I am trying to see if I can use Google Closure library form my webapp's internationalization and localization needs. I tried to find any tutorials on the subject, but could not find any and it seems I am stuck when trying on my own.
I am interested in getting the native name of a country.
I am not sure how I should use the the goog.locale component, though. It seems that for example, goog.locale.getNativeCountryName('EE') always returns 'EE', instead of 'Eesti' as I would expect it to.
goog.require('goog.locale');
...
console.log( goog.locale.getNativeCountryName('EE') ) // Outputs: 'EE'
Maybe I am missing some dependencies?
EDIT: After fiddling around a little bit I discovered that if I use et_EE instead of EE, I get the expected 'Eesti'. However, that just seems plain wrong. et_EE is a locale code, not a country code, and the function clearly expects a country code... Maybe I am still doing something wrong?
getNativeCountryName() receives a language code (in this case et) and not a country code (EE). See the API docs:
Returns the country name of the provided language code in its native
language.
Therefore:
goog.require('goog.locale');
...
console.log( goog.locale.getNativeCountryName('et') ) // Should return 'Eesti'
Related
I have a reddit post link here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/6m5k0o/teehee/
I wish to access the data of this post throught the redditkit API.
http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/redditkit/
I have tried countless times and the docs don't make too much sense to me. Can someone help show how to do this through the ruby console? Or even an implementation of this in rails would be really helpful!
Looking at the #comment method on the gem, it takes a comment_full_name and performs a GET to api/info.json with that parameter as an id (seen by viewing the source for that method). If we look at the reddit api for api/info the id parameter is a full name for the object with a link to what a full name is.
Following that link, a full name for a comment is
Fullnames start with the type prefix for the object's type, followed by the thing's unique ID in base 36.
and
type prefixes
t1_ Comment
So now we know the comment_full_name should be t1_#{comment's unique id} which appears to be 6m5k0o. Here, I'm unsure if that's already base36 or if they want you to convert that into base36 before passing it. Without seeing what all you've tried, I would say
client = RedditKit::Client.new 'username', 'password'
client.comment("t1_6m5k0o")
and if that doesn't work
client.comment("t1_#{'6m5k0o' base36 encoded}")
For questions like this, it would be nice to see some of your code and what you tried/results they gave. For all I know, you've already tried this and have a reason it didn't work for you.
I would test this out for you, but I don't have a reddit account for the gem to sign in with, this is just my guess glancing at the documentation.
My goal is to write a validation class for Rails that is capable of using an OCR recognised text from a business card and is able to detect string snippets and assign them to the correct attributes. I know this cannot be probably 100% perfect but I want to get as close as possible. Here is my approach so far:
I scan business cards via jquery's navigator.mediaDevices
I send the scanned image to a third party API Service, called OCRSpace (a gem is available here: https://github.com/suyesh/ocr_space)
I then get a unformatted array of recognised text snippets back, for example:
result = [['John Doe'], ['+49 160 123456'], ['Mainstr. 45a'], ['12345 Berlin'], ['CEO'], ['johndoe#business-website.de'], ['www.business-website.de']]
I then iterate through the array and do some checks, for example
Using the people library (https://github.com/mericson/people)
to split the name in firstname and lastname (additionally the title
or middlenames) Using the phonelib library
(https://github.com/daddyz/phonelib) to look up a valid phone number
and format it in an international string
Doing a basic regex check on the email address and store it
What I miss now is:
How can I find out what the name-string would possibly be? Right now I let the user choose it (in my example he defines "John Doe" as the name and then the library does the rest). I'm sure I would run into conflicts when using a regex as strings like "Main Street" would then also be recognized as a name?
How do I regex a combination of ZIP-Code and City name? I'm not a regex expert, do you know any good sources that would help? Couldn't find any so far except some regex-checkers in general.
In general: Do you like my approach or is this way too complicated? And do you know some best-practices that look better?
Don't consider this a full answer, but it was too much to make it a comment.
