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• Apache virtual server httpd-vhosts undocumented issue

  - by Ethon Bridges

  I have read the Apache documentation on the https-vhosts.conf file and after a couple of hours fighting this problem, figured it out on my own. Here's the situation: We have a domain that ends in a .ws Apparently you can't do this in the conf file. You MUST use the ? wildcard or it will not work. The * wildcard will not work either. Further, in the ServerAlias directive, anything past the first entry will not work if the first entry in the ServerAlias directive is not correct. Here is an example of an entry that does NOT work. Note that anotherdomain.com and yetanotherdomain.com will fail because thedomain.ws is not configured correctly: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/local/apache2/sites/ourdomain ServerName www.thedomain.ws ServerAlias thedomain.ws another domain.com yetanotherdomain.com <Directory /opt/local/apache2/sites/ourdomain> allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> Here is an example of our working entry: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/local/apache2/sites/ourdomain ServerName www.thedomain.ws? ServerAlias thedomain.ws? another domain.com yetanotherdomain.com <Directory /opt/local/apache2/sites/ourdomain> allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> If there is documentation of this, I sure didn't see it.

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• Adding custom service to nagiosgraph

  - by ravloony

  I have successfully added nagiosgraph to our nagios installation. I also added a memory checker plugin, from here : http://blog.vergiss-blackjack.de/2010/04/nagios-plugin-to-check-memory-consumption/. However I can't seem to get the graph of this service to be output by nagiosgraph. The plugin returns a single line like this: 31% (3785 of 11903 MB) used so i added a rule like this to the map file: /output:(\d+)% \((\d+) of (\d+) MB\) used/ and push @s, ['Mem', ['Percentage', 'GUAGE', $1], ['Used', 'GUAGE', $2], ['Total', 'GUAGE', $3] ]; I have also read this : http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg36835.html and made sure that process_performance_data=1 in the nagios conf file. So far I have no graph for the Mem service on any host, and no rrd file either. I am unsure how to proceed to get this working. The documentation is rather difficult to follow and I haven't managed yet to understand it enough to do this. Can anyone point me to a tutorial, or some documentation which explains the steps needed to get a service noticed and graphed by nagiosgraph?

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• Errors generating gpg keypair

  - by Evan Lynch

  I posted this originally on stackoverflow, but was told that it was offtopic and this would be the better place to post it, so I am reposting it here and deleting my original topic. I have a rather old PGP key, but I've long ago lost the private key for it, so I'm trying to generate a new key with GPG on Windows 7. While it technically generates the key, GPA crashes every time I generate the keypair. I've tried this four times now and just downloaded what appears to be the latest version of Gpg4Win and am still receiving this problem. A comment on my original post informed me that GPA crashes is not a very good description of the problem, but unfortunately I can't do much better than that: all it tells me is "gpa.exe has crashed and will close now", I don't get an error dump or anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or is this just a bug in the latest version of Gpg4Win? Here are the specs of GPG that I'm using: GPA 0.9.4. GnuPG 2.0.22. My operating system is Windows 7 64 Bit, and I have 5 GB of RAM. Also, I was told to try generating the keypair on the command line but can't find any documentation for how to do this in Windows 7. If anyone could link me to current documentation for this, that would be a good workaround for solving this problem.

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• IRC server connecting to another server

  - by Oxinabox

  I'm setting up an IRC server using IRC-Hybrid, I want my server to connect to another server, so that people on my server can connect to channels on that other server. I know this can be done, the GIMP IRC, is the same as the GNOME IRC My ircd.conf contains the following: connect { name = "aabstractname"; host = "128.64.2.1; send_password = "somepass"; accept_password = "somepass"; encrypted = no; port = 6667; class = "server"; autoconn = yes; compressed = yes; fakename = "irc.sd.dom.asn.au"; }; So when i run: /etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart it should be connecting to 128.64.2.1, but the log on 128.64.2.1, doesn't show anything Do I need entry on the host 128.64.2.1? I can't find any documentation for ircd.conf I'ld really like that documentation so I can check all my settings are right.

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• When should NTPd broadcast/broadcastclient be used instead of client/server or peer modes?

  - by Luke404

  The NTP deamon if often used in its simplest mode, which is client/server: you specify one or more server directives in your ntp.conf and your clients will use those servers. In addition to that, when you run your own NTP servers, it is good practice to peer them together, so if one of them looses connectivity to its upstream servers, it will get time from its peers. But NTPd can also work with broadcast and/or multicast distribution of time data, with the documentation stating: broadcast and multicast modes are intended for configurations involving one or a few servers and a possibly very large client population The documentation also says elsewhere: It is possible and frequently useful to configure a host as both broadcast client and broadcast server. A number of hosts configured this way and sharing a common broadcast address will automatically organize themselves in an optimum configuration based on stratum and synchronization distance. I can see one obvious administrative benefit: you don't have to manually specify and update your list of NTP servers in the clients ntp.conf, so to me it looks tempting to use broadcast mode even for a small client population (say 5+ clients with 3~4 servers). I expect network traffic to be a little higher with broadcasts instead of client/server associations, but given the usual gigabit ethernet LAN the impact should be negligible unless you have a very very large number of hosts in the same broadcast domain. At the end of the day, when should broadcast mode be used or avoided? Are there pros and cons I haven't seen?

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• Is git-annex appropriate for my scenario?

  - by Karel Bílek

  I have a git repository with source codes I want to put in the open on github. However, I also have gigabytes of data that I don't want to have in the open and in the repo - they are big, they are proprietary, they are "burdened" with copyrights and so on. However, those are also logically "part of the same project" and I wish to have some control over their history (basically, what git already does). Right now, I have them in the directory "data" in the repository and I have the directory ignored and I resign on getting them to git. However, I have read about git-annex and it seems it can do what I want. So, I have two questions. Is git annex appropriate for me? How exactly should I use git annex for my scenario? Meaning - which commands should I use and how? I have tried to read the official documentation but it talks about use cases that I don't care about. I have the data on one computer only and I don't think I will be moving them soon (it's nice to have the possibility, but it's not why I want to use git annex). Also, the documentation is pretty hard to read.

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• Shell wrong encoding

  - by csch

  Somehow I managed to screw up my shell-encoding. An example: root§server:ç£ cat --help Usage: cat ¡OPTION¿... ¡FILE¿... Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Examples: cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output. Report cat bugs to bug-coreutils§gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'cat invocation' root§server:ç£ It should look like: root@server:~# cat --help Usage: cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Examples: cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output. Report cat bugs to [email protected] GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'cat invocation' root@server:~# I have no clue what went wrong, do you have any ideas?

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• SBS 2008 R2: Did something change with anonymous relays?

  - by gravyface

  Have noticed that prior documentation on setting up anonymous relays in SBS 2008 no longer work without some additional configuration. Used to be able to follow this documentation, which is basically: setup a new receive connector add the IP address(es) that will be permitted to relay check off "anonymous" under Permission Group and then run the Exchange shell script to grant permissions. Now what seems to be happening is that if the permitted IP address happens to fall within the same address space as another more restrictive Receive Connector (like the "Default SBS08" one) and possibly if it's ahead of the new Receive Connector alphabetically (haven't tested that yet), the relay attempt fails with "Client Was Not Authenticated" error. To get it to work, I had to modify the scope of the "Default SBS08" Receive Connector to exclude the one LAN IP that I wanted to allow relaying for. I can't recall ever having to do this for Exchange 2007 Standard and/or any other SBS 2008 servers I've setup over the last couple of years and I don't remember doing this and the wiki entry I added at the office doesn't mention it either. So my question is, has anyone else experienced this? Has there been a new change with R2 or perhaps an Exchange Service Pack?

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• How to set static ip address on vmware for NAT guest vms from an ubuntu Host dhcp server?

  - by javadba

  I need to configure various linux flavor NAT'ed guest vm's to have static ip addresses provided by the Ubuntu host. The vmware documentation punts on this topic, deferring to "see the man pages for your linux distribution". But the generic pages for "my linux distro" do not know about the special stuff for vmware e.g. vmnet8. Pointers from someone who just knows how to do this would be much appreciated. Here is the /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf: allow unknown-clients; default-lease-time 1800; # default is 30 minutes max-lease-time 7200; # default is 2 hours subnet 192.168.238.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.238.128 192.168.238.254; option broadcast-address 192.168.238.255; option domain-name-servers 192.168.238.2; option domain-name localdomain; default-lease-time 1800; # default is 30 minutes max-lease-time 7200; # default is 2 hours option netbios-name-servers 192.168.238.2; option routers 192.168.238.2; } host vmnet8 { hardware ethernet 00:50:56:C0:00:08; fixed-address 192.168.238.1; option domain-name-servers 0.0.0.0; option domain-name ""; option routers 0.0.0.0; } Fromt the dhcpd.conf documentation, we are supposed to add an entry for static hosts similar to the following: host mystatichostonee { hardware ethernet 00:20:6B:C7:9B:E4; fixed-address 192.168.238.101; } host mystatichosttwo { hardware ethernet 00:23:7a:C7:9c:F2; fixed-address 192.168.238.102; } But notice that the vmnet8 entry in the vmware-generated dhcpd.conf already is set to fixed-address. I don't know how to add the specifics for my hosts to that vmnet8 entry: do they become nested?

