GameOfLife 1.0.0

Welcome to The Game Of Life app - created and maintained by Sascha Wildgrube.

Features

This app is an implementation of the well-known Conway's Game Of Life - built using Reactor and DevTools. Enjoy!

Disclaimer

GameOfLife is NOT an officially supported ServiceNow product.

GameOfLife does NOT come with any kind of warranty. If you use it, you own it!

System Requirements

• Tokyo or Utah
• Access to GitHub.com
• DevTools 1.62.0
• Reactor 1.4.0

Installation

1. Create an account on GitHub - if not done already.
2. Create a personal access token for your GitHub account.
3. Add credentials to access GitHub - use "Basic Auth".
4. Fork the repository https://github.com/saschawildgrube/servicenow-devtools.
5. Go to Studio and import the DevTools application from source control.
6. Perform all installation steps for the DevTools application documented here: https://www.wildgrube.com/servicenow-devtools 
7. Fork the repository https://github.com/saschawildgrube/servicenow-reactor.
8. Go to Studio and import the Reactor application from source control.
9. Perform all installation steps for the Reactor application documented here: https://www.wildgrube.com/servicenow-reactor 
10. Fork the repository https://github.com/saschawildgrube/servicenow-gameoflife.
11. Go to Studio and import the GameOfLife application from source control.
12. The InstallApp() function must be executed.
    Run the following script as a background script in scope x_snc_game_of_life:

x_snc_devtools.InstallApp("x_snc_game_of_life");

React(or) Components

Reference

Configuration Options

• x_snc_game_of_life.active

  Controls if the Game Of Life application is active.

• x_snc_game_of_life.logging.verbosity

  Controls the verbosity of log output produced by the Game Of Life application.

Roles

• x_snc_game_of_life.editor

  The user can add and edit Game of Life patterns.

• x_snc_game_of_life.player

  A user that can play the Game Of Life.

UI Actions

• Play (x_snc_game_of_life_pattern)

  Starts a Game of Life using the selected pattern.

Script Includes

• AppGetDependencies

  Retrieves information about the app's dependencies to other apps and required versions.

• AppGetProperty

  Gets a system property of this application.

• AppInstall

  This script installs Game Of Life.

• AppSetDefaults

  Sets all system properties to default values.

• AppSetProperty

  Sets a system property of this application.

• Debug

  Produces a log output in the application log using the DevTools Debug function.

• DevTools

  Implements the extension point for DevTools.

• DevToolsGetApplicationStatus

  The function DevToolsGetApplicationStatus is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns the application status object with additional status information to be displayed on the "DevTools Application Overview" page.

• DevToolsGetFormatConfig

  The DevToolsGetFormatConfig function is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns an object with field formatting information.

• DevToolsGetInstancePipelineName

  The function DevToolsGetInstancePipelineName is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns the pipeline name of an instance based on the given actual name.

• DevToolsGetLinkDirectory

  The DevToolsGetLinkDirectory function is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns an extended (or modified) link directory object that serves as the basis for the DevTools Link page.

• DevToolsGetParentRecord

  The DevToolsGetParentRecord function is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns a parent record for the given record if it can be determined.

• DevToolsRenderDebugDump

  The function DevToolsRenderDebugDump is called by the DevTools extension point instance class and returns additional debug information provided by the application.

• GameOfLifeClientAPI

  Interface to client callable functions for the Game Of Life application.

• GetPattern

  Returns a array of array containing the requested pattern, or false if the pattern could not be found.

• HtmlRenderPagePlay

  Renders the "Play" UI page.

• IsActive

  Returns true if the application is active, otherwise false.

• Log

  Produces a log output in the application log.

• LogError

  Produces an error log output in the application log.

• LogWarning

  Produces a warning log output in the application log.

License

Copyright 2023 by Sascha Wildgrube

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")

You may not use GameOfLife except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Release Notes

1.0.0 - 2023-05-06

First baselined version