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Common reasons for the ‘Sys is undefined’ error in ASP.NET Ajax applications

In this blog I will try to summarize the most common reasons for getting the famous 'Sys is undefined' error when running an Ajax enabled web site or application (there are almost one milion results on Google for that phrase). Where does it come from? In every Ajax web pages source you will see a code like this: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager._initialize('ScriptManager1', document.getElementById('form1')); Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance()._updateControls([], [], [], 90); //]]> </script> This is the initialization script of the ScriptManager. So, if for some reason the Sys namespace is not available when the code executes you get the Sys is undefined error. Here are the most common reasons and solutions for that problem: 1. The error occurs when you have added a control from RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, but your application is not configured to use ASP.NET AJAX. For example, in VS 2005 you created a new Blank Site instead of a new Ajax-Enabled Web Site and the Sys is undefined message pops up. To fix it you need to follow the steps described at Configuring ASP.NET Ajax article (check the topic called Adding ASP.NET AJAX Configuration Elements to an Existing Web Site) or simply create the Ajax-Enabled Web Site. You can also check my other blog post on the matter: Visual Studio 2008: Where is the new ASP.NET Ajax-Enabled Web Site template? 2. Authentication - as the website denies access to all pages to unauthorized users, access to the Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd handler is unauthorized (this is the default handler of RadScriptManager). This causes the handler to serve the content of the login page instead of the combined scripts, hence the error. To solve it - add a <location> section to the application configuration file to allow access to Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd to all users, like: <configuration> ... <location path="Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow users="*"/> </authorization> </system.web> </location> ... </configuration> Note that the access to the standard ScriptResource.axd and WebResource.axd is automatically allowed for all users (authenticated and unauthenticated), so if you use the ScriptManager instead of RadScriptManager - you will not face this problem. The authentication problem does not manifest when you disable script combining or use the CDN. Adding the above configuration section will make it work with RadScriptManagers combined script. 3. The IE6 browser fails to load the compressed script. The problem does not appear in any other browser. There is a well known bug in the older versions of IE6 which lose the first 2,048 bytes of data that are sent back from a Web server that uses HTTP compression. Latest versions of RadScriptManager does not compress the output at all if the client is IE6, but in the previous versions you need to manually disable the output compression to prevent the error. So, if you get the Sys is undefined error in IE6 - update to the latest version of RadControls or simply disable the output compression. 4. Requests to the *.axd files returns Error Code 404 - Not Found. This could be fixed easily: Check in the IIS management console that the .axd extension (the default HTTP handler extension) is allowed: Also check if the Verify if file exists checkbox is unchecked (click on the Edit button appearing in the previous screenshot to check). More information can be found in our troubleshooting article and from the ASP.NET QA team blog post 5. The virtual directory in IIS is not marked as Web Application. Converting it to Web Application should fix the problem. 6. Check for the <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> option in your web.config and remove it. It would be rather rare to become a victim of this exact case, but still have it in mind. Scott Guthrie describes it in more details In the above points I mentioned several times the terms web resources, javascript output, compressed script. If you want to find out more about these please see the Web Resources Demystified series of my friend and colleague Atanas Korchev I hope that one of the above solutions will help you get rid of the Sys is undefined error. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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How to Point sprite's direction towards Mouse or an Object [duplicate]

- by Irfan Dahir

This question already has an answer here: Rotating To Face a Point 1 answer I need some help with rotating sprites towards the mouse. I'm currently using the library allegro 5.XX. The rotation of the sprite works but it's constantly inaccurate. It's always a few angles off from the mouse to the left. Can anyone please help me with this? Thank you. P.S I got help with the rotating function from here: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/11/18/GameDev-math-recipes-Rotating-to-face-a-point.aspx Although it's by javascript, the maths function is the same. And also, by placing: if(angle < 0) { angle = 360 - (-angle); } doesn't fix it. The Code: #include <allegro5\allegro.h> #include <allegro5\allegro_image.h> #include "math.h" int main(void) { int width = 640; int height = 480; bool exit = false; int shipW = 0; int shipH = 0; ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = NULL; ALLEGRO_EVENT_QUEUE *event_queue = NULL; ALLEGRO_BITMAP *ship = NULL; if(!al_init()) return -1; display = al_create_display(width, height); if(!display) return -1; al_install_keyboard(); al_install_mouse(); al_init_image_addon(); al_set_new_bitmap_flags(ALLEGRO_MIN_LINEAR | ALLEGRO_MAG_LINEAR); //smoother rotate ship = al_load_bitmap("ship.bmp"); shipH = al_get_bitmap_height(ship); shipW = al_get_bitmap_width(ship); int shipx = width/2 - shipW/2; int shipy = height/2 - shipH/2; int mx = width/2; int my = height/2; al_set_mouse_xy(display, mx, my); event_queue = al_create_event_queue(); al_register_event_source(event_queue, al_get_mouse_event_source()); al_register_event_source(event_queue, al_get_keyboard_event_source()); //al_hide_mouse_cursor(display); float angle; while(!exit) { ALLEGRO_EVENT ev; al_wait_for_event(event_queue, &ev); if(ev.type == ALLEGRO_EVENT_KEY_UP) { switch(ev.keyboard.keycode) { case ALLEGRO_KEY_ESCAPE: exit = true; break; /*case ALLEGRO_KEY_LEFT: degree -= 10; break; case ALLEGRO_KEY_RIGHT: degree += 10; break;*/ case ALLEGRO_KEY_W: shipy -=10; break; case ALLEGRO_KEY_S: shipy +=10; break; case ALLEGRO_KEY_A: shipx -=10; break; case ALLEGRO_KEY_D: shipx += 10; break; } }else if(ev.type == ALLEGRO_EVENT_MOUSE_AXES) { mx = ev.mouse.x; my = ev.mouse.y; angle = atan2(my - shipy, mx - shipx); } // al_draw_bitmap(ship,shipx, shipy, 0); //al_draw_rotated_bitmap(ship, shipW/2, shipH/2, shipx, shipy, degree * 3.142/180,0); al_draw_rotated_bitmap(ship, shipW/2, shipH/2, shipx, shipy,angle, 0); //I directly placed the angle because the allegro library calculates radians, and if i multiplied it by 180/3. 142 the rotation would go hawire, not would, it actually did. al_flip_display(); al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(0,0,0)); } al_destroy_bitmap(ship); al_destroy_event_queue(event_queue); al_destroy_display(display); return 0; } EDIT: This was marked duplicate by a moderator. I'd like to say that this isn't the same as that. I'm a total beginner at game programming, I had a view at that other topic and I had difficulty understanding it. Please understand this, thank you. :/ Also, while I was making a print of what the angle is I got this... Here is a screenshot:http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7396/fzuq.jpg Which is weird because aren't angles supposed to be 360 degrees only?

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How can I implement a database TableView like thing in C++?

- by Industrial-antidepressant

How can I implement a TableView like thing in C++? I want to emulating a tiny relation database like thing in C++. I have data tables, and I want to transform it somehow, so I need a TableView like class. I want filtering, sorting, freely add and remove items and transforming (ex. view as UPPERCASE and so on). The whole thing is inside a GUI application, so datatables and views are attached to a GUI (or HTML or something). So how can I identify an item in the view? How can I signal it when the table is changed? Is there some design pattern for this? Here is a simple table, and a simple data item: #include <string> #include <boost/multi_index_container.hpp> #include <boost/multi_index/member.hpp> #include <boost/multi_index/ordered_index.hpp> #include <boost/multi_index/random_access_index.hpp> using boost::multi_index_container; using namespace boost::multi_index; struct Data { Data() {} int id; std::string name; }; struct row{}; struct id{}; struct name{}; typedef boost::multi_index_container< Data, indexed_by< random_access<tag<row> >, ordered_unique<tag<id>, member<Data, int, &Data::id> >, ordered_unique<tag<name>, member<Data, std::string, &Data::name> > > > TDataTable; class DataTable { public: typedef Data item_type; typedef TDataTable::value_type value_type; typedef TDataTable::const_reference const_reference; typedef TDataTable::index<row>::type TRowIndex; typedef TDataTable::index<id>::type TIdIndex; typedef TDataTable::index<name>::type TNameIndex; typedef TRowIndex::iterator iterator; DataTable() : row_index(rule_table.get<row>()), id_index(rule_table.get<id>()), name_index(rule_table.get<name>()), row_index_writeable(rule_table.get<row>()) { } TDataTable::const_reference operator[](TDataTable::size_type n) const { return rule_table[n]; } std::pair<iterator,bool> push_back(const value_type& x) { return row_index_writeable.push_back(x); } iterator erase(iterator position) { return row_index_writeable.erase(position); } bool replace(iterator position,const value_type& x) { return row_index_writeable.replace(position, x); } template<typename InputIterator> void rearrange(InputIterator first) { return row_index_writeable.rearrange(first); } void print_table() const; unsigned size() const { return row_index.size(); } TDataTable rule_table; const TRowIndex& row_index; const TIdIndex& id_index; const TNameIndex& name_index; private: TRowIndex& row_index_writeable; }; class DataTableView { DataTableView(const DataTable& source_table) {} // How can I implement this? // I want filtering, sorting, signaling upper GUI layer, and sorting, and ... }; int main() { Data data1; data1.id = 1; data1.name = "name1"; Data data2; data2.id = 2; data2.name = "name2"; DataTable table; table.push_back(data1); DataTable::iterator it1 = table.row_index.iterator_to(table[0]); table.erase(it1); table.push_back(data1); Data new_data(table[0]); new_data.name = "new_name"; table.replace(table.row_index.iterator_to(table[0]), new_data); for (unsigned i = 0; i < table.size(); ++i) std::cout << table[i].name << std::endl; #if 0 // using scenarios: DataTableView table_view(table); table_view.fill_from_source(); // synchronization with source table_view.remove(data_item1); // remove item from view table_view.add(data_item2); // add item from source table table_view.filter(filterfunc); // filtering table_view.sort(sortfunc); // sorting // modifying from source_able, hot to signal the table_view? // FYI: Table view is atteched to a GUI item table.erase(data); table.replace(data); #endif return 0; }

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No More NCrunch For Me

- by Steve Wilkes

When I opened up Visual Studio this morning, I was greeted with this little popup: NCrunch is a Visual Studio add-in which runs your tests while you work so you know if and when you've broken anything, as well as providing coverage indicators in the IDE and coverage metrics on demand. It recently went commercial (which I thought was fair enough), and time is running out for the free version I've been using for the last couple of months. From my experiences using NCrunch I'm going to let it expire, and go about my business without it. Here's why. Before I start, let me say that I think NCrunch is a good product, which is to say it's had a positive impact on my programming. I've used it to help test-drive a library I'm making right from the start of the project, and especially at the beginning it was very useful to have it run all my tests whenever I made a change. The first problem is that while that was cool to start with, it’s recently become a bit of a chore. Problems Running Tests NCrunch has two 'engine modes' in which it can run tests for you - it can run all your tests when you make a change, or it can figure out which tests were impacted and only run those. Unfortunately, it became clear pretty early on that that second option (which is marked as 'experimental') wasn't really working for me, so I had to have it run everything. With a smallish number of tests and while I was adding new features that was great, but I've now got 445 tests (still not exactly loads) and am more in a 'clean and tidy' mode where I know that a change I'm making will probably only affect a particular subset of the tests. With that in mind it's a bit of a drag sitting there after I make a change and having to wait for NCrunch to run everything. I could disable it and manually run the tests I know are impacted, but then what's the point of having NCrunch? If the 'impacted only' engine mode worked well this problem would go away, but that's not what I found. Secondly, what's wrong with this picture? I've got 445 tests, and NCrunch has queued 455 tests to run. So it's queued duplicate tests - in this quickly-screenshotted case 10, but I've seen the total queue get up over 600. If I'm already itchy waiting for it to run all my tests against a change I know only affects a few, I'm even itchier waiting for it to run a lot of them twice. Problems With Code Coverage NCrunch marks each line of code with a dot to say if it's covered by tests - a black dot says the line isn't covered, a red dot says it's covered but at least one of the covering tests is failing, and a green dot means all the covering tests pass. It also calculates coverage statistics for you. Unfortunately, there's a couple of flaws in the coverage. Firstly, it doesn't support ExcludeFromCodeCoverage attributes. This feature has been requested and I expect will be included in a later release, but right now it doesn't. So this: ...is counted as a non-covered line, and drags your coverage statistics down. Hmph. As well as that, coverage of certain types of code is missed. This: ...is definitely covered. I am 100% absolutely certain it is, by several tests. NCrunch doesn't pick it up, down go my coverage statistics. I've had NCrunch find genuinely uncovered code which I've been able to remove, and that's great, but what's the coverage percentage on this project? Umm... I don't know. Conclusion None of these are major, tool-crippling problems, and I expect NCrunch to get much better in future releases. The current version has some great features, like this: ...that's a line of code with a failing test covering it, and NCrunch can run that failing test and take me to that line exquisitely easily. That's awesome! I'd happily pay for a tool that can do that. But here's the thing: NCrunch (currently) costs $159 (about £100) for a personal licence and $289 (about £180) for a commercial one. I'm not sure which one I'd need as my project is a personal one which I'm intending to open-source, but I'm a professional, self-employed developer, but in any case - that seems like a lot of money for an imperfect tool. If it did everything it's advertised to do more or less perfectly I'd consider it, but it doesn't. So no more NCrunch for me.

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Mousin' down the PathListBox

- by T

While modifying the standard media player with a new look and feel for Ineta Live I saw a unique opportunity to use their logo with a dotted I with and attached arc as the scrub control. So I created a PathListBox that I wanted an object to follow when a user did a click and drag action. Below is how I solved the problem. Please let me know if you have improvements or know of a completely different way. I am always eager to learn. First, I created a path using the pen tool in Expression Blend (see the yellow line in image below). Then I right clicked that path and chose [Path] --> [Make Layout Path]. That created a new PathListBox. Then I chose the object I want to move down the new PathListBox and Placed it as a child in the Objects and Timeline window (see image below). If the child object (the thing the user will click and drag) is XAML, it will move much smoother than images. Just as another side note, I wanted there to be no highlight when the user selects the “ball” to drag and drop. This is done by editing the ItemContainerStyle under Additional Templates on the PathListBox. Post a question if you need help on this and I will expand my explanation. Here is a pic of the object and the path I wanted it to follow. I gave the path a yellow solid brush here so you could see it but when I lay this over another object, I will make the path transparent. To animate this object down the path, the trick is to animate the Start number for the LayoutPath. Not the StartItemIndex, the Start above Span. In order to enable animation when a user clicks and drags, I put in the following code snippets in the code behind. the DependencyProperties are not necessary for the Drag control. namespace InetaPlayer { public partial class PositionControl : UserControl { private bool _mouseDown; private double _maxPlayTime; public PositionControl() { // Required to initialize variables InitializeComponent(); //mouse events for scrub control positionThumb.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonDown); positionThumb.MouseLeftButtonUp += new MouseButtonEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonUp); positionThumb.MouseMove += new MouseEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseMove); positionThumb.LostMouseCapture += new MouseEventHandler(ValueThumb_LostMouseCapture); } // exposed for binding to real slider using a DependencyProperty enables animation, styling, binding, etc.... public double MaxPlayTime { get { return (double)GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); } set { SetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty, value); } } public static readonly DependencyProperty MaxPlayTimeProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("MaxPlayTime", typeof(double), typeof(PositionControl), null); // exposed for binding to real slider using a DependencyProperty enables animation, styling, binding, etc.... public double CurrSliderValue { get { return (double)GetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty); } set { SetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty, value); } } public static readonly DependencyProperty CurrSliderValueProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("CurrSliderValue", typeof(double), typeof(PositionControl), new PropertyMetadata(0.0, OnCurrSliderValuePropertyChanged)); private static void OnCurrSliderValuePropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { PositionControl control = d as PositionControl; control.OnCurrSliderValueChanged((double)e.OldValue, (double)e.NewValue); } private void OnCurrSliderValueChanged(double oldValue, double newValue) { _maxPlayTime = (double) GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); if (!_mouseDown) if (_maxPlayTime!=0) sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start = newValue / _maxPlayTime; else sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start = 0; } //mouse control void ValueThumb_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if (!_mouseDown) return; //get the offset of how far the drag has been //direction is handled automatically (offset will be negative for left move and positive for right move) Point mouseOff = e.GetPosition(positionThumb); //Divide the offset by 1000 for a smooth transition sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start +=mouseOff.X/1000; _maxPlayTime = (double)GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); SetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty ,sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start*_maxPlayTime); } void ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = false; } void ValueThumb_LostMouseCapture(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = false; } void ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = true; ((UIElement)positionThumb).CaptureMouse(); } } } I made this into a user control and exposed a couple of DependencyProperties in order to bind it to a standard Slider in the overall project. This control is embedded into the standard Expression media player template and is used to replace the standard scrub bar. When the player goes live, I will put a link here.