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• EC2 Auto-Scaling with Spot and On-Demand Instances?

  - by platforms

  I'm looking to optimize the cost of our auto-scaling EC2 groups by having them launch spot instances instead of on-demand instances. What I really want is to be able to keep some servers in the group as on-demand instances, regardless of what happens to the spot instance pricing market. Then I want any additional servers in the group, above my configured minimum, to be spot instances. I'm generally OK with the delay in adding servers via spot requests. I can't seem to find any way to do this and I've tried to scour the AWS documentation. It appears that an ASG can either be on-demand or spot, but not a hybrid. I could possibly manually add an on-demand instance to the Elastic Load Balancer assigned to the auto-scaling group, but then the load of that server would not be factored into the auto-scaling measurements and triggers. I suppose I could enter a ridiculously high bid price in order to ensure that I always get the servers I need, but then I look at the pricing history and see occasional large spikes. The AWS documentation is at odds with itself, since in one place it says that if you enter a server minimum, that number is "ensured" to be there. But then when you read about spot instances, there are no assurances. The price differential for spot is compelling, so I'd like to leverage that as much as I can while still maintaining an always-on baseline. Is this possible?

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• Some doubts about the use of usermod and groupmod command

  - by AndreaNobili

  I am not yet a true "Linux guy" and I have the following doubts about how exactly do the following shell procedure (a list of commands steps) founded in a tutorial that I am following (I want deeply understand what I am doing before do it): sudo passwd root then login again as root usermod -l miner pi usermod -m -d /home/miner miner groupmod -n miner pi exit So at the beginning it enable the root account and I have to login again in the system as root...this is perfectly clear for me. And now I have the followings doubts: 1) The usermod command: usermod -l miner pi usermod -m -d /home/miner miner Reading the official documentation of the usermod command I understand that this command modify the informations related to an existing account Reading the documentation it seems to me that the -l parmether modify the name of the user pi in miner and then the -m -d paramether move the contents of the old home directory to the new one (named miner) and use this new directory as home directory My doubt is: what exactly do the executions of these operation? I think that: Rename the existing pi user in miner Then move the content of the old home directory (the pi home directory? or what?) into a new directory (/home/miner) that now is the home directory for the miner user. Is it right? The the second doubt is related to this command groupmod -n miner pi It seems to me that change the group name from pi in miner But what exactly is a group in Linux and why is it used? Tnx

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• Synchronizing the SamAccountName Property using Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool

  - by pk.

  Using this official documentation as a guide, I would expect the SamAccountName property to sync from my on-premise AD to Office 365. I think that it used to do exactly that, but now it seems that it doesn't so much sync the attribute as it does create an entirely new, unlinked value and store it in Office 365. This has caused some minor issues for me (broken scripts, annoying permissions management, etc.) and may be part of a more major issue regarding ADFS authentication. On-Premise PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ADUser jdoe -Properties SamAccountName | fl SamAccountName SamAccountName : jdoe Office 365 Sync'ed Objects PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Mailbox jdoe | fl SamAccountName SamAccountName : $1A7H20-K1LCOJFFBHGS I understand how to work around this issue in my scripts -- there exists the ImmutableId property which can be mapped back to the on-premise GUID. As far as the issue I'm having with ADFS, I'm less certain how to proceed and if this is causing my issues. At this point I really would just like some verification that I'm not crazy and that this used to be sync'ed at some point in the past and that Office 365 broke it relatively recently. I also think that MS documentation should perhaps be updated to exclude SamAccountName from the list of synchronized properties on the page I linked.

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• Specific issue on data pump API in oracle

  - by Median Hilal

  I have a client/server architecture. Using an Oracle dbms on the database server side. I need to perform a user-triggered (from client side) backup of the database, where the best way to perform that is using a stored procedure on the server side which the client may call, as the client has no oracle tools to perform the backup. I've searched thorough inside available solutions and have found that using a stored procedure is the best way. Well, then I found that using oracle data pump API is the best way to use inside a PL/SQl stored procedure. My specific questions about the API are... I would like to ask about two issues ... ---- The first ----- the detach function to detach the handler, is it necessary to be used at the end of the procedure? and what if I don't use it? I read the Oracle documentation but I didn't get their point, they say it doesn't terminate the job but indicates that the user is not interested in it, an when I use detach at the end of my procedure the exported .dmp file disappears. ---- The second ----- to perform a user (client side) triggered back up as the modification are only to the data, I used TABLE parameter for the export operation. But the version parameter... what should it be? I also read the documentation but couldn't determine what I need (LATEST or COMPATIBLE) ? Thanks

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• Problem compiling hive with ant

