Decode PeopleCode / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page Decode PeopleCode.

Jean-Luc (guest) 09 Mar 2011 19:04

Nice, but you can achieve substantially the same by using App Designer to find stuff in peoplecode:

Application Designer Menu:

Edit,Find in…

On the Find in… dialog:

Find what: ";" *
Find type: Text string in PeopleCode
Project: enter a project or scan the full database.

Important: check the Save PeopleCode to File checkbox

I typically scan the full database at least once and get about a 100 MB text file out of it. Very useful to look for examples of peoplecode functions you haven't used yet. Otherwise, I typically qualify a project name to check for left behind code in large projects when doing packaging - export from 2 dbs and compare. Or to quickly get an overview of the code in a given set of subcomponents.

At PeopleSoft, someone's written a VB real time decoder that can be called to parse the code for quality auditing purposes. That's the next step above exports.

• the ";" search will miss single line PeopleCodes if they are not terminated with a semi-colon. Such is life - I don't suggest scanning on " ", too slow.

You're fast...

Erik H 10 Mar 2011 12:07

Four days after I published this app, there's already a Wiki page for it…

Glad you like it.

As for contributions to this project: it would be interesting to see ways to use it with version control systems - perhaps someone can come up with a good script (preferably one that commits the .pcode files as the user who last modified the PeopleCode).

Of course, there can be bugs; please report it when the contents of a .pcode file cannot be recompiled correctly in Application Designer.

Erik H (guest) 12 Mar 2011 04:06

Version 0.20 is available on sourceforge. It adds support for the Subversion version control system (direct commits, no client install necessary).

[e-mail] (guest) 29 Mar 2011 03:41

Hi,

This looks very ambitious. You're removing the cult status of Application Developer and making PeopleSoft another plain old vanilla enterprise application. It's about time too.

Regards, Jeff