t_script table

[thomaskilian]

Hi there,
browsing through EA's tables I found one named t_script. Any idea what that is good for? Makes me very curious

[«Midnight»]

No idea Thomas.

It certainly has nothing to do with shape scripts, either at the metamodel or reference data level.

Perhaps it is a throwback to days of yore, I checked the EABase file from version 3.50 and the table is there.

If it is not being used now, wouldn't it be a great place to put more complex shape scripts and such? We might not even have to trash the schema to make progress. Wow!

David

[Eve]

It's being used for build scripts.

[thomaskilian]

Too bad. I hoped for something more fancy

[«Midnight»]

This gets me to thinking - and that happens so rarely that it really is worth writing about - that there might be a quick win here.

Perhaps this table could act as the host for more general scripts. Newer script types could be prefixed with a header line, identifying the type and language version of the script, such as shape script language 1.x. In order to preserve legacy code, the parser could gracefully handle a missing header by assuming this is a (legacy) build script; newer build script language versions would also use the header line.

Now you've got a table that could store various script types, perhaps even user-defined scripts of some sort.

There would also have to be a corresponding tweak to how reference data transfer occurs. This would filter appropriately, in both directions, to affect only scripts of the chosen types.

What say?

David

[thomaskilian]

I guess you ask Sparx

But yes, good idea. Let's hope it's starting some ticking in some responsible brain