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NAME
KDB :: Low Level Methods - General methods to access the Key database. Functions int kdbMount (KDB *handle, const Key *mountpoint, const KeySet *config) int kdbUnmount (KDB *handle, const Key *mountpoint) Key * kdbGetMountpoint (KDB *handle, const Key *where) KDB * kdbOpen () int kdbClose (KDB *handle) ssize_t kdbGet (KDB *handle, KeySet *returned, Key *parentKey, option_t options) ssize_t kdbSet (KDB *handle, KeySet *ks, Key *parentKey, option_t options)
Detailed Description
General methods to access the Key database. To use them: #include <kdb.h> The kdb*() class of methods are used to access the storage, to get and set Keys or KeySets . The most important functions are: o kdbOpen() o kdbClose() o kdbGet() o kdbSet() The two essential functions for dynamic information about backends are: o kdbGetMountpoint() o kdbGetCapability() They use some backend implementation to know the details about how to access the storage. Currently we have this backends: o berkeleydb: the keys are stored in a Berkeley DB database, providing very small footprint, speed, and other advantages. o filesys: the key hierarchy and data are saved as plain text files in the filesystem. o ini: the key hierarchy are saved into configuration files. See also: o fstab: a reference backend used to interpret the /etc/fstab file as a set of keys under system/filesystems . o gconf: makes Elektra use the GConf daemon to access keys. Only the user/ tree is available since GConf is not system wide. Backends are physically a library named /lib/libelektra-{NAME}.so. See writing a new backend for information about how to write a backend. Language binding writers should follow the same rules: o You must relay completely on the backend-dependent methods. o You may use or reimplement the second set of methods. o You should completely reimplement in your language the higher lever methods. o Many methods are just for comfort in C. These methods are marked and need not to be implemented if the binding language has e.g. string operators which can do the operation easily.
Function Documentation
int kdbClose (KDB *handle) Closes the session with the Key database. You should call this method when you finished your affairs with the key database. You can manipulate Key and KeySet objects also after kdbClose(). You must not use any kdb* call afterwards. You can implement kdbClose() in the atexit() handler. This is the counterpart of kdbOpen(). The handle parameter will be finalized and all resources associated to it will be freed. After a kdbClose(), this handle can't be used anymore, unless it gets initialized again with another call to kdbOpen(). See also: kdbOpen() Parameters: handle contains internal information of opened key database Returns: 0 on success -1 on NULL pointer ssize_t kdbGet (KDB *handle, KeySet *returned, Key *parentKey, option_toptions) Retrieve keys in an atomic and universal way, all other kdbGet Functions rely on that one. The returned KeySet must be initialized or may already contain some keys. The new retrieved keys will be appended using ksAppendKey(). In default behaviour (options = 0) it will fully retrieve all keys under the parentKey folder, with all subfolders and their children but not inactive keys or folders. The keyset will not be sorted at first place, but will be marked dirty and sorted afterwards when needed. That could be a subsequent ksLookup(), ksLookupByName() or kdbSet(). See ksSort() on that issue. The behaviour can be fine-tuned with options in various ways to make kdbGet() more comfortable.
Options
The option is an array of the following ORed flags:_POP The parentKey itself will always be added to returned. If you only want the children of the parentKey in returned, but not the parentKey itself, use this flag. This is only valid for the first parentKey, the one you passed. The other recursive parentKeys will stay in the keyset. To get only the leaves of the tree, without any parentKey, see option_t::KDB_O_NODIR below. o option_t::KDB_O_NODIR Don't include folders in the returned KeySet, so only keys without subkeys. You can picture it best that you only get the leaves of the tree of keys. o option_t::KDB_O_DIRONLY Put in returned only the folder keys. The resulting KeySet will be only the skeleton of the tree. This option must not be ORed together with KDB_O_DIR. o option_t::KDB_O_NOSTAT Don't stat they keys, whatever keyNeedStat() says. That means that also the key value and comment will be retrieved. The flag will result in that all keys in returned don't have keyNeedStat() set. o option_t::KDB_O_STATONLY Only stat the keys. It means that key value and comment will not be retrieved. The resulting keys will contain only meta info such as user and group IDs, owner, mode permissions and modification times. You don't need that flag if the keys already have keyNeedStat() set. The flag will result in that all keys in returned have keyNeedStat() set. o option_t::KDB_O_INACTIVE Will make it not ignore inactive keys, so returned will contain also inactive keys. Inactive keys are those that have names beginning with '.' (dot). Please be sure that you know what you are doing, inactive keys must not have any semantics to the application. This flag should only be set in key browsers after explicit user request. You might also get inactive keys when you plan to remove a whole hierarchy. o option_t::KDB_O_SORT Force returned to be ksSort()ed. Normally you don't want that the returned is sorted immediately because you might add other keys or go for another kdbGet(). Sorting will take place automatically when needed by ksLookup() or kdbSet(), also without this option set. But you need to sort the keyset for yourself, when you just iterate over it. If you want to do that, pass this flag at the last kdbGet(). o option_t::KDB_O_NORECURSIVE Don't get the keys recursive. Only receive keys from one folder. This might not work if the backend does not support it. Be prepared for more keys and use ksLookup() and avoid static assumptions on how many keys you get. Example: KDB *handle; KeySet *myConfig; Key *key; myConfig=ksNew(0); handle = kdbOpen(); key=keyNew('system/sw/MyApp',KEY_END); rc=kdbGet(handle,key, myConfig, 0); keyDel(key); key=keyNew('user/sw/MyApp',KEY_END); rc=kdbGet(handle,key, myConfig, 0); keyDel(key); // will sort keyset here key=ksLookupByName(myConfig,'/sw/MyApp/key', 0); // check if key is not 0 and work with it... ksDel (myConfig); // delete the in-memory configuration // maybe you want kdbSet() myConfig here kdbClose(handle); // no more affairs with the key database.
Details
When no backend could be found (e.g. no backend mounted) the default backend will be used. If you pass a NULL pointer as handle and/or returned kdbGet() will return -1 and do nothing but keyDel() the parentKey when requested and not a NULL pointer. If you pass NULL as parentKey the root keys of all namespaces will be appended to returned. For every directory key (keyIsDir()) the appropriate backend will be chosen and keys in it will be requested. If any backend reports an failure the recursive getting of keys will be stopped. Backends only report failure when they are not able to get keys for any problems. Parameters: handle contains internal information of opened key database parentKey parent key or NULL to get the root keys returned the (pre-initialized) KeySet returned with all keys found options ORed options to control approaches See also: #option_t kdb higher level Methods that rely on kdbGet() ksLookupByName(), ksLookupByString() for powerful lookups after the KeySet was retrieved commandList() code in KDB :: Low Level Methods command for usage example commandEdit() code in KDB :: Low Level Methods command for usage example commandExport() code in KDB :: Low Level Methods command for usage example Returns: number of keys contained by returned -1 on failure Key* kdbGetMountpoint (KDB *handle, const Key *where) Lookup a mountpoint in a handle for a specific key. Will return a key representing the mountpoint or null if there is no appropriate mountpoint e.g. its the root mountpoint. Together with kdbGetCapability() the two essential information about mounted backends. Example: Key * key = keyNew ('system/template'); KDB * handle = kdbOpen(); Key *mountpoint=0; mountpoint=kdbGetMountpoint(handle, key); printf('The library I am using is %s mounted in %s0, keyValue(mountpoint), keyName(mountpoint)); kdbClose (handle); keyDel (key); Parameters: handle is the data structure, where the mounted directories are saved. where the key, that should be looked up. Returns: the mountpoint associated with the key int kdbMount (KDB *handle, const Key *mountpoint, const KeySet *config) Dynamically mount a single backend. Maps the mountpoint, defined through its name and value, into the global elektra hierarchy. If successfull, under the mountpoint another backend will reside. This only works for a single KDB, that means a single thread in a single process. You may want statically mounting by editing system/elektra/mountpoints. If you allocated mountpoint and config first, make sure that you free it! It is ok to free it immediately afterwards. Parameters: handle handle to the kdb data structure mountpoint the keyName() of this key is the mountpoint, keyValue() the backend config the configuration passed for that backend Returns: 0 on success, -1 if an error occurred KDB* kdbOpen (void) Opens the session with the Key database. The first step is to open the default backend. With it system/elektra/mountpoints will be loaded and all needed libraries and mountpoints will be determined. These libraries for backends will be loaded and with it the KDB datastructure will be initialized. You must always call this method before retrieving or committing any keys to the database. In the end of the program, after using the key database, you must not forget to kdbClose(). You can use the atexit () handler for it. The pointer to the KDB structure returned will be initialized like described above, and it must be passed along on any kdb*() method your application calls. Get a KDB handle for every thread using elektra. Don't share the handle across threads, and also not the pointer accessing it: thread1 { KDB * h; h = kdbOpen(); // fetch keys and work with them kdbClose(h); } thread2 { KDB * h; h = kdbOpen(); // fetch keys and work with them kdbClose(h); } You don't need to use the kdbOpen() if you only want to manipulate plain in-memory Key or KeySet objects without any affairs with the backend key database, See also: kdbClose() to end all affairs to the Key :: Basic Methods database. Returns: a KDB pointer on success NULL on failure ssize_t kdbSet (KDB *handle, KeySet *ks, Key *parentKey, option_toptions) Set keys in an atomic and universal way, all other kdbSet Functions rely on that one. The given handle and keyset are the objects to work with. With parentKey you can only store a part of the given keyset. Otherwise pass a null pointer or a parentKey without a name. KeySet *ks = ksNew(0); kdbGet (h, ks, keyNew('system/myapp',0), KDB_O_DEL); kdbGet (h, ks, keyNew('user/myapp',0), KDB_O_DEL); //now only set everything below user, because you can't write to system kdbSet (h, ks, keyNew('user/myapp',0), KDB_O_DEL); ksDel (ks); Each key is checked with keyNeedSync() before being actually committed. So only changed keys are updated. If no key of a backend needs to be synced the kdbSet_backend() will be omitted. If some error occurs, kdbSet() will stop. In this situation the KeySet internal cursor will be set on the key that generated the error. This specific key and all behind it were not set. To be failsafe jump over it and try to set the rest, but report the error to the user. Example of how this method can be used: int i; KeySet *ks; // the KeySet I want to set // fill ks with some keys for (i=0; i< 10; i++) // limit to 10 tries { ret=kdbSet(handle,ks, 0, 0); if (ret == -1) { // We got an error. Warn user. Key *problem; problem=ksCurrent(ks); if (problem) { char keyname[300]=''; keyGetFullName(problem,keyname,sizeof(keyname)); fprintf(stderr,'kdb import: while importing %s', keyname); } else break; // And try to set keys again starting from the next key, // unless we reached the end of KeySet if (ksNext(ks) == 0) break; } }
Options
There are some options changing the behaviour of kdbSet():_SYNC Will force to save all keys, independent of their sync state. o option_t::KDB_O_NOREMOVE Don't remove any key from disk, even if keyRemove() was set. With that flag removing keys can't happen unintentional. The flag will result in that all keys in returned don't have keyNeedRemove() set. o option_t::KDB_O_REMOVEONLY Remove all keys instead of setting them. All keys in returned will have keyNeedRemove() set, but not keyNeedStat() saying to you that the key was deleted permanently. This option implicit also activates option_t::KDB_O_SYNC because the sync state will be changed when they are marked remove. You might need option_t::KDB_O_INACTIVE set for the previous call of kdbGet() if there are any. Otherwise the recursive remove will fail, because removing directories is only possible when all subkeys are removed.
Details
When you don't have a parentKey or its name empty, then all keys will be set. You can remove some keys instead of setting them by marking them with keyRemove(). The keyNeedSync() flag will be unset after successful removing. But the keyNeedRemove() flag will stay, but its safe to delete the key. Parameters: handle contains internal information of opened key database ks a KeySet which should contain changed keys, otherwise nothing is done parentKey holds the information below which key keys should be set options see in kdbSet() documentation Returns: 0 on success -1 on failure See also: keyNeedSync(), ksNext(), ksCurrent() keyRemove(), keyNeedRemove() commandEdit(), commandImport() code in KDB :: Low Level Methods command for usage and error handling example int kdbUnmount (KDB *handle, const Key *mountpoint) Dynamically unmount a single backend. Unmount a backend that was mounted with kdbMount() before. Parameters: handle handle to the kdb data structure mountpoint directory where backend is mounted to, that should be unmounted Returns: 0 on success, -1 if an error ocurred.
Author
Generated automatically by Doxygen for Elektra Projekt from the source code. | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man3/kdb.3.html | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | refinedweb | 2,348 | 62.17 |
Hi
I try to connect my Azure Storage account to my Xamarin.Forms App. I have the tutorial from the azure website programmed. In the tutorial is the class e.g. CloudStorageAccount using. This tutorial was very easy but i can´t using the namespaces in my forms app. I have also created the todo toturial from the azure side. I have choosen my NoSQL Storage. I downloaded the app and i don´t understand the different generated projects. There was only SQL Connections in the projects. It is possible to connect my forms app to my azure storage account like as the console application in the tutorial?
@kamaeleon - You can but it not recommended to connect straight through due to large security concerns.
What you really need is an API that sits in front of it to do authentication and relay data to and from the NoSQL Storage via HttpClient.
Create an APIApp on Azure and develop an API, connecting to your storage via the tutorial you showed.
Then use HttpClient on your Xamarin Forms app to talk to that API and issue commands and receive data. | https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/805deb61-fb26-4b64-893d-3cd43e59ea64/how-to-connect-azure-nosql-storage-to-my-xamarinforms-app?forum=xamarinforms | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | refinedweb | 188 | 65.52 |
import ROOT
Welcome to JupyROOT 6.07/07
%jsroot on
We now define a function that will create a histogram, fill it and write it to a file. Later, we will read back the histogram from disk.
def writeHisto(outputFileName): outputFile = ROOT.TFile(outputFileName, "RECREATE") h = ROOT.TH1F("theHisto","My Test Histogram;X Title; Y Title",64, -4, 4) h.FillRandom("gaus") # now we write to the file h.Write()
All objects the class of which has a dictionary can be written on disk. By default, the most widely used ROOT classes are shipped with a dictionary: the histogram is one of those. Writing on a file is as simple as invoking the Write method.
Now we invoke the function:
writeHisto("output.root")
Before reading the object, we can check from the commandline the content of the file with the rootls utility:
%%bash rootls -l output.root
TH1F Apr 12 14:06 theHisto "My Test Histogram"
We see that the file contains one object of type TH1F, the name of which is theHisto and the title of which is My Test Histogram.
Let's now use the ROOT interface to read it and draw it:
inputFile = ROOT.TFile("output.root") h = inputFile.theHisto c = ROOT.TCanvas() h.Draw() c.Draw()
And that's it! | http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/dpiparo/swanExamples/blob/master/notebooks/SimpleIO_py.ipynb | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | refinedweb | 214 | 68.67 |
Viewing App Runner service metrics reported to CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, which are variables you can measure for your resources and applications. You can also use it to create alarms that watch metrics. When a certain threshold is reached, CloudWatch sends notifications, or automatically makes changes to the monitored resources. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
AWS App Runner collects a variety of metrics that provide you with greater visibility into the usage, performance, and availability of your App Runner services. Some metrics track individual instances that run your web service, whereas others are at the overall service level. The following sections list App Runner metrics and show you how to view them in the App Runner console.
App Runner metrics
App Runner collects the following metrics relating to your service and publishes them to CloudWatch in the
AWS/AppRunner namespace.
Instance level metrics are collected for each instance (scaling unit) individually.
Service level metrics are collected for the entire service.
Viewing App Runner metrics in the console
The App Runner console graphically displays the metrics that App Runner collects for your service and provides more ways to explore them.
At this time, the console displays only service metrics. To view instance metrics, use the CloudWatch console.
To view logs for your service
Open the App Runner console
, and in the Regions list, select your AWS Region.
In the navigation pane, choose Services, and then choose your App Runner service.
The console displays the service dashboard with a Service overview.
On the service dashboard page, choose the Metrics tab.
The console displays a set of metrics graphs.
Choose a duration (for example, 12h) to scope metrics graphs to the recent period of that duration.
Choose Add to dashboard at the top of one of the graph sections, or use the menu on any graph, to add the relevant metrics to a dashboard in the CloudWatch console for further investigation. | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apprunner/latest/dg/monitor-cw.html | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 346 | 54.83 |
22171/how-can-i-address-the-unchecked-cast-warnings
Eclipse is giving me a warning of the following form:
Type safety: Unchecked cast from Object to HashMap
Type safety: Unchecked cast from Object to HashMap
This is from a call to an API that I have no control over which returns Object:
HashMap<String, String> getItems(javax.servlet.http.HttpSession session) {
HashMap<String, String> theHash = (HashMap<String, String>)session.getAttribute("attributeKey");
return theHash;
}
I'd like to avoid Eclipse warnings, if possible, since theoretically they indicate at least a potential code problem. I haven't found a good way to eliminate this one yet, though. I can extract the single line involved out to a method by itself and add @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") to that method, thus limiting the impact of having a block of code where I ignore warnings. Any better options? I don't want to turn these warnings off in Eclipse.
The obvious answer, of course, is not to do the unchecked cast.
If it's absolutely necessary, then at least try to limit the scope of the @SuppressWarningsannotation. According to its Javadocs, it can go on local variables; this way, it doesn't even affect the entire method.
Example:
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Map<String, String> myMap = (Map<String, String>) deserializeMap();
There is no way to determine whether the Map really should have the generic parameters <String, String>. You must know beforehand what the parameters should be (or you'll find out when you get a ClassCastException). This is why the code generates a warning, because the compiler can't possibly know whether is safe.
Whenever you require to explore the constructor ...READ MORE
You could probably use method invocation from reflection:
Class<?> ...READ MORE
List<String> results = new ArrayList<String>();
File[] files = ...READ MORE
import java.util.*;
public class AmstrongNumber {
public static void ...READ MORE
First of all, define callFriend:
public <T extends ...READ MORE
String string = "Today's weather";
String[] arrayOfString = ... | https://www.edureka.co/community/22171/how-can-i-address-the-unchecked-cast-warnings | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | refinedweb | 324 | 65.12 |
XRI
Disclaimer: This piece is a first draft. Since I am not a technical expert, I may have misunderstood a few things - Daniel K. Schneider 18:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC).
Contents
1 Introduction
EXtensible Resource Identifier (XRI) aims to be a high-level naming/identification system for individuals, businesses, communities, services and data on the Internet. If we understood right, there are hot open debates whether XRIs should be true URNs (like xri://=daniel.k.schneider) or whether XRIs would use a handle system like DOIs (e.g.). An infrastructure for the latter exists and the former (i.e. a xri:// URI scheme) may not see its day. Since we don't understand the tricky technical issues behind this debate and which are multiple and far reaching, we can't comment on this - Daniel K. Schneider 18:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC).
I-names and i-numbers are the two main XRI identifiers, i.e. allow to define a digital identity. I-names represent a unique name for a person or an organization in the same way that domain names represent unique names for machine/software identities like web services. I-names are registered by a central instance, but can be re-assigned, e.g. if the owner sells and identity or if he stops paying the registration fee. I-numbers are machine readable i-names (i.e. the equivalent of IP addresses for humans), but in addition, these numbers cannot be re-assigned.
“XRIs are a new kind of identifier on the Internet, similar to URLs or e-mail addresses. However, a single XRI can be used for different services, such as a website, e-mail, skype, icq or any other. They are therefore neither website nor e-mail addresses alone; they can be both at the same time, and more.” (@fullXRI, retrieved 22:19, 23 February 2010).
The practical advertised advantage of i-name is that they are device independent and that a user can control what kind of information what kind of service or agent can access. e.g. one may give or not give permission to translate an i-name into an email-address. XDI (retrieved 21:35, 23 February 2010) explains the advantage of I-Names in the following way: .”. I-names/XRI therefore are also a technical solution for personal identity management (PIM).
The XRI initiative has a somewhat controversial status. W3C strongly opposed revision 2 of this standard and as result (25% opposition votes) did not make it a standard. Version 3 three is currently (March 2010) under preparation and may be accepted by OASIS. According to Wikipedia, the core of the dispute is whether the widely interoperable HTTP URIs are capable of fulfilling the role of abstract, structured identifiers, as the TAG believes.
See also:
- OpenID. XRI and i-names are (probably) being integrated into the OpenID framework.
- I-cards (Wikipedia) and Information Cards (Wikipedia). XRI is not the only initiative that attemps to solve digital identity management problems
2 The XRI standard
Let's examine Version 3 of XRI standard (proposal as of March 2010): “XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) provides a common language for structured identifiers that may be used to share semantics across protocols, domains, systems, and applications. XRI builds directly on the structure and capabilities of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) [URI] and IRI (Internationalized Resource Identifier) [IRI]. XRI is a profile of URI and IRI syntax and normalization rules for producing URIs or IRIs that contain additional structure and semantics beyond those specified by [URI] or [IRI].”
This specification under the headings Introduction / Motivations then presents a few commonly cited motivations for for needing a common language for structured identifiers (XRI):
- To unambiguously assert that the same resource is being identified across different protocols, e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, XMPP.
- To unambiguously identify the same resource in different contexts, i.e., within different domains, systems, applications, namespaces, etc.
- To assign, resolve, and determine the equivalence of different synonymous identifiers for the same resource, e.g., persistent vs. reassignable synonyms, human-readable vs. machine-friendly synonyms, localized vs. non-localized synonyms.
- To identify different versions of the same resource in a manner that is consistent across multiple domains, systems, and applications.
- To create structured identifiers to address, navigate, and share structured data, such as RDF graphs.
XRI is a standard that defines a fairly abstract concept for defining various identity schemes like i-cards, i-names, i-numbers and OpenID. XRI stands for EXtensible Resource Identifier and has been developed by OASIS as “a.” (ZDNet, retrieved 22:19, 23 February 2010). XRI's are also an option for OpenID user names. I-names are unique human readable names, but they may change over time for a given subject. I-numbers are machine readable identifiers and should remain persistent. I.e. an application would both remember the i-name and the i-number. The latter should always point to the same person, even when the i-name changes.
The XRI Identifiers (I-Names and I-numbers) are administered by XDI.org. I.e. XDI.org accredits I-Brokers. You can find these on the i-broker page page of inames.net
The XRI proposal also refers to related work. URNs (identified by the urn: scheme) are persistent. XRIs have part that is persistent, but like URIs can be reassigned. In the XRI Syntax v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard (retrieved 18:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC)) mail we can read that “XRIs build on the foundation of interoperable Web identifiers established by URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers, RFC 3986) and IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers, RFC 3987). Just as the IRI specification created a new identifier by extending the unreserved character set allowed in generic URIs, and defined rules for transforming IRIs into valid URIs, the XRI Syntax 2.0 specification creates a new identifier by extending the syntax of IRIs and defining transformations of XRIs into valid IRIs (which can then be transformed into valid URIs. [...] XRI Syntax 2.0 extends IRI/URI syntax by: (a) Allowing the internal components of an XRI to be explicitly tagged as either persistent or reassignable. (b) Enabling XRIs to contain other XRIs (or IRIs or URIs), a syntactic structure called "cross-referencing" that allows sharing of identifiers, such as generic identifiers or "tags", across multiple authorities and namespaces. (c) Supporting new types of identifier authorities including global context symbols and cross-references.”
3 Examples of XRI i-name identifiers
What do XRIs look like?
Simple XRIs are understood by applications that can handle these. They start with either a = or a @ character, and after that can be made up of an arbitrary number of 'subsegments', which are usually separated by a * character.
- = identifiers refer to names of individuals
- @ identifiers refer to names of organizations
Examples of individuals:
- =daniel.k.schneider
- =danielkschneider (not recommended)
- =daniel-schneider (not recommended)
Examples of organizational names:
- @example.company.name
Examples of sub-entities in organizations (so-called community i-names)
- @example.company.name*division*sub-division
- @tecfa*daniel.schneider
- @blog*lucy
Since an XRI works like an URI, one can append extra arguments to an XRI (I don't know yet exactly what is standardized / planned /etc.) - Daniel K. Schneider). Example:
- =daniel.k.schneider(+blog)
The XRI V 2.0 standards proposal suggested that XRIs should use a xri: URI scheme as opposed to a http: or https: scheme. Example:
- xri://=daniel.k.schneider
This proposed XRI scheme is not understood by current web browsers and probably never will be, since it was opposed by W3C in 2008. We probably will just see HXRIs (see below).
4 Dealing with XRIs in todays web-browsers
“Today, webbrowsers and operating systems do not yet natively support XRI resolution. In order to work with XRI technology, you either need to use special XRI-enabled software such as webbrowser plugins or our XRI Ping tool, or you can let public XRI proxies resolve your XRI.”(@fullXRI, retrieved 22:19, 23 February 2010).
“To use an XRI proxy, you need to form a so-called HXRI, which is an XRI prepended with the URL of a HTTP-based XRI proxy server. The proxy server will then perform the XRI resolution for you and redirect you to the appropriate target URI. XRI proxy servers usually begin with..”(@fullXRI, retrieved 22:19, 23 February 2010).
-, operated by XDI.org - the organization behind the XRI standard.
-, proxy of a certified i-names registrar.
- Life HXRI examples for DKS
I got the =daniel.k.schneider i-name with @fullXRI ($12/year) and now can use URLs like this:
- (will resolve to the current home page of DKS)
- (same as above)
- (will resolve to a short contact page, that doesn't give any URL or e-mail address)
- (will resolve to the favorite blog of DKS)
-*daniel.schneider (this one will redirect to my wiki user page)
5 Links
- Standards (including propositions)
- XRI 1.0 (Jan 2004, deprecated now)
- XRI Syntax 2.0 (Committee Specification, 14 November 2005).
The current (March 2010) XRI initiative is based on series of proposed standard
- xri-syntax 3.0 wd 03 (PDF)
- XRD (Extensible Resource Descriptor), based on Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (W3C Interest Group Note 03 December 2008)
- XRI Resolution
- XDI (XRI Data Interchange)
- Related standards
(there are more ... see the xri-syntax 3.0 wd 03 (PDF) or more recent)
- URN RFC 2141, RFC 1737
- URI
- DOIs and the Handle System: Digital Object Identifiers are used for persistent and actionable identification and interoperable exchange of managed information on digital networks). I.e. most scientific articles online now have a DOI. DOI's are another kind of URN and uses for its name resolution the Handle System. (See RFC 3650, RFC 3651, and RFC 3652.)
- URNs, Namespaces and Registries A W3C W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) that has been used to criticized XRI v2.0
- i-name registrars
- @fullXRI
- 1id
- @freeXRI allows to create a free XRI of the kind: @free*yourname, @id*yourname, =web*yourname, etc.
- XRI resolvers
- Use and just append the i-name, e.g. like
- Organizations
- OASIS is a major player for XML-related standards. With respect to digital identity: SAML, XDI, XRI etc. See also the XRI committee, Web Services Security (WSS) Technical Committee, eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Technical Committee, etc.
- XDI.org (manages XRI spaces), i.e. through inames.net (the XDI.org portal for i-names)
- Discussion (pro/against)
On 31 May 2008 OASIS Standard vote on XRI 2.0 specifications failed approval by 1 percentage point....
- Detailed technical reasons why I'm against XRIs by Dave Orchard.
- Talk:Extensible Resource Identifier (Wikipedia discussion page of the XRI page, raises problems with respect to patents and XRI actors)
- XriAsRelativeUri, OASIS page that summarizes a new proposal for how to integrate XRIs with URIs and WWW architecture that has arisen from discussions between the OASIS XRI TC and the W3C TAG starting in July 2008.
- XriSolvesRealProblems (OASIS page).
- Technical information
- inames wiki, community wiki for XRI and i-names developers.
- Some Wikipedia articles | http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/I-name | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | refinedweb | 1,842 | 56.35 |
Content-type: text/html
chdir, fchdir - Changes the current directory
#include <unistd.h>
int chdir (
const char *path );
int fchdir (
int filedes );
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
chdir(): POSIX.1, XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
fchdir(): POSIX.1, XPG4-UNIX
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
Points to the pathname of the directory. Specifies the file descriptor of the directory.
The chdir() function changes the current directory to the directory indicated by the path parameter.
The fchdir() function changes the current directory to the directory indicated by the filedes parameter. If the path parameter refers to a symbolic link, the chdir() function sets the current directory to the directory pointed to by the symbolic link.
The current directory, also called the current working directory, is the starting point of searches for pathnames that do not begin with a / (slash). In order for a directory to become the current directory, the calling process must have search access to the directory.
The current working directory is shared between all threads within the same process. Therefore, one thread using the chdir() or fchdir() functions will affect every other thread in that process.
Upon successful completion, the chdir() function returns a value of 0 (zero). Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
If the chdir() function fails, the current directory remains unchanged and errno may be set to one of the following values: Search access is denied for any component of the pathname. The path parameter points outside the process's allocated address space. An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. The length of the path argument exceeds PATH_MAX or a pathname component is longer than NAME_MAX. The named directory does not exist, or is an empty string. A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
If the fchdir() function fails, the current directory remains unchanged and errno may be set to one of the following values: The filedes parameter is not a valid open file descriptor. The file descriptor does not reference a directory.
Functions: chroot(2)
Commands: cd(1)
Standards: standards(5) delim off | http://backdrift.org/man/tru64/man2/fchdir.2.html | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | refinedweb | 384 | 56.45 |
I am working on an assignment that calls upon a text file to read numbers line by line.
If line 1 number is 1, it looks at line 2 number (ex, line 2 = 13), and uses OneNumber class file to do various methods (such as prime or not prime).
If next line number is 2, it uses the TwoNumber class file to do various methods (such as finding the greatest divisible number).
I seem to have an issue implementing the methods into my main application code. It is reading the numbers 1 & 2, but not using the methods from OneNumber or TwoNumber class files.
The text file being used contains the following numbers:
1
13
1
6
8
2
7
1
3
2
11
So should read line 1, run OneNumber, and check for prime on 13. Then reads line 3, runs OneNumber, checks 6 for prime, etc.... When it hits 2, it should run TwoNumber and check for great common factor.
When compiled it just goes:
1
1
2 is not prime
1
2 is not prime
End of file
I understand its because of how I have written my code in the main app, so my problem is I do not know what I have done wrong or in what order I should be placing code when creating my new object or or or or.... (dumbfounded)!!!
Here are the three files:
Main app code:
import java.util.Scanner; import java.io.*; import TwoNumber.TwoNumber; import OneNumber.OneNumber; public class Ch5Lab { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { OneNumber object1; TwoNumber object2; int num1=0; int num2=0; //Creates scanner object for keyboard input Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); //Get the input filename System.out.print("Enter the filename to open: "); String filename = keyboard.nextLine(); //Open the file; File file = new File(filename); Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(file); while (inputFile.hasNext()) { int number = inputFile.nextInt(); if (number == 1) { inputFile.hasNextInt(); object1 = new OneNumber(number); OneNumber.isPrime(number); System.out.println(number); } else if (number == 2) { object2 = new TwoNumber(); TwoNumber.greatestCommonFactor(num1, num2); System.out.println(number + " is not prime."); } } //Close the file inputFile.close(); System.out.println("End of file."); } }
OneNumber class:
package OneNumber; public class OneNumber { static int value; public OneNumber(int value1) { value = value1; } //checks whether an int is prime or not. public static boolean isPrime(int n) { //check if n is a multiple of 2 if (n % 2 == 0) return false; //if not, then just check the odds for(int i = 3; i * i <= n; i += 2) { if(n % i == 0) return false; } return true; } }
TwoNumber class:
package TwoNumber; public class TwoNumber { public static int greatestCommonFactor(int a, int b) { if (b == 0) return a; else return greatestCommonFactor(b, a % b); } } | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/350617/using-methods-to-read-text-file-line-by-line | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 457 | 63.7 |
Deep copy of a dict in python
How about:
import copyd = { ... }d2 = copy.deepcopy(d)
Python 2 or 3:
Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:30:00) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.import copy my_dict = {'a': [1, 2, 3], 'b': [4, 5, 6]} my_copy = copy.deepcopy(my_dict) my_dict['a'][2] = 7my_copy['a'][2]3>>>
dict.copy() is a shallow copy function for dictionary
id is built-in function that gives you the address of variable
First you need to understand "why is this particular problem is happening?"
In [1]: my_dict = {'a': [1, 2, 3], 'b': [4, 5, 6]}In [2]: my_copy = my_dict.copy()In [3]: id(my_dict)Out[3]: 140190444167808In [4]: id(my_copy)Out[4]: 140190444170328In [5]: id(my_copy['a'])Out[5]: 140190444024104In [6]: id(my_dict['a'])Out[6]: 140190444024104
The address of the list present in both the dicts for key 'a' is pointing to same location.
Therefore when you change value of the list in my_dict, the list in my_copy changes as well.
Solution for data structure mentioned in the question:
In [7]: my_copy = {key: value[:] for key, value in my_dict.items()}In [8]: id(my_copy['a'])Out[8]: 140190444024176
Or you can use deepcopy as mentioned above.
Python 3.x
from copy import deepcopy
my_dict = {'one': 1, 'two': 2}new_dict_deepcopy = deepcopy(my_dict)
Without deepcopy, I am unable to remove the hostname dictionary from within my domain dictionary.
Without deepcopy I get the following error:
"RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration"
...when I try to remove the desired element from my dictionary inside of another dictionary.
import socketimport xml.etree.ElementTree as ETfrom copy import deepcopy
domain is a dictionary object
def remove_hostname(domain, hostname): domain_copy = deepcopy(domain) for domains, hosts in domain_copy.items(): for host, port in hosts.items(): if host == hostname: del domain[domains][host] return domain
Example output:[orginal]domains = {'localdomain': {'localhost': {'all': '4000'}}}
[new]domains = {'localdomain': {} }}
So what's going on here is I am iterating over a copy of a dictionary rather than iterating over the dictionary itself. With this method, you are able to remove elements as needed. | https://codehunter.cc/a/python/deep-copy-of-a-dict-in-python | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | refinedweb | 360 | 55.95 |
#include <CGAL/Real_timer.h>
The class
Real_timer is a timer class for measuring real time.
A timer
t of type
Real_timer is an object with a state. It is either running or it is stopped. The state is controlled with
Real_timer::start() and
Real_timer:
Real_timer::start() member function since the last reset. If the reset occures while the timer is running it counts as the first interval.
Implementation
The timer class is based on the C function
gettimeofday() on POSIX systems and the C function
_ftime() on MS Visual C++. The system calls to these timers might fail, in which case a warning message will be issued through the CGAL error handler and the functions return with the error codes indicated above. The
Real_timer::precision() method computes the precision dynamically at runtime at its first invocation.
reset timer to zero.
The state is unaffected. | https://doc.cgal.org/5.0.2/Miscellany/classCGAL_1_1Real__timer.html | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | refinedweb | 144 | 65.83 |
X Window Programming/SDL
Introduction[edit]
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library written in C that creates an abstraction over various platforms' graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on many operating systems including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS X. It manages video, events, digital audio, CD-ROM, sound, threads, shared object loading, networking and timers.
History[edit]
Sam Lantinga created the library, first releasing it in early 1998, while working for Loki Software. He got the idea while porting a Windows application to Macintosh. He then used SDL to port Doom to BeOS. Several other free libraries appeared to work with SDL, such as SMPEG and OpenAL.
The SDL library has bindings with almost every programming language there is, from the popular (C++, Perl, Python (through pygame), Pascal etc.) to the less known (such as Euphoria or Pliant). This and the fact that it is open-source and licensed under the LGPL make SDL a common choice for a lot of multimedia applications.
SDL itself is very simple; it merely acts as a thin, cross-platform wrapper, providing support for 2D pixel operations, sound, file access, event handling, timing, threading, and more. OpenGL is often used with SDL to provide fast 3D rendering. It is often thought of as a cross-platform DirectX, although it lacks some of its more advanced functionality. SDL instead has a huge number of third party extensions that make it easy to do more advanced functions.
The library is divided into several subsystems, namely the Video (handles both surface functions and OpenGL), Audio, CD-ROM, Joystick and Timer subsystems. Besides this basic, low-level support, there also are a few SDL-dependent libraries that provide some additional functionality. These include SDL_image (provides an easy way to load today's most common image formats), SDL_mixer (complex audio functions, mainly for sound mixing), SDL_net (networking support), SDL_ttf (TrueType Font rendering support), SDL_gfx (some additional graphical functions, such as image resizing and rotating) and SDL_rtf (simple Rich Text Format rendering).
Example C Code[edit]
// Headers #include "SDL.h" // Main function int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { // Initialize SDL if( SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING ) == -1 ) return 1; // Delay 2 seconds SDL_Delay( 2000 ); // Quit SDL SDL_Quit(); // Return return 0; }
A very basic SDL program. It loads SDL subsystems, pauses for 2 seconds, closes SDL, then exits the program.
Here is more advanced example :
#include <SDL.h> #define DIM 400.0 int main() { SDL_Surface *screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(DIM, DIM, 0, 0); SDL_Surface *surface = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(SDL_SWSURFACE, DIM, DIM, 24, 0xFF, 0xFF00, 0xFF0000, 0); double fact = 2; double cx = -0.74364500005891; double cy = 0.13182700000109; while (fact > 1e-18) { double xa = cx - fact; double ya = cy - fact; int y; for (y = 0; y < DIM; y++) { Uint8 *pixline = surface->pixels + y*surface->pitch; double y0 = ya + y/DIM*2*fact; int x; for (x = 0; x < DIM; x++) { double x0 = xa + x/DIM*2*fact; double xn = 0, yn = 0, tmpxn; int i; for (i = 0; i<512; i++) { tmpxn = xn*xn - yn*yn + x0; yn = 2*xn*yn + y0; xn = tmpxn; if (xn*xn + yn*yn > 4) break; // approximate infinity } if (i == 512) { // in Mandelbrot set pixline[x*3] = pixline[x*3+1] = pixline[x*3+2] = 0; } else { // not in Mandelbrot set; use escape iteration value to set color (grades of blue then white) pixline[x*3] = pixline[x*3+1] = i < 256 ? 0 : i - 256; pixline[x*3+2] = i < 256 ? i : 255; } } } SDL_BlitSurface(surface, NULL, screen, NULL); SDL_Flip(screen); fact /= 2; } SDL_Quit(); return(0); }
That is easily compiled and ran under Linux with "gcc `sdl-config --cflags --libs` -O3 mandelbrot.c && ./a.out", on Windows it's the same, but you have to use MinGW to compile it.
Extensions[edit]
- SMPEG - SDL MPEG Player Library
- Guichan and ParaGUI - Widget Sets
- GGI - a free cross-platform graphics interface | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X_Window_Programming/SDL | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 654 | 50.06 |
I am attempting to setup Workload Management in a greenfield vSphere 7 environment with NSX-T and it continues to hang at "Error configurating cluster NIC on master VM. This operation is part of API server configuration and will be retried". I see the following in the wcpsvc.log file:
2020-09-08T16:16:54.416Z error wcp [opID=5f57bd08-domain-c8] Failed to create cluster network interface for MasterNode: VirtualMachine:vm-88. Err: Unauthorized
2020-09-08T16:16:54.416Z error wcp [opID=5f57bd08-domain-c8] Error configuring cluster NIC on master VM vm-88: Unauthorized
2020-09-08T16:16:54.416Z error wcp [opID=5f57bd08-domain-c8] Error configuring API server on cluster domain-c8 Error configuring cluster NIC on master VM. This operation is part of API server configuration and will be retried.
My vCenter, and NSX deployments are on the same Layer 2 segment. NSX-T is currently functioning, with a connectivity validated from a logical segment out to the Internet. I have also validated that MTU is 1600 throughout the environment.
Are your hosts also running ESXi 7?
Yes, ESXi 7 build 16324942.
Hi elihuj,
Make sure the edge nodes are deployed as a medium (suggest large if you have the available resources) as the LB deployed is a medium size.
Hello VirtualizingStuff, thank you for the reply. I did deploy a Large Edge, but unfortunately that was not the fix. I tried it again, and for whatever reason it succeeded all the way through.
Hello,
I've the same issue. NSX-T 3.1, VMware ESXi, 7.0.1, 17168206, vCenter build: 17004997
In NSX-T manager Alarm there is one Open issue when Workload Management hang. I'm using 3 NSX manager appliance.
Manager Node has detected the NCP is down or unhealthy.
Entity name: domain-c11:a83fdad6-c5e1-472e-a47b-d670fb2dd1c3
I noticed this entity is not exists. I'm very new in NSX-T so I do not know this error is relevant or not.
Transport nodes and Edge nodes Tunnels are fine if I'm right.
Please give advice where should I search the root cause. Thank you.
This error seems common as I see lots of people having the same issue. I wonder if anyone at VMware knows how to troubleshoot it?
Two most common reasons are:
1. Trust is not enabled in the Compute Manager for this vCenter in NSX.
2. Time between vCenter and NSX is not in sync.
can you please get NCP log :
kubectl -n vmware-system-nsx logs <ncp-pod-name> -p
when you enabled WCP you enter "corp.local" as master DNS?
Usually this kind of error occurs when master and worker DNS configured as same.
Actually the master DNS should be reachable from the management network and worker DNS should be reachable from workload network.
If both the DNS servers are same then it need to be reachable from both networks(Management/Workload).
To cross check the network reachability ,
- Connect to the Kubernetes API master VM
- Run below commands,
1) ping -I eth0 <masterDNS>
2) ping -I eth1 <workerDNS>
Ok, this may be an issue. I am not well versed on the networking going on here. I am not sure how to assign IP addresses to the Ingress and Egress CIDRs. I assume by "worker" you mean these. I understand these need to be routable, But I can't figure out what VLAN they are on. I also don't have the capability to do BGP, and am not sure how to enter a route to these addresses. I can't even figure out what the interface to the T0 and T1 routers are. I understand networking, just not NSX-T.
Hi,
Do you know any other way to login the supervisor VM?
I had the same issue "Error configurating cluster NIC on master VM" therefore the "workload management" -> "namespaces" web page hanging at "workload management is still being configured. Please check back later".
I believe this "hanging" is preventing me from download and install k8s cli tool to connect to the control plane VMs.
By the way,
Do the DNS records need to be created for the master & worker before the deployment of workload management cluster?
thanks
Login into the Supervisor Master VM:
- SSH into the vCenter and enable shell(if required)
- Run "/usr/lib/vmware-wcp/decryptK8Pwd.py" to get the IP address and password for SC Master VM.
Eg:
# /usr/lib/vmware-wcp/decryptK8Pwd.py
Read key from file
Connected to PSQL
Cluster: domain-c8:2bcXXXX
IP: 10.xx.xx.xx
PWD: xxxxxxxxxxx
# ssh root@10.xx.xx.xx
type "yes" and provide above PWD.
After connect to supervisor master VM session , run the previous "ping" commands to check the Master/Worker DNS connectivity , nodes status like "kubectl get nodes" and system pods status "kubectl get pods -A" for troubleshooting.
>> Do the DNS records need to be created for the master & worker before the deployment of workload management cluster?
Its completely depends on your network, but for master directly use the management DNS.
For those who are interested, I had to get BGP working on the ToR switch to get Workload Management to install. Maybe you can get by without it, but it didn't work for me. Just Sayin'
I discovered that a pod " tmc-agent-installer-1611810900-8n776" is in error status and another pod "vsphere-csi-controller-6687dc774f-xnbfq" is in crashloopbackoff status in the master.
I didn't have DNS records created for master/worker yet so the ping was unsuccessful.
The three masters are all in "ready" status(using "kubectl get nodes") so i can only assume that the hanging issue that I mentioned before was due to other unknown reason...
Thanks!
Hi,
For those who are using BGP to get work the tanzu deployment here is the right tutorial-... | https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Issues-Enabling-Workload-Management-with-vSphere-7/m-p/2298129/highlight/true | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | refinedweb | 976 | 65.93 |
A brief introduction to the Trapezoidal rule and a uniform interval Composite Trapezoidal Rule implementation.
Trapezoidal Rule
The Trapezoidal Rule is used to evaluate a definite integral
within some the limits
and
. Trapezoidal rule approximates
with a polynomial of degree one ie. a line segment between the two points of the given function at with endpoints
and
, and then finds the integral of that line segment which is used to approximate the definite integral
. The integral of
the line approximated function is simply the area of the trapezium formed by the straight line, with base width
and bounded by the lines
and
in the positive side of the X axis. The approximate evaluation of the integral is found by finding the integral of the straight line with endpoints
and
can be. found with the below iterative formula:
The above iterative formula approximates
with only one straight line. To represent the function more accurately with the straight lines using the Trapezoidal Rule, the function is divided in many intervals
of the same uniformed width say
, such that
, and a line is fit within each interval to approximate the function and each such interval is evaluated with the above process and at last added to get the final integral. This is gives better results as the function
is better approximated with the line segments within the small intervals, and the missed sections of a curves are better covered. This is known as the Trapezoidal Composite Rule. The iterative method for the Trapezoidal Composite rule could be derived from the above relation and is found to be:
The Process
The Trapezoidal Composite Rule can be implemented directly from the iterative formula presented above. The first and the last ordinate would be calculated separately and the other ordinates would be summed by a loop and then is multiplied by 2. Next these two parts are added together to get the integral. For demonstration purpose some sample functions are used.
FUNCTION trapezoidal(f, a, b, n) Find width of each interval h = (b-a)/n Find y0= f(a), yn= f(b) Initialize x = a+h, i = 1, sum = 0 /* Calculate the sum of the ordinates from (x + h) to (x + (n-1)h) */ WHILE (i < n) DO sum = sum + f (x) x = x + h ENDWHILE /* Apply Trapezoidal Composite Formula to find the integral */ Iz = (h/2) [(y0 + yn) + 2 * sum] ENDFUNCTION
Sourcecode
#include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> double f1 (double x); double f2 (double x); double trapezoidal (double (*f) (double x), double a, double b, int n); int main (void) { double a, b, n; double Iz; printf ("\nEnter a,b,n: "); scanf ("%lf %lf %lf", &a, &b, &n); printf ("\nf(x) = sin (2x) / (1+x)^5"); /* Show integral computed with trapezoidal rule */ Iz = trapezoidal (f1, a, b, n); printf ("\n\tI_Trapezoidal (f(x), %g, %g, %g) = %g", a, b, n,Iz); printf ("\n"); printf ("\nf(x) = (1/x) + 5 + 10x^2;"); /* Show integral computed with trapezoidal rule */ Iz = trapezoidal (f2, a, b, n); printf ("\n\tI_Trapezoidal (f(x), %g, %g, %g) = %g", a, b, n,Iz); trapezoidal (double (*f) (double x), double a, double b, int n) { double h; double y = 0, x, sum = 0, y0, yn; int i; /* Avoid calling NULL */ if (f == NULL) return 0; h = (b - a) / n; y0 = f (a); yn = f (b); for (i = 1, x = a + h; i < n; x = x + h, i++) sum = sum + f (x); y = (h / 2) * ((y0 + yn) + 2 * sum); return y; } /* Sample function 1 */ double f1 (double x) { return sin (2 * x) / pow ((1 + x), 5); } /* Sample function 2 */ trapezoidal (double (*f) (double x), double a, double b, int n) : This function evaluates a definite integral integral of a function with Trapezoidal method of a function f within limits a, and b with n equal intervals. This takes a pointer to a function (n-2) values of the passed
function starting from (x+h) up to (x+(n-1)h). Then it uses the composite formula to find the integral with Trapezoidal rule, and returns the value: (h / 2) * ((y0 + yn) + 2 * sum);
- int main (void) : The main function prompts the user to enter the upper and the lower limits and the number of intervals to be taken and calls the functions with the proper parameters. The trapezoidal() is called as Iz = trapezoidal (f1, a, b, n); which computes the integral of the function f1 within upper and lower limit a and b with the Trapezoidal Rule.
Error
When
is continuous and M is the upper bound for the values of
on
, then the error induced by the
Trapezoidal rule is found to be:
Although the theory tells us there will always be a smallest safe value of M, in practice we can hardly ever find it. Instead, we find the best value we can and go on from there to estimate
. To make
small we make
small. It also can be graphically seen that a line fits less accurately for a certain interval in a higher degree function than a lower degree function. So increasing the interval h will result in better results, or implementing better fitting curve than a line needs to be selected.
The Trapezoidal = trapezoidal _Trapezoidal (f(x), 1, 2, 10) = 0.00513881 f(x) = (1/x) + 5 + 10x^2; I_Trapezoidal (f(x), 1, 2, 10) = 29.0438
Run 2: input = lower limit a = 5.3, upper limit b = 10.23,
intervals n = 100
Enter a,b,n: 5.3 10.23 100 f(x) = sin (2x) / (1+x)^5 I_Trapezoidal (f(x), 5.3, 10.23, 100) = -3.20357e-05 f(x) = (1/x) + 5 + 10x^2; I_Trapezoidal (f(x), 5.3, 10.23, 100) = 3097.73
Links
- Check for more:
- Simpson’s 1/3rd rule:
References
- Calculus and Analytic Geometry : Thomas Finney
- Images from : Wikipedia
:
2 thoughts on “Trapezoidal Rule”
Hi Arjun =)
I dont get it but, –it’s very cool that you do! | https://phoxis.org/2011/02/27/trapezoidal-rule/ | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | refinedweb | 988 | 61.5 |
Turning phone into magnetic compass by using QML and Qt Mobility
This code snippet shows how we can convert our Magnetic North sensor enabled phone to a compass by using QML and Qt Mobility. The compass image is rotated around based on the physical alignment of phone with respect to north. There are two modules involved here. Qt mobility plug-ins for provides the angle and user interface shows the compass image by using QML. This example creates Qt plug-in for Sensor according to How to install and use Qt Quick extension plug-in in Symbian article.
How Qt Mobility emits angle changes
When the orientation of the device is changed we emit AngleChanged signal and update the property m_AnglefromNorth. The changes are detected by custom QML element.
if(m_AnglefromNorth != (int)(reading->azimuth()))
{
emit AngleChanged();
m_AnglefromNorth = reading->azimuth();
}
The custom QML element (Compass) is created with the following QML code:
import QtQuick 1.0
Rectangle {
id: compass
width: 200; height: 200; color: "gray"
property variant anglefromNorth
property variant calibrationlevel
Image{
id: compassimageid
source: "compass.png"
smooth: true
rotation : -anglefromNorth
}
}
Finally a Qt Quick project is created to show the image and rotation on UI:
import QtQuick 1.0
import com.nokia.qmlcompass 1.0
Compass { // this comes from Compass.qml
CompassImage { // this class is defined in C++ (plugin.cpp)
id: comimage
}
anglefromNorth: comimage.angle
calibrationlevel: comimage.calibration
MouseArea
{
anchors.fill: parent
// if you click on screen it will exit
onClicked:
{
Qt.quit();
}
}
}
Example Applications
Example application was tested with N8 compiled and linked with QTSDK 1.1 TP. Can be found from following link: File:QtQmlCompas.zip
Hamishwillee - Screenshot would be nice ...A picture is worth a thousand words :-)
hamishwillee 09:54, 10 September 2012 (EEST) | http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Turning_phone_into_magnetic_compass_by_using_QML_and_Qt_Mobility | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 287 | 50.23 |
LoPy with deep sleep shield is unstable
I have a LoPy with the deep sleep shield.
The device does some UART communication with a sensor and sends data over LoRa, then goes to sleep, wakes up and repeats.
The LoPy goes to sleep and wakes after the defined time with the go_to_sleep(<seconds>) command. I save the lora state with lora.nvram_save() and retrieve it after waking with lora.nvram_restore(). All is well and i receive LoRa messages on the gateway.
This works for about 25 times, then the device is frozen. I'm assuming it can't be a memory issue because the device reboots after waking up. This was not the case before i added the deep sleep shield and code.
Any suggestions what could be the cause?
How do i even go about debugging this?
@daniel the failure is on the first wake-up. I don't have a multimeter handy, but can do that this evening.
I added @jojo suggestion and the board wakes now. I have left it in a sleep wake cycle and will see how long it runs.
@Robin after how many cycles did you see this? I left it running the whole night without a single failure. The brown-out detect is normal when entering deepsleep mode. If it doesn't even go into REPL is because it never wakes up. Can you measure the power on the 3V3 pin of the LoPy when this happens?
Hi @daniel
Thanks for the all nighter!
I have installed the new deepsleep.py but it introduces a new worse problem. The board goes into deepsleep mode, but when it wakes i see "Brownout detect" in the console and then the program quits without returning into REPL.
Any ideas?
Hello,
The instability has been fixed here:
We are now working on reducing the deep sleep current.
Cheers,
Daniel
Hi,
I had the same issue and solved it by using the garbage collector before sending the LoPy to sleep:
import gc from deepsleep import DeepSleep # enabling garbage collector gc.enable() # deep sleep ds = DeepSleep() # ... bunch of code ... # sending the LoPy to sleep gc.collect() ds.go_to_sleep(60)
Hope it helps!
