{"id":257,"date":"2008-05-01T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/how-to-generate-a-guid-in-an-xaction\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:53:44","slug":"how-to-generate-a-guid-in-an-xaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/how-to-generate-a-guid-in-an-xaction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Generate a GUID in an XAction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed to uniquely identify a request to Pentaho (one particular action sequence request). Found a pretty darn easy way to do this with the help from Java RMI classes.<\/p>\n

– Insert a Javascript data source<\/p>\n

\"200805011651\"<\/a><\/p>\n

– Enter the following script<\/p>\n

function getGUID() {
\nvar VMID = new Packages.java.rmi.dgc.VMID();
\nreturn VMID.toString();
\n}
\ngetGUID();<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Set return type as “string” for a new value<\/p>\n

\"200805011650-1\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

– Add it to your response<\/p>\n

\"200805011652\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"200805011653\"<\/a>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>– Enjoy your GUIDs!
\ncef9372c035a42ed:-b0917ee:119a6d47d72:-7ff4
\ncef9372c035a42ed:-b0917ee:119a6d47d72:-7ff3
\ncef9372c035a42ed:-b0917ee:119a6d47d72:-7ff2<\/p>\n

PS – I personally hate GUIDs when stored in the database. \ud83d\ude42 However, for matching up with a particular request, yippeee!!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I needed to uniquely identify a request to Pentaho (one particular action sequence request). Found a pretty darn easy way to do this with the help from Java RMI classes. – Insert a Javascript data source – Enter the following script function getGUID() { var VMID = new Packages.java.rmi.dgc.VMID(); return VMID.toString(); } getGUID(); – Set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}