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Hello everyone.
I’m trying to download files using the fileTrasnfer plugin, it usually downloads but only works when the app is active, I wonder if there is any way to make the download start as if it were native.
Does anyone have any ideas?
How to download file natively?
Hello everyone.
write your own plugin for that in the worstcase scenario
That way you could do everything you want.
are you on ios or on android?
Initially on Android, I forgot to warn you, I’m using ionic 3
When do you want to start you download? what are you downloading?
I am downloading from the click of a button, the downloaded file is audio.
I think that is what you mean:
that looks like an plugin for that or you could write your own for max. customizability.
And please be aware that you need another solution for iOS when you want to expand your app to apples devices in the future.
It seems that this plugin does not work in 3
whats the exact problem? (it was the newest that I found via a quick google search)
Maybe it’s my lack of experience, download the plugin normally, but I’m not sure how to import the plugin into the project
I’ll try it for my self… brb
what kind of audio? musik or podcast?
Audio of the type mp3 music
my little test app that works, you have to configure it to your needs (mimetype, uri),
- using
__proto__is definitly not the best solution, but it works.
- callback is not in a array as he described on his readme github page.
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-downloadmanagerto install it
import { Component } from '@angular/core'; import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular'; import * as dl from 'cordova-plugin-android-downloadmanager'; @Component({ selector: 'page-home', templateUrl: 'home.html' }) export class HomePage { constructor(public navCtrl: NavController) { let req = { uri: '', title: 'Testfile', description: 'a test file', mimeType: 'application/zip', visibleInDownloadsUi: true, notificationVisibility: 0, // Either of the next three properties destinationInExternalFilesDir: { dirType: 'DIRECTORY_MUSIC', subPath: '' } }; console.log(dl); let dl2= dl.__proto__; console.log(dl2); dl2.enqueue(req, console.info); } }
I was able to import the plugin as you taught me, the download does not start, I’m trying this way:
let req = { uri: '', title: 'Testfile', description: 'a test file', mimeType: 'application / zip', visibleInDownloadsUi: true, notificationVisibility: 1, // Either of the next three properties destinationInExternalFilesDir: { dirType: this.file.externalRootDirectory, subPath: '/ Download /' } }; console.log (dl); let dl2 = dl .__ proto__; console.log (dl2); dl2.enqueue (req, console.log);
It looks like the error is this: Error: exec proxy not found for :: DownloadManagerPlugin :: enqueue
The method is called but the download does not start, am I doing something wrong?
are you testing it on a real device or an emulator or with ionic serve?
I’m testing on a real device
that’s weird, it worked on my oneplus 3.
but i first installed the plugin via npm and then with again with cordova plugin add, maybe that would make any difference?
I also used a new blank project for that.
Your error seems to have sth. to do with cordova, maybe you should try to investigate in that direction or write your own plugin with that plugin as reference.
Good luck.
maybe call it after a device ready event.
Can anyone please tell me how to change downloaded file path, because I have tried with below code.
destinationInExternalFilesDir: { dirType: this.file.externalRootDirectory, subPath: '/Download/' }
But downloaded file is always falling in the below path.
/Internal Storage/Android/data/io.ionic.starter/files/ this path is always there for downloaded file. Is there any way to download file in “Download” folder? | https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-to-download-file-natively/114329 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | refinedweb | 615 | 55.74 |
Regular Expressions
by Dmitry Olshansky, the author of std.regex
Introduction
String processing is a daily routine that most applications have to deal with in a one way or another. It should come as no surprise.
This is where regular expressions, often succinctly called regexes, come in handy. Regexes are simple yet powerful language for defining patterns for sets of strings. Combined with pattern matching, data extraction and substitution, they form a Swiss Army knife of text processing. They are considered so important that a number of programming languages provide built-in support for regular expressions. Being built-in however does not necessary imply faster processing or having more features. It's just a matter of providing convenient and friendly syntax for typical operations, and integrating it well.
The D programming language provides a standard library module std.regex. Being a highly expressive systems language, D allows regexes to be implemented efficiently within the language itself, yet have good level of readability and usability. And there a few things a pure D implementation brings to the table that are completely unbelievable in a traditional compiled language, more on that at the end of article.
By the end of article you'll have a good understanding of regular expression capabilities in this library, and how to utilize its API in a most straightforward and efficient way. Examples in this article assume that the reader has fair understanding of regex elements, but it's not required.
A warm up
How do you check if something is a phone number by looking at it?
Yes, it's something with numbers, and there may be a country code in front of that... Sticking to an international format should make it more strict. As this is the first time, let's put together a full program:
import std.stdio, std.regex; void main(string argv[]) { string phone = argv[1]; // assuming phone is passed as the first argument on the command line if(matchFirst(phone, r"^\+[1-9][0-9]* [0-9 ]*$")) writeln("It looks like a phone number."); else writeln("Nope, it's not a phone number."); }And that's it! Let us however keep in mind the boundaries of regular expressions power - to truly establish a validness of a phone number, one has to try dialing it or contact the authority.
Let's drill down into this tiny example because it actually showcases a lot of interesting things:
- A raw string literal of form r"...", that allows writing a regex pattern in its natural notation.
- matchFirst function to find the first match in a string if any. To check if there was a match just test the return value explicitly in a boolean context, such as an if statement.
- When matching special regex characters like +, *, (, ), [, ] and $ don't forget to use escaping with backslash(\).
- Unless there is a lot of text processing going on, it's perfectly fine to pass a plain string as a pattern. The internal representation used to do the actual work is cached, to speed up subsequent calls.
Continuing with the phone number example, it would be useful to get the exact value of the country code, as well as the whole number. For the sake of experiment let's also explicitly obtain compiled regex pattern via regex to see how it works.
string phone = "+31 650 903 7158"; // fictional, any coincidence is just that auto phoneReg = regex(r"^\+([1-9][0-9]*) [0-9 ]*$"); auto m = matchFirst(phone, phoneReg); assert(m); // also boolean context - test for non-empty assert(!m.empty); // same as the line above assert(m[0] == "+31 650 903 7158"); assert(m[1] == "31"); // you shouldn't need the regex object type all too often // but here it is for the curious static assert(is(typeof(phoneReg) : Regex!char));
To search and replace
While getting first match is a common theme in string validation, another frequent need is to extract all matches found in a piece of text. Picking an easy task, let's see how to filter out all white space-only lines. There is no special routine for looping over input like search() or similar as found in some libraries. Instead std.regex provides a natural syntax for looping via plain foreach.
auto buffer = std.file.readText("regex.d"); foreach (m; matchAll(buffer, regex(r"^.*[^\p{WhiteSpace}]+.*$","m"))) { writeln(m.hit); // hit is an alias for m[0] }
It may look and feel like a built-in but it just follows the common conventions to do that. In this case matchAll returns and object that follows the right "protocol" of an input range simply by having the right set of methods. An input range is a lot like an iterator found in other languages. Likewise the result of matchFirst and each element of matchAll is a random access range, a thing that behaves like a "view" of an array.
auto m = matchAll("Ranges are hot!", r"(\w)\w+(\w)"); // at least 3 "word" symbols assert(m.front[0] == "Ranges"); // front - first of input range // m.captures is a historical alias for the first element of match range (.front). assert(m.captures[1] == m.front[1]); auto sub = m.front; assert(sub[2] == "s"); foreach (item; sub) writeln(item); // will show lines: Ranges, R, s
By playing by the rules std.regex gets some nice benefits in interaction with other modules e.g. this is how one could count non-empty lines in a text buffer:
import std.algorithm, std.file, std.regex; auto buffer = std.file.readText(r"std\typecons.d"); int count = count(matchAll(buffer, regex(r"^.*\P{WhiteSpace}+.*$", "m")));
A seasoned regex user catches instantly that Unicode properties are supported with perl-style \p{xxx}, to spice that all of Scripts and Blocks are supported as well. Let us dully note that \P{xxx} means not having an xxx property, i.e. here not a white space character. Unicode is a vital subject to know, and it won't suffice to try to cover it here. For details see the accessible std.uni documentation and level 1 of conformance as per Unicode standard UTS 18.
Another thing of importance is the option string - "m", where m stands for multi-line mode. Historically utilities that supported regex patterns (unix grep, sed, etc.) processed text line by line. At that time anchors like ^, $ meant the start of the whole input buffer that has been same as that of the line. As regular expressions got more ubiquitous the need to recognize multiple lines in a chunk of text became apparent. In such a mode with anchors ^ & $ were defined to match before and after line break literally. For the curious, modern (Unicode) line break is defined as (\n | \v | \r | \f | \u0085 | \u2028 | \u2029 | \r\n). Needless to say, one needAll(text, r"([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{4})".regex, "$3-$1-$2");
r"pattern".regex is just another notation of writing regex("pattern") called UFCS that some may find more slick. As can be seen the replacement is controlled by a format string not unlike one in C's famous printf. The $1, $2, $3 substituted with content of sub-expressions. Aside from referencing sub-matches, one can include the whole part of input preceding the match via $` and $' for the content following right after the match.
Now let's aim for something bigger, this time to show that std.regex can do things that are unattainable by classic textual substitution alone. Imagine you want to translate a web shop catalog so that it displays prices in your currency. Yes, one can use calculator or estimate it in his/her head,Dollars(Captures!string price) { real value = to!real(price["integer"]); if (!price["fraction"].empty) value += 0.01*to!real(price["fraction"]); return format("$%.2f",value * ratio); } string text = std.file.readText(argv[1]); auto converted = replaceAll!toDollars I just can't resist to spice this example up with yet another feature - named groups. Names work just like aliases for numbers of captured subexpressions, meaning that with the same exact regular expression one could as well change affected lines to:
real value = to!real(price[1]); if (!price[3].empty) value += 0.01*to!real(price[3]);Though that lacks readability and is not as future proof.
Also note that optional captures are still represented, it's just they can be an empty string if not matched.
Split it up
As core functionality was already presented, let's move on to some the weapon of last resort.
Static regex
Let's stop going for features and start thinking performance. And D has something to offer takes next to nothing to initialize, just copy over ready-made structure from the data segment.
Roughly ~ 1 μs of run-time to initialize. Run-time version took around 10-20 μs on my machine, keep in mind that it was a trivial pattern.
Now stepping further in this direction there is an ability to construct specialized D code that matches a given regex and compile it instead of using the default run-time engine. Isn't it so often the case that code starts with regular expressions only to be later re-written to heaps of scary-looking code to match speed requirements? No need to rewrite - we got you covered.");
Interestingly it looks almost exactly the same (a total of 5 letters changed), yet it does all of the hard work - generates D code for this pattern, compiles it (again) and masquerades under the same API. Which is the key point - the API stays consistent, yet gets us the significant speed up we sought after. This fosters quick iteration with the regex and if desired a decent speed with ctRegex in the release build (at the cost of slower builds).
In this particular case it matched roughly 50% faster for me though I haven't done comprehensive analysis of this case. That being said, there is no doubt ctRegex facility is going to improve immensely over time. We only scratched the surface of new exciting possibilities. More data on real-world patterns, performance of CT-regex and other benchmarks here.
Conclusion
The article represents a walk-through of std.regex focused on showcasing the API. By following a series of easy yet meaningful tasks, its features were exposed in combination,. That makes porting regexes from other libraries a breeze.
- Lean API that consists of a few flexible tools: matchFirst/matchAll, replaceFirst/replaceAll and splitter.
- Uniform and powerful, with unique abilities like precompiling regex or generating specially tailored engine at compile-time with ctRegex. All of this fits within the common interface without a notch.
The format of this article is intentionally more of an overview, it doesn't stop to talk in-depth about certain capabilities like case-insensitive matching (simple casefolding rules of Unicode), backreferences, lazy quantifiers. And even more features are coming to add more expressive power and reach greater performance. | https://dlang.org/articles/regular-expression.html | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | refinedweb | 1,830 | 64.71 |
debugging with eclipse
hi, i struggle a lot with using ros with eclipse
first of all, i did all that is standing on the ros with IDE page. i can import the project to eclipse and build it. the indexer is absolutely not working (it recognizes rosnode etc, but i get errors like "namespace std is amgiguous" - i use eclipse kepler). however, for now i just ignored that, because i can still do some autocompletion stuff etc.. building works fine, but when it comes to debug the program, i have no clue what to do. the tutorial says:
"Create a new launch configuration, by clicking on Run --> Run configurations... --> C/C++ Application (double click or click on New). Select the correct binary on the main tab (Search project should work when your binary was already built). Then in the environment tab, add (at least)" --> which binary? i cannot execute the binary directly, right? i have to use rosrun. so what should be in there? i dont see any binaries listed when i click on "search project" | https://answers.ros.org/question/128186/debugging-with-eclipse/ | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | refinedweb | 176 | 74.69 |
A very common use for any loop structure is to process data arrays. Create a new project and call it PhoneNumbers. Add control objects to the form as shown in Figure 12.4.
There are two labels, three text boxes, and three buttons . These objects should all be pretty familiar to you now. Note that txtResult has the Multiline property set to True and the Scrollbars property is set to Vertical . Everything else is old hat by now. Some of the code, however, is not.
As you can probably tell from the form in Figure 12.4, our program is going to collect a set of names and phone numbers and display them in a text box. Now, we could stuff the names into one array, and then stuff the phone numbers into another array and sort of co-process the two arrays in parallel. It would work, and we'd probably do it that way if we didn't have better alternatives. After all, if the only tool you have is a hammer , pretty soon all your problems look like a nail. Not so with Visual Basic .NET. We have all kinds of tools available to us. Let's look at one that is especially suited to the task at hand. It's called the Structure .
Programmer's Tip
Earlier versions of Visual Basic supported something called user-defined data types. Indeed, you may hear programmers refer to user -defined data types as UDTs. UDTs have been replaced in Visual Basic .NET with Structure s. Although this is a form of abandonment for UDTs, it's a step forward for us because most other OOP languages (C++, C#, and Java) support Structure s.
The general form for a Structure declaration is
[ AccessSpecifier ] Structure StructureTag StructureMemberList End Structure
The keyword Structure begins the structure declaration. It can be preceded by an access specifier such as Public , Private , or Friend . For the moment, however, we're ignoring the optional access specifier until we're ready to discuss it in Chapter 15, "Encapsulation."
The Structure keyword is followed by the StructureTag , or name , you want to give to the structure. Next comes the declarations for the members that you want to have in the structure. The End Structure keywords mark the end of the list of Structure members. The statements between the StructureTag and the End Structure keywords are the Structure statement block.
In our program, we declare a Structure named PhoneList as shown in the following code fragment:
Structure PhoneList Dim Name As String Dim Phone As String End Structure
Here we have declared a Structure with the structure tag name of PhoneList . The Structure has two members, Name and Phone , both of which are String data types. Notice how the structure members use the Dim statement you've seen so many times before. The end of the structure member list and the Structure declaration itself are marked by the End Structure keywords.
Cool! Now we have a data structure named PhoneList that we can shove names and phone numbers into. WRONG!
Notice how careful we were to use the word declaration in the preceding paragraphs. Remember our discussion from Chapter 4 when we talked about defining variables? I stressed that the key element in defining a variable is that the operating system must hand back a valid lvalue for the data item to Visual Basic .NET and record it in the symbol table. Use your highlighter pen and highlight the last sentence . It's very important.
In the Structure code fragment shown earlier, the End Structure keywords tell Visual Basic .NET, "Okay, you now know all the members that belong to the PhoneList Structure . Make a cookie cutter that looks like this and keep it in the symbol table, but don't whack out any cookies with it yet."
The purpose of the Structure - End Structure keywords is to declare a list of member variables that can exist in the program. No storage has been allocated for the PhoneList Structure . Therefore, there are no PhoneList variables yet. Obviously, this also means there are no lvalues yet, either.
To get a PhoneList variable we can use in our program, we need to define one first. We can define a PhoneList variable as follows :
Dim MyList() As PhoneList
This statement defines a dynamic array of type PhoneList named Mylist() . Obviously, we'll set the array size later in the program. The key, however, is that we now have a variable named MyList() that exists in the symbol table and has an lvalue . (Actually, the lvalue of a pointer variable is defined at this point. However, the essential point is that an lvalue does now exist.)
Structures may not have local scope. Therefore, we need to place our structure declaration outside of any procedure definition. You'll usually give them module or namespace scope.
The concept of a Structure enables us to group related data together and treat it as a single data item. Plain old arrays require that the data in the array be homogeneous. That is, all of the data in the array must be of the same data type. No so for structures. The Structure members can be whatever data type we want them to be. Yet, the really neat thing is that we can reference this group of related (albeit dissimilar) data by a single variable name. Kim Brand once called structures "arrays for adults" because the array can have complex data members. It's a fitting description.
It's pretty obvious that we want the user to type in a name and phone number and then click the Add button to add it to our list. Listing 12.4 shows the code for the btnAdd Click event.
Private Sub btnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As _ System.EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click Static Count As Integer = 0 If txtname.Text <> "" And txtPhone.Text <> "" Then Count += 1 ReDim Preserve MyList(Count) MyList(Count - 1).Name = txtName.Text MyList(Count - 1).Phone = txtPhone.Text txtName.Text = "" ' Clear for next entry txtPhone.Text = "" txtName.Focus() Else Beep() MessageBox.Show("Must enter both a name and a number") End If End Sub
First, we define a variable named Count with the Static storage class. Why use the Static storage class? The reason is because Static variables can retain their values after program control leaves the procedure in which they're defined. In other words, Static variables have a lifetime that equals that of the program itself. Non- Static local variables do not. Because we want to maintain a count of the number of names and phone numbers that are entered, Count must be defined as a Static .
True, we could define Count with module scope and it would properly track the count of the number of names and numbers entered. However, giving Count module scope crushes our goal of hiding the data as much as possible. By making it a Static inside of btnAdd , only the code in btnAdd has access to Count . Hiding the data in this way is almost always a good thing.
Although the initialization of Count to 0 is not necessary (Visual Basic .NET does this automatically), I still prefer to initialize it to 0 as a form of documentation of intent. That is, it tells everyone that we intend to initialize Count to 0 even if Visual Basic .NET ever decides not to. (Things could change, right?)
Next, the code uses an If statement to make sure that the user entered both a name and a phone number. A logical And operator is used for this check. Notice that if either text box is empty, an error message is displayed.
If all goes well, we enter the Then statement block. First, we increment Count by 1. We then dynamically allocate enough memory for Count elements of the MyList() array. We use the Preserve keyword because the second (and subsequent ) time we enter this procedure, we want to preserve all the previously entered names and phone numbers in the array. This is exactly what the Preserve keyword does for us. (If this is fuzzy to you, review Chapter 7, "Arrays.")
The next two statements takes the string data stored in the two text boxes and assigns them into the appropriate members of the PhoneList structure. Why is the array subscripted MyList(Count - 1) ?
MyList(Count - 1).Name = txtName.Text
The reason is because arrays start with element 0, but Count has already been increment to 1. Therefore, even though we might be entering the first person in the list (that is, Count = 1 ), that first person is actually stored in element 0 in the MyList() array. Think about it.
Once the data is stored in the array, we clear out the text boxes, and move the cursor back to the txtName text box to get ready for another name. The Focus() method of a text box is used to set the focus to the associated text box. Therefore, the Focus() method moves the cursor into the text box.
The astute reader will recall from our discussion in Chapter 7 that ReDim statements are relatively slow. This is because ReDim statements cause messages to be sent to the Windows memory manager. Therefore, isn't it inefficient to call ReDim each time we add a new name and number? Picky, picky, picky. Yes, it is inefficient. However, because Visual Basic .NET can do several thousand ReDim s in the time it takes you to hit the next keystroke, we can live with it in this case. Keyboard input and output (I/O) and mouse clicks are so slow relative to a ReDim , it will have no performance impact on our program in this situation.
When the user has finished entering the names and phone numbers, she clicks the Done button. This causes the list of names and phone numbers to be displayed in the txtList text box. The code for the btnDone Click event is shown in Listing 12.5.
Private Sub btnDone_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As _ System.EventArgs) Handles btnDone.Click Dim i As Integer Dim NewLine As String NewLine = Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtList.Text = "" For i = 0 To UBound(MyList) txtList.Text += MyList(i).Name & " " & MyList(i).Phone & NewLine Next End Sub
The code defines several working variables and the NewLine string. The txtList text box is then cleared and we start executing the For loop. Because UBound() returns the highest valid index of an array, we can use it to set the terminating value of i in the For loop.
The loop counter i is initialized to because that's the starting element of the MyList() array. The statement block is a single statement that displays the name and phone number for each person entered by the user. The NewLine string simply causes each entry to start on a new line in the text box.
Notice how we use the loop counter variable i to index into the MyList() array. For loops are perfect for sequential processing of arrays. By the way, could we also use the code shown in the following code fragment?
For i = UBound(MyList) To 0 Step -1 txtList.Text += MyList(i).Name & " " & MyList(i).Phone & NewLine Next
Yes, it will work, but it also shows a small bug in our program. Because we ReDim for one more index than we actually use, the program never uses the last element in the MyList() array. When you display the list in normal order, this empty array is actually displayed, but we don't notice it because all the MyList() members are unused (empty). However, because the For loop in the preceding code fragment displays the list in reverse order, we can see that the first element displayed (which is the last one in the array) is actually empty. This must also mean that although UBound() is doing its thing correctly, the count of the number of names and phone numbers is actually one less than UBound() tells us. (How would you fix this? Remember: Never use an H-bomb to kill an ant.) | https://flylib.com/books/en/4.350.1.105/1/ | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | refinedweb | 2,027 | 74.19 |
Suppose you’re new to data science or programming. You probably often hear people recommending Python as the first programming language to learn because it has a simple-to-understand syntax and better code readability. Together, these features make Python much easier to learn for people with no prior programming experience.
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages today with applications in various fields including data science, scientific computing, web dev, game dev and building desktop graphical interfaces. Python gained this popularity for its usefulness in various fields, how productive it is compared to other programming languages like Java, C, and C++, and how English-like its commands are.
When you use Python every day to solve challenges, develop algorithms and build applications, you’ll find yourself repeating some tasks over and over again. That’s why it’s a good idea to have some code snippets ready for commonly performed tasks.
There are many snippets out there for Python categorized by field but, for this article, I’ll focus on general-purpose snippets you can use for any application.
13 Python Snippets For Your Toolkit
- Merge two lists into a dictionary
- Merge two or more lists into a list of lists
- Sort a list of dictionaries
- Sort a list of strings
- Sort a list based on another list
- Map a list into a dictionary
- Merging two or more dictionaries
- Inverting a dictionary
- Using f strings
- Checking for substrings
- Get a string’s size in bytes
- Checking if a file exists
- Parsing a spreadsheet
List Snippets
We’ll start with a few snippets about Python’s most-used data structure: lists.
1. Merge Two Lists Into a Dictionary
Assume we have two lists in Python and we want to merge them in a dictionary form, where one list’s items act as the dictionary’s keys and the other’s as the values. This is a frequent problem often faced when writing code in Python.
To solve this problem, we need to consider a couple of restrictions, such as the sizes of the two lists, the types of items in the two lists and if there are any repeated items in them, especially in the one we’ll use as keys. We can overcome that with the use of built-in functions like zip.
keys_list = ['A', 'B', 'C'] values_list = ['blue', 'red', 'bold'] #There are 3 ways to convert these two lists into a dictionary #1- Using Python's zip, dict functionz dict_method_1 = dict(zip(keys_list, values_list)) #2- Using the zip function with dictionary comprehensions dict_method_2 = {key:value for key, value in zip(keys_list, values_list)} #3- Using the zip function with a loop items_tuples = zip(keys_list, values_list) dict_method_3 = {} for key, value in items_tuples: if key in dict_method_3: pass # To avoid repeating keys. else: dict_method_3[key] = value
2. Merge Two or More Lists Into a List of Lists
Another frequent task is when we have two or more lists, and we want to collect them all in one big list of lists, where all the first items of the smaller list form the first list in the bigger list.
For example, if I have 4 lists
[1,2,3],
[‘a’,’b’,’c’],
[‘h’,’e’,’y’] and
[4,5,6] and we want to make a new list of those four lists; it will be
[[1,’a’,’h’,4],
[2,’b’,’e’,5],
[3,’c’,’y’,6]].
def merge(*args, missing_val = None): #missing_val will be used when one of the smaller lists is shorter tham the others. #Get the maximum length within the smaller lists. max_length = max([len(lst) for lst in args]) outList = [] for i in range(max_length): result.append([args[k][i] if i < len(args[k]) else missing_val for k in range(len(args))]) return outList
3. Sort a List of Dictionaries
The next set of everyday list tasks is sorting. Depending on the data type of the items included in the lists, we’ll follow a slightly different way to sort them. Let’s first start with sorting a list of dictionaries.
dicts_lists = [ { "Name": "James", "Age": 20, }, { "Name": "May", "Age": 14, }, { "Name": "Katy", "Age": 23, } ] #There are different ways to sort that list #1- Using the sort/ sorted function based on the age dicts_lists.sort(key=lambda item: item.get("Age")) #2- Using itemgetter module based on name from operator import itemgetter f = itemgetter('Name') dicts_lists.sort(key=f)
4. Sort a List of Strings
We’re often faced with lists containing strings, and we need to sort those lists alphabetically, by length or any other factor we want (or that our application needs).
Now, I should mention that these are straightforward ways to sort a list of strings, but you may sometimes need to implement your sorting algorithm to solve that problem.
my_list = ["blue", "red", "green"] #1- Using sort or srted directly or with specifc keys my_list.sort() #sorts alphabetically or in an ascending order for numeric data my_list = sorted(my_list, key=len) #sorts the list based on the length of the strings from shortest to longest. # You can use reverse=True to flip the order #2- Using locale and functools import locale from functools import cmp_to_key my_list = sorted(my_list, key=cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))
5. Sort a List Based on Another List
Sometimes, we may want or need to use one list to sort another. So, we’ll have a list of numbers (the indexes) and a list that I want to sort using these indexes.
a = ['blue', 'green', 'orange', 'purple', 'yellow'] b = [3, 2, 5, 4, 1] #Use list comprehensions to sort these lists sortedList = [val for (_, val) in sorted(zip(b, a), key=lambda x: \ x[0])]
6. Map a List Into a Dictionary
The last list-related task we’ll look at in this article is if we’re given a list and map it into a dictionary. That is, I want to convert my list into a dictionary with numerical keys.
mylist = ['blue', 'orange', 'green'] #Map the list into a dict using the map, zip and dict functions mapped_dict = dict(zip(itr, map(fn, itr)))
Dictionary Snippets
The next data type we will address is dictionaries.
7. Merging Two or More Dictionaries
Assume we have two or more dictionaries, and we want to merge them all into one dictionary with unique keys. Here’s what that will look like:
from collections import defaultdict #merge two or more dicts using the collections module def merge_dicts(*dicts): mdict = defaultdict(list) for d in dicts: for key in d: mdict[key].append(d[key]) return dict(mdict)
8. Inverting a Dictionary
One common dictionary task is flipping a dictionary’s keys and values. So, the keys will become the values, and the values will become the keys.
When we do that, we need to make sure we don’t have duplicate keys. While values can be repeated, keys cannot. Also make sure all the new keys are hashable.
my_dict = { "brand": "Ford", "model": "Mustang", "year": 1964 } #Invert the dictionary based on its content #1- If we know all values are unique. my_inverted_dict = dict(map(reversed, my_dict.items())) #2- If non-unique values exist from collections import defaultdict my_inverted_dict = defaultdict(list) {my_inverted_dict[v].append(k) for k, v in my_dict.items()} #3- If any of the values are not hashable my_dict = {value: key for key in my_inverted_dict for value in my_inverted_dict[key]}
String Snippets
9. Using F Strings
Formatting a string is probably the number one task you’ll need to do almost daily. There are various ways you can format strings in Python; my favorite one is using f strings.
#Formatting strings with f string. str_val = 'books' num_val = 15 print(f'{num_val} {str_val}') # 15 books print(f'{num_val % 2 = }') # 1 print(f'{str_val!r}') # books #Dealing with floats price_val = 5.18362 print(f'{price_val:.2f}') # 5.18 #Formatting dates from datetime import datetime; date_val = datetime.utcnow() print(f'{date_val=:%Y-%m-%d}') # date_val=2021-09-24
10. Checking for Substrings
One of the most common tasks I’ve needed to perform is to check if a string is in a list of strings.
addresses = ["123 Elm Street", "531 Oak Street", "678 Maple Street"] street = "Elm Street" #The top 2 methods to check if street in any of the items in the addresses list #1- Using the find method for address in addresses: if address.find(street) >= 0: print(address) #2- Using the "in" keyword for address in addresses: if street in address: print(address)
11. Get a String’s Size in Bytes
Sometimes, especially when building memory-critical applications, we need to know how much memory our strings are using. Luckily, we can do this quickly with one line of code.
str1 = "hello" str2 = "😀" def str_size(s): return len(s.encode('utf-8')) str_size(str1) str_size(str2)
Input/Output Operations
12. Checking if a File Exists
Data scientists often need to read data from files or write data to them. To do that, we need to check if a file exists or not so our code doesn’t terminate with an error.
#Checking if a file exists in two ways #1- Using the OS module import os exists = os.path.isfile('/path/to/file') #2- Use the pathlib module for a better performance from pathlib import Path config = Path('/path/to/file') if config.is_file(): pass
13. Parsing a Spreadsheet
Another common file interaction is parsing data from a spreadsheet. Luckily, we have the CSV module to help us perform that task efficiently.
Takeaways
As a computer science instructor, I meet people from different age groups that want to learn to program. They usually come to me with a programming language in mind or an application field they want to get into. My younger students often just want to learn to code, while older students want to get into a specific area like data science or web development.
When I teach programming, I like to make things simple. I’ve found that if I teach students the basics and help them with the building blocks, they’ll be able to develop more significant projects using those foundational tools. That’s when I started collecting useful Python code snippets to share with my students and use in my own work.
Now you can add these 13 code snippets to your own snippets database (or start one!). These snippets are simple, short and efficient. You’ll end up using at least one of them in any Python project regardless of which application field you’re working in. Have fun! | https://builtin.com/data-science/python-code-snippets | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | refinedweb | 1,753 | 68.4 |
In today’s Programming Praxis exercise, our goal is to determine all the numbers that are not McNugget numbers, i.e. numbers that cannot be created by summing multiples of 6, 9 and 20. Let’s get started, shall we?
A quick import:
import Data.List
The code is pretty straightforward: just take all the numbers up to 180 that cannot be created by a linear combination of 6, 9 and 20.
notMcNuggets :: [Integer] notMcNuggets = [1..180] \\ [a+b+c | a <- [0,6..180], b <- [0,9..180-a], c <- [0,20..180-a-b]]
To test whether everything works correctly:
main :: IO () main = print notMcNuggets
Yup. Nice and simple.
Tags: bonsai, code, Haskell, kata, mcnugget, numbers, praxis, programming
January 24, 2012 at 8:56 pm |
Here is an alternate implementation where [6,9,20] can be replaced with any list of integers:
isSumOf::[Integer]->Integer->Bool
isSumOf (x:[]) y = (mod y x) == 0
isSumOf (x:xs) y = (any $ isSumOf xs) [y,y-x..0]
mcNugget = isSumOf [6,9,20]
*Main Data.List> filter (not . mcNugget) [1..10000]
[1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10,11,13,14,16,17,19,22,23,25,28,31,34,37,43]
*Main Data.List> isSumOf [3852,1171,3257] 91873
False
*Main Data.List> isSumOf [3852,1171,3257] 91874
True | https://bonsaicode.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/programming-praxis-mcnugget-numbers/ | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | refinedweb | 218 | 70.29 |
OpenBSD::Intro - Introduction to the pkg tools internals
use OpenBSD::PackingList; ...
Note that the "OpenBSD::" namespace of perl modules is not limited to package tools, but also includes pkg-config(1) support modules. This document only covers package tools material.
The design of the package tools revolves around a few central ideas:
Design modules that manipulate some notions in a consistent way, so that they can be used by the package tools proper, but also with a high-level API that's useful for anything that needs to manipulate packages. This was validated by the ease with which we can now update packing-lists, check for conflicts, and check various properties of our packages.
Try to be as safe as possible where installation and update operations are concerned. Cut up operations into small subsets which yields frequent safe intermediate points where the machine is completely functional.
Traditional package tools often rely on the following model: take a snapshot of the system, try to perform an operation, and roll back to a stable state if anything goes wrong.
Instead, OpenBSD package tools take a computational approach: record semantic information in a useful format, pre-compute as much as can be about an operation, and only perform the operation when we have proved that (almost) nothing can go wrong. As far as possible, the actual operation happens on the side, as a temporary scaffolding, and we only commit to the operation once most of the work is over.
Keep high-level semantic information instead of recomputing it all the time, but try to organize as much as possible as plain text files. Originally, it was a bit of a challenge: trying to see how much we could get away with, before having to define an actual database format. Turns out we do not need a database format, or even any cache on the ftp server.
Avoid copying files all over the place. Hence the OpenBSD::Ustar(3p) module that allows package tools to manipulate tarballs directly without having to extract them first in a staging area.
All the package tools use the same internal perl modules, which gives them some consistency about fundamental notions.
It is highly recommended to try to understand packing-lists and packing elements first, since they are the core that unlocks most of the package tools.
$plist->install_and_progress(...)
where "install_and_progress" is defined at the packing element level, and invokes "install" and shows a progress bar if needed.
This information will be completed incrementally by a "OpenBSD::Update" updater object, which is responsible for figuring out how to update each element of an updateset, if it is an older package, or to resolve a hint to a package name to a full package location.
In order to avoid loops, a "OpenBSD::Tracker" tracker object keeps track of all the package name statuses: what's queued for update, what is uptodate, or what can't be updated.
pkgdelete(1) uses a simpler tracker, which is currently located inside the OpenBSD::PkgDelete(3p) code.
At the package level, there are currently two types of dependencies: package specifications, that establish direct dependencies between packages, and shared libraries, that are described below.
Normal dependencies are shallow: it is up to the package tools to figure out a whole dependency tree throughout top-level dependencies. None of this is hard-coded: this a prerequisite for flavored packages to work, as we do not want to depend on a specific package if something more generic will do.
At the same time, shared libraries have harsher constraints: a package won't work without the exact same shared libraries it needs (same major number, at least), so shared libraries are handled through a want/provide mechanism that walks the whole dependency tree to find the required shared libraries.
Dependencies are just a subclass of the packing-elements, rooted at the "OpenBSD::PackingElement::Depend" class.
A specific "OpenBSD::Dependencies::Solver" object is used for the resolution of dependencies (see OpenBSD::Dependencies(3p), the solver is mostly a tree-walker, but there are performance considerations, so it also caches a lot of information and cooperates with the "OpenBSD::Tracker". Specificities of shared libraries are handled by OpenBSD::SharedLibs(3p). In particular, the base system also provides some shared libraries which are not recorded within the dependency tree.
Lists of inter-dependencies are recorded in both directions (RequiredBy/Requiring). The OpenBSD::RequiredBy(3p) module handles the subtleties (removing duplicates, keeping things ordered, and handling pretend operations).
All those commands use a class derived from "OpenBSD::State" for user interaction. Among other things, "OpenBSD::State" provides for printable, translatable messages, consistent option handling and usage messages.
All commands that provide a progress meter use the derived module "OpenBSD::AddCreateDelete", which contains a derived state class "OpenBSD::AddCreateDelete::State", and a main command class "OpenBSD::AddCreateDelete", with consistent options.
Eventually, this will allow third party tools to simply override the user interface part of "OpenBSD::State"/"OpenBSD::ProgressMeter" to provide alternate displays.
There are three basic operations: package addition (installation), package removal (deinstallation), and package replacement (update).
These operations are achieved through repeating the correct operations on all elements of a packing-list.
For package addition, pkg_add(1) first checks that everything is correct, then runs through the packing-list, and extracts element from the archive.
For package deletion, pkg_delete(1) removes elements from the packing-list, and marks `common' stuff that may need to be unregistered, then walks quickly through all installed packages and removes stuff that's no longer used (directories, users, groups...)
Package replacement is more complicated. It relies on package names and conflict markers.
In normal usage, pkg_add(1) installs only new stuff, and checks that all files in the new package don't already exist in the file system. By convention, packages with the same stem are assumed to be different versions of the same package, e.g., screen-1.0 and screen-1.1 correspond to the same software, and users are not expected to be able to install both at the same time.
This is a conflict.
One can also mark extra conflicts (if two software distributions install the same file, generally a bad idea), or remove default conflict markers (for instance, so that the user can install several versions of autoconf at the same time).
If pkg_add(1) is invoked in replacement mode (-r), it will use conflict information to figure out which package(s) it should replace. It will then operate in a specific mode, where it replaces old package(s) with a new one.
Thus replacements will work without needing any extra information besides conflict markers. pkg_add -r will happily replace any package with a conflicting package. Due to missing information (one can't predict the future), conflict markers work both way: packages a and b conflict as soon as a conflicts with b, or b conflicts with a.
Package replacement is the basic operation behind package updates. In your average update, each individual package will be replaced by a more recent one, starting with dependencies, so that the installation stays functional the whole time. Shared libraries enjoy a special status: old shared libraries are kept around in a stub .lib-* package, so that software that depends on them keeps running. (Thus, it is vital that porters pay attention to shared library version numbers during an update.)
An update operation starts with update sets that contain only old packages. There is some specific code (the "OpenBSD::Update" module) which is used to figure out the new package name from the old one.
Note that updates are slightly more complicated than straight replacement: a package may replace an older one if it conflicts with it. But an older package can only be updated if the new package matches (both conflicts and correct pkgpath markers).
In every update or replacement, pkg_add will first try to install or update the quirks package, which contains a global list of exceptions, such as extra stems to search for (allowing for package renames), or packages to remove as they've become part of base OpenBSD.
This search relies on stem names first (e.g., to update package foo-1.0, pkg_add -u will look for foo-* in the PKG_PATH), then it trims the search results by looking more closely inside the package candidates. More specifically, their pkgpath (the directory in the ports tree from which they were compiled). Thus, a package that comes from category/someport/snapshot will never replace a package that comes from category/someport/stable. Likewise for flavors.
Finally, pkg_add -u decides whether the update is needed by comparing the package version and the package signatures: a package will not be downgraded to an older version. A package signature is composed of the name of a package, together with relevant dependency information: all wantlib versions, and all run dependencies versions. pkg_add only replaces packages with different signatures.
Currently, pkg_add -u stops at the first entry in the PKG_PATH from which suitable candidates are found.
There are a few desirable changes that will happen in the future: | https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD::Intro.3p | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | refinedweb | 1,511 | 51.48 |
#include <vtkImageDataLIC2D.h>
GPU implementation of a Line Integral Convolution, a technique for imaging vector fields.
The input on port 0 is an vtkImageData with extents of a 2D image. It needs a vector field on point data. This filter only works on point vectors. One can use a vtkCellDataToPointData filter to convert cell vectors to point vectors.
Port 1 is a special port for customized noise input. It is an optional port. If noise input is not specified, then the filter using vtkImageNoiseSource to generate a 128x128 noise texture.
Definition at line 50 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 54 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.
Get/Set the context.
Context must be a vtkOpenGLRenderWindow. This does not increase the reference count of the context to avoid reference loops. SetContext() may raise an error is the OpenGL context does not support the required OpenGL extensions. Return 0 upon failure and 1 upon success.
Number of steps.
Initial value is 20. class invariant: Steps>0. In term of visual quality, the greater the better.
Step size.
Specify the step size as a unit of the cell length of the input vector field. Cell length is the length of the diagonal of a cell. Initial value is 1.0. class invariant: StepSize>0.0. In term of visual quality, the smaller the better. The type for the interface is double as VTK interface is double but GPU only supports float. This value will be converted to float in the execution of the algorithm.
The magnification factor.
Default is 1
Check if the required OpenGL extensions / GPU are supported.
Subclasses can reimplement this method to collect information from their inputs and set information for their outputs.
Reimplemented from vtkImageAlgorithm.
Fill the input port information objects for this algorithm.
This is invoked by the first call to GetInputPortInformation for each port so subclasses can specify what they can handle. Redefined from the superclass.
Reimplemented from vtkImageAlgorithm.
This is called by the superclass.
This is the method you should override.
Reimplemented from vtkImageAlgorithm.
Definition at line 143 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 144 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 145 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 147 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
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Definition at line 150 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 151 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h.
Definition at line 152 of file vtkImageDataLIC2D.h. | https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImageDataLIC2D.html | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | refinedweb | 401 | 62.75 |
I am using a
DataTemplateSelector inside a
ContentControl. I have 3 different
DataTemplates based on 3 different
object types. When I set the
content of my
ContentControl to data of the mentioned types, the
DataTemplateSelector swaps to the specific
DataTemplate AND the selector futhermore seems to rollback/reset the values from the old template. Why is that so?
Edit: I figured out that the values get resetted because I have an attached property caled Prop and inside its OnPropertyChangedCallback it notifies me about the Prop having value null on swapping between DataTemplates. You can see that attached property in code below.
Can somebody help me out what happens behind this swapping mechanism of
DataTemplateSelector?
Here is a deeper explaination with code:
public void Window1()
{
InitalizeComponents();
}
public void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if(this.DataContext == null)
this.DataContext = "Hallo";
else{
if(this.DataContext is string)
this.DataContext = 123;
else{
if(this.DataContext is int)
this.DataContext = null;
}
}
}
By clicking on Button few times I change the type and so in ContentControl the selector changes to DataTemplate.
The selector looks like this below. It swaps between
textDataTemplate and
numericDataTemplate and one more template. As I mentioned i have those three type which are
string,
int,
and one more, that i wish not to metion. Their
DataTemplates are called
textDataTemplate,
numericDataTemplate and that one more. :)
<local:MyTemplateSelector x:
public class MyTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
public DataTemplate TextTemplate;
public DataTemplate NumericTemplate;
public DataTemplate Select(object item, Culture.....)
{
if(item is string)
{
return this.TextTemplate;
}
else
{
return this.NumericTemplate;
}
}
}
ContentControl and XAML looks like this:
<Button Click="OnClick" Content="Click Me"/>
<ContentControl Name="contentCtrl"
Content="{Binding}"
Width="123"
ContentTemplateSelector="{StaticResource dataTemplateSelector}" />
And this is how
textDataTemplate looks alike.
<DataTemplate x:
<TextBox x:
</DataTemplate>
numericDataTemplate looks similar to
textDataTemplate just that only digits are allowed.
The
Prop is my
attached property from
AttProperties class of
type string. The
Prop is somewhere inside of all three DataTemplate. Above the
Prop is sitting on a
TextBox but it could be a
Label too. The
markupextension is just a "return Hello". The extension is just there to test how to create a custom markupextension. There is no big deal with the extension. It shouldnt have to do much with the swapping of
DataTemplates.
One more time to explain my problem. Swapping seems reselts/rollback my old templates. I swap from textDataTemplate to lets say numericDataTemplate and the Prop of textDataTemplate gets set to null but the value before was "Hello".
Why is that happening? It seems like the same behavior with using
tiggers. Once a
Trigger is no more valid it rollsback the used values. Is a
DataTemplateSelector using some kind of same mechanism as
Triggers?
Edited:
The attached property is just a simple .RegisterAttached with an OnPropertyChangedCallback. Inside OnPropertyChangedCallback I figured the prop is null when swapping the dataTemplates.
If you use two-way binding in numeric template and it only accepts something like Double, it can set value to number. But no one can be sure without seeing full code. It's possible that your own code does something wrong. To understand things better, create your own control, derived from the ContentControl, and use it in your sample. Then override control methods OnContentxxxChanged, insert breakpoints there and debug your application. You should understand, what's going on with your data and with template selector. When application stops on breakpoint, carefully check all values and look at stack trace. To debug bindings you can insert IValueConverters, it would give you place in code, where you can check values.
I really suggest you to make the simplest working thing first, and then go to more complicated things such as textboxes with two-way bindings to some property of some control which you didn't show in your question. Here is a working version with TextBlocks:
public partial class MainWindow : Window { public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); } public void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (this.DataContext == null) this.DataContext = "Hallo"; else if (this.DataContext is string) this.DataContext = 123; else if (this.DataContext is int) this.DataContext = null; } } public class MyTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector { public DataTemplate TextTemplate {get; set;} public DataTemplate NumericTemplate {get; set;} public override DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container) { if (item is string) { return this.TextTemplate; } else { return this.NumericTemplate; } } }
and xaml:
<Grid> <Grid.Resources> <DataTemplate x: <TextBlock Foreground="Red" Text="{Binding}" /> </DataTemplate> <DataTemplate x: <TextBlock Foreground="Green" Text="{Binding}"/> </DataTemplate> <local:MyTemplateSelector x: </Grid.Resources> <StackPanel> <Button Click="OnClick" Content="Click Me" VerticalAlignment="Top"/> <ContentControl Name="contentCtrl" Content="{Binding}" Width="300" Height="100" ContentTemplateSelector="{StaticResource dataTemplateSelector}" /> </StackPanel> </Grid>
Compare with your code. When you inherit from DataTemplateSelector, you should override SelectTemplate method and don't invent methods with other names. All controls such as ContentControl will only use SelectTemplate. Etc..
Obviously, all works and DataTemplateSelector does nothing wrong. I suppose, your problem is somewhere in your data and bindings
And look at your OnClick method - it always sets DataContext to null | http://www.dlxedu.com/askdetail/3/414c584ba8d8868b2064deed0aa4ce49.html | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | refinedweb | 820 | 50.84 |
Hi, I'm reading "Jumping into C++" and I am having trouble completing a practice problem at the end of the chapter on loops.
Here is the problem:
"write a program that provides the option of tallying up the results of a poll with 3 possible values. The first input to the program is the poll question; the next 3 inputs are the possible answers. The first answer is indicated by 1, the second by 2 and the third by 3. The answers are tallied until 0 is entered. The program should then show the results of the poll--try making a bar graph that shows the results properly scaled to fit on your screen no matter how many results were entered."
I have an idea of how to do it but it's still incorrect.
Here is what I was able to do:
This program is incorrect because it does not display it as a proper graph (no y axis) and i have no idea how to scale it to fit the screen no matter how many results are entered.This program is incorrect because it does not display it as a proper graph (no y axis) and i have no idea how to scale it to fit the screen no matter how many results are entered.Code:#include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main () { int count1=0; int count2=0; int count3=0; int sport=0; int rugby=0; int soccer=0; int hockey=0; do { cout <<"\n\n1 - Rugby\n2 - Soccer\n3 - Hockey"; cout <<"\n\n\nEnter your favourite (0 when finished): "; cin >>sport; if (sport == 1) { rugby++; count1++; } if (sport == 2) { soccer++; count2++; } if (sport == 3) { hockey++; count3++; } if (sport != 1 && sport != 2 && sport !=3 && sport !=0) { cout <<"\n\n\nInvalid sport\n\n"; } } while (sport != 0); cout <<"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRugby: "; while (rugby > 0) { cout <<"|"; rugby--; } cout <<"(" <<count1 <<")"; cout <<"\nSoccer: "; while (soccer > 0) { cout <<"|"; soccer--; } cout <<"(" <<count2 <<")"; cout <<"\nHockey: "; while (hockey > 0) { cout <<"|"; hockey--; } cout <<"(" <<count3 <<")"; cout <<"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"; }
Could someone please show me the source code I would need to complete this program or explain how to do it in detail? Please keep in mind i am very new to C++ and i only know very simple stuff
Thanks so much | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/158920-new-cplusplus-need-help-creating-very-simple-poll-using-loops.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | refinedweb | 393 | 69.25 |
PROBLEM LINK:
Practice
Div-3 Contest
Div-2 Contest
Div-1 Contest
Author & Editorialist: Arayi Khalatyan
Tester: Radoslav Dimitrov
DIFFICULTY:
EASY-MEDIUM
PREREQUISITES:
Greedy, Implementation, Observation
PROBLEM:
There are N lines each of which is passing through a point O. There are M_i ants on the i th line and initially all the ants are moving towards the O. All the ants are moving at a constant speed and they never stop. Each time when an ant meets another ant(ants) it turns around and goes in the opposite direction. When two or more ants meet it is called a collision. Find the number of collisions.
QUICK EXPLANATION:
main observation).
help for implementation
Separately count the number of collisions at O and at other points on lines (assume that if two ants from the same line collide they pass through each other).
map can be used for counting the number of collisions at O.
For counting the number of collisions happened on a line, we can
- count how many ants will meet the closest ant to O on that line.
- remove that ant.
- repeat.
EXPLANATION:
Main idea). This means that problem can be changed into an ant changes it’s direction if and only if it meets another ant at O.
Subtask #1
Here all the collisions will happen on the first line. This means no ant will change it’s direction. So two ants will meet if and only if their coordinates have different signs and they move towards each other. The answer will be
number of ants with positive coordinate *
number of ants with negative coordinate.
Subtask #2
Let’s count the number of collisions at O and at points other than O separately and then sum them up. First, let’s create
map<int, int> coord where
coord[x] is the number of ants with x coordinate.
Collisions at O
We need to find the number of x 's that
coord[x]+coord[-x] > 1 which means that two or more ants will arrive to the O at the same time, because there are 2 or more ants at distance |x| from O
Also we can construct an array with different coordinates of ants for this.
Collisions on lines
For every valid i let’s count the number of collisions on the i-th line. Let’s sort them in increasing order by their distance from O.
- Take the nearest to O ant, let’s assume it’s coordinate is X_{i,j} . It won’t meet any ants until O(because it will get there first).
- If it collides at O(coord[X_{i,j}]+coord[-X_{i,j}]>1): the ant will turn around at O and will collide with the ants that were behind it. The answer will be increased by the number of ants that had the same sign coordinate.
If it doesn’t collide at O(coord[X_{i,j}]+coord[-X_{i,j}]\leq1): the ant will continue to move in the same direction and will collide with the ants that were in front of it. The answer will be increased by the number of ants that had the opposite sign coordinate.
- Remove that ant.
- Repeat.
Time complexity
O(mlog_2m) If you have any other solutions write it in comments section, we would like to hear other solutions from you)
SOLUTIONS:
Setter's & editorialist's Solution
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; const int N = 1e6 + 1; int t, n, m; long long ans; vector <int> ant[N]; map <int, int> coord; int main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(0); cin >> t; while (t--) { cin >> n; ans = 0; vector <int> distances; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { cin >> m; while (m--) { int x; cin >> x; coord[abs(x)]++; if (coord[abs(x)] == 1) distances.push_back(abs(x)); ant[i].push_back(x); } } for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { long long pos, neg; pos = neg = 0; vector<pair<int, int> > s; for (auto p : ant[i]) { if (p < 0) neg++, s.push_back({abs(p), -1}); else pos++, s.push_back({abs(p), 1}); } sort(s.begin(), s.end()); for (auto p : s) { if (p.second == -1) neg--; else pos--; if (coord[p.first] > 1) { if (p.second == -1) ans += neg; else ans += pos; } else { if (p.second == 1) ans += neg; else ans += pos; } } } for (auto p : distances) if (coord[p] > 1) ans++; cout << ans << endl; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) ant[i].clear(); coord.clear(); } return 0; }; vector<int> a[MAXN]; void read() { cin >> n; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { int sz; cin >> sz; a[i].clear(); while(sz--) { int x; cin >> x; a[i].pb(x); } } } void solve() { // subtask 1 int64_t answer = 0; map<int, int> cnt; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for(int x: a[i]) { cnt[max(x, -x)]++; } } for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { vector<pair<int, int>> ord; array<int, 2> contribution = {0, 0}; for(int x: a[i]) { if(x < 0) { ord.pb({-x, 1}); contribution[1]++; } else { ord.pb({x, 0}); contribution[0]++; } } sort(ALL(ord)); for(auto it: ord) { contribution[it.second]--; answer += contribution[it.second ^ (cnt[it.first] <= 1)]; } } for(auto it: cnt) { if(it.second > 1) { answer++; } } cout << answer << endl; } int main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(nullptr); int T; cin >> T; while(T--) { read(); solve(); } return 0; } | https://discuss.codechef.com/t/antschef-editorial/83327 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | refinedweb | 894 | 72.56 |
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
struct date
{
int month[2];
int day[2];
int year[4];
char dummy[1];
};
int main()
{
date birthday;
cout << "\nPlease enter your birthdate (mm/dd/yyyy): ";
cin >> birthday.month >> birthday.dummy << birthday.day >> birthday.dummy << birthday.year;
cout << "\n\nYour birthday is on "<< birthday.month << "/" << birthday.day << "/" << birthday.year;
return 0;
}
im having problems with the cin statements. here is the error message im getting:
error C2679: binary '>>' : no operator defined which takes a right-hand operand of type 'int [2]' (or there is no acceptable conversion)
what am i doing wrong? the dummy[1] variable is to take in the "/" in the date format. i tried it without that. i just wont compile! please help! | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/34485-multiple-inputs-cin.html | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | refinedweb | 121 | 64.81 |
MCS compiler is confused by matching parameter / variable name and
type name, but MS CSC is not.
With "D:\Applications\Mono-2.11.4\bin" and
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319" in the path on my Windows 7
machine:
===== TypeHiding.cs =====
using System;
public class Outer {
public enum Inner { ONE, TWO }
public Inner myInner;
}
public class TypeHiding {
public static bool Test(Outer Outer) {
return Outer.myInner == Outer.Inner.ONE;
}
public static void Main(String[] args) {
Test(new Outer());
}
}
===== end =====
Note the type name and parameter name are the same in the definition of method
Test. This appears to confuse mono.
$ csc TypeHiding.cs
Microsoft (R) Visual C# Compiler version 4.0.30319.17929
for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework 4.5
$ mcs TypeHiding.cs
TypeHiding.cs(10,39): error CS0572: `Inner': cannot reference a type through an
expression; try `Outer.Inner' instead
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import "golang.org/x/build/maintner/reclog"
Package reclog contains readers and writers for a record wrapper format used by maintner.
AppendRecordToFile opens the named filename for append (creating it if necessary) and adds the provided data record to the end. The caller is responsible for file locking.
func ForeachFileRecord(path string, fn RecordCallback) error
ForeachFileRecord calls fn for each record in the named file. Calls to fn are made serially. If fn returns an error, iteration ends and that error is returned.
ForeachRecord calls fn for each record in r. Calls to fn are made serially. If fn returns an error, iteration ends and that error is returned. The startOffset be 0 if reading from the beginning of a file.
WriteRecord writes the record data to w, formatting the record wrapper with the given offset off. It is the caller's responsibility to pass the correct offset. Exactly one Write call will be made to w.
RecordCallback is the callback signature accepted by ForeachFileRecord and ForeachRecord, which read the mutation log format used by DiskMutationLogger.
Offset is the offset in the logical of physical file. hdr and bytes are only valid until the function returns and must not be retained.
hdr is the record header, in the form "REC@c765c9a+1d3=" (REC@ <hex offset> + <hex len(rec)> + '=').
rec is the proto3 binary marshalled representation of *maintpb.Mutation.
If the callback returns an error, iteration stops.
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Need help with map_saver
Hey, I'm a beginner to ros so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I have been wanting to use the map_server package to save an OccupancyGrid. I found a tutorial for using map_saver but it was related to gmapping, which I am not using. In order to test it out, I created the following node to just publish a simple 2x2 OccupancyGrid. However when I run "rosrun map_server map_saver", it will say it is waiting for a map even though my node is running. I was wondering what I'm doing wrong here. I am using Windows 10 and running ros on the Oracle Virtual Machine using Vagrant, and have roscore running.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import rospy import sys
from nav_msgs.msg import *
from std_msgs.msg import *
def mapMethod():
pub = rospy.Publisher('saved_maps', OccupancyGrid, queue_size=10) rospy.init_node('saved_maps_node', anonymous=True) X_VALUE = 2 Y_VALUE = 2 rate = rospy.Rate(0.5) #delay time (times per second) while not rospy.is_shutdown(): test_map = OccupancyGrid() test_map.info.width = X_VALUE test_map.info.height = Y_VALUE test_map.info.origin.position.x = 0 test_map.info.origin.position.x = 0 array = [] for i in range(0, X_VALUE * Y_VALUE): array.append(1) test_map.data = array pub.publish(test_map) print(test_map.data) rate.sleep()
if __name__ == '__main__': try: mapMethod() except rospy.ROSInterruptException: pass | https://answers.ros.org/question/221677/need-help-with-map_saver/ | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | refinedweb | 221 | 53.27 |
I'm following the instructions on the page below to automate the login into the blue mix container registry.
But I keep getting the message back: Error response from daemon: Get: unsupported: The requested authentication method is not supported. Run the
bx cr login command. To use registry tokens, use
docker login -u token and your registry token as the password.
I'm providing the token id as the user name and the token value as the password, but I still get that message. Do the tokens needs to be formatted a specific way?
Answer by DerMarcus (1) | Nov 09, 2017 at 09:04 AM
Hi,
we have currently the same issue: Failed to pull image "registry.eu-de.bluemix.net/mmtestns/hallowelt:latest": rpc error: code = 2 desc = Error response from daemon: {"message":"Get: unsupported: The requested authentication method is not supported. Run the
bx cr login command. To use registry tokens, use
docker login -u token and your registry token as the password."} Error syncing pod
But using the word "token" as token id is not solving the issue for us. We executed the following steps: 1. bx cr token-add --description "This is a token" --non-expiring --readwrite 2. kubectl --namespace default create secret docker-registry mynextkey --docker-server=registry.eu-de.bluemix.net --docker-username=token --docker-password=xxxTheJustGeneratedToken 3. add the imagePullScretes kubectl get serviceaccounts default -o yaml > ./sa.yaml kubectl replace serviceaccount default -f ./sa.yaml 4. kubectl run hallowelt --image registry.eu-de.bluemix.net/mmtestns/hallowelt:latest
And we receive the mentioned error. Do we miss something?
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I don’t know if this was “the” official use case, but the following produces a warning in Java (that can further produce compile errors if mixed with
return statements, leading to unreachable code):
while (1 == 2) { // Note that "if" is treated differently System.out.println("Unreachable code"); }
However, this is legal:
while .
JLS points out
if (false) does not trigger “unreachable code” for the specific reason that this would break support for debugging flags, i.e., basically this use case (h/t @auselen). (
static final boolean DEBUG = false; for instance).
I replaced
while for
if, producing a more obscure use case. I believe you can trip up your IDE, like Eclipse, with this behavior, but this edit is 4 years into the future, and I don’t have an Eclipse environment to play with.