Thanks @daniel
My code is here:
@Robin @chumelnicu apologies for the delay. We will check on this issue today and provide a solution within the next couple of days.
Yesterday I power cycled the device and it started again. But today it had stopped after 42 cycles of deep sleep and waking.
The device is connected to a permanent usb power source to make sure there was not a battery issue (i have not measured the deep sleep current yet, and there seems to be no concrete evidence on actual power consumption in deep sleep mode yet).
My program connects to TTN with OTAA on 868 Mhz (EU).
Come on pycom! Buggy deep sleep mode is cancelling out a whole range of news-worthy use-cases right now.
Can any of the pycom guru's provide a script they know works for weeks with deep sleep enabled? Not having found any evidence of successful long term use i am dubious it actually works. Just a hello world blinky example would a good starting point.
I noticed that just before going into deep sleep mode the REPL command line says "Browno". I assume that should be "Brownout". Which leads me to think there is some component that is not switched off before sleeping. WiFi perhaps or the LoRa chip? Or completely unrelated?
At present i see the following options:
- Try and debug the deep sleep library (painful and not looking likely in the near future)
- Try and debug the deep sleep shield (not in my field of expertise)
- Move to another platform like MBed or Arduino.
Any suggestions are more than welcome!
@Robin You can see all is all abput here
@Robin My lopy do same, after 14-15 deepsleep cycles program program is intrerupt and this is it . Must do hard reset to start again.
@daniel did few think in DeepSleep library but... lopy still stop program after deepsleep
I use lopy with deepsleep shield , with *.b3 frimware , configured for lorawan APB and powered from USB | https://forum.pycom.io/topic/1685/lopy-with-deep-sleep-shield-is-unstable/12 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | refinedweb | 699 | 83.86 |
Hello experts,
I think i can give you some point to go to with this socket thing. We
are on project, where we have to get the socket descriptor out of the
apache thus we can use it with external libraries. In one time I've
found myself with grep and apache sources, google and a lot of coffee ;)
We are on Linux (64 bit architecture).
here's how to get socket from apache in module:
static int my_post_read_request(request_rec *r)
{
conn_rec *conn = r->connection;
apr_socket_t *csd = ((core_net_rec
*)conn->input_filters->ctx)->client_socket;
ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, r, "mod_my_download:
client socket file descriptor: %d",csd->socketdes);
return OK;
}
static void my_register_hooks(apr_pool_t *p)
{
ap_hook_post_read_request(my_post_read_request, NULL, NULL,
APR_HOOK_REALLY_FIRST);
}
module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA my_download_module =
{
STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
my_register_hooks
};
so in my_post_read_request(..) you will have csd->socketdes at one
point. This is fully functional socket descriptor. I really believe this
is not the way apache team would like mod developers to play with
sockets...I believe they don't want it at all (i guess, that's the point
of storing apr_socket as (void) pointer in input_filters->ctx :) ). If
you know any cleaner (better), way how to do this, I would appreciate
any comments.
I'll be glad, if this helps.
Anyway, why i got interested in your mail Roy. You mention there some
approach to mark a connection as aborted. If one _marks_ a connection as
aborted, will:
- apache close this connection right after return from module ?
- if yes, is there a way to preserve this socket?
- apache send anything to the (appropriate) socket (connection)?
In general, I want to read headers and check the URL. If it's in certain
namespace, I would like to:
- tell apache to forget about this connection (mark as aborted?)
- pass socket from this connection to 'worker' (my own thread inside
apache, which will know what to do)
- return from module, and rely on apache to let this connection as is
(no data, no further read() from socket, no other modules touch it etc.)
If I'm confusing about something, reply please and I will
extend(explain) my thoughts.
Best regards,
Stefan
On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Brian McQueen wrote:
> This is sounding good. How do I gain the level of control that you
> are describing here? The request_rec has a conn_rec, but I don't see
> how to get beyond that. If I've successfully read 4096 bytes, how do
> I then stop any further transactions on the socket? I don't know how
> to grab the socket in order to close it!
There is a (at least one) way to mark the connection as aborted
after the read. I'd explain, but have too much on my plate right
now (flight to switzerland in the morning). Search for "aborted"
in the code and see what others do.
....Roy | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-modules-dev/200610.mbox/%3C453E36C3.3040800@noip.sk%3E | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | refinedweb | 478 | 62.98 |
Back to TextMessagePLUS
Troubleshooting
Submitting new Carriers
(Please note: We are in process of updating this help to better reflect the many
new features that have been added)
Before the program can be used the following information must be provided.
Reply Address:
This is the e-mail address that the recipient will see when they get the
message, and what address they can reply to. You must specify a fully
qualified email address. Each time you change your reply address you
must verify that the E-mail address is valid. This is done by the
program sending you a validation code. If you do not receive your
validation code within a minute or two, please check the
Troubleshooting page.
CONFIGURATION SCREEN
Check which carriers your recipients are most likely to use. We
suggest you click as FEW as possible, since each carrier greatly
increases the network traffic that this program generates. If you
prefer, you may instead check by country. Note that selecting the
entire USA is strongly discouraged because of the size of the list.
You are better off selecting the individual carriers if you know them.
NOTE: Unregistered software can select up to FOUR (4) carriers only.
Registered users may use as many as they like.
Advanced SMTP
Usually the SMTP server is configured automatically and
you should not need to change anything here. If you need to change
it, you should ideally use your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) SMTP
server. You may however use any SMTP server you have access to.
(Most people find it useful to use the same settings in their Email
client if possible) For additional information, please see the
Troubleshooting page.
Disable Bounce Back Filter: If your server is giving you
errors that it will not "RELAY" your messages, you might have to disable
the bounce back filter. This will have a side effect of causing
you to receive numerous emails sent to your reply address claiming that
your message was not delivered. The actual delivery of your
message was not affected. Checking this box is NOT recommended.
Message Throttle: Most ISPs have some limit as to how
many messages can be sent from your account within a given time.
This throttle helps to keep you within those limits. Unregistered
users are limited to a max of 200 messages per hour. There is no
limit on unregistered users. (Your ISP's limits still apply
however) Remember that the number of messages is calculated at - #
of recipients times # of carriers. So if you have 5 carriers, and 10
names, that would be 50 messages.
Time Limit: This will help prevent messages being sent in the
wee hours.
# of Msg/Burst: Changing this number could increase the
speed of delivery of your messages. Setting it too high will
increase your likelihood of being tagged as a spammer. The default
is 50. Unless you have been told otherwise, leave this number
alone.
Special Functions
(Registered PLUS Users only)
Importing Data:
Option is only available to registered PLUS users.
(Up to 50 names are available during the trial period)
Data should be entered in the Comma Separated Value
format (CSV) in the form of
"Name","Phone","Category"
where Category is optional
Example:
"Tom","212-234-5670","Club Member"
"Cindy","222-123-3122"
"William
Jones","Business@GMail.com","Office"
If you wish to
import your address book from Outlook:
From within Outlook: Choose File/Import and Export
choose "Export to a file"
choose "Comma Separated Values (Windows)" (or
DOS, it doesn't matter)
Within the tree, find your Contacts folder
Enter a file name (be sure it ends with a .CSV)
Select ONLY these fields:
Name, Mobile Phone, Categories
When you finish, it will create a file that can be imported by
TextMessagePLUS
Duplicate entries are automatically
discarded during the import process.
Command Line:
For Registered PLUS users only.
Command line is a very powerful option that allows you
to configure this program to work with batch jobs, Scheduled Tasks, etc.
/? = This information"
/Message="Message to be sent" (REQUIRED)
/Subject="Message
subject"
/Name="Name
of recipient"
(Address will be
looked up from database)
/Address="Number/email
of recipient"
(Separate
numbers/emails with semicolons (;)-but no spaces)
/Number= (Same as /Address=)
/Category="Category
Name" (Send to everyone in this category)
/Carrier="Name of
phone carrier"
/NoSplash Disables the initial splash screen.
NOTES:
You MUST specify
You MUST specify
EITHER /Name=, /Address= OR /Category=
If you do not specify /Carrier=, it will assume *Scan All*
Don't forget your quotes (") and make sure there is no space
before/after the '='
Examples:
TextMessagePLUS
/Message="Hey Hey Hey!" /Category="Friends"
TextMessagePLUS /Message="Meeting
is at 10:00"
/Address="555-123-4567;555-212-3333"
/Subject="Tonight's
meeting"
TextMessagePLUS
/Message="Call me ASAP!"
/Name="Bob
Smith;Johnson, Mary"
ErrorLevel is set to 0 if successful. 1 Otherwise | http://safcosoftware.com/TextMessagePLUS/help.htm | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | refinedweb | 806 | 53.1 |
Import Javascript modules with the require function
In Node.js, the
require function can used to import code from another file into the current script.
Javascript export default
As of ES6, the export default keywords allow for a single variable or function to be exported, then, in another script, it will be straightforward to import the default export.
After using the export default it is possible to import a variable or function without using the
require() function.
Intermediate Javascript: Export Module
To make an object in our Javascript file exportable as a module in Node.js, we assign the object to the
exports property of
module.
Using the import keyword in Javascript
As of ES6, the
import keyword can be used to import functions, objects or primitives previously exported into the current script.
There are many ways to use the
import keyword, for example, you can import all the exports from a script by using the
* selector as follows:
import * from 'module_name';.
A single function can be imported with curly brackets as follows:
import {funcA} as name from 'module_name';
Or many functions by name:
import {funcA, funcB} as name from 'module_name'; | https://production.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript/modules/intermediate-javascript-modules/cheatsheet | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | refinedweb | 191 | 50.16 |
I use this HTML key mapping constantly in TextMate (control-less-than) and it's sorely missed. Is there a way to implement this functionality via custom key mappings in ST2?
Still hoping someone knows a solution for this.
If you could better explain the behavior of "Insert Open/Close Tag (With Current Word)", I might be able to help. I'm not a textmate user, so I'm unfamiliar with the command.
word
becomes
<word></word>
Create a file InsertAsTag.py in your Users folder with this content:
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class InsertAsTagCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
for region in self.view.sel():
word_reg = self.view.word(region)
word = self.view.substr(word_reg)
s = "<%s></%s>" % (word, word)
self.view.replace(edit, word_reg, s)[/code]
and ad this to your User-Key-Bindings:
[code]{ "keys": "ctrl+<"], "command": "insert_as_tag"}
Thanks! I only got partway there using a snippet, because the original text would remain and I couldn't figure out how to remove it. I was using the following:
<$TM_CURRENT_WORD>$1</$TM_CURRENT_WORD>
The only thing I had to do differently to get the command working was to use the following in my keybindings. I'm on OS X if that makes a difference.
{ "keys": "ctrl+shift+,"], "command": "insert_as_tag"}
Awesome! Thanks very much!
Edit: Could it be edited so that the cursor ends up between the tags afterward?
Edit 2: Here is the implementation of this command in TextMate: gist.github.com/1539035
This should do it[code]import sublimeimport sublime_plugin
class InsertAsTagCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
for region in self.view.sel():
self.view.sel().clear()
word_reg = self.view.word(region)
word = self.view.substr(word_reg)
s = "<%s></%s>" % (word, word)
self.view.replace(edit, word_reg, s)
self.view.sel().clear()
if region.a < region.b:
self.view.sel().add(sublime.Region(region.b + 2))
else:
self.view.sel().add(sublime.Region(region.a + 2))
self.view.show(self.view.sel())[/code]
However, have you installed the zenCoding plugin? It makes this stuff pretty much obsolete.
Edit: It also works if the cursor is at the end of the word, it doesn't have to be selected.
Thanks again! I modified it to default to a paragraph tag if there's no current word. github.com/jimmycuadra/sublime- ... rtAsTag.py
This is the type of command that are very welcome to become part of the Tag Package.github.com/SublimeText/Tag "Collection of packages about HTML/XML tags."
Feel free to submit or request the addition.
Regards,
This is now part of the "Tag" Package (). | https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/insert-open-close-tag-with-current-word/2993/9 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | refinedweb | 430 | 53.47 |
Python: How to Write a Module
You can define functions, save it in a file, then later on, load the file and use these functions.
Save the following in a file and name it
yy.py
# python 3 def f1(n): return n+1
To load the file, use
import yy, then to call the function, use
yy.f1
# python 3 # import the module import yy # calling a function print yy.f1(5)
See also:
Python Module/Package/Namespace
- a “module” is a single file of Python code.
- a “package” is a directory of Python modules. (but can mean a single file module too.)
If you have multiple files, they make up a package. You put all files inside directory, possibly with nested sub directories. Like this:
fangame __init__.py soundx __init__.py rabbit_punch.py vid __init__.py tiger.py thinky __init__.py supertramp.py subby __init__.py a.py b.py
For example, in the above, you can load a module by:
import fangame.soundx.rabbit_punch import fangame.thinky.subby.a # ...
Dir with
__init__.py means that directory is part of the package. Python will look at the dir structure and file names as module's name when
import is called.
For example, if dir
soundx does not have a
__init__.py file, then
import fangame.soundx.rabbit_punch won't work, because Python won't consider dir
soundx as part of the package.
Similarly,
fangame must have a
__init__.py. And, if you want
import fangame to automatically load
soundx/rabbit_punch, then, in
fangame/__init__.py you must have
import soundx.rabbit_punch.
The file
__init__.py will be executed when that particular module in that directory is loaded. If you don't need any such init file, just create a empty file.
Here's a summary:
- When you do
import name(or variant syntax of
import), Python searches for modules at current dir and
sys.path. [see Python: List Modules, Search Path, Loaded Modules]
- Module files are just regular Python code. There's no code for module/package/namespace declaration.
- A package is directory of modules.
- A package's directory must have
__init__.pyfile, but it can be empty. This file is loaded when modules in that dir is imported.
- File names and directory structure are automatically taken to be the module's name and form namespace. For example, a dir named
a/b/c.pyis a module that can be imported with
import a.b.c
Note: it is suggested that module names be short and lower case only.
Note: the Python language does not have direct technical concept of “module” nor “package”. For example, there's not keyword “module” nor “package”. These words are only used to describe the concept of libraries. Technically, Python language only has a sense of namespace, and is exhibited by {
import,
__init__.py,
__name__,
__all__, …}.
Syntax 「from x.y import z」
Alternative syntax for loading module is
from x.y import z.
Typically, this is used to import the name
z, of single function
z of module file at
x/y.py. But the actual semantics is a bit complex.
from x.y import z will do ONE of two things:
- ① Import the name
zof a single function/variable
zof a module at path
x/y.py, if that module does define the name
z.
- ② Import the module names as prefix name
zof a module at path
x/y/z.py, if the file
x/y.pydoes not contain the name
z. For example, if
x/y/z.pycontains a function named
f, then after
from x.y import z, you can call
fby
z.f().
If the module
x/y.py doesn't have the name
z, and there's no module at
x/y/z.py, then a
ImportError is raised.
Syntax 「from x.y import *」
Another syntax for loading module is
from x.y import *.
from x.y import * will do this:
If the file at
x/y/__init__.py defines a variable named
__all__ (which should contain a list of strings, each string is a submodule name), then, all those sub-modules are imported. The names imported are the strings of
__all__.
For example, if
__all__ = ["a","b"], then the module at
x/y/a.py is imported as name
a and the module at
x/y/b.py is imported as name
b.
If
__all__ is not defined, then
from x.y import * just imports the name
x.y (for module
x/y.py) and all names from module
x/y.py
2014-04-09 Thanks to Kaito Kumashiro for correction. Thanks to Demian Brecht for suggestion. | http://xahlee.info/python/writing_a_module.html | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | refinedweb | 772 | 79.16 |
To be honest with you, all the codes that i made were self taught, i had to advance myself to learn more stuff in C++ which my first challenge is to make a simple but clean made text based adventure game, but im at the wall atm. (don't judge me, i'm still a newbie to C++)
One is making choices, i tried doing "if" then "else if", on my last project, and it always reads the first "if", making the other two choices non-readable, so i had to force myself to make only one choice (hence making it a game that has alot of choices
Two is skipping text, i showed to my friends that im trying to advance learning on C++, but everytime they read the tutorial or the "instruction" part ( the first part ), they always ask me, "is there a way to skip it, like while the text is appearing, can i press enter to skip the text." took me awhile to figure that one out but so far is either remove the typewriter effect or just let it stay.
P.S If you ask about what was supposed to be the choices on my "if" part is that i want to inspect the bench and the metal rod, if i figure that one out i can make the story even longer.
#include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <windows.h> #include <chrono> #include <thread> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <MMSystem.h> #pragma comment(lib,"winmm.lib") using std::string; using namespace std; int main() { PlaySound(TEXT("C:\\Users\\Miguel Nicholas\\Desktop\\sounds\\souls.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_LOOP | SND_ASYNC); string hello = "Welcome to the Void.\n" "The Negligence of the Void!\n" "In this story, your choice matters to this world.\n" "For the story adapts to the choices you make.\n" "So choose carefully, one move will change the senario.\n" "There will be a senario that you have to choose. \n" "You will ask a choice that is inside of this example (answer).\n" "For every pause of the text, please press enter.\n" "With that in mind, game is on beta so be mindful and have fun.\n"; int x = 0; while (hello[x] != '\0') { cout << hello[x]; if (hello[x] != ' ' && hello[x] != '\n') Beep(950, 50); x++; }; cin.get(); cout << "" << endl; cout << "Let me tell you a tale of an ember, a power of balance, changed Yundr." << endl; cout << "In the age of the darkness, A land named Yundr was unformed, shrouded by fogs, filled with dark entities." << endl; cout << "But then there was fire, and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark." << endl; cout << "Then from the dark, they came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame." << endl; cout << "Gwyn, a noble warrior was the first one to withstand the flame, made it as his own." << endl; cout << "Eli, a witch in studies that was cable to withstand the flame." << endl; cout << "And Nero, the man who was survived the first onslaught of the darkness also withstand the flame." << endl; cin.get(); cout << "" << endl; cout << "It was fortold that the ember is the only key of balancing between good and evil of the land of Yundr. " << endl; cout << "Gwyn sought out this great power and used it to cast light around the realm, but after that, the land changed." << endl; cout << "All entities that were once dead are now alive, some entities that supposed to be dead are now awakened. " << endl; cout << "They realized that the darkness was casted for a reason, to remain peace of the land, now awakened in destruction " << endl; cout << "Gwyn and the others used all of their power to defend Yundr, by creating a sanctum, which now called Londor. " << endl; cout << "Londor was the beacon of Yundr, making it as the safezone of all the land, but alas, it did not took long for the flame to extinguished." << endl; cout << "Gwyn grew tired of his sanctum and ventured the remaining dark lands of Yundr to claim more land of Yundr." << endl; cout << "Thus began the Age of Fire. But soon, the flames will fade, and only Dark will remain" << endl; cout << "Even now, there are only embers, and man sees not light, but only endless nights." << endl; cout << "And amongst the living are seen, carriers of the accursed Darksign." << endl; cout << "Yes, indeed. The Darksign brands the Undead and in this land, the Undead are corralled and led to the north," << endl; cout << "Are locked away, to await the end of the world. " << endl; cout << "This is your fate." << endl; cout << "" << endl; system("PAUSE"); cout << "" << endl; cout << "You woke up in a deep slumber, what you see in the dark appears to be a prison cell" << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "Not knowing who or what you are." << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "You heard nothing but soothing echoes of a crisped, unwinding flames in the distance." << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "Pondering of how you end up in here or purpose of being here" << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "You looked around to find a way to escape this cell." << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "So far you can only see a bucket, a wooden bench hanging from the wall with chains and a rusted metal rod." << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "You noticed that the metal rod was rotten, one hit and it will break. " << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "You sat down on the wonky bench, and noticed something shiny inside the bucket" << endl; Sleep(1000); cout << "Inspect (bucket) ? " << endl; string inspect; cin >> inspect; if (inspect == "bucket") { cout << "You inspected the bucket, you found some pieces of a makeshift lockpick.\n" << endl; cout << "You're wondering if this lockpick is stable enough to open the cell gate.\n" << endl; cout << "(use) lockpick /" << endl; string locka; cin >> locka; if (locka == "use") { cout << "You try to nudge carefully while using the makeshift lockpick.\n" << endl; cout << "You have successfuly opened the cell gate." << endl; system("PAUSE"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } } }
I only ask for tips not for you to finish my work, this is just a side project (not school, well it is but i want to continue it even more)
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE :) | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/518846/problems-at-my-text-based-c-game | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | refinedweb | 1,043 | 77.47 |
If we now navigate to our new Skill, we can see that it is made up of a number of files and folders.
$ ls -ltotal 20drwxr-xr-x 3 kris kris 4096 Oct 8 22:21 dialog-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 299 Oct 8 22:21 __init__.py-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 9482 Oct 8 22:21 LICENSE-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 283 Oct 8 22:21 README.md-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 642 Oct 8 22:21 settingsmeta.yamldrwxr-xr-x 3 kris kris 4096 Oct 8 22:21 vocab
We will look at each of these in turn.
The
dialog,
vocab, and
locale directories contain subdirectories for each spoken language the skill supports. The subdirectories are named using the IETF language tag for the language. For example, Brazilian Portugues is 'pt-br', German is 'de-de', and Australian English is 'en-au'.
By default, your new Skill contains one subdirectory for United States English - 'en-us'. If more languages were supported, then there would be additional language directories.
$ ls -l dialogtotal 4drwxr-xr-x 2 kris kris 4096 Oct 8 22:21 en-us
There will be one file in the language subdirectory (ie.
en-us) for each type of dialog the Skill will use. Currently this will contain all of the phrases you input when creating the Skill.
$ ls -l dialog/en-ustotal 4-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 10 Oct 8 22:21 first.dialog
When instructed to use a particular dialog, Mycroft will choose one of these lines at random. This is closer to natural speech. That is, many similar phrases mean the same thing.
For example, how do you say 'goodbye' to someone?
Bye for now
See you round
Catch you later
Goodbye
See ya!
Each Skill defines one or more Intents. Intents are defined in the
vocab directory. The
vocab directory is organized by language, just like the
dialog directory.
We will learn about Intents in more detail shortly. For now, we can see that within the
vocab directory you may find multiple types of files:
.intent files used for defining Padatious Intents
.voc files define keywords primarily used in Adapt Intents
.entity files define a named entity also used in Adapt Intents
In our current example we might see something like:
$ ls -l vocab/en-ustotal 4-rw-r--r-- 1 kris kris 23 Oct 8 22:21 first.intent
This
.intent file will contain all of the sample utterances we provided when creating the Skill.
This directory is a newer addition to Mycroft and combines
dialog and
vocab into a single directory. This was requested by the Community to reduce the complexity of a Skills structure, particularly for smaller Skills. Any of the standard file types that we've looked at so far will be treated the same if they are contained in the
dialog,
vocab, or
locale directories.
This also includes the
regex directory that you will learn about later in the tutorial.
The
__init__.py file is where most of the Skill is defined using Python code. We will learn more about the contents of this file in the next section.
Let's take a look:
from adapt.intent import IntentBuilderfrom mycroft import MycroftSkill, intent_file_handler, intent_handler
This section of code imports the required libraries. Some libraries will be required on every Skill, and your skill may need to import additional libraries.
The
class definition extends the
MycroftSkill class:
class HelloWorldSkill(MycroftSkill):
The class should be named logically, for example "TimeSkill", "WeatherSkill", "NewsSkill", "IPaddressSkill". If you would like guidance on what to call your Skill, please join the ~skills Channel on Mycroft Chat.
Inside the class, methods are then defined.
This method is the constructor. It is called when the Skill is first constructed. It is often used to declare state variables or perform setup actions, however it cannot utilise MycroftSkill methods as the class does not yet exist. You don't have to include the constructor.
An example
__init__ method might be:
def __init__(self):super().__init__()self.already_said_hello = Falseself.be_friendly = True
Perform any final setup needed for the skill here. This function is invoked after the skill is fully constructed and registered with the system. Intents will be registered and Skill settings will be available.
def initialize(self):my_setting = self.settings.get('my_setting')
Previously the
initialize function was used to register intents, however our new
@intent_handler and
@intent_file_handler decorators are a cleaner way to achieve this. We will learn all about the different Intents shortly.
In our current HelloWorldSkill we can see two different styles.
An Adapt handler, triggered by a keyword defined in a
ThankYouKeyword.voc file.
@intent_handler(IntentBuilder('ThankYouIntent').require('ThankYouKeyword'))def handle_thank_you_intent(self, message):self.speak_dialog("welcome")
A Padatious intent handler, triggered using a list of sample phrases.
@intent_file_handler('HowAreYou.intent')def handle_how_are_you_intent(self, message):self.speak_dialog("how.are.you")
In both cases, the function receives two parameters:
self - a reference to the HelloWorldSkill object itself
message - an incoming message from the
messagebus.
Both intents call the
self.speak_dialog() method, passing the name of a dialog file to it. In this case
welcome.dialog and
how.are.you.dialog.
You will usually also have a
stop() method.
This tells Mycroft what your Skill should do if a stop intent is detected.
def stop(self):pass
In the above code block, the
pass statement is used as a placeholder; it doesn't actually have any function. However, if the Skill had any active functionality, the stop() method would terminate the functionality, leaving the Skill in a known good state.
The final code block in our Skill is the
create_skill function that returns our new Skill:
def create_skill():return HelloWorldSkill()
This is required by Mycroft and is responsible for actually creating an instance of your Skill that Mycroft can load.
Please note that this function is not scoped within your Skills class. It should not be indented to the same level as the methods discussed above.
This file contains the full text of the license your Skill is being distributed under. It is not required for the Skill to work, however all Skills submitted to the Marketplace must be released under an appropriate open source license.
The README file contains human readable information about your Skill. The information in this file is used to generate the Skills entry in the Marketplace. More information about this file, can be found in the Marketplace Submission section.
This file defines the settings that will be available to a User through their account on Home.Mycroft.ai.
Jump to Skill Settings for more information on this file and handling of Skill settings.
You have now successfully created a new Skill and have an understanding of the basic components that make up a Mycroft Skill. | https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/skill-development/skill-structure | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | refinedweb | 1,132 | 57.67 |
Im working on a 2d platformer game and what i need is a count up timer aka a progress bar or a progress count node. It should should work exactly like a countdown except it should start at 0 and go endlessly up. I will base the game speed/difficulty depending on how high that number is. I know to ask questions in SO you should always provide some code, but i have know clue how to make a reversed countdown. Does someone now how to create something like this shown in the screenshots below?
EDIT
I've managed to kinda achieve what i wanted. I just created a SKLabelNode that has a int variable as a text and in the update method increased the int variable like that --score++--. But the value of the score label increases really fast, does someone know how slow it down a little bit and then after a time make it slowly faster as the game goes further?
Thank you in advance.
Maybe something like this :
import SpriteKit class Player:SKSpriteNode { override init(texture: SKTexture?, color: UIColor, size: CGSize) { super.init(texture: texture, color: color, size: size) } required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } } class GameScene: SKScene, SKPhysicsContactDelegate { var gameStarted = false var player = Player(texture: nil, color: UIColor.brownColor(), size: CGSize(width: 50, height: 100)) var levelTimerLabel = SKLabelNode() var levelTimerValue: Int = 0 { didSet { if levelTimerValue == 10 { self.increaseScore(withDelay: 0.1)} levelTimerLabel.text = "\(levelTimerValue)m" } } override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) { self.player.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(frame), y: CGRectGetMidY(frame)) addChild(self.player) levelTimerLabel.zPosition = 200 levelTimerLabel.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(frame), y: CGRectGetMidY(frame)) levelTimerLabel.text = "\(levelTimerValue)m" addChild(levelTimerLabel) } //MARK: SCORELABEL METHOD func increaseScore(withDelay delay:NSTimeInterval = 0.5) { let block = SKAction.runBlock({[unowned self] in self.levelTimerValue += 1 // Swift 3 yo }) let wait = SKAction.waitForDuration(delay) let sequence = SKAction.sequence([wait,block]) self.runAction(SKAction.repeatActionForever(sequence), withKey: "countUp") } override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) { if gameStarted == false { gameStarted = true startWorld() increaseScore() } player.physicsBody?.velocity = CGVectorMake(0, 0) player.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(0, 150)) // Jump Impulse } func startWorld(){ print("startWold method invoked") } }
When the levelTimerValue reaches 10, the countUp action will be replaced with a new one, which is going to be 5 times faster. I guess that is what you were trying to achieve. I modified your code a bit to avoid strong reference cycles, removed unneeded update: method calls and few minor things as well. Also note that now you don't have a SKAction property called "wait". That action is created locally now.
EDIT:
Based on your comments, you can pause the timer like this :
func pauseTimer(){ if let countUpAction = self.actionForKey("countUp") { countUpAction.speed = 0.0 } }
Unpausing would be the same...Just set countUpAction to 1.0
Also instead of using string "countUp" I suggest you to make a constant like this:
let countUpActionKey = "countUp"
so you will be safe from typos when reusing this action key. | https://codedump.io/share/VnmhMwbdoJk8/1/how-to-make-a-reversed-countdown-or-a-count-up-timer-in-swift | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | refinedweb | 498 | 50.43 |
The assignment instructions themselves are quite vague, but here is what is needed:
"Using a JFileChooser, prompt the user for a file to open. Using a Scanner, read one line from this file
at a time, until the end, printing out each line in upper case to System.out."
I take it he means a .txt file. So if "I like cats" is in the .txt file I would have to get it to print through System.out as "I LIKE CATS", correct? If so, I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm able to prompt the user to open a file, but I'm not exactly sure how I would go about getting it to print in all uppercase characters. Here's what I have so far:
import javax.swing.JFileChooser; import java.util.Scanner; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; public class Program2 { public static void main (String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException { JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser(); Scanner in = null; if (chooser.showOpenDialog(null) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) { File selectedFile = chooser.getSelectedFile(); in = new Scanner(selectedFile); while(in.hasNextLine()) { String str = new String(in.nextLine()); System.out.println(str.toUpperCase()); } } } }
Thanks for the help in advance.
Edit: Solved. All I had to do was put the Scanner in a String object so I could gain access to the toUpperCase() method. Updated code to signify this just in case anyone else was having the same problem. | http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/file-i-o-other-i-o-streams/38109-prompting-user-open-file-then-printing-system-out-using-touppercase.html | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | refinedweb | 236 | 68.77 |
galaxian x / stingray 313 - nu 1000 - shipwrec recordsSHIP 036 - eu12''
Genre: Techno / Electro - Electro
1. Galaxian - Storm coming
2. Galaxian x Stingray313 - Nu-1000
3. Galaxian x Stingray313 - Graphene
4. Stingray313 - Dopant
5. Galaxian x Stingray313 - Cacusi4o10
6. Galaxian x Stingray313 - Totally Controlled
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import title
An Atlantic crossover brings together Detroit's Stingray313 and Glasgow's Galaxian for a very special 12".
More collaboration than split, the EP sees each artist fly solo as well as combining their admirable analogue abilities. Pressures are high from the outset, Galaxian twists and teases patterns in the reverbing reverence of "Storm Coming." BPMs surge as the two merge for the cold "NU-1000." Lilting notes ghost between rasping rhythms. And it is around such racing drums that warmth flows, as in the meandering softness of "Graphene." Beats don't abate as Stingray takes the helm for the blistering bass of "Dopant." | http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=88602 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | refinedweb | 151 | 68.57 |
On 03/02/2018 12:54 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 10:46:33PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote: >> Pull in definitions for SPEED_UNKNOWN, DUPLEX_UNKNOWN, DUPLEX_HALF, >> and DUPLEX_FULL. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jba...@akamai.com> >> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> >> Cc: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> >> Cc: virtio-...@lists.oasis-open.org >> --- >> include/net/eth.h | 7 +++++++ >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/net/eth.h b/include/net/eth.h >> index 09054a5..9843678 100644 >> --- a/include/net/eth.h >> +++ b/include/net/eth.h >> @@ -417,4 +417,11 @@ bool >> eth_parse_ipv6_hdr(const struct iovec *pkt, int pkt_frags, >> size_t ip6hdr_off, eth_ip6_hdr_info *info); >> >> +/* ethtool defines - from linux/ethtool.h */ >> +#define SPEED_UNKNOWN -1 >> + >> +#define DUPLEX_HALF 0x00 >> +#define DUPLEX_FULL 0x01 >> +#define DUPLEX_UNKNOWN 0xff >> + >> #endif > > While that's not a lot, I think we should import linux/ethtool.h into > include/standard-headers/linux/ using scripts/update-linux-headers.sh >
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Ok, I had started down that path, by including include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h but that resulted in a few other headers - kernel.h, sysinfo.h. And so it seemed like a lot of headers for only a few lines. But I will re-visit it... Thanks, -Jason | https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg519282.html | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | refinedweb | 205 | 53.78 |
Before thinking on how to implement my Python 3 solution, I have converted the given sample in a test case:
def test_provided_1(self): data = '.........*\n' \ '.*.*...*..\n' \ '..........\n' \ '..*.*....*\n' \ '.*..*...*.\n' \ '.........*\n' \ '..........\n' \ '.....*..*.\n' \ '.*....*...\n' \ '.....**...\n' output = '..........\n' \ '...*......\n' \ '..*.*.....\n' \ '..*.*.....\n' \ '...*......\n' \ '..........\n' \ '..........\n' \ '..........\n' \ '..........\n' \ '..........\n' self.assertEqual(output, solution(data))I am going to need a few constants:
STEPS = 10 ALIVE = '*' DEAD = '.'STEPS represents the number of iterations I want to run on the input sequence. DEAD and ALIVE should have a clear meaning.
Then I wrote a simple python function, that converts the input string in a squared matrix (remember, in the fantastic world of CodeEval we can forget about error handling), use it to start a ten times loop on a function that implements a round in the game, convert back the 2D list to a string, and return it.
def solution(data): step = [list(row) for row in data.rstrip().split('\n')] # 1 for i in range(STEPS): step = next_iteration(step) # 2 result = [] # 3 for row in step: result.append(''.join([c for c in row])) return '\n'.join(result) + '\n'1. Firstly, I have right-stripped the input data, because I want to get rid of the final newline, then I split it on new lines, getting a list of strings, each of them representing a row in the board. Finally, I convert each row in a list of single characters.
2. Call STEPS times the function implementing a round in the game. Notice it passes in input the board representation, and gets back its new status.
3. Convert back the bidimensional list to a plain string. Firstly each row is joined to a string, then all the rows are joined on a newline. Finally a last newline is added at the end.
Let's play the game!
def next_iteration(matrix): next_step = [] # 1 for i in range(len(matrix)): row = [] for j in range(len(matrix[0])): count = local_population(matrix, i, j) # 2 if matrix[i][j] == ALIVE: # 3 row.append(ALIVE if 1 < count < 4 else DEAD) else: row.append(ALIVE if count == 3 else DEAD) next_step.append(row) return next_step1. I am going to push the new value for each cell to a new board.
2. For each cell, I count how many neighbors are alive. It's a bit tricky piece of code, so I put it in a function on its own.
3. Accordingly to the rules of the game, a cell gets dead or alive based on its current status and its neighbors' one. So, if it is alive, and it has 2 or 3 neighbors, it stay alive, otherwise it dies. If it is dead, and there are three neighbors, it springs to life.
And here I check the neighborhood:
def local_population(matrix, i, j): result = 0 for row in [i-1, i, i+1]: for col in [j-1, j, j+1]: if 0 <= row < len(matrix) and 0 <= col < len(matrix) \ and not (row == i and col == j) \ and matrix[row][col] == ALIVE: result += 1 return resultI check the cells in the square around position [i,j]. However I don't have to check [i,j] itself, and I should avoid to go out of the board. For each cell nearby that is alive, I increase the neighbor counter.
It took some time to get the OK from CodeEval, given the O(n**2) nature of the solution, I suspect. Anyway, it worked fine and I have got full marks. So I pushed test case and python script to GitHub. | http://thisthread.blogspot.com/2017/01/codeeval-game-of-life.html | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | refinedweb | 592 | 79.7 |
FULL : Printing of Monospaced text no longer produces reliable monospaced spacing. For example, documents with text arranged in two columns lined up using spaces will look correct when displayed but no longer result in an aligned second column when printed. Trailing spaces on a line are sometimes the cause, whereas they shouldn't make a difference. JTextArea and JTextPane both exhibit this problem. This is a regression in 1.6.0_10, as 1.6.0_7 and prior releases worked correctly. STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM : Compile and run the source code provided. EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR : EXPECTED - Columns of text when printed should be aligned the same as when displayed, and the same as they were when printed under 1.6.0_7. ACTUAL - Examples of the problem in the test document: 1) "PO BOX" should be aligned with "LOGISTICS" and "LOS ANGELES", not shifted right one space 2) "MANAGEMENT" should be aligned under "FP", not shifted left a half space. 3) "APPROVAL" should be aligned under "SUPERVISOR", not shifted left a half space. 4) "NA" should be aligned under "03", not shifted right 7 spaces (removing trailing spaces fixes). 5) "ADDRESS" should be one space after "APP", not shifted right 15 spaces (removing trailing spaces fixes). 6) "RECIPIENT" should be aligned with "9", not shifted left a half space. REPRODUCIBILITY : This bug can be reproduced always. ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ---------- import java.awt.*; import java.awt.print.*; import javax.swing.*; public class Test { static JTextArea textArea; static JFrame f; public static void main(String[] args) { textArea = new JTextArea(); String txt = " LOGISTICS BUREAU\n" + " PO BOX 30158 \n" + " LOS ANGELES CA 90030\n" + "\n" + "APP ORI: CA0194200\n" + "APP NAME: FP REJECT PO\n" + "APP TYPE: MANAGEMENT/HEAD DEPARTMENT\n" + "APP TITLE: SUPERVISOR\n" + "APP SERVICE: APPROVAL/RESPONSE/COPY\n" + "OCA: PO THREE\n" + "DOB: 03/03/1960\n" + "CDL: NA \n" + "ATI: I285POF404\n" + "DATE SUBMITTED: 10/16/2001\n" + "\n" + "APP ADDRESS: \n" + "\n" + "Electronic Response: 91238\n" + "Email Address: ###@###.###\n" + "Routing Number: 964464-332\n"; textArea.setText(txt); textArea.setFont(new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12)); f = new JFrame("Test"); f.getContentPane().add(textArea); f.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600, 800)); f.pack(); f.setVisible(true); PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob(); PageFormat pf = pj.defaultPage(); pj.setPrintable(new Content(), pf); try { if (pj.printDialog()) pj.print(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } System.out.println("Hit <Enter> when done"); try { System.in.read(); } catch (Exception e) {} } static class Content implements Printable { public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex) { if (pageIndex > 0) return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE; Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g; g2d.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY()); textArea.print(g2d); return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS; } } } ---------- END SOURCE ---------- CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND : Removing trailing spaces fixes some but not all of the problems. Release Regression From : 6u7 The above release value was the last known release where this bug was not reproducible. Since then there has been a regression. | https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6784397 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | refinedweb | 483 | 58.38 |
22 August 2011 08:05 [Source: ICIS news]
(updates oil prices, adds details throughout)
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On Sunday rebels took control of the Libyan capital,
At 07:00 GMT on Monday, October Brent crude on
Meanwhile, September NYMEX light sweet crude futures (WTI) were at $81.34/bbl, down by $0.92/bbl from the previous close. The
Ending the conflict could see
Since the civil unrest began, oil production has declined to 200,000-300,000 bbl/day, according to the Commonwealth Bank of
“
Crowds gathered in
One of Gaddafi's sons has been captured by rebels, media reports said.
US President Barack Obama said in a statement late on Sunday that the Gaddafi regime “is showing signs of collapsing”.
"The future of
"The Gaddafi regime is clearly crumbling," said a statement published on the NATO website on Monday.
"The sooner Gaddafi realises that he cannot win the battle against his own people, the better," NATO | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2011/08/22/9486777/brent-crude-falls-3bbl-on-hopes-over-libya-oil-exports.html | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 157 | 70.02 |
Find consecutive elements in a list
- try this
def has_duplicate(): user = '1 2 3 4 2' items = user.split() for i in range(0,len(items)-1): # loop on items except last one if items[i] in items[i+1:]: # check of i-th item exists in next ones return True return False print(has_duplicate())
Checks if duplicates exist but not only consecutive...
if items[i] == items[i+1]: # check if i-th item is equal to next one
Will check consecutive duplicates
def hasdupelems(l): return len(l) != len(set(l)) print(hasdupelems(['ab', 'cd', 'ab', 'ef'])) print(hasdupelems(['ab', 'cd', 'ef'])) | https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/5107/find-consecutive-elements-in-a-list/3 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | refinedweb | 103 | 59.33 |
Hello Everybody,
I saw that you updated the Docs section for the Custom Widgets. I saw that "Camera Widget" is coming soon. Can you tell us in what time frame we can expect these wonderful functionalities?
Thank you in advance:)
A lot of the widgets we expected for Q1 were delayed until Q2 due to API versioning that they rely on being delayed. We'll be doing a release in Q2 of this year with the following expected widgets:
Unfortunately the camera widget isn't in that list. It doesn't mean you won't see it in Q2 of this year, just that you'll see the above batch first. If I get more specific info on the timing of it I'll update here.
Wholly Sheepshit!
I just happen to be working on aWiFi 8-input joystick/volume control/analog sensor/gas gauge PC board.-the size of 2 postage stamps.Imagine that.Make my ThustMaster joystick Cayenne WiFi wireless.
-I certainly hope y'all are accounting for calibration-I need (currently) a multiply by 52.1628to make my MCP3208 multimeter spot-on correct
What is expected by the "Video" widget?
The Video widget will be used for streaming web video like Youtube Live. I haven't seen all of the design on it yet, but imagine it's possible that could come from a stream from a local webcam as well. It just won't have functionality to actually control the pi camera, which is the intent of the eventual Camera widget.
Thank you for the explanation. I am asking because I want to monitor the growth of my plants, and then to make this kind of videos with fast speed pictures that shows the process of growing the plant.
Cheers.
Waiting for this release. Until then Cayenne is not much of help building my smart security system
What do you need for your monitoring system. You can send commands directly to raspberry and make pictures locally. It is some kind of solution too.
Hi. I'd like to press a button on Cayenne dashboard to send a command to raspberry pi. How can I do it?
You can write a python file that reads the state of a button, and If it is pressed (if is 1) it can trigger some command using:
os.system("command")
Don't forget to include:
import os
Tried but can't create a button with no device related.My need is just software related, to press a button on the Cayenne Dashboard that execute a command (bash, etc) on my RPi, with no GPIO use at all. There is some example about this?Thanks in advance!
You can use virtual pin I think.
Thanks for your suggestion, but just found an app that does just what I need. I'll try "virtual pin" to know how and if it works for me.
I will give it another try!
I saw some of these at Maker Faire in May and am very excited to see some new widgets... I've been waiting since last Maker Faire. I know we had to get all the happy Arduino people in the fold, but now that the Arduino is released we need more widgets . I'm really hoping for a text widget soon as I have updates that are generated on my host that i'm wanting to display on a screen... We are now almost in Q3 of this year, any hope ??? I'd be happy to Beta test it for you!
Thanks!
@ognqn.chikov could a python script be written to reboot rpi3 when an input on a gpio? I want to use my mega to reboot the rpi in case I lose contact with it from overseas.
Thanks
Yes, it can. You have to put a python command inside a script - os.system("sudo reboot")
os.system("sudo reboot")
Don't forget to import os - import os in the beginning of the file.
os
Time to study up on writing python scripts
There is no need. Just use google And a little by little you will learn without knowing that you learn
Python is a great language to begin with as it's very readable and (in my opinion) straightforward. There are so many good resources on the web too. Certainly don't be afraid to make a thread here if you need some Python help, we'd love to have the additional discussion.
@eric.warner
We may have met and talked about these at Maker Faire! I was the one in the Cayenne T-Shirt.
One of the joys of software development is that when you post a date/estimate like I did that the heavens align to make sure that you look silly down the road. We are still committed to releasing these widgets, but I'll have to get an updated time table on when they'll start coming. Certainly if there is any beta opportunity I'll reach out and get you involved as early as possible. | http://community.mydevices.com/t/coming-soon-custom-widgets/2332 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | refinedweb | 840 | 73.17 |
halite 0.1.16
SaltStack Web UI
Halite
======
(Code-name) Halite is a Salt GUI. Status is pre-alpha. Contributions are
very welcome. Join us in #salt on Freenode or on the salt-users mailing
list.
For best results it is recommended to use Halite with the develop branch of Salt.
Halite is, however, known to work with Salt version greater than ``Hydrogen``.
To install the develop branch of Salt:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone -b develop
$ cd salt && python setup.py install
$ salt-master --version
$ salt-master -l debug
This version of Halite is designed to work out of the box with SaltStack when
the PyPi package version of Halite is installed. The PyPi (PIP) version of Halite
is a minified version tailored for this purpose. ()
Halite makes use of the ``Bottle`` (WSGI) web framework. Servers that are tested and
known to work with Halite are ``paste``, ``cherrypy`` and ``gevent``.
To pip install Halite.
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install -U halite
This purpose of ths repository is to enable development of custom versions of the
UI that could be deployed with different servers, different configurations, etc
and also for development of future features for the Salt packaged version.
Features
========
Highstate Consistency Check
---------------------------
Halite can poll for highstate consistency. This is similar to executing
``salt \* state.highstate test=True`` and checking for the results.
Polling is turned ``OFF`` by default.
To switch polling on navigate to the preferences tab and check
``highStateCheck.performCheck``. The poll timer can be adjusted using
``highStateCheck.intervalSeconds`` and is set to 300 Seconds (5 minutes) by
default. Once these settings are updated click ``Update`` and reload the page.
These options are depicted in the screenshot below.
.. image:: screenshots/HighstatePollSettings.png
Highstate consistency check results can be seen on the minion view. Minions
that have inconsistent state have a flag next to them as shown in the screenshot.
.. image:: screenshots/MinionWithFlag.png
The ``Highstate`` subtab for each minion displays the state items that lack
consistency. All of the inconsistent items will be displayed here for easy
visualization. The screenshot below shows a message that might appear
when highstate consistency is disturbed.
.. image:: screenshots/HighstateSubtab.png
The cog icon that appears in the ``Monitor`` section can be clicked to perform
highstate consistency check. The on demand check only works in the
scenario where polling is off. In the case where polling is switched on (as
discussed above) the cog icon will appear to be spinning (and does not respond
to clicks).
.. image:: screenshots/HighstateCheckCog.png
Installation quickstart
=======================
This section explains installation of the ``devlopment`` version of Halite.
If you are interested in installing Halite as an end user, please follow the
`tutorial
<http: docs.saltstack.`_ instead.
* Setup permissions for users who will use Halite
For example in master config:
.. code-block:: bash
external_auth:
pam:
myusername:
- .*
- '@runner'
- '@wheel'
Halite uses the runner ``manage.present`` to get the status of minions so runner
permissions are required. Currently Halite allows but does not require any
wheel modules.
* Clone the Halite repository::
.. code-block:: bash
git clone
* Run halite/halite/server_bottle.py (use with -h option to get parameters)
The simplest approach is to run the server with it dynamically generating
the main web app load page (main.html) in coffescript mode, where the coffeescript
is transpiled to javascript on the fly. In each case the appropriate server package
must be installed.
.. code-block:: bash
$ ./server_bottle.py -d -C -l debug -s cherrypy
$ ./server_bottle.py -d -C -l debug -s paste
$ ./server_bottle.py -d -C -l debug -s gevent
* Navigate html5 compliant browser to
The default eauth method is 'pam'. To change go to the preferences page.
Documentation
=============
Preferences
-----------
The navbar has a login form. Enter the eauth username and password to login to salt.
.. image:: screenshots/LoggedOut.png
Once logged in, the navbar will display the username highlighted in blue and a logout button.
To logout click on the logout button.
.. image:: screenshots/LoggedIn.png
Click on the SaltStack logo to go to the preferences page
.. image:: screenshots/Preferences.png
On this page one can change the eauth method to something other than 'pam' such
as 'ldap'.
Check ``fetchGrains`` if you want grains data to be loaded when Halite loads.
Checking ``preloadJobCache`` will fetch all previously completed, cached jobs.
Once all changes are made click ``Update`` and refresh the browser page.
Commands
----------
To navigate to the console view click on the 'console' tab.
.. image:: screenshots/HomeConsole.png
This view has two sections. The ``Command`` section and the ``Monitor`` section.
The ``Command`` section is collapsed by default. Clicking on the downward chevron will
expand the ``Command`` section.
The top section of the Console view has controls for entering basic salt commands.
The target field will target minions with the command selected. There is ping button
with the bullhorn icon and the action menu has some preselected common commands.
Expanded Commands
-----------------
.. image:: screenshots/CommandForm.png
Click on the downward chevron button to expand the ``Command`` form with additional
fields for entering any salt module function. To enter "runner" functions prepend
"runner." to the function name. For example, "runner.manage.status". To enter wheel
functions prepend "wheel." to the wheel function name. For example, "wheel.config.values".
For commands that require arguments enter them in the arguments fields. The number of argument
fields equals the number of arguments accepted by the function.
Click on the Execute button or press the Return key to execute the command.
You can choose the ``Target Format`` which will be used by the ``Target`` field to target minions.
There is a ping button with the bullhorn icon and the Macro menu has some preselected commands
for "speed dial".
There is also a history feature which appears as a book icon on the top right corner of the ``Command`` panel.
Checking ``Live Doc Search`` will show the documentation related to the command being
entered in the ``Function`` field. Un-check it to conserve screen real estate.
Monitors
---------
The bottom section of the console view has monitor view buttons. Each button will
show panels with the associated information.
* Command Monitor
Shows panels, one per command that has been executed by this user on this console.
Clicking on the dropdown button will show the associated job ids that have been
run with this command and the completion status via an icon.
Red is fail, Green is success.
Clicking on the button on the panel will rerun the command.
.. image:: screenshots/CommandMonitor.png
* Job Monitor
Shows panels, one per job that has been run by any minion associated with this
master. Clicking on the associated dropdown button with expand to show Result and Event data.
Selecting the result button will show the returner and return data
for each minion targeted by the job.
.. image:: screenshots/JobMonitor.png
Selecting the Event button will show the events associated with the job.
.. image:: screenshots/JobMonitorEvent.png
* Minion Monitor
Shows panels, one per minion that have keys associated with this master. The minion
panels have icons to show the up/down status of the minion and the grains status.
Selecting dropdown buttons will show grains data as well as minion (not job) generated events.
.. image:: screenshots/MinionMonitor.png
With the grains button selected one can see all the grains for the minion.
.. image:: screenshots/MinionGrains.png
* Event Monitor
Shows panels, one per event associated with this Master.
.. image:: screenshots/EventMonitor.png
More details coming. TBD
Browser requirements
--------------------
Support for ES5 and HTML5 is required. This means any modern browser or IE10+.
Server requirements
-------------------
* The static media for this app is server-agnostic and may be served from any
web server at a configurable URL prefix.
* This app uses the HTML5 history API.
Libraries used
--------------
Client side web application requirements:
* AngularJS framework ()
* Bootstrap layout CSS ()
* AngularUI framework ()
* Underscore JS module ()
* Underscore string JS module ()
* Font Awesome Bootstrap Icon Fonts ()
* CoffeeScript Python/Ruby like javascript transpiler ()
* Karma Test Runner ()
* Jasmine unit test framework ()
* Protractor E2E test framework for angular apps ()
Optional dependencies:
* Cherrypy web server ()
* Paste web server ()
* Gevent web server()
For nodejs testing:
* Express javascript web server
Deployment
-------------
There are two approaches to deploying Halite.
1) Use it from Salt.
The 0.17 release of salt will run halite automatically if the Halite package is
installed. So for example after installing SaltStack one can install the Halite
python package with
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install -U halite
Configure the master config for halite as follows.
.. code-block:: bash
halite:
level: 'debug'
server: 'cherrypy'
host: '0.0.0.0'
port: '8080'
cors: False
tls: True
certpath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt'
keypath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.key'
pempath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.pem'
The "cherrypy" and "gevent" servers require the certpath and keypath files to run tls/ssl.
The .crt file holds the public cert and the .key file holds the private key. Whereas
the "paste" server requires a single .pem file that contains both the cert and key.
This can be created simply by concatenating the .crt and .key files.
If you want to use a self signed cert you can create one using the Salt .tls module
.. code-block:: bash
salt '*' tls.create_ca_signed_cert test localhost
When using self signed certs, browsers will need approval before accepting the cert.
If the web application page has been cached with a non https version of the app then
the browser cache will have to be cleared before it will recognize and prompt to
accept the self signed certificate.
You will also need to configure the eauth method to be used by users of the WUI.
See quickstart above for an example.
