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I was having trouble with py2exe not getting the datafiles that it needed. I noticed someone else got it to work by copying all the files, but losing the directory structure. I tried that, but I still had missing datafiles at runtime.
This function will return everything needed for py2exe to work correctly. Instead of returning one tuple, it returns a list of tuples, so the use changes a little bit, but at least it works.
def get_py2exe_datafiles():
outdirname = 'matplotlibdata' mplfiles = [] for root, dirs, files in os.walk(get_data_path()): py2exe_files = [] # Append root to each file so py2exe can find them for file in files: py2exe_files.append(os.sep.join([root, file])) if len(py2exe_files) > 0: py2exe_root = root[len(get_data_path()+os.sep):] if len(py2exe_root) > 0: mplfiles.append((os.sep.join([outdirname, py2exe_root]), py2exe_files)) else: # Don't do a join for the root directory mplfiles.append((outdirname, py2exe_files)) return mplfiles
Sorry for not submitting as a patch: I haven’t quite figured out how to do that yet. | https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/get-py2exe-datafiles-fix/7474 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | en | refinedweb |
Hi!
I have a FileField which acutally stores an image.
However, when the image is added or changed, I need to resize the image.
Storage backend is s3botostorage.
Here’s the mixin I wrote to resize the image which works well with local FileSystemStorage.
class ImageResizeMixin: def resize_image(self, imageField: Union[models.FileField, models.ImageField], size: tuple=(1200, 1200)): side = int(size[0]) im = Image.open(imageField) # images of RGBA mode which has alpha channel # should be converted to RGB to remove alpha channel im = im.convert('RGB') width, height = im.size if width == height and width != side: resized_im = im.resize(size) else: # side which is smaller than desired size is streched to the size # and the other side will be cut off scale = side / min(width, height) if width < height: new_size = (side, int(height * scale)) top = (new_size[1] - side) / 2 crop_box = (0, top, side, new_size[1] - top) else: new_size = (int(width * scale), side) left = (new_size[0] - side) / 2 crop_box = (left, 0, new_size[0] - left, side) resized_im = im.resize(new_size).crop(crop_box) output = BytesIO() resized_im.save(output, format='JPEG') output.seek(0) content_file = ContentFile(output.read()) file = File(content_file) base = os.path.basename(imageField.name) filename = base.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + '.jpg' imageField.save(filename, file, save=False)
And this is my model’s save() method
def save(self, *args, **kwargs): ... this_object = MyModel.objects.get(pk=self.pk) super(MyModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs) if self.background and this_object.background != self.background: self.resize_image(self.background, (1200, 1200))
Here’s my problem.
I upload png file on django admin.
After saving the model, I see both png file and jpg file of same image on s3 bucket.
I don’t need png file as I convert all images to jpeg.
And it actually writes to s3 twice - one png and one jpg.
I want to resize before it is acutally written to storage so it only writes once to storage.
How can I solve this?
Any help would be appreicated.
@KenWhitesell , maybe this would be an easy fix for you. Any advice? | https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-filefield-resize-image-before-save-to-s3botostorage/7595 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | en | refinedweb |
....PFR is a C++14 library for a very basic reflection. It gives you access
to structure elements by index and provides other
std::tuple like
methods for user defined types without macro or boilerplate code:
#include <iostream> #include <string> #include "boost/pfr! std::cout << boost::pfr::io(val); // Outputs: {"Edgar Allan Poe", 1809} }
See limitations.
Imagine that you are writing the wrapper library for a database. Depending on the usage of Boost.PFR users code will look differently:
Otherwise your library could require a customization point for a user type:
With Boost.PFR the code is shorter, more readable and more pleasant to write.
Boost.PFR adds the following out-of-the-box functionality for aggregate initializable structures:
std::tuple
Boost.PFR is a header only library that does not depend on Boost. You can just
copy the content of the "include" folder from
the Boost.PFR github into your project, and the library will work fine.
For a version of the library without
boost:: namespace see PFR. | https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/boost_pfr.html | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | en | refinedweb |
A react native module that lets you to register a global error handler
react.
Example repo can be found here:
* *
Screens
Without any error handling
In DEV MODE
In BUNDLED MODE
With react-native-exception-handler in BUNDLED MODE
Installation:
yarn add react-native-exception-handler
or
npm i react-native-exception-handler --save
Mostly automatic installation
react-native link react-native-exception-handler
Manual installation
iOS
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To catch JS_Exceptions
import {setJSExceptionHandler, getJSExceptionHandler} from 'react-native-exception-handler'; . . // registering the error handler (maybe u can do this in the index.android.js or index.ios.js) setJSExceptionHandler((error, isFatal) => { // This is your custom global error handler // You do stuff like show an error dialog // or hit google analytics to track crashes // or hit a custom api to inform the dev team. }); // getJSExceptionHandler gives the currently set JS exception handler const currentHandler = getJSExceptionHandler();
To catch Native_Exceptions
import {setNativeExceptionHandler} from 'react-native-exception-handler'; setNativeExceptionHandler((exceptionString) => { // This is your custom global error handler // You do stuff likehit google analytics to track crashes. // or hit a custom api to inform the dev team. //NOTE: alert or showing any UI change via JS //WILL NOT WORK in case of NATIVE ERRORS. });
It is recommended you set both the handlers.
See the examples to know more
CUSTOMIZATION
Customizing setJSExceptionHandler.
In case of
setJSExceptionHandler you can do everything that is possible. Hence there is not much to customize here.
const errorHandler = (error, isFatal) => { //. setJSExceptionHandler(errorHandler, true);
Custom UI
import com.masteratul.exceptionhandler.ReactNativeExceptionHandlerModule; import <yourpackage>.YourCustomActivity; //This is your CustomErrorDialog.java ... ... ... public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication { ... ... @Override public void onCreate() { .... .... .... ReactNativeExceptionHandlerModule.replaceErrorScreenActivityClass(YourCustomActivity.class); //This will replace the native error handler popup with your own custom activity. }
#import "AppDelegate.h" #import <React/RCTBundleURLProvider.h> #import <React/RCTRootView.h> //Add the header file #import "ReactNativeExceptionHandler.h" ... ... @implementation AppDelegate - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions { ... ... [ReactNativeExceptionHandler replaceNativeExceptionHandlerBlock:^(NSException *exception, NSString *readeableException){ // THE CODE YOU WRITE HERE WILL REPLACE THE EXISTING NATIVE POPUP THAT COMES WITH THIS MODULE. //We create an alert box UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Critical error occurred" message: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n%@", @"Apologies..The app will close now \nPlease restart the app\n", readeableException] preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert]; // We show the alert box using the rootViewController [rootViewController presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil]; // THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART // By default when an exception is raised we will show an alert box as per our code. // But since our buttons wont work because our click handlers wont work. // to close the app or to remove the UI lockup on exception. // we need to call this method // [ReactNativeExceptionHandler releaseExceptionHold]; // to release the lock and let the app crash. //]; // or you can call // [ReactNativeExceptionHandler releaseExceptionHold]; when you are done to release the UI lock. }]; ... ... ... return YES; } ];];
Examples
Restart on error example
This example shows how to use this module show a graceful bug dialog to the user on crash and restart the app when the user presses ok !
import {Alert} from 'react-native'; import RNRestart from 'react-native-restart'; import {setJSExceptionHandler} from 'react-native-exception-handler'; const errorHandler = (e, isFatal) => { if (isFatal) { Alert.alert( 'Unexpected error occurred', ` Error: ${(isFatal) ? 'Fatal:' : ''} ${e.name} ${e.message} We will need to restart the app. `, [{ text: 'Restart', onPress: () => { RNRestart.Restart(); } }] ); } else { console.log(e); // So that we can see it in the ADB logs in case of Android if needed } }; setJSExceptionHandler(errorHandler); setNativeExceptionHandler((errorString) => { //You can do something like call an api to report to dev team here ... ... // When you call setNativeExceptionHandler, react-native-exception-handler sets a // Native Exception Handler popup which supports restart on error in case of android. // In case of iOS, it is not possible to restart the app programmatically, so we just show an error popup and close the app. // To customize the popup screen take a look at CUSTOMIZATION section. });
Bug Capture to dev team example
This example shows how to use this module to send global errors to the dev team and show a graceful bug dialog to the user on crash !
import {Alert} from 'react-native'; import {BackAndroid} from 'react-native'; import {setJSExceptionHandler} from 'react-native-exception-handler'; const reporter = (error) => { // Logic for reporting to devs // Example : Log issues to github issues using github apis. console.log(error); // sample }; const errorHandler = (e, isFatal) => { if (isFatal) { reporter(e); Alert.alert( 'Unexpected error occurred', ` Error: ${(isFatal) ? 'Fatal:' : ''} ${e.name} ${e.message} We have reported this to our team ! Please close the app and start again! `, [{ text: 'Close', onPress: () => { BackAndroid.exitApp(); } }] ); } else { console.log(e); // So that we can see it in the ADB logs in case of Android if needed } }; setJSExceptionHandler(errorHandler); setNativeExceptionHandler((errorString) => { //You can do something like call an api to report to dev team here //example // fetch('http://<YOUR API TO REPORT TO DEV TEAM>?error='+errorString); // });
More Examples can be found in the examples folder
- Preserving old handler (thanks to zeh) | https://reactnativeexample.com/a-react-native-module-that-lets-you-to-register-a-global-error-handler/ | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | en | refinedweb |
When a Vue app gets large, lazy loading components, routes or Vuex modules using Webpack’s code splitting will boost it by loading pieces of code only when needed.
We could apply lazy loading and code splitting in 3 different levels in a Vue app:
But there is something they all have in common: they use dynamic import, which is understood by Webpack since version 2.
Lazy load in Vue components
This is well explained in the “Load components when needed with Vue async components” on Egghead.
It’s as simple as using the
import function when registering a component:
Vue.component('AsyncCmp', () => import('./AsyncCmp'))
And using local registration:
new Vue({ // ... components: { 'AsyncCmp': () => import('./AsyncCmp') } })
By wrapping the
import function into an arrow function, Vue will execute it only when it gets requested, loading the module in that moment.
If the component importing is using a named export, you can use object destructuring on the returned Promise. For example, for the UiAlert component from KeenUI:
... components: { UiAlert: () => import('keen-ui').then(({ UiAlert }) => UiAlert) } ...
Lazy load in Vue router
Vue router has built in support for lazy loading. It’s as simple as importing your components with the
import function. Say we wanna lazy load a Login component in the /login route:
// Instead of: import Login from './login' const Login = () => import('./login') new VueRouter({ routes: [ { path: '/login', component: Login } ] })
Lazy load a Vuex module
Vuex has a
registerModule method that allow us to dynamically create Vuex modules. If we take into account that
import function returns a promise with the ES Module as the payload, we could use it to lazy load a module:
const store = new Vuex.Store() ... // Assume there is a "login" module we wanna load import('./store/login').then(loginModule => { store.registerModule('login', loginModule) })
Conclusion
Lazy loading is made extremely simple with Vue and Webpack. Using what you’ve just read you can start splitting up your app in chunks from different sides and load them when needed, lightening the initial load of the app.
If you like it, please go and share it!
You can follow me recording videos on Egghead
or on twitter as @alexjoverm. Any questions? Shoot!
Source link | https://www.laravel-vuejs.com/lazy-loading-in-vue-using-webpacks-code-splitting/ | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | en | refinedweb |
Terminals and their databases
Let us go deeper into the very close relationship between console terminals and the escape/control sequences. In the old days, text terminals were Teletype hardware devices, each with its own command sequences to perform various operations. Due to this difference, not all command sequences are guaranteed to work with all terminals. This is equally applicable to emulated terminals or text consoles that we have in the modern GNU/Linux world.
When this is the case, how do we write console GUI applications that behave uniformly, irrespective of terminal differences? This need was felt long ago, and the result was the terminal database. A terminal database stores information about the capabilities of terminals, and the related command sequences in order to manipulate them in a uniform way.
Thus, you can write console GUI applications that behave the same way whether you run them in Xterm or a GNU/Linux console. The
tput utility we used in the first part of the article is an example that uses the terminal database internally. In fact, all terminal GUI libraries like “newt”, “curses”, “ncurses”, etc, manipulate terminal databases internally, to provide an API to create portable terminal applications.
The first terminal database library was “termcap”, and later on it was enhanced in the form of “terminfo”, written in the 80s, or “pcurses”. Currently, terminfo is the most preferred terminal database and library used for text terminals, and it also provides an emulated terminfo for the older console applications.
If you install ncurses, as we shall do for the ncurses section, then that comes with terminfo and its terminal database compiler, known as “tic”. The terminfo database is stored on disk in a compiled form. The capabilities and control sequences for various terminals are arranged as tables corresponding to Boolean, string and numeric capabilities. The various capabilities information (like screen operations, scrolling padding requirements, terminal initialisation sequences, etc.) is accessed through the terminfo library functions. This is a vast topic in itself, and you could refer to the ncurses documentation and terminfo man page to explore it further.
Easy console GUIs with newt
Now it’s time to get our hands dirty with newt, a terminal GUI toolkit. Newt started its life at Red Hat when there was a need for a light-weight, no-fuss and stable terminal toolkit for the installation process.
We might all have interacted with newt knowingly or unknowingly — it is the toolkit used by the Anaconda installer used in RHEL, Fedora and CentOS distributions. The name stands for Not Erik’s Windowing Toolkit, and it is based upon the “slang” library. As the installer code runs in a restricted environment, it was developed using the C programming language.
Newt is different from many event-based GUI toolkits, as its original goals were different from modern toolkits where there is an event loop waiting to invoke callbacks registered for the various events. It is a serialised model-based toolkit, where various windows are constructed in a stack fashion, and the latest one is always the active one.
You can understand the behaviour of newt windows as model windows, where only the topmost (the latest created) window is active, until you pop it to destroy it. So you can use newt in applications where the flow of execution is strictly serial, like most of the candidates for scripting.
Newt is very easy to program (one of its original goals), and you’ll be productive right away, after playing with the example code presented in this section. You need to have the newt library and development headers installed on your system, along with build tools like GCC, to follow the examples in this section.
The good news is that newt comes pre-installed in most cases (Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS). Also, there is a utility known as “whiptail”, based on newt, which is pre-installed on these distros. This utility adds some basic dialogue boxes to the shell, and other scripting languages where you can call external commands. I encourage you to explore its man page.
If you see usage information on running whiptail in a console, then you only have to install newt development headers (as root, and run
apt-get install libnewt-dev). If you don’t have a development environment set up on your machine, do that with
apt-get install build-essential (as root).
There is also a Python module for newt, known as “snack”; you can install it with
apt-get install python-newt to run the Python examples presented in this article. In fact, you can also program newt with Perl, PHP and Tcl. You can explore those on your own, through the links provided in the newt Wikipedia page, if interested.
I’ll explain newt’s basic programming model, and then we’ll go on to programming examples, with specific notes where applicable. Newt provides functionality to create various forms or windows, widgets or controls. All newt windows are drawn on a special background window, known as the root window. You can put various controls on the root window itself, but in most cases, these are placed on various forms to provide the desired functionality. You can’t randomly control which window is to be shown; only the latest-created window is active. You have to “pop” windows in the reverse order of creation, to destroy them and return to the previous window.
Now compile
testnewt.c (code shown below), with
gcc -o testnewt testnewt.c -lnewt (after changing the working directory to where
testnewt.c is saved). Run it with
./testnewt and terminate it by pressing any key.
#include <newt.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* required variables and string */ unsigned int uiRows, uiCols; const char pcText[] = "Welcome to Newt and FLOSS !!!"; /* initialization stuff */ newtInit(); newtCls(); /* determine current terminal window size */ uiRows = uiCols = 0; newtGetScreenSize(&uiCols, &uiRows); /* draw standard help and string on root window */ newtPushHelpLine(NULL); newtDrawRootText((uiCols-strlen(pcText))/2, uiRows/2, pcText); /* cleanup after getting a keystroke */ newtWaitForKey(); newtFinished(); return 0; }
As is evident in the source, newt allocates and initialises internal data structures, and sets the terminal to the proper state by
newtInit. The
newtGetScreenSize function calculates the columns and lines of the terminal screen.
A text string is put on the background by providing desired column, line and content to
newtDrawRootText. Also, a newt standard help string is put at the bottom of the root window by calling
newtPushHelpLine and passing a NULL parameter to it. If you pass a string to this function, then that string is displayed as help content. The
newtWaitForKey function blocks the program till any key is pressed — and finally,
newtFinished clears newt internal data structures, and resets the terminal to its original state.
If you don’t call
newtFinished at the end of your program, then the user will have to restore the original settings via the
resetcommand. The output of the program on Ubuntu is shown in Figure 1.
The next example creates a console-mode rectangle animation through window creation and destruction. If you don’t pop a created window, then the next one is overlapped on the top of the older one. The
animaterect.c code (presented below) takes the following parameters: the first, the number of animation steps; the second, a non-zero value if you want to erase the previous windows during the animation.
#include <newt.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* newt cleanup stuff */ void cleanupNewt() { newtFinished(); } /* newt initialization stuff */ void initNewt() { newtInit(); newtCls(); newtDrawRootText(1, 1, " Welcome to Animation with Newt !!!"); newtPushHelpLine(" < Press any key to animate the rectangle > "); } /* draw rectangle with specified title, width & height */ void drawRect(unsigned int uiX, unsigned int uiY, unsigned int uiW, unsigned int uiH, const char* pTitle, unsigned int bErase) { newtOpenWindow(uiX, uiY, uiW, uiH, pTitle); newtWaitForKey(); if(bErase) { newtPopWindow(); } } /* Main routine for the rectangle animation */ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* constant and variable data required */ char pRectTitle[20]; unsigned int uiWidth = 0, uiHeight = 0, uiMaxSteps = 0; unsigned int uiRectWidth = 0, uiRectHeight = 0, uiEraseFlag = 0; /* check for exact and proper command line parameters */ if(3 != argc) { printf(" Usage: animaterect maxsteps eraseflag\n"); return -1; } else { uiMaxSteps = atoi(argv[1]); uiEraseFlag = atoi(argv[2]); if(2 > uiMaxSteps) { printf(" Error: minimum value of maxsteps should be 2.\n"); return -1; } } /* initialize newt library */ initNewt(); /* calculate dimensions of rectangles to accomodate in the terminal area */ newtGetScreenSize(&uiWidth, &uiHeight); uiRectHeight = (uiHeight - 6)/uiMaxSteps; uiRectWidth = (uiWidth - 6)/uiMaxSteps; int i; for(i=0; i < uiMaxSteps; ++i) { snprintf(pRectTitle, 19, "Rectangle %d", i+1); drawRect(3+i*uiRectWidth, 3+i*uiRectHeight, uiRectWidth, uiRectHeight, pRectTitle, uiEraseFlag); } /* cleanup newt library */ cleanupNewt(); return 0; }
Build and run it; and you can see a rectangular window moving diagonally, on pressing any key multiple times. The output of the program, in both clean-up and overlapping modes, is shown in Figure 2.
Remember, you can create various help content by adding different help lines. The helpline stack is different from the windows stack, so you can control them independent of each other.
Now, it’s time to use newt widgets and forms to create some terminal GUI examples. Compile and run the following
greeter.c program, which uses the Label, Entry and Button components.
#include <newt.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* newt cleanup stuff */ void cleanupNewt() { newtFinished(); } /* newt initialization stuff with background title */ void initNewt(unsigned int y, const char* pTitle) { unsigned int uiWidth = 0, uiHeight = 0; newtGetScreenSize(&uiWidth, &uiHeight); newtInit(); newtCls(); newtDrawRootText((uiWidth-strlen(pTitle))/2, y, pTitle); newtPushHelpLine(" < Press ok button to see your greetings > "); } /* draw centered window with components and specified title */ void drawWindow(unsigned int uiW, unsigned int uiH, char* pTitle, char* pEntryText) { newtComponent form, label, entry, button; char* pEntry; newtCenteredWindow(uiW, uiH, pTitle); label = newtLabel(2, uiH/4, "Geek's Name"); entry = newtEntry(uiW/2, uiH/4, "RichNusGeeks", 12, \ (const char**) &pEntry, 0); button = newtButton((uiW-6)/2, 2*uiH/3, "Ok"); form = newtForm(NULL, NULL, 0); newtFormAddComponents(form, label, entry, button, NULL); newtRunForm(form); strncpy(pEntryText, pEntry, 12); newtFormDestroy(form); } /* draw a centered message box */ void messageBox(unsigned int uiW, unsigned int uiH, const char* pMessage) { newtComponent form, label, button; newtCenteredWindow(uiW, uiH, "Message Box"); newtPopHelpLine(); newtPushHelpLine(" < Press ok button to return > "); label = newtLabel((uiW-strlen(pMessage))/2, uiH/4, pMessage); button = newtButton((uiW-6)/2, 2*uiH/3, "Ok"); form = newtForm(NULL, NULL, 0); newtFormAddComponents(form, label, button, NULL); newtRunForm(form); newtFormDestroy(form); } /* Main routine for the greeter */ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* constant and variable data required */ const char pBackTitle[] = "-----Newt Greeter for FOSS Hackers-----"; char pName[20], pMessage[40]; /* initialize newt stuff */ initNewt(1, pBackTitle); drawWindow(30, 10, "Greeter !!!", pName); snprintf(pMessage, 39, "FOSS loves geeks like %s \\m/", pName); messageBox(40, 10, pMessage); /* cleanup newt library */ cleanupNewt(); return 0; }
Figure 3 shows the resultant form.
The greeter program presents some new functions — let me explain. A newt form is meant to group components logically. All newt components (widgets), including forms, are represented by a data structure
newtComponent. The basic flow of actions when creating components is as follows:
- Create a container window with
newtOpenWindowor
newtCenteredWindow. If you skip this, then your widgets are drawn on the last window left, which is confusing and visually distracting in most cases.
- Create a new form (
newtForm) for every logical component grouping.
- Create the components to put in the form, and add them with
newtFormAddComponents.
- Run the form (
newtRunForm) to display it on-screen.
- Store all return values from the components for further handling.
- Finally, free the resources allocated for the form (and sub-forms) and components by calling
newtFormDestroy.
You can thus group forms and sub-forms to create sophisticated and feature-rich terminal GUIs. You can learn about the arguments to various newt functions via this tutorial link.
It’s easier to program newt with the Python module, snack. In fact, the Red Hat installer, Anaconda, actually uses newt through snack, and is the best real-world example of this. In Ubuntu, you’ll find two sample programs,
peanuts.py and
popcorn.py in
/usr/share/doc/python-newt/examples/, which quickly demos snack in action, as seen in Figure 4.
It should be easy to explore snack with your knowledge of newt, and this tutorial. Newt programming is a cakewalk with snack, so I conclude this section leaving a few trivial newt concepts for you to explore yourself.
More sophisticated console GUIs with ncurses
Now I come to the grand-daddy of all terminal GUI toolkits — ncurses, which is the most sophisticated, powerful and seasoned terminal tool-kit, and is still very much in active use in the *NIX world. Look it up at Wikipedia and you will be amazed with its abilities and modern-day uses. From the text-mode configuration utility for the Linux kernel, to GNU Screen, to the Aptitude front-end for Debian package management, ncurses is everywhere.
The very popular Dialog program (covered in detail in the April 2010 issue of LFY) to create terminal GUIs is also based on ncurses. This section is a fast-track hands-on session, as detailed ncurses programming is a book’s worth of material.
Ncurses has bindings for more than a dozen programming languages, and also some frameworks like CDK and NDK++, to make programming it as easy as possible. As curses is a standard module available with Python, I’ll use mainly Python for example code, with some C for basic concepts.
Ncurses is pre-installed on most distributions; you have to install headers only for C/C++ development (run
apt-get install ncurses-dev in Ubuntu, as root). You can also build it from the sources (requires a C and C++ development setup) following the official documentation.
Build the
testncurses.c program with
gcc -o testncurses testncurses.c -lncurses and run it to quickly see ncurses in action.
#include <ncurses.h> #include <string.h> /* ncurses initialization */ void init() { initscr(); raw(); keypad(stdscr, TRUE); noecho(); } /* ncurses cleanup */ void cleanup() { getch(); endwin(); } /* messages printing */ void prompt(unsigned int uiY, unsigned int uiX, const char* pStr) { mvprintw(uiY, uiX, pStr); } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* required data */ unsigned int uiH = 0, uiW = 0; const char pPrompt[] = "Enter the Geeky password : "; const char pHelp1[] = "< Type correct password to see your messages >"; const char pHelp2[] = "< Press any key to leave > "; const char pHelp3[] = "< Incorrect password, press any key to leave >"; const char pMsg1[] = "When men were men and wrote their device drivers"; const char pMsg2[] = "and said yes only to Free Open Source Software."; char pPasswd[20]; init(); /* show the initial messages */ getmaxyx(stdscr, uiH, uiW); prompt((uiH-2), 2, pHelp1); prompt(uiH/2, (uiW-strlen(pPrompt))/2, pPrompt); getstr(pPasswd); /* valid/invalid password handling */ if(!strcmp(pPasswd, "lfyrockz")) { prompt((uiH-2), 2, pHelp2); prompt((uiH/2)-1, (uiW-strlen(pMsg1))/2, pMsg1); prompt(uiH/2, (uiW-strlen(pMsg2))/2, pMsg2); } else { prompt((uiH-2), 2, pHelp3); } refresh(); cleanup(); return 0; }
Now, I will explain the real intent behind the various functions used in
testncurses.c, and a few other basic ncurses blocks. The
initscr function is to initialise the terminal for curses mode, and allocates the resources for various data structures.
Ncurses programs always draw on screen areas known as windows. These windows are an abstract concept, and useful to group various terminal screen operations related to one another. The various windows/screens combine to make a complete interactive console application.
The
stdscr is the default window provided by ncurses — the first screen you encounter after running terminal programs. All operations to the windows are performed in memory, and then these are reflected on the terminal using the refresh function. This way, ncurses minimises internal operations, and only refreshes the terminal screen when windows change.
You get the current terminal dimensions using the
getmaxyx macro. The raw disables line buffering, so that each character is available to your program as entered [otherwise everything is buffered till a new line (Enter) is pressed].
The
mvprintw is used to print formatted strings to the specified screen location. Remember, all ncurses functions take the y coordinate before x when you specify locations. GUI applications use function keys like F1, F2, right/left arrows, etc, and ncurses provides this functionality through the keypad function.
You can turn off echoing of typed characters with
noecho, and can turn it on with
echo. Finally, reset your terminal to the original state using
endwin. This function also cleans up the various resources grabbed by the library. If you forget this step, the terminal goes into a weird state, and you have to reset it.
If this entire sequence seems complicated, don’t worry; learn it once, and use it, with a few tweaks in every ncurses program.
Now we move to some more appealing programs — but this time, I’ll use the Python standard library module curses.
Run the following
colorful.py program with
python colorful.py.
#! /usr/bin/env python import curses as cur colors = {'Black' : cur.COLOR_BLACK, 'Blue' : cur.COLOR_BLUE, 'Cyan' : cur.COLOR_CYAN, 'Green' : cur.COLOR_GREEN, 'Magenta': cur.COLOR_MAGENTA, 'Red' : cur.COLOR_RED, 'White' : cur.COLOR_WHITE, 'Yellow' : cur.COLOR_YELLOW } attrs = {'Bold' : cur.A_BOLD, 'Normal' : cur.A_NORMAL, 'Reverse' : cur.A_REVERSE, 'Underline' : cur.A_UNDERLINE, } menu = ('1. ls -lhrt', '', '2. df -h', '', '3. uname -a', '', '4. hostname') # setup the color pairs. def initColors(): cur.init_pair(1, colors['Red'], colors['Blue']) cur.init_pair(2, colors['Green'], colors['Black']) cur.init_pair(3, colors['Cyan'], colors['Black']) cur.init_pair(4, colors['Magenta'], colors['Green']) cur.init_pair(5, colors['Red'], colors['White']) cur.init_pair(6, colors['Cyan'], colors['Black']) # stdscr window drawing routine. def drawMainWnd(width, height, stdscr): stitle = 'Action Menu with Python curses module' shelp = '< Use up/down arrow keys to navigate >' stdscr.bkgdset(' ', cur.color_pair(5)) stdscr.border('*', '*', '*', '*', '*', '*', '*', '*'); stdscr.addstr(2, (width-len(stitle))/2, stitle, cur.color_pair(1) | attrs['Bold'] | attrs['Underline']) stdscr.addstr(height-3, 2, shelp, cur.color_pair(2) | attrs['Bold']) # auxiliary window drawing routine. def drawAuxWnd(strtx, strty, width, height, border = '#'): rwnd = cur.newwin(height, width, strty, strtx) rwnd.bkgdset(' ', cur.color_pair(6)) rwnd.border(border, border, border, border, border, border, border, border) return rwnd # menu in an auxiliary window. def menuAuxWnd(rauxwnd): (h, w) = rauxwnd.getmaxyx() y = (h-len(menu))/2 for i in menu: rauxwnd.addstr(y, 2, i, cur.color_pair(3) | attrs['Bold']) y += 1 # output in an auxiliary window. def outAuxWnd(rauxwnd): sout = "Just a Demo output!" (h, w) = rauxwnd.getmaxyx() y = h/2-1 x = (w-len(sout))/2 rauxwnd.addstr(y, x, sout, cur.color_pair(5)) # the main routine. def draw(stdscr): cur.curs_set(0) initColors() (h, w) = stdscr.getmaxyx() drawMainWnd(w, h, stdscr) rmenu = drawAuxWnd(4, 4, (w-16)/2, h-8) menuAuxWnd(rmenu) rout = drawAuxWnd((w+8)/2, 4, (w-16)/2, h-8, '$') outAuxWnd(rout) stdscr.refresh() rmenu.refresh() rout.refresh() cur.napms(5000) cur.flash() stdscr.getch() # auto initialisation and cleanup. cur.wrapper(draw)
The output of the program is shown in Figure 5.
If you are surprised by not encountering the ncurses initialisation and cleanup sequences seen earlier, thank Python — the Python ncurses module includes initialisation and cleanup functions in a class known as
wrapper, which takes care of proper initialisation, along with ncurses colour support, on terminals that support colours.
Also, it properly cleans up in case of any exceptions, so your terminal is left in a sane state. The wrapper class takes a function object that is responsible for your curses logic, and you could also pass it a parameter tuple if you want to supply parameters to the function.
The above example creates various combinations of foreground and background colours. Please note that you cannot initialise the 0 colour pair, as that is reserved by ncurses for white on black background.
In Python, the string output function
addstr combines the functionality of otherwise multiple ncurses functions for the purpose. You can create various windows through
newwin and set their background styles using
bkgdset. Also, there is a border function to customise the rectangular boundaries surrounding the windows.
I also used
napms to introduce a few milliseconds’ delay in the program, and flash to blink the terminal screen for notification. You can see that
stdscr is also a kind of window, and how easily you can control various parts of the GUI screen by using separate windows.
This section should load you with the required ncurses knowledge to explore more complicated stuff like panels, menus and forms. The ncurses sources come with a whole bunch of great examples and documentation. Browse through those to learn more and progress towards sophisticated but lightweight and very stable terminal applications.
Console terminal-based GUI toolkits have been going strong for decades, and there is a plethora of modern console applications that use them. Being lightweight and highly stable were some of the original goals of toolkits like newt and ncurses.
The *NIX ecosystem, especially servers, embedded systems, legacy machines, etc., are still very dependent on less resource-hungry and powerful terminal-based configuration utilities for day-to-day operations. You can create very light, stable, portable and innovative terminal GUIs using these toolkits, with minimal effort.
References
- Newt library tutorial
- Quick guide to Python snack module
- Ncurses home page
- Writing programs with ncurses
- Python standard library documentation for curses
I have been reading your articles for a long time, they have been really helpful. Thank you for your time and effort. Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey :)
Oh, and I don’t get anything on the screen when I try the first example, until I call newtRefresh(). Did you forget to include this, or did I miss something somewhere else?
and newtDrawRootText(uiCols/2-strlen(pcText), uiRows/2,pcText); instead of newtDrawRootText((uiCols-strlen(pcText))/2, uiRows/2, pcText); is correct…
sorry – newtDrawRootText((uiCols/2-strlen(pcText))/2, uiRows/2, pcText);
Sorry, you were correct, please erase the rest of my comments :|
Thanks for the kind words and I hope to publish more whatever I learn everyday.
I think you still need a newtRefresh() in the first code example?
The newt library has an antiquated optic.
The widget toolkit “The Final Cut” has a more suitable appearance.
Can it working on MacOS?
It can’t find gpm.h (mouse daemon) when I tried to compile test file. | https://opensourceforu.com/2011/11/spicing-up-console-for-fun-profit-2/ | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | en | refinedweb |
Maintained by Aron Cedercrantz, John Sundell, Yunus Nedim Mehel.
Welcome to the.
The Hub Framework has two core concepts - Components & Content Operations..
You can choose to install the Hub Framework either manually, or through a dependency manager.
HubFramework.xcprojinto Xcode as a subproject of your app project.
HubFrameworkby adding it in "Linked Frameworks and Libaries", under the "General" tab in your app's project settings..
In Objective-C:
#import <HubFramework/HubFramework.h>
In Swift:
import HubFramework.
To see an example implementation of the Hub Framework, open up the demo app that has a few different features, showcasing some of the capabilities of the framework.!
Anyone is more than welcome to contribute to the Hub Framework! Together we can make the framework even more capable, and help each other fix any issues that we might find. However, before you contribute, please read our contribution guidlines.
The Hub Framework was built at Spotify by John Sundell, Aron Cedercrantz, Robin Goos and several others. | https://cocoapods.org/pods/HubFramework | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | en | refinedweb |
@Stateful @Local(EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class) public class EjbExampleUserStorageProvider implements UserStorageProvider, UserLookupProvider, UserRegistrationProvider, UserQueryProvider, CredentialInputUpdater, CredentialInputValidator, OnUserCache { @PersistenceContext protected EntityManager em; protected ComponentModel model; protected KeycloakSession session; public void setModel(ComponentModel model) { this.model = model; } public void setSession(KeycloakSession session) { this.session = session; } @Remove @Override public void close() { } ... }
Leveraging Java EE
The user storage is how you would do it:
You have to define the
@Local annotation and specify your provider class there. If you don’t do this, EJB will
not proxy the user correctly and your provider won’t work.
You must put the
@Remove annotation on the
close() method of your provider. If you don’t, the stateful bean
will never be cleaned up and you may eventually see error messages.
Implementations of
UserStorageProviderFactory are required to be plain java objects. Your factory class would
perform a JNDI lookup of the Stateful EJB in its create() method.
public class EjbExampleUserStorageProviderFactory implements UserStorageProviderFactory<EjbExampleUserStorageProvider> { @Override public EjbExampleUserStorageProvider create(KeycloakSession session, ComponentModel model) { try { InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); EjbExampleUserStorageProvider provider = (EjbExampleUserStorageProvider)ctx.lookup( "java:global/user-storage-jpa-example/" + EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class.getSimpleName()); provider.setModel(model); provider.setSession(session); return provider; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } }
This example also assumes that you’ve defined a JPA deployment in the same jar as the provider. This means a
persistence.xml
file as well as any JPA
@Entity classes.
See the JBoss/Wildfly manual for more details on deploying an XA datasource. | https://www.keycloak.org/docs/3.0/server_development/topics/user-storage/javaee.html | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | en | refinedweb |
Introduction
The Python language has many advantages when it comes to scripting. The power of python can be felt when you start working with and try new things with it. It has modules which can be used to create scripts to automate stuff, play with files and folders, Image processing, controlling keyboard and mouse, web scraping, regex parsing etc.
For those of you who are familiar with Kali Linux, many scripts are written in Python. There are many freeware tools which are there in the market which can get the job done, the why script it with Python? The answer to the question is simple. For those who have written the tools have a superset of requirements, they want to cover all the scenarios and add customisations to the tools. This ends up in tools getting complicated and cumbersome. Moreover, every time we do not have the feasibility to use tools and hence scripting comes handy. We can script tasks as per our need and requirement set.
For security professionals, Python can be used for but not limited to:
- Penetration testing
- Information gathering
- Scripting tools
- Automating stuff
- Forensics
I will be discussing a few examples where Python can be used along with the code and comments. I have tried to heavily comment the code so that it becomes easy to understand and digest. The approach which I have taken is to break the requirement into small steps and generate a flow control for how the code should go.
NOTE: I assume that the user is having basic knowledge of Python-like syntax, data types, flow control, loops, functions, sockets, etc. since the article will not be discussing the basics and will be drifting away from the conventional “hello world” approach.
Some prerequisites before baking the code
Python can be installed from
NOTE: In case you have not installed Python, I would recommend Python3, although Python3 is backward compatible with Python2 this might require some troubleshooting at times. Moreover, you can install both Python 2 and 3 at the same time in a system.
Module name: os
This module provides a way of using operating system dependent functionality with Python. It can be beneficial when working with files (opening, reading, writing), windows paths (both absolute and relative), folders (creating folders, finding size and folder contents), check path validity, running OS commands like clearing the cmd screen, etc.
Example 1: What’s your name?
# Code
Import os
os.name
# Output for windows
‘nt’
Example 2: Joining the paths
#Code
Import os
os.path.join(‘harpreet’,’py_scripts’)
#Output
‘harpreet\\py_scripts’
Example 3: Where you are working right now?
#Code
Import os
os.getcwd()
#Output
‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop’
Example 4: Are you there or not?
# Checks the presence of a path/directory
#Code
Import os
os.chdir(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop’)
Example 5: Creating folders/directories
#Code
Import os
os.makedirs(‘C:\\resources\\infosec\\harpreetsingh’)
Example 6: Running the window commands in Python
# Clearing the cmd inside Python screen
# Code
Import os
os.system(‘cls’)
# Getting the IP address
os.system(‘ipconfig’)
Example 7: Opening a file
# Steps involved:
- Open
- read /write
- Close the file
# Step 1: Opening a file:
# Code
Import os
Myfile= open(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop\\test.txt’)
# Step 2(a): Reading contents of a file
Import os
Myfile=open(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop\\text.txt’)
Myfile.read()
# Step 2(b): Writing contents to a file
# Code
Import os
Myfile = open(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop\\test.txt’, ‘w’)
Myfile.write(‘I am written by Python in test file’)
Myfile.close()
# Step 3: Closing the file
# Code
Import os
Myfile=open(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop\\text.txt’)
Myfile.close()
For further reading about os module:
Open cmd
Python
>>>import os
>>>help(os)
# Output
Module name: Webbrowser
This module is used to open link in the browser. We will be using the open function of this module to open links in the browser in the below examples. It can take two optional parameters ‘–n’ to open URL in a new window or ‘-t’ to open URL in new tab.
It will open the URL in the browser. In no time it will fire up the browser and open the link.
Example 1: Opening a URL in a web browser
# Code
Import webbrowser
webbrowser.open(‘’)
For further reading about web browser module
Open cmd
Python
>>>import webbrowser
>>>help(webbrowser)
# Output
Module name: Sys
With this module, command line arguments can be passed to the Python scripts
sys.argv[0] à name of the script
sys.argv[1] à argument passed by the user
Example 1: Printing the name of the script and user input
# Code
import sys
print (‘\n’)
print “The name of the script is : %s” %sys.argv[0]
print (‘\n’)
print “The input to the script is : %s” %sys.argv[1]
# Output
For further reading about sys module
Open cmd
Python
>>>import sys
>>>help(sys)
# Output
Module name: Urllib2
Urllib2 is used to fetch internet resources. We will be using this to fetch the response code for the URLs. It can even be used to download files, parse/fetch URL’s, encode URLs, etc.
For further reading about urllib2 module
Open cmd
Python
>>>import urllib2
>>>help(urllib2)
# Output
Module Name: Socket
This module is used when we need to mix Python with networking. It can be used to create socket connections (TCP/UDP), binding the sockets to the host and port, closing the connection, promiscuous mode configurations and much more.
For further reading about socket module
Open cmd
Python
>>>import socket
>>>help(socket)
# Output
Ctypes:
It is a means of using C (low-level language) code within Python scripts. It will be used to decode the IP header in one of the below examples.
For further reading about ctypes module
Open cmd
Python
>>>import ctypes
>>>help(ctypes)
# Output
IP packet architecture
- Version: IP version used – 4 for IPv4 and 6 for IPv6.
- IHL – IP Header Length: No of 32-bit words forming the header
- Identification: a 16-bit number which is used to identify a packet uniquely.
- Flags: Used to control fragment permissions for that packet.
- TTL (Time to live): No of hops for which the packet may be routed. This number will get decremented by one each time the packet is routed through hops. This is used to avoid routing loops.
- Protocol: This field helps us to identify the type of packet
- 1 ICMP
- 6 TCP
- 17 UDP
- Header Checksum: Used for error detection which might have been introduced during transit.
- Source address: Source address from where the packet has originated
- Destination address: Address for which the packet is destined for.
Let’s code stuff
Bursting the directories
The below-discussed code will take two inputs – URL/IP address and the directory list which you would like to test. It will test for the existence of the directories and will open the URI in the browser if it exists.