Uses of Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()- Answer #2:
Android R Update:
From Android R, this method always returns false. Google says that this is done “to protect goat privacy”:
/** * Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to * teleportations. * * <p>As of {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#LOLLIPOP}, this method can * now automatically identify goats using advanced goat recognition technology.</p> * * <p>As of {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#R}, this method always returns * {@code false} in order to protect goat privacy.</p> * * @return Returns whether the user making this call is a goat. */ public boolean isUserAGoat() { if (mContext.getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) { return false; } return mContext.getPackageManager() .isPackageAvailable("com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator"); }
Previous answer:
From their source, the method used to return
false until it was changed in API 21.
/** *.
In API 21 the implementation was changed to check if there is an installed app with the package
com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator
/** *"); }
Answer #3:
This appears to be an inside joke at Google. It’s also featured in the Google Chrome task manager. It has no purpose, other than some engineers finding it amusing. Which is a purpose by itself, if you will.
- In Chrome, open the Task Manager with Shift+Esc.
- Right click to add the
Goats Teleportedcolumn.
- Wonder.
There is even a huge Chromium bug report about too many teleported goats.
The following Chromium source code snippet is stolen from the HN comments.
int TaskManagerModel::GetGoatsTeleported(int index) const { int seed = goat_salt_ * (index + 1); return (seed >> 16) & 255; }
Answer #4:
Complementing the first’s particular case, will clog the breakpoint mark, making it difficult to enable/disable it. If the method is used as a convention, all the invocations could be later filtered by some script (during the commit phase maybe?).
Google guys are heavy Eclipse users (they provide several of their projects as Eclipse plugins: Android SDK, GAE, etc), so the first answer and this complementary answer make a lot of sense (at least for me).
Answer #5:
In the discipline of speech recognition, users are divided into goats and sheep. the future to be able to configure the speech recognition engine for goats’ needs.
Hope you learned something from this post.
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In multimedia, we often write vector assembly (SIMD) implementations of computationally expensive functions to make our software faster. At a high level, there are three basic approaches to write assembly optimizations (for any architecture):
- intrinsics;
- inline assembly;
- hand-written assembly.
Inline assembly is typically disliked because of its poor readability and portability. Intrinsics hide complex stuff (like register count or stack memory) from you, which makes writing optimizations easier, but at the same time typically carries a performance penalty (because of poor code generation by compilers) – compared to hand-written (or inline) assembly.
x86inc.asm is a helper developed originally by various x264 developers, licensed under the ISC, which aims to make writing hand-written assembly on x86 easier. Other than x264,
x86inc.asm is also used in libvpx, libaom, x265 and FFmpeg.
This guide is intended to serve as an introduction to
x86inc.asm for developers (somewhat) familiar with (x86) vector assembly (either intrinsics or hand-written assembly), but not familiar with
x86inc.asm.
Basic example of how to use
x86inc.asm
To explain how this works, it’s probably best to start with an example. Imagine the following C function to calculate the SAD (sum-of-absolute-differences) of a 16×16 block (this would typically be invoked as distortion metric in a motion search):
#include <stddef.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdlib.h> typedef uint8_t pixel; static unsigned sad_16x16_c(const pixel *src, ptrdiff_t src_stride, const pixel *dst, ptrdiff_t dst_stride) { unsigned sum = 0; int y, x; for (y = 0; y < 16; y++) { for (x = 0; x < 16; x++) sum += abs(src[x] - dst[x]); src += src_stride; dst += dst_stride; } return sum; }
In
x86inc.asm syntax, this would look like this:
%include "x86inc.asm" SECTION .text INIT_XMM sse2 cglobal sad_16x16, 4, 7, 5, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt lea src_stride3q, [src_strideq*3] lea dst_stride3q, [dst_strideq*3] mov cntd, movhlps m1, m0 paddw m0, m1 movd eax, m0 RET
That’s a whole lot of stuff. The critical things to understand in the above example are:
- functions (symbols) are declared by cglobal;
- we don’t refer to vector registers by their official typed name (e.g.
mm0,
xmm0,
ymm0or
zmm0), but by a templated name (
m0) which is generated in
INIT_*;
- we use
mova, not
movdqa, to move data between registers or from/to memory;
- we don’t refer to general-purpose registers by their official name (e.g.
rdior
edi), but by a templated name (e.g.
srcq), which is generated (and populated) in
cglobal– unless it is to store return values (
eax);
- use
RET(not
ret!) to return.
- in your build system, this would be treated like any other hand-written assembly file, so you’d build an object file using
nasmor
yasm.
Let’s explore and understand all of this in more detail.
Understanding
INIT_*,
cglobal,
DEFINE_ARGS and
RET
INIT_* indicates what type of vector registers we want to use: MMX (
mm0), SSE (
xmm0), AVX (
ymm0) or AVX-512 (
zmm0). The invocation also allows us to target a specific CPU instruction set (e.g.
ssse3 or
avx2). This has various features:
- templated vector register names (
m0) which mirror a specific class of registers (
mm0,
xmm0,
ymm0or
zmm0);
- templated instruction names (e.g.
psadbw) which can warn if we’re using instructions unsupported for the chosen set (e.g.
pmulhrswin SSE2 functions);
- templated instruction names also hide VEX-coding (
vpsadbwvs.
psadbw) when targeting AVX;
- aliases for moving data to or from full aligned (
mova, which translates to
movqfor
mm,
(v)movdqafor
xmmor
vmovdqafor
ymmregisters), full unaligned (
movu) or half (
movh) vector registers;
- convenience aliases
mmsizeand
gprsizeto indicate the size (in bytes) of vector and general-purpose registers.
For example, to write an AVX2 function using
ymm registers, you’d use
INIT_YMM avx2. To write a SSSE3 function using
xmm registers, you’d use
INIT_XMM ssse3. To write a “extended MMX” (the integer instructions introduced as part of SSE) function using
mm registers, you’d use
INIT_MMX mmxext. Finally, for AVX-512, you use
INIT_ZMM avx512.
cglobal indicates a single function declaration. This has various features:
- portably declaring a global (exported) symbol with project name prefix and instruction set suffix;
- portably making callee-save general-purpose registers available (by pushing their contents to the stack);
- portably loading function arguments from stack into general-purpose registers;
- portably making callee-save
xmmvector registers available (on Win64);
- generating named and numbered general-purpose register aliases whose mapping to native registers is optimized for each particular target platform;
- allocating aligned stack memory (see “Using stack memory”).
The
sad_16x16 function declared above, for example, had the following
cglobal line:
cglobal sad_16x16, 4, 7, 5, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt
Using the first argument (
sad_16x16), this creates a global symbol
<prefix>_sad_16x16_sse2() which is accessible from C functions elsewhere. The prefix is a project-wide setting defined in your
nasm/
yasm build flags (
-Dprefix=name).
Using the third argument, it requests 7 general-purpose registers (GPRs):
- on x86-32, where only the first 3 GPRs are caller-save, this would push the contents of the other 4 GPRs to the stack, so that we have 7 GPRs available in the function body;
- on unix64/win64, we have 7 or more caller-save GPRs available, so no GPR contents are pushed to the stack.
Using the second argument, 4 GPRs are indicated to be loaded with function arguments upon function entry:
- on x86-32, where all function arguments are transferred on the stack, this means that we
moveach argument from the stack into an appropriate register;
- on win64/unix64, the first 4/6 arguments are transferred through GPRs (
rdi,
rsi,
rdx,
rcx,
R8,
R9on unix64;
rcx,
rdx,
R8,
R9on win64), so no actual
movinstructions are needed in this particular case.
This should also explain why we want to use templated register names instead of their native names (e.g.
rdi), since we want the
src variable to be kept in
rcx on win64 and
rdi on unix64. At this level inside
x86inc.asm, these registers have numbered aliases (
r0,
r1,
r2, etc.). The specific order in which each numbered register is associated with a native register per target platform depends on the function call argument order mandated by the ABI; then caller-save registers; and lastly callee-save registers.
Lastly, using the fourth argument, we indicate that we’ll be using 4
xmm registers. On win64, if this number is larger than 6 (or 22 for AVX-512), we’ll be using callee-save
xmm registers and thus have to back up their contents to the stack. On other platforms, this value is ignored.
The remaining arguments are named aliases for each GPR (e.g.
src will refer to
r0, etc.). For each named or numbered register, you’ll notice a suffix (e.g. the
q suffix for
srcq). A full list of suffixes:
q: qword (on 64-bit) or dword (on 32-bit) – note how
qis missing from numbered aliases, e.g. on unix64,
rdi = r0 = srcq, but on 32-bit
eax = r0 = srcq;
d: dword, e.g. on unix64,
eax = r6d = cntd, but on 32-bit
ebp = r6d = cntd;
w: word, e.g. on unix64
ax = r6w = cntw, but on 32-bit
bp = r6w = cntw;
b: (low-)byte in a word, e.g. on unix64
al = r6b = cntb;
h: high-byte in a word, e.g. on unix64
ah = r6h = cnth;
m: the stack location of this variable, if any, else the dword alias (e.g. on 32-bit
[esp + stack_offset + 4] = r0m = srcm);
mp: similar to
m, but using a qword register alias and memory size indicator (e.g. on unix64
qword [rsp + stack_offset + 8] = r6mp = cntmp, but on 32-bit
dword [rsp + stack_offset + 28] = r6mp = cntmp).
DEFINE_ARGS is a way to re-name named registers defined with the last arguments of
cglobal. It allows you to re-use the same physical/numbered general-purpose registers under a different name, typically implying a different purpose, and thus allows for more readable code without requiring more general-purpose registers than strictly necessary.
RET restores any callee-save register (GPR or vector) from the stack that was pushed by
cglobal, undoes any additional stack memory allocated for custom use (see “Using stack memory”). It will also call
vzeroupper to clear the upper half of
ymm registers (if invoked with
INIT_YMM or higher). At the end, it calls
ret to return to the caller.
Templating functions for multiple register types
At this point, it should be fairly obvious why we use templated names (
r0 or
src instead of
rdi (unix64),
rcx (win64) or
eax (32-bit)) for general-purpose registers: portability. However, we have not yet explained why we use templated names for vector registers (
m0instead of
mm0,
xmm0,
ymm0 or
zmm0). The reason for this is function templating. Let’s go back to the
sad_16x16 function above and use templates:
%macro SAD_FN 2 ; width, height cglobal sad_%1x%2, 4, 7, 5, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt lea src_stride3q, [src_strideq*3] lea dst_stride3q, [dst_strideq*3] mov cntd, %2 / %if mmsize >= 16 %if mmsize >= 32 vextracti128 xm1, m0, 1 paddw xm0, xm1 %endif movhlps xm1, xm0 paddw xm0, xm1 %endif movd eax, xm0 RET %endmacro INIT_MMX mmxext SAD_FN 8, 4 SAD_FN 8, 8 SAD_FN 8, 16 INIT_XMM sse2 SAD_FN 16, 8 SAD_FN 16, 16 SAD_FN 16, 32 INIT_YMM avx2 SAD_FN 32, 16 SAD_FN 32, 32 SAD_FN 32, 64
This indeed generates 9 functions for square and rectangular sizes for each register type. More could be done to reduce binary size, but for the purposes of this tutorial, the take-home message is that we can use the same source code to write functions for multiple vector register types (
mm0,
xmm0,
ymm0 or
zmm0).
Some readers may at this point notice that
x86inc.asm allows a programmer to use non-VEX instruction names (such as
psadbw) for VEX instructions (such as
vpsadbw), since you can only operate on
ymm registers using VEX-coded instructions. This is indeed the case, and is discussed in more detail in “AVX three-operand instruction emulation” below. You’ll also notice how we use
xm0 at the end of the function, this allows us to explicitly access
xmm registers in functions otherwise templated for
ymm registers, but will still correctly map to
mm registers in MMX functions.
Templating functions for multiple instruction sets
We can also use this same approach to template multiple variants of a function that vary in instruction sets. Consider, for example, the
pabsw instruction that was added in SSSE3. You could use templates to write two versions of a SAD version for 10- or 12-bits per pixel component pictures (
typedef uint16_t pixel in the C code above):
%macro ABSW 2 ; dst/src, tmp %if cpuflag(ssse3) pabsw %1, %1 %else pxor %2, %2 psubw %2, %1 pmaxsw %1, %2 %endif %endmacro %macro SAD_8x8_FN 0 cglobal sad_8x8, 4, 7, 6, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt lea src_stride3q, [src_strideq*3] lea dst_stride3q, [dst_strideq*3] mov cntd, 2] psubw m1, [dstq+dst_strideq*0] psubw m2, [dstq+dst_strideq*1] psubw m3, [dstq+dst_strideq*2] psubw m4, [dstq+dst_stride3q] lea srcq, [dstq+dst_strideq*4] ABSW m1, m5 ABSW m2, m5 ABSW m3, m5 ABSW m4, m5 paddw m1, m2 paddw m3, m4 paddw m0, m1 paddw m0, m3 dec cntd jg .loop movhlps m1, m0 paddw m0, m1 pshuflw m1, m0, q1010 paddw m0, m1 pshuflw m1, m0, q0000 ; qNNNN is a base4-notation for imm8 arguments paddw m0, m0 movd eax, m0 movsxwd eax, ax RET %endmacro INIT_XMM sse2 SAD_8x8_FN INIT_XMM ssse3 SAD_8x8_FN
Altogether, function templating allows for making easily-maintainable code, as long as developers understand how templating works and what the goals are. Templating can partially hide complexity of a function in macros, which can be very confusing and thus make code harder to understand. At the same time, it will significantly reduce source code duplication, which makes code maintenance easier.
AVX three-operand instruction emulation
One of the key features introduced as part of AVX – independent of
ymm registers – is VEX encoding, which allows three-operand instructions. Since VEX-instructions (e.g.
vpsadbw) in
x86inc.asm are defined from non-VEX versions (e.g.
psadbw) for templating purposes, the three-operand instruction support actually exists in the non-VEX versions, too. Therefore, code like this (to interleave vertically adjacent pixels) is actually valid:
[..] mova m0, [srcq+src_strideq*0] mova m1, [srcq+src_strideq*1] punpckhbw m2, m0, m1 punpcklbw m0, m1 [..]
An AVX version of this function (using
xmm vector registers, through
INIT_XMM avx) would translate this literally to the following on unix64:
[..] vmovdqa xmm0, [rdi] vmovdqa xmm1, [rdi+rsi] vpunpckhbw xmm2, xmm0, xmm1 vpunpcklbw xmm0, xmm0, xmm1 [..]
On the other hand, a SSE2 version of the same source code (through
INIT_XMM sse2) would translate literally to the following on unix64:
[..] movdqa xmm0, [rdi] movdqa xmm1, [rdi+rsi] movdqa xmm2, xmm0 punpckhbw xmm2, xmm1 punpcklbw xmm0, xmm1 [..]
In practice, as demonstrated earlier, AVX/VEX emulation also allows using the same (templated) source code for pre-AVX functions and AVX functions.
Using
SWAP
Another noteworthy feature in
x86inc.asm is
SWAP, a assembler-time and instruction-less register swapper. The typical use case for this is to be numerically consistent in ordering data in vector registers. As an example:
SWAP 0, 1 would switch the assembler’s internal meaning of the templated vector register names
m0 and
m1. Before,
m0 might refer to
xmm0 and
m1 might refer to
xmm1; after,
m0 would refer to
xmm1 and
m1 would refer to
xmm0.
SWAP can take more than 2 arguments, in which case
SWAP is sequentially invoked on each subsequent pair of numbers. For example,
SWAP 1, 2, 3, 4 would be identical to
SWAP 1, 2, followed by
SWAP 2, 3, and finally followed by
SWAP 3, 4.
The ordering is re-set at the beginning of each function (in
cglobal).
Using stack memory
Using stack memory in hand-written assembly is relatively easy if all you want is unaligned data or if the platform provides aligned stack access at each function’s entry point. For example, on Linux/Mac (32-bit and 64-bit) or Windows (64-bit), the stack upon function entry is guaranteed by the ABI to be 16-byte aligned. Unfortunately, sometimes we need 32-byte alignment (for aligned
vmovdqa of
ymm register contents), or we need aligned memory on 32-bit Windows. Therefore,
x86inc.asm provides portable alignment. The fourth (optional) numeric argument to
cglobal is the number of bytes you need in terms of stack memory. If this value is 0 or missing, no stack memory is allocated. If the alignment constraint (
mmsize) is greater than that guaranteed by the platform, the stack is manually aligned.
If the stack was manually aligned, there’s two ways to restore the original (pre-aligned) stack pointer in
RET, each of which have implications for the function body/implementation:
- if we saved the original stack pointer in a general-purpose register (GPR), we will still have access to the original
mand
mpnamed register aliases in the function body. However, it means that one GPR (the one holding the stack pointer) is not available for other uses in our function body. Specifically, on 32-bit, this would limit the number of available GPRs in the function body to 6. To use this option, specify a positive stack size;
cglobal sad_16x16, 4, 7, 5, 64, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt
- if we saved the original stack pointer on the (post-aligned) stack, we will not have access to
mor
mpnamed register aliases in the function body, but we don’t occupy a GPR. To use this option, specify a negative stack size. Note how we write a negative number as
0 - 64, not just
-64, because of a bug in some older versions of
yasm.
cglobal sad_16x16, 4, 7, 5, 0 - 64, src, src_stride, dst, dst_stride, \ src_stride3, dst_stride3, cnt
After stack memory allocation, it can be accessed using
[rsp] (which is an alias for
[esp] on 32-bit).
Conclusion
This post was meant as an introduction to
x86inc.asm, an x86 hand-written assembly helper, for developers (somewhat) familiar with hand-written assembly or intrinsics. It was inspired by an earlier guide called x264asm. | https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/ | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | refinedweb | 2,714 | 57.91 |
Go Import
One of the main use cases of the Go language with Elements is to use functionality from one of the countless existing Go libraries in your own project. Of course, it is always possible to just add the
.go source files to your project directly, but for using complete libraries there's an easier way: Go Imports.
The EBuild command line tool offers a special option to import a Go library project, along with all its dependencies, from a git repository, create one or more
.elements projects from it for you, and build it — so that all that is left for you to do is add a Project Reference to the project where you need it.
This mode of EBuild is run by specifying the
--import-go-project command line switch, alongside the URL of the go project (same as you would pass it to "
go get") and a set of additional parameters. e.g.:
ebuild --import-go-project
Since pretty much all Go libraries depend on a fully covered Go Base Library, Go Import is only supported for .NET and Island-based projects.
The mode for the generated project(s) can be determined via the
--mode switch, and defaults to Echoes (.NET), if not specified.
For Island imports, a
--submode and optional
--sdk can be specified, as well, by default the import will happen for the platform of the current system (i.e. Windows on a Windows PC, Darwin (Cocoa) on a Mac, etc.
For .NET imports, an optional
--target-framework can be provided, e.g. to import for .NET Core or .NET STandard. The default is "
.NEtFramework4.5".
How the Import Works
The import will determine the base URL of the repository specified by the URL. SUpported are GitHub repositories,
gopkg.in URLs, as well as any valid git URL or an JURL that supports the
?go-get=1 parameter.
It will clone that URL into a folder underneath the output folder and generate a
.elments project containing all
.go files within the specified subdirectory.
It will then check the
import sections of all these
.go files for additional external dependencies, and repeat the same steps, recursively if necessary, until all dependencies are covered.
A separate
.elements project will be generated for each repository; if imports dependencies request subdirectories of the same repository, the project for that repository will be extended tio include the additional files.
If the
--build switch is provided, the root project and all its dependencies will be build using a regular EBuild build run, as the final step.
Note that so,e got projects have many dependencies, sometimes in the hundreds or eben thousands of different folders. The import may take a while, and depending on the amount of projects generated, the generated
.sln file might not be well-suited to be opened the IDEs.
We recommend building ot from the command line (either as part of the import, os by calling
ebuild with the solution file at a later point) and then simply adding the main .elements project as Project Reference](/Projects/References/ProjectReferences) to your real projects.
Switches
Supported switches are:
--mode
:<Island|Echoes>— =the target Mode for the new project.
--submode
:<Windows|Linux|Darwin|Android>— the submode, for Island imports.
--sdk
:<sdk>— the SDK, for Island imports.
--target-framework
:<framework>— the Target Framework, for .NET imports.
--output-folder
:<folder>— the output folder.
--build— causes the generated project(s) to be actually build, as final step.
--debug— emit more detailed diagnostics and debug info
Also any specified
--settings
: will be ignored by the import, but passed on to project for the build. | https://docs.elementscompiler.com/Tools/GoImport/ | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | refinedweb | 602 | 64.61 |
Adding Google ReCaptcha to forms in Laravel
Add a captcha to your forms to protect your site from automated bots in just a few minutes
Google’s ReCaptcha is a system designed to check whether a user on a website is human or not and therefore prevent bots from engaging in unwanted behaviour on the site.
Following on from our article on creating Bootstrap 4 contact forms and also our article on creating contact forms in Laravel, this guide will explain how to integrate Google’s ReCaptcha system with your website, we’ll be using the example of a contact form.
Prerequisites:
We’ll assume you already have a Laravel project with a functioning contact form set up in this recommended way:
- A view containing your contact form
- A form request containing your validation rules
- A controller that contains methods for displaying the form and processing the data
- A notification for formatting the received email
If you don’t, then check out our article to get you up and running.
Setting up ReCaptcha:
The first thing we’ll need is a site key and secret key from Google so we are authorised to use Google’s ReCaptcha service.
Go to the ReCaptcha Admin Console to add your site details and generate your keys.
Add a descriptive label for your site, select reCAPTCHA v2 (we’re focussing on v2 for this article, we’ll go into using v3 in a future post), add your domain(s) and email address(es) and hit submit, and your ReCaptcha keys will be displayed.
In your Laravel project’s
.env file, add the following two variables, obviously updating the keys with your own:
GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_KEY=ABCDE6abcdef GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SECRET=ABCDE6abcdef
Tip: If you’re testing locally, use these two keys in your development environment to check the ReCaptcha is working:
GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_KEY=6LeIxAcTAAAAAJcZVRqyHh71UMIEGNQ_MXjiZKhI GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SECRET=6LeIxAcTAAAAAGG-vFI1TnRWxMZNFuojJ4WifJWe
You’ll see a message telling you the reCAPTCHA is for testing purposes only.
Optionally it’s recommended you add config keys to reference your
.env file before you go to production so you can cache the config to improve site speed.
To do this, open
config/services.php and add the following to the array:
'recaptcha' => [
'key' => env('GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_KEY'),
'secret' => env('GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SECRET'),
],
This means we can now access these keys via
config('services.recaptcha.secret') and
config('services.recaptcha.key').
Now we need to create a custom Validator, so create
app/Validators/ReCaptcha.php and add the following code:
<?php
namespace App\Validators;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
class ReCaptcha
{
public function validate($attribute, $value, $parameters, $validator)
{
$client = new Client;
$response = $client->post(
'',
[
'form_params' =>
[
'secret' => config('services.recaptcha.secret'),
'response' => $value
]
]
);
$body = json_decode((string)$response->getBody());
return $body->success;
}
}
Now we need to register the validator in the
boot() method of the
AppServiceProvider, so go to
app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php and add the following in the
boot() method:
Validator::extend('recaptcha', 'App\\Validators\\ReCaptcha@validate');
We now need to update our contact form view to use the validator code, so within your
<form> add the following:
@if(config('services.recaptcha.key'))
<div class="g-recaptcha"
data-
</div>
@endif
We also have to add the JS from Google for the ReCaptcha, so add the following script to the
<head> of your view, or in the
<head> of your layout file:
<script src=''></script>
Nearly done! Finally we need to add the validation rule and messages to our form request.
The rule we need is:
'g-recaptcha-response' => 'required|recaptcha'
Here’s an example of how it can be used with custom messages in a form request:
public function rules()
{
return [
'name' => 'required|max: 255',
'email' => 'required|email|max: 255',
'message' => 'required',
'g-recaptcha-response' => 'required|recaptcha'
];
}
public function messages()
{
return [
'required' => 'The :attribute field is required.',
'email' => 'The :attribute must use a valid email address',
'g-recaptcha-response.recaptcha' => 'Captcha verification failed',
'g-recaptcha-response.required' => 'Please complete the captcha'
];
}
That’s it! Now try completing the form with and without completing the captcha and make sure you get the expected results. If so you should have taken a step towards protecting your site from automated bots.
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Hello folks, Ned here again. Previously I explained how swapping out existing storage can be a method to migrate an existing DFSR environment to new hardware or operating system. Now in this final article I will discuss how reinstallation or an in-place upgrade can be used to deploy a later version of DFSR. Naturally this will not allow deployment of improved hardware and instead relies on existing infrastructure and storage.
Make sure you review the first four blog posts before you continue:
- Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 1: Planning)
- Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 2: Pre-seeding)
- Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 3: N+1 Method)
- Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 4: Disk Swap)
Background
The “reinstallation” method makes use of existing server hardware and storage by simply reinstalling the operating system. It does not require any new equipment expenditures or deployment, which can be very cost effective in a larger or more distributed environment. It also allows the use of later OS features without a time consuming or risky in-place upgrade. It also provides DFSR data pre-seeding for free, as the files being replicated are never removed. Previous OS versions and architectures are completely immaterial.
The downside to reinstallation is a total outage on that server until the setup and reconfiguration is complete, plus DFSR must be recreated for that server and perhaps for the entire Replication Group depending on the server’s place in data origination.
The “in-place upgrade” method also makes use of existing hardware by upgrading the existing operating system to a later version. This is also an extremely cost effective way to gain access to new features and also lowers the outage time as replication does not have to be recreated or resynchronized; once the upgrade is complete operation continues normally.
On the other hand upgrades may be impossible as 32-bit Win2003/2008 cannot be upgraded to Win2008 R2. As with any upgrade, there is some risk that the upgrade will fail to complete or end up in an inconsistent state, leading to lengthier troubleshooting process or a block of this method altogether. For that reason upgrades are the least recommended.
Requirements
- For computers being reinstalled with a later OS there are no special requirements.
- For computers being upgraded, they must meet the requirements for an in-place upgrade.
Note: A full backup with bare metal restore capability is highly recommended for each server being replaced. A System State backup of at least one DC in the domain hosting DFSR is also highly recommended.
For more information on installing Windows Server 2008 R2, review:
Repro Notes
In my sample below, I have the following configuration:
- There is one Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 hub (HUB-DFSR) using a dedicated data drive provided by a SAN through fiber-channel.
- There are two Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 spokes (BRANCH-01 and BRANCH-02) that act as branch file servers.
- Each spoke is in its own replication group with the hub (they are being used for data collection so that the user files can be backed up on the hub, and the hub is available if the branch file server goes offline for an extended period).
- DFS Namespaces are generally being used to access data, but some staff connect to their local file servers by the real name through habit or lack of training.
- The replacement OS is Windows Server 2008 R2. After installation – or as part of its slipstreamed image if possible – it will have the latest DFSR hotfixes installed.
I will upgrade one branch server and reinstall the other branch server. Because of the upgrade process clustering is not possible, but it would be in a reinstallation scenario.
Procedure
Note: this should be done off hours in a change control window in order to minimize user disruption. If the hub server is being replaced there will be no user data access interruption in the branch. If a branch server being upgraded is accessed by users however, the interruption may be several hours while the upgrade or reinstallation takes place. Replication – even with pre-seeding – may take substantial time to converge if there is a significant amount of data to check file hashes on in the reinstallation scenario.
Reinstallation
1. Inventory your file servers that are being replaced during the migration. Note down server names, IP addresses, shares, replicated folder paths, and the DFSR topology. You can use IPCONFIG.EXE, NET SHARE, and DFSRADMIN.EXE to automate these tasks. DFSMGMT.MSC can be used for all DFSR operations. proceed to the next step.
6. Start the OS installation either within the running OS or from boot up (via media or PXE).
7. Select a “Custom (advanced)” installation.
8. Specify the old volume where Windows was installed and accept the warning.
Note: When the installation commences all Windows, Program Files, and User Profile folders will be moved into a new Windows.old folder. Other data folders stored on the root of any attached drives will not move – this includes any previously replicated files.
Critical note: Do not delete, recreate, or format any drive containing previously replicated data!
9. When the installation completes and the server allows you to logon with local credentials, rename it to the old computer name and join it to the domain.
10. Install the DFSR role and install latest patches described in.
11..
12. Add the new server as a new member of the first replication group if this server is a hub being replaced and is to be considered non-authoritative for data..
13. Select the previously replicated folder path on the replacement server.
Note: Optionally, you can make this a Read-Only replicated folder if running Windows Server 2008 R2. This must not be done on a server where users are allowed to create data.
14. Complete configuration of replication. Because all data already existed on the old server’s disk that was re-used, it is pre-seeded and replication should finish much faster than if it all had to be copied from scratch.
15. Force AD replication with REPADMIN /SYNCALL and DFSR polling with DFSRDIAG POLLAD.
16. When the server has logged a DFSR 4104 event (if non-authoritative) then replication is completed.
17. Validate replication with a test file.
18. Grant users access to their data by configuring shares to match what was used previously on the old server.
19. Add the new server as a DFSN link target if necessary or part of your design. Again, it is recommended that file servers be accessed by DFS namespaces rather than server names. This is true even if the file server is the only target of a link and users do not access the other hub servers replicating data.
20. The process is complete.
Upgrade
1. Start the OS installation either within the running OS or from boot up (via media, WDS, SCCM, etc). Be sure to review our recommendations around in-place upgrades:.
2. Select “Upgrade” as the installation type.
3. Allow the installation to commence.
4. When the installation has completed and you are able to log back on to the computer with domain credentials, DFSR will commence functioning normally as it had on the previous OS. There is no need for further configuration or topology changes. There will be no new initial sync.
5. Creating a new test file in the replication groups on the upgraded server will sync to all other servers without issue, regardless of their current OS.
6. At this point the process is done.
Final Notes
While treated with suspicion due to the complexity and poor experiences of the past, upgrades are fully supported and when they operate smoothly they are certainly the lowest effort method to deploy a newer server OS. With changes in servicing and disk imaging starting in Windows Server 2008, they are also less likely to have lingering effects from previous OS files and settings.
However, reinstallation also gets you a newer OS and that install type is guaranteed not to have lingering effects from a previous OS installation. With a small amount of extra work, a reinstallation becomes a better long term solution with fewer questions around supportability, all while re-using existing hardware and data.
This concludes my series on replacing hardware and operating systems within a given set of DFSR Replication Groups. I hope you’ve found it helpful and illuminating. Now I can go back to being slightly crass and weird in my writing style like usual. 🙂 “off to find freakish clipart” Pyle
Hi folks, Ned Pyle here again. Back at AskDS , I used to write frequently about DFSR behavior and troubleshooting | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2010/09/10/replacing-dfsr-member-hardware-or-os-part-5-reinstall-and-upgrade/ | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | refinedweb | 1,451 | 53 |
The inexorable march of progress continues in the Mozilla Framework Based on Templates with the addition of
MOZ_FINAL, through which you can limit various forms of inheritance in C++.
Traditional C++ inheritance mostly can’t be controlled
In C++98 any class can be inherited. (An extremely obscure pattern will prevent this, but it has down sides.) Sometimes this makes sense: it’s natural to subclass an abstract
List class as
LinkedList, or
LinkedList as
CircularLinkedList. But sometimes this doesn’t make sense.
StringBuilder certainly could inherit from
Vector<char>, but doing so might expose many
Vector methods that don’t belong in the
StringBuilder concept. It would be more sensible for
StringBuilder to contain a private
Vector<char> which
StringBuilder member methods manipulated. Preventing
Vector from being used as a base class would be one way (not necessarily the best one) to avoid this conceptual error. But C++98 doesn’t let you easily do that.
Even when inheritance is desired, sometimes you don’t want completely-virtual methods. Sometimes you’d like a class to implement a virtual method (virtual perhaps because its base declared it so) which derived classes can’t override. Perhaps you want to rely on that method being implemented only by your base class, or perhaps you want it “fixed” as an optimization. Again in C++98, you can’t do this: public virtual functions are overridable.
C++11’s contextual
final keyword
C++11 introduces a contextual
final keyword for these purposes. To prevent a class from being inheritable, add
final to its definition just after the class name (the class can’t be unnamed).
struct Base1 final { virtual void foo(); }; // ERROR: can't inherit from B. struct Derived1 : public Base1 { }; struct Base2 { }; // Derived classes can be final too. struct Derived2 final : public Base2 { };
Similarly, a virtual member function can be marked as not overridable by placing the contextual
final keyword at the end of its declaration, before a terminating semicolon, body, or
= 0.
struct Base { virtual void foo() final; }; struct Derived : public Base { // ERROR: Base::foo was final. virtual void foo() { } };
Introducing
MOZ_FINAL
mfbt now includes support for marking classes and virtual member functions as final using the
MOZ_FINAL macro in
mozilla/Attributes.h. Simply place it in the same position as
final would occur in the C++11 syntax:
#include "mozilla/Attributes.h" class Base { public: virtual void foo(); }; class Derived final : public Base { public: /* * MOZ_FINAL and MOZ_OVERRIDE are composable; as a matter of * style, they should appear in the order MOZ_FINAL MOZ_OVERRIDE, * not the other way around. */ virtual void foo() MOZ_FINAL MOZ_OVERRIDE { } virtual void bar() MOZ_FINAL; virtual void baz() MOZ_FINAL = 0; };
MOZ_FINAL expands to the C++11 syntax or its compiler-specific equivalent whenever possible, turning violations of
final semantics into compile-time errors. The same compilers that usefully expand
MOZ_OVERRIDE also usefully expand
MOZ_FINAL, so misuse will be quickly noted.
One interesting use for
MOZ_FINAL is to tell the compiler that one worrisome C++ trick sometimes isn’t. This is the virtual-methods-without-virtual-destructor trick. It’s used when a class must have virtual functions, but code doesn’t want to pay the price of destruction having virtual-call overhead.
class Base { public: virtual void method() { } ~Base() { } }; void destroy(Base* b) { delete b; // may cause a warning }
Some compilers warn when they instantiate a class with virtual methods but without a virtual destructor. Other compilers only emit this warning when a pointer to a class instance is
deleted. The reason is that in C++, behavior is undefined if the static type of the instance being deleted isn’t the same as its runtime type and its destructor isn’t virtual. In other words, if
~Base() is non-virtual,
destroy(new Base) is perfectly fine, but
destroy(new DerivedFromBase) is not. The warning makes sense if destruction might miss a base class — but if the class is marked
final, it never will! Clang silences its warning if the class is
final, and I hope that MSVC will shortly do the same.
What about
NS_FINAL_CLASS?
As with
MOZ_OVERRIDE we had a gunky XPCOM static-analysis
NS_FINAL_CLASS macro for final classes. (We had no equivalent for final methods.)
NS_FINAL_CLASS too was misplaced as far as C++11 syntax was concerned, and it too has been deprecated. Almost all uses of
NS_FINAL_CLASS have now been removed (the one remaining use I’ve left for the moment due to an apparent Clang bug I haven’t tracked down yet), and it shouldn’t be used.
(Side note: In replacing
NS_FINAL_CLASS with
MOZ_FINAL, I discovered that some of the existing annotations have been buggy for months! Clearly no one’s done static analysis builds in awhile. The moral of the story: compiler static analyses that happen for every single build are vastly superior to user static analyses that happen only in special builds.)
Summary
If you don’t want a class to be inheritable, add
MOZ_FINAL to its definition after the class name. If you don’t want a virtual member function to be overridden in derived classes, add
MOZ_FINAL at the end of its declaration. Some compilers will then enforce your wishes, and you can rely on these requirements rather than hope for the best. | https://whereswalden.com/tag/final/ | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | refinedweb | 873 | 52.49 |
What is wrong with --> total += rates[i][n];What is wrong with --> total += rates[i][n];Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
//chose to use #define since columns/rows are a constant in the program
#define x 5
#define y 3
int main()
{
//declare variables
double i, n, total = 0.0;
float average;
//declare array and set values stored in it
double rates[5][3] = {{3.4, 56.7, 8.99},
{11.23, 4.67, 85.4},
{34.6, 2.4, 9.0},
{6.3, 8.0, 4.1},
{4.0, 2.0, 3.5}};
for (i = 0; i < x; i++)
for (n = 0; n < y; n++)
total += rates[i][n];
//end for
//calculate the average of values stored in array
average = (float)total/(float) x*y;
//display average with two decimal places
cout << fixed << setprecision(2);
cout << "The average equals: " << average << endl;
cin.get();
return 0;
} //end of main function
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There).
For (b) to work, I want to get to the point where I don’t use the @FXML annotation at all. Right now we have to use it for binding things up, but when RT-14880 is fixed and we have some implicit reference to the controller, then I’ll be able to have very powerful bindings defined in the FXML document back to state located on the Controller, and I won’t need to handle it manually in java code anymore. This is going to be a big win.
A good dependency injection system like Guice makes (c) dead easy. I like Guice because it is all still very type safe and there is only a minimal amount of magic — in fact I found it very easy to understand. I have a very contrived example here which shows the bare-bones basics, and some simplified use case. Because RT-14880 hasn’t been implemented, I can’t use the really slick binding the way I’d like to, so instead I am using some scripting inside the FXML document to produce the text for the button. This sample revolves around a very simple POJO called Person:
Person.java
package fxmlapp; public class Person { private String firstName = "Richard"; public final String getFirstName() { return firstName; } }
SampleController.java
package fxmlapp; import javax.inject.Inject; public class SampleController { /** * This domain data model is supplied in the constructor */ private final Person person; /** * Notice this constructor is using JSR 330 Inject annotation, * which makes it "Guice Friendly". * @param person */ @Inject public SampleController(Person person) { this.person = person; } /** * Used within the FXML document. This is just some state which the * controller wants to expose for the view to bind to or use. * @return */ public final String getPersonName() { return person.getFirstName(); } /** * Some method which I will call from the FXML file. */ public void print() { System.out.println("Well done, " + getPersonName() + "!"); } }
First is the controller. SampleController is exceedingly simple. It has some model data which is supplied in the constructor, in this case, a Person object. The person is just a good old fashioned POJO in this case, but could be a more complicated object, or perhaps created by JAX-RS or it could be a JDBC ResultSet — anything you like. There is a method “getPersonName” which I added for the sake of the FXML file. Also there is a method called “print” which will print a message. You could use any method here you want. For example you might have a “submit” method which posts back to a server or a “refresh” method which fetches data.
Next up, the FXML file.
Sample.fxml
<Name() + '!';</fx:script> </children> </StackPane>
I create a StackPane who’s id is going to be “root”, and give it a single Button as a child. The button has also been given an id, which is important because that is the name by which I can refer to this button in the embedded JavaScript code. The button has an onAction handler which will invoke the print() method on the controller. Notice that this onAction handler is just some JavaScript.
Speaking of which, you will notice there is a processing instruction here which tells FXML that the scripting in this document will be JavaScript. Because I don’t yet have the ability to do complex binding expressions (and in this case I want to do a string concatenation for the Button text), I use an embedded script to get the person name from the controller and concatenate it with some text. And that’s it, very, very simple.
Now I have a Controller (SampleController) and an FXML file (Sample.fxml), but where is the code which associates the one with the other? This code lives in my SampleApp.
SampleApp.java
package fxmlapp; import com.google.inject.Guice; import com.google.inject.Injector; import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.scene.Parent; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.stage.Stage; /** * A Guice based sample FXML Application */ public class SampleApp extends Application { /** * Create the Guice Injector, which is going to be used to supply * the Person model. */ private final Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new Module()); @Override public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception { // Create a new Guice-based FXML Loader GuiceFXMLLoader loader = new GuiceFXMLLoader(injector); // Ask to load the Sample.fxml file, injecting an instance of a SampleController Parent root = (Parent) loader.load("Sample.fxml", SampleController.class); // Finish constructing the scene final Scene scene = new Scene(root, 320, 240); // Load up the CSS stylesheet scene.getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("fxmlapp.css").toString()); // Show the window stage.setScene(scene); stage.setTitle("Guiced"); stage.show(); } // Standard launcher public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } }
The first thing I do when the SampleApp is created is I create an instance of a Guice Injector. I need to feed it a “Module”, which looks like this:
Module.java
package fxmlapp; import com.google.inject.AbstractModule; /** * * @author Richard */ public class Module extends AbstractModule { @Override protected void configure() { bind(Person.class); } }
The Module, essentially, just tells Guice “hey, if somebody comes looking for a Person class, give it to them”. You can read more about it on the Guice website. But once I’ve created my Injector, it is time to use it.
In the “start” method of the SampleApp, I create a new GuiceFXMLLoader. This is another utility class of my creation which makes it easier to use Guice with FXML loading. I’ll show that class in a minute. With my newly created GuiceFXMLLoader, I’m going to call its “load” method, passing in the FXML file to load along with the type of Controller I’d like to create. The GuiceFXMLLoader then parses the FXML document. Guice then does its magic. It attempts to construct an instance of SampleController, but discovers that the @Inject annotated constructor requires a Person object. It then looks up in the Module, discovers a rule regarding Person objects, and goes off to create a Person object. Once it has the new Person, it creates a new SampleController, which then gets associated with the FXML document, and the root object is returned. I place this in a Scene and show it in the Stage.
Now in the screenshot above, you no doubt noticed things had also been styled via CSS. I didn’t have to do anything in the FXML document, or in the Controller, to style this application. I simply wrote a style sheet and loaded it in the SampleApp. Since my FXML document already had id’s and style classes in place, I didn’t have to do anything special.
fxmlapp.css
.root { -fx-background-color: linear-gradient(from 0% 0% to 0% 100%, #cbd0d7 0%, white 100%); } #printBtn { -fx-text-fill: #e4f3fc; -fx-font: 20pt "Tahoma Bold"; -fx-padding: 10; -fx-base: #2d4b8e } #printBtn:hover{ -fx-base: #395bae; }
I hope you enjoyed this post and maybe it has stimulated your interest to try out dependency injection via Guice (or Spring, though I haven’t tried it in a client context yet) with FXML and JavaFX. In the 2.1 release coming up in the first half of 2012 we’ll fix the above mentioned issues in FXML such that we’ll have more powerful binding and an implicit reference to the controller from FXML, such that you won’t need to use JavaScript in the FXML document to get this behavior. We’ll also have simplified the FXML somewhat such that the “
In my parting shot, here is the GuiceFXMLLoader. It is just a hacked up proof of concept, but you’ll need to to try these classes out on your own :-).
GuiceFXMLLoader
package fxmlapp; import com.google.inject.Injector; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader; import javax.inject.Inject; /** * Uses Guice to inject model state. Basically you create an instance of * GuiceFXMLLoader supplying an Injector, and then call load. The load * method takes the FXML file to load, and the controller to create and * associate with the FXML file. */ public class GuiceFXMLLoader { private final Injector injector; @Inject public GuiceFXMLLoader(Injector injector) { this.injector = injector; } // Load some FXML file, using the supplied Controller, and return the // instance of the initialized controller...? public Object load(String url, Class<?> controller) { Object instance = injector.getInstance(controller); FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(); loader.getNamespace().put("controller", instance); InputStream in = null; try { try { URL u = new URL(url); in = u.openStream(); } catch (Exception e) { in = controller.getResourceAsStream(url); } return loader.load(in); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (in != null) try { in.close(); } catch (Exception ee) { } } return null; } }
I really like the choice for Guice instead of Spring (I dislike code-in-XML, so…
The next step I assume would be to include JUEL or MVEL so the expression looks like:
‘Click Me ${controller.person.name}!’
But then you would lose the compile time checking. You could also simply use the real business model object, like:
‘Click Me ‘ + controller.getPerson().getName() + ‘!’
Why the additional step over getPersonName()? Seems a very good example of the bloat Java code often is accused of. (Assuming there would be more getPersonX() methods.)
Right, the expression language is just the JSP/JSF unified expression language which I understand JUEL is simply an implementation of, with extensions. We’re going to be based on the implementation shipping with GlassFish for obvious reasons (the guy who maintains it is downstairs and across the hall from where I sit :-)). Then you’ll be able to do nice binding like you show, or invoke registered methods, dig into maps and lists, and all the rest.
I’m not too worried about the type checking because, if you use a visual builder like Scene Builder, we’ll handle all that for you. The UEL spec has all kinds of tools support for type-safe code completion. It is likely that NetBeans for example will have very good code completion support so that any errors will be identified in the tool. True, you don’t have the compiler to bail you out, but that’s about it.
On the other hand, moving all the view logic to the controller means that if you have an alternate view that wants to present some other message, based on the same person object, then you have to muddy up the controller with multiple view-specific bindings or property constructions. Maybe in reality that is inevitable, but I hope not.
The getPersonName() would have been getPerson() and personProperty(), but I wanted to keep the code simpler in the example, especially since the bindings don’t work. If the bindings worked, I would have used the properties. Heck, if the bindings worked I would have a much more complicated form with name, address, phone number fields all bound back to the Person with a Submit button :-).
This is all very interesting and exciting. I just hope that we will have the opportunity to play with a beta of the enhanced FXML framework and also the Scene Builder as soon as possible
A little note:
The comment on the load method of the GuiceFXMLLoader is wrong.
// Load some FXML file, using the supplied Controller, and return the
// instance of the initialized controller…?
The load method does NOT return a controller instance.
One more note:
Why did you annotate the constructor of your GuiceFXMLLoader if you actually call it the old way in your SampleApp? Would it not have been better to add the GuiceFXMLLoader to the Module and then create it this way:
// GuiceFXMLLoader loader = new GuiceFXMLLoader(injector);
GuiceFXMLLoader loader = injector.getInstance(GuiceFXMLLoader.class);
Richard,
I am extremely happy with where you are going with this and love the fact that you are taking the time to explore this side of things.
I like Guice very much, but Spring is still king in JEE (it has many other benefits beyond just DI) so just for reference, I have done a direct port of your above code into the Spring equivalent. There is ZERO spring XML in this – it is all done via annotations and is practically identical to the Guice style. I agree with tbee that code in XML is horrid (FXML being an exception :)) but Spring has had a fully annotation-based alternative for a while that works beautifully with JFX2.
In the Spring equivalent, your Guice ‘Module’ is replaced by an annotated configuration class:
And the controller changes only slightly:
Your GuiceFxmlLoader is replaced by a Spring equivalent:
And your Application (startup) class has only a minor tweak:
The full working code base is found here (Maven build – I haven’t used ant in years so this is just easier for me):
I would very much like to take this idea forward and add to it, if you are interested? You have almost exactly implemented the first 20% of the framework I have just been custom building to bang JFX2 into my JEE-style app. It’s a great start but I reckon we can do even better if the time and energy is there. I would love to explore better options and share what I have come up with so far (and others may have further ideas), Are you interested in seeing this at all, and if so what’s the best way to do this (forum, blog, svn, etc)?
As an example of what I mean, I have made the controllers own their ‘root’ node, and the bean factory returns the controller only (the root node is accessible via the controller) – views are dumb presentation bits only, controllers are the fundamental building blocks of the system (and this is now allowing me to build ‘pages’ and ‘wizards’ plus more in a cleanish way).
I have then been able to do away with the ‘SpringFxmlLoader’ and instead the AppFactory does this directly and the bean is magically injected all under the covers and invisible to the outside code (in this case the ‘SampleApp’) – this means the outside code doesn’t know or care if the controller is using an FXML view or a java class plus several other benefits that I can explain/show in more detail if there is interest in this.
I am very keen to contribute what knowledge I’ve got in this space. If it means JEE style apps get better support in JFX as a result well that’s something that could make my life easier for the next 10 years (based on Swing and the last 10 years!). JFX2 is my ticket to never having to build another bloody AJAX-style webapp again!
Cheers,
zonski
For anyone that is interested, I have started a blog with my ideas and thoughts on this topic:
Two posts added so far:
I’m planning to step through the stuff I have come up with in this area, partly as a guide for anyone else doing the same and partly as a conversation point for getting ideas and suggested improvements.
If you wanna get really fancy with Guice, you can inject the controller directly by making it a type parameter of your GuiceFXMLLoader:
public class GuiceFXMLLoader {
@Inject Provider controllerProvider;
public Parent load(String url) {
T instance = controllerProvider.get();
FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader();
loader.getNamespace().put(“controller”, instance);
…
}
}
And then in your calling code:
public class SampleApp extends Application {
@Inject GuiceFXMLLoader controllerLoader;
@Override public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new Module());
injector.injectMembers(this);
Parent root = controllerLoader.load(“Sample.fxml”);
…
}
}
There’s a lot more runway to make this integration really tight. For example, this is how servlet integration works:
new ServletModule() {
@Override protected void configureServlets() {
serve(“*.html”).with(MyServlet.class);
}
}
Cheers,
Jesse
[...] and SpringRichard Bair recently posted on the FXExperience blog the results of his experiments with FXML Dependency Injection using Guice. I’m a big fan of Guice but Spring is the most popular application development framework for [...]
Richard, this is ok, but how can I use @FXML annotation to bind a FXML component (like a TextField or a Button) to a variable if I don’t have the controller specified on the FXML file?
Hi Victor,
Check out this post for details on doing that (it’s using Spring but the same technique should work with Guice).
Cheers,
zonski
[...] for now, here’s how it goes. We’ll use Richard’s example as a basis again, merging in the concepts from my previous [...]
Hi,
I’ve been using flex with the swiz framework for a couple of years and when I started using javafx 2.0 I decided I only wanted dependency injection and mvc style event dispatch/handling such as in swiz rather than a whole framework.
Using annotations I’ve defined @Inject, @EventHandler, @Dispatcher and I have a bean loader class with loads some beans at startup but also provides a registerBean method for registering controllers of fxml files in the their constructor method.
The bean loader class also wires the beans together using reflection for the @Inject and @Dispatcher annotations.
Event handling is done using a dispatcher class which again uses reflection to determine which of the loaded beans are handlers for a particular type of event.
There’s a bit of asynchronous code so that one event can be received by a number of handlers operating in different threads.
It’s pretty crude (took about 4 – 6 hours to code) but allows me to think mvc when coding and tie fxml to beans just in time. The one issue that’s bothering me is the lack of callback functions in java (passing a function as an argument which is later called from another bean invoking it in the original class) means that I can’t define a clean helper class like the ServiceHelper in swiz for structuring asynchronous service calls from controllers/delegates
If anyone knows of a way of anything that would help with this part I would be very grateful and of course the code I’ve written for what it’s worth I can make available.
Miniprosjekt JavaFX 2 – linker m.m….
Oracle site:…
JavaFX…
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Today I started my learning on Angular Framework.
I am writing this blog to share my experience, understanding about the topics I covered today and also to have a good discussion if I have some wrong understanding.
What is Angular
Angular is a web framework which uses Typescript lead by the Angular team at Google.
Creating a simple app using Angular CLI
It is bit a straight forward approach. All we have to do means first of all make sure node is already installed or not. Then
Go to Angular CLI page.
Use the comments that are already shown on the left hand side of the page.
Use
npm install -g @angular/clito install it globally.
Use
ng new app-nameto create a new app with name app-name.
Now just move to the directory
cd app-name.
Use command
ng serveto start up the server.
These are straightforward commands which can be obtained from the site.
The command line will show the address to look like LocalHost and when we head to this we can see an output like the following.
Now use any of the IDE or code editor and open up the files.
Typescript : It is like a super set of Javascript which have more features like Types, Interfaces. In order to run the typescript files in the browser, this is first compiled to Javascript.
How angular app is loaded and started
Inside the project folder, if we check we can see a
index.html file and this is the file that is served by the server.
<body> <app-root></app-root> </body>
This is the body of
index.html. So where is this app root.
If we look at another file
app.component.ts file we can see @Component decorator with selector as app-root.
@Component({ selector: 'app-root', templateUrl: './app.component.html', styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'] })
This is the information what is used up the server.
Now inside the browser, when we inspect our page there can be certain scripts that does not appear in our raw html file and these are the scripts injected by the Angular CLI.
main.ts file is the main file that make the first run and then in cross checks with the
app.module.ts file and the necessary files are loaded.
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { ServerComponent} from './server/server.component'; import { ServersComponent } from './servers/servers.component'; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent, ServerComponent, ServersComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, FormsModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
NOTE : There are certain other components inside this file but just ignore and care about the AppComponent only.
What is a component and how can we make one component
In angular, component is generally a typescript class. If we head to some web pages, we can see many items in that and each of that item individually could be a component which can be reused anywhere we needed. It is also easy to update and make changes.
Make Component - 1st method
Make a new directory say server inside src/app.
Create 2 files
server.component.htmland
server.component.ts.
Add some codes into the
server.component.tsand
server.component.html.
import { Component } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'app-server', templateUrl: './server.component.html' }) export class ServerComponent { }
<p>Inside the server component</p>
- Update the
app.module.tsfile.
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { ServerComponent} from './server/server.component'; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent, ServerComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, FormsModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
Now our ServerComponent will be loaded up. Let us also create another component using CLI.
Make component - 2nd method
We can also make a component using the CLI.
Just use the command
ng g c servers
After finishing the setup we can see another directory inside the
app/src folder that is servers and there will be many files automatically configured and also our
app.module.ts file will be updated.
Update the
app.component.html as
<h3>I am in the AppComponent</h3> <hr> <app-servers></app-servers>
Update the
servers.component.html as
<app-server></app-server> <app-server></app-server>
And if we look at our page, the output will be
This is what I learned today and please comment if any of my understanding has to be updated. Thank you..
Discussion (4)
Great when i started i had no idea what i was doing
it has complex file structure and a lot of configuration to get started
Now i write angular in sleep lol jk
here to help if u need any
twitter @rishpein15
Great job! The first time I leaned angular, I was just copying and pasting. And you should add some syntax highlighting to your code.
Yeah Sure.. Thank you
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Hello! I have been thinking about containers at work. I’m going to talk about running containers in production! I’ve talked before about how using Docker for development is great, but that’s not what this post is about. Using docker in development seems really great and fine and I have no problems with it.
However I have VERY MANY QUESTIONS about running Docker in production. As a preface – I have never run containers in production. You should not take advice from me. So far reading about containers mostly feels like this hilarious article.
So: your setting is, you have a server, and you want to run programs on that server. In containers, maybe! Should you use Docker? I have no idea! Let’s talk about what we do know, though.
If you want to know what containers are, you could read You Could Have Invented Container Runtimes: An Explanatory Fantasy
reasons to use containers
packaging. Let’s imagine you want to run your application on a computer. Your application depends on some weird JSON library being installed.
Installing stuff on computers so you can run your program on them really sucks. It’s easy to get wrong! It’s scary when you make changes! Even if you use Puppet or Chef or something to install the stuff on the computers, it sucks.
Containers are nice, because you can install all the stuff your program needs to run in the container inside the container.
packaging is a huge deal and it is probably the thing that is most interesting to me about containers right now
scheduling. $$$. Computers are expensive. If you have custom magical computers that are all set up differently, it’s hard to move your programs from running on Computer 1 to running on Computer 2. If you use containers, you can make your computers all the same! Then you can more easily pack your programs onto computers in a more reasonable way. Systems like Kubernetes do this automagically but we are not going to talk about Kubernetes.
better developer environment. If you can make your application run in a container, then maybe you can also develop it on your laptop in the same container? Maybe? I don’t really know much about this.
security. You can use seccomp-bpf or something to restrict which system calls your program runs? sandstorm does stuff like this. I don’t really know.
There are probably more reasons that I’ve forgotten right now.
ok so what’s up with the Docker daemon
Docker has a daemon. Here is an architecture diagram that I shamelessly stole from this article
Usually I run programs on my computers. With Docker, you have to run a magical “docker daemon” that handles all my containers. Why? I don’t know! I don’t understand what the Docker daemon is for. With rkt, you just run a process.
People have been telling me stories that sometimes if you do the Wrong Thing and the Docker daemon has a bug, then the daemon can get deadlocked and then you have to kill it and all your containers die. I assume they work pretty hard on fixing these bugs, but I don’t want to have to trust that the Docker daemon has no bugs that will affect me. All software has bugs!
If you treat your container more like a process, then you can just run it, supervise it with supervisord or upstart or whatever your favorite way to supervise a process is. I know what a process is! I understand processes, kind of. Also I already use supervisord so I believe in that.
So that kind of makes me want to run rkt, even though it is a Newer Thing.
PID 1
My coworker told me a very surprising thing about containers. If you run just one process in a container, then it apparently gets PID 1? PID 1 is a pretty exciting process. Usually on your computer,
init gets PID 1. In particular, if another container process gets orphaned, then it suddenly magically becomes a child of PID 1.
So this is kind of weird, right? You don’t want your process to get random zombie processes as children. Like that might be fine, but it violates a lot of normal Unix assumptions about what normally happens to normal processes.
I think “violates a lot of normal Unix assumptions about what normally happens to normal processes” is basically the whole story about containers.
Yelp made a solution to this called dumb-init. It’s kind of interesting.
networking
I wrote a pretty bad blog post about container networking a while back. It can be really complicated! There are these “network namespaces” that I don’t really understand, and you need to do port forwarding, and why?
Do you really need to use this complicated container networking stuff? I kind of just want to run container processes and run them on normal ports in my normal network namespace and leave it at that. Is that wrong?
secrets
Often applications need to have passwords and things! Like to databases! How do you get the passwords into your container? This is a pretty big problem that I’m not going to go into now but I wanted to ask the question. (I know there are things like vault by hashicorp. Is using that a good idea? I don’t know!)
creating container images
To run containers, you need to create container images! There seem to be two main formats: Docker’s format and rkt’s format. I know nothing about either of them.
One nice thing is that rkt can run Docker containers images. So you could use Docker’s tools to make a container but then run it without using Docker.
There are at least 2 ways to make a Docker image: using a Dockerfile and packer. Packer lets you provision a container with Puppet or Chef! That’s kind of useful.
so many questions
From the few (maybe 5?) people I’ve talked to about containers so far, the overall consensus seems to be that they’re a pretty useful thing, despite all the hype, but that there are a lot of sharp edges and unexpected things that you’ll have to make your way through.
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This is the gr-vocoder package. It contains all available vocoders in GNU Radio. The Python namespaces is in gnuradio.vocoder, which would be normally imported as:
See the Doxygen documentation for details about the blocks available in this package.
A quick listing of the details can be found in Python after importing by using:
Note that most vocoders use short inputs instead of floats. This means you must convert audio signals from float to short by using a type conversion and a scaling factor. See the examples.