  - by conandor

  I compiling with Solaris 10 SPARC, jdk 1.6 from Sun, Ant 1.7.1 from OpenCSW. I have no problem running hadoop 0.17.2.1 However, I have problem compiling/integrating hive with the error 'cannot find symbol', although I followed the tutorial. I have the hive source code from SVN exactly from tutorial. How can I know the hive version I compiling and how can I compile against hadoop 0.17.2.1? Please advice. Thank you. -bash-3.00$ export PATH=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/webstack/bin -bash-3.00$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 -bash-3.00$ export HADOOP=/export/home/mywork/hadoop-0.17.2.1/bin/hadoop -bash-3.00$ /opt/csw/bin/ant package -Dhadoop.version=0.17.2.1 Buildfile: build.xml jar: create-dirs: compile-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks deploy-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks jar: init: compile: ivy-init-dirs: ivy-download: [get] Getting: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.1.0/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] To: /export/home/mywork/hive/build/ivy/lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] Not modified - so not downloaded ivy-probe-antlib: ivy-init-antlib: ivy-init: ivy-retrieve-hadoop-source: [ivy:retrieve] :: Ivy 2.1.0 - 20090925235825 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: [ivy:retrieve] :: loading settings :: file = /export/home/mywork/hive/ivy/ivysettings.xml [ivy:retrieve] :: resolving dependencies :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims;working@kaili [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.17.2.1 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.18.3 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.19.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.20.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] :: resolution report :: resolve 25878ms :: artifacts dl 37ms --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | modules || artifacts | | conf | number| search|dwnlded|evicted|| number|dwnlded| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | default | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 4 | 0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ivy:retrieve] :: retrieving :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 4 already retrieved (0kB/82ms) install-hadoopcore-internal: build_shims: [echo] Compiling shims against hadoop 0.17.2.1 (/export/home/mywork/hive/build/hadoopcore/hadoop-0.17.2.1) ivy-init-dirs: ivy-download: [get] Getting: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.1.0/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] To: /export/home/mywork/hive/build/ivy/lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] Not modified - so not downloaded ivy-probe-antlib: ivy-init-antlib: ivy-init: ivy-retrieve-hadoop-source: [ivy:retrieve] :: Ivy 2.1.0 - 20090925235825 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: [ivy:retrieve] :: loading settings :: file = /export/home/mywork/hive/ivy/ivysettings.xml [ivy:retrieve] :: resolving dependencies :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims;working@kaili [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.17.2.1 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.18.3 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.19.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.20.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] :: resolution report :: resolve 12041ms :: artifacts dl 30ms --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | modules || artifacts | | conf | number| search|dwnlded|evicted|| number|dwnlded| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | default | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 4 | 0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ivy:retrieve] :: retrieving :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 4 already retrieved (0kB/39ms) install-hadoopcore-internal: build_shims: [echo] Compiling shims against hadoop 0.18.3 (/export/home/mywork/hive/build/hadoopcore/hadoop-0.18.3) ivy-init-dirs: ivy-download: [get] Getting: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.1.0/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] To: /export/home/mywork/hive/build/ivy/lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] Not modified - so not downloaded ivy-probe-antlib: ivy-init-antlib: ivy-init: ivy-retrieve-hadoop-source: [ivy:retrieve] :: Ivy 2.1.0 - 20090925235825 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: [ivy:retrieve] :: loading settings :: file = /export/home/mywork/hive/ivy/ivysettings.xml [ivy:retrieve] :: resolving dependencies :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims;working@kaili [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.17.2.1 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.18.3 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.19.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.20.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] :: resolution report :: resolve 11107ms :: artifacts dl 36ms --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | modules || artifacts | | conf | number| search|dwnlded|evicted|| number|dwnlded| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | default | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 4 | 0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ivy:retrieve] :: retrieving :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 4 already retrieved (0kB/49ms) install-hadoopcore-internal: build_shims: [echo] Compiling shims against hadoop 0.19.0 (/export/home/mywork/hive/build/hadoopcore/hadoop-0.19.0) ivy-init-dirs: ivy-download: [get] Getting: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.1.0/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] To: /export/home/mywork/hive/build/ivy/lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] Not modified - so not downloaded ivy-probe-antlib: ivy-init-antlib: ivy-init: ivy-retrieve-hadoop-source: [ivy:retrieve] :: Ivy 2.1.0 - 20090925235825 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: [ivy:retrieve] :: loading settings :: file = /export/home/mywork/hive/ivy/ivysettings.xml [ivy:retrieve] :: resolving dependencies :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims;working@kaili [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.17.2.1 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.18.3 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.19.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.20.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] :: resolution report :: resolve 9969ms :: artifacts dl 33ms --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | modules || artifacts | | conf | number| search|dwnlded|evicted|| number|dwnlded| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | default | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 4 | 0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ivy:retrieve] :: retrieving :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#shims [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 4 already retrieved (0kB/57ms) install-hadoopcore-internal: build_shims: [echo] Compiling shims against hadoop 0.20.0 (/export/home/mywork/hive/build/hadoopcore/hadoop-0.20.0) jar: [echo] Jar: shims create-dirs: compile-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks deploy-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks jar: init: install-hadoopcore: install-hadoopcore-default: ivy-init-dirs: ivy-download: [get] Getting: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.1.0/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] To: /export/home/mywork/hive/build/ivy/lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar [get] Not modified - so not downloaded ivy-probe-antlib: ivy-init-antlib: ivy-init: ivy-retrieve-hadoop-source: [ivy:retrieve] :: Ivy 2.1.0 - 20090925235825 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: [ivy:retrieve] :: loading settings :: file = /export/home/mywork/hive/ivy/ivysettings.xml [ivy:retrieve] :: resolving dependencies :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#common;working@kaili [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] found hadoop#core;0.20.0 in hadoop-source [ivy:retrieve] :: resolution report :: resolve 4864ms :: artifacts dl 13ms --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | modules || artifacts | | conf | number| search|dwnlded|evicted|| number|dwnlded| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | default | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 1 | 0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ivy:retrieve] :: retrieving :: org.apache.hadoop.hive#common [ivy:retrieve] confs: [default] [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 1 already retrieved (0kB/52ms) install-hadoopcore-internal: setup: compile: [echo] Compiling: common jar: [echo] Jar: common create-dirs: compile-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks deploy-ant-tasks: create-dirs: init: compile: [echo] Compiling: anttasks jar: init: dynamic-serde: compile: [echo] Compiling: hive [javac] Compiling 167 source files to /export/home/mywork/hive/build/serde/classes [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/ObjectInspectorFactory.java:30: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/ObjectInspectorFactory.java:31: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/MetadataTypedColumnsetSerDe.java:31: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class MetadataListStructObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.MetadataListStructObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeUtils.java:33: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class BooleanObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.BooleanObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeUtils.java:35: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class DoubleObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.DoubleObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeUtils.java:36: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class FloatObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.FloatObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeUtils.java:39: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class ShortObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.ShortObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeUtils.java:40: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class StringObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.StringObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/binarysortable/BinarySortableSerDe.java:44: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class BooleanObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.BooleanObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/binarysortable/BinarySortableSerDe.java:46: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class DoubleObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.DoubleObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/binarysortable/BinarySortableSerDe.java:47: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class FloatObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.FloatObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/binarysortable/BinarySortableSerDe.java:50: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class ShortObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.ShortObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/binarysortable/BinarySortableSerDe.java:51: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class StringObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.StringObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazySimpleSerDe.java:43: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/columnar/ColumnarSerDe.java:41: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyStruct.java:26: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazySimpleStructObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.LazySimpleStructObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyStruct.java:39: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol: class LazySimpleStructObjectInspector [javac] LazyNonPrimitive<LazySimpleStructObjectInspector> { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyStruct.java:68: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazySimpleStructObjectInspector [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyStruct [javac] public LazyStruct(LazySimpleStructObjectInspector oi) { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDe.java:36: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDe.java:37: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDeTypeString.java:23: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class StringObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.StringObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDeTypei16.java:23: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class ShortObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.ShortObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDeTypeDouble.java:23: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class DoubleObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.DoubleObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/DynamicSerDeTypeBool.java:23: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class BooleanObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.BooleanObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyBoolean.java:20: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyBooleanObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyBoolean.java:37: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol: class LazyBooleanObjectInspector [javac] LazyPrimitive<LazyBooleanObjectInspector, BooleanWritable> { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyBoolean.java:39: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazyBooleanObjectInspector [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyBoolean [javac] public LazyBoolean(LazyBooleanObjectInspector oi) { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyByte.java:21: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyByteObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyByte.java:37: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol: class LazyByteObjectInspector [javac] LazyPrimitive<LazyByteObjectInspector, ByteWritable> { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyByte.java:39: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazyByteObjectInspector [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyByte [javac] public LazyByte(LazyByteObjectInspector oi) { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyDouble.java:23: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyDoubleObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyDouble.java:31: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol: class LazyDoubleObjectInspector [javac] LazyPrimitive<LazyDoubleObjectInspector, DoubleWritable> { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyDouble.java:33: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazyDoubleObjectInspector [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyDouble [javac] public LazyDouble(LazyDoubleObjectInspector oi) { [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:25: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazyObjectInspectorFactory [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.LazyObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:26: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class LazySimpleStructObjectInspector [javac] location: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.LazySimpleStructObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:27: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyBooleanObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:28: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyByteObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:29: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyDoubleObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:30: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyFloatObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:31: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyIntObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:32: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyLongObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:33: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyPrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:34: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyShortObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFactory.java:35: package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive does not exist [javac] import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyStringObjectInspector; [javac] ^ [javac] /export/home/mywork/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyFloat.java:

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• Example: Communication between Activity and Service using Messaging

