Table of Contents

Using Transaction Objects

About Transaction objects

Description of Transaction object properties

Transaction object properties and supported PowerBuilder database interfaces

Working with Transaction objects

Transaction basics

The default Transaction object

Assigning values to the Transaction object

Reading values from an external file

Connecting to the database

Using the Preview tab to connect in a PowerBuilder application

Disconnecting from the database

Defining Transaction objects for multiple database connections

Error handling after a SQL statement

Pooling database transactions

Using Transaction objects to call stored procedures

Step 1: define the standard class user object

Step 2: declare the stored procedure as an external function

Step 3: save the user object

Step 4: specify the default global variable type for SQLCA

Step 5: code your application to use the user object

Supported DBMS features when calling stored procedures

Using MobiLink Synchronization

About MobiLink synchronization

How the synchronization works

Working with PowerBuilder synchronization objects

Preparing to use the wizard

What gets generated

Creating an instance of MLSync

Auxiliary objects for MobiLink synchronization

Using the synchronization objects in your application

Runtime requirements for synchronization on remote machines

Preparing consolidated databases

Connection events

Table events

Working with scripts and users in SQL Central

Creating remote databases

Creating and modifying publications

Creating MobiLink users

Adding subscriptions

Synchronization techniques

Using PowerBuilder XML Services

About XML and PowerBuilder

About PBDOM

PBDOM object hierarchy

PBDOM node objects

PBDOM_OBJECT

PBDOM_DOCUMENT

PBDOM_DOCTYPE

PBDOM_ELEMENT

PBDOM_ATTRIBUTE

PBDOM_ENTITYREFERENCE

PBDOM_CHARACTERDATA

PBDOM_TEXT

PBDOM_CDATA

PBDOM_COMMENT

PBDOM_PROCESSINGINSTRUCTION

Adding pbdom170.pbx to your application

Using PBDOM

Validating the XML

Creating an XML document from XML

Creating an XML document from scratch

Accessing node data

Manipulating the node-tree hierarchy

Handling PBDOM exceptions

XML namespaces

Setting the name and namespace of a PBDOM_ATTRIBUTE

Manipulating Graphs

Using graphs

Working with graph controls in code

Populating a graph with data

Modifying graph properties

How parts of a graph are represented

Referencing parts of a graph

Accessing data properties

Getting information about the data

Saving graph data

Modifying colors, fill patterns, and other data

Using point and click

Implementing Rich Text

Using rich text in an application

Sources of rich text

Language of rich text

Rich text editors

Deploying a rich text application

Using a RichText DataWindow object

Using a RichTextEdit control

Giving the user control

Text for the control

Using an ActiveX spell checking control

Formatting of rich text

Input fields

Using database data

Cursor position in the RichTextEdit control

Preview and printing

Rich text and the end user

Piping Data Between Data Sources

About data pipelines

Building the objects you need

Building a Pipeline object

Building a supporting user object

Building a window

Performing some initial housekeeping

Starting the pipeline

Monitoring pipeline progress

Canceling pipeline execution

Committing updates to the database

Handling row errors

Repairing error rows

Abandoning error rows

Performing some final housekeeping

Using RESTFul Web Services with JSON

Examples

Example 1 (using RESTClient)

Example 2 (using JSONPackage, HTTPClient, & ImportJson)

Example 3 (using HTTPClient & JSONParser)

Supporting OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server

Examples

Resource Owner Password

Client Credentials Grant

Extension Grant