iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

ATP Objects, Properties, and Methods

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NonStop TS/MP (Pathway) Objects

The NonStop TS/MP (Pathway) objects let you develop scripts that use Pathway

applications and Data Definition Language (DLL) dictionaries. For a discussion and

example of using these objects, see Using Pathway TS/MP Servers from JavaScript

page 3-8.

atp.dictionary Object

The dictionary object represents one or more application-message layout definitions

from a DDL dictionary. You can use this object in conjunction with the buffer object

getData() and setData() methods.

Constructor

new atp.dictionary (name, element, element, ...)

name

This parameter is the name of an OSS symbolic link to a DDL dictionary subvolume

or a map class define for the DDL dictionary dictddf file. The DDL dictionary

contains the application-message layout definitions.

The symbolic link name is relative to the directory of the current script and must not

start with a . (dot) or / (forward slash). You use the ln command to create symbolic

links.

For example:

ln -s /G/data/subvol mydict.ddldict

The map class define (for example, =paydict) refers to the DDL dictddf file in

the DDL dictionary subvolume. You establish the define in the iTP Secure

WebServer httpd.config file, using the MapDefine configuration directive.

For example:

MapDefine =paydict /G/data02/payroll/dictddf

element

This parameter specifies one or more DDL DEFs of application messages. If no

element is specified, the new object instance represents all DEFs from the

dictionary. For best performance, explicitly specify the DEFs the application will

use.