Mashup quality control #3

I am attempting to develop a quality control tool for Infor Smart Office Mashups. In my original post I was using Python. This time I will use the Smart Office API to get the list of Mashups.

List of Mashups in Smart Office

Smart Office automatically installs the Mashups on each user’s computer:

The list is based on what is installed in LifeCycle Manager:

Smart Office uses the Mango web services CategoryFilesManager.ListAllCategoryFileInfo and ListCategoryFileInfo to get the list of Mashups:

And it stores the files locally in a temporary user based path:

The administrator can fine tune the Mashups access:

That is more than sufficient information for my needs. Let’s move on.

Smart Office API

The Smart Office API has a class PackageHelper for Mashups:

I could not find it in the Smart Office Mashup SDK Documentation, but here is a screenshot of the documentation anyway:

Source code

Here is the source code to get the list of Mashups, the Manifest, the XAML files, and the resources:

import System.IO;
import System.Xml;
import Mango.UI.Services.Mashup.Internal;

package MForms.JScript {
  class Test {
    public function Init(element: Object, args: Object, controller : Object, debug : Object) {
      var mashups /*IList<FileInfo>*/ = PackageHelper.GetSharedMashupList();
      for (var i: int = 0; i < mashups.Count; i++) {
        var mashup: FileInfo = mashups[i];
        debug.WriteLine(mashup.ToString());
        var manifest: Manifest = PackageHelper.GetManifest(mashup);
        var xml: XmlDocument = manifest.Document;
        var files: XmlNodeList = xml.SelectNodes("/Manifest/Files/File");
        for (var j: int = 0; j < files.Count; j++) {
          var node: XmlElement = files[j];
          var relativeUri: String = node.GetAttribute("Path");
          debug.WriteLine(relativeUri);
        }
        debug.WriteLine("");
      }
    }
  }
} 

It was inspired by PackageHelper.GetSharedMashupList and Manifest.CreateFileInformationList.

In addition to GetSharedMashupList(), we can also use GetPrivateMashupList(), GetLocalMashupList() to get the various Mashups origins: shared, private, and local.

Reminder: To deploy a shared Mashup, use LifeCycle Manager > Admin > Upload Products > Upload; to deploy a Mashup privately, use Mashup Designer > Deploy > Private; and to deploy a Mashup locally, use Smart Office > Show > My Local Applications > Install.

Result

Here is the resulting list of files: *.mashup, *.xaml, *.png, etc.:

Future work

The next steps are:

• Load the XAML and run my predicate rules
• Deal with the name scoping across multiple files, e.g. <mashup:Event SourceName=”CustomerList”> where CustomerList is in a separate file
• Instead of simple static analysis of the XAML files, do dynamic analysis as well, i.e. when the Mashups are running in Smart Office.
• Explore the UriHelper.CreateMashupUri, Package.Open, Package.GetParts, PackageHelper.GetStream, MashupInstance.CreateInstance, MashupInstance.Load, MashupNameScope, etc.

That’s it.

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