Install the appropriate http wsgi server selected in the master config above. In
this case its "cherrypy". The other tested servers are "paste" and "gevent". The server
must be multi-threaded, asynchronous, or multi-processing in order to support
the Server Sent Event streaming connnection used by the WUI.
Restart the SaltStack Master and navigate your html5 compliant browser to or however you have configured your master above.
If you have problems look for "Halite:" in the saltstack master log output.
Customized Deployment
====
The Halite github repository provides a skeleton framework for building your own custom
deployment. One can run the default bottle.py framwork form the command line thusly
.. code-block:: bash
$ ./server_bottly.py -g
$ ./server_bottle.py -s cherrypy
or from a python application
.. code-block:: python
import halite
halite.start()
The full set of options is given by
.. code-block:: bash
$ ./server_bottle.py -h
usage: server_bottle.py [-h] [-l {info,debug,critical,warning,error}]
[-s SERVER] [-a HOST] [-p PORT] [-b BASE] [-x] [-t]
[-c CERT] [-k KEY] [-e PEM] [-g] [-f LOAD] [-C] [-d]
Runs localhost web application wsgi service on given host address and port.
Default host:port is 0.0.0.0:8080. (0.0.0.0 is any interface on localhost)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l {info,debug,critical,warning,error}, --level {info,debug,critical,warning,error}
Logging level.
-s SERVER, --server SERVER
Web application WSGI server type.
-a HOST, --host HOST Web application WSGI server ip host address.
-p PORT, --port PORT Web application WSGI server ip port.
-b BASE, --base BASE Base Url path prefix for client side web application.
-x, --cors Enable CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing on server.
-t, --tls Use TLS/SSL (https).
-c CERT, --cert CERT File path to tls/ssl cacert certificate file.
-k KEY, --key KEY File path to tls/ssl private key file.
-e PEM, --pem PEM File path to tls/ssl pem file with both cert and key.
-g, --gen Generate web app load file. Default is 'app/main.html'
or if provided the file specified by -f option.
-f LOAD, --load LOAD Filepath to save generated web app load file upon -g
option.
-C, --coffee Upon -g option generate to load coffeescript.
-d, --devel Development mode.
The http server provides two functions.
1) Provide content delivery network for the base load of the web application static
content such as html and javascript files.
2) Provide dynamic rest api interface to salt/client/api.py module that is used by
the web application via ajax and SSE connections. Because SSE and CORS
(Cross Origin Resource Sharing is not univesally supported even among HTML5 compliant
browsers, a single server serves both the static content and the rest API).
An alternative approach would be to to use a web socket to stream the events.
This would not require CORS. This may bea future option for Halite.
To deploy with apache, modify server_bottle.startServer so it creates the app but
does not call bottle.run on it but returns it to MOD_WSGI.
See () for other details in using bottle.py
with Apache and Mod_wsgi.
To do a custom deployment with some other framework like Django etc. would involve
replicating the endpoints from server_bottle.
Architecture
-------------
The following diagram illustrates how the various pieces to Halite interact.
.. image:: diagrams/HaliteArchitecture.png
Testing
-------
To run the karma jasmine ``unit test`` runner
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd halite
$ karma start karma_unit.conf.js
To run the protractor ``e2e test`` runner first start up a web server. More information
Make sure that the end to end test is setup to login to Halite
.. code-block:: bash
$ vim halite/test/spec-e2e/credentials.coffee
In that file change the following
.. code-block:: coffeescript
username: 'your_halite_username'
password: 'your_halite_password'
Now you can run the tests using the following commands.
Make sure you have the ``webdriver-manager`` started.
More info can be found on the `Protractor <https: github.`_
webpage.
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd halite
$ protractor protractor.conf.js
To run the ``functional`` tests make sure you have the Python ``webtest``
and ``nose`` modules installed.
Enter your credentials and the minion name in a new file called
``halite/test/functional/config/override.conf``
.. code-block:: python
username = your_user_name
password = your_password
[minions]
apache = minion_connected_to_this_master
The functional tests can be run via ``nose``.
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd halite
$ nosetests
You might have to build the distribution (for development)
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd halite
$ ./prep_dist.py
Subtree can be fetched by running ``git subtree pull --prefix=halite/lattice lattice master --squash``
.. ............................................................................
.. _`halite`:
- Downloads (All Versions):
- 48 downloads in the last day
- 600 downloads in the last week
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- Author: SaltStack Inc
- Keywords: Salt Stack client side web application,web server
- License: Apache V2.0
- Package Index Owner: pass-by-value, Samuel.Smith
- Package Index Maintainer: pass-by-value
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NAME¶
XmFontListAdd — A font list function that creates a new font list "XmFontListAdd" "font list functions" "XmFontListAdd"
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <Xm/Xm.h> XmFontList XmFontListAdd( XmFontList oldlist, XFontStruct *font, XmStringCharSet charset);
DESCRIPTION¶
XmFontListAdd creates a new font list consisting of the contents of oldlist and the new font list element being added. This function dealloc.
- font
- Specifies a pointer to a font structure for which the new font list is generated. This is the structure returned by the XLib XLoadQueryFont function.
- charset
-.
RETURN¶
Returns NULL if oldlist is NULL; returns oldlist if font or charset is NULL; otherwise, returns a new font list.
RELATED¶
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This chapter provides an overview of the ZFS file system and its features and benefits. This chapter also covers some basic terminology used throughout the rest of this book.
The following sections are provided in this chapter:
ZFS Component Naming Requirements
This)
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 129:.1m.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 129: In this Solaris release, you can use the deduplication:, build 128:.
The following log device enhancements are available in the Solaris Express Community Edition:
The logbias property – In SXCE build 122, – In SXCE build 125,.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 120:
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 121:.
Solar a LUN. As described above, you can enable the autoexpand property or use the zpool online -e command to expand the full size of a LUN.
For more information about replacing devices, see Replacing Devices in a Storage Pool.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 114:: The following ZFS file system enhancements are included in these releases.
Setting ZFS Security Labels – The mlslabel property is a sensitivity label that determines if a dataset can be mounted in a Trusted Extensions labeled-zone. The default is none. The mlslabel property can be modified only when Trusted Extensions is enabled and only with the appropriate privilege.:
The above off, which means snapshot information is not displayed by default.
You can use the zfs list -t snapshots command to display snapshot information. For example:: This prefined and cannot be modified.
For more information about using ACL sets, see Example 8–5.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 78: In this Solaris:..
For more information, see Setting ZFS Quotas and Reservations.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 77: This release provides support for the SolarisTM Common Internet File System (CIFS) service. This product provides the ability to share files between Solaris and Windows or MacOS systems.
To facilitate sharing files between these systems by using the Solaris CIFS service, the following new ZFS properties are provided:
Case sensitivity support (casesensitivity)
Non-blocking mandatory locks (nbmand)
SMB share support (sharesmb)
Unicode normalization support (normalization)
UTF-8 character set support (utf8only)
Currently, the sharesmb property is available to share ZFS files in the Solaris CIFS environment. More ZFS CIFS-related properties will be available in an upcoming release. For information about using the sharesmb property, see Sharing: – Solaris Express Community Edition, build 77::
For a description of all ZFS pool properties, see Table 4–1.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 77: In this Solaris.: Express Community Edition, build 69: In this release, you can delegate fine-grained.
For more information, see Chapter 9, ZFS Delegated Administration and zfs(1M).
Solaris Express Community Edition, build.
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 68: You can use the -p option with the zfs create, zfs clone, and zfs rename commands to quickly create a non-existent).
Solaris Express Community Edition, build 68: In this release, ZFS more effectively responds to devices that are removed and provides a mechanism to automatically identify devices that are inserted with the following enhancements: allowing recovery from unrecoverable block read faults, such as media faults (bit rot) for all ZFS configurations.
Provides data protection even in the case where only a single disk is available.
Allows: Using a ZFS Volume as a Solaris iSCSI Target.
Solaris Express Community Release, build 53: In this Solaris release, the process of sharing file systems has been improved. Although modifying system configuration files, such as /etc/dfs/dfstab, is unnecessary for sharing ZFS file systems, you can use the sharemgr command to manage ZFS share properties. The sharemgr command enables you to set and manage share properties on share groups. ZFS shares are automatically designated in the zfs share group.
As in previous releases, you can set the ZFS sharenfs property on a ZFS file system to share a ZFS file system. For example:
Or, you can use the new sharemgr add-share subcommand to share a ZFS file system in the zfs share group. For example:
Then, you can use the sharemgr command to manage ZFS shares. The following example shows how to use sharemgr to set the nosuid property on the shared ZFS file systems. You must preface ZFS share paths with a /zfs designation.
For more information, see sharemgr(1M).
Solaris Express Community Release, build 51: In this Solaris release, ZFS automatically logs successful zfs and zpool commands that modify pool state information. For example:
This features enables you or Sun support personnel to identify the exact set of ZFS commands that was executed to troubleshoot an error scenario.
You can identify a specific storage pool with the zpool history command. For example:
In this Solaris release, the zpool history command does not record user-ID, hostname, or zone-name. For more information, see ZFS Command History Enhancements (zpool history).
For more information about troubleshooting ZFS problems, see Identifying Problems in ZFS.-.
For more information, see Creating RAID-Z Storage Pools or zpool(1M).
Solaris Express Community Release, build 42: Express Community Release, build 42:.: When the source zonepath and the target zonepath both reside on ZFS and are in the same pool, zoneadm clone now automatically uses the ZFS clone feature to clone a zone. This enhancement means that zoneadm clone will take a ZFS snapshot of the source zonepath and set up the target zonepath. The snapshot is named SUNWzoneX, where X is a unique ID used to distinguish between multiple snapshots. The destination zone's zonepath is used to name the ZFS clone. A software inventory is performed so that a snapshot used at a future time can be validated by the system. Note that you can still specify that the ZFS zonepath be copied instead of the ZFS clone, if desired.
To clone a source zone multiple times, a new parameter added to zoneadm allows you to specify that an existing snapshot should be used. The system validates that the existing snapshot is usable on the target. Additionally, the zone install process now has the capability to detect when a ZFS file system can be created for a zone, and the uninstall process can detect when a ZFS file system in a zone can be destroyed. These steps are then performed automatically by the zoneadm command.
Keep the following points in mind when using ZFS on a system with Solaris containers installed:
Do not use the ZFS snapshot features to clone a zone
You can delegate or add a ZFS file system to a non-global zone. For more information, see Adding ZFS File Systems to a Non-Global Zone or Delegating Datasets to a Non-Global Zone.
For more information, see System Administration Guide:.
You can access the ZFS Administration console through a secure web browser at the following URL:.
This section describes the basic terminology used throughout this book:
A boot environment that is created by the lucreate command and possibly updated by the luupgrade command, but it is not currently the active or primary boot environment. The alternate boot environment (ABE) can be changed to the primary boot environment (PBE) by running the luactivate command. entities: clones, file systems, snapshots, or volumes.
Each dataset is identified by a unique name in the ZFS namespace. Datasets are identified using the following format:
pool/path[@snapshot]
Identifies the name of the storage pool that contains the dataset
Is a slash-delimited path name for the dataset object
Is an optional component that identifies a snapshot of a dataset
For more information about datasets, see Chapter 6, Managing ZFS File Systems.
A ZFS dataset of type filesystem that is mounted within the standard system namespace and behaves like other file systems.
For more information about file systems, see Chapter 6, Managing. Space for datasets is allocated from a pool.
For more information about storage pools, see Chapter 4, Managing ZFS Storage Pools.
A boot environment that is used by the lucreate command to build the alternate boot environment. By default, the primary boot environment (PBE) is the current boot environment. This default can be overridden by using the lucreate -s option.
A virtual device that stores data and parity on multiple disks. For more information about RAID-Z, see RAID-Z Storage Pool Configuration. Viewing Resilvering Status.
A read-only image used to emulate a physical device. For example, you can create a ZFS volume as a swap device.
For more information about ZFS volumes, see ZFS Volumes.
Each ZFS component must be named according to the following rules:
Empty components are not name are reserved.
In addition, pool names must not contain a percent sign (%)
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I'm stuck in a very stupid point while reading Numeric Analysis.
So I have the following program in python. And I can't figure why I get these results.
Where do I use the
i
heron(x,y)
def heron(x,y):
x=(x+y/x)*0.5
return x
x=1
y=2
for i in range(5):
x=heron(x,y)
print('Approximation of square root : %.16f'%x)
Approximation of square root :1.5000000000000000
Approximation of square root :1.4166666666666665
Approximation of square root :1.4142156862745097
Approximation of square root :1.4142135623746899
Approximation of square root :1.4142135623730949
The line
for i in range(5):
only means:
Do the following five times.
The actual work is done in
x = heron(x,y)
which uses
x as part of the arguments of
heron and assigns the changed value back to it. So while
y stays unchanged,
x is changed with each call to
heron. The changed
x is then used as an argument to the next call.
Edit: I can't decide if this is a correct implementation because I don't know what algorithm you are trying to implement. But you only asked:
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Hi ,
I have created panels dynamicly , with a label and a button in them , no when i click the dynamicly added button it should retrieve the label text in that specific panel . Here is some code that i have
private void ShowRoomsNow(string Desc , string code , int num)
{
Panel pnl = new Panel();
pnl.BorderColor = Color.Black;
pnl.BorderWidth = 1;
pnl.ID = "Pnl" + num;
Button btn = new Button();
btn.Text = "Book";
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image img = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image();
btn.ID = "btn"+num;
Label lbl = new Label();
lbl.ID = "Lbl" + num;
lbl.Text = " Room Name: "+ Desc +"<br/> RoomCode: " +code + "<br/>No:"+ num;
lbl.ForeColor = Color.Black;
pnl.Controls.Add(lbl);
pnl.Controls.Add(btn);
pnl.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<br/>"));
pnl.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<br />"));
pnl.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(" "));
pnl.Cont
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I have a script which creates a dynamic textbox (and more) in an AJAX async post back. But when I try to acess the textbox I am told "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I have been strugleing with this for a long time and can not get it to work so please help me. This is written in C# .Net 4. The line causing the problem is the very last one where I have tbGameName.Text.Trim()
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
public partial class GameInformation_AddUpcomingRelease : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnInit(e);
string v = this.Request.Params.Get(this.ddlAmountToAdd.UniqueID);
string[] Regions = { "USA", "Japan", "Europe", "Other" }; //Create a string array of regions.
string[] Platforms = { "PlayStation 3", "X-Box 360", "Wii", "Computer", "PSP", "Other" }; //Create a string array of platforms
CreateControlSet(1, Regions, Platforms); //Generate the first Control Set
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(v))
{
for (byte i = 2; i <= Convert.ToByte(v); i++)
{
//Add a
Hi.,
I created a new database with the help of Database Configuration Assistant !
I created with the scott account
Now i'm not able to connect to the database with the connect identifier with the scott account
The error i get is.,
Plz help !
Here the author uses Document Information Panels in the Microsoft 2007 Office system to manipulate metadata from Office docs for better discovery and management.
Ashish Ghoda
MSDN Magazine April 2008
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Infinite loop in LiveGridView (gxt 2.2.5 / gwt 2.3)
Infinite loop in LiveGridView (gxt 2.2.5 / gwt 2.3)
Hi,.
Thanks for the report. Do you have a working testcase or more information on when this is happening?
It does not seem to happen here:
It might be good to open a real support ticket in your ticket system to schedule a remote desktop session.
You don't have to look far for a test case with infinite loop. Look at my older post:
I retested it with the new version and it still has the same infinite loop. It depends on the scroller position, but the test is done the way to start looping right away. Just do this to add the component from my first thread:
Code:
public class TestModule implements EntryPoint { public void onModuleLoad() { RootPanel rootPanel = RootPanel.get(); Viewport viewport = new Viewport(); viewport.setLayout(new FitLayout()); viewport.add(new TestComponent()); rootPanel.add(viewport); } }
I moved this thread to the bugs forum for further investigation.
If this is a high priority issue for you, please open a real support ticket in your ticketsystem.
EDIT:
What happens if you increase your cachesize? If you cache less records than that are visible, it will have unforseen side effects.
This example is created to illustrate the problem and to show you that LiveGridView is prone to infinite loop problem. In real application settings are different. Namely, cache size is set to 60 rows, but the problem is harder to reproduce as it happens during scrolling.
Still it's a showstopper as we can't even demo our application to users.
P. S. Support link doesn't work currently:
I can create a LiveGridView copy in my project if workaround requires so, but at this moment I'm not sure how to fix it myself without breaking other LiveGridView features. So I need your assistance.
Synchronized LiveGridView would be easy to fix.
All I have to do is to ignore timer task altogether and just call doLoad in the same thread with an in-progress indicator thread.
Asynchronous solution is beyond my expertise.
This sounds like an issue I just discovered today with 2.2.5. When we have a total count of items in the LiveGrid that is close to the cache size we have a problem if we scroll to the end of the grid and then click the column header to sort - it loops forever.
I believe I have worked around the issue with the following code in our custom LiveGridView implementation. I looked at the 3.0.1 code and it looks like it may have the same issue if this is the problem.
Hope this is helpful.
Randy Gordon
protected boolean shouldCache(int index) {
int cz = getCacheSize();
int i = (int) (cz * prefetchFactor);
// RGG - Workaround for infinite loop when total count is less than or equal
// to the cache size plus the prefetch factor.
if (totalCount <= cz + i) return false;
double low = liveStoreOffset + i;
double high = liveStoreOffset + cz - getVisibleRowCount() - i;
if ((index < low && liveStoreOffset > 0) || (index > high && liveStoreOffset != totalCount - cz)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
I had the same problem with GXT 3.0.1 and found a scenario to reproduce it consistently.
Pre-requisite:
- Configure the grid with filter(s) or enable remote sorting in the loader
- Enable load mask (this is simply to detect when the problem will start occurring)
The problem are about the following:
- updateRows method
- isLoading member
- onDataChange handler of the cacheStore
My workaround consists in the following (I may miss other scenarios where the workaround may not work):
- Add one parameter to updateRows such as:
- Create another version of the updateRows method using the previous signature and the following implementation to support existing methods using it:
updateRows(newIndex, reload, false);
}
- Update the new updateRows as the following. Trigger the pre caching only if skipPreCaching is set to true. Note that the previous signature set this to false leaving the behavior unchanged for previous invocation:
if (shouldCache(viewIndex) && !isLoading && !skipPreCaching) {
loadLiveStore(getLiveStoreCalculatedIndex(viewIndex));
}
- In the onDataChange handler, change to the following:
updateRows(viewIndex, true, true);
isLoading = false;
That should do it.
Christian
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Simple and short:
I wrote 2 programs.
1 was single threaded and multiplied 2 matrices together.
This program below is the same as the first but using multiple threads.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldnt the multithreaded version take less time to perform the matrix multiplication computation?
When I run both, the single threaded version takes less time to compute the multiplication.
can someone make sure im using thread.join() correctly - maybe iv used it in the wrong place/way?
btw, this is my first time using threads..
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; /** * * @author Ryan Davis * * Multi Thread * This program will read a matrix from a data file, transpose it, and then * multiply them. The program will output the time it took to multiply the * matrices. */ public class MatrixMultiThread { private static String file = "C:\\data1.txt"; private static final int rows = getRows(file); private static final int columns = getColumns(file); private static int[] temp = new int[rows*columns]; private static int[][] matrix = new int[rows][columns]; private static int[][] transpose = new int[columns][rows]; private static int[][] result = new int[rows][rows]; private static myThread[] threadPool; public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println("rows: " + rows); System.out.println("columns: " + columns); readFile(file); buildMatrices(); multiply(); } private static int getColumns(String f){...} private static int getRows(String f){...} private static void readFile(String f){...} private static void buildMatrices(){...} /** * this method multiplies matrix and transpose together. the result matrix * is printed to the screen as well as the time in MS that it took to * perform the multiplication. note: the time of printing to the screen is * not included - strictly the computation time. */ private static void multiply(){ threadPool = new myThread[rows]; long start = System.nanoTime();//computation begins for(int i=0; i<rows; i++){ threadPool[i] = new myThread(i); threadPool[i].start(); try{ threadPool[i].join(); }catch (InterruptedException e){ //thread was interrupted } } long end = System.nanoTime();//computation ends double time = (end-start)/1000000.0; //print result matrix for(int i=0; i<rows; i++){ for(int j=0; j<rows; j++){ System.out.print(result[i][j] + " "); } System.out.println(); } System.out.println();//blank line System.out.println("Multiplication took " + time + " milliseconds."); } private static class myThread extends Thread{ int index; myThread(int index){ this.index = index; } public void run(){ for(int i=0; i<rows; i++){ for(int j=0; j<columns; j++){ result[index][i] += matrix[index][j] * transpose[j][i]; } } } } } | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/198592-matrix-multiplication-multithreading/ | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | refinedweb | 404 | 51.95 |
RestyGWT Group which we discuss the RestyGWT open source project.<br><a href=""></a> Google Groups Edson Richter 2017-06-19T22:47:16Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: RestyGWT and object graph with recursion I'll try to write a cookbook as soon as possible, but I assure that is enough to follow the docs - really, really easy. Regards, Edson Richter Em segunda-feira, 19 de junho de 2017 12:19:14 UTC-3, Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres escreveu: > > Sharing a sample project will be awesome! > > El lun., Magnus Persson 2017-06-19T17:17:35Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: RestyGWT compiler parses wrong classes Ok, thanks. But sql.Timestamp is different from java.util.Date. They differ in timezone information. Regards, Magnus On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Edson Richter <brvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I can read in the error log, you have a method that returns a > java.sql.Timestamp, and Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres 2017-06-19T15:19:14Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: RestyGWT and object graph with recursion Sharing a sample project will be awesome! El lun., 19 jun. 2017 16:16, Edson Richter <brvi...@gmail.com> escribió: > I've implemented a really easy setup and exchanged GWT-RPC by RestyGWT > without any code fuss. I would never suspected that would be so easy! > And about recursion, yes! Jackson Edson Richter 2017-06-19T14:27:51Z Re: RestyGWT compiler parses wrong classes As far as I can read in the error log, you have a method that returns a java.sql.Timestamp, and this class has no public constructor. I think you should not return or receibe java.sql.Timestamp in any methods. You have to encapsulate it as java.util.Date, and it should work fine. Would that sounds Edson Richter 2017-06-19T14:16:31Z Re: RestyGWT and object graph with recursion I've implemented a really easy setup and exchanged GWT-RPC by RestyGWT without any code fuss. I would never suspected that would be so easy! And about recursion, yes! Jackson 2 has this feature (just need to add one annotation to point the "candidate key" of my POJOs and all the rest is transpare Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres 2017-06-19T08:36:05Z Re: RestyGWT and object graph with recursion RestyGWT delegates the JSON parsing to gwt-jackson, and even if gwt-jackson support that, did your server support cyclic JSON references? Don't think so. You can always handle this manually, returning, for example, a simple container with all users and all companies, and each user containing the Ali Jalal 2017-05-11T13:15:58Z Re: [resty-gwt] GWT 2.8 support Hi, We are using RestyGWT with GWT 2.8.0 and it works well (previous version was 2.7.0). We're not updated GWT to 2.8.1 but we will soon. There should not be any problem. Regards. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Anuar Nurmakanov <ssho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We are going to-21T08:57:36Z Re: [resty-gwt] The constructor is not visible (but it is) (My previous mail had a bad copy paste - the constructor is public.) Even with a public no-arg constructor and a public @JsonProperty constructor as shown below, I am getting that error "Line 22: The constructor Employee() is not visible": public class Employee implements Serializable { David Nouls 2017-04-21T08:02:23Z Re: [resty-gwt] The constructor is not visible (but it is) Gwt jackson is trying to use the private constructor. Add a @JsonProperty("name") to the public constructor name parameter then it should work. Why do you even declare a private default constructor ? On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 at 16:54, Geoffrey De Smet <gds.geoffr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using gwt() { } christian 2017-04-07T12:28:29Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: RestyGWT and webAppCreator well, ant is a bit difficult with those transitive dependencies which you will come across many time, like with restyGWT. yes, use maven or gradle, they can handle those easily. Irek Szczesniak 2017-04-07T12:24:06Z Re: RestyGWT and webAppCreator Or maybe it's recommended to use RestyGWT with Eclipse and Maven? W dniu niedziela, 2 kwietnia 2017 08:24:17 UTC+2 użytkownik Irek Szczesniak napisał: > > Hi, > > How to incorporate RestyGWT in the sample GWT application created with > webAppCreator, which by default generates an Ant file? > > >-15T11:31:55Z Re: [resty-gwt] After upgrading to 2.2.0: unable to find '../GwtJackson.gwt.xml' on your classpath I tried adding the gwt-jackson jar to the project but now I get lots of obscure warnings like these: Computing all possible rebind results for 'your.company.example.SomeUiBinderView_SomeUiBinderUiBinderImpl_GenBundle' Rebinding your.company.example.SomeUiBinderView_SomeUiBin christian 2017-03-14T14:31:14Z Re: [resty-gwt] After upgrading to 2.2.0: unable to find '../GwtJackson.gwt.xml' on your classpath not sure. any build tool pulling in transitive dependencies will grab the new gwt-jackson jars as well. and any such tools can start the server for you as well. so I guess the cleaner way would be to install the gwt-jackson jar as well. - christian Lucas Machado 2016-08-08T20:36:36Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: Leverage RestyGWT for websocket use RestyGwt can use gwt-jackson as serialization/deserialization engine. Maybe you can use the best of both On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Kay Pac <hepte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got what I needed - I stumbled upon gwt-jackson and it's really what I > needed, in order to the JSON transformations. Kay Pac 2016-08-08T19:35:50Z Re: Leverage RestyGWT for websocket use I got what I needed - I stumbled upon gwt-jackson and it's really what I needed, in order to the JSON transformations. On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 2:48:26 PM UTC-7, Kay Pac wrote: > > Also, I am not sure how to navigate the source - I looked at POM and it > specifies gwt version as 2.4.0 - is Michael Joyner 2016-08-01T14:42:38Z Updating to 2.2.0 results in compile failure - The import javax.annotation.* cannot be resolved ("fix") Confirmed, adding: gwt 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.0' to my Gradle dependencies has fixed the compile issue for me. On 07/30/2016 04:09 AM, christian wrote: added an issue for this here: and submitted a PR on gwt-jackson for the fix. Filipe Sousa 2016-08-01T13:45:35Z Re: [resty-gwt] Cannot parse local date time I think I was missing the shape parameter: @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss") On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 2:30:08 PM UTC+1, Filipe Sousa wrote: > > It's working when parsing json from server. But when I try to send data to > server it goes as Filipe Sousa 2016-08-01T13:30:08Z Re: [resty-gwt] Cannot parse local date time It's working when parsing json from server. But when I try to send data to server it goes as timestamp: {"login":"filipe","created":1470057934663} reading wih @JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss") works { "login": "filipe", "created": "2016-08-01T14:31:05" } On Monday, August 1, 2016 Filipe Sousa 2016-08-01T09:42:05Z Re: [resty-gwt] Cannot parse local date time It’s working thanks. On 01/08/2016, at 10:29, christian <m.kri...@web.de> wrote: try using @JsonFormat see also - christian On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Filipe Sousa <nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using christian 2016-08-01T09:30:04Z Re: [resty-gwt] Cannot parse local date time try using @JsonFormat see also - christian On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Filipe Sousa <nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using LocalDateTime (java8) on server and > Defaults.setDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"). Is there any thing I can do, any extra configuration that I'm missing? christian 2016-07-30T08:10:06Z Re: [resty-gwt] Re: Updating to 2.2.0 results in compile failure - The import javax.annotation.* cannot be resolved added an issue for this here: and submitted a PR on gwt-jackson for the fix. once it is clear whether GWT or gwt-jackson is fixing this I will publish a bug fix release. but first I want to hear a response from gwt-jackson but there is a Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres 2016-07-30T00:19:55Z Re: Updating to 2.2.0 results in compile failure - The import javax.annotation.* cannot be resolved Issue reported here On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 5:28:31 PM UTC+2, Michael Joyner wrote: > > I was trying to updated to 2.2.0 from 2.1.x and the compile fails with > something to do with gwt-jackson. > I am using gwt-2.8.0-rc1 > > Here are my gwt:48:26Z Re: Leverage RestyGWT for websocket use Also, I am not sure how to navigate the source - I looked at POM and it specifies gwt version as 2.4.0 - is that the minimum supported SDK version? Can I build with -Dgwt-version=2.8.0-SNAPSHOT (or 2.8.0-mybuild)? Kay On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 2:45:10 PM UTC-7, Kay Pac wrote: > > I am trying! | https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/restygwt/msgs/atom_v1_0.xml?num=50 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | refinedweb | 1,567 | 64.51 |
robert burrell donkin wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:46 +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> it's a bit complicated by the fact that it's a release candidate (not a
> SNAPSHOT). release candidates should not be uploaded to ibiblio (or any
> other mirror). but thank's for the warning: i will remember to try to
> check that the maven repository is right when the full release is cut.
Please do update it for the final release: so few project maintainers do
properly update the Maven repository and that extra work is really
appreciated by us downstream Maven users :) Shouldn't the Maven
repository have the latest CVS code in it's snapshot release, though?
> FYI the release candidate is very close now to being accepted as betwixt
> 0.7. it is strongly recommended that all users upgrade to this new
> version.
I'm confused by the above: some of the artefacts in the maven repository
are listed as 1.0-dev and -beta, yet 0.7 will be the next release version?
>> In the end, I cheated and hard-coded XPath to read specific bank
>> accounts using the BeanReader.registerBeanClass method:
>
> it is possible to make betwixt work that way (you can integrate it with
> digester rules) but it's pretty black belt...
Not sure what else to do at this point (BTW, what does "black belt"
mean? I'm familiar but not sure). Even the above does not seem to be
working.
>> Some sort of
>> intelligent comparison between the betwixt file and the bean object
>> model would be required to interpolate expected behaviour. Perhaps some
>> sort of additional scripting would be required?
>
> scripting sounds very interesting (hadn't really thought about it
> before). betwixt is generally declarative but maven's mix of declarative
> data and scripting works very well. how do you see this working?
Actually, I was thinking an entirely different approach might be
required: instead of having a XML configuration file describing how to
convert a bean to XML (one way) it would be better to map individual
properties to XML constructs using xdoclet tags or annotation, as in
Hibernate. This ensures relationships are two way and more easily
reversible. For example:
/**
* @betwixt.xml
* path="bankAccount/bankAccount-AT"
*/
public class AustrianBankAccount {...}
Would mean that an occurrences of AustrianBankAccount could be clearly
read and written as <bankAccount><bankAccount-AT>... for example without
any confusion over how it should be interpreted.
P.S. If you could please CC responses to my home address I would be most
grateful. I'm not actually subscribed to this mailing list.
Kind regards...
-- Ricardo
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:42:26PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 01:30:09PM +0800, > > I think this is a symptom of setxid not being async-signal-safe like > it's required to be. I'm not sure if we have a bug tracker entry for > that; if not, it should be added. But if clone() is being used except > in a fork-like manner, this is probably invalid application usage too. We are not using clone() in a manner that is strictly equivalent to fork(). Libvirt is using clone() to create Linux containers with new namespaces. eg we do clone(CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNET|SIGCHLD) IIUC, if a process is multi-threaded you should restrict yourself to use of async signal safe functions in between fork() and exec(). I assume this restriction applies to clone() and exec() pairings too. Libvirt is in fact violating rules about only using async signal safe functions between clone() and exec() in many places. So I think what we need to do is avoid starting any threads in the parent until after we've clone()'d to create the new child namespace. Regards, Daniel -- |: -o- :| |: -o- :| |: -o- :| |: -o- :| | https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2013-11/msg00382.html | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | refinedweb | 221 | 71.55 |
I wanted to use this information to do interesting 'stuff', I'm imagining home built radars and led's which flash, but before I could do anything cool I needed to find a way of getting to this data using Python.
Its possible to read data directly from the dump1090 program using tcp sockets, but the data is a raw stream and it seemed like too much work (I'm all for simplicity)!
The Piaware install also comes with a web front end so you can see the data you are receiving [], you can also get to the json data [] which is feeding this web page and this looked like a much easier way of getting the data out.
I create a small Python 3 class called FlightData [link to github flightdata.py] which reads the data from the web page and parses it into an object.
You can install it by cloning the flightdata github repository and copying the flightdata.py file to your project (if there is sufficient interest I'll make it into an 'installable' module):
git clone cp ./flightdata/fightdata.py ./myprojectpathYou can test it by running the flightdata.py program file:
python3 flightdata.pyBelow is a sample program which shows how to use it:
from flightdata import FlightData from time import sleep myflights = FlightData() while True: #loop through each aircraft found for aircraft in myflights.aircraft: #read the aircraft data print(aircraft.hex) print(aircraft.squawk) print(aircraft.flight) print(aircraft.lat) print(aircraft.lon) print(aircraft.validposition) print(aircraft.altitude) print(aircraft.vert_rate) print(aircraft.track) print(aircraft.validtrack) print(aircraft.speed) print(aircraft.messages) print(aircraft.seen) print(aircraft.mlat) sleep(1) #refresh the flight data myflights.refresh()
Hi Martin... thanks for this...it's what I was looking for. I have updated the URL to the new PiAware V3 location for the json file (localhost/dump1090-fa/data/aircraft.json). It threw an error on the decode(). Said it couldn't be None. I changed the line to set it to utf8, which is the json default I think. Got past that and hung up on line 66 in flightdata.py where it tries to parse the array. Error is TypeError: String indicies must be integers. I will admit to zero python experience, so that's likely the problem! Any thoughts? thanks. John
I suspect you are using the wrong file location (hence getting None back) I just had a quick look on my piaware machine and "" still takes you to a valid location. Do you know the file location has changed? I'll have a look at piaware v3 at somepoint mine is still 2.1-5
Have you been able to go around the string indices error? I validated the JSON to be good, which I expected to be, so not sure what the python code is doing wrong. I'm running python 3.4.2
yes I did. It was a while ago though. i'm not sure I could tell you what I did. I now get an email when flights of interest are picked up my by PiAware receiver.
I see. If we were able to send the python file it would be great, or anything that could help me figure out how to get it to run. Otherwise, I'll need to figure out how to install older version of raspbian and pi aware back to when it worked. As you can imagine, I would like to avoid this if possible.
here is a link to the program I created. it reads the json file periodically and sends me an email if an aircraft of interest has been picked up. Mostly I use this to help me get pictures of some WWII aircraft from the Hamilton Warplane Museum that often pass overhead.
I tried to post the code, but was told my post was too long. Here's a link to it:
Thanks John, much appreciated. I will see if I can figure out how to get the radar working. Cheers!
@Jay - I was able to solve it by assigning the aircraft list a separate variable and then iterating through that variable in the loop...
def parse_flightdata_json(json_data):
aircraft_list = []
ac_identified = json_data['aircraft']
for each_ac in ac_identified:
aircraftdata = AirCraftData(
..
..
It moved with V3. you can access mine Pi via a proxy on my main site, if you'd like to do so for testing. (the proxy uses "adsb" but Piaware is /dump1090-fa/data/aircraft. the 8080 port will still work on the Piaware, but it simply forwards to port 80 where lighttpd is running.
andersononline.net/adsb/data/aircraft.json
Hi again. I inserted "print(json.dumps(json_data,sort_keys=
True,indent=5))" just before the "for aircraft in json_data:" and it dumped the current json file OK. So we seem to be connecting.
Come to think of it, when I ran this the very first time, I got a 404 error, which is what made me change the URL in the first place.
Thanks!
......John
Hi there,
I am planing to create the same.. i am new in rasberry pi.. i would like to see, if there is anyway to track the vessels.. what is the range of your tracks and what equipment do i need to do all this.
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In this chapter, we will take a look at the Client Object Model or CSOM. This was one of the two APIs, for building remote applications that were added to SharePoint 2010.
One of the design goals of the Client Object Model was to mimic the Server Object Model as much as possible, so there would be a shorter learning curve for developers already familiar with doing development on the Server side.
The heart of the Client Object Model is a web service called Client.svc, which lives in the _vti_bin virtual directory. We are not supposed to communicate directly with Client.svc, but we are given three proxies or entry points, which we can use. They are −
The code communicates with these proxies and then these proxies eventually communicate with the web service.
Since this is a remote API and communication is done with SharePoint via web service calls, the Client Object Model is designed to allow us to batch up commands and requests for information.
The two core assemblies for the .NET Manage Implementation are −
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll.
The assemblies for the Silverlight implementation live in TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ClientBin. The assembly names also start with Microsoft.SharePoint.Client. For all assemblies but one, the assembly name ends in Silverlight.
The two core assemblies for the Silverlight implementation are −
The JavaScript implementation on the Client Object Model lives in the TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS folder underneath the SharePoint System Root. The JavaScript library names all start with SP. The three core libraries are SP.js, Sp.Runtime.js, and SP.Core.js.
The Client Object Model is expanded in SharePoint 2013.
Let us look at a simple example in which we will use the managed implementation of the Client Object Model using Windows forms application. Therefore, first we need to create a new project.
Step 1 − Select Windows Forms Application in the middle pane and enter name in the Name field. Click OK.
Step 2 − Once the project is created, let us add one list box and one button as shown below. To use the Client Object Model, we need to add a couple of assembly references. Right-click on the References and choose Add Reference.
Step 3 − Select Extensions in the left pane under Assemblies.
The two core assemblies for the managed implementation of the Client Object Model are Microsoft.SharePoint.Client and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime. Check these two options and click OK.
Now double-click the Load button to add the event handler as given below.
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace ClientObjectModel { public partial class Form1 : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void loadBtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { using (var context = new ClientContext("")) { var web = context.Web; context.Load(web); context.Load(web.Lists); context.ExecuteQuery(); ResultListBox.Items.Add(web.Title); ResultListBox.Items.Add(web.Lists.Count); } } } }
The entry point into the Client Object Model is the client context. It is the remote of client version of the SPContext object. This is a disposable type, so it is wrapped in a using statement. We pass the URL the SharePoint site in ClientContext.
So now, we have our context. We need an object to represent the current site so that is var web = context.web.
Note − Remember, this object is just an empty shell, so we need to load the web objects by using context.load and pass the web object. This indicates that we want web objects properties to be populated in the next batch retrieval.
Next, we need to call context.ExecuteQuery and that actually kicks off the batch retrieval. We retrieve the property values from the server and add to list box.
When the above code is compiled and executed, you will see the following output −
Click the Load button and you will see that we get both, the title and count of the lists.
It enables our project setup to use the Client Object Model to check the loading resources using the load method. | https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sharepoint/sharepoint_client_object_model | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | refinedweb | 697 | 59.8 |
Hey guys, I've been working on this project for a couple days now and I can't get it right. It's due in 5 hours :\
Okay, so the assignment is to code a "weak" anagram tester - the program should take two Strings in and print YES if they are weak anagrams of each other, and NO if otherwise.
My teacher is defining a "weak anagram" as any phrases which use the same letters. Punctuation and spaces ignored, this program should check if the two words share the same characters.
For example,
ABC!$ | abc = YES
aaabbbccc | abc = YES
abcd | abc = NO
etc... You get the point.
My professor suggested that we create two boolean arrays, which I have done. If each element of the arrays corresponds to a different char, I want to make the elements true which correspond to characters in the entered phrases. However, I am having trouble doing so.
Here is my code:
import java.util.*; public class WeakAn2Tester{ public static void main (String[] args){ Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter two words or phrases"); String firstLine = scan.nextLine(); String secondLine = scan.nextLine(); WeakAnTester2 ana = new WeakAnTester2(firstLine, secondLine); ana.False(); ana.Sort(); ana.isAnagram(); } }
and
public class WeakAnTester2{ int f; int g; boolean[] firstArray = new boolean[26]; boolean[] secondArray = new boolean[26]; String one; String two; public WeakAnTester2(String line1, String line2){ one = line1; two = line2; } public void False(){ // Sets each element of the two arrays to false for (int j=0; j<26; j++){ firstArray[j] = false; secondArray[j] = false; } } public void Sort(){ // Entries to lowercase, remove punctuation. one = one.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\W", ""); two = two.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\W", ""); // Sets true the values of firstArray & second Array which correspond to characters of entries // These loops are not doing anything at the moment, but I don't know why for(int k=0; k<one.length(); k++){ for(int j=0; j<26; j++){ if (one.charAt(k) == (char)('a'+j)); firstArray[j] = true; } } for(int k=0; k<two.length(); k++){ for (int j=0; j<26; j++){ if (two.charAt(k) == (char)('a'+j)); secondArray[j] = true; } } } public void isAnagram(){ for (boolean b : firstArray){ if (b == true){ f++; } } for (boolean b : secondArray){ if (b == true){ g++; } } if (g == f) System.out.println("YES"); else System.out.println("NO"); } }
Right now, the code always returns "YES" because the ints g and f are always 0.
I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to read all of this and help me out! | http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/loops-control-statements/33745-looping-through-boolean-arrays.html | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | refinedweb | 421 | 73.68 |
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Deletion of attribute references, subscriptions and slicings is passed to the primary object involved; deletion of a slicing is in general equivalent to assignment of an empty slice of the right type (but even this is determined by the sliced object).
Changed in version 3.2: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. indicates that the generator is done and will cause StopIteration to be raised. The returned value (if any) is used as an argument to construct StopIteration and becomes the StopIteration.value attribute.
yield_stmt ::= yield_expression
A yield statement is semantically equivalent to a yield expression. The yield statement can be used to omit the parentheses that would otherwise be required in the equivalent yield expression statement. For example, the yield statements
yield <expr> yield from <expr>
are equivalent to the yield expression statements
(yield <expr>) (yield from <expr>)
Yield expressions and statements are only used when defining a generator function, and are only used in the body of the generator function. Using yield in a function definition is sufficient to cause that definition to create a generator function instead of a normal function.
For full details of yield semantics, refer to the Yield expressions section.
raise_stmt ::= "raise" [expression ["from" expression]]
If no expressions are present, raise re-raises the last exception that was active in the current scope. If no exception is active in the current scope, a RuntimeError exception is raised indicating that this is an error.. | http://wingware.com/psupport/python-manual/3.4/reference/simple_stmts.html | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | refinedweb | 256 | 50.06 |
Introduction
The process of developing successful trading strategies with implementation of technical analysis can be divided into several stages:
- Attach several technical indicators to a chart window of a financial instrument's price, and identify patterns of market correlations and signal indicators.
- Formulate data obtained from the previous correlation step.
- Convert strategy to a relevant programming language to create a mechanical trading system.
- Run the trading system through a simulator based on history data and try to match its input parameters (optimize).
- If the previous step hasn't increased the balance, proceed to step 1.
- Run the system obtained through the previous stages on demo accounts for testing.
- If the previous step hasn't brought any profit from virtual money, proceed to step 1.
- Use the system in real-life trading, occasionally adjusting its input parameters to the changing market conditions.
Let's see what happens, if we try to computerize the whole process.
This article analyzes the use of a simple single-layer neural network for identifying the future price movements based on the readings of the Acceleration/Deceleration (AC) Oscillator.
Neural Network
where:
wi - weighting coefficient with index i,
ai - numerical value of a sign with object's index i,
d - threshold value that often equals 0.
If the left side of the inequation appears to be higher than the threshold value, then the object belongs to a specific class, if it is lower, the same does not apply. In case when the object classification implies a separation into two classes, a single-layer neural network is sufficient.
It may seem that the inequation used in a neural network is somehow similar to a "shamanic spell" in regards to weighting factors. In reality, this is not the case. The principle of neural network operation has a geometric meaning.
In fact, a plane is described geometrically as a linear equation. For example, in a three-dimensional space the plane equation concerning the coordinates X, Y and Z is the following:
The coordinates of all points located on one side of the plane in this space satisfy the inequation:
And coordinates of all points positioned on the other side of the plane satisfy the inequation:
Thus, if a plane equation and any points coordinates are known to us, we can divide a set of all points in space into two sets of points separated by this plane.
Respectively, weighting coefficients in a neural network inequation are constants that define a certain plane equation in the multidimensional space of objects' signs. By means of inequation we can accurately determine, whether these objects lie on one or the other side of the specified plane. For this purpose it is sufficient to locate the objects' coordinates and, by substituting them in the equation of the plane, compare with zero.
Problem Definition
However, there is one issue with neural networks. Let's take a two-dimensional space of signs described by coordinates X and Y. We will use this space to place objects with coordinates of points.
The figure above shows that if a set of points in red color do not intersect a set of coordinate points marked blue, then both sets can be separated using lines (a line is a separator in two-dimensional space, and a plane - in three or more dimensional space). Please note that the equations for these dividing lines may vary. Another example now:
We can see that the sets of points are intersected in space and it isn't possible to draw a clear dividing line between them. The only viable solution would be to draw a line that would separate two sets of points, so that the majority of red objects stay on one side, and the blue objects - on the other side. This time, we are dealing with an optimization issue, i.e. a search for an equation dividing a plane or line, able to have a maximum separation between two objects' classes, but with probability that some points' membership to a class will be mistakenly identified as a membership to another class.
There are other ways to implement neural networks, namely, via nonlinear filters and multilayer networks. Nonlinear filters allow using a higher-order dividing surface as a boundary layer separation between objects of different classes. Multilayer networks imply using multiple filters (separating planes or surfaces) for identifying objects that belong to three or more classes.
Let's try to define a problem that we will have to solve. Basic information a trader should know to achieve profitable trading results is a direction of the price changes. If a price goes up, a trader should open a long position. If it goes down, a trader should open a short position. Therefore, we already have two classes of objects, namely, the directions of price movements. In order to make a decision, following the technical analysis, traders refer to a study of the so-called technical indicators and oscillators. We will also analyze the oscillator named AC.
Since technical oscillators are histograms whose values deviate from a horizontal line, then, respectively, we will require a neural network with a line filter. We will be using patterns as signs of an object, i.e. the oscillator's values at four points taken in seven period steps back in history, starting from the current moment.
The value of the oscillator is marked with a circle in the figure above. We will identify them as a1, a2, a3 and a4, and put in the separation plane's equation to compare the obtained value with zero in order to find out from which side the pattern will show.
It only remains now to get the plane equation, which will separate the patterns preceding upward price movement from the patterns preceding downward price movement.
For this purpose we will use the genetic algorithm built in MetaTrader 4 and intended for speeding up the optimization processes. In other words, we will select the values of linear filter weighting coefficients in a such way, that consequently will allow us to obtain the dividing line equation for the maximum balance, using the optimization strategies based on history data.
For this purpose we need, at least, a formulation of the trading strategy, in order to implement the algorithm and to convert it to the Expert Advisor code for MetaTrader 4.
In theory, a trading system should provide signals for both market entry and exit. However, the output signals are optional and can be avoided under the following conditions:
- Placing take profit and stop loss orders;
- Turning in the opposite direction upon a receipt of a signal indicating a change of direction in the market trend.
- Prices are likely to move upwards;
- Prices are likely to move downwards.
To reduce the number of false neural network signals, we will read and make decisions based only on formed bars and opening prices of the same bars.
Problem SolutionPlease find below the source code of the Expert Advisor implementing this trading strategy:
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| ArtificialIntelligence.mq4 | //| Copyright й 2006, Yury V. Reshetov | //| | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ #property copyright "Copyright й 2006, Yury V. Reshetov ICQ:282715499" #property link "" //---- input parameters extern int x1 = 120; extern int x2 = 172; extern int x3 = 39; extern int x4 = 172; // StopLoss level extern double sl = 50; extern double lots = 0.1; extern int MagicNumber = 888; static int prevtime = 0; static int spread = 3; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| expert initialization function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int init() { //---- return(0); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| expert deinitialization function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int deinit() { //---- return(0); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| expert start function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int start() { if(Time[0] == prevtime) return(0); prevtime = Time[0]; //---- if(IsTradeAllowed()) { spread = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_SPREAD); } else { prevtime = Time[1]; return(0); } int ticket = -1; // check for opened position int total = OrdersTotal(); for(int i = 0; i < total; i++) { OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES); // check for symbol & magic number if(OrderSymbol() == Symbol() && OrderMagicNumber() == MagicNumber) { int prevticket = OrderTicket(); // long position is opened if(OrderType() == OP_BUY) { // check profit if(Bid > (OrderStopLoss() + (sl * 2 + spread) * Point)) { if(perceptron() < 0) { // reverse ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_SELL, lots * 2, Bid, 3, Ask + sl * Point, 0, "AI", MagicNumber, 0, Red); Sleep(30000); if(ticket < 0) { prevtime = Time[1]; } else { OrderCloseBy(ticket, prevticket, Blue); } } else { // trailing stop if(!OrderModify(OrderTicket(), OrderOpenPrice(), Bid - sl * Point, 0, 0, Blue)) { Sleep(30000); prevtime = Time[1]; } } } // short position is opened } else { // check profit if(Ask < (OrderStopLoss() - (sl * 2 + spread) * Point)) { if(perceptron() > 0) { // reverse ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_BUY, lots * 2, Ask, 3, Bid - sl * Point, 0, "AI", MagicNumber, 0, Blue); Sleep(30000); if(ticket < 0) { prevtime = Time[1]; } else { OrderCloseBy(ticket, prevticket, Blue); } } else { // trailing stop if(!OrderModify(OrderTicket(), OrderOpenPrice(), Ask + sl * Point, 0, 0, Blue)) { Sleep(30000); prevtime = Time[1]; } } } } // exit return(0); } } // check for long or short position possibility if(perceptron() > 0) { //long ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_BUY, lots, Ask, 3, Bid - sl * Point, 0, "AI", MagicNumber, 0, Blue); if(ticket < 0) { Sleep(30000); prevtime = Time[1]; } } else { // short ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_SELL, lots, Bid, 3, Ask + sl * Point, 0, "AI", MagicNumber, 0, Red); if(ticket < 0) { Sleep(30000); prevtime = Time[1]; } } //--- exit return(0); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| The PERCEPRRON - a perceiving and recognizing function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ double perceptron() { double w1 = x1 - 100.0; double w2 = x2 - 100.0; double w3 = x3 - 100.0; double w4 = x4 - 100.0; double a1 = iAC(Symbol(), 0, 0); double a2 = iAC(Symbol(), 0, 7); double a3 = iAC(Symbol(), 0, 14); double a4 = iAC(Symbol(), 0, 21); return (w1 * a1 + w2 * a2 + w3 * a3 + w4 * a4); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Now we simply have to select the weighting coefficients of the parting plane linear equation for a neural network. Let's run a strategy tester by pressing the keys Ctrl + R:
In Settings tab we select a fast method emulation market model only for opening prices (signals in our EA are read based on the formed bars). We tick the Recalculate and Optimization, and then click Expert properties.
Testing tab:
We choose the initial deposit of $3,000, the optimization and testing will be carried out based on long and short positions. The main optimization index will be considered as the maximum balance during the test period. Also, a genetic algorithm should be included in order to speed up the optimization process.
Inputs tab:
We will tick the input parameters selected by a genetic algorithm: x1, x2, x3 and x4 for the neural network weighting factors, also we will need to choose the acceptable value sl - stop loss level. Number of lots will be taken as 1 and a magic number will remain by default.
Optimization tab:
To speed up the optimization process, the maximum drawdown will be set up at the level of 35%. To clarify the acceptable level of a maximum drawdown it is necessary, first, to start the optimization process without any restrictions. Only after the first optimization results are obtained, it is required to take its value, round it up, and, after stopping the process, to enter the trading limits. The restarted optimization process will run considerably faster.
Click OK to close the Expert settings tab. Now we can start the optimization process by pressing the Start button. It is also advisable to disable the output for useless results:
During the process of optimization it is advisable to clear all journals occasionally, if a computer is weak and has a small RAM.
On Pentium III the entire optimization process takes slightly over an hour. The time depends on the financial instrument.
All is left to do is to click the right button located on the top line and, by selecting Set Input Parameters from the pop-up menu, begin testing on history data.
There is no doubt, that the test results will match data issued by the optimizer.
We would like to publish these results here. However, anyone in doubt can make a claim, that the information could be simply tailored to the history data. And how will the obtained strategy behave in case of the market change? How relevant are the patterns obtained for the last periods in the future? Take, for example, the participation in the automated trading championship, where rules prohibit to make any amendments to the input parameters until the championship is over.
Let's try and make an experiment. To do this, the neural network will be trained on history data, taken as a representative sample, but will exclude the past three months data. For this purpose we will use a limitation of optimization period and testing by dates functions integrated in the tester.
Let's start the process of optimization. We will obtain the results for the input parameters: x1 = 146, x2 = 25, x3 = 154, x4 = 121, sl = 45.
ConclusionHow shall we treat the conclusions regarding neural networks made by D. Katz and D. McCormick in their book "The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies"?