  - by Lance Lefebure

  I couldn't find any examples of how to send messages between an activity and a service, and spent far too many hours figuring this out. Here is an example project for others to reference. This example allows you to start or stop a service directly, and separately bind/unbind from the service. When the service is running, it increments a number at 10Hz. If the activity is bound to the service, it will display the current value. Data is transferred as an Integer and as a String so you can see how to do that two different ways. There are also buttons in the activity to send messages to the service (changes the increment-by value). Screenshot: AndroidManifest.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.exampleservice" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0"> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <service android:name=".MyService"></service> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /> </manifest> res\values\strings.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <string name="app_name">ExampleService</string> <string name="service_started">Example Service started</string> <string name="service_label">Example Service Label</string> </resources> res\layout\main.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnStart" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Start Service"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnStop" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Stop Service" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout02" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnBind" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Bind to Service"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUnbind" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Unbind from Service" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> <TextView android:id="@+id/textStatus" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Status Goes Here" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/textIntValue" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Integer Value Goes Here" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/textStrValue" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="String Value Goes Here" /> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout03" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUpby1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Increment by 1"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUpby10" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Increment by 10" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> </LinearLayout> src\com.exampleservice\MainActivity.java: package com.exampleservice; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.ComponentName; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.ServiceConnection; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.os.Messenger; import android.os.RemoteException; import android.util.Log; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; public class MainActivity extends Activity { Button btnStart, btnStop, btnBind, btnUnbind, btnUpby1, btnUpby10; TextView textStatus, textIntValue, textStrValue; Messenger mService = null; boolean mIsBound; final Messenger mMessenger = new Messenger(new IncomingHandler()); class IncomingHandler extends Handler { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { switch (msg.what) { case MyService.MSG_SET_INT_VALUE: textIntValue.setText("Int Message: " + msg.arg1); break; case MyService.MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE: String str1 = msg.getData().getString("str1"); textStrValue.setText("Str Message: " + str1); break; default: super.handleMessage(msg); } } } private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() { public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) { mService = new Messenger(service); textStatus.setText("Attached."); try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // In this case the service has crashed before we could even do anything with it } } public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) { // This is called when the connection with the service has been unexpectedly disconnected - process crashed. mService = null; textStatus.setText("Disconnected."); } }; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); btnStart = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnStart); btnStop = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnStop); btnBind = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnBind); btnUnbind = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUnbind); textStatus = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textStatus); textIntValue = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textIntValue); textStrValue = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textStrValue); btnUpby1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUpby1); btnUpby10 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUpby10); btnStart.setOnClickListener(btnStartListener); btnStop.setOnClickListener(btnStopListener); btnBind.setOnClickListener(btnBindListener); btnUnbind.setOnClickListener(btnUnbindListener); btnUpby1.setOnClickListener(btnUpby1Listener); btnUpby10.setOnClickListener(btnUpby10Listener); restoreMe(savedInstanceState); CheckIfServiceIsRunning(); } @Override protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); outState.putString("textStatus", textStatus.getText().toString()); outState.putString("textIntValue", textIntValue.getText().toString()); outState.putString("textStrValue", textStrValue.getText().toString()); } private void restoreMe(Bundle state) { if (state!=null) { textStatus.setText(state.getString("textStatus")); textIntValue.setText(state.getString("textIntValue")); textStrValue.setText(state.getString("textStrValue")); } } private void CheckIfServiceIsRunning() { //If the service is running when the activity starts, we want to automatically bind to it. if (MyService.isRunning()) { doBindService(); } } private OnClickListener btnStartListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ startService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyService.class)); } }; private OnClickListener btnStopListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doUnbindService(); stopService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyService.class)); } }; private OnClickListener btnBindListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doBindService(); } }; private OnClickListener btnUnbindListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doUnbindService(); } }; private OnClickListener btnUpby1Listener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ sendMessageToService(1); } }; private OnClickListener btnUpby10Listener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ sendMessageToService(10); } }; private void sendMessageToService(int intvaluetosend) { if (mIsBound) { if (mService != null) { try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_SET_INT_VALUE, intvaluetosend, 0); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { } } } } void doBindService() { bindService(new Intent(this, MyService.class), mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); mIsBound = true; textStatus.setText("Binding."); } void doUnbindService() { if (mIsBound) { // If we have received the service, and hence registered with it, then now is the time to unregister. if (mService != null) { try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // There is nothing special we need to do if the service has crashed. } } // Detach our existing connection. unbindService(mConnection); mIsBound = false; textStatus.setText("Unbinding."); } } @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); try { doUnbindService(); } catch (Throwable t) { Log.e("MainActivity", "Failed to unbind from the service", t); } } } src\com.exampleservice\MyService.java: package com.exampleservice; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Timer; import java.util.TimerTask; import android.app.Notification; import android.app.NotificationManager; import android.app.PendingIntent; import android.app.Service; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.os.Messenger; import android.os.RemoteException; import android.util.Log; public class MyService extends Service { private NotificationManager nm; private Timer timer = new Timer(); private int counter = 0, incrementby = 1; private static boolean isRunning = false; ArrayList<Messenger> mClients = new ArrayList<Messenger>(); // Keeps track of all current registered clients. int mValue = 0; // Holds last value set by a client. static final int MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT = 1; static final int MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT = 2; static final int MSG_SET_INT_VALUE = 3; static final int MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE = 4; final Messenger mMessenger = new Messenger(new IncomingHandler()); // Target we publish for clients to send messages to IncomingHandler. @Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return mMessenger.getBinder(); } class IncomingHandler extends Handler { // Handler of incoming messages from clients. @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { switch (msg.what) { case MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT: mClients.add(msg.replyTo); break; case MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT: mClients.remove(msg.replyTo); break; case MSG_SET_INT_VALUE: incrementby = msg.arg1; break; default: super.handleMessage(msg); } } } private void sendMessageToUI(int intvaluetosend) { for (int i=mClients.size()-1; i>=0; i--) { try { // Send data as an Integer mClients.get(i).send(Message.obtain(null, MSG_SET_INT_VALUE, intvaluetosend, 0)); //Send data as a String Bundle b = new Bundle(); b.putString("str1", "ab" + intvaluetosend + "cd"); Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE); msg.setData(b); mClients.get(i).send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // The client is dead. Remove it from the list; we are going through the list from back to front so this is safe to do inside the loop. mClients.remove(i); } } } @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); Log.i("MyService", "Service Started."); showNotification(); timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask(){ public void run() {onTimerTick();}}, 0, 100L); isRunning = true; } private void showNotification() { nm = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); // In this sample, we'll use the same text for the ticker and the expanded notification CharSequence text = getText(R.string.service_started); // Set the icon, scrolling text and timestamp Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, text, System.currentTimeMillis()); // The PendingIntent to launch our activity if the user selects this notification PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, MainActivity.class), 0); // Set the info for the views that show in the notification panel. notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, getText(R.string.service_label), text, contentIntent); // Send the notification. // We use a layout id because it is a unique number. We use it later to cancel. nm.notify(R.string.service_started, notification); } @Override public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { Log.i("MyService", "Received start id " + startId + ": " + intent); return START_STICKY; // run until explicitly stopped. } public static boolean isRunning() { return isRunning; } private void onTimerTick() { Log.i("TimerTick", "Timer doing work." + counter); try { counter += incrementby; sendMessageToUI(counter); } catch (Throwable t) { //you should always ultimately catch all exceptions in timer tasks. Log.e("TimerTick", "Timer Tick Failed.", t); } } @Override public void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); if (timer != null) {timer.cancel();} counter=0; nm.cancel(R.string.service_started); // Cancel the persistent notification. Log.i("MyService", "Service Stopped."); isRunning = false; } }

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• Example: Communication between Activity and Service using Messaging