Your way of working seems Ok but I wouldn't use the OCR Service since there are other ways , Tesseract is the best known.
If you do and all the results are comparible presented it seems not too difficult since every piece of info has it's own characteristics.
You can identify the name part because it won't have numbers in it, the rest does, also you can expect to contain it "Mr." or "Mrs." or the such and not "Str.", "street" and so on. You could also use Google Maps to check for correct adresses, there are Ruby gems but have no experience with them.
Your people gem could also help.
You could guess all of this, present the results in you webpage and let the user confirm or adjust.
You could also RegExpr the post-city combination by looking fo a number and string combination in either order but you could also use a gem like ZipCodes to help.
I'm sorry, don't have the time now to test some Regular Expressions now and I don't publish code without testing.
Hope this was some help, success !
Introduction
I've been attempting to build this project for many weeks now, and trying multiple solutions that I can't get my head around. Let me describe the project a little. It's a text-based server, that players can login to (via telnet or a client), essentially like a MUD. They can then create and interact with 'objects', giving them 'verbs' and 'properties'.
The server is basically just a database of 'objects', each object has an ID, a name, a location (which is another object), a list of its contents (objects) and some other flags. Objects can have 'verbs' and 'properties'. Properties are just stored data (string, int, float, w/e). Verbs are methods/functions. Objects are interacted with using commands such as "put something in container". An old version of the server already exists, it's called LambdaMOO. I'm attempting to re-create it since it hasn't been updated in a very, very long time.
You can read more in-depth about how objects, verbs and properties should work at: http://bit.ly/17XIqjY
An Example
Let me describe what I'd like. Imagine we have an object. Object #256, it's called "Button". It has the property "count" along with all the default properties that are inherited from it's parent (i.e. 'description'). It has one "verb" on it, called "push". This verb contains this code:
this.count += 1;
this.description = "This button has been pushed " + this.count + " times.";
player.tell("You press the button and feel a chill run down your spine.");
When the player types 'push button' on the server, the 'push' verb will run and output
You press the button and feel a chill run down your spine.
If you then look at the button, you'll see it's updated description.
Note that player in the above script refers the object of the player executing the verb. tell is another verb, on the player object. However the tell verb has a flag saying it is executable from other verbs.
What language?
My main question is what languages can I use for the 'verbs'? I've tried using node.js and the 'vm' library. I've tried using C# to parse C#. I've tried using C# to parse JavaScript. The issue I keep getting is that I have no way of controlling the permissions of the verbs and properties. If I translate them to literal functions in JavaScript, I can't determine which object they are running on and what permissions it should have. If a user calls a function on another users object, I have no way of intercepting that call and stopping it if the permissions aren't correct. I'm not entirely fussed as to which language is used for the verb code it just needs to be "sandboxed". Properties need to be only readable/writeable when they are set to be so by the user, same with verbs. I imagine I could use a language with overloading (like PHP's __get, __set, __call).
I need to also be able to inject these variables into the verb: (mostly determined from the command typed, unless the verb is being called from another verb)
player (object) the player who typed the command
this (object) the object on which this verb was found
caller (object) this will be the same as ‘player’, unless another
verb calls the command in which case it is the object
containing that verb.
verb (string) the first word of the command
argstr (string) everything after the first word of the command
args (list of strings) a list of the words in ‘argstr’
dobjstr (string) the direct object string found during parsing
dobj (object) the direct object value found during matching
prepstr (string) the prepositional phrase found during parsing
iobjstr (string) the indirect object string
iobj (object) the indirect object value
I also need to be able to access any object from any other object (so long as the permissions work out).
// Object #128. Verb: multiply Prep: this none this Perms: +r +x
return (args[0] * args[1]);
// Object #256. Verb: square Prep: this none this Perms: +r +x
return #128:multiply(args[0], args[0]);
// Object #512. Verb: touch Prep: any any this Perms: +r
// Has a property (int) 'size' on it.
this.size = #256:square(this.size);
this.description = "It's a large button, it spans " + this.size + " metres.";
player:tell("You touch the button, it gets bigger.");
The user could then push button and the button object's size property would be squared.
