Tracking content of Gateway Event Scripts in Github

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We use Github to track projects. Being able to compare different versions of Python scripts under ./script-python/*.py is awesome.

As far as I can tell, the source code of Gateway Event Scripts is stored:

  1. within ./event-scripts/data.bin
  2. as binary

Hence, to "diff" running vs dev, I must restore the two versions of data.bin and copy/paste from Designer.

Wondering if there is any clever things people are doing to make this more streamlined. For example, I have contemplated manually maintaining the script content in a separate folder. However, I assume this would necessitate an entirely separate Github repo so that the sources don't get pulled into the Project Library.

Many thanks!

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The only reasonable thing to do in 8.1 is to make your actual gateway event scripts one-line callouts to the project library.

In 8.3 event scripts are 'exploded' out into distinct resources and stored in as .py files on disk.

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you can actually probably diff these, if you're careful about it and they're only one-liners. they're gzipped java serialized hashmaps, but the actual 1 line scripts themselves are decodable in ascii.