  - by Lance Lefebure

  I couldn't find any examples of how to send messages between an activity and a service, and spent far too many hours figuring this out. Here is an example project for others to reference. This example allows you to start or stop a service directly, and separately bind/unbind from the service. When the service is running, it increments a number at 10Hz. If the activity is bound to the service, it will display the current value. Data is transferred as an Integer and as a String so you can see how to do that two different ways. There are also buttons in the activity to send messages to the service (changes the increment-by value). Screenshot: AndroidManifest.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.exampleservice" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0"> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <service android:name=".MyService"></service> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /> </manifest> res\values\strings.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <string name="app_name">ExampleService</string> <string name="service_started">Example Service started</string> <string name="service_label">Example Service Label</string> </resources> res\layout\main.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnStart" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Start Service"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnStop" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Stop Service" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout02" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnBind" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Bind to Service"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUnbind" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Unbind from Service" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> <TextView android:id="@+id/textStatus" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Status Goes Here" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/textIntValue" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Integer Value Goes Here" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/textStrValue" android:textSize="24sp" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="String Value Goes Here" /> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout03" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUpby1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Increment by 1"></Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btnUpby10" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Increment by 10" android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button> </RelativeLayout> </LinearLayout> src\com.exampleservice\MainActivity.java: package com.exampleservice; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.ComponentName; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.ServiceConnection; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.os.Messenger; import android.os.RemoteException; import android.util.Log; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; public class MainActivity extends Activity { Button btnStart, btnStop, btnBind, btnUnbind, btnUpby1, btnUpby10; TextView textStatus, textIntValue, textStrValue; Messenger mService = null; boolean mIsBound; final Messenger mMessenger = new Messenger(new IncomingHandler()); class IncomingHandler extends Handler { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { switch (msg.what) { case MyService.MSG_SET_INT_VALUE: textIntValue.setText("Int Message: " + msg.arg1); break; case MyService.MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE: String str1 = msg.getData().getString("str1"); textStrValue.setText("Str Message: " + str1); break; default: super.handleMessage(msg); } } } private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() { public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) { mService = new Messenger(service); textStatus.setText("Attached."); try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // In this case the service has crashed before we could even do anything with it } } public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) { // This is called when the connection with the service has been unexpectedly disconnected - process crashed. mService = null; textStatus.setText("Disconnected."); } }; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); btnStart = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnStart); btnStop = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnStop); btnBind = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnBind); btnUnbind = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUnbind); textStatus = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textStatus); textIntValue = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textIntValue); textStrValue = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textStrValue); btnUpby1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUpby1); btnUpby10 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnUpby10); btnStart.setOnClickListener(btnStartListener); btnStop.setOnClickListener(btnStopListener); btnBind.setOnClickListener(btnBindListener); btnUnbind.setOnClickListener(btnUnbindListener); btnUpby1.setOnClickListener(btnUpby1Listener); btnUpby10.setOnClickListener(btnUpby10Listener); restoreMe(savedInstanceState); CheckIfServiceIsRunning(); } @Override protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); outState.putString("textStatus", textStatus.getText().toString()); outState.putString("textIntValue", textIntValue.getText().toString()); outState.putString("textStrValue", textStrValue.getText().toString()); } private void restoreMe(Bundle state) { if (state!=null) { textStatus.setText(state.getString("textStatus")); textIntValue.setText(state.getString("textIntValue")); textStrValue.setText(state.getString("textStrValue")); } } private void CheckIfServiceIsRunning() { //If the service is running when the activity starts, we want to automatically bind to it. if (MyService.isRunning()) { doBindService(); } } private OnClickListener btnStartListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ startService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyService.class)); } }; private OnClickListener btnStopListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doUnbindService(); stopService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyService.class)); } }; private OnClickListener btnBindListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doBindService(); } }; private OnClickListener btnUnbindListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ doUnbindService(); } }; private OnClickListener btnUpby1Listener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ sendMessageToService(1); } }; private OnClickListener btnUpby10Listener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v){ sendMessageToService(10); } }; private void sendMessageToService(int intvaluetosend) { if (mIsBound) { if (mService != null) { try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_SET_INT_VALUE, intvaluetosend, 0); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { } } } } void doBindService() { bindService(new Intent(this, MyService.class), mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); mIsBound = true; textStatus.setText("Binding."); } void doUnbindService() { if (mIsBound) { // If we have received the service, and hence registered with it, then now is the time to unregister. if (mService != null) { try { Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MyService.MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT); msg.replyTo = mMessenger; mService.send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // There is nothing special we need to do if the service has crashed. } } // Detach our existing connection. unbindService(mConnection); mIsBound = false; textStatus.setText("Unbinding."); } } @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); try { doUnbindService(); } catch (Throwable t) { Log.e("MainActivity", "Failed to unbind from the service", t); } } } src\com.exampleservice\MyService.java: package com.exampleservice; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Timer; import java.util.TimerTask; import android.app.Notification; import android.app.NotificationManager; import android.app.PendingIntent; import android.app.Service; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.os.Messenger; import android.os.RemoteException; import android.util.Log; public class MyService extends Service { private NotificationManager nm; private Timer timer = new Timer(); private int counter = 0, incrementby = 1; private static boolean isRunning = false; ArrayList<Messenger> mClients = new ArrayList<Messenger>(); // Keeps track of all current registered clients. int mValue = 0; // Holds last value set by a client. static final int MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT = 1; static final int MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT = 2; static final int MSG_SET_INT_VALUE = 3; static final int MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE = 4; final Messenger mMessenger = new Messenger(new IncomingHandler()); // Target we publish for clients to send messages to IncomingHandler. @Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return mMessenger.getBinder(); } class IncomingHandler extends Handler { // Handler of incoming messages from clients. @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { switch (msg.what) { case MSG_REGISTER_CLIENT: mClients.add(msg.replyTo); break; case MSG_UNREGISTER_CLIENT: mClients.remove(msg.replyTo); break; case MSG_SET_INT_VALUE: incrementby = msg.arg1; break; default: super.handleMessage(msg); } } } private void sendMessageToUI(int intvaluetosend) { for (int i=mClients.size()-1; i>=0; i--) { try { // Send data as an Integer mClients.get(i).send(Message.obtain(null, MSG_SET_INT_VALUE, intvaluetosend, 0)); //Send data as a String Bundle b = new Bundle(); b.putString("str1", "ab" + intvaluetosend + "cd"); Message msg = Message.obtain(null, MSG_SET_STRING_VALUE); msg.setData(b); mClients.get(i).send(msg); } catch (RemoteException e) { // The client is dead. Remove it from the list; we are going through the list from back to front so this is safe to do inside the loop. mClients.remove(i); } } } @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); Log.i("MyService", "Service Started."); showNotification(); timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask(){ public void run() {onTimerTick();}}, 0, 100L); isRunning = true; } private void showNotification() { nm = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); // In this sample, we'll use the same text for the ticker and the expanded notification CharSequence text = getText(R.string.service_started); // Set the icon, scrolling text and timestamp Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, text, System.currentTimeMillis()); // The PendingIntent to launch our activity if the user selects this notification PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, MainActivity.class), 0); // Set the info for the views that show in the notification panel. notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, getText(R.string.service_label), text, contentIntent); // Send the notification. // We use a layout id because it is a unique number. We use it later to cancel. nm.notify(R.string.service_started, notification); } @Override public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { Log.i("MyService", "Received start id " + startId + ": " + intent); return START_STICKY; // run until explicitly stopped. } public static boolean isRunning() { return isRunning; } private void onTimerTick() { Log.i("TimerTick", "Timer doing work." + counter); try { counter += incrementby; sendMessageToUI(counter); } catch (Throwable t) { //you should always ultimately catch all exceptions in timer tasks. Log.e("TimerTick", "Timer Tick Failed.", t); } } @Override public void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); if (timer != null) {timer.cancel();} counter=0; nm.cancel(R.string.service_started); // Cancel the persistent notification. Log.i("MyService", "Service Stopped."); isRunning = false; } }

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• ODI and OBIEE 11g Integration

  - by David Allan

  Here we will see some of the connectivity options to OBIEE 11g using the JDBC driver. You’ll see based upon some connection properties how the physical or presentation layers can be utilized. In the integrators guide for OBIEE 11g you will find a brief statement indicating that there actually is a JDBC driver for OBIEE. In OBIEE 11g its now possible to connect directly to the physical layer, Venkat has an informative post here on this topic. In ODI 11g the Oracle BI technology is shipped with the product along with KMs for reverse engineering, and using OBIEE models for a data source. When you install OBIEE in 11g a light weight demonstration application is preinstalled in the server, when you open this in the BI Administration tool we see the regular 3 panel view within the administration tool. To interrogate this system via JDBC (just like ODI does using the KMs) need a couple of things; the JDBC driver from OBIEE 11g, a java client program and the credentials. In my java client program I want to connect to the OBIEE system, when I connect I can interrogate what the JDBC driver presents for the metadata. The metadata projected via the JDBC connection’s DatabaseMetadata changes depending on whether the property NQ_SESSION.SELECTPHYSICAL is set when the java client connects. Let’s use the sample app to illustrate. I have a java client program here that will print out the tables in the DatabaseMetadata, it will also output the catalog and schema. For example if I execute without any special JDBC properties as follows; java -classpath .;%BIHOMEDIR%\clients\bijdbc.jar meta_jdbc oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver jdbc:oraclebi://localhost:9703/ weblogic mypass Then I get the following returned representing the presentation layer, the sample I used is XML, and has no schema; Catalog Schema Table Sample Sales Lite null Base Facts Sample Sales Lite null Calculated Facts …     Sample Targets Lite null Base Facts …     Now if I execute with the only difference being the JDBC property NQ_SESSION.SELECTPHYSICAL with the value Yes, then I see a different set of values representing the physical layer in OBIEE; java -classpath .;%BIHOMEDIR%\clients\bijdbc.jar meta_jdbc oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver jdbc:oraclebi://localhost:9703/ weblogic mypass NQ_SESSION.SELECTPHYSICAL=Yes The following is returned; Catalog Schema Table Sample App Lite Data null D01 Time Day Grain Sample App Lite Data null F10 Revenue Facts (Order grain) …     System DB (Update me)     …     If this was a database system such as Oracle, the catalog value would be the OBIEE database name and the schema would be the Oracle database schema. Other systems which have real catalog structure such as SQLServer would use its catalog value. Its this ‘Catalog’ and ‘Schema’ value that is important when integration OBIEE with ODI. For the demonstration application in OBIEE 11g, the following illustration shows how the information from OBIEE is related via the JDBC driver through to ODI. In the XML example above, within ODI’s physical schema definition on the right, we leave the schema blank since the XML data source has no schema. When I did this at first, I left the default value that ODI places in the Schema field since which was ‘<Undefined>’ (like image below) but this string is actually used in the RKM so ended up not finding any tables in this schema! Entering an empty string resolved this. Below we see a regular Oracle database example that has the database, schema, physical table structure, and how this is defined in ODI.   Remember back to the physical versus presentation layer usage when we passed the special property, well to do this in ODI, the data server has a panel for properties where you can define key/value pairs. So if you want to select physical objects from the OBIEE server, then you must set this property. An additional changed in ODI 11g is the OBIEE connection pool support, this has been implemented via a ‘Connection Pool’ flex field for the Oracle BI data server. So here you set the connection pool name from the OBIEE system that you specifically want to use and this is used by the Oracle BI to Oracle (DBLINK) LKM, so if you are using this you must set this flex field. Hopefully a useful insight into some of the mechanics of how this hangs together.

