Hi david
Two points:
- I would love to have a little success story about your application
= one paragraph what is does + one paragraph how technology is
cool :)
- if you need we have a native VM for M1 (the stackVM).
S.
> On 11 Feb 2021, at 20:38, David Pennington <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi there Peter
>
> I have been writing Smalltalk since 1990 first with Digitalk and then
> IBM/Instantiations VAST. However, I am a newbie with Pharo having only used
> it for the last 3 weeks so I am pleased to have got my first Seaside app
> working successfully - it’s a home banking management app that imports from
> Sage compatible CSV files supplied by NatWest. This is the only real
> difficulty so I am very pleased with the work.
>
> I use my own brand key/value database that saves objects out to the disk.
> With my new M1 MacBookAir, I am getting read and write values around .3
> second for 125 records so I am very happy.
>
> I have yet to look at deleting the old file before writing but I am sure that
> this will make it superb.
>
> Many thanks for your help in this.
>
> David
> TotallyObjects
> http://www.totallyobjects <http://www.totallyobjects/>.com
>
> Your suggestion worked perfectly - I truncate the file and it parses
>
>> On 11 Feb 2021, at 17:07, <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> David
>> I think you are misreading the debugger display. The bit you are missing is
>> the last few characters in the evaluation display, after the closing
>> parenthesis. They should not be there if it is displaying a dictionary.
>> Evidently the variable 'aDict' is in fact an association whose key is the
>> dictionary and whose value is nil.
>>
>> I can't see where it goes from there, but I think you need to look more
>> closely at the preceding line, FAOEntry>>getEntryObjectFrom:, and see what
>> exactly it does with the junk in your .dat file.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Peter Kenny
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Pennington <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Sent: 11 February 2021 16:46
>> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: [Pharo-users] Re: Problem with Dictionary and Associations
>>
>> Thank you for that but it doesn’t resolve my problem. Why does the stack
>> move to an Association when doing the access to the dictionary? It is the
>> Association indexing that fails as it won’t allow #entryAmount as a key.
>>
>> If I inspect the following code (STON fromString: result ) in the line ^
>> self makeObject: (STON fromString: result ) I get an Association. Why don’t
>> I get a Dictionary. I did two days ago when all of this was working
>> perfectly and we were happily matching the Pharo Seaside display to our bank
>> account :=)
>>
>> David
>>
>>> On 11 Feb 2021, at 16:39, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can parse the file data you provided:
>>>
>>> STON fromString:
>>> '{#entryName:''Housekeeping'',#entryDate:Date[''2021-02-25Z''],#transactionID:''2021022501'',#entryAmount:-400/1s8,#entryCategory:''Housekeeping'',#entryDescription:''Housekeeping'',#match:nil}ousekeeping'',#match:nil}'
>>>
>>>
>>> "a Dictionary(#entryAmount->-400.00000000s8 #entryCategory->'Housekeeping'
>>> #entryDate->25 February 2021 #entryDescription->'Housekeeping'
>>> #entryName->'Housekeeping' #match->nil #transactionID->'2021022501' )"
>>>
>>> (BTW, this is STON not JSON).
>>>
>>> What I do see in the input is junk after the last }
>>>
>>> That can happen when you overwrite an existing file with shorter content.
>>> You should truncate such a file.
>>>
>>> From your screenshot I can see nothing wrong, #entryAmount seems an
>>> existing key in aDict, that should just work.
>>>
>>>> On 11 Feb 2021, at 16:33, David Pennington <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I attach a couple of screen shots and a file containing the item that I am
>>>> trying to open. What else can I supply? This has been working for a couple
>>>> of weeks and suddenly doesn’t work. I save the JSON and then load it back
>>>> again. I enclose a file with the JSON as contents. As you can see from the
>>>> screenshot, the debugger shows it as a dictionary but the execution path
>>>> takes it to an Association which is what I don’t understand.
>>>>
>>>> <stack.rtf><20210225 01><screenshot.png>
>>>>
>>>>> On 10 Feb 2021, at 19:17, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10 Feb 2021, at 19:18, [email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using STON to objects out to disk. Up to two days ago, I was
>>>>>> reading them in as Dictionaries and converting to objects from there.
>>>>>> All of a sudden yesterday morning, I got an error saying that the
>>>>>> association is only indexable with integers. Even so, I don't seem to be
>>>>>> able to access the contents.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fistly, any ideas why this has changed and secondly, any ideas how to
>>>>>> fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David
>>>>>> Totally Objects
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my Huawei tablet
>>>>>
>>>>> I am afraid I need more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you create a reproducible case ?
>>>>> Do you have a stack trace ?
>>>>>
>>>>> In any case, STON is a text format, that can be edited (in most cases,
>>>>> shared or circular references being hard to edit by hand).
>>>>>
>>>>> Sven
>>>>
>
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