Objects
mt_cxml_request -> contains xsd of xcml request template.
mt_cxml_response -> contains xsd of xcml response template.
zintegracion_pedidos -> imported RFC from R/3
zintegracion_pedidos.response -> imported RFC from R/3
Message Interfaces
mi_cxml_request_async_abs
mi_cxml_request_sync_abs
mi_cxml_request_sync_out
mi_xcml_response_async
mi_rfc_request_asyn_abs
mi_rfc_request_sync_abs
mi_rfc_request_sync_in
mi_rfc_response_async_abs
Message Mappings
mm_cxml_request_to_rfc_request -> mapping from http request (cxml) to rfc request.
mm_rfc_response_to_cxml_response -> mapping from rfc response to http response (cxml).
Interface Mappings
im_cxml_request_async_abs_to_rfc_request_async_abs
im_rfc_response_async_abs_to_cxml_response_async_abs
and the ID is configured like this:
Business system DES -> created business system for RFC adapter with interface mi_rfc_request_sync_in as receiver. Comunication channel u2018RFC Receiveru2019
Businnes service VW -> created businnes service for HTTP adapter with interface mi_cxml_request_sync_out as sender. Comunication channel u2018HTTP Senderu2019
Receiver Determination
two receiver determinations. One for BPM and the other one for RFC(R/3):
|VW| mi_cxml_request_sync_out:
|BPM_PO| mi_rfc_request_sync_abs:
Interface Determination
two interface determinations:
|VW| mi_cxml_request_sync_out | | BPM_PO:
|BPM_PO| mi_rfc_request_sync_abs | * | * :
Sender Agreement
VW
mi_cxml_request_sync_out
Receiver Agreement
|BPM_PO| |DES| mi_rfc_request_sync_inhi all,
i've removed the transformations from the BPM, and i've created:
in IR:
- interface mapping: im_xcml_request_to_rfc_request_sync_abs
source interface: mi_cxml_request-sync_abs
target interface: mi_rfc_request_sync_abs
in ID:
- receiver determination: |VW| mi_cxml_request_sync_abs
sender service: VW
interface: mi_cxml_request_sync_abs
receiver: DES
interface mapping:im_xcml_request_to_rfc_request_sync_abs
- interface determination: |VW| mi_cxml_erquest_sync_abs ||
sender service: VW
interface: mi_cxml_request_sync_abs
inbound interface: mi_rfc_request_sync_abs
interface mapping: im_xcml_request_to_rfc_request_sync_abs
- receiver agreement: |VW| |DES| mi_rfc_request_sync_abs
sender service: VW
receiver service: DES
receiver interface: mi_rfc_request_sync_abs
not sure these are the steps i had to do for mapping xml to rfc. but the result is the same error as before, the timeout.
i couldn't test with RTW because i'm getting an error 401 unauthorized.
i'd do it without BPM but the issue is that i wanted to add another step that would be to send the response from rfc to mail too once i got this BPM running. i mean, the response from RFC would be sent to http response and mail both.
the only way i can imagine to do it is with BPM but i'm really fed up with it.
thank u very much folks -
Hello,
We are planning to use berkeley db to store mesurament data but I'm new to this.
The data consists of device id (which made measurement), timestamp (when) and mesured value. Basic queries are "get all data from timestamp1 to timestamp2 for device with 'id' " and "get all data from timestamp1 to timestamp2 for devices with id1, id2, id3 ".
I thought about "timestamp" as key and ("id", "value") as value and check id. But in case of hundreds or sousends of devices it could derate performance.
Are there another way ?
TIA for any suggestion :)From high-level, you could also try out these options -
- you may want to look into creating a interval tree index and employ BDB's B+ tree for storing/retrieving the index.
- you may also look into using the SQL interface of BDB, use R*-index to store intervals. This would let you use SQL for range queries for timestamps. For this, you would be required to compile sqlite with Rtree enabled.
For performance, I guess you have to try first to get something to benchmark against.
Hope it helps.
Rupesh -
Need Help with Oracle Designer Install!
When I attempt to install Oracle designer, it asks me to choose an Oracle Home. I choose "OraHome81" from the drop down menu, but it gives me the following error:
"The location specified: C:\Oracle\Ora81 is already used as an Oracle Home for 'Oracle 815 Production'
It can not be used as an Oracle Home for 'nt' "
PLEASE HELP!!!
my email address is [email protected]As you would have seen if reading the documentation, this is probably a DB home, in which you cannot/should not install Designer. Type another name in there....
