Import / Export objects through code

matttrax

Is it possible to import and export objects as text files through code. As in I want to write code that does the exact same thing as me going to File --> Import or File --> Export.

I looked through the Object table, but didn't see anything that would help.

Thanks

kuju

It is possible to import/export objects in a compiled form but not in a text format by my knowledge.
This is possible with the blob field in the object table.

In the past I developped a C/Front solution to export those blobs and import them in other databases.
Maybe a solutions with streams is possible...?

Note that is not advisable to this because if the object is compiled in another environment i may suffer conflicts in the imported environment.

matttrax

Yeah, I've seen a few applications that can do it, but I think they're the compiled version and I need text. Like I know the object manager does it, or at least stores it somewhere. And I think that code protection download that went up the other day must do it.

Just hoping for an easy way and to add more automation to my program. Oh well.

MTC

The only way you can do it from the client through code and not doing anything funny is via SENDKEYS, which is very very ugly indeed.