I am working on a project at work and I am using CefSharp to connect c# to JS due to a restriction that I am not allowed to use external servers or even a localhost server to host php or other scripting language. The goal I need to reach is I have an async method in c# that works it is reading the csv that i need to accomplish my job, I have debug stepped through the values and its fine. it returns a Task In my js file which called the method to read the local file and return an array of strings to be handled. I get a pending promise, when i used await the pending promise sits there and halts my browser, I have been searching the internet for help and I havent found anything that seems to work. ill post as much of the current code as I can, I need to find a solution for this or atleast some good pointers to get the value from c# to resolve in the js script so that I can move forward.
//C# Code::
public Task<string[]> GetCSV()
{
return GetCSVAsync(Encoding.UTF8, pB.GetDefaultPath(PathSelection.AppPathWeb) + "\\MatId\\Includes\\misc\\questions.csv");
}
public async Task<string[]> GetCSVAsync(Encoding encoding, string path)
{
string[] lines = new string[1];
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read, DefaultBufferSize, DefaultOptions))
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream, encoding))
{
string line;
while ((line = await reader.ReadLineAsync()) != null)
{
lines = AddLineToLines(lines, line);
}
}
}
return lines;
}
/// <summary>
/// This code is opensourced.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="linesinarray">lines array</param>
/// <param name="linetoadd">line to add to the lines array</param>
/// <returns>lines array with new value in length</returns>
private string[] AddLineToLines(string[] linesinarray, string linetoadd)
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(linesinarray[0]))
{
linesinarray[0] = linetoadd;
return linesinarray;
}
else
{
string[] temp = new string[linesinarray.Length + 1];
for (int i = 0; i < linesinarray.Length; i++)
{
temp[i] = linesinarray[i];
}
temp[temp.Length - 1] = linetoadd;
return temp;
}
}
//JS Code::
//one attempt::
async function getCSVData() {
try {
var xValue = jsDBConnection.getCSV().then(function (res) {
console.log(res);
});
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.message);
}
}
//Attempt 2::
async function getCSVData() {
try {
var xValue = await jsDBConnection.getCSV();
return xValue;
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.message);
}
}
All of these call c# and run through the c# methods However on return the promise is pending statused and value is undefined, and then jquery runs in an infanite loop until either I pause execution or kill the process it never returns any value.
Im new to async programming and I feel that i can get it working but I dont know where I went wrong... I need some help and I am asking fto help me find what I did wrong.
Thank you,
Jesse Fender
Why I'm getting this error?
System.InvalidCastException was unhandled by user code
Message=Specified cast is not valid.
Source=System.Windows.Forms
StackTrace:
at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IHTMLDocument2.GetLocation()
at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.get_Document()
at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.get_DocumentStream()
at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.get_DocumentText()
at SiteBot.MainWindow.backgroundWorker1_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) in D:\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\SiteBot\MainWindow.cs:line 35
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument)
InnerException:
The following solves your cross thread issue.
public delegate string GetStringHandler();
public string GetDocumentText()
{
if (InvokeRequired)
return Invoke(new GetStringHandler(GetDocumentText)) as string;
else
return webBrowser.DocumentText;
}
if (regAddId.IsMatch(GetDocumentText()))
{
}
I get a threading exception with this test:
public class Test
{
private readonly WebBrowser wb;
public Test()
{
wb = new WebBrowser();
var bw = new BackgroundWorker();
bw.DoWork += DoWork;
bw.RunWorkerAsync();
while (bw.IsBusy)
{
Thread.Sleep(10);
Application.DoEvents();
}
}
private void DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
wb.Navigate(#"www.clix-cents.com/pages/clickads");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
var regex = new Regex("onclick=\\'openad\\(\"([\\d\\w]+\"\\);");
regex.IsMatch(wb.DocumentText);
}
}
public class Program
{
[STAThread]
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
new Test();
}
}
The exception looks like this:
Since WebBrowser is really just a wrapper around IE's ActiveX control, you'll need to be careful about threading issues. I think what you really want to use here is a WebClient and not a WebBrowser, but I'm just guessing about your application.
