I downloaded and installed in USER, but unfortunately I am having a lot of trouble following your documentation and your examples.  When clicking around in the interface, I got lots of errors and ultimately had to force quit the program.  I wonder if my config file isn't right, but that is hard for me to follow and understand too.

Hopefully you can clean up your documentation and I can try again!

Thanks!  I don't seem to have that option (54).  I do have the others however,

Using:

Cache 2018

Excel 2013

Using my local Cache so localhost 1972

Well that makes perfect sense! 

@Ben Spead Thanks for taking a stab at it. 

Ok yes, good, it makes sense that is the default behavior.

I think really the only other pressing question is if this tutorial should run on Cache, not just IRIS.   I thought I had Docker installed on my machine, but I think I must be lacking an AD group or something to actually run it.

That said, Docker is new territory for me too: I just read the 'docker-compose up' command documentation and I'm a bit confused.  When you run a Docker image, isn't there a virtual machine at play?  How is Docker working in this context where I've unloaded the code from GitHub to my webapp and then running the docker-compose up command in that directory?  

Thanks for any help.

Mike

I guess where I'm a little confused is this: is the code for Sergey's demo a docker image?  The little code mix graph on GitHub says it's mostly TypeScript.  So it's just Javascript code for the most part?  What is the 'docker-compse up' command doing to that bundle of code from the git repo while it sits in my web app in IRIS?

So am I to understand that for this demo to work, I would need to run a containerized IRIS using docker, not a local instance on my machine?

Ugh, chicken and egg here . . . I think I need to know more about Docker and IRIS before I even attempt this.

@Dmitry Maslennikov 

Is this true for MAC files too?

Yes, a webinar!

I'm not following the concept of starting with the project and using VS Code to compile/test.  Where would you do your local development then?  Isn't that why we use VS Code?

Reading the documentation, I'm also confused if local development is even desirable?  In my case I have IRIS community running docker and I have Cache 2018 running on my local machine (can't get IRIS locally as it's a work computer and locked down).  In this case I probably just want to develop all my code on the server?

Ok this makes sense. 

I see below that you've asked Raj to get a webinar going, so I will look forward to that!

I think I'm just getting bogged down in terms.  You said that server-side dev is the only option IRIS provides, but so far what I've experienced is that I can edit a .CLS or .MAC file in my local workspace and then on save it's sent to the server (the container running IRIS) and compiled. 

Now that I've saved that file and it's on the server, to continue making changes I should open up the server-side file and continue editing from there?  Or I can continue working on the local and it will overwrite the sever side?

I think I'm seeing your point about commits then.  I edit it locally, it's sent to the server, the server sends it to the repo, and locally I should pull down the repo before continuing any changes. Is that the idea?

The development lifecycle and source control at my work doesn't utilize modern source control (git) and it's my first programming job (no context elsewhere), so it takes me a while to grasp some of these things :)

Does 'irissession' take any additional args like username and password?

Thanks, @Timothy Leavitt!

For others working through this too, I wanted to sum some points up that I discussed with Tim over PM.

- Tim reiterated the usefulness of the Test Coverage tool and the Cobertura output for finding starting places based on complexity and what are the right blocks to test.

- When it comes to testing persistent data classes, it is indeed tricky but valuable (e.g. data validation steps).  Using transactions (TSTART and TROLLBACK) is a good approach for this.

I also discussed the video from some years ago on the mocking framework.  It's an awesome approach, but for me, it depends on retooling classes to fit the framework.  I'm not in a place where I want to or can rewrite classes for the sake of testing, however this might be a good approach for others.  There may be other open source frameworks for mocking available later. 

Hope this helps and encourages more conversation!  In a perfect world we'd start with our tests and code from there, but well, the world isn't perfect!

@Timothy Leavitt and others: I know this isn't Jenkins support, but I seem to be having trouble allowing the account running Jenkins to get into IRIS. Just trying to get this to work locally at the moment.  I'm running on Windows through an organizational account, so I created a new local account on the computer, jenkinsUser, which I'm to understand is the 'user' that logs in and runs everything on Jenkins.  When I launch IRIS in the build script using . . .

C:\MyPath\bin\irisdb -s C:\MyPath\mgr -U MYNAMESPACE  0<inFile

 . . . I can see in the console it's trying to login.  I turned on O/S authentication for the system and allowed the %System.Login function to use Kerbose.  I can launch Terminal from my tray and I'm logged in without a user/password prompt.  

I am guessing that IRIS doesn't know about my jenkinsUser local account, so it won't allow that user to us O/S authentication?  I'm trying to piece this together in my head.  How can I allow this computer user trying to run Jenkins access to IRIS without authentication?  

Hope this helps others who are trying to set this up.

Not sure if this is right, but I created a new IRIS user and then created delegated access to %Service_Console and included this in my ZAUTHENTICATE routine.  Seems to have worked.  

Now . . . on to the next problem: 

DO ##CLASS(UnitTest.Manager).OutputResultsXml("junit.xml")
^
<CLASS DOES NOT EXIST> *UnitTest.Manager

I had to go back . . . that was a custom class and method that was written for the Widgets Direct demo app.

Trial and error folks:

@Timothy Leavitt your presentation mentioned a custom version of the Coberutra plugin for the scatter plot . . . is that still necessary or does the current version support that?  Not sure if I see any mention of the custom plugin on the GitHub page.

Otherwise, I seem to me missing something key: I don't have build logic in my script. I suppose I just thought that step was for automation purposes so that the latest code would be compiled on whatever server.  I don't have anything like that yet and thought I could just run the test coverage utility but it's coming up with nothing.  I'll keep playing tomorrow but appreciate anyone's thoughts on this especially if you've set it up before!

For those following along, I got this to work finally by creating the "coverage.list" file in the unit test root.  I tried setting the parameter node "CoverageClasses" but that didn't work (maybe I used $LB wrong).  

Still not sure how to get the scatter plot for complexity as @Timothy Leavitt mentioned in the presentation the Cobertura plugin was customized.  Any thoughts on that are appreciated!

I think this is it: GitHub - timleavitt/covcomplplot-plugin: Jenkins covcomplplot plugin
It's written by Tim, it's on the plugin library, and it looks like what was in the presentation, however I have some more digging come Monday.

So I originally installed the scatter plot plugin from the library, not the one from your repo.  I uninstalled that and I'm trying to install the one you modified.  I'm having a little trouble because it seems I have to download your source, make sure I have a JDK installed and Maven and package the code into a .hpi file?  Does this sound right?  I'm getting some issues with the POM file while running 'mvn pacakge'.  Is it possible to provide the packaged file for those of us not Java-savvy?