The format of the encoded audio is different for every encoder. See the individual block's documention for the data format. Encoded data is usually a vector of fixed length, and can either be packed or unpacked. | https://www.gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_vocoder.html | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | refinedweb | 125 | 67.55 |
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Connecting Go Lang to Oracle Database
It seems like more and more people are using Go. With that comes the need to access a database or databases. This blog will show you how to get connected to an Oracle Database and to perform some basic operations using Go.
The first thing you need is to have Go installed. There are a couple of options for you. The first is go download from the Go Lang website, or if you are an Oracle purist they provide some repositories for you and these can be installed using yum.
Next you need to install Oracle Instant Client.
Unzip the contents of the downloaded file. Copy the extracted directory (and it’s contents) to your preferred location and then add the path to this directory to the search PATH. Depending on your configuration and setup, you may need to configure some environment variables. Some people report having to create a ‘.pc’ file and having to change the symlinks for libraries. I didn’t have to do any of this.
The final preparation steps, after installing Go and Oracle Instant Client, is to download the ‘goracle’ package. This package provides a GO database/sql driver for connecting to Oracle Database using ODPI-C. To install the ‘goracle’ package run:
go get gopkg.
in
/goracle
.v2
This takes a few seconds to run. There is no display updates or progress updates when this command is running.
NB: goracle package has been renamed to godror. Everything works the same it’s just the package has been renamed.
See below for the full Go code for connecting to Oracle Database, executing a query and gathering some database information. To this code, with file name ‘ora_db.go’
go run ora_db.go
I’ll now break this code down into steps.
Import the packages that will be used in you application. In this example I’m importing four packages. ‘fmt’ is the formatting package and allows us to write to standard output. the ‘time’ package allows us to capture and print some date, time and how long things take. The ‘database/sql’ package to allow SQL execution and is needed for the final package ‘goracle’.
import ( "fmt" "time" "database/sql" goracle "gopkg.in/goracle.v2" )
Next we can define the values needed for connecting the Oracle Database. These include the username, password, the host string and the database name.
username := "odm_user"; password := "odm_user"; host := "....."; database := "....";
Now test the database connection. This doesn’t actually create a connection. This is deferred until you run the first command against the database. This tests the connection
db, err := sql.Open("goracle", username+"/"+password+"@"+host+"/"+database) if err != nil { fmt.Println("... DB Setup Failed") fmt.Println(err) return } defer db.Close()
If an error is detected, the error message will be printed and the application will exit (return). the ‘defer db.Close’ command sets up to close the connection, but defers it to the end of the application. This allows you to keep related code together and avoid having to remember to add the close command at the end of your code.
Now force the connection to open using a Ping command
if err = db.Ping(); err != nil { fmt.Println("Error connecting to the database: %s\n", err) return }
Our database connection is now open!
The ‘goracle’ package allows us to get some metadata about the connection, such as details of the client and server configuration. Here we just gather the details of what version of the database we are connected to. The Oracle Database I’m using is 18c Extreme Edition host on Oracle Cloud.
var serverVersion goracle.VersionInfo serverVersion, err = goracle.ServerVersion(db); if err != nil { fmt.Printf("Error getting Database Information: %s\n", err) return } fmt.Println("DB Version : ",serverVersion)
First we define the variable used to store the server details in. This is defined with data type as specified in the ‘goracle’ package. Then gather the server version details, check for an error and finally print out the details.
To execute a query, we define the query (dbQuery) and then use the connection (db) to run this query (db.Query). The variable ‘rows’ points to the result set from the query. Then defer the closing of the results set point. We need to keep this results set open, as we will parse it in the next code segment.
dbQuery := "select table_name from user_tables where table_name not like 'DM$%' and table_name not like 'ODMR$%'" rows, err := db.Query(dbQuery) if err != nil { fmt.Println(".....Error processing query") fmt.Println(err) return } defer rows.Close()
To parse the result set, we can use a FOR loop. Before the loop we define a variable to contain the value returned from the result set (tableName). The FOR loop will extract each row returned and assign the value returned to the variable tableName. This variable is then printed.
var tableName string for rows.Next() { rows.Scan(&tableName) fmt.Println(tableName) }
That’s it.
We have connected to Oracle Database, retrieved the version of the database, executed a query and processed the result set.
Here is the full code and the output from running it.
package main import ( "fmt" "time" "database/sql" goracle "gopkg.in/goracle.v2" ) func main(){ username := "odm_user"; password := "odm_user"; host := "....."; database := "...."; currentTime := time.Now() fmt.Println("Starting at : ", currentTime.Format("03:04:05:06 PM")) fmt.Println("... Setting up Database Connection") db, err := sql.Open("goracle", username+"/"+password+"@"+host+"/"+database) if err != nil { fmt.Println("... DB Setup Failed") fmt.Println(err) return } defer db.Close() fmt.Println("... Opening Database Connection") if err = db.Ping(); err != nil { fmt.Println("Error connecting to the database: %s\n", err) return } fmt.Println("... Connected to Database") var serverVersion goracle.VersionInfo serverVersion, err = goracle.ServerVersion(db); if err != nil { fmt.Printf("Error getting Database Information: %s\n", err) return } fmt.Println("DB Version : ",serverVersion) dbQuery := "select table) } fmt.Println("... Closing connection") finishTime := time.Now() fmt.Println("Finished at ", finishTime.Format("03:04:05:06 PM")) }
. | https://oralytics.com/category/oracle-database/ | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | refinedweb | 1,001 | 61.12 |
Python: Square the elements of a list using map()
Python map: Exercise-5 with Solution
Write a Python program to square the elements of a list using map() function.
Sample Solution:
Python Code :
def square_num(n): return n * n nums = [4, 5, 2, 9] print("Original List: ",nums) result = map(square_num, nums) print("Square the elements of the said list using map():") print(list(result))
Sample Output:
Original List: [4, 5, 2, 9] Square the elements of the said list using map(): [16, 25, 4, 81]
Python Code Editor:
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Previous: Write a Python program to create a list containing the power of said number in bases raised to the corresponding number in the index using Python map.
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Simulate a Media Player
This example shows how to create an interface between a Stateflow® chart that uses C as the action language and a MATLAB® app created in App Designer. For more information on connecting a Stateflow chart that uses MATLAB as the action language to a MATLAB app, see Model a Power Window Controller.
In this example, a MATLAB app models the front end of a media player. During simulation, you can choose between the AM radio, FM radio, and CD player components of the media player. When the CD player is on, you can also select the playback mode.
The Stateflow chart
App Interface provides a bidirectional connection between the MATLAB app and the control and plant systems in the Simulink® model. When you interact with the widgets in the app, the chart sends a corresponding command to the other charts in the model. These charts use strings to control the behavior of the media player and to provide natural language output messages that indicate its status. When the status of the media player changes, the chart changes the color of the buttons and updates the text field at the bottom of the app.
Run the Media Player Model
Open the Simulink model and click Run. The Media Player Helper app opens. The text field at the bottom of the app shows the status of the media player,
Standby (OFF).
In the Radio Request section, click CD. The media player status changes to
CD Player: Empty.
Click Insert Disc. The media player status briefly says
Reading: Handel's Greatest Hitsbefore changing to
CD Player: Stopped.
In the CD Request section, click PLAY. The media player status changes to
Playing: Handel's Greatest Hitsand music begins to play.
In the CD Request section, click FF. The music stops and chirping sounds begin. The media status changes to
Forward >> Handel's Greatest Hits. The album name in this message scrolls forward across the display.
Use the Media Player Helper app to select other operating modes or to enter a different album name. For example, try playing to the albums
Training Deep Networksor
Fun With State Machines. To stop the simulation, close the Media Player Helper app.
Connect Chart to MATLAB App
The chart
App Interface is already configured to communicate with the MATLAB app
sf_mediaplayer_app. To create a bidirectional connection between your MATLAB app and a Stateflow chart that uses C as the action language, follow these steps. In the MATLAB app:
Create a custom property to interface with the chart during simulation. The app uses this property to access chart inputs, chart outputs, and local data. For more information, see Share Data Within App Designer Apps.
Modify the
startupFcncallback for the app by adding a new input argument and storing its value as the property that you created in the previous step. For more information, see Callbacks in App Designer.
In the Stateflow chart:
Create a local data object to interface with the app. The chart uses this local data object as an argument when it calls helper functions in the app.
Set the type of the local data object you created in the previous step to
ml. For more information, see Specify Type of Stateflow Data.
Run the app using the
mlnamespace operator to indicate that the app is extrinsic MATLAB code. Pass the keyword
thisas an argument to give the app access to the chart during simulation. Store the value returned by the function call to the app as the local data object that you created to interface with the app. For more information, see Access MATLAB Functions and Workspace Data in C Charts.
In this example, the Media Player Helper app uses a property called
chart to interface with the chart
App Interface. The app callbacks use this property to write to the chart outputs:
When you insert or eject a disc, the
EjectButtonPushedcallback sets the values of
insert,
eject, and
Album.
When you click a button in the Radio Request section of the app, the corresponding callbacks set the value of
RadioReq.
When you click a button in the CD Request section of the app, the corresponding callbacks set the value of
CDReq.
When you close the app, the
UIFigureCloseRequestcallback sets the value of
Stopto
true.
Conversely, in the chart, the entry actions in the
InterfaceWithApp state run the app
sf_mediaplayer_app and store the returned value as the local data object
app. The chart uses this local data object when it calls the helper functions
updateButtons and
updateStatus. In the app, these helper functions change the color of the buttons and update the text field at the bottom of the app based on the value of the chart inputs
RadioMode,
CDMode, and
CDStatus.
Manage Media Player Modes
The
Mode Manager chart activates the appropriate subcomponent of the media player (AM radio, FM radio, or CD player) depending on the inputs received from the
App Interface chart. The chart inputs
RadioReq and
CDReq contain string data that control the behavior of the chart. To evaluate the string data, the chart uses the string operator
strcmp and its equivalent shorthand form
==. The chart output
CurrentRadioMode provides natural language output to the app, while
MechCmd controls the behavior of the CD player subcomponent. To assign values to these outputs, the chart uses the string operator
strcpy and its equivalent shorthand form
=.
At the start of simulation, the
NormalOperation state becomes active. If the Boolean data
DiscEject is
true, a transition to the
Eject state occurs, followed by a transition back to the
NormalOperation state.
When
NormalOperation is active, the previously active substate (
Standby or
ON) recorded by the history junction becomes active. Subsequent transitions between the
Standby and
ON substates depend on the value of the expression
strcmp(RadioReq,"OFF"):
If
strcmpreturns a value of zero, then
RadioReqis
"OFF"and the
Standbysubstate is activated.
If
strcmpreturns a nonzero value, then
RadioReqis not "|OFF|" and the
ONsubstate is activated.
In the
ON substate, three substates represent the operating modes of the media player: CD player, AM radio, and FM radio. Each substate corresponds to a different value of the input
RadioReq. The inner transition inside the
ON state uses the operator
hasChanged to continually scan for changes in the value of
RadioReq.
If the value of
RadioReqis
"CD", then the substate
CDModebecomes active and the media player switches to CD player mode. The
Mode Managerchart outputs
"PLAY",
"REW",
"FF", and
"STOP"commands to the
CD Playerchart through the string data
MechCmd.
If the value of
RadioReqis
"AM", then the substate
AMModebecomes active and the media player switches to AM radio mode. The
Mode Managerchart outputs a
"STOP"command to the
CD Playerchart through the string data
MechCmd.
If the value of
RadioReqis
"FM", then the substate
FMModebecomes active and the media player switches to FM radio mode. The
Mode Managerchart outputs a
"STOP"command to the
CD Playerchart through the string data
MechCmd.
Manage CD Player Modes
The
CD Player chart activates the appropriate operating mode for the CD player depending on the input received from the
App Interface and
Mode Manager charts. The chart inputs
Cmd and
Album contain string data that control the behavior of the chart. The chart output
AlbumName provides natural language output to the app. To assign and compare the values of string data, the chart uses the shorthand operations
= (see strcpy) and
== (see strcmp). To produce text in the output string
CDStatus, the chart uses the string operators
strcat,
strlen, and
substr.
At the start of simulation, the
Empty state is activated.
If the Boolean data
DiscInsert is
true, a transition to the
Inserting state occurs. After a short time delay, a transition to the
DiscPresent state occurs. The
DiscPresent state remains active until the data
Cmd becomes
"EJECT". At that point, a transition to the
Ejecting state occurs. After a short time delay, a transition to the
Empty state occurs. The temporal logic operator
after controls the timing of the transitions during disc insertion and ejection.
When a state transition occurs, the entry action in the new state changes the value of
CDStatus to reflect the status of the CD player. In the
FF or
REW substates, the during actions continually change the value of
CDStatus to produce a scrolling motion effect.
When the active state is
Empty, the value of
CDStatusis
"CD Player: Empty".
When the active state is
Inserting, the value of
CDStatusis
"Reading: AlbumName".
When the active state is
Ejecting, the value of
CDStatusis
"Ejecting: AlbumName".
When the active state is
DiscPresent.STOP, the value of
CDStatusis
"CD Player: Stopped".
When the active state is
DiscPresent.PLAY, the value of
CDStatusis
"Playing: AlbumName".
When the active state is
DiscPresent.REW, the value of
CDStatusis
"Reverse << AlbumName", where
AlbumNamescrolls backward across the display.
When the active state is
DiscPresent.FF, the value of
CDStatusis
"Forward >> AlbumName", where
AlbumNamescrolls forward across the display.
See Also
after | hasChanged | strcat | strcmp | strcpy | strlen | substr | https://se.mathworks.com/help/stateflow/ug/model-media-player-using-strings.html | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 1,492 | 55.34 |
Tisserand plots and applications in gravity assisted maneuvers¶
Spacecraft fuel is limited and thus becomes a constrain when developing interplanetary maneuvers. In order to save propellant, mission analysis team usually benefits from so called gravity assisted maneuvers. Although they are usually applied for increasing spacecraft velocity, they might also be used for the opposite objective. Previous kind of maneuvers are not only useful for interplanetary trips but also extremely important when designing so-called “moon tours” in Jupiter and Saturn systems.
In order to perform a preliminary gravity assist analysis, it is possible to make use of Tisserand plots. These plots illustrate how to move within different bodies for a variety of \(V_{\infty}\) and \(\alpha\), being this last angle the pump angle. Tisserand plots assume:
Perfectly circular and coplanar planet orbits. Although it is possible to include inclination within the analysis, Tisserand would no longer be 2D plots but become surfaces in a three dimensional space.
Phasing is not taken into account. That means only orbits are taken into account, not rendezvous between departure and target body.
Please, note that poliastro solves ``mean orbital elements`` for Solar System bodies. Although their orbital parameters do not have great variations among time, planet orbits are assumed not to be perfectly circular either coplanar. However, Tisserand figures still are useful for quick-design gravity assisted maneuvers.
How to read the graphs¶
As said before, these kind of plots assume perfectly circular and coplanar orbits. Each point in a Tisserand graph is just a fly-by orbit wiht a given \(V_{\infty}\) and pump angle. That particular orbit has some energy associated, which can be computed as \(C_{Tiss}=3 - V_{\infty}^2\). The question then is, where can a spacecraft come and reach that orbit with those particular conditions?
Although Tisserand figures come in many different ways, they might be usually represent:
Periapsis VS. Apoapsis
Orbital period VS. Periapsis
Specific Energy VS. Periapsis
Let us plot a very simple Tisserand-energy kind plot for the inner planets except Mercury.
[1]:
import astropy.units as u import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from poliastro.bodies import Venus, Earth, Mars from poliastro.plotting.tisserand import TisserandPlotter, TisserandKind from poliastro.plotting._base import BODY_COLORS
Notice that we imported the
TisserandKind class, which will help us to indicate the kind of Tisserand plot we want to generate.
[2]:
# Show all possible Tisserand kinds for kind in TisserandKind: print(f"{kind}", end="\t")
TisserandKind.APSIS TisserandKind.ENERGY TisserandKind.PERIOD
We will start by defining a
TisserandPlotter instance with custom axis for a better look of the final figure. In addition, user can also make use of
plot and
plot_line method for representing both a collection of lines or just isolated ones.
[3]:
# Build custom axis fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,1,figsize=(15,7)) ax.set_title("Energy Tisserand for Venus, Earth and Mars") ax.set_xlabel("$R_{p} [AU]$") ax.set_ylabel("Heliocentric Energy [km2 / s2]") ax.set_xscale("log") ax.set_xlim(10**-0.4, 10**0.15) ax.set_ylim(-700, 0) # Generate a Tisserand plotter tp = TisserandPlotter(axes=ax, kind=TisserandKind.ENERGY) # Plot Tisserand lines within 1km/s and 10km/s for planet in [Venus, Earth, Mars]: ax = tp.plot(planet, (1, 14) * u.km / u.s, num_contours=14) # Let us label previous figure tp.ax.text(0.70, -650, "Venus", color=BODY_COLORS["Venus"]) tp.ax.text(0.95, -500, "Earth", color=BODY_COLORS["Earth"]) tp.ax.text(1.35, -350, "Mars", color=BODY_COLORS["Mars"]) # Plot final desired path by making use of `plot_line` method ax = tp.plot_line(Venus, 7 * u.km / u.s, alpha_lim=(47 * np.pi / 180, 78 * np.pi / 180), color="black") ax = tp.plot_line(Mars, 5 * u.km / u.s, alpha_lim=(119 * np.pi / 180, 164 * np.pi / 180), color="black")
Previous black lines represents an EVME, which means Earth-Venus-Mars-Earth. Our spacecraft starts at and orbit with \(V_{\infty}=5\)km/s at Earth location. At this point, a trajectory shared with a \(V_{\infty}=7\)km/s for Venus is shared. This new orbit would take us to a new orbit for \(V_{\infty}=5\)km/s around Mars, which is also intercepted at some point by Earth again.
More complex tisserand graphs can be developed, for example for the whole Solar System planets. Let us check!
[4]:
# Let us import the rest of the planets from poliastro.bodies import Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune SS_BODIES_INNER = [ Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, ] SS_BODIES_OUTTER = [ Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, ]
We will impose the final figure also to show a dashed red line which represents \(R_{p} = R_{a}\), meaning that orbit is perfectly circular.
[5]:
# Prellocate Tisserand figure fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,1,figsize=(15,7)) ax.set_title("Apsis Tisserand for Solar System bodies") ax.set_xlabel("$R_{a} [AU]$") ax.set_ylabel("$R_{p} [AU]$") ax.set_xscale("log") ax.set_yscale("log") # Build tisserand tp = TisserandPlotter(axes=ax, kind=TisserandKind.APSIS) # Show perfect circular orbits r = np.linspace(0, 10**2) * u.AU tp.ax.plot(r,r, linestyle="--", color="red") # Generate lines for inner planets for planet in SS_BODIES_INNER: tp.plot(planet, (1, 12) * u.km / u.s, num_contours=12) # Generate lines for outter planets for planet in SS_BODIES_OUTTER: if planet == Jupiter or planet == Saturn: tp.plot(planet, (1, 7) * u.km / u.s, num_contours=7) else: tp.plot(planet, (1, 5) * u.km / u.s, num_contours=10)
| https://docs.poliastro.space/en/latest/examples/Tisserand.html | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | refinedweb | 895 | 52.15 |
Wheel¶?¶.
Usage¶
The current version of wheel can be used to speed up repeated installations by reducing the number of times you have to compile your software. When you are creating a virtualenv for each revision of your software the savings can be dramatic. This example packages pyramid and all its dependencies as wheels, and then installs pyramid from the built packages:
# Make sure you have the latest pip that supports wheel pip install --upgrade pip # Install wheel pip install wheel # Build a directory of wheels for pyramid and all its dependencies pip wheel --wheel-dir=/tmp/wheelhouse pyramid # Install from cached wheels pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/tmp/wheelhouse pyramid # Install from cached wheels remotely pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links= pyramid
For lxml, an up to 3-minute “search for the newest version and compile” can become a less-than-1 second “unpack from wheel”.
As a side effect the wheel directory, “/tmp/wheelhouse” in the example, contains installable copies of the exact versions of your application’s dependencies. By installing from those cached wheels you can recreate that environment quickly and with no surprises.
To build an individual wheel, run
python setup.py bdist_wheel. Note that
bdist_wheel only works with distribute (
import setuptools); plain
distutils does not support pluggable commands like
bdist_wheel. On
the other hand
pip always runs
setup.py with setuptools enabled.
Wheel also includes its own installer that can only install wheels (not sdists) from a local file or folder, but has the advantage of working even when distribute or pip has not been installed.
Wheel’s builtin utility can be invoked directly from wheel’s own wheel:
$ python wheel-0.21.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl/wheel -h usage: wheel [-h] {keygen,sign,unsign,verify,unpack,install,install-scripts,convert,help} ... positional arguments: {keygen,sign,unsign,verify,unpack,install,install-scripts,convert,help} commands keygen Generate signing key sign Sign wheel unsign Remove RECORD.jws from a wheel by truncating the zip file. RECORD.jws must be at the end of the archive. The zip file must be an ordinary archive, with the compressed files and the directory in the same order, and without any non-zip content after the truncation point. verify Verify a wheel. The signature will be verified for internal consistency ONLY and printed. Wheel's own unpack/install commands verify the manifest against the signature and file contents. unpack Unpack wheel install Install wheels install-scripts Install console_scripts convert Convert egg or wininst to wheel help Show this help optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit
Setuptools.
Neither of these two flags have': [] },
The extra named ‘’ signifies a default requirement, as if it was passed to install_requires.
Older versions of bdist_wheel supported passing requirements in a now-deprecated [metadata] section in setup.cfg. the wheel tool and its dependencies $ pip install wheel[tool] # Generate a signing key (only once) $ wheel keygen $ export WHEEL_TOOL=/path/to/wheel $ python setup.py bdist_wheel
Signing is done in a subprocess because it is not convenient for the build environment to contain bindings to the keyring and cryptography libraries. The keyring library may not be able to find your keys (choosing a different key storage back end based on available dependencies) unless you run it from the same environment used for keygen.
Format¶
The wheel format is documented as PEP 427 “The Wheel Binary Package Format...” ().
Slogans¶
Wheel
- Because ‘newegg’ was taken.
- Python packaging - reinvented.
- A container for cheese.
- It makes it easier to roll out software. | https://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | refinedweb | 592 | 53.51 |
IRC log of webont on 2002-10-17
Timestamps are in UTC.
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Zakim, what's the number?
15:54:08 [Zakim]
I don't understand your question, jjc.
15:54:14 [jjc]
Zakim, help?
15:54:15 [Zakim]
Please refer to
for more detailed help.
15:54:16 [Zakim]
Some of the commands I know are:
15:54:17 [Zakim]
xxx is yyy - establish yyy as the name of unknown party xxx
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if yyy is 'me' or 'I', your nick is substituted
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xxx may be yyy - establish yyy as possibly the name of unknown party xxx
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I am xxx - establish your nick as the name of unknown party xxx
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xxx holds yyy [, zzz ...] - establish xxx as a group name and yyy, etc. as participants within that group
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xxx also holds yyy - add yyy to the list of participants in group xxx
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who's here? - lists the participants on the phone
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who's muted? - lists the participants who are muted
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mute xxx - mutes party xxx (such that 60# will not work)
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unmute xxx - reverses the effect of "mute" and of 61#
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is xxx here? - reports whether a party named like xxx is present
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list conferences - reports the active conferences
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this is xxx - associates this channel with conference xxx
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excuse us - disconnects from the irc channel
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I last learned something new on $Date: 2002/09/24 12:08:09 $
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Zakim, what's the code?
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sorry, jjc, I don't know what conference this is
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Hi, jim is there a scribe for today
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Zakim, list
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I see WS_DescWG()11:00AM, SW_WebOnt()12:00PM, SVG_WG()11:00AM
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Zakim, this is SW_WebOnt
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ok, jjc
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+??P39
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Zakim, who's on the call?
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On the phone I see M_Smith, ??P3, Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ??P18, ??P27, NickG, ??P30, ??P34, ??P39
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Zakim, who's on the call?
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On the phone I see M_Smith, ??P3, Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ??P18, ??P27 (muted), NickG, ??P30, ??P34, ??P39
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+??P5
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Zakim, ??P39 is JosD
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Zakim, P27 is jjc.
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+JosD; got it
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sorry, jjc, I do not recognize a party named 'P27'
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Zakim, ??P27 is jjc.
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+Jjc.; got it
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Zakim, unmute jjc.
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Jjc. should no longer be muted
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Zakim, ??P3 is Larry.
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sorry, jjcscribe, I do not recognize a party named '??P3'
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Zakim, who's on the call?
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On the phone I see M_Smith, ??P3, Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ??P18, Jjc., NickG, ??P30, ??P34, JosD, ??P5
16:04:44 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ?P18 is Larry.
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sorry, jjcscribe, I do not recognize a party named '?P18'
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Zakim, who's on the call?
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On the phone I see M_Smith, ??P3, Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ??P18, Jjc., NickG, ??P30, ??P34, JosD, ??P5
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Zakim, ?P5 is Larry.
16:05:09 [Zakim]
sorry, jjcscribe, I do not recognize a party named '?P5'
16:05:13 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P5 is Larry.
16:05:15 [Zakim]
+Larry.; got it
16:05:24 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P18 is ChrisW.
16:05:25 [Zakim]
+ChrisW.; got it
16:05:49 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P3 is Klein.
16:05:50 [Zakim]
sorry, jjcscribe, I do not recognize a party named '??P3'
16:06:00 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P34 is Klein.
16:06:01 [Zakim]
+Klein.; got it
16:06:09 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P30 is Wallace..
16:06:10 [Zakim]
+Wallace..; got it
16:06:12 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, who's on the call?
16:06:13 [Zakim]
On the phone I see M_Smith, ??P3, Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ChrisW., Jjc., NickG, Wallace.., Klein., JosD, Larry.
16:06:31 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P3 is Hori.
16:06:33 [Zakim]
+Hori.; got it
16:06:46 [Zakim]
+??P12
16:06:48 [jjcscribe]
jjc: Welcome to Hori'san.
16:07:00 [jjcscribe]
s/jjc/jimh/
16:07:12 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P12 is terHorst.
16:07:13 [Zakim]
+TerHorst.; got it
16:07:19 [jjcscribe]
Roll complete
16:07:26 [jjcscribe]
Lots of regrets
16:07:59 [JosD]
Zakim, who's on the call?
16:08:01 [Zakim]
On the phone I see M_Smith, Hori., Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh, Ian_Horrocks, ChrisW., Jjc., NickG, Wallace.., Klein., JosD, Larry., TerHorst.
16:08:10 [hth]
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16:08:29 [Zakim]
+DanC
16:08:50 [Zakim]
+JonathanB
16:08:57 [jjcscribe]
Open action Review.
16:09:10 [jjcscribe]
Thompson and Obrst have done brief reviews.
16:09:23 [jjcscribe]
Both actioons continued ...
16:10:00 [jjcscribe]
van Harmlene action done.
16:10:30 [jjcscribe]
Hayes deprecation action continued.
16:10:35 [jjcscribe]
Guus action continues.
16:11:16 [DanCon]
er... guus's looks done to me: # GUIDE: UML syntax mapping Guus Schreiber (Thu, Sep 26 2002)
16:11:22 [jjcscribe]
Dean action done at f2f.
16:11:33 [jjcscribe]
Frank onto merging continued.
16:12:25 [jjcscribe]
Guus action *is* done.
16:12:33 [ChrisW]
me too
16:12:38 [JosD]
DanC, agenda is
16:13:03 [DanCon]
thx, jos
16:13:16 [jjcscribe]
(Frank will arrive late)
16:13:52 [jjcscribe]
Agendum 2: f2f4 action review
16:13:57 [jjcscribe]
layering ...
16:14:28 [JosD]
Frank's document
16:14:48 [jjcscribe]
PFPS, PH action is continued.
16:14:58 [jjcscribe]
JeremyC is continued.
16:16:14 [DanCon]
was it not clear that everybody who presents stuff at ftf meetings needs to make it part of the meeting record?
16:16:21 [jjcscribe]
Horrocks rules action is nearly ready.
16:16:39 [jjcscribe]
McGuiness action is done.
16:19:07 [jjcscribe]
Welty action done.
16:19:16 [jjcscribe]
(5.16)
16:19:38 [jjcscribe]
DebM hasValue continued
16:20:04 [jjcscribe]
Frank's action continued ..
16:21:07 [jjcscribe]
Dean's action continued.
16:21:38 [jjcscribe]
Connolly, DeRoo action's contineud because test doc release pending
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Hayes action 5.22 owl:Class is simply a marker
16:23:07 [DanCon]
jim, are you opening the datatypes issue?
16:23:31 [DanCon]
has Brian actually sent the bit about the RDFCore decision to WebOnt?
16:24:21 [jjcscribe]
jjc: webont input on datatyping was particularly crucial in rejecting rdfs:format - lexical solution
16:24:25 [jhendler_]
DanCon - just reporting back, not opening
16:24:35 [JosD]
re: datatyping RESOLUTION
16:26:11 [DanCon]
is Borden here?
16:26:18 [JosD]
oops.. better:
16:26:20 [DanCon]
Zakim, is Borden here?
16:26:21 [Zakim]
DanCon, I do not see Borden anywhere
16:27:21 [jjcscribe]
Borden is unhappy that structure datatypes are postponed.
16:27:27 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, who's on the call?
16:27:28 [Zakim]
On the phone I see M_Smith, Hori., Jim_Hendler, Marwan_Sabbouh (muted), Ian_Horrocks, ChrisW., Jjc., NickG, Wallace.., Klein., JosD, Larry., TerHorst., DanC, JonathanB
16:28:42 [jjcscribe]
Borden: it was never opened until it was closed at the f2f. I haven't had a chance to put my proposals.
16:30:12 [jjcscribe]
Borden: consider fragment of XML doc that conforms to some complex schema class - could it be an OWL class.
16:30:36 [jjcscribe]
ACTION: DanC Write rationale for postponing 4.3.
16:31:01 [DanCon]
note to self: URIs for schema components aren't standardized yet; they're working on it. (it's in their charter)
16:31:38 [DanCon]
continued: ACTION Jeremy Carroll: will move this issue (5.5 List syntax or semantics) forward
16:32:03 [jjcscribe]
ACTION: chairs continued
16:32:44 [DanCon]
hmm... "to postpone 5.12 entailing inconsistencies" record could be more clear there.
16:32:57 [DanCon]
continued: ACTION Connolly: to move issue 5.13 Internet Media Type for OWL forward
16:33:10 [jjcscribe]
Connolly action continued
16:33:55 [jjcscribe]
PFPS action continued
16:34:08 [Zakim]
+??P0
16:34:16 [jjcscribe]
ACTION Hendler unique names continued
16:34:25 [jjcscribe]
Zakim, ??P0 is Frank.
16:34:26 [Zakim]
+Frank.; got it
16:35:01 [jjcscribe]
Raphael is moving 5.19 forward, continued.
16:35:36 [jjcscribe]
Done: Frank: to address issue of class as instance (5.19) in OWL Lite
16:35:50 [jjcscribe]
Jeremy continued
16:37:26 [jjcscribe]
ACTION jjc liase with Mike about updating the OWL RDFS namespace doc
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16:37:41 [DanCon]
hmm... I've been treating the online owl.rdf as part of the reference, for tracking purposes, I guess.
16:38:04 [jjcscribe]
Peter's action continued.
16:39:04 [jjcscribe]
Rest of actions will be considered under agendum 4
16:39:41 [DanCon]
Enrico should be in the attendance
16:39:45 [jjcscribe]
Meeting record does not show Enrico as attendee
16:39:59 [jjcscribe]
Discussion of whether to approve meeting record, but we are not quorate.
16:40:30 [ChrisW]
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16:41:01 [DanCon]
for ftf record, TODO: incorporate stuff from Mike S 14 Oct 2002 12:46:12 -0500, stuff from Chris W 14 Oct 2002 10:15:43 -0400
16:42:40 [jjcscribe]
jjc: ball is in Dan's court
16:43:00 [jjcscribe]
DanC: is unhappy since he does not want to be on critical path
16:44:12 [jjcscribe]
Done: ACTION: Jeremy Carroll to add an editorial comment
16:44:13 [jjcscribe]
Done: ACTION: Jeremy Carroll to add an editorial comments
16:45:00 [Zakim]
-Jim_Hendler
16:45:17 [jhendler_]
I just got cut off zakim - reconnecting son as I can
16:45:23 [DanCon]
right, jim.
16:45:55 [DanCon]
Mike S: I expect to be out [??], but to have a draft ready [??when?]
16:46:00 [Zakim]
+Jim_Hendler
16:46:04 [jjcscribe]
Smith: hopes to get revision out by 31st
16:46:31 [DanCon]
publishing moratorum: 18 - 29 November 2002 per
16:47:28 [jjcscribe]
Hendler: thanks to Mike Smith for updating issue list so fast.
16:49:00 [jjcscribe]
Dean is cvurrently busy - will work on webont stuff next week.,
16:51:15 [jjcscribe]
Agendum 3
16:52:18 [DanCon]
Frank's message on Consensus on semantic layering:
16:52:32 [jjcscribe]
Chair asks if anyone wants Frank's briefing
16:52:43 [jjcscribe]
Frank: e-mail is accurate account without hidden items
16:53:23 [jjcscribe]
DanC: there is a proposal that OWLLite is subset of FastOWL
16:54:23 [jjcscribe]
ChrisW: at meeting Enrico said that Classes-as-instances should be in OWLLite.
16:59:02 [ChrisW]
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16:59:21 [jjcscribe]
DanC: who is going to make it clear what is in OWL Lite (whichdoc)
17:01:14 [jjcscribe]
ACTION MikeSmith Add indication that classes as instances are part of Large OWL in Guide.
17:02:23 [jjcscribe]
ACTION: jjc rdfs/lite/fast/large layering message
17:02:37 [jjcscribe]
Leo will scribe next week.
17:02:59 [jjcscribe]
Meeting closing ...
17:03:44 [jjcscribe]
ACTION: frank work with guus to formulate proposal close classes-as-instances incl lite/fast/large
17:03:59 [Zakim]
-JonathanB
17:04:03 [Zakim]
-ChrisW.
17:04:04 [jjcscribe]
Meeting closed.
17:04:06 [FvH]
oodby
17:04:07 [Zakim]
-Marwan_Sabbouh
17:04:08 [Zakim]
-Hori.
17:04:09 [Zakim]
-M_Smith
17:04:13 [Zakim]
-Jjc.
17:04:14 [Zakim]
-Frank.
17:04:15 [Zakim]
-Wallace..
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FvH has left #webont
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-NickG
17:04:18 [Zakim]
-Ian_Horrocks
17:04:19 [Zakim]
-Klein.
17:04:20 [Zakim]
-DanC
17:04:20 [Zakim]
-TerHorst.
17:04:22 [Zakim]
-Jim_Hendler
17:04:24 [Zakim]
-JosD
17:04:30 [Zakim]
-Larry.
17:04:30 [Zakim]
SW_WebOnt()12:00PM has ended
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hth has left #webont
17:31:41 [jhendler_]
RRSAgent, pointer?
17:31:41 [RRSAgent]
See
17:31:55 [jhendler_]
RRSAgent, actions?
17:31:55 [jhendler_]
I'm logging. Sorry, nothing found for 'actions'
17:32:06 [jhendler_]
RRSAgent, actions
17:32:06 [jhendler_]
I'm logging. I don't understand 'actions', jhendler_. Try /msg RRSAgent help
17:32:20 [jhendler_]
actions?
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
sees 4 open action items:
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: DanC Write rationale for postponing 4.3. [1]
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
recorded in
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: chairs continued [2]
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
recorded in
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: jjc rdfs/lite/fast/large layering message [3]
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
recorded in
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: frank work with guus to formulate proposal close classes-as-instances incl lite/fast/large [4]
17:32:20 [RRSAgent]
recorded in
17:34:21 [DanCon]
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20:01:05 [Zakim]
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On Tue, 26'.> > Just to be clear, then: this idea is fundamentally different from the > mkdir/cd analogy the thread starts with above.NACK, it's very similar to the cd "$HOME" (or ulimit calls) done by thelogin mechanism, except for the fact that no shell does implement asetnamespace command and therefore can't leave that namespace. If theshell were actually modified to implement setnamespace, that command wouldbe exactly like the cd command.The wrapper I mentioned will usurally not be needed for normal operation,but if users want additional private namespaces, they'll need thisseperate wrapper (or to modify the application or the shell) in order toswitch into them.> And it misses one rather > important requirement compared to mkdir/cd: You can't add a new mount to > an existing shell.The mount would be a part of the current namespace, which is shared acrossall current user processes unless they are started without login (e.g.procmail[0]) or running in a different namespace (the user calledsetnamespace).[0] If you want procmail in a user namespace, use a wrapper like---/usr/bin/procmail---#!/bin/shexec /usr/bin/setnamespace /users/"$UID" -- /usr/bin/procmail.bin "$@"---BTW: I think the namespaces will need the normal file permissions.-- Fun things to slip into your budgetParadigm pro-activator (a whole pack) (you mean beer?)-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at read the FAQ at | https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/26/275 | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | refinedweb | 249 | 55.64 |
Over the past couple weeks, Nong Li and I added a streaming binary format to Apache Arrow, accompanying the existing random access / IPC file format. We have implementations in Java and C++, plus Python bindings. In this post, I explain how the format works and show how you can achieve very high data throughput to pandas DataFrames.
Columnar streaming data
A common question I get about using Arrow is the high cost of transposing large tabular datasets from record- or row-oriented format to column-oriented format. For a multi-gigabyte dataset, transposing in memory or on disk may be prohibitive.
For streaming data, whether the source data is row-oriented or column-oriented memory layout, one option is to send small batches of rows, each internally having a columnar memory layout.
In Apache Arrow, an in-memory columnar array collection representing a chunk of a table is called a record batch. Multiple record batches can be collected to represent a single logical table data structure.
In the existing "random access" file format, we write metadata containing the table schema and block locations at the end of the file, enabling you to select any record batch or any column in the dataset very cheaply. In the streaming format, we send a series of messages: the schema followed by one or more record batches.
The different formats look roughly like this diagram:
Streaming data in PyArrow: Usage
To show you how this works, I generate an example dataset representing a single streaming chunk:
import time import numpy as np import pandas as pd import pyarrow as pa def generate_data(total_size, ncols): nrows = int(total_size / ncols / np.dtype('float64').itemsize) return pd.DataFrame({ 'c' + str(i): np.random.randn(nrows) for i in range(ncols) })
Now, suppose we want to write 1 gigabyte of data composed of chunks that are 1 megabyte each, so 1024 chunks. First, let's create 1MB DataFrame with 16 columns:
KILOBYTE = 1 << 10 MEGABYTE = KILOBYTE * KILOBYTE DATA_SIZE = 1024 * MEGABYTE NCOLS = 16 df = generate_data(MEGABYTE, NCOLS)
Then, I convert this to a
pyarrow.RecordBatch:
batch = pa.RecordBatch.from_pandas(df)
Now, I create an output stream that writes to RAM and create a
StreamWriter:
sink = pa.InMemoryOutputStream() stream_writer = pa.StreamWriter(sink, batch.schema)
Then, we write the 1024 chunks composing the 1 GB dataset:
for i in range(DATA_SIZE // MEGABYTE): stream_writer.write_batch(batch)
Since we wrote to RAM, we can get the entire stream as a single buffer:
In [13]: source = sink.get_result() In [14]: source Out[14]: <pyarrow.io.Buffer at 0x7f2df7118f80> In [15]: source.size Out[15]: 1074750744
Since this data is in memory, reading back Arrow record batches is a zero-copy
operation. I open a
StreamReader, read back the data as a
pyarrow.Table,
and then convert to a pandas DataFrame:
In [16]: reader = pa.StreamReader(source) In [17]: table = reader.read_all() In [18]: table Out[18]: <pyarrow.table.Table at 0x7fae8281f6f0> In [19]: df = table.to_pandas() In [20]: df.memory_usage().sum() Out[20]: 1073741904
This is all very nice, but you may have some questions. How fast is it? How does the stream chunk size affect the absolute performance to obtain the pandas DataFrame?
Streaming data performance
As the streaming chunksize grows smaller, the cost to reconstruct a contiguous columnar pandas DataFrame increases because of cache-inefficient memory access patterns. There is also some overhead from manipulating the C++ container data structures around the arrays and their memory buffers.
With a 1 MB as above, on my laptop (Quad-core Xeon E3-1505M) I have:
In [20]: %timeit pa.StreamReader(source).read_all().to_pandas() 10 loops, best of 3: 129 ms per loop
This is an effective throughput of 7.75 GB/s to reconstruct a 1GB DataFrame from 1024 1MB chunks. What happens when we use larger and smaller chunks? Here are the results
The performance degrades significantly from 256K to 64K chunks. I was surprised to see that 1MB chunks were faster than 16MB ones; it would be worth a more thorough investigation to understand whether that is normal variance or something else going on.
In the current iteration of the format, the data is not being compressed at all, so the in-memory and on-the-wire size are about the same. Compression may be added to the format as an option in the future.
Summary
Streaming columnar data can be an efficient way to transmit large datasets to columnar analytics tools like pandas using small chunks. Data services using row-oriented storage can transpose and stream small data chunks that are more friendly to your CPU's L2 and L3 caches.
Full benchmarking code
import time import numpy as np import pandas as pd import pyarrow as pa def generate_data(total_size, ncols): nrows = total_size / ncols / np.dtype('float64').itemsize return pd.DataFrame({ 'c' + str(i): np.random.randn(nrows) for i in range(ncols) }) KILOBYTE = 1 << 10 MEGABYTE = KILOBYTE * KILOBYTE DATA_SIZE = 1024 * MEGABYTE NCOLS = 16 def get_timing(f, niter): start = time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_REALTIME) for i in range(niter): f() return (time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_REALTIME) - start) / NITER def read_as_dataframe(klass, source): reader = klass(source) table = reader.read_all() return table.to_pandas() NITER = 5 results = [] CHUNKSIZES = [16 * KILOBYTE, 64 * KILOBYTE, 256 * KILOBYTE, MEGABYTE, 16 * MEGABYTE] for chunksize in CHUNKSIZES: nchunks = DATA_SIZE // chunksize batch = pa.RecordBatch.from_pandas(generate_data(chunksize, NCOLS)) sink = pa.InMemoryOutputStream() stream_writer = pa.StreamWriter(sink, batch.schema) for i in range(nchunks): stream_writer.write_batch(batch) source = sink.get_result() elapsed = get_timing(lambda: read_as_dataframe(pa.StreamReader, source), NITER) result = (chunksize, elapsed) print(result) results.append(result) | https://wesmckinney.com/blog/arrow-streaming-columnar/ | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | refinedweb | 922 | 57.16 |
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I am following along with a PluralSight course and practicing writing a basic service in Angular2. I have the following service file:
customer.service.ts
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
@Injectable()
export class CustomerService {
constructor() {}
getCustomers() {
return
[
{id: 1, name: 'Ward'},
{id: 2, name: 'Joe'},
{id: 3, name: 'Bill'},
{id: 4, name: 'Bob'},
{id: 5, name: 'Levi'},
{id: 6, name: 'Brian'},
{id: 7, name: 'Susie'}
];
}
}
npm start
angular-quickstart@1.0.0 start C:\Dev\my-proj
tsc && concurrently "tsc -w" "lite-server"
app/customer/customer.service.ts(10,3): error TS7027: Unreachable code detected.
If you place your whole array in a new line after the return statement, then your method has two statements:
The error you see is a pretty helpful one. TypeScript tells you that there is code (the array definition) that could never be reached, because you are returning from the function already before the array line can be reached.
So the solution is pretty simple. Move at least the opening bracket into the line of the return statement like
return [. That's it. | https://codedump.io/share/mwIDO7VcV8aj/1/error-ts7027-unreachable-code-detected-in-angular2-typescript-service-class | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | refinedweb | 180 | 61.67 |
Ok I am getting an error with my cout statement for my vector problem. This problem doesn't look any different that any other problem that I have done- so maybe I am just loosing it =)
The error is
binary '<<' : no operator defined which takes a right-hand operand of type 'class std::vector<int,class std::allocator<int> >' (or there is no acceptable conversion)
My code is:
Thanks!!!!!Thanks!!!!!Code:#include<iostream> #include<string> #include<vector> using namespace std; int main () { vector <int> v1; v1.push_back(1); v1.push_back(2); v1.push_back(3); v1.push_back(4); v1.push_back(5); v1.push_back(6); v1.push_back(7); v1.push_back(8); //v1.insert(v1.begin()+4, 88); //v1.insert(v1.begin()+6, 33); cout << v1; return 0; } | https://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/32697-vector-error.html | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | refinedweb | 125 | 53.61 |
tmux recently updated to version 1.8, and with the update came a new command that greatly simplifies integrating with the OS X clipboard.
With prior versions of tmux, there wasn’t a straightforward method for getting text copied in tmux to the OS X clipboard. In How to Copy and Paste with tmux on Mac OS X we shared the best solution available at the time, but it required a handful of other configurations working together to make copy and paste work.
What Changed
The key update that comes with tmux version 1.8 is a new command called
copy-pipe. This command allows you bind a key to both copy the selected text to the tmux paste buffer and pipe the selected text into an arbitrary shell command.
Setup
In order to make use of this new command, you will still need to install the
reattach-to-user-namespace wrapper, which will connect tmux to the OS X clipboard service. Thankfully, homebrew makes this easy:
brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
From there you can add the following lines to your
.tmux.conf file and you will be able to copy and paste:
# Use vim keybindings in copy mode setw -g mode-keys vi # Setup 'v' to begin selection as in Vim bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-pipe "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy" # Update default binding of `Enter` to also use copy-pipe unbind -t vi-copy Enter bind-key -t vi-copy Enter copy-pipe "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
Note: these settings will cause tmux to use Vim-like key bindings when in copy-mode. You can see the list of key-bindings this provides by running the following command in your shell:
tmux list-keys -t vi-copy
Usage
<prefix> [to start “copy-mode” (Not sure what
<prefix>is? This post can help)
- Move to the text you want to copy using Vim-like key bindings, i.e.,
kto move up a line,
/to search, etc.
vto start selection
- Move to end of text with Vim key-bindings. The selection will be highlighted
yto copy the highlighted/selected text
The selected text is now in your clipboard, and your day is that much better for it. | https://robots.thoughtbot.com/tmux-copy-paste-on-os-x-a-better-future | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | refinedweb | 381 | 56.89 |
SCALBLN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual SCALBLN(3)
scalbn, scalbnf, scalbnl, scalbln, scalblnf, scalblnl - multiply floating-point number by integral power of radix
#include <math.h> double scalbln(double x, long exp); float scalblnf(float x, long exp); long double scalblnl(long double x, long: Range error, overflow An overflow floating-point exception (FE_OVERFLOW) is raised. Range error, underflow errno is set to ERANGE. An underflow floating-point exception (FE_UNDERFLOW) is raised.
These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.bn(), scalbnf(), scalbnl(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ │scalbln(), scalblnf(), scalblnl() │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────.11 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at. 2021-03-22 SCALBLN(3)
Pages that refer to this page: ldexp(3), scalb(3) | https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/scalbln.3.html | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | refinedweb | 134 | 58.48 |
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than "Re: Contents of Kerberos digest..."
Today's Topics:
3. AIX 5.2 and Kerberos 1.4.1 Patches (Milton Turley)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:08:15 -0600
From: Milton Turley <mturley@lanl.gov>
To: [email]kerberos@mit.edu[/email]
Subject: AIX 5.2 and Kerberos 1.4.1 Patches
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Following are 2 patches for kerberos 1.4.1 to build on AIX 5.2. The
patches are for the problem of not being able to resolve the address for
the kdc.
The #ifndef LANL and #ifdef LANL are locale compiler directives and will
need to be changed or specifiy -D LANL in configure process.
The patch for dsnglue.c is if "thread-support" is enabled. The patch
adds
a 1024 byte buffer after the _res_state structure. IBM AIX has a
problem
where 735+- bytes are overlaid when res_ninit is called. The 1024 bytes
pads the storage to stop res_ninit from overlaying critical storage.
Ken
Raeburn had tried a similar patch with 72 bytes.
[color=blue]
>*** ./src/lib/krb5/os/dnsglue.c.orig Fri Jan 14 17:10:53 2005
>--- ./src/lib/krb5/os/dnsglue.c Thu May 5 11:39:52 2005
>***************
>*** 62,68 ****
>--- 62,76 ----
> char *host, int nclass, int ntype)
> {
> #if HAVE_RES_NSEARCH
>+ #ifndef LANL
> struct __res_state statbuf;
>+ #else /* LANL */
>+ #ifndef _AIX
>+ struct __res_state statbuf;
>+ #else /* _AIX */
>+ struct { struct __res_state s; char pad[1024]; } statbuf;
>+ #endif /* AIX */
>+ #endif /* LANL */
> #endif
> struct krb5int_dns_state *ds;
> int len, ret;[/color]
The patch for locate_kdc.c is when "disable-thread-support" is set for
configure. Again the #ifndef LANL and #ifdef LANL is a local compiler
directive. This will need to be changed for local setting or -D LANL
set
for configure process.
[color=blue]
>*** ./src/lib/krb5/os/locate_kdc.c.orig Thu May 5 08:06:45 2005
>--- ./src/lib/krb5/os/locate_kdc.c Thu May 5 11:34:27 2005
>***************
>*** 267,275 ****
>--- 267,283 ----
> memset(&hint, 0, sizeof(hint));
> hint.ai_family = family;
> hint.ai_socktype = socktype;
>+ #ifndef LANL
> #ifdef AI_NUMERICSERV
> hint.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICSERV;
> #endif
>+ #else /* LANL */
>+ #ifndef _AIX
>+ #ifdef AI_NUMERICSERV
>+ hint.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICSERV;
>+ #endif
>+ #endif /* _AIX */
>+ #endif /* LANL */
> sprintf(portbuf, "%d", ntohs(port));
> sprintf(secportbuf, "%d", ntohs(secport));
> err = getaddrinfo (hostname, portbuf, &hint, &addrs);[/color]
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This project shows how to extract email addresses from a document or string.
I was listening to the most recent .NET Rocks where Carl Franklin mentioned an exercise he had in a class that asked the attendees to extract email addresses from a string. He said that the exercise took some people a couple hours to complete using VB 6.0 but I was just working with the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace and I thought this would be quite easy in .NET.
System.Text.RegularExpressions
The sample application will open a Word Document, Rich Text Document, or Text File and give you all the email addresses contained within. It uses Word (late-bound so it's version independant) to open the .DOC or .RTF files.
The heart of the sample application is the method listed below. It uses the Regex.Matches method to search the string for matches to the regular expression provided. You then just need to enumerate the returned MatchCollection to extract the email addresses.
MatchCollection
Perhaps the biggest challenge is to construct the proper regular expression for the search. I went to The Regular Expression Library to search for the one used here.
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
'.......................
Private Function ExtractEmailAddressesFromString(ByVal source As String) _
As String()
Dim mc As MatchCollection
Dim i As Integer
' expression garnered from - thanks guys!
mc = Regex.Matches(source, _
"([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})")
Dim results(mc.Count - 1) As String
For i = 0 To results.Length - 1
results(i) = mc(i).Value
Return results
End Function
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This page is a brief discussion of a potential solution to one of the Best Practice Recipe Issues: Serving the latest of multiple snapshots of a vocabulary.
Currently the Recipes discuss a possible naming convention for multiple snapshots of a vocabulary:
"Conventions in common use for distinguishing successive descriptions include the use of version-number strings or date strings in filenames (e.g., 1.01.rdf or 2005-10-31.rdf) or in pathnames (e.g.,). It should be noted that, at present, there are no generally accepted conventions for using date or version-number strings in this way."
I'd like to propose that we endorse a naming convention, perhaps for slash namespaces only, that appends a timestamp string of any type indicating the date-time of the snapshot to the uri, e.g.:
Different vocabulary snapshots might be named "2006-10-31.rdf", "2006-04-25.rdf", "2005-10-31.rdf" and be served from the "content" directory.
and
would both be redirected to
would be redirected to or
...and so on.
This could be adapted to hash namespaces as follows:
and
would be redirected to
or
The most recent snapshot could be hard-coded into .htaccess as it is now, or negotiated by a script. An simple example script in PHP and Perl could be provided for this purpose.
The requester would always by default retrieve the latest snapshot, but previous snapshots would remain available making it possible for multiple versions of a vocabulary to be served over time. Named versions -- "../example3.1/" -- could be supported by redirecting to a dated snapshot associated with that version name or number. | https://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/BestPracticeRecipesIssues/ServingSnapshots | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | refinedweb | 272 | 54.63 |
KNSCore::EntryWrapper
#include <entrywrapper.h>
Detailed Description
TODO KF6 see above (in short, make this class irrelevant so it can be removed)
Wraps a KNSCore::EntryInternal in a QObject for passing through Qt Quick
For those places where we need to pass a KNSCore::EntryInternal through Qt Quick, this class wraps such objects in a QObject, and provides the ability to interact with the data through that.
Since that class is not a QObject (and can't easily be turned into one), until major upheaval becomes possible in Frameworks 6, this class will have to do.
- Since
- 5.67
Definition at line 35 of file entrywrapper.h.
Member Function Documentation
Get a copy of the wrapped-up entry.
- Returns
- A copy of the entry
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The.
The goal was simple: replace my USB drives with a secure way of storing my files in the cloud. I wanted a web app so I could access my files anywhere. Furthermore, if I use a service like S3, then I could feel safe knowing my files were going to be there tomorrow (99.999999999% durability). Amazon S3 also provides an extra layer of versioning and server-side encryption if I want to use it.
The server-side encryption provided by AWS ensures that the data written to disk in their data centers is encrypted using a 256-bit AES block cipher. All encryption key management is taken care of by amazon transparently. I did a little test using boto to see how this worked because I was unsure what would happen if I made that key publicly readable. What I wondered was, if I store some data using server-side encryption then access it via a public API (e.g. curl), would the data still be encrypted? The answer was "no":
>>> import boto >>> s3 = boto.connect_s3(<my access key>, <my secret key>) >>> bucket = s3.get_bucket('media.charlesleifer.com') >>> key = bucket.new_key('testing') >>> # store a string and encrypt it >>> key.set_contents_from_string('testing', encrypt_key=True) 7 >>> # make key public readable >>> key.set_acl('public-read')
Then in another terminal I did:
$ curl testing
As you can see, the encryption only applies to the data as it resides on amazon's hardware. When it comes back it is unencrypted. This is great for ensuring my data is safe when it sits on Amazon's hardware, but it really doesn't help me ensure only I can unencrypt my files when I need them.
If you're using the AWS Java SDK there is support for client-side encryption using "envelope encryption", which involves a combination of 1-time use keys and a private encryption key you generate. Full details are here. This is what I was looking for, but since the python API did not have support I ended up needing to look elsewhere for a library.
If you want to replicate the setup I will describe below, I suggest creating a virtualenv and installing:
In the interests of this post not being a "wall of code" I'm only going to include the relevant parts and will assume that you can fill-in-the-gaps to include templating and such.
Let's start with the web app. I really like using Flask for things like this -- it's lightweight, stays out of the way, and has great documentation. For simplicity, there will only be three views:
In order to keep track of what files have been uploaded, I used peewee to create
a lightweight file model. The
File model might look something like this:
import mimetypes from peewee import * class File(Model): filename = CharField() created_date = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now) encrypted = BooleanField(default=False) def mimetype(self): return mimetypes.guess_type(self.filename)[0]
The index view is very simple and just displays a list of
File instances:
from flask import render_template @app.route('/') def index(): files = File.select().order_by(File.filename) return render_template('index.html', files=files)
Adding a file is also easy. The add view will call a little "upload_handler" which for now will just stash the file on disk but in a little bit we'll replace it with the code to upload to S3.
from flask import redirect, render_template from werkzeug import secure_filename @app.route('/add/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def add(): if request.method == 'POST': file_obj = request.files['file'] instance = File(filename=secure_filename(file_obj.filename)) upload_handler(instance, file_obj) instance.save() return redirect(url_for('index')) return render_template('add.html')
Here is how we might implement a very simple file-based upload handler. This is really just for reference as in the next section we'll be replacing it and using boto to upload to S3:
def upload_handler(instance, file_obj): dest_filename = os.path.join('/var/www/media/', instance.filename) with open(dest_filename, 'wb') as fh: fh.write(file_obj.read())
Lastly, here is a glimpse at a minimal download view. It simply determines the filename by looking the file up by id, then redirects to a static media server. Later we will add logic for handling decryption:
import os from flask import redirect @app.route('/download/<int:file_id>/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def download(file_id): try: file = File.get(id=file_id) except File.DoesNotExist: abort(404) return redirect(os.path.join('/media/', file.filename))
Hopefully the workings of these three views is clear. The index displays a list of
File objects, the add view handles uploads, and the download view looks up the file based on ID and redirects to the appropriate location.
Before covering the encryption/decryption logic, let's look into uploading the files to S3. If this is your first time reading about S3 I recommend looking at Amazon's S3 guide.
First let's write a little helper function to retrieve our S3 bucket. This is where all of our files will be stored. The credentials can be found on your AWS "Security Credentials" page.
import boto def get_bucket(access_key_id, secret_access_key, bucket_name): conn = boto.connect_s3(access_key_id, secret_access_key) return conn.get_bucket(bucket_name)
The first function we will modify is the "upload_handler". Now, instead of writing the uploaded file to the local filesystem we will put it in our S3 bucket:
def upload_handler(instance, file_obj): # access our S3 bucket and create a new key to store the file data bucket = get_bucket(<access key>, <secret access key>, <bucket name>) key = bucket.new_key(instance.filename) key.set_metadata('Content-Type', instance.mimetype()) # seek to the beginning of the file and read it into the key file_obj.seek(0) key.set_contents_from_file(file_obj) # make the key publicly available key.set_acl('public-read')
The next change will be to the download view. Since the file is going to be hosted on S3, we will need to redirect to the URL of the file inside the bucket.
from flask import redirect from urlparse import urljoin @app.route('/download/<int:file_id>/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def download(file_id): try: file = File.get(id=file_id) except File.DoesNotExist: abort(404) # redirect to the url of the file hosted on S3 return redirect(urljoin(<bucket url>, file.filename))
In order to perform the encryption on the client-side, I chose to use the pycrypto library. It is written in C, so if you install it you will need to build the python extension. The API is fairly low-level, so I ended up writing a small wrapper library on top called "beefish". beefish provides functions for encrypting and decrypting file-like objects using the blowfish cipher.