Code Flow
Code and comments
“”” *********** USAGE ****************
Create a file named dir.txt with the below data
/jmx-console
/images
/audio
/php-my-admin
/tag/sniffers/
Save the file dir.txt to a location and copy the location address (Replace the ‘\’ in the address with ‘\\’). Replace the address in the first line of the first for loop with this address.
Copy and paste the below code in an IDE and save it(dirb.py)
Command to run the code: python dirb.py (URL)
Example: python dirb.py sectools.org
“””
# Import required packages
import os,webbrowser,sys,urllib.request,urllib.error,urllib.parse
# Print the input of the user on the screen
print(“The URL/IP entered is “)
print(str(sys.argv[1]))
print (“\n”)
url=str(sys.argv[1])
files=[‘dir.txt’]
url_list=[]
for f in files:
hellow=open(os.path.join(‘C:\\Users\\harpreetsingh\\Desktop\\py_scripts’, f))
directories = hellow.readlines()
# iterate through the directory list and create a list with directories appended to the IP/URL and save it
for i in directories:
i=i.strip()
url_list.append(‘http://’+url+i)
# Iterate through the items from the newly created list and check the response code
# Incase the response code is 200, open the link in the browser
for url in url_list:
print(url)
try:
connection = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
print(connection.getcode())
connection.close()
if connection.getcode() == 200:
webbrowser.open(url)
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
print(e.getcode())
# Output
# Response codes on the output screen
Ethical Hacking Training – Resources (InfoSec)
The program can be used to check for the existence of a directory or a set of directories for a URL. I was once assigned a task to check if the JMX-console was opened for 160 public IP addresses. Manually checking this would have been tedious and time-consuming. The list of directories can be downloaded from the internet or the same list as used by the DirBuster (tool in kali) can be used.
Packet capturing in windows
The script will capture the IP packet and will display the contents on the screen.
Code flow
Code and comments
“”” ************* USAGE ********************
Copy and save the below code (capture.py)
Command to run the script: python capture.py
Change the IP address in the below code to that of yours.
Run the command prompt as admin as it is required for getting into promiscuous mode
“””
# Import the modules required
import socket,os
# Set the IP address of the host, change this to the IP address of your windows PC
IP = “192.168.0.105”
# define the socket protocol
socket_protocol = socket.IPPROTO_IP
# intitalize the socket
sniff = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_RAW, socket_protocol)
# Bind the socket to host IP and port
sniff.bind((IP,0))
# Include the IP headers HDRINCL (Header_Include)
sniff.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_HDRINCL, 1)
# Turn on the promiscus mode
sniff.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_ON)
# Print what has been sniffed
print(sniff.recvfrom(65565))
# Turn of the promiscus mode
sniff.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_OFF)
# Output
The output is not human readable and needs to be decoded. Moreover, we have just captured a single packet which is not of much use.
Packet capturing and decoding
Here we will be capturing all the packets and will be decoding the contents of the header. We will decode and print protocol number, source address, and destination address.
Code and comments
“”” ****************** USAGE *********************
Copy the below code and save it(decoder.py)
Command to run the script: python decoder.py
Change the IP address of the host in the below script to that of your’s and run the command prompt as admin for promiscuous code permissions.
“””
#Import the required modules
import socket,os,struct
from ctypes import *
# Set the IP address of the host, check the IP address of your windows PC and replace it in tye below line of code
IP_of_host=”192.168.0.105″
# use ctypes to map the ip header
class IP(Structure):
_fields_= [
(“Version”, c_ubyte, 4), # Version is of 4 bytes
(“Ihl”, c_ubyte, 4), # IHL is of 4 bytes
(“TYPE_OF_SERVICE”, c_ubyte, 8), # Type of service is of 8 bytes
(“Total_Length”, c_ushort, 16), # Total length is of 16 bytes
(“Identification”, c_ushort, 16), # Identification is of 16 bytes
(“Fragment_offset”, c_ushort, 16), # Fragment offset is of 16 bytes
(“Time_to_live”, c_ubyte, 8), # TTL is of 8 bytes
(“Protocol_number”, c_ubyte, 8), # Protocol Number is of 8 bytes
(“Header_checksum”, c_ushort, 16), # Header checksum is of 16 bytes
(“Source_address”, c_ulong, 32), # Source address is of 32 bytes
(“Destination_address”, c_ulong, 32) # Destination address is of 32 bytes
]
“””
If you add the above bytes, it sums up to 160 which when divided by 8 = 20, This confirms that the first 20 bytes of the packet are the IP headers. The size of the individual bits can be verified from IP packet architecture as well.
“””
def __new__(self, socket_buffer=None):
return self.from_buffer_copy(socket_buffer)
# getting the source address and destination address to what can be read by a normal person,
# We will be displaying the protocol Number, source address and destination address of the packets
# Rest can be ignored as of now.
# You can dig deeper into displaying other header fields if you like.
def __init__(self, socket_buffer=None):
self.src_address = socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack(“<L”, self.Source_address))
self.dst_address = socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack(“<L”, self.Destination_address))
self.protocol = str(self.Protocol_number)
# Specifying the socket protocol, Same as previous example
socket_protocol = socket.IPPROTO_IP
# Defining the socket
sniff = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_RAW, socket_protocol)
# Binding the socket to host IP and port and
sniff.bind((IP_of_host,0))
# We need the IP headers as well, IP_HDRINCL (Header_Include)
sniff.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_HDRINCL, 1)
# Switch on the promiscus mode
sniff.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_ON)
try:
# Starting the while loop with True so as to create an infinite loop to capture all packets continuously
while True:
raw_buffer = sniff.recvfrom(65565)[0]
# As we have discussed above that first 20 bytes are the IP header
ip_header = IP(raw_buffer[0:20])
# Printing the protocol number, Source address and destination address
print(“Protocol %s %s –> %s” %(ip_header.protocol, ip_header.src_address, ip_header.dst_address))
# The interrupt will stop the always true while loop and turns off the promiscuous mode
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sniff.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_OFF)
# Output
Run the script and open a website in a browser and you can see the packets getting captured. The packets can also be saved in a file by running the below command.
Python decoder.py > test.txt
The test.txt file can then be analyzed for later use.
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How to play wma files?
How to play wma files?
>How to play wma files?
How to search google? Seriously, this is a common question, so a decent google search will quickly give you a suitable answer.
My best code is written with the delete key.
Well, Windows Media Player is pretty good at playing it's own format
Google OpenAL, FMOD and DirectSound.
To play it in Windows Media Player, you could use system or ShellExecute.To play it in Windows Media Player, you could use system or ShellExecute.Code:#include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #if defined(_MSC_VER) # pragma comment(lib, "Winmm.lib") #endif /* * Plays an MP3 or WMA file. */ BOOL PlaySong(LPCTSTR szFile) { TCHAR szCommandString[1000]; wsprintf(szCommandString, TEXT("open \"%s\"("play MediaFile"), NULL, 0, NULL)) { return TRUE; } return FALSE; } int main(void) { if (!PlaySong(TEXT("C:\\Path To\\Your Song.wma"))) { printf("Failed to play song!"); } getchar(); return 0; } | https://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/70321-playing-wma-files.html | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | en | refinedweb |
Horn
Dependency:
compile "org.grails.plugins:horn-jquery:1.0.57"Custom repositories:
mavenRepo ""
Summary
Provides JS libraries and tags for embedding data in your HTML content using the HORN specification
Description
Provides JS libraries and tags for embedding data in your HTML content using the HORN specification.This enables you to render your data model as HTML for presentation to the user in the normal way, and have HORN pull this data out into a JS model for your client code to use. It You then alter the model from your JS and can reflect these changes back into the HTML.For details of the HORN specification see the docs. However understanding of HORN is not required for usage of this plugin.
Thus tags with
UsageInstall the plugin and then amend your GSPs to include the required resources and use Horn tags.The premise is simple:
- Horn tags with
pathattribute on specify a new relative or absolute model property path for their child nodes
- If the Horn tag has just text child nodes, these will be extracted and used as the
valuefor the model variable at the
pathspecified on the Horn tag.
pathare either defining a new value (text only child nodes) or defining a new path context for any values set in nested Horn tags.
This will result in the JS model containing:
<body> <h1>Welcome <horn:span${user}</horn:span></h1> <p>You have <horn:span${inbox.unreadCount}</horn:span> messages</p> <horn:div <g:each <horn:div${msg.text}</horn:div> </g:each> </horn:div> </body>
- { user: { name: 'a name here' } }
- { inbox: { undreadCount: 23, unreadMessages: {bodyText:'hello'}, {bodyText:'another msg'} (+) } }
Including the resource modulesHORN uses the Resources plugin. The Javascript resources required to parse out the HORN data into a model are defined in modules that you must
r:requirein your GSP or add to your own modules' @dependsOn@.The modules declared are:
- horn-html5 - HORN using HTML5 data attributes. This is the recommended module. Use this or horn-css, not both.
- horn-css - HORN using CSS classes. Only use if you cannot use HTML5 in your apps. Use this or horn-html5, not both.
- horn-converters - Extra optional code for converting values to and from text and native Javascript types. Include this if you want the default date conversions.
Accessing the model dataTo access the model data in your JS code, you just reference the
horn.model()function:
<r:script> window.alert( 'Unread messages count is "+horn.model().inbox.unreadCount); </r:script>
TagsAll the horn tags follow the same pattern, providing common HTML tag equivalents that take the attributes necessary for HORN data.The tags are in the "horn" namespace and support the following attributes:
Supported HTML tagsThere is built in support for most HTML5 tags. These are called using some attributes from the previous section, and their content is used as the value for the model variable denoted by the
pathattribute specified.
- horn:a
- horn:abbr
- horn:b
- horn:br
- horn:button
- horn:caption
- horn:col
- horn:colgroup
- horn:div
- horn:em
- horn:fieldset
- horn:form
- horn:head
- horn:html
- horn:i
- horn:h1 through to h6
- horn:input
- horn:label
- horn:legend
- horn:li
- horn:link
- horn:object
- horn:ol
- horn:optgroup
- horn:option
- horn:p
- horn:pre
- horn:script
- horn:select
- horn:span
- horn:string
- horn:style
- horn:sub
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Calling Grails tagsSometimes you will want to use the text content of the output of a Grails tag as values in your model. To do this you use @horn:tag@.This example creates a link to a product Description that is extracted into the JS data model:
This simply delegates to
<horn:tag${product.description}</horn:tag>
g:linkpassing in all the arguments except from those used by HORN (path, tag, json, emptyBodyClass, template) and amends the attribute list to include the necessary values to hook up the HORN values.If you need to call a tag that uses any of these "reserved" attribute names, you can use the alternate form where you pass the attributes for the delegate tag in @attrs@:
<horn:tag${product.description}</horn:tag>
ConfigurationBy default the plugin defaults to using HTML5 HORN syntax, where data attributes are used for metadata. If you are not using HTML5 you can turn this off so that it falls back to using CSS classes for data.In Config.groovy:
You can also define the default CSS class used to hide empty or JSON data elements using In Config.groovy:
horn.no.html5 = true
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
Since version 1.2 of ansible, failed run ( due to connexion errors, or config error ) are listed into /var/tmp/ansible/$script_name.yml , with $script_name being the script name used ( or rather the playbook, in ansible linguo )
There is no verification on the file or directory here, and /var/tmp is world writable.
Worst, due to it using a subdirectory under /var/tmp, some symlink protection may not apply ( not tested ). For example, if i create a directory /var/tmp/ansible with owner misc:users and a symlink to a file of joe, the kernel would permit to follow since the symlink and owner of the directory match. This permit to erase file content among others. I am not sure what kind of specific attack could be made by injecting ip and hostname in a specific file, but I am sure this exist.
Code is on
Upstream was not notified yet AFAIK.
I do have a patch almost ready that do :
- verify the permission/owner of directory
- create a unique directory derived from username ( so predictable ) with proper permission if doesn't exist
I just need to review and test.
The current code do cope with lack of permission on the directory so even if someone create a directory in advance, this will be handled "gracefully" ( I think a message would be better )
Created attachment 787776 [details]
patch to use a different directory and check the permission after
Here is a patch that should fix the problem, I quickly tested and seems to be resilient enough. I may have forgot something about symlinks however, so a review would be welcome.
Why not use tempfile.mkdtemp?
So something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import tempfile
import os
f = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='foo', dir='/tmp')
try:
os.rename(f, '/tmp/foo')
except OSError:
print 'Unable to rename directory!'
os.rmdir(f)
Probably better exception handling to see if the /tmp/foo directory is valid and owned by that user first, but for the actual creation, mkdtemp() will do so securely and os.rename will do so atomically.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer for reporting this issue.
I can hardly see how/where there is a need to create the directory in a atomic fashion in the first place, and since check (if the directory /tmp/foo exist and is suitable ) and rename would not be atomic, then we would have a race condition.
If someone create it between the time I check and the time I create the dir, the makedir will fail, and so directory is not used. And the owner wil be incorrect, since user cannot make chown to give file ( unless people have been playing with CAP_CHOWN but i will count that as "unlikely" )
Since the code is supposed to be able to fail, it is better to use this possibility in case of problem. But we will see the opinion of upstream.
Upstream release with fixes announced:
Can we unembargo and setup updates bugs links for the updates?
Thanks.
Created ansible tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 999621]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 999626]. | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=998227 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | en | refinedweb |
The equalizer is available in pulseaudio's master git branch so instead of the git repository below, you may just want to compile from there.
Getting the equalizer
Binary packages are available for the following platforms:.
openSUSE 11.2 and factory:
Ubuntu 9.10:
Add the following to your sources.list:
deb karmic main
Add the following PPA key:
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5291C76F
You may have to force these packages to be installed (synaptic->package->force version to the jenewton build).
Unfortunately due to dependencies within pulseaudio, older platforms are not available.
Up to date sources are available here:
git clone git://gitorious.org/pulseaudio-equalizer/pulseaudio-equalizer.git pulseaudio-equalizer cd pulseaudio-equalizer && git checkout -t origin/master
Getting the GUI (pqaeq):
Note that currently, qpaeq is included in the pulseaudio source tree under src/utils and will be installed alongside the equalizer module to /usr/bin/qpaeq in most setups automatically. Qpaeq is still maintained in the below repositories, however.
Git: git clone git://gitorious.org/qpaeq/qpaeq.git
Direct qpaeq single file download of git:
Releaseish form here:
Git versions are usually much more up to date, so give them a try first.
Compiling (for those without packages provided above)
You will then need to install all normal pulseaudio devel dependencies and fftw3 and dbus devel packages (ex dbus-1-devel / libdbus-1-dev). I prefer a local installation but this will still overwrite your old configurations in /etc/pulse, be sure to back up! You can probably use the following commands:
cd pulseaudio-equalizer.git ./autogen.sh CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb -mtune=native -fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --disable-static --disable-rpath --with-system-user=pulse --with-system-group=pulse --with-access-group=pulse-access --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 --sysconfdir=/etc make sudo make install sudo ldconfig
(32bit users will want to use lib instead of lib64 in the above)
Disabling tsched
You probably won't need to do this but if things are messing up, it's something to try (in /etc/pulse/default
Configuring
Update: The module now automatically makes itself the default sink, so for most users, simply load module-dbus-protocol and module-equalizer-sink. See below for a reference snippet.
You will need to find out the name of your current sink. You can use a gui (paman) for this or perform this command:
pacmd list-sinks|grep 'name:'
The names should be in between the < >. You will probably only have one.
Put something like the following in your default.pa (a few lines are added for context):
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif .ifexists module-dbus-protocol.so load-module module-dbus-protocol .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-equalizer-sink sink_name=equalized master=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-surround-51 set_default=true set-default-sink equalized
Make sure the dbus module is also loaded as above and that you replace the master=alsa part with master=YOURSINKNAME or it will use the default sink. You can set set_default=false if you do not want the new sink to be the default.
GUI and Equalizing:
You will need python, pyqt4, and python-dbus to launch the gui (qpaeq). Debian packages for those are python, python-dbus, python-qt4 and python-qt4-dbus.
Launch the GUI via:
qpaeq (if you installed from git or opensuse packages)
--or--
python qpaeq.py
If the frequency bands in there aren't good enough for you, add in your own (in order) inside qpaeq.py, its under the variable named DEFAULT_FREQUENCIES. Restart the gui and voilà. The equalizer also automatically subdivides frequency ranges depending on the width of the window and supports presets.
Questions/Comments/Problems
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Error Handling in.NET Exceptions
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Error Handling Old way (Win32 API and COM): MyFunction() { error_1 = doSomething(); if (error_1) display error else { continue processing if (error_2) display error else continue processing }
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How is Error Handled in.NET? It uses Exceptions Exception handling enables programmers to remove error-handling code from the “main line” of the program’s execution. Examples: Without exceptions: DivideByZeroNoExceptionHandling.cs With exceptions: DivideByZeroTest.sln
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Syntax try { // code that requires common cleanup or // exception-recovery operations } catch (InvalidOperationException) { //code that recovers from an InvalidOperationException // (or any exception type derived from it) } catch (SomeOtherException) { // code that recovers from an SomeOtherException // (or any exception type derived from it) } catch { // code that recovers from any kind of exception // when you catch any exception, you usually re-throw throw; } finally { // code that cleans up any operations started // within the try block. This code ALWAYS executes. }
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try block A try block contains code that requires common cleanup or exception-recovery operations. The cleanup code should be put in a single finally block. The exception recovery code should be put in one or more catch blocks. Create one catch block for each kind of type you want to handle. A try block must have at least one catch or finally block.
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catch block A catch block contains code to execute in response to an exception. If the code in a try block doesn’t cause an exception to be thrown, the CLR will never execute the code in any of its catch blocks. You may or may not specify a catch type in parantheses after catch : The catch type must be of type System.Exception or a type that derived from System.Exception If there is no catch type specified, that catch block handles any exception. This is equivalent to having a catch block that specifies System.Exception as a catch type. CLR searches for a matching catch type from top to bottom. If CLR cannot find any catch type that matches the exception, CLR continues searching up the callstack to find a catch type.
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catch block Once the catch block that matches the exception is found, you have 3 choices: 1. Re-throw the same exception, notifying the higher-up call stack of the exception 2. Throw a different exception, giving richer exception information to code higher-up in the call stack 3. Let the code continue from the bottom of the catch block In choices 1-2, an exception is thrown and code starts looking for a catch block whose type matches the exception thrown In choice 3, the finally block is executed You can also specify a variable name like catch(Exception e) to access information specific to the exception.
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finally block The CLR does not completely eliminate memory leaks. Why? Even though GC does automatic memory clean-up, it only cleans up if there are no references kept on the object. Even then there may be a delay until the memory is required. Thus, memory leaks can occur if programmers inadvertently keep references to unwanted objects. C# provides the finally block, which is guaranteed to execute regardless of whether an exception occurs. If the try block executes without throwing, the finally block executes. If the try block throws an exception, the finally block still executes regardless of whether the exception is caught. This makes the finally block ideal to release resources from the corresponding try block. Example: UsingExceptions.cs
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finally block Local variables in a try block cannot be accessed in the corresponding finally block, so variables that must be accessed in both should be declared before the try block. Placing the finally block before a catch block is a syntax error. A try block does not require a finally block, sometimes no clean-up is needed. A try block can have no more than one finally block. Avoid putting code that might throw in a finally block. Exception handling will still work but the CLR will not keep the information about the first exception just thrown in the corresponding try block.
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using The using statement simplifies writing code in which you obtain a resource. The general form of a using statement is: using ( ExampleObject e = new ExampleObject() ) { e.SomeMethod(); } This using statement code is equivalent to: { ExampleObject e = new ExampleObject(); try { e.SomeMethod(); } finally { if ( e != null ) ( ( IDisposable ) e ).Dispose(); } }
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System.Exception In.NET, only objects of class Exception and its derived classes may be thrown and caught. Exceptions thrown in other.NET languages can be caught with the general catch clause. Class Exception is the base class of.NET’s exception class hierarchy. A catch block can use a base-class type to catch a hierarchy of related exceptions. A catch block that specifies a parameter of type Exception can catch all exceptions.
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System.Exception Properties Class Exception’s properties are used to formulate error messages indicating a caught exception. Property Message stores the error message associated with an Exception object. Property StackTrace contains a string that represents the method- call stack. When an exception occurs, a programmer might use a different error message or indicate a new exception type. The original exception object is stored in the InnerException property. Other properties: HelpLink specifies the location of a help file that describes the problem. Source specifies the name of the application or object that caused the exception. TargetSite specifies the method where the exception originated.
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Common.NET Exceptions The CLR generates SystemException s, derived from class Exception, which can occur at any point during program execution. If a program attempts to access an out-of-range array index, the CLR throws an exception of type IndexOutOfRangeException. Attempting to use a null reference causes a NullReferenceException.
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FCL-Defined Exceptions System.Exception System.ApplicationException System.SystemException System.AccessViolationException System.ArgumentException System.ArgumentNullException System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException System.FormatException System.IndexOutOfRangeException System.InvalidCastException System.IO.IOException System.IO.FileNotFoundException System.NotImplementedException System.NullReferenceException System.OutOfMemoryException
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Determining Which Exceptions a FCL Method Throws Example: Convert.ToInt32 Search for “ Convert.ToInt32 ” in the Index of the Visual Studio online documentation. Select the document entitled Convert.ToInt32 Method. In the document that describes the method, click the link ToInt32(String). The Exceptions section indicates that method Convert.ToInt32 throws two exception types.
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What are Exceptions? They are not an “exceptional event”, a rare event that occurs. They are not just errors. They are specific results returned when a method could not complete its task. Example: when should Transfer throw? public class Account { public void Transfer(Account from, Account to, decimal amount) { … } When the Transfer method detects any of such possible conditions and cannot transfer the money, then it should notify the caller that it failed by throwing an exception.
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Choosing the Exception to throw When implementing your own methods, you should throw an exception when the method cannot complete its task. Associating each type of malfunction with an appropriately named exception class improves program clarity. 1. What Exception-derived type are you going to throw? You must select a meaningful type You can select a type defined in FCL that matches your semantics If not, you may need to define your own type Your exception type hierarchy should be shallow and wide: that is, create as few base classes as possible 2. What string message are you going to pass to the exception type’s constructor? If the exception is handled, no one will see this exception message. If the exception is unhandled, then the code will probably log this message and a developer would want to understand what went wrong using this message. So the message should give enough detail as possible. Message does not need to be localized.
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User-Defined Exceptions User-defined exception classes should derive directly or indirectly from class Exception of namespace System. Exceptions should be documented so that other developers will know how to handle them. User-defined exceptions should define three constructors: a parameterless constructor a constructor that receives a string argument (the error message) a constructor that receives a string argument and an Exception argument (the error message and the inner exception object)
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User-Defined Exception Example SquareRootTest
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Do not catch everything! try { // code that might fail… } catch (Exception) { … } How can you write code that can recover from all situations??? A class library should never ever swallow all exceptions. The application should get a chance to handle the exception. You can catch all exceptions only if you are going to process it and re-throw it again.
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Benefits of Exceptions The ability to keep cleanup code in a dedicated location and making sure this cleanup code will execute The ability to keep code that deals with exceptional situations in a central place The ability to locate and fix bugs in the code Unified error handling: all.NET Framework classes throw exceptions to handle error cases Old Win32 APIs and COM returns a 32-bit error code. Exceptions include a string description of the problem. Exceptions also include a stack trace that tells you the path application took until the error occurred. You can also put any information you want in a user-defined exception of your own. The caller could ignore the error returned by a Win32 API, now the caller cannot continue with exceptions. If the application cannot handle the exception, CLR can terminate the application.
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Exercise Modify your Homework 2 to now handle exceptions thrown by file stream classes Also create new exceptions to be thrown from the ItemsFile class for each method for error cases like: File cannot be opened for some reason New item cannot be added for some reason Item to be deleted is not found in the file
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header of both the pre-flight response and the actual response.
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RequestMapping.
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RequestMapping annotation
are used.
public abstract String allowCredentials
Set to
"false" if such cookies should not included.
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"") means undefined.
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Access-Control-Allow-Credentials=true.
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sorry if the title is a bit unclear/ambiguous but I am unsure of how so get the following code bound via Fluent API (if it's even required)
public class ChatUser { [Key] public int ChatUserId { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public bool IsOnline { get; set; } // other properties // navigation properties public ICollection<ChatMessage> Messages { get; set; } } public class ChatMessage { [Key] public int ChatMessageId { get; set; } public string Message { get; set; } public int UserFromId { get; set; } public int UserToId { get; set; } public DateTime DateSent { get; set; } // navigation properties public ChatUser UserFrom { get; set; } public ChatUser UserTo { get; set; } }
The idea is that I need to be able to access a list of "Messages" from a user and when I've got a Message object, I need to be able to access both the UserFrom and UserTo so I can get the properties such as Name but the problem I am having is to get the two "ChatUser" objects to be bound to the UserFromId and UserToId - they both come up as null.
If anyone could point me in the correct direction/any links that I can learn from that would be appreciated
PS if there is proper terminology for what I am trying to achieve could someone let me know - I was unsure of what to Google to solve my issue! | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/303425-entity-framework-reference-same-entity-twice/ | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | en | refinedweb |
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A logic circuit, consisting of gates, flipflops etc., performs boolean operations on it's input lines and assigns the results to it's output lines. At the very basic level, a person desirous of simulating a logic circuit will find it easy and intuitive to describe circuits at the gate level. As the circuits become larger and more complex, gate level description of logic circuits becomes tedious and prone to errors. We have seen in the previous chapter that one can build modules which model the actual gate-level circuit at the behavioral level instead of laboriusly describing the circuit at the gate level. This way, one can test the functionality of the logic circuit in a quick and easy way, and avoid errors. Similarly, data flow modelling is another way of modelling circuits, using which one can build logic circuits in a quick and easy way to test their functionality. Data flow modelling is at one level of abstraction higher than gate level circuit description. As in Verilog, a powerfull concept called continuous assignments facilitate data flow modelling in libLCS. In this chapter, we will learn about continuous assignments and the constructs which one has to use in order to incorporate continuous assignments in libLCS.
Continuous assignments are equivalent to modules which encapuslate a boolean relation between their inputs and outputs. That is, if the outputs of a module can be expressed as a result of a boolean expression of it's inputs, then one can use continuous assignments instead of the module. Continuous assignments assign results of a boolean expression, over different busses and/or bus lines, to another bus or bus line continuously. In the rest of this chapter, we will refer to the expression as the RHS of the continuous assignment, and the bus or bus line to which the value of the expression is assigned to as the LHS.
LHS [is continuously assigned with] RHS EXPRESSION;
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the operand, and the result is assigned to the LHS. This way, continuous assignments provide a short hand
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which facilitate continuous assignments in libLCS.
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cass which is a member of the class
Bus. The explicit template parameter, which has to be
specified, is the assignment delay. The general syntax for using continuous assignements if as follows.
[BUS | BUS LINE].cass<ASSIGNMENT DELAY>(RHS EXPRESSION);
For example, to assign the result of the expression
(c[0] ^ c[1]) (
c is some bus) continuously to a
bus
b with an assignment delay of 5 system time units, one has to incorporate the following statement in
his/her code.
b.cass<5>(c[0] ^ c[1]);
The example in the next section will illustrate the usage of continuous assignments in detail. One should note that libLCS currently supports only bitwise operators. Arithmetic operators and bit-shift operators are not yet supported.
In this section, we will build a 1-bit fulladder using contnuous assignments. The input to the fulladder is a 3-line bus consisting of two input bit lines, and one carry input line. The output is a 2-line bus consisting of the sum line and the carry output line. The complete program is as follows. The code has inline comments which elaborate on the new constructs used to facilitate continuous assignments.
#include <lcs/lcs.h> using namespace lcs; int main(void) { // The input bus consisting of two input lines // and the carry input. Bus<3> IN; // The output bus consisting of the sum line // and carry output line. Bus<2> S; // Continuous assignment statements to generate // the sum and carry outputs. The template parameters // indicate the assignment delay. We have used 0 // delay here. Note the RHS expression consisting of // bitwise operators. S[0].cass<0>(IN[0]&~IN[1]&~IN[2] | ~IN[0]&IN[1]&~IN[2] | ~IN[0]&~IN[1]&IN[2] | IN[0]&IN[1]&IN[2]); S[1].cass<0>(IN[0]&IN[1]&~IN[2] | IN[0]&~IN[1]&IN[2] | ~IN[0]&IN[1]&IN[2] | IN[0]&IN[1]&IN[2]); ChangeMonitor<3> inputMonitor(IN, "Input"); ChangeMonitor<2> outputMonitor(S, "Sum"); Tester<3> tester(IN); Simulation::setStopTime(1000); Simulation::start(); return 0; }
When the above program in compiled and run, the following is the output obtained.
At time: 0, Input: 000 At time: 0, Sum: 00 At time: 200, Input: 001 At time: 200, Sum: 01 At time: 300, Input: 010 At time: 400, Input: 011 At time: 400, Sum: 10 At time: 500, Input: 100 At time: 500, Sum: 01 At time: 600, Input: 101 At time: 600, Sum: 10 At time: 700, Input: 110 At time: 800, Input: 111 At time: 800, Sum: 11 | http://liblcs.sourceforge.net/userguide/Continuous-Assignments.html | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | en | refinedweb |
You've probably heard the buzz about DB2's V9 -- IBM's first database management system to support both tabular (SQL-based) and hierarchical (XML-based) data structures. If you're curious about DB2's new native support for XML and want to get off to a fast start, you've come to the right place.
To help you quickly get up to speed on DB2's native XML features, this article walks through several common tasks, such as:
- Creating database objects for managing XML data, including a test database, sample tables, and views
- Populating the database with XML data using
INSERTand
IMPORTstatements
- Validating your XML data. Develop and register your XML schemas with DB2, and use the
XMLVALIDATEoption when importing data.
Future articles will cover other topics, such as querying, updating, and deleting DB2 XML data with SQL, querying DB2 XML data with XQuery, and developing Java applications and Web components that access DB2 XML data.
Creating database objects
To get started, create a single DB2 Unicode database. (With DB2 V9.1, a Unicode database is required for XML. DB2 V9.5 and later no longer require a Unicode database.) Later, you'll create objects within this database to manage both XML and other types of data.
Creating a test database
To create a new DB2 Unicode test database, open a DB2 command window and issue a statement specifying a Unicode codeset and a supported territory, as shown in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Creating a database for storing XML data
create database test using codeset UTF-8 territory us
Once you create a database, you don't need to issue any special commands or take any further action to enable DB2 to store XML data in its native hierarchical format. Your DB2 system is ready to go.
Creating sample tables
To store XML data, you create tables that contain one or more XML columns. These tables serve as logical containers for collections of documents. Behind the scenes, DB2 actually uses a different storage scheme for XML and non-XML data. However, using tables as a logical object for managing all forms of supported data simplifies administration and application development issues, particularly when different forms of data need to be integrated in a single query.
You can define DB2 tables to contain only XML columns, only columns of traditional SQL types, or a combination of both. This article models the latter. The example in Listing 2 connects to the test database and creates two tables. The first is an Items table that tracks information about items for sale and comments that customers have made about them. The second table tracks information about Clients, including contact data. Note that Comments and Contactinfo are based on the new DB2 XML data type, while all other columns in the tables are based on traditional SQL data types.
Listing 2. Creating tables for XML data
connect to test; create table items ( id int primary key not null, brandname varchar(30), itemname varchar(30), sku int, srp decimal(7,2), comments xml ); create table clients( id int primary key not null, name varchar(50), status varchar(10), contactinfo xml );
If you look closely at these table definition examples, you'll notice that neither specified the internal structure of the XML documents to be stored in the Comments or Contactinfo columns. This is an important DB2 feature. Users do not need to pre-define an XML data structure (or, more accurately, an XML schema) in order to store their data. Indeed, DB2 can store any well-formed XML document in a single column, which means that XML documents of different schemas (or documents not associated with any registered schema) can be stored within the same DB2 column. This article discusses this feature more when it discusses how to store data in DB2.
The option to store smaller XML documents inline was introduced in V9.5. If the XML document is small enough to fit into the page size, it can be stored with the other SQL elements. If it is not small enough to fit into a page, it will be stored separately. Along with the inline keyword, you supply the maximum size of the XML to be inlined. Base this value on the page size and on the size of the other relational columns. Listing 3 shows the code snippet to do this:
Listing 3. Creating tables for XML data with the inline option
connect to test; create table items ( id int primary key not null, brandname varchar(30), itemname varchar(30), sku int, srp decimal(7,2), comments xml inline length 10240 );
Creating views
Optionally, you can create views over tables containing XML data, just as you can create views over tables containing only traditional SQL data types. The example in Listing 4 creates a view of clients with a Gold status:
Listing 4. Creating a view that contains XML data
create view goldview as select id, name, contactinfo from clients where status='Gold';
A note about indexes
Finally, note that you can create specialized indexes on your XML columns to speed searches of your data. Because this is an introductory article and the sample data is small, this article will not be covering that topic. However, in production environments, defining appropriate indexes can be critical to achieving optimal performance. See Resources for help on how to learn more about DB2's new indexing technology.
Storing XML data
With your tables created, you can now populate them with data. Issue SQL
INSERT statements directly or
by invoking the DB2
IMPORT facility, which
issues
INSERT statements behind the scenes.
With DB2 V9.5, the
LOAD facility also supports
XML data.
Using INSERT statements
With
INSERT, you supply DB2 with the raw XML
data directly. That's perhaps easiest to do if you've written an
application and stored the XML data in a variable. But if you're just
getting started with DB2 and don't want to write an application, you can
issue your
INSERT statements interactively. (I
find it convenient to use the DB2 Command Editor, although you can also
use the command line processor, if you'd prefer.)
To use the DB2 Command Editor, launch the DB2 Control Center. From the Tools pull-down menu at the top, select Command Editor. A separate window appears, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. DB2 Command Editor
Type the following statements into the upper pane:
Listing 5. Inserting XML data interactively
connect to test; insert into clients values (77, 'John Smith', 'Gold', '<addr>111 Main St., Dallas, TX, 00112</addr>')
Click the green arrow at left to execute the command.
In this case, the input document was quite simple. If the document was large or complex, it would be impractical to type the XML data into the INSERT statement as shown. In most cases, you'd write an application to insert the data using a host variable or a parameter marker. You'll find a brief Java coding example that accompanies this article. However, this introductory tutorial does not cover application development topics in detail. Instead, we'll discuss another option for populating DB2 XML columns with data—using the IMPORT facility.
Using DB2 IMPORT
If you already have your XML data in files, the DB2 IMPORT facility provides a simple way for you to populate your DB2 tables with this data. You don't need to write an application. You just need to create a delimited ASCII file containing the data you want to load into your table. For XML data stored in files, a parameter specifies the appropriate file names.
You can create the delimited ASCII file using the text editor of your
choice. (By convention, such files are usually of type .del.) Each line in
your file represents a row of data to be imported into your table. If your
line contains an XML Data Specifier (XDS),
IMPORT will read the data contained in the
referenced XML file and import that into DB2. For example, the first line
in Listing 6 contains information for Ella
Kimpton, including her ID, name, and customer status. Her contact
information is included in the Client3227.xml file.
Listing 6. clients.del file
3227,Ella Kimpton,Gold,<XDS FIL='Client3227.xml' /> 8877,Chris Bontempo,Gold,<XDS FIL='Client8877.xml' /> 9077,Lisa Hansen,Silver,*lt;XDS 9177,Rita Gomez,Standard,<XDS FIL='Client9177.xml' /> 5681,Paula Lipenski,Standard,<XDS FIL='Client5681.xml' /> 4309,Tina Wang,Standard,<XDS FIL='Client4309.xml' />
The content of the Client3227.xml file is shown in Listing 7. The file contains XML elements for Ella Kimpton's address, phone numbers, fax number, and email.
Listing 7. Client3227.xml file
<?xml version="1.0"?> <Client xmlns: <Address> <street>5401 Julio Ave</street> <city>San Jose</city> <state>CA</state> <zip>95116</zip> </Address> <phone> <work>4084630000</work> <home>4081111111</home> <cell>4082222222</cell> </phone> <fax>4087776666</fax> <email>love2shop@yahoo.com</email> </Client>
Perhaps you're curious about importing data if you don't have XML files for all the rows you wish to insert. That's easy to do. Omit the XDS information from your input file. For example, the items.del file in Listing 8 omits the name of an XML file for Item 3641 (the Dress to Impress suit). As a result, the XML column for this row will not contain any data.
items.del file
3926,NatureTrail,Walking boot, 38112233,64.26,<XDS FIL='Comment3926.xml' /> 4023,NatureTrail,Back pack,552238,34.99,<XDS FIL='Comment4023.xml' /> 3641,Dress to Impress,Syutm7811421,149.99, 4272,Classy,Cocktail dress,981140,156.99,<XDS FIL='Comment4272.xml' />
With your XML files and delimited ASCII files available, you're now ready
to use DB2
IMPORT. The statement in
Listing 9 imports the contents specified in
the clients.del file into the C:/XMLFILES directory into the clients
table.
Listing 9. Importing data into the clients table
import from clients.del of del xml from C:/XMLFILES insert into user1.clients;
The clients.del file shown in Listing 6 contains
data for six rows, including references to six XML files. Successfully
executing an
IMPORT command results in
output similar to Listing 10.
Listing 10. Sample output of DB2 IMPORT
import from clients.del of del xml from C:/XMLFiles insert into saracco.clients SQL3109N The utility is beginning to load data from file "clients.del". SQL3110N The utility has completed processing. "6" rows were read from the input file. SQL3221W ...Begin COMMIT WORK. Input Record Count = "6". SQL3222W ...COMMIT of any database changes was successful. SQL3149N "6" rows were processed from the input file. "6" rows were successfully inserted into the table. "0" rows were rejected. Number of rows read = 6 Number of rows skipped = 0 Number of rows inserted = 6 Number of rows updated = 0 Number of rows rejected = 0 Number of rows committed = 6
Independent software vendors offer tools to help you convert Microsoft® Word, Acrobat PDF, and other document formats into XML for import into DB2. See Resources for more information about ISVs.
Validating your XML data
The
INSERT and
IMPORT examples just discussed can write any
well-formed XML data to your tables. They don't validate that data. In
other words, they don't verify that the data conforms to a particular XML schema
and therefore adheres to a certain structure. It is possible to direct DB2
to do that, however. Here is one approach:
Step 1: Creating an XML schema
To validate XML data, you need to define an XML schema that specifies acceptable XML elements, their order and data types, and so on. XML schemas are a W3C industry standard and are written in XML. While it is beyond the scope of this article to explain the features of XML schemas, various tutorials are available (see Resources).
There are many ways to develop XML schemas, ranging from using your favorite text editor to manually create your schema to using tools to graphically design or generate a schema. Independent software vendors provide such XML tools, and IBM also offers XML schema generation support through Java™-integrated development environments.
For example, with IBM Rational® Application Developer or IBM Rational Software Architect, you can import an xml file into a Web project. The xml file used in this example was taken from the customer table in the sample database of DB2. Right-click the project, and select Generate > XML Schema. This generates a valid XML schema for your particular input file, as shown in Figure 2 (larger image). You can then modify the file (if necessary) and register it with DB2.
Figure 2. Using IBM Rational Software Architect to generate an XML schema from an XML file
Assume you need to make your XML schema rather flexible so that you can collect different types of contact information for different customers. For example, some customers might provide you with multiple phone numbers or email addresses, while others might not. The XML schema shown in Listing 11, which was derived from the schema that IBM Rational Software Architect generated, allows for this flexibility. It includes additional specifications about the minimum and maximum number of occurrences (minOccurs and maxOccurs) allowed for a given element. In this case, the customer isn't required to give you any of the contact information you'd like to collect. However, if a customer chooses to give you email information, this schema enables conforming documents to contain up to five email addresses (that is, five email element values).
Listing 11. Sample XML schema for client contact information
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsd:schema xmins: :element <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element <xsd:element <xsd:element </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> . . . </xsd:schema>
XML schemas also contain type information. The schema shown in Listing 11 specifies
that all base elements are treated as strings. However, most production XML
schemas make use of other data types as well, such as integer, decimal,
date, and so on. If you validate XML documents against a given schema as
part of your
INSERT or
IMPORT operation, DB2 automatically adds
type annotations to your XML documents.
Step 2: Registering the XML schema
Once you have created an appropriate XML schema, you need to register the schema with DB2. IBM provides multiple ways to do this. You can launch graphical wizards from the DB2 Control Center to guide you through the process, invoke system-supplied stored procedures, or issue DB2 commands directly. For this example, use the latter method, because it might help you more readily understand what DB2 is doing behind the scenes on your behalf.
If your schema is very large, you may need to increase your application heap size before attempting to register it. For example, issue the following statements:
Listing 12. Increasing the application heap size
connect to test; update db cfg using applheapsz 10000;
Next, register your XML schema. If your XML schema does not reference other XML schemas, you can register and complete the process with a single command. Otherwise, you need to issue individual commands to register your primary XML schema, add the other required schemas, and complete the registration process. When a schema document becomes very large, it's common to divide its content into multiple files to improve maintenance, readability, and reuse. This is akin to breaking up a complex application or component into multiple modules. For details on this topic, refer to the W3C XML Schema primer.
