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You've probably heard the term "smart" and "dumb" in React.js before. "Smart"
components are written as JavaScript classes and contain things like state and
lifecycle hooks (such as
componentDidMount(), etc.) and usually contain a
variety of other components that it controls via props and state. "Dumb"
components are simple functions that accept props and render them.
While "smart" components are neccessary in any living, breathing application built with React.js, it's best to keep them at a minimum for the following reasons:
- The more complexity that you add to your application, the more chances there are for unexpected bugs and difficulty there may be for other developers to comprehend what is going on.
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil (in the programming realm), and there's no need to make a class unless you need to, which we'll discuss below).
- Why make things more difficult than they need to be? Let's keep the code as short and simple as possible so we can focus on what's most important - creating an application or website that makes people's lives better in some way.
Dumb components
Dumb components are simple: they accept props and render them. That's it, just a simple function. You can add logic inside of them as needed, such as checking that props exist before rendering them, but other than that they're as easy as it gets.
Simple example
import React from 'react'; let Title = ({ title }) => <h1>{title}</h1>; // Usage: <Title title="Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Phone" />
With conditional rendering
import React from 'react'; let Titles = ({: <Titles titles={movieTitles} />
Smart components
Smart components can be as simple or complex as you want them to be, but a good convention is to only use them for holding state and/or lifecycle hooks and pass the results to dumb components. Here's the same component, written as a class, without any state or lifecycle hooks.
Note: if you need a refresher on the syntax and/or functionality of JavaScript classes, check out the doumentation on them at MDN.
import React, { Component } from 'react'; export default class Title extends Component { render() { let { title } = this.props; return <h1> {title} </h1>; } } // Usage: <Titles title="Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Phone" />
While is not much more code and the functionality is the same, it looks more intimidating than the dumb component and is uneccessary for what we're trying to accomplish - render titles.
Adding state to smart components
When smart components really shine is when they require a bit more functionality than dumb components, like state. Here's a simple form that you can use to collect an email address. Anytime that the input field's value is changed, it updates the state with that value so it can be submitted later (when the submit button is clicked) and displays the input above it.
Note: since state is just a standard JavaScript object, you can add as many key/value pairs as you need and pass them as props to the dumb components that it renders. Like everything in programming though, try your best to keep your state simple and easy to maintain. As a rule of thumb, if you're not sure if you need to hold a key/value in state, then you probably don't.
import React, { Component } from 'react'; export default class ContactForm extends Component { state = { email: '', }; _handleChange = e => this.setState({ email: e.currentTarget.value }); _handleSubmit = e => { // submits the form values via a fetch request // details are not shown to stay focused on *how state works* }; render() { const { email } = this.state; return ( <div> <p>Email: {email}</p> <form method="POST" action="/success-page" onSubmit={this._handleSubmit} > <input onChange={this._handleChange} value={email} /> <button type="submit">Sign up</button> </form> </div> ); } }
Note: the
_before
handleChangeand
handleSubmitis not necessary and provides no functionality. It's just a common convention when naming "private" functions [that are only used in the class itself and are not accessible > > > outside of it].
Using lifecycle hooks
Lifecycle hooks are for adding functionality that you want to happen at a
certain time, such as when the component is rendered, when it receives new
props, when it's destroyed, etc. You can see and learn more about all of the
lifecycle hooks in the
official React.js documentation,
but we'll demonstrate a simple example of
componentDidMount() below by logging
in the console as soon as it is rendered:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; export default class Titles extends Component { componentDidMount() { console.log("Look ma, I'm rendered now!"); } render() { let { title } = this.props; return <h1>{title}</h1>; } }
Conclusion
React.js is a very powerful library for building user interfaces and there's a lot of functionality that you can use. As a rule of thumb though, it's best to keep things as simple as possible by creating your components as "dumb" stateless functional components unless they need to use lifecycle hooks or state. Happy coding! SL | https://slawrence.tech/blog/smart-vs-dumb-components-in-react/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | refinedweb | 831 | 50.87 |
I am trying to use the VL53L0x and a Trinket M0 to sense the presens of a person.
I have got it to work meassureing distance with the given CircuitPhyton code:
import board
import busio
import adafruit_vl53l0x
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
vl53 = adafruit_vl53l0x.VL53L0X(i2c)
vl53.measurement_timing_budget = 20000
while True:
print('Avstand: {0} mm'.format(vl53.range))
time.sleep(1.0)
But rather than meassuring distance I would like it to give a signal on any of the io pins of the Trinket (to drive a relay or a transistor).
I have spent the day looking for such a code with limited sucsess.
Can anybody help
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I build large lists of high-level objects while parsing a tree. However, after this step, I have to remove duplicates from the list and I found this new step very slow in Python 2 (it was acceptable but still a little slow in Python 3). However I know that distinct objects actually have a distinct id. For this reason, I managed to get a much faster code by following these steps:
key=id
fractions.Fraction
from fractions import Fraction
a = Fraction(1,3)
b = Fraction(1,3)
list(set(...))
{a,b}
You should override the
__eq__ method so that it depends on the objects
id rather than its values. But note that your objects must be hashable as well, so you should define a proper
__hash__ method too.
class My_obj: def __init__(self, val): self.val = val def __hash__(self): return hash(self.val) def __eq__(self, arg): return id(self) == id(arg) def __repr__(self): return str(self.val)
Demo:
a = My_obj(5) b = My_obj(5) print({a, b}) {5, 5} | https://codedump.io/share/R30ggTUiKrcR/1/removing-duplicates-in-a-python-list-by-id | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | refinedweb | 173 | 74.59 |
0.09 2014-08-24 - Backed out the Sub::Name change in 0.08. It was pointed out to me by Graham Knop that adding an XS dependency for a module that's often used to pick between XS and non-XS implementations doesn't work so well. 0.08 2014-08-24 - Subroutines copied from an implementation package into the loading package are now renamed using Sub::Name. This causes them to be considered part of the loading package, which is important for things like namespace::autoclean. Reported by Karen Etheridge. RT #98097. 0.07 2013-07-14 - Require Test::Fatal 0.006+ to avoid test failures. Reported by Salve Nilsen. RT #76809. 0.06 2012-02-12 - Require Module::Runtime 0.012, which has a number of useful bug fixes. 0.05 2012-02-09 - Make Test::Taint an optional dependency. This module requires XS, and requiring a compiler for Module::Implementation defeats its purpose. Reported by Peter Rabbitson. RT #74817. 0.04 2012-02-08 - This module no longer installs an _implementation() subroutine in callers. Instead, you can call Module::Implementation::implementation_for($package) to get the implementation used for a given package. 0.03 2012-02-06 - The generated loader sub now returns the name of the package it loaded. 0.02 2012-02-06 - Removed Test::Spelling from this module's prereqs. 0.01 2012-02-06 - First release upon an unsuspecting world. | https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Module-Implementation | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | refinedweb | 237 | 60.61 |
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Hi, I'm trying to find the bill amount after a bill is discounted by 5% if it is less than 2000, and 15% if it is more than 2000. However, when I put 500, I should get 475.00, but I get 250.0. What am I doing wrong?
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import java.util.*; public class Discount { public static void main(String args[]) { //initiate console Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); //initiate variables System.out.print("Enter the original bill amount: "); double billTotal = console.nextDouble(); calculateTotal(billTotal); } public static void calculateTotal(double billTotal) { double billAmount = 0; //figure out bill amount if (billTotal > 2000) { billAmount = billTotal * .15; } if (billTotal <= 2000) { billAmount = billTotal * .5; } System.out.println("Bill ater discount :: " + billAmount); } }
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0.5 is equivalent to 50%; you need to use 0.05 for 5% discount.PHP Code:
header('HTTP/1.1 420 Enhance Your Calm'); | http://www.codingforums.com/java-and-jsp/294907-need-find-discount.html?s=e3ca883203d23bff1222ef67adfb8530 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | refinedweb | 191 | 68.67 |
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- set or get resource control values
#include <rctl.h> int setrctl(const char *controlname, rctlblk_t *old_blk, rctlblk_t *new_blk, uint_t flags);
int getrctl(const char *controlname, rctlblk_t *old_blk, rctlblk_t *new_blk, uint_t flags);
The setrctl() and getrctl() functions provide interfaces for the modification and retrieval of resource control (rctl) values on active entities on the system, such as processes, tasks, or projects. All resource controls are unsigned 64-bit integers; however, a collection of flags are defined that modify which rctl value is to be set or retrieved.
Resource controls are restricted to three levels: basic controls that can be modified by the owner of the calling process, privileged controls that can be modified only by privileged callers, and system controls that are fixed for the duration of the operating system instance. Setting or retrieving each of these controls is performed by setting the privilege field of the resource control block to RCTL_BASIC, RCTL_PRIVILEGED, or RCTL_SYSTEM with rctlblk_set_privilege() (see rctlblk_set_value(3C)).
For limits on collective entities such as the task or project, the process ID of the calling process is associated with the resource control value. This ID is available by using rctlblk_get_recipient_pid() (see rctlblk_set_value(3C)). These values are visible only to that process and privileged processes within the collective.
The getrctl() function provides a mechanism for iterating through all of the established values on a resource control. The iteration is primed by calling getrctl() with old_blk set to NULL, a valid resource control block pointer in new_blk, and specifying RCTL_FIRST in the flags argument. Once a resource control block has been obtained, repeated calls to getrctl() with RCTL_NEXT in the flags argument and the obtained control in the old_blk argument will return the next resource control block in the sequence. The iteration reports the end of the sequence by failing and setting errno to ENOENT.
The getrctl() function allows the calling process to get the current usage of a controlled resource using RCTL_USAGE as the flags value. The current value of the resource usage is placed in the value field of the resource control block specified by new_blk. This value is obtained with rctlblk_set_value(3C). All other members of the returned block are undefined and might be invalid.
The setrctl() function allows the creation, modification, or deletion of action-value pairs on a given resource control. When passed RCTL_INSERT as the flags value, setrctl() expects new_blk to contain a new action-value pair for insertion into the sequence. For RCTL_DELETE, the block indicated by new_blk is deleted from the sequence. For RCTL_REPLACE, the block matching old_blk is deleted and replaced by the block indicated by new_blk. When (flags & RCTL_USE_RECIPIENT_PID) is non-zero, setrctl() uses the process ID set by rctlblk_set_value(3C) when selecting the rctl value to insert, delete, or replace basic rctls. Otherwise, the process ID of the calling process is used.
The kernel maintains a history of which resource control values have triggered for a particular entity, retrievable from a resource control block with the rctlblk_set_value(3C) function. The insertion or deletion of a resource control value at or below the currently enforced value might cause the currently enforced value to be reset. In the case of insertion, the newly inserted value becomes the actively enforced value. All higher values that have previously triggered will have their firing times zeroed. In the case of deletion of the currently enforced value, the next higher value becomes the actively enforced value.
The various resource control block properties are described on the rctlblk_set_value(3C) manual page.
Resource controls are inherited from the predecessor process or task. One of the exec(2) functions can modify the resource controls of a process by resetting their histories, as noted above for insertion or deletion operations.
Upon successful completion, the setrctl() and getrctl() functions return 0. Otherwise they return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.
The setrctl() and getrctl() functions will fail if:
The controlname, old_blk, or new_blk argument points to an illegal address.
No resource control with the given name is known to the system, or the resource control block contains properties that are not valid for the resource control specified.
RCTL_USE_RECIPIENT_PID was used to set a process scope rctl and the process ID set by rctlblk_set_value(3C) does not match the process ID of calling process.
No value beyond the given resource control block exists.
RCTL_USE_RECIPIENT_PID was used and the process ID set by rctlblk_set_value(3C) does not exist within the current task, project, or zone, depending on the resource control name.
No value matching the given resource control block was found for any of RCTL_NEXT, RCTL_DELETE, or RCTL_REPLACE.
The resource control requested by RCTL_USAGE does not support the usage operation.
The setrctl() function will fail if:
The rctl value specified cannot be changed by the current process, including the case where the recipient process ID does not match the calling process and the calling process is unprivileged.
An attempt to set a system limit was attempted.
Example 1 Retrieve a rctl value.
Obtain the lowest enforced rctl value on the rctl limiting the number of LWPs in a task.
#include <rctl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> ... rctlblk_t *rblk; if ((rblk = (rctlblk_t *)malloc(rctlblk_size())) == NULL) { (void) fprintf(stderr, "malloc failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); exit(1); } if (getrctl("task.max-lwps", NULL, rblk, RCTL_FIRST) == -1) (void) fprintf(stderr, "failed to get rctl: %s\n", strerror(errno)); else (void) printf("task.max-lwps = %llu\n", rctlblk_get_value(rblk));
Resource control blocks are matched on the value and privilege fields. Resource control operations act on the first matching resource control block. Duplicate resource control blocks are not permitted. Multiple blocks of equal value and privilege need to be entirely deleted and reinserted, rather than replaced, to have the correct outcome. Resource control blocks are sorted such that all blocks with the same value that lack the RCTL_LOCAL_DENY flag precede those having that flag set.
Only one RCPRIV_BASIC resource control value is permitted per process per control. Insertion of an RCPRIV_BASIC value will cause any existing RCPRIV_BASIC value owned by that process on the control to be deleted.
The resource control facility provides the backend implementation for both setrctl()/getrctl() and setrlimit()/getrlimit(). The facility behaves consistently when either of these interfaces is used exclusively; when using both interfaces, the caller must be aware of the ordering issues above, as well as the limit equivalencies described in the following paragraph.
The hard and soft process limits made available with setrlimit() and getrlimit() are mapped to the resource controls implementation. (New process resource controls will not be made available with the rlimit interface.) Because of the RCTL_INSERT and RCTL_DELETE operations, it is possible that the set of values defined on a resource control has more or fewer than the two values defined for an rlimit. In this case, the soft limit is the lowest priority resource control value with the RCTL_LOCAL_DENY flag set, and the hard limit is the resource control value with the lowest priority equal to or exceeding RCPRIV_PRIVILEGED with the RCTL_LOCAL_DENY flag set. If no identifiable soft limit exists on the resource control and setrlimit() is called, a new resource control value is created. If a resource control does not have the global RCTL_GLOBAL_LOWERABLE property set, its hard limit will not allow lowering by unprivileged callers.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
rctladm(1M), getrlimit(2), errno(3C), rctlblk_set_value(3C), attributes(5), resource_controls(5) | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/816-5167/getrctl-2.html | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | refinedweb | 1,243 | 52.8 |
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The Winforms ReportViewer in Visual Studio Pro will allow you define client reports with a variety of data sources. If you’re not familiar with creating client-side reports using the ReportViewer, take a look at these videos:
(The ReportViewer can also display server-based reports a la SQL Reporting Services and has a whole boatload of features that I’m not going to talk about here. For more information on this freely redistributable control, please read ReportViewer Controls (Visual Studio) in the MSDN library.)
ADO.NET Data Services was released with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and is basically a framework for exposing your data models via RESTful web services. So if you are building a remote CRUD data access layer then this is a technology that will make that super-simple, especially if you just want to expose a few data entities as read-only report sources. (I’ve written a lot about how to use ADO.NET Data Services in a variety of ways so check out these posts if you’re interested.) Entity Framework was released at the same time and you can use EF as the data model behind your ADO.NET Data Service and expose it easily. If you’ve never created one before, check out this quick start here.
What’s the Problem?!
Let me show you what I mean, but don’t try this at home. I have an ADO.NET Data Service based on the Northwind database like the one I created here and in the quick start. I then added a Windows Forms client project to the same solution (File –> Add –> New Project, then select Windows Forms App). Now open Form1 in the client and from the toolbox under the Reporting tab, drop the Microsoft ReportViewer control onto the form and from the smart tag select “Design a New Report”.
This will open the Report Wizard. The first thing I need to do is tell it what data source to use, so I’ll select Service and click Next. This will open the Add Service Reference dialog box where I can add the reference to my data service and Visual Studio will generate the proxy objects for me. In this example my service is in the same solution as the client so I can just click the Discover button and Visual Studio will see it. I named it NorthwindService. Click OK then click Finish.
At this point I’m brought back to the Report Wizard:
Hmmmm…. I’m a little lost at this point because -- didn’t I just select the data source? Why don’t I see it?
Maybe I should have added the service reference first from the Solution Explorer instead of through the Report Wizard? You can do that and you’ll get to the same screen at this point.
So okay, I’ll click the Add Data Source button that’s calling to me. Granted, I like clicking buttons that have the ellipsis (…) on them because I’m always curious to see what’s under them, but this seems redundant.
This opens the same dialog as before but this time I’ll choose Object instead of Service. I’m choosing object this time because I’m going to try and bind to the client proxy types that were generated for me when I added the service reference. After selecting Object, click Next and expand the service namespace.
For this report I want to just display a list of Customers in the system so I’ll select Customers and then click Next.
Then… then…… are you ready?… you better sit down for this…. click Finish……. wait for it…. wait for it….. not responding…. uh ohhhh…..
Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close. Darn!
Now that was fun.
How Do I Fix this?
Unfortunately the Report Wizard in Visual Studio 2008 doesn’t know how to work with many-to-many relationships and that’s exactly what we have defined in our EF Entity Data Model which is what is backing our ADO.NET Data Service. Customers have many CustomerDemographics and vice versa in Northwind. You can actually define a couple classes yourself manually and create a many-to-many association between them:
Public Class Class1
Private _class2 As List(Of Class2)
Public ReadOnly Property Class2() As List(Of Class2)
Get
Return _class2
End Get
End Property
End Class
Public Class Class2
Private _class1 As List(Of Class1)
Public ReadOnly Property Class1() As List(Of Class1)
Get
Return _class1
End Get
End Property
End Class
Try to use either class above as the data source of the report and it will crash too. Woah! So when the report designer tries to read these associations I’m guessing it gets into an infinite loop walking the association references back and forth and then it crashes. So it’s not an error with the generated proxy objects per se, the root cause is our object model. If I would have chosen Categories instead, it would have worked.
So what do we do? We could create another layer of classes without the associations on both sides if we wanted and then use those types instead but then we’d have to write code that IMO is pretty useless, just to shape the data again how we want on the client.
My recommendation is to create a separate data model for your reports that doesn’t have many-to-many associations at all. You’re going to end up with a lot of different looking entities anyways for your reports because they will most likely pull from multiple database Views and/or stored procedures. You’ll always be displaying one side of the many-to-many relationship on paper anyways.
Creating a Reporting Data Model
So let’s go back to the data service project and add a new Entity Data Model to the web project called NorthwindReport. This time I’ll just select the Customers, Orders and Order Details and all the Views defined in the database.
Next I’ll add the ADO.NET Data Service and call it NorthwindReport and configure it so that we’re only allowing read-only access to our data by setting the entity access rule like so:
Imports System.Data.Services
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.ServiceModel.Web
Public Class NorthwindReport
Inherits DataService(Of NorthwindReportEntities)
Public Shared Sub InitializeService(ByVal config As IDataServiceConfiguration)
config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.AllRead)
End Sub
End Class
Now back on the client we can add the service reference to this service instead. After we add the service reference we can run the Report Wizard again by selecting “Design a New Report” smart tag on the ReportViewer control like I showed in the beginning. Select Object as the data source (or Service if you didn’t add the service reference first, then you’ll have to click “Add Data Sources…” again and then select Object) and you should see the list of entities exposed in the NorthwindReport data model. Now when we select Customer, we don’t have a problem.
Design the report how you like (see the documentation for more details) by clicking through the wizard and then go back to the smart tag on the ReportViewer and you should see the report you just created in the dropdown. Next go to the code-behind for the form and in the Load handler we just set the BindingSource.DataSource property to the results of the ADO.NET Data Service LINQ query:
Imports NorthwindClient.NorthwindReportService
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load() Handles MyBase.Load
'TODO: put in My.Settings
Dim uri As New Uri("")
'Create the service reference
Dim db As New NorthwindReportEntities(uri)
'Set the report's DataSource to the results of the query
Me.BindingSource.DataSource = From c In db.Customers _
Where c.Country = "USA" _
Order By c.CompanyName
Me.ReportViewer1.RefreshReport()
End Sub
End Class
Now hit F5 to run this baby and you’ll see the report pull the data from the service and display in the form:
Recap & Resources
ADO.NET Data Services are a great way to quickly and easily expose data on the web, especially if it’s just read-only data used for remote reporting clients. The key to using the ReportViewer with ADO.NET Data Services (or an Entity Data Model directly, or even your own object model) is to make sure there are no many-to-many associations on the entities. Here are the resources you need to get started with ReportViewer and ADO.NET Data Services:
Enjoy!
Excellent Post!
My biggest problem though is that Linq doesn't support right/left outer joins well at all (PITA to build the queryies to the point if siilliness) and I use this all of the time in my sql for reports.
Microsoft: Please make this a feature of .NET 4 so that we can do leftjoin and rightjoin instead of just join.
Hi James,
You can actually achieve very similar results in LINQ for outer/left/right joins using the Group Join syntax.
Take a look at this post for info:
The only thing you may have to watch out for is using it with ADO.NET Data Services because the RESTful nature of that framewwork puts some limitations on the queries you can write. So sometimes you just have to break up the statements and pull the objects down onto the client and work from there. See this MSDN topic for details on the exact syntax that's supported:
I'll try and write a post addressing this in the future. Thanks for the feedback!
HTH,
-B
This was an excellent post. This example was my first time ever leveraging ADO.NET Data Services and the ReportViewer control and I was definitely surprised at how quick it was to get up and running. If I had only tested this out a few months ago! Will this work similarly with WPF and WCF?
Hi Ramone,
ADO.NET Data Services are built upon WCF REST services but if you want to manually create WCF services to return objects (or datasets) then you can use those as data sources on the report as well.
The ReportViewer is a Winforms control but you can use it in your WPF applications. You can create a Winform and call it from your WPF forms. Otherwise you can host it on a WPF form. Just add a Winforms UserControl to your WPF app and put the ReportViewer on the Winforms UserControl. Then on your WPF Window use the WindowsformsHost control and then set the Child property to the UserControl. Then you can put the code to load the data and refresh the report like above in the WPF Window Loaded event handler. Take a look here for more info on the WindowsformsHost:
I'll try to write up a post on this one too. Thanks for the feedback!
Can this approach also work with Linq to SQL?
Hi John,
Like I mentioned, the ReportViewer will work against any objects as long as you don't have a many-to-many relationship defined. So LINQ to SQL objects would work the same.
However, since LINQ to SQL is just a simple 1:1 mapper to your database tables you would most likely create database views for your more complex reports and then map to those. Although if you're connecting directly at that point it's probably easier to just use datasets.
You can use LINQ to SQL with ADO.NET Data Services. Take a look at this post:
Thanks for the quick response. It would be a problem with the 1:1 as any of the complicated queries on do on Sql Server, so all my reports see are simple views. The reason i'm doing this is because I ran into a brick wall creating my reports with the traditional way using table adapters etc. I all ready am using Linq to SQL for my ASP.Net MVC CRUD app (written in VB.Net which is cool) so why not do the same for the reports?
thanks again
Beth,
Are we able to use this same model with ASP.net Report Viewer? I would like to have an asp.net page that references a dataservice. That data service should feed the ASP.net report Viewer.
Is this possible? I am just having trouble setting the object as my datasource via the asp.net report viewer.
Thank you,
Michael Buller
Hi Beth,
I am working on a project which uses WCF services, entiy framework. Here while desgining a report using Repot Viewer Tool inorder to add Data sources to the report i clicked on Report --> Data sources which throws an error saying
(Undefined Complex Type '' is used as a basse for complex type extention)
no clue of what does it really mean??
my question is, can't we use report viewer while we are working on WCF services? if so, then is there any other way for generating reports?
i am stuck here. unable to proceed further with this error. please suggest an alternative for this as soon as possible. Thanks and Regards
Hi Chinni,
I assume you have written your own WCF services that are returning entities and are not using ADO.NET Data Services? Have you already added the service reference and generated the proxy types? It also sounds like you need to add a reference to the System.Data.Entity.
After you generate the proxy objects you should be able to select those to bind to in the report wizard.
You may also want to look into using ADO.NET Data Services or returning simple data transfer objects instead of returning EF entities through your service, especially for view/read-only reporting.
HAI BETH,
I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS.
1. HOW TO DISPLAY IMAGE FROM DATABASE USING REPORTVIEWER IN WINDOWS FORM
2. HOW TO LOAD DATA IN REPORTVIEWER BY CODE (UNTYPED DATASET) NOT IN WIZARD
THANKS
You are very coooooooooooooooooooooooool
I love you
I'm building a local report directly on my EDM object, which has 2 different 1-to-many relationships. In my report, I used 2 separate tables to display the related data from these relationships. . . however, both of the related datasets are named the same thing by the data source designer and the compiler gakks on it. Where do I go to change the names of those datasets?
Madam,
I have seen your 'how do i video' showing how to make auto complete in a combo box.It was excellent,but how to do the same thing in a combo box inside a datagrid view.Another doubt is,i have a datagrid associated with a data table.i have changed the text boxes in side the datagrid into combo boxes.Then i selected the datasource property and data memnber property of the combo boxes to another table(multiple data binding).the thing is that when i select values in one combo box,i want the corresponding datas to appear in the other combo boxes also.i have done the same thing in 'normal combo boxes'.but i am not able to do the thing in combo boxes inside datagrid view.please hel iam working on a 'stock sales billing ' software.
i would like to know how to be able to be conected from different locations to
the same project in one computer using visual basic and sql 2005.
What i mean is i have a program in main computer and i want my other stores able to perform
transactions from other computers.
Thanks | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2009/08/19/using-the-reportviewer-with-ado-net-data-services-and-entity-framework.aspx | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | refinedweb | 2,634 | 72.36 |
IRC log of html-wg on 2008-09-11
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10:58:03 [marcos]
Hi, I was wondering if someone could give me some advice. In the widget spec, we want to define and "auto update" mechanism for updating widget packages over the air....
11:01:13 [marcos]
the proposal looks like this <widget version="1.0 beta" id="htt://widgets.org/mywidget/"> <update uri="
"> </widget> Where, at runtime, %version% is replaced by the UA for the value of the version attribute.
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The question I have is, would it be better to to define%version% as an entity reference?
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i.e., &version; ?
11:02:23 [marcos]
does it matter?
11:05:29 [Philip]
Where the entity reference is not defined in the widget XML file itself, and comes from the environment outside the parser instead?
11:06:30 [marcos]
yeah
11:06:33 [Philip]
If so, that sounds like it'd be a bit of a pain for anyone using normal XML tools to process or generate those files
11:06:40 [marcos]
yeah, true
11:06:45 [marcos]
that would suck
11:07:13 [marcos]
I'll stick with %version%
11:07:19 [Philip]
Rather than %-substitution, you could use (a subset of) URI templates instead
11:07:34 [Philip]
i.e. basically just use {version} instead
11:07:42 [marcos]
ok, that could work too
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is there anything written about that?
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Oh
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11:08:23 [marcos]
great, I'll check those out.
11:08:50 [Philip]
That might be a silly idea, but at least the syntax seems less likely to conflict with the usual existence of % in URIs
11:09:18 [hsivonen]
marcos: entity references are trouble
11:12:21 [MikeSmith]
fwiw, I agree with hsivonen .. named entity references are one of the ugliest legacies inherited from SGML.. wish we could kill them off entirely
11:13:00 [marcos]
hsivonen, yeah. I see that now...
11:13:19 [marcos]
MikeSmith, understood.
11:14:01 [Philip]
(but sandboxing saved the day)
11:14:19 [Philip]
(Uh, I think they might have meant to write
file://
in that example)
11:14:25 [jmb]
Philip: have you a link to that?
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jmb:
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ta
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(It seems they're ignoring the issue of the web security model (i.e. enforcing same-originality etc), and only trying to prevent web pages interfering with the user's own computer)
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13:40:14 [hsivonen]
what's the observing etiquette and schedule? is it poor form to request observer status on another WG on the same days the HTML WG meets (since that would mean either skipping some HTML stuff or not actually observing most of the time)?
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14:28:23 [DanC]
you're welcome to request observer status all over the place, hsivonen . TPAC scheduling is overconstrained, and creative compromises are expected
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14:29:50 [DanC]
it's quite common to request to observe several meetings at once
14:34:39 [hsivonen]
DanC: OK. thanks.
14:38:02 [smedero]
DanC: So I requested observer status through the survey form - but should I be following up with the chairs of the respective working groups directly?
14:39:11 [DanC]
the norm is that the ball is now in the chairs' court, smedero . You should follow up only if you think a special case is worth making
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most chairs just send a bulk "sure, fine, come and observe" message to all requesters, I think
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I suppose some don't get around to it at all
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that's what I assumed... I just wanted to make sure I didn't drop the ball on that.
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ChrisWilson has changed the topic to: HTML WG telecon 11 Sept 16:00UTC
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zakim, this is html
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ChrisWilson, I see HTML_WG()12:00PM in the schedule but not yet started. Perhaps you mean "this will be html".
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rrsagent, make logs world-visible
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Zakim, this will be html
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ok, ChrisWilson; I see HTML_WG()12:00PM scheduled to start now
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HTML_WG()12:00PM has now started
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grr
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+ +1.425.646.aaaa
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Zakim, aaaa is me
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+smedero; got it
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meeting: HTML WG Weekly Issue & Agenda Tracking Call
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+ +1.408.398.aabb
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+[Microsoft]
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scribe: Gregory_Rosmaita
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zakim, microsoft is me
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+ChrisWilson; got it
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scribeNick: oedipus
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+ +49.251.280.aacc
16:01:44 [hsivonen]
Zakim, passcode?
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the conference code is 4865 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), hsivonen
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+DanC
16:02:00 [Julian]
Zakim, +49.251.280.aacc is me
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+Julian; got it
16:02:04 [DanC]
regrets+ Mike_Smith
16:02:05 [oedipus]
chair: Chris_Wilson
16:02:07 [Zakim]
+ +1.218.349.aadd
16:02:21 [Zakim]
+Gregory_Rosmaita
16:02:33 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, agenda?
16:02:33 [Zakim]
I see nothing on the agenda
16:02:38 [Zakim]
+??P24
16:02:39 [ChrisWilson]
agenda + review tracker
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agenda+ tech plenary discussion
16:02:50 [hsivonen]
Zakim, ??P24 is me
16:02:52 [Zakim]
+hsivonen; got it
16:03:04 [ChrisWilson]
agenda+ discuss accessibility of audio/video
16:03:46 [ChrisWilson]
in light of DSinger's only being here for the first 10 minutes or so, I'll suggest we start with a/v accessibility discussion
16:04:05 [ChrisWilson]
anything to add to the agenda?
16:04:59 [Laura]
tp://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Aug/thread.html#msg697
16:04:59 [Laura]
16:05:05 [Laura]
I started a page in the Wiki for Multimedia Accessibilty <Audio> <Video>
16:05:05 [Laura]
16:05:19 [DanC]
copy of use cases:
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Considerations:
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Multimedia presentations (rich media) usually involve both motion and the spoken word. This can present accessibility barriers to those who suffer either visual or audio impairments.
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The visual components of a multimedia presentation can't be directly accessed by visual impaired users. Likewise, users who are deaf or hard of hearing will not be able to directly access auditory information.
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Some users may simply not have the equipment, software or connection speed necessary to access multimedia files.
16:05:54 .
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Recommendation:
16:06:02 .
16:06:09 [Laura]
Example:
and look at the source code: there are params for the video, the caption, JW FLV also supports descriptive audio, and even little extras like the watermark. HTML 5 should have a similar approach in native support of any media asset
16:06:17 [Laura]
Captions, transcripts, text descriptions, and audio descriptions are different from one another.
16:06:17 .
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The embedded model ensures that the linkage is there, and if the author chooses to also provide an in-the-clear linkage to one or more of these support pieces than this is a win.
16:06:17 [Laura]
Some kind of mechanism is needed...attributes on <video> could do it. Likewise for attributes on <audio>.
16:07:06 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, who is on the phone?
16:07:07 [Zakim]
On the phone I see smedero, +1.408.398.aabb, ChrisWilson, Julian, DanC, +1.218.349.aadd, Gregory_Rosmaita, hsivonen
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16:07:38 [oedipus]
DanC: had trouble following thread - longdesc diversion; use cases help me a lot
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JG: tried to get conversation on higher level - not how to do, but ability to express captions
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JG: will look at use cases, as well
16:08:50 [oedipus]
JG: Lachlan's point about user being part of rendering surface -- sometimes yes, sometimes no~~~~~~; ~~~~ssed as
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+[Microsoft]
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JG: media queries: adaptability of content; competing approaches expressed on list
16:09:27 [oedipus]
zakim, Microsoft is Cynthia_Shelly
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+Cynthia_Shelly; got it
16:09:36 [oedipus]
rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate
oedipus
16:09:57 [oedipus]
CW: need to do further reading on topic before discussing on call (audio & video thread)
16:10:09 [oedipus]
CW: tons of posts on topic
16:10:19 [oedipus]
CS: trying to discharge action items for PF
16:10:31 [Zakim]
- +1.408.398.aabb
16:10:57 [ChrisWilson]
any further discussion on this, or shall we move on?
16:10:59 [oedipus]
HS: prefer discussion more focused - went off topic with longdesc and such
16:11:14 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, agenda?
16:11:14 [Zakim]
I see 3 items remaining on the agenda:
16:11:15 [Zakim]
1. review tracker [from ChrisWilson]
16:11:16 [Zakim]
2. tech plenary discussion [from ChrisWilson]
16:11:16 [oedipus]
GJR: perhaps some wiki work is needed
16:11:17 [Zakim]
3. discuss accessibility of audio/video [from ChrisWilson]
16:11:24 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item 3
16:11:24 [Zakim]
agendum 3, discuss accessibility of audio/video, closed
16:11:25 [Zakim]
I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
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1. review tracker [from ChrisWilson]
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16:11:41 [oedipus]
HS: media query proposal good idea, but syntax needs work -- idea of querying user's indicated capabilities
16:11:47 [Laura]
notes to Dan that I am having trouble hearing. Some static on my end of the call.
16:12:00 [oedipus]
CW: interesting idea - privacy implications?
16:12:21 [Lachy]
I'm here now, IRC only
16:12:27 [oedipus]
HS: privacy problem in any case if person doesn't want to reveal disability to access video stream with certain properties
16:12:42 [oedipus]
q+ to ask role of CC/PP
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ack me
16:12:48 [Zakim]
oedipus, you wanted to ask role of CC/PP
16:12:51 [ChrisWilson]
ack oedipus
16:13:04 [oedipus]
GJR: i am working on a CC/PP profile for assistive technologies
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GJR: one possible approach to ensuring that content negotiation done correctly
16:14:03 [oedipus]
GJR: will set up ESW wiki page for issue
16:14:17 [Zakim]
+??P5
16:14:28 [Lachy]
Zakim, I am ??P5
16:14:28 [Zakim]
+Lachy; got it
16:15:15 [Lachy]
ChrisWilson, no, I think i've said all I need to say on the mailing list
16:15:39 [hsivonen]
clarification on the privacy point: a user who selects a media stream meant for people with a given disability end up revealing that (s)he may have that disability
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CS: privacy issues about AT concerns?
16:16:07 [ChrisWilson]
@Lachy ok thanks.
16:16:20 [Laura]
Zakim, I am ??P5
16:16:20 [Zakim]
sorry, Laura, I do not see a party named '??P5'
16:16:26 [hsivonen]
but with MQ being able to query stuff all the time, the disability may be revealed without the user noticing that a selection mechanism ran
16:16:30 [Laura]
Zakim, I am aadd
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+Laura; got it
16:16:34 [oedipus]
GJR: whatever is going to raise privacy concerns -- interested CC/PP as well as XQuery
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s/interested/interested in
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CS: use of CSS
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q+ to ask about CC/PP & XQuery
16:17:30 [ChrisWilson]
ack hsivonen
16:17:30 [Zakim]
hsivonen, you wanted to ask about CC/PP & XQuery
16:17:36 [oedipus]
GJR: gathering participants to revive CSS-Reader
16:18:07 [DanC]
(hmm... "need" is a strong word)
16:18:11 [oedipus]
HS: CSS media selectors sufficient?
16:19:04 [DanC]
"exposing an accessible _what_"?
16:19:15 [hsivonen]
DanC, tree
16:19:21 [DanC]
thanks
16:19:51 [DanC]
HS: isn't the trend away from the AT accessing the DOM directly to the UA exposing an accessible tree?
16:19:58 [Laura]
regrets+ SteveF
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regrets+ Joshue
16:20:47 [DanC]
GR: ATs need to support XML vocabularies/applications
16:20:53 [DanC]
HS: seems sufficient to convert to HTML server-side
16:20:55 [oedipus]
GJR: HS' idea is a non-starter -- if people need to use an xml-derived language, they should be able to do so without having forced on them as text/html which is lest robust
16:21:11 [oedipus]
s/lest/less
16:21:43 [shepazu]
Zakim, call shepazu
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ok, shepazu; the call is being made
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+Shepazu
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16:22:34 [oedipus]
HS: underlying assumption of HTML5 work is HTML5 is common ground - arbitrary XML vocab mapped to semantics AT understands introducing new layer of interaction - new middleware between AT and markup - why not make that ground HTML
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16:23:21 [oedipus]
GJR: HTML5 does not exist as a specification - one class of readers to disclaimers might change are AT vendors -- they are going to wait until there is sufficient market penetration
16:23:31 [DanC]
(the "just use HTML as the AT solution for specialized vocabularies" sounds familiar... that was the outcome in the HTML 2 timeframe for SGML accessiblity.)
16:23:40 [oedipus]
GJR: one reason why at vendors putting eggs in ARIA basket
16:23:47 [hsivonen]
ARIA is in flux as well
16:24:09 [oedipus]
CW: adding features to HTML5 via ARIA aren't distant future-sollutions, but will be added over time
16:24:37 [oedipus]
GJR: incremental adaptation without standards and coordination will not happen from AT side
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16:25:00 [oedipus]
CW: why for features added to HTML5 but not ARIA features added to current HTML implementations
16:25:21 [hsivonen]
XQuery for AT capabilities doesn't exist as a REC today, either, right?
16:25:30 [oedipus]
CW: agree that need standards and coordination here - have to have that on AT side, as well -- not sure why precludes one sollution or another
16:26:15 [oedipus]
GJR: i don't think it precludes one solution or another, but i don't think we should proscribe one solution over another
16:27:14 [oedipus]
DS: point of ARIA not to supersede native semantics of ML language; ATs will adapt to HTML5 and ARIA, but ARIA goes beyond the scope of HTML WG
16:27:38 [oedipus]
CS: browser devs will do same things doing now - mapping HTML semantics to appropriate accessibility API so ARIA can be used anywhere
16:27:59 [oedipus]
DS: not certain why conflict at all between HTML5 and ARIA?
16:28:05 [oedipus]
CS: synchronization
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16:29:43 [oedipus]
CS: if supports ARIA
16:29:55 [oedipus]
CS: some vendors will do for older browsers
16:30:03 [hsivonen]
q+
16:30:12 [oedipus]
DS: only if AT supports it -- values and attributes into the DOM what UA should do
16:30:23 [oedipus]
CS: also important for UA to map to OS
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DS: if UA can do that, we are ok
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GJR: point simply was that ARIA for more than HTML5
16:30:57 [oedipus]
GJR: therefore needs to be janus-like
16:31:05 [oedipus]
ack h
16:31:05 [DanC]
ack next
16:31:18 [ChrisWilson]
q?
16:31:34 [Lachy]
xquery is overkill, something like media queries would be syntactically better, but media queries itself is not suitable
16:31:35 [oedipus]
HS: in end, need to have something AT understands -- AT understands stuff in DOM or uses API that AT understands
16:31:58 [oedipus]
HS: arbitrary XML vocabularies are not accessible - mapping to ARIA or HTML5 if UA knows about ARIA or HTML5
16:32:07 [DanC]
(hmm... since the HTML 2 timeframe, I wonder what ebooks do... do they use HTML vocabulary for accessibility, I wonder?)
16:32:16 [oedipus]
GJR: the solution is going to be middle-ware --
16:32:29 [oedipus]
CW: mapping components from known to more simplistic
16:32:56 [oedipus]
DS: HTML is going to be more sparse language than GUI frameworks natively supported on desktops;
16:33:31 [oedipus]
DS: ARIA goes beyond what HTML5 does or plans to do -- why map to something that is known to be less rich when have option to map to something more rich just for the sake of a vocabulary (in this case HTML5)
16:34:00 [oedipus]
HS: HTML5 and ARIA being implemented so UA understands DOM and communicates to AT; just pointing out that arbitrary XML vocabularies
16:34:30 [DanC]
(the first ebook standard I find uses XHTML + namespaces. <html xmlns="
" xmlns:ops="
">
)
16:34:49 [oedipus]
GJR: available now is ARIA; what is being developed are expert handlers that build upon the ARIA model to provide meaningful read/write access to XML dialects in specialized knowledge domain
16:36:04 [oedipus]
DS: CWilson right -- drifting away; don't need to introduce arbitrary XML into conversation; use of script, plus CSS plus markup to make
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widgets
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GJR: ARIA not for HTML5 per se, broader
16:36:32 [oedipus]
DS: violent agreement
16:36:39 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, agenda?
16:36:39 [Zakim]
I see 2 items remaining on the agenda:
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1. review tracker [from ChrisWilson]
16:36:41 [Zakim]
2. tech plenary discussion [from ChrisWilson]
16:36:48 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, take up item 1
16:36:48 [Zakim]
agendum 1. "review tracker" taken up [from ChrisWilson]
16:36:58 [ChrisWilson]
overdue action items
16:37:00 [oedipus]
TOPIC: Tracker Review, part 1 (Overdue Action Items)
16:37:05 [ChrisWilson]
action-34?
16:37:05 [trackbot]
ACTION-34 -- Lachlan Hunt to prepare "Web Developer's Guide to HTML5" for publication in some way, as discussed on 2007-11-28 phone conference -- due 2008-09-04 -- OPEN
16:37:05 [trackbot]
16:37:10 [Lachy]
q+
16:37:15 [oedipus]
CW: action 34 - pretty old action on lachy
16:37:15 [ChrisWilson]
ack Lachy
16:37:52 [oedipus]
LH: have to put off again; been extremely busy
16:38:02 [oedipus]
DC: approximate date?
16:38:08 [oedipus]
LH: no set date just yet
16:38:16 [oedipus]
CW: postpone discussion for TPAC?
16:38:20 [oedipus]
LH: would be better
16:38:55 [oedipus]
ACTION: ChrisW - put "web developer's guide to html5" publication on agenda for TPAC face2face meetings
16:38:55 [trackbot]
Sorry, couldn't find user - ChrisW
16:39:00 [ChrisWilson]
reset due date, will discuss moving forward at TPAC
16:39:28 [DanC]
don't make a new action, pls
16:39:29 [oedipus]
CW: 21 october due date - face2face is 23rd and 24th
16:39:41 [ChrisWilson]
action-66?
16:39:41 [trackbot]
ACTION-66 -- Joshue O Connor to joshue to collate information on what spec status is with respect to table@summary, research background on rationale for retaining table@summary as a valid attribute -- due 2008-08-29 -- OPEN
16:39:41 [trackbot]
16:39:57 [ChrisWilson]
action-74?
16:39:57 [trackbot]
ACTION-74 -- Michael(tm) Smith to raise on the list for discussion the issue of XSLT output=html (non)compliance in HTML5 -- due 2008-08-28 -- OPEN
16:39:57 [trackbot]
16:40:10 [oedipus]
rrsagent, drop action 1
16:40:19 [DanC]
yes
16:40:28 [cynthia]
cynthia has joined #html-wg
16:40:31 [DanC]
(RRSAgent's action list is less relevant than trackers)
16:40:36 [oedipus]
CW: status list from last week?
16:40:41 [oedipus]
DC: raised for discussion
16:41:00 [smedero]
issue-54 has been discussed over the last week
16:41:00 [oedipus]
CW: can close it
16:41:04 [DanC]
close action-74
16:41:04 [trackbot]
ACTION-74 Raise on the list for discussion the issue of XSLT output=html (non)compliance in HTML5 closed
16:41:05 [Julian]
pointer?
16:41:17 [ChrisWilson]
action-75?
16:41:17 [trackbot]
ACTION-75 -- Michael(tm) Smith to raise question to group about Yes, leave @profile out, No, re-add it -- and cite Hixie's summary of the discussion -- due 2008-08-28 -- OPEN
16:41:17 [trackbot]
16:41:37 [ChrisWilson]
julian, were you asking for ptr to email to group on XSLT issue?
16:41:49 [Julian]
yes
16:42:05 [oedipus]
CW: action 75 - not done by MikeSmith - want to do a poll on that -- leave open for now
16:42:11 [Laura]
What is the next step for @headers Action 72?
16:42:13 [ChrisWilson]
Will look in a minute.
16:42:14 [DanC]
re action-74, there are lots of msgs, e.g.
16:42:28 [smedero]
julian, I groked that from the tracker agenda but you can view the issue itself to see there has been discussion:
16:42:30 [Julian]
likely
16:42:32 [ChrisWilson]
agenda+ discuss action-72
16:42:38 [oedipus]
CW: action 74 - XSLT output=html
16:42:38 [myakura]
myakura has joined #html-wg
16:42:56 [ChrisWilson]
action-29?
16:42:56 [trackbot]
ACTION-29 -- Dan Connolly to follow up on the idea of a free-software-compatible license for a note on HTML authoring -- due 2008-09-11 -- OPEN
16:42:56 [trackbot]
16:42:59 [oedipus]
CW: action 75 still open; action 29 status
16:43:07 [oedipus]
CW: Dan?
16:43:26 [oedipus]
DanC: some promising internal discussion, but don't know specifics yet - hoping to report today
16:43:36 [oedipus]
GJR: discussed at HTC?
16:43:41 [oedipus]
DanC: don't expect so
16:43:43 [DanC]
(life is getting a little too meta when there's a question about what's the next step on an action; an action is supposed to _be_ a next step)
16:43:55 [oedipus]
CW: move to?
16:44:04 [oedipus]
DanC: give same due date as lachy
16:44:06 [oedipus]
CW: done
16:44:18 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item
16:44:18 [Zakim]
I don't understand 'close item', ChrisWilson
16:44:20 [oedipus]
CW: covers all of the overdue issues, i believe
16:44:24 [ChrisWilson]
agenda?
16:44:28 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item 1
16:44:30 [Zakim]
agendum 1, review tracker, closed
16:44:31 [Zakim]
I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
16:44:32 [Zakim]
2. tech plenary discussion [from ChrisWilson]
16:44:37 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, take up item 2
16:44:37 [Zakim]
agendum 2. "tech plenary discussion" taken up [from ChrisWilson]
16:44:45 [Zakim]
-Lachy
16:44:52 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, take up item 3
16:44:52 [Zakim]
agendum 3. "discuss accessibility of audio/video" taken up [from ChrisWilson]
16:44:59 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item 3
16:44:59 [Zakim]
agendum 3, discuss accessibility of audio/video, closed
16:45:00 [Zakim]
I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
16:45:02 [ChrisWilson]
agenda?
16:45:02 [Zakim]
2. tech plenary discussion [from ChrisWilson]
16:45:10 [Zakim]
+??P1
16:45:12 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, take up item 4
16:45:12 [Zakim]
agendum 4. "discuss action-72" taken up [from ChrisWilson]
16:45:15 [DanC]
(ah... re my licensing action, there's an internal thingy due 2008-10-08 ; so I'll set my due date near that...)
16:45:15 [oedipus]
CW: Laura asked about action 72
16:45:15 [Lachy]
Zakim, I am ??P1
16:45:15 [Zakim]
+Lachy; got it
16:45:40 [oedipus]
CW: Lachy, set deadline for TPAC for web dev doc
16:45:55 [Laura]
Approx a thousand headers messages to date on list on action 72:
16:45:56 [Laura]
16:46:12 [Laura]
@headers has been an issue since May 1, 2007 with about 39 threads.
16:46:12 [Laura]
16:46:20 [Laura]
Latest @headers discussion thread, September 2008:
16:46:21 [Laura]
16:46:27 [oedipus]
CW: next steps on action 72 - action on CW about headers and header functionality; still need to shift through all info; either declare consensus or post a poll; collect issues into 1 email to send to list -- hope to get to it very soon
16:46:45 [ChrisWilson]
@Laura - yes, I need to collate and distill, then ask a question to the group. Still assigned to me.
16:46:51 [Laura]
Thank you.
16:46:56 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item 4
16:46:56 [Zakim]
agendum 4, discuss action-72, closed
16:46:57 [Zakim]
I see 1 item remaining on the agenda:
16:46:58 [Zakim]
2. tech plenary discussion [from ChrisWilson]
16:47:03 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, take up next item
16:47:03 [Zakim]
agendum 2. "tech plenary discussion" taken up [from ChrisWilson]
16:47:11 [oedipus]
TOPIC: TPAC 2008
16:47:19 [smedero]
TPAC agenda:
16:47:26 [oedipus]
CW: MikeS sent out email on TPAC agenda - only 1 response received so far
16:47:50 [mjs]
mjs has joined #html-wg
16:48:07 [oedipus]
CW: my take on TPAC similar to MikeSmith's -- first steps are looking through spec and ascertaining where spec is stable enough to generate test cases and creating test suite
16:48:20 [oedipus]
CW: figuring out where we are in terms of stability more interesting in short term
16:48:43 [oedipus]
CW: any suggestions for additions to TPAC meetings, plese send to list
16:49:06 [oedipus]
LH: too much time on tutorial slotted (3 hours)
16:49:41 [oedipus]
CW: going to end up spending a lot more of our time figuring out what portions of tech are ready for test cases; easier for us to expand into test case writing area than contract schedule - take what time is needed
16:49:50 [oedipus]
LH: ok
16:49:54 [hsivonen]
q+
16:49:54 [ChrisWilson]
zakim, close item 2
16:49:55 [Zakim]
I see a speaker queue remaining and respectfully decline to close this agendum, ChrisWilson
16:50:00 [ChrisWilson]
ack hsivonen
16:50:18 [oedipus]
HS: face2face time better for discussion than writing tests
16:50:21 [oedipus]
CW: absolutely
16:51:05 [oedipus]
CW: comment to MikeS was time spent at last TPAC doing tutorial on how to build test cases useful - can see us spending that time, but this time with follow up -- identifying where we can write test cases - what is solid and what is not
16:51:25 [oedipus]
CW: don't want to spend a lot of time with everyone coding - not point of TPAC meeting
16:51:35 [Lachy]
DanC, I don't have any ideas yet, but I'll think about it and mail the list
16:51:47 [oedipus]
CW: value in using test suite for getting handle on how stable spec is, which is what i really want to get out of f2f
16:51:50 [DanC]
(I wish I'd made more progress on tests to date... sometimes I wonder where all the time went.)
16:52:08 [oedipus]
TOPIC: Additional Items
16:52:09 [ChrisWilson]
any other items for discussion today?
16:52:14 [oedipus]
CW: additional items for discussion?
16:52:37 [oedipus]
DanC: next week (18 september)
16:52:42 [ChrisWilson]
move to adjourn?
16:52:47 [Julian]
publication of spec?
16:53:00 [oedipus]
CW: at Web 2.0 conference in New York - scheduled to be doing something at this time slot - have to check MikeS' availability
16:53:10 [oedipus]
CW: have to move tuesday call too
16:53:22 [DanC]
I'm out-of-office 25 Sep and 2 Oct
16:53:25 [Zakim]
-Cynthia_Shelly
16:53:30 [Zakim]
-Lachy
16:53:32 [oedipus]
DanC: not available 25 september and 2 october
16:53:32 [ChrisWilson]
adjourned
16:53:32 [Zakim]
-smedero
16:53:35 [Zakim]
-hsivonen
16:53:36 [Zakim]
-Laura
16:53:39 [Zakim]
-Julian
16:53:45 [Zakim]
-Gregory_Rosmaita
16:53:45 [ChrisWilson]
Thanks again to oedipus for scribing
16:53:47 [Zakim]
-Shepazu
16:53:49 [oedipus]
zakim, please part
16:53:49 [Zakim]
leaving. As of this point the attendees were +1.425.646.aaaa, smedero, +1.408.398.aabb, ChrisWilson, DanC, Julian, +1.218.349.aadd, Gregory_Rosmaita, hsivonen, Cynthia_Shelly,
16:53:49 [Zakim]
Zakim has left #html-wg
16:53:52 [Zakim]
... Lachy, Laura, Shepazu
16:54:10 [oedipus]
rrsagent, make minutes
16:54:10 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate
oedipus
16:54:47 [oedipus]
present- aaaa
16:54:53 [oedipus]
present+ Lachlan_Hunt
16:55:03 [oedipus]
present- aabb
16:55:29 [oedipus]
present+ Laura_Carlson
16:55:35 [oedipus]
rrsagent, make minutes
16:55:35 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate
oedipus
16:56:06 [oedipus]
present- +1.408.398.aabb
16:56:21 [oedipus]
present- +1.425.646.aaaa
16:56:44 [oedipus]
present- +1.218.349.aadd
16:56:49 [oedipus]
rrsagent, make minutes
16:56:49 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate
oedipus
16:57:34 [oedipus]
present+ Doug_Schepers
16:57:40 [oedipus]
rrsagent, make minutes
16:57:40 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate
oedipus
17:00:09 [oedipus]
rrsagent, please part
17:00:09 [RRSAgent]
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I’m currently managing a Citrix-farm system based on Windows Server 2008R2.
In the past, I had used a Powershell script to check for running user-processes and restart them if necessary.
I used the tool “tasklist.exe” with additional parameters to check if a defined process is running under the logged-on user.
Unfortunately the tasklist.exe had stopped working for a few days now. Restarting it results in an error message:
“Error: Not found” or “Error: invalid class”.
“Error: Not found” or “Error: invalid class”.
Since the servers are in Germany, I have translated the message from German to English. On the German server, it’s called
“Fehler: Nicht gefunden” and “Fehler: Ungultige Klasse”.
“Fehler: Nicht gefunden” and “Fehler: Ungultige Klasse”.
So, I’m not sure if the translation to English is correct.
There are no error logs in the event log.
As it is a production system, there have been no changes such as updates and there is no internet connection.
Is it possible that a dll registration is missing?
I’ve check with “depends.exe” for anything that might be amiss but I’m not able to identify any difference between a working server and the non-working server.
I’ve also checked if there are any errors when starting “dcomcnfg” but everything is ok.
A fresh copy of tasklist.exe from a working server did not work. The problem isn't related to the exectuable itself.
The hint provided under this link was checked with a non positiv result.
Virus pattern are up-to-date (McAfee VDS 8.8 + ASE 8.8).
Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can get “tasklist.exe” running again?
Alternatively, I would like a solution with Powershell commands that would help rebuild the functions of “tasklist.exe” – it’s not an easy task as I’m not the best scripter.
Thanks in advance for your help, hints or suggestions!
Edit:
Indeed the problem was related to the WMI. The hint from Ryan Ries to check the WMI with
“wbemtest”
“wbemtest”
resulted in a similar error when trying to connect.
In this case I received an error code with which I was able to find the solution at Microsoft TechNet.
The script listed in that page didn´t work for me but the command
“Winmgmt /salvagerepository”
“Winmgmt /salvagerepository”
did.
So thank you Ryan for the WMI hint and thank you r.tanner.f for the workaround in case everything else didn’t work.
While it may be possible to use something else besides tasklist.exe to get a list of running processes on the system, it worries me that tasklist.exe just all of a sudden stopped working. It's a basic, fundamental process on the system and the fact that it stopped working could be a sign of data corruption or some other problem that could only get worse.
Not trying to find out what caused this, even if you're able to work around it by using Powershell or WMIC or some other executable, is like covering up the "Check Oil" light on your car's dashboard with electrical tape. It doesn't mean the underlying problem is not still there.
Furthermore, it appears that tasklist.exe utilizes WMI to get the information, so if tasklist.exe isn't working, that may indicate a systemic problem with WMI on your machine, and so using other tools that rely on WMI probably won't work either...
Here is how you troubleshoot this. Get Process Monitor from Sysinternals. Capture events on the working machine, and capture events on the non-working machine. Filter on tasklist.exe as you run it. Now put the two trace files side by side, and see where they differ. What events on the working machine are returning SUCCESS where the same events on the non-working machine are returning NAME NOT FOUND or some other non-success code?
Since the error message you got mentioned an invalid class, I bet the events that take place in the registry keys HKCR\CLSID\{GUID}\, \HKLM\Software\Classes, etc., will show some definite differences between the two trace files.
HKCR\CLSID\{GUID}\
\HKLM\Software\Classes
Edit: Also if you wanted to test WMI itself, one method you could use is to run wbemtest. Click Connect..., and use root\cimv2 as the namespace. You should be able to leave everything else blank or default. Then, click the button that says Query, and type select * from win32_process as your query and click Apply. You should get back a bunch of valid process handles and no error messages.
wbemtest
Connect...
root\cimv2
Query
select * from win32_process
Apply
Good luck...
It's likely going to be easier to replace your use of tasklist.exe with a little PowerShell, than to track down what went wrong tasklist.exe. Look at Ryan Ries' answer though; he makes some good points about why it's important to track this down, and that WMI might be broken and prevent this from working anyway (in which case you have bigger problems). For what it's worth, I like his answer better.
Checking for a process run by the current user is simple enough in PowerShell:
Get-WMIObject win32_process |
Where {$_.ProcessName -eq "foo.exe"} |
ForEach-Object {$_.GetOwner()} |
Where {$_.User -eq [Environment]::Username}
Get-WMIObject obviously gets a WMI object, in this case win32_process. Pipe that in to the Where-Object and filter anything not equal to foo.exe. Then loop through each object and run the GetOwner() method. Finally, filter any username not equal to the current user.
Get-WMIObject
Where-Object
GetOwner()
I'm adding a return after the pipes for readability (also valid in a script), but you can pare it down with some aliases too and stick to one line:
gwmi win32_process | ?{$_.ProcessName -eq "smartclient.exe"} | %{$_.GetOwner()} | ?{$_.User -eq [Environment]::UserName}
PowerShell is friendly and doesn't bite. You don't need to be a good scripter to get what you need out of it, so don't shy away from trying to use it.
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Sudoku crashes my ipad!
Hello everyone, I've been told that the reason for these crashes is how much data is being processed. Here is my code:
import random class game(object): def __init__(self): self.found = False self.board = list([[0] for i in range(9)] for i in range(9)) for column in range(0,9): for row in range(0,9): run = True while run: x = random.randint(1,9) n = column o = x p = row self.found = False if x not in self.board[column]: for y in range(9): self.check = True if y != column: if self.board[y][row] == x: self.check = False else: self.check = False if self.check == True: self.board[column][row] = x run = False print(self.board) game()
What do you think? How can I fix this to make a working sudoku generator. If you also know how to make the 3 by 3 squares, that would help out too. Thank you.
No crash for me
Output:
[[3, 2, 9, 6, 1, 5, 7, 4, 8], [7, 9, 8, 5, 1, 3, 2, 6, 4], [2, 6, 3, 1, 4, 7, 9, 8, 5], [2, 8, 9, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7, 1], [9, 3, 8, 1, 4, 5, 6, 2, 7], [8, 6, 3, 4, 9, 7, 5, 1, 2], [8, 7, 1, 4, 2, 6, 5, 3, 9], [3, 8, 6, 1, 7, 5, 9, 4, 2], [9, 2, 8, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 4]]
Sorry I didn't explain more, it was crashing, and I tried to fix the code, now it doesnt crash, but there are the same numbers horizontal to each other, contrary to rules of sudoku. If you need more info please write back, but if you can help please help!
- lukaskollmer
Can you post the code that crashed?
random_puzzle()might be what you are looking for.
The part about sudoku as a denial of service attack on the human intellect is a favorite of mine.
WARNING: This will crash your pythonista on execution. But if you might know why that would be helpful.
from scene import * import random import numpy as np class game(Scene): def setup(self): self.found = False self.board = list([[0] for i in range(9)] for i in range(9)) for column in range(0,9): for row in range(0,9): run = True while run: x = random.randint(1,9) self.find(column,x,row) if self.found == False: self.board[column][row] = x run = False print(self.board) def find(self,list,arg,orig): n = list o = arg p = orig self.found = False if o not in self.board[n]: for y in range(9): if y != n: if self.board[y][p] == o: self.found = True else: self.found = True run(game())
I suspect that you have an infinite loop. If you comment out the fourth last line and replace it with a line that just says
passthen you will not get caught in that loop.
You should avoid using
listas the name of a parameter in
find()because list is the name of a builtin datatype. I don't think this is a problem here but it could bite you in similar code.
Another recommendation would be to have
find()return True or False. You could then eliminate the
self.foundvariable and make your code easier to follow. and | https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3769/sudoku-crashes-my-ipad | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | refinedweb | 566 | 85.49 |
i am just new to C programing and in in a need for some help for these problems
1#
Write a program that prompts the user for the area and perimeter of a rectangle. Then it will compute the width and length and display them on the screen (width <= length).
The mathematical relations for area and perimeter of a rectangle are given below.
This problem needs a solution of a quadratic equation. This equation is obtained by finding the expression of length (width) from perimeter equation. Then, you substitute it in area equation. This will give you a quadratic equation in terms of width (length).
2#
Write a program that reads a charactert from the user and prints one of the following messages:
You typed a digit
You typed a capital letter
You typed a small letter
Your typed character is not a letter or a digit
*** i need to know the error in this program
this program does compile
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("please type your choice (1 or 2):\n"); printf("1: Convert from miles to kilometers\n"); printf("2: Convert from feets to meters\n"); int choice; double km ,miles, meters, feets, miles2km , feets2meters; scanf("%i", &choice); switch(choice) { case 1: printf("Enter the number of miles to convert to kilometers:\n"); scanf("%lf", &miles); [[not performed when running the program]] miles2km = miles*1.609; printf("%.2lf miles = %.2lf kilometers\n", miles, miles2km); break; case 2: printf("Enter the number of feets to convert to meters:\n"); scanf("%lf", &feets); [[not performed when running the program]] feets2meters = feets*0.3048 ; printf("%.2lf feets = %.2lf meters\n", feets, feets2meters); break; default: printf("wrong input, you need to type 1 or 2."); break; } return 0; }
This post has been edited by Jayman: 14 November 2008 - 02:46 PM | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/71934-need-help-problems-to-be-solved/ | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | refinedweb | 301 | 65.05 |
- Type:
Bug
- Status: Closed
- Priority:
P2: Important
- Resolution: Duplicate
- Affects Version/s: Qt Creator 3.2.2
- Fix Version/s: None
- Component/s: Quick / QML Support
- Labels:None
- Environment:Qt 5.4 beta, QtCreator 3.2.2, Windows 8.1 64bit
QtQml is not recognized as a valid QML module (not sure if this is a Qt/QML or QtCreator or packaging bug). QtQml is highlighted as an error, and there is no autocomplete for it, but on deployment (tried on Android), it works just fine. Could be a missing plugins.qmltype?
import QtQml 2.0
QtObject{ Component.onCompleted: console.log("YAY") } | https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-13509 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | refinedweb | 102 | 53.47 |
Question
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 01:37:00PM -0800, Martin Holmes scripsit: > Hi there, > > I'm using Saxon 9.5.1.3 PE in Oxygen 15.2 with XSLT 2.0. I'm trying > to use the expath-file functions, which the documentation says are > available. This is a simple version of what I'm trying: > > > ...xmlns:expath-file=""... [snip] xmlns:file="" is currently not giving me that error. Disturbingly, file:exists() is returning true about a file that isn't showing up in a directory that isn't there on the file system, so I've clearly got a ways to go with this, but I think that's the correct namespace so far as Oxygen is concerned. (Though I am using XSLT 3.0). -- Graydon | http://www.oxygenxml.com/archives/xsl-list/201402/msg00125.html | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | refinedweb | 128 | 74.69 |
I'm having trouble with the 3rd if statement of my code if(select == 3). Here, if the user selects '3', then they should be able to search for students (given that students have already been inputted), via their ID. The ID that is searched and the subsequent Name relating to that ID should also be output. However, my code isn't doing that, and it can only search for the first student. Once it looks for the second student (and so on), it does nothing.
#include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> using namespace std; int counter = 1; struct Node { char name[100]; int age; int ID; Node *link; }; int main() { Node *start = NULL; int select = 1; while(select) { cout << "1. " << "List All Values in the List\n"; cout << "2. " << "Add a New Value at the End of the List\n"; cout << "3. " << "Search via ID\n"; cout << "0. " << "Exit the Program\n"; cin >> select; Node *temp, *temp2; if(select == 1) { //Node *temp; temp = start; system("cls"); cout << "ID\tName\tAge\n"; while(temp != NULL) { cout << temp -> ID << "\t" << temp -> name << "\t" << temp -> age << endl; temp = temp -> link; } } if(select == 2) { //Node *temp, *temp2; temp = new Node; cout << "Enter Name:\n"; cin >> temp -> name; cout << "Enter Age:\n"; cin >> temp -> age; temp -> link = NULL; if(start == NULL) { start = temp; //gives start the address of the new node } else { temp2 = start;//gives the new node the address of start while(temp2 -> link != NULL)//while the address of temp2 is not NULL { temp2 = temp2 -> link; } temp2 -> link = temp; } temp -> ID = counter; counter++; system("cls"); } if(select == 3)//having trouble here, it doesn't ouput the ID and names of the students as it should { temp2 = start; cout << "Enter ID of Person of Interest: "; int search; cin >> search; bool decision=1;//as of true by default while(temp2 -> link != NULL) { if(search == temp2 -> ID) { cout << "ID\tName\n"; cout << temp2 -> ID << "\t" << temp2 -> name << endl; decision = 0; } } if(decision) { cout << "record not found\n"; } } } return 0; }
Any help is truly appreciated :) | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/382344/finding-elements-in-a-linked-list | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | refinedweb | 336 | 73.31 |
StructureData tutorial¶
General comments¶
This section contains an example of how you can use the
StructureData object
to create complex crystals.
With the
StructureData class we did not
try to have a full set of features to manipulate crystal structures.
Indeed, other libraries such as ASE exist,
and we simply provide easy
ways to convert between the ASE and the AiiDA formats. On the other hand,
we tried to define a “standard” format for structures in AiiDA, that can be
used across different codes.
Tutorial¶
Take a look at the following example:
alat = 4. # angstrom cell = [[alat, 0., 0.,], [0., alat, 0.,], [0., 0., alat,], ] s = StructureData(cell=cell) s.append_atom(position=(0.,0.,0.), symbols='Fe') s.append_atom(position=(alat/2.,alat/2.,alat/2.), symbols='O')
With the commands above, we have created a crystal structure
s with
a cubic unit cell and lattice parameter of 4 angstrom, and two atoms in the
cell: one iron (Fe) atom in the origin, and one oxygen (O) at the center of
the cube (this cell has been just chosen as an example and most probably does
not exist).
Note
As you can see in the example above, both the cell coordinates and the atom coordinates are expressed in angstrom, and the position of the atoms are given in a global absolute reference frame.
In this way, any periodic structure can be defined. If you want to import from ASE in order to specify the coordinates, e.g., in terms of the crystal lattice vectors, see the guide on the conversion to/from ASE below.
When using the
append_atom()
method, further parameters can be passed. In particular, one can specify
the mass of the atom, particularly important if you want e.g. to run a
phonon calculation. If no mass is specified, the mass provided by
NIST (retrieved in October 2014)
is going to be used. The list of
masses is stored in the module
aiida.common.constants, in the
elements dictionary.
Moreover, in the
StructureData class
of AiiDA we also support the storage of crystal structures with alloys,
vacancies or partial occupancies.
In this case, the argument of the parameter
symbols
should be a list of symbols, if you want to consider an alloy;
moreover, you must pass a
weights list, with the same length as
symbols,
and with values between 0. (no occupancy) and 1. (full occupancy), to specify
the fractional occupancy of that site for each of the symbols specified
in the
symbols list. The sum of
all occupancies must be lower or equal to one; if the sum is lower than one,
it means that there is a given probability of having a vacancy at that
specific site position.
As an example, you could use:
s.append_atom(position=(0.,0.,0.),symbols=['Ba','Ca'],weights=[0.9,0.1])
to add a site at the origin of a structure
s consisting of an alloy of
90% of Barium and 10% of Calcium (again, just an example).
The following line instead:
s.append_atom(position=(0.,0.,0.),symbols='Ca',weights=0.9)
would create a site with 90% probability of being occupied by Calcium, and 10% of being a vacancy.