I only care about encrypting some of my files, so I added a "password" field to the upload form. When a password is present, the file will be encrypted using that password. The "add file" form looks something like this:
Once again, let's modify the upload handler. This time we'll check to see if the
submitted data contains a password, and if so encrypt the uploaded file before sending
it off to S3. I'm using
StringIO to store the encrypted contents of the file
in memory:
from beefish import encrypt from StringIO import StringIO def upload_handler(instance, file_obj): bucket = get_bucket(<access key>, <secret access key>, <bucket name>) key = bucket.new_key(instance.filename) key.set_metadata('Content-Type', instance.mimetype()) # new code here: if request.form.get('password'): # we received a password, so will need to encrypt the file data # before sending it off to S3 password = request.form['password'] instance.encrypted = True output_buffer = StringIO() encrypt(file_obj, output_buffer, password) file_obj = output_buffer else: instance.encrypted = False # end of new code file_obj.seek(0) key.set_contents_from_file(file_obj) key.set_acl('public-read')
Since the file is encrypted on the server, our download view will now need to become a little smarter. The logic will change now so that:
Here is how my download form looks:
Here is the modified download view:
from beefish import decrypt from flask import send_file from urlparse import urljoin @app.route('/download/<int:file_id>/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def download(file_id): try: file = File.get(id=file_id) except File.DoesNotExist: abort(404) if not file.encrypted: return redirect(url_join(<bucket url>, file.filename)) # new logic: if request.method == 'POST' and request.form.get('password'): # fetch the encrypted file contents from S3 and store in a memory bucket = get_bucket(<access key>, <secret access key>, <bucket name>) key_obj = bucket.get_key(file.filename) # read the contents of the key into an in-memory file enc_buffer = StringIO() key.get_contents_to_file(enc_buffer) enc_buffer.seek(0) # decrypt contents and store in dec_buffer dec_buffer = StringIO() decrypt(enc_buffer, dec_buffer, request.form['password']) dec_buffer.seek(0) # efficiently send the decrypted file as an attachment return send_file( dec_buffer, file.get_mimetype(), as_attachment=True, attachment_filename=file.filename, ) # display a password form return render_template('download.html', file=file)
There are a lot of things you might do to improve this little app. Here are just a few ideas I had:
Thanks so much for reading! Feel free to post any questions or comments below.
If you're interested in more projects like this, check out the saturday-morning hack posts.
Nice article! You can actually set the ACL for the S3 object at the time you upload it rather than using the separate call to key.set_acl(). Just add a "policy='public-read'" keyword param to the set_contents_from_file() call.
Hello and thank you for your excellent article. I think I have found a typo. At the last download method urljoin is imported from urlparse but url_join is used.
Best regards, Andreas
I have made a github repository at of your article. I have added folder and search capability. Best regards, Andreas
Thank you for the comments! Andreas -- that is awesome, thanks for putting it into a GH repo - the added functionality is really nice. I've added it to the list of resources in the body of the post.
Any thoughts about glacier? (Amazon Glacier)
I'm definitely interested in trying out glacier -- now that its part of boto I'll probably be much more inclined to use it. The biggest thing is that "several hours" retrieval time. However, for storing a large amount of data, its price seems great.
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Created on 2017-04-11 20:41 by tlotze, last changed 2017-04-19 07:11 by corona10.
A csv.writer with quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC does not quote boolean values, which makes a csv.reader with the same quoting behaviour fail on that value:
-------- csv.py ----------
import csv
import io
f = io.StringIO()
writer = csv.writer(f, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)
writer.writerow(['asdf', 1, True])
f.seek(0)
reader = csv.reader(f, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)
for row in reader:
print(row)
----------------------
$ python3 csvbug.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "csvbug.py", line 12, in <module>
for row in reader:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'True'
----------------------
I'd consider this inconsistency a bug, but in any case something that needs documenting.
boolean is not quoted since in Python it's a subclass of int so True and False are numeric. This is also the case with numeric objects defining __int__ or __float__ but doesn't get a corresponding string representation.
Since QUOTE_NONNUMERIC will converts data to float when reading, I think we may force the converting even when writing so the inconsistency would disappear. Or document this limitation.
This issue is not easy, it needs a thoughtful design before starting coding. I agree with Xiang's analysis and proposed solutions. But if just convert numbers to float we can get an overflow for large integers or lost precision in case of Decimal. The consumer of the CSV file may be not Python and it may support larger precision than Python float.
And it is not clear what would be better solution for enums. Should they be serialized by name or by value?
I would like to solve this issue.
Is there any other way than casting specifically for the bool object?
(e.g For general ways?)
Oh, I read the Serhiy Storchaka 's comment just right now. | http://bugs.python.org/issue30046 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | refinedweb | 309 | 68.67 |
Details
Description
Since class UTF8 is deprecated, all references of UTF8 in hadoop should be replaced with class Text if the change does not break the system.
Issue Links
- is duplicated by
-
- is related to
HADOOP-5823 Handling javac "deprecated" warning for using UTF8
- Closed
Activity
My vote also on this issue. From some profiling I did, it looks like the NameNode is spending 2% of the CPU time on UTF8, and it could save about 40% of it by using Text.
On adding a base abstract ImplicitVersionedWritable, I can see how injection of application version can be done easily for application-specific Comparables – as is done above for the DFS-specific DatanodeID class – but I'm wondering how would the version be injected when an application uses generic Comparables such as BytesWritable? Would an application have to pass its version on every instance creation? E.g. 'new BytesWritable(byte [] b, int version)'?
+1
Added a vote to this issue. HBase spends a bunch of time rpc'ing. A loads of our time is spent in UTF8 class doing reading and writing on the wire. A primitive test has the Text.readString/writeString being a good bit faster than the UTF8 equivs so would be great if RPC moved to off UTF8 and on to Text.
Perhaps we should add a new abstract base class:
public abstract class ImplicitVersionedWritable implements Writable {
public abstract readFields(DataInputStream in, int version);
public abstract int currentVersion();
public readFields(DataInputStream in)
}
Then change DatanodeID to extend this:
public class DatanodeID
implements WritableComparable
extends ImplicitVersionedWritable {
public int currentVersion(){ return FSConstants.DFS_CURRENT_VERSION; }
public void readFields(DataInputStream in, int version) {
if (version >= -3)
else{ name = Text.readString(); ... }
}
Would that work?.
We seem to be talking at cross purposes. Are we still talking about the patch attached to this bug? Of course, if one changes a Writable from using UTF8 to Text, and makes no other changes, then one will have problems reading old data and/or with protocol compatibility. Folks who wish to be able to do things like this in user data should use VersionedWritable. But the question I was raising was about migrating internal uses of UTF8 to Text. For most of those, incrementing protocol version numbers and container format version numbers will suffice. The only exception I know of is the one I discussed above, namely the names of parameter classes used in RPC. That's the issue I was trying to raise here, not the general issue of version compatiblity for Writable.
Users who have data files that use UTF8 may wish to upgrade their data to use Text. That's outside the scope of this bug, I think. Here we should be concerned with replacing internal uses.
Only versioning file formats and RPC protocols does not completely solve the problem, for example, when a Writable class contains a field of String. Because the field is deserialied by readField and readField does not have the version information, so we have no way to find out if we should use UTF8.readString or Text.readString. I guess either we should support Writable versioning or support a method readField(DataInput in, int version).
> we would like to move to the new method of writing Strings (Text.writeString), but can't very easily because even if the file versions and the rpc protocol versions change, that doesn't get passed down to readFields
I'm not sure what you're saying. If we, in a single commit, change from UTF8 to Text in RPC parameter classes and in classes written to disk, and increase the version numbers of the file formats and RPC protocols involved, then we'd be safe, no? The problem is that if we change from UTF8 to Text in the RPC system, when transmitting class names, since this has no version. It would be good to get a version number here.
More generally, it would be useful to have a per-Writable class version number. This could be used when setting up RPC connections, and stored in file formats, etc. But that would not solve the current problem with the RPC system.
Maybe we should punt on the RPC system for this patch for now, and just make the changes that are easy, leaving that for another day??
It would be nice if RPC.Invocation were versioned, since you've changed its format. Old clients talking to new servers (and vice versa) will fail. It would be nice if these failures were accompanied by version-mismatch exceptions.
What if we start sending #xFF at the start of an Invocation as the version? The first thing read by the old code is the method name, a UTF8. So if old client code talks to a new daemon, then, unless the method name has 2^16-1 characters, we could log a version-mismatch and close the connection. With a bit more work, we could even construct a version-mismatch error (using UTF8) that the client could read.
If new client code talks to an old server, the old server would try to read a method name with 2^16-1 bytes, log an EOF error and close the connection. Is that acceptable?
Or should we punt on this?
This is a partial patch to the problem including changes to packages mapred, ipc, and test.
The dfs is kept untouched. It is not trival to keep dfs backwards compatible because writables are not versioned. Will work on it later on.
I agree, it seems reasonable practice to deprecate the class in 0.5 and give people enough time to prepare for removal.
I think we should target this for 0.6, and just deprecate UTF8 in 0.5. Does that make sense?
At this point, is it even possible to replace UTF8 with Text? Or has it already been done? | https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-414?focusedCommentId=12432673&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | refinedweb | 975 | 72.56 |
Customers often ask about how DFS Namespaces interacts with Offline Files. I asked our new DFS Namespaces PM, Sanjoy Chatterjee, to introduce himself and explain the interaction.
I am Sanjoy Chatterjee, the new PM for the DFS group. My goal for posting on this blog is to clear up common customer questions and/or highlight certain points which might have escaped explicit documentation. Here is some information about how DFS Namespaces interacts with Offline Files.
By using the Offline Files feature, you can make shared folders that correspond to DFS root targets and link targets available offline to client computers running Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003. The Offline Files feature provides three settings for shared folders:
- Only the files and programs that users specify will be available offline.
- All files and programs on the share will be available offline.
- No files or programs on the share will be available offline.
Offline settings for root targets and link targets are set on the individual shared folders that are specified as targets. Although link targets appear subordinate to root targets in the namespace, link targets do not inherit or otherwise use the offline settings set on root targets. In addition, if a root or link has multiple targets, and those targets have different offline settings, the client will use whatever settings are applied to the target to which the client connects. Therefore, it is important for administrators to apply offline settings consistently to all targets for a DFS root or link.
The Offline Files feature does not distinguish DFS paths from UNC paths. This can cause the client to interpret the entire namespace as unavailable if a target is down when a client attempts to access it. For example, if \Contoso.comPublic is a domain-based root with several root targets and numerous links, the Offline Files feature interprets this namespace as a single server named \Contoso.com. If a client is accessing or attempts to access a target in the \Contoso.comPublic namespace, and the target is unavailable, the client interprets the entire namespace as unavailable and will attempt to open a user’s locally cached files (if they exist). The client cannot access any target in the namespace until the target comes back online. The client will check every 10 minutes to detect whether the target has come back online. When the target comes back online, the client will synchronize the files with the server. However, if this attempted synchronization fails (because the Server State has been updated as well as the client state during offline operation), the target is flagged as “in conflict.” At this point, the user has to use the Synchronization Manager to resolve the conflict. In this phase, the user has a choice of going back online without synchronizing changes. Alternatively, the user can use the Synchronization Manager to attempt to synchronize the offline files with those stored on the network.
–Sanjoy
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Introduction: Talking IBreathe Breathalyzer With Bluetooth IOS App and IoT
This is a tale of boozy thoughts..
Drinking beer, wondering how much alcohol i have actually drunk, wouldn't it be nice to be able to check? and then ping the result to my smartphone? then to the cloud? and the document it as a lovely table to see alcohol intake through time? Well here is the result!
The iBreathe Breathalyzer!
Step 1: What Is Hexiwear?
Step 2: First Steps
For this project you will need:
- 1 x NXP Hexiware
- 1 x Hexiware Docking Station
- 1 x Alcohol Click Board
- 3 x 10K Resistor
- Sharp Knife
- Soldering iron and solder
- Access to a 3D printer (not necessary, but really finishes the design nicely!)
- A Login (more on this later)
- An Login (also more on this later)
- Xcode (for the custom iPhone App)
Step 3: Things Used in This Preoject
Hardware components:
MikroElektronika Hexiware Docking Station×1
MikroElektronika Alcohol Click Board×1
Super Glue×1
M3 countersink Screw×3
Resistor 10k ohm×3
Polymaker Polywood PLA×1
Polymaker PolyPlus PLA (White)×1
MikroElektronika Text to Speech Click Board×1
Mouser 3.5mm Headphone Jack×1
Software apps and online services:
Apple Xcode
Hand tools and fabrication machines:
3D Printer (generic)
Soldering iron (generic)
Step 4: Beginning
Take your brand new Hexiware dev kit and have a play! it's really a one stop shop device that can do tons already, such a great development platform as a first foray in embedded design.
Plug your Hexiware onto the docking station and connect the USB cable to your computer. It will show as an attached drive called DAPLINK. This is where you will simply drag and drop your compiled *.BIN files when you have finished your program. Once dropped in the DAPLINK drive, the Hexiware will automatically load the new firmware.. how jolly easy!
Step 5: ARM MBed OS 5
I chose to use mBed OS5 as my platform for developing for the Hexiware for 2 main reasons:
1. Browser based SDK - I could code from any of my computers without the fear of my desktop SDK's not being configured exactly the same.
2. Really easy to get going.. seriously I was able to run my first program on my Hexiware within 5 minutes of signing up at.
So without further ado, head on over to. and sign up for your free mBed account.
Once you have signed up the next step is to go to the dedicated Hexiware page. Here you will find all the information you need to get started compiling your first program
Head on over to the Hexiware Code Repository, here you will find a ton of examples that will quickly get you started programming!
To begin with I chose the Hexi_Blinky_Example , this is a nice simple LED blinking program and a great place to get started. From this page, click on "Import into Compiler" and this will fork your very own copy of the program to do with as you will... fun.
#include "mbed.h"
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
int main() {
while(1) {
myled = 1;
wait(0.2);
myled = 0;
wait(0.2);
}
As you can see it's super simple with very little set up, the most important thing is to remember to include the mbed.h header file. This is essentially the mBed OS you'll be running your program on.
Hit compile! the *.BIN will download, drag and drop this onto the DAPLINK drive (the drive your Hexiware is shown as) once it has copied across, hit the reset button and boom! you have a flashing LED!
Step 6: The Idea
Okey dokey, now that we're experts in mBed OS 5 it's time to start creating something.. something we can use!
I wanted to create a Breathalyzer that could tell me how much I had drunk, whether or not I was safe to drive, pinging the values to my Phone and then subsequently the cloud.
First things first, the hardware. We already have our Hexiware and Docking Station joined at the hip, so all we need to to attach our Alcohol Click Board right?
Well.. not quite. It turns our the Alcohol Click Board runs at 5V levels, and my little Hexiware's analog input is 3.3V. so it's time to do a little PCB modification to get things playing nicely with each other.
We need to add a voltage divider on the output pin of the Click Board. This where the 3 x 10K resistors come in.
You will need to cut the tracks as shown in the pictures, and then solder the resistors in place.
Now we're ready to go! Plug in your modified click board. and load up my code from the mBed Code Repository , import it to your compiler. Hit compile, drag and drop the *.BIN to your DAPLINK drive and away you go!
Step 7: Assembly of the Docking Station
Step 8: Function Screenshots
Step 9: Test Procedure
NOTE: I don't have access to proper calibration equipment so this is just a showcase project, I will not be held responsible for any loss of Driving Licenses, underwear, teeth or dignity
Step 10: Technical Challenges Faced in Development
So there were a few things that were not immediately obvious how to do, but after some digging, it all became clear .
1. Using Bitmap images with the Hexiware on-board OLED display. This is actually fairly straight forward. The OLED is a 96px x 96px screen, so this needs to be taken in to account when creating your images. Using Photoshop / GiMP you need to save you image as a BMP file, you will need to click advanced settings and select the BMP type as 16bppRgb565 . Make sure there are no spaces in the file name. Next step is down download the Hexiware Utilitythat will convert your BMP files to *.c and *.h files that can be imported into the mBed compiler.
You can process multiple images at the same time using this utility, and the cool thing is it pops them all in the same *.c and corresponding *.h files.
Make a note of where you saved them and import them into you mBed compiler as libraries. Add the *.h file into your #includes and you're ready to start pointing pointers and showing some cool pictures!
Here's the mBed sample code showing how the image is referenced and send to the OLED for showing. (the full version of this code is available on the mBed Hexiware Code Repository)
Have a play around with this and all will become clear!
2. Sending my iBreathe data over Bluetooth to the Hexiware iOS App. OK this was a little bit hacky, but none the less, fun! So to cut a long story short all the UUID's for the KW40Z were preassigned to work with all the built in sensors in the Hexiware. So i pinched the Pressure sensors one and used that to transmit the data via bluetooth to the Stock Hexiware iOS app.
3. Could i create my own iBreathe iOS app to received the data? Yes! yes i could! the Hexiware App is open-source, so i was able to add my iBreathe Sensor into it with a fun logo. If you know swift, then it's not too much trauma, you just need to use a UUID for one of the unused sensors for the iBreathe Data stream. The Stock Hexiware App can be downloaded and modified from here.
My version of the app can be downloaded from the code section below. Sadly i was unable to get Wolksense to see my splendid new iBreathe logo, so for the purposes of logging, i send the data to the Pressure Sensor, and log that.
4. Text To Speech Click Board - Well, it was always my intention for this project to have a voice, but seen as there hadn't been an mBed OS implimentation on the Text To Speech Click, i'd decided to get the bulk of the project working before i attempted to get the speech working. Well... after 1 week of late nights and frustration, i managed to port the code over to work for this project. Now... currently it is NOT a library, but a pretty sizeable main.cpp file, my intention is to make a library at some point so everyone can use it trouble free. For now, copy and paste is you friend :) i learnt so much from this process, like SPI bus interfaces, how important delay timings are and how jolly satisfying when something suddenly springs to life :) I have commented code fairly well, so hopefully it makes sense. if there is anything you're unsure about, hit me up! after all this work i feel like i know it back to front :)
Step 11: Wolksense
As stated i didn't get this working perfectly, but it's a nice little work around. Wolksense is a great site that takes the cloud data you pass to it and logs it.
First of all you will need to sign up here Once you have done that you can use the Hexiware App (the stock one or my version works just as well) to register your Hexiware device. The sensors that are available will show on your screen and the data will be transmitted via your phones data connection to the Wolksense Cloud, Using the Wolksense App (on your phone) you are able to chose which sensors you would like shown, i turned off everything other than Pressure. Named it iBreathe Breathalyzer, and hit save. I was now logging the alcohol levels by all but name. The code for the iBreathe Breathalyzer transmits to both iBreathe and Pressure. Meaning on your phone you will see the Beer and pressure gauge showing the same value. This is a work around and should this ever go into production would of course be fixed. One thing is for sure, Wolksense is a jolly pretty place to store all your data points!
Step 12: Autodesk Fusion360
So as the final part of this project, i decided to design and 3D print an enclosure. I wanted it to be fun and practical and this is what i came up with!
It's basically a big beer! the limiting factor was the fact the Docking station is able to house 3 click boards, when i only needed 1. so the size was dictated by that.
The enclosure is 3D printed, and assembled with a combination of super glue and M3 screws. To power the iBreathe, I used a USB power bar which is housed in the beers head.
I've printed the top cover from PolyMaker Polywood PLA, the head and back cover were printed with Polymaker PLA+. I can't recommend Polymaker filament enough, it's really amazing stuff!
Printer Settings:
Heatbed 58C
Hot end 200C
20% in fill
70mm/s Print speed
Use Supports
Step 13: First Demo
Step 14: Final Demo With Added Speech Engine
So, for the last week i've been working on an addition to the iBreathe Breathalyzer. He now has a voice and gives you commands on how to use it! it will then politely tell you how drunk you are.
Using the Text To Speech click board, i have given him a voice, and to my knowledge this is the first time the Text To Speech click board has been implemented on mBed OS! It was over a week of porting and debugging and now the results can be seen in this video!
The code can be found at the bottom of this page (along with the original non speaking version) and can be easily adapted for any project using mBed OS. I'm sorry it's in one big main file, but i ran out of time to chop it up into smaller bytes (pun intended)
.
For more information on the Text To Speech Click Board click here!
Step 15: All the Code
code with speech engine
Code with no speech
Xcode source for iOS App
Fusion360 Files for the enclosure
Step 16: STL Files for 3D Print
Runner Up in the
Bluetooth Challenge
2 Discussions
That's an awesome project! Neat design and great instructable :)
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#include <stdlib.h> long a64l(const char *s);
char *l64a(long l);
These functions maintain numbers stored in base-64 ASCII characters that define a notation by which long integers can be represented by up to six characters. Each character represents a “digit” in a radix-64 notation.
The characters used to represent “digits” are as follows:
The a64l() function takes a pointer to a null-terminated base-64 representation and returns a corresponding long value. If the string pointed to by s contains more than six characters, a64l() uses the first six.
The a64l() function scans the character string from left to right with the least significant digit on the left, decoding each character as a 6-bit radix-64 number.
The l64a() function takes a long argument and returns a pointer to the corresponding base-64 representation. If the argument is 0, l64a() returns a pointer to a null string.
The value returned by l64a() is a pointer into a static buffer, the contents of which are overwritten by each call. In the case of multithreaded applications, the return value is a pointer to thread specific data.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
attributes(5), standards(5) | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/a64l-3c.html | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | refinedweb | 202 | 52.29 |
, Cerbero Suite Cerbero Suite is to allow users to do things in the simplest way possible. Thus, showing a practical sample is the best way to demonstrate how it all works.
You’ll notice that the upcoming version of Cerbero Suite:
[KeyProvider Test] file = key_provider.py callback = keyProvider ; this is an optional field, you can omit it and the provider will be used for any format formats = Zip|PDF
Which is pretty much self explaining. It tells Cerbero Suite where our callback is located (the relative path defaults to the plugins/python directory) and it can also optionally specify the formats which may be used in conjunction with this provider. The Python code can be as simple as:
from Pro.Core import * def keyProvider(obj, index): if index != 0: return None l = NTVariantList() l.append("password") return:
from Pro.Core import * def keyProvider(obj, index): if index != 0: return None name = obj.GetStream().name() # do some operations involving the file name variable_part = ... l = NTVariantList() l.append("static_part" + variable_part) return l Cerbero Suite supports decryption) and to avoid the all too frequent hassle of having to type common passwords. | https://cerbero-blog.com/?p=970 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | refinedweb | 188 | 67.35 |
Mapping A Hibernate Query to a Custom Class
Last modified: October 28, 2018
1. Overview
When we use Hibernate to retrieve data from the database, by default, it uses the retrieved data to construct the whole object graph for the object requested. But sometimes we might want to retrieve only part of the data, preferably in a flat structure.
In this quick tutorial, we’ll see how we can achieve this in Hibernate using a custom class.
2. The Entities
First, let’s look at entities we’ll be using to the retrieve the data:
@Entity public class DeptEmployee { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE) private long id; private String employeeNumber; private String designation; private String name; @ManyToOne private Department department; // constructor, getters and setters } @Entity public class Department { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE) private long id; private String name; @OneToMany(mappedBy="department") private List<DeptEmployee> employees; public Department(String name) { this.name = name; } // getters and setters }
Here, we have two entities – DeptEmployee and Department. For simplicity, let’s assume that a DeptEmployee can belong to only one Department.
But, a Department can have multiple DeptEmployees.
3. A Custom Query Result Class
Let’s say we want to print a list of all employees with just their name and the name of their department.
Typically, we would retrieve this data with a query like this:
Query<DeptEmployee> query = session.createQuery("from com.baeldung.hibernate.entities.DeptEmployee"); List<DeptEmployee> deptEmployees = query.list();
This will retrieve all employees, all their properties, the associated department, and all its properties.
But, in this particular case, this might be a bit expensive as we only need the name of the employee and the name of the department.
One way to only retrieve the information we need is by specifying the properties in the select clause.
But, when we do this, Hibernate returns a list of arrays instead of a list of Objects:
Query query = session.createQuery("select m.name, m.department.name from com.baeldung.hibernate.entities.DeptEmployee m"); List managers = query.list(); Object[] manager = (Object[]) managers.get(0); assertEquals("John Smith", manager[0]); assertEquals("Sales", manager[1]);
As we can see, the returned data is a bit cumbersome to process. But, fortunately, we can get Hibernate to populate this data into a class.
Let’s look at the Result class that we’ll use to populate the retrieved data into:
public class Result { private String employeeName; private String departmentName; public Result(String employeeName, String departmentName) { this.employeeName = employeeName; this.departmentName = departmentName; } public Result() { } // getters and setters }
Note that the class is not an entity but just a POJO. However, we can also use an entity as long as it has a constructor that takes all attributes that we want to populate as parameters.
We’ll see why the constructor is important in the next section.
4. Using a Constructor in HQL
Now, let’s look at the HQL that uses this class:
Query<Result> query = session.createQuery("select new com.baeldung.hibernate.pojo.Result(m.name, m.department.name)" + " from com.baeldung.hibernate.entities.DeptEmployee m"); List<Result> results = query.list(); Result result = results.get(0); assertEquals("John Smith", result.getEmployeeName()); assertEquals("Sales", result.getDepartmentName());
Here, we use the constructor we defined in the Result class along with the properties we want to retrieve. This will return a list of Result objects with the data populated from the columns.
As we can see, the returned list is easier to process than using a list of object arrays.
It’s important to note that we have to use the fully qualified name of the class in the query.
5. Using a ResultTransformer
An alternative to using a constructor in the HQL query is to use a ResultTransformer:
Query query = session.createQuery("select m.name as employeeName, m.department.name as departmentName" + " from com.baeldung.hibernate.entities.DeptEmployee m"); query.setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(Result.class)); List<Result> results = query.list(); Result result = results.get(0); assertEquals("John Smith", result.getEmployeeName()); assertEquals("Sales", result.getDepartmentName());
We use the Transformers.aliasToBean() method to use the retrieved data to populate the Result objects.
Consequently, we have to make sure the column names or their aliases in the select statement match the properties of the Result class.
Note that Query.setResultTransformer(ResultTransformer) has been deprecated since Hibernate 5.2.
6. Conclusion
In this article, we saw how a custom class can be used to retrieve data in a form that is easy to read.
The source code that accompanies this article is available over on GitHub.
4. Using a Constructor in HQL
Is this working for NativeQuery or just works for createQuery only?
Hey Rahul,
Using the constructor in this manner works only for HQL as the native query uses the database tables and columns and not the Java objects. However, for createNativeQuery you have the option to specify the second Class parameter if you use the default mapping, or use the SqlResultSetMapping class if you want a custom mapping.
More info here:
Nice Post..!!! This is very important blog , thanks for sharing with us. It is very interesting blog which is helpful for all students as well as employee. Do keep Posting .
Glad you found it helpful.
Cheers,
Eric | https://www.baeldung.com/hibernate-query-to-custom-class | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | refinedweb | 869 | 50.12 |
Subject: Re: [boost] [odeint] Iterator semantics
From: Karsten Ahnert (karsten.ahnert_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-31 10:30:45
On 07/31/2012 03:07 PM, Mario Mulansky wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:47:55 am Sergey Mitsyn wrote:
>> On 29.07.2012 6:31, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>> on Thu Jul 12 2012, Karsten Ahnert <karsten.ahnert-AT-ambrosys.de> wrote:
>>>> On 07/12/2012 09:52 AM, Mario Mulansky wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 23:50 -0700, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that it1 != it2 should be implemented in the sense of
>>>>> t1+-dt/2 != t2+-dt/2
>>>>
>>>> So you are checking for overlap. This looks good and I think it should
>>>> work.
>>>
>>> If I'm understanding correctly what you're saying, making two iterators
>>> equal if their underlying time ranges overlap would be "evil." Your
>>> equality operator would not be transitive, and thus not an equivalence
>>> relation, and therefore you would not have implemented a conforming
>>> iterator, and you'd have no right to expect an algorithm that works on
>>> iterators to work on yours.
>>
>> IMHO the values of the iterator's underlying time variable would belong
>> to "almost" discrete {t0 + n*dt +/- epsilon}, n from Z, where epsilon
>> comes from floating point errors and is small. Thus, the distance
>> between neighboring values should be no less than (dt-2*epsilon).>
>> I would say a test 'distance(t1,t2) < dt/2' would be transitive if
>> epsilon is less than dt/4
>>
>> That's of course true while t0 and dt is the same for all iterators
>> passed to an algorithm.
>
> dt even changes while iterating when methods with step-size control are used.
> This case is really ugly and I'm not sure if it's possible to implement a
> fully compatible iterator there. Maybe one should restrict to fixed-step-size
> methods where the overlap checking works?
I think already found a solution. The end iterator is marked as end (it
has a flag m_end). Then, two iterators are equal if theirs flags are
equal, or if the flags is not equal the time of the first iterator must
be smaller then the time of the end iterator:
bool equal( iterator other ) const
{
if( m_end == other.m_end ) return true;
else
{
return ( m_end ) ?
( other.m_time < m_time ) :
( m_time < other.m_time );
}
}
This iterator is a single pass iterator, for example it is similar to
the istream_iterator.
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Import on "." needed?
- theoriginalgri
I.
- anselmolsm
There is a section in the docs explaining how "QML Modules": import works and the two types of modules: location modules and installed modules.
This doc section worth reading, summing up what happens is:
- The current directory is by default part of the QML import path, that's why you don't need to import anything to use components defined in other files in the same directory;
- You can import components from a directory, importing the quoted relative or absolute path to it;
- Installed modules are imported using an URI relative to the path part of the QML_IMPORT_PATH variable.
Here is an example showing the use of these types of modules.
Consider the following tree:
@
/path/to/example/dir
|_ main.qml
|_ Test1.qml
|_ modules
|_ Test2.qml
|_ installed_modules
|_ qmldir
|_ Test3.qml
@
The Test*.qml files are QML components. Due to my lack of creativity, I used rectangles with different colors. The most important is in main.qml.
- main.qml
@
import Qt 4.7
import "modules"
import "" 1.0
import installed_modules 1.0
Rectangle {
width: 400
height: 300
color: "green"
Test1 { x: 30 y: 30 } Test2 { x: 60 y: 60 } Test3 { x: 100 y: 80 } RemoteTest { x: 30 y: 200 }
}
@
- Test1 is in the same directory, so it's part of the QML import path.
- Test2 is a location module, imported using the quoted relative path to its directory (Could be the absolute path).
- Test3 is an installed module and the version is required in the import line.
- RemoteTest is a location module as well, however it is not in the local filesystem.
If you run qmlviewer main.qml there will be an error because qmlviewer won't find installed_modules because it is not in the QML import path. To fix that, add "/path/to/example/dir" to QML_IMPORT_PATH (On Windows you can set it in the environment variables dialog).
Then, to solve:
[quote author="gri" date="1286808499"]
running "qmlviewer [path-to-qml-file]" leads to "LoginView is not a type"
[/quote]
adjust the code and app structure according to one of the possible ways.
PS: The example is available for download: "zip": or "tar.bz2": . The remote component is available too.
- anselmolsm
I forgot to mention one thing: qmlviewer has the -I option that also can be used to add paths to the QML import path variable.
@
$ qmlviewer -I /path/to/example/dir main.qml
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Agenda
See also: IRC log, previous 2006-05-01 record
<Ralph> ? I'm getting 404 on information-resource-debate-and-rda.html
Mark: it doesn't always seem easy to tell when the subject is a car or a Web page. Current usage infers implicitly that a document that has both a dc.author and a geo.location property is likely talking about the author's location
ACTION: Ben, Mark be ready on 15 May to discuss WWW2006 presentations [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: the 3-minute talk will be the more challenging one
ACTION: Ben, Mark send outlines of their XTech and WWW2006 presentations this week [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: I hope to send mine today
Mark: me too
ACTION: Ben start separate mail threads on remaining discussion topics [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
ACTION: Ben to draft full response to Bjoern's 2004 email [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: it's been more work than I'd planned to integrate comments from Mark
ACTION: once Steven sends editors' draft of XHTML2, all TF members take a look and comment on showstopper issues only [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: (summarizing previous discussion) -- concern about using class attribute to create triples due to legacy usage in many existing documents. The hGRDDL approach allows an author of a new document to say explicitly in the profile attribute that this document is intended to have explicit semantics
Mark: sounds like a nice idea. In which namespace are the profile URIs declared?
Ben: we would declare the specific profile URIs for XHTML1 and XHML2 documents. GRDDL Working Group would need to collaborate with us on this
-> Proposal: hGRDDL, an extraction from Microformats to RDFa
-> draft GRDDL WG charter [Member-only link]
Ben: the RDFA.GRDDL.addProfile examples in my mail of 29 April should be considered as examples of adding _additional_ profiles above some XHTML 1.1 pre-declared ones. At the time I wrote that proposal message I had not considered that XHTML 1.1 could declare its own default profiles as well
Mark: I think this is a much nicer way of getting around people writing "class='x'" and lots of other local intranet-only stuff that people do. This could give authors a way to opt-out of QNames usage as well
ACTION: Ben write a prototype hGRDDL profile for XHTML 1 [recorded in]
Mark: this would be a transformation step? Perhaps we should define this in terms of triples; e.g. if rel='stylesheet' really means rel='html:stylesheet' then it could be defined in transformation terms .or in triple terms
Ben: I don't intend to specify the profile in terms of javascript but rather in DOM terms. The point is to do in-place substitution of the DOM tree
Ralph: I expect we'll attract more developers if we adopt a more operational specification; that is, hGRDDL is specified as a GRDDL transform of the DOM tree. A question, and possible requirement, for GRDDL WG is whether explicit pipelines of transforms can be declared; e.g. hGRDDL followed by RDFa to get triples
Mark: some of Jeremy's transformations have to be reworked; e.g. how rel='transformation' is handled. It would be nice to define an hGRDDL transform at a high-level rather than in a specific implementation language
Ralph: yes, the GRDDL Note supports this; it is neutral w.r.t. the language in which any given transform is implemented and it should not be a problem to provide multiple implementations of a given transform so we could define hGRDDL in an abstract way and give javascript, XSLT, and other implementations
ACTION: Ben update hGRDDL issue to note a possible requirement for explicit pipelining in GRDDL [recorded in]
Ben: hGRDDL does give us a way to resolve our backwards compatibility constraints
Mark: after working out details of <head about="">, I realized that <body about="#"> would be a way to say the triples in the body are about what the body is about
next meeting: 15 May, 1300 UTC
adjourned | http://www.w3.org/2006/05/08-htmltf-minutes.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | refinedweb | 669 | 53.24 |
Julian schrieb: > I have two questions though... Is there any reason why Python is defining > them to 1? No particular reason, except that it's C tradition to give macros a value of 1 when you define them. > And then later on in the same file: > /* Turn off warnings about deprecated C runtime functions in > VisualStudio .NET 2005 */ > #if _MSC_VER >= 1400 && !defined _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE > #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE > #endif > > Isn't that redundant? It is indeed. > I don't think that second block will ever get > executed. Moreover, in the second block, it is not being defined to 1. why > is that ? Different people have contributed this; the first one came from r41563 | martin.v.loewis | 2005-11-29 18:09:13 +0100 (Di, 29 Nov 2005) Silence VS2005 warnings about deprecated functions. and the second one from r46778 | kristjan.jonsson | 2006-06-09 18:28:01 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jun 2006) | 2 lines Turn off warning about deprecated CRT functions on for VisualStudio .NET 2005. Make the definition #ARRAYSIZE conditional. VisualStudio .NET 2005 already has it defined using a better gimmick. Regards, Martin | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-November/070004.html | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | refinedweb | 181 | 60.92 |
Sound in XNA Game Studio / .NET
By Adok/Hugi
Introduction
As a follow-up to my XNA Game Studio Tutorial from Hugi #34, I'm now going to talk about how to include sound and music in your game with XNA Game Studio 2.0.
But first I must give you some information that was missing in the previous article. In Hugi #34, I wrote that if you want to enable other people to run your games coded with XNA Game Studio 2.0, you must ask them to download and install the following two files:
.NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable
XNA Framework Redistributable
That is correct, but it's sometimes not enough. There are also some other files required for running XNA 2.0 games, which are not shipped together with Windows. Depending on whether the user has Windows XP or Windows Vista, the list of necessary files is even different. Here's a (according to Aaron Stebner, one of the developers of XNA Game Studio) complete list of files that are required:
For Windows XP:
DirectX 9.0c
.NET 2.0 Servicepack 1
XNA Framework 2.0 Redistributable
For Windows Vista:
DirectX 9.0c
.NET Framework 3.5
XNA Framework 2.0 Redistributable
Only then will the game probably work. Note that it may be necessary to download DirectX 9.0c again even if some components of it are already installed - it's possible that not all the necessary components required for XNA are installed. Sorry for not mentioning this in the previous issue - I didn't know better. In some cases, e.g. when you use the networking library, it's even necessary that the user downloads and installs Visual C# Express Edition and the complete XNA Game Studio 2.0. For more information on that check out the FAQ in the forum at creators.xna.com.
But now let's come to our actual topic. There are several possibilities how you can include music in your game. One is to use the XACT (Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool) which is included in the XNA Game Studio package. Another is to use an external library. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages.
With XACT, you need not include any additional libraries to your project. The audio replay routines are included in the XNA framework. However, the big disadvantage is that you can only use WAV files. WAV files have an excellent sound quality, but they occupy quite a lot of space, depending on the length of the sound. Therefore they are more suitable for short in-game sounds and jingles than for the background music.
If you want to have only short sounds in your game, XACT is a good tool. If you want to include background music with a longer duration, it would be better to use a player that supports more compressed audio formats such as MP3. One of these players is Bass.Net, the .NET version of the well-known BASS ("Best Available Sound System") which also the Hugi engine is using.
I'll now talk about the usage of XACT. After that I'll tell the same things about Bass.Net.
XACT
XACT can be started from the Start menu. It's located in the "Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0" folder, subfolder "Tools". After starting you must click "File - New Project". Then you enter the filename the project should be stored as. I recommend storing it in the "Content" directory of your XNA game project because that's the place where all the data should be.
Now you must create a new wave bank. Right-click "Wave Banks" in the menu on the left and select "New Wave Bank". Two new windows open. In the right window, right-click and select "Insert Wave File(s)" (or press CTRL+W). Now you have to select the audio file(s) you want to include in your game. Only WAV and the similar formats AIF and AIFF are supported. Once the file is loaded, you must create a new Sound Bank. This is done in a similar way as creating the wave bank: Right-click "Sound Banks" in the menu on the left and select "New Sound Bank". Now you must drag the wave files from the Wave Bank into the new window that has just opened.
If you click the name of your sound below the "Sound Name" caption, you can select some options in the bottom-left window. What may be important is the loop count: You can either loop the sound zero, a positive number or an infinite number of times. This is especially important if you want to use XACT for background music since background music is usually looped an infinite number of times. (However, as explained above, I don't recommend using XACT for background music.)
Once you're done, save the project. To include the sounds in your game, enter Visual Studio. Right-click the line with the name of your project in the left part of the screen (the project explorer), select "Add", "Existing Element" and then open the file you've just created with XACT (it has the extension .xap).
Inside the Game1.cs file, you must declare the following variables:
AudioEngine audioEngine;
WaveBank waveBank;
SoundBank soundBank;
In the Initialize method, set up these variables with the following code (replace "filename" with the name of the file you created with XACT):
audioEngine = new AudioEngine("Content\\filename.xgs");
waveBank = new WaveBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Wave Bank.xwb");
soundBank = new SoundBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Sound Bank.xsb");
Then, at the position where you want to play a particular sound out of the sound bank, write (replace "Name of the sound" with the name of the sound you want to play):
soundBank.PlayCue("Name of the sound");
That's it for XACT.
Bass.Net
Now about Bass.Net: Bass.Net can be downloaded from. In addition you must also download the actual BASS archive because you will need bass.dll.
Once you've downloaded everything, unpack the zip file with Bass.Net and run setup.exe. This will install Bass.Net in your Visual Studio environment.
In order to add music to your game, first of all copy the music file into the Content directory and copy bass.dll (from the original BASS archive, not from the BassNet archive) to the directory in which your executable will be stored (e.g. bin\debug). You then have to include a reference to Bass.Net in your project. This is done by right-clicking "References" in the project explorer (the second line) and then selecting Bass.Net. In Game1.cs, you write the following lines:
using Un4seen.Bass;
using Un4seen.Bass.Misc;
using Un4seen.Bass.AddOn.Wma;
Declare a variable called stream and let it be zero:
int stream = 0;
In the Initialize method, write (replace "filename.mp3" with the actual filename of your music):
if (Bass.BASS_Init(-1, 44100, BASSInit.BASS_DEVICE_DEFAULT, IntPtr.Zero, null))
stream = Bass.BASS_StreamCreateFile("Content\\filename.mp3", 0, 0, BASSFlag.BASS_DEFAULT);
In order to start the music playback, write the following at the position where the music shall be played:
if (stream != 0)
Bass.BASS_ChannelPlay(stream, false);
That's it!
In order to get rid of the splash screen, you have to register your copy of Bass.Net at. Then you must write in your code:
BassNet.Registration("email address", "registration key");
Of course you have to replace "email address" and "registration key" with the actual data.
Instead of registering, you could of course also hack BassNet and find out how the registration key is computed from the email address, but I don't know how it's done. ;-)
Conclusion
Adding music to your game is easy, and with Bass.Net it won't even occupy much diskspace.
One last note: In the next version of XNA Game Studio (3.0), MP3 playback will be supported natively. So you won't need Bass.Net any more.
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Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment?
kdawson posted more than 6 years ago | from the long-arm-of-the-contract dept.
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Yes, I Signed One (3, Funny)
Skeetskeetskeet (906997) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319693)
Re:Yes, I Signed One (2, Funny)
ozmanjusri (601766) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319903)
Understandable.
They've distilled the usability of Bob and the stability of ME into Vista....
ask a lawyer (5, Insightful)
Trailer Trash (60756) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319695)
Re:ask a lawyer (5, Interesting)
belmolis (702863) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319755) (2, Insightful)
ShieldW0lf (601553) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320043)
I wouldn't sign such an agreement with anyone, personally. Money is too easy to find to justify indenturing yourself in such a way just for a job.
Re:ask a lawyer (1, Insightful)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319811)
Personally, I'd invite the company droog in question to shove something sharp and unpleasant into whichever part of their anatomy would cause them the most discomfort, and then work somewhere civilised.
Re:ask a lawyer (4, Interesting)
mrbluze (1034940) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319831)
Re:ask a lawyer (5, Informative)
stormj (1059002) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319897)
Re:ask a lawyer (4, Funny)
lena_10326 (1100441) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319847)
Re:ask a lawyer (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21320081)
If it's required for continued employment, then ask them what you get that would be considered a fair value for your trade. If they state nothing, then take a copy home and do not sign it. When, later, they ask you for the signed copy, inform them that you never signed it and are not getting anything from the signing of it. They are free to fire you, however you *will* take this to the unemployment office to get full compensation as it is illegal to your employer has fired you for an outright illegal reason.
Spread the word around the office. I find mismanagement to be one of the messiest things known to mankind.
Re:ask a lawyer (5, Informative)
imp (7585) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319887) (1)
Wandrecanada (1187737) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319981)
Yup. It's doable. Just be polite and reasonable. (2, Insightful)
apankrat (314147) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320133) put together a list of current projects you are "working on" and have them attach this list. Again, be reasonable, explain the situation, and there's a good chance they will agree. Moreover, you will be talking to HR about this, and HR will be talking to legal dept. on your behalf. So do your best to win HR over first.
The trick with an exemption list, which _typically_ works, is to (a) be vague with project description (b) avoid a code escrow
If they don't get a copy of your current code tree, they won't ever be able to prove your existing version is not the one you have listed on an exemption list (excluding stupid mistakes, obviously).
Again, I personally made this sort of an arrangement with a former employer, and I know a couple of other people who did the same with other employers. It's doable. Just be polite and reasonable.
Sure (0)
QuantumG (50515) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319705)
Re:Sure (1)
kaiser423 (828989) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319799)
I say sign it, it's not like something ground-breaking is going to hit you a month after you quit and that you have it perfected within the next couple. It's to keep you from getting a good idea at work and then running off with it.
Re:Sure (4, Interesting)
lena_10326 (1100441) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319921)
Never give up an idea unless you will own a percentage, otherwise keep them to yourself and try to implement them at home in secret, and then launch your website/product/business the minute your non-compete expires.
Re:Sure (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319973)
Re:Sure (2, Insightful)
timmarhy (659436) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320029)
it's always the employee's with everything to lose and nothing to gain that have these ideas, but don't tell their employer because they won't be rewarded for sticking their neck out and leaving and going it alone runs the risk of being sued, but also means they don't have the backing of an established company to get the idea off the ground.
profit sharing is the way of the future, just as the CEO gets a bonus when shares reach a certain level, so should employee's if big business ever wants their workers to take their shareholders seriously.
i get a production bonus in my job, which is set at REASONABLE levels. i can make up to an extra $1000 a month through this, but the average is around $500. it makes everyone i work with take the companys productivity more seriously.
Re:Sure (1)
belmolis (702863) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320103)
If you're employed to do research, it isn't unreasonable for you to be required to give your ideas to the company if they are in the area you are paid to work on. If your job has nothing to do with research, or if your idea is in an area unrelated to what you do for the company, it shouldn't be any of their business.
The poster says he works in IT, which is typically not a research position. If his job is to keep their servers running, why should he give them his idea for a new video compression technique or method of making ice cream?
What's the legality of contracts, exactly? (2, Insightful)
Joelfabulous (1045392) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319709)
Re:What's the legality of contracts, exactly? (2, Interesting)
lpq (583377) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319879)
Re:What's the legality of contracts, exactly? (1)
vokyvsd (979677) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320019)
Some business/econ academics are trying to sift through the data from the patent office to see if it has had any effect on Michigan's innovation output. They hypothesize that one of the reasons for the Silicon Valley boom was that unenforceable non-competes made it very easy to talented people to move from company to company as their products remained interesting or profitable, and that Michigan is a perfect guinea pig to test this. I heard a lecture about it a couple of months ago, at which point their analysis of the Michigan data was inconclusive. Apparently patent office records don't give you a whole lot to go on.
Re:What's the legality of contracts, exactly? (4, Interesting)
Ziest (143204) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319901)
Take it home. (4, Insightful)
Silverlancer (786390) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319715)
Cross out the parts you think are ridiculous.
Sign it.
Return it.
Re:Take it home. (1)
Brian Gordon (987471) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319743)
Re:Take it home. (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319853)
Re:Take it home. (1)
Tweekster (949766) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320111)
Re:Take it home. (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319813)
Re:Take it home. (5, Insightful)
hcmtnbiker (925661) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319937)
Sign it.
Last I knew all that achieved was voiding the entire contract unless they initialed all the parts you crossed out. And I assume the old one would still be binding in that case.
Re:Take it home. (1)
cerberusss (660701) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320109)
Re:Take it home. (4, Insightful)
Moofie (22272) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320119)
Mission accomplished.
And Initial them (1)
zoomshorts (137587) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320115)
and make sure you agree to the other shit they will try to sneak in.
Remember : THE LARGE PRINT GIVITH, THE SMALL PRINT TAKETH AWAY.
Unless they are giving you something (1)
Tweekster (949766) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319723)? (4, Insightful)
rastoboy29 (807168) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319727):What do you get in return? (2, Insightful)
sharkb8 (723587) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319781)
Re:What do you get in return? (2, Insightful)
jaxtherat (1165473) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319851)
Re:What do you get in return? (1)
wiwa (905999) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319927)
Re:What do you get in return? (5, Insightful)
renegadesx (977007) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319939)
Re:What do you get in return? (1)
aussie_a (778472) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319967)
Pretty Strict and Far-Reaching (1)
explosivejared (1186049) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319729)
Re:Pretty Strict and Far-Reaching (0, Offtopic)
Iowan41 (1139959) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319955)
Time for a tough decision (1)
mcrbids (148650) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319739) long term danger. At the very least, it's not an environment where YOU will be trusted, respected, and appreciated. It's up to you what these things are worth.
That's A Bit Unfair (1)
logicnazi (169418) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319999)
Not Enforceable in California (for the most part) (5, Informative)
triclipse (702209) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319749)
:Not Enforceable in California (for the most par (1)
jcr (53032) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319817)
-jcr
Re:Not Enforceable in California (for the most par (1)
triclipse (702209) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319869)
Re:California Labor Code 2870 (1, Informative)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319911):Not Enforceable in California (for the most par (1)
kwerle (39371) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320075)
There was one job where that kind of happened, though. I skimmed the contract (because I don't much care what they say), pointed out some of the things that were clearly insane while my boss's boss and some flunky hovered. The flunky took interest. I read a few sentences and said "Look, this essentially means that you get my work on my hardware on my time for free, even if it has nothing to do with you. That doesn't fly." He replies "that amounts to slavery - that isn't possible." "Right. Whatever. Who wrote this crap?" "I did."
It's fortunate that I have generally worked for smart, reasonable people. I signed the ridiculous contract and we all got on with our lives.
If you don't like it, don't sign it (as is, anyway (1)
Nogami_Saeko (466595) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319751)
I wouldn't sign a contract like that...
Something like this has come up before (1)
shbazjinkens (776313) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319753)
So, regardless of the contract, federal law is on their side. As for the six months thing, how are you going to get a patent that fast?
Things to try (2, Insightful)
plover (150551) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319757) (4, Insightful)
stox (131684) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319759)
Haha (1)
RuBLed (995686) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319763)....
Alter the agreement subtlely (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319765)
So Change It. (1)
camperdave (969942) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319769)
Re:So Change It. (1)
schwaang (667808) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319917)
Except for the post-employment part, alot of this is typical stuff. But folks in academia, who need the right to publish what they've done and may already have patent assignment obligations to their university for certain work, need the ability to modify the terms of these contracts. And, of course, so do open-source people, who may want the right to work on un-related stuff on their own time.
I recently helped an academic friend who was doing consulting on the side. He had a similar contract, and I helped him draft alternative language that preserved certain freedoms he needed. I think in part because we offered a concrete alternative, his company agreed. [I would have felt much better if my friend had run this by a lawyer, but alas...]
During that experience I was surprised to NOT find appropriate boilerplate contract language waiting for us out on the web. I think it would be a big help to both open-source and academics to have this kind of resource when confronted with old-school contracts. Have the lawyering done once, and we can all use it.
Your company wants to hire robotic morans (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319773)
Write down all your ideas at home when you're not working, or on your own laptop. Don't think about anything interesting at work. Then at 6 months and 1 day announce your invention.
Just say no. (2, Insightful)
compumike (454538) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319777) create is worth it, that seems to be a first attempt at fairness.
In any case, in IT, are you really in the position to be creating that much intellectual property? Lots of companies are trying to shove agreements like this down employee's throats, without thinking about the consequences. Unfortunately, most people just sign blindly.
It's a bit overused, but might this be reflective of the atmosphere of American consumerism? Nobody wants to create content anymore... we'd like to just consume media. I hate to say it, but I think this all comes full circle into the file sharing debate:
People today don't sufficiently value intellectual property.
This leads to the problem with pirating electronic media, but also seems to lead to the situation where people don't stand up and refuse restrictive employment contracts like this one.
--
Educational microcontroller kits for the digital generation. [nerdkits.com]
Get a pen... (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319783)
Don't sign it. (1)
jcr (53032) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319787)
-jcr
Second verse same as the first. (1)
aztektum (170569) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319789)
Consult a lawyer.
Find a new job.
or something to the effect of...
Cross out or amend the items in question. Initial the changes, then sign the document. If they don't like it see 1 and/or 2.
It is not sound as adsurd as it seems. (1)
SYSS Mouse (694626) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319797)
For example, , inventor of blue-light LED. [wikipedia.org]
Nakamura successfully sued his company over the bonus, settled for 840 million yen (more than 7 million US).
Sign it if they pay up. (2, Insightful)
Kenrod (188428) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319801)
Since you didn't agree to this new contract when you were hired, you should have your pay adjusted accordingly.
Use Google (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319805)
SpOn6e (-1, Flamebait)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319827)
Edit the document (1)
Dier Vek (1187725) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319829)
Better Idea (1)
Fujisawa Sensei (207127) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319835)
It depends on the terms on which employment ends. (1)
mark-t (151149) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319839).
My wife had such an agreement (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319845)
In Ontario (Canada) the law society has a service where they will refer you to a lawyer with the right specialization. My wife contacted one of the lawyers on the list. He looked at the contract and said something in lawyer that translated as: "This is crap". For a couple of hundred bucks he wrote a letter to the other lawyers and that ended the threats.
YMMV, the law being what it is. The relationship between an employee and an employer can be seen as unequal and judges often use that as a reason to void contracts that are too one-sided. If it becomes an issue, find a lawyer who specializes in such contracts (ie. not the one who handled your last house purchase).
They want to renegotiate your employment contract? (1)
digitaltraveller (167469) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319849) consider it unless they were willing to payout 6 months salary upon the completion of your employment contract for the term that you will be unemployable.
Re:They want to renegotiate your employment contra (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319941)
In particular, think about what you would miss if you were forcibly unemployed for 6 months. Think about:
1.) Health insurance. The big one. Require they cover you under the terms in force on your last day of employment.
2.) Inflation: Index any payments to some inflation index. Either your base salary, the CPI, or ideally the higher of the two.
3.) Okay, there is no 3.
Anyway, don't take your annual salary, divide by two, and insist on that. Aim higher.
And if you're seriously thinking about negotiating this rather than just laughing at them, see a lawyer. A good one. It's worth the money if you're going to stick this out.
Personally, I'd refuse to hire you for 6 months if you had this agreement in the past, and I'd consider you duty-bound to disclose it. Don't sign it.
I personally like the "strike the objectionable parts and return it. See if they notice". Don't forget to keep a copy. Consider getting a non-interested witness to initial a copy of the document that is made right after you make the modifications and sign it. A notary might be useful here, too.
Good luck.
Ignore it? (1)
sexyrexy (793497) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319857)
So... (1)
TheSpoom (715771) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319873) conceived.
Unfortunately I think this is pretty standard wording for these sorts of contracts; I remember signing one when I was working for Stream back in the day (and while it concerned me then, they neither know nor would care about anything I might have done in the meantime).
Be careful. Make sure the job and the company is worth it for you. Otherwise, they've got you by the balls when you quit.
Ask for something in return (1)
mpsheppa (1088477) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319877)
Section F: (1)
LinkFree (1112259) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319893)
Legal Concerns (1)
Defectuous (1097475) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319905)
9000 'in writings' later.... (1)
ThreeGigs (239452) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319907)
So if you use the 'operating technique' of testing both ends of a patch cable, and when you re-crimp it your 'know-how' includes taking a notch out of a side of the sheath so it holds better in the plug, are you required to sit down and write a letter explaining this?
Considering the rate of change and new product introductions in IT, I'd guess I learn at least one or two new things a day which could be considered operating technique or know-how. Being required to submit my new knowledge in writing every day would severely curtail productivity.
A Contract May Not Be Enforceable (1)
reporter (666905) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319919)
The second issue is that, in some states (like Calfornia), you are not required to agree to binding arbitration in a dispute even if your contract stipulates binding arbitration. In California, an appeals court declared that binding arbitration in any contract allowing a full court trial by a company filing suit against an employee is null and void. In the case of David Abramson vs. Juniper [bizjournals.com] , the appeals court said that allowing a court trial by the company against an employee but disallowing a trial (in favor of binding arbitration) by an employee against the company is unfair and invalid. If a court trial is allowed in one direction, the trial must be allowed in the other direction.
In other words, if your former employer attempts to intimidate you (with high-powered company lawyers) into signing away your invention (produced after termination from the company) to him, then you can sue your former employer for harrassment. You do not need to agree to binding arbitration. You can sue your former employer in a full court trial.
Most American companies, like Juniper, are ruthless. So, know your rights. Contact the labor departments of both the federal government and the state government. Talk to your lawyer.
By the way, does anyone know how the lawsuit by David Abramson against Juniper is progressing? The appeals court granted him the right to sue Juniper in a full court trial.
Why this should NOT be allowed. (1)
rice_burners_suck (243660) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319929)
Why this should NOT be allowed:
Suppose some evil son of a gun owns a big huge multinational corporation. Suppose said evil son of a gun is yours truly, Mr. 1337z h4x0rz... I could write up a non-compete agreement that every employee had to sign that basically said "All your base are belong to us" in legalese, meaning that anything the person does, for the remainder of their life, is the sole property of ME!!! Bwaaa haaa haa haa haaaahaaahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
I am not a lawyer but I would assume that in the United States, the general viewpoint is that people have a right to work and earn money from their trade. Therefore if you quit or get fired from some company, as long as you're not doing something blatantly evil like copying stuff that you were doing at Company A in order to benefit Company B (or, say, to start your own business that does the same thing), I think it would be up to a court to decide, and it would probably decide that the whole agreement isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
IANAL (1)
fortunato (106228) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319949)
Completely anecdotal, I dated a director of HR. And I can tell you, in general, they do NOT look out for the employees. In this day and age they are no longer the "brokers" between management and employees. Their sole purpose is to do the will of the upper management. And if that means looking for a reason to terminate you, they WILL find one, even if its something as lame as you came to work late a few times in the past few months. You would be amazed at the things that get filed into your employee records, even without your knowledge.
So ultimately, if you are going to decline to sign this thing, make sure you go to HR and ask for your files first and make sure there is nothing in there that they can use against you to justify your termination.
Smart People Are Stupid (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319961)
I got one and didn't sign it. (5, Interesting)
wrook (134116) | more than 6 years ago | (#213199.
In Australia... (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21319971)
Salary (1)
terminal.dk (102718) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319977)
Go and negotiate the 6 months salary after you stop, or have them delete the thing about you working for them 6 months after you stop.
Sick and Ugly (1)
Black Copter Control (464012) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319987)
I think that it could be said that, if they threaten punish you for not signing on to this contract, they are unilaterally changing the terms of your employment in a very nasty way. Talk to a lawyer about this.. You might have grounds for a constructive dismissal suit, because I don't think that any sane person would sign onto a contract like that without lots and lots of money up front.
The other thing to remember, is that everything is negotiable -- but be warned... if you actually negotiate with them starting with this contract, the other icky things in there (and I'm sure there are..) which come back to bite you may be all the more strongly interpreted by a later court because you had a hand in negotiating the contract. I think that the best thing you could do (though be warned: IANAL -- I'm not even American!) might be to simply baulk at the contract, and presume that the one you originally signed will do the job.