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What are some concise and comprehensive introductory guide to unit testing for a self-taught programmer [closed]

- by Superbest

I don't have much formal training in programming and I have learned most things by looking up solutions on the internet to practical problems I have. There are some areas which I think would be valuable to learn, but which ended up both being difficult to learn and easy to avoid learning for a self-taught programmer. Unit testing is one of them. Specifically, I am interested in tests in and for C#/.NET applications using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools in Visual Studio 2010 and/or 2012, but I really want a good introduction to the principles so language and IDE shouldn't matter much. At this time I'm interested in relatively trivial tests for small or medium sized programs (development time of weeks or months and mostly just myself developing). I don't necessarily intend to do test-driven development (I am aware that some say unit testing alone is supposed to be for developing features in TDD, and not an assurance that there are no bugs in the software, but unit testing is often the only kind of testing for which I have resources). I have found this tutorial which I feel gave me a decent idea of what unit tests and TDD looks like, but in trying to apply these ideas to my own projects, I often get confused by questions I can't answer and don't know how to answer, such as: What parts of my application and what sorts of things aren't necessarily worth testing? How fine grained should my tests be? Should they test every method and property separately, or work with a larger scope? What is a good naming convention for test methods? (since apparently the name of the method is the only way I will be able to tell from a glance at the test results table what works in my program and what doesn't) Is it bad to have many asserts in one test method? Since apparently VS2012 reports only that "an Assert.IsTrue failed within method MyTestMethod", and if MyTestMethod has 10 Assert.IsTrue statements, it will be irritating to figure out why a test is failing. If a lot of the functionality deals with writing and reading data to/from the disk in a not-exactly trivial fashion, how do I test that? If I provide a bunch of files as input by placing them in the program's directory, do I have to copy those files to the test project's bin/Debug folder now? If my program works with a large body of data and execution takes minutes or more, should my tests have it do the whole use all of the real data, a subset of it, or simulated data? If latter, how do I decide on the subset or how to simulate? Closely related to the previous point, if a class is such that its main operation happens in a state that is arrived to by the program after some involved operations (say, a class makes calculations on data derived from a few thousands of lines of code analyzing some raw data) how do I test just that class without inevitably ending up testing that class and all the other code that brings it to that state along with it? In general, what kind of approach should I use for test initialization? (hopefully that is the correct term, I mean preparing classes for testing by filling them in with appropriate data) How do I deal with private members? Do I just suck it up and assume that "not public = shouldn't be tested"? I have seen people suggest using private accessors and reflection, but these feel like clumsy and unsuited for regular use. Are these even good ideas? Is there anything like design patterns concerning testing specifically? I guess the main themes in what I'd like to learn more about are, (1) what are the overarching principles that should be followed (or at least considered) in every testing effort and (2) what are popular rules of thumb for writing tests. For example, at one point I recall hearing from someone that if a method is longer than 200 lines, it should be refactored - not a universally correct rule, but it has been quite helpful since I'd otherwise happily put hundreds of lines in single methods and then wonder why my code is so hard to read. Similarly I've found ReSharpers suggestions on member naming style and other things to be quite helpful in keeping my codebases sane. I see many resources both online and in print that talk about testing in the context of large applications (years of work, 10s of people or more). However, because I've never worked on such large projects, this context is very unfamiliar to me and makes the material difficult to follow and relate to my real world problems. Speaking of software development in general, advice given with the assumptions of large projects isn't always straightforward to apply to my own, smaller endeavors. Summary So my question is: What are some resources to learn about unit testing, for a hobbyist, self-taught programmer without much formal training? Ideally, I'm looking for a short and simple "bible of unit testing" which I can commit to memory, and then apply systematically by repeatedly asking myself "is this test following the bible of testing closely enough?" and then amending discrepancies if it doesn't.

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What's New in Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2?

- by Fat Bloke

A year is a long time in the IT industry. Since the last VirtualBox feature release, which was a little over a year ago, we've seen: new releases of cool new operating systems, such as Windows 8, ChromeOS, and Mountain Lion; we've seen a myriad of new Linux releases from big Enterprise class distributions like Oracle 6.3, to accessible desktop distros like Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 17; and we've also seen the spec of a typical PC or laptop double in power. All of these events have influenced our new VirtualBox version which we're releasing today. Here's how... Powerful hosts One of the trends we've seen is that as the average host platform becomes more powerful, our users are consistently running more and more vm's. Some of our users have large libraries of vm's of various vintages, whilst others have groups of vm's that are run together as an assembly of the various tiers in a multi-tiered software solution, for example, a database tier, middleware tier, and front-ends. So we're pleased to unveil a more powerful VirtualBox Manager to address the needs of these users: VM Groups Groups allow you to organize your VM library in a sensible way, e.g. by platform type, by project, by version, by whatever. To create groups you can drag one VM onto another or select one or more VM's and choose Machine...Group from the menu bar. You can expand and collapse groups to save screen real estate, and you can Enter and Leave a group (think iPad navigation here) by using the right and left arrow keys when groups are selected. But groups are more than passive folders, because you can now also perform operations on groups, rather than all the individual VMs. So if you have a multi-tiered solution you can start the whole stack up with just one click. Autostart Many VirtualBox users run dedicated services in their VMs, for example, running a Wiki. With these types of VM workloads, you really want the VM start up when the host machine boots up. So with 4.2 we've introduced a cross-platform Auto-start mechanism to allow you to treat VMs as host services. Headless VM Launching With VM's such as web servers, wikis, and other types of server-class workloads, the Console of the VM is pretty much redundant. For some time now VirtualBox has offered a separate launch mechanism for these VM's, namely the command-line interface commands VBoxHeadless or VBoxManage startvm ... --type headless commands. But with 4.2 we also allow you launch headless VMs from the Manager. Simply hold down Shift when launching the VM from the Manager. It's that easy. But how do you stop a headless VM? Well, with 4.2 we allow you to Close the VM from the Manager. (BTW best to use the ACPI Shutdown method which allows the guest VM to close down gracefully.) Easy VM Creation For our expert users, the New VM Wizard was a little tiresome, so now there's a faster 2-click VM creation mode. Just Hide the description when creating a new VM. Powerful VMs As the hosts have become more powerful, so are the guests that are running inside them. Here are some of the 4.2 features to accommodate them: Virtual Network Interface Cards With 4.2, it's now possible to create VMs with up to 36 NICs, when using the ICH9 chipset emulation. But with great power comes great responsibility (didn't Obi-Wan say something similar?), and so we have also introduced bandwidth limiting to prevent a rogue VM stealing the whole pipe. VLAN tagging Some of our users leverage VLANs extensively so we've enhanced the E1000 NICs to support this. Processor Performance If you are running a CPU which supports Nested Paging (aka EPT in the Intel world) such as most of the Core i5 and i7 CPUs, or are running an AMD Bulldozer or later, you should see some performance improvements from our work with these processors. And while we're talking Processors, we've added support for some of the more modern VIA CPUs too. Powerful Automation Because VirtualBox runs atop a fully blown operating system, it makes sense to leverage the capabilities of the host to run scripts that can drive the guest VMs. Guest Automation was introduced in a prior release but with 4.2 we've revamped the APIs to allow a richer and more powerful set of operations to be executed by the guest. Check out the IGuest APIs in the VirtualBox Programming Guide and Reference (SDK). Powerful Platforms All the hardcore engineering that has gone into 4.2 has been done for a purpose and that is to deliver a fast and powerful engine that can run almost any x86 OS because of the integrity of the virtualization. So we're pleased to add support for these platforms: Mac OS X "Mountain Lion" Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 Ubuntu 12.04 (“Precise Pangolin”) Fedora 17 Oracle Linux 6.3 Here's the proof: We don't have time to go into the myriad of smaller improvements such as support for burning audio CDs from a guest, bi-directional clipboard control, drag-and-drop of files into Linux guests, etc. so we'll leave that as an exercise for the user as soon as you've downloaded from the Oracle or community site and taken a peek at the User Guide. So all in all, a pretty solid release, one that we hope you'll enjoy discovering. - FB

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Are there Negative Impact of opensource on commercial environment?

- by Lostsoul

I know this is not a good fit for Stack Overflow but wasn't sure if it was good for this site also so let me know if its not and I'll delete it. I love programming for fun but my role in my company is not technical. I have always loved the hacker culture and have been trying to drive that openness within my company from day one. My company has a very broad range of products and there are a few that are not strategic to us so I wanted to open source them (so we can focus on what makes us unique and open source the products that every firm has). Our industry does not open source(we would be the first firm to try this) and the feedback I'm getting from my management team is either 1) we'll destroy the industry or 2) all competitive commercial firms will unite against us and we'll be wiped out either way. I disagreed on both points because I think transparency will only grow our industry and our firm (think of McDonalds/KFC sharing their recipe openly, people may copy you, competitors may target you, but customers also may feel more comfortable buying your product. The value add, I believe, is in the delivery and experience not in hoarding the recipe). It's a big battle in my firm right now between the IT people who have seen the positive effects of sharing and the business people who think we'll be giving up everything (they prefer we sell parts we want to opensource, but in their defense this is standard when divesting something). Our industry is very secretive and I don't want to put anyone(even my competitors employees) out of a job yet I don't want to protect inefficient people by not being open with everyone. Yet I've seen so many amazing technologies created in interesting ways just by giving people freedom to take apart code and put it back together. I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts(doesn't have to be to my specific situation, I'm looking for the general lessons). Its a very stressful decision(but one I feel I must make) because if we go the open source route then there will be no going back. So what are your thoughts? Does open sourcing apply generally or is it only really applicable to software? Is it overall good for people in the industry and outside? I'm actually more interested in the negativeness effects(although positive are welcomed as well) Update: Long story short, although code is involved this is not so much about code as it is more about the idea of open sourcing. We are a mid sized quant hedge fund. We have some unique strategies but also have the standard long/short, arbitrage, global macro, etc.. funds. We are keeping the unique funds we have but the other stuff that everyone else has we are considering open sourcing (We have put in years of work & millions of dollars into. Our funds is pretty popular and our performance is either in first or second quartile so I suspect there will be interest but I don't know to what extent). The goal is not to get a community to work for us or anything, the goal is to let anyone who wants to tinker with it do so and create anything they want (it will not be part of our product line although I may unofficially allocate some our of staff's time to assist any community that grows). Although the code base is quite large, the value in this is the industry knowledge and approaches we have acquired (there are many books on artificial intelligence and quant trading but they are often years behind what's really going on as most firms forbid their staff from discussing what they are doing). We are also considering after we move our clients out to let the software still run and output the resulting portfolios for free as well so people can at least see the results(as long as we have avail. infrastructure). I think our main choices are, we can continue to fight for market share in a products that are becoming commoditized, we can shut the funds/products down(and keep the code but no one outside of our firm will ever learn from it) or we can open source it and let people do what they want. By open sourcing it, my idea is that the talent pool in the industry will grow because right now most of our hires have the same background (CFA, MBA, similar school, same experience,etc.. because we can't spend time training people so the industry 'standardizes' most people and thus the firms themselves start to look/act similar) but this may allow us to identify talent that has never been in the industry before (if we put a GPU license then as people learn from what we did, we can learn from what they do as well and maybe apply it to other areas of our firm). I see a lot of benefits but not many negatives while my peers at the company see the opposite.

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Mousin' down the PathListBox

- by T

While modifying the standard media player with a new look and feel for Ineta Live I saw a unique opportunity to use their logo with a dotted I with and attached arc as the scrub control. So I created a PathListBox that I wanted an object to follow when a user did a click and drag action. Below is how I solved the problem. Please let me know if you have improvements or know of a completely different way. I am always eager to learn. First, I created a path using the pen tool in Expression Blend (see the yellow line in image below). Then I right clicked that path and chose [Path] --> [Make Layout Path]. That created a new PathListBox. Then I chose the object I want to move down the new PathListBox and Placed it as a child in the Objects and Timeline window (see image below). If the child object (the thing the user will click and drag) is XAML, it will move much smoother than images. Just as another side note, I wanted there to be no highlight when the user selects the “ball” to drag and drop. This is done by editing the ItemContainerStyle under Additional Templates on the PathListBox. Post a question if you need help on this and I will expand my explanation. Here is a pic of the object and the path I wanted it to follow. I gave the path a yellow solid brush here so you could see it but when I lay this over another object, I will make the path transparent. To animate this object down the path, the trick is to animate the Start number for the LayoutPath. Not the StartItemIndex, the Start above Span. In order to enable animation when a user clicks and drags, I put in the following code snippets in the code behind. the DependencyProperties are not necessary for the Drag control. namespace InetaPlayer{ public partial class PositionControl : UserControl { private bool _mouseDown; private double _maxPlayTime; public PositionControl() { // Required to initialize variables InitializeComponent(); //mouse events for scrub control positionThumb.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonDown); positionThumb.MouseLeftButtonUp += new MouseButtonEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonUp); positionThumb.MouseMove += new MouseEventHandler(ValueThumb_MouseMove); positionThumb.LostMouseCapture += new MouseEventHandler(ValueThumb_LostMouseCapture); } // exposed for binding to real slider using a DependencyProperty enables animation, styling, binding, etc.... public double MaxPlayTime { get { return (double)GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); } set { SetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty, value); } } public static readonly DependencyProperty MaxPlayTimeProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("MaxPlayTime", typeof(double), typeof(PositionControl), null); // exposed for binding to real slider using a DependencyProperty enables animation, styling, binding, etc.... public double CurrSliderValue { get { return (double)GetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty); } set { SetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty, value); } } public static readonly DependencyProperty CurrSliderValueProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("CurrSliderValue", typeof(double), typeof(PositionControl), new PropertyMetadata(0.0, OnCurrSliderValuePropertyChanged)); private static void OnCurrSliderValuePropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { PositionControl control = d as PositionControl; control.OnCurrSliderValueChanged((double)e.OldValue, (double)e.NewValue); } private void OnCurrSliderValueChanged(double oldValue, double newValue) { _maxPlayTime = (double) GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); if (!_mouseDown) if (_maxPlayTime!=0) sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start = newValue / _maxPlayTime; else sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start = 0; } //mouse control void ValueThumb_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if (!_mouseDown) return; //get the offset of how far the drag has been //direction is handled automatically (offset will be negative for left move and positive for right move) Point mouseOff = e.GetPosition(positionThumb); //Divide the offset by 1000 for a smooth transition sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start +=mouseOff.X/1000; _maxPlayTime = (double)GetValue(MaxPlayTimeProperty); SetValue(CurrSliderValueProperty ,sliderPathListBox.LayoutPaths[0].Start*_maxPlayTime); } void ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = false; } void ValueThumb_LostMouseCapture(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = false; } void ValueThumb_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { _mouseDown = true; ((UIElement)positionThumb).CaptureMouse(); } }} I made this into a user control and exposed a couple of DependencyProperties in order to bind it to a standard Slider in the overall project. This control is embedded into the standard Expression media player template and is used to replace the standard scrub bar. When the player goes live, I will put a link here.

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BIP 11g Dynamic SQL

- by Tim Dexter

Back in the 10g release, if you wanted something beyond the standard query for your report extract; you needed to break out your favorite text editor. You gotta love 'vi' and hate emacs, am I right? And get to building a data template, they were/are lovely to write, such fun ... not! Its not fun writing them by hand but, you do get to do some cool stuff around the data extract including dynamic SQL. By that I mean the ability to add content dynamically to your your query at runtime. With 11g, we spoiled you with a visual builder, no more vi or notepad sessions, a friendly drag and drop interface allowing you to build hierarchical data sets, calculated columns, summary columns, etc. You can still create the dynamic SQL statements, its not so well documented right now, in lieu of doc updates here's the skinny. If you check out the 10g process to create dynamic sql in the docs. You need to create a data trigger function where you assign the dynamic sql to a global variable that's matched in your report SQL. In 11g, the process is really the same, BI Publisher just provides a bit more help to define what trigger code needs to be called. You still need to create the function and place it inside a package in the db. Here's a simple plsql package with the 'beforedata' function trigger. Spec create or replace PACKAGE BIREPORTS AS whereCols varchar2(2000); FUNCTION beforeReportTrig return boolean; end BIREPORTS; Body create or replace PACKAGE BODY BIREPORTS AS FUNCTION beforeReportTrig return boolean AS BEGIN whereCols := ' and d.department_id = 100'; RETURN true; END beforeReportTrig; END BIREPORTS; you'll notice the additional where clause (whereCols - declared as a public variable) is hard coded. I'll cover parameterizing that in my next post. If you can not wait, check the 10g docs for an example. I have my package compiling successfully in the db. Now, onto the BIP data model definition. 1. Create a new data model and go ahead and create your query(s) as you would normally. 2. In the query dialog box, add in the variables you want replaced at runtime using an ampersand rather than a colon e.g. &whereCols. select d.DEPARTMENT_NAME, ... from "OE"."EMPLOYEES" e, "OE"."DEPARTMENTS" d where d."DEPARTMENT_ID"= e."DEPARTMENT_ID" &whereCols Note that 'whereCols' matches the global variable name in our package. When you click OK to clear the dialog, you'll be asked for a default value for the variable, just use ' and 1=1' That leading space is important to keep the SQL valid ie required whitespace. This value will be used for the where clause if case its not set by the function code. 3. Now click on the Event Triggers tree node and create a new trigger of the type Before Data. Type in the default package name, in my example, 'BIREPORTS'. Then hit the update button to get BIP to fetch the valid functions.In my case I get to see the following: Select the BEFOREREPORTTRIG function (or your name) and shuttle it across. 4. Save your data model and now test it. For now, you can update the where clause via the plsql package. Next time ... parametrizing the dynamic clause.