Firstly, operate by following the principle: trust, but verify. The so-called activities of D. Katz and D. McCormick are built in a way to avoid the possibility of this test. In other words, this is an unscientific approach that excludes reproduction. It is understandable when some people are involved in publishing business, rather than trading. Their task is to successfully sell the manuscript, without depending much on its content. To make sense out of this, it is sufficient to understand, what path they were going to create all the scrap paper written in style "500 useless advice" interspersed with figures. Let's try to sort things out.
- The problem definition by D. Katz and D. McCormick was to create a non-existent indicator or, to be more precise, a time-reversed slow %K stochastic, which, in fact, acts as a time machine and takes information from 10 bars ahead and based on it provides readings for 10 bars all the way backwards. If I had this indicator, Bill Gates and George Soros would be highly unlikely to compete with me;
- The next step was to take some data and using the telepathic abilities to obtain the stochastic predictions. They have already set the approximation task, that is, knowing the function arguments, to obtain its value. Approximation is, in fact, the adaptation, which Katz and McCormick so pointedly argue on the pages of their manuscript;
- It does not matter as much how the approximation was obtained, as it is more important that neural networks are not suitable for this goal. It would be much easier to complete the same task, for example, through a spectral analysis;
- Neural networks are acting even worse with interpolation and extrapolation tasks, and if we take data from a representative sample, then the extrapolation, rather than a membership to a certain class, applies;
- Having some kind of telepathic stochastic approximation which realization included obvious errors, Katz and McCormick went further and based on the readings of this erroneous device created a "trading strategy", which also had to interpret the readings of a faulty device, namely, if %K surpasses certain limits, then it is likely that the prices have reached maximum or minimum values. After all this "tinsel" was stuck in a mechanical trading system and, having received its statistics and hasty conclusions, the authors proposed to introduce them to their readers.
However, it wasn't just Katz and McCormick who failed the experiments linked to neural networks. The first neural network project called "Perceptron" also did not justify hopes that were pinned on it. It is the first step that costs troublesome, which is exactly what happened with Frankenstein. Later objective analysis about the capabilities and disabilities of a neural network, was conducted by M. Minsky and S. Papert [1]. Therefore, before proceeding to finding a solution for certain problems with neural networks, try not to step on the same rake twice:
- The problem definition should not contain telepathic future projections in order to get a precise answer to the question of when and how much. The solution should be restricted to the form of a decision identification based on the current signs in a form of separation into few exclusive potential situations. For example, if you have a weather related task, do not try to find out when exactly it will start raining, or what will be the amount of rainfall in millimeters. Limit the forecast of a potential situation to a change towards a sunny or a rainy weather;
- Cut all the unnecessary with "Occam's Razor". Some experimentators believe that the more layers the neural network has and the more complex its activation functions are, the better results turn out to be. This way you can certainly draw a more accurate line separating the identified objects based on their features. No one will dispute that. But why? After all, such approach is equivalent to building sand castles. If the border had a defined shape, that remained constant in time and independent from other circumstances, then the complexity to maximize a refinement would have a meaning. But most problems solved with the assistance of neural networks cannot be applied to this category. Financial instruments also do not stand still. Therefore, the simplest neural network with a low number of inputs and a single layer, may be more acceptable than a more complex construction with a disposable efficiency.
References
- Minsky, M. and Papert, S. (1969) PERCEPTRON; an Introduction to Computational Geometry, MIT Press, Massachussetts
Translated from Russian by MetaQuotes Software Corp.
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Hello all, I would really appreciate some help. I have an assignment for my class that is due where the objective is for the program to recognize the holiday when a specific date comes around. The easy ones are holidays that fall on a specific date every year, examples such as Christmas and the 4th of July. The part I am stuck with are the holidays that are different every year, such as something like "The fourth Thursday of the month" aka Thanksgiving, in November. If anyone can help with that part I would greatly appreciate it, and here is the program he gave us as it is (incomplete):
/* Application program that produces a list of "known holidays" for a given calendar interval. The beginning date value and ending date value are either given as command line argument values or the user as prompted to enter them. In either case, the dates must be given in the form mm/dd/yyyy. Furthermore, the first date value MUST NOT represent a date later than the second date value. */ import java.util.Scanner; public class Holidays { static Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { // Initialize the starting and ending date values //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SimpleDate start = new SimpleDate(getString(args,0).trim()); SimpleDate stop = new SimpleDate(getString(args,1).trim()); //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Loop to iterate over the interval while(!start.equals(stop)) { // Process the current date String result = holidaysOf(start); if(result.length() > 0) { //Check for non-empty string result System.out.println(dayOfWeekAbbreviation(start.getDayOfWeek()) + " " + start + " " + result); } start.nextDay(); //Advance to the next date } } /* Functional Method that returns a string expressing the name (or names) of the holidays occuring on the given date. If not holiday occurs on the given date then the empty string as returned indicating this. */ static String holidaysOf(SimpleDate date) { return asChristmas(date); } /* Functional Method that returns "Christmas" if the given date corresponds to the Christmas Holiday, or the empty string if it does not. */ static String asChristmas(SimpleDate date) { String result = ""; if((date.getMonth() == 12) && (date.getDay() == 25)) { result = "Christmas"; } return result; } //Constants useful with the getDayOfWeek method static final int SUN = 1; static final int MON = 2; static final int TUE = 3; static final int WED = 4; static final int THU = 5; static final int FRI = 6; static final int SAT = 7; /* Functional Method that returns the abbreviation for the given "day of the week value"; where, 1 == "Sun", 2 == "Mon", etc. */ static String dayOfWeekAbbreviation(int dow) { String result = "???"; if(dow == 1) { result = "Sun"; } else if(dow == 2) { result = "Mon"; } else if(dow == 3) { result = "Tue"; } else if(dow == 4) { result = "Wed"; } else if(dow == 5) { result = "Thu"; } else if(dow == 6) { result = "Fri"; } else if(dow == 7) { result = "Sat"; } return result; } /* Functional Method that as passed the command line arguments and the index of the argument desired. If that argument exists then it as returned as the value of this function; if not then the user as prompted to enter a string value, which as then returned as the result of this function. */ static String getString(String[] commandLineArgs, int i) { String result; if (commandLineArgs.length > i) { result = commandLineArgs[i]; } else { Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter "+i+":"); result = keyboard.nextLine(); } return result; } } | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/437531/homework-assignment-involving-holiday-dates | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 542 | 53.71 |
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The days of Adobe Flash Player are numbered. Once a #1 tool for web apps, games and multimedia in browsers, Flash is going to be completely obsolete by 2020. Eventually it has been already outdated, as even Adobe itself now promotes HTML5, a newer and universal standard. But if you have content build in Flash, what do you do to keep it relevant? You convert Flash to Unity.
Let’s make a short introduction before exploring how to do it. Even though Flash has been key for interactive web content, and even big number of mobile apps, modern browsers now integrate its functionality by default. For instance, Chrome blocked Flash in the end of 2016 and will discontinue the support by 2020.
Microsoft will stop Flash support for Edge and IE by 2019, Google, Mozilla, Apple and Facebook will do the same by 2020. And crucially:
Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player by the end of 2020.
Why convert Flash to Unity
The new and open standards for web media are now HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly, with same capabilities as Flash plus improved functionality. When looking for tools to port Flash games/videos to HTML5, you are likely to find none. It is a more complicated matter, and even using Unity to convert Flash is a bit different from what you may expect.
Practically, without Unity, you will need to deal with multiple tools and technologies, making the process long and costly. The problem of “Flash to HTML5/JavaScript” issue is that a SWF file is not editable and you can’t extract code, image assets, sound effects separately. Like it or not, you’ll have to rewrite all from ActionScript as JavaScript, thus basically building a game again from scratch.
The only way to alleviate the pain, and enhance the code meanwhile, is to use Unity3D. It is a top-notch IDE (integrated development environment) with rich functionality for gaming, video and animations. It is super-popular and ever-growing, claiming 34% of top mobile games to be built with Unity.
So main arguments to use Unity to convert Flash games are:
- Cross-platform integration (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, PS4, Oculus, etc.), results in less resources needed;
- Unity provides native support for HMTL5 and JS builds, i.e. you can convert everything inside a Unity project to suitable formats;
- Unity is the leader in gaming software, as well as VR/AR gaming;
- Guarantee of problem-free smooth run in any modern browser;
- Suitable both for web and mobile content;
- Up-to-date code and better performance of games in result.
Now, here are 3 basic ways we can convert Flash to Unity. And again, remember that none of them is easy. For each method we used a plain simple Gravity Balls game to highlight the process.
#1 Flash to HTML5 auto conversion
Probably, the only proper way to port a Flash game to HTML5 without Unity is by using Adobe Animate CC. Previously Flash Professional CC, Animate is now Adobe’s go-to tool to develop web animation in HTML5, with a built-in support for plug-ins.
This is the only universal approach for auto conversion using raw flash assets. It requires Adobe Professionals/Adobe Animate CC plus Google’s Swiffy.
One of the plugins by Google, Native Flash Player, for example, is also in use by Flash/Actionscript developers to deploy new HTML5: convert .as, .fpa, .png, .mp3 into .HTML and .JS. It works with Flash movies (.swf, – swiff), compiling .as, .fpa, .png, .mp3 into .swf.
Swiffy Flash conversion tool probably is the closest to automatic Flash to HTML5. And though it may not be able to convert complex apps and games, but with some tweaking it can convert lots of stuff. Applied by our Unity developers with Gravity Balls test game, it performed best in such aspects as timeline graphics and animations (exactly like in original Flash version), in-game mechanics, keyboard interactivity.
Pros:
- Adobe supports Animate CC
- Actionscript 3.0
Cons:
- needs a player to run the movie
- needs a server to run locally
- Flash based technology is practically obsolete
Find more tips on using Animate CC to convert Flash to HTML5/JavaScript in this video by Thomas Benner:
Of course, such auto conversion is far from perfect. With Swiffy we get the following limitations:
- Flash components do not convert. For games it may not be an issue, however, it can be problematic for applications relying on Flash components.
- Sound does not convert.
- Some graphical artifacts remain when moving screen to screen.
- New version is a bit less responsive than the Flash version. And it can be crucial in games, where even slight delays will ruin gameplay.
And main backdrop when using Animate CC, is that <canvas> element and the whole JavaScript in resulting HTML5 will be broken.
#2 Manual build from SWF with sources
Yes, the bitter truth about converting Flash to Unity, is that you actually have to rebuild everything from scratch. The good news is that it pays off by having relevant up-to-date game/app working smoothly across modern web, and any C# developer can do this.
It will take less time and effort, if you do have source files, like we do for our test project. It is, in turn, based on a simple game of Gravity Ball.
So, to convert Flash to Unity in our project we did the following:
- Assigned one junior C# developer with Mono framework and Unity Engine (SDK), Visual Studio Code (IDE);
- Time: 8 hours for an MVP, 10 hours for full release;
- Generated HTML5, JS and WebGL scripts, which required 50 MB of RAM (8 MB for the whole package);
- Included: high resolution pictures x4, icons x1 (auto-generated for each screen size), audio track x1 (5.6 MB, uncompressed), scripts.
Game components include sprites, collider 2D and 2D physics 2D. Scripts include drag by mouse and wall bounces. Here are the excerpts: first, a C# script for the mouse.); } }
And adding bounciness to walls:); } }
Building manually in Unity is one of the ways to port Flash to HTML5. There are ups and downs.
Pros:
- .Net, agnostic,cross-platform
- Multiple plugins for Unity and third parties
- Built-in support for game development
- 3D and 2D environments
- Running all kinds of servers (blockchains, recognitions, code/decode, multiplayer games, chats, video conferences, etc.)
- Conversion from Flash animations to Unity (GAF)
- Plugins for integrating Flash to Unity limited by complexity
Cons:
- Currently (27.02.2018) still no stable support for mobile browsers
#3 Manual build from SWF without sources
Yes, it sucks if you even don’t have access to Flash source files, but what you’re going to do. You just have to tuck the shirt in, get lots of coffee and do the job. Time one will have to spend depends on the scale of the game, features, assets, etc. With our little demo project, a rough estimation is this:
- 1 menu screen: 8 to 16 hours
- Each new screen in 2D/3D: 8 to 40 hours, with lights, shadows, particles, pre-made animations
- Testing and bug fixing: +25% additional time
Workflow sequence will go something like this:
- First, play the Flash movie;
- Figure out features and game logic (menus, buttons, level design, UI and fields, the workflow on each button);
- Level design – depends on the assets, sprites etc.;
- Assets for models – 2D and 3D artists working separately;
- Integrating plugins for video/audio, capturing the video;
- If online services or databases are at play – capturing and analyzing requests. A tip on solution: make a custom server, with back-end developers create a separate server with its database and server side scripting.
- Testing and fixing.
Whole scripts in Unity are licensed MIT, are free to use, distribute and modify.
using UnityEngine; [RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))] public class DragAndPush : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] private bool _isHeld; private Vector2 _temporal; private Vector3 _mouse; private float _positionZ; private Rigidbody2D _rigidBody; private Transform _transform; private void Start() { _rigidBody = GetComponent(); _transform = transform; _temporal = Vector2.zero; _mouse = Vector3.zero; _positionZ = _transform.position.z; }); } } } // For general public static class Constants { public const float WALL_COLLISION_MULTIPLAYER = 10f; public const string TAG_WALL = "Wall"; public const string TIME_LABEL = "Time Played: "; public const string WEBPLAYER_QUIT_URL = ""; }
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I've been spending quite a lot of time looking at mail routing options using a shared namespace - not something most people tend to do, however quite important in this case J
I found some information at MSExchange.org that helps clarify the routing mechanism that takes place in Exchange 2007, and when to use the different types of relay options available.
In this case we wanted to be able to route mail from a hosted service to an IMAP-based platform while in co-existence mode. This would use the "mailhost" attribute in the local directory to re-route the message to AD, and the Hub Transport servers would then route the message to the local message stores. Effectively users who have not been migrated yet would be in the AD as mail-enabled users, but with the "TargetAddress" set to match the SMTP address - this fools the server into thinking that the user is in fact, a contact! The message would then be routed via relay to the IMAP servers, therefore preventing the need to create contact placeholders for the users prior to migration. It also means that changing from a contact to a mail-enabled user is a far less exhauting task...
I also managed to dig out some information on categorisation, which can be found here. | http://blogs.technet.com/b/msukucc/archive/2009/02/13/mail-routing-with-a-single-namespace-during-migration-co-existence.aspx | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | refinedweb | 220 | 61.4 |
I am trying to use selenium/phantomjs with scrapy and I’m riddled with errors. For example, take the following code snippet:
def parse(self, resposne): while True: try: driver = webdriver.PhantomJS() # do some stuff driver.quit() break except (WebDriverException, TimeoutException): try: driver.quit() except UnboundLocalError: print "Driver failed to instantiate" time.sleep(3) continue
A lot of the times the driver it seems it has failed to instantiate (so the
driver is unbound, hence the exception), and I get the blurb (along with the print message I put in)
Exception AttributeError: "'Service' object has no attribute 'process'" in <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.phantomjs.service.Service object at 0x7fbb28dc17d0>> ignored
Googling around, it seems everyone suggests updating phantomjs, which I have (
1.9.8 built from source). Would anyone know what else could be causing this problem and a suitable diagnosis?
Best answer
The reason for this behavior is how the PhantomJS driver’s
Service class is implemented.
There is a
__del__ method defined that calls
self.stop() method:
def __del__(self): # subprocess.Popen doesn't send signal on __del__; # we have to try to stop the launched process. self.stop()
And,
self.stop() is assuming the service instance is still alive trying to access it’s attributes:
def stop(self): """ Cleans up the process """ if self._log: self._log.close() self._log = None #If its dead dont worry if self.process is None: return ...
The same exact problem is perfectly described in this thread:
- Python attributeError on del
What you should do is to silently ignore
AttributeError occurring while quitting the driver instance:
try: driver.quit() except AttributeError: pass
The problem was introduced by this revision. Which means that downgrading to
2.40.0 would also help. | https://pythonquestion.com/post/scrapy-with-selenium-webdriver-failing-to-instantiate/ | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | refinedweb | 291 | 59.5 |
Samiser
Fake Shell with Python Requests
Published Dec. 24, 2019, 1:28 p.m. by sam
Just recently, I managed to finish all of my university coursework somehow. One of the modules I had this term was Web Application Hacking. The coursework for this module was essentially to produce a pentest report for a given web application which had many randomly generated vulnerabilities.
I did a lot of interesting hacking stuff for this coursework since the sheer amount of vulnerabilities present really allowed me to get creative. There was however one thing I achieved that I'm most proud of, and that's what this post is about.
Essentially, I managed to get code execution using a file upload vulnerability, but was really struggling to get a shell. I tried weevely, netcat, bash over the tcp file descriptor and php sockets but nothing would work. Still not really sure why this was but I could send commands and get a result back, so I was determined to get some kind of shell with this code execution and that's just what I did.
File Upload and Code Execution
Firstly I'll just go over the file upload vulnerabilities that I discovered.
The vulnerable entry point was a profile picture changing form.
It was meant to only accept JPG or PNG files. Uploading a file of another type was caught by a filter.
I managed to bypass this filter by editing the MIME type with burp proxy. I just had a "test.php" file containing some php to echo 1+1.
Once the upload post request was intercepted all I had to do was change the MIME type from application/x-php to image/jpeg.
And it was successfully uploaded and stored on the server.
Now I could access the file directly and the code would be executed.
Another slightly more interesting method was using a local file inclusion vulnerability I had found previously. I could upload a file containing php code with a .jpg extension with no problem, but when accessed directly the web server would try to handle it as an image and nothing would happen. However, when included with LFI, it would actually execute the code and display the output in between the header and the footer.
So I had two different methods of uploading code to the server, but now I actually wanted to use the code execution repeatedly and in a convenient way. As mentioned previously, a reverse shell was being blocked somehow, so I would have to work with just what I had got working so far.
Editing the file, uploading it through the web interface then directly accessing it/including it to view the output was a big faff. Not very efficient when trying to run multiple commands in succession. Next I used burp proxy's repeater to edit the command to be run then resend the post request to upload the file. Then I could just reload the file in the browser and the new command would be executed so that was a bit better.
Still though, I figured there would be a way to automate this process, and that's where python comes in.
Developing the Shell
So, in order to make get and post requests, the requests library had to be imported
import requests
Then, the target urls were defined. We needed the login url, the image url to access it once it has been uploaded and the image upload url to post the new "image" to
login_url = '' image_url = '' upload_url = ''
In order to upload a new profile picture we would need to be signed in as a user, but how can we log in with python? Requests has an ability to create sessions and perform post and get requests using the session object.
First, a post login request was captured with burp proxy in order to see what parameters needed to be included.
As can be seen in the captured request, three parameters are needed: email, password and Login. These were then defined in a python dictionary.
login_data = { 'email':'bla%40bla.com', 'password':'bla', 'login':'Login' }
Now a post request can be made to the login url defined earlier with the parameters set in the dictionary.
with requests.Session() as s: login = s.post(login_url, data=login_data)
The session is now authenticated and we are logged in as the bla account. I've demonstrated this in the interactive python shell here:
The next challenge is sending a multipart/form-data request where the file contents is the command we want to run surrounded by php exec code. This turns out to be not as complicated as it sounds.
As explained in the requests documentation posting a multipart/form-data request is as simple as defining the data in a python dictionary or a list of two item tuples. It's also stated in the documentation that a string can be used as the file contents. Both of these things are ideal for this task.
In this code snippet, the file is defined with the name 'boop.php', the content is php execing a command defined by the cmd variable and the type is 'image/jpeg'.
files = [ ('uploadedfile', ('boop.php', '<?php echo exec("' + cmd + '");?>', 'image/jpeg') ) ]
This can then be posted to the upload url using the session that we're logged into the bla account on.
s.post(upload_url, files=files)
Now that the file with the payload has been uploaded, all that needs to be done is to directly access it via a GET request and we'll have the command output.
get = s.get(image_url)
To demonstrate I used the python shell with the previously authenticated session object to post a payload that will cat the hostname.
All of this can be put into a while loop that queries the user for a command and prints the result.
while cmd != 'exit': cmd = input('> ') get = s.get(upload_url) files = [ ('uploadedfile', ('boop.php', '<?php echo exec("' + cmd + '");?>', 'image/jpeg') ) ] s.post(upload_url, files=files) get = s.get(image_url) print(get.text)
We now have a fully interactive shell where we can enter commands and see the output immediately! There did seem to be a slight issue though. Only one line of output from the command was being returned.
To fix this, I changed the payload so that the command entered was being piped into the "head" command. Then, in a loop, the command would repeatedly be called while the line of output of the command that was being read would be incremented by 1. This was done until the output was the same twice, indicating that the line counter had reached the end of the output.
while get.text != old_get or i > 100: old_get = get.text files = [ ('uploadedfile', ('boop.php', '<?php echo exec("' + cmd + ' | head -n ' + str(i) + '");?>', 'image/jpeg') ) ] s.post(upload_url, files=files) get = s.get(image_url) i += 1 if get.text != old_get: print(get.text)
Now we have a fully fledged shell where we can enter commands and see the output in full!
Adapting the Shell
What I originally set out to do was done, but I did still want to adapt the shell to exploit the second vuln I'd found where you can include a .jpg file and execute the code within. This was a little more complicated as the GET also returned the header and footer.
First the image url had to be updated.
image_url= ''
Then, around the actual command execution including the head trick to get the whole output, ^START^ and ^END^ were echo'd before and after the command was run respectively.
'<?php echo("^START^"); echo exec("' + cmd + ' | head -n ' + str(i) + '");echo("^END^");?>',
Then a little function to filter out everything outwith the tags including the tags themselves was made.
def parse(text): return text[text.find('^START^')+7:text.find('^END^')]
Finally, the exact same code could be used for printing but just with the filter being applied.
if parse(get.text) != old_get: print(parse(get.text))
And now we have a fully functioning shell using the second vulnerability.
Interestingly since this code was being run from the LFI vulnerable file, the code executed from the webroot instead of the images directory like before, so this is actually a little bit more convenient.
Conclusions
Python's requests module is very handy and being able to authenticate by logging in and then do actions with that authenticated session is extremely useful and something I didn't even know existed. I'll definitely be playing about with that more in the future.
Also, doing this didn't get me any extra marks for the coursework as far as I know, I just did it because I wanted to see if I could.
Thanks for reading :)back | https://samiser.xyz/blog/2019/12/24/fake-shell-python-requests/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | refinedweb | 1,463 | 63.29 |
#include <wx/cmdline.h>
wxCmdLineParser is a class for parsing the command line.
It has the following features:
To use it you should follow these steps:
AddXXX()functions later.
You can also use wxApp's default command line processing just overriding wxAppConsole::OnInitCmdLine() and wxAppConsole::OnCmdLineParsed().
In the documentation below the following terminology is used:
"-v"might be a switch meaning "enable verbose mode".
"-o filename"might be an option for specifying the name of the output file.(int, char**) or wxCmdLineParser(const wxString&) usually) or, if you use the default constructor, you can do it later by calling SetCmdLine().
The same holds for command line description: it can be specified either in the constructor (with or without the command line itself) or constructed later using either SetDesc() or combination of AddSwitch(), AddOption(), AddParam() and AddUsageText().
Default constructor, you must use SetCmdLine() later.
Constructor which specifies the command line to parse.
This is the traditional (Unix) command line format. The parameters argc and argv have the same meaning as the typical
main() function.
This constructor is available in both ANSI and Unicode modes because under some platforms the command line arguments are passed as ASCII strings even to Unicode programs.
Constructor which specifies the command line to parse.
This is the traditional (Unix) command line format.
The parameters argc and argv have the same meaning as the typical
main() function.
This constructor is only available in Unicode build.
Constructor which specify the command line to parse in Windows format.
The parameter cmdline has the same meaning as the corresponding parameter of
WinMain().
Specifies the command line description but not the command line.
You must use SetCmdLine() later.
Specifies both the command line (in Unix format) and the command line description.
Specifies both the command line (in Windows format) and the command line description.
Frees resources allocated by the object.
Adds an option with only long form.
This is just a convenient wrapper for AddOption() passing an empty string as short option name.
Adds a switch with only long form.
This is just a convenient wrapper for AddSwitch() passing an empty string as short switch name.
Add an option name with an optional long name lng (no long name if it is empty, which is default) taking a value of the given type (string by default) to the command line description.
Add a parameter of the given type to the command line description.
Add a switch name with an optional long name lng (no long name if it is empty, which is default), description desc and flags flags to the command line description.
Returns true if long options are enabled, otherwise false.
Breaks down the string containing the full command line in words.
Words are separated by whitespace and double quotes can be used to preserve the spaces inside the words.
By default, this function uses Windows-like word splitting algorithm, i.e. single quotes have no special meaning and backslash can't be used to escape spaces neither. With
wxCMD_LINE_SPLIT_UNIX flag Unix semantics is used, i.e. both single and double quotes can be used and backslash can be used to escape all the other special characters.
Identical to EnableLongOptions(false).
Enable or disable support for the long options.
As long options are not (yet) POSIX-compliant, this option allows disabling them.
Returns true if the given switch was found, false otherwise.
Returns true if an option taking a string value was found and stores the value in the provided pointer (which should not be NULL).
Returns true if an option taking an integer value was found and stores the value in the provided pointer (which should not be NULL).
Returns true if an option taking a float value was found and stores the value in the provided pointer (which should not be NULL).
Returns true if an option taking a date value was found and stores the value in the provided pointer (which should not be NULL).
Returns whether the switch was found on the command line and whether it was negated.
This method can be used for any kind of switch but is especially useful for switches that can be negated, i.e. were added with wxCMD_LINE_SWITCH_NEGATABLE flag, as otherwise Found() is simpler to use.
However Found() doesn't allow to distinguish between switch specified normally, i.e. without dash following it, and negated switch, i.e. with the following dash. This method will return
wxCMD_SWITCH_ON or
wxCMD_SWITCH_OFF depending on whether the switch was negated or not. And if the switch was not found at all,
wxCMD_SWITCH_NOT_FOUND is returned.
Returns the collection of arguments.
Returns the value of Nth parameter (as string only).
Returns the number of parameters found.
This function makes sense mostly if you had used
wxCMD_LINE_PARAM_MULTIPLE flag.
Parse the command line, return 0 if ok, -1 if
"-h" or
"\--help" option was encountered and the help message was given or a positive value if a syntax error occurred.
Set the command line to parse after using one of the constructors which don't do it.
Set the command line to parse after using one of the constructors which don't do it.
Set the command line to parse after using one of the constructors which don't do it.
Constructs the command line description.
Take the command line description from the wxCMD_LINE_NONE terminated table.
Example of usage:
switchChars contains all characters with which an option or switch may start.
Default is
"-" for Unix,
"-/" for Windows. | https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.5/classwx_cmd_line_parser.html | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | refinedweb | 910 | 66.13 |
We plan. Furthermore, a number of other new features are coming as well in the Report Viewer controls. Related to this, my esteemed colleague Brian Hartman started blogging recently. His blog is definitely worth keeping an eye on regarding common questions on current and future versions of the Report Viewer.
FAQ: What is the current level of RDL support in Visual Studio 2008 Report Viewer controls?
If you are using local mode, you probably already noticed that attempting to load RDL 2008 based reports results in the following error:
The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition has an invalid target namespace '' which cannot be upgraded.
The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition has an invalid target namespace '' which cannot be upgraded.
You cannot use RDL 2008 features in VS 2005 or VS 2008 report viewer controls in local mode, because the controls are using the same report processing engine that was shipped with SQL Server 2005 (supporting only the RDL 2005 namespace and feature set). As a side-note, VS 2008 shipped almost 6 months before SQL Server 2008 became available.
If you want to use RDL 2008 features with the report viewer controls available today, server mode is your only viable option, because report processing is performed remotely on a Reporting Services 2008 server. Please check Brian's blog posting about RS 2008 and the Report Viewer controls for more details. A general overview of the differences in functionality between Report Viewer and RS 2008 is available in the documentation as well. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2009/01/19/better-report-viewing-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 259 | 51.38 |
Details
- Type:
Wish
- Status: Open
- Priority:
Major
- Resolution: Unresolved
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Issue Links
- blocks
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- is part of
HADOOP-6685 Change the generic serialization framework API to use serialization-specific bytes instead of Map<String,String> for configuration
- Open
- is related to
MAPREDUCE-447 Add Serialization for RecordIO
- Open
HADOOP-4203 implement LineReader (ie Text) Serialization/Serializer/Deserializer
- Closed
MAPREDUCE-377 Add serialization for Protocol Buffers
- Open
- relates to
HADOOP-4192 Class <? extends T> Deserializer.getRealClass() method to return the actual class of the objects from a deserializer
- Closed
Activity
I've seen several list discussions/mentions of Thrift and serialization, but have not seen extprot yet mentioned. It is recent, but relevant to this issue (and in its own right):
and
<quote>
At this point, you'll be thinking, "what, yet another Protocol Buffers/Thrift/ASN.1 DER/XDR/IIOP/IFF?"... Not quite: extprot differentiates itself in that it allows for more extensions and supports richer types (mainly tuples and disjoint union types aka. sum types) than Protocol Buffers or Thrift without approaching the complexity of ASN.1 DER. (Note that XDR does not define self-describing protocols, making protocol changes hard at best.)
</quote>
HTH?
any update on this?
thanks, pete
Do we expect different serialization implementations to share code? If not, this should probably be in contrib/thrift-serialization. Then we'd build a separate jar for each serialization implementation, which seems appropriate.
one minor nitpick. This implements the Serialization interfaces in 3 separate files, whereas every other Serialization implementation does it in one with the serializer/deserializer as static public classes in the Serialization class.
The simplest way to fix this is to always create a new object, but that's won't work well until
HADOOP-1230is done.
You could also use a container object like in
HADOOP-4065?? Or require that all the thrift fields have the required attribue - at least a comment?
For this and RecordSerialization HADOOP-4199, there's also the issue that they are both by default using Binary format whereas thrift, record io support multiple formats. If thrift finally implements a compacted binary format, this will be even more important since people will have both.
The other thing is Hive has something called TCTLSeparatedProtocol which implements the Thrift Protocol interface and allows thrift to parse simple text files with ctl separators. For us, we definitely have data in both Binary and CTL seped, so would need a way to configure this.
But, I think those are add ons and you could submit this?
Also, can someone create a category for contrib/serialization?
Pete, I think you're right about objects not being cleared out on reads. So optional fields that aren't set in later reads will retain their values from earlier reads. The simplest way to fix this is to always create a new object, but that's won't work well until
HADOOP-1230 is done. The alternative is to patch Thrift to give generated classes a clear() method.
I think I was looking at this the wrong way - this patch looks right.
I was able to use this code with
HADOOP-4065's flat file deserializer based record reader and read and wrote thrift records just fine.
+1
to make a generic ThriftDeserializer<TBase>, i think one needs 4192.
To make the ThriftDeserializer support a generic TBase Deserializer and have it get the actual class name from a config file or as a parameter, one needs the Deserializer to return the real thrift class name.
-1 on this part as you don't clear the object before deserializing into it, which doesn't do a clear. Since there's no clear for a thrift object now, you would have to return a new object everytime, so the code should always ignore what's passed in. Given
HADOOP-1230, this won't currently work because line 75 of SequenceFileRecordReader:
> boolean remaining = (in.next(key) != null);
Throws out the return value of SequenceFile.next which is the result of
deserialize(obj).
public T deserialize(T t) throws IOException { T object = (t == null ? newInstance() : t); try { object.read(protocol); } catch (TException e) { throw new IOException(e.toString()); } return object; }
I queried about my last comment about more parameterized serializers to core-user.
This looks like a good addition. But, there's another use case where one does not know a-priori the thrift class (or I would imagine the same problem for recordio) that should be used for deserializing/serializing. (let's not assume sequence files and/or what to do about legacy data). This is what the hive case looks like. We may even have a thrift serde that takes its DDL at runtime. Registering all these doesn't seem very scalable. And even for sequence files, a serializer that needs the DDL at runtime wouldn't work.
It seems one needs some kind of metainformation beyond the key or value classes that can be stored "somewhere" and then be used to instantiate the serializer/deserializer to make this use case work. Otherwise, one is stuck using BytesWritable and then having the application logic figure out how to instantiate the real serializer/deserializer. Somewhat more like what was proposed in:
@Tom - the other thing is that SequenceFiles are self-describing - so the createKey()/Value() methods are trivial. For flat binary files - the record that's serialized is not implicit in the file and has to come from configuration outside.
In Hive we have configuration per inputpath (or path-prefix really) that indicates the same information that's embedded inside sequencefile header. i am not sure whether we want to have this kind of information as part of hadoop-core.
will open a separate jira for binary flat files (opening corresponding one for Hive as well since this is one of the first requests we got).
This, and
HADOOP-1986 in general, does not mandate the use of SequenceFile. However, SequenceFiles are a convenient binary format, so that's what's I've used here for the example.
It would be possible to run MapReduce against Thrift records in flat files with a suitable InputFormat (which would need to be written), but such files would not be splittable (unless there is some general way to find Thrift record boundaries from an arbitrary position in the file). Unsplittable files do not in general play well with MapReduce and HDFS. Perhaps one way to fix this is to insert a special Thrift record every n records whose unique byte sequence can be scanned for to realign with the record boundaries. Could this work?
If i understand this and hadoop-1986 right - this all works in the context of sequencefiles - correct?
There maybe lots of use cases of serialized records in simple flat files (we are getting some requests for this Thrift serialized records in flat files) - and was wondering what i can leverage to handle this case.
A patch for a ThriftSerialization class, including an example (in the form of a test). This uses Thrift release 20080411p1 since the inccubator has not produced a release yet.
As the previous patch has a bug and is based off an old version of thrift, I'm attaching a Serialization implementation which works better.
This contains only a standalone org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serialization implementation (the original patch has testcases etc). Tested against Thrift 0.7 and Hadoop 0.20.1. | https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-376?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 1,234 | 54.32 |
PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsgokul7.gokul_2285351 Mar 15, 2017 9:33 PM
I'm currently using Cypress PSOC 4 BLE pioneer kit .Trying out Ledcapsense in it.
i have doubt regarding Blecallback functions ,are these functions generated automatically when the project is build after topdesign or Do we have to write program?
1. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_1377889 Mar 16, 2017 2:44 AM (in response to gokul7.gokul_2285351)
Welcome in the forum.
The callback macros are explained in Creator Help. You have to provide a #define and a function with a corresponding name as listed in the component's datasheet.
Bob
2. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_13524663 Mar 16, 2017 3:17 PM (in response to user_1377889)
I don't see "callback" or "macro" in the Help system index.
I'm trying to figure the callback thing out. Looking at the BLE_Proximity example and reading the PSoC4 System Reference and the Component Author Guide confuses me, which isn't surprising. I see in cyapicallbacks.h where I'm supposed to add those callback #defines, however I see that:
- common.h is #included in main.c
- Both lls.h and tps.h are #included in common.h
- project.h is #included in common.h
- both CYBLE_lls.h and CYBLE_tps.h are #included in project.h
So, in a nutshell, if Creator has generated these files and the #includes, what does section 6.1.6 of the Component Author Guide and Macro Callbacks of the PSoC4 System Reference require me to do in cyapicallbacks.h?
3. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_1377889 Mar 17, 2017 4:50 AM (in response to gokul7.gokul_2285351)
Sorry, BLE callbacks are handled differently. I didn't notice that.
It is not too difficult, do a "search" in the Creator Help for "callback" to get info for the general component callback macros.
Info for the BLE callbacks you get in the BLE datasheet, again do a search for "callback".
The "Component Author Guide" is useful only when you want to build up own components which you put into the component catalog.
Bob
4. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_13524663 Mar 17, 2017 8:46 AM (in response to user_1377889)
OK, I was looking in the index.
However, the Help text is from the PSoCCreator User Guide. What is said doesn't align with what I see in the example code, where BLE_Proximity01's cyapicallbacks.h is essentially empty and the declarations and definitions are in other files, as noted. As far as I can tell, all that is required is that the automatically generated files are declared/defined somewhere, the cyapicallbacks.h file doesn't seem to be necessary from the example code.
5. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionse.pratt_1639216 Mar 17, 2017 12:09 PM (in response to user_13524663)
There is more than one method to handle the callback events for the BLE events; You can declare a #define (as @Bob Marlowe stated) for the specific components callback function, and then write that function declaration in cyapicallbacks.h. (It uses macros to internally call the function name that you declare with the #define preprocessor declarative).
Another method is to declare hardware ISR components in the "TopDesign.cysch" file and then define those ISR functions in code. (Method I personally used, as it happened to be the one I found first).
Example of the #define macro method:
#define SimpleComp_1_START_CALLBACK
void SimpleComp_1_Start_Callback( void );
Example of the "component" method:
Create an ISR component, wire to device you want it to handle interrupts for, then:
isr_TIMER_1_StartEx(GENERIC_TIMER_ISR); //Start interrupt handler; Put this in the initialization/startup code to start the interrupt/callback and to start handling it when events occur.
CY_ISR_PROTO(GENERIC_TIMER_ISR); //Prototype declaration
CY_ISR(GENERIC_TIMER_ISR) { //Function definition
uint8 i;
for(i=0;i<MAX_NUMBER_TIMERS;i++) {
if(VectorEntry[i].CmdFunc) {
if(VectorEntry[i].Data-- == 0) {
VectorEntry[i].CmdFunc();
VectorEntry[i].CmdFunc = 0;
tmrcount--;
}
}
}
}
6. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionse.pratt_1639216 Mar 17, 2017 12:15 PM (in response to user_13524663)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Using the "component" method, you can also choose to use the default ISR handler function defined by the component's generated files, and just write your code inside of the default ISR within the generated files in the area that looks like this:
CY_ISR(isr_TIMER_Interrupt)
{
#ifdef isr_TIMER_INTERRUPT_INTERRUPT_CALLBACK
isr_TIMER_Interrupt_InterruptCallback();
#endif /* isr_TIMER_INTERRUPT_INTERRUPT_CALLBACK */
/* Place your Interrupt code here. */
/* `#START isr_TIMER_Interrupt` */
LED_Write(1);//turn on LED as an example
/* `#END` */
}
7. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_13524663 Mar 18, 2017 6:46 AM (in response to e.pratt_1639216)
Thanks for that explanation. One thing that makes their instructions confusing is that for their own example, BLE_Proximity01 in my case, cyapicallbacks.h has no #defines for any of the callbacks. They use the header file, such as lls.h, to declare and the c file to define. I expected that the cyapicallbacks.h file would conform to what the Component Author guide (Help file too) presents.
8. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionsuser_13524663 Mar 20, 2017 5:48 AM (in response to e.pratt_1639216)
So, in your example, the callback function is LED_Write(1) but it doesn't need teh curly braces? It it's simple enough and only one callback function is required, then that's enough?
9. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionse.pratt_1639216 Mar 20, 2017 9:52 AM (in response to user_13524663)
Yeah, like I listed above there are multiple ways to get a callback function being associated/attached to the hardware/interrupts.
They list using a define and writing the callback declaration in the cyapicallbacks.h file, but I have yet to see an example that directly implements it that way.
Usually I see it the way they do in the BLE_Proximity01 example where they register the callback in their startup routine in main, thus making it irrelevant whether or not you use their default callback or setup a #define for the callback in cyapicallbacks.h
I've found that the only way to be sure what code is doing in embedded projects is to look at the source code and follow it yourself, or to look at the disassembly (if you like opcodes :) ).
10. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionse.pratt_1639216 Mar 20, 2017 9:58 AM (in response to user_13524663)1 of 1 people found this helpful
In my example:
The callback function is "void isr_TIMER_Interrupt(void)", but the CY_ISR() macro handles the void parameter/return values, and ensures that the callback function is in the correct format for the interrupt to correctly call the callback.
The callback function itself is named "isr_TIMER_Interrupt", which is declared in the generated component timer files.
"LED_Write(1);" is a simple function to set the pin "LED" to a high voltage state when the interrupt callback is called (whenever the timer component interrupts and calls the callback).
11. Re: PSOC 4 Ble callback functionse.pratt_1639216 Mar 20, 2017 10:02 AM (in response to gokul7.gokul_2285351)
For the BLE_Proximity01 example, the callback is declared in lls.h, and defined in lls.c, but isn't setup as the callback vector for the interrupts until main() when the function CyBle_LlsRegisterAttrCallback(LlsServiceAppEventHandler); is called. | https://community.cypress.com/thread/11300 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | refinedweb | 1,192 | 56.45 |
20 April 2012 10:53 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--JX Nippon Oil & Energy is seeking a $35/tonne (€27/tonne) increase for its May paraxylene (PX) Asian Contract Price (ACP) from April, a company source said on Friday.
“We nominated a May PX ACP of $1,620/tonne CFR (cost and freight) Asia with validity to 27 April, 17.00 ?xml:namespace>
The April PX ACP was settled at $1,585/tonne CFR Asia.
Idemitsu Kosan had earlier proposed a monthly contract price of $1,650/tonne CFR Asia.
No nominations were heard from ExxonMobil, while a company source from S-Oil said they will announce its nomination on 23 | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2012/04/20/9552171/japans-jx-nippon-oil.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | refinedweb | 111 | 68.5 |
Top 5 Questions about C/C++ Pointers
This article summarizes top questions asked about C/C++ pointers on stackoverflow.com. Pointers are the most confusing part of C/C++, those questions use simple examples to explain key pointer concepts.
1. Count from 1 to 1000 without using loops
The only other method to count 1 to 1000 is using recursion. According to C language, j has ‘1’as its value at the beginning. When 1 <= j < 1000, &main + (&exit - &main)*(j/1000) always evaluated to &main, which is the memory address of main. (&main)(j+1) is the next iteration we want to get, which would print ‘2’ on the screen, etc. The stop condition of this recursion is that When j hits 1000, &main + (&exit - &main)*(j/1000) evaluates to &exit, which will elegantly exit this process, and has the error code 1001 returned to the operating system. 2. Why a[5] == 5[a]?
a[b] means *(a+b) by C standard. a is base address, b is an offset starting from a. a[b] is the value in the address of a+b.
Thus a+5 and 5+a is the same memory address. Their value *(a+5) and *(5+a) is the same. So a[5] == 5[a]
3. How many levels of pointers can we have?
As much as a human can handle. Any c/c++ compiler definitely support more than that.
4. C pointer to array/array of pointers disambiguation
What is the difference between the following declarations:
By C precedence table, array [], function return () have higher precedence over pointer *.
For int* arr1[8]
arr1 first and foremost is an array no matter what type the element is. After applying pointer *, we know arr1 is an array of int pointers.
For int (*arr2)[8]
By bracket overriding rule, pointer * has higher precedence over array [] in this case. Then arr2 is first and foremost a pointer no matter what it is pointing to. After applying array [], we know arr2 is a pointer to an array of int.
For int *(arr3[8])
Bracket in this case does not change any default precedence, so it is the same as int* arr1[8]
5. What's the point of const pointers?
(1) void foo(int* const ptr);
(2) void foo(int* ptr);
For the caller of foo, value of ptr is copied into foo in both (1) and (2).
(1) and (2) make a difference only for the implementer of foo, not the client of foo.
In (2), implementer may accidentally change the value of ptr which may potentially introduce bugs.
(1) is like implementer say to the compiler before writing the body of foo, “hey, I don’t want to value of ptr, if it is changed in some obscure way, make the compilation fail, let me check on that”
For example:
<pre><code> String foo = "bar"; </code></pre>
- Hariom Yadav
- Rob Desbois
- yuanfang
- yuanfang
- Michael
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IOT Stack: Measuring the Heartbeat of all Devices & Computer
In this article, I show how to write a simple heartbeat script that runs regularly on your laptop, desktop computer or IOT device to signal that it is still operational. To store and process the data, we need an IOTstack consisting of MQTT, NodeRed and InfluxDB - see my earlier articles in the series. The device from which we measure the heartbeat needs to be able to run a Python script.
The technical context of this article is Raspberry Pi OS 2021-05-07 and Telegraf 1.18.3. All instructions should work with newer versions as well.
Installation
Install the
paho-mqtt library.
python3 -m pip install paho-mqtt
Following the paho-documention, we need to create a client, connect it to the broker, and then send a message. The basic code is this:
#!/usr/bin/python3 import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt MQTT_SERVER = "192.168.178.40" MQTT_TOPIC = "/nodes/macbook/alive" client = mqtt.Client() client.connect(MQTT_SERVER) client.publish(MQTT_TOPIC, 1)
To test, lets connect to the docker container running mosquitto and use the
mosquito_sub cli tool.
docker exec -it mosquitto sh mosquitto_sub -t /nodes/macbook/alive 1 1 1
Values are received. Now we will execute this script every minute via a cronjob.
On OsX, run
crontab -e in your terminal and enter this line (with the appropriate file path).
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/python3 /Users/work/development/iot/scripts/heartbeat.py
Our computer now continuously publishes data. Let’s see how this message can be transformed and stored inside InfluxDB.
Data Transformation: Simple Workflow
NodeRed is the application of choice to handle message listening and transformation. In this first iteration we will create a very simple workflow that just stores the received value in InfluxDB. The flow looks as follows:
It consists of the two nodes
mqtt-in and
influxdb-out, plus an additional
debug node to see how the input data is structured. When this workflow is deployed, the debug messages arrive.
However, the data looks rather simple in InfluxDB:
show field keys name: alive fieldKey fieldType -------- --------- value string
This data is too specific. It should at least distinguish for which node we receive the keep alive ping.
Data Transformation: Advanced Workflow
For the advanced workflow, we change things from the bottom up. The topic will be
/nodes, and the message is not a single value, but structured JSON. We want to send this data:
{ "node":"macbook", "alive":1 }
Therfore, the Python script is changed accordingly:
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt MQTT_SERVER = "192.168.178.40" MQTT_TOPIC = "/nodes" client = mqtt.Client() client.connect(MQTT_SERVER) client.publish(MQTT_TOPIC, '{"node":"macbook", "alive":1}')
The updated NodeRed workflow looks as follows:
It consists of these nodes:
mqtt-in: Listens to the topic
/nodes, outputs a string
json: Converts the inputs
msg.payloadfrom sting to JSON
change: Following a best practice advice, this node transforms the input data to the desired InfluxDB output data. When new fields are added or you change filed names, you just need to modify one wokflow node. It sets the
msg.payloadJSON to this form:
[ { "node": msg.payload.node, "alive": msg.payload.alive } ]
influxdb-out: Store the
msg.payloadas tags in the InfluxDB measurements
node
Using debug messages, we can see the transformation steps:
And in the InfluxDB, values look much better structured:
select * from alive name: alive time alive node ---- ----- ---- 1629973500497658493 1 macbook
Visualization with Grafana
The final step is to add a simple Grafana panel.
Now start to gather data from additional nodes, add additional metrics, and you will have your own personal dashboard of all IOT devices.
Conclusion
An IOT Stack consisting of MQTT, NodeRed and InfluxDB is a powerful combination for start sending, transforming, storing and visualizing metrics. This article showed the essential steps to record a heartbeat message for your nodes. With a Python script, structured data containing the node and its uptime status is send to an MQTT broker within a well-defined topic. A NodeRed workflow listens to this topic, converts the message to JSON and creates an output JSON that is send to InfluxDB. And finally, a Grafana dashboard visualizes the data. | https://admantium.com/blog/iot03_heartbeat_checks/ | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 694 | 56.15 |
BrownSauce: An RDF Browserby Damian Steer
February 05, 2003
Introduction.
RDF Data:
- Showing the graph.
- This is a popular approach, indeed I've written such a tool myself. One simply displays an RDF document as a graph. Examples include RDFViz, IsaViz, and RDFAuthor. This works for small documents, but can quickly become confusing for large ones.
- Stepping through triples.
- Alternatively one might show a node in a graph, plus neighboring nodes. For example, we might show the house, which has a resident, an address, and a type (House). Moving to the resident we see it is a Person, with name "Damian Steer". However this can be a slow process and presents too little information at some points.
Coarse Grained Display of an RDF Graph.
Or, graphically, our original graph is divided into two regions relating to the house and person:Or, graphically, our original graph is divided into two regions relating to the house and person:.
The Final Product.
Future Work.
Final Thoughts.
AcknowledgmentsI'd like to thank Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, which employed me while I wrote BrownSauce and, particularly, the Semantic Web group for its help, as well as for creating Jena, without which my life would have been a great deal harder.
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- House RDF file is invalid.
2003-02-09 03:20:52 Victor Lindesay [Reply]
Excuse me for being picky, but the example House RDF file used in this article is invalid. It has no namespace declarations for the rdf and rdfs prefixes. It is therefore not even an XML document, never mind an RDF document.
- House RDF file is not well formed.
2003-02-09 03:29:20 Victor Lindesay [Reply]
Correction: The House RDF document is not well formed.
- House RDF file is not well formed.
2003-02-09 03:44:03 Damian Steer [Reply]
Ouch. Should be:
<House rdf:
<address rdf:
<number>137</number>
<street>Cranbook Road</street>
<city>Bristol</city>
</address>
<resident>
<Person rdf:
<name>Damian Steer</name>
<mailbox rdf:
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:
</Person>
</resident>
</House>
Must have been tired...
- Bravo! (+ granularity)
2003-02-06 09:45:24 Danny Ayers [Reply]
Great stuff - very interesting to see some of the thoughts behind BrownSauce.
I'm obliged to point out that Ideagraph gives a graphic, coarse grained view (just RSS + limited foaf so far, but I'm working on generalisation, partly along similar lines to BrownSauce's clustering). | http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/05/brownsauce.html | crawl-002 | refinedweb | 428 | 66.03 |
The paragraph in the first section is not showing the same result with the same settings. But when I apply percentage margin it becomes correct.
Below is the image when I apply the same margin settings as given in the solution.
The paragraph in the first section is not showing the same result with the same settings. But when I apply percentage margin it becomes correct.
Below is the image when I apply the same margin settings as given in the solution.
I have changed the code but the judge is showing WA. Can you help with flaw in my logic. Thanks.
#include<bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;vector<int> vc;vector<vector<int>> sw;int n;int supw(int ind, int rest){if(ind == n) return 0;if(rest == 3) return INT_MAX;if(sw[ind][rest] == -1){sw[ind][rest] = min(vc[ind]+supw(ind+1, 0), supw(ind+1, rest+1));return(sw[ind][rest]);}else return(sw[ind][rest]);}int main(){cin>>n;vector<int>v(n);
What is the problem with this code. It shows segmentation fault.
#include<bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;int n;vector<int> ar;vector<vector<int>>sw;int supw(int rest, int days){if(days == n) return 0;if(rest == 3) return(INT_MAX);if(sw[days][rest] != -1) return sw[days][rest];else{sw[days][rest] = min(ar[i] + supw(0, days+1), supw(rest+1, days+1));return(sw[days][rest]);}}int main(){cin>>n;int x;vector<vector<int>> sw(n, vector<int> (3));
No, on codechef you just have to submit your code or or your file in which you have written your code. No specific file name is required.
Thank you for your answer but I actually want to know what is wrong with my code. I am not able to figure out any. Can you help me with that please.
Only 5 test cases are correct for this code. Can you help me please.
#include<iostream>using namespace std;int main(){int n,h,k,f=0;cin>>n>>h;int ar[n];for(int i=0;i<n;i++)cin>>ar[i];int x=0;for(;;){cin>>k;switch(k){case 1: if(x>=0)--x;break;case 2: if(x<(n-1))++x;break;case 3: if(ar[x]>0&&f==0)
I have written this code but the IARCS compiler is showing "fatal" state every time. Can anyone help me with this.
#include<iostream>#include<cmath>using namespace std;int main(){int n,p1,p2,p1t=0,p2t=0,d,m=0,p;cin>>n;for(int i=0;i<n;i++){cin>>p1>>p2;p1t+=p1;p2t+=p2;d=p1t-p2t;if(m<abs(d)){m=abs(d);p=d>0?1:2;}}cout<<p<<" "<<m;
Why does the compiler shows "no output file" when you use "new" keyword to declare an array?? | https://www.commonlounge.com/profile/2c7dd0f3c71a4a339ec7758370b2c6db | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | refinedweb | 483 | 57.87 |
In the previous chapter, we saw that it’s possible to customize the look and feel of an Orchard site by creating alternate templates for pieces of content. While this feature does provide some flexibility over how content is rendered on pages, it doesn’t easily allow for wholesale changes to the way a site looks.
In order to achieve this broader goal, we’ll look at creating our own themes. We’ve already taken a brief tour of the default theme—“TheThemeMachine”—that is part of a standard Orchard installation. In this chapter, we’re going to take a look inside of that theme to understand how to create our own.
At this point, our Orchard development has been limited to editing a couple of view files. We wrote some C# code in those Razor templates and learned a little about how the content is modeled and displayed in a view. However, we haven’t really been exposed to the Orchard development experience. To gain this exposure, we first need to learn about a couple of tools that make Orchard development easier.