I Seriously doubt that signing any contract that they place on your desk was part of your original job description. They can ask you to gratuitiously sign a new, seriously hobbling contract in the same way that you can ask them for a 100% raise. In either case, saying no is not likely to be actionable.
I would, however, keep a contract of the egregious contract for future reference.
I should probably post this anonymously, but... (1)
Jethro (14165) | more than 6 years ago | (#21319989)
I used to take them seriously until the one where I grant the company the right to enter my home and go through my stuff whenever they want.
Ever since then I've either just outright ignored the thing, or edited out the parts I don't like, signed THAT and sent it in.
That was about 4 years ago and nobody seems to really care or notice. YMMV, of course.
Re:I should probably post this anonymously, but... (1)
Kuroji (990107) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320093)
Re:I should probably post this anonymously, but... (1)
Jethro (14165) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320135)
Don't sign as-is (1)
klaiber (117439) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320009)
The more secure you feel about your skills and ability to find a new job, the less you should be concerned about refusing such a contract.
Paying you for it?? (1)
EEBaum (520514) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320023)
If the company is willing to pay me for another 128 hours per week, then we'll talk about owning things I don't do at work. If they want to offer a severance package worth 26*168 hours of pay, I might be able to consider pre-signing 6 months of post-leaving inventions over.
The place I work encourages us to do our own projects for ourselves on our own time, and encourages us to use the skills we've learned (minus confidential trade-secret type stuff) at wherever we end up working next. I guess the place is kinda old-fashioned in the "let's make people want to work here" area.
Its unenforceable (1)
Billly Gates (198444) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320027)
Basically a judge can throw out such terms if he or she finds such terms negative and unfair for your employment. There are limits too in most states but I do not remember the time lines exactly for which you can't work for a competitor or share any ideas.
THis form of contract law a NCA is very subjective compared to most contracts so the judge himself can decide. This appears really one sided towards the employer only so likely most of the terms nullified. But still that is money on your part if your ever taken to court.
You can't force a free mind (5, Insightful)
Quadraginta (902985) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320047).
Are you in California? (1)
Anthony Boyd (242971) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320049)
I'm in California, and I typically just sign those things with a rider, "not legal in California [unixguru.com] , and if that changes, I expect to renegotiate the contract." They don't seem to care. I even point out my notes, in case they're just oblivious. But they care later, though. One particularly bad company I used to work for issued a ruling that no one could own or work on "any Web sites, including personal ones."
I told them that it wasn't legal. They said that there were moonlighting exemptions in California law, so that they could prohibit it. We argued for a while about what was considered "moonlighting" and how the hell a personal site could qualify, then finally I shrugged and said, "I exempted myself in our legal agreement." They checked, and boy were they pissed. I kept my sites running, while all the other employees shut theirs down or got really quiet about what they were doing.
If you're not in California, I would say that you should strike out the lines you don't agree with, sign it, and turn it in. If their lawyers freak out, they'll come back to negotiate more with you. You'll have to decide if you want to play hardball. They could fire you if they think you're not worth the trouble. I typically have enough job offers that I call bluffs like that, but I feel that it's a dangerous lead to follow if you really need the job. Good luck.
Won't stand up in court. (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21320051)
Flood them with papers (1)
Marty200 (170963) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320061)
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
University of California (1)
randomc0de (928231) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320073)
I don't know. . . (1)
Fantastic Lad (198284) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320083)
Being asked to sign something like that is insulting, disrespectful and just plain wrong. --The argument that, "Because we provided the knowledge and experiences during their time at our company, employees owe us all their resulting thoughts and actions," is deeply flawed. --Disney makes employees sign similar agreements with regard to any ideas or drawings they come up with even in the privacy of their own homes after work hours; (Does a script or drawing an animator makes result from having a desk under a Disney roof or do ideas possibly have something to do with their unique imaginations and personalities and the supreme effort it takes to create something new?) If a company really thinks that creativity comes down 100% to the resources provided, then perhaps employees should just sit at their desks and drool and see how much salable output results. At the very least, there should be a profit sharing model in place, (beyond the regular paycheck, that is!). CEOs should kiss the floors walked by the people who form the life-blood of their companies, and employees should be offered appropriate compensation for their efforts. But no. Instead, you are referred to as, "Human Resource Material" on some business plan you'll never see.
Reasonable discussion simply cannot take place when your employer would bleed you dry and eat your liver if they thought they could legally profit by it.
Some days I wish I were Batman so I could perform some "ethical cleansing" with impunity.
Seriously. There are many other ways to forge a happy living. Get the heck out of there and tell your boss he's a spineless piece of shit for not doing the same when he was told to hand out those new contracts. That's my advice.
-FL
Any company that writes a contract like that (0)
Anonymous Coward | more than 6 years ago | (#21320099)
Every programmer, every artist and every designer builds up a set of knowledge and skills during their career. As they get older and more experienced they take that knowledge with them. That's why they get paid more as time goes by. Let's say you're any good. Let's say your're actually a damn smart person with loads of ideas, someone who can push forward the technology of the company in leaps and bounds - that's why they hired you right? When you join the company you bring with you far more than you can take.
Now you sign a contract like this. It's career suicide and you know it. From the moment your signature is dry you have one choice of behaviour. Anything you do or say that is remotely useful, any of your hard gained experience and knowledge that you divulge, they can claim yo "own". So you do this... Each day walk into your office and do FUCK ALL beyond the minimum needed to avoid being fired. Don't develop any new ideas that you can't read in a published textbook or journal. Don't discuss anything that might be innovative or patentable with your colleagues or bosses. Keep all your thoughts and ideas in your head, kick back and relax. If there's a good way to solve something and you can think of a bad one that at least looks like you're trying then use that one instead. Analyse the mistakes and failures of the company, all the while keeping a mental note of how you *would* solve them. Wait 6 months and then go to work with someone who respects you for what you can offer right now, not what they think they can own in the future.
btw, if you sign it you're a fool.
Me too (1)
Anne Thwacks (531696) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320123)
so what everyone is trying to say is... (1)
Topherbyte (747078) | more than 6 years ago | (#21320139) | http://beta.slashdot.org/story/93107 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | refinedweb | 5,517 | 77.06 |
Hi,
I am very frustrated right now. Sometimes my functions work and sometimes they dont. This is how I have implemented certain double link list functions.
For example, the destroy function doesnt work, the print doesnt work, EVEN THE LIST SIZE doesnt work.
Eg., if I do int a = list_length(L), then do printf(%i,a), the code runs. But if I do printf(%i, list_length(L)), it crashes.
I have tried everything, asked some pro CS people, but just cant seem to understand what is wrong.I have tried everything, asked some pro CS people, but just cant seem to understand what is wrong.Code:/* Implementation file for the list ADT using a doubly (two-way) linked list */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include "listADT.h" typedef struct node { itemType data; struct node *next; struct node *previous; } nodeType; struct listTag { nodeType *head; nodeType *tail; int size; }; /* Functions Definitions (Implementation) * **************************************/ //allocates memory space for a new list, initializes its fields and //returns a pointer to the allocated space List list_create() { List L; L = (List)malloc(sizeof(List)); if (L) { L->head = NULL; L->tail = NULL; L->size = 0; } return L; } void list_destroy( List L ) { nodeType *P; while (L->head!=NULL) { P = L->head; L->head = L->head->next; P->previous = NULL; P->next = NULL; free(P); } free(L); L=NULL; } bool list_isEmpty( const List L ) { return (L->size==0); } int list_length( const List L ) { return (L->size); } void list_print( const List L ) { if(L && L->head) { nodeType *P; printf("( "); P = L->head; while (P != NULL) { printf("[%i]", P->data); P = P->next; if (P != NULL) printf(" -> "); } printf(" )\n"); } } bool list_insertFront( itemType value, List L ) { if(L) { nodeType *N; N = (nodeType*)malloc(sizeof(nodeType)); if (N!=NULL) { N->previous = NULL; N->next = NULL; N->data = value; if (L->size==0) { L->head = N; L->tail = N; } else { N->next = L->head; L->head->previous = N; L->head = N; } L->size++; } return true; } return false; } int main() { List L = list_create(); list_insertFront(9,L); list_insertFront(9,L); list_insertFront(9,L); //int a = list_length(L); //printf("%i",list_length(L)); list_destroy(L); //list_print(L); system("PAUSE"); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
Thanks a lot for your help. | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/127178-problem-fundamental-understanding-double-link-list.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | refinedweb | 360 | 61.46 |
i did. i don't know what happened to it.
what i basically stated was that the operating agreement generally determines the percentage of profit and distribution. if it is silent, you would likely do a distribution in amounts that match up with percentage ownership. also, if the 2 of you are the sole members, you can make any changes you want at any time.
as far as taxes, most LLCs are pass-thru entities for tax purposes. that is, they are usually taxed like partnerships where the income flows to the individual level and you and your wife would pay the taxes on your individual returns. you , of course, would need to file a tax return (like a partnership return) and there would be K-1 schedules like a partnership that would be reflective of your individual allocated income. that would then be paid with your taxes. if you expect there to be significant amounts of income, you may want to pay estimated taxes but, as stated, from an individual perspective. keep in mind, if there are employees and payroll taxes due from the entity, that is a different story and would need to be remitted.
with respect to the method of distribution, you can transfer or wire funds in any fashion you desire. you would be advised to keep accurate records of any such transaction and of the income and expenses so that it is clearly marked and you can achieve the benefits of acting through this). | http://www.justanswer.com/business-law/42lpy-just-formed-llc-wife-business.html | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 249 | 59.13 |
I created a program for for my 11th grade computer science project where I made a java password cracker that brute-forces the password. However, I would like to get some advice on how to multi-thread my java program (code provided below) to speed up the brute-force process. If it helps at all I am running a i7-3770 processor by Intel and it is quad-core but has 2 threads per core so 8 possible threads at once.
Here is the code:
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; class pwcracker { public static void main (String[] args) { Scanner scan = new Scanner( System.in ); Random rand = new Random(); Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors(); String pw, choices, guess; long tries; int j, length; System.out.println("Enter a password that is up to 5 chars and contains no numbers: "); pw = "" + scan.nextLine(); length = pw.length(); choices = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; tries = 0; guess = ""; System.out.println("Your pw is: " + pw); System.out.println("The length of your pw is: " + length); System.out.println("for TEST- Guess: " + guess + "pw :"+pw); if (guess != pw){ while (guess != pw) { j = 0; guess = ""; while ( j < length ) { guess = guess + choices.charAt( rand.nextInt ( choices.length() ) ); j = j + 1; if (guess == pw) { System.out.println("Match found, ending loop.."); break; } } System.out.println("2 Guess: " + guess + " pw :"+pw); tries = tries + 1; } } System.out.println("Here is your password: " + guess); System.out.println("It took " + tries + " tries to guess it."); } } | http://www.howtobuildsoftware.com/index.php/how-do/btt7/java-multithreading-passwords-processor-how-to-multi-thread-a-brute-force-java-password-program | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | refinedweb | 237 | 69.89 |
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zabo posted a topic in Your AnnouncementsHey guys, I have an almost finished game here. I need some people to try it out!. The premise of the game is simple, try and get to the exit! BTW, if presented the option, try it at the highest resolution / graphical settings! Submit your opinions here: Downloads: PC: Linux: MAC: Android: Screenshot:
- hmmm.... yeah thats right, I guess I could base the costs on the number of downloads of the 1st version of the game ( second release will have wifi battles + more levels ). or something like that.
- Huh? Oh, sorry I ment to say wacky, as in kinda weird and fun. maybe I could just put ads in the wifi part of the game? I was also thinking of making the game a free download, because almost no one pays for ds homebrew... thats why i thought of advertising
zabo posted a topic in Games Business and LawIm creating a homebrew game for ds flash cartridge owners, and before I get to far in my project, I was wondering if an idea would work, heres my idea. Everyweek I would update my game with new advertisments, so whoever downloaded it then would get new ads, however the advertisments would be subtle and out of the way ( for example on a peice of ground ). I was wondering if anyone would buy into in game advertising if the price was very cheap, say $10 to adsvertise on 1 level ( say 2 or 3 subtle ads in the background ). Im not worried that it would take away from the game, simply because its kind of a wacky game. Again do you think anyone would do this kind of advertising? [Edited by - zabo on December 19, 2009 3:21:08 PM]
zabo posted a topic in GDNet LoungeI cant get into my admin account ( I am using windows vista ) how do I get my password?
zabo replied to kingy's topic in Game Design and TheoryI think you guys are really taking this out of context, think about it, in oblivian, it does not tell you the exact stats of the sword, yet it forces the player to decide for him/her self which weapon they like better. I love the game and I never run to the enternet for help.
zabo replied to HarvardNinja's topic in Game Design and TheoryI think its called 1945 or something, but its a cool game.
- thanks for the ideas I really think a time limit setting things up will create some amount of mistakes on the players side, also factoring in all those other hings could really make them take some time to make a decision, adding in the different types of enemies, ( you will know what is coming, just not how much ) it could create a level of caos, thanks person above me.
zabo replied to Kenneth Godwin's topic in Game Design and Theoryhow about letting a single "loner" player, choose 3 or 4 robotic teamates? or how about he can use up to 4 different races and start with 4 times the recources? this could fill the gap I guess. Or if it is an entirely online how about the person has to pair up with people he or she does not know?
- wow, that is strikingly similar to the game I am in the middle of creating, however my game is soley restricted to the set up of defences, you can however decide when to unleash your pent up armies you keep in a cage lol. however looking a second time, that game seems to be more about your character, and there a lot less enemies than mine, and it less dependant on cool traps and such. [Edited by - zabo on February 11, 2009 1:21:07 AM]
zabo posted a topic in Game Design and TheoryThe game I am creating is still highly in its pen and paper phase, ( except for creating sprites and such, it is a 2-d game ) the purpose of this game is to create a defence inside a network of caves using things like mini moats, pit traps, guys with guns set in a defensive position, even moving walls with spikes, and other things ( a lot more ), once your defence is set up a horde of enemies will fly toward your defences trying to get to your objective to protect. I am wondering how to make this more of a challanging game. Any Ideas for some kind of problems that could affect the game that people have to build around or anything to make it a challange would be good.
zabo posted a topic in For Beginnersheres a peice of my code---------------> fanatic=loadmesh("fanatic.b3d") for a=1 to 100 fanatic2=copyentity(fanatic) positionentity fanatic2,rnd(1000,1200),0,rnd(200,400) freeentity fanatic next While not keyhit(1) if entitydistance (fanatic2,player)<1000 then pointentity fanatic2,player moveentity fanatic2,0,0,1 endif For some reason the "fanatics" wont chase me the player. can you help me find out why? [Edited by - zabo on November 22, 2007 10:30:11 PM]
zabo replied to jeteran's topic in For Beginnersi never copy code because its like some devine mysticle force wants to stop it from working.... it sounds weird but my code( if its copied) usually only works if its saved try that(do you think its my computer or the language?).
zabo replied to zabo's topic in For BeginnersI found a way to speed up my game instead of making 100 aliens just make 100 copies! and use free entity to erase the old one.
zabo replied to zabo's topic in For Beginnerscaptain p you are probably right about my highscores. thanks for the tip on saving memory space! Ravuya you are probably right about my low scores . THANKS GUYS! | https://www.gamedev.net/profile/129936-reaganm/?tab=idm | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | refinedweb | 986 | 63.63 |
dirfd man page
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
dirfd — extract the file descriptor used by a DIR stream
Synopsis
#include <dirent.h> int dirfd(DIR *dirp);
Description
The dirfd() function shall return a file descriptor referring to the same directory as the dirp argument. This file descriptor shall be closed by a call to closedir(). If any attempt is made to close the file descriptor, or to modify the state of the associated description, other than by means of closedir(), readdir(), readdir_r(), rewinddir(), or seekdir(), the behavior is undefined.
Return Value
Upon successful completion, the dirfd() function shall return an integer which contains a file descriptor for the stream pointed to by dirp. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and may set errno to indicate the error.
Errors
The dirfd() function may fail if:
- EINVAL
The dirp argument does not refer to a valid directory stream.
- ENOTSUP
The implementation does not support the association of a file descriptor with a directory.
The following sections are informative.
Examples
None.
Application Usage
The dirfd() function is intended to be a mechanism by which an application may obtain a file descriptor to use for the fchdir() function.
Rationale
This interface was introduced because the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008 does not make public the DIR data structure. Applications tend to use the fchdir() function on the file descriptor returned by this interface, and this has proven useful for security reasons; in particular, it is a better technique than others where directory names might change.
The().
An implementation that does not support file descriptors referring to directories may fail with [ENOTSUP].
If it is necessary to allocate an fd to be returned by dirfd(), it should be done at the time of a call to opendir().
Future Directions
None.
See Also
closedir(), fchdir(), fdopendir(), fileno(), open(), read
closedir(3p), dirent.h(0p), fchdir(3p), fdopendir(3p), fileno(3p), open(3p), readdir(3p). | https://www.mankier.com/3p/dirfd | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | refinedweb | 354 | 54.12 |
Entry Points are a part of the setuptools module that is included with TurboGears. They make creating extensible applications very simple. TurboGears uses them to provide extension behavior for a number of its components. You can find a list of the entry point names used by TurboGears at TurboGears Entry Point list.
Since entry points are organized as names under which code is collected, creating one is as easy as finding a name that is not currently being used. It is usually a good idea to include your project’s name as part of the beginning of the entry point. TurboGears does this, which is why all of its entry points have named similar to turbogears.command.
The pkg_resources module provides a number of tools that are useful for inspecting entry points and loading the code that they provide. For a full set of documentation on this module see <> The following is a list of some of the more commonly used functions.
This function provides an iterator over a single entry point name or list of entry point names. The following code is used to generate a list of all the available entry points defined for turbogears.command:
import pkg_resources for entrypoint in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points("turbogears.command"): print entrypoint.name
After you have found the entry point you are looking for it is easy to use the code. The following code demonstrates one way of getting access to a hypothetical “sample” extension to tg-admin:
import pkg_resources samplecommand = None for entrypoint in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points("turbogears.command"): if entrypoint.name == 'sample': samplecommand = entrypoint.load()
After this code completes “samplecommand” will contain the Python objects referenced by that entry point. In the case of turbogears.command it is expected that this will be a class, but it is possible to create references to other Python constructs as well.
After you have finished creating the code that will be used at an entry point, you must define it in the system. This is done through the entry_points argument to the setup() function in setup.py. Although there are several options for defining this, TurboGears has settled on the ini-style string. Here is a sample defining a new tg-admin command:
from setuptools import setup setup( name="samplecommand", ... entry_points = """ [turbogears.command] sample = samplecommand.command:Sample """ ...
The name listed in brackets is used to specify the entry point name that this package is providing. In this case the entry point will be available to any queries for turbogears.command. The name ‘sample’ on the left is used as the name for this entrypoint, and is available as entrypoint.name in the code. That is set to a dotted module list followed by a colon and the name of the class that should be used. setuptools will use the desc attribute of this class as the description of this entry point. That is the only requirement setuptools has on the structure of this class. | http://www.turbogears.org/1.0/docs/UsingEntryPoints.html | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | refinedweb | 489 | 65.12 |
I spent last week in Okinawa, attending the first face-to-face meeting of SC 34 Working Group 4. This is the group responsible for the maintenance of IS29500, with Murata Makoto as the convenor and Rex Jaeschke as the project editor. I haven't seen the official list of attendees yet, but there were representatives present from many countries including Japan, Korea, China, Denmark, Norway, Germany, UK, and the US, as well as Ecma TC45 in our liaison role.
In this meeting we discussed procedural matters and reviewed the JTC1 directives that define the maintenance process we'll be following, and then we started working through the defect reports that have been submitted to date. There are pending defect reports from Japan, UK, Switzerland, and Ecma, ranging from simple typos to significant changes such as the Swiss proposal to modify the namespaces in IS29500 to distinguish them from the ECMA-376 namespaces.
Alex Brown posted a series of blog posts covering the events of the week: Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, and Days 3-4.
Rex Jaeschke provided an overview of how the maintenance process works, as outlined in this diagram:
The basic concept is that WG4 will process a set of defect reports which are then published as a COR (technical corrigendum). This COR may result in a reprint of the spec, to incorporate the changes into the text of the standard for ease of use by implementers. Amendments follow a slightly different process, and result in a revision to the spec, which can include new functionality in addition to corrections.
One aspect of this meeting that I hadn't anticipated was the amount of tweeting going on. I've recently started using Twitter myself, and Alex Brown and Jesper Lund Stocholm were using Twitter to share details of the conversation, or just have some fun. It was useful at times to see Alex's tweets from the WG5 meeting down the hall during the times when we split into two separate meetings. If you're a Twitter user and interested in IS29500 maintenance, check out the feeds for al3xbrown, jlundstocholm, or dmahugh.
These meetings usually include some type of social event in the evening, and this time was no different. JISC sponsored a reception on Thursday evening that included traditional Eisa dancing. And on the final day, after we adjourned at noon and some of the attendees were headed for the airport, eight of us hired a van to take us to some sites in nearby areas, including Shurijo Castle, the Okinawa tunnels, and the beach.
Thanks to Murata-san, Professor Lee, SC 34 Chair Sam Oh, and everyone else who helped put on this interesting and useful meeting. We'll continue the work of WG4 via email in the weeks ahead, and the next face-to-face meeting will occur in late March in Prague, where the SC 34 plenary will take place.
Thank you very much Dough for keep us updated about how the things with Open Xml are going on.
Regarding Twitter, I have created an account to exchange this and many other info about Open Xml. Twitter Open Xml account is
Johann Granados
Quelques liens en cette fin de semaine et un article dans Programmez! : Zeyad vous présente une façon | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmahugh/archive/2009/02/03/okinawa-wg4-wg5-meetings.aspx | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 548 | 63.73 |
Topic: How to use JWT authentication with MDB Angular?
Damian Gemza
posted 1 months ago
While reading this article you will create a very simple Angular application using backend in Node and Express and Json Web Tokens.
The aim of this article is to introduce you to what JWT is and how to use it.
Introduction
Json Web Tokens, or JWT for short, is a mechanism for encoding data in JSON format, which can later be read in a web application. It consists in creating a token on the server side, which is inhibited by a cryptographic algorithm, e.g. RSA.
What can we use JWT for?
- User authentication,
- Exchange of sensitive data between applications / microservices
What does a typical JWT consist of?
The structure of the token can be divided into three parts - Header, Payload and Signature. Each of these parts is separated by a dot sign.
1) Header - the header of the token contains two information - about the type of token (in this case jwt) and about the type of cryptographic algorithm used for hash token (RSA / SHA256 / HMAC).
This is an example of a JWT header that is already decoded:
{ "alg" "HS256", "typ" "JWT" }
2) Payload - this is a token body in which claims are placed. They are entity records - mainly about the user, and additional data. There are three types of claims: registered, public and private.
Registered claims - a set of predefined claims that are not mandatory, but it is recommended to use them for the unified JWT type. These include custom claims that organizations undertake to support and respect. They cannot be named as registered or public claims.
Please note that the JWT has been developed as a compact data transport scheme. This means that the claims keys should be exactly 3 characters long, counting from the beginning of the word.
This is the example of a JWT payload that is decoded:
{ "sub" "1234567890", "name" "John Doe", "admin": true }
3) Signature - to create a signature you have to take the header, payload, secret, algorithm defined in the header and sign it.
This looks like an example, the whole coded JWT:
You can decode it on the website jwt.io.
Installation
All right, that's enough of that theory. It's time to do something more interesting. Let's move on to the code.
As this guide deals only with JWT and not with creating a user interface, I took the liberty of preparing a repository in which this interface is ready. Just clone the repository from my Github and then run the
npm install command to install every needed by the application dependency.
Running the application
After installing all of the dependencies we need to run our application. Because JWT needs a server, I have already prepared its basic configuration.
Open the project directory in your favorite IDE, and then run two terminals.
In one of them run the server with
node server/app.js command and in the other one run Angular application with
npm run start command.
After starting both applications, open the web browser at.
As you can see, our application is very simple - it displays only one checkbox with todo downloaded from the server, and text. We are about to change that.
Implementing JWT middleware on the server
Let's take care of the server first. Open the
server/app.js file, and add the following code to it just below line 2 (bodyParser):
const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken'); const expressJwt = require('express-jwt');
These two lines are responsible for importing two middleware:
express-jwt and
jsonwebtoken. express-jwt is a middleware which works with Express as a JWT, and jsonwebtoken is the JWT library for Node.
Next, just below line 32, put the following code
app.use(expressJwt({secret: 'my-app-super-secret-key'}).unless({path: ['/api/auth']})); app.post('/api/auth', (req, res) => { const body = req.body; const user = USERS.find(user => user.username === body.username && user.password === body.password); if (!user) { return res.sendStatus(401); } const token = jwt.sign({userID: user.id}, 'my-app-super-secret-key', {expiresIn: '2h'}); res.send({token}); });
line 33 is responsible for initialization of the Express JWT mechanism. All routes except
/api/auth should contain our token. Why did we exclude
'/api/auth'? It's simple - auth is an endpoint for user authentication (this is where the JWT is generated and sent to the client).
Then in line 34, we check if the data sent in the request match our users data (both the username and the password must be found in the database), otherwise, the server will return the status of 401 - unauthorized.
If the data match, a token is created which contains the userID as payload and expires within 2 hours. After the token is created, it is sent to the client.
And at the very end, find the route
'api/todos', and replace its code with the following
app.get('/api/todos', (req, res) => { res.type('json'); res.send(getTodos(req.user.userID)); });
Last piece of code - set the
res.type to the json format, and then send to the client all the todo for the
userID.
Implementing the JWT on the client-side
At the very beginning, you need to install one additional library. It is called
@auth0/angular-jwt.
Install it with the following command:
npm install @auth0/angular-jwt
And then open the
app.module.ts file, because we need to add some code there.
Just below the routes declaration add the following code:
export function tokenGetter() { return localStorage.getItem('access_token'); }
This function is used to download our token sent from the server from localStorage.
Then at the end of the imports table add the following code:
JwtModule.forRoot({ config: { tokenGetter: tokenGetter, whitelistedDomains: ['localhost:4000'], blacklistedRoutes: ['localhost:4000/api/auth'] } })
In the JwtModule configuration parameter we specified three things:
tokenGetter - the name of our function, which is responsible for retrieving the token,
whitelistedDomains - domain addresses that are acceptable when sending tokens. It is to these addresses that the token will be added to each HTTP query,
blacklistedRoutes - specific endpoints to which we do not want to send tokens with every HTTP request.
Route Guard
It's time to take care of the authentication of users. To do this we will use Guard, which will determine whether the user can go to the route
'/todos' or not.
Open the third terminal in your application and then run the command below:
ng generate guard auth --spec=false --implements CanActivate
This command will create you a new
auth.guard.ts file with implemented
CanActivate interface.
Then open the
app.module.ts file, and add the previously created
AuthGuard to the
providers array.
After adding
AuthGuard to our application we need to code it somehow. To do this, add the following code to the
auth.guard.ts file:
constructor(private router: Router) { } canActivate(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot, state: RouterStateSnapshot): Observable<boolean | UrlTree> | Promise<boolean | UrlTree> | boolean | UrlTree { if (localStorage.getItem('access_token')) { return true; } this.router.navigate(['login']); return false; }
The above code checks if there is an
'access_token' item in localStorage. If it exists, the user is authorized. If not, it redirects it to the route
'/login' so it can log in.
The last thing to do with the
AuthGuard is to protect the
'todos' route with it. To do this, open the
app.module.ts file, and add
canActivate: [AuthGuard] to line 17.
const routes: Routes = [ {path: 'todos', component: TodosComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuard]}, {path: 'login', component: LoginComponent}, {path: '**', redirectTo: 'todos'} ];
ApiService
Open the
api.service.ts file and replace its content entirely with the code below:
import {Injectable} from '@angular/core'; import {HttpClient} from '@angular/common/http'; import {map} from 'rxjs/operators'; import {Router} from '@angular/router'; @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) export class ApiService { private _username = ''; constructor(private http: HttpClient, private router: Router) { } public getTodos() { return this.http.get('api/todos'); } public login(username: string, password: string) { return this.http.post<{ token: string }>('/api/auth', {username: username, password: password}).pipe( map(result => { localStorage.setItem('access_token', result.token); this._username = username; })); } public logout() { localStorage.removeItem('access_token'); this.router.navigate(['login']); } public get isLoggedIn() { return (localStorage.getItem('access_token') !== null); } public get username() { return this._username; } }
The ApiService code has been changed in its entirety. Let me explain from the top what has changed:
login method - in this method we execute the HTTP Post request to the address
api/auth by sending user data (login and password), and then we subscribe to the value emitted by this action in order to receive the JWT and save it to localStorage.
logout method removes the
'access_token' key from localStorage so the application knows that we are not authorized because we do not have a saved JWT key, and then redirects us to the route
'/login'.
The
isLoggedIn field checks if there is an
'access_token' key in localStorage and returns true or false.
the
username field returns the username used in the todos component.
Modifying the AppComponent
Now we need to make it possible to log out of our application (i.e. remove
access_token).
To do this, open the
app.component.html file, find the
*ngIf="!isLoggedIn; else logged" directive, and change it to the following one:
*ngIf="!apiService.isLoggedIn; else logged".
Modifying the TodosComponent
The last change we need to make is to display the name of the currently logged in user in the todos panel.
To do this, open the
todos.component.html file, and change there
{{todo.name}} to
{{apiService.username}}.
Tests
After all, save all the changes, open your browser at. You should get a login window. There are three users in the database: michael, john and bob. Each of them has a password set to todo.
Try to log in to one of the users. You will be redirected to the Todos component where a todo list is displayed for each user. If you click the logout button, the token will be removed from your browser's local storage, and you will need to log in again.
Summary
This article was not meant to describe everything about JWT authentication. The article was intended to describe the basics of JWT and how to use this mechanism to secure your applications.
I hope that after reading this article you will try JWT in your own application.
If something is unclear, or you would stop at some point and do not know what to do next, you should definitely check the Github repository of this project (branch with-jwt). There is a finished and working project there, which I discussed step by step.
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Hello again, this is Peter Gurevich, Performance PM (among other things) for IE7.. You should see noticeable improvements on AJAX sites in the Release Candidate we shipped last week. I want you also to know that performance of the object model and JavaScript engine will be an area that we focus on strongly in future releases.
While investigating the performance issues on script heavy sites we noticed several design patterns that resulted in less than optimal script performance. Changing these design patterns on the site end often resulted in huge performance wins (4x to 10x increase) to the user, so I wanted to share these recommendations with everyone.
To that end, this blog will be the first in a 3 part series focusing on developing performance optimized scripts for web pages, covering the following:
Please let me know if there are other useful performance topics you’d like to hear about.
A primary source of JavaScript performance issues when running inside of IE come from constant symbolic look-up. Symbolic look-up occurs whenever the JScript engine tries to pair a name or identifier in the script with an actual object, method call, or property running in the context of the engine. Most of the time these objects are IE Document Object Model (DOM) objects and while there are general performance tips for working with any JScript host there are also specific IE considerations that can help when writing DHTML.
Local variables need to be found based on a scope chain that resolves backwards from the most specific scope to the least specific. Sometimes these symbolic look-ups can pass through multiple levels of scope and eventually wind up in generic queries to the IE DOM that can be quite expensive. The worst case scenario is that your variable doesn’t yet exist and every scope in the chain is investigated, only to find that an expando variable needs to be created.
function WorkOnLocalVariable(){ local_variable = ObtainValueFromDOM(); return (local_variable + 1);}
Above is a sample of a poorly written function where we have a local_variable that we are attempting to define within the function scope, but without a preceding var declaration will actually be looked up in all scopes. If we don’t find the variable, a new global will be created, otherwise an existing global will be used. This new variable is now accessible to other methods as well and can sometimes cause odd behaviors in your code.
The recommendation here is to precede your variables with var if you are truly defining them in the current scope. This will prevent the look-up and your code will run much faster. You’ll also prevent aliasing against global named objects. A simple typo such as using the variable "status" without declaring it ("var status") will result in the use of the window.status property within the IE DOM, so be careful.
Every binding in JScript is late. This means each time you access a property, variable, or method a look-up is performed. Within the IE DOM, this could mean an extensive search of the element to find the same property over and over again, only to be returned to the JScript engine unchanged from the previous request. A simple example of overactive symbolic look-up on a DOM property follows.
function BuildUI(){ var baseElement = document.getElementById(‘target’); baseElement.innerHTML = ‘’; // Clear out the previous baseElement.innerHTML += BuildTitle(); baseElement.innerHTML += BuildBody(); baseElement.innerHTML += BuildFooter();}
You have to imagine here that the functions are constructing HTML for inclusion into our base element. The above code results in many lookups of the property innerHTML and the construction of many temporary variables. For instance, the line where we clear the property does a look-up followed by a property set. This isn’t so bad. The next lines each do a property get for the initial text, followed by a string concatenation and then a property set. Both the property get and set involve name look-ups for the property. Ignore the string concatenation for now a faster version of this code would attempt to circumvent all of the extra name resolution.
function BuildUI(){ var elementText = BuildTitle() + BuildBody() + BuildFooter(); document.getElementById(‘target’).innerHTML = elementText;}
We now do a single property set of the target element and internally within the DOM the clearing operation is free (or as free as it can get for this example).
Another form of this same problem is in intermediate result caching. Often times code for web pages is written based on some top level base element where all interactions are going to start from. A perfect example is the document object. If I were going to write a simple calculator function based on values within the DOM it might be written like the following.
function CalculateSum(){ var lSide = document.body.all.lSide.value; var rSide = document.body.all.rSide.value; document.body.all.result.value = lSide + rSide;}
In any compiled language the above will produce some heavily optimized code. Not so in JScript, since everything is interpreted and delay bound. Up front, JScript doesn’t know if the value property is going to manipulate the DOM and therefore change the values of the intermediate results. It can’t cache the intermediates all on its own. You’ll have to help it along. In the above case we can cache everything up to the all collection and improve our performance by eliminating multiple look-ups of three different variables.
function CalculateSum(){ var elemCollection = document.body.all; // Cache this var lSide = elemCollection.lSide.value; var rSide = elemCollection.rSide.value; elemCollection.result.value = lSide + rSide;}
You can also cache functions. JScript and IE both handle this differently, so I’ll cover this in the following section.
Remember that everything is a look-up so calling the same function over and over again, also involves a look-up each time. Depending on if you are using a JScript function or an IE function pointer, these look-up operations will each entail a different amount of work. First, we’ll look at the simplest case of using a JScript function since they are quite a bit lighter than IE’s function pointers.
function IterateWorkOverCollection(){ var length = myCollection.getItemCount(); for(var index = 0; index<length; index++) { Work(myCollection[index]); }}
Normally you wouldn’t cast a second glance at that code, but if there are a significant number of elements you are operating on the constant look-ups performed to find the Work function can start to slow you down. Taking the Work function and assigning it to a local variable only takes a few extra milliseconds and can prevent the constant look-up.
function IterateWorkOverCollection(){ var funcWork = Work; var length = myCollection.getItemCount(); for(var index = 0; index<length; index++) { funcWork(myCollection[index]); }}
The speed savings in JScript for this type of operation are minimal, but within IE, when working with DOM functions you can get even more from this process. Internally, whenever you invoke a function off of an object, the script engine will do a name resolution, followed by an invoke of the target method. In addition, there is a local scope name lookup for the object itself. The same work loop using an IE element will definitely be more expensive and involve more look-ups.
function IterateWorkOverCollection(){ var parentElement = document.getElementById(‘target’); var length = myCollection.getItemCount(); for(var index = 0; index<length; index++) { parentElement.appendChild(myCollection[iterate]); }}
We still have the local variable look-up (which is faster than the function look-up from JScript), but then immediately following we have a function name look-up on the element (so we have two look-ups, ouch). Finally we get an invoke call as mentioned. We can speed this up by removing the function resolution entirely and creating a function pointer. A function pointer will encapsulate the name look-up as a DISPID and the object to call that function on and so the invoke process is more streamlined. The initial creation of the function pointer is slightly more expensive, but this creation is only incurred the first time you create a function pointer on a given element for a given method. The following code details the basics of IE function pointers, how they work, and how we can rewrite the work function to be slightly faster.
function GeneralFunctionPointerMagic(){ var myElement = document.getElementById(‘myElement’); // This creates our function pointer and involves a look-up + creation var funcAppendChild = myElement.appendChild; // Getting it a second time is faster, only does a look-up var funcAppendChild2 = myElement.appendChild; // Calling this is just like any other function pointer // Note this is a direct invoke with only a local variable look-up // to find funcAppendChild, with no IE DOM look-ups funcAppendChild(childElement);} function IterateWorkOverCollection(){ var funcAppendChild = document.getElementById(‘target’).appendChild; var length = myCollection.getItemCount(); for(var index = 0; index<length; index++) { funcAppendChild(myCollection[index]); }}
Caching function pointers isn’t a 100% guaranteed savings since we’ve shown there is overhead in the first creation and the look-ups involved. In cases where you only call the function a couple of times it probably doesn’t make sense to do the extra caching.
The ‘with’ keyword in JScript can be used to define a new scope local to the element you are working with. While this operation makes it easy to work on local properties it also modifies the scope chain making it more expensive to look up variables in other scopes. Further appending to the scope chain can take enough time that a simple usage of the ‘with’ statement to set only a small number of properties can be more expensive than writing more verbose code.
That’s all for Part 1.
Thanks,
Peter GurevichProgram Manager
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REST Project
- Basic UI for a Responsive REST Client App
- Weather Services
- REST Request & JSON Parsing with Qt / QML
- Parse the REST Response
- JSON Data Model for REST Requests
- Data Persistence
- Deploy the App to Android, iOS and Desktop
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Spoiler: Basic REST Example with Felgo
Before we jump into the details of creating the whole sample App, here is a code example of a minimum App. The function getIp() shows how a basic request to a REST service looks, using the XMLHttpRequest.
import Felgo 3.0 import QtQuick 2.0 App { // This signal handler is called when the app is created, like a constructor Component.onCompleted: getIp() NavigationStack { Page { AppText { id: ipText anchors.centerIn: parent } } } function getIp() { // Create the XMLHttpRequest object var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest // Listen to the readyStateChanged signal xhr.onreadystatechange = function() { // If the state changed to DONE, we can parse the response if (xhr.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) { // The responseText looks like this {"ip":"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"} // Parse the responseText string to JSON format var responseJSON = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText) // Read the ip property of the response var ip = responseJSON.ip // Display the ip in the AppText item ipText.text = "IP: " + ip } } // Define the target of your request xhr.open("GET", "") // Execute the request xhr.send() } }
Real-Life Sample Project
For the most useful results, we build a real-life Qt client. It accesses one of the web’s most popular weather services. It’s easy to adapt to any other REST service: the process is always the same. You only need to change the endpoint URL and parse the corresponding content.
The full sample is available open-source on GitHub:
Architecture
The app consists of two files:
- Main.qml: contains the UI and REST logic
- DataModel.qml: stores & caches the parsed data from the REST service
Basic UI for a Responsive REST Client App
First, we create the user interface: the QML items in “Main.qml”. We use Felgo APIs. They adapt to the style of the target platform (Desktop, Android, iOS). These three items are usually present in every Qt / QML app:
- The App component is always the top-level element in the QML file. It adds a lot of vital layout data to standard Qt classes. Two mechanisms are especially important. Device-independent pixels (dp) for sizes and scale-independent pixels (sp) for fonts.
- Initially, our REST client app only has a single page. It’s still a good idea to add the NavigationStack item as a child. Later, it could handle navigating to a detail page. In our current app, the NavigationStack ensures that the top navigation bar is visible.
- The third item is the Page. It’s the container for the automatic title bar and the visible QML items of our app. The platform-specific theming is applied automatically.
Visualization UI
After the generic UI elements, we define the custom interface. The user enters the city name in a SearchBar. The AppText elements below show the parsed data / error message.
QML Page Layout
We need vertically stacked UI elements. The generic QML ColumnLayout is the best layout manager for this scenario. Its documentation is short. Essentially, it’s a convenience version of the GridLayout with a single column.
QML contains another class which looks similar at first sight: the Column. What’s the difference of ColumnLayout vs Column?
- Column is a Positioner. It arranges QML items in a regular fashion (i.e., below each other). The child items are responsible for their size. The Column takes care of the position.
- ColumnLayout is a Layout. In addition to the position, it also manages the child item size. This makes it more suitable for responsive user interfaces. It ensures the individual item’s place on the screen is a good compromise of the available space and the minimum item size.
We’re dealing with a mobile UI. Thus, the ColumnLayout is the better choice.
ColumnLayout { anchors.fill: parent anchors.margins: app.dp(16) // ... QML child items ... }
To achieve the expected look & feel of the UI on a phone, we set two properties:
- anchors.fill: parent – this stretches the layout to the available width and height.
What happens if we don’t specify the layout size?
The layout area would adapt to the minimum requested size of its managed QML items. The text items always grab the space they need for showing their contents. But the SearchBar is flexible: it takes what it gets and doesn’t have a minimum width. Therefore, the SearchBar would be too small or even invisible if we didn’t have enough text in the rest of the UI.
- anchors.margins: app.dp(16) – text shouldn’t stick to the screen edge. The Google Material Design recommends screen edge left and right margins of 16dp. Note that in iOS, you should also consider the safe area in addition to the margins. This ensures your content is not within the cutout-areas of the iPhone X in landscape mode.
In our app, we use a margin of 16 density-independent pixels. This ensures a similar spacing on all mobile phones, independent of the screen’s pixel density.
Data Input: SearchBar
Entering data for searching or filtering is a common task in every mobile app. Fortunately, Felgo includes an advanced QML item. It handles interaction and platform-specific theming. You get a full-blown search text input control by specifying a handful of settings. This screenshot shows an empty SearchBar with the iOS theme:
SearchBar { id: weatherSearchBar focus: true Layout.fillWidth: true placeHolderText: qsTr("Enter city name") onAccepted: loadJsonData() }
By setting the width to correspond to the parent’s width (-> the layout), we ensure the search bar always fills the available screen width. The placeHolderText is great for better usability.
Finally, with onAccepted, we call a custom JavaScript function that we will code shortly. This signal is emitted whenever the user presses the Return or Enter key.
Data Display: AppText
The AppText QML type is another component of Felgo. It is a styled QML Text item. It picks up the platform’s colors and styling by default.
Our layout consists of several AppText items. Each has a dynamic text property, which is bound to weather data from the DataModel. The layout ensures the items are below each other.
AppText { text: qsTr("Weather for %1").arg(DataModel.weatherData.weatherForCity) Layout.fillWidth: true wrapMode: Text.WordWrap color: Theme.tintColor font.family: Theme.boldFont.name font.bold: true font.weight: Font.Bold visible: DataModel.weatherAvailable }
Let’s examine the most complex AppText item in our layout: the header of the weather information. It shows the city name and country.
- Text: the city name is bound to our data model.
To prepare for future app translation, we wrap the text string with qsTr(). Read more: How to Make a Multi Language App or Game with Felgo
- Layout: some text might not fit in a single line. Therefore, we activate word wrapping. The QML item needs to have a width to know where to insert the line break. We set the width to fill the available space provided by the layout.
- Styling: we apply a bold and colored style to the text. The global Theme item of Felgo provides app-wide and platform-adapted color and font resources.
- Visibility: the item should only be visible if weather data is available in the model. The binding automatically adapts the visibility.
Remaining Screen Height
By default, the layout distributes the available screen height between all items. Our current layout is quite compact. We don’t want a huge unused area between each text line.
To solve this, we add an Item with an activated fillHeight property. It’s not visible on the screen but is as tall as possible. This pushes the other items together.
Item { Layout.fillHeight: true }
Weather Services
The most popular weather services are OpenWeatherMap, Yahoo Weather and Weather Underground. In this tutorial, we use OpenWeatherMap. It’s quick to sign up, it provides free weather data access and is frequently used (also by Google).
API Key
Immediately afterwards, you get an email with usage samples. OpenWeatherMap already generated an API key called “Default” in your account.
It takes around 10 minutes until the key is active. Click on the sample link in your welcome email to check if the service is already up and running for your account.
REST Request & JSON Parsing with Qt / QML
How do we fill the UI with actual weather data? Most Internet services provide a REST API. In Qt, QML and JavaScript are tightly integrated. Instead of having to resort to C++ code, we can use standard JavaScript code to access a RESTful API.
In technical terms, the XMLHttpRequest object is embedded in the QML Global Object. Its functionality corresponds to the W3C Standard. The only exception is that it doesn’t enforce the same-origin policy. This makes our life easier, as we do not have to deal with CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing). In QML JavaScript, all REST requests typically go to an external web server.
You need 4 steps for a REST request:
- Instantiate XMLHttpRequest
- Register a state change listener
- Set the target URL & request properties
- Send the REST request
Let’s analyze these steps:
1. Instantiate XMLHttpRequest
In the first line, we create an instance of the XMLHttpRequest object. It’s OK to be a local object. Every REST request creates a new instance.
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest
2. Register a State Change Listener
By default, XMLHttpRequest is asynchronous. Therefore, we define an event handler. The most flexible approach is attaching a handler function to the onreadystatechange event.
During the lifetime of the REST request, it runs through several states:
- UNSENT
- OPENED
- HEADERS_RECEIVED
- DONE <- request is finished. Is always called (also in case of an error!)
To provide progress indicators while loading, you could register for intermediate events. For quick requests like ours to a weather service, it’s usually enough to only handle the DONE event.
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() { if (xhr.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) { // ... handle response data ... } }
3. Set the Target URL & Request Properties
Next, we configure the REST request. The open() function needs at least two parameters:
- Method: the HTTP method for the REST request. The REST protocol allows full interaction with a server.
To retrieve data, you use GET or POST methods (depending on the service definition).
An interactive RESTful web service can also implement the PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods for modifying data.
- Url: target to invoke. In case of a GET request, the parameters are part of the URL.
The open() function checks the data you supply and advances the request state to OPENED.
The OpenWeatherMap service works using GET requests. The URL needs to contain:
- Query: the city name, e.g., ?q=Vienna
We retrieve the query string from the text of the weatherSearchBar QML item.
- Units: metric or imperial, e.g., &units=metric
- API key / App ID: sign up to get a free app id. E.g., &appid=xyz
It’s a good idea to store your API key / App ID as a property in your app.
The full code to construct the query URL and to open the REST request:
var params = "q=" + weatherSearchBar.text + "&units=metric&appid=" + app.weatherServiceAppId xhr.open("GET", "?" + params)
4. Send the REST Request
A simple statement. If your RESTful service uses POST, you supply the body as parameter. For our GET method, call:
xhr.send()
Parse the REST Response
Once our REST request proceeds to the DONE state, we check the results. As we call an external service through the Internet, many things can go wrong. It’s important to handle all possible failures.
Most REST / JSON tutorials show a simplified handler. It’d fail without an Internet connection. Here, we handle all possible issues.
JSON Response
If everything went well, we received a response. The responseText property contains the JSON data, which we parse through JSON.parse(). This is the shortened JSON response. The full OpenWeatherMap response contains more data.
{ "weather": [ { "main": "Snow", "description": "light snow", "icon": "13n" } ], "main": { "temp": -0.32, }, "name": "Vienna", "cod": 200 }
Identify Failed REST Requests
A request can fail because of several reasons:
- Connection issues: e.g., no Internet connection or the server is down
- Request issues: the server / service does not understand your request, e.g., due to a typo in the URL
- Access issues: the RESTful service can’t fulfil your request. Examples: unauthorized client, invalid API key
- Service issues: unable to send a positive response. E.g., because the requested city doesn’t exist, or because no weather is currently available for the city
Usually, REST services only send the positive HTTP status code 200 if everything worked well. In all other cases, they send a different HTTP status code (e.g., 404 if the city wasn’t found). Additionally, it may send a response text even in case of a failure. This provides extra information on what went wrong.
But, some REST services always return the successful HTTP code 200. They only report an error in the response text. Check the service documentation and test the REST APIs.
OpenWeatherMap is a well-designed RESTful service. It always sends a response JSON. The JSON data includes a response code (called “cod”). So, it’s best to parse the responseText (if available). If parsing the JSON was successful (!= null) and the JSON contains a “cod” of 200, we know that everything went well. Otherwise, we need to analyze the error.
var parsedWeather = xhr.responseText ? JSON.parse(xhr.responseText) : null if (parsedWeather && parsedWeather.cod === 200) { // Success: received city weather data } else { // Issue with the REST request }
Successful REST Request
If the REST service returned data, we reset any previous error message in our UI. Then, we update our DataModel.
// Success: received city weather data app.errorMsg = "" DataModel.updateFromJson(parsedWeather)
REST Response Error Handling
In technical terms, we differentiate 3 types of REST request failures:
- The status code of the XMLHttpRequest is still 0, even though its status already changed to DONE. This indicates that the request didn’t go through.
Potential reasons: no Internet connection, server is down, …
- We received response text, but it contains an error description. For our weather app, we show the message to the user.
Potential reasons: city not found, API key is wrong, …
- No response text, but a HTTP response status code. Create a custom error message for the user.
Potential reasons: REST service crashed (e.g., 500 Internal Server Error), …
This code snippet handles all 3 cases. It formulates a brief error message for the app user.
// Issue with the REST request if (xhr.status === 0) { // The request didn't go through, e.g., no Internet connection or the server is down app.errorMsg = "Unable to send weather request" } else if (parsedWeather && parsedWeather.message) { // Received a response, but the server reported the request was not successful app.errorMsg = parsedWeather.message } else { // All other cases - print the HTTP response status code / message app.errorMsg = "Request error: " + xhr.status + " / " + xhr.statusText }
JSON Data Model for REST Requests
An architecture that separates the model from the view makes your app easy to extend. So, we create an extra class to manage the data model.
Right-click the qml folder in Qt Creator’s “Project”-window and select “Add new…”. Choose the Item template in the Felgo Apps category. Call the file “DataModel.qml”.
Singleton Pattern in QML
We want our model to be accessible in the whole app. Thus, we use the Singleton pattern. This requires three steps:
1. Prepare the QML file
In the very first line of DataModel.qml – before the import statements – add:
pragma Singleton
2. Register the singleton
Create a new file called “qmldir” in Other files > qml in the Projects window.
Add the following line to the qmldir file:
singleton DataModel 1.0 DataModel.qml
In the next step, we’ll import a directory to access our singleton file. When importing a directory, Qt always looks first for a qmldir file. It’s using that to customize the way it sees and imports qml files. In our case, the QML engine now knows to treat the DataModel.qml file as a singleton.
3. Import the Singletons
In Main.qml, add the following import after all the other import statements:
import "."
This causes Qt to scan the directory. From now on, our DataModel.qml file is accessible via the “DataModel” identifier in Main.qml.
QML Data Model Structure
Our data model requires three properties. Two contain information about the state of the data (weatherAvailable and weatherFromCache).
The third property is weatherData. It’s defined with the type var and initialized as an array with []. This allows assigning key-value pairs for the actual data. It lets us cache and restore the data with a single statement. Dynamic binding to the UI is still possible.
The basic structure of our data model:
pragma Singleton import Felgo 3.0 import QtQuick 2.7 Item { id: dataModel property bool weatherAvailable: false property bool weatherFromCache: false property var weatherData: [] }
Save Weather Data to the Model
We want to keep the model generic. You could add a different data provider later, or the JSON layout changes.
Our app extracts the data it needs from the weather JSON. The app then stores the relevant data in its own model. If we’d later migrate to a different data provider, it wouldn’t influence the model or the UI.
The most efficient way to achieve this: create a setModelData() function. It takes the parsed parameters and saves it to our weatherData property.
function setModelData(weatherAvailable, weatherForCity, weatherDate, weatherTemp, weatherCondition, weatherIconUrl, weatherFromCache) { dataModel.weatherData = { 'weatherForCity': weatherForCity, 'weatherDate': weatherDate, 'weatherTemp': weatherTemp, 'weatherCondition': weatherCondition, 'weatherIconUrl': weatherIconUrl } dataModel.weatherAvailable = weatherAvailable dataModel.weatherFromCache = weatherFromCache }
Parse JSON Data from the Weather Service
In a previous step, we already converted the JSON text to objects with JSON.parse(xhr.responseText).
The QML runtime implements the ECMAScript language specification. Thus, working with JSON data in QML is like standard JavaScript. Every JSON object is accessible as a property. You retrieve JSON array values using the [] accessor.
The updateFromJson() method extracts the useful information from JSON and forwards it to our model.
function updateFromJson(parsedWeatherJson) { // Use the new parsed JSON file to update the model and the cache setModelData(true, parsedWeatherJson.name + ", " + parsedWeatherJson.sys.country, new Date(), parsedWeatherJson.main.temp, parsedWeatherJson.weather[0].main, "" + parsedWeatherJson.weather[0].icon + ".png", false) }
Note: JavaScript and QML are very similar. The differences are hard to spot.
- date.now() generates a JavaScript date object.
- new Date() instantiates a Qt Date object.
We choose the Qt variant, as it makes serialization easier. Qt provides platform-independent storage and transmission of all Qt data types.
Now, the app is functional! Go ahead and test it on any platform or device.
Data Persistence
REST requests over the Internet take time. To improve the user experience, we add data persistence to our app. With this enhancement, our app immediately shows cached data when it’s started. The update request to the webservice then runs in the background.
We stored our weather data in DataModel.qml. Now, we extend our model to encapsulate its own caching.
Storage QML Type
File handling is different on every platform. Felgo includes a powerful cross-platform type called Storage. It handles the most common use-case: key-value data storage. You don’t need to write complex SQL statements like in the base Qt Quick Local Storage QML type.
At the same time, all built-in QML types are serializable to Strings. With a single line of code, we export the whole model to persistent storage.
Initialize the Storage by adding the element as a child of our dataModel item:
Storage { id: weatherLocalStorage Component.onCompleted: { // After the storage has been initialized, check if any weather data is cached. // If yes, load it into our model. loadModelFromStorage() } }
Load QML Data from Persistent Storage
The ready-made implementation from Felgo calls onCompleted() once the storage is accessible. We use this to check if cached data is available. We access stored data using getValue(). If no data is available, it returns undefined. A simple if(savedWeatherData) statement lets us execute code accordingly.
function loadModelFromStorage() { var savedWeatherData = weatherLocalStorage.getValue("weatherData") if (savedWeatherData) { dataModel.weatherData = savedWeatherData dataModel.weatherAvailable = true dataModel.weatherFromCache = true } }
The powerful APIs de-serialize the storage into the live model data. To inform the user that he’s now seeing cached data, we set the other model properties accordingly.
Save QML Data to Persistent Storage
To serialize our weather data to the storage, we use setValue(). The second argument is our whole weather data storage object. Felgo automatically serializes it to the storage.
function saveModelToStorage() { weatherLocalStorage.setValue("weatherData", dataModel.weatherData) }
What’s the best place to update the storage? Especially in mobile apps, it’s recommended to immediately update persistent storage. A mobile operating system may shut down apps at any time, e.g., for an incoming call and low system resources. Thus, call saveModelToStorage() at the end of our setModelData() method.
Deploy the App to Android, iOS and Desktop
Felgo provides platform-independent styling and a responsive layout. The Felgo Live Service features live code reloading every time you save changes to QML files. The PC client simulates the app appearance on iOS, Android or Desktop platforms.
With the Felgo Live Scripting App for Android or iOS, you can extend testing to a real mobile device. Your development PC and the phone communicate over the local area network.
This screenshot shows a sample configuration of the Felgo Live Server. Two clients are connected. The app is running on a Google Pixel 2 phone (with the Felgo Live App) and on a desktop client.
Download the final, open source QML REST client sample code from GitHub:
It extends the code from this article with several comments. It’s a great starting point for your own REST projects!
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I started this article with the objective of providing a more up to date discussion of thread priorities. I thought first that I should cover a little about threads just in case. If you are already conversant in threads, jump ahead to the Thread Priorities section.
Threads are a valuable part of the .NET MF programming model. They are particularly useful in the common scenarios where you are getting input from a sensor or communicating with other devices. If you have a sensor for example, it is common to see polling loops in the main program which are very unwieldy. In communication with a Web Server or Client, queries and responses may come at any time and integrating handling them into everything else you have to do in your application can make it all very confusing. Enter threads.
Threads are sets of logic that run ‘independently’ from each other. This means that my main program (one thread) executes as if in parallel with the logic of my sensor monitoring thread and the HTTPListener thread. While threads execute independently, they are not executing at the same time and they are all managed by a scheduler. What the scheduler does is to allocate a time slice to each thread to proceed in its execution. In the case of NETMF, the default time slice is 20 mSec allocated in a round robin order. This means that if I have 2 threads, thread A will get potentially 20 mSec to execute and then be asked to leave and then thread B gets a potential 20 mSec.
I say that they have a ‘potential’ 20 mSec because any thread that can’t do anything (ie is blocked), relinquishes its time back to the scheduler which gives it to the next thread in line. This has implications for how you write your thread logic. You want to be as parsimonious as possible so that the thread gives up quickly and allows other threads to execute. If you can trigger you sensor input logic to execute on an event (eg a pin going high) rather than looping in your thread to poll it, the thread will not be blocking other processing needlessly. The other beneficial side effect is that, if the scheduler can’t find a thread that needs to run, it can put the processor into a lower power state preserving your batteries. To give you a practical example, the SPOT watches that were written on an early version of this platform had a continually updated display and needed to be responsive to arbitrary user input and they were in constant communication with the data source to get updates, did this on a 2% duty cycle. That means that the processor was actually only running 2% of the time. Imagine the impact that had on the battery life.
Let’s look at a simple example. In this example, you see that I have defined two threads and then let the main thread exit. Each thread only writes an identifying string to the output window. It then performs some meaningless logic to fill up time. This reduces the number of actually Debug.Print() calls that get executed to make this easier to see what is going on. Executing this logic in the emulator on my machine outputs about 10 times for each time slice. You would normally use a Timer to spread out the Debug.Print’s but when the scheduler sees that the thread is blocked waiting for a Timer call, it will boot the thread out.
using System.Threading; using Microsoft.SPOT; using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
namespace ThreadPriorities { public class Threads { static void Main() { Thread thread1 = new Thread(XActivity); Thread thread2 = new Thread(YActivity);
thread1.Start(); thread2.Start(); } static void XActivity() { int j; while (true) { Debug.Print("X"); for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++) { j = i * 3; } } } static void YActivity() { int j; while (true) { Debug.Print(" Y"); for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++) { j = i * 3; } } } } }
The output of this program is predictable but demonstrates the time slicing of the scheduler
Before we leave basic threading, I wanted to point out another impact that threading has. Suppose you have a sensor that triggers an event (eg: puts a GPIO pin high) but that thread is not currently running. The scheduler will get to that thread in the course of its progress through the round robin list. If there are multiple threads and they all take their full 20mSec, this could take time. If, for example, you have 5 threads, the worst case approaches 100 mSec before you can respond.