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Stumbling Through: Visual Studio 2010 (Part II)

I would now like to expand a little on what I stumbled through in part I of my Visual Studio 2010 post and touch on a few other features of VS 2010. Specifically, I want to generate some code based off of an Entity Framework model and tie it up to an actual data source. Im not going to take the easy way and tie to a SQL Server data source, though, I will tie it to an XML data file instead. Why? Well, why not? This is purely for learning, there are probably much better ways to get strongly-typed classes around XML but it will force us to go down a path less travelled and maybe learn a few things along the way. Once we get this XML data and the means to interact with it, I will revisit data binding to this data in a WPF form and see if I cant get reading, adding, deleting, and updating working smoothly with minimal code. To begin, I will use what was learned in the first part of this blog topic and draw out a data model for the MFL (My Football League) - I dont want the NFL to come down and sue me for using their name in this totally football-related article. The data model looks as follows, with Teams having Players, and Players having a position and statistics for each season they played: Note that when making the associations between these entities, I was given the option to create the foreign key but I only chose to select this option for the association between Player and Position. The reason for this is that I am picturing the XML that will contain this data to look somewhat like this: <MFL> <Position/> <Position/> <Position/> <Team> <Player> <Statistic/> </Player> </Team> </MFL> Statistic will be under its associated Player node, and Player will be under its associated Team node no need to have an Id to reference it if we know it will always fall under its parent. Position, however, is more of a lookup value that will not have any hierarchical relationship to the player. In fact, the Position data itself may be in a completely different xml file (something Id like to play around with), so in any case, a player will need to reference the position by its Id. So now that we have a simple data model laid out, I would like to generate two things based on it: A class for each entity with properties corresponding to each entity property An IO class with methods to get data for each entity, either all instances, by Id or by parent. Now my experience with code generation in the past has consisted of writing up little apps that use the code dom directly to regenerate code on demand (or using tools like CodeSmith). Surely, there has got to be a more fun way to do this given that we are using the Entity Framework which already has built-in code generation for SQL Server support. Lets start with that built-in stuff to give us a base to work off of. Right click anywhere in the canvas of our model and select Add Code Generation Item: So just adding that code item seemed to do quite a bit towards what I was intending: It apparently generated a class for each entity, but also a whole ton more. I mean a TON more. Way too much complicated code was generated now that code is likely to be a black box anyway so it shouldnt matter, but we need to understand how to make this work the way we want it to work, so lets get ready to do some stumbling through that text template (tt) file. When I open the .tt file that was generated, right off the bat I realize there is going to be trouble there is no color coding, no intellisense no nothing! That is going to make stumbling through more like groping blindly in the dark while handcuffed and hopping on one foot, which was one of the alternate titles I was considering for this blog. Thankfully, the community comes to my rescue and I wont have to cast my mind back to the glory days of coding in VI (look it up, kids). Using the Extension Manager (Available under the Tools menu), I did a quick search for tt editor in the Online Gallery and quickly found the Tangible T4 Editor: Downloading and installing this was a breeze, and after doing so I got some color coding and intellisense while editing the tt files. If you will be doing any customizing of tt files, I highly recommend installing this extension. Next, well see if that is enough help for us to tweak that tt file to do the kind of code generation that we wantDid you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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C# XNA 4.0 multitextured cube

- by chron

So I am following this tutorial on how to draw a cube in XNA and I ran into a problem. Ok so my shader can only have texture right? I need to have a texture on the front and back of my cube. So I thought I could just have both textures stored in one texture. Problem is I do not know how to map out my UV coords to do so. (I tried dividing by 2 and such with no luck...). I am really new to this (not programming, just game development and some concepts), but how could I get UV coordinates for both halfs of the texture. private void ConstructCube(Vector3 Position,Vector3 Size) { _vertices = new VertexPositionNormalTexture[50]; // Calculate the position of the vertices on the top face. Vector3 topLeftFront = Position + new Vector3(-1.0f, 1.0f, -1.0f) * Size; Vector3 topLeftBack = Position + new Vector3(-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f) * Size; Vector3 topRightFront = Position + new Vector3(1.0f, 1.0f, -1.0f) * Size; Vector3 topRightBack = Position + new Vector3(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f) * Size; // Calculate the position of the vertices on the bottom face. Vector3 btmLeftFront = Position + new Vector3(-1.0f, -1.0f, -1.0f) * Size; Vector3 btmLeftBack = Position + new Vector3(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f) * Size; Vector3 btmRightFront = Position + new Vector3(1.0f, -1.0f, -1.0f) * Size; Vector3 btmRightBack = Position + new Vector3(1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f) * Size; // Normal vectors for each face (needed for lighting / display) Vector3 normalFront = new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f) * Size; Vector3 normalBack = new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f) * Size; Vector3 normalTop = new Vector3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f) * Size; Vector3 normalBottom = new Vector3(0.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f) * Size; Vector3 normalLeft = new Vector3(-1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f) * Size; Vector3 normalRight = new Vector3(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f) * Size; // UV texture coordinates Vector2 textureTopLeft = new Vector2(1.0f * Size.X, 0.0f * Size.Y); Vector2 textureTopRight = new Vector2(0.0f * Size.X, 0.0f * Size.Y); Vector2 textureBottomLeft = new Vector2(1.0f * Size.X, 1.0f * Size.Y); Vector2 textureBottomRight = new Vector2(0.0f * Size.X, 1.0f * Size.Y); // Add the vertices for the FRONT face. _vertices[0] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftFront, normalFront, textureTopLeft); _vertices[1] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftFront, normalFront, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[2] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightFront, normalFront, textureTopRight); _vertices[3] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftFront, normalFront, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[4] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightFront, normalFront, textureBottomRight); _vertices[5] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightFront, normalFront, textureTopRight); // Add the vertices for the BACK face. _vertices[6] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftBack, normalBack, textureTopRight); _vertices[7] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightBack, normalBack, textureTopLeft); _vertices[8] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftBack, normalBack, textureBottomRight); _vertices[9] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftBack, normalBack, textureBottomRight); _vertices[10] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightBack, normalBack, textureTopLeft); _vertices[11] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightBack, normalBack, textureBottomLeft); // Add the vertices for the TOP face. _vertices[12] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftFront, normalTop, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[13] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightBack, normalTop, textureTopRight); _vertices[14] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftBack, normalTop, textureTopLeft); _vertices[15] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftFront, normalTop, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[16] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightFront, normalTop, textureBottomRight); _vertices[17] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightBack, normalTop, textureTopRight); // Add the vertices for the BOTTOM face. _vertices[18] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftFront, normalBottom, textureTopLeft); _vertices[19] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftBack, normalBottom, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[20] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightBack, normalBottom, textureBottomRight); _vertices[21] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftFront, normalBottom, textureTopLeft); _vertices[22] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightBack, normalBottom, textureBottomRight); _vertices[23] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightFront, normalBottom, textureTopRight); // Add the vertices for the LEFT face. _vertices[24] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftFront, normalLeft, textureTopRight); _vertices[25] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftBack, normalLeft, textureBottomLeft ); _vertices[26] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftFront, normalLeft, textureBottomRight ); _vertices[27] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftBack, normalLeft, textureTopLeft); _vertices[28] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmLeftBack, normalLeft, textureBottomLeft ); _vertices[29] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topLeftFront, normalLeft, textureTopRight ); // Add the vertices for the RIGHT face. _vertices[30] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightFront, normalRight, textureTopLeft); _vertices[31] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightFront, normalRight, textureBottomLeft); _vertices[32] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightBack, normalRight, textureBottomRight); _vertices[33] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightBack, normalRight, textureTopRight); _vertices[34] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(topRightFront, normalRight, textureTopLeft); _vertices[35] = new VertexPositionNormalTexture(btmRightBack, normalRight, textureBottomRight); done = true; }

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Plagued by multithreaded bugs

- by koncurrency

On my new team that I manage, the majority of our code is platform, TCP socket, and http networking code. All C++. Most of it originated from other developers that have left the team. The current developers on the team are very smart, but mostly junior in terms of experience. Our biggest problem: multi-threaded concurrency bugs. Most of our class libraries are written to be asynchronous by use of some thread pool classes. Methods on the class libraries often enqueue long running taks onto the thread pool from one thread and then the callback methods of that class get invoked on a different thread. As a result, we have a lot of edge case bugs involving incorrect threading assumptions. This results in subtle bugs that go beyond just having critical sections and locks to guard against concurrency issues. What makes these problems even harder is that the attempts to fix are often incorrect. Some mistakes I've observed the team attempting (or within the legacy code itself) includes something like the following: Common mistake #1 - Fixing concurrency issue by just put a lock around the shared data, but forgetting about what happens when methods don't get called in an expected order. Here's a very simple example: void Foo::OnHttpRequestComplete(statuscode status) { m_pBar->DoSomethingImportant(status); } void Foo::Shutdown() { m_pBar->Cleanup(); delete m_pBar; m_pBar=nullptr; } So now we have a bug in which Shutdown could get called while OnHttpNetworkRequestComplete is occuring on. A tester finds the bug, captures the crash dump, and assigns the bug to a developer. He in turn fixes the bug like this. void Foo::OnHttpRequestComplete(statuscode status) { AutoLock lock(m_cs); m_pBar->DoSomethingImportant(status); } void Foo::Shutdown() { AutoLock lock(m_cs); m_pBar->Cleanup(); delete m_pBar; m_pBar=nullptr; } The above fix looks good until you realize there's an even more subtle edge case. What happens if Shutdown gets called before OnHttpRequestComplete gets called back? The real world examples my team has are even more complex, and the edge cases are even harder to spot during the code review process. Common Mistake #2 - fixing deadlock issues by blindly exiting the lock, wait for the other thread to finish, then re-enter the lock - but without handling the case that the object just got updated by the other thread! Common Mistake #3 - Even though the objects are reference counted, the shutdown sequence "releases" it's pointer. But forgets to wait for the thread that is still running to release it's instance. As such, components are shutdown cleanly, then spurious or late callbacks are invoked on an object in an state not expecting any more calls. There are other edge cases, but the bottom line is this: Multithreaded programming is just plain hard, even for smart people. As I catch these mistakes, I spend time discussing the errors with each developer on developing a more appropriate fix. But I suspect they are often confused on how to solve each issue because of the enormous amount of legacy code that the "right" fix will involve touching. We're going to be shipping soon, and I'm sure the patches we're applying will hold for the upcoming release. Afterwards, we're going to have some time to improve the code base and refactor where needed. We won't have time to just re-write everything. And the majority of the code isn't all that bad. But I'm looking to refactor code such that threading issues can be avoided altogether. One approach I am considering is this. For each significant platform feature, have a dedicated single thread where all events and network callbacks get marshalled onto. Similar to COM apartment threading in Windows with use of a message loop. Long blocking operations could still get dispatched to a work pool thread, but the completion callback is invoked on on the component's thread. Components could possibly even share the same thread. Then all the class libraries running inside the thread can be written under the assumption of a single threaded world. Before I go down that path, I am also very interested if there are other standard techniques or design patterns for dealing with multithreaded issues. And I have to emphasize - something beyond a book that describes the basics of mutexes and semaphores. What do you think? I am also interested in any other approaches to take towards a refactoring process. Including any of the following: Literature or papers on design patterns around threads. Something beyond an introduction to mutexes and semaphores. We don't need massive parallelism either, just ways to design an object model so as to handle asynchronous events from other threads correctly. Ways to diagram the threading of various components, so that it will be easy to study and evolve solutions for. (That is, a UML equivalent for discussing threads across objects and classes) Educating your development team on the issues with multithreaded code. What would you do?

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WPF TreeView MouseDown

- by imekon

I've got something like this in a TreeView: <DataTemplate x:Key="myTemplate"> <StackPanel MouseDown="OnItemMouseDown"> ... </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> Using this I get the mouse down events if I click on items in the stack panel. However... there seems to be another item behind the stack panel that is the TreeViewItem - it's very hard to hit, but not impossible, and that's when the problems start to occur. I had a go at handling PreviewMouseDown on TreeViewItem, however that seems to require e.Handled = false otherwise standard tree view behaviour stops working. Ok, Here's the source code... MainWindow.xaml <Window x:Class="WPFMultiSelectTree.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WPFMultiSelectTree" Title="Multiple Selection Tree" Height="300" Width="300"> <Window.Resources>  <local:VisibilityConverter x:Key="visibilityConverter"/> <local:VisibilityInverter x:Key="visibilityInverter"/>  <Style TargetType="TreeViewItem"> <Style.Triggers> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Selected}" Value="True"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="DarkBlue"/> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> <EventSetter Event="PreviewMouseDown" Handler="OnTreePreviewMouseDown"/> </Style>  <HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="RecursiveTemplate" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}"> <StackPanel Margin="2" Orientation="Horizontal" MouseDown="OnTreeMouseDown"> <Ellipse Width="12" Height="12" Fill="Green"/> <TextBlock Margin="2" Text="{Binding Name}" Visibility="{Binding Editing, Converter={StaticResource visibilityInverter}}"/> <TextBox Margin="2" Text="{Binding Name}" KeyDown="OnTextBoxKeyDown" IsVisibleChanged="OnTextBoxIsVisibleChanged" Visibility="{Binding Editing, Converter={StaticResource visibilityConverter}}"/> <TextBlock Margin="2" Text="{Binding Index, StringFormat=({0})}"/> </StackPanel> </HierarchicalDataTemplate>  <DataTemplate x:Key="ListTemplate"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/> </DataTemplate> </Window.Resources> <Grid>  <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> <RowDefinition/> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> <RowDefinition/> </Grid.RowDefinitions>  <TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Margin="5" Background="PowderBlue">Multiple selection tree view</TextBlock>  <TreeView Name="m_tree" Margin="2" Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource RecursiveTemplate}"/>  <TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Margin="5" Background="PowderBlue">The currently selected items in the tree</TextBlock>  <ListBox Name="m_list" Margin="2" Grid.Row="3" ItemsSource="{Binding .}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ListTemplate}"/> </Grid> </Window> MainWindow.xaml.cs /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml /// </summary> public partial class MainWindow : Window { private Container m_root; private Container m_first; private ObservableCollection<Container> m_selection; private string m_current; /// <summary> /// Constructor /// </summary> public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); m_selection = new ObservableCollection<Container>(); m_root = new Container("root"); for (int parents = 0; parents < 50; parents++) { Container parent = new Container(String.Format("parent{0}", parents + 1)); for (int children = 0; children < 1000; children++) { parent.Add(new Container(String.Format("child{0}", children + 1))); } m_root.Add(parent); } m_tree.DataContext = m_root; m_list.DataContext = m_selection; m_first = null; } /// <summary> /// Has the shift key been pressed? /// </summary> private bool ShiftPressed { get { return Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.LeftShift) || Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.RightShift); } } /// <summary> /// Has the control key been pressed? /// </summary> private bool CtrlPressed { get { return Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.LeftCtrl) || Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.RightCtrl); } } /// <summary> /// Clear down the selection list /// </summary> private void DeselectAndClear() { foreach(Container container in m_selection) { container.Selected = false; } m_selection.Clear(); } /// <summary> /// Add the container to the list (if not already present), /// mark as selected /// </summary> /// <param name="container"></param> private void AddToSelection(Container container) { if (container == null) { return; } foreach (Container child in m_selection) { if (child == container) { return; } } container.Selected = true; m_selection.Add(container); } /// <summary> /// Remove container from list, mark as not selected /// </summary> /// <param name="container"></param> private void RemoveFromSelection(Container container) { m_selection.Remove(container); container.Selected = false; } /// <summary> /// Process single click on a tree item /// /// Normally just select an item /// /// SHIFT-Click extends selection /// CTRL-Click toggles a selection /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> private void OnTreeSingleClick(object sender) { FrameworkElement element = sender as FrameworkElement; if (element != null) { Container container = element.DataContext as Container; if (container != null) { if (CtrlPressed) { if (container.Selected) { RemoveFromSelection(container); } else { AddToSelection(container); } } else if (ShiftPressed) { if (container.Parent == m_first.Parent) { if (container.Index < m_first.Index) { Container item = container; for (int i = container.Index; i < m_first.Index; i++) { AddToSelection(item); item = item.Next; if (item == null) { break; } } } else if (container.Index > m_first.Index) { Container item = m_first; for (int i = m_first.Index; i <= container.Index; i++) { AddToSelection(item); item = item.Next; if (item == null) { break; } } } } } else { DeselectAndClear(); m_first = container; AddToSelection(container); } } } } /// <summary> /// Process double click on tree item /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> private void OnTreeDoubleClick(object sender) { FrameworkElement element = sender as FrameworkElement; if (element != null) { Container container = element.DataContext as Container; if (container != null) { container.Editing = true; m_current = container.Name; } } } /// <summary> /// Clicked on the stack panel in the tree view /// /// Double left click: /// /// Switch to editing mode (flips visibility of textblock and textbox) /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> private void OnTreeMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { Debug.WriteLine("StackPanel mouse down"); switch(e.ChangedButton) { case MouseButton.Left: switch (e.ClickCount) { case 2: OnTreeDoubleClick(sender); e.Handled = true; break; } break; } } /// <summary> /// Clicked on tree view item in tree /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> private void OnTreePreviewMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { Debug.WriteLine("TreeViewItem preview mouse down"); switch (e.ChangedButton) { case MouseButton.Left: switch (e.ClickCount) { case 1: { // We've had a single click on a tree view item // Unfortunately this is the WHOLE tree item, including the +/- // symbol to the left. The tree doesn't do a selection, so we // have to filter this out... MouseDevice device = e.Device as MouseDevice; Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("Tree item clicked on: {0}", device.DirectlyOver.GetType().ToString())); // This is bad. The whole point of WPF is for the code // not to know what the UI has - yet here we are testing for // it as a workaround. Sigh... if (device.DirectlyOver.GetType() != typeof(Path)) { OnTreeSingleClick(sender); } // Cannot say handled - if we do it stops the tree working! //e.Handled = true; } break; } break; } } /// <summary> /// Key press in text box /// /// Return key finishes editing /// Escape key finishes editing, restores original value (this doesn't work!) /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> private void OnTextBoxKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { switch(e.Key) { case Key.Return: { TextBox box = sender as TextBox; if (box != null) { Container container = box.DataContext as Container; if (container != null) { container.Editing = false; e.Handled = true; } } } break; case Key.Escape: { TextBox box = sender as TextBox; if (box != null) { Container container = box.DataContext as Container; if (container != null) { container.Editing = false; container.Name = m_current; e.Handled = true; } } } break; } } /// <summary> /// When text box becomes visible, grab focus and select all text in it. /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> private void OnTextBoxIsVisibleChanged(object sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { bool visible = (bool)e.NewValue; if (visible) { TextBox box = sender as TextBox; if (box != null) { box.Focus(); box.SelectAll(); } } } } Here's the Container class public class Container : INotifyPropertyChanged { private string m_name; private ObservableCollection<Container> m_children; private Container m_parent; private bool m_selected; private bool m_editing; /// <summary> /// Constructor /// </summary> /// <param name="name">name of object</param> public Container(string name) { m_name = name; m_children = new ObservableCollection<Container>(); m_parent = null; m_selected = false; m_editing = false; } /// <summary> /// Name of object /// </summary> public string Name { get { return m_name; } set { if (m_name != value) { m_name = value; OnPropertyChanged("Name"); } } } /// <summary> /// Index of object in parent's children /// /// If there's no parent, the index is -1 /// </summary> public int Index { get { if (m_parent != null) { return m_parent.Children.IndexOf(this); } return -1; } } /// <summary> /// Get the next item, assuming this is parented /// /// Returns null if end of list reached, or no parent /// </summary> public Container Next { get { if (m_parent != null) { int index = Index + 1; if (index < m_parent.Children.Count) { return m_parent.Children[index]; } } return null; } } /// <summary> /// List of children /// </summary> public ObservableCollection<Container> Children { get { return m_children; } } /// <summary> /// Selected status /// </summary> public bool Selected { get { return m_selected; } set { if (m_selected != value) { m_selected = value; OnPropertyChanged("Selected"); } } } /// <summary> /// Editing status /// </summary> public bool Editing { get { return m_editing; } set { if (m_editing != value) { m_editing = value; OnPropertyChanged("Editing"); } } } /// <summary> /// Parent of this object /// </summary> public Container Parent { get { return m_parent; } set { m_parent = value; } } /// <summary> /// WPF Property Changed event /// </summary> public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; /// <summary> /// Handler to inform WPF that a property has changed /// </summary> /// <param name="name"></param> private void OnPropertyChanged(string name) { if (PropertyChanged != null) { PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name)); } } /// <summary> /// Add a child to this container /// </summary> /// <param name="child"></param> public void Add(Container child) { m_children.Add(child); child.m_parent = this; } /// <summary> /// Remove a child from this container /// </summary> /// <param name="child"></param> public void Remove(Container child) { m_children.Remove(child); child.m_parent = null; } } The two classes VisibilityConverter and VisibilityInverter are implementations of IValueConverter that translates bool to Visibility. They make sure the TextBlock is displayed when not editing, and the TextBox is displayed when editing.

