Here is a snippet of my video from our Saturday Deep Dive that covers Android Background Services and iOS Background Mode.
For more information check out the original blog post.
Here is a snippet of my video from our Saturday Deep Dive that covers Android Background Services and iOS Background Mode.
For more information check out the original blog post.
I’m a big fan of Trello as a way to organize and collaborate. Recently I needed to export a Trello board to CSV. They have an export to JSON, but you have to buy a years worth of business class for the export to CSV. The business class is probably worth it for other reasons as well, but I thought I would see what it would take to convert JSON to CSV using Delphi 10 Seattle’s REST Client and FireDAC. I’m really pleased with what I came up with, and it didn’t take much effort.
I used the REST Client to connect to the JSON export on Trello. The REST Client is overkill for this since it is just a simple HTTP GET request, but the REST Response DataSet adapter is what I was after. This piped the JSON into a TFDMemTable.
Now the JSON from Trello contains a few collections (JSON Array’s of objects) so I used 3 different adapters (each with a different root node) and 3 different memory tables: Cards, Lists and Labels. There are other collections, but I wasn’t interested in them right now.
Once I have the JSON in a DataSet, I need to work with it. So I put down a TFDLocalSQL component and pointed it to the Mem Tables. Then attached a TMemo to the Query of a TFDQuery component, and I was able to run SQL querries against the Trello board. This made it easy to select exactly the data I wanted to export.
For the export I just used the FireDAC ETL functionality to pump the DataSet resulting from the Local SQL query to a text writer which saves a CSV file. I love the way FireDAC provides all this great high level functionality like Local SQL and the Text Writers. It makes so many tasks so easy to deal with.
There is still a lot of polish to do for this, but right now it does the job really well. I thought I would share it with anyone else who might be interested in exporting Trello to CSV. You could take a look at the source code and use it to convert most any REST/JSON datasource to CSV.
I created a simple sample that shows some basic FireDAC functionality with MongoDB in C++ (Works with C++Builder or RAD Studio 10 Seattle)
This is similar to a one of the Object Pascal / Delphi MongoDB sample. It shows how you can query a MongoDB database using the new TFDMongoQuery component and display it in a grid. It also shows how to handle nested document objects (like Address) and arrays / DataSets (Address.Coords and Grades).
In addition to using the match property of the query, it also allows the specification of a sort and a projection. The projection is used to change which fields of the document you retrieve.
For more information on MongoDB, check out my MongoDB Skill Sprint and register for CodeRage X (Oct 13 – 15)
Today we had our RAD Studio 10 Seattle Deep Dive and I expanded on my Minimalistic Android Studio video with some more details. If you didn’t get registered to join us live, be sure and register now to get access to the replay. In the meantime, here are some more details and a new sample for you.
These slides cover both Android Services and iOS Background Execution Mode. You can read about the different iOS Background Modes in Apple’s documentation.
Luis Navaro published a new sample that shows how to download a image in the background with an Android service. It uses a local service, and launches it with an Android Intent.
Here is another sample that shows how to use the bind mechanism to launch an remote Android service and communicates to it via the Java Message (JMessage) object. There are a couple manual steps that you need to consult the included readme about. Otherwise it won’t work as expected. There are three projects in the project group. One is the actual Android Service, then the other two are apps that connect to the project. One of them is the host app that will contain the service within its APK.
Remember, you need to add the service to the host application after building the service. Then you can deploy it within the host app APK.
The DocWiki has an Overview of Android Services and a Guide to Creating Android Services.
Stay tuned for more details about Android Services with Delphi 10 Seattle.
I always love making minimalistic demos because then you can see all the essential parts. I put together this short video with Delphi 10 Seattle to show the minimal parts necessary for to create an Android service. It is so simple. The Seattle release supports 4 different types of Android services. One thing this demo does show that is optional, is it create a sticky service that will relaunch if pushed out of memory. It doesn’t show how to talk to methods on the service – there are a few ways, which I can cover later. [Source]
BTW, Delphi 10 Seattle added support for iOS background execution too.
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