Converting VO memo field data to a SQL Db

[wriedmann]

Hi Chris,

I have now made two different applications: a VO Console application that creates a DBF and reads all DLL files from a directory into a DBF, and a X# application that reads the DBF and compares with the data on the disk.

Unfortunately there are differences. Since I have to stop now until later today, I attach a zip file with both applications.
If you have time, maybe you can find my error.

Wolfgang

[Chris]

Hi Wolfgang,

That's because the dbf is generated in OEM mode, so you will need to use the appropriate codepage. Just add this in the beginning of your x# code and it should work correctly now (it does on my machine, hopefully it does on yours, too):

LOCAL nCodePage AS INT
nCodePage := (INT)Vulcan.Runtime.State.DosCodePage
AdjustBinaryData.Initialize(Encoding.GetEncoding(nCodepage))

as I said, if everything else works as expected, you will not need to do this manually, the code can read the codepage directly from the dbf instead.

Btw, I just realized that most of the code in the AdjustBinaryData class is redundant and it can be written in a lot more simple way:

#using System.Text

STATIC CLASS AdjustBinaryData
STATIC PRIVATE enc AS Encoding
STATIC CONSTRUCTOR()
Initialize(Encoding.Default)
RETURN
STATIC METHOD Initialize(oEncoding AS Encoding) AS VOID
enc := oEncoding
RETURN
STATIC METHOD BeforeSaveBytes(abInput AS BYTE[]) AS STRING
RETURN enc:GetString(abInput)
STATIC METHOD AfterReadToBytes(cInput AS STRING) AS BYTE[]
RETURN enc:GetBytes(cInput)
END CLASS



Chris

[wriedmann]

Hi Chris,

a short note: it works!

I'll complete it that it recognizes the ansi flag of the DBF and post both applications here and on my server. Of course I will add your copyright to the class.

Wolfgang

[wriedmann]

Hi Chris,

again: thank you very, very much!

Attached to this message you can find a corrected application for both VO and X# (XIDE export). The XIDE program checks the Ansi flag of the DBF file and initalizes the converter class accordingly.

The only thing I'm missing now is a VO compatible Crypt function that takes and returns a byte array.

And I have uploaded the same zip file to my webserver: https://riedmann.it/download/XS_DBFBinaryRead.zip, completed with your message as readme.

Wolfgang

[Chris]

Hi Wolfgang,

You're welcome, and thanks for testing! Glad to see after so many years that there's an easy solution for that after all.

Btw, the code I posted previously for getting the codepage was a quick and dirty way to do it, assuming the dbf was created in the same machine. Proper way to do it, by using a DBServer obejct is:

#define DBI_CODEPAGE 41
nCodePage := oServer:Info(DBI_CODEPAGE)
AdjustBinaryData.Initialize(Encoding.GetEncoding(nCodepage))

as for a VO-compatible Crypt() that works with a byte array, here it is below:

Chris


FUNCTION CryptByteArray(aBytes AS BYTE[] , cKey AS STRING) AS BYTE[]
LOCAL pKey := String2Psz(cKey) AS PSZ

LOCAL aRet AS BYTE[]
aRet := BYTE[]{aBytes:Length}

FOR LOCAL n := 1 AS INT UPTO aBytes:Length
aRet[n] := aBytes[n]
NEXT

// just make sure the GC does not move the array around
BEGIN FIXED LOCAL pBytes := aRet AS BYTE PTR
Crypt4(pBytes , pKey , (DWORD)aRet:Length , (DWORD)cKey:Length)
END
RETURN aRet

[FFF]

Crypt4(pBytes , pKey , (DWORD)aRet:Length , (DWORD)cKey:Length)
END
RETURN aRet

FWIW, "Crypt4" ? If that's no typo, the name is rather "burned", as google knows this as a probably undecryptable trojan <g>

Karl

[wriedmann]

Hi Chris,

great! Thank you!

I have to check the crypt() function next week, or maybe tomorrow, because now I have VO work to do.

Regarding the right encoding: I have added a second static Initialize method the the AdjustBinaryData class:

Code: Select all

static method Initialize( oServer as Vulcan.VO.DbServer ) as void
local nCodePage	as int
	
nCodePage := oServer:Info( DBI_CODEPAGE )
_oEncoding := Encoding.GetEncoding( nCodepage )
	
return

and have put that class into my VulcanInterface library.

The adjusted sample is both attached to this message and on my download page (it may be easier to find than down here in the forums).

Wolfgang

[Chris]

Hi Karl,

Heh, didn't know that! No, it's just the Crypt() function, but the strongly typed version with 4 params, thus the "4" in the name. Similar to SubStr2(), SubStr3() etc.

Chris

[wriedmann]

Hi Karl,

this function is defined in the VulcanRTFuncs library (says at least XIDE...)

Wolfgang

I was curious too, and XIDE showed me the prototype:

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[NickFriend]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your input in this. I seem to have a slightly different issue as well.

For some unknown reason the original developers of our app chose to use RDDINFO(_SET_MEMOBLOCKSIZE,31). I include a call to this in my XSharp code, but I get a runtime error from the Vulcan assemblies when I try to do a FieldGet on the memo field. If I edit the DBF to use memoblock size 32 and remove the call to RDDINFO, then I can read the memofield correctly. The error is not very informative...

Vulcan.NET Runtime Error
Error Code: 0 [Unknown error]
Subsystem:
Function: FIELDGET
Call Stack:
at Vulcan.Error.Throw(__Usual[] $args)
at VulcanRTFuncs.Functions.DefError(Error oError)
at Codeblocks.$CB_$Error$_930_22.Eval(__Usual[] <evalargs>)
at VulcanRTFuncs.Functions.Eval(Codeblock cbCodeBlock, __Usual[] args)
at Vulcan.VO.DbServer.Error(__Usual[] $args)
at Vulcan.VO.DbServer.FIELDGET(__Usual[] $args)
at TestQW10.Exe.Functions.Start() in: C:UsersNickDocuments.....

Any ideas? Thanks

Nick