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marshal data too short!!!

- by Nitin Garg

My application requires to keep large data objects in session. There are like 3-4 data objects each created by parsing a csv containing 150 X 20 cells having strings of 3-4 characters. My application shows this error- "marshal data too short". I tried this- Deleting the old session table. Deleting the old migration for session table. Creating a new migration using rake db: sessions:create. editing the migration manually, changing "text: data" to "longtext: data". running the migration using rake db: migrate. now when i open my application, i see this page- link text please someone help me, this is getting on my nerves!! other details of application-- In view "index.html.erb"- There is a link that makes ajax call to an action in controller, that action parses large csv file and makes an object out of it. this object is stored in session. ERROR LOG ` ArgumentError in Scoring#index Showing app/views/scoring/index.html.erb where line #4 raised: marshal data too short Extracted source (around line #4): 1: 2: 3: 4: <%= link_to_remote "get csv file", 5: :url = { :action = 'show_static_1' }, 6: :update = "static_score", 7: :complete = "$('static_score').update(request.responseText)" % Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in load' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in unmarshal' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:110:in data' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:292:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/base.rb:1448:in silence' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:288:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:168:in load_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:70:in stale_session_check!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:61:in load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:28:in []' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/request_forgery_protection.rb:106:in form_authenticity_token' (eval):2:in send' (eval):2:in form_authenticity_token' app/views/scoring/index.html.erb:4:in _run_erb_app47views47scoring47index46html46erb' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in load' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in unmarshal' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:110:in data' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:292:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/base.rb:1448:in silence' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:288:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:168:in load_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:70:in stale_session_check!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:61:in load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:28:in []' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/request_forgery_protection.rb:106:in form_authenticity_token' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb:1065:in options_for_ajax' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb:449:in remote_function' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb:256:in link_to_remote' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/renderable.rb:34:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/renderable.rb:34:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:306:in with_template' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/renderable.rb:30:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/template.rb:205:in render_template' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:265:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:348:in _render_with_layout' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:262:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1250:in render_for_file' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:945:in render_without_benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:51:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in ms' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:10:in realtime' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in ms' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:51:in render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1326:in default_render' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1338:in perform_action_without_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:617:in call_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:610:in perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in ms' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:10:in realtime' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in ms' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:160:in perform_action_without_flash' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:146:in perform_action' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in process_without_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:606:in process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:391:in process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:386:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb:437:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:87:in dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:121:in _call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:130:in build_middleware_stack' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/string_coercion.rb:25:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/string_coercion.rb:25:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:24:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/params_parser.rb:15:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:122:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:29:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:34:in cache' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:9:in cache' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:28:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:361:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/failsafe.rb:26:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:114:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/reloader.rb:34:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:108:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/rack/static.rb:31:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:46:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb:17:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/content_length.rb:13:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/chunked.rb:15:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:64:in process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:159:in process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:34:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/server.rb:111 /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require' /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require' script/server:3 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in load' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:71:in unmarshal' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:110:in data' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:292:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/base.rb:1448:in silence' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/session_store.rb:288:in get_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:168:in load_session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:62:in load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:70:in stale_session_check!' 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Drupal views pane content not visible

- by jwandborg

I have a pane on my front page with one content pane and two views panes. I can't see the content of the third view ($pane->pid = "new-3" / comment: # Senaste bilder). Here's my panel <?php $page = new stdClass; $page->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default page disabled initially */ $page->api_version = 1; $page->name = 'frontpage'; $page->task = 'page'; $page->admin_title = 'Startsida'; $page->admin_description = ''; $page->path = 'hem'; $page->access = array(); $page->menu = array(); $page->arguments = array(); $page->conf = array(); $page->default_handlers = array(); $handler = new stdClass; $handler->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default handler disabled initially */ $handler->api_version = 1; $handler->name = 'page_frontpage_panel_context'; $handler->task = 'page'; $handler->subtask = 'frontpage'; $handler->handler = 'panel_context'; $handler->weight = 0; $handler->conf = array( 'title' => 'Panel', 'no_blocks' => FALSE, 'css_id' => '', 'css' => '', 'contexts' => array(), 'relationships' => array(), ); $display = new panels_display; $display->layout = 'onecol'; $display->layout_settings = array(); $display->panel_settings = array(); $display->cache = array(); $display->title = ''; $display->content = array(); $display->panels = array(); # Bild $pane = new stdClass; $pane->pid = 'new-1'; $pane->panel = 'middle'; $pane->type = 'custom'; $pane->subtype = 'custom'; $pane->shown = TRUE; $pane->access = array(); $pane->configuration = array( 'admin_title' => '', 'title' => '', 'body' => '<img src="/sites/all/themes/zen/ils-2010/img/graphics-start-text-v3.png" alt="Hej! Vi vet att du och dina klasskompisar har mycket att tänka på under er sista termin i gymnasiet. Därför har vi samlat några saker som vi tror kommer göra er studenttid lite roligare och lite enklare. Välkommen!" />', 'format' => '2', 'substitute' => TRUE, ); $pane->cache = array(); $pane->style = array(); $pane->css = array(); $pane->extras = array(); $pane->position = 0; $display->content['new-1'] = $pane; $display->panels['middle'][0] = 'new-1'; # Topplista $pane = new stdClass; $pane->pid = 'new-2'; $pane->panel = 'middle'; $pane->type = 'views_panes'; $pane->subtype = 'topplista_terms-panel_pane_1'; $pane->shown = TRUE; $pane->access = array(); $pane->configuration = array( 'link_to_view' => 1, 'more_link' => 0, 'use_pager' => 0, 'pager_id' => '', 'items_per_page' => '10', 'offset' => '0', 'path' => 'flaktavling/topplista/klasser', 'override_title' => 0, 'override_title_text' => '', ); $pane->cache = array(); $pane->style = array(); $pane->css = array(); $pane->extras = array(); $pane->position = 1; $display->content['new-2'] = $pane; $display->panels['middle'][1] = 'new-2'; # Senaste bilder $pane = new stdClass; $pane->pid = 'new-3'; $pane->panel = 'middle'; $pane->type = 'views_panes'; $pane->subtype = 'senaste_bilderna-panel_pane_1'; $pane->shown = TRUE; $pane->access = array(); $pane->configuration = array( 'link_to_view' => 0, 'more_link' => 0, 'use_pager' => 0, 'pager_id' => '', 'items_per_page' => '2', 'offset' => '0', 'path' => 'galleri/senaste-bilder', 'override_title' => 0, 'override_title_text' => '', ); $pane->cache = array(); $pane->style = array(); $pane->css = array( 'css_id' => 'pane-senaste-bilderna', 'css_class' => '', ); $pane->extras = array(); $pane->position = 2; $display->content['new-3'] = $pane; $display->panels['middle'][2] = 'new-3'; $display->hide_title = PANELS_TITLE_FIXED; $display->title_pane = 'new-1'; $handler->conf['display'] = $display; $page->default_handlers[$handler->name] = $handler; Here´s the view senaste_bilderna <?php $view = new view; $view->name = 'senaste_bilderna'; $view->description = ''; $view->tag = ''; $view->view_php = ''; $view->base_table = 'node'; $view->is_cacheable = FALSE; $view->api_version = 2; $view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */ $handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Förvalt', 'default'); $handler->override_option('fields', array( 'field_picture_fid' => array( 'id' => 'field_picture_fid', 'table' => 'node_data_field_picture', 'field' => 'field_picture_fid', ), )); $handler->override_option('sorts', array( 'created' => array( 'order' => 'DESC', 'granularity' => 'second', 'id' => 'created', 'table' => 'node', 'field' => 'created', 'relationship' => 'none', ), )); $handler->override_option('filters', array( 'type' => array( 'operator' => 'in', 'value' => array( 'ils_picture' => 'ils_picture', ), 'group' => '0', 'exposed' => FALSE, 'expose' => array( 'operator' => FALSE, 'label' => '', ), 'id' => 'type', 'table' => 'node', 'field' => 'type', 'override' => array( 'button' => 'Åsidosätt', ), 'relationship' => 'none', ), )); $handler->override_option('access', array( 'type' => 'none', )); $handler->override_option('cache', array( 'type' => 'none', )); $handler->override_option('title', 'Senaste bilderna från galleriet'); $handler->override_option('items_per_page', 2); $handler->override_option('row_options', array( 'inline' => array( 'field_picture_fid' => 'field_picture_fid', ), 'separator' => '', 'hide_empty' => 0, )); $handler = $view->new_display('panel_pane', 'Content pane', 'panel_pane_1'); $handler->override_option('pane_title', ''); $handler->override_option('pane_description', ''); $handler->override_option('pane_category', array( 'name' => 'View panes', 'weight' => 0, )); $handler->override_option('allow', array( 'use_pager' => FALSE, 'items_per_page' => FALSE, 'offset' => FALSE, 'link_to_view' => FALSE, 'more_link' => FALSE, 'path_override' => FALSE, 'title_override' => FALSE, 'exposed_form' => FALSE, )); $handler->override_option('argument_input', array()); $handler->override_option('link_to_view', 0); $handler->override_option('inherit_panels_path', 0); $handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Sida', 'page_1'); $handler->override_option('path', 'galleri/senaste-bilderna'); $handler->override_option('menu', array( 'type' => 'none', 'title' => '', 'description' => '', 'weight' => 0, 'name' => 'navigation', )); $handler->override_option('tab_options', array( 'type' => 'none', 'title' => '', 'description' => '', 'weight' => 0, )); I have edited one views template, here's the code in the file views-view-fields--senaste-bilderna.tpl.php <?php // $Id: views-view-fields.tpl.php,v 1.6 2008/09/24 22:48:21 merlinofchaos Exp $ /** * @file views-view-fields.tpl.php * Default simple view template to all the fields as a row. * * - $view: The view in use. * - $fields: an array of $field objects. Each one contains: * - $field->content: The output of the field. * - $field->raw: The raw data for the field, if it exists. This is NOT output safe. * - $field->class: The safe class id to use. * - $field->handler: The Views field handler object controlling this field. Do not use * var_export to dump this object, as it can't handle the recursion. * - $field->inline: Whether or not the field should be inline. * - $field->inline_html: either div or span based on the above flag. * - $field->separator: an optional separator that may appear before a field. * - $row: The raw result object from the query, with all data it fetched. * * @ingroup views_templates */ ?> <?php foreach ($fields as $id => $field): ?> <?php $result = db_query('SELECT * FROM {files} WHERE fid = ' . $row->node_data_field_picture_field_picture_fid ); ?> <?php $data = db_fetch_object( $result ); ?> <div id="senaste-bilderna-first"><img src="<?= imagecache_create_url('senaste_bilderna_thumbnail', $data->filepath) ?>" alt="" /></div> <?php /* if (!empty($field->separator)): <?php print $field->separator; <?php endif; <<?php print $field->inline_html; class="views-field-<?php print $field->class; "> <?php if ($field->label): <label class="views-label-<?php print $field->class; "> <?php print $field->label; : </label> <?php endif; <?php // $field->element_type is either SPAN or DIV depending upon whether or not // the field is a 'block' element type or 'inline' element type. <<?php print $field->element_type; class="field-content"><?php print $field->content; </<?php print $field->element_type; > </<?php print $field->inline_html;> <?php*/ endforeach; ?> This is the result <div class="panel-separator"> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-senaste-bilderna-panel-pane-1" id="pane-senaste-bilderna"> <h2 class="pane-title">Senaste bilderna från galleriet </h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="view view-senaste-bilderna view-id-senaste_bilderna view-display-id-panel_pane_1 view-dom-id-2"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even views-row-last"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> My Drupal version is 6.16

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I would like to filter XSL output based on a Radio button selection

- by Phil Speth

Here is my example I am trying to filter by year based on user selection: I assume some js or jQuery code would be needed: XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <catalog> <cd> <title>Empire Burlesque3</title> <artist>Bob Dylan</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Columbia</company> <price>10.90</price> <year>1985</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Hide your heart</title> <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>CBS Records</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1988</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Greatest Hits</title> <artist>Dolly Parton</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>RCA</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1982</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Still got the blues</title> <artist>Gary Moore</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Virgin records</company> <price>10.20</price> <year>1990</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Eros</title> <artist>Eros Ramazzotti</artist> <country>EU</country> <company>BMG</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1997</year> </cd> <cd> <title>One night only</title> <artist>Bee Gees</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Polydor</company> <price>10.90</price> <year>1998</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Sylvias Mother</title> <artist>Dr.Hook</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>CBS</company> <price>8.10</price> <year>1973</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Maggie May</title> <artist>Rod Stewart</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Pickwick</company> <price>8.50</price> <year>1990</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Romanza</title> <artist>Andrea Bocelli</artist> <country>EU</country> <company>Polydor</company> <price>10.80</price> <year>1996</year> </cd> <cd> <title>When a man loves a woman</title> <artist>Percy Sledge</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Atlantic</company> <price>8.70</price> <year>1987</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Black angel</title> <artist>Savage Rose</artist> <country>EU</country> <company>Mega</company> <price>10.90</price> <year>1995</year> </cd> <cd> <title>1999 Grammy Nominees</title> <artist>Many</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Grammy</company> <price>10.20</price> <year>1999</year> </cd> <cd> <title>For the good times</title> <artist>Kenny Rogers</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Mucik Master</company> <price>8.70</price> <year>1995</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Big Willie style</title> <artist>Will Smith</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Columbia</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1997</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Tupelo Honey</title> <artist>Van Morrison</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Polydor</company> <price>8.20</price> <year>1971</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Soulsville</title> <artist>Jorn Hoel</artist> <country>Norway</country> <company>WEA</company> <price>7.90</price> <year>1996</year> </cd> <cd> <title>The very best of</title> <artist>Cat Stevens</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Island</company> <price>8.90</price> <year>1990</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Stop</title> <artist>Sam Brown</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>A and M</company> <price>8.90</price> <year>1988</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Bridge of Spies</title> <artist>T`Pau</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Siren</company> <price>7.90</price> <year>1987</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Private Dancer</title> <artist>Tina Turner</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>Capitol</company> <price>8.90</price> <year>1983</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Midt om natten</title> <artist>Kim Larsen</artist> <country>EU</country> <company>Medley</company> <price>7.80</price> <year>1983</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Pavarotti Gala Concert</title> <artist>Luciano Pavarotti</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>DECCA</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1991</year> </cd> <cd> <title>The dock of the bay</title> <artist>Otis Redding</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Atlantic</company> <price>7.90</price> <year>1987</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Picture book</title> <artist>Simply Red</artist> <country>EU</country> <company>Elektra</company> <price>7.20</price> <year>1985</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Red</title> <artist>The Communards</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>London</company> <price>7.80</price> <year>1987</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Unchain my heart</title> <artist>Joe Cocker</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>EMI</company> <price>8.20</price> <year>1987</year> </cd> </catalog> XSL File: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <input type="radio" name="Cost" value="1980" checked="checked" /> 1980 <input type="radio" name="Cost" value="1990" /> 1990 <h2>My CD Collection</h2> <table border="1"> <tr bgcolor="#9acd32"> <th>Title</th> <th>Artist</th> </tr> <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd"> <xsl:if test="year>1990"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="year"/></td> </tr> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

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Jdbc - Connect remote Mysql Database error

