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Resolved C# class importer: Future enahancements?

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  1. Aron Cox
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  3. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 11:48 AM UTC

At the moment I have had to change my COM wrapped C# code to return JSON strings in order to call it the new way in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. This works well, but extrating the results from the returned JSON is a pain. I feel like I heard someone say there may be improvements to C# integration that would allow the return of complex datatypes coming to SnapDevelop / PowerBuilder in the future at Elevate 2021.

Was I just imagining this? Can anyone elaborate?

I did start to write my own C# class to PowerBuilder structure converter, which worked fairly well up to a point, but I just don't have the time to finish it off, but it did look possible to automatically convert complex C# datatypes to structures, as long as everything in the complex datatypes ends up eventually being a simple datatype.

Thanks smile

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  1. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:19 PM UTC
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During the Elevate 2021 keynote, Julie mention generically about this in the roadmap: https://youtu.be/QpSY9qc0Kq4?t=5078

Some of the the ways we are considering to enhance it is to support generic type, delegate, or class as parameters or return values.  

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Aron Cox
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  2. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 21:21 PM UTC
Thanks Armeen - I may hold off on converting everything to work with JSON in the hope a better way is found in the future. I tend to return a boolean success and a string error message at the very least on every call, so pretty much everythign would now need to be a JSON string.
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  2. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 21:42 PM UTC
You’re very welcome
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