It probably seems strange to consider using a command-line interface
(CLI) with a web-based CMS. However, the
Orchard
CLI offers quick access to many common admin functions without
the need to open up a browser and navigate to different property pages.
Assuming you’ve been working in the Orchard solution, the CLI has been
ready for use since you first compiled your app and set up your
recipe.
To get started with Orchard’s CLI, open up a command window (or PowerShell) and navigate to the bin directory of your Orchard site. There you’ll find file Orchard.exe. Execute that file. After a few moments, you’ll see an Orchard prompt.
PS C:\dev\Orchard> cd .\src\Orchard.Web\bin
PS C:\dev\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\bin> .\Orchard.exe
Intializing Orchard Session. (This might take a few seconds...)
Type “?” for help, “exit” to exit, cls to clear screen
orchard>
There are a number of commands you could execute. To get CLI help, there are two commands you should know. The first simply tells you how to perform tasks like quitting, clearing the screen, and getting more help:
orchard> help
One of the items listed when you execute the
help command explains how to get help for the
commands that allow you to work with your Orchard site:
orchard> help commands
Executing
help commands gives
you a list of CLI commands ranging from user creation to page creation.
You’ll also see how to go one level deeper for command help:
orchard> help page create
To test your session, enter the command that simply lists the site cultures, which are used for the internationalization of your site:
orchard> cultures list
Listing Cultures:
en-US
If you ran the help commands, you probably saw that the
Orchard CLI has commands for many of the common
tasks you’d normally perform in the admin pages, including enabling and
disabling features. We’re going to use this command to enable a feature
that will give us additional command line tools:
orchard> feature enable Orchard.CodeGeneration
Enabling features Orchard.CodeGeneration
Code Generation was enabled
Once the code generation tools are enabled, they will provide useful
shortcuts for creating and managing themes and modules.
Orchard.CodeGeneration is an example of the
Orchard’s extensibility. In fact, you can build your own command-line
tools for Orchard. It’s as simple as creating a class that extends
the base class
DefaultOrchardCommandHandler.
The code generation module is not installed by default with Orchard, but it was found in the source when you downloaded the zip or cloned the repository. If you are not working with the solution, you might need to install this module from the Orchard Gallery.
In the previous chapter, we saw that a theme is a collection of
files contained in a directory in the
Themes project in the Orchard solution.
There’s nothing special about a theme other than it follows a set of
conventions and is stored in the Themes directory under the Orchard.Web project.
To start building a new theme, you could simply copy the directory structure for the “TheThemeMachine” theme and paste it into a new sibling directory. We’ll instead use the command line code generation options to create our theme. Later we’ll learn how these tools can help us avoid starting from scratch.
The Orchard solution is organized using solution folders, so it
appears that the
Themes project
lives outside of the web project’s directory structure. However, the
Themes project and theme files are
actually nested in the filesystem under the Orchard.Web directory.
Return to the CLI and your Orchard prompt. We’re going to create a new theme named “DaisysTheme.” There are three options we’ll want to consider before we create our new theme:
Whether to create new project for this theme. The default is false.
Include this theme in the solution. The default is true.
Inherit default templates from an existing theme.
For our new theme, we’re neither going to inherit from an existing theme nor create a new project. We’ll simply run the theme code generation without any arguments:
orchard> codegen theme DaisysTheme
Creating Theme DaisysTheme
Theme DaisysTheme created successfully
Return to Visual Studio where you’ll be prompted to reload the
solution. The codegen utility modified the
Themes project and forced a reload of the solution.
After reloading, we can start to inspect the anatomy of our new
theme.
The structure might look somewhat familiar to an experienced ASP.NET MVC developer. As is the case with the standard Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC project template, there are directories for Scripts, Styles, and Views. The purpose of each of these and the other directories is as follows:
Directory for JavaScript files
Directory for CSS files
Directory for Razor template (*.cshtml) files
Directory for images and other static content
Directory for templates that wrap zones
Additionally, the generated theme template includes a Placement.info file. Recall that this is the XML file that instructs Orchard as to how or whether to layout fields, parts, and items. There are also numerous Web.config files that are used by ASP.NET to set up some configuration plumbing for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. There are two other files worth noting, namely Theme.txt and Theme.png. Both of these files are used by Orchard to describe your theme to the admin pages.
Back in the admin dashboard, select Themes→Installed. You’ll see three themes listed (Figure 4-1). The current theme will be the default “TheThemeMachine.” There’s a second theme called “The Journalist” and our new theme named “DaisysTheme.” However, some things don’t look quite right with our new theme.
Notice that the name is “DaisysTheme” without a space. Authorship is attributed to “The Orchard Team.” The version is already set to 1.0 and the description and URL are also wrong. As we’ll see shortly, the preview image also fails to accurately represent our new theme at this stage. You might have guessed that Orchard is using Theme.txt and Theme.png to determine what values to plug into this admin page.
Before returning to Visual Studio to look at these files, let’s first make our new template the current template by clicking “Set Current.” Once the switch is complete, refresh your site. What you’ll see is that your site is suddenly without any discernible structure or styling (Figure 4-2). Also notice that our alternates are gone. We’ll add some of those pieces before we modify the metadata that’s used by the Dashboard.
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce theme development. As I am not a designer, I am intentionally keeping the theme we will build simple, including all graphical treatments, styles, and HTML.
If you view the source for the home page, you’ll notice that there
is a full HTML document wrapping the content. This might seem strange,
since we haven’t actually defined any master page or layout files. These
default template files do exist, though. Orchard includes them in the
Orchard.Core project.
If you expand that project in Visual Studio’s
Solution Explorer, you’ll see a Views directory nested under a Shapes directory. The view files inside this
directory are used by Orchard as safe defaults for displaying content
when no suitable template alternates are found in a theme for a given
piece of content.
Open the files Document.cshtml and Layout.cshtml to see the HTML that is
wrapping the content in our home page. Document.cshtml defines the basic structure
of an HTML document, including the
html,
head,
title, and
body tags. Layout.cshtml defines a very basic
arrangement of
div elements on the
page. Notice that the template for the title of the page is actually
found in the Parts.Title.cshtml
file in the Views directory under
Title in the
Orchard.Core project.
As is hopefully now clear, Orchard uses a hierarchy of templates when determining how to render content. In the previous chapter, when we defined alternate templates, we simply added files to the current theme and those files took precedence over those found in the default templates directories. When creating a theme or module (in the next chapter), you could choose to inherit a template or override it at any level (item, type, part, or field).
In Chapter 3, we created alternate templates in the form of Razor template files. However, we didn’t explore these templates in any detail. Before we build a theme and continue our Razor efforts, it’s worth a quick look at some of the functionality that Orchard adds to the standard base class used by Razor views. For more on Razor, see Programming Razor by Jess Chadwick (O’Reilly).
Orchard extends the
System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage base class used by
Razor views with its own
WebViewPage.
We’ve already seen a method from this subclass. When we created our zones,
we used its
Display method. There are
other useful helper methods in this base class.
The
Style property of
WebViewPage has an
Include method that will render a
link tag that points to the filename provided as
its argument. It assumes that your file is in the Styles directory of your theme. Similarly,
there is a Script property with
methods related to including JavaScript blocks and files.
Both the
Script and
Style properties are of type
ResourceRegister, which provides an additional
method named
Require. Given a resource
defined in a manifest class (we’ll learn more about this class in Creating
Widgets),
Require will find a script or
style and ensure that it’s included only once.
WebViewPage also includes some
convenience methods, such as the null and whitespace checking
HasText method. Orchard also provides a
StringExtensions class in the
Orchard.Utilities.Extensions namespace. This
class has methods such as
CamelFriendly,
Ellipsize, and
HtmlClassify, all of which may be useful in
views.
For our theme, we’ll consider this document wrapper sufficient and won’t override it with a new Document.cshtml. We’ll instead start our theme with a new layout file. Add a new Razor file named Layout.cshtml to the Views folder in the “DaisysTheme” theme. If you save this file with no content (an empty HTML file) and refresh any page on your site, you’ll see that the content has disappeared.
By including a Layout.cshtml file in our template, we’ve instructed Orchard not to use its default layout template. Instead we’ve instructed Orchard to use this new, empty file. Notice though that the page title still appears. As mentioned, the title was included in Document.cshtml, which we chose not to override.
If you’ve viewed the source of any of your site’s pages as we’ve
been making changes to the theme, you may have noticed a great deal of
JavaScript content. The script is from the
Shape Tracing module that we enabled in the
previous chapter. It would not appear on production sites unless you
left that module enabled.
We’ll add some code to Layout.cshtml to get some content back on our site. Start by adding the following snippet:
<div id="main"> @if (Model.Content != null) { @Display(Model.Content) } </div>
This simple chunk of Razor code demonstrates a couple of key
patterns for building layouts in Orchard. We’re going to explore this
pattern in more detail later in this chapter. For now, recognize that we
null-check a property on our view’s
Model and call
Display on that property when it’s not
null.
Recall that the data bound to our views are dynamic types known as
shapes. The
Model property of our view
is a representation of these shapes. When you call the
Display method, it’s going to check the runtime
type of the argument you provided. In this case, the type will contain
metadata indicating that it’s a “zone,” which will allow the
Display method to properly render content in
that given zone.
The
Display method is actually
a read-only
dynamic property that is
defined in Orchard’s
WebViewPage,
which is the base page type for Razor views in Orchard. This property
returns an instance of a callable
dynamic object, which is why the method-call
syntax works.
Saving the layout and refreshing the home page, we now see that the main content has been added. However, we’ve lost our navigation and other zones. Let’s add the navigation by placing the block of code that follows above the content snippet we previously entered:
@if (Model.Navigation != null) { <div id="layout-navigation" class="group"> @Display(Model.Navigation) </div> }
Once navigation has been added, we can now refresh the home page and click through each of the pages to see that content is in fact displaying on each page. While most pages look like their “TheThemeMachine” equivalents without any CSS, the home page is noticeably missing the widgets we’d previously added.
If we want the
Bing Maps widget
to show up in our new theme, we need to include a zone named
TripelThird and a block of Razor/HTML as
follows:
@if (Model.TripelThird != null) { <div id="tripel-third"> @Display(Model.TripelThird) </div> }
At this point we can see that zones are simply sections defined in
our layout templates. We use the
Display method of the view to create them.
Adding widgets to zones in the admin tool creates the relationship that
allows the null-checks that surround the
Display calls to evaluate properly. Had we not
added a widget to the zone
TripelThird, then
Model.TripelThird would evaluate to
null.
Let’s take a quick detour from Daisy’s Theme to explore zones a little deeper. Start by opening up Theme.txt in our theme’s root directory. The “Zones” entry in this file is used by Orchard to display the list of zones that appear when you click “Widgets” on the admin menu. That list is currently populated by zones defined in other installed themes and Orchard will tell you as much when you visit that page.
Add a “Zones” section to your Theme.txt named “MoreContent”:
Zones: MoreContent
Next return to Layout.cshtml and add a new zone:
@if (Model.MoreContent != null) { <div id="more-content"> @Display(Model.MoreContent) </div> }
If you refresh the “Widgets” admin page, you’ll now see a zone named “MoreContent” above the zones defined in “TheThemeMachine.” Click Add→Html Widget, add some content, and save. Next, refresh the home page (or any other page). You’ll now see that the zone is displaying on each page (Figure 4-5).
Let’s limit this new widget so that it appears only on the home
page. Click on the “More Daisy’s Content” link (the name of the
HTML widget) listed with the “MoreContent”
zone. On the property page for that widget, choose the layer named
“TheHomepage” and click Save. Click through to each of the pages to see
that the layer rule has enabled this zone only for the home page.
As you navigate around the site, you’ll notice that we’ve lost the customization built in Chapter 3 for rendering bios and events. If we want to get these templates back, all we need to do is add those Razor files into our new template.
If you move or copy Content-Bio.Summary.cshtml to the Views directory of our “DaisysTheme” theme and refresh the bio page, you’ll see the listed bios are displaying content as they were previously. Of course, without any CSS in our theme you’ll notice that the rendering lacks any style (Figure 4-4).
At this point, our theme isn’t particularly stylish or interesting. Our layout is pretty limiting as well. What we really want is some HTML that’s easily styled by a skilled designer. Fortunately, the work for that has already been done.
The theme “TheThemeMachine” defines a very flexible layout file. We could simply copy that into our theme, but instead we’re going to inherit it into our theme. In “DaisysTheme” open Theme.txt and add the line that follows. Then delete Layout.cshtml (the one we created):
BaseTheme: TheThemeMachine
After you refresh the home page, you’ll see that our site has returned to its “TheThemeMachine” roots. However, we obviously want to customize our look and feel a bit. To deviate from the inherited theme, we need to override the default styles found in “TheThemeMachine.”
Create a new file Site.css in the Styles directory of the “DaisysTheme” theme. After you create the empty stylesheet, you’ll see after refreshing your site that we’ve again lost our styling, but maintained our layout and alternate templates (Figure 4-5).
Unfortunately, there’s no way for our theme to inherit both the layout and stylesheet from the “TheThemeMachine” theme. Layout.cshtml explicitly includes only a single stylesheet named Site.css. If we want to inherit the entire layout file and customize the style, we have to copy the contents of Site.css from the Styles directory of “TheThemeMachine” into our new file. Otherwise, we have to modify the layout file to look for an additional stylesheet.
Copy the stylesheet content over into our new theme (Site.css) and save the stylesheet file. Refresh the site to see that we’re now back to the “TheThemeMachine.” Again, we’ll leave the design lessons for the designers, but we’ll modify some of the basic UI to make our theme a little more unique.
Since we’re designing a site for a rock band, we’ll change the background color to a blackish color. Locate the body selector in the stylesheet and we’ll go from a light theme to dark simply by changing the background color:
body { line-height: 1; font-size: 81.3%; color: #434343; background: #303030; font-family: Tahoma, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
Of course, it’s a bit hard to read the gray text on the dark-gray
background. So let’s lighten up our content areas. We could go into the
individual page sections and set each to have a white background, but
there’s an easier way. We can take advantage of the fact that the layout
from which we’re inheriting wraps various groups of zones in
div elements with a class name of
“group”:
.group { background: #fff; }
Let’s also update the font that’s used for the header of the site.
By default it uses a font named “Lobster.” You’re probably thinking that
you don’t have “Lobster” installed, yet you’ve somehow been seeing the
correct cursive font on the header. Orchard assumes modern web standards
by default, so our theme is able to make use of the
@font-face directive in CSS3. More
specifically, it uses the Google Web Fonts API:
Style.Include("");
If we want to change this font, we have a few options. We’re again faced with the dilemma of whether to modify or copy Layout.cshtml in “TheThemeMachine” to include our desired change. Since we’re just changing styles, we’re going to keep the layout in place and take a different approach.
We’ll simply import a new web font in our stylesheet and then set
the branding element’s font-family to our new font. Start by adding a
new
@import directive to the top of
our stylesheet:
@import url();
In our template, the header text is rendered in an
h1 element named “branding.” We’ll simply set
style for that element to use our newly imported font:
#branding a { text-decoration:none; color: #434343; font-family: 'Frijole'; }
Next we’re going to modify the event listing so that the event
titles have a background color and text that’s in all caps. We could
write our CSS selector expression to affect all
a tags that follow
h1 tags as that’s the way events are rendered,
but such a selector would not be limited to events matching that
pattern. Instead we’re going to inject a class name into each event
row.
In the admin dashboard, navigate to “Queries” and select the row for “All Events.” Click to edit the “1 columns grid” that we created previously. In the section with the heading “Html properties,” enter a value “event-row” under the “Row class” and save. We could also have chosen from predefined dynamic expressions (in the drop-down menu for that field), but a static class is sufficient for our purposes.
After you save the new row class, add a new CSS rule to affect
a elements that follow
h1 elements that follow a
tr element with a class name of “event-row.”
We’ll style the anchors to be displayed as “block” so that we have equal
length backgrounds:
tr.event-row h1 a { background-color:#BACEFF; padding:3px; color:#000; width:300px; display:block; }
Figure 4-6 shows the template with our new styling.
We’re going to add another template to our theme, but first we have to bring back the rest of our content customization. Copy or move Content-Bio.cshtml, Parts.Common.Body-11.cshtml, and Placement.info from “TheThemeMachine” to “DaisysTheme.”
After moving those files, add a new template named NewsAndNotes.Wrapper.cshtml. Unlike our other
templates, this one will surround its target with HTML and won’t
actually modify the shape template itself. To call attention to band
activity, the code for this wrapper will simply add a
div element with a yellowish background to our
“News and Notes”
HTML widget:
<div style="background:#FFE8A5;padding:2px;"> @Model.Html </div>
An additional step is required for this wrapper to be used on our
site. We need to update Placement.info to instruct Orchard to use
this template. The match constraint will cause this rule to apply to the
HTML widget on our home page:
<Match ContentType="Widget" Path="~/"> <Place Parts_Common_Body="Content:5;Wrapper=NewsAndNotes_Wrapper" /> </Match>
This scenario is admittedly slightly contrived, as we could have used an alternate template for our zone to accomplish the same thing. However, it does illustrate an additional layer of customization available to theme designers.
We’ll consider our theme sufficiently styled at this point (at least by developer standards). Now we’re ready to update the metadata used by the admin tool. Return to Visual Studio and open Theme.txt in the root of the theme. Most of the values are pretty obvious; Name, Author, Website, Description, and Version are included by default and shouldn’t merit any further description. If you personalize these values and return to Themes→Installed in the Dashboard, you’ll see these updated values.
There are two final files you need to know about when developing themes: Theme.png and ThemeZonePreview.png. These files both live at the root of a theme. The former is typically a screen-grab of your theme’s homepage that will be used in the Dashboard and the gallery to provide a preview of your theme. The latter is an image used on the Widget admin page to provide a preview of where zones are conceptually placed in layout files.
The last update we’ll want to make is to modify the chunk of HTML
on the bottom of the page that gives credit to “TheThemeMachine” as this
site’s theme. While that statement is partially true, we’ll instead
claim credit for our “Daisy’sTheme” theme. We’ll need to override a file that’s in
“TheThemeMachine” named
BadgeOfHonor.cshtml. Copy it from the
Views directory of
“TheThemeMachine” into our theme’s Views directory. Modify the content so that
the
span with the “copyright” class
has the content as follows:
<span class="copyright">@T("© Daisy's Theme 2012.")</span>
In our exploration of developing themes, we’ve seen that we don’t have to start from scratch when developing our site’s look and feel. In fact, this is a common way to develop themes. The “TheThemeMachine” theme provides a flexible, barebones layout that could easily be styled by a skilled designer.
There is little reason to create new layout files and complex zone schemes when most of what you need may be found in this theme. Simply inherit from it and create a new stylesheet with new graphical treatments. Of course, your needs may require that you copy the entire “TheThemeMachine” theme to get started. Moreover, the same approach we took to modifying “TheThemeMachine” applies to any theme you install into Orchard (theme license permitting).
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Shifting Your Node Express APIs to Serverless
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If you have Express APIs you are not alone. But have you ever considered shifting this server based API model to a serverless one? Stick with me and this by the end of this article you'll see how to do it and have a working example to try for yourself.
I love Node and Express for creating APIs! However, these require a server and paying for that server in the cloud. Shifting to serverless alleviates the cost, the server upkeep, helps scale up and down easily, and reduces the surface area of the middleware required for a robust Express app. Is it perfect? No, of course not! But this is a solid option if these factors affect you. You'll learn how to shift your Node Express APIs to Serverless Functions in this article.
This article is part of #ServerlessSeptember. You'll find other helpful articles, detailed tutorials, and videos in this all-things-Serverless content collection. New articles are published every day in the month of September.
Find out more about how Microsoft Azure enables your Serverless functions at.
What You'll Learn
We'll start by exploring and running the Node and Express APIs in the sample project. Then we'll walk through creating an Azure Functions app followed by refactoring the Express routes and data calls to the Azure Functions app. Finally, we'll explore the results together. Through this you'll learn to:
- create an Azure Function app
- refactor existing Express APIs to Azure Functions
- understand the differences between the approaches
While this article walks through the steps to shift your APIs from Express to Azure Functions, you can also follow along with the completed sample project on GitHub.
We'll walk through the code and the steps together, and at the end I share links to everything you need to get started and try this for yourself.
Planning the Shift to Serverless
Before shifting the app to serverless, let's think about why we might want to do this and what effort it might take to perform the shift.
First, the Express app requires a server which you must configure and maintain. It would be nice to alleviate some of this effort and cost.
Express apps often have a long list of middleware and logic to start the server. This sample project has a minimal amount of middleware, but you'd certainly want more in a production app with more concerns (ex: security) and features (ex: logging). While Azure Functions don't make this go away entirely, there is less logic and less code to start Azure Functions. Often there is very little code and some configuration. What does this mean in a concrete example? Well, for this sample app the server.ts file effectively goes away.
So why make this shift? Overall there is less to think about with serverless.
About the Sample Project
What's in the sample project on GitHub that you'll learn about in this article? Great question!
The project represents a simple Node Express APIs app in TypeScript that is shifted to Azure Functions.
But what if you aren't using TypeScript? That's fine. If your Express app is using JavaScript, feel free to shift it to Azure Functions using JavaScript.
The client app is Angular, however it could just as easily be Vue or React. The heroes and villains theme is used throughout the app.
While we will use an Angular app, one of the great things about Azure Functions is that you can run it locally on you computer, debug it, and call HTTP functions using tools like a browser, Postman, Insomnia (as shown below).
Getting Started
Let's start by getting the code and setting up the development environment. Follow these steps to prepare the code.
- Clone this repository
- Install the npm packages
- Build the Node Express and the Angular code
git clone cd express-to-functions npm install npm run node-ng:build
- Make a copy of the env.example file named .env, in the root of the project. It should contain the following code.
.env
NODE_ENV=development PORT=7070 WWW=./
Environment Variables: Applications may have very important environment variables located in the root in .env file. This file is not checked into GitHub because it may contain sensitive information.
Now our code is ready for us to use it. But before we do, let's take a step back and see what we have.
Node and Express APIs
Now let's explore the sample project on GitHub.
This is a conventional Node and Express application that serves the following eight endpoints.
The structure of the Node Express app is straight-forward and contained in the server folder.
server | - routes | | - hero.routes.ts 👈 The hero routes | | - index.ts | | - villain.routes.ts | - services | | - data.ts 👈 The hero data (could be database API calls) | | - hero.service.ts 👈 The logic to get the hero data | | - index.ts | | - villain.service.ts | - index.ts | - server.ts 👈 The Express server | - tsconfig.json
The entry point is the server/index.ts file which runs the server.ts code to start the Express server. Then the routes (such as /heroes) are then loaded from the /routes folder. These routes execute the appropriate code in the /services folder. The data.ts file is where the app defines the data store configuration.
For example, when the client app makes a HTTP GET to the /heroes route, the route executes the logic in the /services/hero.service.ts file to get the heroes.
Feel free to explore the code for the Express logic in the server folder on your own.
Here is a screen capture of the running application.
Run and Debug the Express App
When I want to become familiar with an app, I find it helpful to run and step through an app with the debugger. Let's do this together.
Let's start by opening the app in Visual Studio Code.
- Open proxy.conf.json and change the port to 7070 (our Express app)
- Open the VS Code Command Palette F1
- Type View: Show Debug and press ENTER
- Select Debug Express and Angular
- Press F5
- Notice the browser opens to
You may now set breakpoints in the Express and Angular code.
Here the debugger is stopped on a breakpoint in the Angular app.
Here the debugger is stopped on a breakpoint in the Express app.
The files .vscode/launch.json and .vscode/tasks.json are integral to the debugging experience for this project. I encourage you to explore those files and copy/refactor their contents for your own purposes.
Making the Shift
Now that we've run the app and explored where we started with Express, let's plan the shift from Express to serverless. I like to solve problems by breaking them down into smaller problems. In this case, et's start by breaking down the Node Express app can be broken down into its three main areas:
- The Express server ( mostly in server.ts)
- The routes (routes/*)
- The data access logic (services/.service.ts*)
We'll take these one at a time as we make the shift for all of these. Let's start with shifting from the Express server to Azure Functions.
Express 👉 Azure Functions
The Express server runs the API on a server. You can create an Azure Functions project to run the APIs instead. I recommend using the VS Code Extension for Azure Functions. Once installed, follow these steps to create the Azure Functions on your computer.
- Open the command palette by pressing F1
- Type and select Azure Functions: Create New Project
- Choose Browse to find the folder to create the functions
- Create a new folder in your project called functions
- Select TypeScript
- When prompted to create a function, select Skip for Now
Congratulations, you just created an Azure Function app!
The Azure Functions app is what serves our routes.
Creating the function app in a functions folder helps separate it from the Angular and Express apps in the same project. You certainly don't have to put them all in the same project together, but for this sample it helps to see them all in one place.
Shifting Routes - Create Your First Function
You may recall that we have eight endpoints in the Express app. Follow these steps to create a function for the first of these endpoints. We'll come back and create the other seven endpoints soon.
- Open the command palette by pressing F1
- Type and select Azure Functions: Create Function
- Choose HTTP Trigger for the type of function
- Enter heroes-get as the name of the function
- Select Anonymous for the authentication level
Notice that there is now a folder functions/heroes-get that contains a few files. The function.json contains the configuration for the function. Open function.json and notice that the methods allow both GET and POST. Change this to only allow GET.
By default the route to execute this function will be heroes-get. The route in the Express app is simply heroes. We want these to be the same, so add a
route: "heroes" entry in the bindings section in the function.json. Now the function will be executed when an HTTP GET on /heroes is called.
Your function.json should look like the following code.
{ "disabled": false, "bindings": [ { "authLevel": "anonymous", "type": "httpTrigger", "direction": "in", "name": "req", "methods": ["get"], "route": "heroes" }, { "type": "http", "direction": "out", "name": "res" } ], "scriptFile": "../dist/heroes-get/index.js" }
The other important file here in the functions/heroes-get folder is index.ts. This file contains the logic that runs when the route is invoked. We already have all this logic from our Express app. We'll go get that next.
Data - Shift the Services to Serverless
All of the logic that executes to interact with the data store is contained in the server/services folder of the Express app. We can lift that code and shift it over to the Azure Functions app and make a few small adjustments. This may seem like it wouldn't work, but let's consider what is different about the Express app and the Azure Functions app. Here are some main differences in the services.
- The Express app uses the npm package express while the Azure Functions app uses the npm package @azure/functions
- Express has
reqand
resparameters representing Request and Response. Azure Functions puts these inside of a
contextobject variable.
That is all we have to know. So armed with this information, it makes sense that we can copy the code for the services from the Express app to the Azure Functions app with minimal changes. Let's do this now.
Shift the Code from Express to Functions
Why write everything from scratch and throw away your hard work if you do not have to, right? Well, we can take the services code from our Express app and copy it to our Azure Functions app.
- Copy the server/services folder
- Paste into the functions folder
Now we have some minor refactoring to make the code work with Azure Functions instead of Express. The one thing that changes here is that the routing API and how request and response are passed. Let's refactor for this API difference.
- Open the functions/services/hero.service.ts file
- Replace
import { Request, Response } from 'express';with
import { Context } from '@azure/functions';
- Replace every instance of
(req: Request, res: Response)with
({ req, res }: Context).
Your code will look like the following when you are done refactoring. Notice the places that changed are commented.
// 👇 This was import { Request, Response } from 'express'; import { Context } from '@azure/functions'; import * as data from './data'; // 👇 This was async function getHeroes(req: Request, res: Response) { async function getHeroes({ req, res }: Context) { try { const heroes = data.getHeroes(); res.status(200).json(heroes); } catch (error) { res.status(500).send(error); } } // 👇 This was async function postHero(req: Request, res: Response) { async function postHero({ req, res }: Context) { const hero = { id: undefined, name: req.body.name, description: req.body.description }; try { const newHero = data.addHero(hero); res.status(201).json(newHero); } catch (error) { res.status(500).send(error); } } // 👇 This was async function putHero(req: Request, res: Response) { async function putHero({ req, res }: Context) { const hero = { id: req.params.id, name: req.body.name, description: req.body.description }; try { const updatedHero = data.updateHero(hero); res.status(200).json(updatedHero); } catch (error) { res.status(500).send(error); } } // 👇 This was async function deleteHero(req: Request, res: Response) { async function deleteHero({ req, res }: Context) { const { id } = req.params; try { data.deleteHero(id); res.status(200).json({}); } catch (error) { res.status(500).send(error); } } export default { getHeroes, postHero, putHero, deleteHero };
There are four functions where request and response are parameters. One each for
getHeroes,
postHero,
putHero, and
deleteHero.
The parameters to every function in the Express app contain
req and
res. The Azure Functions app can still get to the request and response objects, but they are contained within a
context object. We use destructuring to access them.
The
Contextobject also contains other APIs, such as
log(ex:
context.log('hello')). This could be used in place of the common
console.logyou use in Node apps.
Refactor the Route
Now point your route to the service in your functions/heroes-get/index.ts file. Open that file and replace it with the following code.
import { AzureFunction, Context, HttpRequest } from '@azure/functions'; import { heroService } from '../services'; const httpTrigger: AzureFunction = async function(context: Context, req: HttpRequest): Promise<void> { await heroService.getHeroes(context); // 👈 This calls the hero service }; export default httpTrigger;
The code that you add calls the asynchronous function
heroService.getHeroes and passes in the
context which contain the request and response objects.
Create the Remaining Functions
Remember, there are eight total endpoints in the Express app and we just created the first one. Now, follow these steps to create an Azure Function for the rest of the endpoints.
- Open the command palette by pressing F1
- Type and select Azure Functions: Create Function
- Choose HTTP Trigger for the type of function
- Enter the name of the function for heroes and villains. I recommend heroes-get, heroes-post, heroes-put, heroes-delete, villains-get, villains-post, villains-put, villains-delete)
- Select Anonymous for the authentication level
- Open function.json and set the method to the appropriate value of get, post, put or delete.
- In the bindings section, for the get and post, add a
route: "heroes"(or villains as appropriate) entry.
- In the bindings section, for the delete and put, add a
route: "heroes/{id}"(or villains as appropriate) entry.
- Add the code in each function's index.ts file to call the appropriate hero or villain service function.
Looking at the Functions App
The Azure Functions app now has folders that map to their appropriate endpoints as shown below.
The structure of the Azure Function app contained in the functions folder should look like the following.
functions | - heroes-delete | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - heroes-get | | - function.json 👈 The hero route's configuration | | - index.ts 👈 The hero routes | - heroes-post | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - heroes-put | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - services 👈 The same folder that the Express app has | | - data.ts 👈 The hero data (could be database API calls) | | - hero.service.ts 👈 The logic to get the hero data | | - index.ts | | - villain.service.ts | - villains-delete | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - villains-get | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - villains-post | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - villains-put | | - function.json | | - index.ts | - .funcignore | - .gitignore | - host.json | - local.settings.json | - package.json | - proxies.json | - tsconfig.json
Debug Node Express and Angular
Now it's time to run the app and see if it all works! We'll do this through the VS Code debugger.
Just to keep things separate, we'll make sure the Express app uses port 7070 and the Azure Functions app uses port 7071. If we were truly removing the Express app (which we could absolutely do at this point) we could keep the same port. But for educational purposes, let's keep them both around
- Open proxy.conf.json and change the port to 7071 (our function app)
- Open the VS Code Command Palette F1
- Type View: Show Debug and press ENTER
- Select Debug Functions and Angular
- Press F5
- Open the browser to
You may now set breakpoints in the Functions and Angular code.
In case you missed it - the files .vscode/launch.json and .vscode/tasks.json are integral to the debugging experience for this project. I encourage you to explore those files and copy/refactor their contents for your own purposes.
Optional - Remove the Express App
At this point the Express app is no longer being used. Feel free to delete it (you can always re-clone the GitHub sample) or keep it around if you want to go back and froth between Express and Azure Functions.
Summary
The end result is we have Angular and Azure Functions. Now we can think about servers less (get it, because we are using serverless?).
Node and Express have been incredibly powerful and oft used for serving API endpoints. Now with serverless you could shift your APIs and not worry about server setup or maintenance, possibly reduce cost of an always on server, and replace the Express server with Azure Functions service. And for your efforts, you get an API that scales well and lets you focus on the code, not the servers.
If you want to deploy the Azure Functions app to the cloud, you can deploy it by following this tutorial. All you need is an Azure account and then use the Azure Functions extension for Visual Studio Code to deploy it.
The complete solution for the sample project is on GitHub here. The instructions on how to get started are also in the README file. You can explore running the Express app or the Azure Functions app to get a sense of the differences. Then try to apply this same shift to your code.
Resources
Here are a bunch of resources about the topics covered in this article.
VS Code
Azure Functions
- Azure Functions local.settings.json file
- Tutorial to Deploy to Azure Using Azure Functions
- Article about Azure Functions TypeScript Support
Debugging Resources
Investing in the right technologies to avoid technical debt
How patience can help you avoid jumping on the wrong tech.
Causes of Heroku H10-App Crashed Error And How To Solve Them
Lawrence Eagles -
How to Add Custom CSS & JavaScript Files to an ExpressJS App
yogesnsamy -
Amazon API Gateway: Uma falha de segurança que você precisa prestar atenção
Eduardo Rabelo -
🙌🏻 Thank you for the excellent tuto and +1 for extra links at the end.
Glad you enjoy it. Thanks
Great article!
Can you point a similar example for GraphQL?
Thanks. Here is an article by Chris Noring on graphql and azure functions dev.to/azure/series-how-you-can-bu...
I'd love to see an example that involved authentication of some sort. So imagine an Express app where routes /posts and /posts/:id required you to be logged in first. I know some serverless platforms make middleware simple, but seeing a full example of that kind of translation would be nice. | https://practicaldev-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net/azure/shifting-your-node-express-apis-to-serverless-b87 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | refinedweb | 3,202 | 65.62 |
This part of the tutorial details how to implement a Redis task queue to handle text processing.
Updates:
- 02/12/2020: Upgraded to Python version 3.8.1 as well as the latest versions of Redis, Python Redis, and RQ. See below for details. Mention a bug in the latest RQ version and provide a solution. Solved the http before https bug.
- 03/22/2016: Upgraded to Python version 3.5.1 as well as the latest versions of Redis, Python Redis, and R. (current)
-:
Start by downloading and installing Redis from either the official site or via Homebrew (
brew install redis). Once installed, start the Redis server:
$ redis-server
Next install Python Redis and RQ in a new terminal window:
$ cd flask-by-example $ python -m pip install redis==3.4.1 rq==1.2.2 $ python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt
Set up the Worker
Let’s start by creating a worker process to listen for queued tasks. Create a new file worker.py, and add this code:
import os import redis from rq import Worker, Queue, Connection listen = ['default'] redis_url = os.getenv('REDISTOGO_URL', 'redis://localhost:6379') conn = redis.from_url(redis_url) if __name__ == '__main__': with Connection(conn): worker = Worker(list(map(Queue, listen))) worker.work()
Here, we listened for a queue called
default and established a connection to the Redis server on
localhost:6379.
Fire this up in another terminal window:
$ cd flask-by-example $ python worker.py 17:01:29 RQ worker started, version 0.5.6 17:01:29 17:01:29 *** Listening on default...
Now we need to update our app.py to send jobs to the queue…
Update app.py
Add the following imports to app.py:
from rq import Queue from rq.job import Job from worker import conn
Then update the configuration section:
app = Flask(__name__) app.config.from_object(os.environ['APP_SETTINGS']) app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = True db = SQLAlchemy(app) q = Queue(connection=conn) from models import *
q = Queue(connection=conn) set up a Redis connection and initialized a queue based on that connection.
Move the text processing functionality out of our index route and into a new function called
count_and_save_words(). This function accepts one argument, a URL, which we will pass to it when we call it from our index route.
def count_and_save_words(url): errors = [] try: r = requests.get(url) except: errors.append( "Unable to get URL. Please make sure it's valid and try again." ) return {"error": errors} # text processing raw = BeautifulSoup(r.text) try: result = Result( url=url, result_all=raw_word_count, result_no_stop_words=no_stop_words_count ) db.session.add(result) db.session.commit() return result.id except: errors.append("Unable to add item to database.") return {"error": errors} @app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def index(): results = {} if request.method == "POST": # this import solves a rq bug which currently exists from app import count_and_save_words # get url that the person has entered url = request.form['url'] if not url[:8].startswith(('https://', 'http://')): url = 'http://' + url job = q.enqueue_call( func=count_and_save_words, args=(url,), result_ttl=5000 ) print(job.get_id()) return render_template('index.html', results=results)
Take note of the following code:
job = q.enqueue_call( func=count_and_save_words, args=(url,), result_ttl=5000 ) print(job.get_id())
Note: We need to import the
count_and_save_wordsfunction in our function
indexas the RQ package currently has a bug, where it won’t find functions in the same module.
Here we used the queue that we initialized earlier and called the
enqueue_call() function. This added a new job to the queue and that job ran the
count_and_save_words() function with the URL as the argument. The
result_ttl=5000 line argument tells RQ how long to hold on to the result of the job for - 5,000 seconds, in this case. Then we outputted the job id to the terminal. This id is needed to see if the job is done processing.
Let’s setup a new route for that…
Get Results
@app.route("/results/<job_key>", methods=['GET']) def get_results(job_key): job = Job.fetch(job_key, connection=conn) if job.is_finished: return str(job.result), 200 else: return "Nay!", 202
Let’s test this out.
Fire up the server, navigate to, use the URL, and grab the job id from the terminal. Then use that id in the ‘/results/’ endpoint - i.e.,.
As long as less than 5,000 seconds have elapsed before you check the status, then you should see an id number, which is generated when we add the results to the database:
# save the results try: from models import Result result = Result( url=url, result_all=raw_word_count, result_no_stop_words=no_stop_words_count ) db.session.add(result) db.session.commit() return result.id
Now, let’s refactor the route slightly to return the actual results from the database in JSON:
@app.route("/results/<job_key>", methods=['GET']) def get_results(job_key): job = Job.fetch(job_key, connection=conn) if job.is_finished: result = Result.query.filter_by(id=job.result).first() results = sorted( result.result_no_stop_words.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True )[:10] return jsonify(results) else: return "Nay!", 202
Make sure to add the import:
from flask import jsonify
Test this out again. If all went well, you should see something similar to in your browser:
[ [ "Python", 315 ], [ "intermediate", 167 ], [ "python", 161 ], [ "basics", 118 ], [ "web-dev", 108 ], [ "data-science", 51 ], [ "best-practices", 49 ], [ "advanced", 45 ], [ "django", 43 ], [ "flask", 41 ] ]
What’s Next?
Free Bonus: Click here to get access to a free Flask + Python video tutorial that shows you how to build Flask web app, step-by-step.
In Part 5 we’ll bring the client and server together by adding Angular into the mix to create a poller, which will send a request every five seconds to the
/results/<job_key> endpoint asking for updates. Once the data is available, we’ll add it to the DOM.
Cheers!
This is a collaboration piece between Cam Linke, co-founder of Startup Edmonton, and the folks at Real Python | https://realpython.com/flask-by-example-implementing-a-redis-task-queue/ | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | refinedweb | 973 | 60.31 |
Getting Started with Accengage
Version
Current version of Accengage SDK is S1.0.0. This version supports:
- Windows Phone Silverlight 7.1
- Windows Phone Silverlight 8.0
- Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1
For more information about available functionalities, please find the Changelog here.
Summary
Accengage SDK allows you to track the execution and display of In-App and to handle Push notifications of your application.
Accengage SDK is provided as DLLs that your project can reference to at compile-time. It is available via NuGet Package Manager.
An installation package contains the following files/folders:
- Two DLL for each Windows Phone version (7.1, 8.0, 8.1) via NuGet Package Manager
- The source of XAML as an example for notifications customisation
Requirements
To integrate AccengageSDK on Windows Phone, you will need the following requirements:
- Visual Studio 2012 with Windows Phone SDK 7 for Windows Phone 7.1
- Visual Studio 2012/13 with Windows Phone SDK 8 for Windows Phone 8.0
- Visual Studio 2013/15 with Windows Phone SDK 8.1 for Windows Phone 8.1
Login Information
You will also need an Accengage Partner Id and a Private Key.
This information is available for registered customers at
Integration
Import Bma4S SDK DLL into your solution
Start NuGet Packages and look for AccengageSDK. Click on Install to add the SDK reference to your project.
You can use the NuGet Console with the following command:
If you are experiencing some difficulties, please see our Troubleshooting section.
Editing Application Configuration
The SDK needs some capabilities to work correctly:
- ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE
- ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER
- ID_CAP_NETWORKING
- ID_CAP_PUSH_NOTIFICATION
- ID_CAP_LOCATION
- ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT
- ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER
Editing your App.xaml.cs
You need to replace the value partner-id and secret-key with your owns. The service and channel names are optional. See Push Notifications.
In your App.xaml.cs, just add this line in the Application_Launching method:
This way, you will be able to use Tracking services and In-App notifications.
Windows Phone 8+ steps
You need to add the bma4s protocol in your app to be able to extract logs of the SDK from your app. Open your WMAppManifest.xml in XML Editor and add the following lines in <Extensions></Extensions>, after all <Extension> tags:
For example:
If you use an UriMapper to process the incoming URI, you need to add the following line in your UriMapper:
For example:
The Accengage Uri Mapper is only for Debug Apps. It is only requested to extract logs and display DeviceID.
Encountering difficulties with our SDK? Please read our Troubleshooting section for more informations.
Testing
In order to test your integration, you can create a segment with your device id and try to activate an In-App on your segment.
Tracking
Events
If you want to track a specific event you can add to your code:
Where 1000 is your eventID and “test” is an argument of this event.
Using Analytics
You can track specifics events like “Add to Cart”, “Purchase” and “Lead”. Here is how to use each of these events.
Lead
Send your Lead to A4S Servers:
Add to Cart
First, you will need to create an item to track like this one:
Now you just need to specify the cart id and give us the item:
Purchase
You have 2 ways to send a Purchase tracking, with or without Items.
You can create a Purchase to track like this one:
Note: Currency should be a valid 3 letters ISO4217 currency (EUR,USD,..) and the last argument is the total price of this purchase.
If you want to add items belonging to this purchase, you can:
Note: Don't forget to create each “Item” at first and add them to an “IEnumerable<Item>”.
Update Device Information
You can have a device profile for each device in order to qualify the profile.For example, this will allow the user to opt in for and opt out of some categories of notifications. Device profile is a set of key/value that are uploaded to Accengage server. In order to update information about a device profile, add the following lines:
Replace “key” and “value” with the segmentation key name and the value you want to set.
The keys and values must match Accengage user information field names and values to allow information to be correctly updated.
Date Format
You can send a date using UpdateUserField method.
Your date has to be in the following format: “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz”
Please use the code below to format your date before sending it to Accengage servers:
Identify each Page
By default, the name of each page is the class name i.e. MainPage for MainPage.xaml.
You can customize this page name or set different name depending of the place in the XAML Page. For that, you can use this:
Where your-view is the name of your view.
Tracking WebBrowser
Just replace the WebBrowser you wish to track events with, the one from the Accengage SDK.
In your code:
Events
If you want to track a specific event you can do a redirection to the following URL:
Where 1000 is your eventID and “test” is an argument of this event.
Using Analytics
You can track specifics events like “Add to Cart”, “Purchase” and “Lead”. Here is how to use each of these events.
Lead
You can send a Lead event with this link:
Where 10 is the constant id for add to cart event and {value} is the following JSON template:
Add to Cart
You can send a Add to Cart event with this link:
Where 30 is the constant id for an add to cart event and {value} is the following JSON template:
Purchase
You can send a Purchase event with this link:
Where 50 is the constant id for purchase event and {value} is the following JSON template:
Update Device Information
Identify each Page
You can identify a Page viewed in the WebBrowser with the following link:
Where your-view is the name of your view.
Deep Linking
Define custom URI Scheme
You can define an URI Scheme to be able to use deeplinking in your app.
Open your WMAppManifest.xml in XML Editor and add the following lines in <Extensions></Extensions> and after all <Extension> tags:
After that, you need to listen for the URI. To use a URI mapper class like this one in your app, assign it to the frame of the app in the App.xaml.cs file. In the InitializePhoneApplication method, just after where RootFrame.Navigated is assigned, assign the RootFrame.UriMapper property to your URI mapper class. In the following example, the AssociationUriMapper class is assigned to the frame’s UriMapper property:
Then, use the URI Scheme to redirect to the right Page:
Retrieving Push Custom Parameters
When the user clicks on a notification, the current page is launched or the application is started (depending on whether your application is already started or not). You can manage Custom Params in the Navigated event of the RootFrame:
And your OnRootFrameNavigated:
Retrieving In-App Custom Parameters
When an In-App is displayed, clicked or closed, some Custom Parameters are available. To listen to these Custom Parameters, you can register them to these events:
And in the Tracker_InAppNotificationCustomParameters function:
WNS Notifications Setup
Set up application in the Windows Dev Center
To be able to receive Toast and Tiles Notifications in your application using WNS, you need to set up your application in the Windows Dev Center to get your identifiers.
If your app is not already registered, you need to follow How to authenticate with the Windows Push Notification Service (WNS) on MSDN.
Once your application is registered in the Windows Dev Center, go to your Windows Dev Center Dashboard and select your application. Then go to Services > Push Notifications and find Live Services site:
You will need Package SID, Client Secret and Application Identity for later:
Configure WNS with Accengage User Interface
- Go to Accengage User Interface, and go to Settings > Manage Application and find your application:
- Edit your application's settings, and fill the WNS Package Security Identifier box with your own Package SID and the WNS Secret Key with your own Client Secret from the first part.
Editing your application
Ensure that your WMAppManifest.xml is set to WNS.
Go to your Package.appxmanifest and check the following elements:
- Internet (Client & Server) capability is checked
- Location capability is checked
- In Application tab, Toast capable is set to Yes
Please note that Accengage SDK will take care of all WNS events (including Registration, retrieving Token, …). You don't need to handle anything in your code.
Then, you need to associate your application with the application in the Windows Dev Center.
- First solution, right click on your project and select Store > Associate App with the Store. Visual Studio will automatically edit your manifest to match your application in the Windows Dev Center configuration.
Second solution, you can manually edit your Package.appxmanifest. Right click on the file and select View Code. Then, replace the <Identity> tag with the Application Identity from the first part. For example:
MPNS Notifications Setup
Generate MPNS certificate
You will need OpenSSL in order to generate your push certificates.
Generate a Private Key (RSA)
You need to generate a new private key (RSA). Do not forgot to securely store your password:
You should see:
Generate a CSR
The CSR will be needed by your certificate provider to generate your security certificate. Execute the following line:
Fill each option with the answer you want. The important part is the Common Name (CN). The CN must be unique to your domain and must be used as the MPNS Service Name for the Accengage SDK initialization.
You will generate a CSR named CertificateSignRequest.csr with your private key and using the previous custom configuration.
Put the CN as the MPNS Service Name.
Get the certificate from the generated CSR
When the CSR is generated, you will be able to choose your certificate provider. You cannot choose the provider that you want.
If you want to use push notifications with Windows Phone 7 and more, you need to choose a certificate with one of the following root certificate:
Approved Windows Phone 7.1 SSL Root Certificate
And for Windows Phone 8 and more:
Approved Windows Phone 8 SSL Root Certificate
Provide the previous generated CSR when ordering your certificate.
Convert certificate to PEM files
When you have your certificates files, two options:
- You have PEM files: go to the next section.
- You have other formats than PEM: you need to convert them into PEM formatted files.
Go to SSL Shopper and find the OpenSSL command to convert your files in PEM format. For example, if you have a DER file, you will need to execute:
Create PEM files
When you have all PEM files, you need to create two others files with the content of PEM files.
- For Microsoft Dev Center PEM file, named MicrosoftCertificate.cer, copy/paste files content in this specific order:
- Your Web Server Certificate
- (Intermediate Certificate 1)
- (Intermediate Certificate 2)
- Root Certificate
- For Accengage PEM file, named AccengageCertificate.cer, copy/paste files content in this specific order:
- Your Private Key
- Your Web Server Certificate
- (Intermediate Certificate 1)
- (Intermediate Certificate 2)
- Root Certificate
You should see a similar output:
MicrosoftCertificate.cer and AccengageCertificate.cer will be used in next sections.
Configure MPNS with Microsoft Dev Center
Go to Windows Dev Center Dashboard and register your application if it is not already done.
Once your application is registered in the Windows Dev Center, go to your Windows Dev Center Dashboard and select your application. Then go to Services > Push Notifications. Just drag and drop your MicrosoftCertificate.cer in the dedicated area:
Configure MPNS with Accengage User Interface
- Go to Accengage User Interface, and to Settings > Manage Application and find your application:
- Edit your application's settings, and upload your own certificate in MPNS Notification certificate (AccengageCertificate.cer creation is explained in previous sections of this documentation):
Editing your application
Ensure that your WMAppManifest.xml is set to MPN.
In your App.xaml.cs, just add this line in the Application_Launching method:
Where mpns-service-name is the Common Name (CN) found in the certificate's Subject value. Example:
Please check that ID_CAP_PUSH_NOTIFICATION is set in your application capabilities.
If you already use MPNS, you can provide the existing channel name.
Push Notifications
Enable/Disable Accengage Pushs
You can enable or disable Accengage notifications with the following code:
If you need to know if push notifications are enabled or disabled, use:
Add Tile Images Hosts
In Windows Phone 7.1 and Windows Phone 8.0, you need to specify allowed hosts used by images in tiles. If you only use the Accengage User Interface to send push notifications, you can skip this section.
Otherwise, you need to specify your own hosts with the following lines:
In-App Notifications
The AccengageTracking SDK also allows you to display In-App notifications. There is no additional code to write to support In-App notifications. There are five different In-App notifications:
- Text: an In-App notification that will appear as a view with a height of 50. It will contain a title and a body text.
- WebView: an In-App notification that will appear as a view with a height of 50. It will contain a WebBrowser that will display the content of a URL
- Text Interstitial which will appear in full screen. It will contain a title and a body text.
- WebBrowser Interstitial: which will appear in full screen. It will contain a WebBrowser that will display the content of a URL and which will be clickable.
- WebBrowser Interstitial with NavBar: which will appear in full screen. It will contain a WebBrowser that will display the content of a URL. It will also display a navigation bar and enable browsing.
You can customize the behaviour and appearance of these In-App notifications.
For more details, please check: Advanced In-App
Advanced In-App
In-App display customization
If you want to display an In-App notification in a specific position, you just have to implement the IElementsForTemplates interface in your behind code of the page. The implementation should return a IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, FrameworkElement» that represents a list of elements. These elements are defined by a regex to match a template name and a FrameworkElement in which is placed the In-App notification:
If you want to use your own template, you have to add it in the Accengage user interface, create a new xaml in the namespace Bma4S.Templates and implement needed interface elements in the code behind.
Let’s take an example: Here, we created a new template in our project: MyTemplate.xaml with the associated file MyTemplate.xaml.cs. The xaml can be based on existing templates:
And the code behind:
Next, implement needed interface elements:
- ITemplateBrowsable if the template contains a WebBrowser. This interface is mandatory.
- ITemplateProgressable if you want a progress bar during the loading of the WebBrowser
- ITemplateClosable if you want a close button to close the In-App
- ITemplateActionable if you want to specify a specific action when the user clicks on the In-App
For example:
If you want to customize the LandingPage, please see: Customizing Interstitial
Prevent In-App notifications display
If you don't want to display In-App messages temporarily, use:
This function allows you to prevent In-App visual elements to be displayed. Default value is false which means that In-App display is enabled.
Once In-App is locked, no In-App visual element will be displayed until unlocked. Please use this function with care!
Customizing Interstitial
When you setup a Landing Page in the Accengage User Interface, you can choose to open this Landing Page in a WebBrowser.
In this case, you can customize this Landing Page template that we will call Interstitial.
Like In-App Notifications, you can customize them.
If you want to use your own template, you have to add it in the Accengage User Interface and create a new XAML file with the same name as the value you specified.
In addition to In-App customizations, you can add a NavBar in your custom template. With this NavBar, you can give the user access to certain controls of the WebBrowser like back/forward page, open in Internet Explorer and Refresh.
For that, just add the following custom control in your XAML:
You need to implement the ITemplateBrowsable interface to provide a WebBrowser to the NavBar.
Troubleshooting
Restrict SDK connection
You can temporarily restrict connection in order to tell our SDK to stop flushing network requests:
You can restrict connection depending of the network used (3G/4G/Wifi):
All requests will be locked until you use:
In order to know if connection is restricted for our SDK, please use:
Set cache delay
If you want SDK network requests to be executed more or less often, you can set a custom delay for our cache system:
Where 15 is the delay in seconds before each execution of cached requests.
