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lxCheck but with useful return?

drdanmc

Is there any way to run an XL Compliance check that returns the result in a form that could be used by a skill program?  For example one use is to write a program that checked each layout view in a library and created a web page with a XL compliance table.  lxCheck  just causes stuff to get written to CDS.log.  I guess I could use some horrible hack like

printf("XL_CHECK_START\n")

lxCheck(cv)

printf("XL_CHECK_STOP"\n")

and then try to parse that out of the CDS.log, but wow, that is a hack.

  • Dan,

    Try this:

    procedure(CCFlxCheck(cv)
      let(((port outstring()))
        ; might not want to capture the warnings - if not, miss out the (woport port) bit
        let(((woport port) (poport port))
          lxCheck(cv)
        )
        prog1(
          getOutstring(port)
          close(port)
        )
      )
    )

    Then you can do:

    report=CCFlxCheck(cv)

    You'll get the text in a string - you could then use parseString(report "\n") to get a list of lines at the newline separators and so on.

    The above works by opening an output port which writes into a string, and then temporary redirects poport/woport to write to that port (this uses dynamic scoping so that when the stack unwinds the ports are correctly restored).

    No temporary files were harmed in the execution of this function ;-)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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