There are 5 thread priorities supported in NETMF (Lowest, BelowNormal, Normal, AboveNormal, and Highest). Normal is obviously the default. You change the priority by setting the property as in
thread.Priority = ThreadPriority.AboveNormal;
For each step, up or down, you double (or halve) the potential execution time. This means that if you have two threads and one is AboveNormal, then the outcome is that the Above Normal thread is run about twice as much as the Normal. Let’s see what that means in our earlier example. I have reduced the priority of Thread2.
thread2.Priority = ThreadPriority.BelowNormal;
You can see the impact from the output below:
Why would you use this? Remember the example above where we had 5 threads and there was a worst case that an interrupt on one thread was not handled for 100mSec. Now you can make the much better. If you raise the priority of the thread handling that interrupt to say ‘Highest’, then when the scheduler looks at the thread queue at the completion of the current thread, it is highly likely that it will run that thread next if it can run (ie the interrupt has fired). I can only say highly likely because there could be another thread priorities that interact with this selection. The scheduler actually keep a dynamic internal priority based not only on the priority that you have set but also how much time the thread has already had recently. This insures that your high priority thread which is now getting lots of interrupts does not make it impossible for any other thread to ever run.
Let’s look at a more complete example. In this example, we create a thread for each priority level In this example, we just count the iterations and print them out to the Output window every 5 seconds. Here is the code:
using System; using System.Threading; using Microsoft.SPOT;
namespace ThreadingSample { /// <summary> /// Demonstrates various threading priorities of the .NET Micro Framework. /// </summary> public static class MyThreading { private static int[] s_IncCount = new int[5]; private static void Thread1() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[0]); } }
private static void Thread2() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[1]); } }
private static void Thread3() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[2]); } }
private static void Thread4() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[3]); } }
private static void Thread5() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[4]); } }
/// <summary> /// The execution entry point. /// </summary> public static void Main() { Thread[] threads = new Thread[5];
threads[0] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thread1)); threads[1] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thread2)); threads[2] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thread3)); threads[3] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thread4)); threads[4] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thread5));
threads[0].Priority = ThreadPriority.Highest; threads[1].Priority = ThreadPriority.AboveNormal; threads[2].Priority = ThreadPriority.Normal; threads[3].Priority = ThreadPriority.BelowNormal; threads[4].Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
int len = threads.Length; for (int i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--) { threads[i].Start(); }
while (true) { Thread.Sleep(5000); lock (s_IncCount) { for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { Debug.Print("th " + i.ToString() + ": " + s_IncCount[i]); } Debug.Print(""); } } }
} }
Here is the output from this.
You can see that each priority gets about twice the time to run. Now let’s add a little wrinkle. We will add a sixth thread – this one also running at the ‘Highest’ level but this one with a Sleep() for 2 seconds every 100000 iteration.
private static void Thread6() { while (true) { Interlocked.Increment(ref s_IncCount[5]);
if (0 == s_IncCount[5] % 100000) // about the increments in 5sec { Thread.Sleep(2000); } } }
What would you expect the iteration count for this thread to look like? Having a ‘Highest’ priority means that even though it is sleeping for a significant portion of the time, the scheduler will try to make up by running it as much as possible. The results look like this.
This is a very quick look at threading and thread priorities aimed mainly at letting you know that they are there and basically how they work. There are complications to threading that make it one of the more challenging (and interesting) parts of programming small devices. These complications include things like deadlock, starvation, livelock, race conditions. You may have noticed for example that we invoked the ‘Interlock’ class when we updated the counters in the thread and the Lock when we use the counters in the main thread. Since this is a shared resource, there is the possibility of conflict when several threads are trying to access the same resources. So, there is more to know about threads but that is not specific to the .NET Micro Framework so there are a number of good sources for that information. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/netmfteam/archive/2011/01/17/threads-and-thread-priorities-in-netmf.aspx | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | refinedweb | 1,541 | 63.39 |
Contents
- Introduction
- Working with namespaces
- Improper use of node test text()
- Don't lose the context node
- Avoid broken links in non-Microsoft browsers
- Simplify stylesheets by changing the context node
- Processing mixed content
- Ineffectiveness in your stylesheets
- XSLT 1.0 or 2.0?
- Conclusion
- Downloadable resources
- Related topics
Avoid common XSLT mistakes
Trade in bad habits for great code
Writing code to handle XML transformations in XSLT is much easier than in any other commonly used programming language. But the XSLT language has such a different syntax and processing model from classical programming languages that it takes time to grasp all of XSLT's subtle nuances.
This article is in no way meant as an extensive and complex XSLT tutorial. Instead, it starts with explanation of topics that pose the biggest difficulties for inexperienced XML and XSLT developers. Later, it moves to topics related to the overall design of stylesheets and their performance.
Working with namespaces
Although it's increasingly rare to see XML documents without namespaces, there still seems to be some confusion related to their proper use in different technologies. Many documents use prefixes to denote elements in a namespace, and this explicit notation of namespaces doesn't typically lead to confusion. The example in Listing 1 shows a simple SOAP message that uses two namespaces—one for the SOAP envelope and one for the actual payload.
Listing 1. XML document with namespaces
<env:Envelope xmlns: > </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
As elements in the source document have prefixes, it's clear that they belong to a namespace. No one will have problems processing such a document in XSLT. It is sufficient to duplicate namespace declarations from the source document in the stylesheet. Although you can use arbitrary prefixes, it's usually more convenient to use the same prefixes as in typical input documents, as in Listing 2.
Listing 2. Stylesheet that accesses information in a namespaced document
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns: <xsl:template Departure location: <xsl:value-of </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
As you can see, this code declares namespace prefixes
env and
p on the root element
xsl:stylesheet. Such
declarations are then inherited by all elements in the stylesheet so you
can use them in any embedded XPath expression. Also note that in XPath
expressions, you must prefix all elements with the appropriate namespace
prefix. If you forget to mention a prefix in any step, your expression
will return nothing—an error for which it's difficult to track the
cause.
Documents that use namespaces are typically the cause of trouble when the
use of namespaces is not apparent at first blush. If you have a lot of
elements in one namespace, you can define this namespace as a default
using the
xmlns attribute. Elements from the default
namespace do not use prefixes; therefore, it's easy to miss that they're
actually in a namespace. Imagine that you have to transform the XHTML
document in Listing 3.
Listing 3. XHTML document using a default namespace
<html xmlns=""> <head> <title>Example XHTML document</title> </head> <body> <p>Sample content</p> </body> </html>
It might be that you simply glanced over
xmlns="", or it might be that
this default namespace declaration is preceded by a dozen other attributes
and you simply didn't see what was in column 167—even on your
widescreen display. It is quite natural to write XPath expressions like
/html/head/title, but such expressions return an empty node
set, because the input document contains no elements like
title. All elements in the input document belong to the namespace, and this must be
reflected in the XPath expressions.
To access namespaced elements in XPath, you must define a prefix for their namespace. For example, if you want to access a title in the sample XHTML document, you have to define a prefix for the XHTML namespace, then use this prefix in all XPath steps, as the example stylesheet in Listing 4 shows.
Listing 4. The transformation must use namespace prefixes even for input documents that use a default namespace
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns: <xsl:template Title of document: <xsl:value-of </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Again, you have to be very careful about prefixes in XPath expressions. One missing prefix, and you'll get the wrong result.
Unfortunately, XSLT version 1.0 has no concept similar to a default namespace; therefore, you must repeat namespace prefixes again and again. This problem was rectified in XSLT version 2.0, where you can specify a default namespace that applies to un-prefixed elements in an XPath expression. In XSLT 2.0, you can simplify the previous stylesheet as in Listing 5.
Listing 5. Declaration of a XPath default namespace in XSLT 2.0
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns: <xsl:template Title of document: <xsl:value-of </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Improper use of node test text()
Most stylesheets contain dozens of simple templates that are responsible for processing leaf elements in input documents. For example, you store a price inside an element:
<price>124.95</price>
and you want to output it as a new paragraph in HTML with the currency and a label added:
<p>Price: 124.95 USD</p>
In many stylesheets I have seen, templates that handle this functionality
can fail miserably. The reason is the use of the
text() node
test inside the template body, which in 99 percent of cases leads to
broken code. What's wrong with the following template?
<xsl:template <p>Price: <xsl:value-of USD</p> </xsl:template>
The XPath expression inside the
xsl:value-of instruction is
shorthand for the expression
child::text(). This expression
selects all text nodes between the children of the
<price> element. Typically, there's only one such node,
and everything works as expected. But imagine that you put a comment or
processing instruction in the middle of the
<price>
element:
<price>12<!-- I'm a comment. I should be ignored. -->4.95</price>
The expression now returns two text nodes:
12 and
4.95. But the semantics of
xsl:value-of is such
that it returns only the first node of the node set. In this case, you'll
get the wrong output:
<p>Price: 12 USD</p>
Because
xsl:value-of expects a single node, you must use it
with an expressions that returns a single node. In many situations, a
reference to the current node (
.) is the right approach. The
correct form of the example template above, then, is:
<xsl:template <p>Price: <xsl:value-of USD</p> </xsl:template>
The current node (
.) now returns the whole
<price> element. The
xsl:value-of
instruction automatically returns the string value of a node that is a
concatenation of all text node descendants. Such an approach guarantees
that you will always get the whole content of an element regardless of
included comments, processing instructions, or sub-elements.
In XSLT 2.0, the semantics of the
xsl:value-of instruction is
changed, and it returns a string value of all passed
nodes—not just of the first one. But it's still better to reference
the element for which content should be returned to its text nodes. This
way, code won't break when new sub-elements are added to provide more
granular markup.
Don't lose the context node
Each template (
xsl:template) or iteration
(
xsl:for-each) is instantiated with a current node. All
relative XPath expressions are evaluated starting from this current node.
If you start an XPath expression with
/, the expression won't
be evaluated against the current node; instead, the evaluation will start
at the document root node. The result of such expressions will always be
the same, and it won't be related to the current node.
Imagine that you want to process the simple invoice in Listing 6.
Listing 6. Sample invoice
<invoice> <item> <description>Pilsner Beer</description> <qty>6</qty> <unitPrice>1.69</unitPrice> </item> <item> <description>Sausage</description> <qty>3</qty> <unitPrice>0.59</unitPrice> </item> <item> <description>Portable Barbecue</description> <qty>1</qty> <unitPrice>23.99</unitPrice> </item> <item> <description>Charcoal</description> <qty>2</qty> <unitPrice>1.19</unitPrice> </item> </invoice>
If you forgot to write expressions relative to the current node, you can easily end up with the wrong stylesheet, as in Listing 7.
Listing 7. Example of a bad stylesheet that loses context
>
The expression
/invoice/item in
xsl:for-each
correctly selects all items in the invoice. But expressions inside
xsl:for-each are wrong, as they start with
/,
which means that they're absolute. Such expressions always return a
description, the quantity, and price of the first item (remember from the
previous section that
xsl:value-of returns only the first
node from a node set), because an absolute expression does not depend on
the current node, which corresponds to the currently processed item.
To easily fix this problem, use a relative expression inside
xsl:for-each, as in Listing 8.
Listing 8. Use of relative XPath expressions inside the iteration body
> </xsl:stylesheet>
Avoid broken links in non-Microsoft browsers
XSLT is good at automating common tasks. One such boring and laborious task
is preparing a table of contents. With XSLT, you can generate such a table
automatically. You simply generate anchors, then links pointing back to
them. In HTML, you create an anchor simply by putting a unique identifier
inside the
id attribute:
<div id="label">…</div>
When you construct a link back to this anchor, add
label after
the fragment identifier (
#) to indicate that this is a link
to a particular place inside the document:
<a href="#label">link to …</a>
A real stylesheet typically produces labels and links by using the
generate-id() function or a real identifier provided in the
input document.
The problem with this linking task is actually not in XSLT itself but in
some "too clever" Web browsers. I've seen many stylesheets in which a
fragment identifier (
#) was added to the anchor by mistake.
The output of the stylesheet was then tested only in Windows®
Internet Explorer®. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer can recover from
many errors in HTML code, so there's no problem with links from the user
perspective. But if you try the same page in such browsers as Mozilla
Firefox or Opera, the links are broken, because these browsers can't
recover from the excessive
#.
To avoid other similar problems, the best you can do is test your stylesheet-generated output in multiple browsers.
Simplify stylesheets by changing the context node
If you process business documents or data-oriented XML, it's common not to rely extensively on a template mechanism but rather just cherry-pick the required content and assemble it to the desired form in one large template. Imagine that you want to process the invoice in Listing 9.
Listing 9. Invoice with a complex structure
<Invoice> <ID>IN 2003/00645</ID> <IssueDate>2003-02-25</IssueDate> <TaxPointDate>2003-02-25</TaxPointDate> <OrderReference> <BuyersID>S03-034257</BuyersID> <SellersID>SW/F1/50156</SellersID> <IssueDate>2003-02-03</IssueDate> </OrderReference> <BuyerParty> <Party> <Name>Jerry Builder plc</Name> <Address> <StreetName>Marsh Lane</StreetName> <CityName>Nowhere</CityName> <PostalZone>NR18 4XX</PostalZone> <CountrySubentity>Norfolk</CountrySubentity> </Address> <Contact>Eva Brick</Contact> </Party> </BuyerParty> … </Invoice>
A typical stylesheet for processing this document (see Listing 10) will contain a lot of repeated paths in XPath expressions, because a good deal of information is in the same part of the input XML tree.
Listing 10. This naive stylesheet uses a lot of repeated XPath code
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns: <xsl:template <html> <head> <title>Invoice #<xsl:value-of</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #<xsl:value-of issued on <xsl:value-of</h1> <div> <h2>Buyer:</h2> <p> <b><xsl:value-of</b> </p> <p>Address:<br/> <xsl:value-of<br/> <xsl:value-of<br/> <xsl:value-of </p> <p>Contact person: <xsl:value-of</p> … </div> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Those repetitions in XPath expression are tedious—you have to repeat
them again and again. They can also prove a future burden. Any changes to
the structure of the input document create more places in which you have
to adjust the expression. You can simplify the stylesheet by factoring out
a common part of the expressions. You do this by using instructions that
change the current node—
xsl:template and
xsl:for-each. The stylesheet in Listing
11 contains significantly less repeated information.
Listing 11. stylesheet with common XPath paths factored out
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns: <xsl:template <html> <head> <title>Invoice #<xsl:value-of</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #<xsl:value-of issued on <xsl:value-of</h1> <div> <h2>Buyer:</h2> <xsl:for-each <p> <b><xsl:value-of</b> </p> <xsl:for-each <p>Address:<br/> <xsl:value-of<br/> <xsl:value-of<br/> <xsl:value-of </p> </xsl:for-each> <p>Contact person: <xsl:value-of</p> </xsl:for-each> … </div> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
I've changed the match on the template from
/ to
Invoice so that I don't have to repeat this root element name
at the start of each XPath expression. Inside the template, I used
xsl:for-each to temporally change the current node to
buyer (
BuyerParty/Party) and inside it once
again to address (
Address). It might seem strange to
use
xsl:for-each for non-repeating elements, but there's
nothing wrong with it: The body of the iteration will be invoked only once
but with a changed current node, which will save a lot of repeated typing.
Processing mixed content
Mixed content is typically present in document-oriented XML. Mixed content is structure in which an element contains as children both elements and text nodes. A typical example of mixed content is a paragraph that contains text with additional markup, like emphasis or links:
<para><emphasis>Douglas Adams</emphasis> was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the <link url="'s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</link> series.</para>
It is important to process mixed content in document order; otherwise, you
can get completely mangled output, with a changed order of sentence parts.
The most natural way to process mixed content is by calling
xsl:apply-templates on the element with mixed content or on
all of its children. Subsequent templates can then handle embedded markup
such as emphasis and links.
I've seen many stylesheets that use a "cherry-picked" approach for mixed
content handling. This approach is well suited to documents with regular
structure, but mixed content typically varies in its internal structure
and is difficult to handle correctly this way. So, whenever you see mixed
content, try to forgot about simple
xsl:value-of and
xsl:for-each and move your interest to templates.
Ineffectiveness in your stylesheets
If you write small transformations operating on rather small datasets—for example, a view layer in a Web application—you're probably not very concerned about performance of transformation itself, as this process is typically fractional to the rest of processing. But when an XSLT stylesheet performs complex operations or works on a large input document, it's time to start thinking about the performance impact of constructs used in the stylesheet.
In general, it's difficult to make any judgments solely from XSLT code, as it depends on the particular XSLT implementation—whether it can handle some code well and possibly speed it up by using some sort of optimization.
Regardless, some things are good to skip in real stylesheets. If you want
to save the planet, use the descendant axis (
//) very
carefully. When you use
//, the XSLT processor has to inspect
the whole tree (or subtree) in its full depth. In larger documents, this
can be a very expensive operation. It is wise to write more specific
expressions that explicitly specify where to look for nodes. For example,
to get a buyer's address, it's better to write
/Invoice/BuyerParty/Party/Address instead of
//BuyerParty//Address or even
//Address. The
first variant is much faster, because only a fraction of the nodes have to
be inspected during evaluation. Such targeted expressions are also less
likely to be affected by the document structure evolution, where new
elements with the same name but a different meaning can be added into
different contexts in the input document.
Another trick when you do a lot of lookups, define a lookup key using
xsl:key, then use the
key() function to perform
the lookup.
You can make plenty of other optimizations, but their impact depends on the XSLT processor you use.
XSLT 1.0 or 2.0?
Which XSLT version you use depends on several factors, but generally, I recommend using XSLT 2.0. The latest version of the language contains many new instructions and functions that can greatly simplify many tasks—shorter and straightforward code is always easier to maintain. Moreover, in XSLT 2.0, you can write schema-aware stylesheets, which use a schema to validate both input and output documents. Schema-aware stylesheets can use information contained in a schema to automatically detect some types of errors and mistakes in your stylesheets.
Conclusion
This article covered some areas that tend to be more challenging in XSLT. I hope that now you have better understanding of some XSLT features and that you will be able to write better XSLT stylesheets.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- What kind of language is XSLT?
- Planning to upgrade XSLT 1.0 to 2.0, Part 3
- Search the xsl-list /at/ lists.mulberrytech.com Archives
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Written By Neil
A. Dummy Platform Mapping
Initial platform bring-up
As a first step to bring up the platform, we will stick to the bare minimum in order to compile and install the Null application on our nios2 mote.
All platform-specific code goes in tos/platforms/. For example, we have tos/platforms/micaz or tos/platforms/tinynode. Our first step is to create a directory for the nios2 platform:
$ cd tinyos-2.x/tos/platforms $ mkdir nios2
The .platform file
Each platform directory (such as tos/platforms/nios2) should contain a file named ".platform", that contains basic compiler parameters information for each platform. So, create the file "tos/platforms/nios2/‘d MCU-specific file.
As an exercise, try finding the definitions of __nesc_atomic_start() and __nesc_atomic_end() for the micaZ and intelmote2 platforms. nios2 platform:
$ cd tinyos-2.x/apps/Null $ make nios2 , "nios2 tos-ident-flags tos_image" does not specify a valid target. Stop.
The problem is that we need to define the platform in the TinyOS build system, so that the make invocation above recognizes the nios2 nios2 platform so that the "make nios2" "nios2" is a legal platform when we enter "make nios2") is the existence of a platformname.target file in the aforementioned make directory.
So, create the file "tinyos-2.x/support/make/nios2.target" with the following contents:
PLATFORM = nios2 $(call TOSMake_include_platform,msp) nios2: $(BUILD_DEPS) @:
This sets the PLATFORM variable to nios2, includes the msp platform ("make/msp/msp.rules") file, and provides in the last two lines a make rule for building a nios2 application using standard Makefile syntax. Now, let’s go back and try to compile the Null app as before. This time we get:
[18:23 henridf@tinyblue: ~/work/tinyos-2.x/apps/Null] make nios2 mkdir -p build/nios2 compiling NullAppC to a nios2binary ncc -o build/yamp/main.exe -Os -Wall -Wshadow -DDEF_TOS_AM_GROUP=0x7d -Wnesc-all -target=nios2-fnesc-cfile=build/yamp/app.c -board= NullAppC.nc -lm/nios2/nios2/PlatformC.nc" as:
#include "hardware.h" configuration PlatformC { provides interface Init; } implementation { components PlatformP , Msp430ClockC ; Init = PlatformP; PlatformP.Msp430ClockInit -> Msp430ClockC.Init; }
Now, compilation of the Null application finally works for the nios2 platform:
[19:47 henridf@tinyblue: ~/work/tinyos-2.x/apps/Null] make nios2 mkdir -p build/nios2 compiling NullAppC to a nios2 binary ncc -o build/yamp/main.exe -Os -Wall -Wshadow -DDEF_TOS_AM_GROUP=0x7d -Wnesc-all -target=nios2 -fnesc-cfile=build/yamp/app.c -board= NullAppC.nc -lm compiled NullAppC to build/nios2/main.exe 1216 bytes in ROM 6 bytes in RAM msp430-objcopy --output-target=ihex build/nios2/main.exe build/nios2/main.ihex writing TOS image | https://yidonghan.wordpress.com/2008/01/ | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | refinedweb | 443 | 51.65 |
Spring is one of the most popular and reliable frameworks available for Java developers. Upon its core, many modules were implemented, like Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and so on. In this article we will see how to use Spring Session (one of these Spring modules) to scale JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications horizontally.
Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
Before diving into how we use Spring Session to scale JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications, let's do a quick review on the differences between scaling applications vertically and horizontally.
Scaling an application vertically means adding more power to the machine that hosts the application. For example, let's say that we have an application running on a
t2.medium instance on AWS (which has 2 virtual cores and 4GiBs of RAM) that is having a hard time to process all requests. To scale this application vertically would mean choosing a more powerful instance, with more resources, to host it (e.g. using a
t2.xlarge instance that has 4 virtual cores and 16GiBs of RAM).
This approach has one good advantage but three extremely important disadvantages. The upside is that it is very easy to scale it. It's just a matter of deploying the application to the new instance and we are good to go. The downside list is:
- The host that supports our application is a single point of failure. This means that if it goes down our users won't have access to our application.
- It is quite expensive to keep upgrading the instance type, no matter where we are hosting it.
- There is a limit on how much power we can get from a single host.
Horizontal scalability, on the other hand, means adding more hosts to support an application. In the example above, instead of choosing a new instance type, we could create a second
t2.medium instance and load balance requests) between them.
The biggest disadvantage of this approach is that the complexity of scaling an application is higher, when compared to deploying an application on a more powerful machine. But, the advantages are:
- We can scale it infinitely.
- It is cheaper to add a second machine rather than replacing for one with twice the power.
- We have no single point of failure.
As we can see, although scaling applications vertically mighty be easier, scaling them horizontally is much more interesting and improves the reliability of our system. That's why in this article we will see how we can use Spring Session to scale JSF applications horizontally.
What is Spring Session
Spring Session is a module of the Spring Framework that aims on providing a common infrastructure for managing clustered sessions. This means that Spring Session abstracts the complexity of clustering HTTP sessions, making it easy to host applications scaled horizontally. Basically, what this modules does is to offload the storage of the session state into external session stores (e.g. Redis or a regular database such as PostgreSQL).
Scaling JSF with Spring Session
To see Spring Session in action, we are going to run two dockerized instances of a specific JSF application—i.e. we are going to use Docker to host our application instances. Each dockerized instance will run on a different port: instance number one will run on port
8081; and instance number two will run on port
8082.
The JSF application in this repository is not configured with Spring Session. After building the application and running it on Docker, we are going to make the adjustments needed to tie these two instances together with Spring Session. To seamlessly integrate these instances, making them look like a single application, we are going to use a dockerized NGINX instance configured as a load balancer.
To summarize, we are going to:
- clone a GitHub repo that gives us a good start point
- compile and package the JSF application in this repo
- launch two dockerized instances of this application
- check their behavior running as independent applications
- refactor the application to use Spring Session
- run Redis in a Docker container
- and configure NGINX and launch everything to have a horizontally scaled JSF application
JSF Application
To start, let's clone this repository. The JSF application inside this repository contains only a data table that lists products and that accepts drag & drop commands to reorder the items.
The list of products is instantiated in memory when a user access the application for the first time. When the user drags & drop an item, the new order is kept for the whole duration of the session. Different users can have different orders, as the reordering occurs inside an HTTP session. But, for the same user, no matter how many tabs of the application are opened on a web browser, the order will be always the same.
Every time a user reorders the data table, JSF shows a message distinguishing which instance of the application handled the request. Before using Spring Session and tying the two instances together, this message won't have that much value. But, when we have every piece in place, we will be able to see that different instances will act in the same HTTP session.
Enough talking, let's get our hands dirty. To clone the application and to run it in two different dockerized instances, let's issue the following commands:
Note that you will have to have Docker properly installed in your development environment. To install it, follow the instructions here. Besides that you will need a JDK (1.7 or higher) and Maven. Please, be sure to have everything properly installed before proceeding.
# clone repo git clone # access its main directory cd spring-boot-session # compile and package the application mvn clean package
After issuing the three commands above, we will have our JSF application ready to run. You might want to run it in your own machine before dockerizing it. This step is not needed, but it is good to see the application before putting it inside a Docker instance. To do that issue
java -jar target/spring-session-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar and open in your web browser. Note that if you do run the application now and try to reorder the data table, you will see a message saying Request handled by: default title. When we dockerize this application, we will give different titles to both instances.
Dockerizing the JSF Application
Now that we have our application compiled and packaged, we can proceed with the dockerizing step. The process of dockerizing a Spring Boot application (the JSF application in this repo is based on Spring Boot) is quite simple. We just need to generate a Docker image with a JDK, add the packaged application to this image and then run it. You will find the
Dockerfile with all these commands in the root directory of our application, but I show its contents below as well:
FROM frolvlad/alpine-oraclejdk8:slim VOLUME /tmp ADD target/spring-session-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar /app.jar RUN sh -c 'touch /app.jar' ENV JAVA_OPTS="" ENTRYPOINT [ "sh", "-c", "java $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -jar /app.jar" ]
The first line defines that the image will be generated from an image that contains JDK 1.8. After that we define a volume and add the packaged application to the image. The last command in this
Dockerfile executes the JSF application.
To build and run the two dockerized instances of the JSF application, let's issue the following command from the root directory:
# build the dockerized application image docker build -t without-spring-session . # running instance number one docker run -d -p 8081:8080 --name without-spring-session-1 -e "APPLICATION_TITLE=First instance" without-spring-session # running instance number two docker run -d -p 8082:8080 --name without-spring-session-2 -e "APPLICATION_TITLE=Second instance" without-spring-session
The first command builds the image naming it as
without-spring-session to easily identify that it is an image with no Spring Session configured. After that we run two instances of this image. We define that the first instance being run will have its port
8080 tied to port
8081 in our development machine. And the second instance will have port
8080 tied to port
8082. Note that we also define distinct values to the environment variable named
APPLICATION_TITLE. This is the title that the JSF application shows in the Request handled by message when reordering the data table.
By opening on a tab of our web browser and on another tab, we can see that we have two distinct applications running apart. They do not share a common state (i.e. an HTTP session). This means that if we reorder the data table on instance number one, nothing will happen with instance number two. We can refresh the page an check that the second tab will have the data table unaltered.
Integrating Spring Boot with Spring Session
Integrating Spring Boot with Spring Session is very easy. We have to take only four small steps. The first one is to add two dependencies to our project: Spring Session and a external session store (we will use Redis in this article). To add these dependencies, let's open the
pom.xml file and add the following elements to the
<dependencies/> element:
<dependencies> <!-- other dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId> <artifactId>spring-session</artifactId> <version>1.3.1.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId> <artifactId>spring-session-data-redis</artifactId> <version>1.3.1.RELEASE</version> <type>pom</type> </dependency> </dependencies>
After that we need to tell our
Application that we are going to use Spring Session with Redis to manage HTTP sessions. We do this by adding the
@EnableRedisHttpSession annotation to the
Application class.
// ... import org.springframework.session.data.redis.config.annotation.web.http.EnableRedisHttpSession; @SpringBootApplication @EnableRedisHttpSession public class Application { // ... }
Since HTTP session will be handled by an external session store (Redis), we will need to add the
Serializable interface to everything that gets added to users' sessions— this interface tells the JVM that the classes that use it are subject to serialization over the network, to disk, etc. In this case, we have to update only the
Product class.
//... import java.io.Serializable; public class Product implements Serializable { // ... }
Last step is to configure the Spring Session connection to Redis. This is done by adding the following properties to the
application.properties file:
# ... other properties spring.redis.host=172.17.0.1 spring.redis.password=secret spring.redis.port=6379
The properties above point to a Redis instance running on
localhost:6379, which doesn't exist yet. We will tackle that now.
Dockerized Redis Instance
As we don't want to install Redis on our development machine, we are going to use Docker to run it. To do that we are going to create a
Dockerfile in a new directory called
./redis. The contents of this file will be:
FROM redis ENV REDIS_PASSWORD secret CMD ["sh", "-c", "exec redis-server --requirepass \"$REDIS_PASSWORD\""]
The file above starts by defining the official Redis image as the base for our own image, and then define
secret as the password for connecting to Redis. To build and run this image, we can issue the following commands:
# create redis image docker build -t spring-session-redis redis # run redis docker run -p 6379:6379 -d --name spring-session-redis spring-session-redis
Redis is now available to the Spring Session module that we've just configured in our JSF application. Therefore, we are ready to rebuild our JSF application, build the new Docker image (now with Spring Session), and then run both instances based on this new image.
Note that the first command below removes the two instances created before. This is needed to release ports
8081and
8082on our development machine.
# remove previous instances docker rm -f without-spring-session-1 without-spring-session-2 # compile and package the application mvn clean package # build the dockerized application image docker build -t spring-session . # running instance number one docker run -d -p 8081:8080 --name spring-session-1 -e "APPLICATION_TITLE=First instance" spring-session # running instance number two docker run -d -p 8082:8080 --name spring-session-2 -e "APPLICATION_TITLE=Second instance" spring-session
After executing these commands, the last step that we will need to perform to tie everything together is to create an NGINX instance that behaves as a load balancer.
Load Balancing with NGINX
To load balance requests between the two instances we will use the
Dockerfile and the
nginx.conf file that exist in the
./nginx folder of the repository. The
Dockerfile (contents below), simply enables the creation of an image based in the official NGINX image with a configuration defined in the
nginx.conf file.
FROM nginx RUN rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
The
nginx.conf file configures NGINX to act as a load balancer that uses the round-robin algorithm to distribute HTTP requests between instances. As we can see through the contents below, this file defines an
upstream that contains both instances, and then defines that any request should be redirected to one of these instances. By not explicitly defining any strategy in the
upstream property, NGINX uses the default one (round-robin).
upstream my-app { server 172.17.0.1:8081 weight=1; server 172.17.0.1:8082 weight=1; } server { location / { proxy_pass; } }
To build and run the NGINX load balancer image, we can issue the following commands:
# build the dockerized NGINX load balancer docker build -t spring-session-nginx nginx # run load balancer docker run -p 8080:80 -d --name spring-session-nginx spring-session-nginx
And Voila! We got our JSF application horizontally scaled with Spring Session handling HTTP sessions with the help of Redis. Now, whenever we issue an HTTP request to, we may get an answer from one instance or another. Just load this URL in your web browser and reorder the data table a few times. You will see that sometimes one instance of our application will respond to the reordering event, sometimes the other instance will.
Aside: Securing Spring Boot Spring Boot application, Auth0 can help. Take a look at Securing Spring Boot with JWTs to properly secure your application.
Auth0 provides the simplest and easiest to use user interface tools to help administrators manage user identities including password resets, creating and provisioning, blocking and deleting users. A generous free tier is offered so you can get started with modern authentication.
Conclusion
Using Spring Session to handle HTTP sessions is an easy task. Spring Boot makes it even easier, requiring just a few small steps to configure everything in an application. The problem is that this kind of architecture is not frequently used and that there are few resources that teach us how to integrate all the moving pieces together. I hope that, by making this article available, Java developers that use Spring and mainly those that use JSF (which heavily depends on HTTP session) will be able to scale their application without struggling so much.
Auth0 Docs
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Haskell/Building vocabulary
This chapter will be somewhat different from the surrounding ones. Think of it as an interlude, where the main goal is not to introduce new features, but to present advice for studying (and using!) Haskell. Here, we will discuss the importance of acquiring a vocabulary of functions and how this book, along with other resources, can help you with that. First, however, we need to make a few quick points about function composition.
Function composition[edit]
Function composition is a really simple concept. It just means applying one function to a value and then applying another function to the result. Consider these two very simple have no meaning.
The composition of two functions results in a function in its own right. If applying f and then square, or vice-versa, to a number were a frequent, meaningful or otherwise important operation in a program, a natural next step would be defining: [1].
The need for a vocabulary[edit]
Function composition allows us to define complicated functions using simpler ones as building blocks. One of the key qualities of Haskell is how simple it is to write composed functions, no matter if the base functions are written by ourselves or by someone else,[2] and the extent that helps us in writing simple, elegant and expressive code.
In order to use function composition, we first need to have functions to compose. While naturally the functions we write ourselves will always be available, every installation of GHC comes with a vast assortment of libraries (that is, packaged code), which provide functions for various common tasks. For that reason, it is vital for effective Haskell programming to develop some familiarity with the essential libraries. At the very least, you should know how to find useful functions in the libraries when you need them.
We can look at this issue from a different perspective. We have gone through a substantial portion of the Haskell syntax already; and, by the time we are done with the upcoming Recursion chapter, we could, in principle, write pretty much any list manipulation program we want. However, writing full programs at this point would be terribly inefficient, mainly because we would end up rewriting large parts of the standard libraries. It is far easier to have the libraries deal as much as possible with trivial well-known problems while we dedicate our brain cells to solving the problems we are truly interested in. Furthermore, the functionality provided by libraries helps us in developing our own algorithms.[3]
Prelude and the libraries[edit]
Here are a few basic facts about Haskell libraries:
First and foremost, there is Prelude, which is the core library loaded by default in every Haskell program. Alongside with the basic types, it provides a set of ubiquitous and extremely useful functions. We will refer to Prelude and its functions all the time throughout these introductory chapters.
Beyond Prelude, there is a set of core libraries, which provide a much wider range of tools. Although they are provided by default with GHC, they are not loaded automatically like Prelude. Instead, they are made available as modules, which must be imported into your program. Later on, we will explain the minutiae of how modules work. For now, just know that your source file needs lines near the top to import any necessary modules. For example, the function
permutations is in the module
Data.List, and, to import that, add the line
import Data.List to the top of your .hs file. Here's how a full source file looks: exhibit[edit]
Before continuing, let us see one (slightly histrionic, we admit) example of what familiarity with a few basic functions from Prelude can bring us.[4] Suppose we need a function which takes a string composed of words separated by spaces and returns that string with the order of the words reversed, so that
"Mary had a little lamb" becomes
"lamb little a had Mary". Now, we can solve that problem using exclusively what we have seen so far about Haskell, plus a few insights that can be acquired by studying the Recursion chapter. Here is what it might look like. = if testSpace c' then go1 ((c:w):ws) (c':cs) else:
- If we claimed that
monsterRevWordsdoes what is expected,,[5] we are set for an awful time.
- Finally, there is at least one easy to spot potential problem: if you have another glance at the definition, about halfway down there is a
testSpacehelper function which checks if a character is a space or not. The test, however, only includes the common space character (that is,
' '), and not other whitespace characters (tabs, newlines, etc.)[6].
Instead of the junk above, we can do much better by using.[7] So, any time some program you are writing begins to look like
monsterRevWords, look around and reach for your toolbox - the libraries.
Acquiring vocabulary[edit]
After the stern warnings above, you might expect us to continue with diving deep into the standard libraries. That is not the route we will follow, however - at least not in the first part of the book. The Beginner's Track is meant to cover most of the Haskell language functionality in a readable and reasonably compact account, and a linear, systematic study of the libraries would in all likelihood have us sacrificing either one attribute or the other.
In any case, the libraries will remain close at hand as we advance in the course (so there's no need for you to pause your reading just to study the libraries on your own). Here are a few suggestions on resources you can use to learn about them.
With this book[edit]
- Once we enter Elementary Haskell, you will notice — especially the third track, Haskell in Practice. There, among other things, you can find[edit]
- First and foremost, there is the documentation. While it is probably too dry to be really useful right now, it will prove valuable soon enough. you can find documentation for the libraries available through it. We will not venture outside of the core libraries in the Beginner's Track; however, you will certainly be drawn to Hackage once you begin your own projects. A second Haskell search engine is Hayoo!; it covers all of Hackage.
- When appropriate, we will give pointers to other useful learning resources, specially when we move towards intermediate and advanced topics.
Notes[edit]
- ↑
(.)is modelled after the mathematical operator
, which works in the same way:
- ↑ Such ease is not only due to the bits of syntax we mentioned above, but mainly due to features we will explain and discuss in depth later in the book - in particular, higher-order functions.
- ↑ One simple example is provided by functions like
map,
filterand the folds, which we will cover in the chapters on list processing just ahead. Another would be the various monad libraries, which will be studied in depth later on.
-, there are lots of other functions, either in Prelude or in
Data.Listwhich, in one way or another, would help to make
monsterRevWordssomewhat saner - just to name a few:
(++),
concat,
groupBy,
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Returning local variable pointers from a function is something you should never do. Because the returned address will exist, but the data inside it will have lost it’s scope.
Nevertheless, whether or not you should do it, is something people often disregard, and thus GCC 5.x and above have tried to ensure you don’t.
Starting from
5.0.0 and above versions of GCC (and in extension G++), you
cannot return local variable pointers from a function
Thus a program like this -
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int * createArr () { int arr[3] = {1,2,3}; cout << "function " << arr << endl; return arr; } int main() { int * val = createArr(); cout << " main " << val; }
Will return this in GCC5
function 0x7fff5e9e18f0 main 0
In earlier versions of GCC (4.9 and below) it used to return this -
function 0x7fff5e9e18f0 main 0x7fff5e9e18f0
TL;DR;
In GCC5.x and above, local variable pointers in a function are returned as
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In the last post I introduced a very simple “Hello World!” IronRuby application working with AutoCAD, just as I’d previously done with IronPython. My idea for this post was to take the code from my second IronPython post – which showed how to jig an AutoCAD solid from IronPython – and get it working with IronRuby, forcing me to learn a little more Ruby in the process.
All started out well: to convert the basic syntax from Python to Ruby was straightforward, and I have a definite liking for the syntax of the Ruby language. Especially when working with object orientation: the code for implementing classes feels cleaner than Python and it’s really OO from top to bottom (everything’s an object). I even found a way to avoid all those namespaces everywhere in the code – you just assign them to symbols and use those intead.
So what didn’t work? Well, it turns out there’s a problem with the definition of the EntityJig class, which is the parent of our SolidJig: IronRuby tells me it doesn’t have a default constructor defined. It’s very similar in nature to the problem I had deriving the IronPython version of my SolidJig class, but in this case I had to make sure my code very specifically implemented an __init__ function taking an entity (IronRuby uses initialize() instead of __init__ and is really clean in the way it allows you to super-message to your parent class, but right now it seems there’s something getting in the way – IronRuby is at version 0.3, after all).
Here’s my IronRuby script – for the RBLOAD command look at the C# code in the last post.
require 'C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2009\acmgd.dll'
require 'C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2009\acdbmgd.dll'
require 'C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2009\acmgdinternal.dll'
Ai = Autodesk::AutoCAD::Internal
Aiu = Autodesk::AutoCAD::Internal::Utils
Aas = Autodesk::AutoCAD::ApplicationServices
Ads = Autodesk::AutoCAD::DatabaseServices
Aei = Autodesk::AutoCAD::EditorInput
Ag = Autodesk::AutoCAD::Geometry
Ar = Autodesk::AutoCAD::Runtime
def print_message(msg)
app = Aas::Application
doc = app.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
ed = doc.Editor
ed.WriteMessage(msg)
end
# Function to register AutoCAD commands
def autocad_command(cmd)
cc = Ai::CommandCallback.new method(cmd)
Aiu.AddCommand('rbcmds', cmd, cmd, Ar::CommandFlags.Modal, cc)
# Let's now write a message to the command-line
print_message("\nRegistered Ruby command: " + cmd)
end
def add_commands(names)
names.each { |n| autocad_command n }
end
# Let's do something a little more complex...
class SolidJig < Aei::EntityJig
# Initialization function
def initialize(ent)
# Call the base class and store the object
super
@sol = ent
end
# The function called to run the jig
def StartJig(ed, pt)
# The start point is specified outside the jig
@start = pt
@end = pt
return ed.Drag(self)
end
# The sampler function
def Sampler(prompts)
# Set up our selection options
jo = Aei::JigPromptPointOptions.new @end == res.Value
return Aei::SamplerStatus.NoChange
else
@end = res.Value
end
return Aei::SamplerStatus.OK
end
# The update function
def Update()
# Recreate our Solid3d box
begin
# Get the width (x) and depth (y)
x = @end.X - @start.X
y = @end.Y - @start.Y
# We need a non-zero Z value, so we copy Y
z = y
# Create our box and move it to the right place
@sol.CreateBox(x,y,z)
@sol.TransformBy(
Ag::Matrix3d.Displacement(
Ag::Vector3d.new(
@start.X + x/2,
@start.Y + y/2,
@start.Z + z/2)))
rescue
return false
end
return true
end
end
# Create a box using a jig
def boxjig
app = Aas::Application
doc = app(db.CurrentSpaceId,Ads::OpenMode.ForWrite)
# Make sure we're recording history to allow grip editing
sol = Ads::Solid3d.new
sol.RecordHistory = true
# Now we add our solid
btr.AppendEntity(sol)
tr.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(sol, true)
# And call the jig before finishing
begin
sj = SolidJig.new sol
ppr2 = sj.StartJig(ed, ppr.Value)
# Only commit if all completed well
if ppr2.Status == Aei::PromptStatus.OK
tr.Commit
end
rescue
print_message("\nProblem found: " + $! + "\n")
end
tr.Dispose
end
end
add_commands ["boxjig"]
When we run the RBLOAD command and select this script, our BOXJIG command gets defined.
Registered Ruby command: boxjig
When this is run, our Begin-Rescue block (equivalent to Try-Catch in most other modern programming languages :-) catches the exception and prints an error statement at the command-line:
Command: BOXJIG
Select start point:
Problem found: Parent does not have a default constructor. The default constructor must be explicitly defined.
I’m hoping the root cause of the issue is obvious to someone familiar with IronRuby, whether in the above calling code, the design of the API exposed by AutoCAD or the implementation of IronRuby itself.
I do prefer not to post code that doesn’t actually work, but I feel there’s still value in seeing the comparison between the Python and Ruby scripts, for people to get a feel for how the languages differ. And - apart from anything else – I’ve hit my head against this for long enough that I at least want to get a post out of it. :-)
Update:
Ivan Porto Carrero – who’s working on the book IronRuby in Action – is able to reproduce the issue outside of AutoCAD and has offered to log a bug. Hopefully it’ll get addressed in a future build of IronRuby (or someone will spell out how I can handle it cleanly from my side). | http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2009/04/jigging-an-autocad-solid-using-ironruby-and-net-well-almost.html | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | refinedweb | 895 | 55.24 |
MongoDB server stub setup
Project description
This package provides a mongodb server stub setup for python doctests.
README
This package provides a mongo database server testing stub. You can simply setup such a mongodb stub server in a doctest like:
import doctest import unittest from m01.stub import testing def test_suite(): return unittest.TestSuite(( doctest.DocFileSuite('README.txt', setUp=testing.doctestSetUp, tearDown=testing.doctestTearDown, optionflags=doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE|doctest.ELLIPSIS), )) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main(defaultTest='test_suite')
The m01/stub/testing.py module provides a start and stop method which will download, install, start and stop a mongodb server. All this is done in the m01/stub/testing/sandbox folder. Everytime a test get started the mongodb/data folder get removed and a fresh empty database get used.
Note: Also see the zipFolder and unZipFile methods in testing.py which allows you to setup mongodb data and before remove them store them as a zip file for a next test run. Such a zipped data folder can get used in another test run by set the path to the zip file as dataSource argument. Also check the m01.mongo package for more test use cases.
Testing
Let’s use the pymongo package for test our mongodb server stub setup. Note we use a different port for our stub server setup (45017 instead of 27017):
>>> from pprint import pprint >>> import pymongo >>> from pymongo.periodic_executor import _shutdown_executors >>> conn = pymongo.MongoClient('mongodb://127.0.0.1:45017')
Let’s test our mongodb stub setup:
>>> pprint(conn.server_info()) {..., u'ok': 1.0, ...}>>> conn.database_names() [u'admin', u'local']
setup an index:
>>> conn.testing.test.collection.ensure_index('dummy') u'dummy_1'
add an object:
>>> _id = conn.testing.test.save({'__name__': u'foo', 'dummy': u'object'}) >>> _id ObjectId('...')
remove them:
>>> conn.testing.test.remove({'_id': _id}) {...}
and check the database names again:
>>> conn.database_names() [u'admin', u'local', u'testing']
Let’s drop the database:
>>> conn.drop_database("testing") >>> conn.database_names() [u'admin', u'local']
Close client:
>>> conn.close() >>> _shutdown_executors()
CHANGES
3.1.0 (2018-01-29)
- bugfix: support different download urls for windows. Not every option is released. We will try different urls for windows 64 bit versions. Note, you will probably run into a MemoryError during download if your try to download a large mongodb release with a non 64 bit python version.
3.0.1 (2015-11-10)
- support pymongo >= 3.0.0 and use 3.0.0 as package version and reflect pymongo >= 3.0.0 compatibility
3.0.0 (2015-09-28)
- pymongo > 3.0.0 compatibility. Support pymongo > 3.0.0 use MongoClient instead of Connection etc. Use 3.0.0 as package version and reflect pymongo > 3.0.0 compatibility.
- switch default mongodb download version to 3.0.6
- improve shutdown mongodb server, cleanup client weakref
0.5.8 (2015-03-17)
- update default mongodb version to 2.4.10
- changed default mongodb allocation space from 100MB to 10MB for faster server startup
- bugfix: startup check didn’t fit and it was forced 16 times to sleep for one second. Fix server status ok check from ‘1.0’ to 1
0.5.7 (2012-12-10)
- bugfix: didn’t shutdown with sleep lower the 1
- improve server setup, use unique log files for each startup
- run tests with pymongo 2.4.1
0.5.6 (2012-12-09)
- switch to mongodb 2.2.2 and support version property in startMongoServer
0.5.5 (2012-11-18)
- bugfix: fix start and stop observer methods. Replaced javascript calls with simpler pymongo connectionn calls for startup check and shutdown
0.5.4 (2012-11-18)
- update to mongodb 2.2.0
- switch to bson import
- force 64 bit download by default
- use “sleep” value only for files and directories, use flexible wait for process
- bugfix: mongo results comes back with a line break
- bugfix: string cmd only on Windows
- use shell=False to start mongodb, even on posix (safer). This changes the “options” argument: it has to be a list now
- to stop mongodb, we are now sending a command through the “mongo shell”, we do not use a pid file any more, all we need is the port, which we keep in a global
- we are now repeatedly checking till the mongodb server starts up and answers to an admin query
- move flexible sub-version tests to accomodate OpenBSD
- fixed detection of being on a Mac for mongo db download for tests
- added MANIFEST.in file
0.5.3 (2011-08-26)
- Fix 32bit linux download (Albertas)
- Remove temp files after download
- Fix 64bit linux
0.5.2 (2011-08-24)
- Still fixing on linux
0.5.1 (2011-08-24)
- fix on linux
0.5.0 (2011-08-19)
- initial release tested on win 32bit. NOT tested on win 64bit, mac 32/64bit and posix 32/64bit systems. Please report if something doesn’t work on this systems.
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Without going too deep in the functional programming realm, in Scala, there is a handy concept for error handling (well, I’m oversimplifying, but just to give you the idea): the
Either class.
Either is a way to express either a value or an error in the same type. A function returning an
Either is capable of returning the complete result if everything went right or an arbitrarily complex description of what went wrong.
As I wrote in this blog (and in the code in my flic library) you can code an
Either template in C++ with pretty much the same functionalities of the Scala version. Writing lambdas in C++ is more cumbersome, but you can do it.
The most C++ idiomatic code that you can use to deal with an
Either is something like:
void f( Either const& e ) { if( e.isRight() ) { success( e.getRight() ); } else { error( e.getLeft() ); } }
I agree this doesn’t look very exciting. Besides, it doesn’t combine well with other
Eithers. Suppose you need to parse three strings containing year, month, and day of the month e combining them to produce a date.
Let’s see first in traditional C –
Error parseDate( char const* year, char const* month, char const* day, Date* result ) { char const* end; unsigned nYear = strtoul( year, &end, 10 ); if( end != year+strlen( year )) { return Error_INVALID_NUMBER_YEAR; } unsigned nMonth = strtoul( month, &end, 10 ); if( end != month+strlen( month )) { return Error_INVALID_NUMBER_MONTH; } unsigned nDay = strtoul( day, &end, 10 ); if( end != day+strlen( day )) { return Error_INVALID_NUMBER_DAY; } return makeDate( nYear, nMonth, nDay, date ); }
This is simple and straightforward, a bit verbose, maybe, but simple. There are two things to note. First, this is a happy case where we can quite the function without the need for freeing allocated resources (otherwise the function would be much more complex).
Second, error reporting is a bit vague, you don’t know why string to number conversion failed, but just that failed. Strings may have been empty, containing invalid characters, holding numbers too large to be represented in the integral type provided. Whatever, you’ll always get the same error.
In idiomatic C++, the same function would be written as follows.
Date parseDate( std::string const& year, std::string const& month, std::string const& day ) { unsigned uYear = std::stoul( year ); unsigned uMonth = std::stoul( month ); unsigned uDay = std::stoul( day ); return Date( uYear, uMonth, uDay ); }
Here it looks like the error management is not present at all. That’s partly true, but it is sort of hiding the dirt under the carpet. Each one of the functions called in
parseDate may throw an exception disrupting the execution flow, but what is worse is that once the exception is thrown, if it is not caught early, it brings no correlation between the error and what caused it.
I mean, if there is a catch around the call to
parseDate (and each call to
parseDate), then you are sure that
parseDate found an error, but if your catch is farther away in the call stack, then you are no longer sure whether the exception has been thrown by
parseDate or by another function.
Enter
Either.
Either is not C++ idiomatic, but it is inspired by functional code. You can define an
Either as a
std::variant with two slots, namely left and right, used to hold either a value (right) or an error (left).
Either per se is not that’s interesting, but it becomes much more interesting when you look at its transformation methods – map and flatMap. In C++ parlance a map is a std::transform – you keep the container but replace the contained type with something produced with the original value (say, transform a vector of strings into a vector of
ints containing the length of the strings in the first vector).
This mechanism allows you to chain together operations that may result in an error. Let’s rephrase the above code with
Either and
maps:
template<typename T> Either<Error,T> to<T>( std::string const& s ) noexcept; Either<Error,Date> Date::from( unsinged year, unsigned month, unsigned day ) noexcept; Either<Error,Date> parseDate( std::string const& year, std::string const& month, std::string const& day ) { return to<unsigned>(year).flatMap( [&]( auto&& uYear ){ to<unsigned>(month).flatMap( [&]( auto&& uMonth ){ day.flatMap( [&]( auto&& uDay ){ Date::from( uYear, uMonth, uDay ); } ); } ); } ); }
First, we need to insert this fragment in a framework that supports
Either return value, so I introduced the template
to<> that parses a string into another type or produces an error about what prevented
to<> from properly parsing.
Then I have to create a factory for
Date so to avoid the lack of return value from the class constructor.
These are really no issues. The code is pretty robust because each error is caught with no specific attention to be paid to error management. The error and the result flow together, like inside a Schrödinger box, until you decide to look inside. The magic of monads, prevents further operations to be performed when the error is detected.
The drawback is that syntax is extremely bitter… in the dire need for some sugar to sweeten it. That’s why in Scala there something named for comprehension that looks like:
def parseDate( year: String, month: String, day: String ) : Either[Error,Date] = { for { nYear <- toInt( year ) nMonth <- toInt( month ) nDay <- toInt( day ) date <- Date::from( year, month, day ) } yield { date } }
(this is mostly true –
toInt function does not exists in Scala, but it is trivial to implement them – as it is in any other language).
Now this way of writing is very clear and easy to reason about. Only the logical operation in the happy path is described. In fact, there is just one minor annoyance, errors from toInt are not converted into errors specific for the day, month, or year.
As a side note, the same construct can be used to sweep through nested loops, but this is meat for another post.
I decided I need some syntactic sugar like this for my C++ code.
I tried to employ an operator overload, but I didn’t succeed, in fact, the Scala <- is a ternary operator – it has a destination variable, a source expression, and a lambda function composed by what follows the line. The inner for is a simple map and it must be produced as such to avoid an
Either of
Either (that’s why in Scala, you have
date alone in the result).
Also on the left of
<-operator, there is the declaration of a name, rather than an operand. I found no way to allow for this semantic without resorting to preprocessor macros.
On the other hand, preprocessor macros are very rudimental and cannot relate to each other or be applied recursively. So I ruled out having two macros for for and yield (even if other people have tried this approach with a solution similar to my C RAII).
Eventually, I resorted to a single do-everything macro, all arguments but the last one are alternating variable name and monad to flatMap, with the last one being the yield expression. In other words, I want to be able to write something like:
Either<Error,Date> parseDate( std::string const& year, std::string const& month, std::string const& day ) { return FOR_COMPREHENSION( nYear, to<unsigned>( year ), nMonth, to<unsigned>( month ), nDay, to<unsigned>( day ), date, Date::from( year, month, day ), date ); }
Easier said than done since I had to handle a variadic macro that should recursively call itself with less and less argument until all arguments but the last is left.
I started giving up the chance to automatically invoke the right macro given the number of argument, and prepared some macros with the number of arguments –
#define MONADIC_FLATMAP( x__, mX__, E__ ) \ (mX__).flatMap( [&]( auto&& x__ ){ return E__; } ) #define MONADIC_MAP( x__, mX__, E__ ) \ (mX__).map( [&]( auto&& x__ ){ return E__; } ) #define FOR_COMPREHENSION1( x1__, mX1__, E__ ) \ MONADIC_MAP( x1__, mX1__, E__ ) #define FOR_COMPREHENSION2( x1__, mX1__, x2__, mX2__, E__ ) \ FLATMAP( x1__, mX1__, FOR_COMPREHENSION1( x2__, mX2__, E__ )) #define FOR_COMPREHENSION3( x1__, mX1__, x2__, mX2__, x3__, mX3__, E__ ) \ MONADIC_FLATMAP( x1__, mX1__, FOR_COMPREHENSION2( x2__, mX2__, x3__, mX3__, E__ )) #define FOR_COMPREHENSION4( x1__, mX1__, x2__, mX2__, x3__, mX3__, x4__, mX4__, E__ ) \ MONADIC_FLATMAP( x1__, mX1__, FOR_COMPREHENSION3( x2__, mX2__, x3__, mX3__, x4, mX4__, E__ ))
They are a bit boring to write, but once you get the pattern, you can write the macro body invoking the macro for the lesser level.
Still, I wasn’t very happing, so I searched how to automatically pick up the right macro. After some internet milking, I found an interesting technique for this purpose. Let’s say that we are satisfied with at most 10 variables, so we need to be able to handle a macro with 10×2+1 arguments. But not every number of arguments works, in fact, the number should be nx2+1 with n between 1 and 10 (both included).
Let’s write a macro that selects its (10×2+1)th arguments like this:
#define ELEVENTH_TRIPLET_ARGUMENT( \ a00, a01, \ a10, a11, \ a20, a21, \ a30, a31, \ a40, a41, \ a50, a51, \ a60, a61, \ a70, a71, \ a80, a81, \ a90, a91, a92, \ a100, ...) a100
Now we have to write a macro so that when given the parameters for the for comprehension the nx2+1 argument will be the name of the for comprehension macro –
#define FOR_COMPREHENSION_NAME( ... ) \ ELEVENTH_TRIPLET_ARGUMENT( \ __VA_ARGS__, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION10, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION9, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION8, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION7, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION6, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION5, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION4, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION3, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION2, Error, \ FOR_COMPREHENSION1, Error, Error \ )
Error is just a placeholder that is likely to cause the compiler to garble up if the wrong number of arguments is used.
At this point, everything is in place to write my
FOR_COMPREHENSION macro –
#define FOR_COMPREHENSION( ... ) \ FOR_COMPREHENSION_NAME( __VA_ARGS__ ) ( __VA_ARGS__ )
The nice part is that you can use it for everything that provides a flatMap method, be it Either, Option, Future, or any container.
In truth, there are a couple of limitations. First, the most obvious, you can have more than 10 variables. This is a quite reasonable limitation since larger comprehension can (and should) be reduced via refactoring.
The other limitation is that Scala
for is actually more expressive, allowing for filtering items by embedding if statements. I have not explored if and how this could be possible.
The last limitation is bound to the preprocessor nature that originated well before C++ was even a blink in the eye of Bjarne. For this reason
<and
>are considered operators and not parts of the template syntax. Therefore if you write:
MACRO( f<A,B>(3) );
Where MACRO is … well, a preprocessor macro, the preprocessor interpreter looks at macro arguments and finds a comma outside any round parenthesis enclosing. “Ehy!”, he exclaims in his simple and primitive mind: “There’s a comma, these must be two arguments:
f<A and
B>(3)“. This means that sometimes you need to enclose your macro argument with an extra pair of
()just to avoid erroneous interpretations of the argument.
On a different level are my closing thoughts. More and more I feel the need for sweetening C++ syntax. It is not that C++ can’t handle functional paradigm and functional concepts, it is that is really programmer expensive to work in this way.
Excessive typing is a problem not because of typing time, but because the more you write, the more bugs you write, the longer it takes to read and understand.
Consider lambda syntax for C++; the lack of language (and library) support for functional concepts such as Option, Either, map, flatMap; the lack of signature-based function types; the annoyance of marking every method with
noexcept; the lack of algebraic data types and pattern matching. You can overcome most of these shortcomings, but it is tedious, frustrating, and error-prone, not different from writing OOP code in C.