Utility methods
s.is_alloy() and
s.has_vacancies() can be used to
verify, respectively, if more than one element if given in the symbols list,
and if the sum of all weights is smaller than one.
Note
if you pass more than one symbol, the method
s.is_alloy() will
always return
True, even if only one symbol has occupancy 1. and
all others have occupancy zero:
>>> s = StructureData(cell=[[4,0,0],[0,4,0],[0,0,4]]) >>> s.append_atom(position=(0.,0.,0.), symbols=['Fe', 'O'], weights=[1.,0.]) >>> s.is_alloy() True
Internals: Kinds and Sites¶
Internally, the
append_atom()
method works by manipulating the kinds and sites of the current structure.
Kinds are instances of the
Kind class and
represent a chemical species, with given properties (composing element or
elements, occupancies, mass, ...) and identified
by a label (normally, simply the element chemical symbol).
Sites are instances of the
Site class
and represent instead each single site. Each site refers
to a
Kind to
identify its properties (which element it is, the mass, ...) and to its three
spatial coordinates.
The
append_atom() works in
the following way:
It creates a new
Kindclass with the properties passed as parameters (i.e., all parameters except
position).
It tries to identify if an identical Kind already exists in the list of kinds of the structure (e.g., in the same atom with the same mass was already previously added). Comparison of kinds is performed using
aiida.orm.data.structure.Kind.compare_with(), and in particular it returns
Trueif the mass and the list of symbols and of weights are identical (within a threshold). If an identical kind
kis found, it simply adds a new site referencing to kind
kand with the provided
position. Otherwise, it appends
kto the list of kinds of the current structure and then creates the site referencing to
k. The name of the kind is chosen, by default, equal to the name of the chemical symbol (e.g., “Fe” for iron).
If you pass more than one species for the same chemical symbol, but e.g. with different masses, a new kind is created and the name is obtained postponing an integer to the chemical symbol name. For instance, the following lines:
s.append_atom(position = [0,0,0], symbols='Fe', mass = 55.8) s.append_atom(position = [1,1,1], symbols='Fe', mass = 57) s.append_atom(position = [1,1,1], symbols='Fe', mass = 59)
will automatically create three kinds, all for iron, with names
Fe,
Fe1and
Fe2, and masses 55.8, 57. and 59. respecively.
In case of alloys, the kind name is obtained concatenating all chemical symbols names (and a X is the sum of weights is less than one). The same rules as above are used to append a digit to the kind name, if needed.
Finally, you can simply specify the kind_name to automatically generate a new kind with a specific name. This is the case if you want a name different from the automatically generated one, or for instance if you want to create two different species with the same properties (same mass, symbols, ...). This is for instance the case in Quantum ESPRESSO in order to describe an antiferromagnetic cyrstal, with different magnetizations on the different atoms in the unit cell.
In this case, you can for instance use:
s.append_atom(position = [0,0,0], symbols='Fe', mass = 55.845, name='Fe1') s.append_atom(position = [2,2,2], symbols='Fe', mass = 55.845, name='Fe2')
To create two species
Fe1and
Fe2for iron, with the same mass.
Note
You do not need to specify explicitly the mass if the default one is ok for you. However, when you pass explicitly a name and it coincides with the name of an existing species, all properties that you specify must be identical to the ones of the existing species, or the method will raise an exception.
Note
If you prefer to work with the internal
Kindand
Siteclasses, you can obtain the same result of the two lines above with:
from aiida.orm.data.structure import Kind, Site s.append_kind(Kind(symbols='Fe', mass=55.845, name='Fe1')) s.append_kind(Kind(symbols='Fe', mass=55.845, name='Fe1')) s.append_site(Site(kind_name='Fe1', position=[0.,0.,0.])) s.append_site(Site(kind_name='Fe2', position=[2.,2.,2.]))
Conversion to/from ASE¶
If you have an AiiDA structure, you can get an
ase.Atom object by
just calling the
get_ase
method:
ase_atoms = aiida_structure.get_ase()
Note
As we support alloys and vacancies in AiiDA, while
ase.Atom does not,
it is not possible to export to ASE a structure with vacancies or alloys.
If instead you have as ASE Atoms object and you want to load the structure from it, just pass it when initializing the class:
StructureData = DataFactory('structure') # or: # from aiida.orm.data.structure import StructureData aiida_structure = StructureData(ase = ase_atoms)
Creating multiple species¶
We implemented the possibility of specifying different Kinds (species) in the ase.atoms and then importing them.
In particular, if you specify atoms with different mass in ASE, during the import phase different kinds will be created:
>>> import ase >>> StructureData = DataFactory("structure") >>> asecell = ase.Atoms('Fe2') >>> asecell[0].mass = 55. >>> asecell[1].mass = 56. >>> s = StructureData(ase=asecell) >>> for kind in s.kinds: >>> print kind.name, kind.mass Fe 55.0 Fe1 56.0
Moreover, even if the mass is the same, but you want to get different species,
you can use the ASE
tags to specify the number to append to the element
symbol in order to get the species name:
>>> import ase >>> StructureData = DataFactory("structure") >>> asecell = ase.Atoms('Fe2') >>> asecell[0].tag = 1 >>> asecell[1].tag = 2 >>> s = StructureData(ase=asecell) >>> for kind in s.kinds: >>> print kind.name Fe1 Fe2
Note
in complicated cases (multiple tags, masses, ...), it is possible that exporting a AiiDA structure to ASE and then importing it again will not perfectly preserve the kinds and kind names. | https://aiida.readthedocs.io/projects/aiida-core/en/v0.4.1/examples/structure_tutorial.html | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | refinedweb | 1,515 | 56.35 |
IE Platform Architect
A cursory look suggests that it is an over-engineered system. It almost looks like it wants to be a complete solutions platform.
THey already have that, it is called Java – why reinvent the wheel?
Does the internet need that level of scripting, or perhaps more appropriately, should any SCRIPTING be that complex? Without a compiler, all that functionality comes at a very high price. Add in a compiler and the flexibility the current scripting has is lost.
(one of my favourite ways to avoid ads and intellitxt nonsense is to block sites that provide the .js files. THis works in a scripting world, but would fail utterly in a compiled world – you need everything).
I can’t see this as anything but slow and fragile.
Personally, I suspect that if people REALLY need more than is currently offered, platforms like Flash and Silverlight are more suitable.
I’ll go one step further and say that as things continue to evolve, HTML & HTTP as we know them will eventually go the way of gopher and telnet (someone still uses them somewhere, I’m sure). The next big thing is just waiting for someone to express it. Once that happens, all bets are off – in the mean time why break what already works?
I don’t think the answer is "don’t touch it, it’s (mostly) working" – but it is a call for caution as we evolve Javascript.
I would be quite happy if IE supported the existing ECMAScript DOM Methods, Properties and Events (DOM level 1, and DOM level 2)
********IF******** IE can accomplish this, then anything beyond would just be icing on the cake.
Forget 2 years ahead, IE needs to catch up to 2 years ago!
tony
Actually, I would like to just state that a link to the "JScript" blog would have been much better if we had known about this yonks ago!
I didn’t know there was such a beast! (maybe it should be in the sidebar?)
ah, wait, it appears to have magically appeared!
thanks
I’m not sure where "2 years ahead" comes from. Note that the Javascript language implementation and runtime, and the IE object model (including DOM L1/2 P/M/E) are separate beasts. The DOM is specified by the W3C DOM specs, not the ECMAScript language specification.
Garrett Smith points out the flaws in the article, in that the issue isn’t JavaScript moving forward,
but rather JScript moving to meet with JavaScript.
The bugs are in JScript, not elsewhere (ok, 97%, not 100%)
Plain and Simple: IE/JScript’s lack of development has been holding back the web, web standards, and innovation. Period.
We don’t care what the hacks/hooks/triggers are, just please:
a.) Fix the bugs
b.) Add the missing implementations
c.) Keep us informed while doing so
d.) Ship the patches, fixes, new browser versions with the fixes.
e.) Don’t get us all excited about new technology until the standard technologies are already taken care of.
Oh, and this one is directly for Mr. Chris Wilson.
Please post an update on this blog indicating what is going on with bugs/fixes and IE8.
(note, I said NOTHING about features… we don’t care about those right now, we care about fixing the bugs)
Appendix E
I am really loving the new ECMAScript, however I agree that IE needs to take a more practical approach and focus on supporting already well-established standards.
I’d hardly call the changes over-engineered. They seem largely practical to me. Oh, and Java shares only a single syllable with JavaScript, they are otherwise unrelated.
As for parallel language hosting, IE could always start using the *correct* MIME-type for javascript for the version of the language that exposes the new features:
script type="application/x-javascript"
Xepol talks about Java while ECMAScript 4th Edition is closer to Python than Java and it’s absolutely a good proposal / language that’s more modern than Java too.
IEBlog says:
"We’re also very interested in feedback from JavaScript web and framework developers on their thoughts about their needs and the future of the language."
The future of the language? It’s in front of You, its name is JS2 … not JScript without constants, addEventListner, fake implementations and every other un-standard methods/properties.
Microsoft developers changed C# 3 times in 5 years and You’re telling us that JavaScript should never change because it should break compatibility?
You, that created IE7 warning everyone about CSS hacks? You that have the oldest ECMAScript 3rd Edition implementation?
It’s too simple guys … "don’t swith to ECMAScript 4 because We’ll never implement that, We just have problems with 3rd edition one …"
Imho, if every Web developer will start to write site usable only with JS2 compatible browsers your IE will loose more users than ever … starting from usage: from 90% to 75% or less in about 2 Years!
This is my opinion: as Adobe updated its Flash Player every 2 years and users downloaded them, every Web surfer should upgrade its browser switching them to developers who care about security, language enanchment, bug fixes and every other new cool stuff inside ECMAScript 4th edition that should make Web faster and more powerful than ever.
Best regards.
I found this one a bit funny – not "breaking the Web" .
IE has been doing good job at helding back CSS2 and XHTML. =] So why ecma should be any different.
I know that IE dev team did a nice job on IE7, but once-per-5-years releases cant cure the anger od web developers ;] And thous damned users are still sitting on IE6 %$#^%@#&%. Its like windmill.
I’d like to see IE supporting <canvas>, SVG and th e none accomplished ARIA Specifications.
Tx 😉
JScript isn’t even ECMAScript compliant, let alone JavaScript compliant. The linked blog-entry is suggesting that some JavaScript behaviours in other browsers are actually bugs and that JScript’s behaviour in these cases is better.
Well, if Microsoft thinks so I guess they will have to contact the Mozilla Foundation since they are maintaining JavaScript…
« not "breaking the Web" »
The web is already broken, so just fix your browser and we’re going to fix the web.
Don’t sweat it Chris, it’s going to be an open standard, IE doesn’t concern itself with those pesky things.
Please fix your JScript and DOM first.
document.getElementById should NOT return elements by NAME.
allow prototyping of ALL objects, including DOM and XMLHttpRequest
Fix you DOM Event model
element.getAttribute should return the EXACT VALUE OF THE ATTRIBUTE, for all attributes on all elements.
Should I go on?
And would you please let us pass additional arguments to setInterval and setTimout?
This is clearly FUD. You mention ES3 in the headline and then link to a negative article about ES4. You suggest a new language but have not participated in the design of ES4 at all.
You say that "Microsoft" think that the web is best served by the creation of a new language. Your name is at the bottom of this article. What do *you* think?
I’m, personally, shocked that Jscript or Javascript even gets mentioned here. A year and a half ago, Jscript was a mothballed project attached to a team that was focused on other projects (because someone had to do security work on it).
Chris, are you saying that there is an actual Jscript (or "Scripting in Windows and Browsers", if you prefer) team at Microsoft again? I’m not purposefully yanking anyone’s chain here, I really am surprised by the implication that *anything* is being done in regards to Javascript at Microsoft. It’s been dead there forever.
Can we get a list of reasons why IE wouldn’t want to support the new rev of Javacript that has some details? I’m not sure what the plans of every browser vendor are but I know that there is quite a bit of excitement (and occasional controversy) in the idea that the language is moving forward.
Al
P.S. Can someone please post about IE8? I only ask once a month or so. 🙂
"For ECMAScript, we here on the IE team certainly believe that thoughtful evolution is the right way to go; as I’ve frequently spoken about publicly, compatibility with the current web ecosystem – not "breaking the Web" – is something we take very seriously."
This seems to imply that es4 is not compatible with ES3. Is that what you mean to say? The second sentence of the es4 whitepaper starts with "ES4 is compatible with ES3…" Section III details compatibility starting with "The goal of TG1 is that ES4 will be backward compatible with ES3 and that ES4 implementations will be able to run ES3 programs correctly. This goal has been met, with a small number of qualifications. " The fifth paragraph of that section says "Behavioral changes in ES4 are the result of specifying behavior more precisely than in ES3 (thus reducing the scope for variation among implementations)" which is I believe what you are advocating here in terms of converging implementations.
So if you are raising specific concerns about es4 "breaking the web" can you please elaborate?
Or are you arguing that no backward-compatible additions should be allowed to the language? C# 2.0 added generics, generators with yield, closures, covariance and contravariance for delegates, Coalesce operator, etc. 3.0 adds "features inspired by functional programming languages such as Haskell and ML. (to quote wikipedia). Why didn’t that occur in a new language instead of as a new version of C#? Why is it appropriate to add new stuff to C#, Java, Python, etc but not JS?
I would honestly have two comments to make here. First, IE’s implementation of ECMAScript (or whatever you wish to call it) really ought to support the full specification (de facto or otherwise) that other major browsers do.
But more long-term, I feel that we need to take a serious look at what the web IS. ECMAScript allowed a limited degree of dynamic interaction to be introduced to a previously static web. And that’s OK for what I would term "typical" websites. But at the same time, web "applications" are ever more popular. I think that’s in important distinction to make: browing the websites for information and interacting with actual applications are two fundamentally different activities (though they can intersect at times). Similarly, they are best facilitated through two separate approaches to development.
No matter how you view it, ECMAScript (or any evolved form of it) simply doesn’t cut it. In addition to the lack of fundametal language/runtime-level features (strong typing, multi-threading, "real" object-oriented features, etc.), it’s missing key library-level functionality such as a full range of common data structures, graphics/drawing capabilitis, the full range of UI controls, socket programming, etc. As many have pointed out here, both .NET and Java are excellent implementations that support portability, sandboxing, and power really neccesary to deliver applications distributed across client and server components.
Please don’t screw over the next generation of serious web applications by introducing another "half-way" language. Keep ECMAScript around for legacy sites, hobbyist development, and quick-n-dirty or limited dynamic functionality. But don’t force web applications to use a scripting language that won’t meet today’s (or tomorrow’s) needs. I believe it is very possible to achieve this without sacrificing the "spirit" of the web.
Who wrote the code to implement document.getElementById(id) ?
And are they still on the team? If so, can you please direct them to the specs so they can fix it! Its only a completely messed up and embarassing implementation.
Bug #152, Wrong elements returned
And lets not forget
Bug #154, Matches case insensitively
Bug #235, createElement is broken too!
Bug #242, the setAttribute implementation is a joke
Bug #256, DOM constants are not implemented
Come on! Never mind ECMAScript 4, fix what has already shipped!
David
At this point, shouldn’t you be fired?
What we need most regarding JavaScript in IE is a clear statement of Microsoft, which way you will go.
There is nothing more annoying than uncertainty.
We just need something we can plan with. If Microsoft decides not to update JavaScript in IE I would like to know it so I can plan with it. If Microsoft plans to update their JavaScript implementation I would like to know this as well..
And of cause better performance is always needed 😉
Chris,
You asked for feedback, here goes 😉
I’m not gonna touch the ES3/ES4 thing. That’ll get settled in other fora. What’s deeply, truly loathsome about the current state of the art is how amazingly set-in-stone it appears to be, despite the pluggable architecture of WSH. We haven’t had anything more than cursory patches to JScript in *more than half a decade*. IE7 was nearly silent on the point. The half-assed GC fixes were nice, but we both know that the whole "sweep the tree on unload" (thereby missing potentially latent nodes in the JS namespace but not attached to the document) and the "don’t trigger GC after 1k attributes" fix weren’t rocket science.
You could ship a new JScript to everyone on every version of IE independently of the browser (as you have in the past), but so far there hasn’t been so much as a public discussion about shiping anything new at any date with any feature set. As a previous commenter more eloquently noted, it’s the uncertainty that sucks most.
But the uncertainty sits at the top of a long list (even when the list is constrained just to JScript). For instance:
* getters and setters. It’s a critical flaw in the basic design of the standardized ES3 which most sane implementations of the have already fixed. Why hasn’t JScript? And when will it be fixed?
* Array can’t be subclassed in a meaningful way. This is, to put it mildly, insane.
* JScript blows up on trailing commas in object literals. Gazillions of man hours are wasted on this worldwide.
* lack of array iterator methods (see Moz’s JS 1.6/1.7 docs).
* tremendous performance problems with string operations, regexes, and array allocation. Turns out that "[]" hurts.
Most of what’s odious about the Microsoft browser story sits at the boundary between JScript and Trident, but getters/setters and some basic performance work would make a world of difference on their own. The only thing better than knowing that they’ll be fixed is knowing when.
Regards
> Note that the Javascript language implementation and runtime, and the IE object model (including DOM L1/2 P/M/E) are separate beasts.
Well, *there’s* your problem right there.
I don’t want to see a single bit of _NEW_ JavaScript functionality, until basic, existing JavaScript methods are _FIXED_!!
document.getElementById( id )
document.createElement( name )
Element.setAttribute( name, value )
.getElementsByTagName( name )
All of the above 4 methods have a bug, some have more than one!
Seriously, I don’t care what needs to be done, or if I have to pepper my code with IE Hack Flags, but I want the _REAL_ implementation for these methods.
_ONCE_ these are fixed, _THEN_ you can go off and discuss the pros/cons, etc. for ECMAScript 4
thanks
Why in the world are you saying this now. ES4 has been in development for forever now. Theres already a reference implementation written, and half of the other browsers out there have implemented large parts of it. And just now, when everything is said and done , the stardards are set, people are working on real complete implementations, just now you decide to speak up and say, "We don’t like this. We’re going to make something else instead?" and then sit back shocked and appalled when people are kinda miffed.
You should have spoken up a year ago. Luckily, Mozilla is working on writing your ES4 implementation for you and fixing your ES3 one, so regardless of what you do people can keep working.
@Dan:
Javascript language runtime and Document Object Model are two very different things.
@Dean Edwards:.
@Al Billings:
1) If you’re going to violate your old Microsoft NDA, at least be correct. No, JScript was not on mothballs a year ago, and it certainly isn’t now. Go check out the JScript team blog.
@Mike Schroepfer:
See my blog post in response to Dean.
@Frank:
From your mouth to God’s ears.
@Fabian Jakobs:
We are updating our Javascript implementation, yes, and get (and follow) a clear interoperable standard.
@Alex Russell:
Thanks for the feedback, more on your list later. Please do, though, touch the ES4 issue. Not here; where it matters. No matter what you think. As I said in the HTML WG IRC channel yesterday, "the more people say they’re doing a technical review of ES4 and will form and make their opinions known, the happier I’ll be."
@Dave:
umm, no. The language runtime and the library of functionality available to it are typically somewhat orthogonal.
DigDug:
"Half of the other browsers have implemented large parts of it?" "The standards are set?"
I’m not saying "we’re going to make something else instead," anyway. That’s not my job. And a year ago, I was shipping IE7. That was important too. And take a look at @Steve’s feedback, and others like it.
-Chris
ScreamingMonkey to save the day. Hopefully soon.
Chris,
I’m somehow violating my NDA from Microsoft for mentioning that fact that everyone knew that the scripting engines, as a project, only "lived" inasmuch as someone needed to own them to fix security issues? That’s a stretch. I’d love for you to explain the nuances of how mentioning this somehow violates my NDA from my time at Microsoft in any respect. Sounds like FUD to me.
The fact of the matter is that I didn’t say a "year" ago. I said a "year and a half" because it was almost exactly a year and a half ago that I left the IE team. I have no idea what has happened since though it looks like the work has been shipped off to MS Campus in India based on the new blog (which is, what, six months old?).
Before I left, there had been no work on improving Jscript in years beyond the tiny amount that happened during IE7. Call me a liar on this, please.
While I pick on the IE team for a lack of openness and poor communication, especially since Dave, Scott, and I have left, I generally try to do it with a smile because I know so many of you and like most of you. Please try to return the spirit and not make it nasty in tone or did I just miss your smiley at the end? 🙂
Al
@Dan – <em>And would you please let us pass additional arguments to setInterval and setTimout?</em>
I fixed both some month ago (my blog) and the hilarious thing is that to fix them You need to use an IE bug (ooops … do You prefere to call them feature?) 😀
"<blockquote>Please note that usage of window.setTimeout, instead of direct setTimeout assignment is a must, because if You remove window from left side IE will tell You that operation is not valid while if You remove window from righ side, IE simply will never do anything with those two functions.</blockquote>"
@Al Billings – see my response to your personal mail. Sorry, wasn’t intending to be "nasty". And s/"year ago"/"year and a half ago" – I was typing too fast.
For the viewing readership, "violating" my NDA, seems to largely consist of speaking as a former Microsoft insider who worked on four versions of IE. Chris is of the opinion that if I wasn’t allowed to say something in public a year and a half ago when I worked at Microsoft, I still cannot say it now, so I believe he’s referencing my comments about the Scripting team at Microsoft.
I will keep this in mind in the future but I still think this seems like a fairly petty (and arguable) example, along with the one you made about my post on my blog about the demise of MS Connect. It is pretty common knowledge, for example, that the IE team was broken up after Windows XP shipped for several years. Do I violate my NDA by stating something that people outside MS already know, just not officially?
Maybe I need to make a "Fake Dean Hachamovitch" blog and be anonymous when posting comments on my blog about the state of IE.
Ah, I was missing the smiley on the last line.
I like Dean well enough, just an example. 🙂
Many of us are not so concerned about the direction we are going, but instead, that everyone is going in the *same* direction.
If the large majority of the community decides to follow a path different to that proposed by Microsoft, will Microsoft support the community or go its own way?
I agree with Garrett, Alex, Al and Dean.
MSFT would be wise to start concentrating more on engineering than FUD. By not subscribing to ES4 or cooperatively helping to evolve it, etc it seems to me to be yet another bad decision leading to their continued demise in the browser space. Good riddance, the way it’s been going. They have continued to clearly demonstrate they are not interested in what is best for the web or consumers. Quite the contrary. (FF has 35% market share and rising)
"no matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone… turn back" – proverb.
@Mark Holton – Microsoft employees HAVE been attempting to cooperatively help evolve it in the EMCAScript TG-1 committee.
and @Al Billings, I would TOTALLY read the Fake Dean Hachamovitch blog. On a daily basis.
I have just about given up on you guys. Too little, too late. I get our friends and family to use anything else. I’m not the only one and it’s showing, isn’t it? Isn’t firefox and opera market share increasing? Isn’t safari about to come out on Windows? Isn’t IE mobile on the decline?
When is the wake-up call going to be heard? IE7? Too little, too late. It had competitive features 4-5 years ago. It still can’t work with some basic standards that could have been cool to see on the web and we have seen for months/years in other browsers. Part of this is due to your "ECMAScript interpretation". Part of it is a lot of other stuff.
I am disappointed. I want you to play nice with others. Use standards – someone else’s if you have to. Respect the standards boards you are a member of. Add features that make things competitive. I’m not even asking for you to innovate anymore. Leave that to others. Just for the love of God stop writing your own "interpretation" of things that don’t work in other browsers, have less features than other browsers (and on other platforms). Think about the mobile web (and not just ie mobile). Just be a good web citizen.
Acknowledge that there are problems you have created, and will rapidly show a great effort to fix and support an innovative web.
Everyone is waiting to like Microsoft again. To stand in line for Windows 95/IE3, install Netscape and explore the web. You innovated and fixed… and in less than 3 years, released Windows 98/IE4 and innovated past Netscape. What’s happened since then for the browser and web technology?
.Net – but that’s server side, not client side. Silverlight – which has a lot of promise (if moonlight and mobile platforms work well), and is client side, but was released only this year. If history is any indicator, you’ll mess that up too.
It takes so much energy to rant. It really does. I hope you guys can see the passion that I WANT to have about Microsoft’s web stuff. IE and JScript are large parts of that. But for me, I have lost faith. And in a popular polarizing view, if you aren’t a hero, you’re a villian.
Wasn’t JavaScript just a Netscape/Sun front of LiveScript? Wasn’t it supposed to compete as a server platform as well? Didn’t they pose legal threats to MSFT? That’s why MSFT reverse-engineered the JScript bastard, right? And we are supposed to find hope in a European standard?
Fact is, MSFT’s browser sabbatical was the best thing to happen to the web. The last thing I want to see is a bunch of Adobe Flex lobbyists and Silverlight PACs ear-marking ES4 under the guise of "standards."
It took 5 years before Mozilla, Webkit, and Opera figured out how to co-opt XHR from MSFT. Take it as a sign of good faith that the IE7 team made their invention conform to an a-posterior standard.
Take this focus on ES3 standardization as another sign of good faith. If MSFT doesn’t innovate, the rest of the browsers won’t have to waste years catching up and then retroactively declare a "standard," and browser politics can stay out of the creative process.
I’ll take a faster, more reliable ES3 over the "promise" of ES4 any day.
Except the rest of the browsers will be implementing ES4 and web developers are going to be forced to choose again whether they want to restrict what they develop based on Microsoft’s support or lack of support for a technology or standard or to just go ahead and continue to try to move people off of IE. I expect it is going to wind up as the latter.
…or perhaps we could all just work together and cooperatively define a standard that we all agree on, and we wouldn’t have that problem, Al.
I thought that’s what had been going on for the last while with ECMAScript 4, Chris. That’s kind of the point of a standard and a standards process. Microsoft may not get entirely what it wants out of it but it has a say, just like anyone else. The question is whether, after you have your say, if you’ll implement the resulting standard or not.
You know what would be funny. If roles were reversed. I remember Apple being the little kid that tagged behind Microsoft’s great achievements in development and the wide variety of applications. Heck, up until a few years ago, Apple ran IE. Now, it seems, Apple is the innovator. Maybe, Microsoft (and IE specifically) should tuck their tail between their legs and switch to Safari or a Webkit-based engine for IE. That would fix a lot of problems that exist in IE’s rendering engine. Apparently the old one is not being fixed for a reason, so switch it out. Some would say Gecko would be a better option, but looking at the codebase, I would disagree. Webkit is cleaner and leaner and has more potential in my opinion. Either way, the time has come for change or application demise.
Can someone give me one ‘thing’ that can’t be done in ES3 that can in ES4? I’m not talking about making things easier. I’m talking about actually producing something different, like XMLHTTP gave us (of course, this could be done with IFrames).
Until then, I think the millions of ‘average’ programmers would rather just have the bugs worked out.
Again no mention of anything going on with IE8.
The lack on information on the subject of this blog makes me wonder.
Should you not rename this blog the NoIE Blog?
Fprget new languages or evolving the underused old ones, we have enough new stuff on the web. Instead I suggest effort is put into releasing a browser that supports the standards and actually helps move things forward instead of holding them back. Both FF and IE fall short of the ideal in different ways. FF is starting to gain ground due to their momentum in developing quick fixes and moving the browser forward.
IE 7 was better than 6 but nowhere near good enough to be the revolution we all hoped it would be.
The browser war is going to be one of those eternal things that will feed discussion, debate and argument as long as the internet remains.
All we ask, as web developers and users is that someone please for God’s sake just stop arguing the toss and put out a browser that solves problems instead of creating them!
In the 10+ years I’ve been doing web development, limitations of ECMAScript/Javascript have ALMOST NEVER (99.9% of the time) been an issue. My obstacles have usually been browser implementation of existing standards — or rather, the lack thereof.
I suspect that the IE team and Microsoft in general will be facing an increasingly hostile crowd when it comes to web standards. Your company’s silence on its future direction leaves many of us with the impression that IE will (once again) be abandoned.
IE has the lion’s share of users right now: by not focusing on the LONG-EXISTING STANDARDS Microsoft doesn’t "break the web": it merely causes it to stagnate.
Everything else at this point is like debating about what color you’re going to paint your personal space station, or spending your winnings before even playing the lottery.
Stop these token "rah rah, we’re still alive" blog posts and start making some substantial announcements.
@Cal Jacobson: focusing on the LONG-EXISTING STANDARDS is precisely what the IE team has been doing for, oh, the past three years.
@cwilso: re: "focusing on the LONG-EXISTING STANDARDS is precisely what the IE team has been doing for, oh, the past three years"
OK, fair enough. Please list the number of fixed Properties and Methods in JScript in IE7 (versus IE6)
Since only 1 of those 3 years, was after IE7 shipped, then surely in the other 2 years, a bunch of those JavaScript (er, JScript Implementations) were fixed.
Here’s my list (from the top of my head), please add your fixes to this list in case I missed any.
JavaScript fixes to "Long-Existing Standards" for IE7(+) from IE6.
Item | Status | Description
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Total Record(s): 0
JavaScript additions for IE7(+) from IE6.
Item | Status | Description
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1 | Added | XHR added as native JS Object
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Total Record(s): 1
Please list the other items I may have missed in my list(s).
@Jason: clearly, Javascript runtime was not a major focus in IE7. We fixed some garbage collection problems, and a few other relatively scoped issues. Our focus was on CSS layout improvement, and to a much lesser degree object model/ajax apis (such as the native XHR object). I don’t think I claimed otherwise?
But that begs the question, Chris, of what the focus is for IE8 since we all know, as of more than a year ago, what the focus for IE7 was…
@Jason: Platform stagnation is good. It has fostered this latest round of web creativity. Platform dynamism is what will send creators running to closed environments like silverlight, flex, or back to the JVM. Not the other way around.
I for one am glad to see some refocus on how well *everyone* implements current standards. There is a wealth of IE discussion out there for ES3 bugs, but if you’re problem is with Opera/Wii, there’s silence. It’s most telling when web standards champions end up posting 1997-style "There is a bug in Safari 1.2" disclaimers. Standardistas seem to be blind to the land-grabbing and treasure-hoarding of their pet browser-maker, even at the cost of their much bally-hooed goal. One web, right?
If IE screws up, I’m fairly confident that it’s being discussed if not solved by someone somewhere. Opera, Safari, now AIR? They’re most-likely the bugs that will blind-side development. ES3 deviations are the right thing to focus on right now.
"@Cal Jacobson: focusing on the LONG-EXISTING STANDARDS is precisely what the IE team has been doing for, oh, the past three years."
My choice of the word "focusing" was poor. What I *meant* (and should have written) was *implementing*.
IE7 does not fully implement CSS2, a standard that has been out since 1998.
"Focusing" (and again, I admit, the choice of the term was mine) is a weasel word, since one can focus on something all day and not accomplish a thing.
I didn’t come here eager to throw stones, Chris — but there are a LOT of technical folks out there (many far more talented than I) who are less than thrilled with the pace at which Microsoft has moved and the priorities it has chosen.
More specifically, *I* am unhappy with the lack of communication out of Microsoft regarding the future of Internet Explorer. If I were a betting man, I’d say Microsoft plans on a repeat of its post-IE6 performance from 2001-2004…that is, very little in the way of innovation or even evolution.
I *hope* I’m wrong. But I haven’t heard anything concrete to the contrary, and for the live of me I can’t figure out why IE8 is such a friggin’ state secret when the other browser developers work out in the open.
Chris, I understand what you mean to say when you talk about "breaking the Web." And it’s a convenient shorthand for the IE team’s self-imposed requirement of 100% backwards compatibility for the next version of IE.
But it’s starting to feel like a talking point — like "support the troops" — that only serves to polarize. Though I’m sure it’s not your intent, the phrase suggests that the answers are clear-cut — that there’s no room for disagreement among smart people about what will "break" the web and what won’t.
The IE team’s definition of a "broken" Web is similar to, but not wholly compatible with, *my* definition of a "broken" Web. I don’t speak for others, but I sense this is a source of conflict between IE and many web designers and developers.
@Andrew: exactly!
IE’s mantra: "Don’t break the Web"
Web Developer’s mantra: "IE is broken"
Result: In order to "Fix the Web", we need to "Fix IE"
Step 1.) Call to action!
If you are knowingly, using a broken implementation of a JavaScript method, because IE *magically* works this way — STOP! Fix your code to use follow the specs now.
(e.g. if you are depending on a "named" element being returned when you call .getElementById(id) )
IE may bend over backwards to support you in the near term, but don’t count on it long term.
Step 2.) (to be done, while step 1 is in progress) Define the opt-in proceedure, for IE(next) to ensure that .getElementById(id) does in fact _ONLY_ return elements with a matching id attribute! (only by id, and CAse-SEnsITivE!)
Step 3.) Release IE(next) and watch the complaints for IE turn into praise.
Step 4.) (oblig /. quote) Profit!.
well i would love to see IE supporting CSS2.1 and CSS 3.0 beta, the correct way of using javascript standards, SVG images (wikipedia is full of them), transparant .png-8, .png-24 images, … etc 🙂
Well, SVG is out of the question due to limited XML parsing abilities, right?
Continuing with CSS compliance, including some CSS3 modules (multiple background-images, anyone? Oooh, and even calc()!), seems to me to be a solid goal for further IE development. Web developers/designers would go nuts, I’m sure. 🙂
As a person who works with Microsoft technologies _and_ Javascript every day, I have my opinion on this matter.
ASP.NET AJAX (Microsoft!) developers had to implement ugly get_*/set_* accessors since IE does not support property accessors. They had to introduce another level of event abstraction, since "both Safari and Firefox have extensible DOM Element prototypes whereas IE doesn’t" ().
There is Microsoft fighting to workaround itself.
If IE will implement ES4 as described in the spec preview I’ve read, I, as a JS developer, would applause. I do not care much if I would have to opt-in my script to be ES4 — as long as my opted-out scripts will function.
Alternative languages are good — IronPython, IronRuby, JScript.NET, whatever. But ES is a must. Because it is a standard, and it is much easy to have a wide adoption of a single standard language than of a number of them.
Also, personally, I think that ES4 is one the most interesting and promising programming languages I have seen in the latest time. It has some features I wanted from C# for years. It would be great if ES4 gained widespread adoption. Does your new language have such a beautiful operator overloading model and does it have multimethods? If it doesn’t, sorry, I would vote for ES4.
@Cal Jacobson
"I can’t figure out why IE8 is such a friggin’ state secret when the other browser developers work out in the open."
Because there is no development of IE 8 at this time. Maybe in the beginning of 2008 they will only start doing something.
As many other people have said: Chris you are so weak that you could not implement JScript to specification who are you to talk about another language.
I mean wtf is window.event!!! what normal gui toolkit has that!!!
"Define the opt-in proceedure, for IE(next) to ensure that .getElementById(id) does in fact _ONLY_ return elements with a matching id attribute! (only by id, and CAse-SEnsITivE!)"
They already said they’re not going to do that (it would break code on the web, and it appears Microsoft values compatibility – seems like keeping things "working" is more important than appeasing whiners). I do not know why people keep going after this particular thing, but I *NEVER* run into this problem at my job. Of course, I typically give form elements the same value for their CLASS and ID attributes (since the LABEL tag FOR attribute expects an ID, not a NAME, and wrapping the control inside the LABEL tag does not always work – and for people who do not know what a LABEL tag is and develop pages with any sort of form elements, "thanks" for not valuing accessibility).
Please implement Live Bookmarks (RSS) if you guys can in IE8 (regardless of the UI problems menus have, they’re good for displaying a list of headlines!). It’s one of those gotta-have features for me that keeps me from using your browser when I am not at work.
The point I’d like to make is that the web *is* broken! Google: 36 HTML errors, Yahoo: 34, Live.com: 66 (MSN’s home page has no errors though and kudos on that). I blame all browsers for supporting crap non-code "code". Why is it that software developers can’t get away with missing a single semi-colon but big corporate websites can have dozens if not hundreds of clientside errors just in their HTML code alone? That’s not backwards compatibility, that’s sacrilege! That’s why I can’t make a living on clientside alone. I am not saying this is what you’re trying to do (this part isn’t aimed at MS/IE team specifically). Microsoft setup proprietary stuff to compete with Netscape at the time, fair enough. @ Chris…I remember hearing a podcast of you in an interview mentioning a third opt-in rendering mode. Could you please elaborate to at least the point where we know if we’ll get both reasonable standards and the all-or-nothing backwards compatibility between two rendering modes? I and thousands of other legit web designers would love to replace incompetent web developers who for who knows what reason are being forced to do clientside code when it’s serverside code they love and would prefer to work on would appreciate being considered for employment for doing what no one else does competently: valid, standard, accessible clientside code. If you guys are adding a third rendering mode in addition to a separate backwards compatible mode you can earn back a lot of love by decimating pages that somehow opted in to break like they should! I’m not knocking web developers (serverside) but the people who tell them to work on clientside for any reason. It would be nice if businesses took professional web designers seriously and again I blame all browser vendors for supporting crap code. Being not-biased as much as possible I’m updating my own site in a couple of weeks which will work just fine in IE4 with minimal patching with pure CSS liquid. You guys are very capable when you are fighting an uphill (market share) battle.
At heart I ultimately want IE and the IE team to succeed. Firefox’s market gains got you guys working on IE again (more or less) and I suspect it is the higher ups who decide what project you guys work on. Whoever it is let them know that until IE is on par with other browsers I will recommend IE users switch to other browsers…though once IE is on par I’d be more then happy to recommend merely updating to the newest version of IE as it’s clear market share is what drives the development of IE regardless of who decides it. I’ve been working with IE4 and (I admit to hardly being anything of a developer so much as a (clientside) designer but when you guys were battling uphill you did some really great stuff. IE4 has very solid CSS1 liquid support (Opera 4 too)…you guys came up with some cool stuff like XMLHttpRequest and favicons. As an semi-entry to average JavaScript developer I’m not advanced enough to truly complain about JavaScript/JScript though from what others are saying I would have to lean towards enhancing current standards and on spare time working towards partial support for stuff like ECMA Script 4 if everything else is truly caught up. Like I’ve said before fix and add things that we’ll love (not err…dislike) you guys for in the upcoming years. With CSS3 that’s rounded corners, multiple background image support, standards based opacity, etc. I’ll leave it to others who clearly have already done so to point out JavaScript related stuff.
I have a general AJAX question for anyone who would be kind enough to help me out. I am using an AJAX ‘includes’ script that loads a file’s contents in to an element by it’s ID. This can be seen on my jabcreations.net website when you click at the top right on "site options" for example. My question specifically is how can I interact with content added by AJAX and give an element by it’s ID focus? Every forum I post on people keep ignoring the fact that the element I want to give focus isn’t accessible via JavaScript the normal way as if it were on the page with the initial load. It just is not working for me and the script is the last of several on the page starting on the line with the comment…
// AJAX Includes
on the script file here…
@ Joshua H.
NO! For the love of humanity anything but Webkit for IE’s rendering engine! Imagine the pain every web designer would have to endure every time their boss complained their entire website’s text was bold! If the API or whatever Webkit uses allowed normal font-weight I’d still hold back on such a suggestion, they only recently fixed the noscript bug and they still don’t have anyone working on tabindex…
…however to be fair Webkit’s CSS3 support is the best of all rendering engines in my opinion.
"I typically give form elements the same value for their CLASS and ID attributes"
That should have been NAME and ID (they’re only uppercase so they stand out – I do not write my HTML uppercase)
"The point I’d like to make is that the web *is* broken! Google: 36 HTML errors, Yahoo: 34, Live.com: 66 (MSN’s home page has no errors though and kudos on that). I blame all browsers for supporting crap non-code "code". "
That is not going to change. People expect things to work (they demand it, actually). If you change browsers to enforce things like type attributes on style and script tags, Google would indeed break (and it’s fairly obvious why they did the page the way they did, considering how much traffic they deal with). I do get a kick out of the fact they’re using NOBR (pretty sure this Netscape tag was never part of *ANY* HTML standard), FONT, and CENTER.
"- not "breaking the Web" – is something we take very seriously"
This is vital not to break the web for many people. Refactoring a full web site at once is a real pain. But there is a lot that can be done to help transitioning from old behaviors to more standard ones. For example, let’s take the IE developers toolbar: why not making it installed with IE by default? I mean lots of developers don’t even know the existence of this toolbar. Why not making an error console such what is done in other browsers, and making this console available by default (As opposed to Jscript debugger popup windows that in many case are totally useless –including bugs in Jscript loops making popup windows invading your screen-). Therefore, deprecated features and old behaviors could be warned as being deprecated but could still be processed in a compatible way. Of course every warning could be associated with a good documentation on how to make things more standard and how to avoid unclear parts of the standards. I know that W3C is providing pages to validate HTML / CSS but this is far not enough and cannot apply on some websites that are not publicly available. The idea here is to make developers aware of the wrong coding practices even if the final user is still seeing the same result in his web browser. Making developers exactly easily see what they are doing and what the implications in IE are is in my opinion the first step to make things better. I don’t think you can use external tools here either, because these tools will never exactly process things the way IE is doing so the comprehension of some problems will not always be easy.
The second point is I think making a very well defined line between old behaviors and standard ones. Keeping old behaviors intact is important for not breaking the web but correcting standard features as soon as possible is more than vital since the more you are waiting to make the correction, the more workarounds will appear over the net and the more difficult it will be to make things properly and not break things again. Updates (I mean here bug correction) on IE should be based on a far more regular time basis.
Why not making a well known bug-list integrated in IE that could trigger warnings and deprecate features / methods in the error console as bugs are discovered over time. This bug-list could be updated regularly so you wouldn’t even have to change the underlying IE code? This bug-list could also be standard across IE browsers so it would still be updated even if the browser code is not in production anymore. I think informing people of the right and wrong practices is the half way to making the web better! A well informed developer is a better developer.
The last thing is: IE7 can be installed on Windows XP SP2 and later and WPF can also be installed on Windows XP SP2 and later. Why then, not making future IE rendering engine use this API and make the "hasLayout" feature a thing of the past?
Jocelyn
Chris you have made the claim that there is a backwards compatibility problem that would "break the web", but even after all the talk about this just over the last few days, I and so many others are still wondering what that would be.
Any Flash or Flex developer, that has been working with Actionscript 3 for any reasonable length of time, has a perfectly good feel for what the transition from ES3 to ES4 as an upgrade would be like (any small differences between AS3 and the current state of ES4 considered). The fact is, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. This should be a settled point.
I’m not hearing any specific arguments in terms any security concerns either, which as someone who does much more server side work, to me is a matter of implementation. Frankly the overwhelming opinion seems to be, that the IE implementation leaves a lot to be desired.
I also understand setting reasonable development goals, but if David Hyatt can nearly single handedly fix Safari to pass the ACID 2 test, in the course of a few months, then it seems to me that there must be something wrong with the IE team’s method of development, that adversely affects productivity. You guys have had a LOT of time to work on a lot of this.
@Anphanax: If you like Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, you’ll probably like Dave Risney’s free addon. Check it out here:
As a professional web developer, I’m glad to see that the IE team is finally concerned with not “breaking the web”. The rest of the world caught up with that idea about five years ago: welcome to the party.
As at least one other person has suggested, do the switch based on the MIME type. It’s simple, it’s easy, and anybody who wants the new features will be smart enough to read the by-then-gazillion-warnings that will have been posted up to instruct them to do the right think on their servers/in their markup. Does IE even check the type attribute, actually, or is it just on the nonstandard “language” value?
In any case, the IE team is in no position to kick up a fuss about breaking the web. IE broke it in the first place, and those of us who get paid to build sites on a daily basis have been picking up the pieces ever since. You know how most standards-compliant accessible web development shops work? They build on KHTML or Gecko, and then once it’s done, they go back and patch it all up for IE7, IE6 and IE 5.5 (in that order) with conditional comments and the like. There’s a whole separate build cycle *just to make sites work in various versions of IE*. Do you guys understand the significance of that, or the cost to the industry? Sure, IE 7 is less trouble than IE 6, and IE 6 is less trouble than IE 5.5, but compared to everything else out there they’re all still a complete mess.
Seriously, right now, none of us care about ES4. It’s a hypothetical for at least the next five years anyway (because of backwards-compatibility constraints), and the solution to forward compatibility issues in the browser is trivial when you’ve ignored the standards indicators for so long. What we DO care about is what you people plan to do next in terms of mopping up this spilt milk—whether it’s IE 7.1, IE 8, or “IE Next Generation”: engage, inform, and get web developers on side for once.
IE didn’t break the web. IE lead the way for the better part of a decade.
I’m not all that concerned that IE doesn’t fully support CSS2, nor am I concerned that IE doesn’t support CSS3 at all.
What does concern me is that CSS is the only standard we have for the presentation of (X)HTML, and I think it is severely broken. Why does it not harness dynamicity of DOM objects for layout capabilities? Something as simple as making columns with relative and bound sizing is an effort and a half compared to what we did before CSS with tables!
Anyhow, my personal feeling about JavaScript is that I would rather see it buried and die than be re-invigorated. I hate developing with JavaScript, and not because of IE specific bugs. Sure, the standard might be alright and the language might be well written, but I don’t think it’s as suited to the web now as it was many years ago.
I’m very much in support of breaking away from ECMAScript and formulating a new spec that’s vastly more suited for web programming and AJAX-type applications. Where my opinions lie, however, is that said spec should be implementable as an API with bindings to multiple lanaguges, much like .net.
"Where my opinions lie, however, is that said spec should be implementable as an API with bindings to multiple lanaguges, much like .net.".
@Keith I don’t know what kind of work you do, but the great majority of web developers most certainly do care. The fact that CSS 3 has been moving so slow, is the reason you don’t have better support for things like columns. All browser manufacturers except for MS have implemented parts of CSS 3.
Previous versions of javascript were tailored for what was envisioned that they would be used for. At this point, like or not, that includes rich internet applications. As Actionscript and PHP developers found out, such a switch in focus requires major changes in the core language. Both development communities have lived through that transition just fine thank you very much. We don’t need another language or a bloated, confusing multilanguage runtime.
ES4 is more suited to AJAX. I suggest you read the spec. The typing system and the fact that you no longer need to run JSON through eval, make it much more secure for starters. The OOP structure and the package namespace, in my opinion will cause open source javascript development of frameworks and other scripts to explode.
None of this, including somehow managing to stuff a server side language like python or ruby into a suitably secure sandbox environment will fix IE’s IMPLEMENTATION of the DOM and event models. That is a separate issue. As I said before, I don’t really buy the excuses on that, but the idea that it isn’t important, is simply not true.
@Anphanax – time to brush up on your specs.
The NAME and ID might all be the same for you on your elements, but OTHER elements can have a NAME attribute and be valid! (e.g. the meta tag, or anchors)
The other issue, is that the NAME attribute is required for form submission, but the ID uniquely identifies an element. If I have a set of checkboxes to indicate available features, the NAME of all of them might be "features" but the ID for each of them might be "feature_2314", "feature_8347", "feature_9348" etc.
Therefore, the first rule to be aware of, is that NAME != ID, and therein lies the rub with this bug, IE implemented it wrong, and now the rest of us have to suffer. Step one would be updating the documentation on MSDN to at least reflect this really awful bug.
Second, the label tag was never meant to "wrap" the input field, and as you’ve noted, doing so in IE will render unpredictable results.
The "for" attribute if specified will link the label with the input field (matching by ID), if you use this, it works perfectly in all browsers. Keep in mind, that due to another IE bug, if you want to set this attribute programatically, you’ll need to set it like this in IE.
if(!IEBrowser){
foo.setAttribute( ‘for’ ,’feature_3345′);
} else {
foo.setAttribute( ‘htmlFor’,’feature_3345′);
}
/*note you’ll need to define/determine an IEBrowser variable/value
*/
More importantly, remember that every month, new developers hit the streets, ready to take on the web… they see the spec, for .getElementById( id ); and it pretty much is self-descriptive… then they go off an code with it, only to find out half way through the project, that there are serious gotchas with this method, and yup, they ALL HAPPEN in IE!
The post topic was about supporting future levels of scripting specs.. those of us reading this with any knowledge of IE just want the embarrassing mistakes that are already shipping to be fixed/implemented.. and quite frankly, none of us think that this is too much to ask after 7 !@#$&ing! years of development.
Howard
A new language all together? Isn’t that what ECMAScript is? Microsoft implemented JScript, which is their implementation of JavaScript.
If they start with the ECMA-specs and the W3-DOM-specs we would be well on our way!
"Compatibility with the current web ecosystem – not "breaking the Web" – is something we take very seriously."
All I have to say is that it’s hard to take this seriously when IE7 doesn’t respect web standards. Unlike Firefox.
I haven’t seen one on this blog yet, but a survey/poll would be very handy.
Put out a poll, with a simple set of answers that cover all your needs. Let them run, analyze the results, and take them into consideration for future releases.
Suggesting for your first poll.
Q.#1) The JavaScript implementation of document.getElementById( id ) in Internet Explorer deviates from the specification (add link to it). Based on this, please choose the statement that best matches your view as a developer:
a.) Does not affect me, I am diligently ensuring my code does not trigger this bug.
b.) I depend on the broken implementation in IE.
c.) I am aware of the bug, but have written/used wrapper code to workaround the bug, therefore it does not affect me.
d.) I have no idea if the bug affects me or not.
Q.#2) Based on your reply to question #1, which approach to fixing this would you prefer?
a.) Fix the method.
b.) Leave it broken.
c.) Fix the method, but allow developers a way to access the old version (for compatibility).
d.) Either a or c.
I would be voting for: 1c, and 2a or 2d.
Once all the votes are in, take a look and see if anyone is answering 1b, or 2b. I honestly can’t imaging any developers choosing these options, but maybe I’m mistaken.
ron
@Howard: "Second, the label tag was never meant to "wrap" the input field, and as you’ve noted, doing so in IE will render unpredictable results."
Time to brush up on your specs:
The definition of the "for" attribute states: "When absent, the label being defined is associated with the element’s contents."
There is also an example of such "implicit" association. It is only IE that does not propagate focus on such label to the associated control element.
By the way, the best way to deal with the "for"-attribute in JS is to use element.htmlFor=’feature_3345′ – that works consistently across browsers contrary to using setAttribute()
Generally, I think I can understand your scepticism towards the rampant growth of in ES4, which I share (e.g. turning a prototype-based language into a class-based language with interfaces seems pretty strange to me).
But some also pointed out, that your company may just have come late to the party, when ES4 had been pretty settled.
There is another area, where something similar could be happening, namely WHATWG/"html5". I don’t know if I entirely like the fact that an html5 effort from the W3C had to come about, but just like ES4 it _will_ come. I hope that at that time Microsoft will not state that nobody has talked to them, that the standard is broken and that Microsoft is rather committed to "not breaking the web" as it presently exists.
This is not meant as an offence but I get the impression that MS as a company is not terribly interested in evolving technical specifications unless your own company dominates them (e.g. Silverlight, .NET, OOXML).
I meant:
I don’t know if I entirely like the fact that an html5 effort *separate* from the W3C had to come about…
@ronald: No, no one would answer 1b or 2b. That’s exactly the point– the people who built the sites that rely on broken behavior aren’t going to bother answering a poll any more than they are going to bother writing correct HTML/Script code.
Why should IE make the user suffer for the web developer’s laziness? He doesn’t care, he probably got paid and left the building a looooooong time ago.
Can we get a heads up on how far along the fixes are for the DOM before we get into a heated ES4 debate?
Please tell me that all the methods are fixed now (based on an opt-in flag), and that IE8 will be shipping with this fixed.
and if you are not going to tell us that, do you mind telling us what you are working on? its not like you haven’t had time to fix this mess by now!
"Why should IE make the user suffer for the web developer’s laziness? He doesn’t care, he probably got paid and left the building a looooooong time ago."
The same could be said to maintain the status quo. Someone wrote something dependent on incorrect behavior from Internet Explorer, and they’re no longer employed at the organization they authored it at. It will take time (and therefore *probably* money) for a business to go in and fix the bad code.
I would like to see things get fixed too, and I am curious what priorities some of the incorrect behaviors and missing features will be/have been given for IE8. I really hope someone gives the IE team enough of an excuse to fix the button stretch problem (not enough text + width too wide = ugly pixelated buttons). I can understand them not spending time on the HR margin thing.
"If you like Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, you’ll probably like Dave Risney’s free addon."
It’s a huge step up from having no live bookmarks. It’s missing a "Reload Live Bookmark" command on the context menu for a feed, and there are some behavioral differences (e.g. I move the live bookmarks to the Links toolbar [which I need to find a way to remove the "Links" text from as it is stealing screen real estate], so they’re right there above/below the address bar – but they do not behave like true menus. If I open a feed, and mouse over another one, I expect that one to open like a menu would).
When will you all (safari, IE, Firefox, and all the other browser dev teams) sit in front of a round table and get the specs straighten out?
I like the fact that you guys belive "thoughtful evolution is the right way to go". But if your thoughtfulness doesn’t get distributed across everybody, we the actual web developers will have to suffer at the end. Look at Firefox, they released a bunch of new javascript features that only supports on itself. No, IE didn’t follow. Nope, Safari didn’t follow.
Sigh….
O Internet explorer é o melhor navegador do MUNDO !!!!!!!!
Open Letter to MSIE Team:
"Status of IE8 Please"
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=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
There is a lot of speculation, and discussion in the community about IE8, or rather the lack of.
It is seriously becoming a huge image issue for us developers because quite frankly, there is *NO* proof whatsoever that *ANY* development on IE8 is even occurring.
We’re not saying that we need to know all the details, but we are saying that at a point over 1 year into development, not even a whisper of what is going on has occurred.
To be totally honest, we don’t care if the answer is:
"We’re sorry, but at this time, development efforts are only focused on security fixes for IE7 and thus no new version of the IE Browser is currently under development"
It would be a major blow to all of us hoping for so much more, but AT LEAST WE WOULD KNOW!
Currently there is **ZERO** Proof That IE8 Is Still In Development
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=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Awaiting *ANY* response from the IE Team.
Will there be any fixes/patches for zooming in IE7?
I’ve noticed that on any site that has frames or iframes that the rendering gets all messed up if you zoom in (e.g.100%+)
text starts to overlap table cells, form controls start doing weird things (some parts grow, some parts don’t)
thanks
As stated previously on many occasions, the IE team is hard at work on the next version of IE.
We will disclose more about the features and schedule in due course. I look forward to blogging the details on what I’m working on.
@EricLaw [MSFT]
"the IE team is hard at work on the next version of IE."
And you really do believe this? 🙂
I’m not writing to bash MSFT, but I’d seriously like to know how withholding info about IE8 is in any way helping the web development community.
I have yet to hear anyone other than MSFT call IE7 something other than a disappointment. Not to mention the fact that after 5 years of supposed development MSFT has given us yet another browser that doesn’t adhere to any standard.
@Chris Wilson
It’s no surprise that you would lean toward an "entirely new language"; which would no doubt end up being proprietary, non-interoperable, closed, and buggy without any developer support.
With so few improvements between IE6 and 7 why should the development take you seriously..
Mmoss– Plenty of people think IE7 was a significant improvement.
"After 5 years of supposed development" indicates that you don’t read the news. Microsoft themselves indicated that they worked on IE7 for two years, after a hiatus when they were only working on Vista and patching IE6.
Anyone who accuses Chris Wilson of trying to drive something proprietary doesn’t know him. Read his blog.
@rc
Given the man works for MS, quite possibly in the IE team, I’d trust him any day of the week over your incessant bleating.
@rc
You’re joking right? I believe Eric Law is an IE Program Manager.
@simon
Thats what we want!!!
@An
However, anyone can get evidence that real facts at this moment conform with my "incessant bleating" and not with the words of my opponents.
We will not hear any substantial news from IE developers in 1.5-2 next years at least. That is what I state, and everybody sees that I’m right.
Of course, MS developers will never confess that development of IE is not going on.
rc,
The fact that the team is not saying anything about IE8 does NOT mean that no development is taking place. You may well be right that it could be some time before we hear substantial information. However I can’t believe that the IE team is doing nothing or that the IE team has been disbanded only to be reformed later. Both those alternatives make no sense. Chris Wilson talked about the investment currently going on in layout in an interview at which clearly implies that development on the future of IE is taking place.
I share your frustration with the lack of information and the apparent slow pace of progress. However your suggestion that absolutely no development is taking place makes little if any sense. To have a team doing nothing or break up the team to reform it later would be ridiculous after Microsoft admitted that the break after IE6 was a mistake.
-Dave
@EricLaw[MSFT] re: ‘in due course’
yeah, that uhm date… passed by about NINE MONTHS AGO!
As mentioned by everyone on this blog, you do the entire dev community a massive disservice by not posting any information.
Heck! we had to read on another blog that there was potentially a re-engineering of the Rendering Layer in IE8!
Where was the post on the OFFICIAL IE BLOG about this?
—
Severely Ticked Off
Microsoft is suffering from the not-invented-here syndrome. I can understand they want to include a browser with the OS, but just cut your losses and use one of the open-source engines that are available *right now* and don’t need another year of development. There are two very good engines out there that are years ahead of trident. Both WebKit and Gecko work very well and are quite fast. I’m sure both groups would welcome additional developers.
I can’t think of 1 valid reason to keep trident alive, it’s a walking corpse already.
@rc
"anyone can get evidence that real facts"
Facts? You mean your imagination? There has been no evidence that nothing is being done.
There’s no requirement for MS to say anything about IE8, in fact this has been a long running policy over at Apple and it hasn’t done them any harm.
Microsoft were hammered for information they released about Vista that they couldn’t deliver (such as WinFS) so my guess is they’re wary about what they reveal early on in the cycle.
Sure, early information gets people excited, but if it’s dropped / transformed / watered down in some way the picture quickly changes.
Better to know exactly what you’re going to ship before announcing it.
Web Developer(s) want to ask the IE Team a question:
Do you wish to Cancel or Allow?
Allow.
Web Developer(s) would like to know if development has Started, is in Progress, or is Complete in regards to fixing & implementing broken or missing DOM Methods and Properties?
Do you wish to Cancel or Allow?
object(ive) is undefined
– – – –
Internet Explorer
You chose to end the nonresponsive program, Internet Explorer.
– – – –
The program is not responding.
Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Internet Explorer. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous.
To see what data this error report contains, click here.
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TL;DR: There are several tools available for developers to aid the building of various types of websites and applications. One such tool is Create React App(CRA), the CLI tool that helps JavaScript developers create react apps with no build configuration. As awesome as CRA is, developers still need a way of tweaking, adding special scripts and modules that doesn't come bundled with CRA. Today, I'll teach you how to create custom
create-react-app scripts for you and your team!
Many developers already use create-react-app to build their React applications, but like I mentioned earlier, developers are still screaming for more configuration options! Some are interested in having support for:
- PostCSS
- CSS Modules
- LESS
- SASS
- ES7
- MobX
- Server Rendering
..and a lot more out of the box!
A lot of developers, including JavaScript newbies create React apps from scratch daily, so the CRA team at Facebook built the create-react-app tool to make the process of creating such apps less tedious and error-prone.
As a developer that needs support for some of the technologies I highighted earlier, one way of going about it is running
npm run eject. This command copies all the config files and dependencies right into your project, then you can manually configure your app with all sorts of tools to satisfaction.
One major challenge developers might face with eject is not been able to enjoy the future features of CRA . Another challenge with eject would be ineffecient synchronised setup across React developers working in team. One great way of solving this later challenge is publishing a fork of
react-scripts for your team, then all your developers can just run
create-react-app my-app --scripts-version mycompany-react-scripts and have the same setup across board. Let's learn how to accomplish that!
Create a Fork
Open up your GitHub repo and fork the create-react-app repo
Creating a fork of create-react-app
Note: It is recommended that you fork from the latest stable branch. Master is unstable.
Inside the
packages directory, there is a folder called
react-scripts. The
react-scripts folder contains scripts for building, testing and starting your app. In fact, this is where we can tweak, configure and add new scripts and templates.
Tweak the Configuration
Clone the directory and open up the
react-scripts/scripts/init.js in your code editor. Let's add some few console messages like so:
...... ...... console.log(chalk.red('VERY IMPORTANT:')); console.log('Create a .env file at the root of your project with REACT_APP_EMPLOYEE_ID and REACT_APP_POSITION_ID'); console.log(' You can find these values in the company dashboard under application settings.'); console.log(''); console.log(); .......
Add the important message during installation here
Added important message to show during installation
Now, Let's change templates
Open up
react-scripts/template/src/App.js and replace it with this:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; import logo from './logo.svg'; import './App.css'; class App extends Component { getEnvValues() { if (!process.env.REACT_APP_EMPLOYEE_ID || !process.env.REACT_APP_POSITION_ID) { throw new Error('Please define `REACT_APP_EMPLOYEE_ID` and `REACT_APP_POSITION_ID` in your .env file'); } const employeeID = process.env.REACT_APP_EMPLOYEE_ID const position = process.env.REACT_APP_POSITION_ID; return { employeeID, position }; } render() { const { employeeID, position } = this.getEnvValues(); return ( <div className="App"> <div className="App-header"> <img src={logo} <h2>Welcome to Unicode Labs</h2> </div> <p className="App-intro"> <b> Employee ID: { employeeID } </b><br/><br/> <b> Position: { position } </b> </p> </div> ); } } export default App;
Now, go to
react-scripts/template/public directory. Open the
index.html file and change the value of the
<title> tag to
Unicode Labs.
You can also change the favicon to your company's favicon. You can change as many things as you want and add custom components that your team uses frequently.
Create an
.env.example in the
react-scripts/template directory that contains the following:
REACT_APP_EMPLOYEE_ID='44566' REACT_APP_POSITION_ID='ENGR'
A user will have to rename it to
.env once the
create-react-app tool is done installing the
react-scripts. You should add this instruction to the
README file.
Note: CRA already includes support for custom env variables if you're open to prefixing their names with REACT_APP.
That's all we need!
Publish react-scripts to NPM
Before publishing to npm, we need to change the value of the
name key of the
package.json file in
react-scripts directory to
unicodelabs-react-scripts.
Change the value of the
description key to
Unicodelabs Configuration and scripts for Create React App. Also, point the value of the
repository key to the right location. In my case, it is
unicodelabs/create-react-app.
Now,
cd to the
react-scripts directory from your terminal like so:
Change into this directory on your terminal
You need to login to npm like so:
Log into Npm
Go ahead and publish
Published unicodelabs-react-scripts to npm
Test Your Custom Script
Head over to your terminal and run:
create-react-app test-app --scripts-version unicodelabs-react-scripts
In your own case it would be
yourname-react-scripts, where
yourname is your company name or whatever name you choose to give it.
CRA would install it and then you will see a notice like so:
Important Warning
Remember, when we put this message in the code earlier? Awesome!
Now,
cd into the
test-app directory, rename the
.env.example to
.env and run
npm start command.
Your app will spin up with the new template like so:
Note: If you have yarn installed, then create-react-app would install your app using Yarn.
Great programmers constantly sharpen their tools daily to increase productivity. CRA is a great tool for quickly building React Applications. In addition, having your own customized fork of
react-scripts helps you and your team easily add all the configurations you need. You'll need to maintain your fork, and make sure it is synced with the upstream to have all updates. Backstroke is a bot that can help you with this.
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Related.
- XML:DB XUpdate–reference XUpdate implementation in Java
- 4Suite–XUpdate available via Python API, command line or XML repository
- xmldiff–Python tool to generate XUpdate “diffs” between XML files
- RxUpdate–An “enhanced” XUpdate implementation in Python, including RDF support
- Apache Xindice–XML DBMS in Java. “At the present time Xindice uses XPath for its query language and XML:DB XUpdate for its update language.”
- eXist–XML DBMS in Java.
- Ozone–XML DBMS in Java.
- X-Hive/DB–XML DBMS in Java. See the XUpdate page
- dbXML–XML DBMS in Java. “XUpdate is also a transformation with some of the same goals as XSLT, but its syntax is simpler, and its purpose is to modify the content of documents in place.”
- Orbeon PresentationServer–full-blown XML platform thingy, in Java. See docs on the XUpdate engine and lower-level processor. The latter link includes a useful intro to XUpdate.
- Jaxup–”A Java XML Update engine”
- Mobius Mako Command Line Utilities–Mobius is a Grid technology project. Mako is “a service that exposes and abstracts data resources as XML”, supporting XUpdate.
- Montag–”a Java Web Services based system for the interaction with every Native XML Database that supplies a Java implementation of the XML:DB API.” Includes XUpdate support.
- XML-XUpdate-LibXML–Perl implementation?
XUpdate specification
Where is the specification? Is it ? If so it's not been touched for 5 years. This spec doesn't appear to be able to handle namespaces in target documents.
I think it's this one
I think it's this one
Looks like the sourceforge site is just a mirror of this. My comments still apply.
Re:
Your Perl module link is broken: it should be
(It is better for
search.cpan.orglinks to use
/dist/instead of a specific author’s directory since it will always point to the latest version, even if maintainership changes hands.)
Still need convincing
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BANKS are a perplexing mix. The special institutions at the heart of capitalism, they provide an easy link between savers and borrowers: granting loans to those with the ideas and ambition to use them while at the same time providing peace of mind to squirrels who want to lock their cash away safely. Yet banks have a dark side too: they exist to manage risk, but often simply stockpile it. When they go bad they scythe away wealth and strangle economies. There is little argument that it was the banks that started the crisis five years ago. There is huge disagreement about how to put things right.
To see why banks are so vital, start with the finances of a typical household or firm. Their debts—mainly mortgages on homes, offices or factories—have fixed terms; they often have fixed interest rates too. In what is owed there is a lot of certainty. But firms’ and families’ financial assets are not bound by such rigid terms: deposits can be withdrawn with little notice, bonds and equity can be sold quickly if cash is needed or if investment tastes change. This combination of fixed-term debts and flexible assets is a comfortable set-up.
But one party’s asset is another’s liability. This means that corporate and personal finances have a mirror image in the balance-sheets of banks, where assets (the loans a bank has made) cannot be adjusted but where debts (its customers’ deposits) can be called in overnight. That mix is risky: a rush of depositors demanding their money back can force cut-price asset sales. If debts are called in more quickly than assets can be sold, insolvency looms. Managing that risk is what banks do: by holding a risky balance-sheet they allow households and firms to have safe ones.
Since the maturities of their assets and liabilities do not match up, banks tend to give themselves some margin for error. They build resilience into their finances in two ways. Liquid assets—things like cash and government bonds that can be sold quickly and at relatively certain prices—are a safety valve. If investors suddenly shun a bank’s bonds or depositors withdraw large sums, it can sell them. That allows the bank’s balance-sheet to shrink safely, in line with creditors’ demands.
But balance-sheets can shrink for other reasons too. The value of a bank’s riskier assets—mortgages, bonds, loans to companies—can drop sharply if the prospects of the borrowers sour. The danger is that the value of the bank’s assets could fall below its liabilities: with more owing than is owned, the bank would be bust. To forestall such failures banks maintain equity. This represents the money a bank’s owners have invested in it. Equity takes the first hit when asset values drop. Since the bank’s owners absorb the loss, its creditors—bondholders and depositors—can rest assured that they will not have to.
But a bank is not a charity, and the two shock-absorbers are costly. Some rough rules of thumb show why: the return on cash is zero, with liquid assets like government bonds yielding a measly 2-3%. In contrast, mortgages might generate 5% and unsecured lending closer to 10%. Picking safe assets lowers returns. In addition equity investors expect a return (via dividends or capital gains on their shareholding) of around 12%, compared with the 4% or so demanded by bondholders.
This sets up a tension between stability and profitability which banks’ bosses must manage. Their failure to do so lies at the heart of the crisis. One simple equation explains their dire performance: Return on equity (RoE) = Return on assets (RoA) x Leverage
The idea is straightforward. A bank’s equity-holders gain when the return on its assets rises. Maximising RoE means holding fewer safe assets, like cash or government bonds, since these provide low returns. When returns on all asset classes fall, as in the early 2000s, banks have another way to boost RoE: leverage (the ratio of their assets to their equity). Banks can increase their leverage by borrowing more from depositors or debt markets and lending or investing the proceeds. That gives them more income-generating holdings relative to the same pool of equity. In the short run, shareholders gain.
Risk on
Of course, skimping on safety mechanisms makes banks more risky. Yet the RoE formula is hard-wired into banking, familiar to every chief executive and shareholder. A 2011 report by the Bank of England showed that Britain’s biggest banks all rewarded their senior staff based on RoE targets. Bosses duly maximised short-term profits, allowing liquid assets and equity to fall to historic lows (see chart 1).