- by Guilherme Ruiz

I'm using JDBC to connect my program to a MySQL database. I already put the port number and yes, my database have permission to access. When i use localhost work perfectly, but when i try connect to a remote MySQL database, show this error on console. java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:454) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:527) at serial.BDArduino.<clinit>(BDArduino.java:25) Exception in thread "main" Java Result: 1 CONSTRUÍDO COM SUCESSO (tempo total: 1 segundo) Thank you in Advance ! MAIN CODE /* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package serial; import gnu.io.CommPort; import gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier; import gnu.io.SerialPort; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; /** * * @author Ruiz */ public class BDArduino extends JFrame { static boolean connected = false; static int aux_sql8 = Integer.parseInt(Sql.getDBinfo("SELECT * FROM arduinoData WHERE id=1", "pin8")); static int aux_sql2 = Integer.parseInt(Sql.getDBinfo("SELECT * FROM arduinoData WHERE id=1", "pin2")); CommPort commPort = null; SerialPort serialPort = null; InputStream inputStream = null; static OutputStream outputStream = null; String comPortNum = "COM10"; int baudRate = 9600; int[] intArray = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}; /** * Creates new form ArduinoTest */ public BDArduino() { //super("Arduino Test App"); initComponents(); } class Escrita extends Thread { private int i; public void run() { while (true) { System.out.println("Número :" + i++); } } } //public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { // String arg = e.getActionCommand(); public static void writeData(int a) throws IOException { outputStream.write(a); } public void action(String arg) { System.out.println(arg); Object[] msg = {"Baud Rate: ", "9600", "COM Port #: ", "COM10"}; if (arg == "connect") { if (connected == false) { new BDArduino.ConnectionMaker().start(); } else { closeConnection(); } } if (arg == "disconnect") { serialPort.close(); closeConnection(); } if (arg == "p2") { System.out.print("Pin #2\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[0]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p3") { System.out.print("Pin #3\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[1]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p4") { System.out.print("Pin #4\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[2]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p5") { System.out.print("Pin #5\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[3]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p6") { System.out.print("Pin #6\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[4]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p7") { System.out.print("Pin #7\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[5]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p8") { System.out.print("Pin #8\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[6]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p9") { System.out.print("Pin #9\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[7]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p10") { System.out.print("Pin #10\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[8]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p11") { System.out.print("Pin #11\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[9]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p12") { System.out.print("Pin #12\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[10]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } if (arg == "p13") { System.out.print("Pin #12\n"); try { outputStream.write(intArray[11]); }//end try catch (IOException e12) { e12.printStackTrace(); System.exit(-1); }//end catch } } //******************************************************* //Arduino Connection *************************************** //****************************************************** void closeConnection() { try { outputStream.close(); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); String cantCloseConnectionMessage = "Can't Close Connection!"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, cantCloseConnectionMessage, "ERROR", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); } connected = false; System.out.print("\nDesconectado\n"); String disconnectedConnectionMessage = "Desconectado!"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, disconnectedConnectionMessage, "Desconectado", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE); }//end closeConnection() void connect() throws Exception { String portName = comPortNum; CommPortIdentifier portIdentifier = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifier(portName); if (portIdentifier.isCurrentlyOwned()) { System.out.println("Error: Port is currently in use"); String portInUseConnectionMessage = "Port is currently in use!\nTry Again Later..."; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, portInUseConnectionMessage, "ERROR", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); } else { commPort = portIdentifier.open(this.getClass().getName(), 2000); if (commPort instanceof SerialPort) { serialPort = (SerialPort) commPort; serialPort.setSerialPortParams(baudRate, SerialPort.DATABITS_8, SerialPort.STOPBITS_1, SerialPort.PARITY_NONE); outputStream = serialPort.getOutputStream(); } else { System.out.println("Error: Only serial ports are handled "); String onlySerialConnectionMessage = "Serial Ports ONLY!"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, onlySerialConnectionMessage, "ERROR", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); } }//end else //wait some time try { Thread.sleep(300); } catch (InterruptedException ie) { } }//end connect //******************************************************* //*innerclasses****************************************** //******************************************************* public class ConnectionMaker extends Thread { public void run() { //try to make a connection try { connect(); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); System.out.print("ERROR: Cannot connect!"); String cantConnectConnectionMessage = "Cannot Connect!\nCheck the connection settings\nand/or your configuration\nand try again!"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, cantConnectConnectionMessage, "ERROR", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); } //show status serialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(true); connected = true; //send ack System.out.print("\nConnected\n"); String connectedConnectionMessage = "Conectado!"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, connectedConnectionMessage, "Conectado", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE); }//end run }//end ConnectionMaker /** * This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form. * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always * regenerated by the Form Editor. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code"> private void initComponents() { btnp2 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btncon = new javax.swing.JButton(); btndesc = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp3 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp4 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp5 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp9 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp6 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp7 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp8 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btn13 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp10 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp11 = new javax.swing.JButton(); btnp12 = new javax.swing.JButton(); setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); btnp2.setText("2"); btnp2.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp2MouseClicked(evt); } }); btncon.setText("Conectar"); btncon.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnconMouseClicked(evt); } }); btndesc.setText("Desconectar"); btndesc.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btndescMouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp3.setText("3"); btnp3.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp3MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp4.setText("4"); btnp4.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp4MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp5.setText("5"); btnp5.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp5MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp9.setText("9"); btnp9.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp9MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp6.setText("6"); btnp6.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp6MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp7.setText("7"); btnp7.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp7MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp8.setText("8"); btnp8.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp8MouseClicked(evt); } }); btn13.setText("13"); btn13.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btn13MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp10.setText("10"); btnp10.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp10MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp11.setText("11"); btnp11.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp11MouseClicked(evt); } }); btnp12.setText("12"); btnp12.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() { public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { btnp12MouseClicked(evt); } }); javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane()); getContentPane().setLayout(layout); layout.setHorizontalGroup( layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGap(20, 20, 20) .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING, false) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(btncon) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE) .addComponent(btndesc)) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(btnp6, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp7, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp8, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp9, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(btnp10, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp11, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp12, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btn13, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(btnp2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp3, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp4, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) .addComponent(btnp5, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 50, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))) .addContainerGap(20, Short.MAX_VALUE)) ); layout.setVerticalGroup( layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addContainerGap() .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE) .addComponent(btncon) .addComponent(btndesc)) .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, 20, Short.MAX_VALUE) .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addComponent(btnp2) .addComponent(btnp3) .addComponent(btnp4) .addComponent(btnp5)) .addGap(18, 18, 18) .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addComponent(btnp6) .addComponent(btnp7) .addComponent(btnp8) .addComponent(btnp9)) .addGap(18, 18, 18) .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addComponent(btnp10) .addComponent(btnp11) .addComponent(btnp12) .addComponent(btn13)) .addGap(22, 22, 22)) ); pack(); }// </editor-fold> private void btnp2MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p2"); } private void btnconMouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("connect"); } private void btndescMouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("disconnect"); } private void btnp3MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p3"); } private void btnp4MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p4"); } private void btnp5MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here action("p5"); } private void btnp9MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p9"); } private void btnp6MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p6"); } private void btnp7MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p7"); } private void btnp8MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p8"); } private void btn13MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p13"); } private void btnp10MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p10"); } private void btnp11MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p11"); } private void btnp12MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: action("p12"); } /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { /* Set the Nimbus look and feel */ //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Look and feel setting code (optional) "> /* If Nimbus (introduced in Java SE 6) is not available, stay with the default look and feel. * For details see http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html */ try { for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info : javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) { if ("Nimbus".equals(info.getName())) { javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName()); break; } } } catch (Exception e) { } //</editor-fold> /* Create and display the form */ java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { new BDArduino().setVisible(true); } }); //} while (true) { // int sql8 = Integer.parseInt(Sql.getDBinfo("SELECT * FROM arduinoData WHERE id=1", "pin8")); if (connected == true && sql8 != aux_sql8) { aux_sql8 = sql8; if(sql8 == 1){ writeData(2); }else{ writeData(3); } } int sql2 = Integer.parseInt(Sql.getDBinfo("SELECT * FROM arduinoData WHERE id=1", "pin2")); if (connected == true && sql2 != aux_sql2) { aux_sql2 = sql2; if(sql2 == 1){ writeData(4); }else{ writeData(5); } } try { Thread.sleep(500); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } // Variables declaration - do not modify private javax.swing.JButton btn13; private javax.swing.JButton btncon; private javax.swing.JButton btndesc; private javax.swing.JButton btnp10; private javax.swing.JButton btnp11; private javax.swing.JButton btnp12; private javax.swing.JButton btnp2; private javax.swing.JButton btnp3; private javax.swing.JButton btnp4; private javax.swing.JButton btnp5; private javax.swing.JButton btnp6; private javax.swing.JButton btnp7; private javax.swing.JButton btnp8; private javax.swing.JButton btnp9; // End of variables declaration }

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Followup: Python 2.6, 3 abstract base class misunderstanding

- by Aaron

I asked a question at Python 2.6, 3 abstract base class misunderstanding. My problem was that python abstract base classes didn't work quite the way I expected them to. There was some discussion in the comments about why I would want to use ABCs at all, and Alex Martelli provided an excellent answer on why my use didn't work and how to accomplish what I wanted. Here I'd like to address why one might want to use ABCs, and show my test code implementation based on Alex's answer. tl;dr: Code after the 16th paragraph. In the discussion on the original post, statements were made along the lines that you don't need ABCs in Python, and that ABCs don't do anything and are therefore not real classes; they're merely interface definitions. An abstract base class is just a tool in your tool box. It's a design tool that's been around for many years, and a programming tool that is explicitly available in many programming languages. It can be implemented manually in languages that don't provide it. An ABC is always a real class, even when it doesn't do anything but define an interface, because specifying the interface is what an ABC does. If that was all an ABC could do, that would be enough reason to have it in your toolbox, but in Python and some other languages they can do more. The basic reason to use an ABC is when you have a number of classes that all do the same thing (have the same interface) but do it differently, and you want to guarantee that that complete interface is implemented in all objects. A user of your classes can rely on the interface being completely implemented in all classes. You can maintain this guarantee manually. Over time you may succeed. Or you might forget something. Before Python had ABCs you could guarantee it semi-manually, by throwing NotImplementedError in all the base class's interface methods; you must implement these methods in derived classes. This is only a partial solution, because you can still instantiate such a base class. A more complete solution is to use ABCs as provided in Python 2.6 and above. Template methods and other wrinkles and patterns are ideas whose implementation can be made easier with full-citizen ABCs. Another idea in the comments was that Python doesn't need ABCs (understood as a class that only defines an interface) because it has multiple inheritance. The implied reference there seems to be Java and its single inheritance. In Java you "get around" single inheritance by inheriting from one or more interfaces. Java uses the word "interface" in two ways. A "Java interface" is a class with method signatures but no implementations. The methods are the interface's "interface" in the more general, non-Java sense of the word. Yes, Python has multiple inheritance, so you don't need Java-like "interfaces" (ABCs) merely to provide sets of interface methods to a class. But that's not the only reason in software development to use ABCs. Most generally, you use an ABC to specify an interface (set of methods) that will likely be implemented differently in different derived classes, yet that all derived classes must have. Additionally, there may be no sensible default implementation for the base class to provide. Finally, even an ABC with almost no interface is still useful. We use something like it when we have multiple except clauses for a try. Many exceptions have exactly the same interface, with only two differences: the exception's string value, and the actual class of the exception. In many exception clauses we use nothing about the exception except its class to decide what to do; catching one type of exception we do one thing, and another except clause catching a different exception does another thing. According to the exception module's doc page, BaseException is not intended to be derived by any user defined exceptions. If ABCs had been a first class Python concept from the beginning, it's easy to imagine BaseException being specified as an ABC. But enough of that. Here's some 2.6 code that demonstrates how to use ABCs, and how to specify a list-like ABC. Examples are run in ipython, which I like much better than the python shell for day to day work; I only wish it was available for python3. Your basic 2.6 ABC: from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod class Super(): __metaclass__ = ABCMeta @abstractmethod def method1(self): pass Test it (in ipython, python shell would be similar): In [2]: a = Super() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class Super with abstract methods method1 Notice the end of the last line, where the TypeError exception tells us that method1 has not been implemented ("abstract methods method1"). That was the method designated as @abstractmethod in the preceding code. Create a subclass that inherits Super, implement method1 in the subclass and you're done. My problem, which caused me to ask the original question, was how to specify an ABC that itself defines a list interface. My naive solution was to make an ABC as above, and in the inheritance parentheses say (list). My assumption was that the class would still be abstract (can't instantiate it), and would be a list. That was wrong; inheriting from list made the class concrete, despite the abstract bits in the class definition. Alex suggested inheriting from collections.MutableSequence, which is abstract (and so doesn't make the class concrete) and list-like. I used collections.Sequence, which is also abstract but has a shorter interface and so was quicker to implement. First, Super derived from Sequence, with nothing extra: from abc import abstractmethod from collections import Sequence class Super(Sequence): pass Test it: In [6]: a = Super() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class Super with abstract methods __getitem__, __len__ We can't instantiate it. A list-like full-citizen ABC; yea! Again, notice in the last line that TypeError tells us why we can't instantiate it: __getitem__ and __len__ are abstract methods. They come from collections.Sequence. But, I want a bunch of subclasses that all act like immutable lists (which collections.Sequence essentially is), and that have their own implementations of my added interface methods. In particular, I don't want to implement my own list code, Python already did that for me. So first, let's implement the missing Sequence methods, in terms of Python's list type, so that all subclasses act as lists (Sequences). First let's see the signatures of the missing abstract methods: In [12]: help(Sequence.__getitem__) Help on method __getitem__ in module _abcoll: __getitem__(self, index) unbound _abcoll.Sequence method (END) In [14]: help(Sequence.__len__) Help on method __len__ in module _abcoll: __len__(self) unbound _abcoll.Sequence method (END) __getitem__ takes an index, and __len__ takes nothing. And the implementation (so far) is: from abc import abstractmethod from collections import Sequence class Super(Sequence): # Gives us a list member for ABC methods to use. def __init__(self): self._list = [] # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. def __getitem__(self, index): return self._list.__getitem__(index) # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. def __len__(self): return self._list.__len__() # Not required. Makes printing behave like a list. def __repr__(self): return self._list.__repr__() Test it: In [34]: a = Super() In [35]: a Out[35]: [] In [36]: print a [] In [37]: len(a) Out[37]: 0 In [38]: a[0] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IndexError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() /home/aaron/projects/test/test.py in __getitem__(self, index) 10 # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. 11 def __getitem__(self, index): ---> 12 return self._list.__getitem__(index) 13 14 # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. IndexError: list index out of range Just like a list. It's not abstract (for the moment) because we implemented both of Sequence's abstract methods. Now I want to add my bit of interface, which will be abstract in Super and therefore required to implement in any subclasses. And we'll cut to the chase and add subclasses that inherit from our ABC Super. from abc import abstractmethod from collections import Sequence class Super(Sequence): # Gives us a list member for ABC methods to use. def __init__(self): self._list = [] # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. def __getitem__(self, index): return self._list.__getitem__(index) # Abstract method in Sequence, implemented in terms of list. def __len__(self): return self._list.__len__() # Not required. Makes printing behave like a list. def __repr__(self): return self._list.__repr__() @abstractmethod def method1(): pass class Sub0(Super): pass class Sub1(Super): def __init__(self): self._list = [1, 2, 3] def method1(self): return [x**2 for x in self._list] def method2(self): return [x/2.0 for x in self._list] class Sub2(Super): def __init__(self): self._list = [10, 20, 30, 40] def method1(self): return [x+2 for x in self._list] We've added a new abstract method to Super, method1. This makes Super abstract again. A new class Sub0 which inherits from Super but does not implement method1, so it's also an ABC. Two new classes Sub1 and Sub2, which both inherit from Super. They both implement method1 from Super, so they're not abstract. Both implementations of method1 are different. Sub1 and Sub2 also both initialize themselves differently; in real life they might initialize themselves wildly differently. So you have two subclasses which both "is a" Super (they both implement Super's required interface) although their implementations are different. Also remember that Super, although an ABC, provides four non-abstract methods. So Super provides two things to subclasses: an implementation of collections.Sequence, and an additional abstract interface (the one abstract method) that subclasses must implement. Also, class Sub1 implements an additional method, method2, which is not part of Super's interface. Sub1 "is a" Super, but it also has additional capabilities. Test it: In [52]: a = Super() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class Super with abstract methods method1 In [53]: a = Sub0() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class Sub0 with abstract methods method1 In [54]: a = Sub1() In [55]: a Out[55]: [1, 2, 3] In [56]: b = Sub2() In [57]: b Out[57]: [10, 20, 30, 40] In [58]: print a, b [1, 2, 3] [10, 20, 30, 40] In [59]: a, b Out[59]: ([1, 2, 3], [10, 20, 30, 40]) In [60]: a.method1() Out[60]: [1, 4, 9] In [61]: b.method1() Out[61]: [12, 22, 32, 42] In [62]: a.method2() Out[62]: [0.5, 1.0, 1.5] [63]: a[:2] Out[63]: [1, 2] In [64]: a[0] = 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/aaron/projects/test/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: 'Sub1' object does not support item assignment Super and Sub0 are abstract and can't be instantiated (lines 52 and 53). Sub1 and Sub2 are concrete and have an immutable Sequence interface (54 through 59). Sub1 and Sub2 are instantiated differently, and their method1 implementations are different (60, 61). Sub1 includes an additional method2, beyond what's required by Super (62). Any concrete Super acts like a list/Sequence (63). A collections.Sequence is immutable (64). Finally, a wart: In [65]: a._list Out[65]: [1, 2, 3] In [66]: a._list = [] In [67]: a Out[67]: [] Super._list is spelled with a single underscore. Double underscore would have protected it from this last bit, but would have broken the implementation of methods in subclasses. Not sure why; I think because double underscore is private, and private means private. So ultimately this whole scheme relies on a gentleman's agreement not to reach in and muck with Super._list directly, as in line 65 above. Would love to know if there's a safer way to do that.

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What is wrong with my XSLT for the XML File?

