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Reputation: 123

Lotusscript Libraries and DRY

I created a set of Lotusscript libraries for the purpose of reusing it in other Domino applications.

I tried to refactor and take all Const declarations (for custom errors) in all libaries and put it in a new library named CustomErrors. Error numbers declared here are intended to be generic (e.g. PARAM_IS_NOTHING, DATABASE_NOT_FOUND, etc.) so that I could Use it for all the libraries in the set.

The problem is, when a client code references 2 libraries that use the CustomErrors library, a "Public symbol is declared in another module" error shows up.

Here's my question: is there a way to structure Lotusscript libraries so that we can achieve some form of reusability?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 268

Answers (1)

Andrew Magerman
Andrew Magerman

Reputation: 1413

If you have two separate libraries (tom and jerry, say) that both reference one library 'Custom Errors', and your code (in a form, say) is referring to both tom and jerry, then there should not be an error.

Sometimes Notes gets confused as to the order of script libraries. Your first friend is 'Tools/Recompile all LotusScript'.

If that doesn't work and you have Teamstudio Configurator, run a change of Use " into use " (which will ensure that all script libraries with dependancies will get recompiled). Sadly, the third-party tool recompiles better than the IBM ones.

As a last, brachial resort, It's well worth re-creating the two libraries that are causing you troubles.

rename tom to tom_old renname jerry to jerry_old

create from scratch two new scriptlibraries called tom and jerry

paste the content from tom_old into tom (mutatis mutandis for jerry)

(This is assuming you have looked into tom and jerry for any constant which is possibly doubled)

Upvotes: 1

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