By the mid-2000s leverage was out of control. Consider the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Citi, respectively the biggest banks in Britain and America in 2007 (RBS was also the biggest in the world). Official reports show that these lenders had leverage ratios of around 50 when the crisis hit: they could absorb only $2 in losses on each $100 of assets. That helps explain why the American subprime market, although only a small fraction of global finance, could cause such trouble. Top-heavy, with brittle accounts, the banks were riding for a fall.
The main regulatory response has been a revision of international banking regulations first agreed in Basel in 1989. Basel III, as the latest version is known, is more stringent than its predecessors on four basic measures of safety: it requires banks to hold more equity and liquid assets, to leverage themselves less (the maximum ratio is now 33) and to rely less on short-term funding. In countries where bank bail-outs during the crisis caused outrage, however, or where the financial sector’s liabilities are much bigger than the economy (making bail-outs ruinous), regulators are determined to go further.
The most radical option is to carve up lenders deemed “too big to fail”. Splitting them into smaller and simpler banks would make oversight easier, and prevent a bankruptcy from upending the local economy or the government’s finances. But unravelling and reapportioning assets and liabilities might be impossibly tricky.
An alternative is to ban banks from the riskiest activities. In America, a rule proposed by Paul Volcker, a former head of the Federal Reserve, bank’s benefit.
Regulators in Europe are taking a different tack. In both Britain and the euro zone, they have proposed “ring-fences” that will separate customer deposits from banks’ other liabilities. Against them, banks would only be allowed to hold assets like cash, government bonds and loans to individuals and firms. Activities deemed riskier, such as trading in shares and derivatives and underwriting companies’ bond issuance, would sit outside the ring-fence, backed by a separate stash of capital.
But even once the new ring-fences are in place, banks will still grant mortgages. That is a risky business. Take British commercial-property lending (loans on offices and shopping centres). It is a large part of the mortgage market, over 20% of GDP at its peak. It is also volatile: commercial-property prices fell by almost 45% between 2007 and 2009. In America the share of even the best “prime” mortgages in arrears topped 7% in early 2010. None of this risk would be outside the ring-fence, or blocked by the Volcker rule.
That is one reason some argue that banks should hold significantly more equity than the new rules require. In a recent book, Anat Admati of Stanford University and Martin Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute maintain that the cost of holding extra equity is overstated. For one thing, bigger buffers make banks safer, so the cost of other forms of funding (like bonds) should fall. In a related paper, David Miles, a member of the committee at the Bank of England that sets interest rates, estimates both the costs and benefits of increasing equity. The two are equal, he concludes, when equity is about 16-20% of banks’ risk-adjusted assets—even higher than the Basel III rules require.
Bank bosses (most notably Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase) regard that as far too high. Their concern is that banks are being forced to hold redundant equity. That would have two effects. First, it might reduce lending, since existing buffers would only be enough to cover a smaller stock of loans. Second, higher equity means lower leverage, which could reduce RoE below investors’ expectations. That would make it hard to raise the equity regulators are demanding and—if sustained—prompt a gradual wind-up of the banks as investors opt to put their money elsewhere. The only alternative would be to raise RoA by charging borrowers much higher interest.
There is some truth on both sides. The academics are right to say that higher equity need not kill off lending. After all, equity is a source of funds, not a use for them. Historically much lower leverage ratios have been associated with strong growth in lending and GDP (see chart 2). Yet it is also true that without leverage to boost returns, banks might need to squeeze more from their assets: the cost of credit could rise.
There may be a third way. Some researchers think a better balance between equity and debt can be struck by using funding that has some of the attributes of both. They want banks to sell more “contingent capital” to investors. These IOUs act like bonds in normal times, paying a return and requiring full payback when they mature. But in bad times they change from debt into loss-absorbing equity.
Such ideas are attractive not just because they provide a clever solution to the debt v equity puzzle. Regulators are also pushing them for a related reason: they should encourage a bank’s creditors to provide more oversight. Knowing that their bonds could be converted into risky equity, the theory runs, big investors like insurers and pension funds would go through banks’ books with a fine-tooth comb, spotting any leverage-pumping activities on the part of profit-hungry CEOs. How cheap contingent capital will prove is uncertain: investors will presumably demand a higher return than for debt, particularly from risky-looking banks.
That might actually be a good thing: ideally markets as well as regulators would encourage banks to act prudently. In a 2010 paper Andrew Haldane of the Bank of England argued that banks’ borrowing costs are distorted. Since investors assume the biggest ones will be bailed out in times of crisis, they accept relatively low rates of interest on the bonds they issue. That, in turn, distorts the banks’ decisions: since such funding is cheap it is hardly surprising that profit-maximising bank bosses gorge on it.
Rigging and milking
All this turns banks from champions of capitalism into affronts to it, reliant on rigged markets and taxpayer subsidies. Regulators are working to change that. In a 2012 joint paper the Bank of England and the FDIC, the agency that insures bank deposits in America, set out their approach. When the next bank big enough to threaten the entire financial system fails, regulators plan to use “living wills” that explain how to unwind its holdings. They will take control, replacing a bank’s managers and doling out losses to bondholders as well as equity investors.
The message is clear: regulators are not trying to prevent failures, but to prepare for them. They hope this will make managers react by holding enough capital and liquid assets to keep banks out of trouble. Yet some banks remain too sprawling and opaque to liquidate in an orderly manner and too big to let fail. Their state support, implicit or explicit, seems likely to remain. Newly cautious by obligation but not by choice, the world’s biggest banks remain a perplexing mix of freewheeling capitalism, subsidies and regulation. | http://www.economist.com/news/schools-brief/21587205-final-article-our-series-financial-crisis-examines-best-way-make-banks | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | refinedweb | 1,994 | 62.07 |
Buttons 2.0Buttons 2.0
Buttons 2.0Buttons 2.0
Buttons is a highly customizable production ready mobile web and desktop css button library. Buttons is a free open source project created using Sass.
Authors Alex Wolfe and Rob Levin.
Showcase DemoShowcase Demo
View the showcase demo to see the buttons in action. The showcase provides a full list of examples along with code snippets to speed up development.
Setup & InstallationSetup & Installation
- Download the latest buttons.css
- Include buttons in your website:
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Bower InstallationBower Installation
Transitioning From Buttons 1.0 to Buttons 2.0Transitioning From Buttons 1.0 to Buttons 2.0
We've made some major improvements to the Buttons library. In order to integrate buttons into your current project you'll need to make the following changes:
- Compass has been replaced with autoprefixer. Compass is not recommended but it is still supported.
- Button colors are now completely independent (ex. button-primary). We no longer have classes like
button-flat-primary, so to achieve this you now simply add
button-flat button-primary
- Buttons styles are now independent (ex. button-flat, button-3d, etc.). You can apply these styles and they will automatically pick up the color attached to the button (ex. button-primary button-3d).
Customize Buttons (Recommended uses Sass & Autoprefixer)Customize Buttons (Recommended uses Sass & Autoprefixer)
- Clone the Buttons repository.
- Make sure you have node.js installed.
- From the command line
cdinto the root for the Buttons directory.
- Run
npm installor
sudo npm install(depending on your system permissions).
- On the command line run
grunt dev; this will open a browser with Buttons.
- Locate scss in the root directory.
- You can modify the _options.scss file where you can customize colors, typography, etc.
- Anytime you save your changes the Buttons showcase page will live reload with your changes!
Customize Buttons with only Sass or CompassCustomize Buttons with only Sass or Compass
- Clone the Buttons repo.
- Make sure you have Sass installed.
- Run
npm installfrom your terminal.
- Edit the
_options.scsswith your own custom values (see example values below).
- Buttons now works with or without Compass, so choose one of the following examples accordingly and run from the command line in Buttons's root directory:
For Sass run:
$ sass --watch --scss scss/buttons.scss:css/buttons.css
For Compass run:
$ compass watch
- The
css/buttons.cssfile should now be updated.
Button OptionsButton Options
To edit Buttons simply change values within the
_options.scss file. After you make your edits recompile your sass file and your changes will get processed.
- $ubtn: This prefix stands for Unicorn Button and prevents namespace collisions that could occur if you import buttons as part of your Sass build process. We kindly ask you not to use the prefix $ubtn in your project in order to avoid possible name conflicts. Thanks!
- $ubtn-namespace: Desired CSS namespace for your buttons (default .button)
- $ubtn-glow-namespace: Desired CSS namespace for your glow effect (default .glow)
- $ubtn-colors: List of colors in format like
(name, background, color).
- $ubtn-glow-color: Default glow color (#2c9adb, light blue)
- $ubtn-shapes: List of shapes in format like
(square 0px). You can use Sass maps if you're using 3.3. See
_options.scssfor details.
- $ubtn-sizes: List of sizes in format like
(jumbo 1.5). You can use Sass maps if you're using 3.3. See
_options.scssfor details.
- $ubtn-bgcolor: Default button background color (#EEE, light gray)
- $ubtn-height: Default height, also used to calculate padding on the sides (32px)
- $ubtn-font-family: Default font family
- $ubtn-font-color: Default font color (#666, gray)
- $ubtn-font-weight: Default font weight
- $ubtn-font-size: Default font size (14px). You can also specify a value of
inheritand it will be respected.
Excluding Button TypesExcluding Button Types
By default, Buttons will include all button types. You can exclude types from your compilation by simply removing the corresponding @import statement in the buttons.scss file.
//Example import statement for 3d button. @import 'types/3d';
Remove this statement then recompile to create a build without 3d buttons.
Browser SupportBrowser Support
Buttons works in all modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE) and gracefully degrades all to Internet Explorer 8.
About ButtonsAbout Buttons
Buttons is part of the Unicorn-UI Framework. Created by Alex Wolfe @alexwolfe and Rob Levin @roblevintennis . | https://reposhub.com/javascript/css/alexwolfe-Buttons-.html | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | refinedweb | 715 | 51.14 |
Programs Using Loops
Nested loop:When a loop is used inside another loop then it is called nested loops. Here for each iteration of the outer loop- the inner loop starts from the begining. For example if the outer loop iterates 10 times and inner loop iterates 5 times then total number of iterations of the two loops will be 50 times.
Let us write few more programs and study the use of loops practically-
Q31.Write a program to find the sum of the series : 1 + x + x2/2! + x3/3! + x4/4! + ... till nth terms.
Q32.Write a program to to find the sum of the series : x - x3/3! + x5/5! - x7/7! + x9/9! - ... till nth terms.
Q33.Write a program to to accept an 4 digit integer then check if it is a palindrome or not.
Q34.Write a program to to accept an integer then check if it is prime or not.
Q35.Write a program to accept to accept a 4 digit number then find the greatest digit of it.
Program-31
#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
void main(){
float sum=1, x;
int n,i, f;
cout<< "Enter the number of terms(>1):";
cin>>n;
cout<<"Enter the value of x :";
cin>>x;
for(i=1; i<= n-1; i++){
f=1;
for(k=1; k<=i; k++){
f=f*k;
}
sum=sum + pow(x, i)/f;
}
cout<<"The sum="<<sum;
}
In this program see that "sum=1" the first terms is already considered as constant, that is why the outer loop is iterating till "n-1" times. The factorial term is calculated by the inner loop. Lastly each term is generated and added with sum then displayed it outside the loops.
Program-32
#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
void main(){
float sum=0, x,t;
int n,i, f;
cout<< "Enter the number of terms:";
cin>>n;
cout<<"Enter the value of x :";
cin>>x;
for(i=1; i<= n; i++){
f=1;
for(k=1; k<=2*i-1; k++){
f=f*k;
}
t = pow(-1,i+1) * pow(x, 2*i-1)/f;
sum = sum + t;
}
cout<<"The sum="<<sum;
}
In this series first see the first term is positive, second term is negative and so on. The sign of each term is generated by "pow( -1, i+1)" therefore when "i" is 1 the -1 to the power (i+1) means 2 is positive, same way when "i" is 2 then -1 to the power 2 is positive and so on, which is multiplied with each term. Then see that in first term denominator is 1 same as factorial 1, second term the denominator is factorial 3 and so on, that is why the inner loop finding factorial is iterating till 2*i-1. Notice that the power of each term is odd i.e 1, 3, 5, 7 and so on, which is taken care by "pow(x, 2*i-1). A variable "t" is taken for simplicity to generate each term then added with variable "sum". Lastly the asnwer is displayed outside the
loops
#include <iostream.h> void main(){ int n, p=0, d, a; cout<<"Enter the Number :"; cin>>n; a=n; while(n>0){ d=n%10; p=p*10+d; n=n/10; } if(a==p){ cout<<"It is a palindrome"; } else{ cout<<"It is not palindrome"; } }To check palindrome we have to reversed the digits of number then compare with the original number if they are equal then the number is palindrome otherwise it is not. e.g 1221 is palindrome because if you reverse the digits it remains same, but 1234 is not palindrme as the reversed number 4321 is not same as the original number. In this program see that we have kept a copy of the given number is variable "a" because the original number is geting changed in the loop (n=n/10). To reverse the digits of a number we have to do modulus or remainder operation (%) by 10, because if you divide a number by 10 then take the remainder it would be always the last digit of the number. ( take an example and see ). Now let us run the program ourself statement by statement - p=0, take an 4 digit number is entered as n=3443, so also a=3443, see in the while loop iteration - 1, the statement d=3443%10 will give d=3, p=0*10+3, which gives p=3, n=3443/10 will give n=344 because "n" in integer can not store fractional part. iteration-2 d=344%10 will give d=4, p=3*10+4 will give p=34, n=344/10 will give n=34. Iteration-3 d=4, p=344, n=3. Iteration-4, d=3%10 will give 3 as quotient is zero and remainder is 3, p=3443, n=3/10 is zero, now the looping condition is false so it comes out of the loop and the "if" statement displays that it is a palindrome.
Program-34
#include <iostream.h> void main(){ int n, c=0,i; cout<<"Enter the Number :"; cin>>n; for(i=1; i<=n; i++){ if(n%i==0){ c=c+1; } } if(c==2){ cout<<"It is a prime number"; } else{ cout<<"It is not a prime number"; } }
This algorithm (logic) is very simple one, the given number is divided by all the numbers from 1 to the number itself and count how many times the get divided with remainder zero, this count is done in the variable "c". If the number is a prime one then it will be divided twice once by 1 then at last by the number itself. That is why we have checked if c==2 in the program.
Program-35
#include <iostream.h> void main(){ int n, g, d; cout<<"Enter the Number :"; cin>>n; g=n%10; n=n/10; while(n>0){ d=n%10; if(d>g){ g=d; } n=n/10; } cout<<"The greatest digit is"<<g; }
This program is all most similar as program 33, first we have taken the last digit as greatest (g), then within the loop we have extracted one digit in each iteration and compare it with the current greatest- if extracted digit is greater than the current greatest (g) the we have changed current greatest. At last we got the greatest digit in "g" which is displayed. If you want to work with larger than four digit number then take the variable "n" as "long" type.
Q. Write a program to display the difference between greatest and smallest digits of a four digit number. (Do it youeself)
| https://www.mcqtoday.com/CPP/flowloop/programsUsingLoop-3.html | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | refinedweb | 1,118 | 74.93 |
Linked List that Counts Unique Entries
We have a list of numbers and we need to know two things, what numbers we have and how many of each number do we have in the list.
So we read in each number and add the number to an ordered linked list. If we are adding a number to the list and we find that number, then we will just count it. If we do not find the number in the linked list, then we will add a new node to the linked list with the new number and set the count to one.
The linked list node will have three fields - the number, a counter for the number and a link field.
Write a C++ program to achieve what we want, and print out the values and their counts, say 5 per line.
Example:
5(22) 8(15) 13(5) 22(3) 25(18)
where 5 is the number and 22 is its count.
Please use the attached input file "LinkNbrs.dat" for testing the program.
Solution Preview
Please see the attachment as well. Program code here may look different than actual code because of html treatment of this content.
// 438155.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
typedef struct NodeType {
int value;
int counter;
struct NodeType *next;
} Node;
class LinkedList {
private:
Node *root;
public:
LinkedList() {
root = NULL;
}
void display();
void add(int num);
};
void LinkedList::display() ...
Solution Summary
This solution creates a C++ Linked List program to know unique numbers and their counts in a list of numbers. | https://brainmass.com/computer-science/cpp/cplusplus-linked-list-counts-unique-entries-438155 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 259 | 85.83 |
perlmeditation eyepopslikeamosquito <P> This meditation introduces a series of articles on the history of the lighter side of Perl culture. </P> <P> Somewhat arbitrarily, I've categorized the lighter side of Perl culture as follows: </P> <P> <ul> <li> Joke Modules <li> Mailing List Theatre <li> [id://412464|JAPHs] <li> [id://424355|Obfus] <li> [id://437032|Golf] <li> [id://451207|Poetry] <li> [id://540609|April Fools] </ul> </P> <P> This first installment covers the first two categories above. Later categories are covered in later installments. </P> <P><B>Joke Modules</B></P> <P> Much of Perl's culture derives from earlier practice in other programming languages. Perl Obfus, for example, carry on the grand tradition of the <a href="">International Obfuscated C competitions</a> of the 1980s. Indeed, a certain L.Wall was a prominent <a href="">place-getter</a> in these early IOC competitions -- though, contrary to persistent rumour, he did not submit the Perl C sources (principally because they exceeded the 1K limit). Golf too was informally played by APL enthusiasts in the 1960s, as indicated by [id://81870|this famous 1972 Edsger Dijkstra quote]. </P> <P> But what of Perl's Joke Modules? Are they truly unique to Perl culture? Though I'm not aware of Joke Modules being written in other programming languages, I'd love to hear about any you may know of. </P> <P><B>What was the first Perl Joke Module?</B></P> <P> Dredging through some old fwp emails, I believe the first Perl joke script was written in 1989 or 1990 and was a cousin of [merlyn]'s <a href="">sh2perl</a> that emailed your shell script to either comp.lang.perl or Tom Christiansen, asking for a Perl version to be written. <B>Update:</B>). </P> <P>. </P> <P><B>The pre-Acme Years</B></P> <P> Before the Acme namespace was born in 2001, there were a number of Joke Modules released, notably: </P> <P> <ul> <li><a href="">D'oh by C.Nandor</a> <li><a href="">sh2perl by R.Schwartz</a> <li><a href="">Addition.pm/Identity.pm by MJD</a> <li><a href="">Coy by D.Conway</a> <li><a href="">Semi::Semicolons by M.Schwern with inspiration from the lovely David Adler Esquire and Ziggy</a> <li><a href="">Sex by M.Schwern</a> <li><a href="">Symbol::Approx::Sub by D.Cross</a> </ul> </P> <P>. </P> <P><B>The Acme Namespace</B></P> <P> Within a few months of [TheDamian] releasing <a href="">Bleach</a> on Feb 21, 2001 there were a gaggle of modules all doing that sort of thing (update: see [id://967004] for more detail). All these new top-level modules are now <I>really</I> annoying the CPAN bigwigs. Yet [TheDamian] manages to placate them by sending out a plea to all joke module authors in mid-May: </P> <blockquote> <I>I think we should make the top-level namespace genuinely amusing in its own right...and a source of future opportunities for humour too. To that end, I propose that we all migrate our modules to the Acme:: namespace.</I> </blockquote> <P> Thus Acme:: was born. As indicated [id://967004|here], Acme:: is derived <I>not</I> from [acme] aka Leon Brocard, but from <a href="">Wile E. Coyote</a>. BTW, Leon gave a nice talk on the Acme Modules at YAPC::Europe 2002. </P> <P> Since that time, the <a href="">Acme</a> namespace has grown steadily, today boasting over 100 modules: a unique achievement in the world of computer programming. Some Joke Modules that are popular here at the Monastery can be found in [id://400469]. </P> <P><B>Mailing List Theatre</B></P> <P> By <I>Mailing List Theatre</I>, I mean the humorous -- and often theatrical -- exchanges occurring in Perl cyberspace: on newsgroups, bulletin boards, mailing lists, Perl Monks and the like. </P> <P>). </P> <P> Anyway, here's a random selection that I found amusing: </P> <P> <ul> <li><a href="">Larry plays golf with himself (and Randal)</a> <li><a href="">merlyn and the 5000-line perl-4 style "auction" script</a> <li><a href="">BK coins "use strict is gay"</a> (provoked by Piers, Richard and Perl's answer to George Clooney, davorg) (courtesy of <a href="">The Wayback Machine</a> and inspiring <a href="">Acme::USIG</a>). Update: in case the Wayback machine link above breaks, you can see the original text [id://960075|here]. <li> <a href="">London.pm declares war on Paris.pm</a> (alternate <a href="">archive.org link</a>) <li> <a href="">Leon ponders what to do with Elaine's bra</a> (alternate <a href="">archive.org link</a>) <li><a href="">`/anick "explains" how to do anagrams in French via Tourist.pm</a> <li>[id://331863] Abigail teases [BrowserUk] about bookmaking in <I>The Land of the Dry Towel</I> </ul> </P> <P> Please forgive me for missing many funny exchanges out there and here at the Monastery. And please feel free to pipe up with your own favourites. </P> <P><B>Links</B></P> <P> <ul> <li> [id://412464] <li> [id://424355] <li> [id://437032] <li> [id://451207] <li> [id://540609] <li> [id://967004] <li> [id://414465] <li> [id://129726] <li> [id://156816] <li> [id://199426] <li> [id://756792] <li> <a href="">perliaq: MJD's infrequently asked questions about Perl</a> </ul> </P> <P> </P> <P> <small> Updated 3-May-2008: Fixed broken links. Reorganized material. 25-April-2012: corrected Bleach release date (Apr 1 2001 -> Feb 21 2001), added [id://967004] link. </small> </P> | http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/jacques?displaytype=xml;node_id=410774 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 931 | 70.84 |
Hello,
with Kotlin M6, when the logic for initializing class members was a bit complicated, I was using a “constructor function” like this:
I am trying to upgrade to M7, but this doesn't work anymore. The compiler complains about MyClass not being an annotation class on the line:
MyClass() {
public class MyClass(arg: String) {
public val m1: String
MyClass() {
m1 = computeM1(arg)
}
}
public class MyClass(arg: String) {
I could use pretty much any name, it didn’t have to be MyClass(). I tried using another name, but then it still tries to resolve the name into an annotation class.
Did the syntax for those “constructor function” change? | https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/constructors/622 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | refinedweb | 108 | 53.75 |
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Using C and C++ for data science
Let's work through a common data science task with C99 and C++11.
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While languages like Python and R are increasingly popular for data science, C and C++ can be a strong choice for efficient and effective data science. In this article, we will use C99 and C++11 to write a program that uses the Anscombe’s quartet dataset, which I'll explain about next.
I wrote about my motivation for continually learning languages in an article covering Python and GNU Octave, which is worth reviewing. All of the programs are meant to be run on the command line, not with a graphical user interface (GUI). The full examples are available in the polyglot_fit repository.
The programming task
The program you will write in this series:
- Reads data from a CSV file
- Interpolates the data with a straight line (i.e., f(x)=m ⋅ x + q)
- Plots the result to an image file
This is a common situation that many data scientists have encountered. The example data is the first set of Anscombe's quartet, shown in the table below. This is a set of artificially constructed data that gives the same results when fitted with a straight line, but their plots are very different. The data file is a text file with tabs as column separators and a few lines as a header. This task will use only the first set (i.e., the first two columns).
The C way
C is a general-purpose programming language that is among the most popular languages in use today (according to data from the TIOBE Index, RedMonk Programming Language Rankings, Popularity of Programming Language Index, and State of the Octoverse of GitHub). It is a quite old language (circa 1973), and many successful programs were written in it (e.g., the Linux kernel and Git to name just two). It is also one of the closest languages to the inner workings of the computer, as it is used to manipulate memory directly. It is a compiled language; therefore, the source code has to be translated by a compiler into machine code. Its standard library is small and light on features, so other libraries have been developed to provide missing functionalities.
It is the language I use the most for number crunching, mostly because of its performance. I find it rather tedious to use, as it needs a lot of boilerplate code, but it is well supported in various environments. The C99 standard is a recent revision that adds some nifty features and is well supported by compilers.
I will cover the necessary background of C and C++ programming along the way so both beginners and advanced users can follow along.
Installation
To develop with C99, you need a compiler. I normally use Clang, but GCC is another valid open source compiler. For linear fitting, I chose to use the GNU Scientific Library. For plotting, I could not find any sensible library, and therefore this program relies on an external program: Gnuplot. The example also uses a dynamic data structure to store data, which is defined in the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
Installing in Fedora is as easy as running:
sudo dnf install clang gnuplot gsl gsl-devel
Commenting code
In C99, comments are formatted by putting // at the beginning of the line, and the rest of the line will be discarded by the interpreter. Alternatively, anything between /* and */ is discarded, as well.
// This is a comment ignored by the interpreter.
/* Also this is ignored */
Necessary libraries
Libraries are composed of two parts:
- A header file that contains a description of the functions
- A source file that contains the functions' definitions
Header files are included in the source, while the libraries' sources are linked against the executable. Therefore, the header files needed for this example are:
// Input/Output utilities
#include <stdio.h>
// The standard library
#include <stdlib.h>
// String manipulation utilities
#include <string.h>
// BSD queue
#include <sys/queue.h>
// GSL scientific utilities
#include <gsl/gsl_fit.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_statistics_double.h>
Main function
In C, the program must be inside a special function called main():
int main(void) {
...
}
This differs from Python, as covered in the last tutorial, which will run whatever code it finds in the source files.
Defining variables
In C, variables have to be declared before they are used, and they have to be associated with a type. Whenever you want to use a variable, you have to decide what kind of data to store in it. You can also specify if you intend to use a variable as a constant value, which is not necessary, but the compiler can benefit from this information. From the fitting_C99.c program in the repository:
const char *input_file_name = "anscombe.csv";
const char *delimiter = "\t";
const unsigned int skip_header = 3;
const unsigned int column_x = 0;
const unsigned int column_y = 1;
const char *output_file_name = "fit_C99.csv";
const unsigned int N = 100;
Arrays in C are not dynamic, in the sense that their length has to be decided in advance (i.e., before compilation):
int data_array[1024];
Since you normally do not know how many data points are in a file, use a singly linked list. This is a dynamic data structure that can grow indefinitely. Luckily, the BSD provides linked lists. Here is an example definition:
struct data_point {
double x;
double y;
SLIST_ENTRY(data_point) entries;
};
SLIST_HEAD(data_list, data_point) head = SLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(head);
SLIST_INIT(&head);
This example defines a data_point list comprised of structured values that contain both an x value and a y value. The syntax is rather complicated but intuitive, and describing it in detail would be too wordy.
Printing output
To print on the terminal, you can use the printf() function, which works like Octave's printf() function (described in the first article):
printf("#### Anscombe's first set with C99 ####\n");
The printf() function does not automatically add a newline at the end of the printed string, so you have to add it. The first argument is a string that can contain format information for the other arguments that can be passed to the function, such as:
printf("Slope: %f\n", slope);
Reading data
Now comes the hard part… There are some libraries for CSV file parsing in C, but none seemed stable or popular enough to be in the Fedora packages repository. Instead of adding a dependency for this tutorial, I decided to write this part on my own. Again, going into details would be too wordy, so I will only explain the general idea. Some lines in the source will be ignored for the sake of brevity, but you can find the complete example in the repository.
First, open the input file:
FILE* input_file = fopen(input_file_name, "r");
Then read the file line-by-line until there is an error or the file ends:
The getline() function is a nice recent addition from the POSIX.1-2008 standard. It can read a whole line in a file and take care of allocating the necessary memory. Each line is then split into tokens with the strtok() function. Looping over the token, select the columns that you want:
Finally, when the x and y values are selected, insert the new data point in the linked list:
The malloc() function dynamically allocates (reserves) some persistent memory for the new data point.
Fitting data
The GSL linear fitting function gsl_fit_linear() expects simple arrays for its input. Therefore, since you won't know in advance the size of the arrays you create, you must manually allocate their memory:
Then, loop over the linked list to save the relevant data to the arrays:
SLIST_FOREACH(datum, &head, entries) {
const double current_x = datum->x;
const double current_y = datum->y;
x[i] = current_x;
y[i] = current_y;
i += 1;
}
Now that you are done with the linked list, clean it up. Always release the memory that has been manually allocated to prevent a memory leak. Memory leaks are bad, bad, bad. Every time memory is not released, a garden gnome loses its head:
Finally, finally(!), you can fit your data:
Plotting
You must use an external program for the plotting. Therefore, save the fitting function to an external file:
The Gnuplot command for plotting both files is:
plot 'fit_C99.csv' using 1:2 with lines title 'Fit', 'anscombe.csv' using 1:2 with points pointtype 7 title 'Data'
Results
Before running the program, you must compile it:
clang -std=c99 -I/usr/include/ fitting_C99.c -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib64/ -lgsl -lgslcblas -o fitting_C99
This command tells the compiler to use the C99 standard, read the fitting_C99.c file, load the libraries gsl and gslcblas, and save the result to fitting_C99. The resulting output on the command line is:
#### Anscombe's first set with C99 ####
Slope: 0.500091
Intercept: 3.000091
Correlation coefficient: 0.816421
Here is the resulting image generated with Gnuplot.
The C++11 way
C++ is a general-purpose programming language that is also among the most popular languages in use today. It was created as a successor of C (in 1983) with an emphasis on object-oriented programming (OOP). C++ is commonly regarded as a superset of C, so a C program should be able to be compiled with a C++ compiler. This is not exactly true, as there are some corner cases where they behave differently. In my experience, C++ needs less boilerplate than C, but the syntax is more difficult if you want to develop objects. The C++11 standard is a recent revision that adds some nifty features and is more or less supported by compilers.
Since C++ is largely compatible with C, I will just highlight the differences between the two. If I do not cover a section in this part, it means that it is the same as in C.
Installation
The dependencies for the C++ example are the same as the C example. On Fedora, run:
sudo dnf install clang gnuplot gsl gsl-devel
Necessary libraries
Libraries work in the same way as in C, but the include directives are slightly different:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
extern "C" {
#include <gsl/gsl_fit.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_statistics_double.h>
}
Since the GSL libraries are written in C, you must inform the compiler about this peculiarity.
Defining variables
C++ supports more data types (classes) than C, such as a string type that has many more features than its C counterpart. Update the definition of the variables accordingly:
const std::string input_file_name("anscombe.csv");
For structured objects like strings, you can define the variable without using the = sign.
Printing output
You can use the printf() function, but the cout object is more idiomatic. Use the operator << to indicate the string (or objects) that you want to print with cout:
std::cout << "#### Anscombe's first set with C++11 ####" << std::endl;
...
std::cout << "Slope: " << slope << std::endl;
std::cout << "Intercept: " << intercept << std::endl;
std::cout << "Correlation coefficient: " << r_value << std::endl;
Reading data
The scheme is the same as before. The file is opened and read line-by-line, but with a different syntax:
std::ifstream input_file(input_file_name);
while (input_file.good()) {
std::string line;
getline(input_file, line);
...
}
The line tokens are extracted with the same function as in the C99 example. Instead of using standard C arrays, use two vectors. Vectors are an extension of C arrays in the C++ standard library that allows dynamic management of memory without explicitly calling malloc():
std::vector<double> x;
std::vector<double> y;
// Adding an element to x and y:
x.emplace_back(value);
y.emplace_back(value);
Fitting data
For fitting in C++, you do not have to loop over the list, as vectors are guaranteed to have contiguous memory. You can directly pass to the fitting function the pointers to the vectors buffers:
gsl_fit_linear(x.data(), 1, y.data(), 1, entries_number,
&intercept, &slope,
&cov00, &cov01, &cov11, &chi_squared);
const double r_value = gsl_stats_correlation(x.data(), 1, y.data(), 1, entries_number);
std::cout << "Slope: " << slope << std::endl;
std::cout << "Intercept: " << intercept << std::endl;
std::cout << "Correlation coefficient: " << r_value << std::endl;
Plotting
Plotting is done with the same approach as before. Write to a file:
const double step_x = ((max_x + 1) - (min_x - 1)) / N;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < N; i += 1) {
const double current_x = (min_x - 1) + step_x * i;
const double current_y = intercept + slope * current_x;
output_file << current_x << "\t" << current_y << std::endl;
}
output_file.close();
And then use Gnuplot for the plotting.
Results
Before running the program, it must be compiled with a similar command:
clang++ -std=c++11 -I/usr/include/ fitting_Cpp11.cpp -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib64/ -lgsl -lgslcblas -o fitting_Cpp11
The resulting output on the command line is:
#### Anscombe's first set with C++11 ####
Slope: 0.500091
Intercept: 3.00009
Correlation coefficient: 0.816421
And this is the resulting image generated with Gnuplot.
ConclusionThis article provides examples for a data fitting and plotting task in C99 and C++11. Since C++ is largely compatible with C, this article exploited their similarities for writing the second example. In some aspects, C++ is easier to use because it partially relieves the burden of explicitly managing memory. But the syntax is more complex because it introduces the possibility of writing classes for OOP. However, it is still possible to write software in C with the OOP approach. Since OOP is a style of programming, it can be used in any language. There are some great examples of OOP in C, such as the GObject and Jansson libraries.
For number crunching, I prefer working in C99 due to its simpler syntax and widespread support. Until recently, C++11 was not as widely supported, and I tended to avoid the rough edges in the previous versions. For more complex software, C++ could be a good choice.
Do you use C or C++ for data science as well? Share your experiences in the comments.
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Hi!
Excellent article!
I'm modifying it a little to test on Ubuntu. I found in the Ubuntu repositories the libcsv-dev library that seemed quite capable. It is also available for Fedora...!
Thanks,
Marcelo Módolo
Good catch!
That library seems very interesting, I will try it as well.
Let me know if you have any problems on Ubuntu.
Hi Cristiano!
I had no trouble making the example work!
Dependencies: sudo apt install clang gnuplot gsl-bin libgsl-dev libcsv-dev valgrind gnuplot
Build: gcc -g -O0 -o fitting my_fitting_C99.c -lcsv -lgsl
Test: valgrind -s --undef-value-errors=no --leak-check=yes ./fitting
Here is the code modified to use libcsv
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#define SKIP_HEADER 3
#define COLUMN_X 0
#define COLUMN_Y 1
void skip_header(FILE * input_file, int number_off_lines_to_skip);
struct data_point
{
double x;
double y;
SLIST_ENTRY(data_point) entries;
};
struct csv_data
{
double x;
double y;
int column;
int rows;
SLIST_HEAD(data_list, data_point) head;
};
#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-parameter"
void cb1(void *s, size_t len, void *data)
{
struct csv_data *d = (struct csv_data *)data;
if (d->column < 2)
{
const char *field = (const char *)s;
double value;
sscanf(field, "%lf", &value);
if (COLUMN_X == d->column)
{
d->x = value;
}
else if (COLUMN_Y == d->column)
{
d->y = value;
}
}
d->column += 1;
}
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-parameter"
void cb2(int c, void *data)
{
struct csv_data *d = (struct csv_data *)data;
struct data_point *datum = malloc(sizeof(struct data_point));
datum->x = d->x;
datum->y = d->y;
SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&d->head, datum, entries);
d->x = 0;
d->y = 0;
d->column = 0;
d->rows += 1;
}
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
void skip_header(FILE * input_file, int number_off_lines_to_skip)
{
int row = 0;
while (!ferror(input_file) && !feof(input_file)
&& row < number_off_lines_to_skip)
{
size_t buffer_size = 0;
char *buffer = NULL;
getline(&buffer, &buffer_size, input_file);
free(buffer);
row += 1;
}
}
#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-parameter"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE *fp;
struct csv_parser p;
char buf[1024];
size_t bytes_read;
struct csv_data d = { 0, 0, 0, 0, SLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(head) };
const char *input_file_name = "anscombe.csv";
const char *output_file_name = "fit_C99.csv";
const unsigned int N = 100;
SLIST_INIT(&d.head);
if (csv_init(&p, CSV_APPEND_NULL) != 0)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
csv_set_delim(&p, '\t');
csv_set_quote(&p, '\0');
printf("#### Anscombe's first set with C99 ####\n");
fp = fopen(input_file_name, "rb");
if (!fp)
{
printf("ERROR: Unable to open file: %s", input_file_name);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
skip_header(fp, SKIP_HEADER);
while ((bytes_read = fread(buf, 1, 1024, fp)) > 0)
if (csv_parse(&p, buf, bytes_read, cb1, cb2, &d) != bytes_read)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Error while parsing file: %s\n",
csv_strerror(csv_error(&p)));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
csv_fini(&p, cb1, cb2, &d);
fclose(fp);
csv_free(&p);
double *x = malloc(sizeof(double) * d.rows);
double *y = malloc(sizeof(double) * d.rows);
if (!x || !y)
{
printf("ERROR: Unable to allocate data arrays\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
double min_x, max_x;
struct data_point *datum;
unsigned int i = 0;
datum = SLIST_FIRST(&d.head);
min_x = datum->x;
max_x = datum->x;
SLIST_FOREACH(datum, &d.head, entries)
{
const double current_x = datum->x;
const double current_y = datum->y;
x[i] = current_x;
y[i] = current_y;
printf("x: %f, y: %f\n", x[i], y[i]);
if (current_x < min_x)
{
min_x = current_x;
}
if (current_x > max_x)
{
max_x = current_x;
}
i += 1;
}
while (!SLIST_EMPTY(&d.head))
{
struct data_point *datum = SLIST_FIRST(&d.head);
SLIST_REMOVE_HEAD(&d.head, entries);
free(datum);
}
double slope;
double intercept;
double cov00, cov01, cov11;
double chi_squared;
gsl_fit_linear(x, 1, y, 1, d.rows,
&intercept, &slope, &cov00, &cov01, &cov11, &chi_squared);
const double r_value = gsl_stats_correlation(x, 1, y, 1, d.rows);
printf("Slope: %f\n", slope);
printf("Intercept: %f\n", intercept);
printf("Correlation coefficient: %f\n", r_value);
FILE *output_file = fopen(output_file_name, "w");
if (!output_file)
{
printf("ERROR: Unable to open file: %s", output_file_name);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
const double step_x = ((max_x + 1) - (min_x - 1)) / N;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
{
const double current_x = (min_x - 1) + step_x * i;
const double current_y = intercept + slope * current_x;
fprintf(output_file, "%f\t%f\n", current_x, current_y);
}
free(x);
free(y);
fclose(output_file);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
Regards,
Marcelo Módolo
Thanks!
I think that the HTML parser messed up the source code. Feel free to do a pull request on the repository so we can add your modifications.
Hi!
I created the pull request!
Thanks again!
Marcelo Módolo
I just merged it, thanks!
And thank you for your extended readme
In the c++ version could be further simplified using vectors rather than linked list or another suitable data structure of std library. So there is less memory management without malloc and free from the c counterpart.
Nice article.
Thanks.
Yes, indeed the C++ example does use vectors.
In fact, it does not even need the data conversion before the call of the fitting library; it exploits the feature that vectors guarantee that the data is contiguous.
I read your article. It is awesome. I want to say thanks to you.
Thank you!
Great article.
Presently, I am doing a certificate programme on Financial Data Analytics, where we use R. And I love working with R. It does make working with data and statistics relatively straightforward.
Nonetheless, we know that C, C++ has the edge in speed, and so eventually, I look forward to using C++ to interface with data directly.
Thanks for the article.
Vernon
Thanks! I am also preparing an article doing the same task in R. Stay tuned
I really liked this article, the real beauty of C and C++ is that, its simple easier to work with, and really very reliable, best for data science research. Thanks
Thanks!
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How do I read the content of an external map in a script ?
Michel.
How do I read the content of an external map in a script ?
Michel.
If you are referring to a map whose URL you know then you can check out the
devtool scripts. They are constructing MapModels from a URL. If you want to
open the map in Freeplane you could use c.newMap(URL).
Volker
Hi Volker,
what I'd like to do, is read some content of an other map (actually , in the
same directory as current map).
For instance I'd like to have in a "reference.mm" map a node called
"projects", with children being all projects.
From a map called "todos.mm", I'd like to read the list of projects stored in
the other map, for assigning each todo the parent project. I would prefer to
not open the parameters.mm map, just read the file.
Currently, I have both todos and projects on the same map, but it gets
cluttered; using a parameters/reference map would allow me to have different
lists : projects, people, domains of activities, etc.
I think of something like :
c.externalMap("path/reference.mm").node.getChildren()
where can I find the devtool scripts ?
I found the devtool script but couldn't fin anything in the code that might
help me.
Then I found this discussion :
How do I link to a node in another mindmap?
where you mention creating a script to automate node referencing in another
map, but the script doesn't exist anymore in the example scripts.
correct link to the script :
_Link_to_a_node_in_another_map
Hi Michel,
sorry for not being more explicit. With "devtools scripts" I meant the scripts
that are part of the Add-on Developer
Tools. In releaseAddOn.groovy you find this code:
private MapModel createReleaseMap(Proxy.Node node) { final ModeController modeController = Controller.getCurrentModeController() final MFileManager fileManager = (MFileManager) MFileManager.getController(modeController) MapModel releaseMap = new MMapModel() if (!fileManager.loadImpl(node.map.file.toURI().toURL(), releaseMap)) { LogUtils.warn("can not load " + node.map.file) return null } modeController.getMapController().fireMapCreated(releaseMap) return releaseMap }
Note that MFileManager.loadImpl() is deprecated since the last preview and you
should use MapIO in the future:
MapModel referenceMap = new MMapModel() MapIO mapIO = Controller.getCurrentModeController().getExtension(MapIO.class); MapModel newMap = mapIO.load(new File('path/reference.mm').toURL(), referenceMap); // use the non-proxy map model println referenceMap.rootNode.text // convert to script objects: def root = new NodeProxy(referencesMap.rootNode, null) println root.plainText
You may want to check out Freeplane sources for that and you have to be aware
of the fact that if you use these internal interfaces you might have to adjust
your code to interface changes more often than with the scripting API.
By the way: You should use [ with the for script editing. It will save you
much time.
Volker]()
thanks for the Eclipse tip.
This solution is rather annoying as it is less sustainable and cannot be used
in a public script or addon, I guess ...
Is there not a way to read a external map node properties via the scripting
API, or if not directly possible, via
some scripting to point to the node location ?
If a dynamic solution is not possible, I can get away with a raw solution : I
know the URI of the node (from the contextual menu) and would prefer to use it
to access the node properties.
targetNode = "file:/C:/Users/Michel/Documents/-%20FREE%20PLANE/devtools.mm#ID_482322757"
I'm trying to use something lilke this :
def mapFile = node.map.file def myMap = c.newMap(mapFile.toURL()) def temp = myMap.root.text
this works, but I can't replace the "mapFile" address by the known target map
address (I get an "unknown protocol c" error)
Thanks in advance,
Michel.
This solution is rather annoying as it is less sustainable and cannot be
used in a public script or addon, I guess ...
??? I'm using this API in the Developer Tools add-on as I said. Internal APIs
aren't subject of daily changes too. If I were you I would use the MapIO code.
Volker
Did I misinterpret your remark ?
you have to be aware of the fact that if you use these internal interfaces
you might have to adjust your code to interface changes more often than with
the scripting API.
Will try the MaIO code anyway.
Thank you.
some errors :
unable to resolve class MapModel
adding these (from releaseAddOn.groovy)
import java.io.File import java.util.zip.ZipEntry import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream import javax.swing.JOptionPane import org.freeplane.core.util.LogUtils import org.freeplane.features.map.MapModel import org.freeplane.features.map.MapWriter.Mode import org.freeplane.features.map.mindmapmode.MMapModel import org.freeplane.features.mode.Controller import org.freeplane.features.mode.ModeController import org.freeplane.features.url.mindmapmode.MFileManager import org.freeplane.plugin.script.proxy.NodeProxy import org.freeplane.plugin.script.proxy.Proxy
solves it, but then I get :
- unable to resolve class MapModel
oh well ... It can't be expected to work without the last preview, can it ???
But the download links don't not work right now.
Will try later.
with the latest preview, I get exactly the same errors.
after digging in the code and addon scripts, I got this to work :
import org.freeplane.features.map.MapWriter.Mode import org.freeplane.features.mode.ModeController import org.freeplane.plugin.script.proxy.NodeProxy import org.freeplane.plugin.script.proxy.Proxy import org.freeplane.features.map.MapModel; import org.freeplane.features.map.NodeModel; import org.freeplane.features.map.mindmapmode.MMapModel; import org.freeplane.features.mapio.MapIO; import org.freeplane.features.mapio.mindmapmode.MMapIO; import org.freeplane.features.mode.Controller; import org.freeplane.features.mode.mindmapmode.MModeController; import org.freeplane.features.text.TextController; def mapFile = node.map.file path = mapFile.parent targetMap = path + "\\" + "testExternalMap.mm" MapModel referenceMap = new MMapModel() MapIO mapIO = Controller.getCurrentModeController().getExtension(MapIO.class); MapModel newMap = mapIO.load(new File(targetMap).toURL(), referenceMap); def root = new NodeProxy(referenceMap.rootNode, null) def myList = root.getChildren().each{it.text == "Projects List"} def projects = myList[0].getChildren().text
where I read a list in an external map.
I thus can use an external map to hold many different lists / information as
reference and use (read and update) them at will on a working map, without
cluttering either maps.
Uh oh ... promising :-)
I'm not sure hot to clean the imports properly as I added them (ahem) by trial
and error, not knowing what should stay or not or for what reason.
I need to keep the ability to read or write the reference map at will.
What do you think should be included ?
Did I misinterpret your remark ?
Yes and no. The scripting API is more stable as we take special care for it in
order to not break the scripts that people have written. But the internal APIs
are also pretty stable and in case of MapIO the most likely change is that the
scripting API will support it directly...
In any case add-on developers should take some responsibility for maintaining
the compatibility of their add-ons over time. Take for example the Firefox
add-ons that had to be updated for each of the last releases (3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
...). If they had not adjusted their add-ons they had not been usable anymore.
Good news is Freeplane's API don't change as frequent as Firefox releases.
For the benefit of add-ons developers we should check all add-ons registered
on the Freeplane wiki for compatibility on new releases and inform the
developers about the required changes.
As you have found out the missing import was
import org.freeplane.features.mapio.MapIO
Unnecessary imports don't hurt but it's a matter of good style to remove them.
Eclipse has a "Organize imports" function that adds just the required imports
and removes all others. This is one reason (besides code completion, immediate
error checking etc.) to use Eclipse. I should document how to set up the
development environment.
Volker
thanks for the insight; I'm busy downloading Eclipse for RCP and RAP
Developers.
I was worrying about compatibility; could you have a check and tell me which
imports I should keep and which I can get rid of ?
I can find it myself by trial and error but I'm concerned that I might remove
one that is essential for read / write tasks or for whatever good reason, and
that I have a hard time finding the missing one further down the road.
Also, I'm thinking about publishing some add-ons and am not very familiar yet
with the whole thing; the proposed add-on test failed, but I will try it again
:-)
If you care to share your ideas about useful add-ons I could work on, let me
know.
I was thinking about converting / combining some of my scripts, but I don't
have a clear idea of the direction yet.
Anyways, I appreciate your help as usual.
Regards,
Michel.
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I recommend this book:
Looks great, I think i'll be purchasing that sometime this week unless I can find an ebook, dont really like ebooks though.
Ris wrote:
I recommend this book:
Looks great, I think i'll be purchasing that sometime this week unless I can find an ebook, dont really like ebooks though.
Thanks :)
Already got it though :P
Still having trouble with net beans though.
I can do Java applications but I'm only interesting in C++ :O
Javas nice, just not my thing lol
Oh I see, thank ya, I'll give that a try as soon as my updates are complete (probably just like 5 mins from the time of this post)
The error's are just that the libaries aren't there....
and EXIT_SUCCESS would be part of the library that it's missing.
So basically I just need to know what i need to get to get C++ Fully working with net beans; Other than the plugins.
And thanks for the info on KOffice, there site was saying I must compile from source.. so yeah, didn't even try the to install from terminal :D
what exactly is yum btw?
I've used it for installing apps, but there all just from guides, so not totally sure what it's function is, or it's meaning anyways.
[root@Ian ~]# yum install koffice
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 4445.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 22 M RSS (316 MB VSZ)
Started: Wed Jun 2 16:58:43 2010 - 00:06 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 4445
* fedora: mirrors.xmission.com
* rpmfusion-free: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* updates: mirrors.xmission.com
Setting up Install Process
No package koffice available.
Nothing to do
Sorry for the double post, but how can I get C++ working on NetBeans?
I installed the plugin for C++ on the NetBeans plugin installer, and it wont even compile with the basic headers.
#include <stdlib.h> <-- Error
/*
*
*/
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
return (EXIT_SUCCESS); <--- Error
}
Do I need to point to where my libraries are? Or is there another thing that I need to download for it to work?
I have been trying to install KOffice, also Code::Blocks.
Instead of using code blocks im now using NetBeans, however, I would still like to use KOffice.
I use Code::Blocks with MinGW on windows operating systems instead of VSC++ so I'm familiar with it.
I went to the site to download it not too long ago, and it doesn't look like they have one for Fedora.
Can you just compile it from source and have it work for any linux-based operating system?
If so, how do you compile from source without an IDE already installed?
Thanks for the replies everyone.
I'm liking Fedora a lot more than windows vista.
As of right now I'm resizing my partitions so I have more space on my linux system.
So far everything's been going pretty smooth, just having some trouble with flash player.
I've tried re-installing it, and it says it's already installed, but I can't view videos on youtube or any flash files for that matter.
Well I've choses Fedora.
Looks appealing!
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I have a requirement to support a query syntax on my resources like
so:
I can hook that up so that the people controller receives that action
via map.connect like so:
map.connect ‘:people_query_regexp’,
:controller => ‘people’,
:index => ‘index’,
:requirements => { :people_query_regexp => /people.*/ }
But people is a RESTful resource, so I want to do the same thing using
map.resources instead of map.connect. If I change the routing to:
map.resources ‘:parties_query_regexp’,
:controller => ‘parties’,
:requirements => { :parties_query_regexp => /
parties.*/ }
…then the server fails on startup like so:
lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.2.2/lib/action_controller/routing/
route_set.rb:141:in
define_hash_access': (eval):3:indefine_hash_access’: compile error
(SyntaxError) (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘\n’
or ‘;’
def hash_for_:people_query_regexp_index_pat…
It chokes on a syntax error because there’s a colon in the middle of
the method name it’s trying to define.
So is there a way around this? What am I doing wrong? This is Rails
2.2.2, btw.
Thanks.
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Here's the explanation of the problem:
PROBLEM:
OTHER STIPULATIONS (Made by Professor):OTHER STIPULATIONS (Made by Professor):When an object is falling because of gravity, the following formula can be used to determine the distance the object falls in a specific time period:
d = 1/2gt2
The variables in the formula are as follows:
-"d" is the distance in meters
-"g" is 9.8
-"t" is the amount of time (in seconds) that the object has been falling
Write a method named fallingDistance that accepts an object's falling time (in seconds) as an argument. The method should return the distance (in meters) that the object has fallen during that time interval. Demonstrate the method by calling it in a loop that passes the values 1 through 10 as arguments, and displays the return value.
And this is the sample Display Output we're suppose to have:And this is the sample Display Output we're suppose to have:-Instead of 9.8, make g = 9.80665
-Make "g" a named constant, and declare it locally inside fallingDistance.
OUTPUT:
output2.png
But, I got this..............
output.png
Lastly, here's my Java program that definitely needs some tweaking:
import java.text.DecimalFormat; public class fallingDistance { public static void main(String[] args) { int fallingTime = 0; String name1 = "Time", name2 = "Distance"; String name3 = "(seconds)", name4 = "(meters)"; DecimalFormat num = new DecimalFormat("#,###.00"); System.out.println("Falling Distance\n"); System.out.printf("%s %15s\n", name1, name2); System.out.printf("%s %10s\n", name3, name4); System.out.println(); for(int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) { fallingTime++; if(fallingTime > 1) { System.out.println(fallingTime + " " + num.format(fallingDistance(i))); } } } public static double fallingDistance(double fallingTime) { double g = 9.80665, a = 0.5; double d = a * g * Math.pow(fallingTime,2); return d; } }
I'll fix the spacing, making g constant, and all the little stuff. Just need help with the following:
NEED TO:
PLEASE HELP ME! Thanks!PLEASE HELP ME! Thanks!1) include the 1 and 4.90. It's not showing up for some reason, and don't know exactly how to put it in there.
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I am processing such an image as shown in Fig.1, which is composed of an array of points and required to convert to Fig. 2.
Fig.1 original image
Fig.2 wanted image
In order to finish the conversion, firstly I detect the
edge of every point and then operate
dilation. The result is satisfactory after choosing the proper parameters, seen in Fig. 3.
Fig.3 image after dilation
I processed the same image before in MATLAB. When it comes to shrink objects (in Fig.3) to pixels, function
bwmorph(Img,'shrink',Inf) works and the result is exactly where Fig. 2 comes from. So how to get the same wanted image in opencv? It seems that there is no similar
shrink function.
Here is my code of finding edge and dilation operation:
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>
using namespace cv;
// Global variables
Mat src, dilation_dst;
int dilation_size = 2;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
IplImage* img = cvLoadImage("c:\\001a.bmp", 0); // 001a.bmp is Fig.1
// Perform canny edge detection
cvCanny(img, img, 33, 100, 3);
// IplImage to Mat
Mat imgMat(img);
src = img;
// Create windows
namedWindow("Dilation Demo", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
Mat element = getStructuringElement(2, // dilation_type = MORPH_ELLIPSE
Size(2*dilation_size + 1, 2*dilation_size + 1),
Point(dilation_size, dilation_size));
// Apply the dilation operation
dilate(src, dilation_dst, element);
imwrite("c:\\001a_dilate.bmp", dilation_dst);
imshow("Dilation Demo", dilation_dst);
waitKey(0);
return 0;
}
1- Find all the contours in your image.
2- Using moments find their center of masses. Example:
/// Get moments vector<Moments> mu(contours.size() ); for( int i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++ ) { mu[i] = moments( contours[i], false ); } /// Get the mass centers: vector<Point2f> mc( contours.size() ); for( int i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++ ) { mc[i] = Point2f( mu[i].m10/mu[i].m00 , mu[i].m01/mu[i].m00 ); }
3- Create zero(black) image and write all the center points on it.
4- Note that you will have extra one or two points coming from border contours. Maybe you can apply some pre-filtering according to the contour areas, since the border is a big connected contour having large area.
It's not very fast, but I implemented the morphological filtering algorithm from Digital Image Processing, 4th Edition by William K. Pratt. This should be exactly what you're looking for.
The code is MIT licensed and available on GitHub at cgmb/shrink.
Specifically, I've defined
cv::Mat cgmb::shrink_max(cv::Mat in) to shrink a given
cv::Mat of
CV_8UC1 type until no further shrinking can be done.
So, if we compile Shrink.cxx with your program and change your code like so:
#include "Shrink.h" // add this line ... dilate(src, dilation_dst, element); dilation_dst = cgmb::shrink_max(dilation_dst); // and this line imwrite("c:\\001a_dilate.bmp", dilation_dst);
We get this:
By the way, your image revealed a bug in Octave Image's implementation of bwmorph shrink. Figure 2 should not be the result of a shrink operation on Figure 3, as the ring shouldn't be broken by a shrink operation. If that ring disappeared in MATLAB, it presumably also suffers from some sort of similar bug.
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These programs are exercises in a book I am using.
The 1st is a reverse guess my number program where the comp. guesses my stored number. My main problem is that it never jumps out of my do loop even though I know for a fact it guessed my number. Also if the argument time(0) is placed in the function srand() it just gives me numbers increasing by 3.
Code:#include<iostream> #include<ctime> #include<cstdlib> using namespace std; int main() { int myNumber,tries=0; int guess = rand() %100 +1; cout<<"What's your secret number 1-100 : "; cin>>myNumber; do { srand(tries); int guess = (rand() %100) +1; cout<<guess<<endl; ++tries; } while (myNumber!=guess); cout<<"\nDang it YOU GUESSED IT\n"; cout<<"It took you "<<tries<<" tries."; return 0; }
The second is menu chooser type. If I try to build it I get the Error
" no match for 'operator>>' in 'std::cin>>myDifficulty' "
From what I have read an enumeration associates numbers with strings so if the user in my program typed in 1,2,3 it should run through my if statements as usual.
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I've discovered another flaw in using this technique:
(+contents:petroleum +contents:engineer +contents:refinery)
(+boost:petroleum +boost:engineer +boost:refinery)
It's possible that the first clause will produce a matching doc and none of
the terms in the second clause are used to score that doc. Yet another
reason to use BoostingTermQuery.
Peter
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Peter Keegan <peterlkeegan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me give some background on the problem behind my question.
>
> Our index contains many fields (title, body, date, city, etc). Most queries
> search all fields, but for best performance, we create an additional
> 'contents' field that contains all terms from all fields so that only one
> field needs to be searched. Some fields, like title and city, are boosted by
> a factor of 5. In order to make term boosting work, we create an additional
> field 'boost' that contains all the terms from the boosted fields (title,
> city).
>
> Then, at search time, a query for "petroleum engineer" gets rewritten to:
> (+contents:petroleum +contents:engineer) (+boost:petroleum +boost:engineer).
> Note that the two clauses are OR'd so that a term that exists in both fields
> will get a higher weight in the 'boost' field. This works quite well at
> boosting documents with terms that exist in the boosted fields. However, it
> doesn't work properly if excluded terms are added, for example:
>
> (+contents:petroleum +contents:engineer -contents:drilling)
> (+boost:petroleum +boost:engineer -boost:drilling)
>
> If a document contains the term 'drilling' in the 'body' field, but not in
> the 'title' or 'city' field, a false hit occurs.
>
> Enter payloads and 'BoostingTermQuery'. At indexing time, as terms are
> added to the 'contents' field, they are assigned a payload (value=5) if the
> term also exists in one of the boosted fields. The 'scorePayload' method in
> our Similarity class returns the payload value as a score. The query no
> longer contains the 'boost' fields and is simply:
>
> +contents:petroleum +contents:engineer -contents:drilling
>
> The goal is to make the payload technique behavior similar to the 'boost'
> field technique. The problem is that relevance scores of the top hits are
> sometimes quite different. The reason is that the IDF values for a given
> term in the 'boost' field is often much higher than the same term in the
> 'contents' field. This makes sense because the 'boost' field contains a
> fairly small subset of the 'contents' field. Even with a payload of '5', a
> low IDF in the 'contents' field usually erases the effect of the payload.
>
> I have found a fairly simple (albeit inelegant) solution that seems to
> work. The 'boost' field is still created as before, but it is only used to
> compute IDF values for the weight class
> 'BoostingTermQuery.BoostingTermWeight. I had to make this class 'public' so
> that I could override the IDF value as follows:
>
> public class MNSBoostingTermQuery extends BoostingTermQuery {
> public MNSBoostingTermQuery(Term term) {
> super(term);
> }
> protected class MNSBoostingTermWeight extends
> BoostingTermQuery.BoostingTermWeight {
> public MNSBoostingTermWeight(BoostingTermQuery query, Searcher
> searcher) throws IOException {
> super(query, searcher);
> java.util.HashSet<Term> newTerms = new java.util.HashSet<Term>();
> // Recompute IDF based on 'boost' field
> Iterator i = terms.iterator();
> Term term=null;
> while (i.hasNext()) {
> term = (Term)i.next();
> newTerms.add(new Term("boost", term.text()));
> }
> this.idf = this.query.getSimilarity(searcher).idf(newTerms,
> searcher);
> }
> }
> }
>
> Any thoughts about a better implementation are welcome.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsingers@apache.org>wrote:
>
>> Not
>>
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The most common Ember.js Octane mistakes and how to avoid them
A month ago, I asked some Ember.js redditors about the most common mistakes they and their teams made while writing Ember apps using Octane, which is a word to describe the latest and greatest way to write Ember apps. Today, we’ll cover what those mistakes were and how to avoid them!
To learn what Octane is in the first place, check out the release blog post.
This is a lot to remember, so keep a bookmark to the Octane Cheat Sheet handy for the future.
Not reading the linting errors
A lot of the most common mistakes in Ember can be avoided by making good use of Ember’s linting errors. Having an up-to-date ember-template-lint and eslint-plugin-ember installed in your app can make a huge difference in catching errors for you, along with looking at the browser developer console while clicking through your app, and also paying attention to the output when you run
ember serve. There are at least 10 really common mistakes I made while learning that we don’t have to cover here thanks to these linters, such as forgetting to mark something as
tracked.
If you are working with a new Ember dev who is struggling, checking to make sure that they can see linting errors in their code editor, browser console, and terminal is the first step to helping out.
Overlooking where a component imports from
When you are working with an Octane style component, it imports from
@glimmer/component instead of
@ember/component.
These two types of components have different APIs and behaviors. There’s not a one-to-one match. Compare the API documentation for “classic” components vs Octane-style Glimmer components. The most confusion happens when new Ember devs stumble across old blog posts and code snippets, without realizing that those examples don’t really apply to modern Ember.
If you’re working on an existing Ember app, you’ll probably see both types of components for a while. If you want to read about the comparisons or are wondering which you should use, check out the Upgrade Guide. For day-to-day work, use the Classic vs. Octane Cheat Sheet.
Component property scope
Here, we’re talking about the difference between
this.args.something vs
this.something.
When you are working with an Octane style component, which imports from
@glimmer/component instead of
@ember/component, you need to pay close attention to where the component properties are coming from.
If you pass a property into a component like this:
<MyComponent @
When you are in the
my-component.js file, you refer to the passed-in argument using
this.args :
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';export default class MyComponent extends Component { @action
clickedAButton() {
console.log(this.args.charity) // this is "350.org"
console.log(this.charity) // this is undefined
}
}
The properties that belong to the
MyComponent Class directly are referred to by
this.somePropertyName:
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';export default class MyComponent extends Component {anotherCharity = "The Water Project";@action
clickedAButton() {
console.log(this.args.charity) // prints "350.org"
console.log(this.charity) // prints undefined
console.log(this.anotherCharity) // prints "The Water Project"
console.log(this.args.anotherCharity) // prints undefined }
}
Learn more in the Upgrade Guide and the main guides section on Component Arguments.
Trying to use didInsertElement and other classic lifecycle hooks
When a component is imported from
@glimmer/component, it doesn’t have the same lifecycle hooks as classic components, like didInsertElement, didUpdateAttribute, etc.
All you get out-of-the-box are
constructor and
willDestroy, as you can see in the API documentation.
So, what if you needed that
didInsertElement? I used it very often! Install ember-render-modifiers and start using the
{{did-insert}} and other lifecycle modifiers in your templates.
Learn more about Template Lifecycle, DOM, and Modifiers in the Guides, or read what the Upgrade Guide has to say.
Trying to use this.element
A component imported from
@glimmer/component doesn’t have a
this.element. It will just show up as undefined. The reason is that with one of these new components, you can choose any wrapping element you want! No need for tagName and classBindings anymore. But, it does mean that you need to look up whatever element you are using as a wrapper, if there is one.
For the most part, you can use
ember-render-modifiers instead, since they pass the target element to the function as the first argument:
<div {{did-insert this.doAnimation}}>
You get the element below:
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import animate from 'some-animation-library-you-use'export default class MyComponent extends Component { doAnimation(element) {
animate(element) }
}
You can also install ember-modfier and write your own modifer, if you prefer.
In other cases, like for managing focus, you can make your own element id. Or, you can install and use addons like ember-ref-modifier, as described in the Guides.
Forgetting to set defaults for component arguments
I made this mistake a few times. I wrote some components with optional actions that you could pass in, like a
validate function to check a form input. But if those components don’t have a default fallback action, they will cause a type error when the code runs, like
this.args.validate is not a function:
Problem code that is prone to a type error:
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';export default class MyComponent extends Component {
@action
submitForm() {
let isValid = this.args.validate(this.formContents) // THIS IS BRITTLE!
if (isValid) {
this.postForm(formContents)
}
} @action postForm() {
// some code that posts the form
}
}
Your choices are, you can either do an “if” check to see if the action exists:
if (this.args.validate) {
this.args.validate(formContents)
}
Or, what I prefer is using a getter to set a default:
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';export default class MyComponent extends Component { get validate() {
return this.args.validate || () => { true }; } @action
submitForm() {
// note that now we are using this.validate,
// not this.args.validate!
let isValid = this.validate(this.formContents)
if (isValid) {
this.postForm(formContents)
}
} @action postForm() {
// some code that posts the form
}
}
Not installing the necessary dependencies
Ember is moving towards a place where you install the dependencies you need, and leave out the ones you don’t. This means that sometimes, what you read about in the Guides or blog posts are things that you need to explicitly install in your app! Here’s a short list of some of the optional, but common addons in Octane:
- ember-render-modifiers, for using things like
{{did-render}}
- ember-modifier, for writing your own modifiers
- ember-template-lint, for avoiding the most avoidable mistakes
- ember-auto-import, for zero-config use of most npm packages
- @glimmer/component for using Octane-style components at all. See the Upgrade Guide for all the other config changes you need to make.
Skipping over learning Native JavaScript Classes
Octane makes such heavy use of object-oriented programming and JavaScript Classes that it’s really important to at least review what a normal, non-Ember-y JavaScript class is like. Check out the docs on MDN. A lot of things become clearer when you have this foundation.
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If I did, can you let me know? Or better yet, write your own blog post, share on Stack Overflow , or write on the Discuss forums to add to the growing, publicly searchable collection of Octane Q&A.
If you think your common mistakes are due to a gap in the learning materials, you can open an issue or PR for the Ember Guides repository.
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Okay here is some code I have made:
/*============================================= Number Guessing Game Uses the srand() function and loops. James Duncan Bennet - james.bennet1@ntlworld.com ===========================================*/ #include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> #include <ctime> #include <fstream> #include <string> using namespace std; int guess = 0; int tries = 0; string line; int main() { srand(time(0)); int randomNumber = rand() % 50 + 1; // Generate a random number between 1 and 50 cout << endl << "The Number Guessing Game" << endl; // Display a welcome message for the user ifstream infile ("hiscore.txt"); // Open hiscore file for reading cout << "The highscore is: "; while (! infile.eof() ) //Check the whole file { getline (infile,line); cout << line ; } infile.close(); cout << endl; do { cout << endl << "What is your guess? (1-50): "; cin >> guess; // Put the user input in the variable "guess" if (guess < randomNumber) // If the users guess is less than the random number cout << "Too low. Try again!" << endl; if (guess > randomNumber) // If the users guess is more than the random number cout << "Too high. Try again!" << endl; tries++; //Increment "tries" by 1 each loop } while (guess != randomNumber); // Loop it while the users guess is not equal to the random number cout << endl << "Ta-Dah! Thats the number I was looking for!" << endl; cout << "It took you: " << tries << " attempts to guess the correct answer.\n" << endl; //Some feedback for the user system("pause"); //Wait for any key to be pressed ofstream outfile ("hiscore.txt"); //Open hiscore file for writing outfile << tries << " Tries \n"; //Save hiscore outfile.close(); return 0; //Return a successful execution }
How can I make it only save the highscore if it is less than the existing one?
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Two opposed views about the "no continuations in Ruby 2.0" announcement:
Patrick Logan: Ruby Sucks?
Don Box: Two Excellent Things for Ruby at Microsoft.
Sorry for the silly news headline. I thought dropping continuations was a really bad news item, along the lines of: "Cool New Dynamic Language Lamed to Be Fair to Others." But I don't mean this as a troll. The following is what I really mean to say, not preceding headlines.
In my work life, absence of continuations in C and C++ is an ongoing source of pain and unnecessary work: managing, adjusting, and upgrading what folks use instead seems a waste. At times, something like 40 to 50 percent of my work load seems due to absence of continuations. (But to be fair, this isn't apparent to coworkers who mightn't notice several problems we solve are equivalent to simpler effects under continuations.)
I gather a number of folks consider continuations to be a really geeky feature that doesn't matter much to anyone in the real world. But in fact, the things you might end up doing in their absence are much more complex, even if continuations seem complex themselves. In some system apps, a flexible style of green threads using continuations would be better than alternatives that sinter together event and thread-based subsystems.
Anyway, it just seems like dropping continuations from Ruby means it can't be used for exotic optimization games in multi threaded servers, and makes me stop thinking about it, when that was one primary reason my interest had been piqued.
So you're saying lack of full continuations, even in the presence of exceptions, sigjmp/longjmp, OS-level threads, etc. almost doubles your workload? I'm curious what kind of programming you're doing. For scripting, text-processing, interactive prototyping and simple dynamic and static web pages, I have never felt an urge to reach for continuations. Not once (and yes, I do know what they are and some ways they can be used). The only place I've felt the desire is in writing an NFA regex engine, something few people do, and still fewer *need* to do.
