Retreive Argument within DXL

Hello DXL Developers,

I'm New DXL.

I would like to know how to "pass arguments to a DXL" from a c# file

In the below code, I want to pass Arg1 and Arg2 to the DXL file and to access it within DXL.

But I dono how to set the arguments and to get in DXL file.

doors.runFile("Arg 1 Arg2 C:\\Desktop\\retreive.dxl");

Team your response will be really helpful.

P.S I'm working on Doors 9.x

Thanks in advance

Best Regards,

Nabil Saleem

Re: Retreive Argument within DXL
Richard_Good - Fri Oct 09 08:01:27 EDT 2015

If you use the runStr perm, you can pass a string containing the arguments and an include file containing the file with the code in that's the way I do it anyway

Note that I don't have an example to hand so the escaping of the quotes might be wrong, but you need something like

doors.runStr("#include<C:\\Desktop\\Retrieve.dxl>\\n" + "MainFunction(" + arg1 + "," + arg2 + ")")

Re: Retreive Argument within DXL
maknabil - Tue Oct 13 10:03:16 EDT 2015

thanks Richard :)

It helped a lot.

But when i pass an xml as string argument it is not working. Any clue??

P.S I throw the string in a message box it is working. but it is not taken by runStr.

And it throws some error like this

-E- DXL: <Line:2> syntax error
-E- DXL: <Line:2> badly formed token (")
-I- DXL: All done. Errors reported: 2. Warnings reported: 0.

Code:

string xmlString = "(NLS_(\"<Object> \\n <Attributes Heading = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Object Heading\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"ShortText = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Object Short Text\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"LongText = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Object Text\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"AbsoluteNumber = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Absolute Number\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"EAGUID = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"EAGUID\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"ObjectNumber = \\\"\")) (NLS_(ObjNum))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"CreatedBy = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Created By\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"CreatedOn = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Created On\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"LastModifiedOn = \\\"\")) o.(NLS_(\"Last Modified On\"))(NLS_(\"\\\"\"))(NLS_(\" \"))(NLS_(\"/>\"))(NLS_(\"\\n\"))(NLS_(\"</Object> \\n\"))";

MessageBox.Show(xmlString); 

doors.runStr("#include <C:\\Users\\nabil\\Desktop\\doors\\retreiveReqDXL.dxl>\n string sXmlString = \"" + xmlString + "\"\n mainFunction(sXmlString)");

Re: Retreive Argument within DXL
Richard_Good - Tue Oct 13 11:34:39 EDT 2015

Not sure what you are trying to do with the string. Easier to read it from the file system rather than mess about escaping quotes.

so in this case get your c# program to write the file to eg. c:\\temp\\Nabil.xml

then use something like: -

string xmlString = readFile(c:\\temp\\Nabil.xml)

in the dxl string you pass

Note if you are making a call for each object you create, adding lines like: -

string myHeading = "This heading"

string mObj = "This Req"

and adding them to the dxl string may be simpler than using a xml file as you don't have to decode it, depends on your complexity.

Re: Retreive Argument within DXL
maknabil - Wed Nov 04 01:58:10 EST 2015

Thanks Richard this worked.

 doors.runStr("#include <C:\\Users\\nabil\\Desktop\\doors\\getAttrsList.dxl>\n string sConcPath =\"" + sProjectModConcPath + "\"\n string sXmlPath =\"" + AttrListXmlPath + "\"\n mainProgram(sConcPath,sXmlPath)");

Is there a way to find an attribute is read only or not?

In My DXL code

AttrDef ad

    for ad in sourceMod do

ack ad.name

ack ad.typeName

returns attribute "Name" and its type "String"

I would like to know is that a read-only attribute like(Created By, Absolute Number)

Best Regards,

Nabil

Re: Retreive Argument within DXL
maknabil - Wed Nov 04 06:08:00 EST 2015

found it ad.useraccess