This article uses a simple, independent XML schema. You can register it with DB2 using the following command:
Listing 13. Registering an XML schema
register xmlschema '' from 'C:/XMLFiles/ClientInfo.xsd' as user1.mysample complete;
In this example, ClientInfo.xsd is the name of the XML schema file. It is
located in the
C:/XMLFiles directory. This XML schema will be registered
in DB2's internal repository under the SQL schema
user1 and the XML
schema
mysample. The parameter is just a placeholder
in this example. It specifies the uniform resource indicator (URI)
referenced by XML instance documents. Many XML documents use namespaces,
which are specified using a URI. Finally, the
complete clause instructs DB2 to complete the XML schema registration process so that the
schema can be used to validate XML data.
Note that the schema registration process does not involve specifying table columns to which the schema will be applied. In other words, schemas are not the equivalent of SQL column constraints. A given schema can validate data for a variety of XML columns in different tables. However, validation is not automatic. DB2 allows any well-formed XML document to be stored in an XML column. If you want to validate your data against a registered schema prior to storage, you need to instruct DB2 to do so.
Step 3: Importing XML data with validation
With an XML schema created and completely registered in DB2, you're now ready to have DB2 validate XML data when inserting or importing it into a table. Revisit the earlier IMPORT scenario with schema validation in mind.
If you've already populated your Clients table, you might find it convenient to delete its contents or drop and recreate the table. This is only necessary if you plan to add the same data to the table as you did previously. Recall that clients were defined with a primary key on the client ID column, so attempting to import duplicate rows will fail.
To validate the XML data while importing it into the Clients table, use
the
XMLVALIDATE clause of DB2
IMPORT. The statement in
Listing 14 instructs DB2 to use your previously
registered XML schema (user1.mysample) as the default XDS (XML Data
Specifier) for validating the XML files specified in the clients.del file
before inserting them into the Clients table.
Listing 14. Importing XML data with validation
import from clients.del of del xml from C:/XMLFILES xmlvalidate using xds default user1.mysample insert into user1.clients;
If DB2 determines that an XML document does not conform to the specified
schema, the entire row associated with that document is rejected.
Listing15 illustrates sample output from an
IMPORT operation in which one row of six was
rejected because its XML document did not conform to the specified schema.
Listing 15. Importing XML data with validation
SQL3149N "6 rows were processed from the input file. "5" rows were successfully inserted into the table. "1" rows were rejected. Number of rows read = 6 Number of rows skipped = 0 Number of rows inserted = 5 Number of rows updated = 0 Number of rows rejected = 1 Number or rows committed = 6
Note that
XMLVALIDATE can also be
used with
INSERT statements to instruct DB2 to
validate XML data before inserting it. The syntax is similar to the
IMPORT example just shown in that you specify
a registered (and completed) XML schema when invoking the
XMLVALIDATE clause. (See
"A simple Java example" for more information.)
Summary
DB2 V9 provides significant new capabilities for supporting XML, including a new XML data type and underlying engine-level components that automatically store and process XML data in an efficient manner. To help you get up to speed quickly on these features, this article described how to create a test database and sample tables for storing XML documents. It also reviewed how you can populate your database with XML data. Finally, it summarized DB2's ability to validate XML data against user-supplied XML schemas and provided examples to show you how to get started.
Now that you've learned how to store XML data using DB2's native XML capabilities, you're ready to query that data. You'll see how to do that in subsequent articles, which will introduce you to DB2's XQuery support and to its XML extensions to SQL (sometimes called SQL/XML).
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Rav Ahuja, Matthias Nicola, and Gary Robinson for their comments on this paper.
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- IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals: Grow your skills, and quickly and easily become certified for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
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- "What's new in DB2 Viper: XML to the Core" (developerWorks, February 2006): Get an overview of the new XML technologies.
- Exegenix offers tools that can help you convert Word, PDF, and other document formats into XML for import into DB2.
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- Various tutorials are available on the Web that explain the features of XML schemas.
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- "Managing XML for Maximum Return" (IBM, November 2005): This white paper explores the business benefits of DB2's XML support.
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- Stay current with developerWorks wiki on periodic pureXML topics given by the experts .
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All classes are in the same monolithic source file. USE doesn't appear to like that and searches for actual .pm files... so I used import which seems to give me the symboltables (Ticket->new works for instance... but inheritance appears to fail ( Empty sub-class test fails).
So What... if anything else am I supposed to do when everything is in a single file to use an object and its subclasses?
my $t = new STRTicket();
package Ticket;
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $ticketid = shift;
my $self= {
'TICKETID' => undef,
'SOURCE' => undef,
'CREATEDBY' => undef,
'OWNER' => undef,
'MODIFIEDBY'=> undef,
'CREATEDON' => undef,
'MODIFIEDON'=> undef,
'COMPANYNAME'=> undef,
'STATE' => undef,
'STATUS' => undef,
'BZTICKETS' => (),
'AGE' => undef,
'TITLE' => undef,
};
bless $self, $class;
if ( defined $ticket) {
$self->{'TICKETID'} = $ticket;
}
else {
die "Ticket object instantiated without a ticket id! This shou
+ld never happen.\n";
}
return $self;
}
sub load_bztickets($){
my $self= shift;
my $dbh = shift; # pass in the database reference for Bugzilla
}
1;
package BZTicket;
import Ticket;
# use Ticket;
@ISA = ('Ticket');
1;
package CRMTicket;
import Ticket;
#use Ticket;
@ISA = ('Ticket');
1;
package STRTicket;
import Ticket;
# use Ticket;
@ISA = ('Ticket');
1;
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If so, package ticket and STRTicket both follow package main.
I generally like the core of my program at the top of the source file and refer to sub below. Until now it has always worked. Am I missing your point?
Thanks for the BEGIN{} hint, that seemed to do the trick.
As far as strict and warnings, this is a code snippet, the larger app does indeed use strict
Again Thanks !
I also fixed other minor things to make this work:
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... "
- Sir Norman Wisdom
Your imports appear to me to be useless. re your new and import calls, please try to avoid indirect object syntax ("method $object args", or "method Class args"). Use $object->method(args) or Class->method(args) instead. Indirect object syntax has some gotchas.
It also helps to put the classes higher in the source file than the uses of them (which matches how classes get used when in separate files). The good practices that you described are also ways to overcome not using this "natural order" but it can still be a good idea to stick to the usual order.
I'll also note that the original code smells like a typical design made after reading a typical introduction to OO programming. Jumping to using inheritance is probably the most common mistake made by OO programmers who haven't yet become old and tired. Old, tired OO programmers have learned that an "is a" relationship is very tight and quite inflexible and so should be reserved for rather rare cases and only used for a very fundamental connection (and that fundamental connections can still usually be better implemented without inheritance).
- tye
"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things." -- Alan Kay
___________________
Jeremy
Bots of the disorder.
That is correct. Since packages almost always have a one-to-one relationship with .pm files which share the same name, it's easy to start thinking of them as interchangable, but they're not.
use specifies a file to read, no more and no less. The package(s) contained within that file are defined solely by the package statement(s) it contains.
For example, if you have a file named Foo.pm containing
package Bar;
use strict;
use warnings;
sub hi {
print "Hello, world!\n";
}
1;
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Why import from a package that doesn't export anything?
Only when the package starts exporting something *and* the would-be importer uses some of those exported functions does your issue surface, and that's not likely to happen with packages that are | http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=670444 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
Bush Learns Standup Rules
Again, thanks to Steve.
“So, who needs a pair?”
(See also Bush Violates Standup Rules)
Javascript thoughts of the day.
spare time. :)
Collapsing Migrations
(6
Thoughts on Linus Torvalds's Git Talk)
OpenSocial.
Your Object Mama
I.
Pivots at RubyConf
The).
Making Ruby Look Like <strike>Smalltalk</strike> <strike>Haskell</strike> <strike>Erlang</strike> Ruby
‘lock’ it will not respond to any messages until it receives ‘unlock':
Ruby Quiz (A Trick Question)
Here is a little Ruby trivium for you.
Type this into IRB:
def foo def bar 1 end end foo.bar => 1
Is this some magical lightweight object creation syntax so you can do cool method chaining? Let’s try another example:
def foo def foo 1 end end foo => nil foo.foo => 1
So far so good. But now, type:
foo => 1
WTF? Is this a defect in Ruby?? Post your responses in the comments.
(Warning: this is a trick question)
Get Rake to always show the error stack trace for your project
Tired.
rake query_trace
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Dne 8.8.2011 9:31, Michal Hocko napsal(a):
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:50:45PM +0000, Jozef Misutka wrote:
>> Update of /cvsroot/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/tools
>> In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv14083/tools
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> pdf_to_text.cc
>> Log Message:
>> - few improvements
>> - nasty not initialized bug
>>
>>
>> Index: pdf_to_text.cc
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvsroot/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/tools/pdf_to_text.cc,v
>> retrieving revision 1.5
>> retrieving revision 1.6
>> diff -u -d -r1.5 -r1.6
>> --- pdf_to_text.cc 7 Aug 2011 21:05:22 -0000 1.5
>> +++ pdf_to_text.cc 7 Aug 2011 22:50:43 -0000 1.6
>> @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@
>> namespace {
>>
>> // default values
>> - const string DEFAULT_ENCODING = "UTF-8";
>> + const string DEFAULT_ENCODING( "UTF-8" );
>> const bool DEFAULT_OUTPUT_PAGES = false;
>> - const string DEFAULT_FONT_DIR = ".";
>> + const string DEFAULT_FONT_DIR( "." );
> Hmm. I am just wondering. How is this an improvement? Compiler should
> use copy constructor for both cases, doesn't it? Or have you seen a
> compiler that would call a default constructor and then operator =?
the fact that i (you) have not does not mean there is no existing.
>
> Not that I would be against the change I just think that we should be
> more consistent about this kind of initialization and I can see many
> other places where we initialize string with =.
right and, imho, it is really unimportant which one we use. at least
not in this stage of development...
jm
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Rob Prime wrote:1) Use a static holder class:
public class Singleton
{
private Singleton() { ... }
private static class SingletonHolder
{
private static final Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
}
public static Singleton getInstance()
{
return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
}
}The SingletonHolder class is only loaded and initialized when first needed, which is on the first call to the getInstance() method. Also, class loading is atomic by itself.
2) Use an enum:
public enum Singleton
{
INSTANCE
}This way the singleton is also automatically safe for serialization.
Sam Yim wrote:
If the enum singleton contains methods that modify shared member variables, would those methods need to be synchronize?
Steve Luke wrote:
Yes, no matter what structures you use, if the object is used in multiple threads and the internal data is modified (in ways that will affect other threads' execution) then the code modifying and using the data should be synchronized. Nothing in how an enum works modifies that. | http://www.coderanch.com/t/453545/threads/java/Double-Checked-Locking | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
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The source declined to say which of the company’s PE plants at Yeosu was shut.
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First, a disclaimer. Naming things in the world of programming is always a challenge. Naming this blog post was also difficult. There are all sorts of implications that come up when you claim something is "functional" or that something is a "pattern". I don't claim to be an expert on either of these topics, but what I want to describe is a pattern that I've seen develop in my code lately and it involves functions, or anonymous functions to be more precise. So please forgive me if I don't hold to all the constraints of both of these loaded terms.
A pattern
The pattern that I've seen lately is that I need to accomplish of myriad of steps, all in sequence, and I need to only proceed to the next step if my current step succeeds. This is common in the world of Rails controllers. For example:
def update @order = Order.find params[:id] if @order.update_attributes(params[:order]) @order.calculate_tax! @order.calculate_shipping! @order.send_invoice! if @order.complete? flash[:notice] = "Order saved" redirect_to :index else render :edit end end
What I'm really trying to accomplish here is that I want to perform the following steps:
- Find my order
- Update the attributes of my order
- Calculate the tax
- Calculate the shipping
- Send the invoice, but only if the order is complete
- Redirect back to the index page.
There are a number of ways to accomplish this set of steps. There's the option above but now my controller is doing way more than it should and testing this is going to get ugly. In the past, I may have created a callback in my order model. Something like
after_save :calculate_tax_and_shipping and
after_save :send_invoice if: :complete?. The trouble with this approach is that now anytime my order is updated these steps also occur. There may be many instances where I want to update my order and what I'm updating has nothing to do with calculating totals. This is particularly problematic when these calculations take a lot of processing and have a lot of dependencies on other models.
Another approach may be to move some of my steps into the controller before and after filters (now
before_action and
after_action in Rails 4). This approach is even worse because I've spread my order specific steps to a layer of my application that should only be responsible for routing user interaction to the business logic of my application. This makes maintaining this application more difficult and debugging a nightmare.
The approach I prefer is to hand off the processing of the order to a class that has the responsibility of processing the user’s interaction with the model, in this case, the order. Let's take a look at how my controller action may look with this approach.
def update handler = OrderControllerHandler.new(params) handler.execute! if hander.order_saved? redirect_to :index else @order = handler.order render :edit end end
OK, now that I have my controller setup so that it’s only handling routing, as it should, how do I implement this
OrderControllerHandler class? Let’s walk through this:
class OrderControllerHandler attr_reader :order def initialize(params) @params = params @order = nil # a null object would be better! @order_saved = false end def execute! end def order_saved? @order_saved end end
We now have the skeleton of our class setup and all we need to do is proceed with the implementation. Here’s where we can bust out our TDD chops and get to work. In the interest of brevity, I’ll leave out the tests, but I want to make the point that this approach makes testing so much easier. We now have a specific object to test without messing with all the intricacies of the controller. We can test the controller to route correctly on the
order_saved? condition which can be safely mocked. We can also test the processing of our order in a more safe and isolated context. Ok, enough about testing, let’s proceed with the implementation. First, the execute method:
def execute! lookup_order update_order calculate_tax calculate_shipping send_invoice end
Looks good right? Now we just need to create a method for each of these statements. Note, I’m not adding responsibility to my handler. For example, I’m not actually calculating the tax here. I’m just going to tell the order to calculate the tax, or even better, tell a
TaxCalculator to calculate the tax for my order. The purpose of the handler class is to orchestrate the running of these different steps, not to actually perform the work. So, in the private section of my class, I may have some methods that look like this:
private def lookup_order @order = Order.find(@params[:id]) end def update_order @saved_order = @order.update_attributes(@params[:order]) end def calculate_tax TaxCalculator.calculate(@order) end ... etc, you get the idea
Getting function(al)
So far, so good. But we have a problem here. What do we do if the lookup up of the order fails? I wouldn’t want to proceed to update the order in that case. Here’s where a little bit of functional programming can help us out (previous disclaimers apply). Let’s take another shot at our
execute! method again and this time, we’ll wrap each step in an anonymous function aka, stabby lambda:
def execute! steps = [ ->{ lookup_order }, ->{ update_order }, ->{ calculate_tax }, ->{ calculate_shipping }, ->{ send_invoice! }, ] steps.each { |step| break unless step.call } end
What does this little refactor do for us? Well, it makes each step conditional on the return status of the previous step. Now we will only proceed through the steps when they complete successfully. But now each of our steps needs to return either true or false. To pretty this up and add some more meaning, we can do something like this:
private def stop; false; end def proceed; true; end def lookup_order @order = Order.find(@params[:id]) @order ? proceed : stop end
Now each of my step methods has a nice clean way to show that I should either proceed or stop execution that reads well and is clear on its intent.
We can continue to improve this by catching some errors along the way so that we can report back what went wrong if there was a problem.
attr_reader :order, :errors def initialize(params) @params = params @order = nil # a null object would be better! @order_saved = false @errors = [] end ... private def proceed; true; end def stop(message="") @errors << message if message.present? false end def invalid(message) @errors << message proceed end def lookup_order @order = Order.find(@params[:id]) @order ? proceed : stop("Order could not be found.") end ...
I’ve added these helpers to provide us with three different options for capturing errors and controlling the flow of our steps. We use the
proceed method to just continue processing,
invalid to record an error but continue processing anyway, and
stop to optionally take a message and halt the processing of our step.
In summary, we’ve taken a controller with a lot of mixed responsibilities and conditional statements that determine the flow of the application and implemented a functional handler. This handler orchestrates the running of several steps and provides a way to control how those steps are run and even captures some error output if need be. This results in much cleaner code that is more testable and maintainable over time.
Homework Assignment
- How could this pattern be pulled out into a module that could be easily included every time I wanted to use it?
- How could I decouple the
OrderControllerHandlerclass from the controller and make it a more general class that can be easily reused throughout my application anytime I needed to perform this set of steps?
- How could this pattern be implemented as a functional pipeline that acts on a payload? How is this similar to Rack middleware?
Hint:
def steps [ ->(payload){ step1(payload) }, ->(payload){ step2(payload) }, ->(payload){ step3(payload) }, ] end def execute_pipeline!(payload) last_result = payload steps.each do |step| last_result = step.call(last_result) end end
2 comments:
Hi Mike, what you described looks exactly like a pattern known as Data-Context-Interaction or DCI which is a somewhat new topic of interest in the Rails world. What distinguishes what you did as DCI is:
1) You extracted to a separate class OrderControllerHandler instead of doing what would more commonly be done in the past which is to extract that logic to Order.
2) OrderControllerHandler#execute! very cleanly and obviously states with the use case is for the class:
def execute!
lookup_order
update_order
calculate_tax
calculate_shipping
send_invoice
end
From what little I know about DCI a major impetus for it is in the idea that there is a lot of value gained simply from describing some cohesive piece of logic in the "step through" algorithm like what you described above in the #execute! method. It's fairly easy for an outside observer not familiar with the code to look at the OrderControllerHandler and figure out what it does.
I'm still learning DCI myself:. Navigate down all the way to the bottom of this article and look at the code labeled "The Controller Action". Does that look familiar?
Now what distinguishes DCI from the pattern you described?
1) A slight semantic change, DCI would call your OrderControllerHandler class a "context" and you would name it a verb instead of a noun, perhaps: OrderUpdater, in Rails it's being proposed that you store this file as 'app/contexts/order_updater.rb'. Execute is a commonly used method so you would have OrderUpdater.execute!.
2) A "context" has a notion of "actors", in your example there is only one "actor" which is Order. DCI seems to excel at circumstances where you multiple collaborators needed for fulfilling a particular context. Where DCI takes an exotic turn is that in a DCI application your model objects would be simple dumb objects without much logic to interact with other classes. When a context is executed at runtime the "actors" passed into the context as arguments get the logic and methods necessary to fulfill the use case tacked onto them at runtime. What this does is to decouple the logic of use case from the classes that will be marshalled to execute the use case. If this last paragraph didn't make any sense trust that I'm trying to explain something interesting and probably doing a bad job of it, this is something that takes a few chapters of a book to explain properly.
The contexts exist as modules that can be included everytime you want to use them. The promise of DCI is that this smart logic can be combined and nested with other contexts to provide more complex interactions. As I listed above, you could begin to decouple the OrderControllerHandler by first naming it something that doesn't use the word controller or handler and more generally describes what it does. Finally I believe in your third question what you are describing as "payload" DCI describes as "actor".
This is all still very much a work in progress and the details of how it should all work is still being hammered out. Here's some resources if you are interested in learning more.
1. DCI described by it's creator Trygve Reenskaug, (who also created another pattern you may have heard of called MVC)
2. Clean Ruby by Jim Gay
3. A sample DCI app in Ruby/Rails.
Tim,
Thanks for the awesome comment. I haven't looked at DCI only just heard things about it. Now that you point out some of the similarities it has piqued my interest. I'll take a look! | http://blog.endpoint.com/2014/01/functional-handler-pattern-in-ruby.html | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
07 August 2013 14:00 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS)--Production from industry, construction, energy and mining in ?xml:namespace>
In May, productive output was down 0.8% from April.
On a two-month sequential comparison – May-June versus March-April – productive output was up 1.3%, with industrial output up 1.3% as well.
Compared with May-June 2012, productive output was up 0.5% year on year, with industrial output up 1.1% year on year.
In related news, | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2013/08/07/9695169/germany-june-productive-output-rises-2.4-from-may.html | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
In a Federation Scenario a client might want to access the services by using a SAML token that was issued to it by a STS. The service in turn might have to call other services (like a intermediary) to fulfill the request. When calling the backend service the service might want to use the SAML token that was presented to it by the client. This is a very common enterprise scenario. WCF currently does not enable this scenario. You can get around this by writing some custom code on the service side. Basically you need to write a custom SAML assertion that will remember the stream and will write it out when it has to. This also involves registering your own serializer and so on. Below is some code samples,
Write a Custom SAML Assertion
public class CustomSamlAssertion : SamlAssertion
{
MemoryStream ms;
public override void ReadXml(XmlDictionaryReader reader, SamlSerializer samlSerializer, SecurityTokenSerializer keyInfoSerializer, SecurityTokenResolver outOfBandTokenResolver)
{
ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(reader.ReadOuterXml()));
ms.Position = 0;
XmlDictionaryReader dicReader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(ms, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max);
base.ReadXml(dicReader, samlSerializer, keyInfoSerializer, outOfBandTokenResolver);
}
public override void WriteXml(XmlDictionaryWriter writer, SamlSerializer samlSerializer, SecurityTokenSerializer keyInfoSerializer)
if (ms != null)
{
ms.Position = 0;
XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument();
dom.Load(ms);
dom.DocumentElement.WriteTo(writer);
return;
}
base.WriteXml(writer, samlSerializer, keyInfoSerializer);
}
}
The above assertion just stores the incoming SAML Assertion in a memory stream and writes out the stream when you try to re-send the assertion. Note, if you want to create a new SAML assertion you will have to new up the built in SAML Assertion. The way signature processing is handled on the send side will prevent from writing out the signature if the CustomSamlAssertion is new'ed up to build a new assertion. The next step would be to provide a custom SAML serializer,
Write a Custom SAML Serializer
public class CustomSamlSerializer : SamlSerializer
public override SamlAssertion LoadAssertion(XmlDictionaryReader reader, SecurityTokenSerializer keyInfoSerializer, SecurityTokenResolver outOfBandTokenResolver)
{
CustomSamlAssertion assertion = new CustomSamlAssertion();
assertion.ReadXml(reader, this, keyInfoSerializer, outOfBandTokenResolver);
return assertion;
}
Now we need to plug the Custom Serializer with the way Token Serialization is handled in WCF. So we need to write a
Write a Custom Token Serializer
public class CustomTokenSerializer : WSSecurityTokenSerializer
protected override void WriteTokenCore(XmlWriter writer, SecurityToken token)
{
if (token is SamlSecurityToken)
{
SamlAssertion assertion = ((SamlSecurityToken)token).Assertion;
if (assertion is CustomSamlAssertion)
{
XmlDictionaryWriter dicWriter = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateDictionaryWriter(writer);
((CustomSamlAssertion)assertion).WriteXml(dicWriter, new SamlSerializer(), WSSecurityTokenSerializer.DefaultInstance);
return;
}
}
base.WriteTokenCore(writer, token);
}
The above code delegates all token serialization to the base class except for SAML.
Next, we need to provide a TokenManager that gives out our Custom Serializer instead of the default serializer.
Write a Custom Token Manager
public class CustomTokenManager : ClientCredentialsSecurityTokenManager
public CustomTokenManager(CustomClientCredentials clientCredentials)
: base(clientCredentials)
{
this.tokenProvider = new SamlTokenProvider(token as SamlSecurityToken);
}
public override SecurityTokenSerializer CreateSecurityTokenSerializer(SecurityTokenVersion version)
{
return new CustomTokenSerializer();
All Credentials related stuff should end up in ClientCredentials or ServiceCredentials in object in WCF. So let's implement a Custom Client Credentials that wraps the Token Manager.
Write Custom Client Credentials
public class CustomClientCredentials : ClientCredentials
SecurityToken securityToken;
public override SecurityTokenManager CreateSecurityTokenManager()
return new CustomTokenManager(this);
protected override ClientCredentials CloneCore()
return this;
When you are receiving the SAML token (you are the service) all that you need is the custom SAML Serializer. Below is how you would configure this,
ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(CalculatorService));
serviceHost.Credentials.IssuedTokenAuthentication.SamlSerializer = new CustomSamlSerializer();
serviceHost.Open();
Now any SAML token received via this serviceHost will be loaded into the Custom SAML Assertion we have created.
When you want to re-serialize the SAML token, you have to register your Custom Client Credentials with the Channel Factory (Note: you will be acting as a client in this case). Below is how you would configure this,
EndpointAddress er = new EndpointAddress(new Uri(backEndServiceUri), EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("Server-Cert"));
ChannelFactory<ICalculator> factory = new ChannelFactory<ICalculator>(GetCustomBinding(), er);
CustomClientCredentials clientCredentials = new CustomClientCredentials();
factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Remove<ClientCredentials>();
factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Add(clientCredentials);
ICalculator client = factory.CreateChannel();
That's it, you can now receive SAML tokens and re-serialize the token to a backend service.
The attached project has code for this scenario. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/govindr/archive/2006/10/24/re-serialize-saml-token.aspx | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
Patent application title: DISTRIBUTING MULTI-SOURCE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS TO MULTIPLE TARGETS
Inventors:
Clemens Friedrich Vasters (Kirkland, WA, US)
Clemens Friedrich Vasters (Kirkland, WA, US)
Assignees:
Microsoft Corporation
IPC8 Class: AG06F1516FI
USPC Class:
709217
Class name: Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring remote data accessing
Publication date: 2013-03-14
Patent application number: 20130067024
Abstract:
Delivering events to consumers. A method includes accessing proprietary
data. The method further includes normalizing the proprietary data to
create a normalized event. A plurality of end consumers is determined,
that based on a subscription should receive the event. Data from the
normalized event is formatted into a plurality of different formats
appropriate for all of the determined end consumers. Data from the
normalized event is delivered to each of the plurality of end consumers
in a format appropriate to the end consumers.
Claims:
1. A method of delivering events to consumers, the method comprising:
accessing proprietary data; normalizing the proprietary data to create a
normalized event; determining a plurality of end consumers, that based on
a subscription should receive the event; formatting data from the
normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for
all of the determined end consumers; and delivering the data from the
normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format
appropriate to the end consumers.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing proprietary data comprises accessing data from a plurality of sources.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein delivering the data from the normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the end consumers comprises first fanning out the data from the event in the normalized format.
4. The method of claim 1,.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein packaging the event into a plurality of bundles comprises consulting a database to determine which end consumers are included in the routing slip by referencing end consumer preferences in the database.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein normalizing the proprietary data to create a normalized event comprises representing the data as key value pairs, the pairs accompanied by a single opaque, binary chunk of data not further interpreted by an event normalization system.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein formatting data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers comprises mapping one or more properties from the normalized event into a format by mapping message properties with the same name.
8. A computer readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause one or more processors to perform the following: access proprietary data; normalize the proprietary data to create a normalized event; determine a plurality of end consumers, that based on a subscription should receive the event; format data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers; and deliver the data from the normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the end consumers.
9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein accessing proprietary data comprises accessing data from a plurality of sources.
10. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein delivering the data from the normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the end consumers comprises first fanning out the data from the event in the normalized format.
11. The computer readable medium of claim 8,.
12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein packaging the event into a plurality of bundles comprises consulting a database to determine which end consumers are included in the routing slip by referencing end consumer preferences in the database.
13. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein normalizing the proprietary data to create a normalized event comprises representing the data as key value pairs, the pairs accompanied by a single opaque, binary chunk of data not further interpreted by an event normalization system.
14. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein formatting data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers comprises mapping one or more properties from the normalized event into a format by mapping message properties with the same name.
15. A computing system for delivering events to consumers, the computing system comprising: one or more modules configured to access proprietary data; one or more modules configured to normalize the proprietary data to create a normalized event; one or more modules configured to determine a plurality of end consumers, that based on a subscription should receive the event; one or more modules configured to format data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers; and one or more modules configured to deliver the data from the normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the end consumers by fanning out the data from the normalized event to a plurality of copies of the data from the normalized event to a plurality of distribution partitions wherein each of the distribution partitions delivers the data from the normalized event to a portion of the plurality of end consumers.
16. The computing system of claim 15, wherein accessing proprietary data comprises accessing data from a plurality of sources.
17. The computing system of claim 15,.
18. The computing system of claim 17, wherein packaging the event into a plurality of bundles comprises consulting a database to determine which end consumers are included in the routing slip by referencing end consumer preferences in the database.
19. The computing system of claim 15, wherein normalizing the proprietary data to create a normalized event comprises representing the data as key value pairs, the pairs accompanied by a single opaque, binary chunk of data not further interpreted by an event normalization system.
20. The computing system of claim 15, wherein formatting data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers comprises mapping one or more properties from the normalized event into a format by mapping message properties with the same name.
Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional application 61/533,669 filed Sep. 12, 2011, titled "SYSTEM TO DISTRIBUTE MOBILE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS SOURCED FROM A VARIETY OF EVENT SOURCES TARGETS WITH CUSTOMIZED MAPPING OF EVENT DATA TO NOTIFICATIONS", which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
BACKGROUND
Background and Relevant Art
[0002] Computers and computing systems have affected nearly every aspect of modern living. Computers are generally involved in work, recreation, healthcare, transportation, entertainment, household management, etc.
[0003].
[0004] Developers may build mobile apps on iOS, Android, Windows® Phone, Windows®, etc. that focus builds and runs server infrastructure to push those events into operating system platform or device vendor-supplied notification channels, which is beyond the skill set of many mobile application developer focusing on optimized user experiences. And if their app is very successful, simple server-based solutions will soon hit scalability ceilings as distributing events to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of devices in a timely fashion is very challenging.
[0005] In addition, a large number of contemporary mobile applications are written as simple experiences over existing Internet assets. For instance a news application may display the latest headlines from the RSS feed of a major news provider instantly as the user opens up the app without the need to navigate to a web site. Independent software developers and small independent software vendors are building a large number of such applications and are selling them at a very low price point. For those applications, which would also benefit greatly from push notifications, it is not only the distribution of events that presents a challenges, but also the acquisition of event data since as acquisition, likewise, would require building and running non-trivial server infrastructure.
[0006] The subject matter claimed herein is not limited to embodiments that solve any disadvantages or that operate only in environments such as those described above. Rather, this background is only provided to illustrate one exemplary technology area where some embodiments described herein may be practiced.
BRIEF SUMMARY
[0007] One embodiment illustrated herein includes a method of delivering events to consumers. The method includes accessing proprietary data. The method further includes normalizing the proprietary data to create a normalized event. A plurality of end consumers is determined, that based on a subscription should receive the event. Data from the normalized event is formatted into a plurality of different formats individually appropriate for each of the determined end consumers. Data from the normalized event is delivered to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the respective end consumers and conformant with the protocol rules defined by the target infrastructure through which the consumers are reached.
10]:
[0011] FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of a system for collecting event data, mapping the event data to a generic event, and distributing the event data to various target consumers;
[0012] FIG. 2 illustrates an event data acquisition and distribution system;
[0013] FIG. 3 illustrates an example of an event data acquisition system;
[0014] FIG. 4 illustrates an example of an event data distribution system;
[0015] FIG. 5 illustrates an event data acquisition and distribution system;
[0016] FIG. 6 illustrates an implementation of badge counter functionality; and
[0017] FIG. 7 illustrates a method of delivering events to consumers.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0018] Embodiments may combine an event acquisition system with a notification distribution system and a mapping model to map events to notifications. Embodiments may also be capable of filtering notifications based on subscriber-supplied criteria. Further, embodiments may have depth capabilities like tracking delivery counts for individual targets in an efficient manner
[0019] Such an example is illustrated in FIG. 1. FIG. 1 illustrates an example where information from a large number of different sources 116 is delivered to a large number of different targets 102. In some examples, information from a single source, or information aggregated from multiple sources 116, may be used to create a single event that is delivered to a large number of the targets 102. Note that the designator 102 can be used to refer to all targets collectively or generically to an individual target. Specific individual targets will be designated by further differentiators.
[0020] FIG. 1 illustrates sources 116. Note that the designator 116 can be used to refer to all sources collectively or generically to an individual source. Specific individual sources will be designated by further differentiators. The sources 116 may include, for example,® Service Bus or Amazon's Simple Queue Service.
[0021] The sources 116 may be used to acquire event data. As will be explained in more detail below, the sources 116 may be organized into acquisition topics, such as acquisition topic 140-1. The event data may be mapped to a normalized event illustrated generally at 104. A normalized event 104 can be mapped by one or more mapping modules 130 to notifications for specific targets 102. Notification 132 is representative of notifications for specific targets 102. It should be appreciated that a single event 104 could be mapped into a number of different notifications, where the different notifications are of differing formats appropriate for distribution to a number of disparate targets 102. For example, FIG. 1 illustrates targets 102. The targets 102 support a number of different message formats dependent on target characteristics. For example, some targets 102 may support notifications in a relay format, other targets 102 may support notifications in a MPNS (Microsoft® Push Notification Service) format for Windows® 7 phone, other targets 102 may support notifications in APN (Apple Push Notification) formats for iOS devices, other targets 102 may support notifications in C2DM (Cloud To Device Messaging) formats for Android devices, other targets 102 may support notifications in JSON (Java Script Object Notation) formats for browsers on devices, other targets 102 may support notification in HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), etc.
[0022] Thus, mapping by the mapping modules 130 may map a single event 104 created from information from one or more data sources 116 into a number of different notifications for different targets 102. The different notifications 132 can then be delivered to the various targets 102.
[0023] This may be accomplished, in some embodiments, using a fan-out topology as illustrated in FIG. 2.24]25]26]27]28] The following illustrates alternative descriptions of information collection and event distribution systems that may be used in some embodiments.
[0029]30]31]32]33] Referring now to FIG. 3, one embodiment architecture's goal is to acquire event data from a broad variety of different sources 116 at large scale and forward these events into a publish/subscribe infrastructure for further processing. The processing may include some form of analysis, real time search, or redistribution of events to interested subscribers through pull or push notification mechanisms.
[0034] One embodiment architecture defines an acquisition engine 118, a model for acquisition adapters and event normalization, a partitioned store 138 for holding metadata about acquisition sources 116, a common partitioning and scheduling model, and a model for how to flow user-initiated changes of the state of acquisition sources 116 into the system at runtime and without requiring further database lookups.
[0035] In a concrete implementation, the acquisition may support concrete acquisition adapters to source events from Service Bus or Amazon's Simple Queue Service.
Event Normalization
[0036] Event data is normalized to make events practically consumable by subscribers on a publish/subscribe infrastructure that they are being handed off to. Normalization means, in this context, that the events are mapped onto a common event model with a consistent representation of information items that may be of interest to a broad set of subscribers in a variety of contexts. The chosen model here is a simple representation of an event in form of a flat list of key/value pairs that can be accompanied by a single, opaque, binary chunk of data not further interpreted by the system. This representation of an event is easily representable on most publish/subscribe infrastructures and also maps very cleanly to common Internet protocols such as HTTP.
[0037] To illustrate the event normalization, consider the mapping of an RSS or Atom feed entry into an event 104 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). RSS and Atom are two Internet standards that are very broadly used to publish news and other current information, often in chronological order, and that aids in making that information available for processing in computer programs in a structured fashion. RSS and Atom share a very similar structure and a set of differently named but semantically identical data elements. So a first normalization step is to define common names as keys for such semantically identical elements that are defined in both standards, like a title or a synopsis. Secondly, data that only occurs in one but not in the other standard is usually mapped with the respective `native` name. Beyond that, these kinds of feeds often carry `extensions`, which are data items that are not defined in the core standard, but are using extensibility facilities in the respective standards to add additional data.
[0038] Some of these extensions, including but not limited to GeoRSS for geolocation or OData for embedding structured data into Atom feeds are mapped in a common way that is shared across different event sources 116, so that the subscriber on the publish/subscribe infrastructure that the events are emitted to can interpret geolocation information in a uniform fashion irrespective of whether the data has been acquired from RSS or Atom or a Twitter timeline. Continuing with the GeoRSS example, a simple GeoRSS expression representing a geography `point` can thus be mapped to a pair of numeric `Latitude`/`Longitude` properties representing WGS84 coordinates.
[0039] Extensions that carry complex, structured data such as OData may implement a mapping model that preserves the complex type structure and data without complicating the foundational event model. Some embodiments normalize to a canonical and compact complex data representation like JSON and map a complex data property, for instance an OData property `Tenant` of a complex data type `Person` to a key/value pair where the key is the property name `Tenant` and the value is the complex data describing the person with name, biography information, and address information represented in a JSON serialized form. If the data source is an XML document, as it is in the case of RSS or Atom, the value may be created by transcribing the XML data into JSON preserving the structure provided by XML, but flattening out XML particularities like attributes and element, meaning that both XML attributes and elements that are subordinates of the same XML element node are mapped to JSON properties as `siblings` with no further differentiation.
Sources and Partitioning
[0040] One embodiment architecture captures metadata about data sources 116 in `source description` records, which may be stored in the source database 138. A `source description` may have a set of common elements and a set of elements specific to a data source. Common elements may include the source's name, a time span interval during which the source 116 is considered valid, a human readable description, and the type of the source 116 for differentiation. Source specific elements depend on the type of the source 116 and may include a network address, credentials or other security key material to gain access to the resource represented by the address, and metadata that instructs the source acquisition adapter to either perform the data acquisition in a particular manner, like providing a time interval for checking an RSS feed, or to perform forwarding of events in a particular manner, such as spacing events acquired from a current events news feed at least 60 seconds apart so that notification recipients get the chance to see each breaking news item on a constrained screen surface if that is the end-to-end experience to be constructed.
[0041] The source descriptions are held in one or multiple stores, such as the source database 138. The source descriptions may be partitioned across and within these stores along two different axes.
[0042] The first axis is a differentiation by the system tenant. System tenants or `namespaces` are a mechanism to create isolated scopes for entities within a system. Illustrating a concrete case, if "Fred" is a user of a system implementing one embodiment, Fred will be able to create a tenant scope which provides Fred with an isolated, virtual environment that can hold source descriptions and configuration and state entirely independent of other sources 116 in the system. This axis may serve as a differentiation factor to spread source descriptions across stores, specifically also in cases where a tenant requires isolation of the stored metadata (which may include security sensitive data such as passwords), or for technical, regulatory or business reasons. A system tenant may also represent affinity to a particular datacenter in which the source description data is held and from where data acquisition is to be performed.
[0043] The second axis may be a differentiation by a numeric partition identifier chosen from a predefined identifier range. The partition identifier may be derived from invariants contained in the source description, such as for example, the source name and the tenant identifier. The partition identifier may be derived from these invariants using a hash function (one of many candidates is the Jenkins Hash, see) and the resulting hash value is computed down into the partition identifier range, possibly using a modulo function over the hash value. The identifier range is chosen to be larger (and can be substantially larger) than the largest number of storage partitions expected to be needed for storing all source descriptions to be ever held in the system.
[0044] Introducing storage partitions is commonly motivated by capacity limits, which are either immediately related to storage capacity quotas on the underlying data store or related to capacity limits affecting the acquisition engine 118 such as bandwidth constraints for a given datacenter or datacenter section, which may result in embodiments creating acquisition partitions 140 that are utilizing capacity across different datacenters or datacenter segments to satisfy the ingress bandwidth needs. A storage partition owns a subset of the overall identifier range and the association of a source description record with a storage partition (and the resources needed to access it) can be thus be directly inferred from its partition identifier.
[0045] Beyond providing a storage partitioning axis, the partition identifier is also used for scheduling or acquisition jobs and clearly defining the ownership relationship of an acquisition partition 140 to a given source description (which is potentially different from the relationship to the storage partition).
Ownership and Acquisition Partitions
[0046] Each source description in the system may be owned by a specific acquisition partition 140. Clear and unique ownership is used because the system does not acquire events from the exact same source 116 in multiple places in parallel as this may cause duplicate events to be emitted. To make this more concrete, one RSS feed defined within the scope of a tenant is owned by exactly one acquisition partition 140 in the system and within the partition there is one scheduled acquisition run on the particular feed at any given point in time.
[0047] An acquisition partition 140 gains ownership of a source description by way of gaining ownership of a partition identifier range. The identifier range may be assigned to the acquisition partition 140 using an external and specialized partitioning system that may have failover capabilities and can assign master/backup owners, or using a simpler mechanism where the partition identifier range is evenly spread across the number of distinct compute instances assuming the acquisition engine role. In a more sophisticated implementation with an external partitioning system, the elected master owner for a partition is responsible for seeding the scheduling of jobs if the system starts from a `cold` state, meaning that the partition has not had a previous owner. In the simpler scenario, the compute instance owning the partition owns seeding the scheduling.
Scheduling
[0048] The scheduling needs for acquisition jobs depend on the nature of the concrete source, but there are generally two kinds of acquisition models that are realized in some described embodiments.
[0049] In a first model, the owner initiates some form of connection or long-running network request on the source's network service and waits for data to be returned on the connection in form of datagrams or a stream. In the case of a long-running request, commonly also referred to as long-polling, the source network service will hold on to the request until a timeout occurs or until data becomes available--in turn, the acquisition adapter will wait for the request to complete with or without a payload result and then reissue the request. As a result, this acquisition scheduling model has the form of a `tight` loop that gets initiated as the owner of the source 116 learns about the source, and where a new request or connection is initiated immediately as the current connection or request completes or gets temporarily interrupted. As the owner is in immediate control of the tight loop, the loop can be reliably kept alive while the owner is running. If the owner stops and restarts, the loop also restarts. If the ownership changes, the loop stops and the new owner starts the loop.