[EDIT]
Like #Fun states you can just Invoke over to the GUI thread (assuming thats where the control was created. I'd still recommend using a WebClient.
I'm starting out with SignalR and I have a situation where I'm going to have a SignalR site that will be broadcasting messages to clients, but I also need an admin interface that will actually trigger those messages. The admin page will call server side methods that will, in turn, call client side Javascript methods for regular users. So I'm thinking I can either set up two separate hubs (one for admin, one for everybody else) or I can have methods in a single hub that can only be called by the admin that will check authorization.
But in addition to the authorization, I'd like to have SignalR not include admin methods or an admin hub in the generated Javascript proxy classes so that I'm not advertising their existence (again - this is NOT the only security, I will be checking authorization). Is there an attribute or property I can set on individual hubs or on methods within a hub that will suppress them from being included in the proxy (but still have them callable from Javascript)? I know you can set EnableJavaScriptProxies to false in your HubConfiguration, but that seems to be global and I'd like to keep the proxy for the stuff I do want the regular client to be using.
There is one trick using interfaces. As proxy will generate only public methods in proxy, you can create hub using interface like this:
public class MyHub : Hub, IMyHub
{
void IMyHub.NotGeneratedOnClient()
{
}
public void GeneratedOnClient()
{
}
}
NotGeneratedOnClient method will not be visible if you use object of type MyHub, you can access it only using interface. As method is not public proxy generator is not going to add it to client proxy
We don't have a way of excluding specific methods from the proxy today. You'd have to re-implement your own proxy generator that basically does what we do in our default impl but has knowledge of some attribute to skip generation of specific methods.
We can conceivable add this in a future version of SignalR. File an issue on github if you feel strongly about having this.
Here's the default implementation (it would have been easier if we made more methods virtual and non static).
https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/blob/master/src/Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Core/Hubs/DefaultJavaScriptProxyGenerator.cs
Here is a modified DefaultJavaScriptProxyGenerator with the following changes:
It will exclude functions from Javascript proxy generation with a new [HubMethodExcludeFromProxy] attribute.
The private static functions have changed to protected virtual for future derivatives.
The GenerateProxy( ) function has an overload to include DocComments, but that was not caching the results like the non DocComments version. Now they both cache.
Two resources, Resources.DynamicComment_CallsMethodOnServerSideDeferredPromise and Resources.DynamicComment_ServerSideTypeIs were private to another assembly, so to get things to compile, I copied the text from the resource file directly. These two resources are only used if DocComments is true.
All of the DefaultJavaScriptProxyGenerator references were changed to CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator except for one, which is used to locate the resource script Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Scripts.hubs.js, located in a different assembly.
First, you will need to update the dependency resolver to use the new CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator for the IJavaScriptProxyGenerator interface. If you are using the default resolver, you can set up a custom resolver like this:
map.RunSignalR(
new HubConfiguration() {
Resolver = new CustomDependencyResolver()
}
);
And here is a custom resolver that derives from the DefaultDependecyResolver:
namespace Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR
{
public class CustomDependencyResolver : DefaultDependencyResolver
{
MyDependencyResolver() : base()
{
var proxyGenerator = new Lazy(() => new CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator(this));
Register(typeof(IJavaScriptProxyGenerator), () => proxyGenerator.Value);
}
}
}
And finally, here is the new CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator.cs file (the HubMethodExcludeFromProxyAttribute class is at the bottom):
// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