Recommended Reading
I highly recommend you to read the document at http://bit.ly/17XIqjY for a more in-depth idea of how the system should work.
It is also recommended you read the following documents, as μMOO is based upon LambdaMOO and it’s methodology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/manuals/ProgrammersManual_toc.html
http://www.moo.mud.org/
I take this question as asking for a language that could do what you need. That's what I'll try to answer.
First, this task is hopelessly unsuited to any mainstream or imperative language such as C# or Java. I wouldn't even think about it. Javascript is possible, but not what it's good at and nothing specific to recommend it.
Second, if you had the right skills, it would be an excellent opportunity to design an entirely new language and spend the next year or two getting it working. People really do that, but I don't recommend it unless you like that kind of masochistic experience. [I do.]
So my recommendation is that you widen your language experience until you find a match. Of the languages I know moderately well, Ruby is the best to try first. As soon as you said inject these variables into the verb you made me think of Ruby, because lots of Ruby software (including Rails) is built exactly like that. Forget Python, Perl and Javascript: I really don't think they will hack it.
Beyond Ruby you might contemplate Lua. I haven't used it much recently, and it may not suit, but it is widely used as a games scripting language.
Beyond that are the true functional languages. There is the most ancient of them all: Lisp. You can do absolutely anything in Lisp, including implementing the language you were looking for in the first place. Then there are Scala and Haskell, to name just two. They are mind-bending to learn, but well suited to the kind of problem you have.
Not much of an answer because it basically says: learn each of these languages in turn until you find one that works for you. [Happy to help further if I can. I have fond memories of Moo.]
Is the parameter spelled "adress" or "address"?
Here's the API doc: http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/venues/venue_new/
Where it says:
address The venue adress (line 1).
I ask this question because I'm porting some code, and it looks like we have been using "adress" and from looking at various github repos, it looks like this is considered one of the "inconsistant" variable naming issues related to this API.
I know the misspelled parameter is working.
I want to use the API correctly if I can, and would like to use "address" and just want confirmation that the it will indeed work, and that "adress" only works to be backwards compatible.
Thanks in advance!
Great question!
I fixed the 'adress' spelling typo, but the older spelling of this input label is still allowed (in order to ensure backwords compatibility with existing apps).
We don't have any plans to drop support for the older, misspelled attribute name - but, if you are revisiting old code, it won't hurt to fix the typo on your end as well.
The change should help ensure that the venue object's schema / attribute names remain consistent on input and output.
I want to store the exact country name using g:countrySelect. Example Germany instead of DEU. It is the value in the drop down menu. The drop down text is Germany but when it saves it to the database it changes back to the country code. Sorry if I am somewhat naive but I have been searching for almost 3 hours for solutions and it isn't well documented at the grails website. I could opt for any alternative even ajax. Just to have an easy way to display a list of countries and will be able to store the REAL NAME of the country NOT country code. Thank you!
You can convert from an ISO3 country code to the country name using this function
def getCountryName(String countryCode) {
Locale.availableLocales.find{it.ISO3Country == countryCode}.displayCountry
}
// Test
println getCountryName('DEU') // prints 'Germany'
If you want to do this within a GSP, it would be best to make this available as a TagLib.
Not sure when the above solution stopped working but if you try that now, you'll get an error:
Couldn't find 3-letter country code for CS
With the latest grail version, the current way of getting the full country name is by using this tag:
<g:country code="${country}"/>
I know this thread is old, but I was looking for the same issue and I had to share my solution.
You can use the CountryTagLib object to convert the ISO3 code back to full country name like this :
def country = CountryTagLib.ISO3166_3[code]
The "code" property being the ISO3 code that you got from <g:countrySelect>.