Property List Fun

Eggplant Functional
1

Hello Everyone

I have a text file that contains a list of connections that I want to read in and use as connection property lists:

(serverID:"127.0.0.1,password:"bob")
(serverID:"192.168.0.1,password:"tom")

so that I can do this:


repeat with each machine in theSutLIST
    connect machine
    testStuff
    disconnect
end repeat

Unfortunately, Eggplant/ST will not see each line as a property list:

Runtime Error at line 46: Connection Failed - Unable to connect to Server:(serverID:"127.0.0.1" on port:(null)
Connection failed:
Error resolving host (serverID:"127.0.0.1"

Any Ideas?

2

Hello Allen:

todd$ cat /tmp/fileaccess.txt 
(serverID:"127.0.0.1",password:"bob")
(serverID:"192.168.0.1",password:"tom")

Ensure the values of a property list are quoted…

set accessList to "/tmp/fileaccess.txt"
put file accessList

also use the line option for chunking type in the repeat command


repeat with each line machine in file accessList
	put value(machine) is a property list 
end repeat

and finally leverage the value() command to bring in text from a file and convert it to the SenseTalk value object which the text represents. One thing to keep in mind is that text in a file is not the actual object it represents.


Wed, 12/19/07 2:50:39 PM	START		Running Untitled.script
(serverID:"127.0.0.1",password:"bob")
(serverID:"192.168.0.1",password:"tom")

true
true
Wed, 12/19/07 2:50:39 PM	SUCCESS		Execution Time 0:00:00 Untitled.script

Happy Holidays!

Cheers,

3

Thanks Todd–

Joy beat you to it. Happy Holidays!

Allen

4

We need to see more Joy in the forums :slight_smile:
Have a great holiday time to all you at MakeMusic, wonderful customers and wonderful people!