Code code to generate code in Dynamics AX

Code code to generate code in Dynamics AX

 

Good morning,

 

The following job will create a new static method on the SalesLine table at runtime. Use it as a tutorial for TreeNodes' AOTadd(), AOTsetSource(), AOTcompile() and AOTfindChild() methods.

 

Note that access to such code should be restricted through security keys, namely the 'SysDevelopment' key since this code definitely uses a dangerous API.

 

public static void createMethodTest(Args _args)
{
    #AOT
    #define.myNewStaticMethod('myNewStaticMethod')
    #define.methods('methods')
 
    TreeNode       parentNode;
    TreeNode       methodNode;
    MemberFunction subMethodNode;
    SysDictTable   sysDictTable = new SysDictTable(tablenum(SalesLine));
    Source source   = "public static void myNewStaticMethod()/n"
                    + "{/n"
                    + "    ;/n"
                    + "    info(/"test/");/n"
                    + "}/n";
    ;
 
    if (hasSecuritykeyAccess(
        securitykeynum(SysDevelopment), AccessType::Delete))
    {
        parentNode = TreeNode::findNode(#TablesPath+'//'+sysDictTable.name());

        if (parentNode)
        {
            methodNode = parentNode.AOTfindChild(#methods);

            subMethodNode = methodNode.AOTfindChild(#myNewStaticMethod);
            if (!subMethodNode)
            {
                subMethodNode = methodNode.AOTadd(#myNewStaticMethod);
            }
            subMethodNode.AOTsetSource(source, true); //true sets 'static'

            parentNode.AOTcompile();
        }
    }
}

 

Et voila! Right after execution, you will have a new static method in the AOT under Data dictionary/Tables/SalesLine/methods/:

 

public static void myNewStaticMethod()

{
    ;
    info("test");
}