// Mods by Brain2000
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Json;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Hubs;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Hubs
{
public class CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator : IJavaScriptProxyGenerator
{
protected static readonly Lazy _templateFromResource = new Lazy(GetTemplateFromResource);
protected static readonly Type[] _numberTypes = new[] { typeof(byte), typeof(short), typeof(int), typeof(long), typeof(float), typeof(decimal), typeof(double) };
protected static readonly Type[] _dateTypes = new[] { typeof(DateTime), typeof(DateTimeOffset) };
protected const string ScriptResource = "Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Scripts.hubs.js";
protected readonly IHubManager _manager;
protected readonly IJavaScriptMinifier _javaScriptMinifier;
protected readonly Lazy _generatedTemplate;
protected readonly Lazy _generatedTemplateWithComments;
public CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator(IDependencyResolver resolver) :
this(resolver.Resolve(),
resolver.Resolve())
{
}
public CustomJavaScriptProxyGenerator(IHubManager manager, IJavaScriptMinifier javaScriptMinifier)
{
_manager = manager;
_javaScriptMinifier = javaScriptMinifier ?? NullJavaScriptMinifier.Instance;
_generatedTemplate = new Lazy(() => GenerateProxy(_manager, _javaScriptMinifier, includeDocComments: false));
_generatedTemplateWithComments = new Lazy(() => GenerateProxy(_manager, _javaScriptMinifier, includeDocComments: true));
}
public string GenerateProxy(string serviceUrl)
{
serviceUrl = JavaScriptEncode(serviceUrl);
return _generatedTemplate.Value.Replace("{serviceUrl}", serviceUrl);
}
public string GenerateProxy(string serviceUrl, bool includeDocComments)
{
if (!includeDocComments) return GenerateProxy(serviceUrl); //use the includeDocComments: false cached version
serviceUrl = JavaScriptEncode(serviceUrl);
return _generatedTemplateWithComments.Value.Replace("{serviceUrl}", serviceUrl);
}
protected virtual string GenerateProxy(IHubManager hubManager, IJavaScriptMinifier javaScriptMinifier, bool includeDocComments)
{
string script = _templateFromResource.Value;
var hubs = new StringBuilder();
var first = true;
foreach (var descriptor in hubManager.GetHubs().OrderBy(h => h.Name))
{
if (!first)
{
hubs.AppendLine(";");
hubs.AppendLine();
hubs.Append(" ");
}
GenerateType(hubManager, hubs, descriptor, includeDocComments);
first = false;
}
if (hubs.Length > 0)
{
hubs.Append(";");
}
script = script.Replace("/*hubs*/", hubs.ToString());
return javaScriptMinifier.Minify(script);
}
protected virtual void GenerateType(IHubManager hubManager, StringBuilder sb, HubDescriptor descriptor, bool includeDocComments)
{
// Get only actions with minimum number of parameters.
var methods = GetMethods(hubManager, descriptor);
var hubName = GetDescriptorName(descriptor);
sb.AppendFormat(" proxies['{0}'] = this.createHubProxy('{1}'); ", hubName, hubName).AppendLine();
sb.AppendFormat(" proxies['{0}'].client = {{ }};", hubName).AppendLine();
sb.AppendFormat(" proxies['{0}'].server = {{", hubName);
bool first = true;
foreach (var method in methods)
{
if (!first)
{
sb.Append(",").AppendLine();
}
GenerateMethod(sb, method, includeDocComments, hubName);
first = false;
}
sb.AppendLine();
sb.Append(" }");
}
protected virtual string GetDescriptorName(Descriptor descriptor)
{
if (descriptor == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("descriptor");
}
string name = descriptor.Name;
// If the name was not specified then do not camel case
if (!descriptor.NameSpecified)
{
name = JsonUtility.CamelCase(name);
}
return name;
}
protected virtual IEnumerable GetMethods(IHubManager manager, HubDescriptor descriptor)
{
return from method in manager.GetHubMethods(descriptor.Name).Where(md => md.Attributes.FirstOrDefault(a => (a.GetType() == typeof(HubMethodExcludeFromProxyAttribute))) == null)
group method by method.Name into overloads
let oload = (from overload in overloads
orderby overload.Parameters.Count
select overload).FirstOrDefault()
orderby oload.Name
select oload;
}
protected virtual void GenerateMethod(StringBuilder sb, MethodDescriptor method, bool includeDocComments, string hubName)
{
var parameterNames = method.Parameters.Select(p => p.Name).ToList();
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendFormat(" {0}: function ({1}) {{", GetDescriptorName(method), Commas(parameterNames)).AppendLine();
if (includeDocComments)