[0050] In a second model, the source's network service does not support long-running requests or connections yielding data as it becomes available, but are regular request/response services that return immediately whenever queried. On such services, and this applies to many web resources, requesting data in a continuous tight loop causes an enormous amount of load on the source 116 and also causes significant network traffic that either merely indicates that the source 116 has not changed, or that, in the worst case, carries the same data over and over again. To balance the needs of timely event acquisition and not overload the source 116 with fruitless query traffic, the acquisition engine 118 will therefore execute requests in a `timed` loop, where requests on the source 116 are executed periodically based on an interval that balances those considerations and also takes hints from the source 116 into account. The `timed` loop gets initiated as the owner of the source 116 learns about the source.
[0051] There are two noteworthy implementation variants for the timed loop. The first variant is for low-scale, best-effort scenarios and uses a local, in-memory timer objects for scheduling, which cause the scale, control and restart characteristics to be similar to those of a tight loop. The loop gets initiated and immediately schedules a timer callback causing the first iteration of the acquisition job to run. As that job completes (even with an error) and it is determined that the loop shall continue executing, another timer callback is scheduled for the instant at which the job shall be executed next.
[0052] The second variant uses `scheduled messages`, which is a feature of several publish/subscribe systems, including Windows Azure® Service Bus. The variant provides significantly higher acquisition scale at the cost of somewhat higher complexity. The scheduling loop gets initiated by the owner and a message is placed into the acquisition partition's scheduling queue. The message contains the source description. It is subsequently picked up by a worker which performs the acquisition job and then enqueues the resulting event into the target publish/subscribe system. Lastly, it also enqueues a new `scheduled` message into the scheduling queue. That message is called `scheduled` since it is marked with a time instant at which it becomes available for retrieval by any consumer on the scheduling queue.
[0053] In this model, an acquisition partition 140 can be scaled out by having one `owner` role that primarily seeds scheduling and that can be paired with any number of `worker` roles that perform the actual acquisition jobs.
Source Updates
[0054] As the system is running, the acquisition partitions 140 need to be able to learn about new sources 116 to observe and about which sources 116 shall no longer be observed. The decision about this typically lies with a user, except in the case of blacklisting a source 116 (as described below) due to a detected unrecoverable or temporary error, and is the result of an interaction with a management service 142. To communicate such changes, the acquisition system maintains a `source update` topic in the underlying publish/subscribe infrastructure. Each acquisition partition 140 has a dedicated subscription on the topic with the subscription having a filter condition that constrains the eligible messages to those that carry a partition identifier within the acquisition partition's owned range. This enables the management service 142 to set updates about new or retired sources 116 and send them to the correct partition 140 without requiring knowledge of the partition ownership distribution.
[0055] The management service 142 submits update commands into the topic that contain the source description, the partition identifier (for the aforementioned filtering purpose), and an operation identifier which indicates whether the source 116 is to be added or whether the source 116 is removed from the system.
[0056] Once the acquisition partition 140 owner has retrieved a command message, it will either schedule a new acquisition loop for a new source 116 or it will interrupt and suspend or even retire the existing acquisition loop.
Blacklisting
[0057] Sources 116 for which the data acquisition fails may be temporarily or permanently blacklisted. A temporary blacklisting is performed when the source 116 network resource is unavailable or returns an error that is not immediately related to the issued acquisition request. The duration of a temporary blacklisting depends on the nature of the error. Temporary blacklisting is performed by interrupting the regular scheduling loop (tight or timed) and scheduling the next iteration of the loop (by ways of callback or scheduled message) for a time instant when the error condition is expected to be resolved by the other party.
[0058] Permanent blacklisting is performed when the error is determined to be an immediate result of the acquisition request, meaning that the request is causing an authentication or authorization error or the remote source 116 indicates some other request error. If a resource is permanently blacklisted, the source 116 is marked as blacklisted in the partition store and the acquisition loop is immediately aborted. Reinstating a permanently blacklisted source 116 requires removing the blacklist marker in the store, presumably along with configuration changes that cause a behavior the request, and restarting the acquisition loop via the source update topic.
Notification Distribution
[0059]60] Some embodiments may include an architecture that is split up into three distinct processing roles, which are described in the following in detail and can be understood by reference to FIG. 4. As noted in FIG. 461] The data flow is anchored on a `distribution topic 144` into which events are submitted for distribution. Submitted events are labeled, using a message property, with the scope they are associated with--which may be one of the aforementioned constraints that distinguish events and raw messages.
[0062]63]64]65] The actual number of distribution partitions is not technically limited. It can range from a single partition to any number of partitions greater than one.
[0067]68]69] Transfer Protocol), etc
[0070]71] The distribution and delivery engines 122 and 108 are decoupled using the delivery queue 130 to allow for independent scaling of the delivery engines 108 and to avoid having delivery slowdowns back up into and block the distribution query/packing stage.
[0072]73]74]75]76]77] FIG. 5 illustrates a system overview illustration where an acquisition partition 140 is coupled to a distribution partition 120 through a distribution topic 144.
[0078] As noted previously, in some embodiments, a generic event 104 may be created from information from sources 116. The generic event may be in a generic format such that later, data can be identified and placed into a platform specific format. The following now illustrates a number of examples of expressions that can map generic event properties, implemented in one embodiment, to specific platform notifications.
[0079] $(name) or .(name) or >(name) Reference to an event property with the given name. Property names are not case sensitive. The property name may be a `dot` expression (e.g. property.item) if the referred property's value contains complex type data in form of a JSON string expression. This expression resolves into the property's text value or into an empty string if the property is not present. The value might be clipped depending on the target's size constraints for the target field.
[0080] $(name, n) like above, but the text is explicitly clipped at n characters, e.g. $(title, 20) clips the contents of the title property at 20 characters.
[0081] .(name , n) like above, but the text is suffixed with three dots as it is clipped. The total size of the clipped string and the suffix will not exceed n characters. .(title, 20) with an input property of "This is the title line` results in `This is the title . . . `.
[0082] % (name) like $(name) except that the output is URI encoded.
[0083] $body refers to the entity body of the event. The entity body is not clippable as it may contain arbitrary data including binary data and is passed through the system as-is. If $body is mapped to a text property on the target, the mapping will only succeed, in some embodiments, if the body contains text content. If the entity body is empty, the expression resolves to an empty string.
[0084] $count refers to the per-target count of delivered events from a given source. This expression resolves to a number computed by the system representing how many messages from this source 116 the respective target has received since it last asked for a reset of this counter. In some example embodiments, the number has a range from 0 to 99. Once the counter reaches 99 it is not incremented further. This value is commonly used for badge and tile counters.
[0085] `[.text . . . ]` or "[.text . . . ]" is a literal. Literals contain arbitrary text enclosed in single or double quotes. Text may contain special characters in escaped form according to JavaScript escaping rules. (see ECMA-262, 7.8.4) expr1+expr2 is the concatenation operator joining two expressions into a single string. The expressions can be any of the above.
[0086] expr1?? expr2 is a conditional operator that evaluates to expr1 if it's not null or a zero-length string and to expr2 otherwise. The ?? operator has a higher precedence than the + operator, i.e. the expression `p`+$(a) ?? $(b) will yield the value of a or b prefixed with the literal `p`.
[0087] Embodiments may use the mapping language to take properties from events 104 and map them into the right places for notifications on the targets 102:
TABLE-US-00001 JSON { "WindowsPhone" : { "ChannelUri" : ".....", "NotificationType" : "Toast", "Text1" : "`Sports`", "Text2" : ".(Title,25)", "Param" : "`/MainPage.xaml?url=" + %(AlternateLink)" }
[0088] A tile notification for Windows Phone can also take advantage of the $count property that automatically keeps track of counts:
TABLE-US-00002 JSON { "WindowsPhone" : { "ChannelUri" : ".....", "NotificationType" : "Tile", "Title" : "$(title,15)", "Count" : "$count", "BackgroundImage" : "$(enclosureLink)" }
[0089] For an iPad App embodiments can map the same to an alert as shown below:
TABLE-US-00003 JSON { "Apple" : { "DeviceToken" : "<deviceToken>", "AppName" : "MyApp", "AlertBody" : ".(Title,60)", }
[0090] Or just a badge (counter) on the App icon:
TABLE-US-00004 JSON { "Apple" : { "DeviceToken" : "<deviceToken>", "AppName" : "MyApp", "Badge" : "$count", }
[0091] In some embodiments, the defaults for these mappings are that each target property is mapped to an input property with the same name. Embodiments can therefore specify a target for Windows Phone as tersely as this:
TABLE-US-00005 JSON { "WindowsPhone" : { "ChannelUri" : ".....", "Type" : "Toast", }
and Text1, Text2, and Param will be automatically mapped from message properties with the same name on the input event--and will remain empty (they won't be sent) if such properties are absent. That allows fully source-side control for properties for when the source 116 is under developer control--like Windows Azure® Service Bus Queues and Topic Subscriptions commonly are.
[0092] For Google Android, the mapping is somewhat different as the C2DM service does not define a fixed format for notifications and has no immediate tie-in into the Android user-interface shell, so the mapping takes the form of a free-form property bag with the target properties as keys and the expressions as values. If the PropertyMap is omitted, all input properties are mapped straight through to the C2DM endpoints.
TABLE-US-00006 JSON { "Android" : { "DeviceRegistrationId" : "<regId>", "AppName" : "MyAndroidApp", "CollapseKey" : "Key", "PropertyMap" : { "myvalue1" : "$(title)", "myvalue2" : "$(summary)" } }
Selective Notification Distribution
[0093] Embodiments described herein may implement functionality to allow notification targets 102 in a broadcast system to subscribe on an event stream providing criteria that allow selective distribution of events from the event stream to the target based on geographic, demographic or other criteria.
[0094] In particular, event data may have various pieces of categorization data. For example, an event may be geo-tagged. Alternatively, an event may be categorized by a source, such as by including a category string for the event.
[0095] Referring once again to FIG. 1, and as described above in reference to the various figures, an event 104 may include various types of categorization data. For example, an event may include geo-tagged where a geographic coordinate is included in the alert. The distribution engine 122-1 can examine the event to find the geo-tagged data. The distribution engine 122-1 can also examine the database 124-1 to determine targets 102 that are interested in data with the geo-tag. For example, a user may specify their location, or a location generally. The user may specify that any alerts related to their location or within 5 miles of their location should be delivered to the user. The distribution engine 122-1 can determine if the geo-tag in the data falls within this specification. If so, then the distribution engine 122-1 can include that particular user in the routing slip 128-1 for the event 104. Otherwise, the user may be excluded from the routing slip, and will not receive a notification with the alter 104.
[0096] For geo-tagged events, a user (or other entity controlling notification and event delivery to users) may specify any of a number of different boundaries. For example, specifying any location within five miles of a given location, essentially specifies a point and a circle around that point. However, other embodiments may include specification of geo-political boundaries, such as a city, state, country, or continent; shape of a building or complex, etc. SQL Server® from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond Wash. has geospatial functionality which could be used as part of the distribution partition 120-1 to determine targets 102 for delivering events.
[0097] Generally, event data may include categorization information. For example, a string included in an event may categorize event data. Inclusion of a target in a routing slip 128-1 may be based on a user opting into a category or not opting out of a category. For example, a target 102-1 may opt-in to a category and categorization strings may be compared on events 104-1. If the event 104-1 includes a string indicating the category that was opted into, then the target 102-1 will be included in the routing slip 128-1 of the bundle 126-1, such that a notification with data from the event 104-1 will be delivered to the target 102-1.
Badge Counters
[0098] Some embodiments described allow individual counters to be tracked in an event broadcast system without requiring individual tracking of counters for each end user. This may be accomplished by a server receiving a series of events, where each event in the series is associated with a list of time stamps. The list of time stamps for each event includes a time stamp for the event and time stamps for all previous events in the series.
[0099] A user sends a time-stamp to the server. The time stamp is an indicator of when the user performed some user interaction at a user device. For example, the time stamp may be an indication of when the user opened an application on a user device. The server compares the time stamp sent by the user to a list of time stamps for an event that is about to be sent to a user. The server counts the number of time stamps in the list of time stamps for the event that is about to be sent to the user occurring after the user sent time stamp, and sends this count as the badge counter.
[0100] An example is illustrated in FIG. 6 attached hereto. FIG. 6 illustrates a target 102-1. The target 102-1 receives events 104 and badge counters 106 from a delivery engine 108-1. The target 102-1 sends time stamps 110 to the delivery engine 108-1. The time stamps 110 sent by the target 102-1 to the delivery engine 108-1 may be based on some action at the target 102-1. For example, a user may open an application associated with the events 104 and badge counters 106 sent by the delivery engine 108-1 to the target 102-1. Opening an application may cause a time stamp 110 to be emitted from the target 102-1 to the delivery engine 108-1 indicating when the application was opened.
[0101] The delivery engine 108-1 receives a series 112 of events (illustrated as 104-1, 104-2, 104-3, and 104-n). Each of the events in the series 112 of events is associated with a list 114-1, 114-2, 114-3, or 114-n respectively of timestamps. Each list of time stamps includes a timestamp for the current event, and a timestamp for each event in the series prior to the current event. In the illustrated example, the event 104-1 is the first event sent to the delivery engine 108-1 for delivery to targets 102. Thus, the list 114-1 associated with the event 104-1 includes a single entry T1 corresponding to a time when the event 104-1 was sent to the delivery engine 108-1. The event 104-2 is sent to the delivery engine 108-1 after the event 104-1 and thus is associated with a list 114-2 that includes time stamps T1 and T2 corresponding to when events 104-1 and 104-2 were sent to the delivery engine 108-1 respectively. The event 104-3 is sent to the delivery engine 108-1 after the event 104-2 and thus is associated with a list 114-3 that includes time stamps T1, T2 and T3 corresponding to when events 104-1, 104-2 and 104-3 were sent to the delivery engine 108-1 respectively. The event 104-n is sent to the delivery engine 108-1 after the event 104-3 (and presumably a number of other events as indicated by the ellipses in the list 114-n) and thus is associated with a list 114-n that includes time stamps T1, T2, T3 through Tn corresponding to when events 104-1, 104-2, 104-3 through 104-n were sent to the delivery engine 108-1 respectively.
[0102] Assume that the target 102-1 has not sent any timestamps 110 to the delivery engine 108-1. When the delivery engine sends the event 104-1, it will also send a badge counter with a value of 1, corresponding to T1. When the delivery engine sends the event 104-2, it will also send a badge counter with a value of 2, corresponding to the count of two time stamps T1 and T2. When the delivery engine sends the event 104-3, it will also send a badge counter with a value of 3, corresponding to three time stamps T1, T2 and T3. When the delivery engine sends the event 104-n, it will also send a badge counter with a value of n, corresponding to n time stamps, T1 through Tn.
[0103] Now assume that the target sends a time stamp 110 with an absolute time that occurs between time T2 and T3. Presumably at this point, events 104-1 and 104-2 have already been delivered to the target 102-1. When event 104-3 is sent to the target, the delivery engine 108-1 only counts time stamps occurring after the time stamp 110 when determining the value of the badge counter. Thus, in this scenario, the delivery engine 108-1 sends a badge counter of 1 corresponding to T3 (as events T1 and T2 occurred before the time stamp 110) along with the event 104-3. This process can be repeated with the most recent time stamp 110 received from the target 102-1 being used to determine the badge counter value.
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[0105] Referring now to FIG. 7, a method 700 is illustrated. The method includes acts for delivering events to consumers. The method 700 includes accessing proprietary data (act 702). For example, each of the sources 116 may provide data in a proprietary format that is particular to the different sources 116.
[0106] The method 700 further includes normalizing the proprietary data to create a normalized event (act 704). For example, as illustrated above, the event 104 may be normalized by normalizing proprietary data from the different sources 116.
[0107] The method 700 further includes determining a plurality of end consumers, that based on a subscription should receive the event (act 706). For example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, a distribution engine 122-1 may consult a database 124-1 to determine what users at targets 102 have subscribed to.
[0108] The method 700 further includes formatting data from the normalized event into a plurality of different formats appropriate for all of the determined end consumers (act 708). For example, as illustrated in FIG. 1, a normalized event may be specifically formatted to appropriate formats for various targets 102.
[0109] The method 700 further includes delivering the data from the normalized event to each of the plurality of end consumers in a format appropriate to the end consumers (act 710).
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Hi,
I am running into an issue trying to use enable_on_exec
in per-thread mode with an event group.
My understanding is that enable_on_exec allows activation
of an event on first exec. This is useful for tools monitoring
other tasks and which you invoke as: tool my_program. In
other words, the tool forks+execs my_program. This option
allows developers to setup the events after the fork (to get
the pid) but before the exec(). Only execution after the exec
is monitored. This alleviates the need to use the
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) call.
My understanding is that an event group is scheduled only
if all events in the group are active (disabled=0). Thus, one
trick to activate a group with a single ioctl(PERF_IOC_ENABLE)
is to enable all events in the group except the leader. This works
well. But once you add enable_on_exec on on the events,
things go wrong. The non-leader events start counting before
the exec. If the non-leader events are created in disabled state,
then they never activate on exec.
The attached test program demonstrates the problem.
simply invoke with a program that runs for a few seconds.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <syscall.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <perf_counter.h>
int
child(char **arg)
{
int i;
/* burn cycles to detect if monitoring start before exec */
for(i=0; i < 5000000; i++) syscall(__NR_getpid);
execvp(arg[0], arg);
errx(1, "cannot exec: %s\n", arg[0]);
/* not reached */
}
int
parent(char **arg)
{
struct perf_counter_attr hw[2];
char *name[2];
int fd[2];
int status, ret, i;
uint64_t values[3];
pid_t pid;
if ((pid=fork()) == -1)
err(1, "Cannot fork process");
memset(hw, 0, sizeof(hw));
name[0] = "PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES";
hw[0].type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE;
hw[0].config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES;
hw[0].read_format =
PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING;
hw[0].disabled = 1;
hw[0].enable_on_exec = 1;
name[1] = "PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS";
hw[1].type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE;
hw[1].config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS;
hw[1].read_format =
PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING;
hw[1].disabled = 0;
hw[1].enable_on_exec = 1;
fd[0] = perf_counter_open(&hw[0], pid, -1, -1, 0);
if (fd[0] == -1)
err(1, "cannot open event0");
fd[1] = perf_counter_open(&hw[1], pid, -1, fd[0], 0);
if (fd[1] == -1)
err(1, "cannot open event1");
if (pid == 0)
exit(child(arg));
waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
for(i=0; i < 2; i++) {
ret = read(fd[i], values, sizeof(values));
if (ret < sizeof(values))
err(1, "cannot read values event %s", name[i]);
if (values[2])
values[0] = (uint64_t)((double)values[0] * values[1]/values[2]);
printf("%20"PRIu64" %s %s\n",
values[0],
name[i],
values[1] != values[2] ? "(scaled)" : "");
close(fd[i]);
}
return 0;
}
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (!argv[1])
errx(1, "you must specify a command to execute\n");
return parent(argv+1);
}
Oleg,
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Oleg Nesterov<oleg@...> wrote:
> On 08/18, stephane eranian wrote:
>> > In any case. We should not look at SA_SIGINFO at all. If sys_sigaction() was
>> > called without SA_SIGINFO, then it doesn'matter if we send SEND_SIG_PRIV or
>> > siginfo_t with the correct si_fd/etc.
>> >
>> What's the official role of SA_SIGINFO? Pass a siginfo struct?
>>
>> Does POSIX describe the rules governing the content of si_fd?
>> Or is si_fd a Linux-ony extension in which case it goes with F_SETSIG.
>
> Not sure I understand your concern...
>
> OK. You suggest to pass siginfo_t with .si_fd/etc when we detect SA_SIGINFO.
>
The reason I refer to SA_SIGINFO is simply because of the excerpt from the
sigaction man page:.
In other words, I use this to emphasize the fact that to get a siginfo
struct, you need to pass SA_SIGINFO and use sa_sigaction instead of
sa_handler. That's all I am saying.
> But, in that case we can _always_ pass siginfo_t, regardless of SA_SIGINFO.
> If the task has a signal handler and sigaction() was called without
> SA_SIGINFO, then the handler must not look into *info (the second arg of
> sigaction->sa_sigaction). And in fact, __setup_rt_frame() doesn't even
> copy the info to the user-space:
>
> if (ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO) {
> if (copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, info))
> return -EFAULT;
> }
>
> OK? Or I missed something?
>
No, I think we are in agreement. To get meaningful siginfo use SA_SIGINFO.
> Or. Suppose that some app does:
>
> void io_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *info, void *u)
> {
> if ((info->si_code & __SI_MASK) != SI_POLL) {
> // RT signal failed! sig MUST be == SIGIO
> recover();
> } else {
> do_something(info->si_fd);
> }
> }
>
> int main(void)
> {
> sigaction(SIGRTMIN, { SA_SIGINFO, io_handler });
> sigaction(SIGIO, { SA_SIGINFO, io_handler });
> ...
> }
>
I don't think you can check si_code without first checking which
signal it is in si_signo. The values for si_code overlap between
the different struct in siginfo->_sifields.
>> It would seem natural that in the siginfo passed to the handler of SIGIO, the
>> file descriptor be passed by default. That is all I am trying to say here.
>
> Completely agreed! I was always puzzled by send_sigio_to_task(). I was never
> able to understand why it looks so strange.
>
> So, I think it should be
>
> static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
> struct fown_struct *fown,
> int fd,
> int reason)
> {
> siginfo_t si;
> /*
> * F_SETSIG can change ->signum lockless in parallel, make
> * sure we read it once and use the same value throughout.
> */
> int signum = ACCESS_ONCE(fown->signum) ?: SIGIO;
>
> if (!sigio_perm(p, fown, signum))
> return;
>
> si.si_signo = signum;
> si.si_errno = 0;
> si.si_code = reason;
> si.si_fd = fd;
> /* Make sure we are called with one of the POLL_*
> reasons, otherwise we could leak kernel stack into
> userspace. */
> BUG_ON((reason & __SI_MASK) != __SI_POLL);
> if (reason - POLL_IN >= NSIGPOLL)
> si.si_band = ~0L;
> else
> si.si_band = band_table[reason - POLL_IN];
>
> /* Failure to queue an rt signal must be reported as SIGIO */
> if (!group_send_sig_info(signum, &si, p))
> group_send_sig_info(SIGIO, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p);
> }
>
> (except it should be on top of fcntl-add-f_etown_ex.patch).
> This way, at least we don't break the "detect RT signal failed" above.
>
> What do you think?
>
> But let me repeat: I just can't convince myself we have a good reason
> to change the strange, but carefully documented behaviour.
>
I agree with you. Given the existing documentation in the man page
of fcntl() and the various code examples. I think it is possible for
developers to figure out how to get the si_fd in the handler. This
problem is not specific to perf_counters nor perfmon. Any SIGIO-based
program may be interested in getting si_fd, therefore I am assuming the
solution is well understood at this point. | http://sourceforge.net/p/perfmon2/mailman/perfmon2-devel/?viewmonth=200908&viewday=20 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
Manuel Petermann wrote:If the implementation for A is not likely to change
Manuel Petermann wrote:When I use libraries I always hate it to use extends rather than implementing some interfaces.
I now am to program such a library and i am sort of reluctant to force the user to use the extends keyword.
Now lets say we have the case:
public interface A {
void doSomething();
}
//Case 1:
public class IsAnA implements A {
@Override
public void doSomething() {
}
}
//Case 2:
public interface HasAnA {
A getA();
}
public class HasAnAImpl implements HasAnA{
private A a;
@Override
public A getA() {
return a;
}
}
Problems with case 1:
If the implementation for A is not likely to change, you are forcing the user into an abstract base class.
This again would force the user to extend from this base class to add his own functionality leaving no room for other base classes.
Manuel Petermann wrote:
I do know that he is free to choose. I just don't like it in this case.
From my point of view one should use extends only when absolutely necessary.
I read that getters in interfaces are bad practice so i assumed that was the case for all types. Maybe the word getter even is the wrong word for my case.
Thanks for your answers. | http://www.coderanch.com/t/595830/java/java/Interfaces-Getters-Interface | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
08 February 2012 17:27 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS)--?xml:namespace>
However, its shale gas activities would soon benefit from a very substantial increase from its own capital on the zlotych (Zl) 500m ($159.2m, €120.2m) committed to exploring for unconventional gas over the next two years, Orlen added.
Orlen said it was too early to enter into shale gas partnerships with foreign entities due to the unclear potential of its shale gas concessions.
Its comments followed a letter sent to Polish state-controlled firms, including Orlen, by recently-appointed new treasury minister Mikolaj Budzanowski in which he advised that shale gas partnerships should currently be limited to domestic companies.
In a note to investors, Prague-based investment bank Wood & Company cautioned that it believed it would be “hard [for the Polish firms] to explore shale gas deposits without foreign partnerships, as Polish companies do not have the special know-how”.
In late January, Wood & Company expressed scepticism about Budzanowski's call for an acceleration of shale gas exploration efforts and drilling activities in
Orlen and Encana's deal would have involved Encana investing $200m (€150m) in Orlen-led shale gas exploration in eastern
($1 = €0.75)
($1 = Zl3.14)
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CS::Utility::iModifiableDescription Struct Reference
The description of an CS::Utility::iModifiable object. More...
#include <iutil/modifiable.h>
Detailed Description
The description of an CS::Utility::iModifiable object.
It contains all the information needed in order to expose and access the properties of a iModifiable.
It can be used fo an automated access to an object, eg in order to generate a graphical user interface (see the CSEditing library), to animate it over time, or to save and load it.
A iModifiableDescription is created through iModifiable::GetDescription() if a user application would like to access the object without knowing its external interface. The iModifiableDescription will then allow to know how the object can be accessed or represented in a graphical user environment.
A iModifiableDescription can be structured hierachically (see GetChild() and GetChildrenCount()) in order to gather logical subsets of parameters.
- See also:
- BaseModifiableDescription for a default implementation
Definition at line 100 of file modifiable.h.
Member Function Documentation
Find the index of a parameter based on its ID.
- Returns:
- The index of the parameter, or (size_t) ~0 if it was not found.
Get the child description with the given index.
Get the count of child descriptions.
Child descriptions forms a hierarchical structure of sets of parameters.
Get the label of this modifiable.
A label identifies (supposedly uniquely) the description of the modifiable.
Get the name of this modifiable.
- Note:
- You might want to process this string by the translator.
Get a parameter based on its index.
Get a parameter based on its ID.
Get the number of editable parameters of this description.
This won't include the parameters of the child descriptions.
- See also:
- GetTotalParameterCount(), GetChild()
Get the list of resource entries of this description.
Each entry is a path containing additional data such as the translation files of this description.
Get the total number of editable parameters of this description, that is including the parameters of all children and grand-children.
- See also:
- GetParameterCount(), GetChild()
The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:
- iutil/modifiable.h
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If you get into a situation where the built-in XAML functionality doesn’t quite meet your needs but you don’t want to move the functionality to code-behind every time you need it you may need to write your own custom MarkupExtension. Built-in markup extensions include BindingExtension, StaticResourceExtension, and RelativeSourceExtension. Anything that you use in XAML as a string that is surrounded by {} is a MarkupExtension. You may notice that the examples I mentioned all end in “Extension”, but when you use them in XAML the “Extension” part is missing (i.e. {Binding}). The naming is a WPF convention, similar to Dependency Property names ending in Property, but is also handled like .NET Attributes, which are declared as xxxAttribute but used as xxx.
To start your new Markup Extension, you need to create a new class that derives from the MarkupExtension abstract base class. Try to choose a name that is descriptive but not too long (remember that most of it usage will be in XAML text with no Intellisense). Don’t forget to end the name with Extension. The only thing you are required to do after this is override the ProvideValue abstract method. The method signature from MarkupExtension is below.
public abstract object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider);
Now that you’ve added a ProvideValue override, you’re done! That is unless you actually want your markup extension to do something. You’ll notice that ProvideValue returns an object but most of the time you’re going to be targeting properties of a specific type with your extension’s output. To specify an output type there is a MarkupExtensionReturnType attribute that you can apply to the class (not the method) and supply a Type argument. This return type will be checked by the XAML parser at compile time to make sure you’re assigning correct types to properties.
[MarkupExtensionReturnType(typeof(ImageSource))]
The next thing you’re probably going to need is some input arguments to act on. These take the form of normal get/set Properties. These can be any type you want. In most cases the XAML parser will be able to figure out the correct type from any string arguments passed in by the caller. When using the extension in XAML, the syntax is again borrowed from Attributes in that properties are passed in as a comma-delimited list of Name=Value pairs. You can also provide a one parameter constructor that maps a single non-named argument to one of the properties. You can see this in action with Binding by passing in just the value of the Path without the “Path=”.
Now that the structure is set up and you have the arguments you need, you just need to write the logic to determine an output value. To assist you there are a few services that can give you more information about the calling XAML. The IServiceProvider parameter to ProvideValue allows access to these services. IXamlTypeResolver and IProvideValueTarget are two services which may be available from the IServiceProvider. There is very little documentation available on these services but they are listed on MSDN. Access these services using the following code.));
After getting services, make sure to check for nulls. Guidelines instruct to not strictly depend on any specific service so no exceptions should be thrown if a service is not available. The type resolver parses types from type names. The provide value target gives you references to the TargetObject and TargetProperty of the MarkupExtension’s caller. These services can be useful but be careful how you use them as you can inadvertently break the entire object you’re applying the extension to.
Using a markup extension is just like using any custom object in XAML. Add an xml namespace declaration, like xmlns:local=”clr-namespace:MyCustomNamespace” for the current assembly or xmlns:controls=”clr-namespace:CustomControlNamespace;assembly=CustomControlLibrary” for a referenced assembly. Then use your custom MarkupExtension along with the xmlns prefix and the Extension omitted from the name. | http://blogs.interknowlogy.com/2007/05/16/writing-a-custom-wpf-markupextension/ | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | en | refinedweb |
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Picasso.js has been there for a while since its first release in 2018. It is an open-source charting library that is designed for building custom, interactive, component-based powerful visualizations.
Apart from the fact that Picasso.js is open-sourced, here is my take on certain other factors -
Component-based visuals: A visualization usually comprises various building blocks or components that form the overall chart. For example, a Scatter plot consists of two axes with one variable on each of the axes. The data is displayed as a point that shows the position on the two axes(horizontal & vertical). A third variable can also be displayed on the points if they are coded using color, shape, or size. What if instead of an individual point you wanted to draw a pie chart that presents some more information? Something like this -
As we can see on the right-side image, a correlation between Sales and Profit is projected. However, instead of each point, we have individual pie charts that show the category-wise sales made in each city. This was developed using D3.js- a library widely used to do raw visualizations using SVGs.
Picasso.js provides a similar level of flexibility when it comes to building customized charts. Due to its component-based nature, you can practically build anything by combining various blocks of components.
Interactive visuals: Combining brushing and linking is key when it comes to interactivity between various visual components used in a dashboard or web application. Typically what it means is if there are any changes to the representation in one visualization, it will impact the others as well if they deal with the same data (analogous to Associations in Qlik Sense world). This is crucial in modern-day visual analytics solutions and helps overcome the shortcomings of singular representations.
Picasso.js provides these capabilities out of the box. Here is an example of how you could brush & link two charts built using Picasso:
const scatter = picasso.chart(/* */);
const bars = picasso.chart(/* */); scatter.brush('select').link(bars.brush('highlight'));
If you would like to read more about the various concepts & components of Picasso, please follow the official documentation.
Now that we know a bit more about Picasso.js, let us try to build a custom chart and try to integrate it with Qlik Sense’s ecosystem, i.e. use selections on a Qlik Sense chart and apply it to the Picasso chart as well.
Prerequisite: picasso-plugin-q
In order to interact with and use the data from Qlik’s engine in a Picasso-based chart, you will need to use the q plugin. This plugin registers a q dataset type making data extraction easier from a hypercube.
Step 1: Install, import the required libraries for Picasso and q-plugin and register -
npm install picasso.js
import picassojs from 'picasso.js';
import picassoQ from 'picasso-plugin-q';
picasso.use(picassoQ); // register
Step 2: Create hypercube and access data from QIX -
const properties = {
qInfo: {
qType: "my-stacked-hypercube"
},
qHyperCubeDef: {
qDimensions: [
{
qDef: { qFieldDefs: ["Sport"] },
}
],
qMeasures: [
{ qDef: { qDef: "Avg(Height)" }
},
{ qDef: { qDef: "Avg(Weight)" }
}
],
qInitialDataFetch: [{ qTop: 0, qLeft: 0, qWidth: 100, qHeight: 100 }]
}
};
Our idea is to build a scatter plot to understand the height-weight correlation of athletes from an Olympic dataset. We will use the dimension ‘Sport’ to color the points. Therefore, we retrieve the dimension and 2 measures(Height, Weight) from the hypercube.
Step 3: Getting the layout and updating -
Once we create the hypercube, we can use the getLayout( ) method to extract the properties and use it to build and update our chart. For this purpose, we will create two functions and pass the layout accordingly like below.
const variableListModel = await app
.createSessionObject(properties)
.then(model => model);
variableListModel.getLayout().then(layout => {
createChart(layout);
});
variableListModel.on('changed',async()=>{
variableListModel.getLayout().then(newlayout => {
updateChart(newlayout);
});
});
First, we pass the layout to the createChart( ) method, which is where we build our Scatter plot. If there are any changes to the data, we call the updateChart( ) method and pass the newLayout so our chart can reflect the updated changes.
Step 4: Build the visualization using Picasso.js -
We need to let Picasso know that the data type we will be using is from QIX, i.e. q and then pass the layout like below:
function createChart(layout){
chart = picasso.chart({
element: document.querySelector('.object_new'),
data: [{
type: 'q',
key: 'qHyperCube',
data: layout.qHyperCube,
}],
}
Similar to D3, we will now define the two scales and bind the data (dimension & measure) extracted from Qlik Sense like this:
scales: {
s: {
data: { field: 'qMeasureInfo/0' },
expand: 0.2,
invert: true,
},
m: {
data: { field: 'qMeasureInfo/1' },
expand: 0.2,
},
col: {
data: { extract: { field: 'qDimensionInfo/0' } },
type: 'color',
},
},
Here, the scale s represents the y-axis and m represents x-axis. In our case, we will have the height on the y-axis and weight on the x-axis. The dimension, ‘sports’ will be used to color as mentioned before.
Now, since we are developing a scatter plot, we will define a point component inside the component section, to render the points.
key: 'point',
type: 'point',
data: {
extract: {
field: 'qDimensionInfo/0',
props: {
y: { field: 'qMeasureInfo/0' },
x: { field: 'qMeasureInfo/1' },
},
},
},
We also pass the settings of the chart inside the component along with the point like this:
settings: {
x: { scale: 'm' },
y: { scale: 's' },
shape: 'rect',
size: 0.2,
strokeWidth: 2,
stroke: '#fff',
opacity: 0.8,
fill: { scale: 'col' },
},
Please note that I have used the shape ‘rect’ instead of circle here in this visualization as I would like to represent each point as a rectangle. This is just an example of simple customization you can achieve using Picasso.
Finally, we define the updateChart( ) method to take care of the updated layout from Qlik. To do so, we use the update( ) function provided by Picasso.
function updateChart(newlayout){
chart.update({
data: [{
type: 'q',
key: 'qHyperCube',
data: newlayout.qHyperCube,
}],
});
}
The result is seen below:
Step 5: Interaction with Qlik objects -
Our last step is to see if the interactions work as we would expect with a native Qlik Sense object. To clearly depict this scenario, I use Nebula.js (a library to embed Qlik objects) to call & render a predefined bar chart from my Qlik Sense environment. If you would like to read more on how to do that please refer to this. Here’s a sample code.
n.render({
element: document.querySelector(".object"),
id: "GMjDu"
})
And the output is seen below. It is a bar chart that shows country wise total medals won in Olympics.
So, now in our application, we have a predefined Qlik Sense bar chart and a customized scatter plot made using Picasso.js. Let’s see their interactivity in action.
The complete code for this project can be found on my GitHub.
This brings us to an end of this tutorial. If you would like to play around, here are a few collection of Glitches for Picasso. You can also refer to these set of awesome examples in Observable.
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fay-dom alternatives and similar packages
Based on the "Fay" category.
Alternatively, view fay-dom alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
fay-base9.9 4.8 fay-dom VS fay-baseA proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript
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fay-jquery8.5 0.0 fay-dom VS fay-jqueryjQuery bindings for Fay (experimental)
snaplet-fay7.9 0.0 L1 fay-dom VS snaplet-fayFay integration for Snap that provides automatic (re)compilation during development
fay-builder5.5 0.0 fay-dom VS fay-builderPut Fay configuration in your projects .cabal file and compile on program startup or when building with Cabal
fay-uri5.3 0.0 fay-dom VS fay-uriPersistent FFI bindings for using jsUri in Fay
fay-ref3.0 0.0 fay-dom VS fay-refLike IORef but for Fay
fay-websockets1.2 0.0 fay-dom VS fay-websocketsWebsockets FFI library for Fay
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README
fay-dom
A FFI wrapper for DOM functions for use with Fay. It includes functions for the more commonly used DOM features. See fay-jquery if you want wrappers for jQuery.
Usage
Just install it with cabal:
$ cabal install fay-dom
Then include it at the top of your
file.hs:
import DOM
fay-dom uses fay-text so you probably want to enable
OverloadedStrings and
RebindableSyntax when using this package.
Finally, build the javascript including the package, as explained on the wiki:
$ fay --package fay-text,fay-dom file.hs
Development Status
Rudimentary at the moment. Functions will be added when people find the need for them. A lot of what this library could do already exists in fay-jquery, but if anyone wants to write Fay without jQuery feel free to add whatever is missing.
Contributions
Fork on!
Any enhancements are welcome.
The github master might require the latest fay master, available at faylang/fay. | https://haskell.libhunt.com/fay-dom-git-alternatives | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
ubakar Gataev2,226 Points
I need you to write a function named product. It should take two arguments, you can call them whatever you want, and the
I need you to write a function named product. It should take two arguments, you can call them whatever you want, and then multiply them together and return the result
someone plss help me.
def product(arg1, arg2): return(product)
3 Answers
Hara Gopal KCourses Plus Student 10,027 Points
:)
firstly i guess you cannot compute a value inside the function definition itself. secondly, use a different name for the variable instead of function name itself, then compute and return the variable, call the function if needed
def product(arg1 , arg2): a = arg1 * arg2 return a
Chris FreemanTreehouse Moderator 67,622 Points
The variable
product is not defined by an assignment statement. Try adding line
product = arg1 * arg2
Abubakar Gataev2,226 Points
didn't work
Chris FreemanTreehouse Moderator 67,622 Points
Please show the code you tried.
Abubakar Gataev2,226 Points
def product(arg1 * arg2): product = arg1 * arg2 return(product)
Abubakar Gataev2,226 Points
Abubakar Gataev2,226 Points
did you find the answer? | https://teamtreehouse.com/community/i-need-you-to-write-a-function-named-product-it-should-take-two-arguments-you-can-call-them-whatever-you-want-and-the-3 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
function named product. It should take two arguments, you can call them whatever you want, and the
product
def product(salt): if salt.is() == 'sour': print("salt is", "sour") print("salt is", "taste") print("salt is", "good")
1 Answer
behar10,797 Points
Hey stewart, it dosent seem you have attempted to do what the challenge is asking you. Also when asking a forum question, please make sure to ask an actual question. If you need help, the challenge is asking you to create a function named product that takes two arguments (You have only made it take 1, ie. "salt"). Then return the result that you get from multiplying those two numbers (You dont return anything). If you need more help please write back. | https://teamtreehouse.com/community/i-need-you-to-write-a-function-named-product-it-should-take-two-arguments-you-can-call-them-whatever-you-want-and-the-4 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
Tasty Test Tip: Test final and static methods with PowerMock and Mockito
Two of the most famous mocking frameworks EasyMock and Mockito, don't offer out of the box support for mocking final and static methods. It is often said on forums that "you don't want that" or "your code is badly designed" etc. Well this might be true some of the time, but not all of the time. So let's suppose you do have a valid reason to want to mock final or static methods, PowerMock allows you to do it. Here's how (example with Mockito):
1. add the following dependencies to your pom.
>
2. In your Testclass, prepare the classes you want to mock with PowerMock.
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class) @PrepareForTest({FinalClass.class, StaticClass.class}) public class TestClass { .. }
3a. Mock static code and specify the behaviour.
PowerMockito.mockStatic(StaticClass.class); PowerMockito.when(StaticClass.staticMethod()).thenReturn(someObjectOrMock);
or, with i.e. 3 parameters:
PowerMockito.mockStatic(StaticClass.class); PowerMockito.when(StaticClass.class, "staticMethod", param1, param2, param3).thenReturn(someObjectOrMock);
3b. Mock final methods
PowerMockito.when(FinalClass.class, "finalMethod").thenReturn(someObjectOrMock); | https://blog.jdriven.com/2012/10/tasty-test-tip-testing-final-and-static-methods-with-powermock-mockito/ | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
-- new drivers, apparently --
(This is on AMD only; it works fine with nVidia and Intel i7 and Xeon)
fails with "Error getting function data from server", but the good news is that there's much more info in the console log, including:
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: Both operands to a binary operator are not of the same type!