I can understand that full continuations might be interesting to people experimenting with programming languages (not just the trivial "DSLs" that seem to be so popular nowadays), but I don't think those people have ever been Ruby's target audience. And I think for that target audience, and indeed the great bulk of programmers, having a fully-operational alternative to Java/C# on the JVM/CLR is far more important.
===EDIT===
I think I may have been confused. :) I believe I was thinking of closures and not continuations. I think I'll leave this here for now, so that I can be corrected as necessary.
===END===
Caveat: I'm still working on learning all the proper terminology for things, but if I understand correctly, a continuation is when you essentially wrap up the current state into an object that can then be referred to later, right? (that's probably a horrible way of describing it)
Anyway, assuming I understand the term correctly, then the following silly Javascript (using the Prototype library) would be making use of continuations:
function foo( a ) {
var b = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
var c = 42;
b.each( function(i) { c += i * a; } );
return c;
}
Anyway, my point is (assuming proper understanding on my part), that I find it hard to imagine that you can't find places where continuations are useful in everyday programming. The kind of looping structures above are very common when using the Prototype Javascript library. I admit that if the language had something like a "normal" foreach as in Perl or PHP or whatever, then the above wouldn't be necessary, but that obviously isn't the only use I've seen for them. Another simple example:
function delayedMessage( m ) {
setTimeout( function() { alert(m); }, 10000 );
}
Being able to build constructs like this have been huge timesavers in some of the web apps I've worked on recently resulting in less code. I believe the code reduction comes from not having to manually move around so much state - I can wrap things up in a function object, return that, and then some code later can call it. It allows for far better composition and generality of functions in those (in my experience, frequent) situations where the needs of one function are almost identical to the needs of another except for some small logic in an if-test in the middle someplace.
I think I may have been confused. :) I believe I was thinking of closures and not continuations. I think I'll leave this here for now, so that I can be corrected as necessary.
There is a nice explanation of continuations in Kent Dybvig's Scheme book.
Section VII of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation is another good introduction.
I can understand that full continuations might be interesting to people experimenting with programming languages (not just the trivial "DSLs" that seem to be so popular nowadays), but I don't think those people have ever been Ruby's target audience.
The problem is that the experimenters are the ones who coax other people into using a new language. I don't think Ruby's popular enough yet that it can afford to lose the early adopters—and that's what's going to happen, because nobody wants to trust their weight to a language that drops features. It doesn't matter whether those features are heavily used; if any applications stop working, the language's reputation will suffer.
The problem is that the experimenters are the ones who coax other people into using a new language.
We're talking about different kinds of "experimenters" here. I agree that PL design innovators draw others, but those others are fellow PL researchers. Look at the rise of ML, Scheme, and Haskell following research at (I believe) Edinborough, Indiana, and Glasgow.
Scripting language popularity, however, is driven by being in the right place at the right time with the right features. Witness Perl's rise as a scripting and CGI programming language when the alternatives were mostly C and shell/awk/sed. For those purposes, perl was clearly better, and enjoyed wide adoption. In this game, it might be the best move for ruby (from a popularity/dominance perspective, whatever that's worth...) to try to become a scripting language portable across the two new VMs that seem to be taking over our world. They're going after programmers like Steve Yegge, who's unsatisfied with Java/C# and has a voice in the broader programmer community, not Simon Peyton-Jones or Dan Friedman, who are advancing programming languages and training new PL researchers.
OK, so I was talking about early adopters. Early adopters draw users, and early adopters generally have enough experience to mistrust languages (applications, OSes, whatever) that remove features.
But my point is weakened if they plan to put it in post-2.0.
In my everyday coding I wanted continuations every time I write something asynchronous.
Examples include
-Communications with server
-Animations
-Flash to desktop communications
-Timers
Consider simple scenario communicating with some server from web-page in AJAX way (the same applies to Flash):
var session = server.login(user, password);
var mailList = server.getMailList(session.id);
for(var i in mailList){
var mail = mailList[i];
if(mail.subject.search("Important!")){
var message = server.getLetter(sesion.id, mail.id);
saveMessageLocally(message);
}
}
server.logoff();
message("Done processing");
That code is simple and doesn't seem geeky at all.
But - there is no syncronous communications, only async.
Thanks, I have closures in JS, and this code becomes:
server.login(user, password, function(session){
server.getMailList(session.id, function(mailList){
for(var i in mailList){
var mail = mailList[i];
if(mail.subject.search("Important!")){
server.getLetter(sesion.id, mail.id, function(message){
saveMessagLocally(message);
})
}
}
server.logoff(function(){
message("Done processing");
})
})
})
Almost the same in shape, but geeky and harder to understand.
Now add proper exception handlers, and it will become even more complicated.
The same about animations, e.g to deal 5 cards one after one the next code should work.
for(var i=0; i<cards.length; i++)
dealCardWithAnimation(card[i]);
or just
cards.forEach(dealCardWithAnimation);
Simple, nice, clear.
But impossible.
At least I do not find the way how to achieve this without continuations. Maybe that way exists, but for now all I know that this way is continuations. Narrative JS tries to solve this, but with special syntax and special compiler.
So for me continuations are not about geeky code, but exactly the opposite. And if not 50%, then 30 at least are about continuations.
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Would coroutines suffice for these needs or would you need the full call/cc?
call/cc
sean So you're saying lack of full continuations, even in the presence of exceptions, sigjmp/longjmp, OS-level threads, etc. almost doubles your workload? I'm curious what kind of programming you're doing.
(I don't enjoy talking about myself as much as I used to. But perhaps I asked for it.) I'm not typical. Other folks wouldn't have as much load reduced by continuations unless they do a lot of async programming such as in high volume networking.
As noted on this page by Vassily Gavrilyak, async communications can be simplified by continuations. The semantics of Erlang might be a good for the sorts of apps I've been doing a while now, but the systems are in C++ and I don't get to choose.
My work is the intersection of what's available where I live during some job search time frame, and what interests me. But job availability is the big constraint. For the last six years this has landed me in Linux servers in C++ focusing on scaling and optimization of network communications, with mixed control models using both OS threads and async event dispatchers.
The part of full continuations I want is resuming a green thread after an async event arrives, since the way this gets done in systems I see is often fragile, with occasional exciting impedance mismatches with other threaded parts of the system. Addition of new optimization features has the effect of finding places where old things didn't fit together as well as they might have. Figuring out how to do something right in this context is now often more costly than all memory allocation I ever do (which used to be the big time sink).
Full continuations would only reduce my work load that much because absence of them creates a work load that tends to get routed to me instead of someone else. So it's partly self selection, and not something true for everyone. The work load crops up more when you try to maximize simultaneous server connections and minimize number of OS threads, and then keep adding entropy through change and feature addition.
It would be rather easier to marry together sync and async code, in threads and without threads, if continuations resolved various problems caused after folks paint themselves into corners. (I suspect the source code base to do servers I see would be much smaller, by some factor on the order of say, five, if full continuations were easily leveraged instead.)
Rys -- thanks for the detailed response. I think I understand why continuations might be a big win for you. However for what I do (and, I think, what many others do), the coarse-grained parallelism of OS processes or threads is enough, and the memory protection and encapsulation afforded by the former are enough of a win to make up for some performance limits. And from what I understand, getting full continuations to work without penalizing the performance of the rest of the language is a challenge like getting efficient laziness in Haskell or bare-metal performance in Java. In all these cases you need a "sufficiently smart compiler", which requires significant genius and/or money. For all its hype, I think Ruby has only a handful of VM hackers, and probably not enough to pull this off.
(btw, this is one of the reasons I admire C++ for all its faults: you never pay a performance price for features you don't use. If only this approach could scale smoothly over a broader range...)
The example above seems to me not so much a problem of having continuations but a problem of having first-class functions, i.e. being able to express a function as a literal, and of course enclosing the outer environment in it.
Without continuations one usually has to program the event loop using explicit Continuation Passing Style (CPS). With full language support for continuations one could program in the blocking I/O style while still allowing the behind-the-scenes implementation to be non-blocking. The reason for wanting to do such a thing is usually to avoid the "inversion" of control flow which can happen with CPS-style nonblocking I/O; most people probably find the blocking I/O style easier to follow and it permits one to hide a lot of (essentially irrelevant) state behind a nice abstraction barrier where it belongs.
I gather a number of folks consider continuations to be a really geeky feature that doesn't matter much to anyone in the real world.
Yep. This seems to be true even for persons like Paul Graham who invented continuation based web programming.
FWIW here's a very quick and dirty implementation of continuations and green threads in C++ via Duff's device and trampoline:
#include <stdio.h>
struct Continuation;
typedef Continuation* (*Function)(Continuation* cont);
struct Continuation
{
Function code;
int caseLabel;
// any captured free variables follow..
};
struct Producer : Continuation { int i; };
Producer gProducer;
struct Consumer : Continuation {};
Consumer gConsumer;
enum { kChannel_Empty, kChannel_HaveValue, kChannel_EndOfStream };
template <typename T>
struct Channel
{
int state;
T value;
};
Channel<int> gChannel;
#define PROCESS_BEGIN switch (p->caseLabel) { case 0 : ;
#define PROCESS_YIELD(CONTINUATION) p->caseLabel = __LINE__; return (CONTINUATION); case __LINE__ : ;
#define PROCESS_END } return NULL;
#define SEND(CHANNEL, VALUE, CONTINUATION) \
while ((CHANNEL).state == kChannel_HaveValue) { \
PROCESS_YIELD(CONTINUATION); \
} \
(CHANNEL).value = VALUE; \
(CHANNEL).state = kChannel_HaveValue;
#define ENDOFSTREAM(CHANNEL, CONTINUATION) \
while ((CHANNEL).state == kChannel_HaveValue) { \
PROCESS_YIELD(CONTINUATION); \
} \
(CHANNEL).state = kChannel_EndOfStream;
#define ISENDOFSTREAM(CHANNEL) ((CHANNEL).state == kChannel_EndOfStream)
#define RECV(CHANNEL, CONTINUATION) \
while ((CHANNEL).state == kChannel_Empty) { \
PROCESS_YIELD(CONTINUATION); \
} \
Continuation* producerFun(Producer* p)
{
PROCESS_BEGIN;
for (p->i = 0; p->i < 100; ++p->i) {
SEND(gChannel, p->i, &gConsumer);
}
ENDOFSTREAM(gChannel, &gConsumer);
PROCESS_YIELD(&gConsumer);
PROCESS_END;
}
Continuation* consumerFun(Consumer* p)
{
PROCESS_BEGIN;
while (true) {
RECV(gChannel, &gProducer);
if (ISENDOFSTREAM(gChannel)) break;
printf("%d\n", gChannel.value);
gChannel.state = kChannel_Empty;
}
PROCESS_END;
}
int main (int argc, char * const argv[])
{
// initialize
gProducer.code = (Function)producerFun;
gProducer.caseLabel = 0;
gConsumer.code = (Function)consumerFun;
gConsumer.caseLabel = 0;
gChannel.state = kChannel_Empty;
// run trampoline loop
Continuation* c = &gConsumer;
while (c)
c = (*c->code)(c);
return 0;
}
I've tried to compile your code with MSVC 8.0 and I got the following:
c:\temp\cc\main.cpp(57) : error C2051: case expression not constant
c:\temp\cc\main.cpp(59) : error C2051: case expression not constant
c:\temp\cc\main.cpp(60) : error C2051: case expression not constant
c:\temp\cc\main.cpp(68) : error C2051: case expression not constant
I used gcc. Your compiler is broken. A workaround is here.
...but I am using MSVC++ 2005 and Microsoft does not say the bug exists in that version.
Anyway I will try it with gcc...
EDIT:
I've tried it...it seems like a fancy way to alternate execution of two separate code blocks...cool, but I would not want to use that in projects.
By the way, on a lighter note, why 'real compilers' are not Microsoft ones? :-)
it seems like a fancy way to alternate execution of two separate code blocks
That was just an example of coroutines using continuations. You could put a real thread scheduler in there instead of calling the coroutine directly. I prefer the stackless ways to get continuations in C to those that use setjmp. Yes it is trouble because you have to CPS convert a lot by hand, or use the Duff's device trick.
Trampolines are described here: Trampolined style. But I first read about them in this paper: Implementing lazy functional languages on stock hardware: the Spineless Tagless G-machine Version 2.5 in section 6.2.2.
From your example, threading is co-operative...a 'thread' yields execution to the scheduler which in turn decides 'what to do next'...this thing can not be preemptive, can it?
It needs to periodically perform an operation which can be redirected by a timer signal to switch the context.
In GHC the operation is memory allocation. In my implementation of Kogut it's allocating a stack frame.
The /Zi compiler option (Or "Edit and Continue" mode in the Visual Studio GUI) makes it possible to rebuild a modified function, and link it into a running executable on the fly. Very handy while debugging, but something a bit conceptually foreign to C++, which normally doesn't do runtime code modifications...
Prior to VS2005, __LINE__ were inaccurate if you did this, since changing the source code usually moved lines of code up/down the file even in functions which you didn't otherwise modify. This is the bug report that got linked to, which was 'fixed' in VS2005.
Now (in VS2005), __LINE__ is (only in /Zi mode) a global variable reference, which the toolchain will adjust when it relinks to introduce a modification. So now it stays accurate vs. the source code, but it is no longer constant (since it can, in fact, change when you do an edit and continue). Which means you can't use it for case labels, array sizes, or anything else that have to be compile-time constants. Like this tricky use of it in Duffs device :-)
You can either shut off /Zi mode (which eliminates the problem since line numbers *are* constant if you can't partially recompile at runtime), or you can use __COUNTER__ instead of __LINE__ to generate the unique case labels. __COUNTER__ simply increments each time it's used, without being tied to source line numbers, so edit and continue doesn't mess it up. It's MS-specific, but so is edit&continue...
I'm not sure I understand the reason why continuations are being dropped. Yes there is some rationalization about continuations being rarely used. But I'm wondering what Ruby gains in the decision?
As I understand, Ruby is in need of some performance boosts. Will dropping continuations improve speed? And the implementation of continuations in JRuby appears to be problematic? Is there no way to implement continuations in the JVM?
Apparently, the interpreter is being reimplemented from scratch; they want to write it without continuations, and then put them in later, after 2.0.
Koichi and matz have both said that continuations will be missing from early versions of YRAV (the new Ruby virtual machine), but they both want to get them back in as soon as possible. It's just a prioritization. Please see here (chadfowler.com), here (on-ruby.blogspot.com — my blog), or the first couple of comments here () for more information.
Wow! I was about to ask for small examples of how call/cc is used in practice, but instead I can simply google codesearch for callcc lang:ruby. Very good!
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pijamas 0.3.2
A BDD assertion library for D
To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:
pijamas
<img src="" align="left"/> A BDD assertion library for D.
Forked from Yamadacpc's Pyjamas
Example
import pyjamas; 10.should.equal(10); 5.should.not.equal(10); [1, 2, 3, 4].should.include(3);
Introduction
Pyjamas, and by extension Pijamas, is an assertion library heavily inspired by visionmedia'ś should.js module for Node.JS.
General Assertions
Pijamas exports a single function
should meant for public use. Because of D's
lookup shortcut syntax, one is able to use both
should(obj) and
obj.should
to get an object wrapped around an
Assertion instance.
.be
.as
.of
.a
.and
.have
.which
These methods all are aliases for an identity function, returning the assertion instance without modification. This allows one to have a more fluent API, by chaining statements together:
10.should.be.equal(10); [1, 2, 3, 4].should.have.length(4); approxEqual(U)(U other, U maxRelDiff = 1e-2, U maxAbsDiff = 1e-05, string file = __FILE__, size_t line = __LINE__);
Asserts for aproximated equality of float types. Returns the value wrapped around the assertion.
(1.0f).should.be.approxEqual(1.00000001); (1.0f).should.not.be.approxEqual(1.001);
T exist(string file = __FILE__, size_t line = __LINE__);
Asserts whether a value exists - currently simply compares it with
null, if it
is convertible to
null (actually strings, pointers and classes). Returns the
value wrapped around the assertion.
auto exists = "I exist!"; should(exists).exist; string doesntexist; doesntexist"
bool empty(string file = __FILE__, size_t line = __LINE__);
Asserts that the .lenght property or function value is equal to 0;
[].should.be.empty; "".should.be.empty;(string;
Need more documentation?
I know the documentation is still somewhat lacking, but it's better than nothing, I guess? :)
Try looking at the test suite in
tests/pyjamas_spec.d
to see some "real world" testing of the library. Even though we are using Silly
testing runner, this library is supposed to be framework agnostic.
BTW, I'll be glad to accept help in writting the documentation.
Tests
Run tests with:
dub test
Why 'Pijamas'
The original project was name "Pyjamas", a name that could be confuse, and have name clash on search engines, with Python's Pyjamas framework. So a new name sees a good idea. Pijamas is the word on Spanish and English for "Pyjamas", so it's a start. If anyone have a better name, hurry up to suggest it.
License
This code is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.
- Registered by Luis Panadero Guardeño
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REST + SOAP
By Sam Ruby, July 20, 2002.
The introduction of the Web Method Specification Feature in SOAP 1.2 hopefully will allow the continuing REST vs SOAP debate to focus on the substantive differences between these two approaches. This essay captures what I consider to be the strengths of each approach, and outlines a path whereby one can "cherry pick" the best features of each in designing an application.Rest vs RPC
In reality, there aren't two sides. There are at least four.
- Everything is a resource
- Everything is a get
- Everything is a message
- Everything is a procedure
Telling these guys apart is sometimes difficult. Here's a few clues. Read them along the lines of a Jeff Foxworthy "you might be a redneck if..."
You might be a Resource guy if you actually use HTTP PUT
You might be a Get guy if you use URLs to request parameterized actions
You might be a Message guy if you actually use XML attributes
You might be a Procedure guy if you feel you must encode XML in order to pass it as a parameter
OK, So, I won't quit my day job. But the key points here is that not all HTTP GETs are RESTful, nor are all SOAP calls RPC.
Brief history of software engineering
Several key points here. If your leanings are towards REST, then contemplate the notion of stored procedures: why do most modern relational database systems support such a concept? What problem do stored procedures solve? If your leanings are towards SOAP, get prepared for the object reference to move outside of the parenthesis. Either way, realize that things you believe in strongly today may - nay will - get abstracted away in the future.
Resources vs Services
From a protocol (i.e., what goes across the wire) perspective - what's the key difference? To put it in the most simplest of terms, the difference is between what goes inside the envelope and what goes outside. When you mail a check to a credit card company, do you put your account number inside or outside of the envelope? This difference might seem a bit esoteric, but the object oriented revolution can also be expressed in similarly simple terms.
An example of the difference is encoding - in other words, specifying the character set used. If you send XML over HTTP, there is a redundancy. XML provides for the specification of encoding, as does HTTP. The fact is, when you have two places where a piece of data can be represented, you open up the possibility of consistency problems. This exists in HTTP as HTTP is designed to be independent of the representation of the resource, and it exists in XML as encoding is not only relevant during transfer, but also when it is locally transformed or stored.
The most extreme difference between these two models is on the name of resource itself. In REST, the resource is identified outside of the envelope a Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). While SOAP doesn't preclude this possibility, most soap services deployed today aren't designed in this fashion. This is not all bad. Once you realize that an architecture point of view, whether this service is accessed via GET or POST doesn't make it any more RESTful, you realize that Google is a service. One which permits parameters to be encoded on the URL.
Key point here: when designing for resilience in the face of changing requirements, it generally behooves one to make choices that preclude the least number of future alternatives. In particular, one needs to be prepared for the dynamic creation of new resources, parameterized requests, and obtaining the identifiers of resources in responses.
The Dark Matter of the Internet
Cosmologists have long posited the existence of dark matter whose sole purpose is to contribute enough inertia to stop the infinite expansion of the universe. In physics, the way one generally makes observations is by bouncing a few photons off of the subject. For large bodies, the effect on the subject is miniscule and can largely be ignored.
On the internet, the analogy to a photon would be a HTTP GET. Clay Shirkey wrote an excellent article referring to PC's as the dark matter of the internet, largely because, they as a general rule, don't respond to HTTP GET. Unfortunately, the same is true of virtually al SOAP 1.1 services. While they may interact with one another using alternate mechanisms over HTTP, they don't interact with HTTP GET making them all but inaccessible to a large number of clients.
SOAP 1.2's WebMethod feature provides the means to shed some light on this situation. In the words of the spec
Applications SHOULD use GET as the value of
webmeth:Methodin conjunction with the 6.3 SOAP Response Message Exchange Pattern to support information retrievals which are safe, and for which no parameters other than a URI are required; I.e. when performing retrievals which are idempotent, known to be free of side effects, for which no SOAP request headers are required, and for which security considerations do not conflict with the possibility that cached results would be used.
The key point here is that applications that desire to be broadly accessible should be designed with this in mind - in other words, to maximize their visible surface area.
Structural support
I have the utmost respect for those individuals who developed the protocols that became the backbone of the modern internet. However, I also have equal respect for those that built the networks that allow our financial institutions to securely transfer funds (e.g., CICS). And for those that have developed OLTP databases that are capable of handing hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and terrabytes of data (for examples, see TPC).
It is worth noting that many web sites are updated using mechanisms such as ftp and xcopy. So, while REST is clearly Turing complete, its best known application (i.e., the internet), only clealy demonstrates its applicability and scalability to highly read only and mostly public data. It is the expression of higher level operations (particularly ones that perform non-atomic updates) that SOAP's value proposition becomes apparent. Sometimes, one truly wants to have an atomic "transfer funds from savings to checking" transaction instead of simply a series of discrete GET and PUT's.
And for all of it's greatness, REST does little to assure that the HTML I produce will render properly in the browser of your choice. That's simply left as an exercise for the student. That's where WSDL comes in. WSDL builds upon your choice of schema languages (though XML Schema seems to have take an early and apparently commanding lead at the moment) and adds the notion of a PortType: namely if my service gets a message of a given shape, it will promise to return a message of a given description otherwise it will produce a fault.
Finally one of the key success factors of the web is not directly related to REST at all, but instead to HTML. This is the simple statement in the original HTML Internet Draft that any undefined tags may be ignored by parsers. This lead the way to a predictable path of evolution of the HTML standard where new content could remain backwards compatible with older browsers. As I argue in Coping with Change and A Busy Developers Guide to WSDL 1.1, these simple principles can be applied to Web Services. However, as this rule is not reflected in (or precluded by, for that matter) the current SOAP specifications, one unfortunately can not rely on all toolkits to implement it. If one could, the rules for evolving a web service would allow adding optional parts/elements with unique qualified names (that's the combined namespace name plus the local name) to existing services. Ideally, such rules would permit the inclusion of optional/ignorable/mandatory flags in the body, akin to the mustUnderstand attribute already permitted in the header.
The key points here are that much of the value (in even fully RESTful systems) is in the precise documentation of the structures expected in requests and responses.
It should be clear from the above that I believe it is quite possible to productively apply both supposedly incompatible approaches together. I'll sketch it out below, in prescriptive form. Note: while this is proscriptive, it is expected that local adaptations will be provided.
- Start by modeling the persistent resources that you wish to expose. By persistent resources, I am referring to entities that have a typical life expectancy of days or greater. Ensure that each instance has a unique URL. When possible, assign meaningful names to resources.
- Whenever possible, provide a default XML representation for each representation. Unlike traditional object oriented programming languages where there is a unique getter per property, typically there will be a single representation of the entire instance. These representations will often contain XLinks (a.k.a. pointers or references) to other instances.
- Now add high level methods which take care of all composite create, update, and delete operations. A key aspect of the design is that messages for these operations need to be self contained - both the sender and receiver should be able to make the absolute minimum of assumptions as to the other's state, and multiple requests should not be required to implement a single logical operation. All requests should provide the appearance of being executed atomically.
- Query operations deserve special consideration. A general purpose XML syntax should be provided in every case. In addition, when a reasonable expectation exists that query parameters will be of a relatively short size and not require significant encoding, then a HTTP GET with the parameters encoded as a query string should also be provided.
The following table emphasizes how this unified approach differs from the "pure" (albeit hypothetical) different positions described above.
Looking to the future, the application level inter-networking protocols that emerge today will likely be the application level intra-networking protocols of the next decade. Both REST and SOAP contain features that the others lack. Most significantly:
REST - SOAP = XLink
The key bit of functionality that SOAP applications miss today is the ability to link together resources. SOAP 1.2 makes significant progress in addressing this. Hopefully WSDL 1.2 will complete this important work.
SOAP - REST = Stored Procedures
Looking at how other large scale systems cope with updates provides some key insights into productive areas for future research with respect to REST..
Thanks go out to Mark Baker, Peter Drayton, Simon Fell, and Paul Prescod for their inspiration and input to this essay. | http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/stories/2002/07/20/restSoap.html | crawl-002 | refinedweb | 1,786 | 52.39 |
On Jun 17 2009, pammeyepoo wrote:
> I am currently in a course at KSU that uses technology to teach
> mathematics. Great course, btw. GeoSketch is a great tool from Key
> Curriculum. There are some applets that are similar available,
> perhaps even in this forum.
Just curious about the "KSU."
Is that Kansas State Univ.?
If so, what is the name of the prof. teaching this class?
++++++++
I also want to highly encourage everyone to look at GeoGebra, as posted earlier.
It is FREE, does a far superior job creating java applets for interactive web
pages, and is at least as user-friendly as Geometer's Sketchpad. There is a
fantastic community of users offering many free "sketches" and lots of help (if
needed).
Finally, several LMS's (Moodle), wikis (PMWiki, MediaWiki) offer extensions so
that authors can simply upload their files and use them, as simply as you would
import an image. | http://mathforum.org/mathtools/discuss.html?context=all&do=r&msg=82091 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | refinedweb | 152 | 67.35 |
LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.
In LINQ we used same format as SQL but some difference like positioning, style in Select, where etc. We use the System.Linq namespace.
Benefits of LINQ:
It provides rich Meta data.
Compile-time syntax checking
LINQ is static typing and provide intelliSence (previously available in imperative code).
It provides query in concise way.
We create LINQ between LINQ to object, LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL.
LINQ to objects
The term "LINQ to Objects" refers to the use of LINQ queries with any IEnumerable or IEnumerable <T> collection directly, without the use of an intermediate LINQ provider or API such as or LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL.
LINQ to SQL.
In Linq to sql , it changes into object model and sends to database for execution. After execution it find the result. So we easily maintain the relational database like query.
LINQ to XML
LINQ to XML provides an easy query interface for xml files. We do with linq to xml to read and write data from/to xml file, using the file for persistency maintaining a list of objects. Linq to xml can be used for storing application settings, storing persistent objects or any other data needs to be saved.
How use the LINQ in our program
Step1: we open the console application and write these codes
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
string[] Country = { "India", "SriLanka", "China", "Nepal", "Newzeland", "South Africa","America", "England" };
//In this section using LINQ Query
IEnumerable<string> query = from s in Country
where s.Length == 5
orderby s
select s.ToUpper();
foreach (string item in query)
Console.WriteLine(item);
Step2:Run it
Output:
India
China
Nepal
- Good One! | https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/204/linq-language-integrated-query | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | refinedweb | 317 | 66.54 |
The objective of this post is to show how to connect the DHT11 sensor to an ESP8266 and write a simple program to measure temperature and humidity. We assume the use of the Arduino IDE for programming the ESP8266.
Hardware
In this case, we assume the use of a DHT11 board, as shown in figure 1, which can be found at eBay for about 1 euro. Personally, when I’m starting a new proof of concept project, I like this ready to use modules that are available at eBay. After proving the concept, then I start doing hardware optimizations, if they are needed.
Figure 1 – DHT11 board.
DHT11 can measure both temperature and humidity and it is ideal for simple environment monitoring projects. It has a resolution of 1ºC for temperature and 1% RH (relative humidity) [1]. It has a measurement range between 0ºC and 50ºC for temperature, and a measurement range for humidity that depends on the temperature [1] (you can check the details in the datasheet).
The connection to the ESP8266 is very simple, as shown in figure 2. In this case, we assume the use of GPIO2 (which is one of the few available when using an ESP-01 board). Nevertheless, you can connect it to other GPIO Pin. In case of using a NodeMCU board, please take into consideration that the pin order in the board doesn’t match to ESP8266 pins, which can lead to erroneous results (you can check the pin mapping here).
Figure 2 – Connection diagram between DHT11 and ESP8266.
Also, take in consideration that different DHT11 boards may have different designations for the signal pin, such as “Data” or simply “S”.
Installing the library
As stated before, we assume the use of the Arduino IDE to program the ESP8266. Please check a detailed guide here if you have not already configured it to support ESP8266 boards.
As expected, there are a few libraries for Arduino that simplify our task of interacting with the DHT11. One that is very simple to use and works well with the ESP8266 is the Simple DHT sensor library. This library can be easily installed via the Arduino IDE Library Manager, as shown in figure 3.
Figure 3 – Installation of simple DHT sensor library through library manager.
Code
To import the newly installed library, put the following include on the top of your code:
#include <SimpleDHT.h>
Also declare a global variable with the number of the GPIO pin, in order to make it easy to change. In this case, we will use GPIO2:
int DHTpin = 2;
To allow sending the data to a computer, start a serial connection in the setup function:
Serial.begin(115200);
In your main loop declare two byte variables, one for the temperature and other for humidity:
byte temperature; byte humidity;
We use byte variables since the DHT11 has only 8 bits resolution for both temperature and humidity [1].
Finally, also in the main loop function, read the values and send them through serial:
if (simple_dht11_read(DHTpin, &temperature, &humidity, NULL)) { Serial.print("Failed."); }else { Serial.print("temperature: "); Serial.print(temperature); Serial.println("ºC"); Serial.print("Humidity: "); Serial.print(humidity); Serial.println("%"); } delay(2000);
Always check if the reading function returns an error before trying to use or send the data to other entity. Also, as stated before, double check your wiring, especially if you are using a nodeMCU. For example, in this case, I tested the code using precisely a NodeMCU board, and the pin number 4 (“D4”) of the board is the one that corresponds to the GPIO2 of the ESP8266.
Also, don’t forget to put some delay between readings.
If you open the serial monitor of the Arduino IDE, you should see something similar to figure 4.
Figure 4 – DHT readings.
It’s important to say that the DHT11 only performs measurements when requested by the microcontroller connected to it [2]. So, the sensor stays in a low power mode until receiving a start signal, to measure the temperature and the humidity. After completing the measurements, it then goes back to the low power mode, until a new start signal is received [2].
Final notes
As could be seen, connecting the DHT11 to a ESP8266 is pretty straightforward. Although this tutorial only explains how to send the data to a computer using a serial connection, it’s very easy to adapt the code for sending the measurements to a remote server, using the ESP8266 functionalities. You can check here an example of a temperature logger that sends data to the cloud, using a ESP8266 and a DHT11.
I will leave here the link for the github page of the library used.
References
[1]
[2] | https://techtutorialsx.com/2016/04/24/esp8266-read-dht11-measurements/ | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 784 | 52.19 |
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When installing:
Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-29-20180820.n.1.iso
in qemu, on the welcome page I see:
Ქართული Georgian
i.e. the first character of the word “Georgian” in Georgian language
seems to be shown as a replacement box showing only the code point
U+1CA5.
1CA5;GEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER KHAR;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;;10E5;
Maybe there is no suitable font?
This character seems to be new in Unicode 11.0.0
$ fc-list :charset=1CA5
lists nothing for me on my Fedora 29 system.
(It lists all fonts I have installed supporting that character).
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(In reply to A S Alam from comment #4)
>
We might not have a font supporting U+1CA5 in Fedora at all.
It is surprising then that neither bpg-sans-fonts or google-noto-sans-georgian-fonts cover the glyph(s).
Could we please reassign this to something else. If the fonts are not part of the Fedora now then Anaconda is not the correct component to handle that.
The Georgian script became bicameral in Unicode 11, but the problem is that the new letters are NOT used in title case. The Mtavruli capitals were introduced for all caps emphasis styling, so the auto capitalization function should not be used for Georgian texts.
See (under UnicodeData.txt for Unicode 11).
:
So anaconda should make an exception for Georgian not to automatically capitalize the first letter.
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #9)
> So anaconda should make an exception for Georgian not to automatically
> capitalize the first letter.
Shouldn't that be handled elsewhere?
bpg-fonts-20120413-14.fc32 just built in rawhide, it includes the newer bpg versions of DejaVu indicated in Comment #8.
If I need to also build this for stable branches, please let me know.
(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #10)
> (In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #9)
> > So anaconda should make an exception for Georgian not to automatically
> > capitalize the first letter.
>
> Shouldn't that be handled elsewhere?
I guess this code does it:
def get_native_name(locale):
"""
Function returning native name for the given locale.
:param locale: locale to return native name for
:type locale: str
:return: english name for the locale or empty string if unknown
:rtype: st
:raise InvalidLocaleSpec: if an invalid locale is given (see LANGCODE_RE)
"""
parts = parse_langcode(locale)
if "language" not in parts:
raise InvalidLocaleSpec("'%s' is not a valid locale" % locale)
name = langtable.language_name(languageId=parts["language"],
territoryId=parts.get("territory", ""),
scriptId=parts.get("script", ""),
languageIdQuery=parts["language"],
territoryIdQuery=parts.get("territory", ""),
scriptIdQuery=parts.get("script", ""))
return upcase_first_letter(name)
So it upper cases the first letter of the language name. For almost all languages, this is what we want if the name appears isolated in a list, it is sort of like at the start of a sentence then. For languages which don’t have uppercase letters (like Japanese for example), the uppercasing changes nothing. Georgian seems special in that uppercase letters are available, but apparently they are not supposed to be used in title case.
So it looks like we need something like this:
$ git diff
diff --git a/pyanaconda/localization.py b/pyanaconda/localization.py
index 59a58d51f..e642cb5db 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/localization.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/localization.py
@@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ def get_native_name(locale):
territoryIdQuery=parts.get("territory", ""),
scriptIdQuery=parts.get("script", ""))
+ if parts["language"].startswith("ka"):
+ return name
return upcase_first_letter(name)
def get_available_translations(localedir=None):
lines 1-13/13 (END)
which looks crazy, but what else could one do?
The question is if we should use other fonts which would work or to change Anaconda code. Honestly the first variant seems like a less hacky to me...
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(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #17)
> .
Don't you think that this problem is bigger than Anaconda? Anaconda is just one of the projects but all the projects supporting Georgian may experience the same issue. I don't think it's reasonable to fix one case instead of fixing the root cause here.
Yes, sure, it’s bigger than a font or Anaconda, it’s how Georgian is expected to behave, and how it got standardised
(In reply to Vendula Poncova from comment #16)
>.
The text on the right top corner (Fedora's installation) is correctly shown in Georgian, as long as it's all caps. But the word "Georgian" in the language menu is inaccurate, because titlecasing is not expected in modern Georgian.
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #9)
> So anaconda should make an exception for Georgian not to automatically
> capitalize the first letter.
Yes, automatic capitalization just should not be applied to Georgian text. A localizer can decide, whether or not to use uppercase for emphasis.
> :
>-
> distributors/
Now Google Noto fonts also include Mtavruli characters (updated 2 months ago):
Problem still exists on F32.
Is there a python library that provides an appropriate title case function?
Will making bpg-dejavu-sans-fonts default in the @fonts group cause any problems?).
We really need someone to revive the upstream dejavu project and restart merging fixes and enhancements, since the original authors lost the drive. (Can’t really blame them when downstreams like Fedora Workstation removed DejaVu as default font just because it was steady and “boring”).
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #24)
>).
Sounds like Noto Georgian may be a better bet then.
Not to mention the BPG family names typos.
> We really need someone to revive the upstream dejavu project and restart
> merging fixes and enhancements, since the original authors lost the drive.
That would be great indeed.
> (Can’t really blame them when downstreams like Fedora Workstation removed
> DejaVu as default font just because it was steady and “boring”).
That is not completely accurate, Dejavu is still default, just not for Gnome UI chrome.
(And that was encouraged by Gnome, not particularly Fedora Workstation.)
Hello,
One thing I can tell - we don't have a case in Georgian alphabet, some fonts include uppercase characters, some don't, but they are not really uppercase, they're just another set of glyphs or fonts inserted in the collection. They never should be mixed - we don't do that.
Georgian devs are not clueless about licensing, we've been in quite long strict discussions about it since 2004. I have direct contact with all original font developers (Including mentioned BPG), so, I can check anything we need. Dejavu family includes fonts originally created by BPG, and Georgian LUG members were quite careful when we've asked him to include his works and release them as GPL licensed so we could include it in Linux distributions. Same applies to the keyboard layouts - that was done at the same time...
What exactly is the case? How can I help?
direct answer to this issue is to have all characters in lowercase, because this is how Georgian language works - WE DON"T HAVE UPPERCASE characters, don't use them.
It's a good idea to switched to Google Noto as a default font for Georgian, or use it as an alternative to BPG.
P.S. We use Mtavruli characters almost everywhere and we definitely need them.
You can see a lot of examples at the end of this document:
See also this Q&A:
In modern Georgian, Mtavruli is not used for mixed/title casing, only with the All Caps function, but it does NOT mean, that we don't have uppercase or they are not capital letters.
Not that we just don't use them, WE DON'T HAVE THEM, therefore, we don't have mixed casing at all. There are no capital letters.
"Mtavruli" is just a representation, it's not a case or capitalization.
You can read it in attached document "Mtavruli-style letters are never used as “capitals”; a word is always entirely presented in mtavruli or not"
+ Georgian glyphs in Google Noto are terrible and inadequately large when compared to other fonts containing Georgian glyphs and VERY large compared to glyphs written in Latin with the same Google Noto. Probably, that's the reason why nobody uses it here :)
@George Machitidze
### Legal aspects
Much as I love the GPL and use it for my own projects it does not translate well to font files.
From a legal point of view, software is derived into other software, so a license that propagates to derived works like the GPL does, works well. It’s software both parts of the equation.
However, fonts can be derived into documents due to how document formats embed fonts (fully or via subsetting). Therefore, the GPL and software licenses in general are completely inadequate for font files. Most people do not want their documents GPLed just because they used a Free and Open font in them.
Because the GPL is inadequate, there was quite a lot of experimenting at the start of the century to find a working license for Free and Open fonts. Some proposed font-specific GPL legal extensions. Others wrote brand new experimental licenses. In the end most everyone agreed to use the OFL, which is the font license of most Google fonts today, and the font license Fedora recommends for new font projects.
DejaVu antedates all of this however. It is a direct derivative of Bitstream Vera, which was released under one of licenses people experimented with before settling on the OFL. Vera/DejaVu licensing is unlikely to change today because that would require Bitstream cooperation and probably quite a lot of money to motivate the Bistream legal department to look at it.
When adding to or modifying Vera or DejaVu, you should strive to keep things simple and integrate the original Vera/DejaVu legal framework. DejaVu licensing is complex and one-of-a-kind due to the inadequacies of the original experimental Bitstream licensing. It’s not as simple as using vanilla GPL for software or the OFL for new font projects.
When the DejaVu project was active it served as legal clearing house and made sure contributors understood and and agreed with those legal clauses. Now it is dormant, people that release DejaVu derivatives must do this work themselves.
### Font coverage aspect
From a font file point of view the only thing we can do is try to integrate fonts with correct opentype metadata and correct unicode coverage.
It is no use, as you wrote, to remove coverage from font files. Software that wants to use specific code-points will just fall back to fonts that include this coverage. If you want to prevent those fallbacks the only reliable way is to integrate good coverage in your font file so the fallback need not happen.
If things still do not work after a font with good unicode coverage was deployed, then that means:
1. some piece or text rendering is making mistakes when applying the unicode standard. No use work-arrounding the standard by using incomplete or non-compliant font files here, you need to identify which part is misapplying the standard and get it fixed
2. the Unicode standard is wrong. Well, I sort of doubt this is the case here, but human creations are imperfect by nature. If the standard is wrong then you need to get it fixed because software implementers are applying the standard and do not have time to waste sifting through all the pseudo-standards people keep inventing all over the world. That’s the sole reason people use Unicode today. It is horribly complex, and not ideal, but having to deal with multiple conflicting encoding rules would be way worse. Chinese/Japanese/Korean people yelled for a decade Unicode made the wrong decisions for their scripts. They are using Unicode like everyone else today anyway, because the alternative to Unicode, are way worse from a software interoperability point of view.
@George Machitidze
> You can read it in attached document "Mtavruli-style letters are never used as “capitals”; a word is always entirely presented in mtavruli or not"
And you can also read the answer:
> This statement was not correct. A number of documents from the late 19th century and early 20thcentury make use of mtavruli
> characters in initial position in sentences, lines of verse, and for propernames and place-names.
For example:
Google Noto fonts are used as default for Georgian in Android and Arch-based distributions. They look nice.
You can read here what Besarion thinks about Mtavruli (or ask him, if you have a direct communication)
@Nicolas Mailhot
Thanks for details
1. If we should ditch DejaVu for legal issues - definitely, it must be done
2. Easy way - so far, only non-DejaVU font I can recommend to be GPL licensed (verified author and font) are from BPG family (), If we need any clarification on that - I can contact him.
3. Long way - I can ask all major designers to create a font for us so we can include it somewhere, one of them already responded to my FB post regarding this issue (we have a discussion there). We can request any legal document if there is a concern - they can sign it.
4. I am not really sure about Google Noto - we don't know who is the author, but fonts are terrible and oversized (that's clearly visible)
@ALAN
I am Georgian, I've founded Georgian linux user group with my friends, I work on localization projects since 2004 (Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia), I am not a Fedora ambassador right now, just because I'm busy and lazy. I know what I am talking about, I'm not arguing. We've faced all these issues in 2004 and the result our work is:
0. Established relation with each-other, which was pretty hard because of different countries authors live (Georgia, Finland), differences in interests (Linux, Mac, Windows fans), difference in directions (RH fans, Canonical fans, KDE fans, GNOME fans), age gap (18 to 60 yo). We've all sat and decided to do the job the right way, usually we fight
1. Created new Georgian keyboard (MESS), included with other four keyboards in OSS XKB etc
2. BPG published fonts in GPL, while other his fonts and fonts from other people (including GEO series from Gia Shervashidze and fonts from Reno Siradze) are also available for free and virtually without limitations
3. Localization of KDE, GNOME, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows
Regarding Google Noto:
Google NEVER asked anyone anything, they've even included Keyboard only few years ago, they don't know whom to ask and what to do - they've never reached us or government. Same applies to all their products and all l10n/i18n parts. We've tried, but they don't care. Same applies to Apple and both are now under heavy criticism from users as we are hardly to reading the texts and glyphs. Virtual keyboards also look ugly and are not proportional. We get no response - tried to push issues though representative officials, via government, via Georgian Mac's User Group (some of us are founding members there too) - nothing works. We were able to solve issues only with OSS software and M$.
These Google fonts look REALLY BAD. It's hard to see whole picture if you haven't studied Georgian, but one thing you can easily find out - Georgian glyphs in Google Noto are HUGE. proportions are inadequate. Try to write few letters in latin Goto and then the same with Georgian, size is about 1.5 bigger.
It's elementary and offensive. Who else are we looking for?
If I will ask something like that to Besarioni, definitely, he'll laugh at me and never talk again (he's a man of character).
@George Machitidze
The author of Google Noto Georgian is Akaki Razmadze.
More info -
He also designed FiraGO Georgian, which is publicly available under FOSS license.
So, I think, you can feel free to contact him.
It's a modern-style typeface. Please see Besarion's post on FB
Yes, I know who you are (from Tbilisi forum), I am Georgian too.
Good, that's Akaki
But font is large:
Yeah, it's based on Latin proportions. Maybe this type of fonts are more compatible for mobile screens.
Besarion has made a comparison of them here:
This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora.
Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle.
Changing version to 33.
Yes, it still exists in Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-33-20200906.n.0.iso
I have proposed a fix for the installer in the pull request:
FEDORA-2020-384ff75a01 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33.
FEDORA-2020-384ff75a01 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-384ff75a01`
You can provide feedback for this update here:
See also for more information on how to test updates.
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02 April 2009 11:00 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Here is Thursday’s end of day Asian oil and chemical market summary from ICIS pricing.
CRUDE: May WTI $50.85/bbl up $2.46 May BRENT $51.01/bbl up $2.57/bbl
Crude futures surged on Thursday pushing back above $51/bbl amid strong gains in European and Asian stock markets and more positive economic news from the ?xml:namespace>
NAPHTHA: Asian naphtha prices closed firmer Thursday. Second half May price indications were pegged at $450.00-451.00/tonne CFR (cost and freight) Japan, first half June at $442.00-443.00/tonne CFR Japan and second half June at $435.00-436.00/tonne CFR Japan.
BENZENE: Prices were stable-to-weak at $565-580/tonne FOB
TOLUENE: Prices edged higher to $580-590 | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2009/04/02/9205290/evening-snapshot-asia-markets-summary.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | refinedweb | 139 | 79.06 |
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Memory deallocation concerning boost::bind, boost::asio and shared_ptr
From: Lee Clagett (forum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-29 00:19:24
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:14:00 -0700 (PDT)
Norman <kradepon_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Alright, i made an example, that shows my problem:
>
>
This does not show any problem, although I am uncertain on the intent
of the `async_accept` calls. The only non-completed handler in the
"during" stage should be the async_wait, however there is no guaranteed
sequencing between the acceptor handlers and the async_wait handler.
The counter indicates all of the other callbacks have completed in my
executions of the code.
The during and after printing only indicate the RSS is the same at
those two execution points. This does not necessarily indicate a
problem. In fact, the following `stop` call could result in a RSS
increase (additional code page mapping), and then the RSS could
decrease to the prior level after the `async_wait` and `run` complete
and free any used memory. I simply do not see any information learned
from this example.
> :-)
>
The RSS value indicates the number of virtual pages that have a
physical page mapping for the process. There is no guaranteed
correlation between the amount of memory requested via new/delete OR
the amount of memory being managed by the C++ runtime. "Allocated"
memory being managed by the C++ runtime can be swapped to disk which
lowers the RSS but not the amount of memory being managed by the
runtime. New code segments can be executed which requires additional
pages of the mmap'ed executable or shared library to be copied to
physical memory which will increase the RSS but not the amount of
memory being managed by the C++ runtime. A large allocation into the
C++ runtime can be fulfilled with a single anonymous mmap which delays
any RSS increase until the page(s) have been "touched". As an example
(stealing your getUsedMemory function):
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
std::string getUsedMemory() {
try {
std::ifstream inFile("/proc/self/status");
if (!inFile.good()) {
std::cout << "Cannot open status file." << std::endl;
}
std::string line;
while (std::getline(inFile, line)) {
if (boost::starts_with(line, "VmRSS:")) {
inFile.close();
return std::string(&line[7], line.size() - 7);
}
}
inFile.close();
} catch (std::exception& e) {
std::cout << " Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
return "Unknown";
}
int main() {
std::unique_ptr<char[]> bytes(new char[50*1024*1024]); // 50 MiB
std::cout << "Used memory: " << getUsedMemory() << std::endl;
return 0;
}
That is unlikely to print 50+ MiB of "used memory". Wandbox (Gcc
5.3) prints:
Used memory: 5968 kB
And my local box prints even less. It is probably easier to use the
tools I mentioned earlier or something like massif if you are trying to
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mbed Demo Display
Table of Contents
This page is dedicated to the mbed Demo Display, which aims to show off a good range of the capabilities of the mbed Microcontroller
the headline features of this demo display are :
- Powered USB Host socket
- Ethernet
- Ultrasonic range finder, on I2C
- Analog panel meter, driven by PwmOut
- Servo motor, position controlled by PwmOut
- Three potentiometers on AnalogIn
- QVGA LCD Display, controlled by SPI
- RFID tag reader, connected to a Serial port
- 24-bit Audio DAC driven by I2S, controlled by I2C
Example program¶
This example program does the following:
- Prints "Hello world!" to hello.txt on the LocalFileSystem
- Prints the ID of a tag presented over USB Serial
- If the middle pot is over half way, the ultrasonic range finder sets the coil meter
- The Right pot moves the servo motor.
USB Host¶
One of the most useful application of the USB host socket is the ability to mount a USB Mass Storage Class device, such as a USB Flash stick or an external Hard Disk. The code to do this is straight forward once the library module is used:
#include "mbed.h" #include "MSCFileSystem.h" AnalogIn ain (p20); MSCFileSystem fs("fs"); int main() { FILE *fp = fopen("/fs/data.csv","w"); for (int i = 0; i < 100 ; i++) { fprintf(fp,"%.2f\n",ain.read()); wait (0.1); } fclose(fp); }
For more details on this example, visit the following notebook page:
Ethernet¶
The mbed microcontroller contains all the passive circuits, all you need is an RJ45 socket to get onto the internet, and of course some software.
The first place to visit is the Ethernet homepage, which covers the EthernetNetIf that underpins and useful ethernet features that are built upon it.
Once familiar with the EthernetNetIf, useful apps can be built on top:
- HTTP Client - Call URLS or run scripts
- HTTP Server - A simple webserver
- NTP Client - Set the RTC from an internet time server
- Twitter - Use twitter for automated notificatios
- Pachube - Upload data to this online service to be visualised however you choose
- MySQL - A simple client that allows you to query MySQL databases directly
Ultrasonic Ranger - SRF08¶
This I2C sensor uses ultrasonic echos to measure distance. The library module for the SRF08 has a single method that returns a floating point number representing the distance in centimetres to the reflective object.
- See the SRF08 Ultrasonic Ranger Cookbook page
Moving coil panel meter¶
This is a standard panel meter with a 50uA full scale deflection current. The average current can be controlled using PwmOut. The PWM signal will scale the average voltage between 0v and 3.3v. At 3.3v the full scale current of 50uA should be flowing, so we should use a series resistor of 3.3 / 0.00005 i.e. 66k Ohms.
With this resistor in place, the PwmOut channel for the coil canbe assigned directly from the AnalogIn.
#include "mbed.h" PwmOut coil(p22); AnalogIn pot(p20); int main() { while (1) { coil = pot.read(); } }
Servo Motor¶
Servo motors as used in radio controlled toys are driven by a PWM signal the defines position. The Signal has a 25ms period, and a pulse with of 0.5ms to 2.5ms defines the dynamic range.
A library module exists to abstract a servo motor to a normalised floating point number. As with the previous version, a simple AnalogIn can be used to exercise the Servo Motor.
- Servo Motor - The cookbook page
AnalogIn - Potentiometers¶
The mbed microcontroller includes six channels of 12 bit A/D conversion with a 3.3v reference voltage. These A/D are abstracted to return either a normalised floating point number, or the raw binary value (0x000 - 0xFFF).
The simplest experiments use a 10k potentiometer connected across 0v and 3.3v with the wiper connected to the AnalogIn. This is the configuration used to generate 0.0 - 1.0 signal as used in the Panel meter example.
QVGA LCD Display¶
RFID tag reader¶
The ID12 RFID tag reader is a device with a built in antenna and a serial interface that enables RFID tags to be read.
The library module for this consists of two functions; a non-blocking call to see if a tag has been scanned, and a blocking call to read a tag ID.
A simple example of the RFID tag in use is :
// Print RFID tag numbers #include "mbed.h" #include "ID12RFID.h" ID12RFID rfid(p10); // uart rx int main() { while(1) { if(rfid.readable()) { printf("RFID Tag number : %d\n", rfid.read()); } } }
More details can be found on the ID12 RFID tag page:
- ID12 RFID Reader - The cookbook page
24-bit I2S Audio DAC¶
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Creating a check box
How to
Create a check box in your application.
Solution
Construct a check box variable in the root of your class
private var myCheckBox:CheckBox = new CheckBox(); // Placing this at the class root allows other // application elements to reference it.
Initialize the attributes for your check box
// Location and size myCheckBox.setPosition(200,300); myCheckBox.width = 150; // Set up checkbox label myCheckBox.label = "Enable setting"; myCheckBox.labelPlacement = LabelPlacement.TOP; // This is optional, requires LabelPlacement import. // Call myCheckBoxEvent function when button is clicked. myCheckBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myCheckBoxEvent); // Add check box to stage. this.addChild(myCheckBox);
Create the function that is called by your check box's click event
private function myCheckBoxEvent(event:MouseEvent) { // Output click event to console. myCheckBox.selected // returns true when button is in the down state. trace ("myCheckBox has been clicked, current toggle state is:" + myCheckBox.selected); }
Build requirements
You must include the following classes in your project:
import qnx.fuse.ui.buttons.CheckBox; import flash.events.MouseEvent;
Discussion
When you create a check box, you declare the CheckBox variable within the class scope and then set its attributes. By default, the check box label appears to the RIGHT of the control. However, including the optional qnx.fuse.ui.buttons.LabelPlacement class within your project allows you to specify which side of your check box the label appears. To add functionality, add a MouseEvent.CLICK listener function to perform any actions that are defined in the function when the check box is clicked. You can also reference the state of the check box anywhere in the class by using the selected property. | http://developer.blackberry.com/air/documentation/create_check_box.html | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | refinedweb | 269 | 50.84 |
Traditionally, one of the biggest potential problems in writing macros is generating code that interacts with other code improperly. Clojure has safeguards in place that other Lisps lack, but there is still potential for error.
Code generated by a macro will often be embedded in other code, and often will have user-defined code embedded within it. In either case, some set of symbols is likely already bound to values by the user of the macro. It’s possible for a macro to set up its own bindings that collide with those of the outer or inner context of the macro-users code, which can create bugs that are very difficult to identify. Macros that avoid these sorts of issues are called hygienic macros.
Consider a macro with an implementation that requires a let-bound
value. The name we choose is irrelevant to the user of our macro and
should be invisible to him, but we do have to choose
some name. Naively, we might try
x:
(defmacro unhygienic [& body] `(let [x :oops] ~@body)) ;= #'user/unhygenic (unhygienic (println "x:" x)) ;= #<CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: ;= Can't let qualified name: user/x, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1)>
Clojure is smart enough not to let this code compile. As we explored
in quote Versus syntax-quote, all bare symbols are
namespace-qualified within a
syntax-quoted form. We can see the impact in
this case if we check the expansion of our macro:
(macroexpand-1 `(unhygienic (println "x:" x))) ;= (clojure.core/let [user/x :oops] ;= (clojure.core/println ...
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This tutorial aims to walk you step-by-step through debugging a Java app= lication with Chronon, a recorder and a "time-travelling" debugge= r. Chronon records changes made by your application while it is executing. = The recordings are saved to files. You can later play these recordings back= and share them among the team members.=20
The basics of Java programming, and using Chronon are out of sc= ope of this tutorial. Refer to the Chronon documentation for details.=20
First, it is essential to understand that Chronon is not literally a deb= ugger - it only helps you record the execution progress and then play it ba= ck, like a videotape.=20
Second, make sure that:=20
Let=E2=80=99s see how Chronon works on a simple example of a two-thread = class. One thread performs quick sorting, while the second thread performs = bubble sorting.=20
First, create a project as described in the page Creating and running your fi= rst Java application.=20
Next, create a package with t= he name demo, and, finally, add Java classes to this package. T= he first class is called ChrononDemo.java and it performs two-threaded arra= y sorting:=20
package demo; import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull; import java.util.AbstractMap; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Random; public class ChrononDemo { public static final int SIZE =3D 1000; public static final Random GENERATOR =3D new Random(); public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { final int[] array =3D new int[SIZE]; for (int i =3D 0; i < SIZE; i++) { array[i] =3D GENERATOR.nextInt(); } final Thread quickSortThread =3D new Thread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { QuickSort.sort(Arrays.copyOf(array, array.length)); } }, "Quick sort"); final Thread bubbleThread =3D new Thread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { BubbleSort.sort(Arrays.copyOf(array, array.length)); } }, "Bubble sort"); quickSortThread.start(); bubbleThread.start(); quickSortThread.join(); bubbleThread.join(); } }=20
The second is the class QuickSort.java that performs quick sorting:= =20
package demo; class QuickSort { private static int partition(int arr[], int left, int right) { int i =3D left, j =3D right; int tmp; int pivot =3D arr[(left + right) / 2]; while (i <=3D j) { while (arr[i] < pivot) i++; while (arr[j] > pivot) j--; if (i <=3D j) { tmp =3D arr[i]; arr[i] =3D arr[j]; arr[j] =3D tmp; i++; j--; } } return i; } public static void sort(int arr[], int left, int right) { int index =3D partition(arr, left, right); if (left < index - 1) sort(arr, left, index - 1); if (index < right) sort(arr, index, right); } public static void sort(int arr[]) { sort(arr, 0, arr.length - 1); } }=20
And, finally, the third one is the class BubbleSort.java that performs b= ubble sorting:=20
package demo; public class BubbleSort { public static void sort(int[] arr) { boolean swapped =3D true; int j =3D 0; int tmp; while (swapped) { swapped =3D false; j++; for (int i =3D 0; i < arr.length - j; i++) { if (arr[i] > arr[i + 1]) { tmp =3D arr[i]; arr[i] =3D arr[i + 1]; arr[i + 1] =3D tmp; swapped =3D true; } } } } }=20
By the way, it is recommended to type the code manually, to see the magi= c IntelliJ IDEA's code completion= in action.=20
Open the Settings/Preferences dialog. To do that, click
=
on the main toolbar, or press Ctrl+Alt+S. U=
nder the IDE Settings, click the node Plugins.
The Chronon plugin is not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, that's why you hav= e to look for it in the JetBrains Plugins Repository. This is how it's done= ...=20
In the Plugins page, click the button= Install JetBrains plugin... to download an= d install plugins from the JetBrains repository. In the Browse JetBrains Plugins dialog box, find the Chronon plugin -= you can type the search string in the filter area:=20
=20
Install the plugin and restart IntelliJ IDEA for the changes to take eff= ect.=20
After restart, pay attention to the following changes:=20
To launch our application, we need a run/debug configuration. Let's create one= a>.=20
On the main menu, choose Run=E2=86=92Edit Confi=
guration, and in the Run/Debug Configurations dialog box, click
. We are going to create a new run/debug configuration of the Application=
type, so select this type:
=20
The new run/deb= ug configuration based on the Application type appears. So far, it is u= nnamed and lacks reference to the class with the main method. Let's specify= the missing information.=20
First, give this run/debug configuration a name. Let it be ChrononDemo. = Next, press Shift+Enter and find the class = with the main method ChrononDemo.java. This class resides in the package de= mo:=20
=20
Next, click the tab Chronon. In this tab= , you have to specify which classes IntelliJ IDEA should look at. This is d= one by Include / Exclude Patterns:=20
=20
Now apply changes and close the dialog. The preliminary steps are ready.==20
OK, it's time to launch our application. To do that, either click the Ch= ronon button on the main toolbar, or choose Run=E2= =86=92Run ChrononDemo with Chronon on the main menu.=20
Let's choose the first way:=20
=20
First thing that you see is the Run= tool window that shows Chronon messages:=20
=20
It is important to note that a Chronon record is NOT created, when you t=
erminate your application by clicking
. If it is necessary to stop a=
n application and still have a Chronon record, click the Exit button
on the toolbar of the Run tool window.
Then the Chronon tool window appears - it looks very much like the Debug tool window. In this tool win= dow you see a record created by Chronon; so doing, each record sho= ws in its own tab:=20
=20
By the way, if you want to open one of the previous records, use Run=E2=86=92Open Chronon recording on the main men= u, and then choose the desired record:=20
=20
In the Chronon tool window, you can:=20
This is most easy - just switch to the Threads tab, and double-click the= thread you are interested in. The selected thread is shown in boldface in = the list of threads; besides that, the information about the currently sele= cted thread appears in the upper-right part of the Chronon tool window:= =20
=20
Note the progress bar. It shows the amount of passed events in the curre= nt thread:=20
=20
Actually, you can use either the stepping commands of the Run menu, or the stepping buttons of the Chronon tool win=
dow. Unlike the debugger that allows only stepping forward, Chronon makes i=
t possible to step through the applications in the reverse direction also. =
So, besides the traditional stepping buttons, there is Step Backwards butto=
n
and Run Backwards to Cursor button
.
Suppose you've stopped at a certain line, for example, in the main metho= d of the class ChrononDemo.java:=20
=20
You want to memorize this place with its event number, to be able to ret=
urn to it from any other location. This is where the Bookmarks tab becomes =
helpful. Switch to this tab, and click
. A bookmark for the current e=
vent, thread and method is created:
=20
So doing, the bookmark memorizes the event number, thread and method nam= e. Next, when you are in a different place of the code, clicking this bookm= ark in the Bookmarks tab will return you to this particular place.=20
If you look at the editor, you notice the icons
in the left gu=
tter next to the method declarations. Hovering the mouse pointer over such =
an icon shows a tooltip with the number of the recorded calls.
However, if you want to see a particular call event, then select the des= ired thread in the Threads tab (remember - the selected thread is shown in = upper right part of the Chronon tool window), switch to the Method History = tab, and track the execution history of a method:=20
=20
Thus you can explore the method execution, with the input and output dat= a, which makes it easy to see how and where a method has been invoked.= =20
What is the Logging tab for? By default, it is empty. However, using thi= s tab makes it possible to define custom logging statements and track their= output during application run.=20
This is how logging works. In the editor, right-click the statement of i= nterest, and choose Add logging statement o= n the context menu. Then, in the dialog box that opens, specify the variabl= e you want to watch in the format=20
${variable name}=20
=20
Next, to make use of this logging statement, click
in the tool=
bar of the Logging tab. In the right-hand side of the Logging tab, the outp=
ut of the logged statement is displayed:
=20
Note that such logging is equivalent to adding an output statement to yo= ur application; you could have added=20
System.out.println(<variable name>);=20
However, this would require application rebuild and rerun. With Chronon'= s logging facility, such complications are avoided.=20
Suppose you want to find out how and when an exception has occurred. The= Exceptions tab shows all exceptions that took place during the application= execution. If you double click an exception, IntelliJ IDEA will bring you = directly to the place of the exception occurrence:=20
=20
You've learned how to:=20
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get the next character from a file
#include <stdio.h> int fgetc( FILE *fp );
The fgetc() function gets the next character from the file designated by fp. The character is signed.
The next character from the input stream pointed to by fp. If the stream is at end-of-file, the end-of-file indicator is set, and fgetc() returns EOF. If a read error occurs, the error indicator is set, and fgetc() returns EOF.
When an error occurs, the global variable errno contains a value indicating the type of error that has been detected.
#include <stdio.h> void main() { FILE *fp; int c; fp = fopen( "file", "r" ); if( fp != NULL ) { while( (c = fgetc( fp )) != EOF ) fputc( c, stdout ); fclose( fp ); } }
ANSI
errno, fgetchar(), fgets(), fopen(), getc(), getchar(), gets(), ungetc() | https://users.pja.edu.pl/~jms/qnx/help/watcom/clibref/src/fgetc.html | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 130 | 75.81 |
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I am trying to use a DataGridView in a windows forms application. I did have it working properly displaying the contents of a list. Unfortunately recently the form editor stopped working (it produced errors saying that it could not find the class that the BindingSource was linked to whenever I tried to view the main form in my application) and I found that the only way in which I could get it to start working again was to completely delete the data source, the collection class and the DataBindingSource.
Now I am trying to put things back to how they were and I am having problems. I have created a new class defined as follows:
#pragma
using namespace System::Collections::Generic;
#include
namespace
{
RSSItemCollection(
};
}
The problem I have is that now I can't link this to the DataGridView in the form editor. The data source select has no data sources in it so I clicked on the "Add Project Data Source" link. In the dialog I then selected "object" and then clicked on the "next" button. The screen then asks me to select the object I wish to bind to but the list is completely blank. What do I need to do to get my class above to appear in this list. I have done this once before so I know it is possible but I can't seem to see what I'm doing wrong.
I am using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
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Today's lesson is about Felgo Game Network: it helps you to make your players return to your game more often and to better engage players in your game. How you ask?
Well, there are many ways Felgo Game Network can help you achieving these goals and today I'll show you two of them: achievements and leaderboards.
You might know these game design twists to make your game more fun and engaging for your players from other services like Game Center, however, in Felgo Game Network there are a couple of advantages you can use in your games today:
In the next quick steps, I'll show you how to add leaderboards and achievements to your game in less than 10 minutes!
Click here, open the Game Network in the Developers Area top navigation of the Felgo website in your browser, to see how your games are doing and to create a new game powered with Felgo Game Network.
Press the New Game button and enter a Game Title and Game Secret for it as shown in the following image. You can leave the Facebook fields empty for now, we will get to that in the next lesson *spoiler-alert*. ;)
The Game Title you entered is just to distinguish between your games in the dashboard. The secret and the generated gameId you will see in the next view after you pressed the Create button, are required for the FelgoGameNetwork component in the next step.
You can now switch from the browser to Qt Creator and add the FelgoGameNetwork component in your main qml file, like in the following example:
import Felgo 3.0 import QtQuick 2.0 GameWindow { FelgoGameNetwork { // created in the Felgo Web Dashboard gameId: 5 secret: "abcdefg1234567890" } // add other components like the EntityManager here Scene { // add your game functionality here } }
After adding the FelgoGameNetwork component, the next step is to add a view for your game's leaderboards, achievements and player profile. The easiest way to do this, is to use the GameNetworkView component, the default view that comes with the Felgo SDK. The following example shows how to add it in the scene and how to show it in your onShowCalled: { myGameNetworkView.visible = true } onBackClicked: { myGameNetworkView.visible = false } }// GameNetworkView }// Scene }// GameWindow
When you run this project, you will see the following image:
In the code changes above, the GameNetworkView component was added and set as gameNetworkView property. If the back button is pressed, the normal game scene is shown again with a single button to show the leaderboard. In the GameNetworkView top navigation, you can toggle between the leaderboard, achievement and profile view.
In this step, we add a button to increase the player's highscore and show the current highscore.
You can use leaderboards in your game to give your players the possibility to compare their highscores across platforms. This ultimately increases your player retention: your players will return to your game more often and play more and longer.
The minimum usage is to report a new score with reportScore() and then show the score in the LeaderboardView as part of the GameNetworkView with showLeaderboard().
Add this code to your previous game Scene:
Scene { id: scene // add your game functionality here // for this simple example we simulate the game logic with buttons // place the buttons below each other in a Column with little spacing in between Column { spacing: 3 SimpleButton { text: "Show Leaderboards" onClicked: { // open the leaderboard view of the GameNetworkView gameNetwork.showLeaderboard() } } SimpleButton { text: "Increase Highscore to " + (gameNetwork.userHighscoreForCurrentActiveLeaderboard + 1) onClicked: { // increase the current highscore by 1 gameNetwork.reportScore(gameNetwork.userHighscoreForCurrentActiveLeaderboard + 1) } } }// Column // the GameNetworkView from the example before is added here }// Scene
This code does the following:
The specialty about Felgo Game Network leaderboards, is that you can also modify the highscore when the player is offline and has no Internet connection. The new highscore is then sent to the server as soon as the Internet is available again. Also, you can use an infinite amount of different leaderboards, e.g. one for each level or for each game mode! To do that, simply provide the name of your leaderboard to the reportScore() function.
This is how the LeaderboardView looks like for two players, after you clicked the "Show Leaderboards" button:
Note: The friends list contains Facebook friends who also play the same game. We'll have a more detailed look how to connect your game with Facebook in the next lesson.
Achievements are another way to increase player retention: they motivate players to return to your!
For the example achievements given above, this is the code how to define them:
FelgoGameNetwork { // ... achievements: [ Achievement { key: "5opens" name: "Game Opener" // comment this until you have your own images for achievements /" } ] }// FelgoGameNetwork
And this is how you can test to increase or unlock each of the achievements:
Scene { id: scene Component.onCompleted: { // increment the counter until until the game was opened 5 times // after the target value was reached, a call of incrementAchievement() has no more effect gameNetwork.incrementAchievement("5opens") } Column { spacing: 3 // 2 SimpleButtons for showing leaderboards and increase highscore here SimpleButton { text: "Unlock bossLevel2 Achievement" onClicked: { // unlocks the achievement gameNetwork.unlockAchievement("bossLevel2") } } SimpleButton { text: "Increase Level3 Achievement" onClicked: { // increase until it is unlocked, then this function does nothing gameNetwork.increaseAchievement("level3") } } }// Column // ... }// Scene
Now that you have added achievements and leaderboards to your game and tested it on Desktop, it is time to add some more players to your lonely leaderboard: we are going to test it on your mobile devices!
Testing on your mobile is very easy with Felgo: Just add another platform like iOS or Android in the Projects tab and then choose Add Kit. See the Deployment Guide how to add the iOS or Android platforms and for a more detailed tutorial for mobile device deployment.