- by atrueguy

Actually my XML file has SVG info, and my Project lead wants me to develop an XSLT for the XMl file to convert it in to a PDF file. But when I try to do so I am failing to convert the XML file to PDF, can anyone help me out in this....... My Sample XML file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>   <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 214.819 278.002"> <g id="Standard_x0020_layer"/> <g id="Catalog"> <line stroke-width="0.353" stroke-linecap="butt" x1="5.839" y1="262.185" x2="209.039" y2="262.185"/> <text transform="matrix(0.984 0 0 0.93 183.515 265.271)" stroke="none" fill="#000000" font-family="'Helvetica'" font-size="3.174">© 2009 k Co.</text> <text transform="matrix(0.994 0 0 0.93 7.235 265.3)" stroke="none" fill="#000000" font-family="'Helvetica'" font-size="3.174">087156-8-</text> <text transform="matrix(0.995 0 0 0.93 21.708 265.357)" stroke="none" fill="#000000" font-family="'Helvetica'" font-size="3.174" font-weight="bold">AB</text> <text x="103.292" y="265.298" stroke="none" fill="#000000" font-family="'Helvetica'" font-size="3.174">P. 1/1</text> <g id="IC_TextBlock.1"> <g> <text transform="matrix(0.994 0 0 0.93 192.812 8.076)" stroke="none" fill="#000000" font-family="'Helvetica'" font-size="4.586" 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</fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block> <fo:instream-foreign-object xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <svg:svg height="100%" width="100%" viewBox="0 0 214.819 278.002"> <xsl:for-each select="svg/g/path"> <svg:g style="stroke:none;fill:#000000;stroke:black;"> <svg:path> <xsl:variable name="s"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(@d,' ','')"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:attribute name="d"><xsl:value-of select="translate($s,',',' ')"/></xsl:attribute> </svg:path> </svg:g> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="svg/g/text()"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="svg/g/g/path"> <svg:g style="stroke:none;fill:#000000;stroke:black;"> <svg:path> <xsl:variable name="s"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(@d,' ','')"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:attribute name="d"><xsl:value-of select="translate($s,',',' ')"/></xsl:attribute> </svg:path> </svg:g> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="svg/g/g/g/path"> <svg:g style="stroke:none;fill:#000000;"> <svg:path> <xsl:variable name="s1"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(@d,' ','')"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:attribute name="d"><xsl:value-of select="translate($s1,',',' ')"/></xsl:attribute> </svg:path> </svg:g> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="svg/g/line"> <svg:g style="stroke-linecap:butt;"> <xsl:variable name="x1"> <xsl:value-of select="@x1"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="y1"> <xsl:value-of select="@y1"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="x2"> <xsl:value-of select="@x2"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="y2"> <xsl:value-of select="@y2"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="stroke-width"> <xsl:value-of select="@stroke-width"/> </xsl:variable> <svg:line x1="$x1" y1="$y1" x2="$x2" y2="$y2" stroke-width="$stroke-width" stroke="black" /> </svg:g> </xsl:for-each> </svg:svg> </fo:instream-foreign-object> </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> My Question I have developed the XSLT file for the XML, and I need to produce a pdf output after processing the xslt file. but I am not able to get the xml data in to my pdf. Please ask me if the information what I have provided is not sufficient, as I am bit new to Stackoverflow...

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JBoss Seam: In ScopeType.PAGE I get: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No conversation context active

- by Markos Fragkakis

Hi all, I have a page-scoped component, which has an instance variable List with data, which I display in a datatable. This datatable has pagination, sorting and filtering. The first time gate into the page, I get this appended in my URL: ?conversationId=97. The page works correctly, and when I change datatable pages no now component is created. After a minute or two, and at seamingly random time, I get an exception saying that there is no context. I have not used @Create in my code or my navigation files. So, I have two questions: Why do I get this suffix in my URL? Why did a conversation start? Why the exception? The component is scoped to PAGE. If I received an exception, it should not be related to a conversation. Right? Or is the conversation the exception is referring a temporary conversation? Cheers! UPDATE: This is the page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j" xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"> <body> <ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/facelets/templates/template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="content">  <script type="text/javascript"> function submitByEnter(event){ if (event.keyCode == 13) { if (event.preventDefault) { // Firefox event.preventDefault(); } else { // IE event.returnValue = false; } document.getElementById("refreshButton").click(); } } </script> <h:form prependId="false"> <h:commandButton action="Back" value="Back to home page" /> <br /> <p><h:outputText value="Applicants and Products (experimentation page)" class="page_title" /></p> <h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showCreateApplicant}" value="Create Applicant" id="createApplicantButton"> </h:commandButton> <a4j:commandButton value="Refresh" id="refreshButton" action="#{applicantProductListBean.refreshData}" image="/images/icons/refresh48x48.gif" reRender="compositeTable, compositeScroller">   </a4j:commandButton> <rich:toolTip for="createApplicantButton" value="Create Applicant" /> <rich:dataTable styleClass="composite2DataTable" id="compositeTable" rows="1" columnClasses="col" value="#{applicantProductListBean.dataModel}" var="pageAppList"> <f:facet name="header"> <rich:columnGroup> <rich:column colspan="3"> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Applicants" /> </rich:column> <rich:column colspan="3"> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Products" /> </rich:column> <rich:column breakBefore="true"> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Applicant Name" /> <a4j:commandButton id="sortingApplicantNameButton" action="#{applicantProductListBean.toggleSorting('applicantName')}" image="/images/icons/sorting/#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListSorting.sortingValues['applicantName']}.gif" reRender="sortingApplicantNameButton, sortingApplicantEmailButton, compositeTable, compositeScroller">   </a4j:commandButton> <br /> <h:inputText value="#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListFiltering.filteringValues['applicantName']}" id="applicantNameFilterValue" onkeypress="return submitByEnter(event)"> </h:inputText> </rich:column> <rich:column> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Applicant Email" /> <a4j:commandButton id="sortingApplicantEmailButton" action="#{applicantProductListBean.toggleSorting('applicantEmail')}" image="/images/icons/sorting/#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListSorting.sortingValues['applicantEmail']}.gif" reRender="sortingApplicantNameButton, sortingApplicantEmailButton, compositeTable, compositeScroller">   </a4j:commandButton> <br /> <h:inputText value="#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListFiltering.filteringValues['applicantEmail']}" id="applicantEmailFilterValue" onkeypress="return submitByEnter(event)"> </h:inputText> </rich:column> <rich:column> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Applicant Actions" /> </rich:column> <rich:column> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Product Name" /> <a4j:commandButton id="sortingProductNameButton" action="#{applicantProductListBean.toggleSorting('productName')}" immediate="true" image="/images/icons/sorting/#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListSorting.sortingValues['productName']}.gif" reRender="sortingProductNameButton, compositeTable, compositeScroller"> </a4j:commandButton> <br /> <h:inputText value="#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListFiltering.filteringValues['productName']}" id="productNameFilterValue" onkeypress="return submitByEnter(event)"> </h:inputText> </rich:column> <rich:column> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Product Email" /> <br /> <h:inputText value="#{sortingFilteringBean.applicantProductListFiltering.filteringValues['productEmail']}" id="productEmailFilterValue" onkeypress="return submitByEnter(event)"> </h:inputText> </rich:column> <rich:column> <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Product Actions" /> </rich:column> </rich:columnGroup> </f:facet> <rich:subTable rowClasses="odd_applicant_row, even_applicant_row" value="#{pageAppList}" var="app"> <rich:column styleClass=" internal_cell composite2TextContainingColumn" valign="top"> <h:outputText value="#{app.name}" /> </rich:column> <rich:column styleClass="internal_cell composite2TextContainingColumn" valign="top"> <h:outputText value="#{app.receiptEmail}" /> </rich:column> <rich:column valign="top" styleClass="buttonsColumn"> <h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showUpdateApplicant(app)}" image="/images/icons/edit.jpg"> </h:commandButton>  <h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showDeleteApplicant(app)}" image="/images/icons/delete.png"> </h:commandButton>  </rich:column> <rich:column colspan="3"> <table class="productsTableTable"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="createProductButtonTableCell"><h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showCreateProduct(app)}" value="Create Product"> </h:commandButton>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td><rich:dataTable value="#{app.products}" var="prod" rowClasses="odd_product_row, even_product_row"> <rich:column styleClass="internal_cell composite2TextContainingColumn"> <h:outputText value="#{prod.inventedName}" /> </rich:column> <rich:column styleClass="internal_cell composite2TextContainingColumn"> <h:outputText value="#{prod.receiptEmail}" /> </rich:column> <rich:column styleClass="buttonsColumn"> <h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showUpdateProduct(prod)}" image="/images/icons/edit.jpg"> </h:commandButton>  <h:commandButton action="#{applicantProductListBean.showDeleteProduct(prod)}" image="/images/icons/delete.png"> <f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{productBean.product}" value="#{prod}" /> </h:commandButton>  </rich:column> </rich:dataTable></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </rich:column> </rich:subTable> <f:facet name="footer"> <h:panelGrid columns="1" styleClass="applicantProductListFooter"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.no_results}" rendered="#{(empty applicantProductListBean.dataModel) || (applicantProductListBean.dataModel.rowCount==0)}"/> <rich:datascroller align="center" for="compositeTable" page="#{pageScrollerBean.applicantProductListPage}" id="compositeScroller" reRender="compositeTable" renderIfSinglePage="false" fastControls="hide"> <f:facet name="first"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.first}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="first_disabled"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.first}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="last"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.last}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="last_disabled"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.last}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="next"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.next}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="next_disabled"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.next}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="previous"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.previous}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> <f:facet name="previous_disabled"> <h:outputText value="#{msgs.previous}" styleClass="scrollerCell" /> </f:facet> </rich:datascroller> </h:panelGrid> </f:facet> </rich:dataTable> </h:form> </ui:define> This is the backing bean: @Name("applicantProductListBean") @Scope(ScopeType.PAGE) public class ApplicantProductListBean extends BasePagedSortableFilterableListBean { /** * Public field for ad-hoc injection to work. */ @EJB(name = "FacadeService") public ApplicantFacadeService applicantFacadeService; @Logger private static Log logger; private final int pageSize = 10; @Out(scope = ScopeType.CONVERSATION, required = false) Applicant currentApplicant; @Out(scope = ScopeType.CONVERSATION, required = false) Product product; @Create public void onCreate() { System.out.println("Create"); } @Override protected DataModel initDataModel(int pageSize) { // get filtering and sorting from session sorting = getSorting(); filtering = getFiltering(); // System.out.println("Initializing a Composite3DataModel"); // System.out.println("Pagesize: " + pageSize); // System.out.println("Filtering: " + filtering.getFilteringValues()); // System.out.println("Sorting: " + sorting.getSortingValues()); return new Composite3DataModel(1, sorting, filtering); } // Navigation methods /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Create Applicant" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showCreateApplicant() { return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_CREATE_APPLICANT; } /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Edit Applicant" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showUpdateApplicant( Applicant applicant) { this.currentApplicant = applicant; return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_UPDATE_APPLICANT; } /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Delete Applicant" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showDeleteApplicant( Applicant applicant) { this.currentApplicant = applicant; return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_DELETE_APPLICANT; } /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Create Product" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showCreateProduct(Applicant app) { this.product = new Product(); this.product.setApplicant(app); return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_CREATE_PRODUCT; } /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Edit Product" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showUpdateProduct(Product prod) { this.product = prod; return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_UPDATE_PRODUCT; } /** * Navigation-returning method, returns the action to follow after pressing * the "Delete Product" button * * @return the action to be taken */ public Navigation.ApplicantProductList showDeleteProduct(Product prod) { this.product = prod; return Navigation.ApplicantProductList.SHOW_DELETE_PRODUCT; } /** * */ @Override public Sorting getSorting() { if (sorting == null) { return (getSortingFilteringBeanFromSession() .getApplicantProductListSorting()); } return sorting; } /** * */ @Override public void setSorting(Sorting sorting) { getSortingFilteringBeanFromSession().setApplicantProductListSorting( sorting); } /** * */ @Override public Filtering getFiltering() { if (filtering == null) { return (getSortingFilteringBeanFromSession() .getApplicantProductListFiltering()); } return filtering; } /** * */ @Override public void setFiltering(Filtering filtering) { getSortingFilteringBeanFromSession().setApplicantProductListFiltering( filtering); } /** * @return the currentApplicant */ public Applicant getCurrentApplicant() { return currentApplicant; } /** * @param currentApplicant * the currentApplicant to set */ public void setCurrentApplicant(Applicant applicant) { this.currentApplicant = applicant; } /** * The model for this page * */ private class Composite3DataModel extends PagedSortableFilterableDataModel<List<Applicant>> { public Composite3DataModel(int pageSize, Sorting sorting, Filtering filtering) { super(pageSize, sorting, filtering); } @Override protected DataPage<List<Applicant>> fetchPage(int fakeStartRow, int fakePageSize) { // if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) { System.out.println("Getting page with fakeStartRow: " + fakeStartRow + " and fakePageSize " + fakePageSize); // } // to find the page size multiply the startRow and the fakePageSize // (which is 1) to the actual page size int startRow = fakeStartRow * ApplicantProductListBean.this.pageSize; int pageSize = fakePageSize * ApplicantProductListBean.this.pageSize; // if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) { System.out.println("Getting page with startRow: " + startRow + " and pageSize " + pageSize); // } List<Applicant> pageApplicants = applicantFacadeService .findPagedWithCriteria(startRow, pageSize, filtering, sorting); // List<Applicant> pageApplicants = applicantFacadeService // .findPagedWithDynamicQuery(startRow, pageSize, filtering, // sorting, true); // if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) { System.out.println("Set of applicants: " + pageApplicants.size()); // } List<List<Applicant>> pageApplicantsListContainer = new ArrayList<List<Applicant>>(); pageApplicantsListContainer.add(pageApplicants); DataPage<List<Applicant>> dataPage = new DataPage<List<Applicant>>( this.getRowCount(), fakeStartRow, pageApplicantsListContainer); return dataPage; } @Override protected int getDatasetSize() { // int size = getServiceFacade().countWithCriteria(filtering, // sorting); // int size = // applicantFacadeService.countWithDynamicQuery(filtering, sorting, // false); int size = (int) Math.ceil((double) applicantFacadeService .countWithCriteria(filtering, sorting, false) / pageSize); if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) { logger.trace("Got Dataset Size: " + size); } return size; } } /** * @return the product */ public Product getProduct() { return product; } /** * @param product * the product to set */ public void setProduct(Product product) { this.product = product; } }