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• Integrate BING API for Search inside ASP.Net web application

  - by sreejukg

  As you might already know, Bing is the Microsoft Search engine and is getting popular day by day. Bing offers APIs that can be integrated into your website to increase your website functionality. At this moment, there are two important APIs available. They are Bing Search API Bing Maps The Search API enables you to build applications that utilize Bing’s technology. The API allows you to search multiple source types such as web; images, video etc. and supports various output prototypes such as JSON, XML, and SOAP. Also you will be able to customize the search results as you wish for your public facing website. Bing Maps API allows you to build robust applications that use Bing Maps. In this article I am going to describe, how you can integrate Bing search into your website. In order to start using Bing, First you need to sign in to http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/ using your windows live credentials. Click on the Sign in button, you will be asked to enter your windows live credentials. Once signed in you will be redirected to the Developer page. Here you can create applications and get AppID for each application. Since I am a first time user, I don’t have any applications added. Click on the Add button to add a new application. You will be asked to enter certain details about your application. The fields are straight forward, only thing you need to note is the website field, here you need to enter the website address from where you are going to use this application, and this field is optional too. Of course you need to agree on the terms and conditions and then click Save. Once you click on save, the application will be created and application ID will be available for your use. Now we got the APP Id. Basically Bing supports three protocols. They are JSON, XML and SOAP. JSON is useful if you want to call the search requests directly from the browser and use JavaScript to parse the results, thus JSON is the favorite choice for AJAX application. XML is the alternative for applications that does not support SOAP, e.g. flash/ Silverlight etc. SOAP is ideal for strongly typed languages and gives a request/response object model. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to search BING API using SOAP protocol from an ASP.Net application. For the purpose of this demonstration, I am going to create an ASP.Net project and implement the search functionality in an aspx page. Open Visual Studio, navigate to File-> New Project, select ASP.Net empty web application, I named the project as “BingSearchSample”. Add a Search.aspx page to the project, once added the solution explorer will looks similar to the following. Now you need to add a web reference to the SOAP service available from Bing. To do this, from the solution explorer, right click your project, select Add Service Reference. Now the new service reference dialog will appear. In the left bottom of the dialog, you can find advanced button, click on it. Now the service reference settings dialog will appear. In the bottom left, you can find Add Web Reference button, click on it. The add web reference dialog will appear now. Enter the URL as http://api.bing.net/search.wsdl?AppID=<YourAppIDHere>&version=2.2 (replace <yourAppIDHere> with the appID you have generated previously) and click on the button next to it. This will find the web service methods available. You can change the namespace suggested by Bing, but for the purpose of this demonstration I have accepted all the default settings. Click on the Add reference button once you are done. Now the web reference to Search service will be added your project. You can find this under solution explorer of your project. Now in the Search.aspx, that you previously created, place one textbox, button and a grid view. For the purpose of this demonstration, I have given the identifiers (ID) as txtSearch, btnSearch, gvSearch respectively. The idea is to search the text entered in the text box using Bing service and show the results in the grid view. In the design view, the search.aspx looks as follows. In the search.aspx.cs page, add a using statement that points to net.bing.api. I have added the following code for button click event handler. The code is very straight forward. It just calls the service with your AppID, a query to search and a source for searching. Let us run this page and see the output when I enter Microsoft in my textbox. If you want to search a specific site, you can include the site name in the query parameter. For e.g. the following query will search the word Microsoft from www.microsoft.com website. searchRequest.Query = “site:www.microsoft.com Microsoft”; The output of this query is as follows. Integrating BING search API to your website is easy and there is no limit on the customization of the interface you can do. There is no Bing branding required so I believe this is a great option for web developers when they plan for site search.

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• How to propagate http response code from back-end to client

  - by Manoj Neelapu

  Oracle service bus can be used as for pass through casses. Some use cases require propagating the http-response code back to the caller. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=4326052&#4326052 is one such example we will try to accomplish in this tutorial.We will try to demonstrate this feature using Oracle Service Bus (11.1.1.3.0. We will also use commons-logging-1.1.1, httpcomponents-client-4.0.1, httpcomponents-core-4.0.1 for writing the client to demonstrate.First we create a simple JSP which will always set response code to 304.The JSP snippet will look like <%@ page language="java"     contentType="text/xml;     charset=UTF-8"        pageEncoding="UTF-8" %><%      System.out.println("Servlet setting Responsecode=304");    response.setStatus(304);    response.flushBuffer();%>We will now deploy this JSP on weblogic server with URI=http://localhost:7021/reponsecode/For this JSP we will create a simple Any XML BS We will also create proxy service as shown below Once the proxy is created we configure pipeline for the proxy to use route node, which invokes the BS(JSPCaller) created in the first place. So now we will create a error handler for route node and will add a stage. When a HTTP BS sends a request, the JSP sends the response back. If the response code is not 200, then the http BS will consider that as error and the above configured error handler is invoked. We will print $outbound to show the response code sent by the JSP. The next actions. To test this I had create a simple clientimport org.apache.http.Header;import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;import org.apache.http.HttpHost;import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory;import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;/** * @author MNEELAPU * */public class TestProxy304{    public static void main(String arg[]) throws Exception{     HttpHost target = new HttpHost("localhost", 7021, "http");     // general setup     SchemeRegistry supportedSchemes = new SchemeRegistry();     // Register the "http" protocol scheme, it is required     // by the default operator to look up socket factories.     supportedSchemes.register(new Scheme("http",              PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 7021));     // prepare parameters     HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();     HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);     HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, "UTF-8");     HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(params, true);     ClientConnectionManager connMgr = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params,              supportedSchemes);     DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(connMgr, params);     HttpGet req = new HttpGet("/HttpResponseCode/ProxyExposed");     System.out.println("executing request to " + target);     HttpResponse rsp = httpclient.execute(target, req);     HttpEntity entity = rsp.getEntity();     System.out.println("----------------------------------------");     System.out.println(rsp.getStatusLine());     Header[] headers = rsp.getAllHeaders();     for (int i = 0; i < headers.length; i++) {         System.out.println(headers[i]);     }     System.out.println("----------------------------------------");     if (entity != null) {         System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));     }     // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,      // shut down the connection manager to ensure     // immediate deallocation of all system resources     httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();     }}On compiling and executing this we see the below output in STDOUT which clearly indicates the response code was propagated from Business Service to Proxy serviceexecuting request to http://localhost:7021----------------------------------------HTTP/1.1 304 Not ModifiedDate: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:13:42 GMTContent-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5 JSP/2.1----------------------------------------  

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• Building InstallShield based Installers using Team Build 2010

  - by jehan

  Last few weeks, I have been working on Application Packaging stuff using all the widely used tools like InstallShield, WISE, WiX and Visual Studio Installer. So, I thought it would be good to post about how to Build the Installers developed using these tools with Team Build 2010. This post will focus on how to build the InstallShield generated packages using Team Build 2010. For the release of VS2010, Microsoft has partnered with Flexera who are the makers of InstallShield to create InstallShield Limited Edition, especially for the customers of Visual Studio. First Microsoft planned to release WiX (Windows Installer Xml) with VS2010, but later Microsoft dropped  WiX from VS2010 due to reasons which are best known to them and partnered with InstallShield for Limited Edition. It disappointed lot of people because InstallShield Limited Edition provides only few features of InstallShield and it may not feasable to build complex installer packages using this and it also requires License, where as WiX is an open source with no license costs and it has proved efficient in building most complex packages. Only the last three features are available in InstallShield Limited Edition from the total features offered by InstallShield as shown in below list.                                                                                            Feature Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010 Standalone Build System Maintain a clean build machine by using only the part of InstallShield that compiles the installations. InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite Avoid common installation issues. Try and Die Functionality RCreate a fully functional trial version of your product. InstallShield Repackager Create Windows Installer setups from any legacy installation. Multilingual Support Present installation text in up to 35 languages. Microsoft App-V™ Support Deploy your applications as App-V virtual packages that run without conflict. Industry-Standard InstallScript Achieve maximum flexibility in your installations. Dialog Editor Modify the layout of existing end-user dialogs, create new custom dialogs, and more. Patch Creation Build updates and patches for your products. Setup Prerequisite Editor Easily control prerequisite restart behavior and source locations. String Editor View Control the localizable text strings displayed at run time with this spreadsheet-like table. Text File Changes View Configure search-and-replace actions for content in text files to be modified at run time. Virtual Machine Detection Block your installations from running on virtual machines. Unicode Support Improve multi-language installation development. Support for 64-Bit COM Extraction Extract COM data from a 64-bit COM server. Windows Installer Installation Chaining Add MSI packages to your main installation and chain them together. XML Support Save time by quickly testing XML configuration changes to installation projects. Billboard Support for Custom Branding Display Adobe Flash billboards and other graphic files during the install process. SaaS Support (IIS 7 and SSL Technologies) Easily deploy Windows-based Web applications. Project Assistant Jumpstart a project by using a simplified set of views. Support for Digital Signatures Save time by digitally signing all your files at build time. Easily Run Custom Actions Schedule a custom action to run at precisely the right moment in your installation. Installation Prerequisites Check for and install prerequisites before your installation is executed. To create a InstallShield project in Visual Studio and Build it using Team Build 2010, first you have to add the InstallShield Project template  to your Solution file. If you want to use InstallShield Limited edition you can add it from FileàNewà project àother Project Types àSetup and Deploymentà InstallShield LE and if you are using other versions of InstallShield, then you have to add it from  from FileàNewà project àInstallShield Projects. Here, I’m using  InstallShield 2011 Premier edition as I already have it Installed. I have created a simple package for TailSpin Application which has a Feature called Web, few components and a IIS Web Site for  TailSpin application.   Before started working on this, I thought I may need to build the package by calling invoke process activity in build process template or have to create a new custom activity. But, it got build without any changes to build process template. But, it was failing with below error message. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\InstallShield\2011\InstallShield.targets (68): The "InstallShield.Tasks.InstallShield" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\InstallShield\2010Limited\InstallShield.Tasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files(x86)\MSBuild\InstallShield\2011\InstallShield.Tasks.dll' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask. This error is due to 64-bit build machine which I’m using. This issue will be replicable if you are queuing a build on a 64-bit build machine. To avoid this you have to ensure that you configured the build definition for your InstallShield project to load the InstallShield.Tasks.dll file (which is a 32-bit file); otherwise, you will encounter this build error informing you that the InstallShield.Tasks.dll file could not be loaded. To select the 32-bit version of MSBuild, click the Process tab of your build definition in Team Explorer. Then, under the Advanced node, find the MSBuild Platform setting, and select x86. Note that if you are using a 32-bit build machine, you can select either Auto or x86 for the MSBuild Platform setting.  Once I did above changes, the build got successful.