You can also have a look at the full source code of the application we were developing in this lesson: it is available in the Qt installation folder and then in
Examples/Felgo/examples/gamenetwork/GameNetworkTestSimple.
In this lesson you've learned how to add achievements and leaderboards to your game. This helps your players return more often to your game and have more fun with it.
For any questions about Felgo Game Network, just send us an email to support@felgo.com.
Cheers, Chris from Felgo
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Reading and writing files are two of the most common tasks in the world of development. As a .NET developer, .NET Framework makes it easy to perform these tasks.
Before you start, have to import System.IO.
[VB.Net]
Imports System.IO
[C#]
using System.IO;
1.Reading File
There are different ways that you can use them for reading file,
if you want to read a whole file as string, this ways could be fine for you:
[VB.Net]
Dim Result As String = File.ReadAllText("C:\CodingTips.txt")
[C#]
string Result = File.ReadAllText("C:\\CodingTips.txt");
if you need more properties and futures ,
same as searching specific text in the file, I suppose this ways is more efficient:
[VB.Net]
Private Sub Readfile() Dim strReader As StreamReader = File.OpenText("C:\CodingTips.txt") ' We will Search the stream until we reach the end or find the specific string. While Not strReader.EndOfStream Dim line As String = strReader.ReadLine() If line.Contains("Code") Then 'If we find the specific string, we will inform the user and finish the while loop. Console.WriteLine("Found Code:") Console.WriteLine(line) Exit While End If End While ' Here we have to clean the memory. strReader.Close() End Sub
[C#]
private void Readfile() { StreamReader strReader = File.OpenText("C:\\CodingTips.txt"); // We will Search the stream until we reach the end or find the specific string. while (!strReader.EndOfStream) { string line = strReader.ReadLine(); if (line.Contains("Code")) { //If we find the specific string, we will inform the user and finish the while loop. Console.WriteLine("Found Code:"); Console.WriteLine(line); break; // TODO: might not be correct. Was : Exit While } } // Here we have to clean the memory. strReader.Close(); }
In the next post I will teach you , How to write a file 🙂!
How To Write File Through VB.Net & C#, now is published 🙂
Good day I am so grateful I found your blog page, I really found you
by accident, while I was researching b. | https://codingtips.net/2013/05/01/how-read-a-files-through-vb-net-c/?replytocom=29 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | refinedweb | 327 | 69.58 |
Problem
You have two strings, and you want to know if they are equal, regardless of the case of the characters. For example, "cat" is not equal to "dog," but "Cat," for your purposes, is equal to "cat," "CAT," or "caT."
Solution
Compare the strings using the equal standard algorithm (defined in ), and supply your own comparison function that uses the toupper function in (or towupper in for wide characters) to compare the uppercase versions of characters. Example 4-21 offers a generic solution. It also demonstrates the use and flexibility of the STL; see the discussion below for a full explanation.
Example 4-21. Case-insensitive string comparison
1 #include 2 #include 3 #include 4 #include 5 #include 6 7 using namespace std; 8 9 inline bool caseInsCharCompareN(char a, char b) { 10 return(toupper(a) == toupper(b)); 11 } 12 13 inline bool caseInsCharCompareW(wchar_t a, wchar_t b) { 14 return(towupper(a) == towupper(b)); 15 } 16 17 bool caseInsCompare(const string& s1, const string& s2) { 18 return((s1.size( ) == s2.size( )) && 19 equal(s1.begin( ), s1.end( ), s2.begin( ), caseInsCharCompareN)); 20 } 21 22 bool caseInsCompare(const wstring& s1, const wstring& s2) { 23 return((s1.size( ) == s2.size( )) && 24 equal(s1.begin( ), s1.end( ), s2.begin( ), caseInsCharCompareW)); 25 } 26 27 int main( ) { 28 string s1 = "In the BEGINNING..."; 29 string s2 = "In the beginning..."; 30 wstring ws1 = L"The END"; 31 wstring ws2 = L"the endd"; 32 33 if (caseInsCompare(s1, s2)) 34 cout << "Equal! "; 35 36 if (caseInsCompare(ws1, ws2)) 37 cout << "Equal! "; 38 }
Discussion
The critical part of case-insensitive string comparison is the equality test of each corresponding pair of characters, so let's discuss that first. Since I am using the equal standard algorithm in this approach but I want it to use my special comparison criterion, I have to create a standalone function to handle my special comparison.
Lines 9-15 of Example 4-21 define the functions that do the character comparison, caseInsCharCompareN and caseInsCharCompareW . These use toupper and towupper to convert each character to uppercase and then return whether they are equal.
Once I have my comparison functions complete, it's time to use a standard algorithm to handle applying my comparison functions to arbitrary sequences of characters. The caseInsCompare functions defined in lines 17-25 do just that using equal. There are two overloads, one for each character type I care about. They both do the same thing, but each instantiates the appropriate character comparison function for its character type. For this example, I overloaded two ordinary functions, but you can achieve the same effect with templates. See the sidebar "Should I Use a Template?" for a discussion.
equal compares two sequence ranges for equality. There are two versions: one that uses operator==, and another that uses whatever binary predicate (i.e., takes two arguments and returns a bool) function object you supply. In Example 4-21, caseInsCharCompareN and W are the binary predicate functions.
But that's not all you have to doyou need to compare the sizes, too. Consider equal's declaration:
template bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred);
Let n be the distance between first1 and last1, or in other words, the length of the first range. equal returns true if the first n elements of both sequences are equal. That means that if, given two sequences where the first n elements are equal, and the second sequence has more than n elements, equal will return true. Include a size check in your comparison to avoid this false positive.
You don't need to encapsulate this logic in a function. Your code or your client's code can just call the algorithm directly, but it's easier to remember and cleaner to write this:
if (caseInsCompare(s1, s2)) { // they are equal, do something
than this:
if ((s1.size( ) == s2.size( )) && std::equal(s1.begin( ), s1.end( ), s2.begin( ), caseInsCharCompare)) { // they are equal, do something
whenever you want to do a case-insensitive string comparison.
Building C++ Applications
Code Organization
Numbers
Strings and Text
Dates and Times
Managing Data with Containers
Algorithms
Classes
Exceptions and Safety
Streams and Files
Science and Mathematics
Multithreading
Internationalization
XML
Miscellaneous
Index | https://flylib.com/books/en/2.131.1/doing_a_case_insensitive_string_comparison.html | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | refinedweb | 701 | 53.71 |
Say you want to build a frequency distribution of many thousands of samples with the following characteristics:
- fast to build
- persistent data
- network accessible (with no locking requirements)
- can store large sliceable index lists
The only solution I know that meets those requirements is Redis. NLTK’s FreqDist is not persistent , shelve is far too slow, BerkeleyDB is not network accessible (and is generally a PITA to manage), and AFAIK there’s no other key-value store that makes sliceable lists really easy to create & access. So far I’ve been quite pleased with Redis, especially given how new it is. It’s quite fast, is network accessible, atomic operations make locking unnecessary, supports sortable and sliceable list structures, and is very easy to configure.
Why build a NLTK FreqDist on Redis
Building a NLTK FreqDist on top of Redis allows you to create a ProbDist, which in turn can be used for classification. Having it be persistent lets you examine the data later. And the ability to create sliceable lists allows you to make sorted indexes for paging thru your samples.
Here’s some more concrete use cases for persistent frequency distributions:
RedisFreqDist
I put the code I’ve been using to build frequency distributions over large sets of words up at BitBucket. probablity.py contains
RedisFreqDist, which works just like the NTLK FreqDist, except it stores samples and frequencies as keys and values in Redis. That means samples must be strings. Internally,
RedisFreqDist also stores a set of all the samples under the key __samples__ for efficient lookup and sorting. Here’s some example code for using it. For more info, checkout the wiki, or read the code.
def make_freq_dist(samples, host='localhost', port=6379, db=0): freqs = RedisFreqDist(host=host, port=port, db=db) for sample in samples: freqs.inc(sample)
Unfortunately, I had to muck about with some of FreqDist’s internal implementation to remain compatible, so I can’t promise the code will work beyond NLTK version 0.9.9. probablity.py also includes
ConditionalRedisFreqDist for creating ConditionalProbDists.
Lists
For creating lists of samples, that very much depends on your use case, but here’s some example code for doing so.
r is a redis object,
key is the index key for storing the list, and
samples is assumed to be a sorted list. The
get_samples function demonstrates how to get a slice of samples from the list.
def index_samples(r, key, samples): r.delete(key) for word in words: r.push(key, word, tail=True) def get_samples(r, key, start, end): return r.lrange(key, start, end)
Yes, Redis is still fairly alpha, so I wouldn’t use it for critical systems. But I’ve had very few issues so far, especially compared to dealing with BerkeleyDB. I highly recommend it for your non-critical computational needs
Redis has been quite stable for a while now, and many sites are using it successfully in production | http://streamhacker.com/tag/freqdist/ | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | refinedweb | 491 | 53 |
General Notes
- Please remember to include breadcrumbs tags and {{ DomRef }} template in all subpages.
- I created a DOM Level 0. Not part of any standard. template and intend to use it on all DOM level 0 pages. See DOM:element.innerHTML#Specification for example. --Nickolay 05:06, 26 December 2005 (PST)
ToDo
- Write reference pages for form elements select, option, textarea, input, and button. Some simpler elements such as label, optgroup, fieldset, and legend may also warrant pages. All elements which lack pages should at least have links to the standard.
I'm ready to help with this. I'll get on it as soon as time permits. Contact me if you have ideas (mine are just to copy the layout of other pages). --Jesdisciple 20 June 2009
- Migrate the Frame reference material:
Migrate the DHTML element properties pages: , , , , , , .
- Decide what to do about window.updateCommands - while the Gecko DOM Reference has a page on it, the page contains no real information. We could write some, remove the red link from the ToC page, or something else.
- Migrate the window.onX properties - they are somewhat different than the onX pages - should we merge the information, make seperate pages, or what?
- Decide what to do with the DOM Event Handler List
Re: Jesse's changes
- Wouldnt a __NOTOC__ have made sense here? instead of removing the sections. This could have also formed an actual "Table of contents" with quick-links to each sections information, such as document -> innerHTML instead of having to click Document then innerHTML to get there... (hell with advanced import methods we could simply import in, but we are not at that stage yet). -Callek 21:10, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)
- Sorry; forgot about NOTOC. I'll revert, and do it that way. Yes, it would be nice to have a full table of contents on this page eventually; I was just getting tired of having to either click on the ToC or scroll down to reach the actual links. A temporary NOTOC until we can get the full one put in is a better solution. JesseW 22:23, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)
- Yeah, the original first-page for this document was thrown together really quickly because I just needed somewhere to stash GT's new version of the window.open document. It needs to be sorted out, and I need to figure out what a "proper TOC" should look like for Devmo. I will work on that today. dria 05:15, 15 Jun 2005 (PDT)
- OK, I've revamped the TOC and document, element, and window subpages. If you have a major problem with the new formatting, let me know. Try to format new pages the same way, and the TOC page (this one) should link to the top level sections of the subpages as well, like the others. - dria 06:30, 15 Jun 2005 (PDT)
Needs technical review
Judging from the pages I've edited so far, the reference needs a tecnical review badly. I'm marking it as such. --Nickolay 10:33, 19 Aug 2005 (PDT)
Mixing interfaces
[from Talk:DOM:element] It's bad that we mix the methods of different interfaces all on one page, e.g. DOM:element.length is actually a member of NodeList. It's probably ok to mix the Node and Element interfaces (with proper warnings), but mixing completely different things like NodeList here is really bad. --Nickolay 06:10, 18 Aug 2005 (PDT)
[update] Well, in fact I think we should not even mix Element and Node interfaces together, given that we attempt to document stuff like getAttributeNode. We might want to include Node's methods on Element page, but not just have a single page with methods of the two mixed together. --Nickolay 07:42, 18 Aug 2005 (PDT)
[from Talk:DOM:document] Should there be a section that includes inherited interfaces? For example, Document inherits the Node interface (thus gaining appendChild() and company). --Maian 12:04, 28 September 2005 (PDT)
Also, this and other pages actually cover multiple interfaces. document implements Document, HTMLDocument, DocumentView, and lots of other interfaces. window implements Window and AbstractView. Elements implement Element, Event Target, and others. And so forth. Should these interfaces be mentioned? If so, how will formatting take this into account. The simple with-or-without asterisk doesn't work with more than two interfaces. --Maian 12:17, 28 September 2005 (PDT)
- Okay, I take back what I said before about this reference. It should really mention, and even be based on interfaces description. Otherwise it's not going be technically correct.
My current idea is to describe the DOM interfaces (e.g.
DOM:EventTarget.*), and have the pages like
DOM:document/
DOM:elementlist all the methods of implemented interfaces (using mediawiki include; we'll probably need to tweak it to be useful). Pages like DOM:element would link to the interfaces' pages for detailed description.
One of my concerns is that this info would duplicate the nsIDOM* interfaces description.
BTW, should this be moved to Talk:Gecko DOM Reference? --Nickolay 07:57, 15 October 2005 (PDT)
- This would also help in determining where to put static properties, namely constants. For example, the nodeType constants on Node and the DOM:event.eventPhase constants on Event. --Maian 01:14, 17 October 2005 (PDT)
- It looks like the naming scheme is to have interfaces be capitalized (DOM:EventTarget) and to have "prototypical" instances be lowercased/camel-cased (DOM:window). So would that mean there will both be a DOM:Document and DOM:document, one for the interface and one to actually describe what a document is? How would this be for more specific objects, such as say, the br element? DOM:HTMLBRElement and DOM:br? If you plan to take this approach, it would be nice to have a list of what the prototypical instance names would be. --Maian 20:30, 17 October 2005 (PDT)
- I'd prefer for it to all be capitalized, but DOM:element and DOM:range already set a precedent. We should decide on these trivial details before creating new sections before it bites us in the behind later on when we'll have to do a bunch of moves. Concerning HTML, are you saying we shouldn't have any HTML DOM pages? --Maian 04:30, 19 October 2005 (PDT)
XUL references
A number of references to XUL objects and methods are appearing on the DOM:window page (e.g. window.content, window.atob, window.btoa). Should these be in a separate section, or somehow highlighted as being part of XUL 'DOM' and not the HTML DOM?
--RobG 20:44, 9 January 2006 (PST)
- I would personally like that, I suggest bringing it up on the mailing list. --Callek 15:11, 10 January 2006 (PST)
Format
There's some inconsistency in how each page in this reference is structured, so I'm going to propose a guideline.
For methods:
- Summary
- Syntax
- Parameters
- Returns
- Notes/Description and any subsections (omit if n/a)
- Examples (omit if n/a)
- See also (omit if n/a)
For properties:
- Summary
- Syntax
- Returns
- Notes/Description and any subsections (omit of n/a)
- Examples (omit if n/a)
- See also (omit if n/a)
For interfaces (or objects that represent that interface, e.g. window, document):
- Summary
- Description and any subsections
- Static properties (omit if n/a)
- Static methods (omit if n/a)
- Properties (omit if n/a)
- Methods (omit if n/a)
- See also (omit if n/a)
Example of method page:
(breadcrumbs and template) == Summary == Concise one or two-liner. == Syntax == foo(a, b, c) Static method of [[DOM:Interface]] == Parameters == ; <code>a</code>: desc ; <code>b</code>: desc ; <code>c</code>: desc == Returns == A string that does blah. == Description == Elaborate on summary. == Examples == === Example: Using <code>foo</code> === ... == See also == [[DOM:Interface.bar|bar]], [[DOM:window.alert|window.alert]]
How's that?
Also, how should methods and properties be referenced in name? Choose one of the following schemes:
- Node.appendChild; Node.ELEMENT_NODE - always use "."
- Node's appendChild; Node.ELEMENT_NODE - only use "." for static properties/methods
- Node.appendChild(); Node.ELEMENT_NODE - always use "." and use "()" with methods
- Node's appendChild(); Node.ELEMENT_NODE - only use "." for static properties/methods and use "()" with methods
Forgot to mention: how would static and instance props/methods be distinguished in the wiki name considering the above?
--Maian 09:09, 17 October 2005 (PDT)
- I don't like that each page consists of many small sections. I also don't like how things like return values and other are called 'parameters'. Therefore I suggest that we merge syntax/parameters/returns into a single section, get rid of 'summary' section, and use __NOTOC__ on most pages. For example see Sandbox:DOM:element.hasAttribute.
We don't seem to use parentheses for methods' pages in wiki. I don't think we have to use different naming scheme for static properties - just mention that they are static on the page itself.
We probably should discuss it on the mailing list before doing major reformatting.
--Nickolay 11:52, 17 October 2005 (PDT)
- Why "summary"? Summary is wrongly used here. Summary is often used in article; I explained in RobG's talk page page why summary is not best used (along with an example). FYI, scientific documents use "Synopsis". Either we use "Definition" as the first section or, like Nickolay suggested, we get rid of the 'summary' section. Either way is fine with me.
- I also agree that we should merge syntax/parameters/return value into a single section. Parameters obviously should apply to functions, to methods and not to properties. The old Gecko DOM reference was clearly wrong on that.
--GT January 24th 2006
- That sounds good, though in that sample page, I think it should just say "boolVal" (or something similar) instead of "[ true | false ]":
boolVal = element.hasAttribute(''attrName'')
- or
hasAttribute(''attrName'') ... returns a boolean (if not described elsewhere, describe what it returns)
- or IDL-like:
boolean hasAttribute(''attrName'')
- [true | false] thing was copied, I don't like it either. The reference seems to use boolVal = method() notation, and I'm fine with it. --Nickolay 08:06, 18 October 2005 (PDT) [edit 17 Jan 2006] after some discussion on RobG's talk page I'm not sure I'm fine with it anymore. Maybe IDL would indeed be better (for me at least)
- Updated Sandbox:DOM:element.hasAttribute --Nickolay 10:39, 8 January 2006 (PST)
References
There are properties and methods included in the DOM reference that aren't implemented by Gecko, e.g. DOM:element clientLeft and clientTop.
I've added Not currently supported after them on the index page and in their actual page. There are also links to MSDN for a number of properties and methods that aren't in the W3C DOM, should that be done for all that don't have a W3C reference? Should all references to MSDN be removed?
Should methods, properties, whatever that aren't implemented by Gecko be mentioned at all? There are many, many MS IE methods and properties that aren't mentioned here—I'm not suggesting that they should, just that it's inconsistent that some are but most aren't. Should anything be done about it?
--RobG 03:51, 8 January 2006 (PST)
- I think that links to MSDN can be kept if they are useful to our readers.
I personally find it strange that we're documenting IE-only properties in the Gecko DOM reference. I think it was discussed on the list briefly. --Nickolay 10:30, 8 January 2006 (PST)
- Even now, "IE-only" and "DOM 0" properties, over time, can become W3C recommendations* and/or receive Gecko support at some point. Therefore, having them all somewhere here would at least remove any doubt about whether a property is either not supported or if it's just missing from this wiki. (*For example, CSSOM View Module is a working draft as of 2008 and includes properties such as
element.offsetLeftand
window.innerHeightwhich are currently documented under DOM 0 with MSDN links - that should probably change - but maybe only if the working draft becomes a recommendation?) --George3 16:22, 19 July 2008 (PDT)
Attributes
We need some information about attributes vs attr-nodes and non-namespace-aware methods vs namespace-aware ones (in particular the gotcha with attributes being in the null namespace by default, even if there's a non-null default namespace specified using
xmlns ). --Nickolay 06:33, 28 May 2006 (PDT) | https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/en-US/docs/Talk:Gecko_DOM_Reference | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | refinedweb | 2,077 | 64.71 |
Changelog for package xacro
1.9.5 (2015-11-09)
optionally include latest improvements in xacro-jade into xacro-indigo
Contributors: Morgan Quigley
1.9.4 (2015-04-01)
Using xacro for launch files with <arg> tags would cause the <args> tags to get eaten. Removed "arg" and only look for "xacro:arg".
Add test for eating launch parameter arguments
updated pr2 gold standard to include all comments
allow to ignore comments in nodes_match()
fixed handling of non-element nodes in <include>, <if>, <macro>
fixed writexml: text nodes were not printed when other siblings exist
improved xml matching, add some new unit tests
travis-ci: fixup running of tests
fix pathnames used in test case
Include CATKIN_ENV params at build time.
use output filename flag instead of shell redirection
create output file only if parsing is successful
Contributors: Mike O'Driscoll, Morgan Quigley, Robert Haschke, William Woodall
1.9.3 (2015-01-14)
merge test cases
add a snapshot of the pr2 model to the test directory. add a test case which verifies that the pr2 model is parsed equal to a 'golden' parse of it.
add more tests
add default arg tests
Allow default values for substitution args
Fix up comments
Allow xacro macros to have default parameters
Contributors: Paul Bovbel, Morgan Quigley
1.9.2 (2014-07-11)
add a few more tests to exercise the symbol table a bit more
allow for recursive evaluation of properties in expressions
add useful debugging information when parameters are not set
stop test from failing the second time it is run
unified if/unless handling, correctly handle floating point expressions
floating point expressions not equal zero are now evaluated as True
changed quotes to omit cmake warning
Contributors: Robert Haschke, Mike Ferguson
1.9.1 (2014-06-21)
fixup tests so they run
export architecture_independent flag in package.xml
installed relocatable fix
Contributors: Michael Ferguson, Mike Purvis, Scott K Logan
1.9.0 (2014-03-28)
Remove the roslint_python glob, use the default one.
Add roslint target to xacro; two whitespace fixes so that it passes.
fix evaluation of integers in if statements also added a unit test, fixes
#15
fix setting of _xacro_py CMake var, fixes
#16
Add support for globbing multiple files in a single <xacro:include>
code cleanup and python3 support
check for CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING
1.8.4 (2013-08-06)
Merge pull request
#9
from davetcoleman/hydro-devel Xacro should not use plain 'include' tags but only namespaced ones.
Fix for the fact that minidom creates text nodes which count as child nodes
Removed <uri> checking and made it more general for any child element of an <include> tag
Removed Groovy reference, only being applied to Hydro
Created check for Gazebo's <uri> tabs only only shows deprecated warnings if not present.
Small spelling fix
Xacro should not use plain 'include' tags but only namespaced ones.
Merge pull request
#8
from piyushk/hydro-devel-conditional xacro conditional blocks
using refined arguments instead of sys.argv for xml file location
adding conditional blocks to xacro
1.8.3 (2013-04-22)
bumped version to 1.8.3 for hydro release
backwards compatilibity with rosbuild
adding unit test for substitution args
Adding supoprt for substitution_args 'arg' fields
Remove bin copy of xacro.py
1.7.3
Install xacro.py as a program so it can be run
1.7.2
fixed build issues introduced in catkinization
1.7.1
PEP8, cleanup, and remove roslib
Update copyright, self import guard, and catkinize
Catkinize.
Cleanup in preparation of catkinization.
Added tag unstable for changeset 169c4bf30367
Added tag xacro-1.6.1 for changeset fc45af7fdada
1.6.1 marker
xacro: fuerte compat with sub args import
Added tag unstable for changeset 2d3c8dbfa3c9
Added tag xacro-1.6.0 for changeset e4a4455189bf
1.6.0
converted to unary stack from common stack
xacro: fixed inserting property blocks (ros-pkg
#4561
)
xacro now uses XacroExceptions. String exceptions are not allowed in Python anymore.
#4209
Added Ubuntu platform tags to manifest
Xacro now places comments below <?xml> tag (
#3859
)
Xacro prints out cleaner xml. Elements are now often separated by a newline.
xacro dependency on roslaunch removed
#3451
Xacro now adds a message mentioning that the file was autogenerated (
#2775
)
Remove use of deprecated rosbuild macros
Integers stay integers in xacro, fixing
#3287
Tests for r25868
Added a flag for only evaluating include tags in xacro
Allowing multiple blocks and multiple insert_blocks, fixing
#3322
and
#3323
doc review completed for xacro
adding mainpage for xacro doc review
Added xacro.cmake file that exports new xacro_add_xacro_file() macro,
#3020
Namespaced "include" tag in xacro
Marked xacro as api reviewed
Xacro now correctly declares the namespaces of the included documents in the final
Made xacro accept xml namespaces
Xacro now errors hard when a property is used without being declared
Xacro no longer allows you to create properties with "${}" in the name
Added the ability to escape "${" in xacro
Made the tests in xacro run again.
Created xacro/src
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Learn how to apply data binding in Angular and how to work with the NgFor and NgIf Directives.
Angular is a framework for building dynamic client-side applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is one of the top JavaScript frameworks for building dynamic web applications. In this article, I'll cover data binding, using structural directives, and how to pass data from one component to another.
This article builds on two other articles. There I covered how to set up an Angular app, and how to create modules, create components and group app features into modules. You can skip reading those articles if you're familiar with setting up an Angular application using the CLI, and what components and modules are and how to create and use them.
If you want to code along, you can download the source code on GitHub. Copy the content of
src-part-2 folder to
src folder and follow the instructions I'll give you as you read.
Data binding is a technique to pass data from the component's class to the view. It creates a connection between the template and a property in the class such that when the value of that property changes, the template is updated with the new value. Currently, the
briefing-cards component displays static numbers. We want to make this dynamic and allow the value to be set from the component's class. Open its component's class and the following properties to it.
@Input() currentMonthSpending: object; @Input() lastMonthSpending: object;
Add import for the
@Input decorator on line one:
import { Component, OnInit, Input } from "@angular/core";
You just added two new properties with type set to
object because we don't want to create a new type for the data. The
@Input() decorator is a way to allow a parent component to pass data to a child component. We want the data for those properties to come from the parent component which is
home. With that in place, we now want to bind this property to the template. Update the
briefing-cards component template with the code below:
<div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-3"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-header"> {{ lastMonthSpending.month }} </div> <div class="card-body"> <div style="font-size: 30px">${{ lastMonthSpending.amount }}</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-3"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-header"> {{ currentMonthSpending.month }} </div> <div class="card-body"> <div style="font-size: 30px">${{ currentMonthSpending.amount }}</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
It is almost the same code as before, except now we use a template syntax
{{ }} in lines 5, 8, 15, and 18. This is referred to as interpolation and is a way to put expressions into marked-up text. You specify what you want it to resolve in between the curly braces, and then Angular evaluates it and converts the result to a string which is then placed in the markup.
We want to also replace the static data in
expense-list to use data from the component's logic. Open expense-list.component.ts, and add a reference to the @Input decorator:
import { Component, OnInit, Input } from "@angular/core";
Add the following property to the component's class:
@Input() expenses: IExpense[] = []; @Input() showButton: boolean = true;
The
showButton property is mapped to a boolean type, with a default value that gets assigned to it when the class is initialized. The
expenses property will hold the data to be displayed in the table element. It is bound to a type of
IExpense. This type represents the expense data for the application. The property will be an array of
IExpense, with the default value set to an empty array.
Go ahead and create the type by adding a new file src/app/expenses/expense.ts. Add the code below in it.
export default interface IExpense { description: string; amount: number; date: string; }
We defined an interface type called
IExpense, with properties to hold the expense data. An interface defines a set of properties and methods used to identify a type. A class can choose to inherit an interface and provide the implementation for its members. The interface can be used as a data type and can be used to define contracts in the code. The
IExpense type that's set as the type for the
expenses property would enforce that the value coming from the parent component matches that type, and it can only contain an array of that type.
Open expense-list.component.ts and add an import statement for the newly defined type.
import IExpense from "../expense";
With our component's logic set to support the template, update expense-list.component.ts with the markup below:
<table class="table"> <caption * <button type="button" class="btn btn-dark">Add Expense</button> </caption> <thead class="thead-dark"> <tr> <th scope="col">Description</th> <th scope="col">Date</th> <th scope="col">Amount</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr * <td>{{ expense.description }}</td> <td>{{ expense.date }}</td> <td>${{ expense.amount }}</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
You updated the template to make use of data binding and also used some directives. On line 2, you should notice
*ngIf="showButton" and on line 13 you should see
*ngFor="let expense of expenses". The
*ngIf and
*ngFor are known as structural directives. Structural directives are used to shape the view by adding or removing elements from the DOM. An asterisk
(*) precedes the directive's attribute name to indicate it's a structural directive.
The NgIf directive (denoted as
*ngIf) conditionally adds or removes elements from the DOM. It's placed on the element it should manipulate. In our case, the
<caption> tag. If the value for
showButton resolves to true, it'll render that element and its children to the DOM.
The NgFor directive (used as
*ngFor) is used to repeat elements it is bound to. You specify a block of HTML that defines how a single item should be displayed and then Angular uses it as a template for rendering each item in the array. In our example, it is the
<tr /> element with the columns bound to the data of each item in the array.
The
home component is the parent to
briefing-cards and
expense-list components. We're going to pass the data they need from the parent down to those components. This is why we defined the data properties with
@Input decorators. Passing data to another component is done through property binding.
Property binding is used to set properties of target elements or component's @Input() decorators. The value flows from a component's property into the target element property, and you can't use it to read or pull values out of target elements.
Let's go ahead and apply it. Open src/app/home/home.component.ts. Add the properties below to the class definition:
expenses: IExpense[] = [ { description: "First shopping for the month", amount: 20, date: "2019-08-12" }, { description: "Bicycle for Amy", amount: 10, date: "2019-08-08" }, { description: "First shopping for the month", amount: 14, date: "2019-08-21" } ]; currentMonthSpending = { amount: 300, month: "July" }; lastMonthSpending = { amount: 44, month: "August" };
Then add the import statement for the
IExpense type.
import IExpense from "../expenses/expense";
Open home.component.html and add property binding to the component directives as you see below:
<et-briefing-cards [lastMonthSpending]="lastMonthSpending" [currentMonthSpending]="currentMonthSpending" ></et-briefing-cards> <br /> <et-expense-list [expenses]="expenses"></et-expense-list>
The enclosing square brackets identify the target properties, which is the same as the name of the properties defined in those components.
With that set up, let's test that our code is working as expected. Open the command line and run
ng serve -o to start the application. This launches your default browser and opens the web app.
In this article, you learned how to use the NgIf and NgFor structural directives. I also showed you how to apply data binding to make the app dynamic and use @Input decorators to share data between components. You can get the source code on GitHub in the src-part-3 folder.
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Device and Network Interfaces
- general magnetic tape interface
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/mtio.h>
1/2”, 1/4”, 4mm, and 8mm magnetic tape drives all share the same general character device interface.
There are two types of tape records: data records and end-of-file (EOF) records. SEOF records are also known as tape marks and file marks. A record is separated by interrecord (or tape) gaps on a tape.
End-of-recorded-media (EOM) is indicated by two EOF marks on 1/2” tape; by one EOF mark on 1/4”, 4mm, and 8mm cartridge tapes.
Data bytes are recorded in parallel onto the 9-track tape. Since it is a variable-length tape device, the number of bytes in a physical record may vary.
The recording formats available (check specific tape drive) are 800 BPI, 1600 BPI, 6250 BPI, and data compression. Actual storage capacity is a function of the recording format and the length of the tape reel. For example, using a 2400 foot tape, 20 Mbyte can be stored using 800 BPI, 40 Mbyte using 1600 BPI, 140 Mbyte using 6250 BPI, or up to 700 Mbyte using data compression.
Data is recorded serially onto 1/4” cartridge tape. The number of bytes per record is determined by the physical record size of the device. The I/O request size must be a multiple of the physical record size of the device. For QIC-11, QIC-24, and QIC-150 tape drives, the block size is 512 bytes.
The records are recorded on tracks in a serpentine motion. As one track is completed, the drive switches to the next and begins writing in the opposite direction, eliminating the wasted motion of rewinding. Each file, including the last, ends with one file mark.
Storage capacity is based on the number of tracks the drive is capable of recording. For example, 4-track drives can only record 20 Mbyte of data on a 450 foot tape; 9-track drives can record up to 45 Mbyte of data on a tape of the same length. QIC-11 is the only tape format available for 4-track tape drives. In contrast, 9-track tape drives can use either QIC-24 or QIC-11. Storage capacity is not appreciably affected by using either format. QIC-24 is preferable to QIC-11 because it records a reference signal to mark the position of the first track on the tape, and each block has a unique block number.
The QIC-150 tape drives require DC-6150 (or equivalent) tape cartridges for writing. However, they can read other tape cartridges in QIC-11, QIC-24, or QIC-120 tape formats.
Data is recorded serially onto 8mm helical scan cartridge tape. Since it is a variable-length tape device, the number of bytes in a physical record may vary. The recording formats available (check specific tape drive) are standard 2Gbyte, 5Gbyte, and compressed format.
Data is recorded either in Digital Data Storage (DDS) tape format or in Digital Data Storage, Data Compressed (DDS-DC) tape format. Since it is a variable-length tape device, the number of bytes in a physical record may vary. The recording formats available are standard 2Gbyte and compressed format.
Persistent error handling is a modification of the current error handling behaviors, BSD and SVR4. With persistent error handling enabled, all tape operations after an error or exception will return immediately with an error. Persistent error handling can be most useful with asynchronous tape operations that use the aioread(3AIO) and aiowrite(3AIO) functions.
To enable persistent error handling, the ioctl MTIOCPERSISTENT must be issued. If this ioctl succeeds, then persistent error handling is enabled and changes the current error behavior. This ioctl will fail if the device driver does not support persistent error handling.
With persistent error handling enabled, all tape operations after an exception or error will return with the same error as the first command that failed; the operations will not be executed. An exception is some event that might stop normal tape operations, such as an End Of File (EOF) mark or an End Of Tape (EOT) mark. An example of an error is a media error. The MTIOCLRERR ioctl must be issued to allow normal tape operations to continue and to clear the error.
Disabling persistent error handling returns the error behavior to normal SVR4 error handling, and will not occur until all outstanding operations are completed. Applications should wait for all outstanding operations to complete before disabling persistent error handling. Closing the device will also disable persistent error handling and clear any errors or exceptions.
The Read Operation and Write Operation subsections contain more pertinent information reguarding persistent error handling.
The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, provided it is not greater than the number requested. When a tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is returned; all successive reads after the zero read will return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the read causing the error. This error handling behavior is different from the older BSD behavior, where another read will fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD behavior is required, device names containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued.
Two successful successive reads that both return zero byte counts indicate EOM on the tape. No further reading should be performed past the EOM.
Fixed-length I/O tape devices require the number of bytes read to be a multiple of the physical record size. For example, 1/4” cartridge tape devices only read multiples of 512 bytes. If the blocking factor is greater than 64,512 bytes (minphys limit), fixed-length I/O tape devices read multiple records.
Most tape devices which support variable-length I/O operations may read a range of 1 to 65,535 bytes. If the record size exceeds 65,535 bytes, the driver reads multiple records to satisfy the request. These multiple records are limited to 65,534 bytes. Newer variable-length tape drivers may relax the above limitation and allow applications to read record sizes larger than 65,534. Refer to the specific tape driver man page for details.
Reading past logical EOT is transparent to the user. A read operation should never hit physical EOT.
Read requests that are lesser than a physical tape record are not allowed. Appropriate error is returned.
The write(2) function writes the next record on the tape. The record has the same length as the given buffer.
Writing is allowed on 1/4” tape at either the beginning of tape or after the last written file on the tape. With the Exabyte 8200, data may be appended only at the beginning of tape, before a filemark, or after the last written file on the tape.
Writing is not so restricted on 1/2”, 4mm, and the other 8mm cartridge tape drives. Care should be used when appending files onto 1/2” reel tape devices, since an extra file mark is appended after the last file to mark the EOM. This extra file mark must be overwritten to prevent the creation of a null file. To facilitate write append operations, a space to the EOM ioctl is provided. Care should be taken when overwriting records; the erase head is just forward of the write head and any following records will also be erased.
Fixed-length I/O tape devices require the number of bytes written to be a multiple of the physical record size. For example, 1/4” cartridge tape devices only write multiples of 512 bytes.
Fixed-length I/O tape devices write multiple records if the blocking factor is greater than 64,512 bytes (minphys limit). These multiple writes are limited to 64,512 bytes. For example, if a write request is issued for 65,536 bytes using a 1/4” cartridge tape, two writes are issued; the first for 64,512 bytes and the second for 1024 bytes.
Most tape devices which support variable-length I/O operations may write a range of 1 to 65,535 bytes. If the record size exceeds 65,535 bytes, the driver writes multiple records to satisfy the request. These multiple records are limited to 65,534 bytes. As an example, if a write request for 65,540 bytes is issued, two records are written; one for 65,534 bytes followed by another record for 6 bytes. Newer variable-length tape drivers may relax the above limitation and allow applications to write record sizes larger than 65,534. Refer to the specific tape driver man page for details.
When logical EOT is encountered during a write, that write operation completes and the number of bytes successfully transferred is returned (note that a 'short write' may have occurred and not all the requested bytes would have been transferred. The actual amount of data written will depend on the type of device being used). The next write will return a zero byte count. A third write will successfully transfer some bytes (as indicated by the returned byte count, which again could be a short write); the fourth will transfer zero bytes, and so on, until the physical EOT is reached and all writes will fail with EIO.
When logical EOT is encountered with persistent error handling enabled, the current write may complete or be a short write. The next write will return a zero byte count. At this point an application should act appropriately for end of tape cleanup or issue yet another write, which will return the error ENOSPC. After clearing the exception with MTIOCLRERR, the next write will succeed (possibly short), followed by another zero byte write count, and then another ENOSPC error.
Allowing writes after LEOT has been encountered enables the flushing of buffers. However, it is strongly recommended to terminate the writing and close the file as soon as possible.
Seeks are ignored in tape I/O.
Magnetic tapes are rewound when closed, except when the “no-rewind” devices have been specified. The names of no-rewind device files use the letter n as the end of the final component. The no-rewind version of /dev/rmt/0l is /dev/rmt/0ln. In case of error for a no-rewind device, the next open rewinds the device.
If the driver was opened for reading and a no-rewind device has been specified, the close advances the tape past the next filemark (unless the current file position is at EOM), leaving the tape correctly positioned to read the first record of the next file. However, if the tape is at the first record of a file it doesn't advance again to the first record of the next file. These semantics are different from the older BSD behavior. If BSD behavior is required where no implicit space operation is executed on close, the non-rewind device name containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be specified.
If data was written, a file mark is automatically written by the driver upon close. If the rewinding device was specified, the tape will be rewound after the file mark is written. If the user wrote a file mark prior to closing, then no file mark is written upon close. If a file positioning ioctl, like rewind, is issued after writing, a file mark is written before repositioning the tape.
All buffers are flushed on closing a tape device. Hence, it is strongly recommended that the application wait for all buffers to be flushed before closing the device. This can be done by writing a filemark via MTWEOF, even with a zero count.
Note that for 1/2” reel tape devices, two file marks are written to mark the EOM before rewinding or performing a file positioning ioctl. If the user wrote a file mark before closing a 1/2” reel tape device, the driver will always write a file mark before closing to insure that the end of recorded media is marked properly. If the non-rewinding device was specified, two file marks are written and the tape is left positioned between the two so that the second one is overwritten on a subsequent open(2) and write(2).
If no data was written and the driver was opened for WRITE-ONLY access, one or two file marks are written, thus creating a null file.
After closing the device, persistent error handling will be disabled and any error or exception will be cleared.
Not all devices support all ioctls. The driver returns an ENOTTY error on unsupported ioctls.
The following structure definitions for magnetic tape ioctl commands are from <sys/mtio.h>.
The minor device byte structure is::
15 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ________________________________________________________________________ Unit # BSD Reserved Density Density No rewind Unit # Bits 7-15 behavior Select Select on Close Bits 0-1
/* * Layout of minor device byte: */ #define MTUNIT(dev) (((minor(dev) & 0xff80) >> 5) + (minor(dev) & 0x3)) #define MT_NOREWIND (1 <<2) #define MT_DENSITY_MASK (3 <<3) #define MT_DENSITY1 (0 <<3) /* Lowest density/format */ #define MT_DENSITY2 (1 <<3) #define MT_DENSITY3 (2 <<3) #define MT_DENSITY4 (3 <<3) /* Highest density/format */ #define MTMINOR(unit) (((unit & 0x7fc) << 5) + (unit & 0x3)) #define MT_BSD (1 <<6) /* BSD behavior on close */ /* Structure for MTIOCTOP - magnetic tape operation command */ struct mtop { short mt_op; /* operation */ daddr_t mt_count; /* number of operations */ };
/* Structure for MTIOCLTOP - magnetic tape operation command */ Works exactly like MTIOCTOP except passes 64 bit mt_count values. struct mtlop { short mt_op; short pad[3]; int64_t mt_count; };
The following operations of MTIOCTOP and MTIOCLTOP ioctls are supported:
write an end-of-file record
forward space over file mark
backward space over file mark (1/2", 8mm only)
forward space to inter-record gap
backward space to inter-record gap
rewind
rewind and take the drive off-line
no operation, sets status only
retension the tape (cartridge tape only)
erase the entire tape and rewind
position to EOM
backward space file to beginning of file
set record size
get record size
get current position
go to requested position
forward to requested number of sequential file marks
backward to requested number of sequential file marks
prevent media removal
allow media removal
load the next tape cartridge into the tape drive
retrieve error records from the st driver
/* structure for MTIOCGET - magnetic tape get status command */ struct mtget { short mt_type; /* type of magtape device */ /* the following two registers are device dependent */ short mt_dsreg; /* “drive status” register */ short mt_erreg; /* “error” register */ /* optional error info. */ daddr_t mt_resid; /* residual count */ daddr_t mt_fileno; /* file number of current position */ daddr_t mt_blkno; /* block number of current position */ ushort_t mt_flags; short mt_bf; /* optimum blocking factor */ }; /* structure for MTIOCGETDRIVETYPE - get tape config data command */ struct mtdrivetype_request { int size; struct mtdrivetype *mtdtp; }; struct mtdrivetype { char name[64]; /* Name, for debug */ char vid[25]; /* Vendor id and product id */ char type; /* Drive type for driver */ int bsize; /* Block size */ int options; /* Drive options */ int max_rretries; /* Max read retries */ int max_wretries; /* Max write retries */ uchar_t densities[MT_NDENSITIES]; /* density codes,low->hi */ uchar_t default_density; /* Default density chosen */ uchar_t speeds[MT_NSPEEDS]; /* speed codes, low->hi */ ushort_t non_motion_timeout; /* Seconds for non-motion */ ushort_t io_timeout; /* Seconds for data to from tape */ ushort_t rewind_timeout; /* Seconds to rewind */ ushort_t space_timeout; /* Seconds to space anywhere */ ushort_t load_timeout; /* Seconds to load tape and ready */ ushort_t unload_timeout; /* Seconds to unload */ ushort_t erase_timeout; /* Seconds to do long erase */ };
/* structure for MTIOCGETPOS and MTIOCRESTPOS - get/set tape position */ /* * eof/eot/eom codes. */ typedef enum { ST_NO_EOF, ST_EOF_PENDING, /* filemrk pending */ ST_EOF, /* at filemark */ ST_EOT_PENDING, /* logical eot pend. */ ST_EOT, /* at logical eot */ ST_EOM, /* at physical eot */ ST_WRITE_AFTER_EOM /* flag allowing writes after EOM */ }pstatus; typedef enum { invalid, legacy, logical } posmode; typedef struct tapepos { uint64_t lgclblkno; /* Blks from start of partition */ int32_t fileno; /* Num. of current file */ int32_t blkno; /* Blk number in current file */ int32_t partition; /* Current partition */ pstatus eof; /* eof states */ posmode pmode; /* which pos. data is valid */ char pad[4]; }tapepos_t; If the pmode is legacy,fileno and blkno fields are valid. If the pmode is logical, lgclblkno field is valid.
The MTWEOF ioctl is used for writing file marks to tape. Not only does this signify the end of a file, but also usually has the side effect of flushing all buffers in the tape drive to the tape medium. A zero count MTWEOF will just flush all the buffers and will not write any file marks. Because a successful completion of this tape operation will guarantee that all tape data has been written to the tape medium, it is recommended that this tape operation be issued before closing a tape device.
When spacing forward over a record (either data or EOF), the tape head is positioned in the tape gap between the record just skipped and the next record. When spacing forward over file marks (EOF records), the tape head is positioned in the tape gap between the next EOF record and the record that follows it.
When spacing backward over a record (either data or EOF), the tape head is positioned in the tape gap immediately preceding the tape record where the tape head is currently positioned. When spacing backward over file marks (EOF records), the tape head is positioned in the tape gap preceding the EOF. Thus the next read would fetch the EOF.
Record skipping does not go past a file mark; file skipping does not go past the EOM. After an MTFSR <huge number> command, the driver leaves the tape logically positioned before the EOF. A related feature is that EOFs remain pending until the tape is closed. For example, a program which first reads all the records of a file up to and including the EOF and then performs an MTFSF command will leave the tape positioned just after that same EOF, rather than skipping the next file.
The MTNBSF and MTFSF operations are inverses. Thus, an “ MTFSF -1” is equivalent to an “ MTNBSF 1”. An “ MTNBSF 0” is the same as “ MTFSF 0”; both position the tape device at the beginning of the current file.
MTBSF moves the tape backwards by file marks. The tape position will end on the beginning of the tape side of the desired file mark. An “ MTBSF 0” will position the tape at the end of the current file, before the filemark.
MTBSR and MTFSR operations perform much like space file operations, except that they move by records instead of files. Variable-length I/O devices (1/2” reel, for example) space actual records; fixed-length I/O devices space physical records (blocks). 1/4” cartridge tape, for example, spaces 512 byte physical records. The status ioctl residual count contains the number of files or records not skipped.
MTFSSF and MTBSSF space forward or backward, respectively, to the next occurrence of the requested number of file marks, one following another. If there are more sequential file marks on tape than were requested, it spaces over the requested number and positions after the requested file mark. Note that not all drives support this command and if a request is sent to a drive that does not, ENOTTY is returned.
MTOFFL rewinds and, if appropriate, takes the device off-line by unloading the tape. It is recommended that the device be closed after offlining and then re-opened after a tape has been inserted to facilitate portability to other platforms and other operating systems. Attempting to re-open the device with no tape will result in an error unless the O_NDELAY flag is used. (See open(2).)
The MTRETEN retension ioctl applies only to 1/4” cartridge tape devices. It is used to restore tape tension, improving the tape's soft error rate after extensive start-stop operations or long-term storage.
MTERASE rewinds the tape, erases it completely, and returns to the beginning of tape. Erasing may take a long time depending on the device and/or tapes. For time details, refer to the the drive specific manual.
MTEOM positions the tape at a location just after the last file written on the tape. For 1/4” cartridge and 8mm tape, this is after the last file mark on the tape. For 1/2” reel tape, this is just after the first file mark but before the second (and last) file mark on the tape. Additional files can then be appended onto the tape from that point.
Note the difference between MTBSF (backspace over file mark) and MTNBSF (backspace file to beginning of file). The former moves the tape backward until it crosses an EOF mark, leaving the tape positioned before the file mark. The latter leaves the tape positioned after the file mark. Hence, "MTNBSF n" is equivalent to "MTBSF (n+1)" followed by "MTFSF 1". The 1/4” cartridge tape devices do not support MTBSF.
MTSRSZ and MTGRSZ are used to set and get fixed record lengths. The MTSRSZ ioctl allows variable length and fixed length tape drives that support multiple record sizes to set the record length. The mt_count field of the mtop struct is used to pass the record size to/from the st driver. A value of 0 indicates variable record size. The MTSRSZ ioctl makes a variable-length tape device behave like a fixed-length tape device. Refer to the specific tape driver man page for details.
MTLOAD loads the next tape cartridge into the tape drive. This is generally only used with stacker and tower type tape drives which handle multiple tapes per tape drive. A tape device without a tape inserted can be opened with the O_NDELAY flag, in order to execute this operation.
MTIOCGETERROR allows user-level applications to retrieve error records from the st driver. An error record consists of the SCSI command cdb which causes the error and a scsi_arq_status(9S) structure if available. The user-level application is responsible for allocating and releasing the memory for mtee_cdb_buf and scsi_arq_status of each mterror_entry. Before issuing the ioctl, the mtee_arq_status_len value should be at least equal to "sizeof(struct scsi_arq_status)." If more sense data than the size of scsi_arq_status(9S) is desired, the mtee_arq_status_len may be larger than "sizeof(struct scsi_arq_status)" by the amount of additional extended sense data desired. The es_add_len field of scsi_extended_sense(9S) can be used to determine the amount of valid sense data returned by the device.
The MTIOCGET get status ioctl call returns the drive ID (mt_type), sense key error (mt_erreg), file number (mt_fileno), optimum blocking factor (mt_bf) and record number (mt_blkno) of the last error. The residual count (mt_resid) is set to the number of bytes not transferred or files/records not spaced. The flags word (mt_flags) contains information indicating if the device is SCSI, if the device is a reel device and whether the device supports absolute file positioning. The mt_flags also indicates if the device is requesting cleaning media be used, whether the device is capable of reporting the requirement of cleaning media and if the currently loaded media is WORM (Write Once Read Many) media.
Note - When tape alert cleaning is managed by the st driver, the tape target driver may continue to return a "drive needs cleaning" status unless an MTIOCGET ioctl() call is made while the cleaning media is in the drive.
The MTIOCGETDRIVETYPE get drivetype ioctl call returns the name of the tape drive as defined in st.conf (name), Vendor ID and model (product), ID (vid), type of tape device (type), block size (bsize), drive options (options), maximum read retry count (max_rretries), maximum write retry count (max_wretries), densities supported by the drive (densities), and default density of the tape drive (default_density).
The MTIOCGETPOS ioctl returns the current tape position of the drive. It is returned in struct tapepos as defined in /usr/include/sys/scsi/targets/stdef.h.
The MTIOCRESTPOS ioctl restores a saved position from the MTIOCGETPOS.
enables/disables persistent error handling
queries for persistent error handling
clears persistent error handling
checks whether driver guarantees order of I/O's
The MTIOCPERSISTENT ioctl enables or disables persistent error handling. It takes as an argument a pointer to an integer that turns it either on or off. If the ioctl succeeds, the desired operation was successful. It will wait for all outstanding I/O's to complete before changing the persistent error handling status. For example,
int on = 1; ioctl(fd, MTIOCPERSISTENT, &on); int off = 0; ioctl(fd, MTIOCPERSISTENT, &off);
The MTIOCPERSISTENTSTATUS ioctl enables or disables persistent error handling. It takes as an argument a pointer to an integer inserted by the driver. The integer can be either 1 if persistent error handling is 'on', or 0 if persistent error handling is 'off'. It will not wait for outstanding I/O's. For example,
int query; ioctl(fd, MTIOCPERSISTENTSTATUS, &query);
The MTIOCLRERR ioctl clears persistent error handling and allows tape operations to continual normally. This ioctl requires no argument and will always succeed, even if persistent error handling has not been enabled. It will wait for any outstanding I/O's before it clears the error.
The MTIOCGUARANTEEDORDER ioctl is used to determine whether the driver guarantees the order of I/O's. It takes no argument. If the ioctl succeeds, the driver will support guaranteed order. If the driver does not support guaranteed order, then it should not be used for asynchronous I/O with libaio. It will wait for any outstanding I/O's before it returns. For example,
ioctl(fd, MTIOCGUARANTEEDORDER)
See the Persistent Error Handling subsection above for more information on persistent error handling.
This ioctl blocks until the state of the drive, inserted or ejected, is changed. The argument is a pointer to a mtio_state, enum, whose possible enumerations are listed below. The initial value should be either the last reported state of the drive, or MTIO_NONE. Upon return, the enum pointed to by the argument is updated with the current state of the drive.
enum mtio_state { MTIO_NONE /* Return tape's current state */ MTIO_EJECTED /* Tape state is “ejected” */ MTIO_INSERTED /* Tape state is “inserted” */ ;
When using asynchronous operations, most ioctls will wait for all outstanding commands to complete before they are executed.
reserve the tape drive
revert back to the default behavior of reserve on open/release on close
reserve the tape unit by breaking reservation held by another host
The MTIOCRESERVE ioctl reserves the tape drive such that it does not release the tape drive at close. This changes the default behavior of releasing the device upon close. Reserving the tape drive that is already reserved has no effect. For example,
ioctl(fd, MTIOCRESERVE);
The MTIOCRELEASE ioctl reverts back to the default behavior of reserve on open/release on close operation, and a release will occur during the next close. Releasing the tape drive that is already released has no effect. For example,
ioctl(fd, MTIOCRELEASE);
The MTIOCFORCERESERVE ioctl breaks a reservation held by another host, interrupting any I/O in progress by that other host, and then reserves the tape unit. This ioctl can be executed only with super-user privileges. It is recommended to open the tape device in O_NDELAY mode when this ioctl needs to be executed, otherwise the open will fail if another host indeed has it reserved. For example,
ioctl(fd, MTIOCFORCERESERVE);
enables/disable support for writing short filemarks. This is specific to Exabyte drives.
enables/disable supress incorrect length indicator support during reads
enables/disable support for reading past two EOF marks which otherwise indicate End-Of-recording-Media (EOM) in the case of 1/2" reel tape drives
The MTIOCSHORTFMK ioctl enables or disables support for short filemarks. This ioctl is only applicable to Exabyte drives which support short filemarks. As an argument, it takes a pointer to an integer. If 0 (zero) is the specified integer, then long filemarks will be written. If 1 is the specified integer, then short filemarks will be written. The specified tape bahavior will be in effect until the device is closed.
For example:
int on = 1; int off = 0; /* enable short filemarks */ ioctl(fd, MTIOSHORTFMK, &on); /* disable short filemarks */ ioctl(fd, MTIOCSHORTFMK, &off);
Tape drives which do not support short filemarks will return an errno of ENOTTY.
The MTIOCREADIGNOREILI ioctl enables or disables the suppress incorrect length indicator (SILI) support during reads. As an argument, it takes a pointer to an integer. If 0 (zero) is the specified integer, SILI will not be used during reads and incorrect length indicator will not be supressed. If 1 is the specified integer, SILI will be used during reads and incorrect length indicator will be supressed. The specified tape bahavior will be in effect until the device is closed.
For example:
int on = 1; int off = 0; ioctl(fd, MTIOREADIGNOREILI, &on); ioctl(fd, MTIOREADIGNOREILI, &off);
The MTIOCREADIGNOREEOFS ioctl enables or disables support for reading past double EOF marks which otherwise indicate End-Of-recorded-media (EOM) in the case of 1/2" reel tape drives. As an argument, it takes a pointer to an integer. If 0 (zero) is the specified integer, then double EOF marks indicate End-Of-recodred-media (EOD). If 1 is the specified integer, the double EOF marks no longer indicate EOM, thus allowing applications to read past two EOF marks. In this case it is the responsibility of the application to detect end-of-recorded-media (EOM). The specified tape bahavior will be in effect until the device is closed.
For example:
int on = 1; int off = 0; ioctl(fd, MTIOREADIGNOREEOFS, &on); ioctl(fd, MTIOREADIGNOREEOFS, &off);
Tape drives other than 1/2" reel tapes will return an errno of ENOTTY.
Example 1 Tape Positioning and Tape Drives
Suppose you have written three files to the non-rewinding 1/2” tape device, /dev/rmt/0ln, and that you want to go back and dd(1M) the second file off the tape. The commands to do this are:
mt -F /dev/rmt/0lbn bsf 3 mt -F /dev/rmt/0lbn fsf 1 dd if=/dev/rmt/0ln
To accomplish the same tape positioning in a C program, followed by a get status ioctl:
struct mtop mt_command; struct mtget mt_status; mt_command.mt_op = MTBSF; mt_command.mt_count = 3; ioctl(fd, MTIOCTOP, &mt_command); mt_command.mt_op = MTFSF; mt_command.mt_count = 1; ioctl(fd, MTIOCTOP, &mt_command); ioctl(fd, MTIOCGET, (char *)&mt_status);
or
mt_command.mt_op = MTNBSF; mt_command.mt_count = 2; ioctl(fd, MTIOCTOP, &mt_command); ioctl(fd, MTIOCGET, (char *)&mt_status);
To get information about the tape drive:
struct mtdrivetype mtdt; struct mtdrivetype_request mtreq; mtreq.size = sizeof(struct mtdrivetype); mtreq.mtdtp = &mtdt; ioctl(fd, MTIOCGETDRIVETYPE, &mtreq);
/dev/rmt/<unit number><density>[<BSD behavior>][<no rewind>]
Where density can be l, m, h, u/c (low, medium, high, ultra/compressed, respectively), the BSD behavior option is b, and the no rewind option is n.
For example, /dev/rmt/0hbn specifies unit 0, high density, BSD behavior and no rewind.
mt(1), tar(1), dd(1M), open(2), read(2), write(2), aioread(3AIO), aiowrite(3AIO), ar.h(3HEAD), st(7D)
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Out of the blue (although I might have missed some automated update), the
flip()
flip()
wglSwapLayerBuffers
from pyglet.gl import *
def timing(dt):
print(1/dt)
game_window = pyglet.window.Window(1,1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
pyglet.clock.schedule_interval(timing, 1/20.0)
pyglet.app.run()
pyglet.app.run()
flip()
OK, I found a way to solve my issue in this google groups conversation about a different problem with the same method: (the changes suggested in claudio canepa's reply, namely making
flip() link to the GDI version of the same function instead of wglSwapLayerBuffers, brings things back to normal).
I'm still not sure why wglSwapLayerBuffers behaved so oddly in my case. I guess problems like mine are part of the reason why the GDI version is "recommended". However understanding why my problem is even possible would still be nice, if someone gets what's going on... And having to meddle with a relatively reliable and respected library just to perform one of its most basic tasks feels really, really dirty, there must be a more sensible solution. | https://codedump.io/share/uKBCkpjoEjz0/1/the-way-pyglet-swaps-front-and-back-buffers-flip-wrapper-for-opengl39s-wglswaplayerbuffers-on-windows-can-be-100-times-too-slow | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | refinedweb | 178 | 51.38 |
This page describes Kubernetes' Pod object and its use in Google Kubernetes Engine.
What is a Pod?
Pods are the smallest, most basic deployable objects in Kubernetes. A Pod represents a single instance of a running process in your cluster.
Pods contain one or more containers, such as Docker containers. When a Pod runs multiple containers, the containers are managed as a single entity and share the Pod's resources. Generally, running multiple containers in a single Pod is an advanced use case.
Pods also contain shared networking and storage resources for their containers:
- Network: Pods are automatically assigned unique IP addresses. Pod containers share the same network namespace, including IP address and network ports. Containers in a Pod communicate with each other inside the Pod on
localhost.
- Storage: Pods can specify a set of shared storage volumes that can be shared among the containers.
You can consider a Pod to be a self-contained, isolated "logical host" that contains the systemic needs of the application it serves.
A Pod is meant to run a single instance of your application on your cluster. However, it is not recommended to create individual Pods directly. Instead, you generally create a set of identical Pods, called replicas, to run your application. Such a set of replicated Pods are created and managed by a controller, such as a Deployment. Controllers manage the lifecycle of their constituent Pods and can also perform horizontal scaling, changing the number of Pods as necessary.
Although you might occasionally interact with Pods directly to debug, troubleshoot, or inspect them, it is highly recommended that you use a controller to manage your Pods.
Pods run on nodes in your cluster. Once created, a Pod remains on its node until its process is complete, the Pod is deleted, the Pod is evicted from the node due to lack of resources, or the node fails. If a node fails, Pods on the node are automatically scheduled for deletion.
Pod lifecycle
Pods are ephemeral. They are not designed to run forever, and when a Pod is terminated it cannot be brought back. In general, Pods do not disappear until they are deleted by a user or by a controller.
Pods do not "heal" or repair themselves. For example, if a Pod is scheduled on a node which later fails, the Pod you run
kubectl get pod
to inspect a Pod running on your cluster, a Pod can be in one of the following
possible phases:
- Pending: Pod has been created and accepted by the cluster, but one or more of its containers are not yet running. This phase includes time spent being scheduled on a node and downloading images.
- Running: Pod has been bound to a node, and all of the containers have been created. At least one container is running, is in the process of starting, or is restarting.
- Succeeded: All containers in the Pod have terminated successfully. Terminated Pods do not restart.
- Failed: All containers in the Pod have terminated, and at least one container has terminated in failure. A container "fails" if it exits with a non-zero status.
- Unknown: The state of the Pod cannot be determined.
Additionally,
PodStatus contains an array called
PodConditions, which is
represented in the Pod manifest as
conditions. The field has a
type
and
status field.
conditions indicates more specifically the conditions
within the Pod that are causing its current status.
The
type field can contain
PodScheduled,
Ready,
Initialized, and
Unschedulable. The
status field corresponds with the
type field, and can
contain
True,
False, or
Unknown.
Creating Pods
Because Pods are ephemeral, it is not necessary to create Pods directly. Similarly, because Pods cannot repair or replace themselves, it is not recommended to create Pods directly.
Instead, you can use a controller, such as a Deployment, which creates and manages Pods for you. Controllers are also useful for rolling out updates, such as changing the version of an application running in a container, because the controller manages the whole update process for you.
Pod.
Pod templates
Controller objects, such as Deployments and StatefulSets, contain a Pod template field. Pod templates contain a Pod specification which determines how each Pod should run, including which containers should be run within the Pods and which volumes the Pods should mount.
Controller objects use Pod templates to create Pods and to manage their "desired state" within your cluster. When a Pod template is changed, all future Pods reflect the new template, but all existing Pods do not.
For more information on how Pod Templates work, refer to Creating a Deployment in the Kubernetes documentation..
Pod usage patterns
Pods can be used in two main ways:
- Pods that run a single container. The simplest and most common Pod pattern is a single container per pod, where the single container represents an entire application. In this case, you can think of a Pod as a wrapper.
- Pods that run multiple containers that need to work together. Pods with multiple containers are primarily used to support colocated, co-managed programs that need to share resources. These colocated containers might form a single cohesive unit of service—one container serving files from a shared volume while another container refreshes or updates those files. The Pod wraps these containers and storage resources together as a single manageable entity.
Each Pod is meant to run a single instance of a given application. If you want to run multiple instances, you should use one Pod for each instance of the application. This is generally referred to as replication. Replicated Pods are created and managed as a group by a controller, such as a Deployment.
Pod termination
Pods terminate gracefully when their processes are complete. Kubernetes imposes
a default graceful termination period of 30 seconds. When
deleting a Pod
you can override this grace period by setting the
--grace-period flag to the
number of seconds to wait for the Pod to terminate before forcibly terminating
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Subject: [Boost-build] Setting up MSVC toolset to work with WinSDK v6.1
From: Alexey Pakhunov (alexeypa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-05 02:46:12
Hi,
I just wanted to share an example of user-config.jam that makes MSVC toolset
to use the standard WinSDK environment.
---- user-config.jam ----
import modules : poke ;
import path : join ;
#
# Helper scripts are used to pass parameters to SetEnv.cmd
#
local profile = [ modules.binding user-config ] ;
local setup-x86 = [ path.join $(profile:P) wdk_x86.cmd ] ;
local setup-x64 = [ path.join $(profile:P) wdk_x64.cmd ] ;
local setup-ia64 = [ path.join $(profile:P) wdk_ia64.cmd ] ;
using msvc
:
9.0
: :
<setup-i386>$(setup-x86)
<setup-amd64>$(setup-x64)
<setup-ia64>$(setup-ia64)
;
#
# SetEnv.cmd requires CMD extensions to work
#
modules.poke msvc : JAMSHELL : cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /Q /C % ;
---- -----
---- wdk_x86.cmd ----
@echo off
call D:\WinSDK\v6.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd /x86
---- -----
---- wdk_x64.cmd ----
@echo off
call D:\WinSDK\v6.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd /x64
---- -----
---- wdk_ia64.cmd ----
@echo off
call D:\WinSDK\v6.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd /ia64
---- -----
Sure you need to use your own path to the SDK in the helper scripts.
PS: It took quite a while to get it working. I must say that configuration
rules from MSVC toolset got out of hand. They need to be refactored so that
it will be possible to setup architecture (x86, x64 and ia64) independently.
Also calling a setup script per each rule does not seem to be very
efficient. Maybe it can be optimized by executing the setup script once and
capturing environment differences.
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Closed Bug 379806 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago
threaded/grouped-by-sort views unavailable in saved searches across multiple folders
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement, P1)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
Thunderbird 3.0b1
People
(Reporter: bugzilla.overbored, Assigned: Bienvenu)
Details
(Keywords: polish)
Attachments
(6 files, 8 obsolete files)
User-Agent: Opera/9.20 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326) When I create a Saved Search that includes several folders to be searched, I cannot use the Threaded view or the Grouped By Sort view. (I don't know if this makes a difference but I have only an IMAP account to try this out on, though I imagine this doesn't matter.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a Saved Search spanning multiple folders. 2. Click on the View > Sort by. Actual Results: You find that the bottom 3 menu items are disabled. Expected Results: You find that the bottom 3 menu items are enabled. A threaded view where you can see all messages in the thread - which is only possible by creating a Saved Search over both the Inbox and the Sent folders - is generally more practical and useful than one where you only see all received messages.
Yes... see bug 263180 comment 8. Confirming RFE.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
I did find 263180 when I first searched. However, it's evidently still a problem in TB2. I don't understand why 263180 was marked as fixed.
(In reply to comment #2) > I did find 263180 when I first searched. However, it's evidently still a > problem in TB2. I don't understand why 263180 was marked as fixed. what you want (multiple folders) is meant to be handled later, possibly in this bug. bug 263180 comment 8 says it's work ends with "this allows us to thread quick search results and virtual folders with a single folder scope (but not virtual folders that search over multiple folders). That last case will require a lot of work..."
Version: unspecified → Trunk
This would really vastly improve the usefulness of virtual folders...
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3?
Breaking bugzilla etiquette (and my own normal restraint) to say YES !! Virtual folder is virtually of no use to me without threading. Even better, will be to see it work with view "thread with unread messages", and bubblesort extension. bug 267727 seems to have evolved to the same issue, though afaict it didn't start that way. And it's not clear to me the reporter's original problem is gone, unless it was fixed by bug 135326. I'll leave it to others to wade through that.
The severity is low now (enhancement). I would like to ask to handle this bug with greater priority.
probably should be tested at least in an alpha (not necessarily a1) given that bug 263180 comment 8 says this "will require a lot of work..." (where attachment 197367 [details] [diff] [review] implemented threading of virtual for scope of single folder). But no flag yet for blocking‑thunderbird3.0a2. Perhaps Joshua would find this a worthy challenge?
There's another side effect of this that I want to make sure isn't missed in the fix. SyncCounts is used to correct errors in the saved folder counts due to various problems. It is called when opening the database (but not for virtual folders) and the view (but only in threaded views). So in the case of cross-folder virtual folders, SyncCounts() is never called, so the only way to correct count errors is to manually delete the database file.
What is the present status of this. Coming from evolutino, search folders are of extremely little use to me without threading support.
I'm thinking of trying this...
Assignee: nobody → bienvenu
see for some implementation thoughts.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
this adds grouping to single folder saved searches. I chose to rearrange the inheritance structure so that nsMsgThreadedDBView inherits from nsMsgGroupView, and nsMsgGroupView calls the base class when grouping is not turned on. I also made it so that grouping a saved search doesn't create&load a new view, but rather just groups the existing view, which is a lot faster. To do this, I just made nsMsgQuickSeachDBView notice when the grouping flag changed, and adjust accordingly. I also changed threadPane.js to tweak the grouping flag instead of creating new views. Now I'm going to see if this can be extended easily to do grouping and threading in cross-folder saved searches. I think it should be pretty straightfoward with these plumbing changes.
this gets grouping starting to work in cross-folder saved searches, and paves the way for threading in same.
Attachment #332609 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Triaging according to new policy for flags.
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3+
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3?
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3-
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3.0b2
I think asuth is hoping to use this work with gloda and experimental views, so I'm bumping up the priority.
Priority: P3 → P1
I'd like to add my support to the resolution of this bug. I use a saved search as a Global Inbox for 3 IMAP accounts and threaded messages would make it much easier to use.
this is a diff between the trunk and my repo for the relevant files, just to give a sense of what's going on with the patch.
Attachment #333088 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Here's my current todo list, i.e., the things that are currently broken in my repo - Improve large folder loading performance, perhaps by sorting after we've finished creating the view from the cache (might make FindHdr slow again, though we should be sorted by folder, then by key within folder). Fix quick search (did it work before?) Don't expand threads when loading the folder Fix handling of case where non-root parent within thread arrives after children. Sorting threads (e.g., by sender) doesn't seem to work
I've made about a 3x improvement in large view loading performance, fixed a few issues with parents coming in after children, etc. I've defaulted threads to collapsed, and made sorting threads work, though it could be faster, and it forgets which threads were expanded. I'll look at quick sort, and deal with the non-root parent coming in after children next.
quick sort is working now...
