Martin Pradny's blog

 Recently, I had to work on an app with a pretty huge server-side JavaScript codebase. Several developers with different levels of XPages knowledge worked on that project in the past, to the code is quite hard to follow. My suggestion to rewrite all the code to Java was not accepted, so we have to deal with SSJS for now. One of the most annoying things, when you work with SSJS, is that in many cases you don't know where an error is happening. If you keep things simple and allow redirection to an error page (default or custom), you get a lot of information, and usually, you don't want to scare users with that or you may even want to do something useful in a catch block to recover from the problem. If the problem is thrown directly in the XPages JS engine, it's usually an InterpretException, which contains the context information, but if you have to deal with standard Java exceptions, you don't have it. Imagine a simple scenario with a function in a ssjs lib. When you run...

 I wanted to make this work for a very long time, but there were always some parts missing, so I could not get the full process running. Finally, the wait is over. The following paragraphs describe a way to build Notes/Domino apps automatically on a Jenkins server, allowing parallel builds and all "normal" continuous-integration behavior, without having to think too much about Domino specifics. The Problem Until now, I was running my automated builds of Domino apps using Jenkins in two ways: The official headless-designer way, where you need to pass special commands to Domino Designer and hope for the best as the Designer sometimes gets stuck. I have this wrapped inside a Jenkins pipeline, so I have some control and can e.g. avoid parallel builds by using locks on Jenkins, but still, sometimes it just dies. Some of my headless builds run for more than 30 minutes, so it's really hard to quickly spot an issue without actually connecting to the machi...

 2021 is here. I hope this year will be full of better things and our lives will get to normal, where we can travel and meet each other again. For me, it started in quarantine, but all tests were negative. Another change was that I'm HCL Ambassador for the very first time in 2021. I hope it will force me to blog and speak even more about HCL products, especially about all the goodies in V12 and beyond.  Last year, I've done a few tests of the new transaction methods. HCL checked my issues, so now it was my turn to do a few more tests. Problem with view access after a document save In Test 4 of my initial tests, I've found that you can no longer access views after you save a document. The problem seems to be deeper in the Domino code, so for now you must disable autoupdate on the view object.  This, of course, means that you will not get up-to-date result, because you'll work with the old view index. An interesting fact is, that the view index is not updated even when ...