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• ASP.NET Web API and Simple Value Parameters from POSTed data

  - by Rick Strahl

  In testing out various features of Web API I've found a few oddities in the way that the serialization is handled. These are probably not super common but they may throw you for a loop. Here's what I found. Simple Parameters from Xml or JSON Content Web API makes it very easy to create action methods that accept parameters that are automatically parsed from XML or JSON request bodies. For example, you can send a JavaScript JSON object to the server and Web API happily deserializes it for you. This works just fine:public string ReturnAlbumInfo(Album album) { return album.AlbumName + " (" + album.YearReleased.ToString() + ")"; } However, if you have methods that accept simple parameter types like strings, dates, number etc., those methods don't receive their parameters from XML or JSON body by default and you may end up with failures. Take the following two very simple methods:public string ReturnString(string message) { return message; } public HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime(DateTime time) { return Request.CreateResponse<DateTime>(HttpStatusCode.OK, time); } The first one accepts a string and if called with a JSON string from the client like this:var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsJsonAsync<string>(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString, "Hello World").Result; which results in a trace like this: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8Host: rasxpsContent-Length: 13Expect: 100-continueConnection: Keep-Alive "Hello World" produces… wait for it: null. Sending a date in the same fashion:var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsJsonAsync<DateTime>(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnDateTime, new DateTime(2012, 1, 1)).Result; results in this trace: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnDateTime HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8Host: rasxpsContent-Length: 30Expect: 100-continueConnection: Keep-Alive "\/Date(1325412000000-1000)\/" (yes still the ugly MS AJAX date, yuk! This will supposedly change by RTM with Json.net used for client serialization) produces an error response: The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'time' of non-nullable type 'System.DateTime' for method 'System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime(System.DateTime)' in 'AspNetWebApi.Controllers.AlbumApiController'. An optional parameter must be a reference type, a nullable type, or be declared as an optional parameter. Basically any simple parameters are not parsed properly resulting in null being sent to the method. For the string the call doesn't fail, but for the non-nullable date it produces an error because the method can't handle a null value. This behavior is a bit unexpected to say the least, but there's a simple solution to make this work using an explicit [FromBody] attribute:public string ReturnString([FromBody] string message) andpublic HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime([FromBody] DateTime time) which explicitly instructs Web API to read the value from the body. UrlEncoded Form Variable Parsing Another similar issue I ran into is with POST Form Variable binding. Web API can retrieve parameters from the QueryString and Route Values but it doesn't explicitly map parameters from POST values either. Taking our same ReturnString function from earlier and posting a message POST variable like this:var formVars = new Dictionary<string,string>(); formVars.Add("message", "Some Value"); var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(formVars); var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsync(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString, content).Result; which produces this trace: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedHost: rasxpsContent-Length: 18Expect: 100-continue message=Some+Value When calling ReturnString:public string ReturnString(string message) { return message; } unfortunately it does not map the message value to the message parameter. This sort of mapping unfortunately is not available in Web API. Web API does support binding to form variables but only as part of model binding, which binds object properties to the POST variables. Sending the same message as in the previous example you can use the following code to pick up POST variable data:public string ReturnMessageModel(MessageModel model) { return model.Message; } public class MessageModel { public string Message { get; set; }} Note that the model is bound and the message form variable is mapped to the Message property as would other variables to properties if there were more. This works but it's not very dynamic. There's no real easy way to retrieve form variables (or query string values for that matter) in Web API's Request object as far as I can discern. Well only if you consider this easy:public string ReturnString() { var formData = Request.Content.ReadAsAsync<FormDataCollection>().Result; return formData.Get("message"); } Oddly FormDataCollection does not allow for indexers to work so you have to use the .Get() method which is rather odd. If you're running under IIS/Cassini you can always resort to the old and trusty HttpContext access for request data:public string ReturnString() { return HttpContext.Current.Request.Form["message"]; } which works fine and is easier. It's kind of a bummer that HttpRequestMessage doesn't expose some sort of raw Request object that has access to dynamic data - given that it's meant to serve as a generic REST/HTTP API that seems like a crucial missing piece. I don't see any way to read query string values either. To me personally HttpContext works, since I don't see myself using self-hosted code much.© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in Web Api   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• Code Structure / Level Design: Plants vs Zombies game level dissection

  - by lalan

  Hi Friends, I am interested in learning the class structure of Plants vs Zombies, particularly level design; for those who haven't played it - this video contains nice play-through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89DfdOIJ4xw. How would I go ahead and design the code, mostly structure & classes, which allows for maximum flexibility & clean development? I am familiar with data driven design concepts, and would use events to handle most of dynamic behavior. Dissection at macro level: (Once every Level) Load tilemap, props, etc -- basically build the map (Once every Level) Camera Movement - might consider it as short cut-scene (Once every Level) Show Enemies you'll face during present level (Once every Level) Unit Selection Window/Panel - selection of defensive plants (Once every Level) Camera Movement - might consider it as short cut-scene (Once every Level) HUD Creation - based on unit selection (Level Loop) Enemy creation - based on types of zombies allowed (Level Loop) Sun/Resource generation (Level Loop) Show messages like 'huge wave of zombies coming', 'final wave' (Level Loop) Other unique events - Spawn gifts, money, tombstones, etc (Once every Level) Unlock new plant Potential game scripts: a) Level definitions: Level_1_1.xml, Level_1_2.xml, etc. Level_1_1.xml :: Sample script <map> <tilemap>tilemapFrontLawn</tilemap> <SpawnPoints> tiles where particular type of zombies (land vs water) may spawn</spawnPoints> <props> position, entity array -- lawnmower, </props> </map> <zombies> <... list of zombies who gonna attack by ids...> </zombies> <plants> <... list by plants which are available for defense by ids...> </plants> <progression> <ZombieWave name='first wave' spawnScript='zombieLightWave.lua' unlock='null'> <startMessages time=1.5>Ready</startMessages> <endMessages time=1.5>Huge wave of zombies incoming</endMessages> </ZombieWave> </progression> b) Entities definitions: .xmls containing zombies, plants, sun, lawnmower, coins, etc description. Potential classes: //LevelManager - Based on the level under play, it will load level script. Few of the // functions it may have: class LevelManager { public: bool load(string levelFileName); bool enter(); bool update(float deltatime); bool exit(); private: LevelData* mLevelData; } // LevelData - Contains the details of level loaded by LevelManager. class LevelData { private: string file; // array of camera,dialog,attackwaves, etc in active level LevelCutSceneCamera** mArrayCutSceneCamera; LevelCutSceneDialog** mArrayCutSceneDialog; LevelAttackWave** mArrayAttackWave; .... // which camera,dialog,attackwave is active in level uint mCursorCutSceneCamera; uint mCursorCutSceneDialog; uint mCursorAttackWave; public: // based on cursor, get the next camera,dialog,attackwave,etc in active level // return false/true based on failure/success bool nextCutSceneCamera(LevelCutSceneCamera**); bool nextCutSceneDialog(LevelCutSceneDialog**); } // LevelUnderPlay- LevelManager class LevelUnderPlay { private: LevelCutSceneCamera* mCutSceneCamera; LevelCutSceneDialog* mCutSceneDialog; LevelAttackWave* mAttackWave; Entities** mSelectedPlants; Entities** mAllowedZombies; bool isCutSceneCameraActive; public: bool enter(); bool update(float deltatime); bool exit(); } I am totally confused.. :( Does it make sense of using class composition (have flat class hierarchy) for managing levels. Is it a good idea to just add/remove/update sprites (or any drawable stuff) to current scene from LevelManager or LevelUnderPlay? If I want to make non-linear level design, how should I go ahead? Perhaps I would need a LevelProgression class, which would decide what to do based on decision tree. Any suggestions would be appreciated very much. Thank for your time, lalan

