Expansion - Access AdditionalSourcecode file

[d.healey]

@DanH You can use if (!isDefined(myObj)) to check if it's there or not.

[DanH]

@d-healey ok trying. I'm not sure where to put "reg mrdata = cx.loadDataFile("maxrandomdata.json");" as if it goes before the if statement then I get an error, and if it goes in the else statement it gets ignored... I was trying:

if (cx.loadDataFile("maxrandomdata.json") == undefined)

before you wrote that... Where I'm at now is below:

if (!isDefined(mrdata))
        {
            maxrandom = 35;
        }
        
        else
        {
            reg mrdata = cx.loadDataFile("maxrandomdata.json");
            maxrandom = mrdata.maxrandomnumber;
        }

[d.healey]

@DanH Make a minimal snippet, we need to see some context.

[Lindon]

@DanH

var myObj = Engine.loadFromJSON("somefile");
if (myObj)
{
      Console.print(myObj.NumberData);
}else{
    myObj = {NumberData : 444};
}

[DanH]

@d-healey there's some general expansion stuff at the top, head down to the end for this bit

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Thank you!

[d.healey]

As far as I'm aware this is no longer required, but the docs haven't been updated.

expHandler.setAllowedExpansionTypes([expHandler.FileBased, 
                                     expHandler.Intermediate, 
                                     expHandler.Encrypted]);

The only variable you should ever be declaring inside inline functions is local.
https://docs.hise.audio/scripting/scripting-in-hise/hise-script-coding-standards.html#variables

Don't do this:

if (cx.loadDataFile("NewNumber.json") == undefined)

It's inefficient because you'll have to read from disk more than once. Instead load it once and store it in a local variable, or if you are going to be using the data in other parts of your script you could use a reg variable in your on init callback or at the top of your namespace.

[DanH]

@d-healey said in Expansion - Access AdditionalSourcecode file:

Don't do this:

if (cx.loadDataFile("NewNumber.json") == undefined)

It's inefficient because you'll have to read from disk more than once. Instead load it once and store it in a local variable, or if you are going to be using the data in other parts of your script you could use a reg variable in your on init callback or at the top of your namespace.

Thanks :)

But if the file doesn't exist then I get the error which prevents the rest of the script from running. That's the wall that I'm hitting. Unless I misunderstand?

To put this into context I've supplied an Expansion which doesn't have this file inside and I'd rather not update all the users if there's a way to get around it!

I'm using this elsewhere which works fine (no errors) - was hoping the same would apply in my expansion callback:

if(Engine.loadFromJSON("..//AnaData.js") == undefined)

[Lindon]

@DanH as I said:

var myObj = Engine.loadFromJSON("somefile");
if (myObj)
{
      Console.print(myObj.NumberData);
}else{
    myObj = {NumberData : 444};
}

[DanH]

@Lindon Thanks, but that will look in the appData folder for the file, whereas I'm in an active expansion.... Or am I getting confused?

[d.healey]

@DanH You're not confused, but you could just take Lindon's code and adjust it to load from an expansion (and don't use var) :)

    local e = expHandler.getCurrentExpansion();
    local data = e.loadDAtaFile("NewNumber.json");

    if (isDefined(data))
    {
        // Do the thing
    }
    else
    {
        // Do the other thing
    }

[DanH]

@DanH my takeaway from this is that Engine.loadFromJSON can handle a file not being there but currentexpansion.loadDataFile cannot, and produces an error...

[DanH]

@d-healey yup, but I can't get past .loadDataFile if there's no data file

HISE doesn't seem to like it (unlike Engine.loadFromJSON)

[d.healey]

@DanH Which line gives the error and what is the error?

[DanH]

@d-healey
Error:

Interface:! Cant find data file {EXP::TEST}NewNumber.json

Line:

local data = e.loadDAtaFile("NewNumber.json");

[d.healey]

@DanH I see the problem. I've got to go out now but I'll take a look in the HISE source when I get back in a few hours and see if there is an easy fix.

[DanH]

@d-healey ok thanks!

[d.healey]

This is how Engine.loadFromJSON handles a missing file.

And this is how loadDataFile handles it:

So it reports an error but does it actually stop the rest of your script running? In other words, if you put Console.print("HELLO WORLD"); on the next line does anything print to the console?

[DanH]

@d-healey yeah it stops it - i.e no "Hello World"

[d.healey]

@DanH Okay, I think we should make it so it behaves the same as loadFromJSON and leave it up to the scripting to validate the file. I'll make a pull request with this later.

[d.healey]

@DanH Yeah removing those lines makes it work like the other function which I think is much better behaviour. I've made a pull request and the change is also in my fork.