....when you are done reading your install guide. -
Need help with a currently "in-use" form we want to switch to Adobes hosting service
Hi, I am in desperate need of help with some issues concerning several forms which we currently use a paid third party (not Adobe) to host and "re-distribute through email"...Somehow I got charged $14.95 for YOUR service, (signed up for a trial, but never used it)..and now I am paying for a year of use of the similar service which Adobe is in control of. I might want to port my form distribution through Adobe in the hopes of reducing the errors, problems and hassles my customers are experiencing when some of them push our "submit button". (and I guess I am familiar with these somewhat from reading what IS available in here, and I also know that, Adobe is working to alleviate some of these " submit" issues, so let's don't start by going backwards, here) I need solutions now for my issues or I can leave it as is, If Adobe's solution will be no better for my end users...
We used FormsCentral to code these forms and it works for the most part (if the end-user can co-operate, and thats iffy, sometimes), but I need help with how to make it go through your servers (and not the third party folks we use now), Not being cruel or racist here, but your over the phone "support techs" are about horrible & I cannot understand them or work with any of them, so I would definitely need someone who speaks English and can understand the nuances of programming these forms, to please contact me back. (Sorry, but both those attributes will be required to be able to help me, so, no "newbie-interns" or first week trainees are gonna cut it).... If you have anyone who fits the bill on those items and would be willing to help us, please contact me back at your earliest convenience. If we have to communicate here, I will do that & I can submit whatever we need to & to whoever we need to.
I need to get this right and working for the majority of my users and on any platform and OS.
You may certainly call me to talk about this, and I have given my number numerous times to your (expletive deleted) time wasting - recording message thingy. So, If it's not available look it up under [email protected]
(and you will probably get right to me, unlike my and I'm sure most other folks', "Adobe phone-in experiences")
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So I guess that brings us to our problem.. a few years back and at the height of the recession and near bankruptcy myself, I was damn lucky and hit on something and began a small arts and crafts supply service to sell my products online to a very "niche market" ...I had a unique product and still sell that product (plus others) online...My website is www.vinylcouture.com...Strange? Yes...but there is a market it seems, for everything now, and this is the market I service...Catagorically, these are 99%+ women that use these "adhesive, sticky backed vinyl products" to make different "craft items" that are just way too various and numerous to go into... generally older women, women who are computer illiterate for the most part...and all this is irrelevant to my problem, but I want you to have every bit of background on this and especially the demographic we are dealing with, so we can get right to the meat of the problem.
OK...So about two years ago, I decided to offer a "plain sheet" product of a plain colored "stick back" vinyl... it is available in multiple quantities of packs ( like 5 pieces, 10 pieces, 15 pieces, in a packi & so on)...and if you are still on my site.. go to any "GO RIGHT TO OUR ORDER PAGE" button, scroll down a little...and then to the "PLAIN VINYL" section...you will see the Weebly website order process.) You can back out from here, I think,..but, anyway this product is available in 63 colors + or - a few. So then the problem is, how do they select their individual colors within that (whatever) pack?... .
So my initial idea was to enable a "selection form" for these "colors" that would be transmitted to me via email as 'part" of the "order process".. We tried getting our customers to submit a " a list" ( something my competitiors still do, lol, poor bastards)......but that..is just unbelievable..I can't even begin to tell you what a freakin' nightmare that was...these people cannot even count to 10, much less any higher... figuring out what colors to list and send me... well, lets just say, it wasn't working......I had to figure out a better way...Something had to be done.
So after thinking this all out, and yeah...due to my total ignorance, i figured that we could make a form with Live Cycle Designer (Now Forms Central)...(back then something that was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Pro), I believe, and thats what this thing was authored in... and it would be all good...LOL!
Well not so simple...as you well know, Adobe Acrobat would NOT LET YOU EMAIL anything from itself.....it just wouldn't work (and I know why, and all that hooey), but not being one to take NO for answer,.I started looking for a way to make my little gizmo work.. So I found this company that said they can "hijack" (re-direct actually) the request to email, bypass the wah-wah, and re-transmit it to the proper parties.....for less than $100 a year, I think...its called http://pdf-fillableforms.com/.