Enable/Disable Geolocation
You can enable or disable SDK Geolocation whenever you want with the following line: | http://docs.accengage.com/display/WPS/Windows+Phone+Silverlight | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | refinedweb | 2,855 | 52.49 |
@babel/helper-plugin-utils
This is not aiming to implement APIs that are missing on a given Babel version, but it is means to provide clear error messages if a plugin is run on a version of Babel that doesn't have the APIs that the plugin is trying to use.
Every one of Babel's core plugins and presets will use this module, and ideally because of that its size should be kept to a miminum because this may or may not be deduplicated when installed.
UsageUsage
import { declare } from "@babel/helper-plugin-utils"; export default declare((api, options, dirname) => { return {}; });
What this doesWhat this does
Currently, this plugin provides a few services to ensure that plugins function well-enough to throw useful errors.
options is always passed
Babel 6 does not pass a second parameter. This frequently means that plugins
written for Babel 7 that use
options will attempt to destructure options
out of an
undefined value. By supplying the default, we avoid that risk.
api.assertVersion always exists
Babel 6 and early betas of Babel 7 do not have
assertVersion, so this
wrapper ensures that it exists and throws a useful error message when not
supplied by Babel itself. | https://www.babeljs.cn/docs/7.2.0/babel-helper-plugin-utils | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | refinedweb | 202 | 52.23 |
Now that you know how to trace Media Foundation and analyze those traces to figure out what Media Foundation is doing, the next step is to figure out what your own code is doing. That means adding traces for MFTrace to your code.
The simplest way to add traces is to use the OutputDebugString function. OutputDebugString takes a single string as input:
void WINAPI OutputDebugString( __in_opt LPCTSTR lpOutputString );
Usually this function sends this string to a debugger. But when MFTrace traces a process, it hooks this function and adds the string to its log.
To make the OutputDebugString look more like printf, we can write a small wrapper which formats strings:
#include <windows.h> #include <strsafe.h> void CDECL Trace(PCSTR pszFormat, ...) { CHAR szTrace[1024]; va_list args; va_start(args, pszFormat); (void) StringCchVPrintfA(szTrace, ARRAYSIZE(szTrace), pszFormat, args); va_end(args); OutputDebugStringA(szTrace); } Now we can use this wrapper just like printf:
INT wmain(INT /*argc*/, PCWSTR /*argv*/[]) { Trace("MyTrace> Hello, world! Here is a pseudo-random number: %i", rand()); }
The traces are displayed both in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger and in the MFTrace logs.
However, there are two drawbacks to the Trace function shown here:
- String formatting is executed all of the time, regardless of whether the code is being traced. This affects performance.
- The format strings are stored inside the binaries. If you add a lot of traces (which is often needed in asynchronous programming), it fattens the binaries. Therefore, with this kind of tracing code, it is a good idea to use conditional compilation with #ifdef _DEBUG.
The performance issue can be addressed by using EventWriteString instead of OutputDebugString.
Tracing using EventWriteString
The EventWriteString function is similar to OutputDebugString. In addition to the trace string, this function takes a level, a keyword, and a handle:
ULONG EventWriteString( __in REGHANDLE RegHandle, __in UCHAR Level, __in ULONGLONG Keyword, __in PCWSTR String );
The handle is initialized by calling EventRegister, and must be freed by calling EventUnregister. This makes EventWriteString slightly more complicated than OutputDebugString, but overall it is still fairly simple to use.
One interesting feature of the EventRegister function is that it takes a callback function of type PENABLECALLBACK. The callback function is called to let your code know whether it is being traced, and at which level and keyword.
Levels and keywords are used to filter out traces at runtime. Levels define the importance of each trace, and keywords define which part of the code each trace belongs to. For the sake of simplicity, we will ignore keywords.
A few standard levels are defined in evntrace.h:
#define TRACE_LEVEL_CRITICAL 1 // Abnormal exit or termination #define TRACE_LEVEL_ERROR 2 // Severe errors that need logging #define TRACE_LEVEL_WARNING 3 // Warnings such as allocation failure #define TRACE_LEVEL_INFORMATION 4 // Includes non-error cases (e.g., Entry-Exit) #define TRACE_LEVEL_VERBOSE 5 // Detailed traces from intermediate steps
Using this function, we can implement tracing with very little impact on performance when the code is not being traced.
#include <windows.h> #include <wmistr.h> #include <evntprov.h> #include <evntrace.h> #include <strsafe.h> REGHANDLE g_ETWHandle = NULL; BOOL g_bEnabled = FALSE; UCHAR g_nLevel = 0; void NTAPI EnableCallback( LPCGUID /*SourceId*/, ULONG IsEnabled, UCHAR Level, ULONGLONG /*MatchAnyKeyword*/, ULONGLONG /*MatchAllKeywords*/, PEVENT_FILTER_DESCRIPTOR /*FilterData*/, PVOID /*CallbackContext*/ ) { switch (IsEnabled) { case EVENT_CONTROL_CODE_ENABLE_PROVIDER: g_bEnabled = TRUE; g_nLevel = Level; break; case EVENT_CONTROL_CODE_DISABLE_PROVIDER: g_bEnabled = FALSE; g_nLevel = 0; break; } } void TraceInitialize() { // Provider ID: {BAADC0DE-0D5E-42EC-A8EF-56F7DC7F7C82} // TODO: Generate a new unique provider ID. Do not reuse this GUID. static const GUID guidTrace = {0xbaadc0de, 0xd5e, 0x42ec, {0xa8, 0xef, 0x56, 0xf7, 0xdc, 0x7f, 0x7c, 0x82}}; (void) EventRegister(&guidTrace, EnableCallback, NULL, &g_ETWHandle); } void TraceUninitialize() { if (g_ETWHandle) { (void) EventUnregister(g_ETWHandle); g_ETWHandle = NULL; g_bEnabled = FALSE; g_nLevel = 0; } } void CDECL TraceFormat(UCHAR nLevel, PCWSTR pszFormat, ...) { if ((0 == g_nLevel) || (nLevel <= g_nLevel)) { WCHAR szTrace[1024]; va_list args; va_start(args, pszFormat); (void) StringCchVPrintfW(szTrace, ARRAYSIZE(szTrace), pszFormat, args); va_end(args); (void) EventWriteString(g_ETWHandle, nLevel, 0, szTrace); } } #define Trace(level, format, ...) if (g_bEnabled) TraceFormat(level, format, __VA_ARGS__); Adding traces to your code then looks like INT wmain(INT /*argc*/, PCWSTR /*argv*/[]) { TraceInitialize(); Trace(TRACE_LEVEL_INFORMATION, L"MyTrace> Hello, world!"); Trace(TRACE_LEVEL_ERROR, L"MyTrace> Something bad happened: %i", 42); TraceUninitialize(); return 0; }
This code is minimalist on purpose and could easily be expanded by adding other useful information, such as __FUNCTION__, the ‘this’ pointer, function scope (enter/exit), the returned HRESULT, or a trace header that is better than “MyTrace>” to make it easier to filter the traces.
For MFTrace to log the traces, it needs know which Provider ID (the GUID in TraceInitialize) to trace and which level and keyword to use. This is done by creating a small XML configuration file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <providers> <provider level="5" ID="BAADC0DE-0D5E-42EC-A8EF-56F7DC7F7C82" > <keyword ID="0xFFFFFFFF"/> </provider> </providers>
Then add ‘-c config.xml’ to the command line of MFTrace (assuming the file is named config.xml).
The configuration file is documented on MSDN.
If you are writing a DLL instead of an EXE, TraceInitialize and TraceUninitialize should be called inside DllMain during DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH and DLL_PROCESS_DETACH respectively. It is usually a bad idea to do anything significant in DllMain, but EventRegister and EventUnregister are designed to be safe to call there.
Although tracing using EventWriteString is more efficient than OutputDebugString, Windows offer even more efficient APIs to do tracing: ETW and WPP. However, they are also more complex to set up.
Tracing using ETW/WPP
ETW and WPP optimize tracing one step further. They reduce the performance impact of tracing when tracing is enabled. Instead of formatting the trace messages inside the process being traced, they format them inside the process listening for traces. This way, tracing does not disturb the traced process as much.
WPP also reduces the size of binaries by storing format strings in PDB/TMF symbol files, rather than inside the binaries themselves. This provides a form of obfuscation, because traces can be logged without symbol files but are very difficult or even impossible to analyze without those symbol files. For that reason among others, WPP is better suited for internal traces which are not meant to be used by customers.
ETW on the other hand is better suited for traces which need to be public. Our first blog post on MF tracing showed how to capture ETW traces using the OS Event Viewer. ETW defines traces using manifests, and supports localization of the format strings.
Covering those two tracing systems would require several more blogs due to their complexity, so for more information please refer to MSDN.
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Introduction:
Ruby is a programming language. It is vastly known by hackers. This particular programming language was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp.
Why you should learn Ruby?
Ruby is a very easy language to learn compared to other languages!
Ruby is a powerful, flexible programming language you can use in web/Internet development. You can create games, etc with it, too. Let's compare C++ to Ruby.
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Now look at Ruby:
puts "Hello World!"
2.) Lot's of companies are looking for people who know Ruby. Of course, you'll need to know PHP, C++, HTML, etc, but Ruby is a good step to learn.
Let's start actually learning Ruby. We will of course start off easily! Very simple.
I am using Notepad++, now. Let's create a file. I, myself, will name it: Test.rb, remember to add the: ".rb"
Ok. So... Let's do a simple: "Hello World!"!
puts "What is up?"
print "Nullbyte"
Now, remember to always add a 'print' statement, if not, it'll just give a nil.
That is all for today. Some simple Hello World commands, and introduction to Ruby. I will add another tutorial by tomorrow.
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Erm... some of Ruby is compiled into bytecode, while some of it is interpreted. Ruby is not black and white, but more grey and gray.
I don't know why you're comparing it to C++, whereas you should be comparing it to a different scripting language or the other half of Ruby.
Ruby is a good language to know, Metasploit uses it for modules.
Also I will have to admit, I don't know Ruby
This gave guide gave me inspiration for a guide I'm working on where I compare HTML with Assembly
lol
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:05:25PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > the mouse can still be seen) until I switch to a TTY and back with > > (i.e. C-A-F4 then C-A-F5) after which point it goes back to normal. > > > > I'm glad the new inteldrm driver got merged, since it fixes several > > other video issues I was having. This problem is very minor since the > > workaround is just a few extra keystrokes when I dock or undock, but it > > is nevertheless annoying. > > > > Is anyone else experiencing this issue on third gen core-I series Intel > > chips with integrated graphics? Or on any other chips for that matter? > > > > I checked Xorg.0.log and didn't see anything suspicious. I also tried > > disabling monitor hotplugging via Xorg.conf, but I either did it wrong > > or it had no effect. > > > > I would attach xorg logs and dmesg, but AFAIK misc@ does not allow > > attachments, and I don't want to annoy people with that much inline > > info. > > Does this help? > > Index: sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_fb_helper.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_fb_helper.c,v > retrieving revision 1.13 > diff -u -p -r1.13 drm_fb_helper.c > --- sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_fb_helper.c 14 Apr 2019 10:14:51 -0000 1.13 > +++ sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_fb_helper.c 29 Apr 2019 06:58:25 -0000 > @@ -575,6 +575,9 @@ static bool drm_fb_helper_is_bound(struc > #ifdef notyet > if (READ_ONCE(dev->master)) > return false; > +#else > + if (!SPLAY_EMPTY(&dev->files)) > + return false; > #endif > > drm_for_each_crtc(crtc, dev) {
This appears to have done the trick. I tested with two displays that were affected by the originally noted issue. I will continue running with this patch for a while and report back if the issue re-appears, or there are other relevant developments. Thank you for the patch. ~ Charles | https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg167122.html | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | refinedweb | 308 | 67.65 |
Python provides a built-in sys module in order to access some variables and functions used by the interpreter. Simply the sys module can be used to manipulate the current Python runtime and interpreter in order to change the Python scripts and applications execution environment. In the tutorial, we will use popular use cases for the sys module to read and change the Python scripts execution.
sys.argv (Passed Arguments)
Some arguments or parameters can be passed into the PYthon script. The sys.argv is used to store passed arguments and get them inside the Python script. The sys.argv is a list where every argument is stored as an item. The sys.argv[0] is used to store the current script name and all other items are an argument for the script.
import sys print(sys.argv[0]) print(sys.argv[1]) print(sys.argv[2]) print(sys.argv[3])
This Python script is store with the test.py name and called with the following arguments.
./test.py usa germany turkey
The output is like below where the first item in the sys.argv list is the name of the script.
./test.py usa germany turkey
sys.exit (Exit)
A python script is executed via the Python interpreter. The script can exit after the execution is completed or exited explicitly by using the sys.exit.
import sys print("This is a Python script") sys.exit print("This is a Python script")
sys.maxsize (Maximum Integer Size)
Python integer type is used to store numbers which can be used for different calculations. The maximum integer changes according to the Python version and operating system. The maximum integer size can be printed with the sys.maxsize.
import sys print(sys.maxsize)
sys.path (Python Module Path)
Python interpreter uses different modules where these modules are located in different locations. These locations are called Python module path and this path information can be listed with the sys.path.
import sys print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/lib/python38.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.8', '/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload', '/home/ismail/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
sys.executable (Python Interpreter Executable Path)
Every Python script is executed via the Python interpreter executable. The current interpreter executable location can be displayed with the sys.executable.
import sys print(sys.executable)
sys.version (Python Interpreter Version)
Python is a dynamic language that adds new features with new versions. The current interpreter version can be printed by using the sys.version variable like below.
import sys print(sys.version)
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--- On Sat, 5/16/09, Michael Ludwig <milu71@gmx.de> wrote:
> From: Michael Ludwig <milu71@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: API for setting a property reference?
> To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>
> Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 12:36 PM
> Matt Benson schrieb am 14.05.2009 um
> 18:57:09 (-0700):
> >
> > Read the whole section about antlibs in the Ant manual
> under "Concepts
> > and Types."
>
> Thanks, Matt. Not sure how exactly that answers my
> question, which was:
>
> > > Is there some auto-lookup feature for classes
> that attempts dynamic
> > > class loading for something like
> <namespace.MyTask/>, i.e. element
> > > name corresponding to classname?
> > >
> > > Or did you just omit the <taskdef> for
> brevity?
>
> So I think there is no such auto-lookup feature, and a
> <taskdef> was
> required in the example.
>
> The special treatment of the "antlib:" namespace URI scheme
> laid out in
> the manual is similar to such auto-lookup, but requires
> additional
> configuration. I guess that's what you were pointing me
> to?
>
Yes; the various namespacing mechanisms are the available means by which you can approximate
an automatic task configuration, the necessary operations being assignment of classes to tasknames
(the taskdefs in your antlib declaration) and Ant's being instructed where to look for said
definitions (the namespace or other declaration(s)) in your buildfile.
-Matt
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public class ShippingInfo
{
#region Properties
public string Reference { get; set; }
public decimal InvoiceValue { get; set; }
// plus any additional properties you need. bear in mind these samples are automatic-properties
// which will require .Net 3.0+
// you may also need to extend these if you need to perform any validation on the input
#endregion
#region Public methods
/// <summary>
/// Saves the objects internal data to a database
/// </summary>
public void Save()
{
SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection("Some connection string");
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("prAddShippingInfo", cn);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
// add a SqlParameter for each piece of data
cn.Open();
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cn.Close();
}
/// <summary>
/// Generates and returns an EDI representation of the objects internal data
/// </summary>
public string GenerateEDI()
{
StringBuilder edi = new StringBuilder();
// add EDI formatted data
return edi.ToString();
}
#endregion
}
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This course will introduce you to the interfaces and features of Microsoft Office 2010 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. You will learn about the features that are shared between all products in the Office suite, as well as the new features that are product specific.
Either way the basic process would be:
1) Retrieve the data from the datastore (either as a DataTable, DataReader, Xml, or custom business object collection)
2) Create an output stream (FileStream, MemoryStream; depending on what you need to do with the output)
3) Iterate over your data and write to the output stream.
4) Save the stream to disc/transmit to another process.
to loop through the dataTable would you recomend that i use a foreach loop?
You can then have the class populate a database and/or produce EDI as necessary. EDI files are essentially flat files that use fixed width fields for their values. Each line in the EDI file is marked with a control code that denotes what type of data the line contains (all of this should be explained in the schema when you get hold of it). It's more akin to a fixed-width CSV file than XML.
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Goodgame Studios is a German company which develops and publishes free-to-play web and mobile games. Founded in 2009, their portfolio now comprises nine games with over 200 million registered users.
To continuously improve the user experience of the games, it is crucial to analyze the impact of new features, prime times and game tutorials. To make this possible, specific player actions and events are registered, stored at a central data storage and evaluated by data analysts. We refer to these as tracking events.
With growing user counts, the number of tracking events per day has grown to an impressive 130 million events per day, or up to 4000 events per second during peak times.
In this article we will describe the tracking architecture that has been developed at Goodgame Studios to deal with this challenge, and outline the technology stack used and problems encountered.
Challenges and Requirements
Tracking events are triggered from various sources, such as game clients (browser or mobile devices), game servers or landing pages. A common requirement for all event sources is that sending the events does not affect performance and is not perceptible by the user.
Whereas on the source side, we can have millions of clients dispersed over the whole world, on the target side, we have only one target, the data storage, where the events are made available for data analysts. As one can imagine, the target could easily become a bottleneck, and a situation could arise where the sources are unable to offload their events fast enough. At some point this could result in reduced performance and thus, reduced user satisfaction.
This means it is necessary to establish a buffer between source and target, in order to decouple event production from event consumption. We opted for a buffer in the form of message broker queues. Due to the geographically distributed sources, we deployed the queues likewise in a geographically distributed manner to keep network latency from the sources to a minimum.
In order to allow quick reaction to peaks we chose a cloud based solution, and deployed our queues to the AWS Cloud.
The advantage of this solution is that even during peak times, sources can offload their events very quickly, without needing to queue them locally. If the target (i.e. the database or data store), cannot keep up with handling the events during the peak time, they are temporarily queued in the message broker, and can then be processed gradually.
Now we have our events in geographically distributed message brokers, and need to get them into the local data storage to make them available for data analysts.
To transfer the messages from the AWS queues to the data storage, we need consumers.
Due to some internal restrictions as well as for performance reasons, we opted not to directly connect the consumers to the cloud hosted message brokers, but to introduce an additional layer of message brokers inside our local data center. We assumed this would allow better performance during peak times due to the two-stage traffic regulation.
Message Broker
As the sources are written in various programming languages (e.g., Java, PHP, Flash), we needed a message broker that could provide a communication protocol that all those languages could handle. Our choice finally fell on RabbitMQ, which is a message broker software providing an MQ Server implemented in Erlang, different client implementations (e.g., in Java or PHP), and uses AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) as protocol (but HTTP is also possible).
Additionally, RabbitMQ offers the Shovel plugin, which facilitates the task of transferring events from one broker (AWS Cloud) to another (local).
RabbitMQ allows different types of message routing, such as work queues, publish/subscribe, routing or topics. They are outlined in more detail including tutorials on the RabbitMQ Get Started tutorial page.
At Goodgame, we use topic exchanges, where messages are routed to predefined queues based on their routing key.
In this scenario, the producer sends a message with a routing key to a defined exchange in the broker. Based on the message’s properties, the exchange decides which queue(s) the message should be routed to. This has the advantage that the producer does not need to know which queue/consumer the message is sent to. Furthermore, it allows us to handle different event types flexibly. For example, each event type has its own routing key. So if we would like to temporarily exclude a specific event type from processing, we simply configure the exchange accordingly, and route the specific event to a trash-queue.
The following code snippet shows an example in Java of how simply we can send a message to a RabbitMQ Server using the AMQP basic publish. We assume in this example that the server is running on localhost, with a predefined exchange named tracking and no further setup of authentication.
//... public class EventProducer { private static final String EXCHANGE = "tracking"; public static void main (String args[]) throws IOException { ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new ConnectionFactory(); connectionFactory.setHost("localhost"); Connection connection = connectionFactory.newConnection(); Channel channel = connection.createChannel(); String routingKey = "some.key"; String message = "Hello World!"; channel.basicPublish(EXCHANGE, routingKey, null, message.getBytes()); connection.close(); } //... }
Further examples, also in other programming languages, can be found on the RabbitMQ website.
To transfer messages from the brokers in the cloud to the local brokers, we use the Shovel plugin provided by RabbitMQ. This plugin allows the user to configure shovels, which consume messages from one RabbitMQ queue and publish them to another RabbitMQ broker (exchange or queue). They can either run on a separate RabbitMQ server or on the destination or source broker. In our case, they run on the source (cloud) broker.
Putting it all together, the figure below outlines the high level tracking architecture as described above.
Issues encountered
One of the main problems we encountered in production environment was an issue with blocked connections. RabbitMQ comes with a flow control mechanism, which blocks connections either when they publish too fast (i.e. faster than routing can happen), or when memory usage exceeds a configured threshold (memory watermark).
When connections are blocked, clients cannot publish any more messages. During peak times, we would have connections that are under flow control for up to two hours.
Another issue we encountered was that from time to time one of the RabbitMQ servers would crash inexplicably, without notice and without further information in the log files.
At first it was not possible to identify any kind of pattern causing these crashes, except that at the moment of the crash, a considerable number of messages were in the queue, in the state “unacknowledged”. However, the number would vary from several thousand to several million. One day everything would run smoothly with several million messages unacknowledged in the queue, another day, the broker would crash with only a few hundred thousand.
After some rather tedious analysis, we finally found out that the cause for the crashes was actually the Shovel plugin. In our configuration, we did not set the prefetch_count1.
With the version of the plugin we were using, not setting this value implies that an unlimited number of messages are prefetched (i.e. all that are in the queue). This meant that the shovel had an unlimited number of messages in its memory, but could not publish them, as the destination broker was blocking connections due to flow control.
If at the same time the connection between source and destination broker got lost (e.g. due to network instability), the shovel crashed and took the whole RabbitMQ server down with it as well.
Once we set the prefetch_count to a value of 1000 the brokers ran with much more stability.
Setting this count also did some good to our blocked connections problem. At a given memory threshold, RabbitMQ starts paging messages from memory to disk. However, this seems not to happen with unacknowledged messages. Having such huge numbers of unacknowledged messages thus filled our memory, which then triggered flow control and resulted in blocking connections.
Finally we also had to improve the performance of our final consumer, the data storage, to avoid too many messages queuing in the broker, as we realized that the fewer messages we had, the better the RabbitMQ queues would do their job.
Outlook and Conclusion
In this article, we have presented Goodgame Studios’ architecture for event tracking. The benefits of gathering these events are diverse. On the one hand, they provide game designers and game balancers with a valuable tool for their work. The event data helps them answer questions such as whether players regularly quit the game at a specific quest, or how a new feature that has been implemented is performing. The insights gained are used to improve the gameplay and user experience.
On the other hand they are a powerful tool for marketing specialists. Specific events make it possible to identify which marketing channel a new player is gained through, and thus allow a constructive adaptation of marketing strategies and channels.
Finally, they can be used by the developer, for example to measure and improve performance of loading times or to identify and adapt to the mobile devices used.
The architecture described provides the following advantages:
- Two stage traffic regulation: if an outage (planned or unplanned) occurs at the local data center, the brokers in the cloud can still buffer events.
- Brokers in the cloud can be scaled much more easily than in a local data center. This allows fast reactions on short-term traffic augmentation.
However there are also some disadvantages:
- Near-real-time data analysis difficult to achieve: due to the many steps in the process, it takes some time before events actually arrive at the final data storage.
- Error analysis difficult due to the numerous intermediate steps.
Out of the lessons learned, we will further adapt our architecture to satisfy upcoming needs.
A first step will be to replace the local brokers and shovel plugin with custom-built Java consumers, consuming the events directly from the AWS cloud and storing them directly to HDFS.
These will be implemented in order to provide easy scalability, high availability and performance.
We opted for custom consumers as we need to apply some transformation and validation to incoming events.
However, in the future one could also consider other solutions, for example the Apache Flume framework, which integrates smoothly with RabbitMQ and the Hadoop framework.
1 This value indicates how many messages are consumed by a consumer (shovel in our case) without sending acknowledgements for successful treatment.
About the Author
Dr. Claire Fautsch is Senior Server Developer at Goodgame Studios, where she works in the Java core team and is also involved in the data warehouse project. Previously, she was employed as an IT Consultant in Zurich and Hamburg and as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Here, Dr. Fautsch also obtained her PhD in Computer Science on the topic of information retrieval as well as her bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics. She enjoys exploring new technologies and taking on new challenges.
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Create_field is a description a field/column that may or may not exists in a table. More...
#include <create_field.h>
Create_field is a description a field/column that may or may not exists in a table.
The main usage of Create_field is to contain the description of a column given by the user (usually given with CREATE TABLE). It is also used to describe changes to be carried out on a column (usually given with ALTER TABLE ... CHANGE COLUMN).
Constructs a column definition from an object representing an actual column.
This is a reverse-engineering procedure that creates a column definition object as produced by the parser (Create_field) from a resolved column object (Field).
Default values are copied into an Item_string unless:
Initialize a column definition object.
Column definition objects can be used to construct Field objects.
Init for a tmp table field.
To be extended if need be.
Set the maximum display width based on another Create_field.
Bitmap of flags indicating if field value should be auto-generated by default and/or on update, and in which way.
Name of column modified by ALTER TABLE's CHANGE/MODIFY COLUMN clauses, NULL for columns added.
The declared default value, if any, otherwise NULL.
Note that this member is NULL if the default is a function. If the column definition has a function declared as the default, the information is found in Create_field::auto_flags.
Indicate whether column is nullable, zerofill or unsigned.
Initialized based on flags and other members at prepare_create_field()/ init_for_tmp_table() stage.
Holds the expression to be used to generate default values.
Whether or not the display width was given explicitly by the user.
The maximum display width of this column.
The "display width" is the number of code points that is needed to print out the string represenation of a value. It can be given by the user both explicitly and implicitly. If a user creates a table with the columns "a VARCHAR(3), b INT(3)", both columns are given an explicit display width of 3 code points. But if a user creates a table with the columns "a INT, b TINYINT UNSIGNED", the first column has an implicit display width of 11 (-2147483648 is the longest value for a signed int) and the second column has an implicit display width of 3 (255 is the longest value for an unsigned tinyint). This is related to storage size for some types (VARCHAR, BLOB etc), but not for all types (an INT is four bytes regardless of the display width).
A "code point" is bascially a numeric value. For instance, ASCII compromises of 128 code points (0x00 to 0x7F), while unicode contains way more. In most cases a code point represents a single graphical unit (aka grapheme), but not always. For instance, É may consists of two code points where one is the letter E and the other one is the quotation mark above the letter.
Row based replication code sometimes needs to create ENUM and SET fields with pack length which doesn't correspond to number of elements in interval TYPELIB.
When this member is non-zero ENUM/SET field to be created will use its value as pack length instead of one calculated from number elements in its interval.
Initialized at prepare_create_field()/init_for_tmp_table() stage.
Indicates that storage engine doesn't support optimized BIT field storage.
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These producers implemented a Rupee (Rs) 1.50/kg (Rs1,500/tonne, $29/tonne) increase in their March domestic list prices of PVC on 8 March.
“Producers’ costs are getting higher not only due to upstream prices, [but] also due to [the] weakening local currency,” a major Indian PVC producer said.
Over the past month, the Indian rupee has depreciated against the US dollar by 4%.
“It is not surprising for local producers to hike their prices soon as their current prices are almost $20-30/tonne lower than import prices,” said an Indian converter.
Major PVC producers in
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RSA_BLINDING_ON(3) OpenSSL RSA_BLINDING_ON(3)
RSA_blinding_on, RSA_blinding_off - protect the RSA opera- tion from timing attacks
#include <openssl/rsa.h> int RSA_blinding_on(RSA *rsa, BN_CTX *ctx); void RSA_blinding_off(RSA *rsa);
RSA is vulnerable to timing attacks. In a setup where attackers can measure the time of RSA decryption or signa- ture operations, blinding must be used to protect the RSA operation from that attack. RSA_blinding_on() turns blinding on for key rsa and gen- erates a random blinding factor. ctx is NULL or a pre- allocated and initialized BN_CTX. The random number genera- tor must be seeded prior to calling RSA_blinding_on(). RSA_blinding_off() turns blinding off and frees the memory used for the blinding factor.
RSA_blinding_on() returns 1 on success, and 0 if an error occurred. RSA_blinding_off() returns no value.
rsa(3), rand(3)
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Mike,
I apologize for not reading through your script completely to test, but
does this re-write the __init__.py files so that they don't declare
namespace packages using pkg_resources?
If you aren't doing this, then you still won't get to the time savings
Fernando and I did because a significant part of the overhead was in
setuptools/pkg_resources declaring namespace packages and importing from
them. In fact, in Fernando's small test script using Traits, there were
over 5,000 calls(!!!) to pkg_resources even when we'd de-eggified, but
not de-package-namespace-ified.
-- Dave
Michael McLay wrote:
> The attached script creates an enthought packages out of enthought
> eggs. It uses symbolic links so it won't work on Windows and the eggs
> need to be kept on the filesystem. I'll rework it to copy the trees
> instead of just setting up symbolic links.
>
> On 8/18/07, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@...> wrote:
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how Linux desktop distributions work, and how applications are deployed. I have some ideas for how this could work in a completely different way.
I want to start with a small screencast showing how bundles work for an end user before getting into the technical details:
Note how easy it is to download and install apps? Thats just one of the benefits of bundles. But before we start with bundles I want to take a step back and look at what the problem is with the current Linux distribution models.
Desktop distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu work remarkably well, and have a lot of applications packaged. However, they are not as reliable as you would like. Most Linux users have experienced some package update that broke their system, or made their app stop working. Typically this happens at the worst times. Linux users quickly learn to disable upgrades before leaving for some important presentation or meeting.
Its easy to blame this on lack of testing and too many updates, but I think there are some deeper issues here that affect testability in general:
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Also, while it is very easy to install the latest packaged version of an application, other things are not so easy:
- Installing applications not packaged for your distribution
- Installing a newer version of an application that requires newer dependencies than what is in your current repositories
- Keeping multiple versions of the same app installed
- Keeping older versions of applications running as you update your overall system
So, how can we make this better? First we make everyone run the same bits. (Note: From here we start to get pretty technical).
The core OS is separated into two distinct parts. Lets call it the platform and the desktop. The platform is a small set of highly ABI stable and reliable core packages. It would have things like libc, coreutils, libz, libX11, libGL, dbus, libpng, Gtk+, Qt, and bash. Enough unix to run typical scripts and some core libraries that are supportable and that lots of apps need.
The desktop part is a runtime that lets you work with the computer. It has the services needed to be able to start and log into a desktop UI, including things like login manager, window manager, desktop shell, and the core desktop utilities. By necessity there will some libraries needed in the desktop that are not in the platform, these are considered internal details and we don’t ship with header files for them or support third party binaries using them.
Secondly, we untangle the application interactions.
All applications are shipped as bundles, single files that contain everything (libraries, files, tools, etc) the application depends on. Except they can (optionally) depend on things from the OS platform. Bundles are self-contained, so they don’t interact with other bundles that are installed. This means that if a bundle works once it will always keep working, as long as the platform is ABI stable as guaranteed. Running new apps is as easy as downloading and clicking a file. Installing them is as easy as dropping them in a known directory.
I’ve started writing a new bundle system, called Glick 2, replacing an old system I did called Glick. Here is how the core works:
When a bundle is started, it creates a new mount namespace, a kernel feature that lets different processes see different sets of mounts. Then the bundle file itself is mounted as a fuse filesystem in a well known prefix, say /opt/bundle. This mount is only visible to the bundle process and its children. Then an executable from the bundle is started, which is compiled to read all its data and libraries from /opt/bundle. Another kernel feature called shared subtrees is used to make the new mount namespace share all non-bundle mounts in the system, so that if a USB stick is inserted after the bundle is started it will still be visible in the bundle.
There are some problematic aspects of bundles:
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In Glick 2, all bundles are composed of a set of slices. When the bundle is mounted we see the union of all the slices as the file tree, but in the file itself they are distinct bits of data. When creating a bundle you build just your application, and then pick existing library bundles for the dependencies and combine them into an final application bundle that the user sees.
With this approach one can easily imagine a whole echo-system of library bundles for free software, maintained similarly to distro repositories (ideally maintained by upstream). This way it becomes pretty easy to package applications in bundles.
Additionally, with a set of shared slices like this used by applications it becomes increasingly likely that an up-to-date set of apps will be using the same build of some of its dependencies. Glick 2 takes advantage of this by using a checksum of each slice, and keeping track of all the slices in use globally on the desktop. If any two bundles use the same slice, only one copy of the slice on disk will be used, and the files in the two bundle mount mounts will use the same inode. This means we read the data from disk only once, and that we share the memory for the library in the page cache. In other words, they work like traditional shared libraries.
Interaction with the system is handled by allowing bundle installation. This really just means dropping the bundle file in a known directory, like ~/Apps or some system directory. The session then tracks files being added to this directory, and whenever a bundle is added we look at it for slices marked as exported. All the exported slices of all the installed bundles are then made visible in a desktop-wide instance of /opt/bundle (and to process-private instances).
This means that bundles can mark things like desktop files, icons, dbus service files, mimetypes, etc as exported and have them globally visible (so that other apps and the desktop can see them). Additionally we expose symlinks to the intstalled bundles themselves in a well known location like /opt/bundle/.bundles/<bundle-id> so that e.g. the desktop file can reference the application binary in an absolute fashion.
There is nothing that prohibits bundles from running in regular distributions too, as long as the base set of platform dependencies are installed, via for instance distro metapackages. So, bundles can also be used as a way to create binaries for cross-distro deployment.
The current codebase is of prototype quality. It works, but requires some handholding, and lacks some features I want. I hope to clean it up and publish it in the near future.
YES. I want this!
@Jan: Good point about US/Brazil/China. I assumed it was the same deal as in Sweden. Doing some size calculation math on this sounds like a good idea!
That’s one think i’ve been thinking about for a while. In fact the new PBI format in upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 share some things about software isolation from OS
In Chakra GNU/Linux distribution, they have a bundle system for GTK applications, but is too simple for now, maybe you want to check it out
That’s how it always worked in Windows, leading to incidents like. That’s what ruby also has, leading to friction with Debian. So the idea is not new, but the security people from the existing distros will probably not buy it, for the same reasons as they don’t buy static linking and bundling in general.
It does have positive aspects. E.g. it is not affected by Free Software propaganda that most distros propagate but not all users accept or even understand. Also it is not affected by some incompetent packagers forcing the app to link against the system-provided libraries even though they are incompatible (as happened, e.g., with Hadoop’s HBase in Debian – they forced it to use Debian’s jruby, thus making it impossible to create certain kinds of tables from the command line, see). And as already said, a well-defined platform ABI attracts commercial developers.
So, while your post is definitely heresy from any current distribution’s standpoint, it may well be that you are right just because Windows (which is based on essentially the same model) is so successful.
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I was around Debian when security bug in libz was found and I was helping to search for bundled versions of libz in all 15000+ packages. (replace libz with any non-platform library).
Since then I really like non-bundling anal-retentivness and strict packaging practices.
Bundles sound like an interesting solution…to a problem already solved very well on FOSS dekstops with pkg management. I’d prefer to see the effort put into improving those systems.
Just track which libz that are installed in which bundles. Admin or system can choose to force upgrades or possibly override the bundles libz.
The other way around forces everyone with status quo, which just isn’t good enough. Using software is a pain on linux. And you have to make hard choices when ‘hmm exam time, i should not upgrade, but that new feature could really help my productivity.’
pkg systems are awesome at managing systems, but not so much upgrading to the newest app X without fear or forced distro upgrade.
“Every package installs into a single large “system” where everything interacts in unpredictable ways. For example, upgrading a library to fix one app might affect other applications.”
Well, that’s exactly what we want. That’s the point of a library: it’s shared code. So we only have to update it once to fix all the applications that use it.
If we have to update 30 different bundles when we fix a library bug, what’s the point of having libraries at all?
I’d say. Let’s drop Linux altogether, why not use Windows? Windows is much better Windows than Linux.
Adam: The main point of libraries still remains: when writing the application the library code didn’t have to be rewritten. Packaging effects is only a secondary effect of libraries.
Sure, updating libraries in apps is more work in a bundle world, but to a large degree it is solvable by better tooling. Also, IMHO it *should* be harder to upgrade a library that an app uses. Right now we keep bumping libraries in all apps just because there is something newer out, not because said new version actually makes that particular app *better*. In fact, in many cases it introduces problems in some apps, or just doesn’t matter to a lot of apps.
In my opinion the “large system where everything interacts” is optimized for the distro packager, not for actual users of applications. Its somehow more important that we have zero wasted bytes or wasted effort during packaging than the actual user getting an application that he can use.
Many a times have I come across the limitations of a package manager, especially on systems where I was not admin, and the only way to install new software was to compile it from sources. However, it seems to me that the solution proposed by the 0install guys () offers more features, especially in that it allows managing updates centrally, even though the apps come from a variety of sources.
PS: This is not a plug, and I am not affiliated with the 0install project in any way. I tried to use it at one point, but the lack of apps was an unsurmountable obstacle to its adoption.
The trouble with bundling libraries with every app is lack of efficiency; I think it’s impractical until we can ensure that for multiple apps, the libs they need are loaded only once into memory. (I thought that was already possible, the kernel being smart about such things?) Then there is still the unfortunate duplication on disk, but that could maybe be solved by a de-duping filesystem eventually. So I guess that’s why you put things like Qt and GTK in the “platform” layer at least, so that they are not duplicated. It’s a compromise, and there can still be different apps which depend on different versions of those too, in theory.
Another point is that on a conventional Linux system everyone can be a developer, and that’s an important use case, not to be neglected just for the sake of making app installation easier. Not that there’s anything wrong with omitting headers by default, but it should at least be quick and easy to install them, and being a developer should fit harmoniously with how the rest of the filesystem is laid out.
Maybe you got some inspiration from MacOS; but there are pros and cons to do it the OSX way or the pre-X way. In either of those, it doesn’t matter where you install your apps, and that is a nice feature to have. So depending on putting apps in a known location and then depending on fuse hacks to make them run seems impractical too, and I don’t really see the point of it. We might at least start from the known-good ideas from MacOS and build or improve on them rather than letting it be more brittle than that. So I think a basic requirement is that if an app (a bundle or not) exists on any attached disk, the file manager/finder/desktop/launcher/whatever should somehow know that it’s available for the “open” or “open with…” scenario when you have found a compatible document that you’d like to open. That should not depend on any “installation” step, it should “just work”, even if the app itself is ephemeral (you plugged in a USB stick which has the app, and you are just going to use it right now, not “install” it). So that implies there needs to be a list of apps somewhere. The filesystem needs to have metadata about the executables residing on it, and that metadata needs to be kept up-to-date at all times (ideally not just on your pet distro, but unconditionally). When the FS is mounted, the list of apps on that FS is then merged into the master list (or else, when the desktop system wants to search for an app, it must search on all mounted FS’s). When the FS is unmounted, the app is no longer available to launch new instances.
Coincidentally I was thinking last night that runtime linking could stand to be a little smarter, to tolerate mismatching versions whenever the functions the app needs from the lib are present and have the same arguments. E.g. the recent case I’ve seen when libpng was upgraded and stuff refused to run just because it was a different version, should not happen. But runtime linking is still a fuzzy area for me, I don’t understand why that breakage happens and why some other libs do a better job,.
So in general I think I’d avoid breaking things that aren’t broken, and for what is broken, fix it at the lowest possible level, rather than just putting more layers on top of what is there. (Unfortunately in some of those areas there are few experts capable of fixing things, though.) Filesystems should be smarter, the use of metadata in them should be more widespread, the tools used to transfer files between filesystems and across the network should transfer the metadata at the same time, the linker should be smarter, and the shell should work the same way the graphical desktop does (that is something at which MacOS does not yet excel). File management and package management should be merged to become the same thing: if you install an app and it has dependencies you should get the dependencies at the same time, but if you already have them, then there is no need to bundle them and waste extra bandwidth and disk space re-getting the same libs again.
I fully agree with you that the current distributions are optimized for the packagers and not for the users. Although I’d rather word it like: are more designed after the technical necessities than the ease of use.
Still any approach ignoring those necessities will likely fail. While starting with the user’s view may lead to a better result the whole thing is worthless unless you are also able to describe how the software should get packaged and how your idea is not creating (significantly) more work for the packagers. The key here is IMHO how updates (are supposed to) work. You’ll need to consider at least the most common use cases and compare their costs on both the user’s and the packager’s side to the current “packages and repos” solution. Most obvious use cases include:
* New version of application is available
* Important fix for a library is available
* Exploit for a library or application is out in the wild
* Test newly created combination of application and library versions
The other important and yet unanswered question is how the user can trust the software installed. This question is also linked to updates as the user needs some trust into the ability and willingness to provide updates in the future. But it also contains as simple questions as how to make sure that the software does not contain malware.
I hope these question help you ironing out some of the flaws that your design might still have.
Florian
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why reinventing the wheel? Use arch linux
It has a core system, a repository for other packages and an aur area where everyone can publish ‘recipes’ for building packages.
The packages are bleeding edge so there is often no need for using git-versions in aur or creating your own ‘recipes’.
Compatibility issues are easy to solve with a partial downgrade until a fix is introduced.
And multiple versions of programs can installed if you use another root.
I must say that I don’t find the idea of bundles really appealing.
And I don’t agree either with the fact that distros are here to ease the packagers’ work at the expense of the end user.
Coherent distributions are totally suited for OpenSource stuff.
Library versioning (done by the upstream developers) allows for distributions to keep different versions of the same libraries when different dependencies require different versions (on Gentoo they call it slots).
Nevertheless, some library upgrades will cause dependency breakage; this is normal, yet mostly exceptional.
Distributions handle the worst breakages by:
– using a “dist-upgrade” system, for binary distros : it fits well with release cycles
– “revdep-rebuild” for source distros
Source-based distributions are at advantage because they can dare to do stuff like installing python/perl/… extensions for multiple interpreter versions at once.
AFAICT the technical problems all have solutions, it must be that they’re not implemented to preserve existing infrastructures (distro limitations).
While disk space is cheap, I don’t like the idea of having a number of copies of shared libraries proportional to the number of end packages.
Usually, upstream focuses on 1 or two library versions, others are unmaintained.
So you’d end up with having the same libs anyway, because you probably don’t want to use unmaintained software or to maintain it yourself (-> binary updates).
IMHO bundles should remain exceptional, for the typical proprietary software (acroread, matlab, …) with a lot of deps and which can’t afford to support every setup out there.
But for Free software, it does not help anybody.
I don’t remember which one but I heard of an experimental distro which is bundle-based.
Maybe you should try it and see what you think of it ?
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Very interesting post. The idea of app bundles on Linux has been tried many times, but so far no concept has really taken off (do Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse explicitly support any of the existing bundling systems?). Well, I hope one day an approach will be made which does take off, because there are some use cases where package managers don’t offer a solution yet, and where bundles might be much better suited.
For that reason, is there any complete and honest comparison between pros and cons of package managers and bundles? I would imagine that future distributions might use a combination of both systems, but to find the right balance it would be important to identify the cases where bundles shine and package managers suck, and vice versa.
Btw. it would be amazing if RHEL5 had some bundle system… It’s a real PITA having to compile all new software from source, including all required libraries… Funny thing is, even the existing bundling systems don’t quite work because the bundles usually require new freetype, new fontconfig, new libpng… rather than shipping these libs inside the bundles. Thinking of it, maybe RHEL5 is an interesting hard test case for the real-life viability of bundling systems
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So, instead of focusing on the proposed solution, this is how I actually see the problem. Libraries/files being replaced “underneath” running applications is the main issue. Secondary issue is the way third party apps can be installed.
For the first issue, what we may want is for distributions to include something like filesystem snapshotting before any software upgrade (in default installations), and continuing to use that snapshot while upgrades are in progress and apps are not restarted. This approach would not harm security of the system as long as you restart affected applications (but that’s not forced today either).
Static compiling has been very popular with application vendors for quite some time, but not so much in the recent past because it seems they have gotten better at packaging, or packaging has gotten easier. Bundles are basically the same thing, so I don’t see a win there. Improving packaging tools to enable easier parallel installs would also help here for when some application needs a more recent version of a library.
Bundles are repeatedly tried over and over again, and the benefits never seem to outweight the drawbacks. Also, there is ROX Desktop “Zero Install” approach as well: did you have a chance to look at that?
Danilo: Files being replaced underneath running apps is not the only problem. I list several others.
Also, snapshotting like that is problematic. It can ensure that nothing sees the update until its fully baked, yes, but that only delays the problem. At some point you replace under running applications, or you have to restart all applications.
Static linking has many problems that dynamic linking solves, so, even if you’re bundling you do want to use dynamic linking.
But just imagine someone packaging a picture viewer and is also including a library parsing image files. A user is installing this. Then a exploit comes out for the library. The library is fixed – but the picture viewer is still using the old version if it is not repackeged!
So I just have to say that I don’t like the approach.
This is really great, but what happened to the idea of integrating policykit in gvfs? If you want to install a program on the whole system this way you’ll have to get root privileges, which is best implemented with policykit. Is the GNOME-project afraid that too many users will screw up their system?
Jean-Philippe: No such reason, its the old not-enough-time one…
Nice idea, Linux needs this. Not every new Linux user knows how to use the command line.
This is a very good idea!
Very good for making Linux more appealing to noise or less savvy users.
Like many has already mentioned; dependency management, etc are areas of concern. I think it should really plug back into the distributions package management. The bundle really should only be like a portable version of the application. Run it, have go; if you like it, copy the file into the Apps folder or right click and select install, which will hint the package manager to install the bundle from repo ( if available ) or take care of dependencies, as much as possible.
My real concern; those who would get attracted by such simplicity might not be savvy enough to understand security issues, dependency, etc. That is one of the reasons why I would prefer it tying into the package management.
The key is the amount of meta information that can be packed into the bundle to make it work nicely with the package manager.
**noise; i meant novice. Sorry
Things usually only break badly when the breakage is in the “platform” part, which is when your approach doesn’t help at all.
Plus, these kind of problems tend to only surface over time and scale. With a dozen packages or bundles, everything will be fine. Once you have some 10000 packages, there will always be something broken there; not necessarily because the underlying system is bad, but just because users and developers make errors.
There are reasons why autopackage for example failed. AFAIK it seems pretty similar to your glick.
Let me give you another side of the story. Think about security. A library, say, libpng, libz (because they are historical good examples) or Lua (because it is often embedded even as source code) has a security error. With a traditional linux distribution, such a thing is easy to fix. With Glick, I need to check all my bundles and fix all of them. Whoa. Maintainance hell.
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really amazing
I’m using this features from 2007 with something called SpatialBundles here:
and it worked out of the box like glick, there are tons of App examples all wrapped using POSIX shell
I think this is the future, I own also an iMac and bundles are really usable.
Hope you the best,
rock on
Not sure about the scalability of the concept, and some of the core concepts are good enough to see doubtful faces. Still love to check when its ready
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OMG! That’s really silly!
Nice! Been looking for this one!
What you’re thinking of makes sense, however bundle packages have their own drawbacks. I suggest you to read a bit how NixOS[1] and especially it’s package manager works.
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Currently there are not many packages but you can do all you wish with it.
– downgrades are easily done
– packages can be installed by normal users
– you can have multiple version of the same library or the same program without using static linking.
– and much more…
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I'm very confused as to why this isn't working. Here's my code:n = [3, 5, 7]
def list_extender(lst): n.append(9) return lst
print list_extender(n)
I'm getting this error:Oops, try again. list_extender([1, 2, 3, 4]) returned [1, 2, 3, 4] instead of [1, 2, 3, 4, 9]
but on the console it's printing [3, 5, 7, 9]None
It seems like I've done everything correctly?
Hi instead of n.append(9) Try that lst.append(9)
n.append(9)
lst.append(9)
That worked, but I don't get why. Aren't I supposed to be appending n not lst? How does it know to add 9 to n when I tell it to append lst?
Thanks!
I think that its because the function list_extender append the number 9 and then when we call it with the the n list Its add the number 9
function list_extender
n list
'lst' is an example list which stands for any list that the function could receive. You give it a list when you call it ( e.g. list_extender(n) ). The function basically 'replaces' the example list with the list you've given it and does with it what you have programmed it to do (append 9). Hope this helps
I think I'm getting it, many thanks to you and wizmarco.
hi, i tried the same code with the modification that wizmarco has suggested, but the error message i get is:File "python", line 5SyntaxError: 'return' outside function
Hi can you post your code ?
here how to formate your code
(n = [3, 5, 7]
def list_extender(lst): lst.append(9)return lst
print list_extender(n))
Hi it should be like that with the right indent
n = [3, 5, 7]
#Add your function here
def list_extender(lst):
lst.append(9)
return lst
print list_extender(n)
and here
remove one ) after (n)
thx srry to put u through the trouble, I also solved it earlier than your reply but it helps just to know that there is a slightly different answer but srry again for not noticing your reply and once again thank you
n = [3, 5, 7]def list_extender(lst):# Add your function here lst.append(9) return lst
you have a list n[3,5,7] and print list_extender(n) this will print the List n.then the function you define will add 9 at the end of any list, if you CHANGE the "return lst" to "RETURN n" look what will give you and try to anderstand why!!!
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This Sage quickstart tutorial was developed for the MAA PREP Workshop “Sage: Using Open-Source Mathematics Software with Undergraduates” (funding provided by NSF DUE 0817071).
Invaluable resources are the Sage wiki (type “sage interact” into Google), (a collection of contributed interacts), and the interact documentation.
How would one create an interactive cell? First, let’s focus on a new thing to do! Perhaps we just want a graph plotter that has some options.
So let’s start by getting the commands for what you want the output to look like. Here we just want a simple plot.
sage: plot(x^2,(x,-3,3))
Then abstract out the parts you want to change. We’ll be letting the user change the function, so let’s make that a variable f.
sage: f=x^3 sage: plot(f,(x,-3,3))
This was important because it allowed you to step back and think about what you would really be doing.
Now for the technical part. We make this a def function - see the programming tutorial.
sage: def myplot(f=x^2): ... show(plot(f,(x,-3,3)))
Let’s test the def function myplot by just calling it.
sage: myplot()
If we call it with a different value for f, we should get a different plot.
sage: myplot(x^3)
So far, we’ve only defined a new function, so this was review. To make a “control” to allow the user to interactively enter the function, we just preface the function with @interact.
sage: @interact sage: def myplot(f=x^2): ... show(plot(f,(x,-3,3)))
Note
Technically what @interact does is wrap the function, so the above is equivalent to:
def myplot(..): ... myplot=interact(myplot)
Note that we can still call our function, even when we’ve used @interact. This is often useful in debugging it.
sage: myplot(x^4)
We can go ahead and replace other parts of the expression with variables. Note that _ is the function name now. That is a just convention for throw-away names that we don’t care about.
sage: @interact sage: def _(f=x^2, a=-3, b=3): ... show(plot(f,(x,a,b)))
If we pass ('label', default_value) in for a control, then the control gets the label when printed. Here, we’ve put in some text for all three of them. Remember that the text must be in quotes! Otherwise Sage will think that you are referring (for example) to some variable called “lower”, which it will think you forgot to define.
sage: @interact sage: def _(f=('$f$', x^2), a=('lower', -3), b=('upper', 3)): ... show(plot(f,(x,a,b)))
We can specify the type of control explicitly, along with options. See below for more detail on the possibilities.
sage: @interact sage: def _(f=input_box(x^2, width=20, label="$f$")): ... show(plot(f,(x,-3,3)))
Here we demonstrate a bunch of options. Notice the new controls:
sage: @interact sage: def _(f=input_box(x^2,width=20), ... color=color_selector(widget='colorpicker', label=""), ... axes=True, ... fill=True, ... zoom=range_slider(-3,3,default=(-3,3))): ... show(plot(f,(x,zoom[0], zoom[1]), color=color, axes=axes,fill=fill))
There is also one button type to disable automatic updates.