When the need for syntactic sweetener is so strong, it means that either the language is becoming obsolete, or the language is not suitable for the task. It is quite some time that rust looks promising for system software development and its wider adoption is possibly limited only by the lack of chip vendor tools (compilers and libraries). Maybe the time has cometh to give rust a chance. | https://www.maxpagani.org/2020/11/30/comprehensive-for-in-c/ | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | refinedweb | 2,025 | 56.69 |
colored boxes and a text component in a row with padding.
class ViewColoredBoxesWithText extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row', height: 100, padding: 20, }}> <View style={{backgroundColor: 'blue', flex: 0.3}} /> <View style={{backgroundColor: 'red', flex: 0.5}} /> <Text>Hello World!</Text> </View> ); } }
Views are designed to be used with
StyleSheetfor clarity and performance, although inline styles are also supported.
Synthetic Touch EventsSynthetic Touch Events
For
View responder props (e.g.,
onResponderMove), the synthetic touch event passed to them are. be the target of touch events.
'auto': The View can be the target of touch events.
'none': The View is never the target of touch events.
'box-none': The View is never the target of touch events but it's subviews can be. It behaves like if the view had the following classes in CSS:
.box-none { pointer-events: none; } .box-none * { pointer-events: all; }
'box-only': The view can be the target of touch events but it's subviews cannot be. It behaves like if the view had the following classes in CSS:
.box-only { pointer-events: all; } special)..
renderToHardwareTexture. | http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/0.20/view.html | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | refinedweb | 182 | 69.48 |
The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of a ToolTip in Flex 4 by overriding the ToolTip selector in an <fx:Style/> block, or using the StyleManager in ActionS]
Or you can set the ToolTip CSS declaration “Styling tooltips in Flex 4”
why do we need this line?
creationComplete=”btn.toolTip = mx_internal::VERSION;”
instead of
toolTip = “mx_internal::VERSION;” ?
Can anybody explain. is there any advantage in doing so?
Bhaskar,
You could use
toolTip="{mx_internal::VERSION}", but that’d give you a compiler warning, so I set the value using ActionScript.
thanks a lot for the post. i made use of simple css class to style tooltip.
the tooltip border thing worked either,
border-alpha:0.8;
border-visible:true;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#555555;
corner-radius:6;
fontFamily: “Arial”;
fontSize: 12;
color: #FFFFFF;
backgroundColor: #000000;
thanks again for the information.
regards.
How style parts of the tooltip e.g. bold? I’m generating a tooltip in an itemrenderer for an datagrid, displaying the column name and then the value: I want to display the value bold…
public override function set data(value:Object):void
{
var dg:DataGrid = this.listData.owner as DataGrid;
var dataField:String = (dg.columns[this.listData.columnIndex] as DataGridColumn).dataField;
var toolString:String = “”;
for(var i:int = 0; i < dg.columns.length; i++)
{
var fieldName:String = (dg.columns[i] as DataGridColumn).dataField;
toolString = StringUtil.substitute("{0}{1}: {2}\n", toolString, fieldName, displayString(value[fieldName]));
}
this.toolTip = toolString;
super.data = value;
this.text = displayString(value[dataField]);
}
In 4.0.1 Premium FB the mx style declaration version of this example doesn’t work, but the script version does.
@Mark Robbins,
The namespace changed from “halo” to “mx”:
I’ll update the post above.
Peter | http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/08/30/styling-tooltips-in-flex-4/ | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | refinedweb | 290 | 52.76 |
Previously in Experiments, part 7,…
I switched from Compojure to Pedestal in order to take advantage of its support for Server-sent Events. I want to use that to send background updates to the client on completion of a task.
This took a while
I expected this feature to be done very quickly. Up to now, every library I had to integrate into my app did so nearly seamlessly. It was a matter of reading the appropriate section of the library’s documentation, doing a few REPL experiments, integrating the code and doing manual testing.
SSE integration did not go like that. Not at all. It’s mostly my fault, because I did not fully understand how the whole feature works. However, I do have to also blame Pedestal’s SSE guides. Firstly, the guides section does not align with the examples section. Secondly, their example of an SSE usage is the epitome of useless blog post code. I don’t know if I have the permission to copy the code here, so I’ll link to it.
The problem with this example is that this isn’t how I expect anyone to use the SSE support. This code generates 20 events on the server and sends them one by one down to the client, one second apart. It then closes the channel. It’s concise, but it doesn’t help at all. Some of the questions I had when I looked at this code were:
- Uh, can I have the implementation in a function in another namespace?
- Can I use data from a
core.asyncchannel?
- If so, how?
My first crack at this nearly worked. By nearly, I mean, I got the first event as expected, which was great! Submitting the second link gave me no event back in the browser. It took me a better part of 2 weeks to figure out just what the hell is the problem.
In the beginning…
I want to try and re-construct this painful process, because I truly believe that others will get snagged on this rough edge in Pedestal. Maybe, just maybe, providing a failure case and a solution in this
widely blog series will help someone somewhere.
Adapting the code from the guide I linked above, I end up with something roughly like this:
This is the server-side implementation as I understand it and how I would like it to fit into my app. Since
core.async allows me to set up a pipeline, I would like the SSE event to be at the end of that pipeline. I’ve used
go blocks for all pipeline parts, so it makes sense to me to do so here, too.
I need to name the event, so that I can attach a JS listener to it and convert the record into JSON in order to send it to the client.
I’m keeping the JS side extremely simple for now. All I want to see is an event in the console log every time I submit a link.
With all that set up, I fire up the REPL and start the app server.
I visit, post a test link and I get a result! Whoop, there it is. I post another, nothing.
What is going on? How can I one work, but not another? I reload the browser and in the console, I see the expected event. This tells me that the record was put to
update-chan, but it never got picked up on the other side and sent to the browser. In the REPL log output, I notice this exception:
Broken pipe means that a connection got shut down uncleanly on one side of it. That does not match my understanding of things. Pedestal is supposed to be keeping that connection open for me. It says in that guide that it sets up a heartbeat to ensure that. Why does it shut down uncleanly then?
The quest…
I then went off to find the reason why this happened and how I can fix it. I first opened an issue in Pedestal’s Github repo, even though I didn’t ever believe that it was a bug. I guess this is the accepted norm in the Ruby community and I got used to it. One of the maintainers was polite, helped me out a bit with the code and pointed me to the mailing list. I would like to note, though, that the first thing he says I should be aware of isn’t supported by the guides. In the guide, the
stream-ready-fn clearly sets up a function that sends events. I have not seen any counter-examples, but maybe my searching skills aren’t up to par.
The crucial thing in that explanation is that I need a
go-loop function rather than a
go one. OK, that’s easy to fix.
I add
go-loop to the list of functions referred to from
core.async, reload the server, run the same test process, and I get the same result. This time, though, I get the broken pipe error almost immediately after the successful SSE message.
I post to the mailing list next, as suggested by the maintainer. I’ve yet to receive a response there. I then turn to the Clojurians Slack channel. People here are awesome and I am grateful for their help and understanding.
Jonah Benton (I can’t find his Twitter nor Github profiles) helped me out tremendously. He provided me with a real clue as to what was going on.
The solution…
This goes back to me not fully understanding nor reading through Pedestal documentation. Jonah said off-handedly that Pedestal’s interceptors always take a parameter when they’re being called. SSE was just another interceptor and I should have my functions return either the event channel or context all the way back to the original
stream-ready function. This is exactly what I ended up doing.
Actually, I ended up doing a hybrid of two advices. I return the channel as advised by Jonah, but I also make sure that I set up an infinite loop, because I don’t know when the next update will come. As I expected initially, this makes the whole thing work.
Reflection…
It took me quite a few nights of frustration to get to this point. I should have read through Pedestal’s docs. In my defence, though the word “interceptor” is mentioned, there were no links to the Interceptors documentation. Was I expected to read all the documenation provided? I guess so.
The mailing list seems dead, to be honest. I don’t know how many views there are on my post right now, but 0 responses in 3 weeks does not look well for that particular medium. If you are interested in Clojure, though, the Clojurians Slack channel is the place to be.
I am happy that I got the implementation working as I originally envisioned it. I still need to handle errors and different content types (like, what happens if I give it a PDF link?), but next, I will get ReactJS to…well, react to the incoming SSE message. I hope that this will less fun than what I had on the server.
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The State of XML Parsing in Ruby (Circa 2009)
It's almost the end of 2009, and I have to ask: are we through dealing with XML yet?
Although many of us wish we could consume the web through a magic programmer portal that shields us and our code from all the pointy angle brackets, the reality that is the legacy of HTML, Atom and RSS on the web leaves us little choice but to soldier on. So let's take a look at what Ruby-colored armor is available to us as we continue our quest to slay the XML dragons.
Background
Historically, Ruby has had a number of options for dealing with structured markup, though oddly none have reached a solid consensus among Ruby developers as the “go to” library. The earliest available library seems to be Yoshida Masato's
XMLParser, which wraps Expat and was first released around the time that Expat itself was released, back in 1998. A pure Ruby parser by Jim Menard called NQXML appeared in 2001, though it never matured to the level of a robust XML parser.
In late 2001, Matz expressed his desire for out of the box XML support, but sadly, nothing appeared in Ruby's standard library until 2003, when REXML was imported for the 1.8.0 release. After reading bike-shed discussions like this one on ruby-talk in November 2001, or this wayback-machine page from the old RubyGarden wiki, it's not hard to see why. Meanwhile, other language runtimes, such as Python and Java, moved along and built solid, acceptable foundations, making Ruby's omission seem more glaring.
But all was not lost: Ruby has always had a quality without a name that made it a great language for distilling an API. All that was needed was an infusion of interest and talent in Ruby, and a few more experiments and iterations.
Fast forward to the present time, and all those chips have fallen. We've seen evolution from REXML to libxml-ruby to Hpricot, and finally to Nokogiri. So, is the XML landscape on Ruby so dire? Certainly not, as you'll see by the end of this article! While the standard library support for XML hasn't progressed beyond REXML yet, state-of-the-art solutions are a few keystrokes away.
XML APIs
A big part of what makes XML such a pain to work with is the APIs. We Rubyists tend to have an especially low tolerance for friction in API design, and we really feel it when we work with XML. If XML is just a tree structure, why isn't navigating it as simple and elegant as traversing a Ruby
Enumerable?
The canonical example of API craptasticism is undoubtedly the W3C DOM API. For proof, observe the meteoric rise of jQuery in the JavaScript world. While it would be easy to fill an entire article with criticisms regarding the DOM, it's been done before. (Incidentally, read the whole series of interviews with Elliotte Rusty Harold for a series of insights on API design, schema evolution, and more.)
Instead, we'll take a brief exploratory tour of some Ruby XML APIs using code examples. Though some of the examples may seem trivially short, don't underestimate their power. Conciseness and readability are Ruby's gifts to the library authors and they're being put to good use.
The libraries we'll use for comparison are REXML, Nokogiri, and JAXP, Java's XML parsing APIs (via JRuby).
Parsing
The simplest possible thing to do in XML is to hand the library some XML and get back a document.
REXML
require 'rexml/document' document = REXML::Document.new(xml)
Nokogiri
require 'nokogiri' document = Nokogiri::XML(xml)
Both REXML and Nokogiri more or less get this right. What's also nice is that they both transparently accept either an IO-like object or a string. Contrast this to Java:
JAXP/JRuby
factory = javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance factory.namespace_aware = true # unfortunately, important! parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder # String document = parser.parse(xml) # IO document = parser.parse(xml.to_inputstream)
In that familiar Java style, the JAXP approach forces you to choose from many options and write more code for the happy path. JRuby helps you a little bit by converting a Ruby string into a Java string, but needs a little help with intent for converting an
IO to a Java
InputStream.
XPath
Now that we've got a document object, let's query it via XPath, assuming the underlying format is an Atom feed. Here is the code to grab the entries' titles and store them as an array of strings:
REXML
elements = REXML::XPath.match(document.root, "//atom:entry/atom:title/text()", "atom" => "") titles = elements.map {|el| el.value }
Nokogiri
elements = document.xpath("//atom:entry/atom:title/text()", "atom" => "") titles = elements.map {|e| e.to_s}
Again, both REXML and Nokogiri clock in at similar code sizes, but subtle differences begin to emerge. Nokogiri's use of
#xpath as an instance method on the document object feels more natural as a way of drilling down for further detail. Also, note that both APIs return DOM objects for the text, so we need to take one more step to convert them to pure Ruby strings. Here, Nokogiri's use of the standard
String#to_s method is more intuitive;
REXML::Text's version returns the raw text without the entities replaced.
Unfortunately, doing XPath in Java gets a bit more complicated. First we need to construct an
XPath object. At least JRuby helps us a bit here–we can create an instance of the
NamespaceContext interface completely in Ruby, and omit the methods we don't care about.
JAXP/JRuby
xpath = javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory.newInstance.newXPath ns_context = Object.new def ns_context.getNamespaceURI(prefix) {"atom" => ""} \[prefix\] end xpath.namespace_context = ns_context
Next, we evaluate the expression and construct the array titles:
JAXP/JRuby
nodes = xpath.evaluate("//atom:entry/atom:title/text()", document, javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants::NODESET) titles = [] 0.upto(nodes.length-1) do |i| titles << nodes.item(i).node_value end
That last bit where we need to externally iterate the DOM API is particularly un-Ruby-like. With JRuby we can mix in some methods to the NodeList class:
JAXP/JRuby
module org::w3c::dom::NodeList include Enumerable def each 0.upto(length - 1) do |i| yield item(i) end end end
And replace the external iteration with a more natural internal one:
JAXP/JRuby
titles = nodes.map {|e| e.node_value}
This kind of technique tends to become a fairly common occurrence when coding Ruby to Java libraries in JRuby. Fortunately Ruby makes it simple to hide away the ugliness in the Java APIs!
Walking the DOM
Say we'd like to explore the DOM. Both REXML and Nokogiri provide multiple ways of doing this, with parent/child/sibling navigation methods. They also each sport a recursive descent method, which is quite convenient.
REXML
titles = [] document.root.each_recursive do |elem| titles << elem.text.to_s if elem.name == "title" end
Nokogiri
titles = [] document.root.traverse do |elem| titles << elem.content if elem.name == "title" end
Needless to say, Java's DOM API has no such convenience method, so we have to write one. But again, JRuby makes it easy to Rubify the code. Note that our
#traverse method makes use of our
Enumerable-ization of NodeList above as well.
JAXP/JRuby
module org::w3c::dom::Node def traverse(&blk) blk.call(self) child_nodes.each do |e| e.traverse(&blk) end end end titles = [] document.traverse do |elem| titles << elem.text_content if elem.node_name == "title" end
Pull parsing
All three libraries have a pull parser (also called a stream parser or reader) as well. Pull parsers are efficient because they behave like a cursor scrolling through the document, but usually result in more verbose code because of the need to implement a small state machine on top of lower-level XML events. They are best employed on very large documents where it's impractical to store the entire DOM tree in memory at once.
REXML
parser = REXML::Parsers::PullParser.new(xml_stream) titles = [] text = '' grab_text = false parser.each do |event| case event.event_type when :start_element grab_text = true if event \[0\] == "title" when :text text << event \[1\] if grab_text when :end_element if event \[0\] == "title" titles << text text = '' grab_text = false end end end
Nokogiri
reader = Nokogiri::XML::Reader(xml_stream) titles = [] text = '' grab_text = false reader.each do |elem| if elem.name == "title" if elem.node_type == 1 # start element? grab_text = true else # elem.node_type == 15 # end element? titles << text text = '' grab_text = false end elsif grab_text && elem.node_type == 3 # text? text << elem.value end end
(Aside to the Nokogiri team: where are the reader node type constants?)
JAXP/JRuby
include javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants factory = javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory.newInstance reader = factory.createXMLStreamReader(xml_stream.to_inputstream) titles = [] text = '' grab_text = false while reader.has_next case reader.next when START_ELEMENT grab_text = true if reader.local_name == "title" when CHARACTERS text << reader.text if grab_text when END_ELEMENT if reader.local_name == "title" titles << text text = '' grab_text = false end end end
Not surprisingly, all three pull parser examples end up looking very similar. The subtleties of the pull parser APIs end up getting blurred in the loops and conditionals. Only write this code when you have to.
Performance
At the end of the day, it comes down to performance, doesn't it? Although the topic of Ruby XML parser performance has been discussed before, I thought it would be instructive to do another round of comparisons with JRuby and Ruby 1.9 thrown into the mix.
System Configuration
- Mac OS X 10.5 on a MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo
- Ruby 1.8.6p287
- Ruby 1.9.1p243
- JRuby 1.5.0.dev (rev c7b3348) on Apple JDK 5 (32-bit)
- Nokogiri 1.4.0
- libxml2 2.7.3
Here are results comparing Nokogiri and Hpricot on the three implementations along with the JAXP version which only runs on JRuby (smaller is better).
The REXML results were over an order of magnitude slower, so it's easier to view them on a separate graph. Note the number of iterations here is 100 vs. 1000 for the results above.
While these results don't paint a complete picture of XML parser performance, they should give you enough of a guideline to make a decision on which parser to use once you take portability and readability into account. In summary:
- Use REXML when your parsing needs are minimal and want the widest portability (across all implementations) with the smallest install footprint.
- Use JRuby with the JAXP APIs for portability across any operating system that supports the Java platform (including Google AppEngine).
- Use Nokogiri for everything else. It's the fastest implementation, and produces the most programmer-friendly code of all Ruby XML parsers to date.
(As a footnote, we on the Nokogiri and JRuby teams are looking for community help to further develop the pure-Java backend for Nokogiri so that AppEngine and other JVM deployment scenarios that don't allow loading native code can benefit from Nokogiri's awesomeness. Please leave a comment or contact the JRuby team on the mailing list if you're interested.)
The source code for this article is available if you'd like to examine the code or run the benchmarks yourself. Keep an eye on the Engine Yard blog for an upcoming post on Nokogiri, and as always, leave questions and thoughts in the comments!
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How Flink’s Application Powers Up eBay’s Monitoring System
Status Quo of Flink’s Application in the Monitoring System
Sherlock.IO, eBay’s monitoring platform, processes tens of billions of logs, events, and metrics every day. The Flink Streaming job real-time processing system empowers Sherlock.IO to process logs and events. Post Flink implementation, eBay’s monitoring team is able to share the processed results with the users on time. Currently, eBay’s monitoring team manages eight Flink clusters and the largest cluster has thousands of TaskManagers. Hundreds of jobs are running on these clusters and several jobs have been running stably for more than half a year.
Metadata-driven Architecture
The monitoring team has built a metadata service for the Flink Streaming job real-time processing system to allow users and administrators to quickly create Flink jobs and adjust parameters. This service describes the directed acyclic graph (DAG) of a job in JSON format. Tasks of the same DAG share the same job. This simplifies job creation as it eliminates the effort to call the Flink API. Figure 1 below represents the overall stream processing architecture of Sherlock.IO.
Currently, jobs created by using this metadata service only allows employing Kafka as the data source. Kafka allows defining Capability to process the corresponding logic, and data through Flink Streaming.
Metadata Service
The metadata service architecture is shown in Figure 2 below. The metadata service provides the Restful API at the top layer. You can call this API to describe and commit jobs. Metadata that describes a job is composed of three parts: Resource, Capability, and Policy. The Flink Adaptor connects the Flink Streaming API and the Restful API and allows you to call the Restful API to create a job according to the job description of the metadata service, eliminating the need to call the Flink Streaming API. This allows you to create Flink jobs without concerning about the Flink Streaming API. To migrate all existing jobs to a new stream processing framework, all you need to do is add an adaptor.
- Capability: It defines the DAG of a job and the class that each Operator uses. Figure 3 represents the sample code of the eventProcess Capability. Further, it eventually generates a DAG as shown in Figure 4. The eventProcess Capability first reads data from Kafka and then writes the output to ElasticSearch. The given Capability names the job as “eventProcess” and specifies its parallelism to “5”. Its operator is “EventESsIndexSinkCapability”, and its data stream is “Source > Sink”.
- Policy: It is required to define one or more policies for each namespace, and each Policy specifies a corresponding Capability. In other words, each Policy specifies a DAG that runs a particular Policy. A policy also defines the configuration of the job, such as the source Kafka topic to read data from, the destination ElasticSearch Index to write data to, and whether some operators need to be skipped.
A policy can also be used as a simple filter, which allows you to filter out unnecessary data and improve the job’s throughput by configuring the JEXL expression. Figure 5 shows a sample code of a Policy in a namespace named “paas”. ZooKeeper’s regular update mechanism is also implemented to ensure that the job does not need to be restarted after a policy is modified. As long as the policy modification of a namespace falls within the update interval, the modification is automatically applied to the job.
- Resource: It defines the resources required by a namespace, such as the Flink clusters, Kafka brokers, and Elasticsearch (ES) clusters. Many Flink, Kafka, and ES clusters are available. You can specify the ES cluster to which logs of a specified namespace need to be written, as well as the Kafka cluster from which data of the namespace must be read.
Shared Jobs
For better management, the number of jobs needs to be minimized. This is achievable by making tasks of the same DAG share the same job. The same Capability can also be specified for different Policies. In such scenarios, when a specified Capability has sufficient resources, respective policies will be scheduled for the same job.
Let’s understand this better with an example of an SQL Capability. The SQL statements of different Policies might differ, and If we create a job for each Policy, Job Managers will have more overhead. Therefore, as a solution, we may configure 20 slots for each SQL Capability, one slot for each policy. This ensures that each job created on the basis of a specific Capability can run 20 Policies. During the job implementation, data read from the source gets labeled with policy labels, and SQL statements defined by the corresponding policies are executed. This allows multiple policies to share the same job, and significantly reduce the total number of jobs.
Shared jobs provide an additional advantage in cases where data is read from multiple namespaces with the same Kafka topic. It ensures that prior to filtering, the data is read just once for all namespaces within the job, instead of once for each namespace. This significantly improves data processing efficiency.
Optimizing and Monitoring Flink Jobs
Now, since you have a basic understanding of the metadata-driven architecture, let’s understand the various methods used to optimize and monitor Flink jobs.
Heartbeat
Monitoring the overall status of running jobs during Flink cluster operations and maintenance is a rather daunting task. Even if a checkpoint is enabled, it is difficult to determine whether any data is lost or how much data is lost, if any. Therefore, we inject heartbeats into each job to monitor the job running status.
Similar to Flink’s LatencyMarker, heartbeats flow through the pipeline of each job. But, unlike LatencyMarker, when a heartbeat encounters DAG branches, it splits and flows to every branch instead of flowing to a random branch. Another difference is that heartbeats are not generated by Flink. Instead, heartbeats are generated regularly by the metadata service and consumed by each job.
As shown in Figure 4, when a job starts, a heartbeat data source is added to each job by default. After flowing into each job, a heartbeat flows through each node together with the data and adds labels of the current node. Further, it skips the processing logic of the current node and flows to the next node. When the heartbeat flows to the last node, it is sent to Sherlock.IO in the form of a metric. This metric contains the time when the heartbeat was generated, when it flowed into the job, and when it arrived at each node. Based on this metric, we can determine whether a job has a delay in reading Kafka data, the time required for a data record to be processed by the whole pipeline, and the time that each node takes to process the data. This allows you to determine the specific performance bottlenecks of the job.
Also, since heartbeats are sent regularly, the number of heartbeats that each job receives should be the same. If the final metric is inconsistent with regards to the expected number, you should be able to determine whether data loss has occurred. Figure 6 illustrates the data flow and Heartbeat status of a Flink job.
Availability
We can use heartbeats to define the availability of the cluster. However, it is imperative to define the conditions in which a job is unavailable:
- Flink Job is Restarted: When there is insufficient memory (OutofMemory) or the code is executed incorrectly, the job may unexpectedly restart. Data loss during the restart process is one of the situations where a cluster is unavailable. Therefore, one of our goals is to ensure that Flink jobs run with stability in the long run.
- Flink Job has Terminated: A Flink job terminates when a host or container doesn’t start due to infrastructure problems. Also, the Flink job doesn’t kickstart due to insufficient slots during a restart, or the maximum number of restarts exceeds (rest.retry.max-attempts). In this case, you need to manually restart the job. When a Flink job is terminated, it is also considered unavailable.
- Flink Job Doesn’t Process Data While Running: This problem is usually caused by back pressure. There are many causes of back pressure, such as excessively large upstream traffic, insufficient processing capability of an operator, and downstream storage performance bottlenecks. Although short-term back pressure does not cause data loss, it affects real-time data. The most obvious change is the increased latency. When back pressure occurs, the job is considered unavailable.
You can use heartbeats to monitor and calculate the availability of the job in all these three situations. For example, if data is lost during restart, the heartbeats of the corresponding pipeline are lost. Accordingly, we can check whether data is lost as well as estimate the amount of data loss. In the second case, heartbeats will not be processed when a job is terminated. We can easily detect the terminated jobs and request the on-call service team to intervene in a timely manner. In the third case, when back pressure occurs, heartbeats are also blocked. Therefore, the on-call service team can quickly detect the back pressure and manually intervene.
To conclude, we can state that heartbeats are used to help us quickly monitor the running status of Flink jobs. Next, it is critical to ascertain how can we assess job availability? Since heartbeats are sent on a scheduled basis, we can define the transmit interval. For example, we set it to 10s, in this case, we can expect every pipeline of a job to send six heartbeats with the corresponding job information every one minute. Technically, we can expect 8640 heartbeats every day for each job. Therefore, we can define the availability of a job as
Flink Job Isolation
A Slot is the smallest unit for running a job on Flink [1]. You can assign one or more slots (as a rule-of-thumb, a good default number of slots to be assigned to a TaskManager would be the number of its CPU cores) to each TaskManager. Based on the parallelism mechanism, a job can be assigned to multiple TaskManagers, and a TaskManager can run multiple jobs. However, a TaskManager is a Java virtual machine (JVM) and when multiple jobs are assigned to the same TaskManager, they may compete for resources.
For example, a TaskManager is assigned three slots (three CPU cores) and an 8 GB heap memory. When the JobManager schedules jobs, it may schedule threads of three different jobs to this TaskManager to compete for CPU and memory resources. In case, one of the jobs consumes the most CPU or Memory resources, the other two jobs are affected. In such a scenario, we can configure Flink to isolate jobs, as shown in Figure 7.
Refer the following description of each configuration Item:
taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: 1: assigns only one slot for each TaskManager.
cpu_period" and "cpu_quota: specifies the number of CPU cores for each TaskManager.
taskmanager.heap.mb: specifies the JVM memory size for each TaskManager.
You can use the above configuration items to specify the CPU and memory resources to be exclusively held by each TaskManager. This implements isolation between jobs and prevents multiple jobs from competing for limited resources.
Back Pressure
It is the most commonly experienced problem while maintaining Flink clusters. As mentioned in section 3.2, there are several causes of back pressure and regardless of the causes, data will eventually get blocked in the local buffer of the upstream operator where back pressure occurs.
Each TaskManager has a local buffer pool, where the incoming data of each operator is stored, and its memory is recovered after the data is sent out. However, when back pressure occurs, data cannot be sent out, and the memory of the local buffer pool cannot be released, thus, resulting in a persistent request for buffer.
Heartbeats can only help us determine whether back pressure has occurred and cannot help us further to locate the roots of the problem. Therefore, we decide to print the StackTrace of each operator regularly. Therefore, when back pressure occurs, StackTrace can help to track the operator creating bottlenecks.
Figure 8, clearly shows the Flink jobs where back pressure has occurred, as well as their TaskManagers. By using a Thread Dump, we can also locate the problematic code.
Other Monitoring Methods
Considering that Flink provides many useful metrics [2] to monitor the running status of Flink jobs, we have added a few service metrics. We also use the following tools to monitor Flink jobs:
- History Server: History server [3] of Flink allows you to query the status and metrics of completed jobs. For example, the number of times a job has been restarted and the length of time it has been running. We usually use this tool to locate jobs that are not running properly. For example, you can figure out the number of restarts of a job based on the attempt metric of History server, to quickly find the causes of the restarts and prevent this problem from recurring.
- Monitoring Jobs and Clusters: Although Flink supports the high availability (HA) mode, in extreme cases when the entire cluster is down, the on-call service team must detect the problem and intervene manually in a timely manner. In the metadata service, we save the metadata for the last successful job commit. It records all normally running jobs and the corresponding Flink clusters that run these jobs. The Daemon thread compares metadata with jobs running on Flink every minute. If JobManager is not connected or any jobs are not running properly, an alert is triggered and sent to the on-call service team.
Examples
This section outlines several apps that successfully run on the Flink Streaming job real-time processing system of the Sherlock.IO platform.
Event Alerting
Currently, the monitoring team performs event alerting based on Flink Streaming. We have defined an alerting operator EventAlertingCapability to process custom rules of each policy. A performance monitoring rule is shown in Figure 9.
An alert is triggered when the performance detector application is “r1rover”, the host starts with “r1rover”, and the value is greater than 90. The alert will be sent to the specified Kafka topic for downstream processing.
Eventzon
Serving as the event center of eBay, Eventzon collects events from various applications, frameworks, and infrastructures, and generates alerts in real-time through the monitoring team’s Flink Streaming system. As different events have different data sources and metadata, a unified rule cannot be used to describe them.
We have defined a set of jobs to process Eventzon events, which are composed of multiple capabilities, such as the Filter Capability and the Deduplicate Capability, which are respectively used to filter illegal/non-conforming events, and to remove duplicate events. After all Eventzon events are processed by this complete set of jobs, valid alerts are generated and sent to relevant teams through emails, Slack, or Pagerduty according to the notification mechanism.
Netmon
Netmon (Network Monitoring) is used to monitor the health status of all Network devices of eBay. It reads logs from eBay’s network devices such as switches and routers and looks for specific information in error logs, to generate alerts.
Netmon requires every eBay device to be duly “registered”. After reading logs from these devices, Netmon queries for information about these devices from the “register” through EnrichCapability, fills the relevant information, such as the IP address, data center, and rack position, into these logs and saves these logs as events. When a device generates some particular error logs, the logs are matched according to the corresponding rules, and then an alert is generated. The alert is saved by the EventProcess Capability to Elasticsearch and then displayed on the Netmon dashboard in real-time. Some temporary errors may occur due to network jitters and are automatically recovered quite quickly.
When the above situation occurs, Netmon will mark the alerts generated during network jitter as “Resolved” according to the corresponding rules. For alerts that require manual intervention, the maintenance personnel can manually click Resolved on the Netmon dashboard to close these alerts.
Summary and Outlook
eBay’s monitoring team hopes to alert users in real-time based on the metrics, events, logs, and corresponding alert rules provided by users. Flink Streaming provides a low-latency solution to meet the low-latency requirements and is suitable for complex processing logic.
However, during Flink maintenance, we found problems such as false alerts and missed alerts due to particular reasons such as job restarts. Such problems may mislead customers. Therefore, we will try to ensure high stability and availability of Flink in the future. We also hope to integrate some sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms with monitoring metrics and logs to generate more effective and accurate alerts and make Flink a powerful tool for the maintenance and monitoring teams.
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Queries
Learn how to fetch data with Query components
Fetching data in a simple, predictable way is one of the core features of Apollo Client. In this guide, you'll learn how to build Query components in order to fetch GraphQL data and attach the result to your UI. You'll also learn how Apollo Client simplifies your data management code by tracking error and loading states for you.
This page assumes some familiarity with building GraphQL queries. If you'd like a refresher, we recommend reading this guide and practicing running queries in GraphiQL. Since Apollo Client queries are just standard GraphQL, you can be sure that any query that successfully runs in GraphiQL will also run in an Apollo Query component.
The following examples assume that you've already set up Apollo Client and have wrapped your React app in an
ApolloProvider component. Read our getting started guide if you need help with either of those steps.
If you'd like to follow along with the examples, open up our starter project on CodeSandbox and our sample GraphQL server on this CodeSandbox. You can view the completed version of the app here.
The Query component
The
Query component is one of the most important building blocks of your Apollo application. To create a
Query component, just pass a GraphQL query string wrapped with the
gql function to
this.props.query and provide a function to
this.props.children that tells React what to render. The
Query component is an example of a React component that uses the render prop pattern. React will call the render prop function you provide with an object from Apollo Client containing loading, error, and data properties that you can use to render your UI. Let's look at an example:
First, let's create our GraphQL query. Remember to wrap your query string in the
gql function in order to parse it into a query document. Once we have our GraphQL query, let's attach it to our
Query component by passing it to the
query prop.
We also need to provide a function as a child to our
Query component that will tell React what we want to render. We can use the
error, and
data properties that the
Query component provides for us in order to intelligently render different UI depending on the state of our query. Let's see what this looks like!
import gql from "graphql-tag"; import { Query } from "react-apollo"; const GET_DOGS = gql` { dogs { id breed } } `; const Dogs = ({ onDogSelected }) => ( <Query query={GET_DOGS}> {({ loading, error, data }) => { if (loading) return "Loading..."; if (error) return `Error! ${error.message}`; return ( <select name="dog" onChange={onDogSelected}> {data.dogs.map(dog => ( <option key={dog.id} value={dog.breed}> {dog.breed} </option> ))} </select> ); }} </Query> );
If you render
Dogs within your
App component, you'll first see a loading state and then a form with a list of dog breeds once Apollo Client receives the data from the server. When the form value changes, we're going to send the value to a parent component via
this.props.onDogSelected, which will eventually pass the value to a
DogPhoto component.
In the next step, we're going to hook our form up to a more complex query with variables by building a
DogPhoto component.
Receiving data
You've already seen a preview of how to work with the result of your query in the render prop function. Let's dive deeper into what's happening behind the scenes with Apollo Client when we fetch data from a
Query component.
- When the
Querycomponent mounts, Apollo Client creates an observable for our query. Our component subscribes to the result of the query via the Apollo Client cache.
- First, we try to load the query result from the Apollo cache. If it's not in there, we send the request to the server.
- Once the data comes back, we normalize it and store it in the Apollo cache. Since the
Querycomponent subscribes to the result, it updates with the data reactively.
To see Apollo Client's caching in action, let's build our
DogPhoto component.
DogPhoto accepts a prop called
breed that reflects the current value of our form from the
Dogs component above.
const GET_DOG_PHOTO = gql` query Dog($breed: String!) { dog(breed: $breed) { id displayImage } } `; const DogPhoto = ({ breed }) => ( <Query query={GET_DOG_PHOTO} variables={{ breed }}> {({ loading, error, data }) => { if (loading) return null; if (error) return `Error! ${error}`; return ( <img src={data.dog.displayImage} style={{ height: 100, width: 100 }} /> ); }} </Query> );
You'll notice there is a new configuration option on our
Query component. The prop
variables is an object containing the variables we want to pass to our GraphQL query. In this case, we want to pass the breed from the form into our query.
Try selecting "bulldog" from the list to see its photo show up. Then, switch to another breed and switch back to "bulldog". You'll notice that the bulldog photo loads instantaneously the second time around. This is the Apollo cache at work!
Next, let's learn some techniques for ensuring our data is fresh, such as polling and refetching.
Polling and refetching
It's awesome that Apollo Client caches your data for you, but what should we do when we want fresh data? Two solutions are polling and refetching.
Polling can help us achieve near real-time data by causing the query to refetch on a specified interval. To implement polling, simply pass a
pollInterval prop to the
Query component with the interval in ms. If you pass in 0, the query will not poll. You can also implement dynamic polling by using the
startPolling and
stopPolling functions on the result object passed to the render prop function.
const DogPhoto = ({ breed }) => ( <Query query={GET_DOG_PHOTO} variables={{ breed }} skip={!breed} pollInterval={500} > {({ loading, error, data, startPolling, stopPolling }) => { if (loading) return null; if (error) return `Error! ${error}`; return ( <img src={data.dog.displayImage} style={{ height: 100, width: 100 }} /> ); }} </Query> );
By setting the
pollInterval to 500, you should see a new dog image every .5 seconds. Polling is an excellent way to achieve near-realtime data without the complexity of setting up GraphQL subscriptions.
What if you want to reload the query in response to a user action instead of an interval? That's where the
refetch function comes in! Here, we're adding a button to our
DogPhoto component that will trigger a refetch when clicked.
refetch takes variables, but if we don't pass in new variables, it will use the same ones from our previous query.
const DogPhoto = ({ breed }) => ( <Query query={GET_DOG_PHOTO} variables={{ breed }} skip={!breed} > {({ loading, error, data, refetch }) => { if (loading) return null; if (error) return `Error! ${error}`; return ( <div> <img src={data.dog.displayImage} style={{ height: 100, width: 100 }} /> <button onClick={() => refetch()}>Refetch!</button> </div> ); }} </Query> );
If you click the button, you'll notice that our UI updates with a new dog photo. Refetching is an excellent way to guarantee fresh data, but it introduces some added complexity with loading state. In the next section, you'll learn strategies to handle complex loading and error state.
We've already seen how Apollo Client exposes our query's loading and error state in the render prop function. These properties are helpful for when the query initially loads, but what happens to our loading state when we're refetching or polling?
Let's go back to our refetching example from the previous section. If you click on the refetch button, you'll see that the component doesn't re-render until the new data arrives. What if we want to indicate to the user that we're refetching the photo?
Luckily, Apollo Client provides fine-grained information about the status of our query via the
networkStatus property on the result object in the render prop function. We also need to set the prop
notifyOnNetworkStatusChange to true so our query component re-renders while a refetch is in flight.
const DogPhoto = ({ breed }) => ( <Query query={GET_DOG_PHOTO} variables={{ breed }} skip={!breed} notifyOnNetworkStatusChange > {({ loading, error, data, refetch, networkStatus }) => { if (networkStatus === 4) return "Refetching!"; if (loading) return null; if (error) return `Error! ${error}`; return ( <div> <img src={data.dog.displayImage} style={{ height: 100, width: 100 }} /> <button onClick={() => refetch()}>Refetch!</button> </div> ); }} </Query> );
The
networkStatus property is an enum with number values from 1-8 representing a different loading state. 4 corresponds to a refetch, but there are also numbers for polling and pagination. For a full list of all the possible loading states, check out the reference guide.
While not as complex as loading state, responding to errors in your component is also customizable via the
errorPolicy prop on the
Query component. The default value for
errorPolicy is "none" in which we treat all GraphQL errors as runtime errors. In the event of an error, Apollo Client will discard any data that came back with the request and set the
error property in the render prop function to true. If you'd like to show any partial data along with any error information, set the
errorPolicy to "all".
Manually firing a query
When React mounts a
Query component, Apollo Client automatically fires off your query. What if you wanted to delay firing your query until the user performs an action, such as clicking on a button? For this scenario, we want to use an
ApolloConsumer component and directly call
client.query() instead.
import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { ApolloConsumer } from 'react-apollo'; class DelayedQuery extends Component { state = { dog: null }; onDogFetched = dog => this.setState(() => ({ dog })); render() { return ( <ApolloConsumer> {client => ( <div> {this.state.dog && <img src={this.state.dog.displayImage} />} <button onClick={async () => { const { data } = await client.query({ query: GET_DOG_PHOTO, variables: { breed: "bulldog" } }); this.onDogFetched(data.dog); }} > Click me! </button> </div> )} </ApolloConsumer> ); } }
Fetching this way is quite verbose, so we recommend trying to use a
Query component if at all possible!
If you'd like to view a complete version of the app we just built, you can check out the CodeSandbox here.
Query API overview
If you're looking for an overview of all the props
Query accepts and its render prop function, look no further! Most
Query components will not need all of these configuration options, but it's useful to know that they exist. If you'd like to learn about the
Query component API in more detail with usage examples, visit our reference guide.
Props
The Query component accepts the following props. Only
query and
children are required.
query: DocumentNode
- A GraphQL query document parsed into an AST by
graphql-tag. Required
children: (result: QueryResult) => React.ReactNode
- A function returning the UI you want to render based on your query result. Required
variables: { [key: string]: any }
- An object containing all of the variables your query needs to execute
pollInterval: number
- Specifies the interval in ms at which you want your component to poll for data. Defaults to 0 (no polling).
notifyOnNetworkStatusChange: boolean
- Whether updates to the network status or network error should re-render your component. Defaults to false.
fetchPolicy: FetchPolicy
- How you want your component to interact with the Apollo cache. Defaults to "cache-first".
errorPolicy: ErrorPolicy
- How you want your component to handle network and GraphQL errors. Defaults to "none", which means we treat GraphQL errors as runtime errors.
ssr: boolean
- Pass in false to skip your query during server-side rendering.
displayName: string
- The name of your component to be displayed in React DevTools. Defaults to 'Query'.
skip: boolean
- If skip is true, the query will be skipped entirely.
onCompleted: (data: TData | {}) => void
- A callback executed once your query successfully completes.
onError: (error: ApolloError) => void
- A callback executed in the event of an error.
context: Record<string, any>
- Shared context between your Query component and your network interface (Apollo Link). Useful for setting headers from props or sending information to the
requestfunction of Apollo Boost.
partialRefetch: boolean
- If
true, perform a query
refetchif the query result is marked as being partial, and the returned data is reset to an empty Object by the Apollo Client
QueryManager(due to a cache miss). The default value is
falsefor backwards-compatibility's sake, but should be changed to true for most use-cases.
returnPartialData: boolean
- Opt into receiving partial results from the cache for queries that are not fully satisfied by the cache.
falseby default.
Render prop function
The render prop function that you pass to the
children prop of
Query is called with an object (
QueryResult) that has the following properties. This object contains your query result, plus some helpful functions for refetching, dynamic polling, and pagination.
data: TData
- An object containing the result of your GraphQL query. Defaults to
undefined.
- A boolean that indicates whether the request is in flight
error: ApolloError
- A runtime error with
graphQLErrorsand
networkErrorproperties
variables: { [key: string]: any }
- An object containing the variables the query was called with
networkStatus: NetworkStatus
- A number from 1-8 corresponding to the detailed state of your network request. Includes information about refetching and polling status. Used in conjunction with the
notifyOnNetworkStatusChangeprop.
refetch: (variables?: TVariables) => Promise<ApolloQueryResult>
- A function that allows you to refetch the query and optionally pass in new variables
fetchMore: ({ query?: DocumentNode, variables?: TVariables, updateQuery: Function}) => Promise<ApolloQueryResult>
- A function that enables pagination for your query
startPolling: (interval: number) => void
- This function sets up an interval in ms and fetches the query each time the specified interval passes.
stopPolling: () => void
- This function stops the query from polling.
subscribeToMore: (options: { document: DocumentNode, variables?: TVariables, updateQuery?: Function, onError?: Function}) => () => void
- A function that sets up a subscription.
updateQuery: (previousResult: TData, options: { variables: TVariables }) => TData
- A function that allows you to update the query's result in the cache outside the context of a fetch, mutation, or subscription
client: ApolloClient
- Your
ApolloClientinstance. Useful for manually firing queries or writing data to the cache.
Next steps
Learning how to build
Query components to fetch data is one of the most important skills to mastering development with Apollo Client. Now that you're a pro at fetching data, why not try building
Mutation components to update your data? Here are some resources we think will help you level up your skills:
- Mutations: Learn how to update data with mutations and when you'll need to update the Apollo cache. For a full list of options, check out the API reference for
Mutationcomponents.
- Local state management: Learn how to query local data with
apollo-link-state.
- Pagination: Building lists has never been easier thanks to Apollo Client's
fetchMorefunction. Learn more in our pagination tutorial.
- Query component video by Sara Vieira: If you need a refresher or learn best by watching videos, check out this tutorial on
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This guide gets you started programming in TensorFlow. Before using this guide, install TensorFlow. To get the most out of this guide, you should know the following:
- How to program in Python.
- At least a little bit about arrays.
- Ideally, something about machine learning. However, if you know little or nothing about machine learning, then this is still the first guide you should read..contrib.learn helps you manage
data sets, estimators, training and inference. Note that a few of the high-level
TensorFlow APIs--those whose method names contain
contrib-- are still in
development. It is possible that some
contrib methods will change or become
obsolete in subsequent TensorFlow releases.
This guide begins with a tutorial on TensorFlow Core. Later, we demonstrate how to implement the same model in tf.contrib.learn. Knowing TensorFlow Core principles will give you a great mental model of how things are working internally when you use the more compact higher level API.
Tensors
The central unit of data in TensorFlow is the tensor. A tensor consists of a set of primitive values shaped into an array of any number of dimensions. A tensor's rank is its number of dimensions. Here are some examples of tensors:]
TensorFlow Core tutorial
Importing TensorFlow
The canonical import statement for TensorFlow programs is as follows:
import tensorflow as tf
This gives Python access to all of TensorFlow's classes, methods, and symbols. Most of the documentation assumes you have already done this.
The Computational Graph
You might think of TensorFlow Core programs as consisting of two discrete sections:
- Building the computational graph.
- Running the computational graph.
A computational graph is a series of TensorFlow operations arranged into a
graph of nodes.
Let's build a simple computational graph. Each node takes zero
or more tensors as inputs and produces a tensor as an output. One type of node
is a constant. Like all TensorFlow constants, it takes no inputs, and it outputs
a value it stores internally. We can create two floating point Tensors
node1
and
node2 as follows:
node1 = tf.constant(3.0, dtype=tf.float32) node2 = tf.constant(4.0) # also tf.float32 implicitly print(node1, node2)
The final print statement produces
Tensor("Const:0", shape=(), dtype=float32) Tensor("Const_1:0", shape=(), dtype=float32)
Notice that printing the nodes does not output the values
3.0 and
4.0 as you
might expect. Instead, they are nodes that, when evaluated, would produce 3.0
and 4.0, respectively. To actually evaluate the nodes, we must run the
computational graph within a session. A session encapsulates the control and
state of the TensorFlow runtime.
The following code creates a
Session object and then invokes its
run method
to run enough of the computational graph to evaluate
node1 and
node2. By
running the computational graph in a session as follows:
sess = tf.Session() print(sess.run([node1, node2]))
we see the expected values of 3.0 and 4.0:
[3.0, 4.0]
We can build more complicated computations by combining
Tensor nodes with
operations (Operations are also nodes.). For example, we can add our two
constant nodes and produce a new graph as follows:
node3 = tf.add(node1, node2) print("node3: ", node3) print("sess.run(node3): ",sess.run(node3))
The last two print statements produce
node3: Tensor("Add:0", shape=(), dtype=float32) sess.run(node3): 7.0
TensorFlow provides a utility called TensorBoard that can display a picture of the computational graph. Here is a screenshot showing how TensorBoard visualizes the graph:
As it stands, this graph is not especially interesting because it always produces a constant result. A graph can be parameterized to accept external inputs, known as placeholders. A placeholder is a promise to provide a value later.
a = tf.placeholder(tf.float32) b = tf.placeholder(tf.float32) adder_node = a + b # + provides a shortcut for tf.add(a, b)
The preceding three lines are a bit like a function or a lambda in which we define two input parameters (a and b) and then an operation on them. We can evaluate this graph with multiple inputs by using the feed_dict parameter to specify Tensors that provide concrete values to these placeholders:
print(sess.run(adder_node, {a: 3, b:4.5})) print(sess.run(adder_node, {a: [1,3], b: [2, 4]}))
resulting in the output
7.5 [ 3. 7.]
In TensorBoard, the graph looks like this:
We can make the computational graph more complex by adding another operation. For example,
add_and_triple = adder_node * 3. print(sess.run(add_and_triple, {a: 3, b:4.5}))
produces the output
22.5
The preceding computational graph would look as follows in TensorBoard:
In machine learning we will typically want a model that can take arbitrary inputs, such as the one above. To make the model trainable, we need to be able to modify the graph to get new outputs with the same input. Variables allow us to add trainable parameters to a graph. They are constructed with a type and initial value:
W = tf.Variable([.3], dtype=tf.float32) b = tf.Variable([-.3], dtype=tf.float32) x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32) linear_model = W * x + b
Constants are initialized when you call
tf.constant, and their value can never
change. By contrast, variables are not initialized when you call
tf.Variable.
To initialize all the variables in a TensorFlow program, you must explicitly
call a special operation as follows:
init = tf.global_variables_initializer() sess.run(init)
It is important to realize
init is a handle to the TensorFlow sub-graph that
initializes all the global variables. Until we call
sess.run, the variables
are uninitialized.
Since
x is a placeholder, we can evaluate
linear_model for several values of
x simultaneously as follows:
print(sess.run(linear_model, {x:[1,2,3,4]}))
to produce the output
[ 0. 0.30000001 0.60000002 0.90000004]
We've created a model, but we don't know how good it is yet. To evaluate the
model on training data, we need a
y placeholder to provide the desired values,
and we need to write a loss function.
A loss function measures how far apart the
current model is from the provided data. We'll use a standard loss model for
linear regression, which sums the squares of the deltas between the current
model and the provided data.
linear_model - y creates a vector where each
element is the corresponding example's error delta. We call
tf.square to
square that error. Then, we sum all the squared errors to create a single scalar
that abstracts the error of all examples using
tf.reduce_sum:
y = tf.placeholder(tf.float32) squared_deltas = tf.square(linear_model - y) loss = tf.reduce_sum(squared_deltas) print(sess.run(loss, {x:[1,2,3,4], y:[0,-1,-2,-3]}))
producing the loss value
23.66
We could improve this manually by reassigning the values of
W and
b to the
perfect values of -1 and 1. A variable is initialized to the value provided to
tf.Variable but can be changed using operations like
tf.assign. For example,
W=-1 and
b=1 are the optimal parameters for our model. We can change
W and
b accordingly:
fixW = tf.assign(W, [-1.]) fixb = tf.assign(b, [1.]) sess.run([fixW, fixb]) print(sess.run(loss, {x:[1,2,3,4], y:[0,-1,-2,-3]}))
The final print shows the loss now is zero.
0.0
We guessed the "perfect" values of
W and
b, but the whole point of machine
learning is to find the correct model parameters automatically. We will show
how to accomplish this in the next section.
tf.train API
A complete discussion of machine learning is out of the scope of this tutorial.
However, TensorFlow provides optimizers that slowly change each variable in
order to minimize the loss function. The simplest optimizer is gradient
descent. It modifies each variable according to the magnitude of the
derivative of loss with respect to that variable. In general, computing symbolic
derivatives manually is tedious and error-prone. Consequently, TensorFlow can
automatically produce derivatives given only a description of the model using
the function
tf.gradients. For simplicity, optimizers typically do this
for you. For example,]))
results in the final model parameters:
[array([-0.9999969], dtype=float32), array([ 0.99999082], dtype=float32)]
Now we have done actual machine learning! Although doing this simple linear regression doesn't require much TensorFlow core code, more complicated models and methods to feed data into your model necessitate more code. Thus TensorFlow provides higher level abstractions for common patterns, structures, and functionality. We will learn how to use some of these abstractions in the next section.
Complete program
The completed trainable linear regression model is shown here:
import numpy as np import tensorflow as tf # Model parameters W = tf.Variable([.3], dtype=tf.float32) b = tf.Variable([-.3], dtype))
When run, it produces
W: [-0.9999969] b: [ 0.99999082] loss: 5.69997e-11
Notice that the loss is a very small number (close to zero). If you run this program your loss will not be exactly the same, because the model is initialized with random values.
This more complicated program can still be visualized in TensorBoard
tf.contrib.learn
tf.contrib.learn is a high-level TensorFlow library that simplifies the
mechanics of machine learning, including the following:
- running training loops
- running evaluation loops
- managing data sets
- managing feeding
tf.contrib.learn defines many common models.
Basic usage
Notice how much simpler the linear regression program becomes with
tf.contrib.learn:
import tensorflow as tf # NumPy is often used to load, manipulate and preprocess data. import numpy as np # Declare list of features. We only have one real-valued feature. There are many # other types of columns that are more complicated and useful. features = [tf.contrib.layers.real_valued_column("x", dimension=1)] # An estimator is the front end to invoke training (fitting) and evaluation # (inference). There are many predefined types like linear regression, # logistic regression, linear classification, logistic classification, and # many neural network classifiers and regressors. The following code # provides an estimator that does linear regression. estimator = tf.contrib.learn.LinearRegressor(feature_columns=features) # TensorFlow provides many helper methods to read and set up data sets. # Here we use two data sets: one for training and one for evaluation # We have to tell the function how many batches # of data (num_epochs) we want and how big each batch should be., batch_size=4, num_epochs=1000) eval_input_fn = tf.contrib.learn.io.numpy_input_fn( {"x":x_eval}, y_eval, batch_size=4, num_epochs=1000) # We can invoke 1000 training steps by invoking the method and passing the # training data set..3049088e-08} eval loss: {'global_step': 1000, 'loss': 0.0025487561}
Notice how our eval data has a higher loss, but it is still close to zero. That means we are learning properly.
A custom model
tf.contrib.learn does not lock you into its predefined models. Suppose we
wanted to create a custom model that is not built into TensorFlow. We can still
retain the high level abstraction of data set, feeding, training, etc. of
tf.contrib.learn. For illustration, we will show how to implement our own
equivalent model to
LinearRegressor using our knowledge of the lower level
TensorFlow API.
To define a custom model that works with
tf.contrib.learn, we need to use
tf.contrib.learn.Estimator.
tf.contrib.learn.LinearRegressor is actually
a sub-class of
tf.contrib.learn.Estimator. Instead of sub-classing
Estimator, we simply provide
Estimator a function
model_fn that tells
tf.contrib.learn how it can evaluate predictions, training steps, and
loss. The code is as follows:
import numpy as np import tensorflow as tf # Declare list of features, we only have one real-valued feature def model(features, labels, mode): # Build a linear model and predict values W = tf.get_variable("W", [1], dtype=tf.float64) b = tf.get_variable("b", [1], dtype=tf.float64) y = W*features['x'] + b # Loss sub-graph loss = tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(y - labels)) # Training sub-graph global_step = tf.train.get_global_step() optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.01) train = tf.group(optimizer.minimize(loss), tf.assign_add(global_step, 1)) # ModelFnOps connects subgraphs we built to the # appropriate functionality. return tf.contrib.learn.ModelFnOps( mode=mode, predictions=y, loss=loss, train_op=train) estimator = tf.contrib.learn.Estimator(model_fn=model) # define our data sets, 4, num_epochs=1000) # train.9380226e-11} eval loss: {'global_step': 1000, 'loss': 0.01010081}
Notice how the contents of the custom
model() function are very similar
to our manual model training loop from the lower level API.
Next steps
Now you have a working knowledge of the basics of TensorFlow. We have several more tutorials that you can look at to learn more. If you are a beginner in machine learning see MNIST for beginners, otherwise see Deep MNIST for experts. | https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.2/get_started/get_started | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | refinedweb | 2,124 | 50.94 |
Actively working on it as we speak, should be ready by Tuesday. Up to you :)
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Prescott Nasser <geobmx540@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> Itamar - can you provide a status update on what work you've done on the
> Geometry stuff? If it's something that you're close on, could we commit it
> to the trunk and 3.0.3 branch so that the community could try their hand at
> finishing it? If not, I think we should move without it. I don't want to
> hold off 3.0.3 that much longer
>
> > Subject: Re: 3.0.3 Pre-Release Nuget Packages
> > From: zgramana@gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:18:17 -0400
> > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> >
> > Glad to hear it.
> >
> > FWIW, I've deployed the Spatial contrib on client projects against
> 2.9.4.1, which would break without the Geometry namespace. I'm doubt I'm
> the only one.
> >
> > I would encourage not releasing the 3.0.3 Contribs.Spatial until that is
> included. I think most people using the stable NuGet feed would expect
> 3.0.3 to be complete with respect to Java Lucene. It may take people quite
> a bit of work to get their code working again in 3.0.3 with just the
> .NETification changes alone. If people find that, after all that work, they
> now have to wait for a maintenance release, there could be some real grumpy
> coders out there taking to social media with pitch forks in hand.
> >
> > It sounded like he was done with 4.0 and just back porting to 3.5. I
> would be happy to lend Itamar a hand, if he feels it could help.
> >
> >
> > On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Christopher Currens <
> currens.chris@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Itamar said a few weeks ago he was planning on
> > > getting polygon support into the spatial module (I am assuming that
> > > this is the Geometry namespace). I'm unsure if it will make it into
> > > the official 3.0.3 release or it if it will be pushed back into a
> > > maintenance release shortly after.
> >
>
>
> | https://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucenenet-dev/201208.mbox/%3CCAHTr4ZsDyUKjjE47zNUnAD+L81oureXm5T2gp1Un5iYrrjGxzg@mail.gmail.com%3E | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | refinedweb | 362 | 77.33 |
Background
Two important principle of Object Oriented programming are -
- For each class design aim for low coupling and high cohesion.
- Classes should be open for extension but closed for modification.
We will see how we can use these to design any classes.
Class Design
Lets design a simple Employee class which has it's name.
public class Employee { private String name; public Employee(String name) { this.name = name; } }
Looks good. Every time anyone has to create an instance of Employee he has to supply name in the constructor. So you see any flaw in this?
Well there is. Lets say new requirement comes up and you now have to add employee age. What would you do?
One way would be change the constructor to include age now.
public class Employee { private String name; private int age; public Employee(String name, int age) { this.name = name; this.age = age; } }
Though it solves our new requirement it will break all our existing code. All Users using our existing code will have to make changes now. So we definitely cannot remove the constructor with name in it. So what do we do next ?
Lets create an overridden constructor.
public class Employee { private String name; private int age; public Employee(String name) { this.name = name; } public Employee(String name, int age) { this(name); this.age = age; } }
Ok this looks good. This will not break existing code and will meet our existing requirement. Now take a minute to this what about future requirements. Lets say you may have to add employees sex, salary etc in the Employee mode. What will you do then? Keep adding overloaded constructors?
Sure you can. But that is a very poor design choice. Simplest thing to do is following -
public class Employee { private String name; private int age; public Employee(){} public String getName() { return name; } public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; } public int getAge() { return age; } public void setAge(int age) { this.age = age; } }
That's right. A simple no argument default constructor and getter, setter methods corresponding to instance variables. This is flexible design implementation. Going forward we can add as many instance variables with corresponding get and set methods.
Though this is good and simple class design. I would not say it is optimal. What if you want to ensure that user should not create a Employee instance without providing name.
