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Azure Function (Java) add attribute to CustomDimensions

I am desperatly searching on how to add a new attribute to the custom dimensions collection in the request table of the log analytics in the context of a Java function.
I know in C# you can do it using Activity and ITelementryInitializer but for Java I can not get it to work.
Any hints are appreciated. ;)

Azure Function (Java) add attribute to CustomDimensions
In Java, we have the Span attributes concept for adding the optional (extra) fields to the App Insights Schema that populates with the customDimensions in the form of various tables such as traces, exceptions, dependencies.
For that, one of the dependencies is required which is opentelemetry-api-1.jar.
AttributeKey newAttributeKey= AttributeKey.stringKey("resourcecustomDimension"); Span.current().setAttribute(newAttributeKey, "customDimValue");
This brings us the custom attributes for the custom dimensions that will be added to the Telemetry data.
Refer to this MS Doc for more information on adding the attributes to the customDimensions and found the GitHub issue 13310 regarding the user seeking for the Java Code on ITelemetryInitializer where the sample code on it provided by #dhaval24 user.

Is there any method to create radio button in com.ibm.cics.server

The java API for CICS is here. Does anyone know if there any method to put a couple of radio buttons to a web form using this API?
Here's my code to create radio button
HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.getHttpRequestInstance();
String msg = "ZEUSBANK ANTI-FRAUD CHECK BY SHE0008.<br> "
+ "When investigation is complete. Tick the check box and submit.<br>";
String template = "<form><input type=\"radio\"> YES<br><input type=\"radio\"> NO<br></form>";
HttpResponse resp = new HttpResponse();
Document doc = new Document();
doc.createText(msg);
doc.appendFromTemplate(template);
resp.setMediaType("text/plain");
resp.sendDocument(doc, (short)200, "OK", ASCII);
But when I run it on a browser, it print plain text and doesn't convert html tag.

Fixed it, I just change media type from text/plain to text/html and it works.

As you've already discovered, you needed to send the request with the text/html content type.
If you're planning to do more Java web-based work through CICS Java, you might want to investigate the embedded WebSphere Liberty. It adds support for Java EE features, which includes JSF, JSP and Servlets, which can make web development in Java a lot easier.

Tri,
I haven't used CICS for 15 years, so I doubt I'm an expert anymore. But looking quickly at the API, it seems like all the presentation logic would be in your regular Java code. You would then format appropriate messages and invoke the CICS API to update the server & get a response.
There doesn't seem to be any 'BMS-related' methods at all (which is a good thing).
The only 'field' method I see is com.ibm.cics.server.FormField but that only has get() methods, not set().
Are you just starting with Java CICS, or are you just stuck on this particular issue? If you have some sample code of what you are trying, post it so we can see if anyone has any ideas.
HTH, Jim

jface databinding for javascript

I'm a java developer. I use SWT and JFace databinding in most projects. Recently, I've been task to work on a different kind of project involving PHP. I need to develop a web application using PHP on server side and JavaScript on client side. So far, I'm strutting with jQuery to do all the work. jQuery is nice, but not nice enough to provide all the plumbing required to build the web interface quickly.
In desktop application, JFace databinding provide all the features to bind widgets, form, labels to the model allowing you to sync the content of a form to an object, validate the content of the form and provide feedback if the content is ok or not.
e.g.: For a text field, you may bind the text value to the property of an object. Add a validation to check if the text value is empty. When empty, show a tool tips asking the user to enter a value and disable the submit button.
So I'm aksing you, is there anything similar to JFace Databinding for JavaScript ?

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2012/02/01/2-great-javascript-data-binding-libraries.aspx
http://uberpwn.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/databinding-js-objects-into-html-forms-with-jquery-datalink-and-jquery-tmpl/
http://blogs.claritycon.com/blog/2011/02/mvvm-databinding-javascript-with-knockout-html5-boilerplate/

Right now the modern components that support databinding are angular, aurelia and react (sort of... +redux that is about to be dead).
jQuery doesn't provide nice databinding implementation. It needs to manually wire up all prop changes. Probably implement some Observer/Subscriber approach.
Or use some component for databinding tasks that provides enough convenient databinding definition commands. I did it with databindjs. e.g.
// Lets assume that there is just simple form (target)
var simpleForm = {
input: $('.simple .input-value'),
output: $('.simple .output-value')
};
// And here is the simple model object (source)
var model = {
text: 'initial value'
};
// Lets set two directional binding between [input] <-> [text]
var simpleBinding = bindTo(simpleForm, () => model, {
'input.val': 'text', // bind to user input
'output.text': 'text' // simple region that will react on user input
});
// This command will sync values from source to target (from model to view)
updateLayout(simpleBinding);
subscribeToChange(simpleBinding, () => {
$('.simple .console').html(JSON.stringify(model));
});
// Just initialize console from default model state
$('.simple .console').html(JSON.stringify(model));
The full solution here

PHP how to consume SOAP web services?