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: %34 = fadd <4 x float> %33, i32 %32
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: Instruction does not dominate all uses!
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: %34 = fadd <4 x float> %33, i32 %32
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: store <4 x float> %34, <4 x float>* %Y, align 16
5/10/12 2:29:21.792 PM com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64: Broken module found, compilation aborted!
... however, that's at a lower level than what I have available to me before I send off the OpenCL-C to the compiler!
Any hints on how to track these down? Is it the case that I have an IL representation that compiled under the old version but now fails? OR, is the IL itself the product of a new bug? How can I tell?....
Thanks for any ideas!
[ I know that AMD does not support Apple-supplied drivers; just looking for hints or clues! ]
... and, for what it's worth, if I go back to unvectorized code (which worked before the update) buildprogram hangs my whole Mac Pro, requiring hard power-off....
It looks like somewhere the code you are generating is trying to add a vector of floats to a integer value(The %32 and %34 mean its the 32nd and 34th operation that is not assigned to a variable, so maybe looking there will help). This is illegal in both LLVM and OpenCL C. This is a problem with Apple's implementation and you need to report the issue to them.
Thanks for your answer, Micah.
Yes, I did figure out that the one complaint is about trying to add an i32 to a float4. Perhaps an automatic conversion previously performed by the old C->IL compiler fails in the new one, and I may be able to track it down in my (complex) kernel. I don't know what it doesn't like about "store <4 x float> %34, <4 x float>* %Y, align 16", though I could go through and comment out lines that store float4s using pointers. (Maybe it should be "align 128"....)
For now, I just need this to work, so, if I don't have much success in the beginning of the weekend, I'll go back to an earlier OS.
I don't know if I can file a bug with Apple without paying their $100 registration fee, and I hear their forums are pretty slow so don't know if it's worth it. I imagine a fix will appear in future updates....
*UPDATE*; here is a partial copy of what I've posted on the AMD board:
<snip>
It turns out the error I quoted was generated by almost the first executable line in my kernel, where I was clearly adding an int32 to a float4; presumably it was auto-converted before because the numbers used to be right. Adding a (float4) cast to the int32 fixed that.
BUT, now I'm embroiled in more mysterious bugs without any cool diagnostic info; it just tells me what pass it fails on, and my only method to search it down is what I call the "méthode tédieuse", commenting out huge chunks of my kernel to see when it compiles, then cutting the chunks down, then trying again. I've identified a problem with a tweening function I've had trouble with before, and now need to find another solution for. Also, some kind of problem with stepping through a character buffer.
It now fails on the 'AMD IL Swizzle Encoder Pass', which is at least two passes later than it used to fail, but that's all it'll give me....
If I find more of a solution, I'll post it here....
*oops* I meant to say the Khronos board; that and this one seem to be the best....
It seems that what I cannot do is to use the result of the subtraction of two character pointers. If a and b are both __global char *, I cannot use (b-a) in a calculation, nor can I return (b-a) from a function. (I can say "int c = b - a" if I don't use the result, presumably because it's optimized away.) Doesn't help to use ptrdiff_t instead, casts, intermediate variables, nothing. This particular routine has worked for decades; it's my strpos function....
If I figure this out any further, I'll post again....
Photovore,
If you can get a simplified test case that reproduces the error, I can see if we can reproduce it on the PC side and fix it. The swizzle encoder pass is common across platforms, so the same error should show up. | https://community.amd.com/t5/archives-discussions/osx-lion-10-7-4-update-killed-my-kernel/m-p/200003/highlight/true | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
article
Counting Queries: Basic Performance Testing in Django
Filipe Ximenes • 6 January 2020
It's very common to read about testing techniques such as TDD and how to test application business logic. But testing the performance of an application is a whole different issue. There are many ways you can do it, but a common approach is to set up an environment where you can DDoS your application and watch how it behaves. This is an exciting topic, but it's not what I want to talk about in this blog post. Today I want to cover a much simpler kind of test, and it's one that you can do using your default Django unit test setup: testing the number of times your application hits the database.
This is a simple thing to test, and it's one of the things that can hurt application performance very early on. It's also the very first thing I investigate once something starts running slow. The great news is that there's only one thing you need to know about to start writing this kind of test: the assertNumQueries method and it's quite simple to use, here is an example:)
The above code asserts that during the
"trucks:list_trucks" view the application will only hit the database 6 times. But there's a little bit more to it, notice that before running the assertion we first create a new
Truck object and after it we assert that there's one object in the
trucks_list context data of the view. This is an essential thing to do in this kind of test because it assures you are not testing against an empty data set. It's important to understand that just creating the
Truck instance is not enough; you need to check if it was included in the context. You may be doing some filtering to the truck list data so there's a chance that your
Truck instance would not be included in the results.
By doing the above we've already made significant progress, but there's another important step that people often forget about. If we want our views to scale we need to ensure that its performance will not degrade as the number of items returned by it grows. After all we still have a performance problem in case we hit the database 6 times to fetch one item but hit it 106 times in case we have 100 items. We want a constant number of database hits, no matter the number of items we are returning. Luckily the solution to this is also simple, we need to add one (or a few) more items to the database and count the number of hits again. Here's the final version of the test:) Truck.objects.create(...) with self.assertNumQueries(6): response = client.get(reverse("trucks:list_trucks")) self.assertEqual(response.context["trucks_list"], 2)
Notice that we check again the number of items returned in the context, but in the second run, we expect 2 trucks. The reasoning for that is the same as in the first time.
Ensuring a constant number of database hits as you add data is more important than having a low number of total hits.
The last thing to do is to ensure that your data is as hydrated as possible. That means that you also need to create the related data that is going to be used while your view is processed. If you don't do that, there's a risk that your production application is hitting the database more times than your test expects (although it might be passing). In our example, we would need to create a companion
TruckDriver to our
Truck.
from trucks.models import Truck, TruckDriver ... truck = Truck.objects.create(...) TruckDriver.objects.create(name="Alex", truck=truck)
If the number of database hits stops being constant after you do the above go learn more about the
select_related and
prefetch_related methods.
That's all for today, hope from now on you start checking the number of queries to the database early on in your application. It won't take very much of your time to do it, and it will prevent a lot of trouble when your application starts growing in number of users.
Looking for more?
How I test my DRF serializers
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Enums are a double-edged sword. They are extremely useful to create a set of possible values, but they can be a versioning problem if you ever add a value to that enum.
In a perfect world, an enum represents a closed set of values, so versioning is never a problem because you never add a value to an enum. However, we live in the real, non-perfect world and what seemed like a closed set of values often turns out to be open.
So, let's dive in.
Beer API
My example API is a Beer API!
I have a GET that returns a Beer, and a POST that accepts a Beer.
[HttpGet] public ActionResult<Models.Beer> GetBeer() { return new ActionResult<Models.Beer>(new Models.Beer() { Name = "Hop Drop", PourType = Beer.Common.PourType.Draft }); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult PostBeer(Models.Beer beer) { return Ok(); }
The Beer class:
public class Beer { public string Name { get; set; } public PourType PourType { get; set; } }
And the PourType enum:
public enum PourType { Draft = 1, Bottle = 2 }
The API also converts all enums to strings, instead of integers which I recommend as a best practice.
services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_2) .AddJsonOptions(options => { options.SerializerSettings.Converters.Add(new Newtonsoft.Json.Converters.StringEnumConverter()); });
So, the big question comes down to this definition of PourType in the Beer class.
public PourType PourType { get; set; }
Should it be this insted?
public string PourType { get; set; }
We're going to investigate this question by considering what happens if we add a new value to PourType, Can = 3.
Let's look at the pros/cons.
Define As Enum
Pros
When you define PourType as an Enum on Beer, you create discoverability and validation by default. When you add Swagger (as you should do), it defines the possible values of PourType as part of your API. Even better, when you generate client code off of the Swagger, it defines the Enum on the client-side, so they can easily send you the correct value.
Cons
Backwards compatibility is now an issue. When we add Can to the PourType, we have created a new value that the client does not know about. So, if the client requests a Beer, and we return a Beer with the PourType of Can, it will error on deserialization.
Define As String
Pros
This allows new values to be backwards compatible with clients as far as deserialization goes. This will work great in cases where the client doesn't actually care about the value or the client never uses it as an enum.
However, from the API's perspective, you have no idea if that is true or not. It could easily cause a runtime error anyway. If the client attempts to convert it to an enum it will error. If the client is using the value in an IF or SWITCH statement, it will lead to unexpected behavior and possibly error.
Cons
The biggest issue is discoverability is gone. The client has no idea what the possible set of values are, it has to pass a string, but has no idea what string.
This could be handled with documentation, but documentation is notoriously out of date and defining it on the API is a much easier process for a client.
So What Do We Do?
Here's what I've settled on.
Enum!
The API should describe itself as completely as possible, including the possible values for an enum value. Without these values, the client has no idea what the possible values are.
So, a new enum should be considered a version change to the API.
There are a couple ways to handle this version change.
Filter
The V1 controller could now filter the Beer list to remove any Beer's that have a PourType of Can. This may be okay if the Beer only makes sense to clients if they can understand the PourType.
Unknown Value
The Filter method will work in some cases, but in other cases you may still want to return the results because that enum value is not a critical part of the resource.
In this case, make sure your enum has an Unknown value. It will need to be there at V1 for this to work. When the V1 controller gets a Beer with a Can PourType, it can change it to Unknown.
Here's the enum for PourType:
public enum PourType { /// <summary> /// Represents an undefined PourType, could be a new PourType that is not yet supported. /// </summary> Unknown = 0, Draft = 1, Bottle = 2 }
Because Unknown was listed in the V1 API contract, all clients should have anticipated Unknown as a possibility and handled it. The client can determine how to handle this situation... it could have no impact, it could have a UI to show the specific feature is unavailable, or it could choose to error. The important thing is that the client should already expect this as a possibility.
Resource Solution
One thing that should be considered in this situation is that the enum is actually a resource.
PourType is a set of values that could expand as more ways to drink Beer are invented (Hooray!). It may make more sense to expose the list of PourType values from the API. This prevents any version changes when the PourType adds a new value.
This works well when the client only cares about the list of values (e.g. displaying the values in a combobox). But if the client needs to write logic based on the value it can still have issues with new values, as they will land in the default case.
Exposing the enum as a resource also allows additional behavior to be added to the value, which can help with client logic. For example, we could add a property to PourType for RequiresBottleOpener, so the client could make logic decisions without relying on the "Bottle" value, but just on the RequiresBottleOpener property.
The PourType resource definition:
public class PourType { public string Name { get; set; } public bool RequiresBottleOpener { get; set; } }
The PourType controller:
[HttpGet] public ActionResult<IEnumerable<PourType>> GetPourTypes() { // In real life, store these values in a database. return new ActionResult<IEnumerable<PourType>>( new List<PourType>{ new PourType {Name = "Draft"}, new PourType {Name = "Bottle", RequiresBottleOpener = true}, new PourType {Name = "Can"} }); }
However, this path does increase complexity at the API and client, so I do not recommend this for every enum. Use the resource approach when you have a clear case of an enum that will have additional values over time.
Conclusion
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this and I believe this is the best path forward for my specific needs.
If you have tackled this issue in a different way, please discuss in the comments. I don't believe there is a perfect solution to this, so it'd be interesting to see other's solutions.
Discussion (4)
I don't actually suggest it, but if the API is versioned, doesn't that mean that the V2 version could use an extended enum that is different from the first by the new value?
We usually have a mixed approach for the enums which are likely to change in the future.
let's say WalletTransactionType is an enum which holds Credit, Debit. It may change in future versions when we support transactions with digital wallet or EMI.
Client : Client sdk is generated as if WalletTransactionType properties as a string. We generate the allowed types in the code documentation tags so that as frontend dev tries to set the value, it shows up the documented code to assist him what are allowed.
Server : Server holds the enum type so that its easy to validate for the values passed from client.
Case 1 : Lets say if EMI is added in new version,
V1 : Client sends only Credit, Debit and server validates it fine.
V2 : Client sends all three and server validates it fine.
Case 2 : Let's say we removed Debit option and added EMI.
V1 : Client sends Credit or Debit, server takes the values, takes necessary steps in its v1 version services.
V2 : Works as normal.
Basically we maintain different services, controllers and routers for each version and so does the DTO objects. For a new version, we just clone the existing code and work on it.
If anything breaks, like Case 2, we get a compilation error for V1 versions and we adapt them to match the domain functionality accordingly.
PS : I liked the Unknown extra value though as it can be helpful in some scenarios. I can easily generate unknown for every enum listed in the spec automatically through code generator.
Hope it makes sense.
I came across the same problem recently and there were some suggestions to include this unknown literal for all enums at code generation level. One concern i have with that is it introduce unwanted code complexity for all enum handlings. And developers end up in implementing undefined behavior in consumer code for all enums. Do you see the same concerns ?
I like the version API for enum values solution and also if you really want to use enum for something potential change, then define the unknown as part of the API contract and describe it. So API designers can take that decision than a code generator does.
Another option i consider is representing the new value as a attribute in current version of the API provided that this new value can be optional for current consumers.
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std::condition_variable::wait_for.
The standard recommends that a steady clock.
If these functions fail to meet the postcondition (lock.owns_lock()==true and lock.mutex() is locked by the calling thread), std::terminate is called. For example, this could happen if relocking the mutex throws an exception.
[edit] Parameters
[edit] Return value
rel_timeexpired, std::cv_status::no_timeout otherwise.
predstill evaluates to false after the
rel_timetimeout expired, otherwise true.
[edit] Exceptions
pred
[edit] Notes
Even if notified under lock, overload (1) makes no guarantees about the state of the associated predicate when returning due to timeout..
[edit] Example
#include <iostream> #include <atomic> #include <condition_variable> #include <thread> #include <chrono> using namespace std::chrono_literals; std::condition_variable cv; std::mutex cv_m; int i; void waits(int idx) { std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(cv_m); if(cv.wait_for(lk,); { std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lk(cv_m);
[edit] Defect reports
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We are in the middle of migrating our SSRS 2005 server to SSRS 2014. So far all the reports are working except our barcode reports.
When we try and upload the barcode reports we get the following message:
: The element 'Style' in namespace '' has invalid child element 'Border' in namespace ''.
List of possible elements expected: 'BorderColor, BorderStyle, BorderWidth, BackgroundColor, BackgroundGradientType, BackgroundGradientEndColor, BackgroundImage, FontStyle, FontFamily, FontSize, FontWeight, Format, TextDecoration, TextAlign, VerticalAlign,
Color, PaddingLeft, PaddingRight, PaddingTop, PaddingBottom, LineHeight, Direction, WritingMode, Language, UnicodeBiDi, Calendar, NumeralLanguage, NumeralVariant' in namespace '' as well
as any element in namespace '##other'. Line 664, position 26. (rsInvalidReportDefinition)."
If I change
With
We get the following message:
"The definition of this report is not valid or supported by this version of Reporting Services. The report definition may have been created with a later version of Reporting Services, or contain content that is not formed or not valid based on Reporting
Services schemas. Details: The report definition has an invalid target namespace " which cannot be upgraded. (rsInvalidReportDefinition)"
Here is an example of one of our report files: (too many characters to upload here so I've linked it to my DropBox)
What needs to be changed for these reports to run on 2014?
Hi Kelvin.uk,
Based on my understanding, you are migrating the content of Report Server 2005 to Report Server 2014, but the barcode reports can’t be uploaded to report server 2014 and error is thrown out.
In Reporting Services, upgrading a report definition in SQL Server Data Tools is the only way to upgrade the .rdl file. In your scenario, since you are migrating the reports to a new environment with a higher Reporting Services version installed, and some
.NET components are referenced when creating the barcode reports, you should upgrade reports definition, then deploy them to report server.
Reference:
Upgrade Reports
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu
Qiuyun Yu
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Picobel.js
Picobel.js (pronounced peek-o-bell, as in decibel) is a lightweight dependency-free Javascript tool that converts html audio tags into styleable markup.
Why would I need this?Why would I need this?
There are two reasons you might want to use Picobel...
You want a uniform cross-browser experience for the audio players on your site. Pick a pre-made Picobel theme, and you're all set.
You're frontender and CSS magician who loves to have control over every aspect the sites you create. You can use the markup-only version of Picobel, and write your own CSS.
The native html
<audio> tag provides fantastic functionality, but gives you no styling options at all. Picobel rebuilds the audio player with regular html elements: you get all the functionality of the native audio element, and complete control of it's appearance.
Using Picobel you can turn this:
Default browser audio players
Into this:
Picobel-styled audio players
Picobel allows you to create custom styles for your audio players: providing cross-browser consistency and a seamless integration with your existing brand styles.
InstallationInstallation
Install with NPMInstall with NPM
npm install picobel will install Picobel in your
node_modules directory. Then you can include Picobel in your javascript like this:
// Include Picobel in your project: import Picobel from 'picobel'; // Initialise Picobel: Picobel() // ...or initialise Picobel with your chosen options: Picobel({ theme: 'default' })
If you are using WebPack (or similar) to bundle your scripts, you can include the stylesheet for your chosen Picobel theme here too:
// Include the styles for *all* the themes: import 'picobel/css/all.css'; // ...or include only the styles for a specific theme: import 'picobel/css/player.default.css';
Alternatively you could include the stylesheets manually with a
<link> tag in your
index.html:
<!-- Load the Picobel CSS --> <link rel='stylesheet' href='node_modules/picobel/css/player.default.css' type='text/css'/>
When your page loads, Picobel will replace any default
<audio> elements with a block of custom-markup, complete with classes that you can use to apply your custom CSS.
Manually installManually install
To use Picobel.js you'll need to include the
picobel.js file (found here: picobel.legacy.min.js) in your project. This needs to be called before your custom scripts, and ideally in the
<footer> of your page.
<!-- Load Picobel --> <script type='text/javascript' src='picobel.min.js'></script>
You will also need the CSS styles. Choose which "theme" you'd like to use, and load that stylesheet. All current themes can be previewed in the Picobel.js CodePen Collection, and all the css files can be found in the repo, here.
<!-- Load the Picobel CSS --> <link rel='stylesheet' href='player.default.css' type='text/css'/>
Then initialize the function. For simplicity, the example below does this in an in-line
<script> tag, but you can add this to your master JS file. Just make sure you initialise Picobel after the picobel.min.js file has been called.
<!-- Initialise Picobel --> <script> Picobel(); </script>
When your page loads, Picobel will replace any default
<audio> elements with a block of custom-markup, complete with classes that you can use to apply your custom CSS.
UsageUsage
If you're using a theme other than "basic", you'll need to specify the theme name in the options object when you intialise Picobel.
Picobel( { theme: 'themename' } );
This adds a class to the container of each audio element, so if you've made your own styles you can use this to make sure your CSS is nicely namespaced.
This:This:
<audio src=""></audio>
Gets turned into this:Gets turned into this:
<div class="customAudioPlayer player_0" data- <div class="loader"></div> <button class="playerTrigger"> <span class="buttonText">play</span> </button> <div class="metaWrapper"> <span class="titleDisplay">file.mp3</span> <span class="artistDisplay"></span> </div> <div class="timingsWrapper"> <span class="songPlayTimer">0:00</span> <div class="songProgressSliderWrapper"> <div class="pseudoProgressBackground"></div> <div class="pseudoProgressIndicator"></div> <div class="pseudoProgressPlayhead"></div> <input type="range" min="0" max="100" class="songProgressSlider"> </div> <span class="songDuration">3:51</span> </div> <div class="songVolume"> <div class="songVolumeLabelWrapper"> <span class="songVolumeLabel">Volume</span> <span class="songVolumeValue">10</span> </div> <div class="songVolumeSliderWrapper"> <div class="pseudoVolumeBackground"></div> <div class="pseudoVolumeIndicator"></div> <div class="pseudoVolumePlayhead"></div> <input type="range" min="0" max="1" step="0.1" class="songVolumeSlider"> </div> </div> </div>
Setting "artist" and "track name" valuesSetting "artist" and "track name" values
Applying metadata to your audio file requires adding data-attributes to your
<audio> markup. Picobel gets the track name from the regular
title attribute, and looks for artist information in the
data-artist attribute. For the demo at the top of this page, the markup looks like this:
<audio src="" title="Lost that easy" data-artist="Cold War Kids" controls> Your browser does not support the <code>audio</code> element. </audio>
Pre-made themesPre-made themes
Picobel comes with many pre-made themes. To use a theme, make sure you've downloaded the correct stylesheet from the Picobel CSS library and then reference the chosen theme name as an option when you initialize Picobel in your JS.
<!-- Initialise Picobel with a theme--> <script> Picobel( { theme: "chosenThemeName" } ); </script>
So if you wanted to use the "iTunes" theme, your Picobel call would look like this:
Picobel({theme:"itunes"});. If you don't explicitly choose a theme, then the Default theme will be used. The current options are:
skeleton,
itunes,
bbc,
soundcloud,
pitchfork, &
eatenbymonsters.
You can see them all in action in the Picobel.js CodePen Collection, and see screenshots of each featured theme on this page:
Default theme. View the this theme on CodePen
Skeleton theme (use this as a jumping-off point for your own styles). View the this theme on CodePen
BBC iPlayer-esque theme. View the this theme on CodePen
iTunes-esque theme. View the this theme on CodePen
Soundcloud-esque theme. View the this theme on CodePen
Pitchfork-esque theme. View the this theme on CodePen
Eaten by Monsters theme. View the this theme on CodePen
ContributeContribute
This started out as a "scratch your own itch" tool for a specific project. I'm open-sourcing it in the hope it might prove useful to others too. There are a few audio player tools/plugins out there, but most have too many features for my needs. I like simplicity, and I like any JS I add to my sites to be as lean as possible.
I'm hoping Picobel can be of use to as many people as possible. If you have an improvement or bug-fix or new feature, get in touch! Make a pull request on the Picobel.js Github repo. I'm just getting started with "open source", so I'd be very glad of any help or suggestions or advice.
Read more about contribute in this project's Contribution Guide
- MIT license
- No dependencies
- v1.0.10
- Most recent release date: 20180529 | https://www.npmjs.com/package/picobel | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
- Step 1: Getting Started with Azure Command and Query
- Step 2 : Setting up the Azure Environment
Coding for the cloud can seem a mountainous challenge at the start. What resources do you need, how can you best use them, and just what will it cost to run your solution?
In our previous step we built an application that exposes a WebAPI to receive new subscriptions to a book club.
This is then stored in an Azure storage account queue, so that the user can continue whilst we process the request further using an Azure Function.
The Azure function is triggered by the queue, and writes the data to table storage in the same storage account for us.
To aid our development, and to allow us to focus, we used the Azure Storage Emulator to fake our storage account, and ran both the WebAPI and Function with 'F5' using the standard Visual Studio tooling to allow them to run locally.
This is great for development and experimentation. But we need to deploy at some point.
In this tutorial we are going to create an environment in Azure using the Azure Portal, and publish our code for testing.
Getting Started
You can find the starting point in the GitHub repo here
Clone the repo, if you haven't already and checkout
step-two-start
The Azure Portal
Before we can make the changes that we need to in our code, we first need an environment to communicate with, and deploy to.
Note: For these steps you need a Microsoft Account. If you do not have one with access to Azure resources then you will need to create one. We are not covering that in this tutorial, but you can read more here
- Open portal.azure.com
- Login into your Microsoft Account
We are now on the home page of the Azure Portal. Amongst other things from here we can check the state of your account, navigate around current resources and create new resources. It's the later that is important for us today.
Resource Groups
The first thing that we need to set up is an environment is a resource group. As the name implies a resource group ties the resources together in one group.
This allows easy management of the resources. All related resources are located together, the costs for all related resources are grouped, and when the time comes to clean up your environment all are located together.
- Click on the 'Resource Groups' icon
- On the Resource Groups page click the '+ Create' button.
- Select the subscription to attach the resource group to
- Give your resource group a meaningful name
- Select the region to store the metadata for your resource group
- Click the 'Review and Create' button
- Check that the data entered is correct and press 'Create'
Azure will now create your resource group for you
- Refresh the Resource Group List and you should now see your resource group
Most resources take some time to create, the resource group is an exception to this and appears almost immediately.
Creating the Web App
Now we need to add something to it, the first thing that we need to be able to deploy our app is a
Web App.
We need a Web App in order to deploy our Web API application. Think of this like the IIS of a Windows Server.
- Go to the page for the resource group that we just made
- Click on the
Add
- Click on `Web app'
Click on the
Web Applink, otherwise we'll find ourselves in the quick start page 😉
- We should now be on the page to create a new web app - it should look like this
- Make sure that the right subscription is selected
- Make sure that the right resource group is selected (if you created the resource from the resource group this will be prefilled)
- Give your Web App a name
This name cannot contain spaces, and needs to be unique, globally. If someone else has used this name already you will get an error message
- For publishing click
Code
- Runtime stack is
.Net 3.1 LTS
Windowsfor the Operating System
Note: There are limitations with Linux App Service plans when using consumption based Function Apps (as we will later in this tutorial), so we are using Windows. If we were to use two Resource Groups to separate this App Service plan from the Function App then we could use Linux for our hosting. For more information see this wiki
- For region select the same as your Resource Group
Note: Depending on the subscription that you have you may not be able to select every region. In which case
Central US- this one has always worked for me
App Service Plan
That is all of the settings that we'll be using today for the Web App itself, but you may have noticed that there are still some settings that we need to look at.
The Web App needs somewhere to run. This is the App Service. If you think of the Web App as IIS, then think of the App Service as the machine it runs on.
As we don't have an App Service in our Resource Group we are going to need to create one.
- Click the
Create Newlink
- In the pop-up that opens fill in the name for your app service
- Fill in a name (this does not have to be globally unique)
- Click
OK
- Now we want to select the SKU and size of our App Service.
- Click on
Change Size
We should now have a new fly-in open, allowing up to pick what specifications we want for our App Service
Here we can find all of the options available to us for development, testing, production and isolated instances. Have a look around to see what is available
Pick Dev / Test
Pick
F1 Shared Infrastructure. For our demo free is good enough!
For practice, and demonstrations I always use the Dev/Test F1 tier. This is free, has 60 minutes run time a day and is good enough for what we are doing today.
60 minutes a day does not mean it is only available for 60 minutes a day. It means you only get 60 minutes of actual compute time. If our service is only busy for 1 minute per hour then you would only use 24 in that day even though it was available for the whole 24 hours.
- Click apply
We should now have a screen in front of us that looks a little like:
- Click
Review + Create
- Check that everything on the review page looks OK
- Click
Create
Azure will now create the resources for us, this will take a few minutes.
Creating the Azure Storage Account
The Web App allows us to host our API, but now we need some storage for it to talk to.
- Go back to the page for the resource group, now with an App Service and Web App
- Click on the
Addbutton to open the new resource blade
Storage Account
Click on the
Storage Account - blob, file, table, queueoption
In the marketplace page that opens, click on
Create
- In the creation screen make sure that the subscription and resource group are correct
- Fill in the `Instance Details' using this information as a guide
- Click
Review and Create
- Check that the validation has passed, and that all of information is as you intended it to be
- Click
Create
Azure will now provision our storage account for us!
Whilst it's doing that lets take a quick look at those `Instance Details
Storage Account Name
The storage account name is a globally unique name within Azure.
The same as our Web App, this means that we need to pick a name here that no one else has used.
Unlike the Web App, we have more limitations with the name.
The only characters allowed are lowercase letters and numbers. No PascalCase, camelCase or kebab-case names are allowed.
Yes, this makes the name harder to read. Sorry.
Location
There are two rules of thumb here:
- Keep it close to the metal where it will be written and read.
- Make sure that your users data is compliant with local rules regarding data location.
Performance
For this example we do not need a high data throughput, or extreme response times, so the cheaper standard performance is good enough.
Account Kind
There are three account kinds:
- Storage V2 (general purpose v2)
- Storage (general purpose v1)
- BlobStorage
The Storage V2 accounts are general purpose accounts for File, Table, Queue and Blob storage. For general purpose use this is what we should always use. V1 accounts should only be used for legacy applications that need it. BlobStorage accounts are specialised for high performance block blobs, not for general purpose use.
Replication
Storage accounts always replicate data, but you can specify different levels of replication. This comes at a price, the further down this list you go, the more you pay.
- LRS: Cheapest, locally redundant in 1 data center
- ZRS: Redundant across multiple data centers in one zone
- GRS: Redundant across two zones
- RA-GRS: As above, but with read access across the zones
- GZRS: Redundant across multiple data centers in the first zone, and a single data center in the second
- RA-GZRS: As above, but with read access across the zones
Updating the WebAPI with the Storage Account
Now that we have an Azure Storage Account we can start to use it, to do so we need to make some changes to our WebAPI application.
Get the connection string for the Storage Account
- Open the resource group
- Click on the Azure Storage Account created in the last step to open the resource
- Click on 'Access Keys'
The Access Keys are in the
Settingssection
- On the screen that opens we can see two keys and connection strings. Copy one of the connection strings
You can do this easily using the copy button next to the connection string
Note: Do not post keys online, the storage account is open for attack with these keys available. The keys seen here are no longer valid, which is why they are shared for demonstration purposes 😉
Update the WebAPI with the copied connection string
- Open the WebAPI code
- Open the
QueueAccess.csfile
- Replace the
_connectionStringstring literal with the connection string copied from the Azure Portal
It should look like this, but with your storage account connection string:
C#
public class QueueAccess
{
private const string _connectionString = "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystor...";
Test the WebAPI and Queue
We are now ready to run!
- Start the WebAPI in debug mode
- Open the following folder in a terminal (command prompt, Windows PowerShell, Bash etc). The folder is relative to the base folder of the git repo for this tutorial)
<git repo folder>\front-end
- Start the Angular front end application by running:
ng serve
Note: For this you need to have npm and the angular CLI installed. We are not covering that in this tutorial, but you can find more information here Angular CLI and here npm and NodeJS.
- Browse to Fill in a name, email and preferred genre
- Click
Submit
- Open the Azure Portal
- Go to the Azure Storage Account we created
- Open the Storage Explorer from the side bar
Note: The Azure storage explorer is still in preview, as such there may be some issues. But for our example here it works without a problem.
- Open the
Queues\
bookclubsignups
- We can see our sign up data in the queue!
Deploying the WebAPI to Azure
So now we have all of the resources that we need in Azure to host our WebAPI and to hold our queue, and we have a WebAPI that can send messages into our queue.
It's time to deploy our code and see it work in the wild!
- Open the
- Right click on the
- Click
Publish
Note: There are several notable public speakers who use the phrase friends don't let friends right click publish. But for experimentation and a quick deploy it's very useful!
- In the window that opens select 'Azure'
- In the 2nd step select
Azure App Service (Windows)
- In the 3rd step select the resource group inside your Azure subscription, and pick the WebApp from the tree view.
- We now have our publish profile set up. We also have the option for setting up our storage account, which has been detected, and even a pipeline for CI deployments. But for now we are simply going to press the
Publishbutton
Visual Studio will run some checks to ensure that our code will run in the cloud, build, publish and push our code to Azure, and when everything is complete open a browser with the URL of the service.
Don't worry that this shows an error, we only have one route set up for our WebAPI, so the root won't show anything...
But do copy the URL!
Testing the Azure Service
We can test that our API is working using our front end application.
- Open the front end angular project folder in VS Code
<git rep folder>\front-end
- Open the
SubscriptionServiceclass
src\app\service\subscription.service.ts
- Change the URL for the API from localhost to the deployed web app
From:
ts`;
const url =
`
To:
ts
const url =
;
- Run the Angular app and add a new sign up the the book club
- Recheck the Azure Storage Account and check that your new signup is saved, below you can see Rory has signed up for book club now as well
Creating the Azure Function
We now have a working WebAPI, deployed and sending requests to the queue. Now we need to read that queue and store the data in a table.
To do that we need to deploy our Azure Function, so we need a new resource.
- Open the Azure Portal
- Go to the Resource Group
- On the Resource Groups page click the '+ Add' button
- Click on the
Function Applink (not
Quick starts + tutorials)
In the Create Function App Basics make sure the correct subscription and resource group are selected
Give the function app a name, this has to be unique in Azure
For
Publishselect
Code
Pick
.NET Corefor the
Runtime Stack
3.1for
Version
Make sure that the Function App is located in the same
Regionas the Storage Account and Resource group
- Click 'Next: Hosting >'
- For the
Storage Accountpick the one we created in this tutorial
Note: If this isn't available then double check your regions - you can only pick storage accounts in the same region as you are creating the Function App
- Pick
Windowsfor the operating system
Note: As said earlier, there are limitations with Linux App Service plans when using consumption based Function Apps, so we are using Windows. If we were to use two Resource Groups to separate this App Service plan from the Function App then we could use Linux for our hosting. For more information see this wiki
- For the
Plan Typepick
Consumption (Serverless)
- Click
Review + Create
- Check the details of the Function App and if all are correct click
Create
Azure will now deploy the resources needed for our new Function App
Once deployed, our resource group is now complete, and should look like this
The function app creation also created the
Application Insights resource, but we are not going to be using that for this tutorial, so we can ignore it.
We can also see the new App Service Plan that has been created for the Function App. This will be spun up when the Function App is called, and the code for the function deployed to it from the Storage Account.
Note: This does mean that there is a delay when calling a consumption based Function App from cold before it responds. This is why we have used a regular WebAPI hosted in a Web App for our API layer.
Updating the Function App with the Storage Account
Now that we have our Function App available we can update our Function App code to to triggered from our queue, and to write our data to the queue.
Updating the Function App trigger to use the Storage Account
There are three changes that we need to make to change the trigger
- Open the Function App solution
- Open the
serviceDependencies.local.jsonfile
- Copy the JSON below into the file
json
{
"dependencies": {
"storage1": {
"resourceId": "/subscriptions/[parameters('subscriptionId')]/resourceGroups/[parameters('resourceGroup')]/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<Storage Account Name>",
"type": "storage.azure",
"connectionId": "AzureWebJobsStorage"
}
}
}
Note: The
resourceIdends with the Storage Account of our queue. In our example we used
mystorageaccounttutorial, that is what we would use here. Whatever the name of the Storage Account is should be used.
- Copy the connection Azure Storage Account connection string from the Azure Portal, as we did earlier
- Open the
local.settings.jsonfile
You may need to recreate this file due to
.gitignoresettings. If so create it in the root of the Functions project
- Replace the value of
AzureWebJobsStorage(currently
"UseDevelopmentStorage=true") with the value copied from the Azure portal
It should now look like this, but with your storage account connection string:
json
{
"IsEncrypted": false,
"Values": {
"AzureWebJobsStorage": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystor...",
"FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "dotnet"
}
}
Note: This setting allows us to run the solution locally, but using the Azure Storage Account rather than the Storage Emulator
- Finally, open the
StorageTableAccess.csfile
- Replace the
_connectionStringstring literal with the connection string copied from the Azure Portal
It should look like this, but with your storage account connection string:
C#
public class StorageTableAccess
{
private const string _connectionString = "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystor...";
Test the full application locally
We can now do a full local test! From web application, through our WebAPI, Azure Function running locally and into our Storage Table.
- Start the function in Debug mode
NOTE: Function Apps run in specialised environments in Azure, when you run your app in debug mode Visual Studio spins up an Azure Function Tools application to create this environment locally.
- Run through the same same steps as our previous test - but don't look in the
Queuesection!
- Instead, look in the
Tablesection, where we should now see our latest test:
Deploying the Function App to Azure
Now on to the last step, deploying our
BookClubSignupProcessor to Azure!
This flow is similar to deploying the WebAPI to azure
- Open the
BookClubSignupProcessorsolution
- Right click on the
BookClubSignupProcessorproject
- Click
Publish
- In the window that opens select 'Azure'
- In the 2nd step select
Azure Function App (Windows)
- In the 3rd step select the resource group inside your Azure subscription, and pick the Azure Function from the tree view.
- We now have our publish profile set up. We also have the option for setting up our storage account, which has been detected, and even a pipeline for CI deployments. But for now we are simply going to press
Publish
Note: Here we see a big difference from the WebAPP deploy. The Azure Function has a dependency on the Storage Account, which has a warning. We are going to ignore it for now
- Click the
Publishbutton
Now it's deployed, we can take a look at the function in the Azure Portal to ensure that it worked correctly.
Check that the function has been deployed and is available
Now that we have deployed our function app we can see it in the Azure portal
NOTE: Functions take time to spin up, it may be that after you have deployed it doesn't appear straight away
- Open the Azure Portal
- Go to the Resource Group
- In the list of resources click on the Function App created
- In the side menu of the Function App click
Functionsin the group
Functions
- In the blade that opens we can see all of the functions within the Function App, the type of trigger and if they are enabled
Now that we know our Function is deployed and available we can run our final test!
Test the deployed Function App
We now have a full environment deployed and can do one final test to make sure that everything is set up as it should be.
We are going to use the same test as we did running the Function locally. The only thing we need to run locally now is our front end!
Closure and Next Steps
You can find the end point in the GitHub repo here
Clone the repo, if you haven't already and checkout
step-three-start
Files will need editing to run - ensure that the correct connection strings and storage account names are set. Due to the nature of publish profiles and their access tokens these files are not included - you will need to follow the publish steps yourself to deploy this repo.
Our solution is now deployed, and running in the cloud. Using a Web App, Azure Storage Account and Azure Function to run in the wild.
As with our previous work, this has been a quick skim through, and is just the start of making a maintainable cloud solution. In the following posts, over the coming months, we'll be
- Taking a look at the Azure cost calculator so that we can check what the associated costs of that environment will be
- Taking a deeper dive into each of the Azure resources we need for this experiment
- Taking a deeper dive into each of the APIs that we are using to access them!
- Finally, we'll be automating the deployment, using Azure DevOps, and quickly throwing a static Angular site into the air so that we can interact with our API
Further Reading
Azure Web App
Azure Storage
Azure Functions
Cover photo by Philipp Birmes from Pexels
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Today I prepared a list of PHP frameworks with their pro’s and con’s described. I do hope that this list will prove useful to you. Please, enjoy!
Laravel
PHP Version Required 5.5.9
Laravel is a comprehensive framework designed for rapidly building applications using the MVC architecture. It is the most popular PHP framework nowadays with a huge community of developers.
PRO’s:
· Organize files and code
· Rapid application development
· MVC architecture (and PHP7)
· Unit testing (FAST on HHVM)
· Best documentation of any
· High level of abstraction
· Overloading capabilities using dynamic methods
· Tons of out of the box functionality
· payment integration with stripe
· very strong encryption packages
· ORM
CON’s:
· Does Many queries on your database
Phalcon
PHP Version Required 5.3
Phalcon is a MVC based PHP framework. It uses very few resources in comparison to other frameworks, translating into very fast processing of HTTP requests, which can be critical for developers working with systems that don’t offer much overhead..
PRO’s:
· Blazing fast with low overheads
· Auto loading
· Unique in that it is based as a C-extension
· VERY good Security features built-in
· Lots of documentation
· Developer friendly
CON’s:
· Does not work with HHVM
Symfony
PHP Version Required 5.5.9
The leading PHP framework to create websites and web applications. Built on top of the Symfony Components — a set of decoupled and reusable components on which the best PHP applications are built, such as Drupal, phpBB, and eZ Publish.
PRO’s:
· High performance, due to byte code caching
· Stable
· Well documented, maintained, and supported
· Very good support and is very mature
CON’s:
· While the documentation is good, there is a steep learning curve.
CodeIgniter
PHP Version Required 5.4
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
PRO’s:
· Very developer friendly
· Doesn’t need any special dependencies or supports
· Ability to use normal web hosting services well, using standard databases such as MySQL
· Outperforms most other frameworks (non MVC)
· Good documentation and LTS (Long Term Support)
CON’s:
· No namespace’s, however this can speed up
· Not as friendly towards unit testing as others
· Few libraries that are built inside the framework
· Severely out of date and does not support modern PHP features (tx @AshleyJSheridan)
· Has security issues which have been outstanding for years without being patched by the dev team (tx @AshleyJSheridan)
CakePHP
PHP Version Required 5.5.9.
PRO’s:
· Modern framework · Supports PHP 5.5+
· Scaffholding system and Fast builds
· Very good for commercial web applications (MIT License)
· Database Access, Caching, Validation, Authentication, are built in
· Extensive safekeeping tools include cross site
· scripting prevention, SQL Injection prevention,
· CSRF, and Form Validation · Good Documentation
· Actively developed
CON’s:
· Not as good for constructing Restful APIS as Laravel or others listed
Zend
PHP Version Required 5.6, 7.0
Zend Framework is a collection of professional PHP packages with more than 158 million installations. It can be used to develop web applications and services using PHP 5.6+, and provides 100% object-oriented code using a broad spectrum of language features.
Zend Framework uses Composer as a package dependency manager; PHPUnit to test all packages; and Travis CI as a Continuous Integration service. Zend Framework also follows PHP-FIG standards, and includes an implementation of PSR-7 for HTTP message interfaces.