A nice gentleman named Joseph Silva helped us program the thing to go to his servers and back out. Please dont hassle them...I need them...for now..it basically does work...try it...you should get back a copy of the form that you filled out...good luck however, if you're on MAC OSX or similar...
I have included a copy of both of our forms (and feel free to fill it out and play with it)...just put test somewhere on it...(and you must include YOUR email or it will balk)..they are supposed to be mostly identical, except one seems to be twice as large....generating a 1.7 meg file upon submission, while the other one only generates a 600K file or so...thats another issue for another day or maybe you can advise on that also...
OK so far so good......In our shop, once Grandma buys a 10 pack (or whatever), Only then she gets to the link on her receipt page ro the relevant "selection form" ,(this prevents "Filling and Sending" with "no order" and "no payment", another early problem we had)... which they can click on and it will usually download and open up on their device if all goes well...Then our little form is supposed to be fillable and is supposed to ADD UP all the quantities, so grandma knows how many she is buying and so forth right on the fly, and even while she changes her mind..., and IT'S LARGE so grandma can see it, and then it TOTALS it all up for them, ( cause remember, they can NOT add).., except there is a programming bug (mouse-click should be a mouse-up probably or something..) which makes you click in the blank spaces to get to a correct TOTAL...about 70-80% of our customers can enable all these features and usually the process completes without problems for them especially on PC's running Windows OS and Acrobat Reader X or XI...at least for most... Unfortunately it is still not the "seamless process" I would like or had envisioned for the other folks out there that do have trouble using our form.... Many folks report to us the following issues that we know of. First of all it takes too much time to load up...We know its HUGE...is there anyway that you can see, to streamline this thing? I would love for it to be more compact...this really helps on the phones and pads as I'm sure you well know.
Some just tell us,"it WON'T work"....I believe this is because they are totally out of it and dont even have Adobe Reader on their machine, & don't know how to get it ( yes, we provide the links).....or it's some ancient version....no one can stop this one...
It almost always generates some kind ( at least one time) of "error message" which we do warn them about..., telling one, basically that "Acrobat doesnt even like this happening at all, and it could be detrimental to ones computer files", blah-blah...(this freaks grandma out really bad)...& usually they end up not even trying to send it... and then I get calls that even you wouldn't believe...& If they DO nut up and push the Red "Submit Form" button, it will usually send the thing to us (and also back to them at the "required email address" they furnished on the form, thats what the folks at the "fillable forms place" do) so, if it's performing it's functions, why it is having to complain?. What are we doing wrong?....and how can I fix it?...Will re-compiling it or saving it as a newer version of "FormsCentral" correct any of these problems ?
Ok, so that should keep you busy for a minute and we can start out with those problems...but the next thing is, how can I take advantage of YOUR re-direct & hosting services?, And will it get rid of the error messages, and the slowness, and the iOS incompatibilities ? (amazingly, the last iOS Reader version worked almost OK.. but the newest version doesnt seem to work with my form on my iphone4) If it will enable any version of the iOS to send my form correctly and more transparently, then it might be worth the money...$14.95 a MONTH you say. hmmmmm...Better be good.
Another problem is, that I really don't need 5000 forms a month submitted. I think its like 70-100 or less....Got any plans for that? Maybe I'm just not BIG ENOUGH to use Adobe's services, however in this case, I really don't care whose I do use as long as the product works most correctly for my customers as well as us. Like I said, If I'm doing the best I can, I won't change anything, and still use the other third party, If Adobe has a better solution, then i'm all for that as well. In the meantime, Thanks for any help you can provide on this...
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VinylCouture.com
(706) 326-7911 -
Newbie needs help with Flex app
Hi there. I am very new to Flex and also fairly new to
programming although I do have a little experience.
I am trying to create an app which stores code snippets or
common text I tend to use every day in my documents and emails.
So basically I need help on a design level. I can refer to
the developer's manual for exact instructions for commands, but I
need to know what to code first.
The app will consist of:
-a tree directory structure where I can create groups.
-There will be a basic text editor where I input all my data,
basic text formatting options (font, bullets etc) would be a bonus.
-A search function
-Finally it will ideally allow multiple client apps write to
a central database file over a network
Can anyone suggest how I should approach such a project?
Or are there any tutorials / source files which demonstrate
each bullet point?
thanks.Hey jono,
I'm new too. But I think I might know the right components.
