Jan Schulz

We have a webform which is processed by an agent. In this webform you can add a message. Every few times this agent failed to process the form (fortunately the raw message was copied in that case and so no message was lost). The problem is, that the messages were to long: @URLDecode can only process strings which are no longer than 2048 chars.

Unfortunately @URLDecode is used in several WebSession classes to access the form content, so have a look if this is a problem for you, too...

I opened a Service Request, as this wasn't specified in the designer help and the error message shown in the client sounds more like bug than a feature: "Type mismatch in method CoerStrToNum: STRING found, double expected".

Update 21.09.2009:
IBM looked at it and found that evaluate is the problem: it can't handle more than 2064 bytes. So a fix could be to add the string to decoded to a doc and pass that doc to evaluate and let @URLdecode get the string from there. Another would be to split the string, but then I would need to understand, where would be a good value to split it: it does not be in the middle of a multi byte decoded umlaut...

... or to hell...

Currently I'm trying to build an LS framework, which is runtime configurable. Instead of using static functions or simple class extention, I try to build an object graph, where each object adds some functionality. So something which needs to run after a Document is saved will add a observer to the document model and do the work in the right callback method. This results in small objects and class libs, but lots of use of "Use". Unfortunatelly designer seems to be unable to cope with this. Right now I'm in a situation, where designer compiles my code, if I press strg+s, but is sent into an endless loop if I use "Recompile all Lotusscript".

Other fun includes "Use" ordering:
this compiles with strg+s (but sends "Recompile all" into an endless loop):

Use "class::logger"
Use "de.katzien.App.Infomail"
Use "de.katzien.App.InfomailDB"
Use "de.katzien.ls.Email"

this not:

Use "class::logger"
Use "de.katzien.App.InfomailDB"
Use "de.katzien.App.Infomail"
Use "de.katzien.ls.Email"

The only change is the ordering... Error: Duplicate PUBLIC Name "CHANGE_LISTENER_EVENT_BEFORE_CHANGING" in USE de.katzien.App.Infomail
This name is the public Const in script lib "MonitoringCapability", which is use'd directly by .App.Infomail and indirectly by .App.InfomailDB (uses InfomailEntry which uses MonitoringCapability). setting this to private just ends up with the next error and I can't set a complete class to private if I want to use that class in some other lib...

And don't even ask about "Illegal Circular Use".

@IBM: Please improve the Compiler for LotusScript!