PRO’s:
· Ideal for enterprise applications
· Object oriented
· Tons of components for validation, feeds, and forms
· Decoupled
CON’s:
· Not as ideal for rapid application development
FuelPHP
PHP Version Required 5.3.3
FuelPHP is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework, based on the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start!
PRO’s:
· Caching is Optional · Authentication packages
· Restful building · URL routing
· Modular with integrated ORM
· New version will be fully object oriented, can be installed using composer, and one installation can
· supports multiple applications
CON’s:
· Not very beginner friendly (slim support documentation)
· It is a relatively new framework with less support
· Open source Community contributions are less than others (like Laravel and Phalcon)
Slim
PHP Version Required 5.5
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
PRO’s:
· The fastest RESTful Framework available
· Enough documentation to get you off the ground
· Perfect for Small rest apis
· Actively developed
· Add-ons include: HTTP Caching, & Flash
CON’s:
· Minimal add-ons on the stock composer when installed.
Phpixie
PHP Version Required 5.3
One of the most popular fullstack PHP frameworks. It comes bundled with great tools for cryptography and security, support for MongoDB, and code sharing with composer, all right out of the box.
PRO’s:
· Relatively new framework
· Easy to get started
· Documentation with code samples
· Impressive Routing System
· Ability to Compile fast
· HMVC Pattern oriented
CON’s:
· Very few modules
· No support on components that are independently made from the dependencies
Fat-Free
PHP Version Required 5.5
A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust web applications — fast!
PRO’s:
· Light weight
· Small learning curve
· Very fast with optimizations for URL routing, cache engines, code
· Good for multilingual applications
· Off the shelf support for SQL or No SQL
· Databases
· Tons of packages including unit testing, image
· Processing, JavaScript / CSS compressing, data validation, Open id and more
CON’s:
· Kind of overkill for a micro framework
· No new options compared to others
· There is code repetition is places other MVC frameworks can take care of
Aura
PHP Version Required 5.4
The Aura.
PRO’s:
· Slim and lightweight
· Getting started guide
· Perfect for Small rest apis
· Actively developed
· Add-ons include: HTTP Caching, & Flash
CON’s:
· Not found
SilverStripe
(tx @camerongrant)
SilverStripe is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) and Framework for creating and maintaining websites and web applications.
That’s all for today.
Have a nice day!
Source: | https://learningactors.com/best-php-frameworks-in-2017/ | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
The CData Python Connector for Xero enables you to create Python applications and scripts that use SQLAlchemy Object-Relational Mappings of Xero data.
The rich ecosystem of Python modules lets you get to work quickly and integrate your systems effectively. With the CData Python Connector for Xero and the SQLAlchemy toolkit, you can build Xero-connected Python applications and scripts. This article shows how to use SQLAlchemy to connect to Xero data to query, update, delete, and insert Xero data.
With built-in optimized data processing, the CData Python Connector offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Xero data in Python. When you issue complex SQL queries from Xero, the CData Connector SQLAlchemy and start accessing Xero through Python objects.
Install Required Modules
Use the pip utility to install the SQLAlchemy toolkit:
pip install sqlalchemy
Be sure to import the module with the following:
import sqlalchemy
Model")
Declare a Mapping Class for Xero Data
After establishing the connection, declare a mapping class for the table you wish to model in the ORM (in this article, we will model the Items table). Use the sqlalchemy.ext.declarative.declarative_base function and create a new class with some or all of the fields (columns) defined.
base = declarative_base() class Items(base): __tablename__ = "Items" Name = Column(String,primary_key=True) QuantityOnHand = Column(String) ...
Query Xero Data
With the mapping class prepared, you can use a session object to query the data source. After binding the Engine to the session, provide the mapping class to the session query method.
Using the query Method
engine = create_engine("xero:///?InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH&OAuthSettingsLocation=/PATH/TO/OAuthSettings.txt") factory = sessionmaker(bind=engine) session = factory() for instance in session.query(Items).filter_by(Name="Golf balls - white single"): print("Name: ", instance.Name) print("QuantityOnHand: ", instance.QuantityOnHand) print("---------")
Alternatively, you can use the execute method with the appropriate table object. The code below works with an active session.
Using the execute Method
Items_table = Items.metadata.tables["Items"] for instance in session.execute(Items_table.select().where(Items_table.c.Name == "Golf balls - white single")): print("Name: ", instance.Name) print("QuantityOnHand: ", instance.QuantityOnHand) print("---------")
For examples of more complex querying, including JOINs, aggregations, limits, and more, refer to the Help documentation for the extension.
Insert Xero Data
To insert Xero data, define an instance of the mapped class and add it to the active session. Call the commit function on the session to push all added instances to Xero.
new_rec = Items(Name="placeholder", Name="Golf balls - white single") session.add(new_rec) session.commit()
Update Xero Data
To update Xero data, fetch the desired record(s) with a filter query. Then, modify the values of the fields and call the commit function on the session to push the modified record to Xero.
updated_rec = session.query(Items).filter_by(SOME_ID_COLUMN="SOME_ID_VALUE").first() updated_rec.Name = "Golf balls - white single" session.commit()
Delete Xero Data
To delete Xero data, fetch the desired record(s) with a filter query. Then delete the record with the active session and call the commit function on the session to perform the delete operation on the provided records (rows).
deleted_rec = session.query(Items).filter_by(SOME_ID_COLUMN="SOME_ID_VALUE").first() session.delete(deleted_rec) session.commit()
Free Trial & More Information
Download a free, 30-day trial of the Xero Python Connector to start building Python apps and scripts with connectivity to Xero data. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions. | https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/xero-python-sqlalchemy.rst | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
So this recipe is a short example to understand vstack in python. Let's get started.
import numpy as np
Let's pause and look at these imports. Numpy is generally helpful in data manipulation while working with arrays. It also helps in performing mathematical operation.
a = np.ones((3, 3)) b= np.array((2,2,2))
Here, we are creating two simple arrays.
print(np.vstack( (a,b) ))
Here, we have simply added row b to array a using vstack.
Once we run the above code snippet, we will see:
[[1. 1. 1.] [1. 1. 1.] [1. 1. 1.] [2. 2. 2.]] | https://www.projectpro.io/recipes/what-is-vstack-python | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
KTextEditor::ModificationInterface
#include <KTextEditor/ModificationInterface>
Detailed Description
External modification extension interface for the Document.
Introduction
The class ModificationInterface provides methods to handle modifications of all opened files caused by external programs. Whenever the modified-on-disk state changes the signal modifiedOnDisk() is emitted along with a ModifiedOnDiskReason. Set the state by calling setModifiedOnDisk(). Whether the Editor should show warning dialogs to inform the user about external modified files can be controlled with setModifiedOnDiskWarning(). The slot modifiedOnDisk() is called to ask the user what to do whenever a file was modified.
Accessing the ModificationInterface
The ModificationInterface is supposed to be an extension interface for a Document, i.e. the Document inherits the interface provided that the used KTextEditor library implements the interface. Use qobject_cast to access the interface:
- See also
- KTextEditor::Document
Definition at line 61 of file modificationinterface.h.
Member Enumeration Documentation
Reasons why a document is modified on disk.
Definition at line 75 of file modificationinterface.h.
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
Virtual destructor.
Member Function Documentation
This signal is emitted whenever the
document changed its modified-on-disk state.
- Parameters
-
- See also
- setModifiedOnDisk()
Set the document's modified-on-disk state to
reason.
KTextEditor implementations should emit the signal modifiedOnDisk() along with the reason. When the document is in a clean state again the reason should be ModifiedOnDiskReason::OnDiskUnmodified.
- Parameters
-
- See also
- ModifiedOnDiskReason, modifiedOnDisk()
Implemented in KTextEditor.
Control, whether the editor should show a warning dialog whenever a file was modified on disk.
If
on is true the editor will show warning dialogs.
- Parameters
-
Implemented in KTextEditor.. | https://api.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/html/classKTextEditor_1_1ModificationInterface.html | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
File manager rename and copy functions
Please add features to the file manager to allow copying an existing file into a new one and renaming files.
Renaming files is already possible. Open the file in the editor, tap its title and then the little rename icon. For folders, go into the folder, switch to "Edit" mode, and then you have a rename icon next to the "Done" button.
For copying files I use a short script like this as an editor action:
import console import editor import os import shutil DOCUMENTS = os.path.expanduser("~/Documents") old_name = editor.get_path() new_name = os.path.join(DOCUMENTS, console.input_alert("Duplicate File", "Enter new name", os.path.relpath(old_name, DOCUMENTS))) if os.path.exists(new_name): console.hud_alert("Destination already exists", "error") else: shutil.copy(old_name, new_name) ##editor.open_file(os.path.relpath(new_name, DOCUMENTS)) # For old Pythonistas editor.open_file(new_name)
Of course this only works one file at a time. For copying multiple files stash is currently the best solution.
PhoneManager !?
Yes, I love it (now that I know it). 😀
Thanks for the suggestions, @dgelessus.
The rename feature in the editor isn't enough. In my case, it's not even possible for one file.
As an experiment, I renamed a .pyui file to .json. I changed some coordinates from
"{{x,y},{w,h}}"strings to
[[x,y],[w,h]]structures. It worked in the app that used it, but when I renamed the file back to .pyui, all attempts to open it cause Pythonista itself to crash.
I know I can rename or copy files with function calls from the console or a program. However, the file manager should have this feature, too. It feels incomplete without them.
@lsloan The UI editor doesn't handle malformed files very well. If you're in a crash loop, you can launch Pythonista by entering
pythonista://in Safari's address bar. This will skip restoring the previously-open files.
Of course that crashes Pythonista. You're changing the internal structure of a file that is not meant to be edited by hand. Okay, Pythonista should probably display an error instead of crashing entirely, but this is not exactly the normal use case of
pyuifiles.
;)
The current state is also much better than what it was like in version 1.5. There the editor would refuse to open files with an unknown extension, even if they were text files, and when renaming it would automatically set the extension to
.pyif you used something other than
.pyor
.txt. | https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2973/file-manager-rename-and-copy-functions/1 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | en | refinedweb |
Drawer API
API documentation for the React Drawer component. Learn about the available props and the CSS API.
Import
You can learn about the difference by reading this guide on minimizing bundle size.
import Drawer from '@mui/material/Drawer'; // or import { Drawer } from '@mui/material';
The props of the Modal component are available
when
variant="temporary" is set.
Component nameThe name
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I have a Groovy custom listener in which I am trying to parse the history to see if a custom field (text type) has changed. The guts of the code I have looks like this:
def chiList = chm.getAllChangeItems(issue).reverse();
for (def chi in chiList) {
log.debug "Field is "+chi.getField()+" changed from "+chi.getFroms()+" to "+chi.getTos().toString()
}
What shows up in the log is:
Field is IP Version changed from [:] to {}
Field is IP Version changed from [:] to {}
Field is status changed from [1:Open] to {6=Closed}
I'm not seeing any values in getFroms or getTos maps. Can someone help me?
George
George,
Why aren't you using the getChangeItemsForField method? I am guessing this should return a list of ChangeItemBean for a particular custom field too right? Or is it just for system fields?
def historyItemList = changeHistoryManager.getChangeItemsForField(issue, "status");
What is getFroms and getTos? Are you thinking of getFromString() ?
Can you point to the javadoc for these methods...?
changeHistoryManager.getAllChangeItems(Issue issue) returns a list of ChangeHistoryItem.
ChangeHistoryItem has the methods getFroms() and getTos()
Oh yeah. So what is chm? If you keep updating the field, do you get more and more debug lines? Can you post your entire code?
I have figure a different approach to my problem, but chm is below.
ComponentManager cm = ComponentManager.getInstance()
def chm = cm.getChangeHistoryManager(). | https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-questions/Not-seeing-custom-field-values-in-getFroms/qaq-p/324568 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
- 1.1 Gothic Security
- 1.2 The State Machine Model
- 1.3 Programming Miss Grants Controller
- 1.4 Languages and Semantic Model
- 1.5 Using Code Generation
- 1.6 Using Language Workbenches
- 1.7 Visualization
1.3 Programming Miss Grant’s Controller
Now that I’ve implemented the state machine model, I can program Miss Grant’s controller like this:
Event doorClosed = new Event("doorClosed", "D1CL"); Event drawerOpened = new Event("drawererState = new State("waitingForDrawer"); State unlockedPanelState = new State("unlockedPanel"); StateMachine machine = new StateMachine(idle); idle.addTransition(doorClosed, activeState); idle.addAction(unlockDoorCmd); idle.addAction(lockPanelCmd); activeState.addTransition(drawerOpened, waitingForLightState); activeState.addTransition(lightOn, waitingForDrawerState); waitingForLightState.addTransition(lightOn, unlockedPanelState); waitingForDrawerState.addTransition(drawerOpened, unlockedPanelState); unlockedPanelState.addAction(unlockPanelCmd); unlockedPanelState.addAction(lockDoorCmd); unlockedPanelState.addTransition(panelClosed, idle); machine.addResetEvents(doorOpened);
I look at this last bit of code as quite different in nature from the previous pieces. The earlier code described how to build the state machine model; this last bit of code is about configuring that model for one particular controller. You often see divisions like this. On the one hand is the library, framework, or component implementation code; on the other is configuration or component assembly code. Essentially, it is the separation of common code from variable code. We structure the common code in a set of components that we then configure for different purposes.
Figure 1.3 A single library used with multiple configurations
Here is another way of representing that configuration code:
<stateMachine start = "idle"> <event name="doorClosed" code="D1CL"/> <event name="drawer="drawerOpened" target="waitingForLight"/> <transition event="lightOn" target="waitingForDrawer"/> </state> <state name="waitingForLight"> <transition event="lightOn" target="unlockedPanel"/> </state> <state name="waitingForDrawer"> <transition event="drawer advantage is that now we don’t have to compile a separate Java program for each controller we put into the field—instead, we can just compile the state machine components plus an appropriate parser into a common JAR, and ship the XML file to be read when the machine starts up. Any changes to the behavior of the controller can be done without having to distribute a new JAR. We do, of course, pay for this in that many mistakes in the syntax of the configuration can only be detected at runtime, although various XML schema systems can help with this a bit. I’m also a big fan of extensive testing, which catches most of the errors with compile-time checking, together with other faults that type checking can’t spot. With this kind of testing in place, I worry much less about moving error detection to runtime.
A second advantage is in the expressiveness of the file itself. We no longer need to worry about the details of making connections through variables. Instead, we have a declarative approach that in many ways reads much more clearly. We’re also limited in that we can only express configuration in this file—limitations like this are often helpful because they can reduce the chances of people making mistakes in the component assembly code.
You often hear people talk about this kind of thing as declarative programming. Our usual model is the imperative model, where we command the computer by a sequence of steps. “Declarative” is a very cloudy term, but it generally applies to approaches that move away from the imperative model. Here we take a step in that direction: We move away from variable shuffling and represent the actions and transitions within a state by subelements in XML.
These advantages are why so many frameworks in Java and C# are configured with XML configuration files. These days, it sometimes feels like you’re doing more programming with XML than with your main programming language.
Here’s another version of the configuration code: prefer. You can still load it in at runtime (like the XML) but you don’t have to (as you don’t with the XML) if you want it at compile time.
This language is a domain-specific language that shares many of the characteristics of DSLs. First, it’s suitable only for a very narrow purpose—it can’t do anything other than configure this particular kind of state machine. process.
This simplicity makes it easier for those who write the controller software to understand it—but also may make the behavior visible beyond the developers themselves. The people who set up the system may be able to look at this code and understand how it’s supposed to work, even though they don’t understand the core Java code in the controller itself. Even if they only read the DSL, that may be enough to spot errors or to communicate effectively with the Java developers. While there are many practical difficulties in building a DSL that acts as a communication medium with domain experts and business analysts like this, the benefit of bridging the most difficult communication gap in software development is usually worth the attempt.
Now look again at the XML representation. Is this a DSL? I would argue that it is. It’s wrapped in an XML carrier syntax—but it’s still a DSL. This example thus raises a design issue: Is it better to have a custom syntax for a DSL or an XML syntax? The XML syntax can be easier to parse since people are so familiar with parsing XML. (However, it took me about the same amount of time to write the parser for the custom syntax as it did for the XML.) I’d contend that the custom syntax is much easier to read, at least in this case. But however you view this choice, the core tradeoffs of DSLs are the same. Indeed, you can argue that most XML configuration files are essentially DSLs.
Now look at this code. Does this look like a DSL for this problem?
It’s a bit noisier than the custom language earlier, but still pretty clear. Readers whose language likings are similar to mine will probably recognize it as Ruby. Ruby gives me a lot of syntactic options that make for more readable code, so I can make it look very similar to the custom language.
Ruby developers would consider this code to be a DSL. I use a subset of the capabilities of Ruby and capture the same ideas as use a custom syntax, or it may follow the syntax of another representation such as XML. An internal DSL is a DSL represented “embedded language” may also apply to scripting languages embedded within applications, such as VBA in Excel or Scheme in the Gimp.
Now think again about the original Java configuration code. Is this a DSL? I would argue that it isn’t. That code feels like stitching together with an API, while the Ruby code above has more of the feel of a declarative language. Does this mean you can’t do an internal DSL in Java? How about this:
public class BasicStateMachine extends StateMachineBuilder { Events doorClosed, drawerOpened, lightOn, panelClosed; Commands unlockPanel, lockPanel, lockDoor, unlockDoor; States idle, active, waitingForLight, waitingForDrawer, unlockedPanel; ResetEvents doorOpened; protected void defineStateMachine() { doorClosed. code("D1CL"); drawer(drawerOpened).to(waitingForLight) .transition(lightOn). to(waitingForDrawer) ; waitingForLight .transition(lightOn).to(unlockedPanel) ; waitingForDrawer .transition(drawerOpened).to(unlockedPanel) ; unlockedPanel .actions(unlockPanel, lockDoor) .transition(panelClosed).to(idle) ; } }
It’s formatted oddly, and uses some unusual programming conventions, but it is valid Java. This I would call a DSL; although it’s more messy than the Ruby DSL, it still has that declarative flow that a DSL needs.
What makes an internal DSL different from a normal API? This is a tough question that I’ll spend more time on later (“Fluent and Command-Query APIs”), but it comes down to the rather fuzzy notion of a language-like flow.
Another term you may come across for an internal DSL is a fluent interface. This term emphasizes the fact that an internal DSL is really just a particular kind of API, designed with this elusive quality of fluency. Given this distinction, it’s useful to have a name for a nonfluent API—I’ll use the term command-query API. | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1592379&seqNum=3 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
Cirrus
Cirrus is an infrastructure for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) using the Elements compiler; it is.
You can read more about that in the Attributes and Aspects section under Language Concepts.
Namespaces
The Cirrus API is divided into these namespaces: | https://docs.elementscompiler.com/API/Cirrus/ | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
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After noticing how ScriptRunner's built-in script to clean up resolutions doesn't count as activity on the issues it touches, I wondered if similar clean-up operations could be done from the script console. In this case, I'd like to find all issues that haven't been updated in x days, where the assignee is an inactive account, and then reset those issues to unassigned.
This is pretty easy to do with a bulk operation, but I'd like to avoid making a bunch of old tickets look suddenly active again if possible.
It's probably also simple from the database, but I try to work with a policy of not writing to that unless I absolutely HAVE to.
Thanks!
You will need to do the storing and indexing manually without going through any of the issue services or managers otherwise the history will change.
You can adapt the following code to prevent an entry being added in the history:
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor import com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.IssueIndexManager import com.atlassian.jira.util.ImportUtils def indexManager = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(IssueIndexManager) boolean wasIndexing = ImportUtils.isIndexIssues(); ImportUtils.setIndexIssues(true); try { // do something to issue object and store issue.store() } finally { indexManager.reIndex(issue); ImportUtils.setIndexIssues(wasIndex. | https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/ScriptRunner-to-clear-all-inactive-assignees-w-o-updating-issues/qaq-p/207216 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
Neighbor and destination cache management. More...
#include "core/net.h"
#include "ipv6/icmpv6.h"
#include "ipv6/ndp.h"
#include "ipv6/ndp_cache.h"
#include "ipv6/ndp_misc.h"
#include "debug.h"
Go to the source code of this file.
Neighbor and destination cache ndp_cache.c.
Definition at line 30 of file ndp_cache.c.
Create a new entry in the Destination Cache.
Definition at line 392 of file ndp_cache.c.
Create a new entry in the Neighbor cache.
Definition at line 50 of file ndp_cache.c.
Search the Destination Cache for a given destination address.
Definition at line 443 of file ndp_cache.c.
Search the Neighbor cache for a given IPv6 address.
Definition at line 103 of file ndp_cache.c.
Flush Destination Cache.
Definition at line 469 of file ndp_cache.c.
Flush Neighbor cache.
Definition at line 264 of file ndp_cache.c.
Flush packet queue.
Definition at line 349 of file ndp_cache.c.
Send packets that are waiting for address resolution.
Definition at line 290 of file ndp_cache.c.
Periodically update Neighbor cache.
Definition at line 133 of file ndp_cache.c. | https://oryx-embedded.com/doc/ndp__cache_8c.html | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
Static caching of files from Amazon S3, using baiji
Project description
Versioned-tracked assets and a low-level asset cache for Amazon S3, using baiji.
Features
- Versioned cache for version-tracked assets
- Creates a new file each time it changes
- Using a checked-in manifest, each revision of the code is pinned to a given version of the file
- Convenient CLI for pushing updates
- Low-level asset cache, for any S3 path
- Assets are stored locally, and revalidated after a timeout
- Prefill tool populates the caches with a list of needed assets
- Supports Python 2.7
- Supports OS X, Linux, and Windows
- A few dev features only work on OS X
- Tested and production-hardened
The versioned cache
The versioned cache provides access to a repository of files. The changes to those files are tracked and identified with to a semver-like version number.
To use the versioned cache, you need a copy of a manifest file, which lists all the versioned paths and the latest version of each one. When you request a file from the cache, it consults this manifest file to determine the correct version. The versioned cache delegates loading to the underlying asset cache.
The versioned cache was designed for compute assets: chunks of data which are used in code. When the manifest is checked in with the code, it pins the version of each asset. If the asset is subsequently updated, that revision of the code will continue to get the version it’s expecting.
The bucket containing the versioned assets is intended to be immutable. Nothing there should ever be changed or deleted. Only new versions added.
The manifest looks like this:
{ "/foo/bar.csv": "1.2.5", "/foo/bar.json": "0.1.6" }
To load a versioned asset:
import json from baiji.pod import AssetCache from baiji.pod import Config from baiji.pod import VersionedCache config = Config() # Improve performance by assuming the bucket is immutable. config.IMMUTABLE_BUCKETS = ['my-versioned-assets'] vc = VersionedCache( asset_cache=AssetCache(config), manifest_path='versioned_assets.json', bucket='my-versioned-assets') with open(vc('/foo/bar.json'), 'r') as f: data = json.load(f)
Or, with `baiji-serialization <>`__:
from baiji.serialization import json data = json.load(vc('s3://example-bucket/example.json'))
To add a new versioned path, or update an existing one, use the vc command-line tool:
vc add /foo/bar.csv ~/Desktop/bar.csv vc update --major /foo/bar.csv ~/Desktop/new_bar.csv vc update --minor /foo/bar.csv ~/Desktop/new_bar.csv vc update --patch /foo/bar.csv ~/Desktop/new_bar.csv
A VersionedCache object is specific to a manifest file and a bucket.
Though the version number uses semver-like semantics, the cache ignores version semantics. The manifest pins an exact version number.
The asset cache
The asset cache works at a lower level of abstraction. It holds local copies of arbitrary S3 assets. Calling the cache() function with an S3 path ensures that the file is available locally, and then returns a valid, local path.
On a cache miss, the file is downloaded to the cache and then its local path is returned. Subsequent calls will return the same local path. After a timeout, which defaults to one day, the validity of the local file is checked by comparing a local MD5 hash with the remote etag. This check is repeated once per day.
To gain a performance boost, you can configure immutable buckets, whose contents are never revalidated after download. The versioned cache uses this feature.
import json from baiji.pod import AssetCache cache = AssetCache.create_default() with open(cache('s3://example-bucket/example.json'), 'r') as f: data = json.load(f)
Or, with `baiji-serialization <>`__:
from baiji.serialization import json data = json.load(cache('s3://example-bucket/example.json'))
It is safe to call cache multiple times: cache(cache('path')) will behave correctly.
Tips
When you’re developing, you often want to try out variations on a file before committing to a particular one. Rather than incrementing the patch level over and over, you can set manifest.json to include an absolute path:
"/foo/bar.csv": "/Users/me/Desktop/foo.obj",
This can be either a local or an s3 path; use local if you’re iterating by yourself, and s3 to iterate with other developers or in CI.
Development
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt rake unittest rake lint
TODO
- Add vc config to config
- Explain or clean up the weird default_bucket config logic in prefill_runner. e.g. This logic is so that we can have a customized script in core that doesn’t require these arguments.
- Use config without subclassing. Pass overries to init
- Configure using an importable config path instead of injecting. Or, possibly, allow ~/.aws/baiji_config to change defaults.
- Rework baiji.pod.util.reachability and perhaps baiji.util.reachability as well.
- Restore CDN publish functionality in core
- Avoid using actual versioned assets. Perhaps write some (smaller!) files to a test bucket and use those?
- Remove suffixes support in vc.uri, used only for CDNPublisher
- Move yaml.dump and json.* to baiji. Possibly do a try: from baiji.serialization.json import load, dump; except ImportError: def load(... Or at least have a comment to the effect of “don’t use this, use baiji.serialization.json”
- Use consistent argparse pattern in the runners.
- I think it would be better if the CacheFile didn’t need to know about the AssetCache, to avoid this bi-directional dependency. It’s only required in the constructor, but that could live on the AssetCache, e.g. create_cache_file(path, bucket=None).
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- Issue Tracker:
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Pull requests welcome!
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Just a quick post on another problem I ran into while setting up PaperClip. When attempting to submit a form WITHOUT an image I received the following error message:
Assets asset /tmp/stream20120218-22611-dgnkr-0.exe is not recognized by the 'identify' command.
Apparently the most common cause of this issue is one of two things:
#1: You don’t have RMagick installed
The easiest fix for this is to simply install the rmagick gem. Simply add rmagick to your Gemfile and run bundle install. Restart your server and you should be ready to go.
#2: Your command_path isn’t set correctly
Run the following command from your console:
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ which identify /usr/bin/identify
Then add the path that is returned to your environment settings:
Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/usr/bin"
#3: If all else fails
If none of the above seem to be causing your issue, try adding the following to your model:
def asset? !(asset_content_type =~ /^image.*/).nil? end
This will simply prevent the file being processed if it’s not an image, avoiding the issue all together. Hopefully this’ll help someone out, let me know if you come across any other solutions.
UPDATE:
Apparently a more recent cause of this issue is an update to the cocaine gem, rolling back to version 0.3.2 appears to resolve the issue. Thanks to Ahmed and Fabrice for bringing it to my attention:
The command_path should point to the directory, I guess (not to the identify binary).
Since paperclip is also using other ImageMagick commands like convert
Paperclip.options[:command_path] = “/usr/bin”
Sorry about the late reply, you’re right about the path – have fixed it up now. Thanks for letting me know!
Hi,
I am having the same problem of “photo is not recognized by the identify command”,but the fact is I have gone through all possible solutions from internet still no luck.
I have installed my ImageMagick properly also added the Rmagick gem.
My command_path is also right and nor I am processing a blanck image field.
I would be glad if you could help me with this problem.?
Thank you in advance.
It may also come from a Cocaine gem version issue, see there : | https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/not-recognised-by-the-identify-command-paperclip/ | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
To get started with pandapower, just
Install pandapower through pip:
pip install pandapower
Create a simple network
import pandapower as pp net = pp.create_empty_network() b1 = pp.create_bus(net, vn_kv=20.) b2 = pp.create_bus(net, vn_kv=20.) pp.create_line(net, from_bus=b1, to_bus=b2, length_km=2.5, std_type="NAYY 4x50 SE") pp.create_ext_grid(net, bus=b1) pp.create_load(net, bus=b2, p_kw=1000)
Run a power flow:
pp.runpp(net)
And check the results:
print(net.res_bus.vm_pu) print(net.res_line.loading_percent)
But of course pandapower can do much more than that - find out what on this page!
Electric Modeling
Includes thoroughly validated equivalent circuit models for lines, transformers, switches and more.
Power System Analysis
Supports power flow, optimal power flow, state estimation, short-circuit calculation and topological graph searches.
Free and Open
Published under a BSD License and therefore free to use, modify and share however you want. | http://www.pandapower.org/ | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery for IPv6) More...
#include "core/net.h"
#include "core/ip.h"
#include "ipv6/ipv6.h"
#include "ipv6/icmpv6.h"
#include "ipv6/mld.h"
#include "mibs/ip_mib_module.h"
#include "debug.h"
Go to the source code of this file.
MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery for IPv6)LD is used by an IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners on its directly attached links, and to discover specifically which multicast addresses are of interest to those neighboring nodes. Refer to the following RFCs for complete details:
Definition in file mld.c. | https://oryx-embedded.com/doc/mld_8c.html | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | en | refinedweb |
It was at my very first MVP Summit in February 2012 saw the light in Spring 2012, shortly after said Summit. Visual 2013, Event:EventTriggerBehavior <Core:InvokeCommandAction </Core:EventTriggerBehavior> </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
Update November 11, 2013
InvokeCommandAction has a CommandParameter too that you can bind to and refer to in the usual way. An interesting and useful feature of InvokeCommandAction was pointed out to me by fellow MVP Morten Nielsen – if don’t specify a CommandParameter, it defaults to passing the event arguments of the trapped event to the command. So if you have for instance this
<interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors> <core:EventTriggerBehavior <core:InvokeCommandAction </core:EventTriggerBehavior> </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
Then this is still a valid command to intercept it – you just ignore the arguments
public ICommand TappedCommand { get { return new RelayCommand( () => { Debug.WriteLine ("Command tapped"); }); } }
But this as well!
public ICommand TappedCommand { get { return new RelayCommand<TappedRoutedEventArgs>( (p) => { Debug.WriteLine ("Command tapped:" + p!=null); }); } }
And thus you can do something with the event arguments. So with InvokeCommandAction you can do everything you wanted to do with EventToBoundCommandBehavior.
(Update ends)
I would urge you to the utmost to no longer using EventToCommandBehavior and/or EventToBoundCommandBehavior from this day forward. Any support requests will simply be directed to this blog post ;).
Something I have been sitting on for very long – part of Catch’em Birds for Windows was a Dat”. ;)
2 comments:
Thanks for the article!
anyone else looking for the namespaces of the interactivity or core xmlns'
they are
xmlns:interactivity="using:Microsoft.Xaml.Interactivity"
xmlns:core="using:Microsoft.Xaml.Interactions.Core"
cheers,
Thanks for this addition @Feelingweird. Being and ardent Resharper user, and having been so for YEARS, I kind of tend to forget that 'the rest of the world' needs to add namespaces manually. ;) | http://dotnetbyexample.blogspot.com/2013/10/introducing-win8nl-for-windows.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
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Key Summary
COCOON-1976 [PATCH] NPE in POI ElementProcessorSerializer for characters between startDocument
and first StartElement-1955 [Patch] Allow shielded class loading for a single block
COCOON-1954 [Patch] RequestProcessor swallows exceptions in blocks case
COCOON-1949 [PATCH] load flowscript from file into specified Rhino context object
COCOON-1946 [PATCH] - Javaflow Sample errors trying to enhance Javaflow classes and showing
cform templates87 Host selector should be case insensitive38 Always use 3-digit version number
COCOON-1810 [PATCH] JMSEventMessageListener does not work86 [PATCH] COCOON-1671 Form not binding when prefix in binding definition is unequal
to that in the instance data for the same namespace.
COCOON-1648 Add support for ISO8601 in I18nTransformer and Forms | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cocoon-dev/200701.mbox/%3C19245617.1167846268376.JavaMail.jira@brutus%3E | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
Jim Meyering wrote:
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com> wrote:There is no uid_t or getuid in MinGW. I'm not really sure that forcing connections readonly if the user is non-root is a useful thing to be doing anyway, so perhaps this code is better off just being deleted?For the missing uid_t, you could add this to configure.in AC_CHECK_TYPE(mode_t, int) then no need for ifndef around the decl of "uid".
autoconf docs seem to suggest that this usage is deprecated: <quote> -- Macro: AC_CHECK_TYPE (TYPE, DEFAULT) Autoconf, up to 2.13, used to provide this version of `AC_CHECK_TYPE', deprecated because of its flaws. First, although it is a member of the `CHECK' clan, it does more than just checking. Secondly, missing types are defined using `#define', not `typedef', and this can lead to problems in the case of pointer types. </quote>
With this function (and a test for getuid in configure.in), (or maybe that should be "return 0"?) #ifndef HAVE_GETUID static int getuid() { return 1; } #endif /* __MINGW32__ */ you could avoid the remaining ifdefs.
Better just to check for getuid?Having said that I still think it'd be better just to delete this code because forcing non-root Xen connections to be readonly doesn't seem very useful | https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-December/msg00195.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
Hi,
I've regenerated the eve gump descriptor using a development version
of the Maven Gump plugin. I'll do the others now.
I reread the documentation and did the following:
- stopped mapping ids (the ability is there for the project to do that
in its descriptor)
- removed work and mkdir (these seem irrelevant for Maven)
- added junitreport
- fixed svn
- added multiproject support
Hopefully that's it...
The only thing I am now unsure about: I set module name to the
artifactId, not the groupId. The reason for this is I believe (though
don't see anything supporting or contradicting it in the doco) that
gump may expect that name to be unique in the workspace, and groupId
will not be.
There is still the risk that there will be namespace issues later, but
we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
So, when/how will I know if this is correct?
Cheers,
Brett | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-dev/200412.mbox/%3C9e3862d8041209142148fe9875@mail.gmail.com%3E | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
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Hi Everyone !
I am newbie in C# and i have problem when start new project.
My project include : One mainform and two child form ( Assetform and Loginform) and in Asset form i have a button call " Remove". here is some describe of how my program work :
- At the beginning of program, the form Asset start with the main form and the button " Remove " is disabled
- When i login, with form login => the button " Remove" is Enabled
and my problem is, i can't control the button in form1.
I have read some thread in our communicity and found somethings exciting. i tried it and gave this code for my problem :
in frmAsset form
Public Button Removebutton() { get{ return (btnRemove);} }
in Login Form :
private void Loginbtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (tlogin.Text == "Administrator" && tpass.Text == "fch.123") { frmAsset Form2 = new frmAsset(); frmAsset.RemoveButton.Enabled=true; MessageBox.Show("Welcome", "Note", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information); Close(); } else { MessageBox.Show("Wrong password and username", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); } }
But with this code , i still can't solve my problem. is there anyone has experience about this? Can you help me ? | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/442550/how-to-control-button-with-login-form | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
Hibernate.orgCommunity Documentation
2016-02-17
Validatorinstance
ConstraintViolationmethods
ExecutableValidatorinstance
ExecutableValidatormethods
ConstraintViolationmethods for method validation
ResourceBundleLocator
@GroupSequence
@GroupSequenceProvider
constraint-mappings
ValidatorFactoryand
Validator
ValidationProviderResolver
ValidatorFactory
MessageInterpolator
TraversableResolver
ConstraintValidatorFactory
ParameterNameProvider
BeanDescriptor
PropertyDescriptor
MethodDescriptorand
ConstructorDescriptor
ElementDescriptor
GroupConversionDescriptor
ConstraintDescriptor
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ResourceBundleLocator
HibernateConstraintValidatorContext
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ServiceLoader
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@Futureand
@Past.-start you need:
In order to use Hibernate Validator within a Maven project, simply add the following dependency to your pom.xml:
Example 1.1. Hibernate Validator Maven dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId> <version>5.2.4.Final</version> </dependency>
This transitively pulls in the dependency to the Bean Validation API
(
javax.validation:validation-api:1.1.0.Final).
Hibernate Validator requires an implementation of the Unified Expression Language (JSR 341) for evaluating dynamic expressions in constraint violation messages (see Section 4.1, :
Example 1.2. Maven dependencies for Unified EL reference implementation
<dependency> <groupId>javax.el</groupId> <artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId> <version>2.2.4</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId> <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId> <version>2.2.4</version> </dependency>
For environments where one cannot provide a EL implementation Hibernate Validator is offering a
Section 11.7, “
ParameterMessageInterpolator”. However, the use of this interpolator
is not Bean Validation specification compliant.:
Example 1.3. Hibernate Validator CDI portable extension Maven dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator-cdi</artifactId> <version>5.2.4.Final</version> </dependency>
Note that adding this dependency is usually not required for applications running on a Java EE application server. You can learn more about the integration of Bean Validation and CDI in Section 10.3, “CDI”.:
Example 1.4. Policy file for using Hibernate Validator with a security manager
grant codeBase "file:path/to/hibernate-validator-5.2.4.Final.jar" { permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks"; permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessDeclaredMembers"; //.2.4.
Lets dive directly into an example to see how to apply constraints.
Example 1.5. Class Car annotated withmust never be
null
licensePlatemust never be
nulland must be between 2 and 14 characters long
seatCountmust be at least 2
You can find the complete source code of all examples used in this reference guide in the Hibernate Validator source repository on GitHub.
To perform a validation of these constraints, you use a
Validator instance. Let’s have a look at a
unit test for
Car:
Example 1.6. Class CarTest showing validation examplesValid:
@NotNullconstraint on
manufactureris violated in
manufacturerIsNull()
@Sizeconstraint on
licensePlateis violated in
licensePlateTooShort()
@Minconstraint on
seatCount.
Java 8 introduces several enhancements which are valuable from a Hibernate Validator point of view. This section briefly introduces the Hibernate Validator features based on Java 8. They are only available in Hibernate Validator 5.2 and later.
In Java 8 it is possible to use annotations in any location a type is used. This includes type arguments. Hibernate Validator supports the validation of constraints defined on type arguments of collections, maps, and custom parameterized types. The Section 2.1.3, “Type argument constraints” chapter provides further information on how to apply and use type argument constraints.
The Java 8 Reflection API can now retrieve the actual parameter names of a method or constructor.
Hibernate Validator uses this ability to report the actual parameter names instead of
arg0,
arg1, etc. The Section 8.2.4, “
ParameterNameProvider” chapter explains how to use the new reflection
based parameter name provider.
Java 8 introduces a new date/time API. Hibernate Validator provides full support for the new API
where
@Future and
@Past constraints can be applied on the new types. The table
Table 2.2, “Bean Validation constraints” shows the types supported for
@Future and
@Past, including the types
from the new API.
Hibernate Validator provides also support for Java 8
Optional type, by unwrapping the
Optional
instance and validating the internal value. Section 11.11.1, “Optional unwrapper” provides examples and a
further discussion.
That concludes the 5 minute tour through the world of Hibernate Validator and Bean Validation. Continue exploring the code examples or look at further examples referenced in Chapter 13, Further reading.
To learn more about the validation of beans and properties, just continue reading Chapter 2, Declaring and validating bean constraints. If you are interested in using Bean Validation for the validation of method pre- and postcondition refer to Chapter 3, Declaring and validating method constraints. In case your application has specific validation requirements have a look at Chapter 6, Creating custom constraints.
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.fieldlevel; public class Car { @NotNull private String manufacturer; @AssertTrue private boolean isRegistered; public Car(String manufacturer, boolean isRegistered) { this.manufacturer = manufacturer; this.isRegistered = isRegistered; } //getters and setters... }
When using field-level constraints field access strategy is used to access the value to be validated. This means the validation engine directly accesses the instance variable and does not invoke the property accessor method even if such an accessor exists.
Constraints can be applied to fields of any access type (public, private etc.). Constraints on static fields are not supported, though.
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.propertylevel; public class Car { private String manufacturer; private boolean isRegistered; public Car(String manufacturer, boolean isRegistered) { this.manufacturer = manufacturer; this.isRegistered = isRegistered; } @NotNull public String getManufacturer() { return manufacturer; } public void setManufacturer(String manufacturer) { this.manufacturer = manufacturer; } @AssertTrue public boolean isRegistered() { return isRegistered; } public void setRegistered(boolean isRegistered) { this.isRegistered = isRegistered; } }.
