hi
I've been learning jscript and the interface to dopus objects on the help and support board (thanks tbone & leo), and I've just modified the script from handling a single folder to handling multiple folders by adding a while loop and doing some shuffling about.
The script invokes a python routine to scan selected music folders one by one to update the database used by sonospy to deliver music for my sonos music system. In effect sonospy simulates a remote music service. It is fantastic.
You will have gathered by now that I'm not a programmer and I think it's quite difficult for those who are to understand the difficulty of grasping the dopus object interface and jscript at the same time. I haven't found any mention of my dumping technigue but maybe it is mentioned somewhere, or you've found your own way to break through the barrier, or there's some stuff I haven't found yet. Looking through examples starts to become more of an option as you know more.
My questions are:
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I made a personal breakthrough when I realised I could dump out the contents of the dopus Item object and there's more to do here for other objects. Am I reinventing the wheel here though? Is there a built in or external way via an "object explorer or dumper"?
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Item.attr shows 16 for each folder but this is not documented in the Item help page, and attr_text shows nothing at all. What does this flag mean and why isn't attr_text showing it?
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How would I define the variable folderPath before the while loop and then use it, as I'm currently defining it for every folder selected.
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tbone did a fantastic job with the regex to handle adding escape characters but I do find this difficult to understand. Is there a more long winded but easier to understand option?
@script jscript
// somehow when the script button is clicked, data contains something useful
function OnClick(data)
{
var debug=false
var tab = data.func.sourcetab; //create a more handy sourcetab reference
var cmd = data.func.command; //create a more handy command reference
cmd.deselect = false; //do not deselect affected folder
cmd.SetType("msdos"); //set "button" type to msdos
cmd.AddLine('echo on');
cmd.AddLine('prompt $D_$T_$G');
cmd.AddLine('cd /D "C:\\Users\\xxx\\Downloads\\SonospyReleases\\sonospy-current\\sonospy"');
cmd.AddLine('dir sonospy.db >>nrscan3.log');
enumFiles = new Enumerator(tab.selected_dirs);
enumFiles.moveFirst();
while (enumFiles.atEnd() == false)
{
if (debug == true)
{
DOpus.Output('access ' + enumFiles.item().access);
DOpus.Output('access_utc ' + enumFiles.item().access_utc);
DOpus.Output('attr ' + enumFiles.item().attr);
DOpus.Output('attr_text ' + enumFiles.item().attr_text);
DOpus.Output('checked ' + enumFiles.item().checked);
DOpus.Output('create ' + enumFiles.item().create);
DOpus.Output('create_utc ' + enumFiles.item().create_utc);
DOpus.Output('display_name ' + enumFiles.item().display_name);
DOpus.Output('ext ' + enumFiles.item().ext);
DOpus.Output('failed ' + enumFiles.item().failed);
DOpus.Output('got_size ' + enumFiles.item().got_size);
DOpus.Output('groups ' + enumFiles.item().groups);
DOpus.Output('id ' + enumFiles.item().id);
DOpus.Output('is_dir ' + enumFiles.item().is_dir);
DOpus.Output('metadata ' + enumFiles.item().metadata);
DOpus.Output('modify ' + enumFiles.item().modify);
DOpus.Output('modify_utc ' + enumFiles.item().modify_utc);
DOpus.Output('name ' + enumFiles.item().name);
DOpus.Output('name_stem ' + enumFiles.item().name_stem);
DOpus.Output('path ' + enumFiles.item().path);
DOpus.Output('realpath ' + enumFiles.item().realpath);
DOpus.Output('selected ' + enumFiles.item().selected);
DOpus.Output('size ' + enumFiles.item().size);
DOpus.Output('size.cy ' + enumFiles.item().size.cy);
DOpus.Output('size.fmt ' + enumFiles.item().size.fmt);
DOpus.Output('size.high ' + enumFiles.item().size.high);
DOpus.Output('size.low ' + enumFiles.item().size.low);
}
// not sure how to define folderpath outside the while loop and use it inside
var folderPath = new String(enumFiles.item().realpath); //get folderpath as jscript string
folderPath = folderPath.replace(/(\\|\ |\%|\-|\+|\')/g,'\\$1'); //' replace/escape chars
if (folderPath.toUpperCase().indexOf("SYN-DS215J-A") != -1)
{
DOpus.Output("Do not use the BACKUP NAS");
return;
}
DOpus.Output('folderPath ' + folderPath);
cmd.AddLine('echo ---------- start scan ---------- >>nrscan3.log');
cmd.AddLine('C:\\Python27\\python.exe scan.py -d sonospy.db '+folderPath+' >>nrscan3.log 2>&1'); //build cmdline
cmd.AddLine('echo ---------- end scan ---------- >>nrscan3.log');
cmd.AddLine('type logs\\scanlog.txt');
enumFiles.moveNext();
}
cmd.AddLine('pause');
cmd.Run(); //run
return;
}