If you google any of these + flex 3 you should get some
decent documentation
tree - advanced dataGrid component
basic text editor - rich text editor component
search function - well, you're gonna need to read up on
arrays, and arraycollection. Once you get that stuff working, you
can write up a function to search for a string in an array.
network functionality - HTTPService, you can dump the
datagrid into a database, and have it load the database when you
open up the application.
Give these things a shot, tutorials / sources will come with
the google searches. -
Need Help With File Matching Records
I need help with my file matching program.
Here is how it suppose to work: FileMatch class should contain methods to read oldmast.txt and trans.txt. When a match occurs (i.e., records with the same account number appear in both the master file and the transaction file), add the dollar amount in the transaction record to the current balance in the master record, and write the "newmast.txt" record. (Assume that purchases are indicated by positive amounts in the transaction file and payments by negative amounts.)
When there is a master record for a particular account, but no corresponding transaction record, merely write the master record to "newmast.txt". When there is a transaction record, but no corresponding master record, print to a log file the message "Unmatched transaction record for account number ..." (fill in the account number from the transaction record). The log file should be a text file named "log.txt".
Here is my following program code:
// Exercise 14.8: CreateTextFile.java
// creates a text file
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.lang.SecurityException;
import java.util.Formatter;
import java.util.FormatterClosedException;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Scanner;
import org.egan.AccountRecord;
import org.egan.TransactionRecord;
public class CreateTextFile
private Formatter output1; // object used to output text to file
private Formatter output2; // object used to output text to file
// enable user to open file
public void openTransFile()
try
output1 = new Formatter("trans.txt");
catch (SecurityException securityException)
System.err.println("You do not have write access to this file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
catch (FileNotFoundException filesNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error creating file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end method openTransFile
// enable user to open file
public void openOldMastFile()
try
output2 = new Formatter("oldmast.txt");
catch (SecurityException securityException)
System.err.println("You do not have write access to this file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
catch (FileNotFoundException filesNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error creating file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end method openOldMastFile
// add transaction records to file
public void addTransactionRecords()
// object to be written to file
TransactionRecord record1 = new TransactionRecord();
Scanner input1 = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n\n",
"To terminate input, type the end-of-file indicator",
"when you are prompted to enter input.",
"On UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X type <ctrl> d then press Enter",
"On Windows type <ctrl> z then press Enter");
System.out.printf("%s\n%s",
"Enter account number (> 0) and amount.","? ");
while (input1.hasNext()) // loop until end-of-file indicator
try // output values to file
// retrieve data to be output
record1.setAccount(input1.nextInt()); // read account number
record1.setAmount(input1.nextDouble()); // read amount
if (record1.getAccount() > 0)
// write new record
output1.format("%d %.2f\n", record1.getAccount(), record1.getAmount());
} // end if
else
System.out.println("Account number must be greater than 0.");
} // end else
} // end try
catch (FormatterClosedException formatterClosedException)
System.err.println("Error writing to file.");
return;
} // end catch
catch (NoSuchElementException elementException)
System.err.println("Invalid input. Please try again.");
input1.nextLine(); // discard input so user can try again
} // end catch
System.out.printf("%s %s\n%s", "Enter account number (> 0) ",
"and amount.","? ");
} // end while
} // end method addTransactionRecords
// add account records to file
public void addAccountRecords()
// object to be written to file
AccountRecord record2 = new AccountRecord();
Scanner input2 = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n\n",
"To terminate input, type the end-of-file indicator",
"when you are prompted to enter input.",
"On UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X type <ctrl> d then press Enter",
"On Windows type <ctrl> z then press Enter");
System.out.printf("%s\n%s",
"Enter account number (> 0), first name, last name and balance.","? ");
while (input2.hasNext()) // loop until end-of-file indicator
try // output values to file
// retrieve data to be output
record2.setAccount(input2.nextInt()); // read account number
record2.setFirstName(input2.next()); // read first name
record2.setLastName(input2.next()); // read last name
record2.setBalance(input2.nextDouble()); // read balance
if (record2.getAccount() > 0)
// write new record
output2.format("%d %s %s %.2f\n", record2.getAccount(), record2.getFirstName(),
record2.getLastName(), record2.getBalance());
} // end if
else