Starting from Java 8, it is possible to specify constraints directly on the type argument of a
parameterized type. However, this requires that
ElementType.TYPE_USE is specified via
@Target
in the constraint definition. To maintain backwards compatibility, built-in Bean Validation as well as
Hibernate Validator specific constraints do not yet specify
ElementType.TYPE_USE. To make use of
type argument constraints, custom constraints must be used (see = Car(); car.addPart( "Wheel" ); car.addPart( null ); Set<ConstraintViolation<Car>> constraintViolations = validator.validate( car ); assertEquals( 1, constraintViolations.size() ); assertEquals( "'null' is not a valid car part.", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getMessage() ); assertEquals( "parts[1]", enum FuelConsumption { CITY, HIGHWAY } @Valid private EnumMap<FuelConsumption, @MaxAllowedFuelConsumption Integer> fuelConsumption = new EnumMap<>( FuelConsumption.class ); public void setFuelConsumption(FuelConsumption consumption, int value) { fuelConsumption.put( consumption, value ); } //... }
Car car = new Car(); car.setFuelConsumption( Car.FuelConsumption.HIGHWAY, 20 ); Set<ConstraintViolation<Car>> constraintViolations = validator.validate( car ); assertEquals( 1, constraintViolations.size() ); assertEquals( "20 is outside the max fuel consumption.", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getMessage() ); = Car(); car.setTowingCapacity( 100 ); Set<ConstraintViolation<Car>> constraintViolations = validator.validate( car ); assertEquals( 1, constraintViolations.size() ); assertEquals( "Not enough towing capacity.", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getMessage() ); assertEquals( "towingCapacity", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getPropertyPath().toString() );; public class GearBoxUnwrapper extends ValidatedValueUnwrapper<GearBox> { @Override public Object handleValidatedValue(GearBox gearBox) { return gearBox == null ? null : gearBox.getGear(); } @Override public Type getValidatedValueType(Type valueType) { return Gear.class; } }
Car car = Car(); car.setGearBox( new GearBox<>( new Gear.AcmeGear() ) ); Set<ConstraintViolation<Car>> constraintViolations = validator.validate( car ); assertEquals( 1, constraintViolations.size() ); assertEquals( "Gear is not providing enough torque.", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getMessage() ); assertEquals( "gearBox", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getPropertyPath().toString() );
Last but not least, a constraint can also be placed on the class level. In this case not a single property is subject of the validation but the complete object. Class-level constraints are useful if the validation depends on a correlation between several properties of an object.
The Car class in Example 2.7, “Class-level constraint” has the two attributes
seatCount and
passengers and it
should be ensured that the list of passengers has not more entries than seats are available. For
that purpose the
@ValidPassengerCount constraint is added on the class level. The validator of that
constraint has access to the complete
Car object, allowing to compare the numbers of seats and
passengers.
Refer to
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.inheritance; public class Car { private String manufacturer; @NotNull public String getManufacturer() { return manufacturer; } //... }
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.inheritance; public class RentalCar extends Car { private String rentalStation; @NotNull public String getRentalStation() { return rentalStation; } //... }
Here the class
RentalCar is a subclass of
Car and adds the property
rentalStation. If an instance of
RentalCar is validated, not only the
@NotNull constraint on
rentalStation is evaluated, but also the
constraint on
manufacturer from the parent class.
The same would be true, if
Car was not a superclass but an interface implemented by
RentalCar.
Constraint annotations are aggregated if methods are overridden. So if
RentalCar overrode the
getManufacturer() method from
Car, any constraints annotated at the overriding method would be
evaluated in addition to the
@NotNull constraint from the superclass.. Cascaded validation
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.objectgraph; public class Car { @NotNull @Valid private Person driver; //... }
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter02.objectgraph; public class Person { @NotNull private String name; //... }
If an instance of
Car is validated, the referenced
Person object will be validated as well, as the
driver field is annotated with
@Valid. Therefore the validation of a
Car will fail if the
name field
of the referenced
Person instance is
null.
The validation of object graphs is recursive, i.e. if a reference marked for cascaded validation
points to an object which itself has properties annotated with
@Valid, these references will be
followed up by the validation engine as well. The validation engine will ensure that no infinite
loops occur during cascaded validation, for example if two objects hold references to each other.
Note that
null values are getting ignored during cascaded validation.
Object graph validation also works for collection-typed fields. That means any attributes that method
Validation#buildDefaultValidatorFactory():.
The
Validator interface contains three methods that can be used to either validate entire entities
or just) is used. The topic of validation groups
is discussed in detail in
Validator#validateProperty()
Car car = new Car( null, true ); Set<ConstraintViolation<Car>> constraintViolations = validator.validateProperty( car, "manufacturer" ); assertEquals( 1, constraintViolations.size() ); assertEquals( "may not be null", constraintViolations.iterator().next().getMessage() );.
ExecutableValidatorinstance
ExecutableValidatormethods
ConstraintViolationmethods for method validation
As of Bean Validation 1.1, constraints can not only be applied to JavaBeans and their properties, but also to the parameters and return values of the methods and constructors of any Java type. That way Bean Validation constraints can be used to specify
For the purpose of this reference guide, the term method constraint refers to both, method and constructor constraints, if not stated otherwise. Occasionally, the term executable is used when referring to methods and constructors.
This approach has several advantages over traditional ways of checking the correctness of parameters and return values:
IllegalArgumentExceptionor similar), resulting in less code to write and maintain
In order to make annotations show up in the JavaDoc of annotated elements, the annotation types themselves must be annotated with the meta annotation @Documented. This is the case for all built-in constraints and is considered a best practice for any custom constraints.
In the remainder of this chapter you will learn how to declare parameter and return value
constraints and how to validate them using the
ExecutableValidator API.
You specify the preconditions of a method or constructor by adding constraint annotations to its parameters as demonstrated in Example 3.1, “Declaring method and constructor parameter constraints”.
Example 3:
namepassed to the
RentalCarconstructor must not be
null
Section 3.2, Example 3.2, “Declaring a cross-parameter constraint”. Here the cross-
parameter constraint
@LuggageCountMatchesPassengerCount declared on the
load() method is used to
ensure that no passenger has more than two pieces of luggage.
Example 3.2. Declaring a cross-parameter constraint
Section 6.3, Example 3.3, “Specifying a constraint’s target” you apply the
constraint to an executable’s parameters by specifying
validationAppliesTo = ConstraintTarget.PARAMETERS, while
ConstraintTarget.RETURN_VALUE is used
to apply the constraint to the executable return value.
Example 3.3. Specifying a constraint’s target
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.crossparameter.constrainttarget; public class Garage { @ELAssert(expression = "...", validationAppliesTo = ConstraintTarget.PARAMETERS) public Car buildCar(List<Part> parts) { //... } @ELAssert(expression = "...", validationAppliesTo = ConstraintTarget.RETURN_VALUE) public Car paintCar(int color) { //... } }
Although such a constraint is applicable to the parameters and return value of an executable, the target can often be inferred automatically. This is the case, if the constraint is declared on.
The postconditions of a method or constructor are declared by adding constraint annotations to the executable as shown in Example 3.4, “Declaring method and constructor return value constraints”.
Example 3.4. Declaring method and constructor return value constraints
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.returnvalue; public class RentalStation { @ValidRentalStation public RentalStation() { //... } @NotNull @Size(min = 1) public List<Customer> getCustomers() { //... } }
The following constraints apply to the executables of RentalStation:
RentalStationobject must satisfy the
@ValidRentalStationconstraint
getCustomers()must not be
nulland must contain at least on element
Similar to the cascaded validation of JavaBeans properties (see
Section 2.1.6, “Object graphs”), the
@Valid annotation can be used to mark executable
parameters and return values for cascaded validation. When validating a parameter or return value
annotated with
@Valid, the constraints declared on the parameter or return value object are
validated as well.
In Example 3.5, “Marking executable parameters and return values for cascaded validation”, the
car parameter of the method
Garage#checkCar() as
well as the return value of the
Garage constructor are marked for cascaded validation.
Example 3.5. Marking executable parameters and return values for cascaded validation
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.cascaded; public class Garage { @NotNull private String name; @Valid public Garage(String name) { this.name = name; } public boolean checkCar(@Valid @NotNull Car car) { //... } }
java.lang.Iterable
java.util.Map
each contained element gets validated. So when validating the arguments of the
checkCars() method in
Example 3.6, “List-typed method parameter marked for cascaded validation”, each element instance of the passed list will
be validated and a
ConstraintViolation created when any of the contained
Car instances is invalid.
Example 3.6. List-typed method parameter marked for cascaded validation
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.cascaded.collection; public class Garage { public boolean checkCars(@Valid @NotNull List<Car> cars) { //... } }
When declaring method constraints in inheritance hierarchies, it is important to be aware of the following rules:). Example 3.7, “Illegal method parameter constraint in subtype” shows a violation of this rule.
Example 3.7. Illegal method parameter constraint in subtype Example 3.8, “Illegal method parameter constraint in parallel types of a hierarchy” demonstrate a violation of that
rule. The method
RacingCar#drive() overrides
Vehicle#drive() as well as
Car#drive().
Therefore the constraint on
Vehicle#drive() is illegal.
Example 3.8. Illegal method parameter constraint in parallel types of a hierarchy
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.inheritance.parallel; public interface Vehicle { void drive(@Max(75) int speedInMph); }
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.inheritance.parallel; public interface Car {
Example 3.9, “Return value constraints on supertype and subtype method”, the
@Size constraint on the method itself as well
as the
@NotNull constraint on the implemented interface method
Vehicle#getPassengers() apply.
Example 3.9. Return value constraints on supertype and subtype method() { //... } }
If the validation engine detects a violation of any of the aforementioned rules, a
ConstraintDeclarationException will be raised.
The rules described in this section only apply to methods but not constructors. By definition, constructors never override supertype constructors. Therefore, when validating the parameters or the return value of a constructor invocation only the constraints declared on the constructor itself apply, but never any constraints declared on supertype constructors.
The validation of method constraints is done using the
ExecutableValidator interface.
In Section 3.2.1, “Obtaining an
ExecutableValidator instance” you will learn how to obtain an
ExecutableValidator
instance while Section 3.2.2, “.
You can retrieve an
ExecutableValidator instance via
Validator#forExecutables() as shown in
Example 3.10, “Obtaining an
ExecutableValidator instance”.
Example 3.10. Obtaining an
ExecutableValidator instance
Chapter 8, Bootstrapping, for instance in order to use a specific parameter name provider
(see Section 8.2.4, “
ParameterNameProvider”). Example 3.11, “Class
Car with constrained methods and constructors”.
Example 3.11. Class
Car with() { //... } }
The method
validateParameters() is used to validate the arguments of a method invocation.
Example 3.12, “Using
ExecutableValidator#validateParameters()” shows an example. The validation results in a
violation of the
@Max constraint on the parameter of the
drive() method.
Example 3.12. Using.
Using
validateReturnValue() the return value of a method can can be validated. The validation in
Example 3.13, “Using
ExecutableValidator#validateReturnValue()” yields one constraint violation since the
getPassengers() method is expect to return at least one
Passenger instance.
Example 3.13. Using );
The arguments of constructor invocations can be validated with
validateConstructorParameters() as
shown in method Example 3.14, “Using
ExecutableValidator#validateConstructorParameters()”. Due to the
@NotNull constraint on the manufacturer parameter, the validation call returns one constraint
violation.
Example 3.14. Using );
Finally, by using
validateConstructorReturnValue() you can validate a constructor’s return value. In
Example 3.15, “Using
ExecutableValidator#validateConstructorReturnValue()”,
validateConstructorReturnValue()
returns one constraint violation, since the
Car instance returned by the constructor doesn’t satisfy
the
@ValidRacingCar constraint (not shown).
Example 3.15. Using );
In addition to the methods introduced in Section 2.2.3, “ Example 3.16, “Retrieving method and parameter information”.
Example 3.16.
Section 8.2.4, “
ParameterNameProvider”) and defaults to
arg0,
arg1 etc.
In addition to the built-in bean and property-level constraints discussed in
Section 2.3, Section 8.2.4, “
ParameterNameProvider”).
Example 3.17, “Using
@ParameterScriptAssert” shows how the validation logic of the
@LuggageCountMatchesPassengerCount
constraint from Example 3.2, “Declaring a cross-parameter constraint” could be expressed with the help of
@ParameterScriptAssert.
Example 3.17. Using
@ParameterScriptAssert
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03.parametersscriptassert; public class Car { @ParameterScriptAssert(lang = "javascript", script = "arg1.size() <= arg0.size() * 2") public void load(List<Person> passengers, List<PieceOfLuggage> luggage) { //... } }
ResourceBundleLocator
Message interpolation is the process of creating error messages for violated Bean Validation constraints. In this chapter you will learn how such messages are defined and resolved and how you can plug in custom message interpolators in case the default algorithm is not sufficient for your requirements.
Constraint violation messages are retrieved from so called message descriptors. Each constraint defines its default message descriptor using the message attribute. At declaration time, the default descriptor can be overridden with a specific value as shown in Example 4.1, “Specifying a message descriptor using the message attribute”.
Example 4:
Locale#getDefault()) will be used when looking up messages in the bundle.
org.hibernate.validator.ValidationMessages. If this step triggers a replacement, step 1 is executed again, otherwise step 3 is applied.
Size#min()) in the error message (e.g. "must be at least ${min}").
You can find the formal definition of the interpolation algorithm in section 5.3.1.1 of the Bean Validation specification.
Since the characters
{,
} and
$ have a special meaning in message descriptors they need to be escaped if you want to use them literally. The following rules apply:
\{is considered as the literal
{
\}is considered as the literal
}
\$is considered as the literal
$
\\is considered as the literal
\:
format(String format, Object… args)which behaves like
java.util.Formatter.format(String format, Object… args).
The following section provides several examples for using EL expressions in error messages.
Example 4.2, “Specifying message descriptors” shows how to make use of the different options for specifying message descriptors.
Example 4 Example 4.3, “Expected error messages”:
@NotNullconstraint on the
manufacturerfield causes the error message "may not be null", as this is the default message defined by the Bean Validation specification and no specific descriptor is given in the message attribute
@Sizeconstraint on the
licensePlatefield shows the interpolation of message parameters (
{min},
{max}) and how to add the validated value to the error message using the EL expression
${validatedValue}
@Minconstraint on
seatCountdemonstrates how use an EL expression with a ternery expression to dynamically chose singular or plural form, depending on an attribute of the constraint ("There must be at least 1 seat" vs. "There must be at least 2 seats")
@DecimalMaxconstraint on
topSpeedshows how to format the validated value using the formatter instance
@DecimalMaxconstraint on price shows that parameter interpolation has precedence over expression evaluation, causing the
$sign to show up in front of the maximum price
Only actual constraint attributes can be interpolated using message parameters in the form
{attributeName}. When referring to the validated value or custom expression variables added to the
interpolation context (see Section 11.9.1, “
HibernateConstraintValidatorContext”), an EL expression in the
form
${attributeName} must be used.
Example 4.3. Expected error messages
Section 7.1, “Configuring the validator factory in validation.xml”) or by passing it when bootstrapping a
ValidatorFactory or
Validator (see Section 8.2.1, “
MessageInterpolator” and
Section 8.3, “Configuring a Validator”, respectively). Example 4.4, “Using a specific resource bundle”.
Example 4.4..
Example 4.5, “Using
AggregateResourceBundleLocator” shows how to use
AggregateResourceBundleLocator.
Example 4.5. Using.
@GroupSequence
@GroupSequenceProvider
All validation methods on
Validator and
ExecutableValidator discussed in earlier chapters also take
a var-arg argument groups. So far we have been ignoring this parameter, but it is time to have a
closer look. 5.1, “Example class
Person” has a
@NotNull
constraint on
name. Since no group is specified for this annotation the default group
javax.validation.groups.Default is assumed.
When more than one group is requested, the order in which the groups are evaluated is not
deterministic. If no group is specified the default group
javax.validation.groups.Default is
assumed.
Example 5.1. Example class
Person
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05; public class Person { @NotNull private String name; public Person(String name) { this.name = name; } // getters and setters ... }
The class
Driver in Example 5.2, “Driver” extends
Person and adds the properties
age and
hasDrivingLicense. Drivers must be at least 18 years old (
@Min(18)) and have a driving license
(
@AssertTrue). Both constraints defined on these properties belong to the group
DriverChecks which
is just a simple tagging interface.
Using interfaces makes the usage of groups type-safe and allows for easy refactoring. It also means that groups can inherit from each other via class inheritance.
Example 5.2. Driver
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05;; } }
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05; public interface DriverChecks { }
Finally the class
Car (Example 5.3, “Car”) has some constraints which are part of the default group as
well as
@AssertTrue in the group
CarChecks on the property
passedVehicleInspection which indicates
whether a car passed the road worthy tests.
Example 5.3. Car
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05;; } // getters and setters ... }
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05; public interface CarChecks { }
Overall three different groups are used in the example:
Person.name,
Car.manufacturer,
Car.licensePlateand
Car.seatCountall belong to the
Defaultgroup
Driver.ageand
Driver.hasDrivingLicensebelong to
DriverChecks
Car.passedVehicleInspectionbelongs to the group
CarChecks
Example 5.4, “Using validation groups” shows how passing different group combinations to the
Validator#validate()
method results in different validation results.
Example 5.4. Using validation groups
//() );
The first
validate() call in Example 5.4, .
By default, constraints are evaluated in no particular order, regardless of which groups they belong to. In some situations, however, it is useful to control the order constraints are evaluated.
In the example from Example 5.4,
Example 5.5, “Defining a group sequence”). If at least one constraint fails in a sequenced group none of the
constraints of the following groups in the sequence get validated.
Example 5.5. Defining a group sequence
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05; .
You then can use the new sequence as shown in in Example 5.6, “Using a group sequence”.
Example 5.6. Using a group sequence() );
Besides defining group sequences, the
@GroupSequence annotation also allows to redefine the default
group for a given class. To do so, just add the
@GroupSequence annotation to the class and specify
the sequence of groups which substitute Default for this class within the annotation.
Example 5.7, “Class
RentalCar with redefined default group” introduces a new class
RentalCar with a redefined default group.
Example 5.7. Class
RentalCar with Example 5.8, “Validating an object with redefined default group”.
Example 5.8.() );
Since there must no cyclic dependency in the group and group sequence definitions one cannot just
add
Default to the sequence redefining
Default for a class. Instead the class itself has to be
added! Section 5.4, “Group conversion”).
Example 5.9, “Implementing and using a default group sequence provider”.
Example 5.9. Example 5.10, “
@ConvertGroup usage”. Here
@GroupSequence({
CarChecks.class, Car.class }) is used to combine the car related constraints under the
Default group
(see Section 5.3, “Redefining the default group sequence”). There is also a
@ConvertGroup(from = Default.class, to =
DriverChecks.class) which ensures the
Default group gets converted to the
DriverChecks group during
cascaded validation of the driver association.
Example 5.10.
@ConvertGroup usage) private Driver driver; public Car(String manufacturer, String licencePlate, int seatCount) { this.manufacturer = manufacturer; this.licensePlate = licencePlate; this.seatCount = seatCount; } // getters and setters ... }
As a result the validation in Example 5.11, “Test case for
@ConvertGroup” succeeds, even though the constraint
on
hasDrivingLicense belongs to the
DriverChecks group and only the
Default group is requested in
the
validate() call.
Example 5.11. Test case for
.
ConstraintDeclarationExceptionis raised.
ConstraintDeclarationExceptionis raised in this situation.
Rules are not executed recursively. The first matching conversion rule is used and subsequent rules
are ignored. For example if a set of
@ConvertGroup declarations chains group
A to
B and
B to
C, the group
A will be converted to
B and not to
C.
The Bean Validation API defines a whole set of standard constraint annotations such as
@NotNull,
@Size etc. In cases where these buit-in constraints are not sufficient, you cean easily create
custom constraints tailored to your specific validation requirements.
To create a custom constraint, the following three steps are required:
This section shows how to write a constraint annotation which can be used to ensure that a given
string is either completely upper case or lower case. Later on this constraint will be applied to
the
licensePlate field of the
Car class from Chapter 1, Getting started to ensure, that
the field is always an upper-case string.
The first thing needed is a way to express the two case modes. While you could use
String constants,
a better approach is using a Java 5 enum for that purpose:
Example 6.1. Enum
CaseMode to:
Example 6.2. Defining the
@CheckCase constraint
messagethat returns the default key for creating error messages in case the constraint is violated
groupsthat allows the specification of validation groups, to which this constraint belongs (see Chapter 5, Grouping constraints). interface Info extends Payload { } public interfaceCase may be used on fields (element type
FIELD), JavaBeans properties as
well as method return values (
METHOD) and method/constructor parameters (
PARAMETER). The element
type
ANNOTATION_TYPE allows for the creation of composed constraints
(see Section 6.4, “Constraint composition”) based on
@CheckCase.
When creating a class-level constraint (see Section 2.1.4, “Class-level constraints”), the element
type
TYPE would have to be used. Constraints targeting the return value of a constructor need to
support the element type
CONSTRUCTOR. Cross-parameter constraints (see
Section 6.3, “Cross-parameter constraints”) which are used to validate all the parameters of a method
or constructor together, must support
METHOD.
Having defined the annotation, you need to create a constraint validator, which is able to validate
elements with a
@CheckCase annotation. To do so, implement the interface
ConstraintValidator as
shown below:
Example 6.3. Implementing a constraint validator for the constraint
.
Example 6.3, “Implementing a constraint validator for the constraint
@CheckCase”
relies on the default error message generation by just returning
true or
false from the
isValid()
method. 6.4. Using
ConstraintValidatorContext to define custom error messages
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06.constraintvalidatorcontext;( "{org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter03." + "constraintvalidatorcontext.CheckCase.message}" ) .addConstraintViolation(); } return isValid; } }
Example 6.4, “Using add each configured constraint violation by calling
addConstraintViolation().
Only after that the new constraint violation will be created.
Refer to Section 6.2.1, “Custom property paths” to learn how to use the
ConstraintValidatorContext API to
control the property path of constraint violations for class-level constraints.
The last missing building block is an error message which should be used in case a
@CheckCase
constraint is violated. To define this, create a file ValidationMessages.properties with the
following contents (see also Section 4.1, “Default message interpolation”):
Example 6.5. Defining a custom error message for the
CheckCase constraint.
You can now use the constraint in the
Car class from the Chapter 1, Getting started chapter to
specify that the
licensePlate field should only contain upper-case strings:
Example 6.6. Applying the
@CheckCase constraint
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06;, Example 6.7, “Validating objects with the
@CheckCase constraint” demonstrates how validating a
Car instance with an invalid
license plate causes the
@CheckCase constraint to be violated.
Example 6.7. Validating objects with the
@CheckCase constraint
/() );
As discussed earlier, constraints can also be applied on the class level to validate the state of an
entire object. Class-level constraints are defined in the same was as are property constraints.
Example 6.8, “Implementing a class-level constraint” shows constraint annotation and validator of the
@ValidPassengerCount constraint you already saw in use in Example 2.7, “Class-level constraint”.
Example 6.8. Implementing.
Example 6.9, .
Example 6.9. Adding a new
ConstraintViolation with:
Example 6.10. Cross-parameter constraint
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06.crossparameter; @Constraint(validatedBy = ConsistentDateParameterValidator.class) @Target({ METHOD, CONSTRUCTOR, ANNOTATION_TYPE }) @Retention(RUNTIME) @Documented public @interface ConsistentDateParameters { String message() default "{org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06." +
Example 6.11, “Generic and cross-parameter constraint”. Note that besides the element types
METHOD and
CONSTRUCTOR
also
ANNOTATION_TYPE is specified as target of the annotation, in order to enable the creation of
composed constraints based on
@ConsistentDateParameters (see
Section 6.4, “Constraint composition”).
Cross-parameter constraints are specified directly on the declaration of a method or constructor,
which is also the case for return value constraints. In order to improve code readability, it is
therefore recommended to chose constraint names - such as
@ConsistentDateParameters - which make the
constraint target apparent.
Example 6.11. Generic and cross-parameter constraint
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06.crossparameter; @SupportedValidationTarget(ValidationTarget.PARAMETERS) public class ConsistentDateParameterValid.
Similar to class-level constraints, you can create custom constraint violations on single parameters
instead of all parameters when validating a cross-parameter constraint. Just obtain a node builder
from the
ConstraintValidatorContext passed to
isValid() and add a parameter node by calling
addParameterNode(). In the example you could use this to create a constraint violation on the end
date parameter of the validated method. Example 6.12, “Generic and cross-parameter constraint”.
Example 6.12.06." + Example 6.13, “Specifying the target for a generic and cross-parameter constraint”.
Example 6.13. Specifying the target for a generic and cross-parameter constraint
@ScriptAssert(script = "arg1.size() <= arg0", validationAppliesTo = ConstraintTarget.PARAMETERS) public Car buildCar(int seatCount, List<Passenger> passengers) { //... }
Looking at the
licensePlate field of the
Car class in Example 6.6, . Example 6.14, “Creating a composing constraint
@ValidLicensePlate” shows a composed constraint annotation which
comprises the constraints
@NotNull,
@Size and
@CheckCase:
Example 6.14. Creating a composing constraint
:
Example 6.15. Application of composing constraint
ValidLicensePlate
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06.constraintcomposition; 6.16. Using @ReportAsSingleViolation
//... @ReportAsSingleViolation public @interface ValidLicensePlate { String message() default "{org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter06." + "constraintcomposition.ValidLicensePlate.message}"; Class<?>[] groups() default { }; Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default { }; }
constraint-mappings.
The XSD files are available via and.
The key to enable XML configuration for Hibernate Validator is the file META-INF/validation.xml.
If this file exists on the classpath its configuration will be applied when the
ValidatorFactory
gets created. Figure 7.1, “Validation configuration schema” shows a model view of the XML schema to which
validation.xml has to adhere.
Example 7.1, “ Section 8.2, “Configuring a
ValidatorFactory”.
Example 7.1.>
There must only be one file named META-INF/validation.xml on the classpath. If more than one is found an exception is thrown. Section 8 Chapter
Section 11.2, “Fail fast mode”).
Expressing constraints in XML is possible via files adhering to the schema seen in Figure 7.2, “Validation mapping schema”. Note that these mapping files are only processed if listed via constraint-mapping in validation.xml.
Example 7.2, “Bean constraints configured via XML” shows how the classes Car and RentalCar from Example 5.3, “Car” resp.
Example 5.7, “Class
RentalCar with redefined default group” could be mapped in XML.
Example 7.2. Bean constraints configured via XML
<constraint-mappings xmlns: <default-package>org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter05<"> <validated-by <value>org.mycompany.CheckCaseValidator</value> </validated-by> </constraint-definition> </constraint-mappings>
Example 7.3, “Method constraints configured via XML” shows how the constraints from Example 3.1, “Declaring method and constructor parameter constraints”, Example 3.4, “Declaring method and constructor return value constraints” and Example 3.3, “Specifying a constraint’s target” can be expressed in XML.
Example 7.3. Method constraints configured via.
A given class can only be configured once across all configuration files. The same applies for
constraint definitions for a given constraint annotation. It can only occur in one mapping file. If
these rules are violated a
ValidationException is thrown.
Section 5.3, “Redefining the default group sequence”) via the
group-sequence node. Not shown in the example is the use
of
convert-group to
specify group conversions (see Section 5.
One use case for constraint-definition is to change the default constraint definition for
@URL.
Historically, Hibernate Validator’s default constraint validator for this constraint uses the
java.net.URL constructor to verify that an URL is valid.
However, there is also a purely regular expression based version available which can be configured using
XML:
Using XML to register a regular expression based constraint definition for
@URL.
<constraint-definition <validated-by <value>org.hibernate.validator.constraintvalidators.RegexpURLValidator</value> </validated-by> </constraint-definition>
ValidatorFactoryand
Validator
ValidationProviderResolver
ValidatorFactory
MessageInterpolator
TraversableResolver
ConstraintValidatorFactory
ParameterNameProvider
In Section 2.2.
You obtain a
Validator by retrieving a
ValidatorFactory via one of the static methods on
javax.validation.Validation and calling
getValidator() on the factory instance.
Example 8.1, “Bootstrapping default
ValidatorFactory and
Validator” shows how to obtain a validator from the default
validator factory:
Example 8.1. Bootstrapping default
ValidatorFactory and
Validator
ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = factory.getValidator();
The generated
ValidatorFactory and
Validator instances are thread-safe and can be cached. As
Hibernate Validator uses the factory as context for caching constraint metadata it is recommended to
work with one factory instance within an application. Example 8.2, “Bootstrapping
ValidatorFactory and Validator using a specific provider”.
Example 8.2. Bootstrapping
ValidatorFactory
Example 8.3, “Retrieving the default
ValidatorFactory for configuration”.
Example 8.3. Retrieving the default
ValidatorFactory for configuration
ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = Validation.byDefaultProvider() .configure() .buildValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = validatorFactory.getValidator();
If a
ValidatorFactory instance is no longer in use, it should be disposed by calling
ValidatorFactory#close(). This will free any resources possibly allocated by the factory.
Example 8.4, “Using a custom
ValidationProviderResolver”.
Example 8.4. Using a custom
ValidationProviderResolver
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter08; public class OsgiServiceDiscoverer implements ValidationProviderResolver { @Override public List<ValidationProvider<?>> getValidationProviders() { //... } }
ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = Validation.byDefaultProvider() .providerResolver( new OsgiServiceDiscoverer() ) .configure() .buildValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = validatorFactory.getValidator();
By default validator factories retrieved from
Validation and any validators they create are
configured as per the XML descriptor META-INF/validation.xml (see Chapter.
Message interpolators are used by the validation engine to create user readable error messages from constraint message descriptors.
In case the default message interpolation algorithm described in Chapter 4, Interpolating constraint error messages
is not sufficient for your needs, you can pass in your own implementation of the
MessageInterpolator
interface via
Configuration#messageInterpolator() as shown in
Example 8.5, “Using a custom
MessageInterpolator”.
Example 8.5. Using a custom
MessageInterpolator
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter08; public class MyMessageInterpolator implements MessageInterpolator { @Override public String interpolate(String messageTemplate, Context context) { //... } @Override public String interpolate(String messageTemplate, Context context, Locale locale) { //... } }
ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = Validation.byDefaultProvider() .configure() .messageInterpolator( new MyMessageInterpolator() ) .buildValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = validatorFactory.getValidator();. Example 8.6, “Using a custom
TraversableResolver” shows how to use a
custom traversable resolver implementation.
Example 8.6. Using a custom) { //... } @Override public boolean isCascadable( Object traversableObject, Node traversableProperty, Class<?> rootBeanType, Path pathToTraversableObject, ElementType elementType) { //... } }.
ConstraintValidatorFactory is the extension point for customizing how constraint validators are
instantiated and released.
The default
ConstraintValidatorFactory provided by Hibernate Validator requires a public no-arg
constructor to instantiate
ConstraintValidator instances (see Section 6.1.2, “The constraint validator”).
Using a custom
ConstraintValidatorFactory offers for example the possibility to use dependency
injection in constraint validator implementations.
To configure a custom constraint validator factory call
Configuration#constraintValidatorFactory()
(see Example 8.7, “Using a custom
ConstraintValidatorFactory”.
Example 8.7. Using a custom
ConstraintValidatorFactory
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter08; public class MyConstraintValidatorFactory implements ConstraintValidatorFactory { @Override public <T extends ConstraintValidator<?, ?>> T getInstance(Class<T> key) { //... } ();
Any constraint implementations relying on
ConstraintValidatorFactory behaviors specific to an
implementation (dependency injection, no no-arg constructor and so on) are not considered portable.
ConstraintValidatorFactory implementations should not cache validator instances as the state of each
instance can be altered in the
initialize() method. Example 8.8, “Using a custom
ParameterNameProvider”,
or specify the fully qualified class name of the provider as value for
the
<parameter-name-provider> element in the META-INF/validation.xml file
(see Section 7.1, “Configuring the validator factory in validation.xml”). This is demonstrated in
Example 8.8, “Using a custom
ParameterNameProvider”.
Example 8.8. Using a custom
ParameterNameProvider
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter08; public class MyParameterNameProvider implements ParameterNameProvider { @Override public List<String> getParameterNames(Constructor<?> constructor) { //... } @Override public List<String> getParameterNames(Method method) { //... } }
ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = Validation.byDefaultProvider() .configure() .parameterNameProvider( new MyParameterNameProvider() ) .buildValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = validatorFactory.getValidator();
Hibernate Validator comes with a custom
ParameterNameProvider implementation based on the
ParaNamer library which provides several ways
for obtaining parameter names at runtime. Refer to Section 11.10, “ParaNamer based
ParameterNameProvider”
to learn more about this specific implementation.
As discussed earlier you can configure the constraints applying for your Java beans using XML based constraint mappings.
Besides the mapping files specified in META-INF/validation.xml you can add further mappings via
Configuration#addMapping() (see Example 8.9, “Adding constraint mapping streams”). Note that the passed input
stream(s) must adhere to the XML schema for constraint mappings presented in
Section 7.2, “Mapping constraints via
constraint-mappings”.
Example 8.9. Adding constraint mapping streams
InputStream constraintMapping1 = ...; InputStream constraintMapping2 = ...;.
Via the configuration object returned by
Validation#byProvider() provider specific options can be
configured.
In case of Hibernate Validator this e.g. allows you to enable the fail fast mode and pass one or more programmatic constraint mappings as demonstrated in Example 8.10, “Setting Hibernate Validator specific options”.
Example 8.10.:
Example 8.11. Enabling a Hibernate Validator specific option via
addProperty()
ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = Validation.byProvider( HibernateValidator.class ) .configure() .addProperty( "hibernate.validator.fail_fast", "true" ) .buildValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = validatorFactory.getValidator();
Refer to Section 11.2, “Fail fast mode” and Section 11.3, “Programmatic constraint declaration” to learn more about the fail fast mode and the constraint declaration API.
When working with a configured validator factory it can occasionally be required to apply a
different configuration to a single
Validator instance. Example 8.12, “Configuring a
Validator instance via
usingContext()” shows how this can
be achieved by calling
ValidatorFactory#usingContext().
Example 8.12. Configuring a
Validator instance();
BeanDescriptor
PropertyDescriptor
MethodDescriptorand
ConstructorDescriptor
ElementDescriptor
GroupConversionDescriptor
ConstraintDescriptor 9.1, “Example classes”.
Example 9.1. Example classes
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter07; public class Person { public interface Basic { } @NotNull private String name; //getters and setters ... }
public interface Vehicle { public interface Basic { } @NotNull(groups = Vehicle.Basic.class) String getManufacturer(); }
.
Example 9.2, “Using
BeanDescriptor” demonstrates how to retrieve a
BeanDescriptor for the
Car class and how to use this descriptor in form of assertions.
If a constraint declaration hosted by the requested class is invalid, a
ValidationException is thrown.
Example 9.2. Using
BeanDescriptor
Validator validator = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory().getValidator(); Section 9.4, “
ElementDescriptor”) and returns a set of descriptors representing the
constraints directly declared on the given element. In case of
BeanDescriptor, the bean’s class-
level constraints are returned. More details on
ConstraintDescriptor can be found in
Section 9.6, “ Section 2.1.5, ).
The interface
PropertyDescriptor represents one given property of a
class. It is transparent whether constraints are declared on a field or a property getter, provided
the JavaBeans naming conventions are respected. Example 9.3, “Using
PropertyDescriptor” shows
how to use the
PropertyDescriptor interface.
Example 9.3. Using
Section 9.5, “
GroupConversionDescriptor” for more details on
GroupConversionDescriptor.
Constrained methods and constructors are represented by the interfaces
MethodDescriptor
and
ConstructorDescriptor, respectively.
Example 9.4, “Using
MethodDescriptor and
ConstructorDescriptor” demonstrates how to work with these
descriptors.
Example 9.4. Using
MethodDescriptor Section 8.2.4, “
ParameterNameProvider”) via
getName()
and
getIndex().
Getter methods following the JavaBeans naming conventions are considered as bean properties but also as constrained methods.
That means you can retrieve the related metadata either by obtaining a
PropertyDescriptor (e.g.
BeanDescriptor.getConstraintsForProperty("foo")) or by examining the return value descriptor of the
getter’s
MethodDescriptor (e.g.
BeanDescriptor.getConstraintsForMethod("getFoo").getReturnValueDesc
BeanDescriptor,
PropertyDescriptoror
ParameterDescriptorrespectively,
Object[].classwhen invoked on
CrossParameterDescriptor,
ConstructorDescriptor,
MethodDescriptoror
ReturnValueDescriptor.
void.classwill be returned for methods which don’t have a return value.
Example 9.5, “Using
ElementDescriptor methods” shows how these methods are used.
Example 9.5. Using. Example 9.6, “Usage of
ConstraintFinder” shows how to retrieve a
ConstraintFinder instance via
findConstraints() and use the API to query for constraint metadata.
Example 9.6. Usage of.
Order is not respected by
unorderedAndMatchingGroups(), but group inheritance and inheritance via
sequence. Example 9.7, “Using
GroupConversionDescriptor”
shows an example.
Example 9.7. Using() );
Last but not least, the
ConstraintDescriptor
interface describes a
single constraint together with its composing constraints. Via an instance of this interface you get
access to the constraint annotation and its parameters.
Example 9.8, .
Example 9.8. Using() );
Hibernate Validator is intended to be used to implement multi-layered data validation, where constraints are expressed in a single place (the annotated domain model) and checked in various different layers of the application. For this reason there are multiple integration points with other technologies..
Out of the box, Hibernate (as of version Table 2.2, “Bean Validation constraints” and Table 2.3, “Custom constraints”. has a built-in Hibernate event listener -
org.hibernate.cfg.beanvalidation.BeanValidationEventListener -
which is part of Hibernate ORM. 10.1, ORM, use the following configuration in hibernate.cfg.xml:
Example 10 10.1 10.1.2, “Hibernate event-based validation” to your project and register it
manually.
When working with JSF2 or JBoss Seam and Hibernate Validator (Bean Validation) is present in the
runtime environment, validation is triggered for every field in the application. Example 10.2, .
Example 10.2. Usage of Bean Validation within JSF2
<h:form> <f:validateBean } Jave Section 1.1.2, “CDI”.
CDI’s dependency injection mechanism makes it very easy to retrieve
ValidatorFactory and
Validator
instances and use them in your managed beans. Just annotate instance fields of your bean with
@javax.inject.Inject as shown in Example 10.3, “Retrieving validator factory and validator via
@Inject”.
Example 10.3. Retrieving validator factory and validator via
Chapter 7, Configuring via XML.
If you are working with several Bean Validation providers you can make sure that factory and
validator from Hibernate Validator are injected by annotating the injection points with the
@HibernateValidator qualifier which is demonstrated in Example 10.4, “Using the
@HibernateValidator qualifier annotation”.
Example 10.4. Using the
@HibernateValidator qualifier; //... }
The fully-qualified name of the qualifier annotation is
org.hibernate.validator.cdi.HibernateValidator. Be sure to not import
org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator instead which is the
ValidationProvider implementation
used for selecting Hibernate Validator when working with the bootstrapping API (see
Section 8.1, “Retrieving
ValidatorFactory and
Validator”).
Via
@Inject you also can inject dependencies into constraint validators and other Bean Validation
objects such as
MessageInterpolator implementations etc.
Example 10.5, .
Example 10.5. Constraint validator with injected bean.
The interceptor
org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.interceptor.ValidationInterceptor is
registered by
org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension. This happens implicitly
within a Java EE 7 runtime environment or explicitly by adding the hibernate-validator-cdi artifact
- see Section 1.1.2, “CDI”
You can see an example in Example 10.6, “CDI managed beans with method-level constraints”.
Example 10.6.) { //... } @NotNull List<Car> getAvailableCars() { //... } }.
Bean Validation allows for a fine-grained control of the executable types which are automatically
validated. By default, constraints on constructors and non-getter methods are validated. Therefore
the
@NotNull constraint on the method
RentalStation#getAvailableCars() in
Example 10.6, “CDI managed beans with method-level constraints” gets not validated when the method is invoked.
You have the following options to configure which types of executables are validated upon invocation:
@ValidateOnExecutionannotation on the executable or type level
If several sources of configuration are specified for a given executable,
@ValidateOnExecutionn on
the executable level takes precedence over `@ValidateOnExecution on the type level and
@ValidateOnExecution generally takes precedence over the globally configured types in META-
INF/validation.xml.
Example 10.7, “Using
@ValidateOnExecution” shows how to use the
@ValidateOnExecution annotation:
Example 10.7. Using
) { //... } @NotNull public List<Car> getAvailableCars() { //... } }.
Executable validation can be turned off globally by specifying
<executable-validation in META-INF/validation.xml. In this case, any
@ValidateOnExecution annotations are ignored.
Example 10.8, “Using
ExecutableType.IMPLICIT”, which makes sure that all required metadata is discovered
an the validation interceptor kicks in when the methods on
ExpressRentalStation are invoked.
Example 10.8. Using) { //... } }
When your application runs on a Java EE application server such as,
you also can obtain
Validator and
ValidatorFactory instances via
@Resource injection in
managed objects such as EJBs etc., as shown in Example 10.9, “Retrieving
Validator and
ValidatorFactory via
@Resource injection”.
Example 10.9. Retrieving
Validator and
ValidatorFactory via
@Resource injection
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter10.javaee; @Stateless
Chapter 7, Configuring via XML).
When your application is CDI-enabled, the injected objects are CDI-aware as well and e.g. support dependency injection in constraint validators. Section 11.11.2, “JavaFX unwrapper” for examples and further discussion.
ParameterMessageInterpolator
ResourceBundleLocator
HibernateConstraintValidatorContext
HibernateMessageInterpolatorContext
ParameterNameProvider
ServiceLoader
ConstraintDefinitionContributor
@Futureand
@Past );
If you are not bootstrapping a validator factory manually
but work with the default factory as configured via META-INF/validation.xml
(see Chapter 7, Configuring via XML),
you can add one or more constraint mappings by creating a constraint mapping contributor.