{
sb.AppendFormat(" /// Calls the {0} method on the server-side {1} hub.\nReturns a jQuery.Deferred() promise.", method.Name, method.Hub.Name).AppendLine();
var parameterDoc = method.Parameters.Select(p => String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, " /// Server side type is {2}", p.Name, MapToJavaScriptType(p.ParameterType), p.ParameterType)).ToList();
if (parameterDoc.Any())
{
sb.AppendLine(String.Join(Environment.NewLine, parameterDoc));
}
}
sb.AppendFormat(" return proxies['{0}'].invoke.apply(proxies['{0}'], $.merge([\"{1}\"], $.makeArray(arguments)));", hubName, method.Name).AppendLine();
sb.Append(" }");
}
protected virtual string MapToJavaScriptType(Type type)
{
if (!type.IsPrimitive && !(type == typeof(string)))
{
return "Object";
}
if (type == typeof(string))
{
return "String";
}
if (_numberTypes.Contains(type))
{
return "Number";
}
if (typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(type))
{
return "Array";
}
if (_dateTypes.Contains(type))
{
return "Date";
}
return String.Empty;
}
protected virtual string Commas(IEnumerable values)
{
return Commas(values, v => v);
}
protected virtual string Commas(IEnumerable values, Func selector)
{
return String.Join(", ", values.Select(selector));
}
protected static string GetTemplateFromResource()
{
//this must remain "DefaultJavaScriptProxyGenerator" because the resource "Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Scripts.hubs.js" lives there
using (Stream resourceStream = typeof(DefaultJavaScriptProxyGenerator).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(ScriptResource))
{
var reader = new StreamReader(resourceStream);
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
protected virtual string JavaScriptEncode(string value)
{
value = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(value);
// Remove the quotes
return value.Substring(1, value.Length - 2);
}
}
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method, Inherited = false, AllowMultiple = false)]
public sealed class HubMethodExcludeFromProxyAttribute : Attribute
{
}
}
Now all you need to do is all a decorator to your hub methods, such as:
public class MyHub : Hub
{
[HubMethodExcludeFromProxy]
public void NotGeneratedOnClient()
{
}
public void GeneratedOnClient()
{
}
}
EDIT : There is an issue with dependency injection where if you have two different instances of a resolver, one in the GlobalHost.DependencyResolver and one in the Signalr configuration, it will cause remote methods to sometimes not work. Here is the fix:
//use only !ONE! instance of the resolver, or remote SignalR functions may not run!
var resolver = new CustomDependencyResolver();
GlobalHost.Configuration.DependencyResolver = resolver;
map.RunSignalR(
new HubConfiguration() {
Resolver = resolver;
}
);
Reference: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/2807
What are the best practices to build an app's database schema on first execution?
In other words what I am trying to find out is:
SQLite does not support comma separated queries to be executed as a one statement batch. How to replace that so that the code stays future proof? (I don't see myself putting all the create statements in tx.executeSQL("") chained sequentially it would turn my code into a horrible piece of cr*p).
What I do, in native code as well as in Sencha/Phonegap is to use a DatabaseHelper Class that I refer to. In that class you can see the version of the Database with :
public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {
super(context, DB_NAME, null, 2);
this.myContext = context;
}
public void createDataBase() throws IOException {
boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();
if (dbExist) {
// do nothing - database already exist
openDataBase();
int cVersion = myDataBase.getVersion();
if(cVersion != 2){
onUpgrade(myDataBase, myDataBase.getVersion(), 2);}
close();
} ....}
#Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
this.getReadableDatabase();
try{
db.execSQL("ADD SQL QUERY HERE TO ADD TABLE");
}
catch(Exception e){}
}
private boolean checkDataBase() {
SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
try {
String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE);
} catch (SQLiteException e) {
// database does't exist yet.
}
if (checkDB != null) {
checkDB.close();
}
return checkDB != null ? true : false;
}
Although this is tedious it keeps your database future proof and the query is called at run time. This covers both your needs.
