Lars Fosdal

It looks like I have to delete and re-import, oh joy...

@Attila Kovacs

That is one of the fixups that the Google+Exporter have implemented.
At the moment I am trying to find out if I can update the posts, or if I have to delete them all and re-import them.
Blogger is a difficult beast...

Odd story: Of the 12K posts, 3 did NOT have a category! Go figure!

@Attila Kovacs - If you find something truly horrendous, feel free to send me a link.  I am not going over the 12K posts by hand, though. 
Edit: But not yet, do it after I've done the brush ups that Google+Exporter are implementing.
I'll announce it when I think it is "done".

Besides, Tags existing in the original G+ posts are perpetuated. 
Post category is also attributed as a tag.

Also, the blog search is full Google search, so you can write things like
 

someword AND (thisword OR thatword) 

Note the capitalization of logical keywords.

Hence the titles are the least of worries.

8 hours ago, Attila Kovacs said:

Looks great. Drop the titles.

Not possible. Blogger insists on a title, and Google+Exporter makes what it can out of the first text(s) it finds in the post.

Delphi Developers Archive (Experimental) for the Google + Delphi Developers Community is online.

https://delphi-developers-archive.blogspot.com
 

The posts are searchable by tag list or free text search.

FYI - This is work in progress, and I hope to improve the following issues:
- Some posts have erroneous titles
- Some posts are missing attribution of the original poster
- Some 600 posts are missing due to an inexplicable quota error during import 
 

Comments on the archived posts are currently disabled until the import is finalized.

Comments appreciated.

Alternatives to sleep,could be to have a class that creates large arrays of random values, and do Bubble sort on them, optionally logging the progress to disk 😛

Correct link:
REST.Json.Interceptors types/methods are undocumented
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-23026

Unabashedly mentions @Marco Cantu

On 1/2/2019 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Raabe said:

I wonder if the situation on G+ has been any different.

G+ is slightly different.  As Owner or Moderator you can only remove posts or comments, not edit them.  A post that is removed from a community, remains on the profile of the original poster. I am already missing G+ a lot.

13 hours ago, hsvandrew said:

I'm going to pause this rant for now, perhaps these issues have been resolved and its just the tickets in quality control haven't been closed. 

We spend a lot of time on this in January and it failed miserably (especially for Linux) so we gave up.

It appears it might be ok now on 10.2.3/10.3 I will do some more testing and advise

Please amend the title. The title should IMO reflect the contents of the post, which "-------" does not.

Sounds like the std terms for any social media platform, i.e. meaning that the content will be massaged electronically to fit onto different devices and delivery methods.

Although there are no usage statistics for the G+ Delphi Developers, there is no doubt that the near 10k user count it has, in no way represent the actual number of active users, nor does it indicate the number of lurkers.

See previous my comments in this thread. SQL Server 2008 does not have built in support for pagination, while 2012 and newer does.

On 12/21/2018 at 4:01 PM, Stefan Glienke said:

@Lars Fosdal Goto where?

That is the core of the question, isn't it?

Crosses heart, spits over left shoulder, throws salt over the right one, all while repeating "Thou shall not goto".

My advice: keep your permissioning as simple as possible.  Flexible permissioning is a rich source of challenges 😛

8 minutes ago, Stefan Glienke said:

Not really as you can turn off this warning with {$WARN NO_RETVAL OFF}

That is a good point.

I ended up calling a class method that do the init code in the unit init section.

It still is a strange warning, though.

Reported a doc error: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-23024

Doh! Wrong issue!

https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-23024

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If a record helper has a class constructor, the compiler will output the following error

[dcc32 Warning] W1035 Return value of function 'THelperType.ClassConstructorName' might be undefined

This doesn't make sense, since a class constructor doesn't have an assignable result value.

Note that the class constructor actually works as expected - it is only the bogus warning that is a problem.

Our build server is configured to not accept warning W1035, to ensure that we actually never release code which may have undefined return values, so this false warning is a problem.

MCVE attatched to report.

Gotta love the level of detail in the help for the interceptors 😞 
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Rio/en/REST.Json.Interceptors
 

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Embarcadero Technologies does not currently have any additional information.

Nudging @David Millington...

1 minute ago, Rollo62 said:

If so many people urgently (mis)use it that way, this should be a sign that there is a strong need 🙂

Or, a lack of established conventions - or - as for xml, an endless series of abuse 😛

1 hour ago, Kryvich said:

@Schokohase

@Lars Fosdal Unfortunately, this will not work for the Variant type without additional processing. You can try to declare a custom reverter for an element of the inner array.

@Kryvich Do you know of any good examples of custom reverters?

I am only going to consume these structures, not produce them - so that simplifies it a bit.  Basically, I'd love to be able to transform the inner array elements to a single object, as there is only a limited number of permutations.

29 minutes ago, Sherlock said:

OT: JSON is cool and all, but it also promotes dropping all kinds of junk in it without thinking. Well maybe a little: "Let the next guy take care of this"

Indeed.  This structure was probably designed by someone that is not loading objects, but who just walks the structures with a weakly typed language.

So - what happens to 

{ "switch": true }

in an array of array of variant?

Crickets....