System.out.println("Account number must be greater than 0.");
} // end else
} // end try
catch (FormatterClosedException formatterClosedException)
System.err.println("Error writing to file.");
return;
} // end catch
catch (NoSuchElementException elementException)
System.err.println("Invalid input. Please try again.");
input2.nextLine(); // discard input so user can try again
} // end catch
System.out.printf("%s %s\n%s", "Enter account number (> 0),",
"first name, last name and balance.","? ");
} // end while
} // end method addAccountRecords
// close file
public void closeTransFile()
if (output1 != null)
output1.close();
} // end method closeTransFile
// close file
public void closeOldMastFile()
if (output2 != null)
output2.close();
} // end method closeOldMastFile
} // end class CreateTextFile--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Exercise 14.8: CreateTextFileTest.java
// Testing class CreateTextFile
public class CreateTextFileTest
// main method begins program execution
public static void main( String args[] )
CreateTextFile application = new CreateTextFile();
application.openTransFile();
application.addTransactionRecords();
application.closeTransFile();
application.openOldMastFile();
application.addAccountRecords();
application.closeOldMastFile();
} // end main
} // end class CreateTextFileTest-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Exercise 14.8: TransactionRecord.java
// A class that represents on record of information
package org.egan; // packaged for reuse
public class TransactionRecord
private int account;
private double amount;
// no-argument constructor calls other constructor with default values
public TransactionRecord()
this(0,0.0); // call two-argument constructor
} // end no-argument AccountRecord constructor
// initialize a record
public TransactionRecord(int acct, double amt)
setAccount(acct);
setAmount(amt);
} // end two-argument TransactionRecord constructor
// set account number
public void setAccount(int acct)
account = acct;
} // end method setAccount
// get account number
public int getAccount()
return account;
} // end method getAccount
// set amount
public void setAmount(double amt)
amount = amt;
} // end method setAmount
// get amount
public double getAmount()
return amount;
} // end method getAmount
} // end class TransactionRecord -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Exercise 14.8: AccountRecord.java
// A class that represents on record of information
package org.egan; // packaged for reuse
import org.egan.TransactionRecord;
public class AccountRecord
private int account;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private double balance;
// no-argument constructor calls other constructor with default values
public AccountRecord()
this(0,"","",0.0); // call four-argument constructor
} // end no-argument AccountRecord constructor
// initialize a record
public AccountRecord(int acct, String first, String last, double bal)
setAccount(acct);
setFirstName(first);
setLastName(last);
setBalance(bal);
} // end four-argument AccountRecord constructor
// set account number
public void setAccount(int acct)
account = acct;
} // end method setAccount
// get account number
public int getAccount()
return account;
} // end method getAccount
// set first name
public void setFirstName(String first)
firstName = first;
} // end method setFirstName
// get first name
public String getFirstName()
return firstName;
} // end method getFirstName
// set last name
public void setLastName(String last)
lastName = last;
} // end method setLastName
// get last name
public String getLastName()
return lastName;
} // end method getLastName
// set balance
public void setBalance(double bal)
balance = bal;
} // end method setBalance
// get balance
public double getBalance()
return balance;
} // end method getBalance
// combine balance and amount
public void combine(TransactionRecord record)
balance = (getBalance() + record.getAmount());
} // end method combine
} // end class AccountRecord -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Exercise 14.8: FileMatch.java
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.lang.IllegalStateException;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Formatter;
import java.util.FormatterClosedException;
import org.egan.AccountRecord;
import org.egan.TransactionRecord;
public class FileMatch
private Scanner inTransaction;
private Scanner inOldMaster;
private Formatter outNewMaster;
private Formatter theLog;
// enable user to open file
public void openTransFile()
try
inTransaction = new Scanner(new File("trans.txt"));
} // end try
catch (FileNotFoundException fileNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error opening file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
} // end method openTransFile
// enable user to open file
public void openOldMastFile()
try
inOldMaster = new Scanner(new File("oldmast.txt"));
} // end try
catch (FileNotFoundException fileNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error opening file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
} // end method openOldMastFile
// enable user to open file
public void openNewMastFile()
try
outNewMaster = new Formatter("newmast.txt");
catch (SecurityException securityException)
System.err.println("You do not have write access to this file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
catch (FileNotFoundException filesNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error creating file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end method openNewMastFile