I'm very new in using web services. Appreciate if anyone can help me on this.
In my PHP codes, I'm trying to use the SOAP web services from another server (JIRA, java). The JIRA SOAP API is shown here.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
I found that my codes have no problem to call the functions listed on that page. However, I don't know how to use the objects returned by the API calls.
My question are:
In my PHP codes, how can I use the methods in the Java class objects returned by SOAP API calls?
For example, the function $remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($a, $b) will return a RemoteIssue. Based on this (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), there are methods like getSummary, getKey, etc. How can I use these functions in my codes?
Based on some PHP examples I found from the internet, it seems that everyone is using something like this:
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$key = $remoteissue->key;
They are not using the object's methods.
Refer to this example, it seems that someone is able to do this in other languages. Can it be done in PHP too?
The problem I'm facing is that, I am trying to get the ID of an Attachment. However, it seems that we can't get the Attachment ID using this method: $attachmentid = $remoteattachment->id;. I am trying to use the $remoteattachment->getId() method.
In PHP codes, after we made a SOAP API call and received the returned objects, how do we know what data fields are available in that object?
For example,
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$summary = $remoteissue->summary;
How do we know ->summary is available in $remoteissue?
When i refer to this document (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), I don't see it mention any data fields in RemoteIssue. How do we know we can get key, summary, etc, from this object? How do we know it is ->summary, not ->getsummary? We need to use a web browser to open the WSDL URL?
Thanks.

This question is over one year old, but to share knowledge and provide an answer to people who have this same question and found this page, here are my findings.
The document mentioned in the question is an overview of the JiraSoapService interface. This is a good reference for what functions can be called with which arguments and what they return.
If you use Java for your Jira SoapClient the returned objects are implemented, but if you use PHP, the returned objects aren't of the type stated in this documentation and do not have any of the methods mentioned. The returned objects are instances of the internal PHP class stdClass, which is a placeholder for undefined objects. The best way to know what is returned is to use var_dump() on the objects returned from the SoapCalls.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "PROJ-1");
var_dump($remoteissue);
/* -- You will get something like this ---
object(stdClass)#2 (21) {
["id"]=> string(3) "100"
["affectsVersions"]=> array(0) { }
["assignee"]=> string(4) "user"
...
["created"]=> string(24) "2012-12-13T09:27:49.934Z"
...
["description"]=> string(17) "issue description"
....
["key"]=> string(6) "PROJ-1"
["priority"]=> string(1) "3"
["project"]=> string(4) "PROJ"
["reporter"]=> string(4) "user"
["resolution"]=> NULL
["status"]=> string(1) "1"
["summary"]=> string(15) "Project issue 1"
["type"]=> string(1) "3"
["updated"]=> string(24) "2013-01-21T16:11:43.073Z"
["votes"]=> int(0)
}
*/
// You can access data like this:
$jiraKey = $remoteissue->key;
$jiraProject = $remoteissue->project;

The document you referred to in #2 is to a Java implementation and really doesn't give you any help with PHP. If they do not publish a public API for their service (which would be unusual), then using the WSDL as a reference will let you know what objects and methods are accepted by the service and you can plan your method calls accordingly.
The technique you used to call getIssue(...) seems fine, although you should consider using try...catch in case of a SoapException.

I have used Jira SOAP in .NET project and IntelliSense hinted me what fields are available for returned object.
You can use something like VS.Php for Visual Studio or Php for Visual Studio if you are using Visual Studio.
Or you can choose one of the IDEs from here with support of IntelliSense.

best way to externalize HTML in GWT apps?

What's the best way to externalize large quantities of HTML in a GWT app? We have a rather complicated GWT app of about 30 "pages"; each page has a sort of guide at the bottom that is several paragraphs of HTML markup. I'd like to externalize the HTML so that it can remain as "unescaped" as possible.
I know and understand how to use property files in GWT; that's certainly better than embedding the content in Java classes, but still kind of ugly for HTML (you need to backslashify everything, as well as escape quotes, etc.)
Normally this is the kind of thing you would put in a JSP, but I don't see any equivalent to that in GWT. I'm considering just writing a widget that will simply fetch the content from html files on the server and then add the text to an HTML widget. But it seems there ought to be a simpler way.

I've used ClientBundle in a similar setting. I've created a package my.resources and put my HTML document and the following class there:
package my.resources;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.ClientBundle;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.TextResource;
public interface MyHtmlResources extends ClientBundle {
public static final MyHtmlResources INSTANCE = GWT.create(MyHtmlResources.class);
#Source("intro.html")
public TextResource getIntroHtml();
}
Then I get the content of that file by calling the following from my GWT client code:
HTML htmlPanel = new HTML();
String html = MyHtmlResources.INSTANCE.getIntroHtml().getText();
htmlPanel.setHTML(html);
See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideClientBundle.html for further information.

