Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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system automatIon the groovy way
Joe Aultman
Contents
9.1 The Importance of Being Automated
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9.2
The Automation Landscape
314
9.3
how to make an outline Extractor in Seven Easy Steps
317
9.3.1
Step one: Saying hello
317
9.3.2
Step two: Iteration
318
9.3.3
Step Three: Connecting to Essbase and retrieving Databases
318
9.3.4
Step Four: retrieving Dimensions
319
9.3.5
Step Five: retrieving members
320
9.3.6
Step Six: xmL output
321
9.3.7
Step Seven: more Details in the xmL
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9.4
groovy Things about groovy: A Deeper Look at the Language
324
9.4.1
Writing Scripts or Full-Blown Programs
325
9.4.2
running from Script or Compiling
325
9.4.3
Dynamic typing
326
9.4.4 Closures
326
9.4.5
relaxed Syntax
327
9.4.6
Enhanced Collection Classes
329
9.4.7
Everything Is an object
330
9.4.8
Automatic getters and Setters
330
9.4.9 gStrings
331
9.4.10 regular Expressions
331
9.4.11 random Acts of grooviness
332
9.5
What's Cookin'? groovy recipes for the Busy Developer
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9.5.1
Clearing and Loading Data
333
9.5.2
running a Calc Script
334
9.5.3
Selecting members
335
9.5.4
Processing an Export File
335
9.5.5
Sorting an outline and Querying Attributes
336
9.5.6
Querying Data and Balancing against a Data repository
337
9.5.7
Calling other Scripts
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