I've fixed handling parents coming in out of order, in the thread object, but I need to communicate this back to the view object, if the thread is expanded. I need to solve this coordination in general, either by passing back information about what changed, so the view can fix itself up, or by just rebuilding the part of the view that needs to change, based on the thread object. I've also found a bug where sorting once you're in grouped mode in an xf saved search doesn't do the right thing. I need to sort that out as well.
(In reply to comment #24) > I've also found a bug where sorting once you're in grouped mode in an xf saved > search doesn't do the right thing. I need to sort that out as well. ^^^^ I see what you did there. I have a feature enhancement request while you are still dealing with the views. It would be nice for the tab UI logic to be able to persist multiple-selections across sessions and have a way to efficiently restore them. Right now, the tab code is able to use SelectFolderMsgByKey to select as _single_ message, but you can't accumulate multiple messages into the selection. I think the only way for the js code to do restore multi-selection is to walk the entire set of messages in the view, building the selection explicitly. (I discount repeatedly using SelectFolderMsgByKey to find the view indices because I believe it has non-trivial event side-effects.) This represents a potentially horrendous XPCOM transit cost, so it would be good to at least cut that out, even if the C++ path isn't fully optimized. In fact, just having SelectFolderMsgByKey have a mode of operation where it adds to the selection rather than forcing a single-select would be perfect.
Heh, I couldn't resist. Your request reminded me, for xf saved searches, we can't assume that message keys are unique, so we need an other way of identifying selections. Message keys + folders or message uri's would work, as long as compaction doesn't come along and invalidate the message keys. Message-ids are stable, but not quite unique.
SelectFolderMsgByKey does take an nsIMSgFolder and an nsMsgKey... but nsMsgSearchDBView and nsMsgXFVirtualFolderDBView don't override it to do something, and nsMsgDBView's implementation doesn't use the folder passed-in...
We really need UUIDs for messages that are entirely stable across compaction, moves etc. Would trying to leverage GloDa IDs for this somehow be sane?
(In reply to comment #28) > We really need UUIDs for messages that are entirely stable across compaction, > moves etc. Would trying to leverage GloDa IDs for this somehow be sane? I'm really struggling with this in some of my stuff too, for example bug 449768. asuth has proposed message id + folder as the identifier, but that is not persistent as you suggest. reason to do this, rather than a freshly created GUID, is that in cases where the relationship between global id and message copy is lost, you could always revert to the unadorned message id to restore some connection.
Gloda's indexing process now stores a "gloda-id" on messages as it indexes them. In the event the "gloda-id" field disappears, gloda's next indexing of that message will attempt to map the message back to the same underlying gloda-id, although ambiguity happens. The tab persistence code I speak of can use the gloda identifier to store the mapping, but still wants the underlying nsMsgDBView method to be talking about a (folder and) message key. In regards to rkent's proposal, I do not think it acceptable to mutate the actual message-id; doing so would cause in-reply-to/references to be wrong. Using the existing message-id as a base is fine, but a copy-counter could lead to collisions, meaning we'd have to append a real GUID in the first place. At that point, there's no benefit appending to the message-id since we can just track them separately. gloda could benefit from the existence of a real GUID, so I'm fine with one being added. There is no way in the TB3 time-frame for gloda to provide an always-there unique identifier; we can only provide one as a best effort. Keep in mind that the gloda-id is at best a locally unique identifier and can never be exposed to a shared medium, such as actual IMAP messages; that would need a real GUID.
Another reason that I am uncomfortable using some portion of gloda for something as fundamental as a message GUID is that gloda has been viewed as an indexer on top of underlying databases. We would need to support the GUID in the C++ database code, which so far has not needed to rely on gloda. Why would we introduce that extra dependency unless we really had to? If you need a GUID, let's define it at the nsIMsgDBHeader level, created when a message is added to the database. Then we can all use it to have a common way of describing a unique message. At this point I think we would be shortsighted to make it a local identifier instead of a GUID. I still think you are going to have problems unless that GUID is closely related to the message id, as the message id is the only identifer that we can reasonably be sure will virtually always be available.
(In reply to comment #29) > problem with that is I may be receiving the same message from different places, e.g., a newsgroup message also sent out by email to a few people, or a message that a family member sends to two of your email accounts. Message IDs may be unique in certain contexts, but, quite frankly, they're not going to be unique in an entire email profile, and trying to make them so is not a good idea.
let's get the review party started - this was generated by doing a diff between my repo and a comm-central repo of the mailnews dir - I'm not sure if there's a better way, or a way to diff across repo's using hg directly. There's some whitespace cleanup, but not a ton, so I left it in the diff. This changes the inheritance structure of the view classes somewhat. Now, everyone inherits from nsMsgGroupView so all the views can do grouping. This means that more methods need to do their own dispatching to the right class based on the view flags, but it allows us to do grouping without creating a new view object, which is a win. I've made a few more methods virtual, and added some new virtual methods so we can better deal with cross-folder views. The non cross-folder views shouldn't be noticeably affected. I've added a new class, nsMsgXFViewThread, which is like nsMsgGroupThread, in that it implements nsIMsgThread, instead of using the db's implementation. It's closely tied to nsMsgSearchDBView, so I've made them friends. If you want to run the code, I'd recommend using my repo,, which has the latest changes, and has been merged with the trunk very recently.
Attachment #341176 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #342170 - Flags: review?(bugzilla)
After compiling the code from the repository, I'm seeing quite a few: WARNING: NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(err, err) failed with result 0x80004005: file s:/tb/ hreadview/src/mailnews/db/msgdb/src/nsMsgDatabase.cpp, line 5054 which is at: nsresult err = GetSearchResultsTable(aSearchFolderUri, PR_FALSE, getter_AddRefs(table)); NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(err, err);
I have a test profile with an existing XF virtual folder "Tags Contains Important" searching over 2 local folders. If I do any selections in View/Threads (such as select All for example) then the thread pane goes blank, and stays blank until I select a different folder, then reselect the XF virtual folder. There are no console or debug error messages.
I'm inclined to disable things like view | threads with unread for xf saved searches for the time being.
Since David's already got a patch here, should we spin off the ID issue to another bug? (I have some responses to the comments folks have made here, but I suspect this isn't really the best venue...)
yes, a new bug is the way to go. I would not block this work on being able to support a global id - for one thing, getting imap servers to universally support keywords or some other annotations shouldn't block this.
I have not seen this - WARNING: NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(err, err) failed with result 0x80004005: file s:/tb/ hreadview/src/mailnews/db/msgdb/src/nsMsgDatabase.cpp, line 5054 But I wonder if you were using a profile where you had been rebuilding databases. Blowing away databases will remove the cached hits in that folder for all the saved searches that have that folder in their search scope. It's harmless in the sense that we will rebuild the cache, but it shouldn't happen unless db's have been deleted.
Whiteboard: [needs review standard8]
Comment on attachment 342170 [details] [diff] [review] patch for review So this totally didn't apply to my tree - I think it may be because you have the diff directories miss-balanced: >diff -uNrp8 ./base/public/nsIMsgHdr.idl /threadview/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgHdr.idl >--- ./base/public/nsIMsgHdr.idl Fri Aug 29 08:26:29 2008 >+++ /threadview/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgHdr.idl Mon Sep 15 11:43:53 2008 On second thoughts, its probably because I was trying to qimport it and that expects a diff from one above the source directory. Anyway, I've taken a reasonably quick first-pass through the patch and made some comments. >@@ -96,17 +96,17 @@ interface nsIMsgDBHdr : nsISupports > readonly attribute unsigned long dateInSeconds; > attribute string messageId; > attribute string ccList; > attribute string author; > attribute string subject; > attribute string recipients; > > /* anything below here still has to be fixed */ >- void setReferences(in string references); >+ attribute string references; Although it still needs to be fixed (does it?), please can you document it. Can we make it an ACString? getStringReference implies that these can be treated as ACString. > readonly attribute unsigned short numReferences; > ACString getStringReference(in long refNum); >- var #include "nsIMsgCopyService.h" > #include "nsMsgBaseCID.h" > #include "nsISpamSettings.h" > #include "nsIMsgAccountManager.h" > #include "nsITreeColumns.h" > #include "nsTextFormatter.h" > #include "nsIMutableArray.h" >- > nsrefcnt nsMsgDBView::gInstanceCount = 0; I don't think we need to remove this line. >+nsMsgViewIndex nsMsgDBView::GetThreadIndex(nsMsgViewIndex msgIndex) >+{ >+ if (!IsValidIndex(msgIndex)) >+ return NS_MSG_INVALID_DBVIEW_INDEX; nit: blank line after here please. >+ // scan up looking for level 0 message. >+ while (m_levels[msgIndex] && msgIndex) >+ msgIndex--; nit: --msgIndex is slightly more efficient for the compiler to think about. >+ return msgIndex; >+} >+// can this be combined with GetIndexForThread?? >+nsMsgViewIndex >+nsMsgDBView::GetThreadRootIndex(nsIMsgDBHdr *msgHdr) If you're not going to address this for now, please add XXX at the start of the comment. >-nsresult nsMsgDBView::GetFolders(nsISupportsArray **aFolders) >+nsresult nsMsgDBView::GetFolders(nsCOMArray <nsIMsgFolder> **aFolders) Since most of the instances don't check the nsresult, why not change this to: nsCOMArray<nsIMsgFolder>* nsMsgDBView::GetFolders() Also no space before the < please (generally throughout the patch as well) >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgDBView::nsMsgViewHdrEnumerator::GetNext(nsISupports **aItem) >+{ >+ NS_ENSURE_ARG_POINTER(aItem); >+ >+ if ((m_curHdrIndex + 1) >= m_view->GetSize()) >+ return NS_ERROR_FAILURE; >+ nsCOMPtr <nsIMsgDBHdr> nextHdr; >+ >+ nsresult rv = m_view->GetMsgHdrForViewIndex(++m_curHdrIndex, getter_AddRefs(nextHdr)); Hmm, can you put the blank line before the nsCOMPtr line please. >+struct IdDWord Why two ds? >+{ >+ nsMsgKey id; >+ PRUint32 bits; >+ PRUint32 dword; >+ nsIMsgFolder* folder; >+}; >+ >+struct IdKey : public IdDWord >+{ >+ PRUint8 key[1]; >+}; Why an array of one? >+ if (! (m_viewFlags & nsMsgViewFlagsType::kGroupBySort)) >+ return nsMsgDBView::OnHdrDeleted(aHdrDeleted, aParentKey, aFlags, aInstigator); nit: no space after the ! please (ditto in other places) >+nsresult nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::AddHdr(nsIMsgDBHdr *msgHdr, nsMsgViewIndex *resultIndex) >+{ >+ if (m_viewFlags & nsMsgViewFlagsType::kGroupBySort) >+ return nsMsgGroupView::OnNewHeader(msgHdr, nsMsgKey_None, PR_TRUE); >+ else >+ return nsMsgDBView::AddHdr(msgHdr, resultIndex); No need for the else here. >+} >+ >+ >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OpenWithHdrs(nsISimpleEnumerator *aHeaders, nsMsgViewSortTypeValue aSortType, >+ nsMsgViewSortOrderValue aSortOrder, nsMsgViewFlagsTypeValue aViewFlags, >+ PRInt32 *aCount) This indentation is wrong. >- nsresult rv = NS_MSG_INVALID_DBVIEW_INDEX; >- nsCOMPtr<nsIMsgFolder> folder = do_QueryElementAt(m_folders, index); >- if (folder) >+ if (m_viewFlags & nsMsgViewFlagsType::kGroupBySort) >+ { >+ return nsMsgGroupView::OnHdrDeleted(aHdrDeleted, aParentKey, >+ aFlags, aInstigator); >+ } >+ else if (m_viewFlags & nsMsgViewFlagsType::kThreadedDisplay) no need for the else here. >+ else >+ { >+ // get the thread root index before we add the header, because adding >+ // the header can change the sort position. >+ nsMsgViewIndex threadIndex = GetThreadRootIndex(threadRoot); >+ NS_ASSERTION(!m_levels[threadIndex], "threadRoot incorrect, or level incorrect"); >+ viewThread->AddHdr(msgHdr, msgIsReferredTo, posInThread, >+ getter_AddRefs(parent)); nit: these two lines have unnecessary whitespace on the end (and I noticed some other lines throughout the patch like this).
>>+struct IdDWord >Why two ds? DWord is a double word - believe it or not, when this code was written, 32 bits really was thought of as a dword by old timers :-) I could change it to use Uint32 in the name, at the risk of making the patch even bigger :-) but while I'm here, sure. >+ >+struct IdKey : public IdDWord >+{ >+ PRUint8 key[1]; >+}; Why an array of one? It's to make the compiler happy. It's a variable length array, actually; when we allocate our IdKeys, we allocate enough memory for the key itself in the struct. This code was heavily optimized not to fragment memory, and to avoid doing lots of little allocations as possible when sorting by strings, so it's a bit opaque. I'll add a comment.
This fix addresses Standard8's comments, and also has a few bug fixes that were in my repo. I'll attach a patch for the TB front end changes in a minute.
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one caveat - that previous patch should from the top level, which should make it easier to apply. I haven't compiled it, though, as I was cleaning up nsCOMPtr < throughout the patch while my tree was building...
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Using the latest patches, I don't see the unread counts working. That is, while viewing a threaded XF view in a virtual folder, if I change unread status of a message, the unread counts do not change in the folder tree for the XF virtual folder.
I now see different threading in the non-XF case than I see in the normal case and XF case. STR: Create a multi-level reply thread on the inbox, looking like this: test 1 Re: test1 Re: test1 Create both XF and non-XF saved searches on the inbox, with for example "Tags DoesntContain Important". The Inbox and the XF search thread as shown above, that is correctly. But the non-XF search threads as: test1 Re: test1 Re: test1
Here's more unread count problems: 1) In a threaded XF virtual folder, select a message in a thread that has several unread messages. 2) Select (Message context, ie right click)/Mark/Thread as read. 3) The messages are marked read BUT in the original non-search folder, the unread counts do not change, and remain out of sync even if the original folder is selected. This lack of sync even survives restart. It eventually resynced, though I am not sure what caused the resync. Another issue, though this is an edge case: Compare the behaviour of a XF and a non-XF virtual folder to Mark/Thread as read in cases where one of the messages in the thread is not in the current search. The non-XF marks all of the messages in the thread read, even those not in the view. The XF search only marks messages that match the search criteria, so other messages in the thread remain marked as unread.
Comment on attachment 343966 [details] [diff] [review] fix addressing Standard8's comments ListIdsInThread doesn't seem to call RemoveRows? Does AdjustReadFlag normally need to get the db from the folder e.g. don't bother if GetFolders() returns null? I think nsMsgThreadEnumerator should use a m_nextHdrIndex member ranging from 0 to the view size. Consider getting quicker reviews by splitting this up into separate patches. I'm not sure which changes are functional changes and which are convenience changes, such as: * Change references into an ACString * Add convenience functions e.g. for inserting/deleting rows * deCOMtaminate GetFolders
(In reply to comment #47) > (From update of attachment 343966 [details] [diff] [review]) > ListIdsInThread doesn't seem to call RemoveRows? No, it only adds things to the view. It's called when expanding threads, or building up a view with threads expanded. > > Does AdjustReadFlag normally need to get the db from the folder e.g. don't > bother if GetFolders() returns null? That's a thought - my recollection is that AdjustReadFlag shouldn't be needed, except when we get confused about the read state of a message, e.g., in news when the newsrc file changes out from under us. > > I think nsMsgThreadEnumerator should use a m_nextHdrIndex member ranging from 0 > to the view size. instead of starting at -1...I'll see about changing that. > > Consider getting quicker reviews by splitting this up into separate patches. > I'm not sure which changes are functional changes and which are convenience > changes, such as: > * Change references into an ACString > * Add convenience functions e.g. for inserting/deleting rows > * deCOMtaminate GetFolders I can work on breaking out the convenience changes - they're relatively small but I guess every bit helps. You've identified the major ones, the ones I remember, anyway.
the motivation for this is to be able to read the whole reference string, which the xf threading needs, but the patch does stand by itself...
Comment on attachment 344689 [details] [diff] [review] change to nsIMsgHdr references IMHO this patch is solving the wrong problem.
This patch adds some convenience methods for manipulating the view arrays. These will be overridden by the search db view & xf folder views in a later patch. These lines were removed because they won't work in cross-folder views, and the same error should be handled downstream, e.g., GetThreadCount() will return an error. - nsCOMPtr <nsIMsgDBHdr> msgHdr; - rv = m_db->GetMsgHdrForKey(firstIdInThread, getter_AddRefs(msgHdr)); - if (NS_FAILED(rv) || msgHdr == nsnull) - { - NS_ASSERTION(PR_FALSE, "error collapsing thread"); - return NS_MSG_MESSAGE_NOT_FOUND; - } -
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Comment on attachment 344755 [details] [diff] [review] add convenience functions for manipulating view arrays >+void nsMsgDBView::InsertMsgHdrAt(nsIMsgDBHdr *hdr, nsMsgViewIndex index, >+ nsMsgKey msgKey, PRUint32 flags, PRUint32 level) >+void nsMsgDBView::SetMsgHdrAt(nsIMsgDBHdr *hdr, nsMsgViewIndex index, >+ nsMsgKey msgKey, PRUint32 flags, PRUint32 level) I think it would make more sense for index to be the first parameter. >- m_keys.RemoveElementsAt(index + 1, threadCount); >- m_flags.RemoveElementsAt(index + 1, threadCount); >- m_levels.RemoveElementsAt(index + 1, threadCount); >+ RemoveRows(index + 1, threadCount); ListIdsInThread also removes rows. r+sr=me with that fixed.
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this is what I'll check in.
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this patch breaks out some of the cleanup work: 1. IdDWord -> IdUint32, and these defs moved to the .h file, which I'll need later 2. GetFolders returns a pointer to a com array, and corresponding changes, including stopping using nsISupports when we know it's an nsIMsgFolder 3. GetInsertIndexHelper allows the caller to pass in a folder array, which I'll need later. 4. small whitespace cleanup, move var decls to where they're used, fix arg name for idl methods, etc.
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Comment on attachment 344901 [details] [diff] [review] breakout some cleanup work into its own patch >+ nsIMsgFolder *bottomFolder = folders->ObjectAt(bottomIndex); >+ nsIMsgFolder *topFolder = folders->ObjectAt(topIndex); >+ folders->ReplaceObjectAt(topFolder, bottomIndex); >+ folders->ReplaceObjectAt(bottomFolder, topIndex); [We could use a SwapObjectsAt method ;-)] >+ EntryInfo2.folder = (folders) ? folders->ObjectAt(tryIndex) : m_folder.get(); Nit: double space after : [I also don't like (folders)] >-#ifdef DEBUG_bienvenu >- NS_ASSERTION(isRead == (*msgFlags & MSG_FLAG_READ != 0), "msgFlags out of sync"); >+#ifdef DEBUG_David_Bienvenu >+ NS_ASSERTION(isRead == ((*msgFlags & MSG_FLAG_READ) != 0), "msgFlags out of sync"); [You really need to stick with the same username across computers ;-)] > nsresult rv = NS_MSG_INVALID_VIEW_INDEX; >+ if (index == nsMsgViewIndex_None || index > (PRUint32) m_folders.Count()) >+ return rv; >+ nsCOMPtr<nsIMsgFolder> folder = m_folders[index]; Could you get away with an nsIMsgFolder* here (and other similar places)? > NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgSearchDBView::GetFolderForViewIndex(nsMsgViewIndex index, nsIMsgFolder **aFolder) > { >- return m_folders->QueryElementAt(index, NS_GET_IID(nsIMsgFolder), (void **) aFolder); >+ NS_ENSURE_ARG_POINTER(aFolder); >+ NS_IF_ADDREF(*aFolder = m_folders[index]); You need to range-check this (as per the previous method). >+ return aFolder ? aFolder->GetMsgDatabase(nsnull, db) >+ : NS_MSG_INVALID_DBVIEW_INDEX; After range-checking, will aFolder ever be null? > //we want to set imap delete model once the search is over because setting next > //message after deletion will happen before deleting the message and search scope > //can change with every search. Heh, I never knew this code existed. I dread to think what happens across accounts, but for a simple search result can you always use the root folder? >+ if (m_uniqueFoldersSelected->IndexOf(curFolder) < 0) >+ m_uniqueFoldersSelected->AppendElement(curFolder); Ooh, a trailing space ;-) [Should m_uniqueFoldersSelected be an nsCOMArray of some sort?] >+ nsCOMPtr <nsIMsgFolder> curFolder = m_folders[0]; > if (curFolder) > GetImapDeleteModel(curFolder); "Range" check / SafeObjectAt?
I've added range checking where it was missing, changed m_uniqueFoldersSelected to an nsCOMArray, used an nsIMsgFolder instead of an nsCOMPtr where possible, and fixed some formatting. >Heh, I never knew this code existed. I dread to think what happens across >accounts, but for a simple search result can you always use the root folder? In this code, m_folders will always have at least one folder if there were any hits, so I don't think we need to look at the root folder. Leaving aside the cross-account case :-) I left in some of the null folder checking, just to be defensive.
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Comment on attachment 344936 [details] [diff] [review] address Neil's comments - checked in >+ info->folder = (folders) ? folders->ObjectAt(numSoFar) : m_folder.get(); (folders) ;-) >+ nsCOMPtr<nsIMsgFolder> curFolder = m_folders.SafeObjectAt(0); >+ nsCOMPtr <nsIMsgFolder> curFolder = m_folders.SafeObjectAt(0); Interesting spacing difference ;-) Also another possible nsIMsgFolder* git-apply tells me that three of your new lines still end in whitespace.
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this is some preparation for cross-folder grouping - the code that will use it is in nsMsgGroupView.cpp, but teasing out those changes is a bit trickier. Basically, cross-folder groups will keep track of the folders of the messages, and then use the view code that knows how to get insert locations for messages based on message key and folder.
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this is the remaining diffs (they don't include the previous nsMsgGroupThread patch I attached earlier, and called nsMsgGroupView by mistake)
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Comment on attachment 344936 [details] [diff] [review] address Neil's comments - checked in > nsMsgViewIndex nsMsgDBView::GetInsertIndexHelper(nsIMsgDBHdr *msgHdr, nsTArray<nsMsgKey> &keys, >+ nsCOMArray<nsIMsgFolder> *folders, OK, so all the callers seem to pass GetFolders(), so why is this needed? >+ return GetInsertIndexHelper(msgHdr, m_keys, GetFolders(), m_sortOrder, m_sortType); Well, that's clear enough >+ insertIndex = view->GetInsertIndexHelper(child, m_keys, nsnull, threadSortOrder, nsMsgViewSortType::byDate); I think GetFolders() always returns null in this view >+ nsMsgViewIndex insertIndex = GetInsertIndexHelper(newHdr, m_origKeys, nsnull, > nsMsgViewSortOrder::ascending, nsMsgViewSortType::byId); >+ threadRootIndex = GetInsertIndexHelper(rootHdr, threadRootIds, nsnull, >+ nsMsgViewSortOrder::ascending, >+ nsMsgViewSortType::byId); And also in this view
Comment on attachment 344969 [details] [diff] [review] [checked in] do some preparation in nsMsgGroupView >+
(In reply to comment #61) > (From update of attachment 344969 [details] [diff] [review]) > >+ "this" is not the view, but the group thread object. In other words, view->m_folders is not the same as this->m_folders. "this is the group thread object, and m_folders are the folders for the messages in the group, e.g., messages from today. So I can't just make nsMsgDBView::GetInsertIndexHelper call GetFolders on itself...
Neil, see previous comment...
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Comment on attachment 344969 [details] [diff] [review] [checked in] do some preparation in nsMsgGroupView Thanks for explaining it.
Comment on attachment 344988 [details] [diff] [review] remaining diffs > // We may have added too many elements (i.e., subthreads were cut) >+ // ### fix for cross folder view case. > if (*pNumListed < numChildren) >- { >- m_keys.RemoveElementsAt(viewIndex, numChildren - *pNumListed); >- m_flags.RemoveElementsAt(viewIndex, numChildren - *pNumListed); >- m_levels.RemoveElementsAt(viewIndex, numChildren - *pNumListed); >- } >+ RemoveRows(viewIndex, numChildren - *pNumListed); I did ask about this before... It's not like you to remove the {}s ;-) >+// ### Can this be combined with GetIndexForThread?? It probably could, since the only difference is that one returns highIndex if the hdr was found and the other if it was not found. >+ for (nsMsgViewIndex i = 0; i < m_keys.Length();) >+ { >+ // ignore non threads >+ if (m_levels[i]) >+ continue; This isn't going to work ;-) A better idea would be to set up EntryInfo1 at the beginning of the loop, then start the loop at 1 looking for a thread; whenever you find a thread you set up EntryInfo2 for that thread, then save that as EntryInfo1 for the next loop, or maybe do some fancy trickery with the pValue pointers. Don't forget to free the last key at the end of the loop ;-) > NS_IMETHODIMP > nsMsgDBView::GetSupportsThreading(PRBool *aResult) > { > NS_ENSURE_ARG_POINTER(aResult); >- *aResult = PR_FALSE; >+ *aResult = PR_TRUE; > return NS_OK; > } The most important part of the patch ;-) Don't forget to remove the overrides. Does this mean we can clean up some of the UI code too? >+ NS_ENSURE_ARG_POINTER(m_view); Ideally this would be NS_ENSURE_STATE if you still think you need it. >diff -uwNp8 /xfviewland/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgGroupView.cpp ./nsMsgGroupView.cpp bbl
Comment on attachment 344969 [details] [diff] [review] [checked in] do some preparation in nsMsgGroupView This was checked in a few days ago:
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Comment on attachment 343968 [details] [diff] [review] front end changes >diff -uwrNp8 mail/base/content/commandglue.js /threadview/mail/base/content/commandglue.js > // now switch views > var oldSortType = gDBView ? gDBView.sortType : nsMsgViewSortType.byThread; > var oldSortOrder = gDBView ? gDBView.sortOrder : nsMsgViewSortOrder.ascending; > var viewFlags = gDBView ? gDBView.viewFlags : gCurViewFlags; >+ var viewType = gDBView ? gDBView.viewType : nsMsgViewType.eShowAllThreads; >+ var db = (gDBView) ? gDBView.db : null; > > // close existing view. > if (gDBView) { > gDBView.close(); > gDBView = null; > } I'm thinking that 6 checks for gDBView warrants being reduced to just one. >diff -uwrNp8 mail/base/content/searchBar.js /threadview/mail/base/content/searchBar.js This part already seems to be in the codebase (or at least doesn't apply properly).
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Comment on attachment 344988 [details] [diff] [review] remaining diffs >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OnHdrDeleted(nsIMsgDBHdr *aHdrDeleted, nsMsgKey aParentKey, PRInt32 aFlags, >+ nsIDBChangeListener *aInstigator) >+{ >+ return (m_viewFlags & nsMsgViewFlagsType::kGroupBySort) ? >+ nsMsgGroupView::OnHdrDeleted(aHdrDeleted, aParentKey, aFlags, aInstigator) : >+ nsMsgDBView::OnHdrDeleted(aHdrDeleted, aParentKey, aFlags, aInstigator); >+} nsMsgGroupView already does this, no need to override it >+ PRBool hasSelection = mTreeSelection && mTree && (mTreeSelection->GetCount(&selCount), selCount); I don't see the point of this (it could actually be wrong in an edge case). sr=me with those removed and my previous comments addressed.
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Comment on attachment 344988 [details] [diff] [review] remaining diffs >@@ -4968,16 +4981,243 @@ PRInt32 nsMsgDBView::FindLevelInThread(n > // need to update msgKey so the check for a msgHdr with matching > // key+parentKey will work after first time through loop > curMsgHdr->GetMessageKey(&msgKey); > } > } > return 1; > } > >+ nsresult rv; >+ PRUint16 maxLen; nit: you only need one space here (ditto in InitEntryInfoForIndex) >+} >+ >+ >+NS_IMETHODIMP >+nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OpenWithHdrs(nsISimpleEnumerator *aHeaders, nit: did you mean for two blank lines here? >+ PRBool hasMore; >+ nsCOMPtr<nsISupports> supports; >+ nsCOMPtr<nsIMsgDBHdr> msgHdr; >+ nsresult rv = NS_OK; >+ while (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && NS_SUCCEEDED(rv = aHeaders->HasMoreElements(&hasMore)) && hasMore) >+ { >+ rv = aHeaders->GetNext(getter_AddRefs(supports)); >+ if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && supports) >+ { >+ msgHdr = do_QueryInterface(supports); >+ AddHdr(msgHdr); >+ } I'm not totally sure you need the check for NS_SUCCEEDED twice here in the loop parameters. >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::SetViewFlags(nsMsgViewFlagsTypeValue aViewFlags) >+{ >+ nsMsgViewFlagsTypeValue saveViewFlags = m_viewFlags; >+ nsresult rv = nsMsgDBView::SetViewFlags(aViewFlags); nit: double space >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgSearchDBView::Open(nsIMsgFolder *folder, >+ nsMsgViewSortTypeValue sortType, >+ nsMsgViewSortOrderValue sortOrder, >+ nsMsgViewFlagsTypeValue viewFlags, >+ PRInt32 *pCount) > { ... >+ nsCOMPtr<nsIPrefBranch> prefBranch (do_GetService(NS_PREFSERVICE_CONTRACTID, &rv)); nit: no bracket after prefBranch >+ { >+ viewThread = static_cast<nsMsgXFViewThread*>(thread.get()); >+ thread->GetChildAt(0, getter_AddRefs(threadRoot)); >+ } nit: double space. >+// This method removes the thread at threadIndex from the view >+// and puts it back in its new position, determined by the sort order. >+// And, if the selection is affected, save and restore the selection. >+void nsMsgSearchDBView::MoveThreadAt(nsMsgViewIndex threadIndex) >+{ ... >+ PRBool hasSelection = mTreeSelection && mTree && (mTreeSelection->GetCount(&selCount), selCount); nit: double space > nsresult nsMsgSearchDBView::RemoveByIndex(nsMsgViewIndex index) ... >+ nsMsgXFViewThread *viewThread = static_cast<nsMsgXFViewThread*>(thread.get()); nit: double space > NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgSearchDBView::Sort(nsMsgViewSortTypeValue sortType, nsMsgViewSortOrderValue sortOrder) > { ... >+ if (m_viewFlags & (nsMsgViewFlagsType::kThreadedDisplay | >+ nsMsgViewFlagsType::kGroupBySort)) >+ { >+ // this forgets which threads were expanded, and is sub-optimal >+ // since it rebuilds the thread objects. But it might be good >+ // enough for landing. >+ m_sortType = sortType; >+ m_sortOrder = sortOrder; >+ return RebuildView(); Can you make this an XXX comment and file a bug on possible perf improvement? >+nsresult nsMsgSearchDBView::GetXFThreadFromMsgHdr(nsIMsgDBHdr *msgHdr, >+ nsIMsgThread **pThread, >+ PRBool *foundByMessageId) >+{ ... >+ msgHdr->GetMessageId(getter_Copies(messageId)); >+ CopyASCIItoUTF16(messageId, hashKey); ... >+ msgHdr->GetStringReference(i, reference); >+ if (reference.IsEmpty()) >+ break; >+ >+ CopyASCIItoUTF16(reference, hashKey); ... >+ msgHdr->GetSubject(getter_Copies(subject)); >+ CopyASCIItoUTF16(subject, hashKey); I can understand Message Ids and reference being ASCII, but can you just confirm we do expect the subject to be ascii here? >+nsresult >+nsMsgSearchDBView::ListIdsInThread(nsIMsgThread *threadHdr, >+ nsMsgViewIndex startOfThreadViewIndex, >+ PRUint32 *pNumListed) >+{ >+ NS_ENSURE_ARG(threadHdr); >+ // these children ids should be in thread order. >+ nsresult rv = NS_OK; rv isn't actually used in this function, expect to return at the end... >+PRBool nsMsgXFViewThread::IsHdrAncestorOf(nsIMsgDBHdr *possibleAncestor, >+ nsIMsgDBHdr *possibleDescendent) >+{ >+ PRBool result; >+ possibleDescendent->RefersTo(possibleAncestor, &result); >+ return result; >+} >+NS_IMETHODIMP nsMsgXFViewThread::GetNewestMsgDate(PRUint32 *aResult) nit: missing blank line and unnecessary space at the end of the last line here. >diff -uwNp8 /xfviewland/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgXFViewThread.h ./nsMsgXFViewThread.h >+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ Please make both these numbers 2 (and in the c++ file as well. r=me with those & Neil's comments fixed.
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this is what I'm planning on landing. It addresses all the review comments, I believe - I did change the ValidateSort stuff to be just #ifdef DEBUG_David_Bienvenu, since obviously we weren't hitting that code very often, and I'll just remove it once this has had wider testing.
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fix checked in. We'll file follow on bugs for issues that arise. Thx for all the reviews!
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
(In reply to comment #71) > fix checked in. After in my last self-compiled build of SM2 View-Threads->Threads with Unread and View-Threads->Threads->Watched Threads wit Unread were greyed out, i wrote a comment to de.comm.software.mozilla.nightly-builds. A reply of Jens Hatlak, thanks, pointed to this bug as a possible cause. Backing out the patch solved the problem. Verified by an immediatedly following new build wich contained the patch and the error was back again.
(In reply to comment #72) > After in my last self-compiled build of SM2 View-Threads->Threads with Unread > and View-Threads->Threads->Watched Threads wit Unread were greyed out, Should be View->Threads->Threads with Unread and View->Threads->Watched Threads with Unread Hopefully this time without errors. ;)
I've filed a new bug for this issue - Bug 462555
Whiteboard: will checkin when tree is green | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379806 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | refinedweb | 6,354 | 55.03 |
Missing nodes in nodes_callback
I've got a pbf () which has 'ways' that contain specific 'nodes' of which I'm interested. I found that the parser is missing a lot of nodes when parsing this file (maybe others too). Here is a piece of code: {{{
!python
def parse_nodes(nodes): for node in nodes: if node[0] in node_ids: #node_ids is a precomputed list of node ids #do something OSMParser(concurrency=4, nodes_callback=parse_nodes).parse(args.src) }}}
The node_ids in this example contains valid node ids. I checked this by converting the pbf file to an osm file with osmosis and the checked that a few of the node ids exist in the osm file - they do. The pbf file is valid and contains the nodes that are not parsed.
I think I found the reason why this is happening. In PBFParser class it says: Nodes and relations without tags will not passed to the callback.
Is there any particular reason for this? As far as I know nodes can have no metadata - that's normal in case of country boundaries.
That is by design, see You should use coords_callback, if you only need coordinates.
I see that you forked imposm.parser and changed it to include empty nodes. What about making it optional?
OSMParser(..., include_empty_nodes=True) (with False as the default). I would pull your changes if you also add this to the XML parser (the change should be similar) and if you add a test case for it (see imposm/parser/tests; run with nosetest (pip install Nose)).
I think that a flag making this optional would be too much. Imho it would clutter the API. I have no problem with using coords_callback. I think I'll just do that for now.
Some thoughts on the library: Using nodes callback I would expect (without reading the documentation) that it will pass all the nodes too the callback regardless. I would expect the task of clearing what I do not need falling on me, not the library. It makes it too inflexible. A library should do simple things and have a simple API and let the user to decide what to do with it. Too much filtering can be bad and confusing - at least in my world view.
I like the callback design from imposm.parser and that it works transparently on XML and PBF files and even with multiple processes, but yes the API could even be more simplistic.
imposm.parser was extracted from imposm and so there are parts in the API that were added to make imposm as fast as possible (like filtering and marshaling in the parser process). Maybe it's time for a new general API, only with nodes, ways and relations callbacks? There are people that are also interested in metadata (version, timestamp, user), it would be a good idea to add that too in this step.
I think the callback design is great. And yes, I'm interested in the metadata as well. Also would you happen to know if I can get an OSM writer without installing the whole imposm package. I really don't need the whole postgresql thing, but I do need to generate the OSM's.
Maybe we should create a
Parserclass with the three callbacks, deprecate the current
OSMParserand "copy" the old API to
ImposmParser?
The writer in imposm does not write OSM XML, but it writes into PostgreSQL or other DB backends.
Should be fine. | https://bitbucket.org/olt/imposm.parser/issues/3/missing-nodes-in-nodes_callback | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | refinedweb | 578 | 73.58 |
abapGit is a central part of the Steampunk product, but what is so special about it?
You need to create a report, paste the source of zabapGit in it, activate it, and run it. That would be the typical approach outside of Steampunk. In Steampunk, SAP uses the zabapGit sources transformed from Z- to SAP-namespace, and these are, with some Steampunk-specific adjustments, part of the core of the Steampunk product.
Is it then possible to execute abapGit in Steampunk like in on-premise systems by calling the transaction?
No, Steampunk doesn’t support SAP Dynpro technology, the abapGit’s UI’s underlying technology. That was one of the main reasons we created the abapGit ADT plugin to enable Steampunk users to use abapGit. The abapGit ADT plugin has worked with every Steampunk system and the ABAP Development Tools (ADT) since Steampunk’s general availability. It’s developed open-source and maintained by a few ADT developers, and it’s not yet feature-complete compared to the abapGit Dynpro UI. But we’re working on it.
abapGit ADT Plugin
A separate layer is needed to connect the plugin with the abapGit core functionality, as all the ADT plugins communicate over HTTP calls with their respective endpoints. Hence, we need an additional endpoint for the abapGit plugin. This layer is an extension to the current abapGit sources and enables abapGit to react to incoming HTTP calls. The abapGit ADT REST layer empowers abapGit with many possibilities to interact with tools other than SAP GUI or ADT. Consequently, we decided to open source the abapGit ADT REST layer and let the enormous abapGit community participate in our development. Unfortunately, we couldn’t name it like abapGit ADT REST due to legal and branding restrictions, so we decided to use a project name to keep the confusion as low as possible.
Welcome – Project Odense
We are planning to update the sources regularly as soon as we have some changes or bugfixes. Unfortunately, the sources are in SAP-namespace and could not be imported in systems with development or customer user licenses. The intention behind open sourcing the abapGit ADT REST layer was to provide a blueprint for the ABAP community.
While reading through all of this text, you recognized that abapGit consists of three vital parts in Steampunk:
- abapGit core
- abapGit ADT REST
- abapGit ADT plugin
In the below picture, you’ll find a more technical view of how everything is connected.
Technical representation of abapGit Parts in Steampunk
We’re very curious to see what cool stuff the abapGit community will do with Project Odense. Just thinking of all the possibilities like ABAP tooling for code editors outside ADT, integration pipelines for abapGit/abapLint, a tighter coupling of abapLint services, we’re excited.
Let’s see what happens 🙂
This is very cool. But I a couple of things are a little unclear:
Can this run on a regular on premise system? And how would we install it? The doc says to clone via abapGit, but as a customer or development license user, I cannot create SAP-namespace objects 🙁
I'm really keen on the idea and would love to install this and tinker with it, but unfortunately am stuck in the starting blocks.
Hello Mike,
The idea behind open sourcing the abapGIT ADT REST layer was to provide a blueprint for the ABAP Community. I heard rumors that the abapGit community will create some automatic renaming that transfers the project to a consumable Z-namespace.
I'll add a disclaimer to the blog, pointing out that this will only work in SAP Namespace.
Yea, its in the plans 🙂
But would like to do real semantic renaming running on CI, so it might take some days
Thanks, that makes more sense now 🙂 | https://blogs.sap.com/2020/10/07/inside-steampunk-vital-parts-of-steampunks-abapgit/ | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | refinedweb | 630 | 59.43 |
In Book II, Chapter 2, you discover the various primitive numeric types that are supported by Java. In this chapter, you build on that knowledge by doing basic operations with numbers. Much of this chapter focuses on the complex topic of expressions, which combine numbers with operators to perform calculations. But this chapter also covers techniques for formatting numbers when you display them and performing advanced calculations using the Math class. In addition, you find out why Java's math operations sometimes produce results you might not expect.
An operator is a special symbol or keyword that's used to designate a mathematical operation or some other type of operation that can be performed on one or more values, called operands. In all, Java has about 40 different operators. This chapter focuses on the operators that do arithmetic. These arithmetic operators perform basic arithmetic operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In all, there are 7 of them. Table 3-1 summarizes them.
The following section of code can help. For more information about integer division, see the section "Dividing Integers" later in this chapter.
Categorizing operators by the number of operands
A common way to categorize Java's operators is by the number of operands the operator works on. Categorizing the operators in this way, there are three types:
A unary operator can be a prefix operator or a postfix operator. A prefix operator is written before the operand, like this:
operator operand
A postfix operator is written after the operand:
operand operator
operand1 operator operand2
operand1 ? operand2: operand3
If that's not what you want, you can cast one of the operands to a double before performing the division, like this:
int a = 21, b = 6; double answer = (double)a / b; // answer = 3.5
The moral of the story is that if you want to divide int values and get an accurate double result, you must cast at least one of the int values to a double.
When you divide one integer into another, the result is always another integer. Any remainder is simply discarded, and the answer is not rounded up. For example, 5/4 gives the result 1, and 3/4 gives the result 0. If you want to know that 5/4 is actually 1.25 or that 3/4 is actually 0.75, you need to use floats or doubles instead of integers.
If you need to know what the remainder is when you divide two integers, use the remainder operator (%). For example, suppose you have a certain number of marbles to give away and a certain number of children to give them to. The program in Listing 3-1 lets you enter the number of marbles and the number of children. Then it calculates the number of marbles to give to each child, and the number of marbles you have left over.
Here's a sample of the console output for this program, where the number of marbles entered is 93 and the number of children is 5:
Welcome to the marble divvy upper. Number of marbles: 93 Number of children: 5 Give each child 18 marbles. You will have 3 marbles left over.
Listing 3-1: A Program That Divvies Up Marbles
import java.util.Scanner; → 1 public class MarblesApp { static Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); → 5 public static void main(String[] args) { // declarations → 9 int numberOfMarbles; int numberOfChildren; int marblesPerChild; int marblesLeftOver; // get the input data → 15 System.out.println("Welcome to the marble divvy upper."); System.out.print("Number of marbles: "); numberOfMarbles = sc.nextInt(); System.out.print("Number of children: "); numberOfChildren = sc.nextInt(); // calculate the results marblesPerChild = numberOfMarbles / numberOfChildren; → 23 marblesLeftOver = numberOfMarbles % numberOfChildren; → 24 // print the results → 26 System.out.println("Give each child " + marblesPerChild + " marbles."); System.out.println("You will have " + marblesLeftOver + " marbles left over."); } }
The following paragraphs describe the key lines in this program:
Open table as spreadsheet
You can combine operators to form complicated expressions. When you do, the order in which the operations are carried out is determined by the precedence of each operator in the expression. The order of precedence for the arithmetic operators is:
For example, in the expression a + b * c, multiplication has a higher precedence than addition. Thus b is multiplied by c first. Then the result of that multiplication is added to a.
If an expression includes two or more operators at the same order of precedence, the operators are evaluated left to right. Thus, in the expression a * b/c, a is first multiplied by b, and then the result is divided by c.
If you want, you can use parentheses to change the order in which operations are performed. Operations within parentheses are always performed before operations that aren't in parentheses. Thus, in the expression (a + b) * c, a is added to b first. Then the result is multiplied by c.
If an expression has two or more sets of parentheses, the operations in the innermost set are performed first. For example, in the expression (a * (b + c))/d, b is first added to c. Then the result is multiplied by a. And finally, that result is divided by d.
This difference occurs because integer division always returns an integer result, which is a truncated version of the actual result. Thus, in the first expression, a is first multiplied by b, giving a result of 30. Then, this result is divided by c. Truncating the answer gives a result of 4. But in the second expression, b is first divided by c, which gives a truncated result of 0. Then, this result is multiplied by a, giving a final answer of 0.
The plus and minus unary operators let you change the sign of an operand. Note that the actual operator used for these operations is the same as the binary addition and subtraction operators. The compiler figures out whether you mean to use the binary or the unary version of these operators by examining the expression.
Notice that if a starts out positive, +a is also positive. But if a starts out negative, +a is still negative. Thus the unary + operator has no effect. I guess Java provides the unary plus operator out of a need for balance.
You can also use these operators with more complex expressions, like this:
int a = 3, b = 4, c = 5; int d = a * -(b + c); // d is -27
Here b is added to c, giving a result of 9. Then the unary minus is applied, giving a result of −9. Finally, −9 is multiplied by a giving a result of −27.
One of the most common operations in computer programming is adding or subtracting 1 from a variable. Adding 1 to a variable is called incrementing the variable. Subtracting 1 is called decrementing. The traditional way to increment a variable is like this:
a = a + 1;
Here the expression a + 1 is calculated, and the result is assigned to the variable a.
Java provides an easier way to do this type of calculation: the increment (++) and decrement (–) operators. These are unary operators that apply to a single variable. Thus, to increment the variable a, you can code just this:
a++;
You can only use the increment and decrement operators on variables, not on numeric literals or other expressions. For example, Java doesn't allow the following expressions:
a = b * 5++; // can't increment the number 5 a = (b * 5)++; // can't increment the expression (b * 5)
Note that you can use an increment or decrement operator in an assignment statement. Here's an example:
int a = 5; int b = a--; // both a and b are set to 4
When the second statement is executed, the expression a– is evaluated first, so a is set to 4. Then the new value of a is assigned to b. Thus both a and b are set to 4.
Confused yet? A simple example can clear it up. First, consider these statements with an expression that uses a postfix increment:
int a = 5; int b = 3; int c = a * b++; // c is set to 15
When the expression in the third statement is evaluated, the original value of b-that is, 3-is used in the multiplication. Thus c is set to 15.
Then b is incremented to 4.
Now consider this version, with a prefix increment:
int a = 5; int b = 3; int c = a * ++b; // c is set to 20
This time, b is incremented before the multiplication is performed, so c is set to 20. Either way, b ends up set to 4.
Similarly, consider this example:
int a = 5; int b = --a; // b is set to 5, a is set to 4.
This example is similar to an earlier example, but this time the prefix increment operator is used. When the second statement is executed, the value of a is assigned to b. Then a is decremented. As a result, b is set to 5, and a is set to 4.
instead of this:
c = a * ++b;
In the first version, it's crystal-clear that b is incremented before the multiplication is done.
The standard assignment operator (=) is used to assign the result of an expression to a variable. In its simplest form, you code it like this:
variable = expression;
Here's an example:
int a = (b * c) / 4;
You've already seen plenty of examples of assignment statements like this one, so I won't belabor this point any further. However, I do want to point out-just for the record-that you cannot code an arithmetic expression on the left side of an equal sign. Thus the following statement doesn't compile:
int a; a + 3 = (b * c);
The key to understanding the rest of this section is realizing that in Java, assignments are expressions, not statements. In other words, a = 5 is an assignment expression, not an assignment statement. It becomes an assignment statement only when you add a semicolon to the end.
The result of an assignment expression is the value that's assigned to the variable. For example, the result of the expression a = 5 is 5. Likewise, the result of the expression a = (b + c) * d is the result of the expression (b + c) * d.
The implication is that you can use assignment expressions in the middle of other expressions. For example, the following is legal:
int a; int b; a = (b = 3) * 2; // a is 6, b is 3
As in any expression, the part of the expression inside the parentheses is evaluated first. Thus, b is assigned the value 3. Then the multiplication is performed, and the result (6) is assigned to the variable a.
Now consider a more complicated case:
int a; int b = 2; a = (b = 3) * b; // a is 9, b is 3
What's happening here is that the expression in the parentheses is evaluated first, which means that b is set to 3 before the multiplication is performed.
The parentheses are important in the previous example because without parentheses, the assignment operator is the last operator to be evaluated in Java's order of precedence. Consider one more example:
int a; int b = 2; a = b = 3 * b; // a is 6, b is 6
This time, the multiplication 3 * b is performed first, giving a result of 6. Then, this result is assigned to b. Finally, the result of that assignment expression (6) is assigned to a.
Incidentally, the following expression is also legal:
a = b = c = 3;
This expression assigns the value 3 to all three variables. Although this code seems pretty harmless, you're better off just writing three assignment statements. (You might guess that clumping the assignments together is more efficient than writing them on three lines, but you'd be wrong. These three assignments require the same number of bytecode instructions either way.)
A compound assignment operator is an operator that performs a calculation and an assignment at the same time. All of Java's binary arithmetic operators (that is, the ones that work on two operands) have equivalent compound assignment operators. Table 3-2 lists them.
For example, this statement
a += 10;
is equivalent to
a = a + 10;
and this statement
z *=2;
is equivalent to
z = z * 2;
Is a set to 7 or 8?
In other words, is the third statement equivalent to
a = a * b + 1; // This would give 7 as the result
or
a = a * (b + 1); // This would give 8 as the result
At first glance, you might expect the answer to be 7, because multiplication has a higher precedence than addition. But assignment has the lowest precedence of all, and the multiplication here is performed as part of the assignment. As a result, the addition is performed before the multiplication-and the answer is 8. (Gotcha!)
Java's built-in operators are useful, but they don't come anywhere near providing all the mathematical needs of most Java programmers. That's where the Math class comes in. It includes a bevy of built-in methods that perform a wide variety of mathematical calculations, from basic functions such as calculating an absolute value or a square root to trigonometry functions such as sin and cos, to practical functions such as rounding numbers or generating random numbers.
The Math class is contained in the java.lang package, which is automatically available to all Java programs. As a result, you don't have to provide an import statement to use the Math class.
The following sections describe the most useful methods of the Math class.
The Math class defines two constants that are useful for many mathematical calculations. Table 3-3 lists these constants.
Note that these constants are only approximate values, because both p and e are irrational numbers.
The program shown in Listing 3-2 illustrates a typical use of the constant PI. Here, the user is asked to enter the radius of a circle. The program then calculates the area of the circle in line 13. (The parentheses aren't really required in the expression in this statement, but they help clarify that the expression is the Java equivalent to the formula for the area of a circle, pr2.)
Here's the console output for a typical execution of this program, in which the user entered 5 as the radius of the circle:
Welcome to the circle area calculator. Enter the radius of your circle: 5 The area is 78.53981633974483
Listing 3-2: The Circle Area Calculator
import java.util.Scanner; public class CircleAreaApp { static Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println( "Welcome to the circle area calculator."); System.out.print("Enter the radius of your circle: "); double r = sc.nextDouble(); double area = Math.PI * (r * r); →13 System.out.println("The area is " + area); } }
Table 3-4 lists the basic mathematical functions that are provided by the Math class. As you can see, you can use these functions to calculate such things as the absolute value of a number, the minimum and maximum of two values, square roots, powers, and logarithms.
The program shown in the upcoming Listing 3-3 demonstrates each of these methods except random. When run, it produces output similar to this:
abs(b) = 50 cbrt(x) = 2.924017738212866 exp(y) = 54.598150033144236 hypot(y, z)= 5.0 log(y) = 1.0986122886681096 log10(y) = 0.47712125471966244 max(a, b) = 100 min(a, b) = -50 pow(a, c) = 1000000.0 random() = 0.8536014557793756 signum(b) = -1.0 sqrt(x) = 1.7320508075688772
You can use this output to get an idea of the values returned by these Math class methods. For example, you can see that the expression Math.sqrt(y) returns a value of 5.0 when y is 25.0.
The following paragraphs point out a few interesting tidbits concerning these methods:
int a = 27; int b = -32; a = Math.abs(a) * Math.signum(b); // a is now -27;
double x = 4.0; double y = Math.pow(x, 2); // a is now 16;
However, simply multiplying the number by itself is often just as easy and just as readable:
double x = 4.0; double y = x * x; // a is now 16;
Listing 3-3: A Program That Uses the Mathematical Methods of the Math Class
public class MathFunctionsApp { public static void main(String[] args) { int a = 100; int b = -50; int c = 3; double x = 25.0; double y = 3.0; double z = 4.0; System.out.println("abs(b) = " + Math.abs(b)); System.out.println("cbrt(x) = " + Math.cbrt(x)); System.out.println("exp(y) = " + Math.exp(z)); System.out.println("hypot(y, z)= " + Math.hypot(y, z)); System.out.println("log(y) = " + Math.log(y)); System.out.println("log10(y) = " + Math.log10(y)); System.out.println("max(a, b) = " + Math.max(a, b)); System.out.println("min(a, b) = " + Math.min(a, b)); System.out.println("pow(a, c) = " + Math.pow(a, c)); System.out.println("random() = " + Math.random()); System.out.println("signum(b) = " + Math.signum(b)); System.out.println("sqrt(x) = " + Math.sqrt(y)); } }
Sooner or later, you're going to want to write programs that play simple games. Almost all games have some element of chance built in to them, so you need a way to create computer programs that don't work exactly the same every time you run them. The easiest way to do that is to use the random method of the Math class, which Table 3-4 lists along with the other basic mathematical functions of the Math class.
The random method returns a double whose value is greater than or equal to 0.0 but less than 1.0. Within this range, the value returned by the random method is different every time you call it, and is essentially random.
The random method generates a random double value between 0.0 (inclusive, meaning it could be 0.0) and 1.0 (exclusive, meaning it can't be 1.0). However, most computer applications that need random values need random integers between some arbitrary low value (usually 1, but not always) and some arbitrary high value. For example, a program that plays dice needs random numbers between 1 and 6, while a program that deals cards needs random numbers between 1 and 52 (53 if jokers are used).
As a result, you need a Java expression that converts the double value returned by the random function into an int value within the range your program calls for. The following code shows how to do this, with the values set to 1 and 6 for a dice-playing game:
int low = 1; // the lowest value in the range int high = 6; // the highest value in the range int rnd = (int)(Math.random() * (high - low + 1)) + low;
This expression is a little complicated, so I show you how it's evaluated step by step:
To give you an idea of how this random number calculation works, Listing 3-4 shows a program that places this calculation in a method called randomInt and then calls it to simulate 100 dice rolls. The randomInt method accepts two parameters representing the low and high ends of the range, and it returns a random integer within the range. In the main method of this program, the randomInt method is called 100 times, and each random number is printed by a call to System.out.print.
The console output for this program looks something like this:
Here are 100 random rolls of the dice: 4 1 1 6 1 2 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 4 5 4 4 1 3 6 1 3 1 4 4 3 3 3 5 6 5 6 6 3 5 2 2 6 3 3 4 1 2 2 4 2 2 4 1 4 3 6 5 5 4 4 2 4 1 3 5 2 1 3 3 5 4 1 6 3 1 6 5 2 6 6 3 5 4 5 2 5 4 5 3 1 4 2 5 2 1 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 3 3
However, every time you run this program, you see a different sequence of 100 numbers.
The program shown in Listing 3-4 uses several Java features you haven't seen yet.
Listing 3-4: Rolling the Dice
public class DiceApp { public static void main(String[] args) { int roll; String msg = "Here are 100 random rolls of the dice:"; System.out.println(msg); for (int i=0; i<100; i++) → 8 { roll = randomInt(1, 6); → 10 System.out.print(roll + " "); → 11 } System.out.println(); } public static int randomInt(int low, int high) → 16 { int result = (int)(Math.random() → 18 * (high - low + 1)) + low; return result; → 20 } }
The following paragraphs explain how the program works, but don't worry if you don't get all of the elements in this program. The main thing to see is the expression that converts the random double value returned by the Math.double method to an integer.
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The Math class has four methods that round or truncate float or double values. Table 3-5 lists these methods. As you can see, each of these methods uses a different technique to calculate an integer value that's near the double or float value passed as an argument. Note that even though all four of these methods rounds a floating-point value to an integer value, only the round method actually returns an integer type (int or long, depending on whether the argument is a float or a double). The other methods return doubles that happen to be integer values.
Listing 3-5 shows a program that uses each of the four methods to round three different double values: 29.4, 93.5, and −19.3. Here's the output from this program:
round(x) = 29 round(y) = 94 round(z) = -19 ceil(x) = 30.0 ceil(y) = 94.0 ceil(z) = -19.0 floor(x) = 29.0 floor(y) = 93.0 floor(z) = -20.0 rint(x) = 29.0 rint(y) = 94.0 rint(z) = -19.0
Note that each of the four methods produces a different result for at least one of the values:
Listing 3-5: A Program That Uses the Rounding Methods of the Math Class
public class RoundingApp { public static void main(String[] args) { double x = 29.4; double y = 93.5; double z = -19.3; System.out.println("round(x) = " + Math.round(x)); System.out.println("round(y) = " + Math.round(y)); System.out.println("round(z) = " + Math.round(z)); System.out.println(); System.out.println("ceil(x) = " + Math.ceil(x)); System.out.println("ceil(y) = " + Math.ceil(y)); System.out.println("ceil(z) = " + Math.ceil(z)); System.out.println(); System.out.println("floor(x) = " + Math.floor(x)); System.out.println("floor(y) = " + Math.floor(y)); System.out.println("floor(z) = " + Math.floor(z)); System.out.println(); System.out.println("rint(x) = " + Math.rint(x)); System.out.println("rint(y) = " + Math.rint(y)); System.out.println("rint(z) = " + Math.rint(z)); } }
Most of the programs you've seen so far have used the System.out. println or System.out.print method to print the values of variables that contain numbers. When you pass a numeric variable to one of these methods, the variable's value is converted to a string before it's printed. The exact format used to represent the value isn't very pretty. For example, large values are printed without any commas. And all the decimal digits for double or float values are printed, whether you want them to or not.
In many cases, you want to format your numbers before you print them. For example, you might want to add commas to large values and limit the number of decimal places printed. Or, if a number represents a monetary amount, you might want to add a dollar sign (or whatever currency symbol is appropriate for your locale). To do that, you can use the NumberFormat class. Table 3-6 lists the NumberFormat class methods.
The procedure for using the NumberFormat class to format numbers takes a little getting used to. First, you must call one of the static getXxxInstance methods to create a NumberFormat object that can format numbers in a particular way. Then, if you want, you can call the setMinimumFractionDigits or setMaximumFractionDigits method to set the number of decimal digits to be displayed. Finally, you call that object's format method to actually format a number.
Note that the NumberFormat class is in the java.text package, so you must include the following import statement at the beginning of any class that uses NumberFormat:
import java.text.NumberFormat;
Here's an example that uses the NumberFormat class to format a double value as currency:
double salesTax = 2.425; NumberFormat cf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(); System.out.println(cf.format(salesTax));
When you run this code, the following line is printed to the console:
$2.43
Note that the currency format rounds the value from 2.425 to 2.43.
Here's an example that formats a number using the general number format, with exactly three decimal places:
double x = 19923.3288; NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(); nf.setMinimumFractionDigits(3); nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(3); System.out.println(nf.format(x));
When you run this code, the following line is printed:
19,923.329
Here the number is formatted with a comma, and the value is rounded to three places.
Here's an example that uses the percentage format:
double grade = .92; NumberFormat pf = NumberFormat.getPercentInstance(); System.out.println(pf.format(grade));
When you run this code, the following line is printed:
92%
Here the cf variable is created as a class variable. Then both the printMyAllowance and printCostOfPaintBallGun methods can use it.
Believe it or not, computers-even the most powerful ones-have certain limitations when it comes to performing math calculations. These limitations are usually insignificant, but sometimes they sneak up and bite you. The following sections describe the things you need to watch out for when doing math in Java.
Okay, consider this (admittedly contrived) example:
int a = 1000000000; System.out.println(a); a += 1000000000; System.out.println(a); a += 1000000000; System.out.println(a); a += 1000000000; System.out.println(a);
Here you expect the value of a to get bigger after each addition. But here's the output that's displayed:
1000000000 2000000000 -1294967296 -294967296
The first addition seems to work, but after that, the number becomes negative! That's because the value has reached the size limit of the int data type. Unfortunately, Java doesn't tell you that this error has happened. It simply crams the int variable as full of bits as it can, discards whatever bits don't fit, and hopes you don't notice. Because of the way int stores negative values, large positive values suddenly become large negative values.
The moral of the story is that if you're working with large integers, you should use long rather than int because long can store much larger numbers than int. If your programs deal with numbers large enough to be a problem for long, consider using floating-point types instead. As you see in the next section, floating-point types can handle even larger values than long, and they let you know when you exceed their capacity.
Don't believe me? Try running this code:
float x = 0.1f; NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(); nf.setMinimumFractionDigits(10); System.out.println(nf.format(x));
The resulting output is this:
0.1000000015
Although 0.1000000015 is close to 0.1, it isn't exact.
I'll have much more to say about floating-point numbers in Bonus Chapter 1 on this book's Web site. For now, just realize that you can't use float or double to represent money unless you don't care whether or not your books are in balance.
According to the basic rules of mathematics, you can't divide a number by zero. The reason is simple: Division is the inverse of multiplication-which means that if a * b = c, then it is also true that a = c/b. If you were to allow b to be zero, division would be meaningless because any number times zero is zero. Therefore both a and c would also have to be zero. In short, mathematicians solved this dilemma centuries ago by saying that division by zero is simply not allowed.
So what happens if you do attempt to divide a number by zero in a Java program? The answer depends on whether you're dividing integers or floating-point numbers. If you're dividing integers, the statement that attempts the division by zero chokes up what is called an exception, which is an impolite way of crashing the program. In Book II, Chapter 8, you find out how to intercept this exception to allow your program to continue. But in the meantime, any program you write that attempts an integer division by zero crashes.
If you try to divide a floating-point type by zero, the results are not so abrupt. Instead, Java assigns the floating-point result one of the special values listed in Table 3-7. The following paragraphs explain how these special values are determined:
If you attempt to print a floating-point value that has one of these special values, Java converts the value to an appropriate string. For example, suppose you execute the following statements:
double i = 50.0; double j = 0.0; double k = i / j; System.out.println(k);
The resulting console output is
Infinity
If i were −50.0, the console would display −Infinity. And if i were zero, the console would display NaN.
Book I - Java Basics
Book II - Programming Basics
Book III - Object-Oriented Programming
Book IV - Strings, Arrays, and Collections
Book V - Programming Techniques
Book VI - Swing
Book VII - Web Programming
Book VIII - Files and Databases
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How do I convert a local database which contains the data in local time format? Now I want to load this data into a central MySQL database which contains the data in UTC format. Can anyone suggest how do I convert my local time into UTC and vice-versa in Talend?
Examples:
23-10-2015 16:00 Local time => 23-10-2015 14:00 UTC (and vice versa)
26-10-2015 16:00 Local time => 26-10-2015 15:00 UTC (and vice versa)
This job is pretty simple. In order to perform the conversion of local time into UTC you need to do is to add tFixedFlowInput, tJavaRow and tLogRow components into the workspace and connect them using the Row(Main) link.
Once you are done, follow the below steps:
Go to the component tab of the tFixedFlowInput component and specify the schema as shown below:
Once done, select the Inline table option and provide the data as per requirement:
Now, in the component tab of tJava component, go to the advanced settings and import the given packages:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.TimeZone; import java.text.ParseException;
Now, go to the basic settings of the tab and add the following code:
String BASE_FORMAT = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm";
TimeZone utc = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
TimeZone local = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Amsterdam");
SimpleDateFormat formatUTC = new SimpleDateFormat( BASE_FORMAT );
formatUTC.setTimeZone(utc);
SimpleDateFormat formatCE = new SimpleDateFormat( BASE_FORMAT );
formatCE.setTimeZone(local);
row2.localDateTime = row1.localDateTime;
In the component tab of tLogRow, select the highlighted option in order to print in the key-value pair.
Now execute the job. You will get the required output:
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One day I read an article that said that the richest 2 percent own half the world's wealth. It also said that the richest 1 percent of adults owned 40 percent of global assets in the year 2000. And further, that. The new developers are trained to use (I would say more often) already developed software components, to complete the development quicker. They just plug in an existing library and some how manage to achieve the requirements. But the sad part of the story is, that they never get a training to define, design the architecture for, and implement such components. As the number of years pass by, these developers become leads and also. The most of them use impractical, irrelevant examples of shapes, animals and many other physical world entities to teach the architects who know how to architect a system properly and the others who do not know. The ones, who know, know it right. But the ones, who do not know, know nothing. Just like the world’s wealth distribution, it is an unbalanced distribution of knowledge.
As I see it, newcomers will always struggle to understand a precise definition of a new concept, because it is always a new and hence unfamiliar idea. The one, who has experience, understands the meaning, but the one who doesn’t, struggles to understand the very same definition. It is like that. Employers want experienced employees. So they say, you need to have experience to get a job. But how the hell is one supposed to have that experience if no one is willing to give him a job? As in the general case, the start with software architecture is no exception. It will be difficult. When you start to design your very first system, you will try to apply everything you know or learned from everywhere. You will feel that an interface needs to be defined for every class, like I did once. You will find it harder to understand when and when not to do something. Just prepare to go through a painful process. Others will criticize you, may laugh at you and say that the way you have designed it?
The primary goal of software architecture is to define the non-functional requirements of a system and define the environment. The detailed design is followed by a definition of how to deliver the functional behavior within the architectural rules. Architecture is important because it:..
public class University { private Chancellor universityChancellor = new Chancellor(); }
In this case I can say that University aggregate Chancellor or University has an (*has-a*) Chancellor. But even without a Chancellor a University can exists. But a University cannot exist without Faculties, the life time of a University attached with the life time of its Faculty (or Faculties). If Faculties are disposed the University will not exist or wise versa. In that case we called that University is composed of Faculties. So that composition can be recognized as a special type of an aggregation. are ideal when implementing frameworks. As an example, let’s study the abstract class named LoggerBase below. Please carefully read the comments as it will help you to understand the reasoning behind this code..
Interface can be used to define a generic template and then one or more abstract classes to define partial implementations of the interface. Interfaces just specify the method declaration (implicitly public and abstract) and can contain fields and; } }
If MyLogger is a class, which implements ILogger, there we can write.
class Student : IDisposable { public void Dispose() { Console.WriteLine("Student.Dispose"); } void IDisposable.Dispose() { Console.WriteLine("IDisposable.Dispose"); } }
Ability of a new class to be created, from an existing class by extending it, is called inheritance.,
public class MyLogger { public void LogError(Exception e) { // Implementation goes here } public bool LogError(Exception e, string message) { // Implementation goes here } }.
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AWS Developer Blog has as well. In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to create an example API and generate a Ruby SDK from that API. We also explore various features of the generated SDK. In this post, we assume you have some familiarity with API Gateway concepts.
Creating an example API
To start, let’s create an sample API by using the API Gateway console.
Open the API Gateway console, choose Create API, and then choose Example API. Then choose Import to create the example API.
This simple, example API has four straightforward
You can find more information about this example in the API Gateway documentation.
Deploying the API
Next, let’s deploy our API to a stage.
From Actions choose Deploy API.
On the stage deployment page, name the stage Test, and then choose Deploy.
After deploying, the SDK Generation tab is available. For Platform, choose Ruby.
For Service Name, type Pet.
Choose Generate SDK, and then extract the downloaded SDK package.
The following are the configuration options available for the Ruby platform:
- Service Name – Used to generate the Ruby gem namespace for your APIs.
- Ruby Gem Name – The name of the Ruby gem your generated SDK code will be placed under. If you don’t provide a name, this defaults to the service name in lowercase, with the “sdk” suffix.
- Ruby Gem Version – The version number for the generated Ruby gem. If you don’t provide a version number, this defaults to 1.0.0 if not provided.
These are basic Ruby gem configuration options. You can customize your Ruby gemspec in the generated SDK gem later.
Using the generated Ruby SDK gem
Navigate to the location of your downloaded SDK gem. The directory structure looks like the following.
Note
/features and
/spec directories are currently left empty for integration and unit tests that you can add to the SDK. The generated SDK is fully documented for operations and shapes in the source code.
Exploring the SDK
Let’s explore the SDK by building a Ruby gem from the generated source, as follows.
# change to /pet-sdk directory cd pet-sdk # build the generated gem gem build pet-sdk.gemspec # then you can see pet-sdk-1.0.0.gem is available
Then, install the gem, as follows.
gem install pet-sdk-1.0.0.gem
Finally, create the client.
require 'pet-sdk' client = Pet::Client.new
Features in the client
Now you have your own client that includes multiple features from the official AWS SDK for Ruby. These include default exponential backoff retries, HTTP wire logging options, configurable timeouts, and more.