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• Autoscaling in a modern world&hellip;. Part 2

  - by Steve Loethen

  When we last left off, we had a web application spinning away in the cloud, and a local console application watching it and reacting to changes in demand.  Reactions that were specified by a set of rules.  Let’s talk about those rules. Constraints.  The first set of rules this application answered to were the constraints. Here is what they looked like: <constraintRules> <rule name="default" enabled="true" rank="1" description="The default constraint rule"> <actions> <range min="1" max="4" target="AutoscalingApplicationRole"/> </actions> </rule> </constraintRules> Pretty basic.  We have one role, the “AutoscalingApplicationRole”, and we have decided to have it live within a range of 1 to 4.  This rule does not adjust, but instead, set’s limits on what other rules can do.  It has a rank, so you can have you can specify other sets of constraints, perhaps based on time or date, to allow for deviations from this set.  But for now, let’s keep it simple.  In the real world, you would probably use the minimum to set a lower end SLA.  A common value might be a 2, to prevent the reactive rules from ever taking you down to 1 role.  The maximum is often used to keep a rule from driving the cost up, setting an upper limit to prevent you waking up one morning and find a bill for hundreds of instances you didn’t expect.  So, here we have the range we want our application to live inside.  This is good for our investigation and testing.  Next, let’s take a look at the reactive rules.  These rules are what you use to react (hence reactive rules) to changing demands on your application.  The HOL has two simple rules.  One that looks at a queue depth, and one that looks at a performance counter that reports cpu utilization.  the XML in the rules file looks like this: <reactiveRules> <rule name="ScaleUp" rank="10" description="Scale Up the web role" enabled="true"> <when> <any> <greaterOrEqual operand="Length_05_holqueue" than="10"/> <greaterOrEqual operand="CPU_05_holwebrole" than="65"/> </any> </when> <actions> <scale target="AutoscalingApplicationRole" by="1"/> </actions> </rule> <rule name="ScaleDown" rank="10" description="Scale down the web role" enabled="true"> <when> <all> <less operand="Length_05_holqueue" than="5"/> <less operand="CPU_05_holwebrole" than="40"/> </all> </when> <actions> <scale target="AutoscalingApplicationRole" by="-1"/> </actions> </rule> </reactiveRules> <operands> <performanceCounter alias="CPU_05_holwebrole" performanceCounterName="\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" source="AutoscalingApplicationRole" timespan="00:05:00" aggregate="Average" /> <queueLength alias="Length_05_holqueue" queue="hol-queue" timespan="00:05:00" aggregate="Average"/> </operands> These rules are currently contained in a file called rules.xml, that is in the root of the console application.  The console app, starts up, grabs the rules and starts watching the 2 operands.  When it detects a rule has been satisfied, it performs the desired action.  (here, scale up or down my 1). But I want to host the autoscaler  in the cloud.  For my first trick, I will move the rules (and another file called services.xml) to azure blob storage.  Look for part 3.

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• .NET Security Part 2

  - by Simon Cooper

  So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? There are two main situations in which your assembly runs as partially-trusted using the Microsoft .NET stack: Creating a CLR assembly in SQL Server with anything other than the UNSAFE permission set. The permissions available in each permission set are given here. Loading an assembly in ASP.NET in any trust level other than Full. Information on ASP.NET trust levels can be found here. You can configure the specific permissions available to assemblies using ASP.NET policy files. Alternatively, you can create your own partially-trusted appdomain in code and directly control the permissions and the full-trust API available to the assemblies you load into the appdomain. This is the scenario I’ll be concentrating on in this post. Creating a partially-trusted appdomain There is a single overload of AppDomain.CreateDomain that allows you to specify the permissions granted to assemblies in that appdomain – this one. This is the only call that allows you to specify a PermissionSet for the domain. All the other calls simply use the permissions of the calling code. If the permissions are restricted, then the resulting appdomain is referred to as a sandboxed domain. There are three things you need to create a sandboxed domain: The specific permissions granted to all assemblies in the domain. The application base (aka working directory) of the domain. The list of assemblies that have full-trust if they are loaded into the sandboxed domain. The third item is what allows us to have a fully-trusted API that is callable by partially-trusted code. I’ll be looking at the details of this in a later post. Granting permissions to the appdomain Firstly, the permissions granted to the appdomain. This is encapsulated in a PermissionSet object, initialized either with no permissions or full-trust permissions. For sandboxed appdomains, the PermissionSet is initialized with no permissions, then you add permissions you want assemblies loaded into that appdomain to have by default: PermissionSet restrictedPerms = new PermissionSet(PermissionState.None); // all assemblies need Execution permission to run at all restrictedPerms.AddPermission( new SecurityPermission(SecurityPermissionFlag.Execution)); // grant general read access to C:\config.xml restrictedPerms.AddPermission( new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.Read, @"C:\config.xml")); // grant permission to perform DNS lookups restrictedPerms.AddPermission( new DnsPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted)); It’s important to point out that the permissions granted to an appdomain, and so to all assemblies loaded into that appdomain, are usable without needing to go through any SafeCritical code (see my last post if you’re unsure what SafeCritical code is). That is, partially-trusted code loaded into an appdomain with the above permissions (and so running under the Transparent security level) is able to create and manipulate a FileStream object to read from C:\config.xml directly. It is only for operations requiring permissions that are not granted to the appdomain that partially-trusted code is required to call a SafeCritical method that then asserts the missing permissions and performs the operation safely on behalf of the partially-trusted code. The application base of the domain This is simply set as a property on an AppDomainSetup object, and is used as the default directory assemblies are loaded from: AppDomainSetup appDomainSetup = new AppDomainSetup { ApplicationBase = @"C:\temp\sandbox", }; If you’ve read the documentation around sandboxed appdomains, you’ll notice that it mentions a security hole if this parameter is set correctly. I’ll be looking at this, and other pitfalls, that will break the sandbox when using sandboxed appdomains, in a later post. Full-trust assemblies in the appdomain Finally, we need the strong names of the assemblies that, when loaded into the appdomain, will be run as full-trust, irregardless of the permissions specified on the appdomain. These assemblies will contain methods and classes decorated with SafeCritical and Critical attributes. I’ll be covering the details of creating full-trust APIs for partial-trust appdomains in a later post. This is how you get the strongnames of an assembly to be executed as full-trust in the sandbox: // get the Assembly object for the assembly Assembly assemblyWithApi = ... // get the StrongName from the assembly's collection of evidence StrongName apiStrongName = assemblyWithApi.Evidence.GetHostEvidence<StrongName>(); Creating the sandboxed appdomain So, putting these three together, you create the appdomain like so: AppDomain sandbox = AppDomain.CreateDomain( "Sandbox", null, appDomainSetup, restrictedPerms, apiStrongName); You can then load and execute assemblies in this appdomain like any other. For example, to load an assembly into the appdomain and get an instance of the Sandboxed.Entrypoint class, implementing IEntrypoint, you do this: IEntrypoint o = (IEntrypoint)sandbox.CreateInstanceFromAndUnwrap( "C:\temp\sandbox\SandboxedAssembly.dll", "Sandboxed.Entrypoint"); // call method the Execute method on this object within the sandbox o.Execute(); The second parameter to CreateDomain is for security evidence used in the appdomain. This was a feature of the .NET 2 security model, and has been (mostly) obsoleted in the .NET 4 model. Unless the evidence is needed elsewhere (eg. isolated storage), you can pass in null for this parameter. Conclusion That’s the basics of sandboxed appdomains. The most important object is the PermissionSet that defines the permissions available to assemblies running in the appdomain; it is this object that defines the appdomain as full or partial-trust. The appdomain also needs a default directory used for assembly lookups as the ApplicationBase parameter, and you can specify an optional list of the strongnames of assemblies that will be given full-trust permissions if they are loaded into the sandboxed appdomain. Next time, I’ll be looking closer at full-trust assemblies running in a sandboxed appdomain, and what you need to do to make an API available to partial-trust code.

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