You can use some templating mechanism. Try FreeMarker or Velocity templates. You'll be having your HTML in files that will be retrieved by templating libraries. These files can be named with proper extensions, e.g. .html, .css, .js obsearvable on their own.

I'd say you load the external html through a Frame.
Frame frame = new Frame();
frame.setUrl(GWT.getModuleBase() + getCurrentPageHelp());
add(frame);
You can arrange some convention or lookup for the getCurrentPageHelp() to return the appropriate path (eg: /manuals/myPage/help.html)
Here's an example of frame in action.

In GWT 2.0, you can do this using the UiBinder.
<ui:UiBinder xmlns:ui='urn:ui:com.google.gwt.uibinder'>
<div>
Hello, <span ui:field='nameSpan’/>, this is just good ‘ol HTML.
</div>
</ui:UiBinder>
These files are kept separate from your Java code and can be edited as HTML. They are also provide integration with GWT widgets, so that you can easily access elements within the HTML from your GWT code.

GWT 2.0, when released, should have a ClientBundle, which probably tackles this need.

You could try implementing a Generator to load external HTML from a file at compile time and build a class that emits it. There doesn't seem to be too much help online for creating generators but here's a post to the GWT group that might get you started: GWT group on groups.google.com.

I was doing similar research and, so far, I see that the best way to approach this problem is via the DeclarativeUI or UriBind. Unfortunately it still in incubator, so we need to work around the problem.
I solve it in couple of different ways:
Active overlay, i.e.: you create your standard HTML/CSS and inject the GET code via <script> tag. Everywhere you need to access an element from GWT code you write something like this:
RootPanel.get("element-name").setVisible(false);
You write your code 100% GWT and then, if a big HTML chunk is needed, you bring it to the client either via IFRAME or via AJAX and then inject it via HTML panel like this:
String html = "<div id='one' "
+ "style='border:3px dotted blue;'>"
+ "</div><div id='two' "
+ "style='border:3px dotted green;'"
+ "></div>";
HTMLPanel panel = new HTMLPanel(html);
panel.setSize("200px", "120px");
panel.addStyleName("demo-panel");
panel.add(new Button("Do Nothing"), "one");
panel.add(new TextBox(), "two");
RootPanel.get("demo").add(panel);

Why not to use good-old IFRAME? Just create an iFrame where you wish to put a hint and change its location when GWT 'page' changes.
Advantages:
Hits are stored in separate maintainable HTML files of any structure
AJAX-style loading with no coding at all on server side
If needed, application could still interact with loaded info
Disadvantages:
Each hint file should have link to shared CSS for common look-and-feel
Hard to internationalize
To make this approach a bit better, you might handle loading errors and redirect to default language/topic on 404 errors. So, search priority will be like that:
Current topic for current language
Current topic for default language
Default topic for current language
Default error page
I think it's quite easy to create such GWT component to incorporate iFrame interactions

The GWT Portlets framework (http://code.google.com/p/gwtportlets/) includes a WebAppContentPortlet. This serves up any content from your web app (static HTML, JSPs etc.). You can put it on a page with additional functionality in other Portlets and everything is fetched with a single async call when the page loads.
Have a look at the source for WebAppContentPortlet and WebAppContentDataProvider to see how it is done or try using the framework itself. Here are the relevant bits of source:
WebAppContentPortlet (client side)
((HasHTML)getWidget()).setHTML(html == null ? "<i>Web App Content</i>" : html);
WebAppContentDataProvider (server side):
HttpServletRequest servletRequest = req.getServletRequest();
String path = f.path.startsWith("/") ? f.path : "/" + f.path;
RequestDispatcher rd = servletRequest.getRequestDispatcher(path);
BufferedResponse res = new BufferedResponse(req.getServletResponse());
try {
rd.include(servletRequest, res);
res.getWriter().flush();
f.html = new String(res.toByteArray(), res.getCharacterEncoding());
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error("Error including '" + path + "': " + e, e);
f.html = "Error including '" + path +
"'<br>(see server log for details)";
}

You can use servlets with jsps for the html parts of the page and still include the javascript needed to run the gwt app on the page.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'm going to assume you've factored out this common summary into it's own widget. If so, the problem is that you don't like the ugly way of embedding HTML into the Java code.
GWT 2.0 has UiBinder, which allows you to define the GUI in raw HTMLish template, and you can inject values into the template from the Java world. Read through the dev guide and it gives a pretty good outline.

Take a look at
http://code.google.com/intl/es-ES/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideClientBundle.html

You can try GWT App with html templates generated and binded on run-time, no compiling-time.

Not knowing GWT, but can't you define and anchor div tag in your app html then perform a get against the HTML files that you need, and append to the div? How different would this be from a micro-template?
UPDATE:
I just found this nice jQuery plugin in an answer to another StackOverflow question.