For example:
require 'pet-sdk' client = Pet::Client.new( http_wire_trace: true, retry_limit: 5, http_read_timeout: 50 )
Making API calls
Let’s see all the API methods that are available and use your SDK’s built-in parameter validators to make a successful API call:
client.operation_names # => [:create_pet, :get_api_root, :get_pet, :get_pets] # get me all my pets resp = client.get_pets
You should see a response like the following.
# I want the cat client.get_pet # ArgumentError: missing required parameter params[:pet_id] # providing :pet_id client.get_pet(pet_id: 2) # ArgumentError: expected params[:pet_id] to be a String, got value 2 (class: Fixnum) instead. # fix the value type resp = client.get_pet(pet_id: "2")
Now you can see a correct response like the following.
If you have some familiarity with the AWS SDK for Ruby, you should find the experience similar to using an AWS service client.
Generate a Ruby SDK from an API
In addition to using the API Gateway console to generate a Ruby SDK, the
get_sdk API is available in all of the AWS SDKs and tools, including the AWS SDK for Ruby.
For this example, we assume that you have some familiarity with the AWS SDK for Ruby. You can find a quick introduction to the SDK for Ruby here.
require 'aws-sdk-apigateway' client = Aws::ApiGateway::Client.new(region: 'us-west-2') resp = client.get_sdk({ rest_api_id: MY_REST_API_ID, # required stage_name: DEPLOY_STAGE_NAME, # required sdk_type: "ruby", # required parameters: { "service.name" => "PetStore", # required "ruby.gem-name" => "pet", "ruby.gem-version" => "0.0.1" }, })
Final thoughts
This post highlights how to generate a Ruby client SDK for an API in API Gateway, and how to call the API using the generated SDK in an application. For more information about using a generated SDK, see your
README.md file in the uncompressed generated SDK gem folder. Details of example usage of your API are also generated in source file documentation blocks.
Feedback
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Enumerable has a lot of cool things in it and it's often the first place people look when doing anything non-trivial. Don't forget about the collection specific methods, though!
My first pass at a method looked like this:
def random_indices even, odd = partition_by_parity if even.any? [even[rand(even.size)]] elsif odd.any? if odd.size == 1 [odd.first] else i1 = odd[rand(odd.size)] odd -= i1 i2 = odd[rand(odd.size)] [i1, i2] end else [] end end
It now looks like this:
def random_indices even, odd = partition_by_parity.map(&:shuffle) even.any? ? even.take(1) : odd.take(2) end
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Obsolete:Compress old revisions
There is a script to compress individual old revisions. Two modes, single revision compression (50% space use) and multiple (25% use). Needs to be run as root to create the log files.
Concatenated multiple revision compression
This reduces the size of old records to about 25% of the original by combining multiple revisions and compressing them all into one record. Not available as a configuration setting so you need to apply it as a batch job.
- cd /home/wikipedia/common/php-new/maintenance
- nice php compressOld.php en wikipedia -e 20050108000000 -q " cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " | tee -a /home/wikipedia/logs/compressOld/20050108enwiki
If the preceding run was interrupted after getting as far as Burke it would be resumed with nice php compressOld.php en wikipedia -e 20050108000000 -q " cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " -a Burke | tee -a /home/wikipedia/logs/compressOld/20050108enwiki.
The -q " cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " part is optional but should be used at present for Wikimedia hosted projects, while deletion and undeletion of articles with concatenated compressed revisions is unavailable. It disables concatenated compression of template and category pages and their talk pages, which are currently being changed at a high rate.
Not a problem to apply concatenated compression to records which are already compressed.
Normal operation looks like this:
[user@zwinger:/home/wikipedia/common/php-1.4/maintenance]$ nice php compressOld.php en wikipedia -e 20050108000000 -q " cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " -a Cleanthes | tee -a /home/wikipedia/logs/compressOld/20050108enwiki Depending on the size of your database this may take a while! If you abort the script while it's running it shouldn't harm anything, but if you haven't backed up your data, you SHOULD abort now! Press control-c to abort first (will proceed automatically in 5 seconds) Starting from Cleanthes Starting article selection query cur_title >= 'Cleanthes' AND cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) ... Cleanthes Talk:Cleanthes Wikipedia_talk:Cleanup ..................../...................././ Waiting for 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.24 10.0.0.23 Cleanup MediaWiki_talk:Cleanup Wikipedia:Cleanup ........../........../........../........../ .........../........../.........../............./............../ ............../............./............./............./............/ ............/............/............./.............../
When there are a large number of revisions for an article it's possible that you'll lose connection (timeout) to one of the database servers. Restarting after that is harmless, if irritating:
Waiting for 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 A database error has occurred Query: COMMIT Function: Database::immediateCommit Error: 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query (10.0.0.1) Backtrace: Database.php line 345 calls wfdebugdiebacktrace() Database.php line 297 calls databasemysql::reportqueryerror() Database.php line 1345 calls databasemysql::query() Database.php line 1262 calls databasemysql::immediatecommit() compressOld.inc line 249 calls databasemysql::masterposwait() compressOld.inc line 226 calls waitforslaves() compressOld.php line 74 calls compresswithconcat()
Cause is being investigated - may be servmon kills of the idle slave threads during long master operations, since it can take a long time to retrieve all old records sometimes, perhaps 400 seconds for 20,000 on a lightly loaded master.
Single revision compression
This produces about a 50% reduction and is also available automatically via a config file setting. Use the batch job either to apply the compression if it wasn't on before.
- cd /home/wikipedia/common/php-new/maintenance
- nice php compressOld.php en wikipedia -t 1 -c 100 5467442
- -t 1 : the time to sleep between batches, in seconds
- -c 100: the number of old records per batch
- 5467442: the old_id to start at, usually 1 to start. Displayed as it runs, if you stop the job, note the last value reached and use it to resume the job later. You get a warning for every record which has already been converted, so don't start much below the point you need.
- batch size of 5000 is OK off peak
Completed. Left about 40GB lost to fragmentation. Will take a table rebuilt to free it but that can't be done on Ariel using an InnoDB table because it will add 40GB of space to the tablespace for the copy.
Full options
* Usage: * * Non-wikimedia * php compressOld.php [-t <type>] [-c <chunk-size>] [-b <begin-date>] [-e <end-date>] [-s <start-id>] * [-a <first-article>] [--exclude-ns0] * * Wikimedia * php compressOld.php <database> [-t <type>] [-c <chunk-size>] [-b <begin-date>] [-e <end-date>] [-s <start-id>] * [-f <max-factor>] [-h <factor-threshold>] [--exclude-ns0] [-q <query condition>] * * <type> is either: * gzip: compress revisions independently * concat: concatenate revisions and compress in chunks (default) * * <start-id> is the old_id to start from * * The following options apply only to the concat type: * <begin-date> is the earliest date to check for uncompressed revisions * <end-date> is the latest revision date to compress * <chunk-size> is the maximum number of revisions in a concat chunk * <max-factor> is the maximum ratio of compressed chunk bytes to uncompressed avg. revision bytes * <factor-threshold> is a minimum number of KB, where <max-factor> cuts in * <first-article> is the title of the first article to process * <query-condition> is an extra set of SQL query conditions for the article selection query
Database fragmentation
Because the compression reduces record sizes it can result in substantial database record fragmentation. In the case of English language Wikipedia the old text started at 80GB and was reduced to 40GB but the MySQL InnoDB storage engine didn't make the space free for reuse by other tables in the tablespace.
The space can be fully freed by using alter table old engine=InnoDB but this requires as much extra free space in the tablespace as the complete new copy of the table requuires. If the space isn't available in the tablespace, the tablespace will be enlarged to make room. If you're short of disk space that can be impossible or could leave insufficient space for temporary files and logs. In a multiple wiki situation it's best to apply the compression to the smallest wikis first, alter them to free the space, and move on up to larger sizes. By the time you get to the largest you'll have freed much of the space they will need.
Alternatively, you can temporarily convert some tables to MyISAM using alter table tablename engine=MyISAM to move them out of the tablespace and into the normal free space, freeing space in the tablespace. Once the alter table for the big projects has completed you can use alter table tablename engine=InnoDB to convert them back to InnoDB.
A combination of both doing smaller wikis first and converting some tables in some wikis to MyISAM may be necessary if space is very tight. For Wikimedia, the minimum safe free disk space is between 9 and 10GB. Even at 10GB there's the risk that a large set of temporary files can leave the server without sufficient log space and break replication.
If using MySQL version 4.1 there's also the option of putting each database into its own tablespace. You'll still need enough free space for the copy of the table but won't have the main tablespace size expanded.
Compression results
Some raw data for the Wikimedia compression in the week preceding 18 February 2005. where present, after compression datra is in FlagCount format while before is currently in countFlag format. Times are the run time on ariel for the alter table to free the space. Space free in the Ariel tablespace went from 8GB to 15.7GB.
changes for this set: -e 20050108000000 -q " cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " meta 97517 rec size pre 471465984 post 446283776 94.66% ariel 4:13 min 570 no;3 0;945gzip;79672object;15956utf-8,gzip. 543/1/841/84438/12034 commons 79446 rec size pre 129253376 post 94978048 73.48% ariel 0:40 min 904 no;4 0;22889gzip;54666utf-8,gzip. 896/2/5181/38078/36125 sources 38486 rec size pre 765607936 post 590938112 77.19% ariel 12:32 min 6247 no;1 0;21184gzip;10966utf-8,gzip. 287/2653/29698/5994 hewiki 230649 rec size pre 905347072 post 453722112 50.12% ariel 7:12 min 1st 1630 no;29 0;175031gzip;52771utf-8,gzip. 83/8/6684/189966/34989 etwiki 61803 rec size pre 195248128 post 70844416 36.28% ariel 1:40 min 12145 no;1 0;39846gzip;9575utf-8,gzip. 413/1/2115/53765/5747 cawiki 65178 rec size pre 147292160 post 75038720 50.95% ariel 2:56 min 2699 no;2 0;52742gzip;9543utf-8,gzip. 50/4210/55272/5796 huwiki 67255 rec size pre 425934848 post 212418560 49.87% ariel 7:20 min 7174 no;1 0;43199gzip;16524utf-8,gzip. 222/1572/56323/9402 slwiki 80759 rec size pre 199589888 post 93929472 47.06% ariel 2:56 min 1235 no;63942gzip;14541utf-8,gzip. 77/2893/69033/9138 nowiki 105901 rec size pre 228016128 post 129597440 56.84% ariel 2:52 min 1581 no;72071gzip;31435utf-8,gzip. 60/5933/80965/19431 bgwiki 108585 rec size pre 219398144 post 117014528 53.33% ariel 2:39 min 3036 no;1 0;83734gzip;21563utf-8,gzip. 328g5978o93974u8451 ruwiki 111898 rec size pre 382042112 post 210354176 55.06% ariel 3:51 min 1119 no;12 0;78024gzip;32120utf-8,gzip. 81/8g3476o89080u18929 eowiki 120872 rec size pre 203833344 post 97091584 47.63% ariel 3:13 min 1631 no;106402gzip;12641utf-8,gzip. 45g5167o108343u7476 fiwiki 127004 rec size pre 376274944 post 310099968 82.24% ariel 4:14 min 1st 1697 no,9 0,96339 gzip,28367utf-8,gzip. dawiki 168081 rec size pre 537673728 post 122273792 22.74% ariel 3:52 min 125298 no;14 0;42385gzip. 5406/1g10781o152094 enwikiquote 37614 rec size pre 279101440 post 115933184 41.54% ariel 3:13 min 10331 no;20167gzip;7004utf-8,gzip. 341g842o32676u3850 enwikibooks 91536 rec size pre 618070016 post 238649344 38.61% ariel 3:32 min 25797 no;5 0;49515gzip;15850utf-8,gzip. 805g2852o77213u10923 enwikinews 24421 rec size pre 117719040 post 77135872 65.53% ariel 0:56 min 1st 1420 no,5496gzip,17097utf-8,gzip enwiktionary 153900 rec size pre 389431296 post 217677824 55.90% ariel 2:26 min 1st 7048 no,3 0,119327gzip,26851utf-8,gzip zhwiki 297194 rec size pre 586022912 post 481017856 82.08% ariel 11 min 38 no;6 0;6565gzip;243090object;49149utf-9,gzip. 38/6g6562o243090u55444 eswiki 457025 rec size pre 1615773696 post 1339899904 82.93% ariel 22.5 min 5 no;13949gzip;391189object;53472utf-8,gzip. 5g13910o391179u57245 itwiki 396178 rec size pre 1466810368 post 1101873152 75.12% ariel 19.5 min 61 no;16 0;17262gzip;329671object;50929utf-8,gzip svwiki 416266 rec size pre 797802496 post 475807744 59.64% ariel 8 min 11692 no;3 0;55069gzip;350841object nlwiki 792247 rec size pre 2745171968 post 1545601024 56.30% ariel 26 min 12693 no;12 0;94620gzip;687934object plwiki 551211 rec size pre 733937664 post 650002432 88.56% ariel 9 min 54 no;10 0;12825gzip;473302object;67028utf-8,gzip frwiki 1428554 rec size pre 5574230016 post 4383047680 78.63% ariel 47 min 1303 no;44 0;105870gzip;1148205object;177333utf-8,gzip jawiki 1390023 rec size pre 3605004288 post 2899312640 80.43% ariel 46 min 1320 no;432 0;135797gzip;1039149object;217480utf-8,gzip dewiki 4327741 rec size pre 15771467776 post 13693353984 86.84% ariel 159:46 min (count time 2518 sec = 42 minutes)
Compression for en is ongoing. Currently needs to be resumed with:
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Python Programming, news on the Voidspace Python Projects and all things techie.
Open source from my colleagues: texttree and svgbatch
A couple of my colleagues at Resolver Systems have been up to interesting things in their spare time.
Jonathan Hartley has been threatening to make progress on his game for months, but in the meantime he has been having fun with pyglet and SVG vector graphics:
SvgBatch is a pure Python package to load SVG vector graphic files, and convert them into pyglet Batch objects, for OpenGL rendering.
Actually he has made progress on the game, with a little spaceship that flies around a world populated with giant stick men and pacmen. He owes us all a blog entry on it with some screenshots...
Tom Wright has released a bit of code he needed. Fairly specific but it could be useful:
texttree is a basic python module for parsing textual representations of trees of strings which use indentation to indicate nesting.
On his website (which I only discovered today), Tom has an interesting article:
Obviously, monkey-patching is clearly impossible in static, compiled languages since the addresses of the functions you call are fixed at compile time leaving you no indirection to use at run-time...
Sort of - unless you want to write non-portable, machine-dependent, operating-system-dependent code. If so, it can at least be done - on 32-bit windows machines.
This is the technique Ironclad uses to fake being the Python25.dll (soon to be Python26.dll) so that it can losd Python C extensions into IronPython.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2009-08-14 23:28:49 | |
Categories: Work, Python, Projects Tags: OpenGL, SVG, games, svgbatch, texttree, pyglet
ctypes for C#? Dynamic P/Invoke with .NET 4
One of the big new features of .NET / C# 4.0 is the introduction of the dynamic keyword. This is the fruit of Microsoft employing Jim Hugunin as an architect for the Common Language Runtime; charged with making .NET a better platform for multiple languages including dynamic languages.
dynamic is a new static type for C#. It allows you to statically declare that objects are dynamic and all operations on them are to be performed at runtime. This delegates to the dynamic language runtime, at least parts of which are becoming a standard part of the .NET framework in version 4.0. One of the main use cases for this is to simplify interacting between dynamic languages and statically typed languages. Currently if you use IronPython or IronRuby to provide scripting in a .NET application, or write part of your application in a dynamic language, all interaction with dynamic objects from a statically typed language (C# / VB.NET / F#) has to be done through the DLR hosting API. This is not difficult but can feel a bit clumsy. In C# 4.0 interacting with dynamic objects gets a lot easier.
dynamic can also be used for other purposes, like late bound COM or even duck-typing. Another interesting use is to create the same kinds of fluent interfaces that are both common and intuitive to use in dynamic languages. One example that most developers have worked with at some point is DOM traversal on document in Javascript, where member resolution is done at runtime. You implement this in Ruby with method_missing and in Python the equivalent is __getattr__ (or __getattribute__ for the really brave). In C# you inherit from DynamicMetaObject and override BindInvokeMember.
The Mono guys have been working on supporting dynamic in their implementation of .NET 4.0. Miguel de Icaza (lead developer of Mono) blogged about it recently: C# 4's Dynamic in Mono.
The .NET Foreign Function Interface (FFI - how you call into C libraries) is called P/Invoke (Platform Invoke). Included in Miguel's blog entry was an example, by Mono developer Marek, of creating a dynamic PInvoke. Miguel describes it as "similar to Python's ctype library in about 70 lines of C# leveraging LINQ Expression, the Dynamic Language Runtime and C#'s dynamic". Instead of writing wrapper methods for every function you call, they can be looked up at runtime!
The PInvoke class is demonstrated on Mono using libc and the printf function. The class itself compiles without change on the Visual Studio 2010 beta. To use it on Windows swap out libc for msvcrt and printf for wprintf:
dynamic d = new PInvoke("msvcrt"); for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i) { d.wprintf("Hello world, %d\n", i); }
Very nice.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2009-08-14 17:14:19 | |
Categories: IronPython, General Programming Tags: FFI, CSharp, dynamic, Mono, PInvoke, ctypes
Resolver One 1.6 Beta and competition winners (Sudoku solver and more...)
After a lot of work, and the usual last minute blind panic, we have got to a beta release of Resolver One version 1.6. As always this release includes a combination of standard spreadsheet features, bug fixes and usability improvements plus features unique to Resolver One.
If you've not heard of Resolver One it is the creation of Resolver Systems. Resolver One is an IronPython powered highly programmable spreadsheet for Windows. As well as being written in IronPython it is programmable with IronPython. For a good introduction to Resolver One, and how it is different from legacy spreadsheets, I recommend the article Resolver One and Illustrative Programming.
Of course if you're a programmer the most interesting thing about Resolver One is that it provides a powerful UI for wrangling and presenting data whilst letting you actually work with it from Python (including now using the numerical processing library Numpy)...
The major new features in Resolver One 1.6 are:
Expanded cells and images in cells
A long awaited feature! Your charts and dynamically generated images no longer need to go in a separate worksheet (although you can still use image worksheets if you prefer). Expanded cells are particularly useful for holding images but can also be used just for formatting.
Numpy support comes out of beta
import numpy in user code now 'just works'. You can use numpy arrays and functions in your formulae or user code, with support for displaying and unpacking numpy arrays into the grid. The NumPy in Resolver One screencast shows off the feature.
This is made possible with Ironclad which also allows you to use Python C extensions like Scipy from IronPython.
Autocomplete in the console
The interactive Python console is an invaluable tool for experimenting whilst you are developing spreadsheets. We've now added autocomplete, activated with control-space.
The Resolver One Player
The Resolver One Player is intended for users of spreadsheets rather than creators. It allows you to deploy applications created with Resolver One to end users without exposing them to the scary intricacies of Python code (and protecting your code from them). Resolver One itself has a 'Player mode' so you can see what they look like when deployed with the player.
Configurable fonts everywhere
You can now configure the default font for the grid plus the fonts used by the console, code box and formula bar. To those of our users who have an allergic response to Courier New this will come as a great relief.
Drag to reorder worksheets
Another long awaited feature.
There are a couple of minor known bugs in the beta (both already fixed in our Subversion repository here) and there is one feature that will be in the final that didn't make it in time for the beta. This is a separate packaging of the dependencies needed to run Resolver One spreadsheets, without the user interface, from IronPython or other .NET languages. This will make it easier to do things like distributed computing with Resolver One spreadsheets and uses the RunWorkbook function which effectively embeds the Resolver One calculation engine.
If you would like to try the 1.6 beta email beta.signup@resolversystems.com.
Entries in the Resolver One Spreadsheet Challenge
We had some awesome entries in the latest round of our spreadsheet challenge competition, and most of them are now available to download from the Resolver Exchange.
The winner of the June / July round was Suresh Shanmugam, who integrated Resolver One with Microsoft's Solver Foundation to create a spreadsheet that solves Sudoku puzzles.
You'll need to install these two dependencies to get it working, but the Sudoku solver is great fun:
As well as being fun it is a good example of how to use the Microsoft Solver Foundation from Resolver One and IronPython.
The other entries also have some great examples of how to do funky things from Resolver One:
Interactive Charting with WPF
WatiN - Web page automation and testing
Stock Trading and Portfolio Analysis
This spreadsheet can generate candlesticks, finance bars, and line plot. It simulates the value at risk with two methods. And can be connected to R for portfolio optimization
Running Resolver One on Flash Platforms
Pivot Chart, Pivot Table, and Auto filter
Using COM to automate Excel from Resolver One!
Binomial option pricing model for european options
Using a stock price evolution tree for european callput options.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2009-08-12 14:31:24 | |
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Someone who uses ActionScript heavily in Flex, I embed my graphics in Flex (since it doesn’t have a Library like Flash) using code, like so:
[Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d4")] static public var d4_img:String;
If it was just a PNG or JPEG, I could remove the symbol attribute. That is for SWF files, which I like to use heavily; it removes the amount of images I have in my Flex application folders; 1 SWF vs. dozens of images folders containing dozens of images.
The other way is to merely embed it on the image itself:
<mx:Image
The problem is, combining these techniques will cause collisions; Flex will not compile your app saying that the image was already imported.
To solve this, I created a library of my own, in ActionScript. The technique goes something like this. You should not use _global variables in Flash, thus, you use static classes with static, public variables. All you then have to do is import the static class, and you can then access it’s variables. If you make 1 class, called “Library”, and do all of your image embedding in it, you can then consolidate, and self-contain all of your image assets into 1 file, thus avoiding collisions where other files try to embed assets already embedded elsewhere.
So, an example class would be:
class com.jxl.Library { [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d4")] static public var d4_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d6")] static public var d6_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d8")] static public var d8_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d10")] static public var d10_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d12")] static public var d12_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d20")] static public var d20_img:String; [Embed(source="../../../images/dice.swf" symbol="d100")] static public var d100_img:String; }
Example usage for ActionScript:
import com.jxl.Library; private var image_ldr:mx.controls.Image; image_ldr.contentPath = Library.d4_img;
Example usage for Flex tags:
<mx:Image
This will hopefully help prevent collisions, keep your library assets organized, and make them easily accessible.
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Introduction to Cross-Platform iOS/Android Apps with C# and app.
Getting Started
To get started you need to download and install Xamarin. Xamarin is available in a variety of editions: Starter, Indie, Business, and Enterprise. The specific edition you choose affects the level of features and support you receive. The most basic edition is the free Starter edition, which allows you to create simple applications using Xamarin’s development environment called Xamarin Studio. All other editions are available for purchase. The two higher end editions, Business and Enterprise, include advanced features such as integration with Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information on the features and cost of each edition, check out the Xamarin store.
The free Starter edition provides all the features you need to follow along with creating the app I describe in this article.
Setting up for Android
To develop Android applications with Xamarin you are free to use either Windows or OS X. The Xamarin.Android installation is very simple and straightforward. Parts of the Xamarin.Android build process leverage standard Android tools behind the scenes but the Xamarin installation takes care of setting up all of those tools for you. You can check out the Xamarin.Android Installation page for installation details.
Setting up for iOS
Xamarin.iOS uses the standard iOS development tools, but their usage is not quite as seamless as those for Android. Unlike Xamarin.Android, which automatically installs all required tools, Xamarin.iOS requires that you manually install the standard iOS development tools before installing Xamarin.iOS. The easiest way to do this is to install XCode from the Mac App Store. Once the XCode installation completes, you can then install Xamarin.iOS. The full Xamarin.iOS setup instructions are available on the Xamarin.iOS installation page.
The standard iOS development tools are only available for OS X; therefore, application development with Xamarin.iOS must be done with an OS X computer.
Note: If you are using the Visual Studio integration feature of the Business and Enterprise editions of Xamarin, you are able to edit and debug Xamarin.iOS code from within Visual Studio on a Windows computer but the actual build process still occurs on a Mac.
Xamarin Development Philosophy
To work effectively with Xamarin, one must understand the Xamarin cross-platform development philosophy. A philosophy I characterize as share what you can, don’t share what you can’t. This may sound strange so I’ll explain.
When building an app that targets multiple platforms, one quickly finds that there are many aspects of an app that are the same on all platforms but there are also many aspects that differ. Things like data validation, interacting with a backend service, or other aspects of an app’s business logic are likely to be the same across all target platforms. On the other hand, each platform has its own user interface model and unique platform features.
The Xamarin development approach embraces both the commonality and the differences. With Xamarin you can implement common application features in a shared library that you deploy with each platform’s app. These features will tend to use the .NET classes you may already be familiar with from working with .NET on Microsoft platforms.
You can also create platform specific code that leverages the unique features and capabilities of each platform. Xamarin makes this possible through the addition of .NET classes that are specific to each platform. For example, an application targeting Android uses the Android.App.Activity class to represent an app’s main window whereas an app targeting iOS might use the MonoTouch.UIKit.UIViewController class. Each of these classes provides full access to the features and capabilities of the individual platform.
This approach of having a mixture of shared code and platform specific code has a direct effect on how we structure our application projects. Creating a cross-platform Android and iOS app with Xamarin normally involves creating three types of projects.
- A portable class library project that contains the shared code
- An Android application project containing the Android specific code
- An iOS application project containing the iOS specific code
Cross Platform Hello World
To demonstrate the cross-platform development experience, we’ll walk through the process of creating a simple app. The app will present a UI that provides the following functionality.
1. The user enters a string value into a text field
2. The user clicks a button
3. The app displays the count of upper case characters contained in the entered string within another text field
For example when the user enters the string Hello World, the app will display a message indicating that there are two upper case letters (H and W).
To create the Android and iOS applications that provide this functionality, you will need to create the following three projects.
- MyXPlatformLib: Contains the business logic. In the case of this application, the business logic will consist of a class that accepts a string when constructed and exposes a property that returns the number of upper case letters in the string.
- MyXPlatformAndroid: The Android implementation of the app.
- MyXPlatformiOS: The iOS implementation of the app.
Organizing the Projects into Solutions
In this article we’ll walk through how to create the app using the development environment Xamarin includes with all editions of the product, Xamarin Studio. The best way to organize the Xamarin Studio solution depends on which operating systems you wish to use as your development environment.
Developing with OS X Only
If you plan to perform both the Android and iOS development using an OS X computer you can create a single solution containing all three projects.
Developing with Windows and OSX
If you plan to perform the Android development using a Windows computer and the iOS development using an OS X computer, you will need to create two separate solutions. The solution you create on the Windows computer will contain the MyXPlatformAndroid and MyXPlatformLib projects. The solution you create on the OS X computer will contain the MyXPlatformiOS and MyXPlatfomLib projects.
You will need to share the MyXPlatformLib project between the two computers. The best way to do this is using a source code control system such as Git. For simple projects like the one this article describes, you can use some type of shared drive technology like OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
In this article, we’ll walk through the details of using a Windows computer for the Android development and OS X computer for the iOS development.
Note: Just a reminder that when using the Xamarin Business or Enterprise editions there’s a third option of doing all of your development work within Visual Studio on a Windows computer.
Creating the Android Application Solution
To get started we’ll first create a blank solution on the Windows computer. This is the solution that’ll contain the projects required to create the Android version of the application. To create the solution, do the following.
- On the WindowsAndroid
The New Solution dialog should now appear similar to this figure.
BlankSolution-NewSolution
Click OK to create the solution
With the blank solution created, you’re ready to start adding the individual projects.
Creating the Shared Library Project
The first project you’ll create is the shared library. To create the shared library project do the following.
- Open the solution context menu by right-clicking on the solution name, MyXPlatformAndroid, in the Solution view
- Open the New Project dialog by selecting Add from the context menu followed by Add New Project…
- Select C# in the left pane of the dialog and Portable Library in the right pane
- Enter the project name as MyXPlatformLib
The New Project dialog should now appear similar to this figure.
Portable Library-New Project
Click OK to create the project
Unlike a standard .NET library project, this project is not tied to a specific target platform. The created project is compatible with a variety of target platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Silverlight and others.
In this article we’re focusing on just iOS and Android but if, for example, Windows Phone was the platform you also wanted to support, this project could also be used within Visual Studio to create a Windows Phone app as well.
Adding Code
The newly created library project contains a class named MyClass. Double click on MyClass.cs in the Solution view to open the file in the editor. The class should appear similar to the following code listing.
using System; namespace MyXPlatformLib { public class MyClass { public MyClass () { } } }
You can use this existing MyClass class to provide the required logic but it is helpful to change the class name to something more meaningful. In the case of our application, the shared library provides reasonably simple string handling logic so change the name of this class to SillyString.
To change the class name, constructor name, and file name in a single step do the following.
- Right-click on the class name, MyClass, in the source file to open the context menu
- Open the Rename Class dialog by selecting Refactor from the context menu followed by Rename
- In the Rename Class dialog enter SillyString as the New name value, check the Rename file that contains public class checkbox then click OK
To provide the required logic of accepting a string value, add a String member variable named originalValue to the class and modify the constructor to accept a string value and assign it to the member variable. The updated class should appear similar to the following code listing.
public class SillyString { String originalValue; public SillyString (String originalValue) { this.originalValue = originalValue; } }
In order to provide the business logic described earlier, the class needs to have a property that returns the number of upper case characters in the string. Providing this functionality is something you could do relatively simply using something like a for-loop but let’s use a more interesting approach. To demonstrate that Xamarin is providing the rich power of .NET we’ve become accustomed to over the years, let’s use Linq to determine the upper case character count.
To access the types in the System.Linq namespace, you’ll need to place a using statement for System.Linq at the beginning of the file.
using System.Linq;
Now, add the following UpperCount property to your SillyString class.
public int UpperCount { get { var x = from c in originalValue.ToCharArray() where Char.IsUpper (c) select c; return x.Count(); } }
The property uses Linq to query the list of upper case characters from the string into a collection, x, on which the Linq Count method is called to find the number of upper case characters.
We now have our shared business logic in place for our application and this isn’t just some simple for-loop. We’re using rich .NET and C# features. The compiler is parsing a Linq expression, many of the Linq features are using extension methods, and the type of field, x, is determined through type inference. All of this code runs on both Android and iOS. That’s some pretty cool stuff.
Creating the Android Application Project
To create the actual Android app, we need to create an Android application project. To create the project, do the following.
- Open the New Project dialog just as you did when creating the shared library project: right click on MyXPlatformAndroid in the Solution view, select Add followed by Add New Project…
- Select Android in the left pane of the dialog and Android Ice Cream Sandwich Application in the right pane
- Selecting Android Ice Cream Sandwich Application creates a project that targets devices running Android 4.0 or higher. Android 4.0 is a much richer platform than earlier versions and at the time of this writing, an app targeting Android 4.0 is compatible with nearly 80% of the Android devices in use
- Enter the project name as MyXPlatformAndroid (same name as the solution)
The New Project dialog should now appear similar to this figure.
MyXPlatformAndroid NewProject
Click OK to create the project
The newly generated project contains a single screen Android application. We’ll now walk through how to add UI controls to the screen and tie in the logic from our shared library.
Adding Controls to the UI
To add controls to the Android UI you need to open the XML layout file in the Xamarin Studio layout designer. To open the layout file in the designer do the following.
- In the Solution view expand the MyXPlatformAndroid project node
- Under the MyXPlatformAndroid node expand the Resources node followed by the layout node
You should now see the Main.axml file as shown in the following figure.
MainAxml SolutionView
Open Main.axml in the design view by double clicking on Main.axml in the Solution view.
The UI needs to have two text fields added: one above the button for the user to enter a string value and one below the button to display the count of upper case characters.
To add the first text field, do the following.
- Locate the Text (Large) control in the Toolbox, which is located on the right side of Xamarin Studio.
- Drag the Text (Large) control from the Toolbox and release it just above the button in the design view.
- In the Properties tab, which is located on the lower right side of Xamarin Studio, locate the Id field in the widget section.
- Set the Id field to the value @+id/textInput.
- This Id value will be used to locate the control in your code.
- Still in the Properties tab, locate the Text field and change the value to Input Field.
The Properties tab should now appear similar to the following figure.
Text Input Properties
To add the second text field, follow the same steps as you performed for the first text field with the following exceptions.
· Place this second Text (Large) control below the button on the design view.
· Set the Id field to the value @+id/textOutput.
· Set the Text field value to Output Field.
The design view should now appear similar to the following figure.
Android Design View Controls Just Placed
Making the Input Field Editable
The characteristics of the text fields currently limit them to only displaying content; they are unable to accept input. We need to modify the characteristics of the first text field so that it is able to accept user input. There are a number of ways to modify the characteristics of the text fields, the easiest of which is to change the control type from TextView to EditText. EditText is a control that inherits from TextView and provides the necessary behavior for user input.
The easiest way to make this change is to switch from the layout design view to the layout XML view. You can change to the XML view by selecting the Source tab located at the bottom of the design view as shown in this figure.
Android Design View Change Layout To Source
Locate the first TextView element and change the element name to EditText. The updated XML should look similar to the following image.
Android Layout Edit Text Change
You now have the application layout in place. The last thing you need to do is add the code to the Android project to link the UI to the shared library.
Making the Shared Library Available to the Android App Project
To use the shared library in the Android app project you must first add a reference to the shared library. To add the reference, do the following.
- Open the context menu by right clicking on References under the MyXPlatformAndroid project in the Solution view.
- Open the Edit References dialog by selecting Edit References from the context menu.
- In the Edit References dialog select the Projects tab.
- Select the checkbox next to MyXPlatformLib.
- Click OK.
Using the Shared Library in the Android App
In this app all of the code related to the UI will be in the main application screen’s source file, MainActivity.cs. Locate MainActivity Android App Together
The MainActivity class generated as part of the newly created project includes the code necessary to handle button clicks, which is shown here.
Button button = FindViewById<Button> (Resource.Id.myButton); button.Click += delegate { button.Text = string.Format ("{0} clicks!", count++); };
This default implementation simply increments and displays a counter. With some simple modifications to this code we can replace that code with our desired application behavior.
Delete the line that assigns to the button.text property and replace it with the code to retrieve a reference to the EditText control that contains the user input data. To do this use the FindViewById method passing in the ID value of the input text field, Resouce.Id.textInput.
EditText inputText = FindViewById<EditText>(Resource.Id.textInput);
With the inputText variable’s Text property you can access the value the user entered. With access to that value, you’re now ready to take advantage of the business logic contained in the shared library project.
Create an instance of the shared library’s SillyString class passing the entered text value then assign the value of the SillyString class’ UpperCount property to a local variable.
SillyString silly = new SillyString(inputText.Text); int upperCount = silly.UpperCount;
Having applied the shared business logic, you can now simply access the output field using the FindViewById method, and display the number of uppercase characters.
TextView outputText = FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.textOutput); outputText.Text = String.Format("{0} upper case chars", upperCount);
The complete button click handling code appears as shown in the following code listing.
button.Click += delegate {
EditText inputText = FindViewById<EditText>(Resource.Id.textInput);
SillyString silly = new SillyString(inputText.Text);
int upperCount = silly.UpperCount;
TextView outputText = FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.textOutput);
outputText.Text = String.Format("{0} upper case chars", upperCount);
};
You now have a complete Android application that takes advantage of the shared logic in the portable class library, MyXPlatformLib.
Testing the Android App
The easiest way to test your app is to use the Android emulator. Fortunately when you installed Xamarin, Xamarin automatically installed and setup some default Emulator configurations for you.
Starting the Emulator
Before you can run the app, you must first start the emulator. To access the dialog that starts the emulator, select Run from the Xamarin menu and then select Start Debugging. Xamarin will display the Select Device dialog, which appears similar to the following figure.
Select Device
Scroll through the listed emulators until you find the emulator named MonoForAndroid_API_15. This is the emulator configured to run Android API Level 15, which is the API Level of Android 4.0 devices. Select MonoForAndroid_API_15 and then click the Start Emulator button near the bottom left edge of the dialog. The emulator launches and then goes through a booting process. The emulator booting process and startup may take several minutes the first time.
When the emulator startup completes, the emulator will look similar to the following image.
Emulator Startup
Use your mouse to drag padlock from the center of the screen to the right to unlock the emulator. The emulator is now ready to use.
Running the App
The Select Device dialog should still be open although it may be obscured by the emulator. On the Select Device dialog, again locate MonoForAndroid_API_15. MonoForAndroid_API_15 will probably be at the top of the list of devices now that it is running. With MonoForAndroid_API_15 selected, click the OK button to deploy the app to the device and start the app running.
You will again need to be patient because the initial deployment of an app may take a few minutes. The status of the deployment will display in the status window located on the Xamarin toolbar as shown in the following figure.
Installation Status
Verifying App Behavior
Once the app is started, perform the following steps to verify that the app behaves as expected.
- Click in the Input Field, which will cause the emulator to display the soft keyboard.
- Using the soft keyboard, click the backspace key to remove the Input Field text.
- Still using the soft keyboard, enter a word or phrase of your choice such as Hello World.
- Click the button.
The app will then display the number of upper case characters contained in the word or phrase you entered as shown in the following figure.
Android App Results
Congratulations! Your Android app is up and running correctly. You have successfully used Xamarin to create a shared library and Android application using .NET and C#.
Conclusion
In this article I introduced you to the Xamarin development toolset and the development philosophy of creating cross-platform apps with Xamarin. You learned how to create a portable class library project that allows you to share application code between the Android and iOS implementations of your app. You then learned how to create, test, and deploy the Android implementation of a cross-platform app.
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#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/mkdev.h> #include <sys/ddi.h> minor_t ddi_getiminor(dev_t dev);
This interface is obsolete. getminor(9F) should be used instead.
The following parameters are supported:
Device number.
ddi_getiminor() extracts the minor number from a device number. This call should be used only for device numbers that have been passed to the kernel from the user space through opaque interfaces such as the contents of ioctl(9E) and putmsg (2). The device numbers passed in using standard device entry points must continue to be interpreted using the getminor(9F) interface. This new interface is used to translate between user visible device numbers and in kernel device numbers. The two numbers may differ in a clustered system.
For certain bus types, you can call this DDI function from a high-interrupt context. These types include ISA and SBus buses. See sysbus (4) and isa (4) for details.
ddi_getiminor() can be called from user context only.
The minor number or EMINOR_UNKNOWN if the minor number of the device is invalid.
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
attributes(5), getmajor(9F), getminor(9F), makedevice(9F)
Writing Device Drivers for Oracle Solaris 11.2
Drivers are required to replace calls to ddi_getminor.9f by getminor(9F)) in order to compile under Solaris 10 and later versions. | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36886/ddi-getiminor-9f.html | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 221 | 60.11 |
Revision history for Gearman-Driver 0.02008 Thu Jan 16 2014 - Do not initialize Log4perl if it was already initialized. (Roman F.) - Use Module::Runtime::use_module instead of Class::MOP::load_class 0.02007 Sun Oct 21 2012 - Bundle Module::Install 1.06 See also: 0.02006 Fri Jan 13 2012 - Finish job before killing the processes - Add --daemonize , let gearman-driver run as daemon - Gearman::XS worker run in non-blocking I/O mode, reduce CPU resource a bit. - Don't use Gearman::XS 0.9, this will break compatibility with PHP client. - Implement GLOBAL keyword for attribute 'worker_options' 0.02005 Mon May 10 2010 - Add missing YAML dependency required for running the testsuite 0.02004 Wed May 05 2010 - Implement --configfile to gearman-driver.pl, allow defined runtime options in this file and applied when startup. - Implement 'worker_options' attribute to Gearman::Driver, initialize worker handy. - Implement 'job_runtime_attributes' attribute, allow define job min_processes,max_processes handy. 0.02003 Sat Apr 24 2010 - Fix race condition when using ProcessGroup 0.02002 Fri Apr 16 2010 - Only show warning when (Max|Min)Processes are redefined - Graceful shutdown between tests - Add 'ERROR: ' label to console 0.02001 Wed Mar 24 2010 - Log error if observer gets disconnected from gearmand and auto-reconnect it - Do not hide class loading errors - Refactor testsuite to be less resource intensive 0.02000 Thu Feb 18 2010 - Remove smoker debugging 0.01999_02 Tue Feb 16 2010 - Remove crappy tests 0.01999_01 Sun Feb 14 2010 - 0.01025_01 Sat Feb 13 2010 - Check connection before running testsuite 0.01025 Tue Feb 09 2010 - Force usage of Gearman::Driver::Adaptor::PP in testsuite 0.01024 Mon Feb 08 2010 - Do not use gearman-xs in testlib anymore 0.01023 Fri Feb 05 2010 - Remove Try::Tiny from wrapped job method 0.01022 Wed Feb 03 2010 - Child/parent communication using unix socket now instead of Cache::FastMmap 0.01021 Tue Feb 02 2010 - Fix META.yml 0.01020 Tue Feb 02 2010 - Write cache only if necessary - Add adaptors for pure perl Gearman and Gearman::XS - Stop POE::Kernel in childs 0.01019 Mon Feb 01 2010 - Make extended status optional 0.01018 Mon Feb 01 2010 - Remove crap dot-files from release # osx-- 0.01017 Sat Jan 30 2010 - Add real world example to convert images 0.01016 Sat Jan 30 2010 - New tool: gearman_driver_console.pl (console client) - Every console command ends with ".\n", even errors - Show lastrun/lasterror/lasterror_msg in 'show' command - Command 'killall' accepts 'magic' parameter '*' to kill every job 0.01015 Thu Jan 28 2010 - New console commands: show, kill, killall, set_processes - Tidied status output of Gearman::Driver::Console - Method get_jobs is sorted now - New option: max_idle_time - Refactored worker loading: Gearman::Worker::Loader 0.01014 Mon Jan 25 2010 - Refactor console for being more extensible 0.01013 Sun Jan 24 2010 - If console_port is set to 0 it's disabled at all 0.01012 Sat Jan 23 2010 - Rename (Max|Min)Childs to (Max|Min)Processes (Min|Max)Childs still supported - Add shutdown command to management console 0.01011 Fri Jan 22 2010 - Implement management console - Ensure enough childs running each 5 seconds (not depending on usage of Gearman::Driver::Observer) - Fix broken module loading 0.01010 Thu Jan 21 2010 - Fix no namespaces handling - Use Try::Tiny in Gearman::Driver::Job instead of eval - Add 'wanted' attribute to filter worker classes 0.01009 Tue Jan 19 2010 - Refactor add_job method - Refactor inheritance, no attributes required anymore 0.01008 Mon Jan 18 2010 - Support single class names in namespaces parameter - Set interval to 0 to disable Observer 0.01007 Sat Jan 16 2010 - Add new methods override_attributes and default_attributes to worker base class - Support MinChilds(0) 0.01006 Mon Jan 11 2010 - Remove 'CloseOnCall' POE::Wheel::Run option 0.01005 Sat Jan 09 2010 - Updated example scripts - Lower dependencies version 0.01004 Fri Jan 01 2010 - Added debug logging - Changed default loglayout - Added possibility to change child process name 0.01003 Thu Dec 31 2009 - Added script/gearman_driver.pl - Make sure 'end' method in worker class is run even if the worker method dies - Fixed broken subclassing of Gearman::Driver::Worker 0.01002 Wed Dec 30 2009 - Added Decoder/Encoder attribute - Refactored parsing of method attributes 0.01001 Wed Dec 30 2009 - Added 'server' attribute to Gearman::Driver::Worker 0.01000_02 Wed Dec 30 2009 - Renamed Gearman::Driver::Wheel => Gearman::Driver::Job - Fixed wrong arguments passed to begin/end methods in Gearman::Driver::Worker 0.01000_01 Tue Dec 29 2009 - Initial developer release. | https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Gearman-Driver | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | refinedweb | 756 | 58.58 |
I recently took the latest version of twill for a ride and I'll report here some of my experiences. My application testing scenario was to test a freshly installed instance of Bugzilla. I wanted to see that I can correctly post bugs and retrieve bugs by bug number. Using twill, all this proved to be a snap.
First, a few words about twill: it's a re-implementation of Cory Dodt's PBP package based on the mechanize module written by John J. Lee. Since mechanize implements the HTTP request/response protocol and parses the resulting HTML, we can categorize twill as a "Web protocol driver" tool (for more details on such taxonomies, see a previous post of mine).
Twill can be used as a domain specific language via a command shell (twill-sh), or it can be used as a normal Python module, from within your Python code. I will show both usage models.
After downloading twill and installing it via the usual "python setup.py install" method, you can start its command line interpreter via the twill-sh script installed in /usr/local/bin. At the interpreter prompt, you can then issue commands such as:
- go
-- visit the given URL.
- code
-- assert that the last page loaded had this HTTP status, e.g. code 200 asserts that the page loaded fine.
- find
-- assert that the page contains this regular expression.
- showforms -- show all of the forms on the page.
- formvalue
- submit [
]-- click the n'th submit button, if given; otherwise submit via the last submission button clicked; if nothing clicked, use the first submit button on the form.
[ggheo@concord twill-latest]$ twill-sh
-= Welcome to twill! =-
current page: *empty page*
>> go
==> at
current page:
>> follow "Enter a new bug report"
==> at
current page:
At this point, we can issue the showforms command to see what forms are available on the current page.
>> showforms
Form #1
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
Bugzilla ... text (None)
Bugzilla ... password (None)
product hidden (None) TestProduct
1 GoAheadA ... submit (None) Login
Form #2
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
a hidden (None) reqpw
loginname text (None)
1 submit (None) Submit Request
Form #3
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
id text (None)
1 submit (None) Find
current page:
It looks like we're on the login page. We can then use the formvalue (or fv for short) command to fill in the required fields (user name and password), then the submit command in order to complete the log in process. The submit command takes an optional argument -- the number of the submit button you want to click. With no arguments, it activates the first submit button it finds.
>> fv 1 Bugzilla_login grig@example.com
current page:
>> fv 1 Bugzilla_password mypassword
current page:
>> submit 1
current page:
At this point, we can verify that we received the expected HTTP status code (200 when everything was OK) via the code command:
>> code 200
current page:
We run showforms again to see what forms and fields are available on the current page, then we use fv to fill in a bunch of fields for the new bug we want to enter, and finally we submit the form (note how nicely twill displays the available fields, as well as the first few selections available in drop-down combo boxes) :
>> showforms
Form #1
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
product hidden (None) TestProduct
version select (None) ['other'] of ['other']
component select (None) ['TestComponent'] of ['TestComponent']
rep_platform select (None) ['Other'] of ['All', 'DEC', 'HP', 'M ...
op_sys select (None) ['other'] of ['All', 'Windows 3.1', ...
priority select (None) ['P2'] of ['P1', 'P2', 'P3', 'P4', 'P5']
bug_severity select (None) ['normal'] of ['blocker', 'critical' ...
bug_status hidden (None) NEW
assigned_to text (None)
cc text (None)
bug_file_loc text (None) http://
short_desc text (None)
comment textarea (None)
form_name hidden (None) enter_bug
1 submit (None) Commit
2 maketemplate submit (None) Remember values as bookmarkable template
Form #2
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
id text (None)
1 submit (None) Find
current page:
>> fv 1 op_sys "Linux"
current page:
>> fv 1 priority P1
current page:
>> fv 1 assigned_to grig@example.com
current page:
>> fv 1 short_desc "twill-generated bug"
current page:
>> fv 1 comment "This is a new bug opened automatically via twill"
current page:
>> submit
Note: submit is using submit button: name="None", value=" Commit "
current page:
Now we can verify that the bug with the specified description was posted. We use the find command, which takes a regular expression as an argument:
>> find "Bug \d+ Submitted"
current page:
>> find "twill-generated bug"
current page:
No errors were reported, which means the validations succeeded. At this point, we can also inspect the current page via the show_html command in order to see the bug number that Bugzilla automatically assigned. I won't actually show all the HTML, suffice to say that the bug was assigned number 2. We can then go directly to the page for bug #2 and verify that the various bug elements we indicated were indeed posted correctly:
>> go ""
==> at
current page:
>> find "Linux"
current page:
>> find "P1"
current page:
>> find "grig@example.com"
current page:
>> find "twill-generated bug"
current page:
>> find "This is a new bug opened automatically via twill"
current page:
I mentioned that all the commands available in the interactive twill-sh command interpreter are also available as top-level functions to be used inside your Python code. All you need to do is import the necessary functions from the twill.commands module.
Here's how a Python script that tests functionality similar to the one I described above would look like:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from twill.commands import go, follow, showforms, fv, submit, find, code, save_html
import os, time, re
def get_bug_number(html_file):
h = open(html_file)
bug_number = "-1"
for line in h:
s = re.search("Bug (\d+) Submitted", line)
if s:
bug_number = s.group(1)
break
return bug_number
# MAIN
crt_time = time.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S", time.localtime())
temp_html = "temp.html"
# Open a new bug report
go(".
example
.com/bugs")
follow("Enter a new bug report")
fv("1", "Bugzilla_login", "grig@
example
.com")
fv("1", "Bugzilla_password", "mypassword")
submit()
code("200")
# Enter bug info
fv("1", "op_sys", "Linux")
fv("1", "priority", "P1")
fv("1", "assigned_to", "grig@example
.com")
fv("1", "short_desc", "twill-generated bug at " + crt_time)
fv("1", "comment", "This is a new bug opened automatically via twill at " + crt_time)
submit()
code("200")
# Verify bug info
find("Bug \d+ Submitted")
find("twill-generated bug at " + crt_time)
# Get bug number
save_html(temp_html)
bug_number = get_bug_number(temp_html)
os.unlink(temp_html)
assert bug_number != "-1"
# Go to bug page and verify more detauled info
go("" + bug_number)
code("200")
find("P1")
find("Linux")
find("grig@example.com")
find("This is a new bug opened automatically via twill at " + crt_time)
I added some extra functionality to the Python script -- such as adding the current time to the bug description, so that whenever the test script will be run, a different bug description will be inserted into the Bugzilla database (the current time doesn't of course guarantee uniqueness, but it will do for now :-) I also used the save_html function in order to save the "Bug posted" page to a temporary file, so that I can retrieve the bug number and query the individual bug page.
Conclusion
Twill is an excellent tool for testing Web applications. It can also be used to automate form handling, especially for Web sites that require a login. I especially like the fact that everything can be run from the command line -- both the twill shell and the Python scripts based on twill. This means that deploying twill is a snap, and there are no cumbersome GUIs to worry about. The assertion commands built into twill (code, find and notfind) should be enough for testing Web sites that use straight HTML and forms. For more complicated, Javascript-intensive Web sites, a tool such as Selenium might be more appropriate.
I haven't looked into twill's cookie-handling capabilities, but they're available, according to the README. Some more aspects of twill that I haven't experimented with yet:
- Script recording: Titus has written a maxq add-on that can be used to automatically record twill-based scripts while browsing the Web site under test; for more details on maxq, see also a previous post of mine
- Extending twill: you can easily add commands to the twill interpreter
3 comments:
twill is a neat package. Particularly useful in cases where you need to involve people that have had little exposure to "webtesting" frameworks.
It's so simple it takes little effort to understand what happens.
Beautiful
i need a twill working in python environment under windows if any one get link to the web page please post a comment here.
Appreciated it. We used this idea to monitor JSON feeds and we were happy with the result. | http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/web-app-testing-with-python-part-3.html | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | refinedweb | 1,470 | 57.3 |
I think the issue here is the nature of the data exchange. EXI essentially provides a compression algorithm that saves information between instances of a message or file and can be seeded with what is known in advance about certain characteristics of the instances. The gzip algorithm learns the characteristics of each instance separately from that instance and does not retain information between instances. If you are occasionally sending a large file, gzip makes sense. There is little gain from retaining information. However, if you have frequent small messages or separate small files based on a schema, the namespace definitions are repeated for each instance and can take up an appreciable fraction of what is sent over-the-wire for each instance. There isn't much for gzip to learn, and it has to start all over for the next instance. Similarly, the tags recur across instances but gzip will only learn them as it encounters them in a particular instance. Again, gzip forgets between instances. I think in the absence of prior information and when used only occasionally (without information retention between instances), EXI provides something close to gzip compression. What EXI provides is a variant of compression technology that has information retention between instances and the ability to use prior information across instances. In applications with frequent repetitive data exchanges, the information retention and ability to use prior information can provide significant benefits. Stan Klein On Fri, July 17, 2009 4:06 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > Stanley A. Klein wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 22:26 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >>> A well chosen compression method is a lot better suited to such >>> applications and is already supported by most available XML parsers (or >>> rather outside of the parsers themselves, which is a huge advantage). >> >> It depends on the nature of the XML application. One feature of EXI is >> to >> support representation of numeric data as bits rather than characters. >> That is very useful in appropriate applications. > > One drawback is that this requires a schema to make sure the number of > bits > is sufficient. Otherwise, you'd need to add the information how many bits > you use for their representation, which would add to the data volume. > > >> There is a measurements >> document that shows the compression that was achieved on a wide variety >> of >> test cases. Straight use of a common compression algorithm does not >> necessarily achieve the best results. > > Repetitive data like an XML byte stream compresses extremely well, though, > and the 'best' compression isn't always required anyway. I worked on a > Python SOAP application where we sent some 3MB of XML as a web service > response. That took a couple of seconds to transmit. Injecting the > standard > gzip algorithm into the WSGI stack got it down to some 48KB. Nothing more > to do here. > > If you need 'the best' compression, there's no way around benchmarking a > couple of different algorithms that are suitable for your application, and > choosing the one that works best for your data. That may or may not > include > EXI. > > >> Besides, EXI incorporates elements >> of common compression algorithm(s) as both a fallback for its >> schema-less >> mode and an additional capability in its schema-informed mode. > > Makes sense, as compression also applies to text content, for example. > > >> EXI is intended for use outboard of the parser, and that would apply >> equally well to a Python version. For example, EXI gets rid of the need >> to constantly resend over-the-wire all the namespace definitions with >> each >> message. The relevant strings would just go into the string table and >> get >> restored from there when the message is converted back. > > That's how any run-length based compression algorithm works anyway. Plus, > namespace definitions usually only happen once in a document, so they are > pretty much negligible in a larger XML document. > > >> However, for something like SOAP in certain applications, it may be >> eventually desirable to integrate the EXI implementation within the >> communications system. The message sender could reasonably create a >> schema-informed EXI version without actually starting from and >> converting >> an XML object. The recipient would have to convert the EXI back to XML, >> parse it, and use the data. > > Ok, that's where I see it, too. At the level where you'd normally apply a > compression algorithm anyway. > > >> Numeric data is most efficiently sent as bits > > Depends on how you select the bits. When I write into my schema that I use > a 32 bit integer value in my XML, and all I really send happens to be > within [0-9] in, say, 95% of the cases with a few exceptions that really > require 32 bits, a general run-length compression algorithm will easily > beat anything that sends the value as a 4-byte sequence. That's the > advantage of general compression: it sees the real data, not only its > schema. > > I do not question EXI in general, I'm fine with it having its niche > (wherever that turns out to be). I'm just saying that common compression > algorithms are a lot more broadly available and achieve similar results. > So > EXI is just another way of compressing XML, with the disadvantage of not > being as widely implemented. Compare it to the ubiquity of the gzip > compression algorithm, for example. It's just the usual trade-off that you > make between efficiency and cross-platform compatibility. > > Stefan > -- | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2009-July/012131.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | refinedweb | 900 | 53.1 |
Imagine that you were working on a project yesterday and you cannot understand your code today. Or, someone wrote a long line of code and you need to fix it. But you cannot because you do not understand the code at all. If these things happen, that could mean the code is bad.
There are many definitions of good code. In this post, good code is understandable, simple, and standard. These qualities will be explained in 4 tips to make your Python code better. These tips can be applied to other languages as well with different tools and convention.
1. Follow PEP 8 convention.
PEP 8 is official guideline for writing Python code. It primarily focuses on readability and consistency such as how to name a variable. Using PEP8 will make code easier to read and understand. Let's take a look at this example.
def getinformationfromshop(shopname): # Insert logic here return information
You can see it's difficult to read. Better names are
getInformationFromShop,
GetInformationFromShop, or
get_information_from_shop. In PEP8, words should be separated by underscore. The first name is for Java and the second name is for C#. Also, in the second case, it might be mistaken for class instead. The better code looks like this.
def get_information_from_shop(shop_name): # Insert logic here return information
You can see that it looks better now. Many built-in functions in Python also follow the same convention. There are exceptions for legacy code such as
logging module, which is ported from log4j. PEP8 should not be followed if it breaks compatibility.
2. Use formatter and linter.
In PyCharm, there is a built-in formatter. It can fix many issues such as inconsistent spacing or unnecessary parenthesis. Not everything can be fixed with PyCharm auto formatter.
If you are not using PyCharm, you can use other formatters such as
black or
autopep8 as well.
Other things are covered by linters. Linter is a program that check quality of your code. It can detect some bad things such as unused variables or methods that could be standalone functions.
pylint and
flake8 are popular linters for Python.
3. Include documentation with docstring and type hints.
Good code often explains itself. But sometimes it is not enough. That's why we have documentation and docstring. Take a look at this code.
def get_all_links(src): # Insert logic here. return all_links
It is ambiguous. What is
src? What is returned? Now, I add docstring.
def get_all_links(src: str) -> List[str]: """Return all hyperlink in the webpage. This function will perform HTTP request and fetch all hyperlinks if the page is HTML. Args: src: URL of the page ex. Returns: All hyperlinks in the given page Raises: ValueError: If the given page is not HTML """ # Insert logic here return all_links
Now, we know that we need to input URL, the function will make a HTTP request, and all hyperlinks are returned. We also know required type.
mypy is a progam for static type checking for Python. You can try it.
4. Review your code.
Try to guess what does this code do.
if x - 6 > 0: return True else if x - 6 <= 0: return False
3...2...1...0 The code is comparing if
x is greater than 6 or not. You can see that the code is unnecessary complex. It can be just
return x > 6
It sounds ridiculous but it can happen to you time to time especially when you forgot to sleep or don't have enough coffee. Take a break and come back to your code to review.
I hope these 4 tips will help you improve your Python code. | https://blog.pontakorn.dev/4-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-python-code-better | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | refinedweb | 604 | 77.84 |
Lecture 22:
Robotics
CS105: Great Insights in Computer Science
Michael L. Littman, Fall 2006
Infinite Loops
• Which of these subroutines terminate for all
initial values of n?
def ex1(n): def ex3(n): def ex5(n):
while n < 14: while n < 21: while n > 0:
print n print n print n
n = n + 1 n = n - 1 n = n - 1
def ex2(n): def ex4(n): def ex6(n):
while True: while n > 100: while False:
print n print n print n
n = n - 1 n = n + 1 n = n + 1While True
• What sorts of
def thermostat(low, high):
program would
while True:
purposely have an
t = currentTemp()
infinite loop?
if t >= high:
• Think about a
runAC(4)
software-controlled
elif t < low:
thermostat. It might
runHeat(2)
have a program that
looks something like:
thermostat(68,75)
Loop Forever
• operating systems
• user interfaces
• video games
• process controllers
• robotsRobot Basics
• From a software standpoint, modern robots
are just computers.
• Typically, they have less memory and
processing power than a standard computer.
• Sensors and effectors under software control.
Standard Robots
• Industrial manufacturing robots.
• Research /hobby robots.
• Demonstration robots.
• Home robots.
• Planetary rovers.
• Movie robots.Manufacturing
• Often arms, little else.
• Part sorting.
• Painting.
• Repeatable actions.
Research / Hobby
• Pioneer
• Handy Board / Lego
• Segbot
• StanleySpace Exploration
• Sojourner
• Deep Space Agent
Home Robots
• Roomba.
• Mowers.
• Moppers.
• Big in Japan.
• Nursebots.
• Emergency rescue bots, Aibo.Demonstration Robots
• Honda: Asimo.
• Toyota: lip robot.
• Sony: QRio.
Sensors and Effectors
• Sensors: • Effectors:
• bump • motors
• infrared • lights
• vision • sounds
• light • graphical display
• sonar • laser
• soundSimple Learning
• Words: “hello”, “don’t do that”, “sit”, “stand
up”, “lie down”, “shake paw”
Example Code
act[0] = 0 elif cmd == “stand”:
act[1] = 0 doAction(actions[act[1]]):
actions = [”lay6”, lastact = 1
“sit2”, “sit4”, “stand2”, elif cmd == “good Aibo”:
“stand9” ] doAction(”happy”)
lastact = 0 elif cmd == “bad dog”:
while True: doAction(”sad sound”)
cmd = Voice() act[lastact] =
if cmd == “sit”: (act[lastact] + 1) % 4
doAction(actions[act[0]])
lastact = 0Trainer: In Words
• For each recognized voice command, there is
an associated action program.
• When a voice command is recognized, the
corresponding action is taken.
• On “Good Aibo”, nothing needs to change.
• On “Don’t do that”, the most recent
command needs a different action program.
It is incremented to the next on the list.
Impressive Accomplishment
Honda’s Asimo
• development began in 1999, building on 13
years of engineering experience.
• claimed “most
advanced humanoid
robot ever created”
• walks 1mphAnd Yet…
Asimo is programmed/controlled by people:
• structure of the walk programmed in
• reactions to perturbations programmed in
• directed by technicians and puppeteers
during the performance
• no camera-control loop
• static stability
Compare To Kids
Molly
• development began in 1999
• “just an average kid”
• walks 2.5mph even on
unfamiliar terrain
• very hard to control
• dynamically stable
(sometimes)Crawl Before Walk
Impressive accomplishment:
• Fastest reported walk/crawl on an Aibo
• Gait pattern optimized automatically
Human “Crawling”
Perhaps our programming isn’t for crawling at all, but for the desire
for movement!My Research
How can we create smarter machines?
• Programming
• tell them exactly what to do
• “give a man a fish...”
• Programming by Demonstration (supervised learning)
• show them exactly what do do
• “teach a man to fish...”
• Programming by Motivation (reinforcement learning)
• tell them what to want to do
• “give a man a taste for fish...”
Find The Ball Task
Learn:
• which way to turn
• to minimize time
• to see goal (ball)
• from camera input
• given experience.In Other Words...
• It “wants” to see the pink ball.
• Utility values from seeing the ball and the cost
of movement come from the reward function.
• It gathers experience about how its behavior
changes the state of the world.
• We call this knowledge its transition model.
• It selects actions that it predicts will result in
maximum reward (seeing the ball soon).
• This computation is often called planning.
Exploration/Exploitation
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
• In RL: A system cannot make two decisions
and be one decision maker---it can only
observe the effects of the actions it actually
chooses to make. Do the right thing and learn.Pangloss Assumption
We are in the best of all possible worlds.
Confidence intervals are on model parameters.
Find the model that gives maximum reward subject
to the constraint that all parameters lie within their
confidence intervals.
Choose actions that are best for this model.
In bandit case, this works out to precisely IE.
Very general, but can be intractable.
Solvable for MDPs. (Strehl & Littman 04, 05)
Exploration Speeds Learning
Task: Exit room using bird’s-eye state representation.
no drive
for exploration
drive for exploration
Details: Discretized 15x15 grid x 18 orientation (4050 states); 6 actions.
Rewards via RMAX (Brafman & Tennenholtz 02).Shaping Rewards
• “Real” task: Escape.
• One definition of reward function:
• -1 for each step, +100 for escape.
• Learning is too slow.
• If survival depends on escape, would not survive.
• Alternative:
• Additional +10 for pushing any button.
• We call these “Shaping rewards”.
Robotic Example
• State space: image location of button, size of button (3
dimensions), and color of button (discrete: red/green).
• Actions: Turn L/R, go forward, thrust head.
• Reward: Exit the box.
• Shaping reward: Pushing button.
Glowing
Switch
Aibo
Green
switch
doorPros and Cons of Shaping
• Can be really helpful.
• Not really the main task, but serve to encourage
learning of pertinent parts of the model.
• Example: Babies like standing up.
• Somewhat risky.
• Can “distract” the learner so it spends all its time
gathering easy-to-find, but task-irrelevant rewards.
• Learner can’t tell a “real” reward from a shaping
reward.
RL: Sum Up
• We’re building artificial decision makers as
follows:
• We define perceptions, actions, and rewards
(including shaping rewards to aid learning).
• Learner explores its environments to discover:
• What actions do
• Which situations lead to reward
• Learner uses this knowledge via “planning” to
make decisions that lead to maximum | https://www.techylib.com/el/view/flybittencobweb/lecture_22_robotics | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | refinedweb | 1,006 | 56.35 |
CherryPy is a great way to write simple http backends, but there is a part of it that I do not like very much. While there is a documented way of setting up integration tests, it did not work well for me for a couple of reasons. Mostly, I found it hard to integrate with the rest of the test suite, which was using unittest and not py.test. Failing tests would apparently “hang” when launched from the PyCharm test explorer. It turned out the tests were getting stuck in interactive mode for failing assertions, a setting which can be turned off by an environment variable. Also, the “requests” looked kind of cumbersome. So I figured out how to do the tests with the fantastic requests library instead, which also allowed me to keep using unittest and have them run beautifully from within my test explorer.
The key is to start the CherryPy server for the tests in the background and gracefully shut it down once a test is finished. This can be done quite beautifully with the contextmanager decorator:
from contextlib import contextmanager @contextmanager def run_server(): cherrypy.engine.start() cherrypy.engine.wait(cherrypy.engine.states.STARTED) yield cherrypy.engine.exit() cherrypy.engine.block()
This allows us to conviniently wrap the code that does requests to the server. The first part initiates the CherryPy start-up and then waits until that has completed. The yield is where the requests happen later. After that, we initiate a shut-down and block until that has completed.
Similar to the “official way”, let’s suppose we want to test a simple “echo” Application that simply feeds a request back at the user:
class Echo(object): @cherrypy.expose def echo(self, message): return message
Now we can write a test with whatever framework we want to use:
class TestEcho(unittest.TestCase): def test_echo(self): cherrypy.tree.mount(Echo()) with run_server(): url = "" params = {'message': 'secret'} r = requests.get(url, params=params) self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200) self.assertEqual(r.content, "secret")
Now that feels a lot nicer than the official test API! | https://schneide.wordpress.com/tag/tests/ | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | refinedweb | 347 | 64.81 |
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Struts problem I have a registration form that take input from user and show it on next page when user click on save button it save the input in db, give me some hints to achieve it using struts | http://roseindia.net/tutorialhelp/comment/46021 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | refinedweb | 979 | 69.92 |
With the Google Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.
Introduction
This developer's guide provides a basic model for using the Google Feed API, along with granular explanations of the API's configurable JavaScript components. You can use this guide to enable Feed on your webpage or application.
Scope
This document describes how to use the functions and properties specific to the Feed API.
Browser compatibility
The Feed API supports Firefox 1.5+, IE6+, Safari, Opera 9+, and Chrome.
Audience
This documentation is intended for developers who wish to add Google Feed functionality to their pages or applications.
The "Hello World" of Feed
The following example creates loads a feed, processes results, and displays feed entries in a div.
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src=""></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.load("feeds", "1");>
Getting Started
To begin using the Feed API, include the following script in the header of your web page.
<script type="text/javascript" src=""></script>
Next, load the Feed API with
google.load(module, version, package), where:
modulecalls the specific API module you wish to use on your page (in this case,
elements).
versionis the version number of the module you wish to load (in this case,
1).
packagespecifies the specific elements package you wish to load, in this case
Feed.
<script type="text/javascript"> google.load("feeds", "1"); </script>
You can find out more about google.load in the Google Loader developer's guide.
When we do a significant update to the API, we will increase the version number and post a notice on the API discussion group to report such issues.
Using the API
The following sections demonstrate how to incorporate the Google Feed API into your web page or application. Using this API requires an asynchronous call to a server, so you need a callback to exchange the data.
Building a basic application
The following methods provide the basic functionality of the API to retrieve a feed and display feed entries to the user. You can extend this basic functionality with the additional methods described later in this manual.
Specifying the feed URL
Instances of the
google.feeds.Feed(url) class can download a single feed, where
url provides the URL for the desired feed.
Basic applications load the feed using the
.load() method. Processing results from this API requires an asynchronous callback to the Google server; therefore, you need to set a callback function (
google.setOnLoadCallback) to process the feed data when the page loads.
You can call
google.feeds.Feed() as follows:
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("");
You can further manipulate the feed using the methods described in this section.
.load(callback) downloads the feed specified in the constructor from Google's servers and calls the given
callback when the download completes. The given function provides a a single feed result argument representing the result of the feed download.
.load() has no return value.
The following code snippet demonstrates how to use this method in conjunction with the
google.feeds.Feed(url) constructor.); } } }); }
Calling the onLoad handler
.