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Help with Boost Grammar

- by Decmanc04

I have been using the following win32 console code to try to parse a B Machine Grammar embedded within C++ using Boost Spirit grammar template. I am a relatively new Boost user. The code compiles, but when I run the .exe file produced by VC++2008, the program partially parses the input file. I believe the problem is with my grammar definition or the functions attached as semantic atctions. The code is given below: // BIFAnalyser.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // // /*============================================================================= Copyright (c) Temitope Jos Onunkun 2010 http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/onun/ Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) =============================================================================*/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // // B Machine parser using the Boost "Grammar" and "Semantic Actions". // // // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #include <boost/spirit/core.hpp> #include <boost/tokenizer.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <fstream> #include <vector> #include <utility> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// using namespace std; using namespace boost::spirit; /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Semantic actions // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// vector<string> strVect; namespace { //semantic action function on individual lexeme void do_noint(char const* str, char const* end) { string s(str, end); if(atoi(str)) { ; } else { strVect.push_back(s); cout << "PUSH(" << s << ')' << endl; } } //semantic action function on addition of lexemes void do_add(char const*, char const*) { cout << "ADD" << endl; for(vector<string>::iterator vi = strVect.begin(); vi < strVect.end(); ++vi) cout << *vi << " "; } //semantic action function on subtraction of lexemes void do_subt(char const*, char const*) { cout << "SUBTRACT" << endl; for(vector<string>::iterator vi = strVect.begin(); vi < strVect.end(); ++vi) cout << *vi << " "; } //semantic action function on multiplication of lexemes void do_mult(char const*, char const*) { cout << "\nMULTIPLY" << endl; for(vector<string>::iterator vi = strVect.begin(); vi < strVect.end(); ++vi) cout << *vi << " "; cout << "\n"; } //semantic action function on division of lexemes void do_div(char const*, char const*) { cout << "\nDIVIDE" << endl; for(vector<string>::iterator vi = strVect.begin(); vi < strVect.end(); ++vi) cout << *vi << " "; } //semantic action function on simple substitution void do_sSubst(char const* str, char const* end) { string s(str, end); //use boost tokenizer to break down tokens typedef boost::tokenizer<boost::char_separator<char> > Tokenizer; boost::char_separator<char> sep("-+/*:=()"); // default char separator Tokenizer tok(s, sep); Tokenizer::iterator tok_iter = tok.begin(); pair<string, string > dependency; //create a pair object for dependencies //save first variable token in simple substitution dependency.first = *tok.begin(); //create a vector object to store all tokens vector<string> dx; // for( ; tok_iter != tok.end(); ++tok_iter) //save all tokens in vector { dx.push_back(*tok_iter ); } vector<string> d_hat; //stores set of dependency pairs string dep; //pairs variables as string object for(int unsigned i=1; i < dx.size()-1; i++) { dependency.second = dx.at(i); dep = dependency.first + "|->" + dependency.second + " "; d_hat.push_back(dep); } cout << "PUSH(" << s << ')' << endl; for(int unsigned i=0; i < d_hat.size(); i++) cout <<"\n...\n" << d_hat.at(i) << " "; cout << "\nSIMPLE SUBSTITUTION\n"; } //semantic action function on multiple substitution void do_mSubst(char const* str, char const* end) { string s(str, end); //use boost tokenizer to break down tokens typedef boost::tokenizer<boost::char_separator<char> > Tok; boost::char_separator<char> sep("-+/*:=()"); // default char separator Tok tok(s, sep); Tok::iterator tok_iter = tok.begin(); // string start = *tok.begin(); vector<string> mx; for( ; tok_iter != tok.end(); ++tok_iter) //save all tokens in vector { mx.push_back(*tok_iter ); } mx.push_back("END\n"); //add a marker "end" for(unsigned int i=0; i<mx.size(); i++) { // if(mx.at(i) == "END" || mx.at(i) == "||" ) // break; // else if( mx.at(i) == "||") // do_sSubst(str, end); // else // { // do_sSubst(str, end); // } cout << "\nTokens ... " << mx.at(i) << " "; } cout << "PUSH(" << s << ')' << endl; cout << "MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTION\n"; } } //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Simple Substitution Grammar // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Simple substitution grammar parser with integer values removed struct Substitution : public grammar<Substitution> { template <typename ScannerT> struct definition { definition(Substitution const& ) { multi_subst = (simple_subst [&do_mSubst] >> +( str_p("||") >> simple_subst [&do_mSubst]) ) ; simple_subst = (Identifier >> str_p(":=") >> expression)[&do_sSubst] ; Identifier = alpha_p >> +alnum_p//[do_noint] ; expression = term >> *( ('+' >> term)[&do_add] | ('-' >> term)[&do_subt] ) ; term = factor >> *( ('*' >> factor)[&do_mult] | ('/' >> factor)[&do_div] ) ; factor = lexeme_d[( (alpha_p >> +alnum_p) | +digit_p)[&do_noint]] | '(' >> expression >> ')' | ('+' >> factor) ; } rule<ScannerT> expression, term, factor, Identifier, simple_subst, multi_subst ; rule<ScannerT> const& start() const { return multi_subst; } }; }; //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Main program // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// int main() { cout << "************************************************************\n\n"; cout << "\t\t...Machine Parser...\n\n"; cout << "************************************************************\n\n"; // cout << "Type an expression...or [q or Q] to quit\n\n"; //prompt for file name to be input cout << "Please enter a filename...or [q or Q] to quit:\n\n "; char strFilename[256]; //file name store as a string object cin >> strFilename; ifstream inFile(strFilename); // opens file object for reading //output file for truncated machine (operations only) Substitution elementary_subst; // Simple substitution parser object string str, next; // inFile.open(strFilename); while (inFile >> str) { getline(cin, next); str += next; if (str.empty() || str[0] == 'q' || str[0] == 'Q') break; parse_info<> info = parse(str.c_str(), elementary_subst, space_p); if (info.full) { cout << "\n-------------------------\n"; cout << "Parsing succeeded\n"; cout << "\n-------------------------\n"; } else { cout << "\n-------------------------\n"; cout << "Parsing failed\n"; cout << "stopped at: \": " << info.stop << "\"\n"; cout << "\n-------------------------\n"; } } cout << "Please enter a filename...or [q or Q] to quit\n"; cin >> strFilename; return 0; } The contents of the file I tried to parse, which I named "mf7.txt" is given below: debt:=(LoanRequest+outstandingLoan1)*20 || newDebt := loanammount-paidammount The output when I execute the program is: ************************************************************ ...Machine Parser... ************************************************************ Please enter a filename...or [q or Q] to quit: c:\tplat\mf7.txt PUSH(LoanRequest) PUSH(outstandingLoan1) ADD LoanRequest outstandingLoan1 MULTIPLY LoanRequest outstandingLoan1 PUSH(debt:=(LoanRequest+outstandingLoan1)*20) ... debt|->LoanRequest ... debt|->outstandingLoan1 SIMPLE SUBSTITUTION Tokens ... debt Tokens ... LoanRequest Tokens ... outstandingLoan1 Tokens ... 20 Tokens ... END PUSH(debt:=(LoanRequest+outstandingLoan1)*20) MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTION ------------------------- Parsing failedstopped at: ": " ------------------------- My intention is to capture only the variables in the file, which I managed to do up to the "||" string. Clearly, the program is not parsing beyond the "||" string in the input file. I will appreciate assistance to fix the grammar. SOS, please.

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Sent Item code in java

- by Farhan Khan

I need urgent help, if any one can resolve my issue it will be very highly appriciated. I have create a SMS composer on jAVA netbians its on urdu language. the probelm is its not saving sent sms on Sent items.. i have tried my best to make the code but failed. Tomorrow is my last day to present the code on university please help me please below is the code that i have made till now. Please any one.... /* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package newSms; import javax.microedition.io.Connector; import javax.microedition.midlet.*; import javax.microedition.lcdui.*; import javax.wireless.messaging.MessageConnection; import javax.wireless.messaging.TextMessage; import org.netbeans.microedition.util.SimpleCancellableTask; /** * @author AHTISHAM */ public class composeurdu extends MIDlet implements CommandListener, ItemCommandListener, ItemStateListener { private boolean midletPaused = false; private boolean isUrdu; String numb=" "; Alert alert; //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Fields ">//GEN-BEGIN:|fields|0| private Form form; private TextField number; private TextField textUrdu; private StringItem stringItem; private StringItem send; private Command exit; private Command sendMesg; private Command add; private Command urdu; private Command select; private SimpleCancellableTask task; //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|fields|0| MessageConnection clientConn; private Display display; public composeurdu() { display = Display.getDisplay(this); } private void showMessage(){ display=Display.getDisplay(this); //numb=number.getString(); if(number.getString().length()==0 || textUrdu.getString().length()==0){ Alert alert=new Alert("error "); alert.setString(" Enter phone number"); alert.setTimeout(5000); display.setCurrent(alert); } else if(number.getString().length()>11){ Alert alert=new Alert("error "); alert.setString("invalid number"); alert.setTimeout(5000); display.setCurrent(alert); } else{ Alert alert=new Alert("error "); alert.setString("success"); alert.setTimeout(5000); display.setCurrent(alert); } } void showMessage(String message, Displayable displayable) { Alert alert = new Alert(""); alert.setTitle("Error"); alert.setString(message); alert.setType(AlertType.ERROR); alert.setTimeout(5000); display.setCurrent(alert, displayable); } //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Methods ">//GEN-BEGIN:|methods|0| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|methods|0| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: initialize ">//GEN-BEGIN:|0-initialize|0|0-preInitialize /** * Initializes the application. It is called only once when the MIDlet is * started. The method is called before the * <code>startMIDlet</code> method. */ private void initialize() {//GEN-END:|0-initialize|0|0-preInitialize // write pre-initialize user code here //GEN-LINE:|0-initialize|1|0-postInitialize // write post-initialize user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|0-initialize|2| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|0-initialize|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: startMIDlet ">//GEN-BEGIN:|3-startMIDlet|0|3-preAction /** * Performs an action assigned to the Mobile Device - MIDlet Started point. */ public void startMIDlet() {//GEN-END:|3-startMIDlet|0|3-preAction // write pre-action user code here switchDisplayable(null, getForm());//GEN-LINE:|3-startMIDlet|1|3-postAction // write post-action user code here form.setCommandListener(this); form.setItemStateListener(this); }//GEN-BEGIN:|3-startMIDlet|2| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|3-startMIDlet|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: resumeMIDlet ">//GEN-BEGIN:|4-resumeMIDlet|0|4-preAction /** * Performs an action assigned to the Mobile Device - MIDlet Resumed point. */ public void resumeMIDlet() {//GEN-END:|4-resumeMIDlet|0|4-preAction // write pre-action user code here //GEN-LINE:|4-resumeMIDlet|1|4-postAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|4-resumeMIDlet|2| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|4-resumeMIDlet|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: switchDisplayable ">//GEN-BEGIN:|5-switchDisplayable|0|5-preSwitch /** * Switches a current displayable in a display. The * <code>display</code> instance is taken from * <code>getDisplay</code> method. This method is used by all actions in the * design for switching displayable. * * @param alert the Alert which is temporarily set to the display; if * <code>null</code>, then * <code>nextDisplayable</code> is set immediately * @param nextDisplayable the Displayable to be set */ public void switchDisplayable(Alert alert, Displayable nextDisplayable) {//GEN-END:|5-switchDisplayable|0|5-preSwitch // write pre-switch user code here Display display = getDisplay();//GEN-BEGIN:|5-switchDisplayable|1|5-postSwitch if (alert == null) { display.setCurrent(nextDisplayable); } else { display.setCurrent(alert, nextDisplayable); }//GEN-END:|5-switchDisplayable|1|5-postSwitch // write post-switch user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|5-switchDisplayable|2| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|5-switchDisplayable|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: commandAction for Displayables ">//GEN-BEGIN:|7-commandAction|0|7-preCommandAction /** * Called by a system to indicated that a command has been invoked on a * particular displayable. * * @param command the Command that was invoked * @param displayable the Displayable where the command was invoked */ public void commandAction(Command command, Displayable displayable) {//GEN-END:|7-commandAction|0|7-preCommandAction // write pre-action user code here if (displayable == form) {//GEN-BEGIN:|7-commandAction|1|16-preAction if (command == exit) {//GEN-END:|7-commandAction|1|16-preAction // write pre-action user code here exitMIDlet();//GEN-LINE:|7-commandAction|2|16-postAction // write post-action user code here } else if (command == sendMesg) {//GEN-LINE:|7-commandAction|3|18-preAction // write pre-action user code here String mno=number.getString(); String msg=textUrdu.getString(); if(mno.equals("")) { alert = new Alert("Alert"); alert.setString("Enter Mobile Number!!!"); alert.setTimeout(2000); display.setCurrent(alert); } else { try { clientConn=(MessageConnection)Connector.open("sms://"+mno); } catch(Exception e) { alert = new Alert("Alert"); alert.setString("Unable to connect to Station because of network problem"); alert.setTimeout(2000); display.setCurrent(alert); } try { TextMessage textmessage = (TextMessage) clientConn.newMessage(MessageConnection.TEXT_MESSAGE); textmessage.setAddress("sms://"+mno); textmessage.setPayloadText(msg); clientConn.send(textmessage); } catch(Exception e) { Alert alert=new Alert("Alert","",null,AlertType.INFO); alert.setTimeout(Alert.FOREVER); alert.setString("Unable to send"); display.setCurrent(alert); } } //GEN-LINE:|7-commandAction|4|18-postAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|7-commandAction|5|7-postCommandAction }//GEN-END:|7-commandAction|5|7-postCommandAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|7-commandAction|6| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|7-commandAction|6| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Method: commandAction for Items ">//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|0|8-preItemCommandAction /** * Called by a system to indicated that a command has been invoked on a * particular item. * * @param command the Command that was invoked * @param displayable the Item where the command was invoked */ public void commandAction(Command command, Item item) {//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|0|8-preItemCommandAction // write pre-action user code here if (item == number) {//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|1|21-preAction if (command == add) {//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|1|21-preAction // write pre-action user code here //GEN-LINE:|8-itemCommandAction|2|21-postAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|3|28-preAction } else if (item == send) { if (command == select) {//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|3|28-preAction // write pre-action user code here //GEN-LINE:|8-itemCommandAction|4|28-postAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|5|24-preAction } else if (item == textUrdu) { if (command == urdu) {//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|5|24-preAction // write pre-action user code here if (isUrdu) isUrdu = false; else { isUrdu = true; TextField tf = (TextField)item; } //GEN-LINE:|8-itemCommandAction|6|24-postAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|7|8-postItemCommandAction }//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|7|8-postItemCommandAction // write post-action user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|8-itemCommandAction|8| //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|8-itemCommandAction|8| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: form ">//GEN-BEGIN:|14-getter|0|14-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of form component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Form getForm() { if (form == null) {//GEN-END:|14-getter|0|14-preInit // write pre-init user code here form = new Form("form", new Item[]{getNumber(), getTextUrdu(), getStringItem(), getSend()});//GEN-BEGIN:|14-getter|1|14-postInit form.addCommand(getExit()); form.addCommand(getSendMesg()); form.setCommandListener(this);//GEN-END:|14-getter|1|14-postInit // write post-init user code here form.setItemStateListener(this); // form.setCommandListener(this); }//GEN-BEGIN:|14-getter|2| return form; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|14-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: number ">//GEN-BEGIN:|19-getter|0|19-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of number component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public TextField getNumber() { if (number == null) {//GEN-END:|19-getter|0|19-preInit // write pre-init user code here number = new TextField("Number ", null, 11, TextField.PHONENUMBER);//GEN-BEGIN:|19-getter|1|19-postInit number.addCommand(getAdd()); number.setItemCommandListener(this); number.setDefaultCommand(getAdd());//GEN-END:|19-getter|1|19-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|19-getter|2| return number; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|19-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: textUrdu ">//GEN-BEGIN:|22-getter|0|22-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of textUrdu component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public TextField getTextUrdu() { if (textUrdu == null) {//GEN-END:|22-getter|0|22-preInit // write pre-init user code here textUrdu = new TextField("Message", null, 2000, TextField.ANY);//GEN-BEGIN:|22-getter|1|22-postInit textUrdu.addCommand(getUrdu()); textUrdu.setItemCommandListener(this);//GEN-END:|22-getter|1|22-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|22-getter|2| return textUrdu; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|22-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: exit ">//GEN-BEGIN:|15-getter|0|15-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of exit component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getExit() { if (exit == null) {//GEN-END:|15-getter|0|15-preInit // write pre-init user code here exit = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 0);//GEN-LINE:|15-getter|1|15-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|15-getter|2| return exit; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|15-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: sendMesg ">//GEN-BEGIN:|17-getter|0|17-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of sendMesg component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getSendMesg() { if (sendMesg == null) {//GEN-END:|17-getter|0|17-preInit // write pre-init user code here sendMesg = new Command("send", Command.OK, 0);//GEN-LINE:|17-getter|1|17-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|17-getter|2| return sendMesg; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|17-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: add ">//GEN-BEGIN:|20-getter|0|20-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of add component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getAdd() { if (add == null) {//GEN-END:|20-getter|0|20-preInit // write pre-init user code here add = new Command("add", Command.OK, 0);//GEN-LINE:|20-getter|1|20-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|20-getter|2| return add; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|20-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: urdu ">//GEN-BEGIN:|23-getter|0|23-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of urdu component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getUrdu() { if (urdu == null) {//GEN-END:|23-getter|0|23-preInit // write pre-init user code here urdu = new Command("urdu", Command.OK, 0);//GEN-LINE:|23-getter|1|23-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|23-getter|2| return urdu; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|23-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: stringItem ">//GEN-BEGIN:|25-getter|0|25-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of stringItem component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public StringItem getStringItem() { if (stringItem == null) {//GEN-END:|25-getter|0|25-preInit // write pre-init user code here stringItem = new StringItem("string", null);//GEN-LINE:|25-getter|1|25-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|25-getter|2| return stringItem; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|25-getter|2| //</editor-fold> //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: send ">//GEN-BEGIN:|26-getter|0|26-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of send component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public StringItem getSend() { if (send == null) {//GEN-END:|26-getter|0|26-preInit // write pre-init user code here send = new StringItem("", "send", Item.BUTTON);//GEN-BEGIN:|26-getter|1|26-postInit send.addCommand(getSelect()); send.setItemCommandListener(this); send.setDefaultCommand(getSelect());//GEN-END:|26-getter|1|26-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|26-getter|2| return send; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|26-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: select ">//GEN-BEGIN:|27-getter|0|27-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of select component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getSelect() { if (select == null) {//GEN-END:|27-getter|0|27-preInit // write pre-init user code here select = new Command("select", Command.OK, 0);//GEN-LINE:|27-getter|1|27-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|27-getter|2| return select; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|27-getter|2| //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Getter: task ">//GEN-BEGIN:|40-getter|0|40-preInit /** * Returns an initialized instance of task component. * * @return the initialized component instance */ public SimpleCancellableTask getTask() { if (task == null) {//GEN-END:|40-getter|0|40-preInit // write pre-init user code here task = new SimpleCancellableTask();//GEN-BEGIN:|40-getter|1|40-execute task.setExecutable(new org.netbeans.microedition.util.Executable() { public void execute() throws Exception {//GEN-END:|40-getter|1|40-execute // write task-execution user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|40-getter|2|40-postInit });//GEN-END:|40-getter|2|40-postInit // write post-init user code here }//GEN-BEGIN:|40-getter|3| return task; } //</editor-fold>//GEN-END:|40-getter|3| /** * Returns a display instance. * @return the display instance. */ public Display getDisplay () { return Display.getDisplay(this); } /** * Exits MIDlet. */ public void exitMIDlet() { switchDisplayable (null, null); destroyApp(true); notifyDestroyed(); } /** * Called when MIDlet is started. * Checks whether the MIDlet have been already started and initialize/starts or resumes the MIDlet. */ public void startApp() { startMIDlet(); display.setCurrent(form); } /** * Called when MIDlet is paused. */ public void pauseApp() { midletPaused = true; } /** * Called to signal the MIDlet to terminate. * @param unconditional if true, then the MIDlet has to be unconditionally terminated and all resources has to be released. */ public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) { } public void itemStateChanged(Item item) { if (item == textUrdu) { if (isUrdu) { stringItem.setText("urdu"); TextField tf = (TextField)item; String s = tf.getString(); char ch = s.charAt(s.length() - 1); s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1); ch = Urdu.ToUrdu(ch); s = s + String.valueOf(ch); tf.setString(""); tf.setString(s); }//end if throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); } } }

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Sensible Way to Pass Web Data in XML to a SQL Server Database