The previous interact was a bit ugly, because all of the controls were stacked on top of each other. We can control the layout of the widget controls in a grid (at the top, bottom, left, or right) using the layout parameter.
sage: @interact(layout=dict(top=[['f', 'color']], ... left=[['axes'],['fill']], ... bottom=[['zoom']])) sage: def _(f=input_box(x^2,width=20), ... color=color_selector(widget='colorpicker', label=""), ... axes=True, ... fill=True, ... zoom=range_slider(-3,3, default=(-3,3))): ... show(plot(f,(x,zoom[0], zoom[1]), color=color, axes=axes,fill=fill))
There are many potential types of widgets one might want to use for interactive control. Sage has all of the following:
We illustrate some more of these below. For complete detail, see the official interact documentation.
sage: @interact sage: def _(frame=checkbox(True, label='Use frame')): ... show(plot(sin(x), (x,-5,5)), frame=frame)
sage: var('x,y') sage: colormaps=sage.plot.colors.colormaps.keys() sage: @interact sage: def _(cmap=selector(colormaps)): ... contour_plot(x^2-y^2,(x,-2,2),(y,-2,2),cmap=cmap).show()
sage: var('x,y') sage: colormaps=sage.plot.colors.colormaps.keys() sage: @interact sage: def _(cmap=selector(['RdBu', 'jet', 'gray','gray_r'],buttons=True), sage: type=['density','contour']): ... if type=='contour': ... contour_plot(x^2-y^2,(x,-2,2),(y,-2,2),cmap=cmap, aspect_ratio=1).show() ... else: ... density_plot(x^2-y^2,(x,-2,2),(y,-2,2),cmap=cmap, frame=True,axes=False,aspect_ratio=1).show()
By default, ranges are sliders that divide the range into 50 steps.
sage: @interact sage: def _(n=(1,20)): ... print factorial(n)
You can set the step size to get, for example, just integer values.
sage: @interact sage: def _(n=slider(1,20, step_size=1)): ... print factorial(n)
Or you can explicitly specify the slider values.
sage: @interact sage: def _(n=slider([1..20])): ... print factorial(n)
And the slider values don’t even have to be numbers!
sage: @interact sage: def _(fun=('function', slider([sin,cos,tan,sec,csc,cot]))): ... print fun(4.39293)
Matrices are automatically converted to a grid of input boxes.
sage: @interact sage: def _(m=('matrix', identity_matrix(2))): ... print m.eigenvalues()
Here’s how to get vectors from a grid of boxes.
sage: @interact sage: def _(v=('vector', input_grid(1, 3, default=[[1,2,3]], to_value=lambda x: vector(flatten(x))))): ... print v.norm()
As a final problem, what happens when the controls get so complicated that it would counterproductive to see the interact update for each of the changes one wants to make? Think changing the endpoints and order of integration for a triple integral, for instance, or the example below where a whole matrix might be changed.
In this situation, where we don’t want any updates until we specifically say so, we can use the auto_update=False option. This will create a button to enable the user to update as soon as he or she is ready.
sage: @interact sage: def _(m=('matrix', identity_matrix(2)), auto_update=False): ... print m.eigenvalues() | http://sagemath.org/doc/prep/Quickstarts/Interact.html | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | refinedweb | 1,061 | 58.99 |
My program is supposed to read input ( a student ID and then a score, separated by a space) from a user named file, store that data in a struct, and compute the average of all the scores. If the student's score is 10 points above or below the average, then the string Satisfactory is supposed to store in gradeString. If the score is more than 10 points above the average, then the string outstanding should be stored in gradeString, and if the students' score is more than 10 points below average then unsatisfactory should be stored in gradeString. Then another function prints out the ID, the score, and the gradeString. My problem is that the score does not seem to be read properly. When I run the program, the score shows up for every student as -10 and the gradeString that is printed is Satisfactory. First of all, I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong as far as reading in the score. Isn't the white space between the ID and score skipped and the next input read from the next character?
I checked the average by doing cout in that function, and that looks like it is calculated correctly. So I am not sure why every gradeString is not stored as unsatisfactory since all the scores are -10 which is definitely lower than 'more than 10 points below the average'.
Here is my code. If you could help me figure out where I went wrong, I would greatly appreciate it.
Code:/* The format of the input data file is multiple lines, each containing an ID number followed by a score: 12345 90 23456 100 31245 66 ...... */ /* The program structure is as follows: main openInputFile populateArrayOfStructures computeAverage populateGradeField printTable */ #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <fstream> #include <iomanip> using namespace std; struct StudentData { int id; int score; string gradeString; }; const int MAX_SIZE = 21; // size of array const bool DEBUG = true; // used during testing //const bool DEBUG = false; // used during production void populateArrayOfStructures (ifstream& ins, StudentData data[], int& count, bool& tooMany); float computeAverage (StudentData data[], int count); void printTable (StudentData data[], int count); void populateGradeField (StudentData data[], int count, float average); void openInputFile (ifstream& ins); void main() { ifstream ins; StudentData data[MAX_SIZE]; int count; bool tooMany; openInputFile(ins); populateArrayOfStructures (ins, data, count,tooMany); if (count <= 0) { cout << "No items read from file" << endl; cout << "Exiting program." << endl; exit(0); } if (DEBUG) { cout << "Items read from file:" << count << endl; cout << "Value of tooMany: " << tooMany << endl; } if (tooMany) { cout <<"There are more than " << MAX_SIZE << " items in file." << endl; } if (DEBUG) cout << "Processing " << count << " items from the input file." << endl; printTable (data, count); } /* This function uses a loop to populate the id and score fields of the array. It then calls computeAverage to get the average score and then calls populateGradeField to populate the gradeString fields in the array. The function also calculates and places values in the count and tooMany OUT parameters. */ void populateArrayOfStructures (ifstream& ins, StudentData data[], int& count, bool& tooMany) { float average = 0; count = 0; for (int i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { ins >> data[i].id >> data[i].score; count++; } if (DEBUG) { cout << "count:" << count << endl; } computeAverage(data, count); populateGradeField(data, count, average); if (count > MAX_SIZE) { tooMany = true; } } /* This function simply displays the data in the array of structures on the screen. */ void printTable (StudentData data [], int count) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { cout << data[i].id << ' ' << data[i].score << ' ' << data[i].gradeString << '\n'; } } /* This function compares the average with each score in the array and populates the gradeString fields in the array. */ void populateGradeField (StudentData data[], int count, float average) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { if ((data[i].score = (int(average) - 10)) || (data[i].score = (int(average)+ 10))) { data[i].gradeString = "Satisfactory"; } if ((data[i].score > (int(average) + 10))) { data[i].gradeString = "Oustanding"; } if ((data[i].score < (int(average) - 10))) { data[i].gradeString = "Unsatisfactory"; } } } /* Based on the scores in the array, this function calculates and returns the average */ float computeAverage (StudentData data[], int count) { int sum = 0; float average = 0; for (int i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { sum += data[i].score; } average = float(sum) / float (count); if (DEBUG) { cout << "average:" << average << endl; } return average; } /* This function prompts the user for the input file name and then attempts to open that file. If the file cannot be opened the function displays a message and terminates the program. */ void openInputFile (ifstream& ins) { string fileName; cout << "Enter name of the first input file" << endl; cin >> fileName; ins.open (fileName.c_str()); if (ins.fail()) { cout << "Could not open file " << fileName << endl; cout << "Exiting program." << endl; exit (0); } } | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/93919-incorrect-valules-displaying-struct-member.html | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | refinedweb | 769 | 60.04 |
SDL:Tutorials:Using SDL with OpenGL
Using SDL with OpenGL
Prerequistes:
- Knowledge of SDL
- Knowledge of C
- Knowledge of OpenGL
- Read and understood Displaying a Bitmap With SDL
How To Include
Before using SDL's and OpenGL's functions, we first need to include the appropriate headers. SDL provides a header that makes this very easy:
#include "SDL.h" #include "SDL_opengl.h"
You should recognize what SDL.h is for already. SDL_opengl.h, however, will include all of the headers required by a specific platform needed to use OpenGL. When compiling on Windows, for instance, SDL_opengl.h will include <windows.h> before GL/gl.h and GL/glu.h to avoid errors.
How To Initialize SDL with OpenGL
SDL with OpenGL is slightly different from regular SDL initialization:
if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0 ) { printf("Unable to initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); return 1; } SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1 ); // *new* SDL_Surface* screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( 640, 480, 16, SDL_OPENGL | SDL_FULLSCREEN ); // *changed*
Notice the new line, SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1 ); (enables double buffering with OpenGL), and the new initialization flag, SDL_OPENGL (this is what tells SDL to use OpenGL).
Note: DO NOT use the initialization flag SDL_OPENGLBLIT! It is only there for backwards compatibility.
How To Set the OpenGL State
This tutorial will only cover how to set OpenGL for drawing in two dimensions. For three dimensions, see other tutorials. Keep in mind that every call to SDL_SetVideoMode destroys the OpenGL state, and therefore the OpenGL state needs to be set again.
Note: Even textures need to be loaded again after the OpenGL state is destroyed.
glEnable( GL_TEXTURE_2D ); glClearColor( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ); glViewport( 0, 0, 640, 480 ); glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT ); glMatrixMode( GL_PROJECTION ); glLoadIdentity(); glOrtho(0.0f, 640, 480, 0.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f); glMatrixMode( GL_MODELVIEW ); glLoadIdentity();
This sets the clear color to black, sets the viewport, creates an orthogonal projection matrix, and sets the matrix back to modelview. These OpenGL states have nothing to do with SDL, or using SDL with OpenGL. They are purely OpenGL.
How To Load an OpenGL Texture from an SDL_Surface
We'll create an OpenGL texture using information SDL can provide us about a image using the SDL_Surface structure:
GLuint texture; // This is a handle to our texture object SDL_Surface *surface; // This surface will tell us the details of the image GLenum texture_format; GLint nOfColors; if ( (surface = SDL_LoadBMP("image.bmp")) ) { // Check that the image's width is a power of 2 if ( (surface->w & (surface->w - 1)) != 0 ) { printf("warning: image.bmp's width is not a power of 2\n"); } // Also check if the height is a power of 2 if ( (surface->h & (surface->h - 1)) != 0 ) { printf("warning: image.bmp's height is not a power of 2\n"); } // get the number of channels in the SDL surface nOfColors = surface->format->BytesPerPixel; if (nOfColors == 4) // contains an alpha channel { if (surface->format->Rmask == 0x000000ff) texture_format = GL_RGBA; else texture_format = GL_BGRA; } else if (nOfColors == 3) // no alpha channel { if (surface->format->Rmask == 0x000000ff) texture_format = GL_RGB; else texture_format = GL_BGR; } else { printf("warning: the image is not truecolor.. this will probably break\n"); // this error should not go unhandled } // Have OpenGL generate a texture object handle for us, nOfColors, surface->w, surface->h, 0, texture_format, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, surface->pixels ); } else { printf("SDL could not load image.bmp: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); SDL_Quit(); return 1; } // Free the SDL_Surface only if it was successfully created if ( surface ) { SDL_FreeSurface( surface ); }
This is standard texture creation with OpenGL. If you do not understand how this works, you should read about OpenGL Textures. SDL_LoadBMP returns a SDL_Surface that stores the pixels as RGB. This is why GL_RGB is used when creating the texture.
How To Draw with OpenGL
Again, using OpenGL to draw a texture on the screen has nothing to do with SDL, but I'll include it just for the sake of making this tutorial more complete. We'll draw the image by texturing a polygon:
// Bind the texture to which subsequent calls refer to glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture ); glBegin( GL_QUADS ); //Bottom-left vertex (corner) glTexCoord2i( 0, 0 ); glVertex3f( 100.f, 100.f, 0.0f ); //Bottom-right vertex (corner) glTexCoord2i( 1, 0 ); glVertex3f( 228.f, 100.f, 0.f ); //Top-right vertex (corner) glTexCoord2i( 1, 1 ); glVertex3f( 228.f, 228.f, 0.f ); //Top-left vertex (corner) glTexCoord2i( 0, 1 ); glVertex3f( 100.f, 228.f, 0.f ); glEnd();
Make sure that two-dimensional texturing is enabled using the glEnable( GL_TEXTURE_2D ); function. Since we enabled this while creating the OpenGL state, there's no need to call it again.
How To Flip Buffers
When using OpenGL with SDL the screen buffer may be flipped with the following function:
SDL_GL_SwapBuffers();
How To Delete a Texture
Delete the OpenGL texture once we're finished with it:
glDeleteTextures( 1, &texture );
Source Code
Download the source code (sdl_ogl.zip contents: image.bmp, LICENSE.TXT, sdl_ogl.c)
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When I create a Mac Cocoa app there are 2 WebKit View controls available for use:
When "connecting" the legacy control to ViewControl.h, #import <WebKit/WebKit.h> needs to be added to the file.
However, when I connect a WKWebView control there is a red alert of "Unknown type name".
On iOS > User Interface > Controls > Web Views > Disambiguating iOS web view options page, I found this statement:
"WKWebView can also be used within Xamarin.Mac apps, and you therefore may want to consider using it if you are creating a cross-platform Mac/iOS app."
However, since there is no Cocoa template yet available for a Multiplatform Xamarin Forms app, one uses the work around to manually install the Xamarin Forms package into a Cocoa Mac App, but still no WKWebView. I notice that if one has both "using Xamarin.Forms;" AND "using WebKit;" the WebView type is ambiguous and WKWebView type could not be found.
Is there, where is, c# (Mono/Xamarin) support for the Xcode WKWebView control for a Mac app?
Sorry I was unclear. The opposite is true. As you can see from:
$ monop -r:/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Mac.framework/Versions/Current/lib/mono/Xamarin.Mac/Xamarin.Mac.dll | grep WKWebView WebKit.WKWebView
We very much have WKWebView bound.
If you having trouble using it in C#, you can refer to it as WebKit.WKWebView, as I think you are running into a conflict w\ Xamarin.Forms which has a similar named class.
Answers
So as you found, there are two web views APIs on macOS:
The "original" full featured API:
And a "cross platform" more limited API that works on iOS:
both of them from Apple.
We bound both of them in the WebKit namespace.
I believe the "the WebView type is ambiguous and WKWebView type could not be found." issue you are running into is a namespace conflict between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Mac, as they both have a WebView class.
You can just fully specific it (WebKit.WebView) if you want the Xamarin.Mac version (or use the forms namespace fully specified).
Thank you for your response. So, the implication of your answer is neither Mac WebKit space currently contains a type definition for WKWebView for Mac.
When there is a Multiplatform Xamarin Forms Mac app template in the future, will it contain the type definition for WKWebView as there is now for iOS? (To satisfy the currently published statement "WKWebView can also be used within Xamarin.Mac apps ...") Basically WKWebView cannot be used in a Mac app as of this writing, but will it be available sometime soon?
Sorry I was unclear. The opposite is true. As you can see from:
We very much have WKWebView bound.
If you having trouble using it in C#, you can refer to it as WebKit.WKWebView, as I think you are running into a conflict w\ Xamarin.Forms which has a similar named class.
OK, great! Only with your confirmation was I able to get past the red alerts in Xcode to discover that the WKWebView control is in fact defined in ViewController.designer.cs and "using WebKit" added the type definition I needed.
I got stumped when I encountered the "unknown type name" in Xcode not realizing the control would still be defined in the Mac app AND that I should use WebKit. (I think I wandered into Xamarin Forms because that is where WKWebView seemed to used for iOS, not sure, and thus made the leap into Xamarin Forms for Mac.)
I m guessing there is not much of a use case for adding the WKWebView type definition to a #import for the ViewController.h file.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
I'm having the same issue. I'm working on a Xamarin.Forms app with a WebView and in MacOS custom rendered. I think by default it is using WebKit.WebView.
I couldn't find WebKit.WebView in Visual Studio for Mac, but now I see the class.
I'm having issues loading a local web app (with), but this app works OK in Safari browser. I think that maybe WebKit.WKWebView behaves as Safari does and it's what I need. ¿It's that true?
¿How could I change it to use WebKit.WKWebView in custom rendered? Thanks.
@joseluisct You've commented on a thread from last year and with what at first glance is an unrelated issue. Consider creating a new thread. | https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/296936/ | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | refinedweb | 746 | 67.65 |
No, emulated serial is for program downloads only. If you look at all the other 'Serial + ...' options in usb_desc.h you'll see they implement CDC in place of SEREMU.
Compare 'MIDI' to 'Serial + MIDI' as an example. Open the basic Arduino example sketch 'AnalogReadSerial'. The serial monitor only works if you select 'Serial + MIDI'. It doesn't for 'MIDI'. At least not on my PC with a Teensy 3.6. You can see in Windows device monitor that the com port is only there for 'Serial + MIDI'.
Then look into 'usb_desc.h' and you'll see that 'MIDI' implements emulated serial while 'Serial + MIDI' implements CDC. More details in my other post.
Hopefully Paul can correct any errors in my explanation...
Regards, Ian
No need to bother Paul.
The "emulated serial" is a simpler and non-standard (I think) usb serial port implementation. It still works with the serial monitor, but will not show up as a CDC device. (Because it's not.)
If it doesn't work on your machine, that's a bug.
Possibly 'emulated' just works in the Arduino IDE serial monitor, then?
I needed a real COM port to communicate with a Windows program, hence adding CDC to the MTP example.
Regards, Ian
Will this only work with 3.6 or will it work with the 3.2?
Great work!
Is there a way to signal the usb host that an object on the sd card was added, deleted or renamed? I know the mtp specification mentions events to do this, but i have no idea how to implement this.
best regards, Thorvard
After some reading and fiddling i found this solution:
I changed in usb_desc.h following line when "MTP_EVENT_ENDPOINT" is defined as 4:
Code:// #define ENDPOINT4_CONFIG ENDPOINT_RECEIVE_ONLY #define ENDPOINT4_CONFIG ENDPOINT_TRANSMIT_AND_RECEIVEI hope this helps others using this great library with mtp events.I hope this helps others using this great library with mtp events.Code:uint32_t eventID = 1; void sendEvent(int event, uint32_t param) { usb_packet_t *eventBuffer; eventBuffer = usb_malloc(); eventBuffer->len = 16; eventBuffer->index = 0; eventBuffer->next = NULL; MTPContainer eventContainer; eventContainer.len = 16; // maximum length for an event container eventContainer.type = 4; // Type: Event eventContainer.op = event; // event code /* the event codes must be included in WriteDescriptor() * otherwise the responder just ignores the event code */ eventContainer.transaction_id = eventID++; eventContainer.params[0] = param; memcpy(eventBuffer->buf, (char*)&eventContainer, 16); usb_tx(MTP_EVENT_ENDPOINT, eventBuffer); /* the MTP_EVENT_ENDPOINT must be defined as * "ENDPOINT_TRANSMIT_AND_RECEIVE" in * ...\hardware\teensy\avr\cores\teensy3\usb_desc.h */ get_buffer(); usb_tx(MTP_EVENT_ENDPOINT, data_buffer_); // send empty packet to finish transaction data_buffer_ = NULL; }
best regards, Thorvard
Sorry for delay, it took time to reinstall, read the forum, update and test again.
I have updated the MTP into, with comments for Teensyduino 1.39.
I have also created an example that call mtpd.loop() only when SD card is present. The example also demonstrate to use Serial port.
The original systick_isr() is removed from the example as it conflicts with the non-weak systick_isr() used by thread library. I did not want to use delay(), so I made use of RTC second timer interrupt, i.e., rtc_seconds_isr().
repeating mtp.loop() while millis()<2000 , e.t.c.
and if USB established, continue loop
and I found that MTP+Serial doesn't compile with snooze library, though deep sleep and MTP is not commonly used together, and easily overcome
with commenting out the error part in snooze library
You have to check if inserting SD card would cause the K64 to wake up.
There is a thread library, perhaps can try to run two threads, one is to serve MTG, another is to run other tasks.
I think I will add another examples, to write data to the SD periodically. If a file is opened, the on-board LED is turned on, indicating to user not to remove the card.
Thank you,
My SD is planned to place constantly.
And MTP is the main access port
And now I plan to use the second USB port on T3.6, So the USB plug can be place at preferred location
Anyone know if the MTP library suits the
Other port? Thanks.
There is a severe bug somewhere in the code.
When copying a file with a filename of 24 characters length the teensy hangs. This happens with the blinky example on github, i reported this issue on github.
This seems to work very well for my purpose, so thanks for the contribution.
Is there any way to make the device be MTP + Midi? Thanks.
I tried messing around with the usb desc in a way that seemed like it should be working (by copying the MTP description into a new board type and adding it to boards.txt) but no joy. Probably missing something. If anyone has it working, I'd love to see their desc. Thanks!
And... sorry for the multiple posts. I did get it working as a separate device using the basic MTP example sketch, but since I am also using the SD library there were some conflicts with MTP's use of SDFat which I may try to debug later.
If anyone else arrives here and is struggling:
boards.txt added:
teensy36.menu.usb.serialmidimtp=Serial + MIDI + MTP Disk (experimental)
teensy36.menu.usb.serialmidimtp.build.usbtype=USB_ MIDI_MTPDISK_SERIAL
usb_desc.h added:
#elif defined(USB_MIDI_MTPDISK_SERIAL)
#define VENDOR_ID 0x16C0
#define PRODUCT_ID 0x04E0
#define MANUFACTURER_NAME {'T','e','e','n','s','y','d','u','i','n','o'}
#define MANUFACTURER_NAME_LEN 11
#define PRODUCT_NAME {'T','e','e','n','s','y',' ','M','I','D','I'}
#define PRODUCT_NAME_LEN 11
#define EP0_SIZE 64
#define NUM_ENDPOINTS 7
#define NUM_USB_BUFFERS 40
#define NUM_INTERFACE 4
#define CDC_IAD_DESCRIPTOR 1
#define CDC_STATUS_INTERFACE 0
#define CDC_DATA_INTERFACE 1 // Serial
#define CDC_ACM_ENDPOINT 1
#define CDC_RX_ENDPOINT 2
#define CDC_TX_ENDPOINT 3
#define CDC_ACM_SIZE 16
#define CDC_RX_SIZE 64
#define CDC_TX_SIZE 64
#define MIDI_INTERFACE 2 // MIDI
#define MIDI_TX_ENDPOINT 4
#define MIDI_TX_SIZE 64
#define MIDI_RX_ENDPOINT 5
#define MIDI_RX_SIZE 64
#define MTP_INTERFACE 3 // MTP Disk
#define MTP_TX_ENDPOINT 6
#define MTP_TX_SIZE 64
#define MTP_RX_ENDPOINT 6
#define MTP_RX_SIZE 64
#define MTP_EVENT_ENDPOINT 7
#define MTP_EVENT_SIZE 16
#define MTP_EVENT_INTERVAL 10
#define ENDPOINT1_CONFIG ENDPOINT_TRANSIMIT_ONLY
#define ENDPOINT2_CONFIG ENDPOINT_RECEIVE_ONLY
#define ENDPOINT3_CONFIG ENDPOINT_TRANSIMIT_ONLY
#define ENDPOINT4_CONFIG ENDPOINT_TRANSIMIT_ONLY
#define ENDPOINT5_CONFIG ENDPOINT_RECEIVE_ONLY
#define ENDPOINT6_CONFIG ENDPOINT_TRANSMIT_AND_RECEIVE
#define ENDPOINT7_CONFIG ENDPOINT_RECEIVE_ONLY
@yoonghm
I looked into your git and read the instructions but there is missing. >> MISSING??
I made a pull request to fix it:
@alialiali
I tried to compile MTP_Blinky.ino with no errors but when i load it on teensy 3.5 it blinks but no MTP Drive visible it only shows yellow usb composite drive on Device Manager.. but when i try the original MTP.ino from hubbe it works and it shows the MTP Drive.
What am I missing?? Please Help
@alialiali
Wow..Then Does it Actually shows MTP Drive on ur PC using MTP_Blinky.ino?
Can you teach me how you make it work ?? Please
Last edited by obiwan45; 12-29-2017 at 11:26 AM.
Not Working to me It shows only Yellow USB Composite Device in Device Manager. I am using Teensy 3.5
/*
This example demonstrates MTP with blinky using systick interrupt.
This example tests MTP and SdFat
*/
#include <MTP.h>
MTPStorage_SD storage;
MTPD mtpd(&storage);
volatile int status = 0;
volatile bool sdfound = 0;
volatile int count = 1;
void rtc_seconds_isr() {
if (count-- == 0) {
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, status);
Serial.println("I should be commented out");
status = !status;
if (sdfound)
count = 2;
else
count = 1;
}
}
void setup() {
Serial.begin(19200);
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
RTC_IER |= 0x10; // Enable seconds IRQ from RTC peripheral
NVIC_ENABLE_IRQ(IRQ_RTC_SECOND); // Enable seconds IRS function in NVIC
}
void loop() {
if (SD.begin()) {
sdfound = true;
mtpd.loop();
}
else {
sdfound = false;
}
}
I'm not really sure exactly how it works, and actually I stopped using it myself. I am using 3.6. Sorry again I can't be more helpful. | https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/43050-MTP-Responder-Contribution?s=cf25aca0b1d957c02f7d6134927cb743&p=145948 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | refinedweb | 1,287 | 57.67 |
/* ** (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995. ** Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH. */
In addition top the basic W3C Sample Code Library WWWLib interface you may include the other interfaces depending on the needs of your application. However, it is not required and none of the files included below are ever used in the core part of the Library itself. Only if this file is included, the extra modules will get included in the linked object code. It is also possible to include only a subset of the files below if the functionality you are after is covered by them. This interface contains many application specific features including a set of default BEFORE and AFTER filters.
#ifndef WWWAPP_H #define WWWAPP core part of libwww only provides the hooks for the event manager. There is no event loop internal to the core part. Instead the application must provide the event loop in order to use either pseudo threads or real threads. If the application only uses blocking sockets without threads then it is not required to register any event loop at all. We provide a default implementation of an event loop which you can either take or get some ideas from.
#include "HTEvtLst.h"
This module provides some "make life easier" functions in order to get the application going. They help you generate the first anchor, also called the home anchor. It also contains a nice set of default WWW addresses.
#include "HTHome.h"
You can register a set of callback functions to handle user prompting, error messages, confimations etc. Here we give a set of functions that can be used on almost anu thinkable platform. If you want to provide your own platform dependent implementation then fine :-)
#include "HTDialog.h"
Even though you may use the API for the HTRequest object directly in order to issue a request, you will probably find that in real life it is easier to use a higher level abstraction API. This API is provided by the HTAccess module where you will find all kind of functions for down loading a URL etc.
#include "HTAccess.h"
Another way to initialize applications is to use a rule file, also known as a configuration file. This is for example the case with the W3C httpd and the W3C Line Mode Browser. This module provides basic support for configuration file management and the application can use this is desired. The module is not referred to by the Library. Reading a rule file is implemented as a stream converter so that a rule file can come from anywhere, even across the network!
#include "HTRules.h"
Applications.
#include "HTProxy.h"
Before a request has been issued and after it has terminated the application often has to do some action as a result of the request (and of the result of the request). The Client Profile Interface Library provides a set of standard BEFORE and AFTER filters to handle caching, redirection, authentication, logging etc.
#include "HTFilter.h"
Often it is required to log the requests issued to the Library. This can either be the case if the application is a server or it can also be useful in a client application. This module provides a simple logging mechanism which can be enabled if needed. See also the SQL based logging module.
#include "HTLog.h"
Another type of logging is keeping track of which documents a user has visited when browsing along on the Web. The Library history manager provides a basic set of functionality to keep track of a linear history list.
#include "HTHist.h"
End of application specific modules
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17983/how-to-implement-hashmaps-in-python
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or:
streetno = {}
streetno["1"] = "Sachine Tendulkar"
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20 April 2009 15:52 [Source: ICIS news]By John Richardson
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--A polyolefins trader had a Joseph Kennedy moment the week before last.
If you recall the famous story, this was when the father of John F and Robert Kennedy was given stock tips by a shoe-shine boy, rushed out and sold his shares just in time to avoid the Wall Street Crash.
“I knew something was very wrong because a customer in ?xml:namespace>
“It was obvious this was for speculation as there is no way demand could be strong enough in
He then received another call, this time from a Chinese chemicals trader who had never dealt in polyolefins before.
“And it showed, as he knew nothing about melt indices, the product or its applications but wanted to buy a cargo on behalf of a friend of a friend.
“I could hear the sound of the herd stampeding towards the edge of the cliff and so I liquidated all my big positions.”
It remains to be seen whether the trader will be proved right because despite a slight softening in Chinese PE and polypropylene (PP) domestic markets late last week, import prices remained unchanged.
Flat-yarn raffia grade PP prices slipped by yuan (CNY) 450/tonne ($66/tonne), for example, to CNY9,000-9,500 ex-warehouse, according to the ICIS-Chemease report.
Import prices for raffia grade remained unchanged from the week earlier at $1,020-1,070/tonne CFR China main port, according to ICIS pricing.
However, sentiment had turned bearish with buyers resisting further price hikes.
The feeling remains that the rapid run-up in PE and PP prices (see chart) is a speculative bubble.
“I cannot see how current demand can sustain the recent price hikes because converters are only running at operating rates of about 60-80%,” said a markets analyst with a major producer.
“As for feedstocks, I don’t see any evidence to support the hikes either as integrated producers have been enjoyed comfortable margins (spreads) since February.”
A source with a major European producer agreed, adding that over the past two years propylene-to-PP spreads have held up exceptionally well, even in the midst of perhaps the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.
“If you had told me two years ago that spreads would not fall below $150/tonne I would have told you that you were totally off your head. The supply and demand fundamentals pointed to much weaker conditions.”
So what’s happened to maintain profitability to the point where worries are being expressed that this could be too good to last?
Propylene has perhaps been made a little more affordable because PP producers – the biggest consumers of C3s – have increased spot over term purchases, the European polyolefins player added.
Hard-pressed acrylonitrile, phenol and propylene (
A “supply-time gap” was created by big Sinopec and PetroChina refinery operating rate cut backs in the fourth quarter of last year and in the first quarter of 2009, affecting the whole of polyolefins, the market analyst added.
This caused a naphtha shortage, thereby dragging down Chinese operating rates. Higher naphtha prices were also a big factor behind the price rallies.
“Demand then recovered, but importers kept purchases low to avoid anti-dumping investigations. There was also a delay in
The result was that producers and traders speculated in order to plug the supply gap, leading to the current bad case of the jitters over the extent of inventories in the hands of Chinese traders and distributors.
The following extra factors have also being identified as leading to a much-better first quarter than anyone had expected:
Uncertainty over
Contradictory opinions over the short-term benefits from the government’s huge economic stimulus package abound.
The release last week of first quarter macroeconomic results also resulted in widely different interpretations.
And a few of the statistics from the first quarter might be a cause for concern.
Industrial production increased by 8.3% in March whereas factory gate prices fell by 6% - up from a 4.5% decline in February.
Anecdotal reports continue that some manufacturing plants are running hard in order to keep people in jobs, despite the 20% fall in exports recorded in the first quarter.
Could this lead to low-priced exports in the second half or have all the factory closures left finished-goods inventories at comfortably low levels?
Would
The problem, as always with
On this occasion, though, the nervousness is much greater because of the country’s relative strength.
Western polyolefin producers have been able to cash in on strong arbitrage to compensate for weak home markets.
US PE shipments to
“The
The rise in West-East trade is largely behind the big increases in
Some exports might have been to cover delayed start-ups of new plants in the
Low density polyethylene shipments to China rose 1.8 times in February this year over the same month in 2008, according data from China Customs.
The increase in high-density PE (HDPE) was 1.2 times with linear-low density (LLDPE) registering a 1.6 times increase.
Polypropylene imports rose between 82.15% and 1.4 times, depending on the grade.
PE imports totalled more than 600,000 tonne, the highest since 2005, with a similar quantity expected to have been shipped in March, according to ICIS pricing.
Anybody who fixes further cargoes for arrival from the West after May might be taking a big risk.
That cheaper crude and naphtha and increased petrochemical supply will cause prices to fall in the second half regardless of the speed of
But in bear market recoveries – which is what the recent rebound in pricing very likely represents – since when have fundamentals really mattered?
Sentiment could now be the only reliable measure and in almost every conversation you can sense it has shifted.
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The collections module is in the sandbox and is almost ready for primetime. If anyone has some time to look at it, I would appreciate it if you would email me with any comments or suggestions. Right now, it only has one type, deque(), which has a simple API consisting of append(), appendleft(), pop(), popleft(), and clear(). It also supports __len__(), __iter__(), __copy__(), and __reduce__(). It is fast, threadsafe, easy-to-use, and memory friendly (no calls to realloc() or memmove()). The sandbox includes unittests, a performance measurement tool, and a pure python equivalent. I've tried it out with the standard library and it drops in seamlessly with Queue.py, mutex.py, threading.py, shlex.py, and pydoc.py. I looked at implementing this as a package, but that was overkill. If future additions need to be in a separate sourcefile, it is simple enough to load them into the collections namespace. Raymond Hettinger To run the sandbox code, type: python setup.py build install and then at the interactive prompt: from collections import deque -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/042270.html | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | refinedweb | 184 | 65.12 |
The Select operation returns a set of Attributes for ItemNames that match the select expression. The total size of the response cannot exceed 1 MB in total size. Amazon SimpleDB automatically adjusts the number of items returned per page to enforce this limit. For example, even if you ask to retrieve 2500 items, but each individual item is 10 kB in size, the system returns 100 items and an appropriate next token so you can get the next page of results. Operations that run longer than 5 seconds return a time-out error response or a partial or empty result set. Partial and empty result sets contains a next token which allow you to continue the operation from where it left off. Responses larger than one megabyte return a partial result set.
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Hello,
I am relatively new in using Arduino. I am trying to run a Brushless DC Motor using the Servo library. I have the correct power supply, ESC, and correctly connected to the arduino pin 9. I got it to work using many different sketches I have found, however I am trying to set it to a certain speed and have it spin constantly at that speed while turned on. Eventually, I will incorporate some sort of feedback for the speed. I would like to avoid using a potentiometer and be able to set the desired speed directly within the code. Seems like it should be simple, but I am having trouble.
I am now using the following code:
#include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; void setup() { myservo.attach(9); myservo.write(60); //Sets speed of motor (60 (low) - 180 (high) i think) } void loop() {}
Through trial and error, any lower than 60 the motor will stop running, however, it is still relatively fast. Is this a limitation from my ESC or from my motor? I would like to understand the process of what is going on better so I can have more precise control over the speed. Any input would be greatly appreciated!
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NAME
i2t_ASN1_OBJECT, OBJ_length, OBJ_get0_data, OBJ, OBJ_add_sigid - ASN1 object utility functions
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/objects); int OBJ_add_sigid(int signid, int dig_id, int pkey_id);
The following function has been deprecated since OpenSSL 1.1.0, and can be hidden entirely by defining OPENSSL_API_COMPAT with a suitable version value, see openssl_user_macros(7):
void OBJ_cleanup(void);. Unless buf is NULL, the representation is written as a NUL-terminated string to buf, where at most buf_len bytes are written, truncating the result if necessary. In any case it returns the total string length, excluding the NUL character, required for non-truncated representation, or -1 on error._add_sigid() creates a new composite "Signature Algorithm" that associates a given NID with two other NIDs - one representing the underlying signature algorithm and the other representing a digest algorithm to be used in conjunction with it. signid represents the NID for the composite "Signature Algorithm", dig_id is the NID for the digest algorithm and pkey_id is the NID for the underlying signature algorithm. As there are signature algorithms that do not require a digest, NID_undef is a valid dig_id.
OBJ_cleanup() releases any resources allocated by creating new objects.
NOTES
Objects..
These functions were not thread safe in OpenSSL 3.0 and before.
RETURN VALUES
OBJ.
OBJ_add_sigid() returns 1 on success or 0 on error.
i2t_ASN1_OBJECT() an OBJ_obj2txt() return -1 on error. On success, they return the length of the string written to buf if buf is not NULL and buf_len is big enough, otherwise the total string length. Note that this does not count the trailing NUL character.
EXAMPLES);
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
OBJ_cleanup() was deprecated in OpenSSL 1.1.0 by OPENSSL_init_crypto(3) and should not be used.
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The process of software design is largely a process of organizing. The previous three chapters explored the object-oriented ways you can organize a Java program. This chapter discusses an additional way to organize Java programs that has nothing to do with object-orientation: packages. In Java, a package is a library of types (classes and interfaces). This chapter describes four ways to think about packages and shows how to make use of packages in your Java programs.
Once you know about packages, you can understand all the access levels (such as
private,
protected, etc.) available to types and their fields
and methods. This chapter compares all the access levels and gives advice on how to use them.
The first way to think about packages is as a tool to help you reduce the likelyhood of name conflicts in your programs. When you design a Java program, you model the problem domain by identifying and defining types and assigning each a name. Types refer to each other by name, so each type name you assign must be unique. If you design a large program, or incorporate types named and defined by others, you may encounter name conflicts. To address the problem of name conflicts, you use packages.
Packages effectively lengthen type names, making the names more distinctive. In a Java program,
every type belongs to some package. A package is a set of types grouped together under a common
package name. Each type has a simple name, and each package has a package
name. The name of the package containing a type, plus a dot, plus the type's simple name is the
type's
fully qualified name.
For example, if you have a class named
CoffeeCup in a package named
dishes,
"
dishes.CoffeeCup" is its fully qualified name.
("
dishes" is its package name; "
CoffeeCup"
its simple name.)
The fully qualified name of a
type, which is longer and more distinctive than its simple name, enables like-named types from different
packages to be used in the same program.
If you discard the package name from a type's fully qualified name, you get the type's simple name.
Therefore, the simple name of
dishes.CoffeeCup is, simply,
CoffeeCup. To use
CoffeeCup, types in the same package can
just use its simple name. Types in other packages, however, must also identify
dishes, the package containing
CoffeeCup, as well as its
simple name. This ensures that a different
CoffeeCup class defined in a different
package will not conflict with
dishes.CoffeeCup.
To help make type names even more distinctive, you can organize your packages hierarchically. Packages can contain not only types, but other packages as well. The entities contained in a package--its classes, interfaces, and sub-packages--are called the package's members.
The fully qualified name of a class nestled deep down inside several packages is the name of each
package and the class's simple name, all separated by dots. For instance, if you placed
CoffeeCup inside package
dishes and placed
dishes inside package
vcafe (for virtual cafe), the fully
qualified name of
CoffeeCup would be
"
vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup." The greater the number of nested packages in
which you place a class, the more dot-separated names the class will have in its fully qualified name, and
the more distinctive that fully qualified name will be.
Packages help you guard against the potential of name conflicts in your Java programs. Instead of worrying that the simple name of every type you need to use in a program is unique, you need only worry that every fully qualified name is unique.
One other way to deal with name conflicts involves class loaders and the multiple name spaces offered by the JVM. This will be discussed in Chapter 20.
A second way to think about packages is as a tool to help you organize the types you create for your program. With packages, you can organize a program into logically related groups of types, and organize the groups hierarchically.
The package is an organizational tool independent of any object-oriented organization of a program. For example, all the types in a particular family of types could belong to the same package, or be spread out across several packages. A class in one package can subclass a class in another package. The only requirement is that the subclass must specify the name of the package containing its superclass as well as the superclass's simple name. When you organize your types into packages, what you are actually organizing is type names.
Although you can grant special privileges between types that belong to the same package, a topic that will be discussed later in this chapter, you can't grant special privileges between a types in a package and types in a sub-package. To the types defined in a parent package, a sub-package is just like any other package. From the perspective of a Java compiler or the Java Virtual Machine, nested packages are not really seen as a hierarchy. They are just seen as a set of independent packages, each with a unique name. Packages are seen as a conceptual hierarchy only from the perspective of developers, who can use the hierarchy to express conceptual relationships between different groups of types.
Often, Java compilers and Java Virtual Machines expect the source files or class files contained in a hierarchy of packages to be located in a corresponding directory hierarchy, in which each directory takes the name of a package. Here, the compiler or Java Virtual Machine is using the package hierarchy as a way to locate files on a disk. The actual manner in which a particular compiler or Java Virtual Machine finds class files is a detail specific to each individual development environment or Java Platform implementation. The process of using directory hierarchies that map to package hierarchies to locate class files will be discussed further later in this chapter.
A third way to think about packages is simply as libraries. Any Java program you write will make use
of libraries developed by others and made available to your program as packages. Any program will at
least use the run-time libraries of the Java API, some of which are
java.lang,
java.io,
java.util,
java.net,
java.awt, and
java.applet. If, rather than developing a
complete program, you wish to develop class library that other developers can use in their programs, your
end-product will be a package.
The fourth way to think about packages is as a tool that can help you separate interface from implementation. You can grant special access privileges between types within the same package, and you can declare entire types to be accessible only to other types within the same package. The full details of how to do this will be given later in this chapter as part of a discussion of Java's access levels.
Because the packages used by a program can come from many sources, it is important that you name
your packages in a way that won't conflict with the names of packages developed by others. Of course, you
don't know what packages might be developed by other programmers, nor how they will name those
packages. This points out that the mechanism of packages doesn't actually solve the name conflict
problem, it only reduces the likelihood of an actual conflict. Just because you go to the trouble of enclosing
your
CoffeeCup class in two nested packages--
vcafe and
dishes--doesn't mean someone else won't inadvertently do the same.
To combat the potential of name conflicts between types developed by different software vendors, Java comes with a recommended naming convention for packages. If everyone would follow the recommended convention when naming their packages, harmony would cover the Earth. Java does not, however, enforce any naming convention, so name conflicts are still possible. It is up to you to do your part in preventing naming conflicts within Java programs.
The official recommendation on package naming is to use the reversed internet domain name of your
company or organization as the first part of your package names. Because internet domain names are
globally unique, this improves the chances your package names will be globally unique. If your company's
domain name were
artima.com, for instance, you would start any package name with
"
com.artima." The fully qualified name of
CoffeeCup would
become
com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup.
All the packages you create must be given a name that will be unique across the scope in which they will be visible. If they will be visible only locally, you needn't use the recommended naming convention. If you are certain your package names are not going to be visible on a global scale, but will remain inside, say, your division, you can devise and follow a division-wide package naming scheme. For any other package, however, following the recommended naming scheme makes you a good Java citizen.
As you write a Java program, you must place every class you define into a
package, and give each package a unique name. You place a class into a
package by including a package declaration at the top of the source file. A
package declaration
is just the keyword
package
followed by the package name and a semicolon. The package declaration must appear in the source file
before any class or interface declaration, and each source file can contain only one package declaration.
For example, you would place
CoffeeCup into the package
com.artima.vcafe.dishes as follows:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex1/com/artima/vcafe/dishes/CoffeeCup.java package com.artima.vcafe.dishes; public class CoffeeCup { public static final int MAX_SHORT_ML = 237; public static final int MAX_TALL_ML = 355; public static final int MAX_GRANDE_ML = 473; public void add(int amountOfCoffee) { System.out.println("Adding " + amountOfCoffee + " ml of coffee."); } //... }
The package name in the example above,
com.artima.vcafe.dishes,
indicates that
dishes is a sub-package of
vcafe, which is a sub-
package of
artima, which is a sub-package of
com. You needn't
have any source file in your program that declares the
com package, the
com.artima package, or the
com.artima.vcafe package.
The package statement in the example above is enough to establish the existence of all four packages:
com,
artima,
vcafe, and
dishes.
On the other hand, if you do have source files that declare classes as members of, say, the
com.artima.vcafe package, those classes have no special relation to the classes of
com.artima.vcafe.dishes, as far as the Java language is concerned. To the
Java language,
com.artima.vcafe and
com.artima.vcafe.dishes are just two different packages with two different
names. To you, the programmer, however, the hierarchical relationship between the two packages would
have meaning: it would express the conceptual relationship between two
different groups of types.
[bv: is this redundant with something that came before?]
Although the location of source and class files for package members at both compile-time and run-
time depends on your particular development and runtime environments,
many environments require that you create a hierarchy of
directories that correspond to the hierarchy of packages. If you were to work on such a system, you
would likely have to put the source and class file for the
CoffeeCup class defined
above in a directory named "
.../com/artima/vcafe/dishes" or
"
...\com\artima\vcafe\dishes", depending on your preferred direction of
slash.
To give one concrete example, imagine you are using Sun's JDK 1.1.1 to run a Java program on
Microsoft Windows95. You would set an environment variable,
CLASSPATH, to
indicate to the Java Virtual Machine where it should look for class files. If your
CLASSPATH is set to
"
.;C:\MYLIB;C:\JDK1.1.1\LIB\CLASSES.ZIP", then the compiler and the
Java Virtual Machine would look in three places for the classes needed by your program:
."
C:\MYLIB"
C:\JDK1.1.1\LIB\CLASSES.ZIP"
com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCupin the program, the Java Virtual Machine would first look for a directory, relative to the current directory, named
.\com\artima\vcafe\dishes. (It would look here first because "
." is the first directory in the
CLASSPATH.) If it finds a
CoffeeCup.classin that directory, it would load it. If this directory didn't exist, or there was no
CoffeeCup.classin that directory, the Java Virtual Machine would look for a directory named
C:\MYLIB\com\artima\vcafe\dishes. If it finds a
CoffeeCup.classhere, it would load it. Otherwise it would look inside the zip file for a
com\artima\vcafe\dishes\CoffeeCup.class. It is unlikely that
CoffeeCup.classit is in the zip file, because this is where all the runtime libraries of the Java Platform are kept in JDK 1.1.1.
As it searches through the directories and zip files listed in the class path, the Java Virtual Machine
loads the first class file that it encounters with a name that matches the class name,
CoffeeCup.class, and a relative directory that matches the package name,
com\artima\vcafe\dishes. Once it has loaded the class file, the virtual
machine checks the binary data to verify that the class is indeed
com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup.
This Windows95 and JDK 1.1.1 example was just one possible way a Java Platform implementation could locate class files. To find out how your particular Java Platform or Java development environment locates class files, you must consult its documentation.
In every Java program there can be one unnamed package, which is simply a package with no name. In a sense, the unnamed package really does have a name, just a very short one, which distinguishes it from the other packages in your program. To place a class into the unnamed package, just define the class in a source file with no package statement. All types declared in this book prior to this chapter were in the unnamed package.
You should not use the unnamed package for a general-purpose library, because it is probably the most common package name used by Java programmers. (In addition, types declared in the unnamed package are accessible only to each other. In other words, a type in a named package can't access a type in the unnamed package.) In general, you will want to partition large Java programs into named packages to better organize your program and to take advantage of the implementation-hiding capabilities of packages. The unnamed package is convenient and appropriate for the core types that make up an applet or application.
In a Java source file, you have two ways to refer to a class or interface defined in another package. You can either use the fully qualified name of the class everywhere you refer to it, or you can import that class's fully qualified name into your source file and then just use the simple name everywhere. Importing a type into a source file means making the compiler recognize the type in that source file by its simple name.
You can't import packages, just types. Import doesn't include any code,
like
#include of C or C++. It only means that you can use the
simple name of a type instead of the fully qualified names.
As an example, imagine you are writing code in the unnamed package that takes advantage of the
CoffeeCup class defined in package
com.artima.vcafe.dishes. One approach is to just use the fully qualified name
of
CoffeeCup everywhere, as in:
// In Source Packet in file packages/ex1/Example1a.java // Deep in the heart of the unnamed package... class Example1a { public static void main(String[] args) { com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup cup = new com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup(); cup.add(com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup.MAX_SHORT_ML); } }This approach is reasonable if the source file has only a few references to a class, but otherwise can make your code tiresome for you to type and others to read. The alternative is to import the class into the source file and then refer to the class by its simple name. Here's an example:
// In Source Packet in file packages/ex1/Example1b.java // At the top of a file in the unnamed package, import the class. import com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup; // Everywhere else in the file, just use the simple name. class Example1b { public static void main(String[] args) { CoffeeCup cup = new CoffeeCup(); cup.add(CoffeeCup.MAX_TALL_ML); } }
If you find yourself using several types from a single package, you can import all their names from a package into your source file with one import statement by using an asterisk in place of the class or interface name. (Actually, the asterisk only imports classes and interfaces declared as public, a feature that will be described in detail later in this chapter.):
// In Source Packet in file packages/ex1/Example1c.java // Import all public types from the com.artima.vcafe.dishes package. import com.artima.vcafe.dishes.*; // Everywhere else in the file, just use the simple names. class Example1c { public static void main(String[] args) { CoffeeCup cup = new CoffeeCup(); cup.add(CoffeeCup.MAX_GRANDE_ML); } }
Import statements such as the ones shown in the examples above reduce the amount of typing required
to use types from other packages, but they also make it possible for names to conflict again. For instance,
if you imported two different
CoffeeCup classes from two different packages, just
referring to "
CoffeeCup" would be ambiguous. The compiler wouldn't know which
CoffeeCup you were talking about. In this case you would need to explicitly indicate
which
CoffeeCup you meant by prefacing the simple name with the package name.
In other words, even though you imported both
CoffeeCup classes, you'll still have
to use the fully qualified names to resolve the ambiguity.
As an example, imagine you imported all the public types from two packages,
com.artima.vcafe.dishes and
com.artima.pencilholders, both of which contained a
CoffeeCup class. To use either version of
CoffeeCup you
would have to use its fully qualified name, as shown below:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex1/com/artima/pencilholders/CoffeeCup.java package com.artima.pencilholders; public class CoffeeCup { public void add(int amountOfPencils) { System.out.println("Adding " + amountOfPencils + " pencils."); } //... } // In Source Packet in file packages/ex1/Example1d.java // All types defined in both packages are // imported, yielding two different classes named "CoffeeCup." import com.artima.pencilholders.*; import com.artima.vcafe.dishes.*; class Example1d { public static void main(String[] args) { // Somewhere later in the code, you wish to instantiate a // new CoffeeCup from the com.artima.vcafe.dishes package: com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup myCoffee = new com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup(); // While you sip your coffee with the cup from the virtual // cafe, you also want a place to store your spare pencils. // So, you create a new CoffeeCup from the // com.artima.pencilholders package. This is a different // class, but one that shares the same simple name as the // previous "CoffeeCup." com.artima.pencilholders.CoffeeCup myPencilHolder = new com.artima.pencilholders.CoffeeCup(); myCoffee.add(com.artima.vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup.MAX_SHORT_ML); myPencilHolder.add(10); } }
The code as shown above compiles fine, because each time you use a
CoffeeCup
you clearly indicate which
CoffeeCup you want. You have indeed accomplished
your goal of using two different
CoffeeCup classes in the same source file, yet you
have once again cluttered the code with long package names.
Fortunately, one other approach exists that
may help you reduce some of the clutter. If you only import one of the packages containing a
CoffeeCup class, you could use the simple name when referring to that
CoffeeCup. As before, you'd have to use the fully qualified name when referring to
the other
CoffeeCup. Rewriting the previous example using this approach, yields the
following code:
// In Source Packet in file packages/ex1/Example1e.java // Import all types defined in com.artima.vcafe.dishes, but // don't import anything from com.artima.pencilholders. import com.artima.vcafe.dishes.*; class Example1e { public static void main(String[] args) { // Somewhere later in the code, you wish to instantiate a // new CoffeeCup from the com.artima.vcafe.dishes package. // Here you can just use the simple name: CoffeeCup myCoffee = new CoffeeCup(); // To create a new CoffeeCup from the // com.artima.pencilholders package, you must once again // use the fully qualified name: com.artima.pencilholders.CoffeeCup myPencilHolder = new com.artima.pencilholders.CoffeeCup(); myCoffee.add(CoffeeCup.MAX_TALL_ML); myPencilHolder.add(15); } }
You might be wondering if you can just import all the members of the
com.artima package and just use
vcafe.dishes.CoffeeCup and
pencilholders.CoffeeCup to distinguish between the two classes of coffee cup.
Well, you can't. The import statement only imports types, not packages. The statement "
import
com.artima.*;" imports all the types defined in that package, but doesn't import any sub-
packages defined in that package. The statement "
import com.artima;" doesn't
compile, because you are trying to import a package and not a class or interface. Another statement that
doesn't compile is "
import com.artima.*.dishes;". The
* must always go at the end, as it only matches type names, not package names.
There is one exception to the rule that you must import types from other packages before you can use
their simple names:
java.lang.*. The public types defined in the standard run-
time library
java.lang are automatically imported into every Java source file. This
package contains classes, such as
String,
Thread, and
Object, that are essential to the inner workings of Java programs. To make use of the
types contained in the packages from Java's standard run-time library other than
java.lang, you must either import the packages or use fully qualified names, just
like any other package.
Import statements are provided as a convenience for the programmer. Because of import statements, you don't have to always type long and tedious fully qualified names. The Java compiler can work out the fully qualified names of types given the import statements and the simple names in a source file. When the compiler generates class files, it discards any import statements in the source file. In class files, all types are identified by their fully qualified names. In your programs, you can choose to use import statements or fully qualified names, whatever you think will maximize the readability of your code.
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, an import statement does not
dynamically include code from a different file, as
#include
does for C and C++ programs. Import is just about names.
One of the most useful features of Java packages is the ability to grant access to classes, interfaces, methods, or fields exclusively to other members of the same package. This feature gives the package an internal implementation and an external interface. It provides the usual advantages of a hidden internal implementation: robustness and ease of modification. The robustness arises from the inability of types declared in other packages to incorrectly manipulate the internal implementation of the package. Types in other packages must go through the external interface of the package, and the package maintains control of its internal implementation. Ease of modification comes from the ability to change the internal implementation of the package without affecting the code of other packages, which is tied only to the external interface.