The following code snippet demonstrates the use of this method:
google.setOnLoadCallback(handler);
Configuring additional methods
In addition to the namespace-specific methods described above, the Feed API also provides the following, global, methods built on the
google.feeds namespace.
Setting the number of feed entries
.setNumEntries(num) sets the number of feed entries loaded by this feed to
num. By default, the
Feed class loads four entries.
.setNumEntries() has no return value.
The following code snippet demonstrates how to retrieve two feed entries:
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(""); feed.setNumEntries(2);
Setting the feed format
.setResultFormat(format) sets the result format to one of
google.feeds.Feed.JSON_FORMAT,
google.feeds.Feed.XML_FORMAT, or
google.feeds.Feed.MIXED FORMAT. By default, the Feed class uses the JSON format.
.setResultFormat() has no return value.
The following code snippet demonstrates how to specify results in XML format:
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(""); feed.setResultFormat(google.feeds.Feed.XML_FORMAT);
You can also play with this sample in the code playground.
.includeHistoricalEntries() returns feed entries stored by Google that are no longer in the feed XML. For example, if a feed only keeps the most recent four entries in its XML, you can use
.includeHistoricalEntries() to include more than four.
If used in conjunction with a PubSubHubbub-enabled feed, this method allows you to load feed updates when the page loads, within a few minutes of publication.
Since including historical entries increases the number of returned feed entries, most developers combine this method with
setNumEntries.
.includeHistoricalEntries() has no arguments and no return value.
The following code snipppet demonstrates how to load historical entries:
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(""); feed.includeHistoricalEntries();
You can also play with this sample in the code playground.
Returning nodes by element ID
.getElementsByTagNameNS(node, ns, localName) is a cross-browser implementation of the DOM function getElementsByTagNameNS, where:
nodesupplies a node from the XML DOM to search within.
nssupplies the namespace URI. The value "*" matches all tags.
localNamesupplies the tag name for the search.
.getElementsByTagNameNS() returns a NodeList of all the elements with a given local name and namespace URI. The elements are returned in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the document tree.
Matching feeds to a query
google.feeds.findFeeds(query, callback) is a global method that returns a list of feeds that match the given query, where:
querysupplies the search query for the list of feeds.
callbacksupplies the callback function that processes the result object asynchronously.
google.feeds.findFeeds() has no return value.
The following sample demonstrates the use of this method. You can also play with this sample in the code playground.
/* * How to find a feed based on a query. */ google.load("feeds", "1"); function OnLoad() { // Query for president feeds on cnn.com var query = 'site:cnn.com president'; google.feeds.findFeeds(query, findDone); } function findDone(result) { // Make sure we didn't get an error. if (!result.error) { // Get content div var content = document.getElementById('content'); var html = ''; // Loop through the results and print out the title of the feed and link to // the url. for (var i = 0; i < result.entries.length; i++) { var entry = result.entries[i]; html += '<p><a href="' + entry.url +">' + entry.title + '</a></p>'; } content.innerHTML = html; } } google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);:
-. | https://developers.google.com/feed/v1/devguide?nav=true | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | refinedweb | 1,082 | 59.3 |
OAuth For HTTP and REST API Authentication.
When it comes to REST APIs, the authentication is trickier than normal browser interactions. For one thing, once REST API is compromised the impact can be much larger than normal user manual interactions – automation scripts can read, or ever worse delete, all the information in a very short of time. So the stake is higher for REST APIs on authentication.
The RFC 6749 is designed for this purpose. The VMware SSO is following the protocol. So reading the RFC will definitely help understand VMware SSO.
The standard can be used for single sign on, and it can also be used for client and server. For the latter case, Message Authentication Code (MAC) token is used.
In very simple words, it works like this. The server creates a pair of access token and secret key, which are sent to a client securely, maybe using a different media. In every request the client sent to the server, the secret key is used to sign a message consisting of current time in second since 1970-1-1, a random message, HTTP request method (all upper case), relative path, server hostname or IP address, port number, joined by “\n”. The following example shows a message from the draft of OAuth 2.0 Message Authentication Code (MAC) Tokens:
1336363200\n dj83hs9s\n GET\n /resource/1?b=1&a=2\n example.com\n 80\n \n
The generated hash is then encoded with BASE64 so that it can be transported with HTTP protocol as other text.
The above string hashed by secret key 489dks293j39 is 6T3zZzy2Emppni6bzL7kdRxUWL4= after BASE64 encoding. The result in the draft (bhCQXTVyfj5cmA9uKkPFx1zeOXM=) is unfortunately incorrect. This is a very trick part of the protocol – even if you miss one space, the result will be totally different.
It’s a good idea to try a known set of input and check the result to see if your code is correct. If you try on a live system, the input data is always change at least the timestamp thus does the MAC string. Because the timestamp is part of the message, be sure to sync up the time of client and server. The easier thing to do is to sync them all to a NTP server.
The following is a complete Java code that shows how to generate the hash and then encode it:
package org.doublecloud.oauth2; import java.security.InvalidKeyException; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import javax.crypto.Mac; import javax.crypto.SecretKey; import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec; import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter; /** * * @author Steve Jin () */ public class MacDigestApp { public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeyException { String message = "1336363200\n" + "dj83hs9s\n" + "GET\n" + "/resource/1?b=1&a=2\n" + "example.com\n" + "80\n" + "\n"; String token = "h480djs93hd8"; String secret = "489dks293j39"; String ALG = "HMACSHA1"; SecretKey signKey = new SecretKeySpec(secret.getBytes(), ALG); Mac mac = Mac.getInstance(ALG); mac.init(signKey); byte[] digest = mac.doFinal(message.getBytes()); System.out.println("Len of Digest: " + digest.length); String digestMsg = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(digest); System.out.println(digestMsg); } }
If you want to design a Web application or REST API, you have more work to do – get live information and repeat the process on the server side to validate the MAC string. In any case, do NOT pass secret key on the wire (probably except the first time for once). That is why OAuth2 MAC authentication is much securer than its predecessors.
Recent Comments | http://www.doublecloud.org/2014/11/oauth-for-http-and-rest-api-authentication/ | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | refinedweb | 576 | 57.77 |
I think the slider should update with the display if
> the dragging is enabled, so the slider value stays in
> sync. The typical user will understand that things will
> be a little sliggish when plotting insane data such as
> you example. I am wanting to create a simple text/value
> entry field, but I noticed that the backends don't
> support the delete key in events. Are there issues
> across platforms with this? If not, I will probably add
> this.
Yes, you should add the delete key. I was hacking a little bit
yesterday on text entry. An alternative to creating a text widget is
to simply require each backend to define a few gui dependent functions
that we don't to get involved with (get_filename, get_text, etc..) and
then connect these to a button. The button could say something like
···
--------------------
xlabel: volts(s) |
--------------------
and when you click on it calls get_text from the backend and updates
"volts(s)" with the text you supply (and in this example would update
the xlabel too).
Below is a buggy and incomplete example of using the region/cache/copy
stuff I mentioned before to type into an axes. As before, it is
gtkagg only at this point. In particular, the cursor is pretty
crappy. Note I am using "None" which is what backspace currently
defines, to indicate the backspace key. One thing that would make
this work better is to predefine the region the text goes into (an
Axes presumably) and just blit the entire axes bbox before
re-rendering the string with each character. This would solve the
cursor erase on backspace bug you will notice if you try it.
This was just screwing around and not meant for public consumption,
but since you brought it up
Anyone want to write a word processor in matplotlib <wink>?
## Example text entry ##
from pylab import *
from matplotlib.transforms import lbwh_to_bbox, identity_transform
class TextBox:
def __init__(self, canvas, s='Type: '):
self.canvas = canvas
self.text = text(0.5, 0.5, s)
draw()
canvas.mpl_connect('key_press_event', self.keypress)
self.region = canvas.copy_from_bbox(self.get_padded_box())
l,b,r,t = self.get_cursor_position()
self.cursor, = plot([r,r], [b,t])
def keypress(self, event):
if event.key is not None and len(event.key)>1: return
t = self.text.get_text()
if event.key is None: # simulate backspace
if len(t): newt = t[:-1]
else: newt = ''
else:
newt = t + event.key
oldbox = self.get_padded_box()
self.text.set_text(newt)
newbox = self.get_padded_box()
l,b,r,t = self.get_cursor_position()
self.cursor.set_xdata([r,r])
self.cursor.set_ydata([b,t])
canvas = self.canvas
canvas.restore_region(self.region)
self.region = canvas.copy_from_bbox(newbox)
f.draw_artist(self.text)
f.draw_artist(self.cursor)
canvas.blit(oldbox)
canvas.blit(newbox)
def get_padded_box(self, pad=5):
l,b,w,h = self.text.get_window_extent().get_bounds()
return lbwh_to_bbox(l-pad, b-pad, w+2*pad, h+2*pad)
def get_cursor_position(self):
l,b,w,h = self.text.get_window_extent().get_bounds()
r = l+w+5
t = b+h
l,b = self.text.get_transform().inverse_xy_tup((l,b))
r,t = self.text.get_transform().inverse_xy_tup((r,t))
return l,b,r,t
ion()
f = figure()
title('Start typing')
axis([0, 2, 0, 1])
box = TextBox(f.canvas)
axis([0, 2, 0, 1])
show() | https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/live-slider-updating-gtk-help/2887 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | refinedweb | 538 | 60.01 |
I'm new to C++ and I'm studying out of a book (Game Programming - All In One, 2002) From what I've seen from other programs it's sort of out of date. Can someone tel me what's wrong with this?
-Error C2734: 'Value' : const object must be initialized if not extern
(It origionaly used std::cout and std::cin)
#include <iostream> using namespace std; main (void) { const float Value, FeetPerMeter = Value; float Length1; float Length2; float Length3; cout << "Enter the first lenght in meters: "; cin >> Length1; cout << "Enter the second length in meters: "; cin >> Length2; cout << "Enter the third lenght in meters: "; cin >> Length3; cout << "First length in feet is: " << Length1 * FeetPerMeter << endl; cout << "Second length in feet is: " << Length2 * FeetPerMeter << endl; cout << "Third length in feet is: " << Length3 * FeetPerMeter << endl; return 0; }
This is what the book told me to insert, but it even looks incorrect to me. HMM, does anyone know what's wrong with this? | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/8431/error-c2734-value-const-obje | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | refinedweb | 161 | 57.98 |
15 January 2009 12:56 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS news)--The European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by a half percentage point to 2% on Thursday as economic data showed signs of a deepening recession in the 16-member euro area.
The bank has now made four consecutive monthly cuts due to the global financial crisis, reducing its basic rate from 4.25% in October.
Official data showed industrial production in the euro area fell for the seventh month running in November, dropping 7.7% year on year.
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Last week, the Bank of England cut. | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2009/01/15/9184933/ecb+cuts+interest+rate+by+half+a+point+to+2.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | refinedweb | 105 | 57.27 |
Introduction to Timer and Row QML Elements for beginners
Who should read this article?
The article is intended to those developers who want to jump into QML and need to know about the QML elements. The article is written for the QML beginners. In this connection, I have written my previous article to integrate the JavaScript with QML. Those who are interested can read that article at How to integrate JavaScript in QML
Introduction
This article describes how to use the two QML components Row and Timer. There is another article about timer which nicely briefs the use of it. You can find the article at Simple Qt timer application in QML and this article has been short listed for QML contest recently organized by Nokia. Those who want an introduction about the "Timer" and "Row" QML element should read this article as getting started. This article do not use any other Animation available from QML and written purely on basic programing.
What is in mind?
I want to draw five horizontal boxes. Each box has been colored white. Border of each box is black. I want to change the color of each box to "Red" at every second. That means, each box will be colored Red for a second so that it looks like that Red color is moving from one box to another box. To create the boxes, I have used QML element "Row". To execute a code at every second, I have used the QML element "Timer". Let's see how this happens.. "TimerTest".
You will see the "TimerTest.qml" with some code. Replace the code with the following. I have described each line of the program with the necessary comments so the reader can understand the flow of application and can know about the two element of QML "Row" and "Timer".
import QtQuick 1.0
Rectangle {
width: 220 // Width of Rectangle
height: 50 // Height of Rectangle
//The color is set to "Light Yellow". If you are using Qt Creator then there is one
// as soon as you move your mouse cursor on color property, it will show
// the a box display the defined color. Here if you move your mouse cursor on "lightyellow"
// and hold for a moment then it will show "lightyellow" color in a small box.
// This way you can visualize how the color actully looks like.
color: "lightyellow"
// An integer property is set to 1 for i
property int i: 1
Item {
// following tag creates timer control. The timer control is invisible to user while
// running the application
Timer {
// Interval in milliseconds. It must be interval values.
interval: 1000
// Setting running to true indicates start the timer. It must be boolean value.
running: true
//If repeat is set true, the timer will repeat at specified interval. Here it is 1000 milliseconds.
repeat: true
// This will be called when the timer is triggered. Here the
// subroutine changeBoxColor() will be called at every 1 seconde (1000 milliseconds)
onTriggered: changeBoxColor()
}
//Defining a Row element means it aligns its childs horizontaly.
Row {
// Spacing puts empty pixels between the two adjuscent children
spacing: 3
// Id is assigned as mainRow. ID must be unique in entire qml file.
id: mainRow
//Defining 5 child using Rectagle. Each is initially colored white,
// height and width 40 and border color as "Black"
Rectangle {color: "white"; id: one; width: 40; height: 40; border.color: "black" }
Rectangle {color: "white"; id: two; width: 40; height: 40; border.color: "black" }
Rectangle {color: "white"; id: three; width: 40; height: 40; border.color: "black" }
Rectangle {color: "white"; id: four; width: 40; height: 40; border.color: "black" }
Rectangle {color: "white"; id: five; width: 40; height: 40; border.color: "black" }
}
}
// Following is a User Defined Function which is called and executed after
// each interval specified in Timer element.
// Pls refer onTriggered: changeBoxColor() in the Timer defination above.
function changeBoxColor()
{
//Condition is checked for value of i.
//If i equal to 1 then first box will be colored "Red" and fifth will be colored "White"
//As our logic is to move red color from one box to another,
//We have set values of previous box's color back to white.
if(i == 1) {
one.color="red" //Here "one" is defined as "id" in first child of Row element.
five.color="white"
}
if(i == 2) {
two.color="red" //Here "two" is defined as "id" in second child of Row element.
one.color="white"
}
if(i == 3) {
three.color="red" //Here "three" is defined as "id" in third child of Row element.
two.color="white"
}
if(i == 4) {
four.color="red" //Here "four" is defined as "id" in fourth child of Row element.
three.color="white"
}
if(i == 5) {
five.color="red" //Here "five" is defined as "id" in fifth child of Row element.
four.color="white"
}
i++; // Value of i is incremented by 1
if(i>5) // if value i is greater than 5 it is set back to 1 because we have only 5 box in a row
i=1;
}
}
Post Condition
Run Application and you will see the Red color will move from one box to another at every second.
Image - 1 of running application.
Image - 2 of running application.
More Reference Material
Exercise
You can implement similar logic with Column QML Element. Try it yourself and see where you need to make necessary changes. | http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Introduction_to_Timer_and_Row_QML_Elements_for_beginners | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | refinedweb | 885 | 66.23 |
Can you come up with a way to get a particular method executed, without explicitly calling it? The more indirect it is, the better.
Here's what I mean, exactly (C used just for exemplification, all languages accepted):
// Call this. void the_function(void) { printf("Hi there!\n"); } int main(int argc, char** argv) { the_function(); // NO! Bad! This is a direct call. You can't call like this. return 0; }
Solutions
You can submit your own solution in comment section in same/different programming language. If your solution is better or in different language we'll add here.
C
These example may be work with gcc compiler only. If you are new to gcc, please checkout this step-wise guide to install gcc and how to compile and run c program.
1. When compiled with GCC, the compiler replaces printf("Goodbye!\n") with puts("Goodbye!"), which is simpler and is supposed to be equivalent. I've sneakily provided my custom puts function, so that gets called instead.
#include <stdio.h> int puts(const char *str) { fputs("Hello, world!\n", stdout); } int main() { printf("Goodbye!\n"); }
2. By overflowing buffers! This is how malware able to execute functions that aren't called in the code.
#include <stdio.h> void the_function() { puts("How did I get here?"); } int main() { void (*temp[1])(); // This is an array of 1 function pointer temp[3] = &the_function; // Writing to index 3 is technically undefined behavior }
On my system, the return address of main happens to be stored 3 words above the first local variable. By scrambling that return address with the address of another function, main "returns" to that function. If you want to reproduce this behavior on another system, you might have to tweak 3 to another value.
3. This is very direct, but is certainly not a call to hello_world, even though the function does execute.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void hello_world() { puts(__func__); exit(0); } int main() { goto *&hello_world; }
CSharp
using System; class Solution : IDisposable { static void Main(String[] args) { using (new Solution()) ; } public void Dispose() { Console.Write("I was called without calling me!"); } }
JavaScript
<html> <body> <script> window.toString = function(){ alert('Developer Insider'); return 'xyz'; }; "" + window; </script> </body> </html>
PHP
<?php function super_secret() { echo 'Halp i am trapped in comput0r'; } function run() { preg_match_all('~\{((.*?))\}~s', file_get_contents(@reset(reset(debug_backtrace()))), $x) && eval(trim(@reset($x[1]))); } run();
This really really doesn't call the method. The backtrace is read to find out the file currently executing, we get the contents of the file as a string, then use a regex to cut the first statement out of the super_secret() method, then eval it. | https://developerinsider.co/call-a-method-without-calling-it-programming-puzzles/ | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | refinedweb | 440 | 67.35 |
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Hi guys, i have a bunch of scripts on my enemys that have a PlayerVisable Boolean. I've managed to get all these booleans into an array on my player script, and basically all i want to do is check if any enemy's see me, and if they do, set my players Alert Boolean to true. it seems really simple but i cant seem to figure out just how it works. thanks so much for your help
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
public class Player_manager : MonoBehaviour {
public Transform PlayerCam;
public float Speed;
Rigidbody RB;
public bool Alert;
public GameObject[] enemys;
public Enemy_FOV[] enemyFOV;
public bool[] enemyAlert;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
RB = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody> ();
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
enemys = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag ("Enemy");
enemyFOV = new Enemy_FOV[enemys.Length];
for(int i = 0; i < enemys.Length; i++){
enemyFOV[i] =enemys[i].GetComponent<Enemy_FOV> ();
}
enemyAlert = new bool[enemyFOV.Length];
for(int i = 0; i < enemyFOV.Length; i++){
enemyAlert[i] =enemyFOV[i].playerVisable;
}
if (Input.GetButtonUp ("Fire1")) {
Jump_Start ();
}
}
so basically i just want to make Alert true, when any of the enemyAlert array bools are true.
Answer by Light997
·
Feb 06, 2016 at 12:22 PM
You can loop through all the elements in the array and return once you've found one that's true.
Here:
bool isAlert(bool[] enemyAlert)
{
for (int i = 0; i < enemyAlert.Length; i++)
{
if (enemyAlert[i])
{
return enemyAlert[i];
}
}
return false;
}
This will loop through the bools and return true if one of them is true.
You can call the function like this:
Alert = isAlert(enemyAlert);
thanks so much for your answer, can you elaborate a tiny bit more on how to integrate that with my code. putting that in my update function doesn't seem to work. the line 'bool isAlert(bool[] enemyAlert)' seems to come up with some errors. thank you so much!
edit: never mind! i figured it out. thank you so much!
@Pendragon420 Okay...
(Tip: if you type @(username) the person is informed of your comment, I just happened to come by again)
So, you put this function in your code outside of any other functions, just inside the class. (I mean the bool isAlert(enemyAlert){...}).
Then, whenever you want to check whether you are in the Alert state, you call the function with the lower code, you can do this anywhere within the class. That includes Update, Start, etc.
If you need more help, inform me with @Light.
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Answer by LittleRainGames
·
Dec 21, 2017 at 02:12 AM
You can also do
bool isAlert = enemyAlert.Any(x =>.
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Hello JavaProgrammingForums users!
I come to you with this problem: I am attempting to create an ArrayList of ArrayLists for an assignment, but I'm hitting a roadblock when it comes to figuring out how to populate this construction. So far it seems like I'm able to make an arraylist and get it to print out a sample where all of the values are null, but I cannot figure out how to go further to changing those data values, add another row of data to the arraylist, etc.
Here's what I've gotten so far:
package test; import java.util.ArrayList; class SampleTableClass<Type> { private Type type; ArrayList<ArrayList<Type>> array; public void initializeArray() { array = new ArrayList<ArrayList<Type>>(); } public void fillArray( int rows, int columns) { for (int r=0; r<rows; r++){ array.add(r, new ArrayList<Type>()); for (int c=0; c<columns; c++) array.get(r).add(c, type); } } public void print5x5Array(int rows, int columns) { fillArray(rows, columns); Object[] arrayObjects = array.toArray(); for (int r=0; r<rows; r++){ for (int c=0; c<columns; c++){ System.out.println(arrayObjects[r]); } } } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args){ SampleTableClass array = new SampleTableClass(); array.initializeArray(); array.print5x5Array(1,5); } }
I feel like I've probably made a simple mistake or failed to grasp one of the main concepts entirely, so feel free to tell me I've done everything wrong if I have, if that's what's necessary to fix it.
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cfree — free allocated memory
#include <stdlib.h> /* In SunOS 4 */
/* In glibc or FreeBSD libcompat */
/* In SCO OpenServer */
/* In Solaris watchmalloc.so.1 */
This function should never be used. Use free(3) instead.
In glibc, the function
cfree() is a synonym for free(3), "added for
compatibility with SunOS".
Other systems have other functions with this name. The
declaration is sometimes in
<
stdlib.h
>
and sometimes in
<
malloc.h
>
Some SCO and Solaris versions have malloc libraries with
a 3-argument
cfree(),
apparently as an analog to calloc.
The 3-argument version of
cfree() as used by SCO conforms to the
iBCSe2 standard: Intel386 Binary Compatibility Specification,
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Guido van Rossum wrote: > I've written a new PEP, summarizing (my reaction to) the recent > discussion on adding a switch statement. While I have my preferences, > I'm trying to do various alternatives justice in the descriptions. The > PEP also introduces some standard terminology that may be helpful in > future discussions. I'm putting this in the Py3k series to gives us > extra time to decide; it's too important to rush it. > > A generally nice summary, but as one of the advocates of Option 2 when it comes to freezing the jump table, I'd like to see it given some better press :) > Feedback (also about misrepresentation of alternatives I don't favor) > is most welcome, either to me directly or as a followup to this post. My preferred variant of Option 2 (calculation of the jump table on first use) disallows function locals in the switch cases just like Option 3. The rationale is that the locals can't be expected to remain the same across different invocations of the function, so caching an expression that depends on them is just as nonsensical for Option 2 as it is for Option 3 (and hence should trigger a Syntax Error either way). Given that variant, my reasons for preferring Option 2 over Option 3 are: - the semantics are the same at module, class and function level - the order of execution roughly matches the order of the source code - it does not cause any surprises when switches are inside conditional logic As an example of the latter kind of surprise, consider this: def surprise(x): do_switch = False if do_switch: switch x: case sys.stderr.write("Not reachable!\n"): pass Option 2 won't print anything, since the switch statement is never executed, so the jump table is never built. Option 3 (def-time calculation of the jump table), however, will print "Not reachable!" to stderr when the function is defined. Now consider this small change, where the behaviour of Option 3 is not only surprising but outright undefined: def surprise(x): if 0: switch x: case sys.stderr.write("Not reachable!\n"): pass The optimiser is allowed to throw away the contents of an if 0: block. This makes no difference for Option 2 (since it never executed the case expression in the first place), but what happens under Option 3? Is "Not reachable!" written to stderr or not? When it comes to the question of "where do we store the result?" for the first-execution calculation of the jump table, my proposal is "a hidden cell in the current namespace". The first time the switch statement is executed, the cell object is empty, so the jump table creation code is executed and the result stored in the cell. On subsequent executions of the switch statement, the jump table is retrieved directly from the cell. For functions, the cell objects for any switch tables would be created internally by the function object constructor based on the attributes of the code object. So the cells would be created anew each time the function definition is executed. These would be saved on the function object and inserted into the local namespace under the appropriate names before the code is executed (this is roughly the same thing that is done for closure variables). Deleting from the namespace afterwards isn't necessary, since the function local namespace gets thrown away anyway. For module and class code, code execution (i.e. the exec statement) is modified so that when a code object is flagged as requiring these hidden cells, they are created and inserted into the namespace before the code is executed and removed from the namespace when execution of the code is complete. Doing it this way prevents the hidden cells from leaking into the attribute namespace of the class or module without requiring implicit insertion of a try-finally into the generated bytecode. This means that switch statements will work correctly in all code executed via an exec statement. The hidden variables would simply use the normal format for temp names assigned by the compiler: "_[%d]". Such temporary names are already used by the with statement and by list comprehensions. To deal with the threading problem mentioned in the PEP, I believe it would indeed be necessary to use double-checked locking. Fortunately Python's execution order is well enough defined that this works as intended, and the optimiser won't screw it up the way it can in C++. Each of the hidden cell objects created by a function would have to contain a synchronisation lock that was acquired before the jump table was calculated (the module level cell objects created by exec wouldn't need the synchronisation lock). Pseudo-code for the cell initialisation process: if the cell is empty: acquire the cell's lock try: if the cell is still empty: build the jump table and store it in the cell finally: release the cell's lock retrieve the jump table from the cell No, it's not a coincidence that my proposal for 'once' expressions is simply a matter of taking the above semantics for evaluating the jump table and allowing them to be applied to an arbitrary expression. I actually had the idea for the jump table semantics before I thought of generalising it :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-June/066612.html | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | refinedweb | 898 | 56.18 |
12. Layout Management in Tkinter
By Bernd Klein. Last modified: 16 Dec 2021.
Introduction
In this chapter of our Python-Tkinter tutorial we will introduce the layout managers or geometry managers, as they are sometimes called as well. Tkinter possess three layout managers:
- pack
- grid
- place
The three layout managers pack, grid, and place should never be mixed in the same master window! Geometry managers serve various functions. They:
- arrange widgets on the screen
- register widgets with the underlying windowing system
- manage the display of widgets on the screen
Arranging widgets on the screen includes determining the size and position of components. Widgets can provide size and alignment information to geometry managers, but the geometry managers has always the final say on the positioning and sizing.
Pack
Pack:
import tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() w = tk.Label(root, text="Red Sun", bg="red", fg="white") w.pack() w = tk.Label(root, text="Green Grass", bg="green", fg="black") w.pack() w = tk.Label(root, text="Blue Sky", bg="blue", fg="white") w.pack() tk.mainloop()
fill Option:
import tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() w = tk.Label(root, text="Red Sun", bg="red", fg="white") w.pack(fill=tk.X) w = tk.Label(root, text="Green Grass", bg="green", fg="black") w.pack(fill=tk.X) w = tk.Label(root, text="Blue Sky", bg="blue", fg="white") w.pack(fill=tk.X) tk.mainloop()
Padding
The pack() manager knows four padding options, i.e. internal and external padding and padding in x and y direction:
The default value in all cases is 0.
Placing widgets side by side
We want to place the three label side by side now and shorten the text slightly:
The corresponding code looks like this:
import tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() w = tk.Label(root, text="red", bg="red", fg="white") w.pack(padx=5, pady=10, side=tk.LEFT) w = tk.Label(root, text="green", bg="green", fg="black") w.pack(padx=5, pady=20, side=tk.LEFT) w = tk.Label(root, text="blue", bg="blue", fg="white") w.pack(padx=5, pady=20, side=tk.LEFT) tk.mainloop()
If we change LEFT to RIGHT in the previous example, we get the colours in reverse order:
. Manager
import tkinter as tk colours = ['red','green','orange','white','yellow','blue'] r = 0 for c in colours: tk.Label(text=c, relief=tk.RIDGE, width=15).grid(row=r,column=0) tk.Entry(bg=c, relief=tk.SUNKEN, width=10).grid(row=r,column=1) r = r + 1 tk.mainloop()
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Before you can add TransferControl to a page, you must add the Windows Phone Toolkit as a XAML namespace. To do this, add the following tag to your XAML page in your project solution:
Use the following XAML tag to add TransferControl to the page:.
TransferMonitor also will accept a second argument, name, which will be the fallback value for the header text when it is not defined in the XAML declaration..
The following code demonstrates how to modify the appearance of.
Status text is the small phrase or word that appears beneath the progress bar. Its default color is the phone theme foreground color. You can modify this by setting StatusTextBrush to any Brush value.
You can use ProgressBarStyle to define the progress bar within the TransferControl. In the above sample, the style defines a new foreground and background color for the progress bar.
AutoHide by default is set to false. When it is set to true, the Visibility property of TransferControl is set to Collapsed when the transfer raises the Complete event.
TransferMonitor provides methods and events that help simplify interaction with the BackgroundTransferRequest..
All events are raised with BackgroundTransferEventArgs. This class contains the Request property, which is set to the request for which the event was raised.
This event is raised when the transfer is canceled or when it fails, for example, due to a network connection error or timeout. When the event is raised, TransferMonitor.ErrorMessage is set to indicate why the transfer failed.
This event is raised when the transfer makes any progress downloading or uploading the file. This event is triggered periodically while the transfer occurs.
This event is raised when the transfer has successfully finished uploading or downloading the request. If the transfer requested a download, the file is available in isolated storage.
This is an overview of how you can use the TransferControl and TransferMonitor together to create a UI for background transfer requests. For even more information, see the source code at the Windows Phone Toolkit page on CodePlex.
Inherits from System.Windows.Controls.ContentControl
Name
Description
TransferMonitor
Initializes a new instance of TransferControl and applies the default control template.
None.
AutoHide
Gets or sets how the control visibility responds when the associated TransferMonitor raised its Completed event.
Header
Gets or sets the text that appears above the progress bar.
HeaderTemplate
Gets or sets the DataTemplate that defines the area above the progress bar.
Icon
Gets or sets the URI to an image to display.
IsContextMenuEnabled
Gets or sets if the context menu is enabled.
Monitor
Gets or sets the associated TransferMonitor.
ProgressBarStyle
Gets or sets the style used for the progress bar.
StatusTextBrush
Gets or sets the brush used for the status text.
TransferMonitor(BackgroundTransferRequest)
Initializes a new instance of TransferMonitor with the specified background transfer request.
TransferMonitor(BackgroundTransferRequest,string)
Initializes a new instance of TransferMonitor with the specified background transfer request and a name.
RequestCancel
Removes the request from the queue.
RequestStart
Adds the request to the background transfer service queue.
BytesTransferred
Gets the number of bytes sent or received.
ErrorMessage
Gets the error message when the transfer fails.
IsProgressIndeterminate
True if the total size of the transfer is not known. False when the size is known.
Gets or sets the name of the transfer.
PercentComplete
Gets the percent of the transfer that has completed. Returns a number between 0 and 1.
State
Gets the state of the transfer.
StatusText
Gets a string containing to message explaining the state of the transfer.
TotalBytesToTransfer
Gets the number of bytes that will be sent or received
TransferType
Gets the type of transfer (upload or download).
Complete
Occurs when the transfer has finished uploading or downloading.
Failed
Occurs when the transfer is canceled or when it fails.
ProgressChanged
Occurs when the progress of the transfer changes.
Started
Occurs when the request has been successfully queued to begin transferring.
Value
The request is complete.
Downloading
The request is downloading a file.
The request has failed.
Paused
The request is paused.
Pending
The request is waiting to begin
Unknown
The request is in an unknown state.
Uploading
The request is uploading a file.
Waiting
The request is waiting for the system.
Download
Indicates a transfer that downloads a file.
Upload
Indicates a transfer that uploads a file.
Dear Adam, do you know of any similar control for WinRT? I'm developing a background file download in a WP app and I need the same look&feel in the WinRT companion app.
Thanks in advance.
@Kinnara - Note that this is a toolkit control which does not go through the intense API review scrutiny like the other SDK controls do.
You are right, there is probably no need for it to be a ContentControl. Icon could have been an ImageSource. But Nate decided to do it the other way. This control addresses its scenarios.
ControlTemplate not being clean seems like a bug.
Please log issues on codeplex - phone.codeplex.com/.../basic
Issues are fixed in the order of #of Votes.
Thanks for the control. But I have a few concerns.
Why is it a ContentControl while none of ContentControl’s features are used?
Why is Icon property’s type not ImageSource?
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Capm And Fama French Three Factor Model Finance Essay
2648.
Shortly after the ground-breaking work of Markowitz on modern portfolio theory (1952) a new branch in Finance developed trying to explain the expected return on any financial asset. Soon the model with probably largest impact on the financial industry was born, the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Even after many different studies questioning the validity of the model, it is still the most used by practitioners. A lot of other models were subsequently developed on the same reasoning. Fama & French Three-Factor Model is considered one of the most promising and consistent.
We start this paper briefly explaining the CAPM and its shortcomings. On those grounds, we explain the Fama & French model. Then, we test both models in US data from 1967 till now. Different portfolios were used, testing for the impact of size, book-to-market ratios, and the specific industry.
We end up drawing conclusions on the results found.
CAPM
The Capital Asset Pricing Model (henceforth CAPM) has a very curious history, being built independently by Jack Treynor (1965), William Sharpe (1964), John Lintner (1965) and Jan Mossin (1966), all in the same time span of the early sixties. This work was based on the earlier revolutionary theory of Markowitz and also on Tobin’s Separation Theorem.
The CAPM has several strong assumptions inherited from the said projects of mean variance efficiency that essentially create a perfect market environment. Investors are rational and risk averse, can borrow and lend unlimited amounts at the risk-free rate and have homogenous expectations and information about all assets returns. There are no taxes, inflation, transaction costs, no short selling restrictions and all assets are infinitely divisible and perfectly liquid.
The assumptions constrain the setting for the CAPM world. They set a stage that only non-diversifiable risks are rewarded with extra returns, and since each additional asset introduced into a portfolio further diversifies the portfolio, the optimal portfolio must comprise every asset with each asset value-weighted. All such optimal portfolios comprise the efficient frontier. This makes the expected return of any asset or portfolio to vary linearly with the returns of the market portfolio, according to the following formula:
Beta is the key measure as it gives the sensitivity of the excess returns of an asset or portfolio compared to the excess returns of the market portfolio. Since the unsystematic risk is diversifiable, the risk of a portfolio can be viewed as beta.
The CAPM is best described by Sharpe (1988) as a “simple, yet powerful description of the relationship between risk and return in an efficient market”. This is a very intuitive thought process. The level of returns one expects to get is directly related to the exposure to market volatility. Stock specific error is diversified away when choosing the efficient portfolio, and as such the only source of return comes from choosing the relation your portfolio has with the market.
The CAPM is so important that the standard deviation of a stock return no longer was the normally used risk measure, but rather its relation to the market returns. It is also the number one tool to find discount rates for company valuation and for portfolio management. However it has not been free of criticism.
CAPM criticism
After it was proposed, empirical tests were executed normally running the following regression:
Where a proxy of excess market returns is used and regressed against a certain asset return. The Alpha of the regression indicates the excess return (either positive or negative) that is not explained by the CAPM. According to CAPM, as the correlation with market should completely explain its return, the apha of the previous regression should be 0.
First of all, the use of a market proxy leads to Richard Roll’s critique (1976). It is quite simple but revealing and it simply states the CAPM can never be tested as the exact composition of the market portfolio is not known. All proxies used might be mean variance efficient but the market might not, leading to all tests being inherently biased. Besides, the interpretation of Beta using market proxies leads to relative measures of risk, as the Beta obtained depends on the market proxy used.
Besides Roll’s opinion on the theory, a number of anomalies were found on the model. Characteristics such as size, earnings/price, Cash flow/price, book-to-market-equity, past sales growth had effects on average returns of stocks. These are called anomalies as they are not explained by CAPM, leading to the idea that risk is multidimensional and as such the CAPM is fundamentally wrong in its core conclusion.
Eugene Fama and Kenneth French (1996) made the greatest stride, when stating that anomaly variables include a risk premium contained in the characteristics of these variables. These anomalies are mainly divided by two main factors. Size, which they explain theoretically, and relative distress, passing through the E/P and book to market as measures.
Fama French Three-Factor Model
Eugene Fama and Kenneth French since expanded the CAPM to the Fama-French (FF) tri-factor model (1992), which adds two variables to capture the cross-sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market: Beta, size, leverage, book to market and earnings-price ratio. This creates the following model:
, which can be transformed into
Where the factors added to the CAPM are the SMB (Small minus Big), a measure of the historic excess return of small caps over big caps, and HML (High minus Low), the same difference for returns of value stocks over growth stocks. This model is not as widely used as the CAPM, but we will test empirically if it performs better than the original one-factor model.
Methodology
After introducing the theoretical bases of these models, we will explain the methodology we used on our tests. We used data from Kenneth French´s website, consisting of market excess returns from NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ firms and the values of returns from all those companies divided into size and book to market quintiles and also divided into five sections of industries – Consumer Goods, Manufacturing (energy and utilities), High-tech, Healthcare and Service industry. The data is monthly from 1967 to 2010. Our variables of interest comprise the alphas of each regression (i.e., returns unexplained by the model) and the adjusted, which adjusts for the number of explanatory terms in a model – unlike the regular, the adjusted increases only if new variables improve the model. We used all this data to run the normal empirical test regression expressed in (2).
We will ignore Roll’s critique in the tests and use a certain market proxy as in our opinion data on returns of a certain index representative of the country where investors negotiate is quite representative of market returns, as that data is amply divulged and influences all assets related.
Results
These are the results in regression form and the values of the alphas obtained with double standard error bands:
Table 1 – Regression Results from Size Portfolios
(Values in parenthesis refer to the t-stat of the variable above)
Looking at the alpha values of the regressions under the CAPM, the 4th quintile is the only one significant on a 95% confidence interval. All the beta values are significant and different than zero. Alpha values decrease as we go from portfolios of smaller to bigger companies, as does the of the regressions. As for the Fama French model, the values of factors are significant in all the size regressions, and the alpha value is only significant in the 5th quintile of biggest companies. The follows a similar behavior.
These results seem to favour the tri-factor approach, as including the SMB variable seems to improve the quality of fit of smaller companies. The difference in the adjusted of the lowest 20% quintile between the CAPM and Fama French models is a whopping 30%, indicating that some unsystematic risks, captured by the difference between big and small firms, affect returns. In other words, these results favor Fama and French´s model in explaining returns over the CAPM.
Chart 1 – Plot of CAPM alpha with double standard error band
Chart 2 – Plot of FF alpha with double standard error band
These charts tell a more interesting story. The alpha values of the CAPM diminish a lot when going from small cap quintiles to large cap ones, from relatively high alphas to close to zero. Everything changes when using FF three-factor model where the alpha values are negative for small caps and go to positive when moving to bigger companies.
The larger range of alphas in the CAPM over FF, especially in smaller companies, again indicates that returns are not fully captured by measuring only correlation with the market. Accordingly, by adding SMB this range is considerably reduced, especially in the portfolios based on the lowest 20% companies in size.
Table 2 – Regression Results from Book-to-Market Portfolios
(Values in parenthesis refer to the t-stat of the variable above)
Here the Betas of all regressions are significant. The fourth and fifth quintiles on the CAPM present a high alpha rejecting the null hypothesis that they are not significant, with a 95% confidence level. On the other hand, the FF model rejects only the lowest 20% B/M portfolios, and by the tiniest of margins.
These results show evidence that Fama and French were indeed correct by considering the HML factor in their regression. In fact, the existence of significant alphas in the two highest quintiles in the CAPM, combined with the substantial differences in the adjusted – 13% for the 4th quintile, almost 20% in the 5th – again demonstrate that CAPM is not considering important variables in determining returns.
Chart 3 – Plot of CAPM alpha with double standard error band
Chart 4 – Plot of FF alpha with double standard error band
As the B/M values increase, CAPM’s results are ever worse regarding alpha. By adding double standard error bands, CAPM’s portfolios based on the highest 20% value have alphas ranging from 0.1 and 0.6, very substantial values. FF performs much better, with alphas not moving far away from 0.
Table 3 – Regression Results from Industry Portfolios
(Values in parenthesis refer to the t-stat of the variable above)
Chart 5 – Plot of CAPM alpha with double standard error band
Chart 6 – Plot of FF alpha with double standard error band
Contrary to the previous analysis, the three-factor model only displays marginal improvements in the adjusted to the single-factor model when dealing with industry-based portfolios. In fact, the FF model has significant alphas in two different industries – Health Care and Others – while the CAPM has none. Moreover, the SMB variable seems to be irrelevant in the Consumer Goods and in other industries. We should not be surprised by these results, as the FF model was built around two ideas: small companies and those with high B/M ratios were undervalued by the market. Thus, when analyzing portfolios based on different restraints (like industry) the model will not perform much better compared to the CAPM.
A note on Fama-French Three-Factor Model
The FF model is an extension of the CAPM model in the sense that it uses two extra factors: SMB and HML. The first one increases the modulation of different size portfolios. The second one addresses the difference in book values of companies included in different portfolios.
We suspect that SMB is in fact important whenever we are trying to predict the different performance of portfolios split using size as the criteria. The same reasoning can be used to portfolios split using book-to-market ratio as the criteria.
We decided to apply this idea to the data, computing the average contribution of each factor to the total excess return of each portfolio. The resulting table is presented below.
Table 4 – Factor Contribution to Excess Return
We can see that, as we suspected, SMB is in fact very relevant (19% on average) to explain the excess return of different portfolios split with market size criteria. That is even more critical when we are considering portfolios of smaller stocks. In those portfolios, the factor HML is not particularly important.
When we move to book-to-market value different portfolios, it is HML that contributes significantly (14%), especially to high book-to-value stocks, and SMB can be neglected.
Finally, when the criterion to split portfolios is neither size nor book-to-market, the two extra factors of the Fama-French model have no explanatory power on average. We can see the average weights are very close to standard CAPM. We can speculate on the difference across industries: for instance, hi-tech and health care stocks tend to have higher book-to-market ratios, and so the HML factor is relevant. It is possible that a factor like “high dividend yield less low dividend yield” might be robust to explain performance differences among portfolios split according to dividend yield level.
We are not questioning the applicability of the Fama-French model. What we are addressing here is that each factor does not have a generalized relevant contribution to explain excess returns. In certain situations, like small cap portfolios and growth stocks, each factor in turn becomes very important. Outside of these “native environments”, the factors do not contribute to explain or predict excess returns.
Final Remarks
Throughout this work we have shown that Fama and French’s tri-factor model is superior to the CAPM in capturing some non-systematic anomalies not considered by the simple one-factor approach. These anomalies include the undervaluation of small firms and those with high B/M ratios. Adding variables that reflect this effect considerably improves the quality of fit of the model and eliminates loose ends as reflected by the significant alphas present in some portfolios using the CAPM. However, we must pay close attention to data, as performing a FF regression on data that does not reflect these variables, – as industry – does not improve the models.
References and Other Bibliography
Fama, E. F., & French, K. R. (1992). The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns. The Journal of Finance, 47(2), 427-465.
Fama, E. F., & MacBeth, J. D. (1973). Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests. The Journal of Political Economy, 81(3), 607-636.
Lintner, J. (1965). The Valuation of Risk Assets and the Selection of Risky Investments in Stock Portfolios and Capital Budgets. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 47(1), 13-37.
Markowitz, H. (1952). Portfolio Selection. The Journal of Finance, 7(1), 77-91.
Mossin, J. (1966). Equilibrium in a Capital Asset Market. Econometrica, 34(4), 768-783.
Roll, R. (1977). A critique of the asset pricing theory’s tests Part I: On past and potential testability of the theory. Journal of Financial Economics, 4(2), 129-176.
Sharpe, W. F. (1964). Capital Asset Prices: A Theory of Market Equilibrium under Conditions of Risk. The Journal of Finance, 19(3), 425-442.
Treynor, Jack L. (1965). How to Rate Management of Investment Funds. Harvard Business Review, 43(1), 63: | https://www.ukessays.com/essays/finance/capm-and-fama-french-three-factor-model-finance-essay.php | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | refinedweb | 2,526 | 50.67 |
hi,
found some strange behavior with BetwixtTransfomer in cocoon that comes
from a problem of the SAX output of betwixt, as I think.
The attributes of a start element SAX event local names that differ from
there qualified names for attributes without namespace applied.
I wrote a small testcase to demonstrate the bug, but I wasn't able to
track it down and fix it.
It seems to be a problem in the introspector, as I see it. Perheaps
somebody more familiar with betwixt could have a look at it.
The bugreport is at
The testcase is attached to the bugreport as a patch.
regards,
Christoph
cgaffga@triplemind.com
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Introduction: How to Make Your First Simple Software Using Python
Hi, welcome to this Instructables. Here I am going to tell how to make your own software. Yes if you have an idea... but do know to implement or interested in creating new things then it is for you......
Prerequisite: Should have basic knowledge of Python.... LOL Nothing like that,
"There is nothing difficult in this world if you try"
with simple interest to make things you can move on to start your program. Even me at the beginning had a no Idea of python.
Moreover as a Electrical at first I was afraid of Coding. Slowly I changed my mentality.
If you are a beginner at programming, start with python makes a fast curve to learn and as the output is very fast you get very excited to learn.
OK without wasting much time we can move on to the subject.
Here in this instructable I am only going to share how to make a simple GUI with python also how to make it into a Software with "exe" and not much with python coding ..... you may refer youtube or udemy to learn Python course.
you may install python from here :
Step 1: Intro to GUI
First, we need to begin a GUI. Nothing but a Graphical User Interface for all your codes.
That is you might have run the program on the command line and got the output in the same. But to make your code interacting with the user you need an Interface to communicate.
Creating GUI with python is very easy... Lets start
There are many modules in the python which you can import and code your GUI. Tkinter is the built-in GUI for the python, It comes installed with your python software. Also, you may also try PyQT, Kivy(best for cross-platform ie same code in python can be used to create apk, exe or MAC software)
Here in this Instructables, I am going to use the Tkinter. The simple thing in python is that you can import other python files to your, same way you need to import the Tkinter python, as similar to #include in C.
<p>from Tkinter import *<br>import Tkinter import tkMessageBox top = Tk() L1 = Label(top, text="HI") L1.pack( side = LEFT) E1 = Entry(top, bd =5) E1.pack(side = RIGHT) B=Button(top, text ="Hello",) B.pack()</p><p>top.mainloop()</p>
Explanations:
here Tk()refers to the class in the
Tkinter module we are saving initializing to top,
Label is the method(function as in other languages) to print a text in,
Entry method to create a blank entry and
Button is to create button , As simple as that ....isn't it
pack is key to package everything it the layout.... finally main loop keeps everything visible until you close the GUI
Step 2: Building Our Own Calculator
Now we have seen a simple GUI with the buttons, So why to wait, lets start building a simple calculator with buttons.
Note:
There can be n number of ways of creating the code, here I only illustrate the code which is easier for me
Sub Step 1: Creating GUI
Before going to the code we can create a GUI for our calculator application.
Here I am going to use only one button and 4-row entry for easy understanding.
thus simple copy paste of every label, entry and button we created of the previous step ... Don't panic by the length of the code...! haha
from Tkinter import *
import Tkinter import tkMessageBox",).grid(row=5,column=1,)
top.mainloop()
Sub Step 2: Main Code
Here in our case what has to happen... just after entering 2 numbers and specifying the operation in between them, the answer has to be printed or displayed in the answer entry.
1.Submit button command:
We need to give to give the command to the button to call a method that is what is designed. Lets see...
B=Button(top, text ="Submit",command= processing).grid(row=5,column=1)
def proces():
number1=Entry.get(E1) number2=Entry.get(E2) operator=Entry.get(E3)
Here I have called the Method (function ) process, so after pressing the button program goes and knocks the door of the function process in simpler terms.
and get here means get the value the user has entered. Also, I stored in the 3 variables namely as number1, number2, operator
Just to make it meaningful I have kept process you may keep the name of the method as per your wish.
Step 3: Process
In this step, we need to process the input received from the user,
But by default, the value received is a string.
So how to convert it to an integer to perform calculation...?
So nothing to worry it is python and not C or C++ to squeeze your brain.
Simply enter the variable in int(variable)
number1= int(number1)
number2=int(number2)
Still, there is another problem... how to get the value of the operator (like +,-*/) to operate ???
Just make if statement for each and inside do the calculations.
number1=int(number1)
number2=int(number2) if operator =="+": answer=number1+number2 if operator =="-": answer=number1-number2 if operator=="*": answer=number1*number2 if operator=="/": answer=number1/number2
String in python is denoted by " " thats here in the if we are checking the string operator recived from the user to the string +,-,*/ etc, and storing the result in the answer variable.
Now at last we need to send the output to the answer entry,
this is done by the insert code.
Entry.insert(E4,0,answer)
thus finally our code looks like :
from Tkinter import *
import Tkinter import tkMessageBox def proces():",command = proces).grid(row=5,column=1,)
top.mainloop()
WOW, you have successfully created the code of the calculator........!! Its time to celebrate..
Step 4: Additional Contents (Part 1-Dialogue Box Exception Handling )
Heading Sounds like something Technical ....? Definitely not I will tell you the story why,.....
Consider you made this calculator and showing it to a friend.
He/she is a notorious person instead of typing the integer he types letters in the numbers entry and kids you ... what to do...? python produces the errors and stops right away....
Here comes the process of the pythons exception handling, also in many software and web pages produces alert or warning messages
Exception Handling in python
The exception handling is as simple has saying try and if any error show warning
Type the value of the in letters the console says Value error thus for it we can do the warning
Let us see how to do in our code:
def proces():
try:) except ValueError: tkMessageBox.showwarning("Warning","Please enter the value in integer")
Here we have made simple warning dialogue box and here as before tkMessageBox.showwarning is the custom warning for Tkinter and in the bracket Warning denotes the heading of the dialogue box and the next shows the message.
Step 5: Additional Contents (Part 2-Creating EXE )
Considering the fact that you have created your python code, and completely working after debugging errors... but there is a final problem, If you want to share your python code to others, they must be having the python installed this is not possible. Also If you wish not to disclose your code creating EXE is the best way.
thus to create the executable (exe) version or Apk (for Android ) must be made this can be made by freezing your code.
There are many such options to freeze your code one I would suggest is by using Pyinstaller.
step1: Install from here and follow their steps if you cant understand ,watch you tube tutorials to install the pyinstaller software.
Step 2:
Thus you can also add your ico for your exe and bundle it up within one file with the second command.
Step 6: Conclusion
Thus Its up to your interest to create the final software,... Thanks for reading I will upload the final code and the exe in my GitHub link >>...
Also, I have created 2 software
1.Blender Batch Renderer
Short Explanation:
Blender is the animation software which we are using to do animation kinds of stuff.
It really takes sooo long to render output, there is no option in the blender to pause and render between, thus I made a software for it... It is little easy..... not very difficult for me to code at the beginning without any help..finally was able to make it. (it taught me nothing is difficult if you try).
2.Electronic Drum Beats Arduino to computer connection
Short Explanation:
It is a software which could read the piezo sensor from the Arduino and python software would play the music accordingly. ( This was made for my friend who asked it very long ....)
This Instructable is just an intro to create the software from the python as from I understanding,.... sorry If I was wrong in any part, as a beginner correct me in comments.
Kindly subscribe to my you tube channel engineer thoughts for future videos: Engineer thoughts
I will also add further in my Website :
Soon I will make a tutorial for my software.
Feel free to ask any doubts in the comments section. I will be happy If you are benefited by this tutorial
Thank God and everyone
be happy, God is with you... all the best
With love
(N.Aranganathan)
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Question 7 months ago on Introduction
how to build a an app in python
8 months ago
am stuck, am all green. please help
Question 1 year ago on Introduction
can we do it on google colab? plz answer
Answer 1 year ago
You can use repl.it but the file output will be nogui
Reply 1 year ago
I don't think we can do in colab.
Question 1 year ago
Can I build software applications with python for the education system?
Question 1 year ago
How to connect MySQL on python?
Answer 1 year ago
You can use sqlalchemy which is good for sql in object oriented way of executing python program.
Question 1 year ago
How your function executed without calling it?
Answer 1 year ago
B=Button(top, text ="Submit",command = proces).grid(row=5,column=1,)
Here in this button named B, there is command= proces so whenever button is pressed, the "process" function is called which contains the calculator logic.
3 years ago
Can I build software applications in visual studio with python?
Reply 1 year ago
Of course you can build an application on visual studio.But for visual studio there is an Ironpython. Normally python shell, or any other ide based softwares have Cpython. You can learn of using python in visual studio in detail by searching on Google or YouTube.
Reply 2 years ago
yes for sure. sorry for the late reply.
Question 1 year ago
Is there any IDE softwares for python in which we can easily drag and drop the buttons,textfield on the frame like NetBeans for java?
1 year ago
I followed all the code you write but it appear the error AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no atttribute 'tk'
Question 2 years ago
How can I create an online shopping app using Python?
Answer 2 years ago
Yes you can use web frameworks of python such as flask or django. You can link the database with any of the database through SQL query. Further You can use sqlalchemy in python for SQL commands.
Question 3 years ago on Introduction
Sir, which IDE are you using for this?
Answer 2 years ago
Pls what is an IDE?
Reply 2 years ago
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Java for High Performance Computing Introduction to Java for HPC Instructor: Bryan Carpenter Pervasive Technology Labs Indiana University
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Java History u The Java language grabbed public attention in 1995, with the release of the HotJava experimental Web browser, and the subsequent incorporation of Java into the Netscape browser. –Java had originally been developed—under the name of Oak—as an operating environment for PDAs, a few years before. u Very suddenly, Java became one of the most important programming languages in the industry. –The trend continued. Although Web applets proved less important than they originally seemed, Java was rapidly adopted by many other sectors of the programming community. u Within a year or so of its release, some people were suggesting that Java might be good for high performance scientific computing. –A workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation was held at Syracuse University in late 1996—a precursor of the subsequent Java Grande activities.
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Why Java for HPC? u Many people believed that in general Java provided a better programming platform than its precursors, and in particular that it was better adapted to the Internet. –In the parallel computing world there has been a long history of novel language concepts to support parallelism, multithreading etc. –Java seemed to incorporate at least some of these ideas, and it had the benefit that it was clearly going to be a mainstream language. u Essentially this analysis stands. The most likely reason for doing scientific computing in Java is that in general it encourages better software engineering than, say, Fortran, and there is a huge amount of excellent supporting software for Java. u But in 1996 there was a obvious blot on this landscape: performance.
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Preamble: High Performance?
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The Java Virtual Machine u Java programs are not compiled to machine code in the same way as conventional programming language. u To support safe execution of compiled code on multiple platforms (portability, security), they are compiled to instructions for an abstract machine called the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). –The JVM is a specification originally published by Sun Microsystems. –JVM instructions are called Java byte codes. They are stored in a class file. –The JVM is a program that runs on a “real” computer. So any compiled Java program (class file) can be run on any computer that has a JVM available. –This execution model is part of the specification of the Java platform. There are a few compilers from the Java language to machine code, but it is hard to get these recognized as “Java compliant”. u The first implementations of the JVM simply interpreted the byte codes. These implementations were very slow. –This led to a common misconception that Java is an interpreted language and inherently slow.
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Run-time Compilation u Modern JVMs normally perform some form of compilation from byte codes to machine code on the fly, as the Java program is executed. u In one form of Just-In-Time compilation, methods may be compiled to machine code immediately before they are executed for the first time. Then subsequent calls to the method just involve jumping into the machine code. u More sophisticated forms of adaptive compilation (like in the Sun Hotspot JVMs) initially run methods in interpreted mode, monitor program behavior, and only spend time compiling portions of the byte code where the program spends significant time. This allows more intelligent allocation of CPU time to compilation and optimization. u Modern JVMs (like the Hotspot server JVM) implement many of the most important kinds of optimization in used by static compilers for “traditional” programming languages. –Adaptive compilation may also allow some optimization approaches that are impractical for static compilers, because they don’t have the run-time information.
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Java Grande Forum u An early stimulus for adoption of Java technologies in large scale computation—especially scientific and technical—was the Java Grande Forum. u The Java Grande Forum () met and held annual ACM conferences between 1997 and –Related workshops held in Melbourne and Nice this year (2003). u They proposed various improvements to Java for numerical and large scale computing, some of which were adopted into Java platform. u The Forum was divided into a Concurrency and Applications Working Group and a Numerics Working Group (). –Later also spawned a Message Passing Working Group () and a Benchmarking Activity ().
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Numerics Working Group u Activities of the JG Numerics Working Group have embraced various issues related to numeric computation in Java: –Basic floating point semantics of the Java language—had an early success when their proposed strictfp modifier was adopted into the Java 2 language. –Libraries to support multidimensional arrays, complex arithmetic, linear algebra, higher transcendental functions. –Discussed language extensions, notably for multiarrays and complex numbers (also operator overloading, etc). –Produced two JSRs (Java Specification Requests) to the Java Community Process »One of them (Numeric Extensions) was withdrawn last year. The other (Multiarray Package) is still on the table. u Led by Ron Boisvert and Roldan Pozo of NIST.
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Message Passing Working Group u The JG Message Passing Working Group met between 1998 and 1999, largely to address the gap left by the absence of any “official” binding for Java from the MPI forum. –The working group had representation from various teams responsible for early MPI-like systems for Java. –Led by Vladimir Getov. –A specification was published in: MPJ: MPI-like message passing for Java B. Carpenter, V. Getov, G. Judd, A. Skjellum, G. Fox Concurrency Practice and Experience, 12(11), –mpiJava was nominated as a “reference implementation” by the Java Grande Working group.
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Benchmarking Activity u Edinburgh University led a Benchmarking Activity in JG, and assembled a suite of (mainly) scientific benchmarks for Java: u The suite is divided into 4 parts: 1.Sequential benchmarks, suitable for single processor execution. –Subdivided into low-level operations, kernels (7 basic algorithms), and 5 “large scale applications”. 2.multi-threaded benchmarks, suitable for parallel execution on shared memory multiprocessors. –Low-level thread benchmarks, and a parallel subset of the kernels and applications above. 3.MPJ benchmarks, suitable for parallel execution on distributed memory multiprocessors. –Low-level benchmarks for MPI-like primitives, and a parallelized subset of the kernels and applications above (developed using mpiJava). 4.Language comparison benchmarks, which are a subset of the sequential benchmarks translated into C. u Various results presented at Java Grande/ISCOPE 2001 conference…
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Benchmarking Java against C and Fortran u In a widely cited paper: “Benchmarking Java against C and Fortran for Scientific Applications” ACM Java Grande/ISCOPE 2001 Conference J. M. Bull, L. A. Smith, L. Pottage and R. Freeman presented evidence that Java performance was becoming competitive with C and Fortran. u They compared a subset of the kernel and application benchmarks from the JG benchmark suite against C and Fortran versions, using a variety of JVM implementations and native compilers, on four platforms: –Intel Pentium, Windows (NT) –Intel Pentium, Linux –Sun Ultrasparc –Compaq Alpha
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Tested Platforms and Compilers
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Example Timings (Kernels)
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Example Timings (Applications)
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All Results
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Mean Execution Time Ratios
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Remarks u Comparisons with C and C++ are generally very satisfactory, especially on the important Pentium platforms. –On Linux the IBM JDK 1.3 generally does best (except on MolDyn for some reason). –We usually use this JDK for our own benchmarks. u Java also compares favorably with g77 (GNU Fortran). u Comparisons with Portland Group Fortran on Linux are more troublesome. –pg77 is more than twice as fast as the best Java on MolDyn. –Comparison is more favorable on LUFact, but this code has been criticized by other authors. –Unfortunately there aren’t more Fortran results. –Of course the Portland compiler is highly tuned for scientific algorithms.
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NAS Parallel Benchmarks u For balance, see the less rosy view of Java performance reported in “Implementation of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks in Java”, Michael A. Frumkin, Matthew Schultz, Haoqiang Jin, and Jerry Yan, NAS Technical Report NAS –Presented at IPDPS 2003, Nice, France u The translate the NAS benchmarks to Java, and study performance on various platforms: IBM p690, SGI Origin2000, Sun Enterprise10000, Linux PC, Apple Xserve. –Where they give Fortran results (only reported for IBM and SGI platforms), differences in performance are as much as an order of magnitude. –Unfortunately they emphasize SGI (not generally considered a good platform for Java), and don’t give Fortran results for the “commodity platforms”. –Their results for the IBM platform are intermediate—performance ratios of 3 or 4 typical (less for some benchmarks)?
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What I Think is the Situation u On Linux platforms (which of course are widely used for clusters), if you use the “free” compilers for C and Fortran (like gcc, g77), and if you use a good JVM like the one in the free IBM JDK, performance of Java, C, and Fortran are quite similar. u On the same platforms, if you use a proprietary Fortran compiler like the one from Portland, you will probably still see a significant speed advantage for Fortran. –The Edinburgh results suggest factors 2-3, but with extremely limited statistics! u On IBM platforms (where they have good Fortran compilers) a factor around 4 is probably still common. –And apparently there are still cases, like on the SGI, where an order of magnitude is common. u This is just my reading of the situation based on the few published benchmarks, plus our own experiences. It would be good to have a lot more data on this!
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Features of the Java Language
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Prerequisites u We assume you know either Java or C++ moderately well. –But some things, like threaded programming with Java and RMI, will be covered from an introductory level. u In this section I will only point out some features and terminologies are characteristic of Java and that you probably should understand. – And highlight some of the differences from C++.
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What Java Isn’t u Perhaps the main thing it isn’t is C++—after programming Java it for a long time, it’s hard to think of it as being very closely related to C++. –It has a similar syntax for expressions, control constructs, etc, but those are perhaps the least characteristic features of C++. –The mindset when you are programming Java is very different: u In C++ you use characteristic features like operator overloading, copy constructors, templates, etc, to create your own “little language”, as you write class libraries. –You often spend a lot of time worrying about memory management and efficient creation of objects. –Worry about inline versus virtual methods, pointers and references, minimizing overheads. u In Java most of these things features go away. –Minimal control over memory management, due to automatic garbage collection. –Highly dynamic language: all code is loaded dynamically on demand; implicit run-time descriptors play an important role, through run-time type checks, instanceof, etc. –Logically all methods are virtual; overloading and implementation of interfaces is ubiquitous. –Exceptions, rarely used in C++, are used universally in Java.
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Class Structure u In Java, all methods and non-local variables are explicitly member of classes (or interfaces). –No default, global, namespace (except the names of classes and interfaces). u Java discards multiple inheritance at the class level. Inheritance relations between classes are strictly tree-like. –Every class inheritance diagram has the universal base class Object at its root. u It introduces the important idea of an interface, which is logically different from a class. Interfaces contain no implementation code for the methods they define. –Multiple inheritance of interfaces is allowed, and this is how Java manages without it at the class level. u Since Java 1.2, classes and interfaces can be nested. This is a big change.
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Classes and Instances u Will consistently use the following terminologies (which are “correct”): –A class is a type, e.g. public class A {int x ; void foo() {}} –An interface is a type. –An instance is an object. An object is always an instance of one particular class. »That class may extend other classes and implement various interfaces. –Any expression in Java that has class type (or interface type) is a reference to some instance (or it is a null reference). E.g. a variable declared: A a ; holds a reference to an instance. The objects themselves are “behind the scenes” in Java: we can only manipulate pointers to them. »Also references to objects and arrays are the only kinds of pointer in Java. E.g. there are no pointers to fields or array elements or local variables.
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Instance and static members u The following terminologies are common. In: public class A { int x void foo() {…} static int y ; static void goo() {…} } We say: x is an or instance variable, or non-static field. foo() is an instance method, or non-static method. y is a static field, or class variable. goo() is a static method, or class method.
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Class Loading u A Java program is typically written as a class with a public, static, void, main() method, as follows public class MyProgram { public static void main(String [] args) { … body of program … } and started by a command like: $ java MyProgram u What this command does is to create a Java Virtual Machine, load the class MyProgram into that JVM, then invoke the main() method of the class (which must have exactly the signature shown above). –It finds the class file for MyProgram (usually called MyProgram.class) by searching a list of directories, typically defined in the environment variable CLASSPATH. u As this process unfolds, dependencies on other class and interfaces and their supertypes will be encountered, e.g. through statements that use other classes. The class loader brings in the class files for these types on demand. Code is loaded, and methods linked, incrementally throughout execution.
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The CLASSPATH u Many people have problems getting the CLASSPATH environment variable right. –Because all linking is done at run-time, must ensure that this environment variable has the right class files on it. –There is a useful property called binary-compatibility between classes. This means that (within some specified limits) two class files that implement the same public interface can be used interchangeably. It also means that if you pick up an inappropriate implementation of a given class from the CLASSPATH at runtime, things can go wrong in an opaque way. u The class path is a colon-separated (semicolon-separated in Windows) list of directories and jar files. –If the class path is empty, it is equivalent to “.”. But if the class path is not empty, “.” is not included by default. –A directory entry means a root directory in which class files or package directories are stored; a jar entry means a jar archive in which class files or package directories are stored.
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Java Native Interface u Some methods in a class may be declared as native methods, e.g.: class B { public native long add(int [] nums) ; } Notice the method add() has the modifier native, and the body of the method declaration is missing –It is replaced by a semicolon, similar to abstract methods in interfaces, etc. But in this case the method isn’t abstract. u The implementation of a native method will be given in another language, typically C or C++ (we consider C). u Implementing native methods is quite involved. –It isn’t clear that is such a bad thing—maybe it discourages casual use! –In general there should be a very good reason for resorting to JNI.
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Implementing Native Methods u The required naming conventions and parameter lists of the native functions are fairly complicated. First compile the Java class with the native methods, then run the command javah to automatically generate C headers. u A generated file B.h contains a prototype like JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_B_add (JNIEnv *, jobject, jintArray); Here JNIEXPORT and JNICALL are macros whose expansion you don’t need to worry about (defined in standard headers). u Next you create B.c, in which you #include “B.h”, and give your definition for the function Java_B_add().
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A Definition of Java_B_add() JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_B_add(JNIEnv * env, jobject this, jintArray nums) { jint *cnums ; int i, n ; jlong sum = 0 ; n = (*env)->GetArrayLen(env, nums) ; cnums = (*env)->GetIntArrayElements(env, nums, NULL) ; for(i = 0 ; i < n ; i++) sum += cnums [i] ; return sum ; }
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Remarks u Several C types are defined in standard jni.h headers that are handles to Java objects. –JNIEnv represents (somehow) the Java environment in which the method was invoked. This includes handles on the C data structures associated with the implementation of the JVM itself, and thread context. –jobject is a handle on a Java object (or the structure in the JVM that represents an object). In particular the parameter jobject this refers to the instance on which the method was called. –jintArray naturally represents a Java int[] array. u The functions GetArrayLen and GetIntArrayElements (actually function- valued fields of the JNIEnv struct) are effectively accessor methods for the jintArray handle. u jint, jlong are typedefs that most likely equate to just C int and long (depending on native word lengths). u In a real native library you must be much more careful about trapping error conditions and exceptions, otherwise you compromise the safety of Java.
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Linking u The file B.c is compiled, then linked into a shared object library (or dynamic linked library in Windows). u This library must be in a directory where the JVM can find it at run time (e.g. on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH). u If the library is called libB.so, the Java program must execute System.loadLibrary(“B”) ; to load the native library. u Finally Java program can call the add() method.
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The Invocation API u JNI also provides a very powerful mechanism for going the other way—calling from a C program into Java. u First the C program needs to create a JVM (initialize all the data structures associated with a running JVM), which it does with a suitable library call. u It ends up with a JNIEnv handle, which it can then use to call all the JNI C functions for operating on Java objects, just like those used from in a native method implementation. –Like GetIntArrayElements, but actually there are similar functions to do completely general things, like creating objects, calling methods on them, and so on. u The standard java command works exactly this way—it uses the JNI invocation API to create a JVM, and call the main() method of the class specified on the command line.
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The Rest of this Course u Will cover three core topics: 1. Multithreaded and Shared-Memory Programming in Java –Java as a multithreaded language; Java thread synchronization primitives. –Java threads for Shared Memory parallel programming. –Special topic: JOMP—an OpenMP-like system for Java. 2. Java RMI and RMI-Based Approaches for HPC –Introduction to Java RMI. –High Performance implementations of RMI. –Special topic: JavaParty—remote objects in Java. 3. MPI-Based Approaches for Java –Survey of MPI-like systems for Java –Programming with mpiJava –Special topic: HPJava—a data parallel extension of Java. u As another special topic we include an Introduction to Java New I/O, and if there is time may say something about Web Services, Grids, etc.
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