- by Emtucifor

After exploring several different ways to pass web data to a database for update purposes, I'm wondering if XML might be a good strategy. The database is currently SQL 2000. In a few months it will move to SQL 2005 and I will be able to change things if needed, but I need a SQL 2000 solution now. First of all, the database in question uses the EAV model. I know that this kind of database is generally highly frowned on, so for the purposes of this question, please just accept that this is not going to change. The current update method has the web server inserting values (that have all been converted first to their correct underlying types, then to sql_variant) to a temp table. A stored procedure is then run which expects the temp table to exist and it takes care of updating, inserting, or deleting things as needed. So far, only a single element has needed to be updated at a time. But now, there is a requirement to be able to edit multiple elements at once, and also to support hierarchical elements, each of which can have its own list of attributes. Here's some example XML I hand-typed to demonstrate what I'm thinking of. Note that in this database the Entity is Element and an ID of 0 signifies "create" aka an insert of a new item. <Elements> <Element ID="1234"> <Attr ID="221">Value</Attr> <Attr ID="225">287</Attr> <Attr ID="234"> <Element ID="99825"> <Attr ID="7">Value1</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value2</Attr> <Attr ID="9" Action="delete" /> </Element> <Element ID="99826" Action="delete" /> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value4</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value5</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value6</Attr> </Element> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value7</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value8</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value9</Attr> </Element> </Attr> <Rel ID="3827" Action="delete" /> <Rel ID="2284" Role="parent"> <Element ID="3827" /> <Element ID="3829" /> <Attr ID="665">1</Attr> </Rel> <Rel ID="0" Type="23" Role="child"> <Element ID="3830" /> <Attr ID="67" </Rel> </Element> <Element ID="0" Type="87"> <Attr ID="221">Value</Attr> <Attr ID="225">569</Attr> <Attr ID="234"> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value10</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value11</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value12</Attr> </Element> </Attr> </Element> <Element ID="1235" Action="delete" /> </Elements> Some Attributes are straight value types, such as AttrID 221. But AttrID 234 is a special "multi-value" type that can have a list of elements underneath it, and each one can have one or more values. Types only need to be presented when a new item is created, since the ElementID fully implies the type if it already exists. I'll probably support only passing in changed items (as detected by javascript). And there may be an Action="Delete" on Attr elements as well, since NULLs are treated as "unselected"--sometimes it's very important to know if a Yes/No question has intentionally been answered No or if no one's bothered to say Yes yet. There is also a different kind of data, a Relationship. At this time, those are updated through individual AJAX calls as things are edited in the UI, but I'd like to include those so that changes to relationships can be canceled (right now, once you change it, it's done). So those are really elements, too, but they are called Rel instead of Element. Relationships are implemented as ElementID1 and ElementID2, so the RelID 2284 in the XML above is in the database as: ElementID 2284 ElementID1 1234 ElementID2 3827 Having multiple children in one relationship isn't currently supported, but it would be nice later. Does this strategy and the example XML make sense? Is there a more sensible way? I'm just looking for some broad critique to help save me from going down a bad path. Any aspect that you'd like to comment on would be helpful. The web language happens to be Classic ASP, but that could change to ASP.Net at some point. A persistence engine like Linq or nHibernate is probably not acceptable right now--I just want to get this already working application enhanced without a huge amount of development time. I'll choose the answer that shows experience and has a balance of good warnings about what not to do, confirmations of what I'm planning to do, and recommendations about something else to do. I'll make it as objective as possible. P.S. I'd like to handle unicode characters as well as very long strings (10k +). UPDATE I have had this working for some time and I used the ADO Recordset Save-To-Stream trick to make creating the XML really easy. The result seems to be fairly fast, though if speed ever becomes a problem I may revisit this. In the meantime, my code works to handle any number of elements and attributes on the page at once, including updating, deleting, and creating new items all in one go. I settled on a scheme like so for all my elements: Existing data elements Example: input name e12345_a678 (element 12345, attribute 678), the input value is the value of the attribute. New elements Javascript copies a hidden template of the set of HTML elements needed for the type into the correct location on the page, increments a counter to get a new ID for this item, and prepends the number to the names of the form items. var newid = 0; function metadataAdd(reference, nameid, value) { var t = document.createElement('input'); t.setAttribute('name', nameid); t.setAttribute('id', nameid); t.setAttribute('type', 'hidden'); t.setAttribute('value', value); reference.appendChild(t); } function multiAdd(target, parentelementid, attrid, elementtypeid) { var proto = document.getElementById('a' + attrid + '_proto'); var instance = document.createElement('p'); target.parentNode.parentNode.insertBefore(instance, target.parentNode); var thisid = ++newid; instance.innerHTML = proto.innerHTML.replace(/{prefix}/g, 'n' + thisid + '_'); instance.id = 'n' + thisid; instance.className += ' new'; metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_p', parentelementid); metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_c', attrid); metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_t', elementtypeid); return false; } Example: Template input name _a678 becomes n1_a678 (a new element, the first one on the page, attribute 678). all attributes of this new element are tagged with the same prefix of n1. The next new item will be n2, and so on. Some hidden form inputs are created: n1_t, value is the elementtype of the element to be created n1_p, value is the parent id of the element (if it is a relationship) n1_c, value is the child id of the element (if it is a relationship) Deleting elements A hidden input is created in the form e12345_t with value set to 0. The existing controls displaying that attribute's values are disabled so they are not included in the form post. So "set type to 0" is treated as delete. With this scheme, every item on the page has a unique name and can be distinguished properly, and every action can be represented properly. When the form is posted, here's a sample of building one of the two recordsets used (classic ASP code): Set Data = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") Data.Fields.Append "ElementID", adInteger, 4, adFldKeyColumn Data.Fields.Append "AttrID", adInteger, 4, adFldKeyColumn Data.Fields.Append "Value", adLongVarWChar, 2147483647, adFldIsNullable Or adFldMayBeNull Data.CursorLocation = adUseClient Data.CursorType = adOpenDynamic Data.Open This is the recordset for values, the other is for the elements themselves. I step through the posted form and for the element recordset use a Scripting.Dictionary populated with instances of a custom Class that has the properties I need, so that I can add the values piecemeal, since they don't always come in order. New elements are added as negative to distinguish them from regular elements (rather than requiring a separate column to indicate if it is new or addresses an existing element). I use regular expression to tear apart the form keys: "^(e|n)([0-9]{1,10})_(a|p|t|c)([0-9]{0,10})$" Then, adding an attribute looks like this. Data.AddNew ElementID.Value = DataID AttrID.Value = Integerize(Matches(0).SubMatches(3)) AttrValue.Value = Request.Form(Key) Data.Update ElementID, AttrID, and AttrValue are references to the fields of the recordset. This method is hugely faster than using Data.Fields("ElementID").Value each time. I loop through the Dictionary of element updates and ignore any that don't have all the proper information, adding the good ones to the recordset. Then I call my data-updating stored procedure like so: Set Cmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command") With Cmd Set .ActiveConnection = MyDBConn .CommandType = adCmdStoredProc .CommandText = "DataPost" .Prepared = False .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("@ElementMetadata", adLongVarWChar, adParamInput, 2147483647, XMLFromRecordset(Element)) .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("@ElementData", adLongVarWChar, adParamInput, 2147483647, XMLFromRecordset(Data)) End With Result.Open Cmd ' previously created recordset object with options set Here's the function that does the xml conversion: Private Function XMLFromRecordset(Recordset) Dim Stream Set Stream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") Stream.Open Recordset.Save Stream, adPersistXML Stream.Position = 0 XMLFromRecordset = Stream.ReadText End Function Just in case the web page needs to know, the SP returns a recordset of any new elements, showing their page value and their created value (so I can see that n1 is now e12346 for example). Here are some key snippets from the stored procedure. Note this is SQL 2000 for now, though I'll be able to switch to 2005 soon: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[DataPost] @ElementMetaData ntext, @ElementData ntext AS DECLARE @hdoc int --- snip --- EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hdoc OUTPUT, @ElementMetaData, '<xml xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" />' INSERT #ElementMetadata (ElementID, ElementTypeID, ElementID1, ElementID2) SELECT * FROM OPENXML(@hdoc, '/xml/rs:data/rs:insert/z:row', 0) WITH ( ElementID int, ElementTypeID int, ElementID1 int, ElementID2 int ) ORDER BY ElementID -- orders negative items (new elements) first so they begin counting at 1 for later ID calculation EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hdoc --- snip --- UPDATE E SET E.ElementTypeID = M.ElementTypeID FROM Element E INNER JOIN #ElementMetadata M ON E.ElementID = M.ElementID WHERE E.ElementID >= 1 AND M.ElementTypeID >= 1 The following query does the correlation of the negative new element ids to the newly inserted ones: UPDATE #ElementMetadata -- Correlate the new ElementIDs with the input rows SET NewElementID = Scope_Identity() - @@RowCount + DataID WHERE ElementID < 0 Other set-based queries do all the other work of validating that the attributes are allowed, are the correct data type, and inserting, updating, and deleting elements and attributes. I hope this brief run-down is useful to others some day! Converting ADO Recordsets to an XML stream was a huge winner for me as it saved all sorts of time and had a namespace and schema already defined that made the results come out correctly. Using a flatter XML format with 2 inputs was also much easier than sticking to some ideal about having everything in a single XML stream.

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Sensible Way to Pass Web Data to Sql Server Database

- by Emtucifor

After exploring several different ways to pass web data to a database for update purposes, I'm wondering if XML might be a good strategy. The database is currently SQL 2000. In a few months it will move to SQL 2005 and I will be able to change things if needed, but I need a SQL 2000 solution now. First of all, the database in question uses the EAV model. I know that this kind of database is generally highly frowned on, so for the purposes of this question, please just accept that this is not going to change. The current update method has the web server inserting values (that have all been converted first to their correct underlying types, then to sql_variant) to a temp table. A stored procedure is then run which expects the temp table to exist and it takes care of updating, inserting, or deleting things as needed. So far, only a single element has needed to be updated at a time. But now, there is a requirement to be able to edit multiple elements at once, and also to support hierarchical elements, each of which can have its own list of attributes. Here's some example XML I hand-typed to demonstrate what I'm thinking of. Note that in this database the Entity is Element and an ID of 0 signifies "create" aka an insert of a new item. <Elements> <Element ID="1234"> <Attr ID="221">Value</Attr> <Attr ID="225">287</Attr> <Attr ID="234"> <Element ID="99825"> <Attr ID="7">Value1</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value2</Attr> <Attr ID="9" Action="delete" /> </Element> <Element ID="99826" Action="delete" /> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value4</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value5</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value6</Attr> </Element> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value7</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value8</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value9</Attr> </Element> </Attr> <Rel ID="3827" Action="delete" /> <Rel ID="2284" Role="parent"> <Element ID="3827" /> <Element ID="3829" /> <Attr ID="665">1</Attr> </Rel> <Rel ID="0" Type="23" Role="child"> <Element ID="3830" /> <Attr ID="67" </Rel> </Element> <Element ID="0" Type="87"> <Attr ID="221">Value</Attr> <Attr ID="225">569</Attr> <Attr ID="234"> <Element ID="0" Type="24"> <Attr ID="7">Value10</Attr> <Attr ID="8">Value11</Attr> <Attr ID="9">Value12</Attr> </Element> </Attr> </Element> <Element ID="1235" Action="delete" /> </Elements> Some Attributes are straight value types, such as AttrID 221. But AttrID 234 is a special "multi-value" type that can have a list of elements underneath it, and each one can have one or more values. Types only need to be presented when a new item is created, since the ElementID fully implies the type if it already exists. I'll probably support only passing in changed items (as detected by javascript). And there may be an Action="Delete" on Attr elements as well, since NULLs are treated as "unselected"--sometimes it's very important to know if a Yes/No question has intentionally been answered No or if no one's bothered to say Yes yet. There is also a different kind of data, a Relationship. At this time, those are updated through individual AJAX calls as things are edited in the UI, but I'd like to include those so that changes to relationships can be canceled (right now, once you change it, it's done). So those are really elements, too, but they are called Rel instead of Element. Relationships are implemented as ElementID1 and ElementID2, so the RelID 2284 in the XML above is in the database as: ElementID 2284 ElementID1 1234 ElementID2 3827 Having multiple children in one relationship isn't currently supported, but it would be nice later. Does this strategy and the example XML make sense? Is there a more sensible way? I'm just looking for some broad critique to help save me from going down a bad path. Any aspect that you'd like to comment on would be helpful. The web language happens to be Classic ASP, but that could change to ASP.Net at some point. A persistence engine like Linq or nHibernate is probably not acceptable right now--I just want to get this already working application enhanced without a huge amount of development time. I'll choose the answer that shows experience and has a balance of good warnings about what not to do, confirmations of what I'm planning to do, and recommendations about something else to do. I'll make it as objective as possible. P.S. I'd like to handle unicode characters as well as very long strings (10k +). UPDATE I have had this working for some time and I used the ADO Recordset Save-To-Stream trick to make creating the XML really easy. The result seems to be fairly fast, though if speed ever becomes a problem I may revisit this. In the meantime, my code works to handle any number of elements and attributes on the page at once, including updating, deleting, and creating new items all in one go. I settled on a scheme like so for all my elements: Existing data elements Example: input name e12345_a678 (element 12345, attribute 678), the input value is the value of the attribute. New elements Javascript copies a hidden template of the set of HTML elements needed for the type into the correct location on the page, increments a counter to get a new ID for this item, and prepends the number to the names of the form items. var newid = 0; function metadataAdd(reference, nameid, value) { var t = document.createElement('input'); t.setAttribute('name', nameid); t.setAttribute('id', nameid); t.setAttribute('type', 'hidden'); t.setAttribute('value', value); reference.appendChild(t); } function multiAdd(target, parentelementid, attrid, elementtypeid) { var proto = document.getElementById('a' + attrid + '_proto'); var instance = document.createElement('p'); target.parentNode.parentNode.insertBefore(instance, target.parentNode); var thisid = ++newid; instance.innerHTML = proto.innerHTML.replace(/{prefix}/g, 'n' + thisid + '_'); instance.id = 'n' + thisid; instance.className += ' new'; metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_p', parentelementid); metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_c', attrid); metadataAdd(instance, 'n' + thisid + '_t', elementtypeid); return false; } Example: Template input name _a678 becomes n1_a678 (a new element, the first one on the page, attribute 678). all attributes of this new element are tagged with the same prefix of n1. The next new item will be n2, and so on. Some hidden form inputs are created: n1_t, value is the elementtype of the element to be created n1_p, value is the parent id of the element (if it is a relationship) n1_c, value is the child id of the element (if it is a relationship) Deleting elements A hidden input is created in the form e12345_t with value set to 0. The existing controls displaying that attribute's values are disabled so they are not included in the form post. So "set type to 0" is treated as delete. With this scheme, every item on the page has a unique name and can be distinguished properly, and every action can be represented properly. When the form is posted, here's a sample of building one of the two recordsets used (classic ASP code): Set Data = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") Data.Fields.Append "ElementID", adInteger, 4, adFldKeyColumn Data.Fields.Append "AttrID", adInteger, 4, adFldKeyColumn Data.Fields.Append "Value", adLongVarWChar, 2147483647, adFldIsNullable Or adFldMayBeNull Data.CursorLocation = adUseClient Data.CursorType = adOpenDynamic Data.Open This is the recordset for values, the other is for the elements themselves. I step through the posted form and for the element recordset use a Scripting.Dictionary populated with instances of a custom Class that has the properties I need, so that I can add the values piecemeal, since they don't always come in order. New elements are added as negative to distinguish them from regular elements (rather than requiring a separate column to indicate if it is new or addresses an existing element). I use regular expression to tear apart the form keys: "^(e|n)([0-9]{1,10})_(a|p|t|c)([0-9]{0,10})$" Then, adding an attribute looks like this. Data.AddNew ElementID.Value = DataID AttrID.Value = Integerize(Matches(0).SubMatches(3)) AttrValue.Value = Request.Form(Key) Data.Update ElementID, AttrID, and AttrValue are references to the fields of the recordset. This method is hugely faster than using Data.Fields("ElementID").Value each time. I loop through the Dictionary of element updates and ignore any that don't have all the proper information, adding the good ones to the recordset. Then I call my data-updating stored procedure like so: Set Cmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command") With Cmd Set .ActiveConnection = MyDBConn .CommandType = adCmdStoredProc .CommandText = "DataPost" .Prepared = False .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("@ElementMetadata", adLongVarWChar, adParamInput, 2147483647, XMLFromRecordset(Element)) .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("@ElementData", adLongVarWChar, adParamInput, 2147483647, XMLFromRecordset(Data)) End With Result.Open Cmd ' previously created recordset object with options set Here's the function that does the xml conversion: Private Function XMLFromRecordset(Recordset) Dim Stream Set Stream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") Stream.Open Recordset.Save Stream, adPersistXML Stream.Position = 0 XMLFromRecordset = Stream.ReadText End Function Just in case the web page needs to know, the SP returns a recordset of any new elements, showing their page value and their created value (so I can see that n1 is now e12346 for example). Here are some key snippets from the stored procedure. Note this is SQL 2000 for now, though I'll be able to switch to 2005 soon: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[DataPost] @ElementMetaData ntext, @ElementData ntext AS DECLARE @hdoc int --- snip --- EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hdoc OUTPUT, @ElementMetaData, '<xml xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" />' INSERT #ElementMetadata (ElementID, ElementTypeID, ElementID1, ElementID2) SELECT * FROM OPENXML(@hdoc, '/xml/rs:data/rs:insert/z:row', 0) WITH ( ElementID int, ElementTypeID int, ElementID1 int, ElementID2 int ) ORDER BY ElementID -- orders negative items (new elements) first so they begin counting at 1 for later ID calculation EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hdoc --- snip --- UPDATE E SET E.ElementTypeID = M.ElementTypeID FROM Element E INNER JOIN #ElementMetadata M ON E.ElementID = M.ElementID WHERE E.ElementID >= 1 AND M.ElementTypeID >= 1 The following query does the correlation of the negative new element ids to the newly inserted ones: UPDATE #ElementMetadata -- Correlate the new ElementIDs with the input rows SET NewElementID = Scope_Identity() - @@RowCount + DataID WHERE ElementID < 0 Other set-based queries do all the other work of validating that the attributes are allowed, are the correct data type, and inserting, updating, and deleting elements and attributes. I hope this brief run-down is useful to others some day! Converting ADO Recordsets to an XML stream was a huge winner for me as it saved all sorts of time and had a namespace and schema already defined that made the results come out correctly. Using a flatter XML format with 2 inputs was also much easier than sticking to some ideal about having everything in a single XML stream.

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