Sure different developers will have different methods to ensure that and have good design. I like to use builder for that. See following -
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.*; public class Employee { private String name; private int age; private Employee() {} public String getName() { return name; } public int getAge() { return age; } public static class EmployeeBuilder { private final Employee employee; public EmployeeBuilder() { employee = new Employee(); } public EmployeeBuilder setName(String name) { employee.name = name; return this; } public EmployeeBuilder setAge(int age) { employee.age = age; return this; } public Employee build() { validateFields(); return employee; } private void validateFields() { notNull(employee.name, "Employee Name cannot be Empty"); isTrue(employee.age >= 21, "Employee age cannot be less than 21"); } } }
Notice following points -
- We made constructor of Employee class private. So no one can directly instantiate Employee class. He or she has to use our Builder class.
- There is not setter methods in Employee class. Again builder should be used.
- Builder's build() methods validates our requirements like name cannot be null or age has to be more than 21.
- You can easily create Employee objects using - | http://opensourceforgeeks.blogspot.com/2015_02_22_archive.html | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | refinedweb | 574 | 60.82 |
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Activity
- All
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
We need to let the user define a "flow-graph" of how the supersteps should be executed.
According to this, we need an engine which will execute this.
Also we need a mapping between the input and a specific superstep.
This isn't hacked in a few hours, this is a larger task.
However, our current "execution" is just a very simple graph. So we can make the whole system much more flexible and keep the current functionality.
So I would be +1.
I like the idea of supporting selective synchronization for high-level BSP developers. would recommend you to start this as a sub-module.
I see this a bit more important than you.
Currently GoldenOrb has folded, so our only "competitor" is Giraph.
Giraph is focused on Graph computing solely with the "simple" BSP case.
Suraj is right, we should support a flexible engine for every execution kind. We can cover the simple case with the normal BSP and Pregel-api as well, but can be much wider usable.
An interesting point is as well, that this system equals to Dryad.
Dryad has been dropped by Microsoft in favor of Hadoop and we can bring it back on top of Hadoop.
We should just ask ourselfs, why they dropped dryad.
I wouldn't make this a submodule, anyways this would be a greater change throughout the whole code base. But afterwards our system is much more powerful than it is now. believe it has performance reasons. Timesharing looks like a more ancient scheduling to me.
Nice to see some views expressed. There is no way we should be giving up the simple or rather the new simple fault tolerant BSP API.
The reason, I rushed to express this idea, is for us to keep it in mind while we design and implement fault tolerance, which is our current focus and there are people already working on it.
As an example, when I am making the checkpointing configurable with a simple modulo logic today, I was making it a modulo function of a counter for number of times sync() function is called. Now with selective superstep synchronization in mind, I have to make the checkpointing logic a function of current superstep number.
Regarding the changes to be made, I was encouraged by the design that Thomas had in his github repo.
I think It already necessitates sending the Superstep array to BSPPeer. For selective synchronization, we would need multidimensional array to be sent with the column of the array to be executed. The column number would also have to be part of the identity of Zookeeper node for synchronization. I agree this is not a small task.
In offline mode, we can always implement task precedence constraints with multiple batch processing (like Oozie for hadoop-mapreduce). However, I think having this flexibility would be really useful for real-time Hama tasks. I feel this would give Hama capability to be a framework for implementing distributed real-time computation tasks as well. We can evaluate the design of S4(Y!), EarlyBird(Twitter) and others to verify this.
Some issues I can think of at the moment
For selective synchronization, if recovery is required to take place, configurable checkpoint might not work well. For example, user configures checkpoint every 5 supersteps, and some tasks cross over 5 supersteps (e.g. 7 supersteps). Then checkpoints can not correctly serialize messages because the long task is not yet ready for be checkpointed. Or the system may checkpoint the process image, which is not portable. The disadvantage would be that, in the case of configurable checkpoint set to 5 and a task cross 7 supersteps, the system can only checkpoint once per 35 supersteps.
Concerning task execution/ dependency, it might be interesting to have a look at CIEL[1], which allows dynamic task composition and is suitable for iterative and recursive algorithm. Also it might be good if the system allows users to choose this as an option because probably other tasks may not need such style job execution.
[1]. CIEL is a universal execution engine for distributed computation.
+1 to chiahung's comment.
Thanks ChiaHung for the information. It looks like a good read and I agree with your opinion of user specifically selecting this as an option.
Regarding your comment on checkpointing, it would be a bad choice if someone sets the checkpointing interval to 5 when the "largest superstep unit"(If I am allowed to term so) of their computation is 7. Even if it is set at 5, Failure at superstep 6 would necessitate the large task (task requiring 7 supersteps) to start over again, but not the smaller ones checkpointed at 5th superstep. In today's design, we would have the first superstep of other small tasks waiting till the large task finishes. and on failure at 6th superstep, would require restart of all the tasks from superstep 0. Don't miss the point that the larger task was not receiving messages from other tasks during this period. Please note that the superstep count required for a job would be configurable in such a scenario and when a task goes into sync it is informing ZK which superstep is the task seeking a sync for. The getSuperStepCount for large task would return its start superstep count + 7. Your situation also reiterates my aforesaid point that instead of coding the checkpoint function -
private final boolean shouldCheckPointNow(){ return (conf.getBoolean(Constants.CHECKPOINT_ENABLED, false) && (checkPointInterval != 0) && (getSuperstepCount() % checkPointInterval) == 0); }
We should have -
private final boolean shouldCheckPointNow(){ // previousCheckpointSuperstep is the superstep at which a checkpoint was done return (conf.getBoolean(Constants.CHECKPOINT_ENABLED, false) && (checkPointInterval != 0) && (getSuperstepCount() - previousCheckpointSuperstep) >= 0); }
The change was necessary here because we have selective superstep design in mind.
As I understand this strategy is called local checkpoint or independent checkpoint. The issues of this design is that it would have domino effect[1], resulting in the recovery process starting from the initial state and the frequency may be higher than expected. In addition, due to lack of consistent state for the whole system at specific time point, every individual checkpointed data can not be garbage collected[2], indicating that the system needs to preserve large amount of the checkpointed data so that rollback/ recovery would be possible.
Coordinated checkpoint synchronizes at specific time point in order to form a consistent state. Although this is not a perfect solution, it is somehow reliable compared with local checkpoint and relative simpler than communication-induced checkpoint.
[1]. Brian Randell. System Structure for Software Fault Tolerance.
[2]. Titos Saridakis. Design Patterns for Checkpoint-Based Rollback Recovery
Do you have a plan on this? If so, please share with me.
HAMA-639 and HAMA-652 should be 50% of work. For HAMA-652, I have implemented the scenario when selective synchronizations are to be done on pre-determined synchronization points before execution. It gets a little tricky when the synchronizations points (or even the members) to sync are to be determined during the execution. HAMA-639 API could be finalized once code for HAMA-652 is finalized.
The next issue is when a task who is at superstep (say number 10) receives messages from a remote peer for a distant superstep ( say anything more than 11 in this case ). I think we would need to change the send protocol to handle this case. Also, we would need BSPJobClient to provide input splits for multiple superstep chains.
Thought we are going to do something similar to dryad. This paradigm for branch&bound algorithms would be cool to implement ().
Yes, we would need the listed issues to be implemented before we can even start working on implementing vertice operators.
An informal explanation of the HAMA-511. Has scope for more changes and updates. | https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAMA-511 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | refinedweb | 1,303 | 55.13 |
February 25, 2020
By Madelyn Eriksen
Static site generators like Gatsby are a massive win for developers. They provide us with automated deployments, faster development cycles, and reduced security burden.
Despite the technical gains, static sites can have a hampered content editing story. Those comfortable with Git and Markdown might edit files directly. But content authors need a better solution for editing.
TinaCMS is an extensible toolkit that can help meet these needs. Tina allows developers to use formats we love, like Markdown and JSON, while providing a smooth experience for content authors.
To understand better how Tina works, I decided to add it to an existing site, my Gatsby starter, Tyra. What follows is a walkthrough of my process. Feel free to use this as a reference for adding TinaCMS to an existing Gatsby site!
In a rush? Check out the code on Github
Tina is a non-intrusive library you can use to add editing capabilities to your site. All your page generation logic can remain exactly the same, making it easier to 'drop-in' dynamic content editing.
There is a collection of plugins you need to install and register with Gatsby to add Tina to your site. Let's do that now.
Like most things in the JavaScript world, we can install the packages we need with
npm or
yarn. Use whichever package manager is relevant for your project.
# With npm npm i --save gatsby-plugin-tinacms gatsby-tinacms-git gatsby-tinacms-remark styled-components # Or using Yarn yarn add gatsby-plugin-tinacms gatsby-tinacms-git gatsby-tinacms-remark styled-components
This command adds the Gatsby plugins for Tina itself, to interface Git with Tina, and to support markdown files (via Remark). Since Tyra already had the
gatsby-transformer-remark plugin and all related dependencies installed, I only needed to install plugins specific to TinaCMS.
If you're starting from scratch, you'll need to install Gatsby plugins for loading Markdown files. The Gatsby docs have a great guide on using Markdown in Gatsby!
To add new or complex functionality in Gatsby, you can use a plugin. Tina is no different in this regard. We'll need to add the relevant entries for Tina to our
gatsby-config.js file.
# gatsby-config.js module.exports = { siteMetadata: { // ...snip }, plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-plugin-tinacms`, options: { plugins: [ `gatsby-tinacms-git`, `gatsby-tinacms-remark`, ], }, }, // ... Other plugins below!! ] }
Tyra uses Markdown for content, but TinaCMS also supports JSON files via gatsby-tinacms-json. I find that JSON is great for page content and blocks. But for simple blog posts, Markdown works great.
Since the content Tyra is Git-based, all edits need to be committed back into the repository.
gatsby-tinacms-git tracks content changes and handles the creation of new commits with content. By default, changes are pushed to a remote branch, but the plugin is configurable.
In the Tyra Starter, the functional
Post template creates all blog posts.
Post renders Markdown content, SEO-focused metadata, and the hero image for each post.
To enable editing, we can wrap the
Post component in a Higher-Order Component provided by Tina —
inlineRemarkForm.
Here's what that looks like:
// src/blog/post.js import React from 'react' import Layout from '../common/layouts' import Hero from './components/hero.js' import Body from './components/body.js' import Seo from './seo.js' import MetaSeo from '../common/seo' import { graphql } from 'gatsby' // New Tina Import! import { inlineRemarkForm } from 'gatsby-tinacms-remark' const Post = ({ location, data }) => { const { category, date, dateOriginal, author, title, slug, metaDescription, } = data.post.frontmatter const content = data.post.html return ( <Layout> <Seo slug={slug} title={title} date={dateOriginal} description={metaDescription} author={author} image={data.post.frontmatter.postImage.childImageSharp.original.src} /> <MetaSeo title={title} description={metaDescription} /> <Hero author={author} date={date} category={category} title={title} /> <Body content={content} description={metaDescription} image={data.post.frontmatter.postImage.childImageSharp.original.src} location={location} /> </Layout> ) } export const query = graphql` query($slug: String!) { post: markdownRemark(frontmatter: { slug: { eq: $slug } }) { html frontmatter { date(formatString: "MMM Do, YYYY") dateOriginal: date category author title metaDescription slug postImage { childImageSharp { original { src } fluid(maxWidth: 1080) { ...GatsbyImageSharpFluid } } } } # Tina uses additional, specialized query data. # Add the required data using this GraphQL fragment. ...TinaRemark } date: markdownRemark(frontmatter: { slug: { eq: $slug } }) { frontmatter { date } } } ` // Pass in the component to wrap and configuration object export default inlineRemarkForm(Post, { queryName: 'post' })
inlineRemarkForm will take our
Post component as an argument and return a component wrapped with Tina plumbing. Higher-Order Components inject custom logic into existing React components.
In our GraphQL query, we've added a fragment,
TinaRemark, that pulls out extra data for Tina to edit files. I also used a non-standard query name for my post data (
post). Thankfully, it's easy to change what data Tina uses by passing in a configuration object to
inlineRemarkForm.
At this point, if we start our application, we can hop over to localhost:8000 and see that Tina is working!
# Start the dev server npm start
Navigate to a blog post and click the "Pencil" icon in the bottom left-hand corner. The Tina sidebar should appear and let you edit your Markdown posts.
Awesome right? Here I've changed the author from "Jane Doe" to "Madelyn Eriksen". I can save those changes in the Tina sidebar too. That process triggers an automatic commit in
git and pushes to a remote branch.
How Tina interacts with Git is entirely configurable. It's possible to change the commit message, disable automatic commits, or even change the Git user.
//gatsby-config.js module.exports = { // ...snip plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-plugin-tinacms`, options: { plugins: [ `gatsby-tinacms-remark`, - `gatsby-tinacms-git` + { + resolve: `gatsby-tinacms-git`, + options: { + defaultCommitMessage: `Custom Commit Message`, // Change this! + pushOnCommit: false, + }, + }, ], }, }, // ...snip ], }
Right now our sidebar forms for editing are 'okay,' but there's room for improvement. It would be a lot nicer if the form fields weren't labeled with things like
rawFrontmatter.title. Our content authors would likely not appreciate labels like that!
There are also fields Tyra uses that should be "private" and not available to edit in the sidebar. For example, the
type frontmatter value to identify posts.
We can configure the sidebar form by passing in a
FormConfig object to Tina. Customizing forms with Tina is straightforward. We need to define a JavaScript object to declare the desired form fields for Tina to render.
Back in
src/blog/post.js, we can add this configuration object:
// ...snip const FormConfig = { label: `Blog Post`, queryName: `post`, fields: [ { label: `Title`, name: `rawFrontmatter.title`, description: `The title of your post.`, component: `text`, // A simple text input }, { label: `Post Image`, name: `rawFrontmatter.postImage`, component: `image`, // Converts uploaded images into filepaths. parse: filename => `./img/${filename}`, // Creates a filepath to preview thumbnails. previewSrc: (formValues, { input }) => { const [_, field] = input.name.split('.') const node = formValues.frontmatter[field] const result = node ? node.childImageSharp.fluid.src : '' return result }, uploadDir: () => `/content/posts/img/`, }, { label: `Author`, name: `rawFrontmatter.author`, description: `Your full name.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Date Published`, name: `rawFrontmatter.date`, description: `The date your post was published.`, component: `date`, dateFormat: `YYYY-MM-DD`, timeFormat: false, }, { label: `Category`, name: `rawFrontmatter.category`, description: `The category of your post.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Post URL`, name: `rawFrontmatter.slug`, description: `The URL your post will be visible at.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `SEO Description`, name: `rawFrontmatter.metaDescription`, description: `Description used for search engine results.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Content`, name: `rawMarkdownContent`, description: `Write your blog post here!`, component: `markdown`, }, ], } // Pass in FormConfig export default inlineRemarkForm(Post, FormConfig)
In the
FormConfig, we're using
text,
markdown,
date, and even
image fields to make the post authoring experience nicer. Tina has a bunch of built-in fields, and even allows you to add your own.
The
image field can be tricky to configure. For the post image, we need Tina to handle image uploads, as well as update previews. To configure uploads, you declare the upload directory and parse out a preview thumbnail from the uploaded image.
{ label: `Post Image`, name: `rawFrontmatter.postImage`, component: `image`, // function to convert uploaded images. parse: filename => `./img/${filename}`, previewSrc: (formValues, { input }) => { // Create a function for viewing previews. const [_, field] = input.name.split("."); const node = formValues.frontmatter[field]; const result = node ? node.childImageSharp.fluid.src : ""; return result; }, uploadDir: () => `/content/posts/img/`, }
Putting all that together, our sidebar looks a lot more inviting and easier to work with.
Note: While editing, there may be fields that don't have values or are not filled. In this case, it's essential to make sure your site can handle empty field values and not 'blow up.'
Even with the fancy sidebar, it'd sure be nicer to just edit content right on the page.
Inline editing means changing the page content on the page itself. Rather than using a different authoring screen, you can click on the page to start making edits. It's an intuitive way to edit content for the web.
Thankfully, Tina supports inline editing with a "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) editor for Markdown! Adding an inline editor only requires a few changes to our Tina configuration code.
inlineRemarkForm passes down two props we haven't used yet:
isEditing and
setIsEditing. You can use these props to toggle and observe "edit mode" in your code. We can access these values from props:
// src/blog/post.js // ...snip const Post = ({ location, data, isEditing, setIsEditing }) => { // ...snip }
We can toggle the "edit mode" through a simple button that displays right above the post. That said, the toggle can be anything you want! Fancier options could look like using React Portals to render buttons elsewhere in the DOM, or listening to click or keyboard events.
With standard "props drilling", I passed down the editing state to my
Body component:
// src/blog/post.js const Post = ({ location, data, isEditing, setIsEditing }) => { // ...snip return ( // ...snip <Body content={content} description={metaDescription} image={data.post.frontmatter.postImage.childImageSharp.original.src} location={location} isEditing={isEditing} setIsEditing={setIsEditing} /> // ...snip );
In the
Body, I then added a button that's only rendered in
development mode:
// src/blog/components/body.js import React from 'react' import Sidebar from './sidebar.js' import Suggested from './suggested.js' import 'tachyons' import '../../common/styles/custom.tachyons.css' import '../styles/grid.css' const buttonStyles = ` db pv3 ph5 mb3 tracked ttu b bg-dark-gray near-white sans-serif no-underline hover-gray b--dark-gray ` export default ({ isEditing, setIsEditing, content, image, description, location, }) => ( <div className="min-vh-100 blog__grid"> <div style={{ gridArea: 'header' }} /> <section className="mw8 serive f4 lh-copy center pa2 article__container" style={{ gridArea: 'content' }} > {/* Only display the edit button in development mode! */} {process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' && ( <button className={buttonStyles} onClick={() => setIsEditing(p => !p)}> {isEditing ? 'Preview' : 'Edit'} </button> )} <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: content }} /> </section> <Sidebar img={image} desc={description} location={location} /> <Suggested /> </div> )
This adds a big button that our content authors can use to turn on the editor. On the page, it ends up looking like this:
Neat! Now that we have edit mode configured, we need to add inline editing support itself.
Now the complicated part — adding inline editing. Did I say complicated? It's actually only four lines of code! 🥳
// src/blog/components/body.js // ...snip import { Wysiwyg } from '@tinacms/fields' import { TinaField } from '@tinacms/form-builder' export default ( { // ...snip } ) => ( <div className="min-vh-100 blog__grid"> <div style={{ gridArea: 'header' }} /> <section className="mw8 serive f4 lh-copy center pa2 article__container" style={{ gridArea: 'content' }} > {process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' && ( <button className={buttonStyles} onClick={() => setIsEditing(p => !p)}> {isEditing ? 'Preview' : 'Edit'} </button> )} {/* Wraps up the content with a WYSIWYG Editor */} <TinaField name="rawMarkdownBody" Component={Wysiwyg}> <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: content }} /> </TinaField> </section> <Sidebar img={image} desc={description} location={location} /> <Suggested /> </div> )
Before adding the inline editor, we had a
div that renders internal HTML. To convert it to a WYSIWYG editor, all we had to do was wrap it in a
TinaField component:
<TinaField name="rawMarkdownBody" Component={Wysiwyg}> <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: content }} /> </TinaField>
Since it's wrapping Markdown body, we assign the
name prop the value
rawMarkdownBody. To render the WYSIWYG editor, we pass in the
Wysiwyg component from
@tinacms/fields as a property. Tina renders this component when "edit mode" is active.
Of course, we also have to import the relevant Tina components to be able to use them:
import { Wysiwyg } from '@tinacms/fields' import { TinaField } from '@tinacms/form-builder'
With those code snippets added, we can actually use the inline editor to change a blog post!
To finish of our editing experience, all we really need is the ability to add new posts using Tina!
Tina has a type of plugin to create content, aptly named content creator plugins. Content creators are like factories that create file objects, except they are "plugged in" to your React site.
Let's make a content creator plugin to author new blog posts. We'll add it in a new directory called "plugins" —
src/blog/plugins/postCreator.js:
// src/blog/plugins/postCreator.js import { RemarkCreatorPlugin } from 'gatsby-tinacms-remark' // Convert a URL slug into a filename const slugToFilename = str => str.replace(`/`, `-`) + `.md` // Turns a date into a string in YYYY-MM-DD format const YYYYMMDD = date => date.toISOString().split('T')[0] const defaultFrontmatter = form => ({ title: form.title, slug: form.slug, author: form.author, category: form.category, date: YYYYMMDD(new Date()), postImage: `./img/flatlay.jpg`, metaDescription: ``, type: `post`, }) const CreatePostPlugin = new RemarkCreatorPlugin({ label: `New Blog Post`, filename: form => `content/posts/${slugToFilename(form.slug)}`, frontmatter: defaultFrontmatter, fields: [ { label: `Title`, name: `title`, description: `The title of your post.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Author`, name: `author`, description: `Your full name.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Category`, name: `category`, description: `Category of your post.`, component: `text`, }, { label: `Post URL`, name: `slug`, description: `The URL your post will be visible at.`, component: `text`, }, ], }) export default CreatePostPlugin
RemarkCreatorPlugin from
gatsby-tinacms-remark uses a configuration object to instantiate a new 'content-creator' plugin. Note that defining
fields in the config object follows the same pattern as those seen in content editing forms.
You also can control the generated frontmatter using the
frontmatter property. Tina expects a function that transforms an object with form values into an object that becomes the frontmatter.
I added a function called
defaultFrontmatter to convert those form values into the frontmatter of a Markdown file. Additionally, "private" parts of the frontmatter, like the
type field, have values added directly.
const defaultFrontmatter = form => ({ title: form.title, slug: form.slug, author: form.author, category: form.category, // All default values are below date: YYYYMMDD(new Date()), postImage: `./img/flatlay.jpg`, metaDescription: ``, type: `post`, })
What you need in each post will be different for every site. This is the best part — Tina works with the code you have, rather than requiring you to accommodate it.
I wanted content authors to be able to add new posts to the site from anywhere. With this in mind, I added the content creator plugin to the root layout component.
The
withPlugin Higher-Order Component allows you to register new plugins to Tina with ease:
// src/common/layouts/index.js import React from 'react' import Helmet from 'react-helmet' import Navbar from '../components/navbar.js' import Footer from '../components/footer.js' import 'tachyons' import '../styles/custom.tachyons.css' // Import withPlugin and the content creator import { withPlugin } from 'tinacms' import CreatePostPlugin from '../../blog/plugins/postCreator' const Layout = props => ( <React.Fragment> <Helmet> <body className="bg-near-white mid-gray" /> </Helmet> <Navbar /> {props.children} <Footer /> </React.Fragment> ) // Export Layout with CreatePostPlugin export default withPlugin(Layout, CreatePostPlugin)
withPlugin is another Higher-Order Component — it adds a plugin to the sidebar when the component it wraps is being rendered. Since
Layout is at the root of every page in Tyra, content authors can add posts from anywhere in the site!
Now we can use our new plugin in the sidebar! Hitting the "plus" icon in the sidebar will provide an option to create a new blog post. If we click that, our plugin's form pops up in a modal.
That's all it takes to create a basic blog CMS with Tina! 🎉 We've allowed content authors to easily create and edit new posts, right on the blog itself. You can check out the finished result over on Github!
This only scratches the surface of what you can build using Tina. If you want to go further, there's several more advanced features you can use to expand your Gatsby site!
The Tina project is also active on Github, with a guide to contribution if you want to hack on the code!
Thanks for reading! I had a bunch of fun working with TinaCMS and Gatsby for this project. If you have any questions or want to point out something I missed, please feel free to shoot me an email. Tell me what's on your mind! | https://tinacms.org/blog/gatsby-tina-101 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | refinedweb | 2,777 | 50.43 |
To date, Microsoft has released a total of six major
versions of the Internet
Explorer browser. But lesser known, is the fact that there
are altogether thirty-six different minor versions of
Internet Explorer out
there in the field. Identifying them programmatically can
be a real headache, and
especially so for the earlier versions.
Firstly, the version numbers used internally by
Microsoft and that as we, the
consumers, know it are a world apart (until version 5.5).
E.g. Internet Explorer
2.0 carries the version number "4.40.520". I was expecting
to see something like
"2.0.xxx". Furthermore, the version numbers do not
increment in the same manner
as that in the product name. E.g. Internet Explorer 3.0
carries the version
number "4.70.1155", instead of something like "5.x.x" since
version 2.0 starts
with a "4.x.x". You will have to use a lookup table
to match the version numbers against the product names.
Then there is the small matter of retrieving the version
number programmatically.
Each major version (until version 4.0) of Internet Explorer
introduces a different
way of identifying the version number from the registry; It
first started with the IVer string, then the Build
string and finally the Version string.
Microsoft seems to have come to their senses finally.
The version numbers now
correspond to their marketing counterparts (E.g. Internet
Explorer 5.5 carries the
version number "5.50.4134.0600"), and we can get the full
version string from the
Registry using the Version string value.
But if you are still, like me, required to determine
versions before Internet
Explorer 4.0, then take an aspirin for your headache before
going any further.
This article contains information
extracted from MSDN.
The version number of the installed Internet Explorer
can be found under the
following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
Software\
Microsoft\
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 1.0 for Windows 95 (included
with Microsoft Plus! for
Windows 95) has an IVer string value under
this key, which it sets to
"100".
Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows 95 updates the IVer string
value to "102", and adds a Build string value
under the same key, which
it sets to "520".
Versions of Internet Explorer that are included with
Windows NT 4.0 do not add
the Build value to the registry, but they do
update the IVer
string value to "101".
Internet Explorer 3.x modifies the Build string value and
updates the IVer string value to "103". Note
that the Build
value in this version is a string that contains the
four-character build number
(E.g. "1300" for Internet Explorer 3.02).
For Internet Explorer 4.0 and later, the Build value is a
string that contains a five-character value, followed by a
period and four more
characters, in the following format:
major-version-build-number.sub-build-number
E.g. the Build value for Internet Explorer
5 is "52014.0216."
In addition, it adds a Version string value
under the same key, in
the following format.
major-version.minor-version.build-number.sub-build-number
E.g. the Version value for Internet
Explorer 5 is "5.00.2014.0216".
If none of these values is in the registry,
Internet Explorer is not installed
properly or at all.
You may use the version number of the Shdocvw.dll (Shell
Document Object and
Control Library) file to determine the version of Internet
Explorer installed.
However, note that this approach can only be used on Internet Explorer 3.0 and
later since this file does not exist in previous
versions of Internet Explorer.
Also, do take note that the version number of this dll
is not the same as that
stored in the registry. (Although the later versions are
starting to have the same
numbers.) A table listing the version numbers of the
Shdocvw.dll file and the
corresponding versions of Internet Explorer may be found
here.
The Shdocvw.dll file is installed in the Windows\System
folder in Windows 95/98,
and in the Winnt\System32 folder in Windows NT/2000. If the
Shdocvw.dll file does not
exist, Internet Explorer 3.0 or later is not installed
properly or at all.
The following WIN32 function retrieves the major
version, minor version and build
numbers of the Shdocvw.dll that is installed on the local
system.
#include "windows.h"
#include "shlwapi.h"
HRESULT GetBrowserVersion(LPDWORD pdwMajor, LPDWORD
pdwMinor, LPDWORD pdwBuild)
{
HINSTANCE hBrowser;
if(IsBadWritePtr(pdwMajor, sizeof(DWORD))
|| IsBadWritePtr(pdwMinor, sizeof(DWORD))
|| IsBadWritePtr(pdwBuild, sizeof(DWORD)))
return E_INVALIDARG;
*pdwMajor = 0;
*pdwMinor = 0;
*pdwBuild = 0;
//Load the DLL.
hBrowser = LoadLibrary(TEXT("shdocvw.dll"));
if(hBrowser)
{
HRESULT hr = S_OK;
DLLGETVERSIONPROC pDllGetVersion;
pDllGetVersion =
(DLLGETVERSIONPROC)GetProcAddress(hBrowser,
TEXT("DllGetVersion"));
if(pDllGetVersion)
{
DLLVERSIONINFO dvi;
ZeroMemory(&dvi, sizeof(dvi));
dvi.cbSize = sizeof(dvi);
hr = (*pDllGetVersion)(&dvi);
if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
*pdwMajor = dvi.dwMajorVersion;
*pdwMinor = dvi.dwMinorVersion;
*pdwBuild = dvi.dwBuildNumber;
}
}
else
{
//If GetProcAddress failed, there is a problem
// with the DLL.
hr = E_FAIL;
}
FreeLibrary(hBrowser);
return hr;
}
return E_FAIL;
}
The version number of Internet Explorer uses the following format:
major-version.minor-version.build-number.sub-build number
This article has no explicit license attached to it but may contain usage terms in the article text or the download files themselves. If in doubt please contact the author via the discussion board below.
A list of licenses authors might use can be found here
Nikhil Khade wrote:You can get the different versions of IE released by Microsoft at this location:
How to determine which version of Internet Explorer is installed
_AfxGetComCtlVersion
\vc98\mfc\src\afximpl.h
// for determining version of COMCTL32.DLL
#define VERSION_WIN4 MAKELONG(0, 4)
#define VERSION_IE3 MAKELONG(70, 4)
#define VERSION_IE4 MAKELONG(71, 4)
#define VERSION_IE401 MAKELONG(72, 4)
extern int _afxComCtlVersion;
DWORD AFXAPI _AfxGetComCtlVersion();
#include <../src/afximpl.h>
if (_AfxGetComCtlVersion() >= VERSION_IE3)
{
//...
}
CurrentVersion
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Episode #81: Making your C library callable from Python by wrapping it with Cython
Published Tues, Jun 5, 2018, recorded Fri, May 25, 2018.
Sponsored by digitalocean: pythonbytes.fm/digitalocean
Brian #1: Learning about Machine Learning
- hello tensorflow
- one pager site with a demo of machine learning in action.
- “Machine Learning (ML) is the dope new thing that everyone's talking about, because it's really good at learning from data so that it can predict similar things in the future.”
- Includes a graphical demo of ML trying to learn the correct coefficients to a polynomial.
- Google Provides Free Machine Learning Course For All
- Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) is a free 15 hours course that is divided into 25 lessons. It provides exercises, interactive visualizations, and instructional videos. These can help in learning machine learning concepts.
- 40 exercises, 25 lessons, 15 hours, case studies, interactive visualizations
Michael #2: Making your C library callable from Python by wrapping it with Cython
- Article by Stav Shamir
- Cython is known for its ability to increase the performance of Python code. Another useful feature of Cython is making existing C functions callable from within (seemingly) pure Python modules.
- Need to directly interact from Python with a small C library
Want to wrap this C function?
void hello(const char *name) { printf("hello %s\n", name); }
Just install Cython and write this:
cdef extern from "examples.h": void hello(const char *name) def py_hello(name: bytes) -> None: hello(name)
Then create a setup file (details in article), call
python setup.py build_ext --inplace and you’re good to go.
Brian #3: Taming Irreversibility with Feature Flags (in Python)
- .”
def my_function(): if is_feature_active('feature_one'): do_something() else: do_something_else()
- Benefits
- Improving team’s response time to bugs. If a new feature causes a bunch of customer problems, just turn it off.
- Making possible to sync code more frequently. Merge to master with the feature turned off.
- Having a more fluid feature launching flow. Turn feature on in test/staging server.
- Validate your features easily with A/B testing, user groups, etc.
- Article discusses:
- how to implement flags cleanly.
- measuring success with analytics
- implementing flags with third party packages and recommends a few.
Michael #4: pretend: a stubbing library
- Heard about this at the end of the pypi episode of Talk Python and wanted to highlight it more.
- Pretend is a library to make stubbing with Python easier.
- Stubbing is a technique for writing tests. A stub is an object that returns pre-canned responses, rather than doing any computation.
- Stubbing is related to mocking, but traditionally with stubs, you don’t care about behavior, you are just concerned with how your system under test responds to certain input data.
- However, pretend does include a call recorder feature.
- Nice clean api:
>>> from pretend import stub >>> x = stub(country_code=lambda: "US") >>> x.country_code() 'US'
>>> from pretend import stub, raiser >>> x = stub(func=raiser(ValueError)) >>> x.func() Traceback (most recent call last): File "[HTML_REMOVED]", line 1, in [HTML_REMOVED] File "pretend.py", line 74, in inner raise exc ValueError
Brian #5: The official Flask tutorial
- Has been updated recently.
- simplified, updated, including the source code for the project.
- tutorial includes section on testing, including testing with pytest and coverage.
- Flask is part of Pallets, which develops and maintains several projects
- Click — A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way
- Flask — a flexible and popular web development framework
- ItsDangerous — cryptographically sign your data and hand it over to someone else
- Jinja — a full featured template engine for Python
- MarkupSafe — a HTML-Markup safe string for Python
- Werkzeug — a WSGI utility library for Python
- You can now donate to pallets to help with the maintenance costs of these important packages.
- There’s a donate button on the pallets site that takes you to a PSF page. Therefore, donations are deductible in the US.
Michael #6: An introduction to Python bytecode
- Python is compiled
- Learn what Python bytecode is, how Python uses it to execute your code, and how knowing what it does can help you.
- Python is often described as an interpreted language—one in which your source code is translated into native CPU instructions as the program runs—but this is only partially correct. Python, like many interpreted languages, actually compiles source code to a set of instructions for a virtual machine, and the Python interpreter is an implementation of that virtual machine. This intermediate format is called "bytecode."
- These are your .PYC files
Example:
def hello() print("Hello, World!") 2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (print) 2 LOAD_CONST 1 ('Hello, World!') 4 CALL_FUNCTION 1
- CPython uses a stack-based virtual machine. That is, it's oriented entirely around stack data structures (where you can "push" an item onto the "top" of the structure, or "pop" an item off the "top").
View and explore using
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I was writing a program to convert numbers after the decimal point to binary numbers, and I wanted to handle the numbers added to the list other than the extended for statement.
Eclipse Neon 4.6.3 Java8
String variable name= String.join(Characters you want to concatenate,Array name);
public class forPractice { public static void main(String[] args) { double x = 0.125; List<String> y = new ArrayList<String>(); while (x > 0) { x *= 2; if (x >= 1) { y.add("1"); x -= 1; } else { y.add("0"); } } String z = String.join("", y); System.out.print("0." + z); } }
Execution result
0.001
If it was completed on one screen, only the extended for statement was enough, but I felt that the for statement was difficult to handle when creating JSP using Servlet, so I decided to use this as well.
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i'm studying in code-school right now and mentor give us a home work, but i don't really get it. Can you help me?
So, we were asked to create a geometric shapes via classes:
class Point
attr_accessor :x, :y
def initialize
@x = 10
@y = 10
end
def x=(value)
@x = value
end
def x()
@x
end
def y=(value)
@y = value
end
def y()
@y
end
end
p = Point.new
p.x = 1
p.y = 5
print p # -> #<Point:0x007f9463089cc0>
#<Point:0x007f9463089cc0>
print p.x, ", ", p.y # -> 1, 5
First of all you don't need the setters and getters. I mean you don't need to write these methods:
def x=(value) @x = value end def x() @x end def y=(value) @y = value end def y() @y end
The reason why you don't need those methods is because you have this call:
attr_accessor :x, :y
and that method (attr_accessor) does exactly that job for you.
Second, you might want to allow some flexibility in your constructor, i.e., your initialize method to allow passing the values for x and y and simply default them to 10 if nothing is passed. So you can do this
def initialize(x = 10, y = 10) @x = x @y = y end
This way, you will get this:
p1 = Point.new puts p.x # => 10 puts p.y # => 10 p2 = Point.new(15, 20) puts p.x # => 15 puts p.y # => 20
Notice how for p1 I don't pass any arguments and yet x and y both get set as expected, that's because we are setting a default value for them in the method definition, here:
def initialize(x = 10, y = 10)
Now, regarding your question about why you see this:
p = Point.new p.x = 1 p.y = 5 print p # -> #<Point:0x007f9463089cc0>
what Point:0x007fa003885bf8 means is that you have an instance of the class Point (which is what you have in your variable p). By default ruby will call the to_s method on an object when you try to print it, since in your case you didn't define that method it will go through the inheritance chain to see who defines that method. Turns out that that method is found in the Object class (all ruby objects implicitly inherit from the Object class) and that method's default behaviour is to print the name of the class followed by the instance's id in memory, in the format: # (check:)
If you want to change that then you can override the to_s method to something like this:
def to_s "Point #{x},#{y}" end
that way you will get:
puts Point.new # => Point 10,10
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Radiofield does not allow for boolean fields
Radiofield does not allow for boolean fields
Bug:
Radio buttons cannot have the value false; because they check for a falsy value instead of an undefined value, they never return the correct value when queried (eg with #getGroupValue.)
That is, if the declared value of a radio button is false, the radio button will respond with nil when queried for its value. The effect (and visible indicator of the bug) is that, when a form is displayed and the value of the record's corresponding attribute is false, the checkbox with value=false will never be checked when you open the form.
It's maybe easier to see the bug in the code.
Code with bug:
radio.js line 66:
Code:
getValue: function() { return (this._value) ? this._value : null; },
Code:
getValue: function() { return (typeof this._value === 'undefined') ? null : this._value; },
Use case:
In my app, we have a boolean field, "is_private". But we want to display the field to the user as a set of radio buttons, one with the label "Public" and the value false, and the other labelled "Private" and the value true. With this bug, the form would never display a false value for the attribute. Even if 'private' is false, neither radio button would be checked when opening the form.
Interestingly, this same line in the getValue() function has been bug-reported and fixed once before. Previously it did not work with any values. The fix made it work with all values except booleans:
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Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker.
Bump.A year later, fix appears to not be implemented yet. Every time I update sencha touch I have to re-implement this (and other) fixes.This fix is straightforward, the code for the fix is there. The use case — having two radio buttons, one with "true" and one with "false" as the value, seems pretty clear.
You found a bug! We've classified it as TOUCH-4610 . We encourage you to continue the discussion and to find an acceptable workaround while we work on a permanent fix. | http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?266476-Radiofield-does-not-allow-for-boolean-fields | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | refinedweb | 368 | 72.16 |
If you are writing the very much IO intensive application which needs to write huge amount of data to the files, then you have to do some kind of buffering to improve the performance. Here BufferedOutputStream will be helpful for writing the stream of characters into a file which internally manages a buffer for improving the performance. This class has to be wrapped with the FileOutputStream for opening the file. BufferedOutputStream has the following two constructors.
- BufferedOutputStream(OutputStream out) – Creates a new buffered output stream to write data to the specified underlying output stream.
- BufferedOutputStream(OutputStream out, int size) – Creates a new buffered output stream to write data to the specified underlying output stream with the specified buffer size.
It inherits all the methods from the FileOutputStream and defines the few new methods.
- flush() – Flushes this buffered output stream.
- write(byte[] b, int off, int len) -Writes len bytes from the specified byte array starting at offset off to this buffered output stream.
- write(int b) – Writes the specified byte to this buffered output stream.
Lets look at the example to understand how to use BufferedOutputStream.
package javabeat.net.io; import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStream; /** * Java BufferedOutputStream Example * * @author Krishna * */ public class BufferedOutputStreamExample { public static void main (String args[]) throws IOException{ //Creating file output stream instance OutputStream file = new FileOutputStream("TextFile.txt"); //Creating buffered output stream instance BufferedOutputStream bufferedOutputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(file); String str = "This is example for BufferedOutputStream"; //Gets byte array byte b[] = str.getBytes(); //Writing byte array to a file bufferedOutputStream.write(b); //Writing a single byte bufferedOutputStream.write(b[0]); //Writing a sequence of byte bufferedOutputStream.write(b, 5, 10); //Closing the stream bufferedOutputStream.close(); } }
When you run the above program, file names “TextFile.txt” will be created with the given string values.
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Cost allocation, master budgeting, capital decisions
1. Why is cost allocation imprecise?? Pick one of the different methods we can use, describe it and the pluses and minuses of that method?
2. The master budget contains three types of budgets. What do you think is the cornerstone (or most critical element) of the master budget? Discuss why?
3. Fundamental to the decision-making process is the ability to determine whether a cost is relevant to the decision. Tactical decision making consists of choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. It should be noted, however, that short-term decisions can lead to long-term consequences. Tactical decision making consists of choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. Tactical decisions can be short term or small scale in nature but must be made so that larger strategic objectives are served. Identify the primary qualities of revenues and costs that are relevant for decision making.
4. There are four primary methods of examining capital decisions - two are discounting methods and two are not. Please pick one of them, explain the method and the pros and cons. Remember; include a discussion on the difference between discounting and non-discounting methods.
Solution Preview
1. Cost Allocation Method pros and cons: Direct Method
I personally like the direct method for allocating costs from service departments to operating departments.
Pro: It is simple and easy to compute and explain.
Pro: It assigns costs to producing departments based on their use of resources.
Con: It ignores how service departments use indirect resources and thus may lead to overuse by service departments (it seems free to them)
2. Critical element for master budget
The critical element for the master budget is the sales forecast. That is because nearly all of the variable costs are based on the level of activity and the products needed to make the sales forecast. For instance, if the sales forecast indicates that you expect 100,000 units to sell, you need to produce enough or purchase enough to have 100,000 on hand, a store that can handle that level of merchandise, enough cashiers to check out that many ...
Solution Summary
Your discussion is 553 words and two references and discusses two pros one con of the direct method, the critical budget for master budgets, how to discern the relevant sales and costs for a decision, the two discounted methods and the two undiscounted methods, and three pros and three cons of internal rate of return (IRR). | https://brainmass.com/business/management-accounting/cost-allocation-master-budgeting-capital-decisions-556323 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | refinedweb | 421 | 53.21 |
This document is intended to note some of the important changes
for Zope 2.4 and to answer some common questions of Zope users
and developers.
The focus of the Zope 2.4 release has been the move to using
Python 2.1 as the basic platform, so many of the issues addressed
here are related to the effects of that change.
As of the Zope 2.4 release, Zope required Python 2.1 or greater.
Binary distributions will come with a 2.1 Python. If you try to
run Zope 2.4 with an older version, you will get an error message
from the start script as a reminder.
regex
ts_regex
Prior to 2.4, Zope still contained quite a bit of usage of the
regex, regsub modules (as well as custom versions made thread
safe for Zope such as ts_regex). The regex and regsub modules
are deprecated in Python 2.1 and will produce warnings if you
import or use them.
regsub
As of Zope 2.4, the Zope core has been converted to use re
instead of the old modules, and should produce no warnings. Many
third party Zope components will likely still use the old modules,
which may produce warnings when Zope is started. Third-party
component authors are encouraged to convert their code to use
re, as a future Python release (which Zope will move to
eventually) will do away with regex and regsub altogether.
re
One of the biggest changes in Python 2.x is the introduction of
unicode support. This is a potentially big area, and we have
intentionally chosen to proceed carefully on this for Zope.
Since Zope 2.4 runs on Python 2.1 you can now use unicode in
Python, though Zope 2.4 will not provide any particular support
for unicode (this will be done in the future). The Zope object
database has no problem dealing with unicode, so it is safe for
third-party developers to use unicode in products.
The main caveat regarding unicode is regarding Zope C extensions.
None of the current C extensions have been modified to provide
any special handling of unicode, which may restrict what you
can expect to do with unicode in some cases. Some examples of this
are the Splitter module used by the Catalog, or code that depends
on using the cStringIO module.
Some of the updates in Python 2.1 provided an opportunity to
unify the "restricted execution" machinery used for "through
the Web code" such as DTML and Python Scripts. Zope 2.4 uses
a new RestrictedPython package to handle restricted code
that will make the restrictions on TTW code more consistent,
robust and maintainable.
RestrictedPython
The new restricted execution model is invisible from the users
point of view. It is mentioned here just in case there are any
third-party component developers whose code has dependencies
on the details of the previous restricted execution implementation.
Most Zope instances are instances of ExtensionClasses, which
have not been updated to support the new Python 2.1 garbage
collector. That does not mean that you cannot turn GC on,
just that (as a product developer) you cannot currently
count on GC to save you from circular references.
Zope 2.4 works with the new GC enabled or disabled, though
the choice you make may have some impact on performance
characteristics. The actual performance impact is not yet
clear - some preliminary testing shows that the impact of
having GC on or off may be either good or bad depending on
what is being tested (how's that for scientific?).
At this point we are not making a strong recommendation one
way or the other about whether GC should be turned on until
we have a clearer picture of the performance characteristics.
Python 2.1 includes a number of new syntax elements since 1.5.2.
All of the new syntax should work as expected in DTML expressions,
Python Scripts and other "through the web" code objects.
A note to component developers - as of Zope 2.4 ExtensionClass has
not been updated to support all of the new "magic protocols" that
Python classes support (we're hoping that EC will go away soon).
For example, ExtensionClass does not support the new "augmented
assignment" (+=, *=, etc.) magic protocol, which means that
ExtensionClass subclasses cannot currently support __iadd__,
__isub__, etc. This is not expected to be a big issue in
practice. The same has been true of the "right-hand operator"
protocols (__radd__, __rsub__, etc.) for some time now.
A number of people have expressed a desire to prevent exposing
the structure of a site via WebDAV when they are not using any
of the WebDAV functionality. Until Zope 2.4, this was not possible
because the mechanisms used to generate WebDAV listings was protected
by the "Access contents information" permission. That meant that it
was not possible to turn off DAV browsing by anonymous users without
removing that permission (which often made other use of the site
impossible as a result).
Zope 2.4 introduces a new "WebDAV Access" permission that controls
the ability to browse sites via WebDAV. Removing this permission
for a role effectively prevents PROPFIND requests, making DAV
clients unable to browse the site. The default roles assigned the
"WebDAV Access" permission are Manager and Anonymous. Those
defaults were chosen so that upgraded Zope sites will continue to
work as they have with earlier versions with regard to WebDAV,
until you take explicit action to change the "WebDAV Access"
permission.
Authenticated
A new Authenticated role has been added in Zope 2.4.
The WebDAV implementation in Zope 2.4 now support DAV level 2 locking.
This should improve DAV interoperability with clients (such as MS
Office 2K) that expect to be able to lock documents before editing.
Zope 2.4 now integrates the capabilities provided by Shane Hathaway's
"Refresh" product, enabling developers to reload filesystem based
products without restarting Zope.
This document is evolving and will continue to be updated
as we approach the final release of Zope 2.4. For more detailed
information on various aspects of the changes in Zope 2.4,
see the Python 2.1 Migration project
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I have a Netduino+ hooked up on the Internet with data logging via Google docs.
Before.
Teacher Notes
Teachers! Did you use this instructable in your classroom?
Add a Teacher Note to share how you incorporated it into your lesson.
Step 1: Filling a Spreadsheet
Filling a spreadsheet in google docs goes always via a form:.
To use Google docs you need an account, if you make your project for somebody else then make for that project a new account..
Step 3: How to Implement This?
To try it out as a URL in the browser follow these steps:
In the form editor click in the bottom of the page on view in real, open here the source of the HTML.
In here is the link to the spreadsheet.
Step 4: The (simplified) Code
const string FormKey = "Here comes the form key"; // Important DON't use the spreadsheet key. this
Send parameters to Google Doc(formdata are your parameters)
request = "POST /formResponse?formkey=";
request += FormKey;
request += "&ifq HTTP/1.1\r\n";
request += "Host: ";
request += GoogleIP+"\r\n";
request += "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
request += "Connection: close\r\n";
request += "Content-Length: " + formdata.Length + "\r\n";
request += "\r\n";
request += formdata;
request += "\r\n";
How to send your data is for each program language different.
Step 5: Now You Can Use the Spreadsheet As a Database
Document for using a spreadsheet as a database:
Database examples:*%20format%20A%20%27dd-MMMM-yyyy%20hh:mm%27&key=Spreadsheet key
here is:
tqx=out:html (or csv|json) Maybe other outpu formats?
tq=select*%20format%20A%20%27dd-MMMM-yyyy%20hh:mm%27
(* means all)
Select all columns but use a format on column A --> dd-MMMM-yyyy hh:mm somthing like 03-august-2012 12:23 key
here is:
tq=select+A,+B,+C,+D,+E
Select all data of column A,B,C,D,E,F
With select you can use calculations or other simple query's. See the document for examples.
With this URL you can get the data in your program, and manipulate it.
Step 6: Ready
I wrote this as is. So please ask and i will try to answer.
This step for step instructables i have made is for my self so i can not forget it,
but i have put it in the public because it is a nice way to collect your data and like to share with you.
Google docs will soon be Google drive, i hope this will work then to.
I have tried it 03-07-2013 and it still works:
spreadsheets.google.com/formResponse?formkey=Here comes your formkey&ifq&entry.0.single=10&entry.1.single=20&entry.2.single=30&entry.3.single=40&pageNumber=0&backupCache=&submit=insturen
Greetings,
19 Discussions
3 years ago
This won't work with plain old http anymore. Google requires TLS access now. Your board needs to support 'https' or use a middleman like Temboo, pushingbox (custom URL method) to make 'https' requests to google.
4 years ago on Introduction
Hello,
I believe the format for the URL's for google's forms has changed. There is no longer a formkey, or it is not specified as it used to be. Does anyone know how to identify the formkey in the new URL format?
Thanks
Reply 3 years ago
Hi igagnon,
Did you find an answer? I am also after this.
Thanks
4 years ago on Introduction
is it possible to create the link you created and run it in browser itself?
or can it be used in a html webpage as submittion button?
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
As in step 2 and 3 you see it is a conversion from HTML to C.
In step 6 you see the link itself created from de HTML Form tag.
4 years ago on Introduction
is it possible to create the link you created and run it in browser itself?
or can it be used in a html webpage as submittion button?
4 years ago on Introduction
Hi,
I am trying to send arduino data (of a sensor) to google spreadsheets using WiFi shield. But the data is not been saved in the spreadsheet. Here is my code:
#include <WiFi.h>
int SensorIn1 = 1;
int led_pin = 13;
char ssid[] = "**********";//Network name
char pass[] = "*********";// Network Password
int status = WL_IDLE_STATUS;
WiFiServer server(80);
void setup() {
Serial.begin (9600);
while ( status != WL_CONNECTED) {
Serial.print("Attempting to connect to WPA SSID: ");
Serial.println(ssid);
// Connect to WPA/WPA2 network:
status = WiFi.begin(ssid, pass);
// wait 10 seconds for connection:
delay(1000);
}
Serial.print("You're connected to the network");
server.begin(); // initialise the server
// print out your network data
printCurrentNet();
printWifiData();
}
void loop() {
WiFiClient client = server.available();
int val;
val = analogRead(SensorIn1);
Serial.println(val);
delay (100);
if (client) {
Serial.println("new client");
boolean currentLineIsBlank = true;
while (client.connected()) {
if (client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
Serial.write(c);
//if (client.connected()) {
Serial.println("connected");
// send a standard http response header
String data = "&entry.1515954247=";
data = data + val;
data = data + "&submit=Submit";
client.print("POST /forms/d/1tUMKnf1HYY5tCuG_lG93N9kJhd4voQ1elRmTXYzLm/formResponse?");
client.println("ifq HTTP/1.1\r\n");
client.println("Host: docs.google.com");
client.println("User-Agent: Arduino/1.0");
client.println("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
client.println("Connection: close");
client.println("Refresh: 1");
client.print(data);
//client.print("Content-Length: ");
//client.println(data.length());
//client.println();
//client.print(val);
client.println();
}
}
delay (100);
client.stop();
Serial.println("client disconnected");
}
}
void printWifiData() {
// print your WiFi shield's IP address:
IPAddress ip = WiFi.localIP();
Serial.print("IP Address: ");
Serial.println(ip);
// print your MAC address:() {
// print the SSID of the network you're attached to:
Serial.print("SSID: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.SSID());
// print the received signal strength:
long rssi = WiFi.RSSI();
Serial.print("signal strength (RSSI):");
Serial.println(rssi);
// print the encryption type:
byte encryption = WiFi.encryptionType();
Serial.print("Encryption Type:");
Serial.println(encryption,HEX);
Serial.println();
}
Can anyone help me in debugging this. I have seen many references from google but nothing is working out.
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
You send your values to docs.google.com instead of spreadsheets.google.com
maybe this is what goes wrong.
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
I tried with docs.google.com as well but the problem is still the same. I can give you the spreadsheet key and the form key separately if that helps.
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
per 04 januari 2015:
spreadsheets.google.com/formResponse?formkey=
Here comes the form key
&ifq&entry.0.single=10&entry.1.single=20&entry.2.single=30&entry.3.single=40&pageNumber=0&backupCache=&submit=insturen
This still works
It is important that you replicate the exact structure in your code like in Step 4 there are a few variable you missed.
Write out your code as a URL and put it in your browser navigation then you can see what goes wrong.
Step 4:
const string FormKey = "Here comes the form key"; // Important DON't use the spreadsheet key. this is
Also important is last line with the pagenumber=0 variable it is for me a few years ago it worked for me on the moment i'am not using it anymore maybe googledocs has changed dramatic. the trick is to replicate the HTML form data in your C code.
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
Hi, I am getting trouble in executing client.connect(server, 80)
The console in not getting inside this block since client.connect(server, 80) returns false in my case. The issue you are addressing might be there after establishing a connection. But there is no connection established in this case. Find attached a simple code here with pushingbox as the intermediate way to the server. This is the output I get with the code attached.
connecting...
794
disconnecting.
878
disconnecting.
614
disconnecting.
556
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
I'am sending the data directly to google and not via an intermediate as pushingbox.
In your example code you are trying to login by pushingbox and not directly by google. All the error codes are from pushinbox and not from google i think.
I have seen somewhere on internet a example via pushingbox, i didn't want to make a account on the pushingbox site so i didn't dig deeply into that. I have not read the articles about pushingbox, mayby has the pushingbox site the right answer for you.
It is important that your code behave as a webbrowser the only check i now have, is via an URL and that is still working, my Netduino is not anymore connected to internet so i'am not 100% sure that my code still works.I'am only sure the URL typed in the webbrowser is working.
Reply 4 years ago on Introduction
In reply to myself: this is maybe the answer it seems google is using port 443 ssl connection, arduino based boards are not powerfull enough for this kind of connections:...
found via:...
6 years ago on Step 6
Thanks for the great description :-) Does this still work with Google Drive? Thanks!
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
Hi cwalger,
Reply 5 years ago on Introduction
Does this still work as of September 2013? I'm trying to follow, but not finding instances to "entry.#.single" in the source coding for the form.
Reply 5 years ago on Introduction
Hi Spaceman,?
6 years ago on Introduction
does it regularly update the data? If so is there a set time for the update?
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
You decide when to update.
When you send data to the spreadsheet it is updated immediately.
I hope i answered your question?
The netduino in this example sends every minute the data to the spreadsheet. | https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-use-Google-docs-for-data-logging/ | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | refinedweb | 1,645 | 58.28 |
Another VS 2010 feature : Pin-Up
Hello,
I have been using VS 2010 Beta 2 for sometime and today I came across another beautiful feature.Now , I don't know in technical terms what to call this feature, so its that I rather explain it with few pictures.
Following is a very small piece of code I wrote as reply to one of the answer in MSDN forum :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Forum
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string str = "Pawan Mishra";
string str2 = String.Intern(str);
str2 = "Hello";
Console.WriteLine("{0} : {1}", str, str2);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Next what I did was I placed a break point in my code somewhere , so that compiler breaks at that point and I can actually see the values of the variables.
So while debugging , we hover our mouse over the variable name and then in visualizer we can check the value of the variable.And as soon as the mouse cursor is moved the visualizer also disappears.This is where VS 2010 is getting different.
In VS 2010 once you have hovered the mouse cursor over a variable name , you get option like to pin that visualizer.Didn’t get , its all right , just check the following screenshot.
As soon as you click on the pin icon , the variable and its corresponding value will be pinned just in front of the statement.Its shown in the following screenshot.
Now as you can see , the variable and its corresponding value is fixed.Also you can add comments for your future reference.You can also drag and drop this pin up thing(please forgive me as I don't know what else to call it ) across the screen.
Other interesting aspect is if the pinned up variable value is changed somewhere down the line , the original value will also be refreshed automatically.
Now If you have looked closely then I have encircled another small pin icon.On click of it the corresponding variable becomes editable and you can change its value.This changed value will be reflected in the subsequent lines.Following screenshot explains the same.
Finally , these pinned up values will be retained even when the application is stopped.And once you hover over the corresponding variable , it will highlight the value retained from last debug.
Well , I guess this feature is really cool and will definitely ease out debugging effort.The only question remains unanswered about this feature is what exactly is it called ? | http://weblogs.asp.net/pawanmishra/another-vs-2010-feature-pin-up | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | refinedweb | 422 | 65.62 |
I'm trying to load a SWF into a simple app for test purposes. The SWF has been compiled using swftools-0.9.1 using the following command:
/usr/bin/pdf2swf 10993.PDF -o 10993.SWF -f -T 9
The SWF loads fine in a browser.
Using the following Flex code together with Flex SDK 4.6:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx=""
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
xmlns:
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.utils.setTimeout;
private function onCreationComplete():void
{
swf.SwfFile = '';
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<flexpaper:FlexPaperViewer
</s:WindowedApplication>
The crossdomain.xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from
</cross-domain-policy>
The end result is:
SecurityError: Error #3207: Application-sandbox content cannot access this feature.
Any idea why this is happening?
AIR will load the SWF into a sandbox. Crossdomain.xml doesn’t apply to AIR apps because they are running from a desktop, not a domain. If the SWF does not need any same-domain connection to a server when running, you can download the SWF as a bytearray and use loadbytes to view it.
Is this something that's being addressed in AIR 3.7? I found this in the release notes for AIR 3.7 Beta, although it says "iOS". Does this mean it only applies to iOS or will it apply to desktop users too?
External hosting of secondary swf files (iOS)
Application developers will be able to host their secondary SWFs on an External server and load them on demand as per their application
logic using this feature. The loading secondary SWFs which have any ABC code in AOT mode, which worked for just locally packaged
SWFs earlier, will now work for loading SWFs externally as well.
I would expect the loaded SWF to still be sandboxed.
I'm getting the same kind of error as well, but in my case I'm loading the swf file from within the AIR application's directory, not over the web. I kinda think that FlexPaper was never designed to work in Flex desktop or mobile apps, as I have tried to contact their support on this and they basically are non-existent. This is kinda a shame, because on Android this technology would be a good solution for loading pdf documents within the app, without having to open them in an external viewer.
Is FlexPaper outputting an old AS2 SWF? Then it will also be loaded into a sandbox.
FlexPaper doesn't output anything - the SWF comes from swftools and FlexPaper is available in two versions - Flex 3.5 and Flex 4.6 here:
I haven't tried what you suggested yet Alex but I will do, and then post the code in case anyone else is interested.
The swftools are creating swf files that call:
Security.allowDomain("*");
This why the error. I am not sure if there is a workaround for this, since swftools has no way to turn this off that I am aware of. | http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1167142 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | refinedweb | 516 | 66.84 |
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