// enable user to open file
public void openLogFile()
try
theLog = new Formatter("log.txt");
catch (SecurityException securityException)
System.err.println("You do not have write access to this file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
catch (FileNotFoundException filesNotFoundException)
System.err.println("Error creating file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end method openLogFile
// update records
public void updateRecords()
TransactionRecord transaction = new TransactionRecord();
AccountRecord account = new AccountRecord();
try // read records from file using Scanner object
System.out.println("Start file matching.");
while (inTransaction.hasNext() && inOldMaster.hasNext())
transaction.setAccount(inTransaction.nextInt()); // read account number
transaction.setAmount(inTransaction.nextDouble()); // read amount
account.setAccount(inOldMaster.nextInt()); // read account number
account.setFirstName(inOldMaster.next()); // read first name
account.setLastName(inOldMaster.next()); // read last name
account.setBalance(inOldMaster.nextDouble()); // read balance
if (transaction.getAccount() == account.getAccount())
while (inTransaction.hasNext() && transaction.getAccount() == account.getAccount())
account.combine(transaction);
outNewMaster.format("%d %s %s %.2f\n",
account.getAccount(), account.getFirstName(), account.getLastName(),
account.getBalance());
transaction.setAccount(inTransaction.nextInt()); // read account number
transaction.setAmount(inTransaction.nextDouble()); // read amount
else if (transaction.getAccount() != account.getAccount())
outNewMaster.format("%d %s %s %.2f\n",
account.getAccount(), account.getFirstName(), account.getLastName(),
account.getBalance());
theLog.format("%s%d","Unmatched transaction record for account number ",transaction.getAccount());
} // end while
System.out.println("Finish file matching.");
} // end try
catch (NoSuchElementException elementException)
System.err.println("File improperly formed.");
inTransaction.close();
inOldMaster.close();
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
catch (IllegalStateException stateException)
System.err.println("Error reading from file.");
System.exit(1);
} // end catch
} // end method updateRecords
// close file and terminate application
public void closeTransFile()
if (inTransaction != null)
inTransaction.close();
} // end method closeTransFile
// close file and terminate application
public void closeOldMastFile()
if (inOldMaster != null)
inOldMaster.close();
} // end method closeOldMastFile
// close file
public void closeNewMastFile()
if (outNewMaster != null)
outNewMaster.close();
} // end method closeNewMastFile
// close file
public void closeLogFile()
if (theLog != null)
theLog.close();
} // end method closeLogFile
} // end class FileMatch-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Exercise 14.8: FileMatchTest.java
// Testing class FileMatch
public class FileMatchTest
// main method begins program execution
public static void main( String args[] )
FileMatch application = new FileMatch();
application.openTransFile();
application.openOldMastFile();
application.openNewMastFile();
application.openLogFile();
application.updateRecords();
application.closeLogFile();
application.closeNewMastFile();
application.closeOldMastFile();
application.closeTransFile();
} // end main
} // end class FileMatchTest-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sample data for master file:
Master file
Account Number Name Balance
100 Alan Jones 348.17
300 Mary Smith 27.19
500 Sam Sharp 0.00
700 Suzy Green -14.22Sample data for transaction file:
Transaction file Transaction
Account Number Amount
100 27.14
300 62.11
300 83.89
400 100.56
700 80.78
700 1.53
900 82.17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My FileMatch class program above has bugs in it.
The correct results for the newmast.txt:
100 Alan Jones 375.31
300 Mary Smith 173.19
500 Sam Sharp 0.00
700 Suzy Green 68.09The correct results for the log.txt:
Unmatched transaction record for account number 400Unmatched transaction record for account number 900------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My results for the newmast.txt:
100 Alan Jones 375.31
300 Mary Smith 111.08
500 Sam Sharp 0.00
700 Suzy Green -12.69My results for the log.txt
Unmatched transaction record for account number 700-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am not sure what is wrong with my code above to make my results different from the correct results.
Much help is appreciated. Please help.From the output, it looks like one problem is just formatting -- apparently you're including a newline in log entries and not using tabs for the newmast output file.
As to why the numbers are off -- just from glancing over it, it appears that the problem is when you add multiple transaction values. Since account.combine() is so simple, I suspect that you're either adding creating transaction objects incorrectly or not creating them when you should be.
Create test input data that isolates a single case of this (e.g., just the Mary Smith case), and then running your program in a debugger or adding debugging code to the add/combine method, so you can see what's happening in detail.
Also I'd recommend reconsidering your design. It's a red flag if a class has a name with "Create" in it. Classes represent bundles of independant state and transformations on that state, not things to do. -
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