The first step you can take to hide the internal implementation of a package is to declare as public only those types that are needed by other packages.. Therefore, you can denote some types (the public ones) as part of the external interface of the package. The other types (the ones that aren't public) are part of the internal implementation of the package. An example of both kinds of class declarations is shown below:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex2/com/artima/vcafe/dishes/CoffeeCup.java package com.artima.vcafe.dishes; // Class CoffeeCup is part of the external interface of // package com.artima.vcafe.dishes. public class CoffeeCup extends Cup { public static final int MAX_SHORT_ML = 237; public static final int MAX_TALL_ML = 355; public static final int MAX_GRANDE_ML = 473; //... }
In the code shown above, class
CoffeeCup is declared public, but class
Cup is not. Consequently,
CoffeeCup is accessible everywhere,
but
Cup is accessible only in the
com.artima.vcafe.dishes
package.
Package access is the default for types. Unless you explicitly modify your class declaration with the
keyword
public, you'll get "package access," as this default level of access is called.
You cannot declare a class with the access specifiers
protected or
private. It must either be declared with the keyword
public or
have no access specifier.
As the example above demonstrates, you can declare a superclass with package access and still give its
subclass public access. Given the code above, a type in another package could not subclass
Cup, but could subclass
CoffeeCup. If you want types in other
packages to be able to use
CoffeeCup but not subclass it, you must also declare it
final, as shown below:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex3/com/artima/vcafe/dishes/CoffeeCup.java package com.artima.vcafe.dishes; // Class CoffeeCup is part of the external interface of // package com.artima.vcafe.dishes. It can be used, but // not subclassed, by classes in other packages. public final class CoffeeCup extends Cup { public static final int MAX_SHORT_ML = 237; public static final int MAX_TALL_ML = 355; public static final int MAX_GRANDE_ML = 473; //... }
When you fill a package with types, you should separate the types that represent the implementation of the package from those that represent the interface. Only those types that are needed by other packages should be declared public. A good rule of thumb is to leave any class or interface with its default package access, unless you're sure it should be public.
Declaring a public class as final will prevent classes in other packages from declaring a subclass, but it will also restrict any other class in its own package from declaring a subclass. This is a severe restriction on the use of a class. Often you will want clients of your package to be able to subclass its public classes. That is one of the fundamental ways to reuse code in object-oriented programming. The rule of thumb here is to make classes final only when you have a good reason.
One possible reason to make a class final is to ensure your package will always behave as expected.
For example, imagine you write a package that depends for correctness on the proper behavior of a certain
class of objects, say the
CoffeeCup class, defined in your package. You make class
CoffeeCup public so that clients can create instances of it to pass to the methods of
other classes defined in your package. If your package requires that the
CoffeeCup
objects passed to it behave in a certain way, your package might break if a client declares their own
subclass of class
CoffeeCup, say
LeakyCup, and overrides the
methods that your package depends upon for correctness. You can avoid this by declaring every method in
CoffeeCup as final, or by declaring the entire
CoffeeCup class
final.
In the examples in this book, each type is declared in its own source file. The name of the source file
is the name of the type plus the extension
.java. For example, class
CoffeeCup is declared in file
CoffeeCup.java, and interface
Washable is declared in file
Washable.java. Although
placing each type in a separate file named after the type is in general a good practice, because it makes the
type's source easier for you and other developers to locate, it is not always required. Java compilers do
require that public types be declared in a file that bears the name of the public types. They do not,
however, require this of non-public types. You can place as many non-public types in the same file as you
wish, and the file can have whatever name you wish. If a file does contain a public type, however, the file
must be given the name of the public type. Because you can only have one package statement in each
source file, all types declared in the same source file are members of the same package.
In general, within any class you design you will want to hide the implementation. Given that packages can (and should) be used to group related types, however, you may want to expose some fields and methods to other classes in the same package while keeping them hidden from classes outside the package. Java provides access control modifiers to support this intermediate level of implementation hiding. By applying proper modifiers on a class's fields and methods, you can hide the class's implementation from classes outside the package while exposing the implementation to classes inside the package.
Java gives you three access control modifiers--
private,
protected, and
public--to apply to the fields and methods of
public classes, but you can obtain four distinct levels of access from their use. Three of the levels (private,
protected, and public access) are denoted by the use of one of the three access control modifiers. The
fourth level (package access) is the default and is indicated by the lack of any access control modifier.
Here is a description of each of the four access levels available to members of public classes, in order from
least to most accessible:
private) - a field or method accessible only to the class which defines it.
protected) - a field or method accessible to any type in the same package, and to subclasses in any package.
public) - a field or method accessible to any type in any package.
There is no way to grant special access to types in sub-packages. This is why the Java compiler and
the Java Virtual Machine view a package and its sub-packages as independent packages with no special
privileges between them. Thus, the relationship between types in hierarchically related packages, such as
com.artima.vcafe and
com.artima.vcafe.dishes, is
only conceptual. Package hierarchies help you organize your types, but don't allow any special access
privileges between the two groups of types.
A graphical depiction of the effect of each kind of access control modifier is shown in Figures 7-1
through 7-4. In these figures, the ovals represent classes, the arrows represent inheritance, the rectangles
represent packages. Each figure indicates which classes will be able to access a member of class
Cup with one of the five access levels. Classes that can access the member in
Cup are shown in solid gray; classes that can't are shown with a checkerboard pattern.
Figure 5-1. Private access to a member of
Cup.
Figure 5-2. Package access to a member of
Cup.
Figure 5-3. Protected access to a member of
Cup.
Figure 5-4. Public access to a member of
Cup.
An example of each kind of access control modifier is shown in the following version of class
Coffee:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex4/com/artima/vcafe/beverages/Coffee.java package com.artima.vcafe.beverages; public class Coffee { // PRIVATE ACCESS // Accessible to only class Coffee itself. private int temperature; // PACKAGE ACCESS // Accessible to Coffee and to the other classes and // interfaces of package com.artima.vcafe.beverages. void changeTemperature(int delta) { temperature += delta; } // PROTECTED ACCESS // Accessible to Coffee, to its subclasses (no matter what // package the subclasses are defined in), and to the other // types of package com.artima.vcafe.beverages, including // non-subclasses. protected static final int bestTemperature = 50; // PUBLIC ACCESS // Accessible to the entire universe. public void setTemperature(int temperature) { this.temperature = temperature; } public int getTemperature() { return temperature; } }
privateand
protected
The
private keyword grants exclusive access not to an object, but to a class. An
object can access its private members, but so can any other object of the same class. For example, if a
CoffeeCup object has a reference to another
CoffeeCup object,
the first
CoffeeCup can access the second
CoffeeCup's private
members through that reference. This is true of both private variables and private methods, whether they
are static or not.
Inside a package, the true meaning of the
protected keyword is quite simple.
To classes in the same package, protected access looks just like package access. Any class can access
any protected member of another class declared in the same package.
When you have subclasses in other packages, however, the true meaning of
protected becomes more complex. Take a look at the inheritance hierarchy
shown in Figure 5-5. In this hierarchy, class
Cup, which is declared in the
com.artima.vcafe.dishes package, declares a protected instance method
named
getSize(). This method is accessible to any subclasses declared anywhere,
including those shown declared in package
com.artima.other. Any objects whose
class descends from
Cup--instances of class
CoffeeCup,
CoffeeMug,
EspressoCup, or
TeaCup--
can invoke
getSize() on themselves. Whether they can invoke
getSize() on a reference to another object, however, depends upon where that other
object sits in the inheritance hierarchy.
Figure 5-5. The true meaning of
protected.
If a protected instance variable or instance method is accessible to a class, that class can access the
protected member through a reference only if the reference type is the class or one of its subclasses. For
example, for code in the
CoffeeCup class to invoke
getSize()
on a reference to another object, that reference must be of type
CoffeeCup or one of
its subclasses. A
CoffeeCup object could therefore invoke
getSize() on a
CoffeeCup reference, a
CoffeeMug reference, or an
EspressoCup reference. A
CoffeeCup object could not, however, invoke
getSize() on a
Cup reference or a
TeaCup reference.
If class has a protected variable or method that is
static, the rules are different.
Take as an example the protected static method
getCupsInUse() declared in class
Cup as shown in Figure 5-5. Any code in a subclass of
Cup can
access a
getCupsInUse() by invoking it on itself or invoking it on a reference of
type
Cup or any of its subclasses. Code in the
EspressoCup class
could invoke
getCupsInUse() on itself or on a reference of type
Cup,
CoffeeCup,
CoffeeMug,
EspressoCup, or
TeaCup.
The most important rule of thumb concerning the use of access control modifiers is to keep data private unless you have a good reason not to. Keeping data private is the best way to maximize the robustness and ease of modification of your classes. If you keep data private, other classes can access a class's fields only through its methods. This enables the designer of a class to keep control over the manner in which the class's fields are manipulated. If fields are not private, other classes can change the fields directly, possibly in unpredictable and improper ways. Keeping data private also enables a class designer to more easily change the algorithms and data structures used by a class. Given that other classes can only manipulate a class's private fields indirectly, through the class's methods, other classes will depend only upon the external interface to the private fields provided by the methods. You can change the private fields of a class and modify the code of the methods that manipulate those fields. As long as you don't alter the signature and return type of the methods, the other classes that depended on the previous version of the class will still link properly. Making fields private is the fundamental technique for hiding the implementation of Java classes.
As mentioned in an earlier chapter, one other reason to make data private is because you synchronize access to data by multiple threads through methods. This justification for keeping data private will be discussed in Chapter 17.
As a general rule, the only good non-private field is a final one. Given that final fields cannot be changed after they are initialized, non-private final fields do not run the risk of improper manipulation by other classes. Other classes can use the field, but not change it.
A common use of non-private final fields is to define names to represent a set of valid values that may be passed to (or returned from) a method. As mentioned in Chapter 5, such fields are called constants and are declared static as well as non-private and final. A Java programmer will create constants in this manner in situations where a C++ programmer would have used an enumerated type or declared a "const" member variable.
Rules of thumb such as the ones outlined above are called rules of thumb for a reason: They are not absolute laws. Java allows you to declare fields in classes with any kind of access level, and you may very well encounter situations in which declaring a field private is too restrictive. One potential justification for non-private fields is simple trust. In some situations you may have absolute trust of certain other classes. For example, perhaps you are designing a small set of types that must work together closely to solve a particular problem. It may make sense to put all of these types in their own package, and allow them direct access to some of each other's fields. Although this would create interdependencies between the internal implementations of the classes, you may deem the level of interdependency to be acceptable. If later you change the internal implementation of one of the classes, you'll have to update the other classes that relied on the original implementation. As long as you don't grant access to the fields to classes outside the package, any repercussions of the implementation change will remain inside the package.
Nevertheless, the general rule of thumb in designing packages is to treat the types that share the same package with as much suspicion as types from different packages. If you don't trust classes from other packages to directly manipulate your class's fields, neither should you let classes from the same package directly manipulate them. Keep in mind that you usually can't prevent another programmer from adding new classes to your package, even if you only deliver class files to that programmer. If you leave all your fields with package access, a programmer using your package can easily gain access to those fields by creating a class and declaring it as a member of your package. Therefore, it is best to keep data private, except sometimes when the data is final, so that irrespective of what package classes are defined in, all classes must go through methods to manipulate each other's fields.
The methods you define in public classes should have whatever level of access control matches their role in your program. You should exploit the full range of access levels provided by Java on the methods of your public classes, assigning to each method the most restrictive access level it can reasonably have.
You can use the same rule of thumb to design classes that have package access. You must keep in mind, however, that for package-access classes, fields and methods declared public won't be accessible outside the package. Fields and methods declared protected won't be accessible to subclasses in other packages, because there won't be any subclasses in other packages. Only classes within the same package will be able to subclass the package-access class. Still, you should probably keep the same mindset when designing package-access classes as you do when designing public classes, because at some later time you may turn a package-access class into a public class.
Interfaces have slightly different rules for access levels, because every field and method defined by an
interface is implicitly public. You can't use the keywords
private or
protected on the fields and methods of interfaces. If you leave off the
public keyword when declaring interface members, as is officially recommended by
the Java Language Specification, you do not get package access. You still get public access. Therefore, you
can't hide any implementation details of a package inside an interface (You can't hide an interface's
members). On the other hand, you can hide the entire interface. If you don't declare an interface public,
the interface as a whole will only be available to other types in the same package. As with classes, you
should make interfaces public only if they are needed by classes and interfaces defined in other packages.
Here's an example of two interfaces. Interface
Soakable is part of the
internal implementation of a package. Interface
Washable is part of the external
implementation of the package:
// In Source Packet in file // packages/ex5/com/artima/vcafe/dishes/Washable.java package com.artima.vcafe.dishes; public interface Washable { void wash(); } // In Source Packet in file // packages/ex5/com/artima/vcafe/dishes/Soakable.java package com.artima.vcafe.dishes; interface Soakable extends Washable { void soak(); }
In this example,
wash() and
breakIt() are not explicitly
declared public, because they are public by default. Because the
Washable interface
as a whole is not explicitly declared as public, however, it has package access. Interface
Washable is only be accessible to other types declared in the
com.artima.vcafe.dishes package. Interface
Breakable,
because it is declared as public, is available to any type declared in any package.
The compiler gives default constructors the same access level as their
class. In the example above, class
CoffeeCup is public, so
the default constructor is public. If
CoffeeCup had been
given package access (which will be defined in , the default constructor would be given package
access as well.
Example: How Singleton pattern can be implemented using private constructors. | http://www.artima.com/objectsandjava/webuscript/PackagesAccess1.html | crawl-003 | refinedweb | 6,983 | 54.12 |
A lighter closeable iterator from Expression Atlas
The Atlas webapp code has this interface :
import java.io.Closeable; public interface ObjectInputStream<T> extends Closeable { // returns null when stream is empty T readNext(); }
I thought it's so interesting that I wrote an entire blog post about it.
The comment at the top links to some stackoverflow post and has a feel of somebody who tried to pick the best abstraction for something the webapp does a lot - iterate through a file and close it afterwards.
You'd want to use it like that:
ObjectInputStream<T> stream = new ... T t; while(t=stream.readNext()!=null){ process(t); } stream.close();
Of course that doesn't play nicely with exceptions that might interrupt the execution - and then the stream won't be closed, oh dear. The old Java way is to put the
stream.close() in the finally block, and Java 7 lets you "try with resources" and both of these are already quite a rigid structure your code has to have: a while block within a try block.
I'd much prefer to ignore the exceptions. We're putting the webapp on its own VM, mounted the filesystem all right, surely if the app starts to have problems with opening and reading through files it's not a problem it can solve by itself. Java's type system won't let me do that without polluting the type signature of the method: part of being
java.io.Closeable means you're going to throw
IOExceptions. A stronger version of these semantics is being
java.io.AutoCloseable where
close() throws an
Exception which is meant to really encourage a try-with-resources block.
At some point someone in the project made an adapter that turns an
ObjectInputStream<T> into an
Iterable<T>. Feel free to think how you'd do it - you have a
readNext() which returns a sentinel value of
null when there's no more to read, and you need to provide a
hasNext() and
OH NO DID YOU FORGET THE
close()! Well we did at first - or maybe not becuse the adapter was originally for something that didn't actually require closing. I used it when rewriting the backend for our experiment page, and caused a resource leak that made it through test but after the release the webapp eventually ran out of file handles to hog.
Now it's all solved - the stream will be closed after you iterate until the end, and you can
for(T t = new IterableObjectInputStream<>(openStream())){
process(t);
}
If you do
new IterableObjectInputStream<>(openStream()).iterator().next() there will still be a leak but there's a comment at the top of the class that warns you to not do it.
We started with one constraint that can't be expressed through Java's type system - an object that needs
close() called on it at least once - and swapped it for a second one, a collection that once instantiated must be traversed fully. Java 8 introduces
java.util.stream which is AutoCloseable - and it is different still, the programmer is meant to know whether or not they should put it in the try-with-resources block.
The possibility of somebody forgetting to close a file handle comes with Java just like memory leaks are possible in C. You can guard against it with convention and high professional standards, and Java's checked exceptions try to nudge you towards the right thing, but in a way that is crude and often inappropriate. For some projects it's appropriate to write them in a language with a stronger type system that will make many mistakes impossible since all your file handles will be damn sure closed because you'll only be able to use them in a tiny main() method at the end of your program. Sometimes you want to read the file into one large string and use a language that will only tell you "oh this is so naughty go ahead". A yet different language makes it very convenient to close your file handles, and is sternly clear that this is what you should be doing.. | https://wbazant.github.io/blog/2017/01/10/a-lighter-closeable-iterator-from-expression-atlas/ | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | refinedweb | 691 | 65.96 |
Eric is a Software Design Engineer on the Office User Experience team focused on user interface extensibility for Office developers.
Another source of frequently-asked RibbonX questions is around the complexity of writing an add-in in C++. Compared to the ease of use of C# or VB.NET, C++ requires a much deeper understanding of what's really going on under the covers and often involves hand-implementing much of the "magic" that the higher-level languages take care of automatically.
This post covers the details of RibbonX's communication with COM add-ins via the IRibbonExtensibility and IDispatch interfaces and shows an example of creating an add-in with ATL. It's primarily intended for C++ developers, but if you're writing an add-in with .NET you may find it useful to understand what the CLR is automatically doing for you under the hood.
IRibbonExtensibility
As soon as Office boots up a COM Add-In, it checks if it implements the IRibbonExtensibility interface on its main Connect class via a QueryInterface() call for IID_IRibbonExtensibility (defined in the MSO.DLL typelibrary). If it does, it takes the IRibbonExtensibility pointer and QI's it for the IDispatch interface and saves both pointers off in a safe place.
Note that Office queries the IRibbonExtensibility interface for IDispatch, instead of the main interface. Normally this is unimportant, but it allows complicated add-ins to split their IDispatch interfaces off onto multiple objects if they provide multiple IDispatch implementations. For example, Excel add-ins can provide User-Defined Functions (UDFs) via IDispatch, and they usually won't want to have all of their RibbonX callbacks and UDFs on the same object.
Next, RibbonX will call the IRibbonExtensibility::GetCustomUI() method and get the XML for each type of Ribbon that's currently open. Most applications have only one Ribbon that's open all the time (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access), but Outlook has many different Ribbon types, any number of which can be open at a given time. GetCustomUI() can be called at arbitrary points after the add-in boots if the user opens up a new type of Ribbon, so add-ins should not do any extraneous processing inside that function or assume that it will always be called immediately after the add-in boots. GetCustomUI() should simply fetch and return the appropriate XML, without any side effects.
Once the appropriate XML is parsed and applied, RibbonX will invoke the add-in's "onLoad" callback (if it exists), as well as any "get" callbacks (such as getEnabled, getVisible or getLabel). These callbacks are all invoked via the IDispatch pointer that was queried for above.
IDispatch
If you're unfamiliar with IDispatch-based interfaces, you may be curious how it is that Office can call arbitrary C++ functions in an add-in, given only their names. For example, consider a button specified with this XML:
<button id="MyButton" onAction="ButtonClicked"/>
<button id="MyButton" onAction="ButtonClicked"/>
In my add-in I can write a ButtonClicked() function, but once it's complied and linked, the "ButtonClicked" name is optimized away and we're left with just a memory address where the function's code begins. How does Office find and call the function? Obviously there's something magic going on, and it's known as IDispatch.
IDispatch is a COM interface used for "dispatching" function calls to objects when their types are unknown or need to be late-bound. It's the reason that this VBA code works even though the "word" variable is not strongly typed:
Dim wordSet word = Application word.CheckSpelling ("misspellled")
Dim wordSet word = Application word.CheckSpelling ("misspellled")
The IDispatch interface contains a whole bunch of methods which you can read all about in the documentation, but the main two to be concerned with are GetIDsOfNames() and Invoke().
The GetIDsOfNames() method provides a mapping between names (strings) and "DISPIDs", which are basically integers that represent functions or properties. With the example button above, Office will call into the add-in's GetIDsOfNames() method and ask "hey, do you implement the ButtonClicked function?", and the add-in with either say "yes I do, and it's DISPID number 2" (for example), or "no, I don't implement that function."
Once the function is found, the IDispatch::Invoke() method is used to actually call the function. Invoke() takes the DISPID of the function, an array of parameters, and gets the return value back. In our example Office will call the add-in's Invoke() method and say "call your ButtonClicked function with this IRibbonControl parameter and let me know how it goes."
Parameters and return values are passed around in VARIANT structs, which are basically big unions that can contain values of many different types. We could go into lots of detail about how to set up and use VARIANTs, but fortunately there are ATL classes that take care of all of this for us so there's normally no reason to worry about them.
That pretty much sums up the high-level overview of how IDispatch works, so let's see it in action and build a simple RibbonX add-in in C++ with ATL.
Building a simple C++/ATL RibbonX add-in
The steps for creating a C++ RibbonX add-in start off pretty much the same as for a C# add-in:
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Now you have an empty C++ add-in. Click "Build Solution" just to make sure that it all compiles OK with no problem.
Next, open up Class View, right-click on your CConnect class and select "Add -> Implement Interface…" In the dialog that pops up, select the "Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library <2.4>" type library and add the "IRibbonExtensibility" interface from it:
Note: you may have an older type library registered instead (such as "Office 11.0 Object Library") if you previously had older versions of Office installed on the same computer. In those cases you can just browse to the "OFFICE12" version of MSO.DLL and select it manually.
Once you're done with that, Visual Studio should have auto-generated your GetCustomUI() function for you. Delete its "return E_NOTIMPL;" and paste in some valid code, like this:); }
Now, a real add-in would obviously not hard-code its XML like this (embedding it as a resource in the DLL would be much better), but this suffices for our simple demo. Don't do this at home!
At this point we should try to compile the add-in and see our dummy button sitting on the Ribbon. Unfortunately when I tried compiling at this stage, there were several compilation errors in the auto-generated code due to namespace conflicts between the MSO type library and other Windows headers. I did these things to fix it:
Now we can build successfully and see our button:
If we click it we get an error saying "The callback function 'ButtonClicked' was not found," which makes sense since we haven't written that function or implemented it via IDispatch yet. Let's use ATL to do that now.
Unfortunately Visual Studio 2005 doesn't seem to have a "New ATL Interface" wizard, but we can get the same thing accomplished by creating a generic ATL class and then deleting the implementation. Click "Add Class…" on the Standard Toolbar and select "ATL Simple Object" in the ATL category. Name the object something like "CallbackInterface" and hit Finish.
Now in Class View we have several new objects: an ATL interface called "ICallbackInterface" and an implementation class called "CCallbackInterface." We don't need the implementation, so go ahead and delete all the CallbackInterface.* files from the Solution Explorer. ICallbackInterface is what we care about and it's defined in our add-in's IDL file.
Back in Class View, right-click on ICallbackInterface and select "Add -> Add Method…" In the Add Method Wizard, add a method named "ButtonClicked" with one [in] parameter of type IDispatch* called RibbonControl:
This parameter is the IRibbonControl object that's passed to all RibbonX callbacks. Since "IRibbonControl" isn't in the parameter type dropdown, we have to go with its base type, which is IDispatch (IRibbonControl is not a type supported by the VARIANT structure). If we need it later, we can always call QueryInterface() on it with IID_IRibbonControl and get it.
Now that our interface is defined, right click on the CConnect class and select "Implement Interface…" again to add ICallbackInterface along with IRibbonExtensibility. Double-click the ButtonClicked function in Class View to be taken to the auto-generated implementation. Swap out its placeholder content with something meaningful, like this:
STDMETHOD(ButtonClicked)( IDispatch * RibbonControl){ // Add your function implementation here.
MessageBoxW(NULL, L"The button was clicked!", L"Message from ExampleATLAddIn", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
STDMETHOD(ButtonClicked)( IDispatch * RibbonControl){ // Add your function implementation here.
MessageBoxW(NULL, L"The button was clicked!", L"Message from ExampleATLAddIn", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
return S_OK; }
Now when we compile we should see this MessageBox when we click the button. However, there are a couple of problems left before we can do that, the first of which is "error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _LIBID_ExampleATLAddInLib." Since our DLL is both the source and consumer of our new typelibrary for ICallbackInterface, we need to link in the MIDL-generated C files for it. In Solution Explorer, add the "AddIn_i.c" file, which is the output from running MIDL on our AddIn.idl file. This new file will inherit the solution defaults for PCH files ("Use Precompiled Headers (/Yu)"), which isn't what we want, so right-click on it and switch the file to "Not Using Precompiled Headers".
The last work item is to set up the COM_MAP to properly route the IDispatch calls to our ICallbackInterface. In Connect.h, switch the IDispatch line in the COM_MAP to ICallbackInterface instead of IRibbonExtensibility:
BEGIN_COM_MAP(CConnect) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY2(IDispatch, ICallbackInterface) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(AddInDesignerObjects::IDTExtensibility2) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IRibbonExtensibility) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(ICallbackInterface) END_COM_MAP()
BEGIN_COM_MAP(CConnect) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY2(IDispatch, ICallbackInterface) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(AddInDesignerObjects::IDTExtensibility2) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IRibbonExtensibility) COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(ICallbackInterface) END_COM_MAP()
Once that's all built, try out the add-in and see that it works!
That's basically all there is to making a C++ RibbonX add-in with ATL. Obviously a more complicated add-in would have many more callbacks, but the only additional work would be to right-click on ICallbackInterface and select "Add Method.." for each one. Different types of callbacks have different parameters, so you just need to make sure that your callbacks match the C++-style signatures in the RibbonX documentation. A "getLabel" callback, for example, would have the same parameters, except it would have an additional "[out, retval] BSTR *Label" parameter for returning the label.
For more info about RibbonX, check out the documentation mentioned above, the Developer category on this blog, or the Office Discussion Groups if you have other questions not specifically related to the topics of this article.
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Hello,
I am trying to make a program that prints triangle... and I did various test on each method to realise that the problem lies with this segment.
When I call this method, nothing prints out, I figure there is something with the loop that I am not realizing.
P.S the loop is backwards because it's supposed to have the right side edge parralel (when I try to print it out the spaces do not appear, imagine the x are space...), so as each line is looped the # of spaces diminishes
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If anyone would be so kind as to help me out it would be greatly appreciated
Christian
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12 June 2012 19:17 [Source: ICIS news]
WASHINGTON (ICIS)--The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday lowered its forecast for oil prices for the rest of this year to an average of $95/bbl, but said that a weakening global economic outlook could drive crude prices still lower.
In its monthly short-term energy outlook (STEO), the department’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) noted that the ?xml:namespace>
The EIA said it expects the price of WTI crude to average about $95/bbl over the second half of 2012, an estimate that is $11/bbl lower than the administration’s forecast last month.
The EIA also said it expects crude oil prices will remain relatively flat in 2013.
“This forecast rests on the assumption that US real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 2.2% this year and 2.4% next year,” the outlook said.
Both of those GDP growth estimates are below what economists call
In addition, the administration cautioned that “recent economic and financial news that points toward weaker economic outlooks could lead to lower economic growth forecasts and further downward revisions to the EIA’s crude oil price forecasts”.
In contrast to the administration’s crude oil price forecasts, the EIA said it expects prices for
Gas prices are forecast to rise further next year, the administration said, climbing to an average of $3.23/MMBtu for 2013.
However, even those slightly higher natgas price forecasts remain well below price ranges seen just a few years ago when gas was selling in the $6-8 range and spot prices climbed toward $15.
The still moderate prices for
“Total marketed production of natural gas grew by 4.8bcf/d or 7.9% in 2011,” the administration said.
“This strong growth was driven in large part by increases in shale gas production,” the EIA said.
“While EIA expects year-over-year production growth to continue in 2012, the projected increases occur at a slower rate than in 2011 as low prices reduce new drilling plans.”
The administration cited data from Baker Hughes, showing the natural gas rig count at 588 as of 1 June, down sharply from the 2011 high of 936 rigs in October last year.
The EIA said that while demand is expected to remain fairly constant for the year ahead – with growth in gas-fired electric power generation offsetting lower residential and industrial consumption – production growth will ease, contributing to the forecast for higher gas prices in 2013.
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Up to this point, we've confined ourselves to working with the high-level drawing commands of the Graphics2D class, using images in a hands-off mode. In this section, we'll clear up some of the mystery surrounding images and see how they are created and used. The classes in the java.awt.image package handle images and their internals; Figure 20-1 shows the important classes in this package.
First, we'll return to our discussion of image loading and see how we can get more control over image data using an ImageObserver to watch as it's processed asynchronously by GUI components. Then we'll open the hood and have a look at the inside of a BufferedImage. If you're interested in creating sophisticated graphics, such as rendered images or video streams, this will teach you about the foundations of image construction in Java.
One note before we move on: In early versions of Java (prior to 1.2), creating and modifying images was handled through the use of ImageProducer and ImageConsumer interfaces, which operated on low-level, stream-oriented views of the image data. We won't be covering these topics in this chapter; instead, we'll stick to the new APIs, which are more capable and easier to use in most cases. typical client applications do not require handling of image data in this way, it's still useful to understand this mechanism if for no other reason than it appears in the most basic image-related APIs. In practice, you'll normally use one of the techniques presented in the next section to handle image loading for you. application ); } }
Supply an image next.
java.awt.MediaTracker is a utility class used the status of images loading periodically, application. It saves implementing a custom ImageObserver for every application. For general Swing application work, you can use yet another simplification by employing the ImageIcon component to use a MediaTracker; this is covered next.
In Chapter 16, getting an image loaded fully before using it would be:
ImageIcon icon = new Imge.
There are two approaches to generating image data. The easiest is to treat the image as a drawing surface and use the methods of Graphics2D to render things into the image. The second way is to twiddle the bits that represent the pixels of the image data yourself. This is harder, but it can be useful in specific cases such as loading and saving images in specific formats or mathematically analyzing or creating image data.
Let's begin with the simpler approach, rendering on an image through drawing. We'll throw in a twist to make things interesting: we'll build an animation. Each frame will be rendered as we go along. This is very similar to the double buffering we examined in the last chapter, but this time we'll use a timer, instead of mouse events, as the signal to generate new frames.
Swing performs double buffering automatically, so we don't even have to worry about the animation flickering. Although it looks like we're drawing directly to the screen, we're really drawing into an image that Swing uses for double buffering. All we need to do is draw the right thing at the right time.
Let's look at an example, Hypnosis, that illustrates the technique. This example shows a constantly shifting shape that bounces around the inside of a component. When screen savers first came of age, this kind of thing was pretty hot stuff. Hypnosis is shown in Figure 20-2.
Here is its source code:
//file: Hypnosis.java import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath; import javax.swing.*; public class Hypnosis extends JComponent implements Runnable { private int[] coordinates; private int[] deltas; private Paint paint; public Hypnosis(int numberOfSegments) { int numberOfCoordinates = numberOfSegments * 4 + 2; coordinates = new int[numberOfCoordinates]; deltas = new int[numberOfCoordinates]; for (int i = 0 ; i < numberOfCoordinates; i++) { coordinates[i] = (int)(Math.random( ) * 300); deltas[i] = (int)(Math.random( ) * 4 + 3); if (deltas[i] > 4) deltas[i] = -(deltas[i] - 3); } paint = new GradientPaint(0, 0, Color.blue, 20, 10, Color.red, true); Thread t = new Thread(this); t.start( ); } public void run( ) { try { while (true) { timeStep( ); repaint( ); Thread.sleep(1000 / 24); } } catch (InterruptedException ie) {} } public void paint(Graphics g) { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); Shape s = createShape( ); g2.setPaint(paint); g2.fill(s); g2.setPaint(Color.white); g2.draw(s); } private void timeStep( ) { Dimension d = getSize( ); if (d.width == 0 || d.height == 0) return; for (int i = 0; i < coordinates.length; i++) { coordinates[i] += deltas[i]; int limit = (i % 2 == 0) ? d.width : d.height; if (coordinates[i] < 0) { coordinates[i] = 0; deltas[i] = -deltas[i]; } else if (coordinates[i] > limit) { coordinates[i] = limit - 1; deltas[i] = -deltas[i]; } } } private Shape createShape( ) { GeneralPath path = new GeneralPath( ); path.moveTo(coordinates[0], coordinates[1]); for (int i = 2; i < coordinates.length; i += 4) path.quadTo(coordinates[i], coordinates[i + 1], coordinates[i + 2], coordinates[i + 3]); path.closePath( ); return path; } public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hypnosis"); frame.getContentPane( ).add( new Hypnosis(4) ); frame.setSize(300, 300); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); frame.setVisible(true); } }
The main() method does the usual grunt work of setting up the JFrame that holds our animation component.
The Hypnosis component has a very basic strategy for animation. It holds some number of coordinate pairs in its coordinates member variable. A corresponding array, deltas, holds "delta" amounts that are added to the coordinates each time the figure is supposed to change. To render the complex shape you see in Figure 20-2, Hypnosis creates a special Shape object from the coordinate array each time the component is drawn.
Hypnosis's constructor has two important tasks. First, it fills up the coordinates and deltas arrays with random values. The number of array elements is determined by an argument to the constructor. The constructor's second task is to start up a new thread that drives the animation.
The animation is done in the run() method. This method calls timeStep(), which repaints the component and waits for a short time (details to follow). Each time timeStep() is called, the coordinates array is updated. Then repaint() is called. This results in a call to paint(), which creates a shape from the coordinate array and draws it.
The paint() method is relatively simple. It uses a helper method, called createShape() , to create a shape from the coordinate array. The shape is then filled, using a Paint stored as a member variable. The shape's outline is also drawn in white.
The timeStep() method updates all the elements of the coordinate array by adding the corresponding element of deltas. If any coordinates are now out of the component's bounds, they are adjusted, and the corresponding delta is negated. This produces the effect of bouncing off the sides of the component.
createShape() creates a shape from the coordinate array. It uses the GeneralPathclass, a useful Shape implementation that allows you to build shapes using straight and curved line segments. In this case, we create a shape from a series of quadratic curves, close it to create an area, and fill it.
So far, we've talked about java.awt.Images and how they can be loaded and drawn. What if you really want to get inside the image to examine and update its data? Image doesn't give you access to its data. You'll need to use a more sophisticated kind of image, java.awt.image.BufferedImage. These classes are closely related BufferedImage, in fact, is a subclass of Image. But BufferedImage gives you all sorts of control over the actual data that makes up the image. BufferedImage provides many capabilities beyond the basic Image class, but because it's a subclass of Image, you can pass still a BufferedImage to any of Graphics2D's methods that accept an Image.
To create an image from raw data arrays, you need to understand exactly how a BufferedImage is put together. The full details can get quite complex the BufferedImage class was designed to support images in nearly any storage format you could imagine. But for common operations it's not that difficult to use. Figure 20-3 shows the elements of a BufferedImage.
An image is simply a rectangle of colored pixels, which is a simple enough concept. There's a lot of complexity underneath the BufferedImage class, because there are a lot of different ways to represent the colors of pixels. You might have, for instance, an image with RGB data in which each pixel's red, green, and blue values were stored as the elements of byte arrays. Or you might have an RGB image where each pixel was represented by an integer that contained red, green, and blue component values. Or you could have a 16-level grayscale image with 8 pixels stored in each element of an integer array. You get the idea; there are many different ways to store image data, and BufferedImage is designed to support all of them.
A BufferedImage consists of two pieces, a Raster and a ColorModel. The Raster contains the actual image data. You can think of it as an array of pixel values. It can answer the question, "What are the color data values for the pixel at 51, 17?" The Raster for an RGB image would return three values, while a Raster for a grayscale image would return a single value. WritableRaster, a subclass of Raster, also supports modifying pixel data values.
The ColorModel's job is to interpret the image data as colors. The ColorModel can translate the data values that come from the Raster into Color objects. An RGB color model, for example, would know how to interpret three data values as red, green, and blue. A grayscale color model could interpret a single data value as a gray level. Conceptually, at least, this is how an image is displayed on the screen. The graphics system retrieves the data for each pixel of the image from the Raster. Then the ColorModel tells what color each pixel should be, and the graphics system is able to set the color of each pixel.
The Raster itself is made up of two pieces: a DataBuffer and a SampleModel. A DataBuffer is a wrapper for the raw data arrays, which are byte, short, or int arrays. DataBuffer has handy subclasses, DataBufferByte, DataBufferShort, and DataBufferInt, that allow you to create a DataBuffer from raw data arrays. You'll see an example of this technique later in the StaticGenerator example.
The SampleModel knows how to extract the data values for a particular pixel from the DataBuffer. It knows the layout of the arrays in the DataBuffer and is ultimately responsible for answering the question "What are the data values for pixel x, y?" SampleModels are a little tricky to work with, but fortunately you'll probably never need to create or use one directly. As we'll see, the Raster class has many static ("factory") methods that create preconfigured Rasters for you, including their DataBuffers and SampleModels.
As Figure 20-1 shows, the 2D API comes with various flavors of ColorModels, SampleModels, and DataBuffers. These serve as handy building blocks that cover most common image storage formats. You'll rarely need to subclass any of these classes to create a BufferedImage.
As we've said, there are many different ways to encode color information: red, green, blue (RGB) values; hue, saturation, value (HSV); hue, lightness, saturation (HLS); and more. In addition, you can provide full-color information for each pixel, or you can just specify an index into a color table (palette) for each pixel. The way you represent a color is called a color model. The 2D API provides tools to support any color model you could imagine. Here, we'll just cover two broad groups of color models: direct and indexed.
As you might expect, you must specify a color model in order to generate pixel data; the abstract class java.awt.image.ColorModel represents a color model. By default, Java 2D uses a direct color model called ARGB. The A stands for "alpha," which is the historical name for transparency. RGB refers to the red, green, and blue color components that are combined to produce a single, composite color. In the default ARGB model, each pixel is represented by a 32-bit integer that is interpreted as four 8-bit fields; in order, the fields represent the alpha (transparency), red, green, and blue components of the color, as shown in Figure 20-4.
To create an instance of the default ARGB model, call the static getRGBdefault() method in ColorModel. This method returns a DirectColorModel object; DirectColorModel is a subclass of ColorModel. You can also create other direct color models by calling a DirectColorModel constructor, but you shouldn't need to unless you have a fairly exotic application.
In an indexed color model, each pixel is represented by a smaller piece of information: an index into a table of real color values. For some applications, generating data with an indexed model may be more convenient. If you have an 8-bit display or smaller, using an indexed model may be more efficient, because your hardware is internally using an indexed color model of some form.
Let's take a look at producing some image data. A picture is worth a thousand words, and, fortunately, we can generate a picture in significantly fewer than a thousand words of Java. If we just want to render image frames byte by byte, you can put together a BufferedImage pretty easily.
The following application, ColorPan, creates an image from an array of integers holding RGB pixel values:
//file: ColorPan.java import java.awt.*; import java.awt.image.*; import javax.swing.*; public class ColorPan extends JComponent { BufferedImage image; public void initialize( ) { int width = getSize( ).width; int height = getSize( ).height; int[] data = new int [width * height]; int i = 0; for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) { int red = (y * 255) / (height - 1); for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) { int green = (x * 255) / (width - 1); int blue = 128; data[i++] = (red << 16) | (green << 8 ) | blue; } } image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); image.setRGB(0, 0, width, height, data, 0, width); } public void paint(Graphics g) { if (image == null) initialize( ); g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this); } public void setBounds(int x, int y, int width, int height) { super.setBounds(x,y,width,height); initialize( ); } public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("ColorPan"); frame.getContentPane( ).add(new ColorPan( )); frame.setSize(300, 300); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); frame.setVisible(true); } }
Give it a try. The size of the image is determined by the size of the application window. You should get a very colorful box that pans from deep blue at the upper-left corner to bright yellow at the bottom right, with green and red at the other extremes.
We create a BufferedImage in the initialize() method and then display the image in paint(). The variable data is a 1D array of integers that holds 32-bit RGB pixel values. In initialize(), we loop over every pixel in the image and assign it an RGB value. The blue component is always 128, half its maximum intensity. The red component varies from 0 to 255 along the y-axis; likewise, the green component varies from 0 to 255 along the x-axis. This statement combines these components into an RGB value:
data[i++] = (red << 16) | (green << 8 ) | blue;
The bitwise left-shift operator (<<) should be familiar to C programmers. It simply shoves the bits over by the specified number of positions in our 32-bit value.
When we create the BufferedImage, all its data is zeroed out. All we specify in the constructor is the width and height of the image and its type. BufferedImage includes quite a few constants representing image storage types. We've chosen TYPE_INT_RGB here, which indicates we want to store the image as RGB data packed into integers. The constructor takes care of creating an appropriate ColorModel, Raster, SampleModel, and DataBuffer for us. Then we simply use a convenient method, setRGB(), to assign our data to the image. In this way, we've side-stepped the messy innards of BufferedImage. In the next example, we'll take a closer look at the details.
Once we have the image, we can draw it on the display with the familiar drawImage() method. We also override the Component setBounds() method in order to determine when the frame is resized and reinitialize the drawing image to the new size.
BufferedImage can also be used to update an image dynamically. Because the image's data arrays are directly accessible, you can simply change the data and redraw the picture whenever you want. This is probably the easiest way to build your own low-level animation software. The following example simulates the static on an old black-and-white television screen. It generates successive frames of random black and white pixels and displays each frame when it is complete. Figure 20-5 shows one frame of random static.
Here's the code:
//file: StaticGenerator.java import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.image.*; import java.util.Random; import javax.swing.*; public class StaticGenerator extends JComponent implements Runnable { byte[] data; BufferedImage image; Random random; public void initialize( ) { int w = getSize().width, h = getSize( ).height; int length = ((w + 7) * h) / 8; data = new byte[length]; DataBuffer db = new DataBufferByte(data, length); WritableRaster wr = Raster.createPackedRaster(db, w, h, 1, null); ColorModel cm = new IndexColorModel(1, 2, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 }, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 }, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 }); image = new BufferedImage(cm, wr, false, null); random = new Random( ); } public void run( ) { if ( random == null ) initialize( ); while (true) { random.nextBytes(data); repaint( ); try { Thread.sleep(1000 / 24); } catch( InterruptedException e ) { /* die */ } } } public void paint(Graphics g) { if (image == null) initialize( ); g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this); } public void setBounds(int x, int y, int width, int height) { super.setBounds(x,y,width,height); initialize( ); } public static void main(String[] args) { //RepaintManager.currentManager(null).setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false); JFrame frame = new JFrame("StaticGenerator"); StaticGenerator staticGen = new StaticGenerator( ); frame.getContentPane( ).add( staticGen ); frame.setSize(300, 300); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); frame.setVisible(true); new Thread( staticGen ).start( ); } }
The initialize() method sets up the BufferedImage that produces the sequence of images. We build this image from the bottom up, starting with the raw data array. Since we're only displaying two colors here, black and white, we need only one bit per pixel. We want a 0 bit to represent black and a 1 bit to represent white. This calls for an indexed color model, which we'll create a little later.
We'll store our image data as a byte array, where each array element holds eight pixels from our black-and-white image. The array length, then, is calculated by multiplying the width and height of the image and dividing by eight. To keep things simple, we'll arrange for each image row to start on a byte boundary. For example, an image 13 pixels wide actually uses 2 bytes (16 bits) for each row:
int length = ((w + 7) * h) / 8;
Next, the actual byte array is created. The member variable data holds a reference to this array. Later, we'll use data to change the image data dynamically. Once we have the image data array, it's easy to create a DataBufferfrom it:
data = new byte[length]; DataBuffer db = new DataBufferByte(data, length);
DataBuffer has several subclasses, such as DataBufferByte, that make it easy to create a data buffer from raw arrays.
The next step, logically, is to create a SampleModel. We could then create a Raster from the SampleModel and the DataBuffer. Lucky for us, though, the Raster class contains a bevy of useful static methods that create common types of Rasters. One of these methods creates a Raster from data that contains multiple pixels packed into array elements. We simply use this method, supplying the data buffer, the width and height, and indicating that each pixel uses one bit:
WritableRaster wr = Raster.createPackedRaster(db, w, h, 1, null);
The last argument to this method is a java.awt.Point that indicates where the upper-left corner of the Raster should be. By passing null, we use the default of 0, 0.
The last piece of the puzzle is the ColorModel. Each pixel is either 0 or 1, but how should that be interpreted as color? In this case, we use an IndexColorModel with a very small palette. The palette has only two entries, one each for black and white:
ColorModel cm = new IndexColorModel(1, 2, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 }, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 }, new byte[] { (byte)0, (byte)255 });
The IndexColorModel constructor that we've used here accepts the number of bits per pixel (one), the number of entries in the palette (two), and three byte arrays that are the red, green, and blue components of the palette colors. Our palette consists of two colors: black (0, 0, 0) and white (255, 255, 255).
Now that we've got all the pieces, we just need to create a BufferedImage. This image is also stored in a member variable so we can draw it later. To create the BufferedImage, we pass the color model and writable raster we just created:
image = new BufferedImage(cm, wr, false, null);
All the hard work is done now. Our paint() method just draws the image, using drawImage().
The init() method starts a thread that generates the pixel data. The run() method takes care of generating the pixel data. It uses a java.util.Random object to fill the data image byte array with random values. Since the data array is the actual image data for our image, changing the data values changes the appearance of the image. Once we fill the array with random data, a call to repaint() shows the new image on the screen.
To run, try turning off double buffering by uncommenting the line involving the RepaintManager. Now it will look even more like an old TV with flickering and all!
That's about all there is. It's worth noting how simple it is to create this animation. Once we have the BufferedImage, we treat it like any other image. The code that generates the image sequence can be arbitrarily complex. But that complexity never infects the simple task of getting the image on the screen and updating it. 20-1.
Let's take a look at two of the simpler image operators. First, try the following application. It loads an image (the first command-line argument is the filename) and processes it in different ways as you select items from the combo box. The application is shown in Figure 20 application., we could have passed it as the second argument to filter(), which would improve the performance of the application a bit. If you just pass null, as we have here, an appropriate destination image is created and returned to you. Once the destination image is created, paint()'s job is very simple; it just draws the destination image, centered on the component.
Image processing is performed on BufferedImages, not Images. This example demonstrates an important technique: how to convert an Image to a BufferedImage. The main() method loads an Image from a file using Toolkit's getImage() method:
Image i = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getImage(filename);
Next, main() uses a MediaTracker to make sure the image data is fully loaded. colors of its pixels. application application,.
Now we'll turn from images and open our ears to audio. The Java Sound API became a core API in Java 1.3. It provides fine-grained support for the creation and manipulation of both sampled audio and MIDI music. There's space here only to scratch the surface by examining how to play simple sampled sound and MIDI music files. With the standard JavaSound support bundled with Java you can play a wide range of file formats including AIFF, AU, Windows WAV, standard MIDI files, and Rich Music Format (RMF) files. We'll discuss other formats (such as MP3) along with video media in the next section.
java.applet.AudioClip defines the simplest interface for objects that can play sound. An object that implements AudioClip can be told to play() its sound data, stop() playing the sound, or loop() continuously.
The Applet class provides a handy static method, newAudioClip(), that retrieves sounds from files or over the network. (And there is no reason we can't use it in a nonapplet application.) The method takes an absolute or relative URL to specify where the audio file is located and returns an AudioClip. The following application, NoisyButton, gives a simple example:
//file: NoisyButton.java import java.applet.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class NoisyButton { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { JFrame frame = new JFrame("NoisyButton"); java.io.File file = new java.io.File( args[0] ); final AudioClip sound = Applet.newAudioClip(file.toURL( )); JButton button = new JButton("Woof!"); button.addActionListener(new ActionListener( ) { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { sound.play( ); } }); Container content = frame.getContentPane( ); content.setBackground(Color.pink); content.setLayout(new GridBagLayout( )); content.add(button); frame.setVisible(true); frame.setSize(200, 200); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); frame.setVisible(true); } }
Run NoisyButton, passing the name of the audio file you wish to use as the argument. (We've supplied one called bark.aiff.)
NoisyButton retrieves the AudioClip using a File and the toURL()method to reference it as a URL. When the button is pushed, we call the play() method of the AudioClip to start things. After that, it plays to completion unless we call the stop() method to interrupt it.
This interface is simple, but there is a lot of machinery behind the scenes. Next we'll look at the Java Media Framework, which supports wider ranging types of media.
Get some popcorn Java can play movies! To do this though we'll need one of Java's standard extension APIs, the Java Media Framework (JMF). The JMF defines a set of interfaces and classes in the javax.media and javax.media.protocol packages. You can download the latest JMF from. To use the JMF, add jmf.jar to your classpath. Or, depending on what version of the JMF you download, a friendly installation program may do this for you.
We'll only scratch the surface of JMF here, by working with an important interface called Player. Specific implementations of Player deal with different media types, like Apple QuickTime (.mov) and Windows Video (.avi). There are also players for audio types including MP3. Players are handed out by a high-level class in the JMF called Manager. One way to obtain a Player is to specify the URL of a movie:
Player player = Manager.createPlayer(url);
Because video files are so large and playing them requires significant system resources, Players have a multistep life cycle from the time they're created to the time they actually play something. We'll just look at one step, realizing. In this step, the Player finds out (by looking at the media file) what system resources it needs to play the media file.
player.realize( );
The realize() method returns right away; it kicks off the realizing process in a separate thread. When the player is finished realizing, it sends out an event. Once you receive this event, you can obtain one of two Components from the Player. The first is a visual component that, for visual media types, shows the media. The second is a control component that provides a prefab user interface for controlling the media presentation. The control normally includes start, stop, and pause buttons, along with volume controls and attendant goodies.
The Player has to be realized before you ask for these components so that it has important information, like how big the component should be. After that, getting the component is easy. Here's an example:
Component c = player.getVisualComponent( );
Now we just need to add the component to the screen somewhere. We can play the media right away (although this actually moves the Player through several other internal states):
player.start( );
The following example, MediaPlayer, uses the JMF to load and display a movie or audio file from a specified URL:
//file: MediaPlayer.java import java.awt.*; import java.net.URL; import javax.swing.*; import javax.media.*; public class MediaPlayer { public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception { final JFrame frame = new JFrame("MediaPlayer"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); URL url = new URL( args[0] ); final Player player = Manager.createPlayer( url ); player.addControllerListener( new ControllerListener( ) { public void controllerUpdate( ControllerEvent ce ) { if ( ce instanceof RealizeCompleteEvent ) { Component visual = player.getVisualComponent( ); Component control = player.getControlPanelComponent( ); if ( visual != null ) frame.getContentPane( ).add( visual, "Center" ); frame.getContentPane( ).add( control, "South" ); frame.pack( ); frame.setVisible( true ); player.start( ); } } }); player.realize( ); } }
This class creates a JFrame that holds the media. Then it creates a Player from the URL specified on the command line and tells the Player to realize(). There's nothing else we can do until the Player is realized, so the rest of the code operates inside a ControllerListener after the RealizeCompleteEvent is received.
In the event handler, we get the Player's visual and controller components and add them to the JFrame. We then display the JFrame and, finally, we play the movie. It's very simple!
To use the MediaPlayer, pass it the URL of a movie or audio file on the command line. Here are a couple of examples:
% java MediaPlayer file:dancing_baby.avi % java MediaPlayer
Figure 20-7 shows the "dancing baby" AVI running in the MediaPlayer. Feel free to dance along, if you want. | https://flylib.com/books/en/4.121.1.161/1/ | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | refinedweb | 4,984 | 56.96 |
How to import rosbag API into an C++ Project
Hello to all,
Currently I am working on a project and we need to extract data from a bagfile and process it.
After my research i found that the rosbag API could be used for my purpose.
I have a general idea of how to code what I want by using the API but my problem comes on how can import it into my project.
QUESTION: What should I do to be able to use the rosbag API in my project?
Basically i cannot
#include <rosbag/bag.h> in my project so I cannot use any functionality of the API.
I tried to write this in the CMakeList.txt of my C++ project in CLion but it gives an error on the compilation because it cannot find the packages.
find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS rosbag rosconsole roscpp roslib sensor_msgs std_msgs )
Is there a guide or some information about how to do it?m
why not?
If this is about CLion configuration, then you may be interested in ROS Setup Tutorial. | https://answers.ros.org/question/309986/how-to-import-rosbag-api-into-an-c-project/?answer=310004 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 178 | 72.46 |
When you compile a .NET 4.0 C# application the following error message appears:
The type or namespace name … could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
There is also a warning message :
The currently targeted framework “.NET Framework,Version=v4.0,Profile=Client” does not include “System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a” which the referenced assembly ….dll” depends on. This caused the referenced assembly to not resolve. To fix this, either (1) change the targeted framework for this project, or (2) remove the referenced assembly from the project.
Cause:
The project targets the .NET framework 4.0 Client profile, but some functionality in the referenced project is not supported by the Client profile.
Solution:
Set the Target Framework of you project to “.NET Framework 4.0”
- In the Solution Explorer right click the project and select “Properties”,
- On the “Application” page set the Target Framework to “.NET Framework 4.0”. | http://pinter.org/archives/18 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 162 | 61.63 |
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