I hope this helps :)
So I'm using the MSScriptControl to run some javascript in my app and I want to be able to get some information about any errors the script may cause.
MSScriptControl.ScriptControlClass script = new MSScriptControl.ScriptControlClass();
try
{
script.Language = "JScript";
script.Timeout = 15000;
script.Eval(Code);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MSScriptControl.Error err = script.Error;
ret = new Exception("Error on line: " + err.Line + ", Description: " + err.Description);
}
The code works fine on my development machine, a Windows 7 box, and gives me a line number with an error. So I happily publish and push it to the production machine which always tells me the error occurred at line 0 and no description is provided.
I tried going to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1949 to download the latest version but installing it had no effect. I also set the property Embed Interop Types to false as well as copying my own msscript.ocx file into the Windows 2008 server's system32 directory but neither of these attempts resolved anything.
Anyone have any recommendations?
If you want to do it in all native c# without any 3rd party or "component" external dependencies use a CodeDomProvider with a tiny JScript bootstrap, like this:
private static readonly MethodInfo eval = CodeDomProvider
.CreateProvider("JScript")
.CompileAssemblyFromSource(new CompilerParameters(), "package e{class v{public static function e(e:String):Object{return eval(e);}}}")
.CompiledAssembly
.GetType("e.v")
.GetMethod("e");
private static object JsEval(string jscript)
{
try
{
return eval.Invoke(null, new[] { jscript });
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return ex;
}
}
that creates a JsEval(string) method that you can use anywhere in your code to "eval" a string as JavaScript (well JScript)... So calling:
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("2 + 2")); // 4
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("(function(){ return 3+7; })();")); // 10
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("function yay(a) { return a + 1; } yay(2);")); // 3
depending on your use you may not want to instantiate these members statically. if you want to manipulate complex objects you will need create a wrapper to reflectively extract data (or you could cast as the appropriate JScript counterpart, but I've never tried this as you'd have to include the JScript assemblies).
here is an example of a wrapper class that does everything JavaScript will let you do natively, adding anymore high level functionality would probably be cumbersome enough so that you'd be better off either extracting the members into a dictionary / hash table OR alternatively serializing and deserializing on the other end
private class JsObjectWrapper : IEnumerable
{
public readonly object jsObject;
private static PropertyInfo itemAccessor = null;
private static MethodInfo getEnumerator = null;
public JsObjectWrapper(object jsObject)
{
this.jsObject = jsObject;
if (itemAccessor == null)
{
itemAccessor = jsObject.GetType().GetProperty("Item", new Type[] { typeof(string) });
}
if (getEnumerator == null)
{
getEnumerator = jsObject.GetType().GetInterface("IEnumerable").GetMethod("GetEnumerator");
}
}
public object this[string key]
{
get { return itemAccessor.GetValue(jsObject, new object[] { key }); }
set { itemAccessor.SetValue(jsObject, value, new object[] { key }); }
}
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
{
return (IEnumerator)getEnumerator.Invoke(jsObject, null);
}
}
you can see this in action by doing this:
var jsObj = JsEval("var x = { a:7, b:9 };");
var csObj = new JsObjectWrapper(jsObj);
MessageBox.Show("a: " + csObj["a"]); // a: 7
MessageBox.Show("b: " + csObj["b"]); // b: 9
csObj["yay!"] = 69;
foreach (string key in csObj)
{
MessageBox.Show("" + key + ": " + csObj[key]); // "key": "value"
}
i personally have used code similar to this to great effect at one point or another and can vouch for it's availability and runnability inside a server environment.. I hope this helps -ck
Regarding the problem you face just some thoughts:
according to the link you provided this control neither supports Windows 7 nor Windows 2008
it might be a security issue with regards to COM/UAC etc.
it might be a problem because of bitness if you compiled for AnyCPU, try using x86
Regarding possible alternatives:
Using JScript you can build an evaluator rather easily which is supported anywhere .NET 4 runs (including Windows Server 2008).
Using JInt as a JavaScript interpreter