To do so, implement the
ConstraintMappingContributor contract:
Example 11.7. Custom
ConstraintMappingContributor implementation
package org.hibernate.validator.referenceguide.chapter11.constraintapi; public() ); } }
You then need to specify the fully-qualified class name of the contributor implementation in META-INF/validation.xml,
using the property key
hibernate.validator.constraint_mapping_contributor. Example 11.8, .
Example 11.8. Specifying the validation target of a purely composed constraint.9, .9.:
Example 11.10. Getting the value from property nodes).
Hibernate Validator requires per default an implementation of the Unified EL (see Section 1.1.1, Section 4.2, “Custom message interpolation” to see how to plug in custom message interpolator implementations.
Constraint messages containing EL expressions will be returned un-interpolated by
org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ParameterMessageInterpolator. This also affects
built-in default constraint messages which use EL expressions. At the moment
DecimalMin and
DecimalMax are affected.:
TimeProviderfor getting the current time when validating the
Futureand
@Pastconstraints (see Section 11.14, “Time providers for
@Futureand
@Past”)
This is useful if you for instance would like to customize the message of the
@Future constraint.
By default the message just is "must be in the future". Example 11.11, “Custom
@Future validator with message parameters” shows
how to include the current date in order to make the message more explicit.
Example 11.11. Custom
@Future validator with message parameters.12, “.12. validating them. For example, in
Example 11.13, “Applying a constraint to wrapped value of a JavaFX property” a JavaFX property type
is used to define an element of a domain model. The
@Size constraint is meant to be applied to the
string value not the wrapping
Property instance.
Example 11.13. Applying a constraint to wrapped value of a JavaFX property
@Size(min = 3) private Property<String> name = new SimpleStringProperty( "Bob" );
The concept of value unwrapping is considered experimental at this time and may evolve into more general means of value handling in future releases. Please let us know about your use cases for such functionality. Example 11.14, “Implementing the ValidatedValueUnwrapper interface” shows how this
schematically looks for a JavaFX
PropertyValueUnwrapper. You just need to extend the SPI class
ValidatedValueUnwrapper and implement its abstract methods.
Example 11.14. Implementing the ValidatedValueUnwrapper interface
public class PropertyValueUnwrapper extends ValidatedValueUnwrapper<Property<?>> { @Override public Object handleValidatedValue(Property<?> value) { //... } @Override public Type getValidatedValueType(Type valueType) { //... } }
The
ValidatedValueUnwrapper needs also to be registered with the
ValidatorFactory:
Example 11.15. Registering a ValidatedValueUnwrapper).
Note that it is not specified which of the unwrapper implementations is chosen when more than one implementation is suitable to unwrap a given element.).
Hibernate Validator provides built-in unwrapping for
Optional introduced in Java 8.
The unwrapper is registered automatically in Java 8 environments, and no further configuration is
required. An example of unwrapping an
Optional instance is shown in
Example 11.16, “Unwrapping
Optional instances”.
Example 11.16. Unwrapping
Optional instances
@Size(min = 3) private Optional<String> firstName = Optional.of( "John" ); @NotNull @UnwrapValidatedValue // UnwrapValidatedValue required since otherwise unclear which value to validate private Optional<String> lastName = Optional.of( "Doe" );
Optional.empty() is treated as
null during validation. This means that for constraints where
null is considered valid,
Optional.empty() is similarly valid. Example 11.17, “Unwrapping
JavaFX properties”.
Example 11.17. Unwrapping
JavaFX properties
@Min(value = 3) IntegerProperty integerProperty1 = new SimpleIntegerProperty( 4 ); @Min(value = 3) Property<Number> integerProperty2 = new SimpleIntegerProperty( 4 ); @Min(value = 3) ObservableValue<Number> integerProperty3 = new SimpleIntegerProperty( 4 );
Unwrapping can also be used with object graphs (cascaded validation) as shown in
Example 11.18, “Unwrapping
Optional prior to cascaded validation via
@Valid”.
When validating the object holding the
Optional<Person>, a cascaded validation of the
Person
object would be performed.
Example 11.18. Unwrapping
Optional prior to cascaded validation via
@Valid
@Valid private Optional<Person> person = Optional.of( new Person() );
public class Person { @Size(min =3) private String name = "Bob"; }
Bean Validation allows to (re-)define constraint definitions via XML in its constraint mapping
files. See Section 7.2, “Mapping constraints via
constraint-mappings” for more information and Example 7.
The following concepts are considered experimental at this time. Let us know whether you find them useful and whether they meet your needs..
Example 11.19. META-INF/services/javax.validation.ConstraintValidator
#.
While the service loader approach works in many scenarios, but not in all (think for example
OSGi where service files are not visible), there is yet another way of contributing constraint
definitions. You can provide one or more implementations of
ConstraintDefinitionContributor to
HibernateConfiguration during bootstrapping of the
ValidatorFactory - see
Example 11.20, “Using
ConstraintDefinitionContributor to register constraint definitions”.
Example 11.20. Using
ConstraintDefinitionContributor to register constraint definitions
public class CarTest { private static Validator validator; public static class MyConstraintDefinitionContributor implements ConstraintDefinitionContributor { @Override public void collectConstraintDefinitions(ConstraintDefinitionBuilder builder) { builder.constraint( ValidPassengerCount.class ) .validatedBy( ValidPassengerCountValidator.class ); } } @BeforeClass public static void setUpValidator() { HibernateValidatorConfiguration configuration = Validation .byProvider( HibernateValidator.class ) .configure(); ConstraintDefinitionContributor contributor = new MyConstraintDefinitionContributor(); configuration.addConstraintDefinitionContributor( contributor ); validator = configuration.buildValidatorFactory().getValidator(); } // ... }
Instead of programmatically registering
ConstraintDefinitionContributor instances, the
fully-qualified classnames of one or more implementations can be specified via the
property
hibernate.validator.constraint_definition_contributors. This can be useful when
configuring the default validator factory using META-INF/validation.xml (see
Chapter 7, Configuring via XML).
One use case for
ConstraintDefinitionContributor is the ability to specify an alternative
constraint validator for the
@URL constraint. Historically, Hibernate Validator’s default constraint
validator for this constraint uses the
java.net.URL constructor to validate an URL.
However, there is also a purely regular expression based version available which can be configured using
a
ConstraintDefinitionContributor:
Using a
ConstraintDefinitionContributor to register a regular expression based constraint definition for
@URL. ); } } );
There are several cases in which Hibernate Validator needs to load resources or classes given by name::
Example 11.21. Providing a classloader for loading external resources and classes
ClassLoader classLoader = ...;.
Call
ValidatorFactory#close() if a given validator factory instance is not needed any longer.
Failure to do so may result in a classloader leak in cases where applications/bundles are re-deployed and a non-closed
validator factory still is referenced by application code..
Example 11.22, “Using a custom
TimeProvider” shows an implementation of this contract and its registration when bootstrapping a validator factory.
Example 11.22. Using a custom
TimeProvider
public class CustomTimeProvider implements TimeProvider { @Override public long getCurrentTime() { Calendar now = ...; Chapter 7, Configuring via XML).
Have you ever caught yourself by unintentionally doing things like
@Past)
usual Maven repositories such as Maven Central under the GAV
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator-
annotation-processor:5.2.4.Final.
The Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor is based on the "Pluggable Annotation Processing API" as defined by JSR 269 which is part of the Java Platform since Java 6.
As of Hibernate Validator 5.2.4.Final the Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor checks that:
@Valid
The behavior of the Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor can be controlled using the processor options listed in table Table 12 JAR hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-5.2.4.Final.jar using the "processorpath" option as shown in the following listing. The processor will be detected automatically by the compiler and invoked during compilation.
Example 12.1. Using the annotation processor with javac
javac src/main/java/org/hibernate/validator/ap/demo/Car.java \ -cp /path/to/validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar \ -processorpath /path/to/hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-5.2.4.Final.jar
Similar to directly working with javac, the annotation processor can be added as as compiler argument when invoking the javac task for Apache Ant:
Example 12.2. Using the annotation processor with An
<javac srcdir="src/main" destdir="build/classes" classpath="/path/to/validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar"> <compilerarg value="-processorpath" /> <compilerarg value="/path/to/hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-5.2.4.Final.jar"/> </javac>
There are several options for integrating the annotation processor with Apache Maven. Generally it is sufficient to add the Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor as dependency to your project:
Example 12.3. Adding the HV Annotation Processor as dependency
... <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator-annotation-processor</artifactId> <version>5.2.4.Final</version> </dependency> ...
The processor will then be executed automatically by the compiler. This basically works, but comes with the disadavantage that in some cases messages from the annotation processor are not displayed (see MCOMPILER-66).
Another option is using the Maven Annotation Plugin. To work with this plugin, disable the standard annotation processing performed by the compiler plugin and configure the annotation plugin by specifying an execution and adding the Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor as plugin dependency (that way the processor is not visible on the project’s actual classpath):
Example 12>2.2.1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>process</id> <goals> <goal>process</goal> </goals> <phase>process-sources</phase> </execution> </executions> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator-annotation-processor</artifactId> <version>5.2.4.Final</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> ...
Do the following to use the annotation processor within the Eclipse IDE:
You now should see any annotation problems as regular error markers within the editor and in the "Problem" view:
The following steps must be followed to use the annotation processor within IntelliJ IDEA (version 9 and above):
Rebuilding your project then should show any erronous constraint annotations:
Starting with version 6.9, also the NetBeans IDE supports using annotation processors within the IDE build. To do so, do the following:
Any constraint annotation problems will then be marked directly within the editor:
The following known issues exist as of May 2010:
Last but not least, a few pointers to further information.
A great source for examples is the Bean Validation TCK which is available for anonymous access on GitHub. In particular the TCK’s tests might be of interest. The JSR 349! | https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/validator/reference/en-US/html_single/ | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
At Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:57:00 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> writes: > > > > > At Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:56:04 +0200, > > > Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > >> rc 1119 root mem REG 8,9 217016 228931 /var/db/nscd/passwd > > Note, this is a long-running bash. Not many people use file-rc (that's > what this is, right?) It explains why most people don't see this issue. Why does file-rc cause problems? > Does glibc open the nscd cache files directly rather than communicating > with it via a socket? Or does it communicate via shared memory? Quick look at the source, mmap is used to share database file with mmap MAP_SHARED, so the main communication should be done via a socket. > > rc 827 root mem REG 8,9 217016 228931 /var/db/nscd/passwd > > [Is /var/db even FHS?] FHS states as follows. 5.5.2 /var/lib/misc : Miscellaneous variable data This directory contains variable data not placed in a subdirectory in /var/lib. An attempt should be made to use relatively unique names in this directory to avoid namespace conflicts. Note that this hierarchy should contain files stored in /var/db in current BSD releases. These include locate.database and mountdtab, and the kernel symbol database(s). LDAP or DB data sometimes puts their db files on /var/lib/misc (I think "misc" is vague term, though). Actually debian/patches/fhs-linux-paths.dpatch contains the following changes: --- glibc-2.1.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h~ Thu May 27 13:16:33 1999 +++ glibc-2.1.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h Thu May 27 13:17:55 1999 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ /* Provide trailing slash, since mostly used for building pathnames. */ #define _PATH_DEV "/dev/" #define _PATH_TMP "/tmp/" -#define _PATH_VARDB "/var/db/" +#define _PATH_VARDB "/var/lib/misc/" Another chioce is to use /var/cache - it's for application specific caching data. But currently I use /var/db instead of /var/lib/misc - I have wondered this change is widely accepted. I would like to hear from all you guys about this placement. Regards, -- gotom | https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/08/msg00645.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
Are you looking for samples in v1.0 or v2.0? The code you quoted below is some version of v2.0 (we're still working on the final tweaks to what will become the new, final, hosting model). From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Joshua J. Pearce Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:08 PM To: users at lists.ironpython.com Subject: [IronPython] Need a Good Embedded Example I have been looking for a good example of embedding IronPython in a c# application. I am under the impression that there have been some major changes in the way this is done from version 1.1 to 2.0. This is what I found at the Python Cookbook site: namespace IronPythonScriptHost { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string code = "print \"Hello \" + Name"; Script.SetVariable ("Name", "Me"); Script.Execute("py", code); } } } That's nice, but doesn't really help me to know how to get variable output from the script back to my c# code. I also need to know how to call scripts with multiple statements and whether all variables need to be set on the script object, or can their declaration just be part of the script code. Is there a good and simple example anywhere that shows how to host the IronPython engine in a c# app and let users manipulate your program objects via ipy scripts? Thanks! -- Joshua Pearce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <> | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/ironpython-users/2007-October/005759.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
I think the issue here is the nature of the data exchange. EXI essentially provides a compression algorithm that saves information between instances of a message or file and can be seeded with what is known in advance about certain characteristics of the instances. The gzip algorithm learns the characteristics of each instance separately from that instance and does not retain information between instances. If you are occasionally sending a large file, gzip makes sense. There is little gain from retaining information. However, if you have frequent small messages or separate small files based on a schema, the namespace definitions are repeated for each instance and can take up an appreciable fraction of what is sent over-the-wire for each instance. There isn't much for gzip to learn, and it has to start all over for the next instance. Similarly, the tags recur across instances but gzip will only learn them as it encounters them in a particular instance. Again, gzip forgets between instances. I think in the absence of prior information and when used only occasionally (without information retention between instances), EXI provides something close to gzip compression. What EXI provides is a variant of compression technology that has information retention between instances and the ability to use prior information across instances. In applications with frequent repetitive data exchanges, the information retention and ability to use prior information can provide significant benefits. Stan Klein On Fri, July 17, 2009 4:06 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > Stanley A. Klein wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 22:26 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >>> A well chosen compression method is a lot better suited to such >>> applications and is already supported by most available XML parsers (or >>> rather outside of the parsers themselves, which is a huge advantage). >> >> It depends on the nature of the XML application. One feature of EXI is >> to >> support representation of numeric data as bits rather than characters. >> That is very useful in appropriate applications. > > One drawback is that this requires a schema to make sure the number of > bits > is sufficient. Otherwise, you'd need to add the information how many bits > you use for their representation, which would add to the data volume. > > >> There is a measurements >> document that shows the compression that was achieved on a wide variety >> of >> test cases. Straight use of a common compression algorithm does not >> necessarily achieve the best results. > > Repetitive data like an XML byte stream compresses extremely well, though, > and the 'best' compression isn't always required anyway. I worked on a > Python SOAP application where we sent some 3MB of XML as a web service > response. That took a couple of seconds to transmit. Injecting the > standard > gzip algorithm into the WSGI stack got it down to some 48KB. Nothing more > to do here. > > If you need 'the best' compression, there's no way around benchmarking a > couple of different algorithms that are suitable for your application, and > choosing the one that works best for your data. That may or may not > include > EXI. > > >> Besides, EXI incorporates elements >> of common compression algorithm(s) as both a fallback for its >> schema-less >> mode and an additional capability in its schema-informed mode. > > Makes sense, as compression also applies to text content, for example. > > >> EXI is intended for use outboard of the parser, and that would apply >> equally well to a Python version. For example, EXI gets rid of the need >> to constantly resend over-the-wire all the namespace definitions with >> each >> message. The relevant strings would just go into the string table and >> get >> restored from there when the message is converted back. > > That's how any run-length based compression algorithm works anyway. Plus, > namespace definitions usually only happen once in a document, so they are > pretty much negligible in a larger XML document. > > >> However, for something like SOAP in certain applications, it may be >> eventually desirable to integrate the EXI implementation within the >> communications system. The message sender could reasonably create a >> schema-informed EXI version without actually starting from and >> converting >> an XML object. The recipient would have to convert the EXI back to XML, >> parse it, and use the data. > > Ok, that's where I see it, too. At the level where you'd normally apply a > compression algorithm anyway. > > >> Numeric data is most efficiently sent as bits > > Depends on how you select the bits. When I write into my schema that I use > a 32 bit integer value in my XML, and all I really send happens to be > within [0-9] in, say, 95% of the cases with a few exceptions that really > require 32 bits, a general run-length compression algorithm will easily > beat anything that sends the value as a 4-byte sequence. That's the > advantage of general compression: it sees the real data, not only its > schema. > > I do not question EXI in general, I'm fine with it having its niche > (wherever that turns out to be). I'm just saying that common compression > algorithms are a lot more broadly available and achieve similar results. > So > EXI is just another way of compressing XML, with the disadvantage of not > being as widely implemented. Compare it to the ubiquity of the gzip > compression algorithm, for example. It's just the usual trade-off that you > make between efficiency and cross-platform compatibility. > > Stefan > -- | https://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2009-July/012131.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
Step!
When I started to learn it, I couldn’t find blogs that show “Which part of React Redux to build first?” or how to generally approach building any React-Redux apps. So I went through several example and blogs and came out with general steps as to how to approach building most React Redux Apps.
Please Note: I am using “Mocks” to keep it at a high level and not get into the weeds. I am using the classic Todo list app as the basis for building ANY app. If your app has multiple screens, simply repeat the process for each screen.
Why
BTW, There are8 steps for a simple Todo App. The theory is that, earlier frameworks made building Todo apps simple but real apps hard. But React Redux make building Todo apps hard but real productions apps simple.
Let’s get started:
STEP 1 — Write A Detailed Mock of the Screen
Mock should include all the data and visual effects (like strikethrough the TodoItem, or “All” filter as a text instead of a link)
Please Note: You can click on the pictures to Zoom
STEP 2 — Divide The App Into Components
Try to divide the app into chunks of components based on their overall “purpose” of each component.
We have 3 components “AddTodo”, “TodoList” and “Filter” component.
Redux Terms: “Actions” And “States”
Every component does two things:
1. Render DOM based on some data. This data is called as a“state”.
2. Listen to the user and other events and send them to JS functions. These are called “Actions”.
STEP 3 — List State and Actions For Each Component
Make sure to take a careful look at each component from STEP 2, and list of States and Actions for each one of them.
We have 3 components “AddTodo”, “TodoList” and “Filter” component. Let’s list Actions and States for each one of them.
3.1 AddTodo Component — State And Actions
In this component, we have no state since the component look and feel doesn’t change based on any data but it needs to let other components know when the user creates a new Todo. Let’s call this action “ADD_TODO”.
Please Note: You can click on the pictures to Zoom
3.2 TodoList Component — State And Actions
TodoList component needs an array of Todo items to render itself, so it need a state, let’s call it Todos (Array). It also needs to know which “Filter” is turned on to appropriately display (or hide) Todo items, it needs another state, let’s call it “VisibilityFilter” (boolean).
Further, it allows us to toggle Todo item’s status to completed and not completed. We need to let other components know about this toggle as well. Let’s call this action “TOGGLE_TODO”
3.3 Filter Component — State And Actions
Filter component renders itself as a Link or as a simple text depending on if it’s active or not. Let’s call this state as “CurrentFilter”.
Filter component also needs to let other components know when a user clicks on it. Let’s call this actions, “SET_VIBILITY_FILTER”
Redux Term: “Action Creators”
Action Creators are simple functions who job is to receive data from the DOM event, format it as a formal JSON “Action” object and return that object (aka “Action”). This helps us to formalize how the data/payload look.
Further, it allows any other component in the future to also send(aka “dispatch”) these actions to others.
STEP 4 — Create Action Creators For Each Action
We have total 3 actions: ADD_TODO, TOGGLE_TODO and SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER. Let’s create action creators for each one of them.
//1. Takes the text from AddTodo field and returns proper “Action” JSON to send to other components.
export const addTodo = (text) => {
return {
type: ‘ADD_TODO’,
id: nextTodoId++,
text, //<--ES6. same as text:text, in ES5
completed: false //<-- initially this is set to false
}
}
//2. Takes filter string and returns proper “Action” JSON object to send to other components.
export const setVisibilityFilter = (filter) => {
return {
type: ‘SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER’,
filter
}
}
//3. Takes Todo item’s id and returns proper “Action” JSON object to send to other components.
export const toggleTodo = (id) => {
return {
type: ‘TOGGLE_TODO’,
id
}
}
Redux Term: “Reducers”
Reducers are functions that take “state” from Redux and “action” JSON object and returns a new “state” to be stored back in Redux.
1. Reducer functions are called by the “Container” containers when there is a user action.
2. If the reducer changes the state, Redux passes the new state to each component and React re-renders each component
For example the below function takes Redux’ state(an array of previous todos), and returns a **new** array of todos(new state) w/ the new Todo added if action’s type is “ADD_TODO”.
const todo = (state = [], action) => {
switch (action.type) {
case ‘ADD_TODO’:
return
[…state,{id: action.id, text: action.text, completed:false}];
}
STEP 5 — Write Reducers For Each Action
Note: Some code has been stripped for brevity. Also I’m showing SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER along w/ ADD_TODO and TOGGLE_TODO for simplicity.
const todo = (state, action) => {
switch (action.type) {
case ‘ADD_TODO’:
return […state,{id: action.id, text: action.text,
completed:false}]
case ‘TOGGLE_TODO’:
return state.map(todo =>
if (todo.id !== action.id) {
return todo
}
return Object.assign({},
todo, {completed: !todo.completed})
)
case ‘SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER’: {
return action.filter
}
default:
return state
}
}
Redux Term: “Presentational” and “Container” Components
Keeping React and Redux logic inside each component can make it messy, so Redux recommends creating a dummy presentation only component called “Presentational” component and a parent wrapper component called “Container” component that deals w/ Redux, dispatch “Actions” and more.
The parent Container then passes the data to the presentational component, handle events, deal with React on behalf of Presentational component.
Legend: Yellow dotted lines = “Presentational” components. Black dotted lines = “Container” components.
STEP 6 — Implement Every Presentational Component
It’s now time for us to implement all 3 Presentational component.
6.1 — Implement AddTodoForm Presentational Component
Please Note: Click on the pictures to Zoom and read
6.2 — Implement TodoList Presentational Component
6.3 — Implement Link Presentational Component
Note: In the actual code, Link presentational component is wrapped in “FilterLink” container component. And then 3 “FilterLink” components are then displayed inside “Footer” presentational component.
STEP 7 — Create Container Component For Some/All Presentational Component
It’s finally time to wire up Redux for each component!
7.1 Create Container Component — AddTodo
Find the Actual code here
7.2 Create Container Component — TodoList Container
Find the Actual code here
7.3 Create Container Component — Filter Container
Find the Actual code here
Note: In the actual code, Link presentational component is wrapped in “FilterLink” container component. And then 3 “FilterLink” components are then arranged and displayed inside “Footer” presentational component.
STEP 8 — Finally Bring Them All Together
import React from ‘react’ // ← Main React library
import { render } from ‘react-dom’ // ← Main react library
import { Provider } from ‘react-redux’ //← Bridge React and Redux
import { createStore } from ‘redux’ // ← Main Redux library
import todoApp from ‘./reducers’ // ← List of Reducers we created
//Import all components we created earlier
import AddTodo from ‘../containers/AddTodo’
import VisibleTodoList from ‘../containers/VisibleTodoList’
import Footer from ‘./Footer’ // ← This is a presentational component that contains 3 FilterLink Container comp
//Create Redux Store by passing it the reducers we created earlier.
let store = createStore(reducers)
render(
<Provider store={store}> ← The Provider component from react-redux injects the store to all the child components
<div>
<AddTodo />
<VisibleTodoList />
<Footer />
</div>
</Provider>,
document.getElementById(‘root’) //<-- Render to a div w/ id "root"
)
That’s it!
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Agenda
See also: IRC log, previous 2007-12-20
Manu: I think Mark is suggesting that
@instanceof does apply to @resource in some cases
... whereas Ben and I think it is simpler if @instanceof never applies to @resource
Shane: I interpret Mark's argument as saying @instanceof applies to the subject
Ben: where Mark splits @rel and @resource, I
don't see a use case
... I'm concerned about multiple ways of expressing the same thing unless it enables a new use case
ACTION: [DONE] Ben to propose a solution for running tests locally [recorded in]
-> "running tests locally" [Ben 2-Jan]
ACTION: [DONE] Ben to update primer to remove Libby's email address [recorded in]
Ben: I looked and didn't find it in the Primer
Manu: was a blanket action; it's definitely in the Syntax doc
ACTION: Manu to change Libby's email address to Michael's in all test cases [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Manu: only appears in test 19; I've sent mail to Michael
ACTION: [DONE] Manu to check for BASE test cases [recorded in]
Manu: I've proposed two tests, but apparently we previously resolved to not support xml:base (test73). test72 uses @base
ACTION: Shane to update syntax doc to remove Libby's email address (and replace it with Michael's) [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
ACTION: Ben followup with Fabien on getting his RDFa GRDDL transform transferred to W3C [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
ACTION: Ben to add status of various implementations on rdfa.info [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: Michael has volunteered to work on the
implementation report on the wiki
... so rdfa.info implementations report might point to or copy the wiki
ACTION: Ben to respond to comment on follow-your-nose [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: draft under discussion
Shane: Mark wants the resource at the profile
URI to be something useful
... I've said this several times too; it's just a matter of getting it done
... he'd also like to see the resource be content-negotiated
... and he suggests we also support the GRDDL alternative of <LINK rel='transform'>
Ben: but GRDDL's XHTML mechanism is @profile
ACTION: Ben to set up a proper scribe schedule [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
ACTION: Michael to create "Microformats done right -- unambiguous taxonomies via RDF" on the wiki [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
ACTION: Ralph followup with Dublin Core on what's going on with their namespace URI [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
[SWDWG] ACTION: Ben to prepare draft implementation report for RDFa (with assistance from Michael) [recorded in]
Ben: I've done a draft implementation report
[SWDWG] ACTION: Ben to update RDFa schedule in wiki [recorded in]
Ben: I've updated the schedule
[SWDWG] ACTION: Ben and Michael to address comments by Tom [regarding maintenance of wiki document] [recorded in] [CONTINUES]
Ben: defer decision until more folk are present
... it's becoming a long document
... looks good at a high level; I need more time to look at the detail
... it says what I thought we'd all agreed on
... outstanding issues; @instanceof applying to @resource, changing email addresses, dpedia examples use p: as namespace prefix which might confuse some readers
Ben: I looked at the editors' draft and think it's coming together nicely. Also have some small comments
<msporny>
a triple can be generated even if @instanceof and @about is not specified anywhere in the document.
Manu: @href @rel with nothing else generates a triple
Ben: the test is not wrong but it's different
from the Creative Commons recommendation
... so could we add another that uses @rel='license' per the CC recommendation?
Manu: happy to do that once 'license' is in the reserved list
Shane: tell me to add 'license' to the reserved list
<scribe> [DONE]
Ben: does SPARQL require whitespace before '.'?
<msporny>
RESOLUTION: test 71 accepted, pending confirmation of SPARQL whitespace rules
BASE with relative URIs
Ben: recommend dropping '#' for simplification; it's not necessary here
RESOLUTION: test 72 accepted, removing unnecessary '#'
<msporny>
Manu: we still have some whitespace
canonicalization issues
... test 11 fails under some implementations and passes under others
... the current test strips all whitespace in the SPARQL but that's not strictly correct per the XHTML rules
... we could fix this by stripping the whitespace in the HTML
Ralph: the point of this test was not to test whitespace rules, but rather to test XMLliteral
Ben: to test whitespace we could use the XPath whitespace function in the SPARQL
Manu: I'm not sure that it would be correct to create a new test using the XPath function
Ben: it's just a way to write a test that is independent of the parser implementation w.r.t. whitespace preservation
Ben: I'd like us to reach agreement to have an
editors' draft for the SWD WG to review by their Jan 15 telecon
... that's agressive
... so please get comments to Mark and Shane by this weekend
Ben: the only open issue we're discussing is the @resource thread in email
Shane: Ivan observed that the RDFa attributes
are not permitted on <HTML>
... should this be permitted?
Manu: in one test case I wanted to say "there's
a person, me, at this address"
... e.g. example.org/shane
... is there a way to set the type of a document as a Person?
... can you declare the rdf:type of what you're linking to?
Ben: no way currently
... if you're linking something with a typed relationship, the type of the object might be deducible
<msporny> <a about="#me" rel="foaf:knows" href="">shane is here</a>
<msporny> <html instanceof="foaf:Person">...</html>
Ben: we permit @instanceof on <HEAD>
Manu: so if permitted on <HEAD>, why not also on <HTML>
Shane: I don't think there would be any parser
ramifications
... the HTML WG has never extended the HTML element except for @lang
... HTML doesn't have @id or @class
Ben: consistency is nice, but let's defer to the HTML WG
Shane: in my opinion it would be find for <HTML> to permit the RDFa attributes as well as @id and @class; let's see what the HTML WG wants to do
[adjourned] | http://www.w3.org/2008/01/03-rdfa-minutes.html | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
:
The first thing to do is wrap a networkx graph in a PyMC stochastic, and put some penalty on vertices being too far from the root:
def BDST(G, root=0, k=5, beta=1.): T = nx.minimum_spanning_tree(G) T.base_graph = G @mc.stoch(dtype=nx.Graph) def bdst(value=T, root=root, k=k, beta=beta): path_len = pl.array(nx.shortest_path_length(value, root).values()) return -beta * pl.sum(path_len > k) return bdst
Easy, right? The parameter
beta is an inverse temperature, according to statistical physicists, and when it gets large the chain might freeze. Speaking of the chain, the important part of this exercise is in the step method, which must be customized to move from spanning tree to spanning tree on the base graph. The stackexchange question poser, Arman, tried a step method that chooses a random edge not in the tree, chooses a random edge on the cycle that adding this edge to the tree would create, and swaps them if they don’t violate the depth-bound constraint. Since I’ve extended this approach to have soft constraints, I’ll propose swapping them and sometimes reject the proposal. This requires only overwriting methods for
propose and
reject in the
pymc.Metropolis class:
class BDSTMetropolis(mc.Metropolis): def __init__(self, stochastic): mc.Metropolis.__init__(self, stochastic, scale=1., proposal_sd='custom', proposal_distribution='custom', verbose=None, tally=False) def propose(self): T = self.stochastic.value T.u_new, T.v_new = T.edges()[0] while T.has_edge(T.u_new, T.v_new): T.u_new, T.v_new = random.choice(T.base_graph.edges()) T.path = nx.shortest_path(T, T.u_new, T.v_new) i = random.randrange(len(T.path)-1) T.u_old, T.v_old = T.path[i], T.path[i+1] T.remove_edge(T.u_old, T.v_old) T.add_edge(T.u_new, T.v_new) self.stochastic.value = T def reject(self): T = self.stochastic.value T.add_edge(T.u_old, T.v_old) T.remove_edge(T.u_new, T.v_new) self.stochastic.value = T
That’s it. To use it, make a chain and sample from it, while turning up the inverse heat. Will it work? That’s a research question, not a research distraction. It works fine on small grid graphs, though.
beta = mc.Uninformative('beta', value=1.) G = nx.grid_graph([11, 11]) root = (5,5) bdst = BDST(G, root, 10, beta) mod_mc = mc.MCMC([beta, bdst]) mod_mc.use_step_method(BDSTMetropolis, bdst) mod_mc.use_step_method(mc.NoStepper, beta) for i in range(5): beta.value = i*5 mod_mc.sample(1000) print 'cur depth', max_depth.value
Here’s an exercise for the reader, if you’re interested in designing a StepMethod like this of your own. The message passing algorithm we settled on in Clustering with shallow trees is more analogous to a walk on in-arborsences, i.e. rooted, directed trees with every edge pointing towards the root. The edge swaps are in the opposite order as above: first choose a node and delete its out-edge, which disconnects the arborsence, and then choose a new node for the disconnected node to point to. The benefit of this is that it makes it easier to keep track of the depth of the tree; only the first node and its children change depth. Part two of the exercise, which I think would be too hard to assign to students without an additional example, is to make the steps in out-arborsence chain into a Gibbs sampler. This would definitely be a good idea if you really want to make spanning trees mix on big graphs, though.
Distraction over, back to work. But don’t those spanning trees on grid graphs look like great mazes? I’ve got a distraction for another day.
3 responses to “MCMC in Python: Custom StepMethods and bounded-depth spanning tree distraction”
Code on github:
random.sample(T.base_graph.edges(), 1)[0]
should be written as
random.choice(T.base_graph.edges())
Thanks @bob! I thought there should be a cooler way to randomly sample a single element from a list. | https://healthyalgorithms.com/2010/12/23/mcmc-in-python-custom-stepmethods-and-bounded-depth-spanning-tree-distraction/ | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | en | refinedweb |
30 April 2010 17:41 [Source: ICIS news]
By Nigel Davis
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Producers have benefited greatly from price increases in the first months of the year. Take ExxonMobil which showed on Thursday that stronger margins lifted first quarter chemicals earnings by $480m compared with the first quarter of 2009, while the increase from higher sales volumes was $180m.
The margin increase has to do with lower costs as well as higher prices, but the latest reversal in the upward price trend is going to hurt.
US ethylene prices have tracked downwards over the past week reacting to the twin pressures of more supply and weakening demand.
Ethylene for May was offered on Wednesday at 42.00 cents/lb ($926/tonne, €704/tonne), down by 22% from deals done at 53.00-54.75 cents/lb late in the week ended 23 April.
The collapse in the ethylene spot market in the
Ethylene prices in
Consumers have reacted to tight availability but.
European olefins contract prices have reflected some of the caution or, rather the balancing of the ideas of sellers and buyers.
Ethylene settled at a rollover for May and propylene was up €20/tonne at €1,000 tonne. The downstream polymer markets are stronger but not great.
On Thursday, European polypropylene (PP) buyers said they were expecting some relief from the constant round of price increases. Those increases had pushed prices up 30%, or €300/tonne, since January.
Not surprisingly, buyers had been betting on when prices will start to fall. Internally, some thought the end of May, others June.
Polypropylene demand in
There is a broader perception, however, that prices have risen too high and cannot be sustained by demand.
Remarks from buyers suggest that while the caps and closures market for PP is buoyant, carpet makers continue to feel the pinch.
Imports are not widely apparent in the
Petrochemicals and polymers output remains constrained by various factors and while demand has improved it does not seem yet to be sufficient to encourage significantly increased output. Prices have been underpinned by the oil price and will continue to be supported by it. The question is: for how long?
Buyers have been on the look-out for the turn and, by all accounts, expect any downward movement to be swift and deep.
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Created on 2011-12-21 05:54 by Ramchandra Apte, last changed 2011-12-24 22:45 by terry.reedy. This issue is now closed..
Python isn't crashing; it's bailing out of an impossible situation. It's not clear what the correct behavior is, since you're basically preventing Python from aborting the recursive behavior.
But Python 2 doesn't crash after running the code.
Oops, to reproduce this bug after running the code run "recurse()".
The behavior of Python 2 is not anymore correct than that of Python 3.
Well, I expect Python 3 to raise RuntimeError about recursion not to segfault.
There is no place for it to raise a RuntimeError which will continue to propogate!
With Python 2, I can inspect the error to see where it occurred using traceback. With Python 3, I'd need to use gdb.
@OP: As you yourself wrote, this is an abort, not a segfault. It is not a crash; it is a controlled exit of the Python executable.
@Benjamin: I don't really understand your reasoning: what is preventing Python to raise the error during the except clause?
Nothing, but that would be pointless; the recursion would just start again.
When I run this with 3.2.2 IDLE, from an edit window, I get an MSVC++ Runtime Library window: "Runtime Error! .../pythonw This application has requested termination in an unusual way...". When I close that, IDLE continues. So I would say that this is not a crash and not even a bug, but a particular choice of undefined behavior given infinite loop code. So we have no obligation to change it. I presume the change from 2.x is a side-effect of a change to improve something else.
def recurse(): recurse()
recurse()
does print "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded" but only after printing a l o n g traceback. So for running from IDLE, I at least half prefer the immediate error box with no traceback.
@Terry
IDLE restarts python (like in the menu entry "Restart Shell") when the Python process dies no matter how the Python process dies.
So this issue is a valid bug.
This is identical to issue6028 and may be related to issue3555.
> Nothing, but that would be pointless; the recursion would just start again.
Why?
2011/12/24 Georg Brandl <report@bugs.python.org>:
>
> Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment:
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>> Nothing, but that would be pointless; the recursion would just start again.
Because it would be caught in the function call above in the stack?
Would it?
2011/12/24 Georg Brandl <report@bugs.python.org>:
>
> Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment:
>
> Would it?
(<class 'Exception'>,)
Basically forget my last 3 messages.
@maniram I know what IDLE does. For the tracker, a 'bug' is a discrepancy between doc and behavior. According to the doc, a recursion loop should continue forever, just like an iteration loop ;=).
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May 08, 2012 04:30 PM|LINK
Hi guys,
I have a view in which the user can edit a collection of "heterogeneous" items, each of the item currently is implemented as an instance of class "WAttribute", for example:
public class WAttributeViewModel {
public string DisplayName;
public string UserValue;
... other "meta" data properties describing the WAttribute, such as format string (0.00%), minValue, maxValue...
}
In the controller, I will get a list of this WAttributeViewModel as List<WAttributeViewModel> from the database, the displayname will be shown as the Label in the view, UserValue will be a text input, and the user can modify the UserValue, then I will save the UserValues back to the database, when the user hit the "Save" button/link.
The problem is: different rows of WAttributeViewModel in the list can have different validation reqirements, for example:
1. for a "Field Percentage" WAttribute, it is a percentage, it should be shown as x.yz%, and I should validate its UserValue as numeric percentage (and different percentage WAttribute may have different min/max range requirements)
2. for a "Facility Location" WAttribute, it is a string, it should be shown as string, and I don't need to validate its value, i.e. the UserValue can be empty.
3. for a "Project Class" WAttribute, it is a string, and its UserValue cannot be empty.
4. for a "Installation Date" WAttribute, it is a date, it should be shown as MM-DD-YYYY, and I need to validate its value, ie. it is a date and cannot be empty.
5. the list goes on and on, and each row in the list may have different requirements for validation, these requirements are stored in the database and I can get them into the WAttributeViewModel.
So, I think I cannot use DataAnnoation attributes, such as [Required], or [Range], to descorate the UserValue property in my WAttributeViewModel, because each row/instance will have different requirements for validation, some are [Required] some are not, some have a range of [1..10], and some have [100..10000].
And I think I cannot add/modify an (DataAnnoation) attribute of a property at run time.
So, what is the best way to implement validation for my case?
Before using MVC, we used ASP.NET web forms, and we used telerik's RadInputManager, and we create multiple inputsettings to manage the vlidation and formating of the values. Is there a similar control/method that i can use in the MVC world?
Thanks!
Wenbiao
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Hi,
you can use IValidatableObject Interface , look at this Example , or you can create custom Vaidation attribute and and using reflection you can check the values .
hope this helps
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May 08, 2012 04:51 PM|LINK
Give a look to the answer I gave to a similar question:
I proposed to define a BrokerAttribute plus the normal validation attributes. Probably with minor modifications the same approach might be viable also for your case.
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Sorry I don't have a working example, since in my software I try to avoid such a metaclasses that are diffcult to mantain. I prefer using strongly typed classses+some dependency injection+interfaces to make they "open" to new types.
However the basic idea is simple, at leasdt for the server side validation (it is better you start from there, since it is easier).
You implement a custom validationa attribute that just specified the name of another property whose value would be the actual validation attribute to apply. Let make an examle
[Broker("ValidationType", ValidationArguments)]
public string UserValue{get; set;)
public Type ValidationType {get; set;}
public object[] ValidationArguments {get; set}
Now since the property ValidationType can accept a Type you can give it the type of a validation attribute as value:
x.ValidationType=typeof(RequiredAttribute);....
x.ValidationArgument = new object[0];
Now when you write the code of the BrokerAttribute. In its IsValid method. you just access the ValidationType property that is passed as parameter of the BrokerAttribute, and via reflection you invoke its IsValid Method. You use the ValidationArgument to pass some parameters to the valòidation attribute
This way you can implement a "variable" validation, whose validation rules are specified in the properties of the classes of your list.
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* Read in a list of names from the user using a sentinel value of -1 to mark the end of the list.
* Only add the name to the array if the name is not already on the list. (EX: If "Mary" is on the user list 3 times, it should only be in the Names array one time.)
* Print out the total number of names, and print out all of the names in the array.
* Remember to use methods whenever you can.
Here are my confusions and errors:
* I cannot find the exception because it seems as if I am not using an variable that was not set to an object.
* I need a way to have a count for when the names are not repeated, and a different count for when they are repeated.
import java.util.Scanner; public class NameList { public static void main(String [] args) { Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in); // An array of 20 String Objects is created String [] names = new String [20]; System.out.println("Welcome to the Name List Program:-)"); System.out.println("***********************************"); // Instance variables String appellation; int count = 0; final String SENTINEL = "-1"; boolean isFound; // Ask the user for a first name or "-1" if the user would not like to proceed with the program System.out.print("\nEnter a first name (" + SENTINEL + " to quit): "); appellation = reader.nextLine(); // Keeps asking the user for first names until "-1" is entered while (!appellation.equals(SENTINEL)) { count++; System.out.print("Enter a first name (" + SENTINEL + " to quit): "); appellation = reader.nextLine(); } isFound = searchForName(appellation, count, names); if (isFound == false) { System.out.println("\nThere are a total of " + count + " names."); for (int index = 0; index < count; index++) { names[index] = appellation; } System.out.println("The names in the array are:"); for (int index = 0; index < count; index++) { System.out.println(names[index]); } } } public static boolean searchForName(String appellation, int logicalSize, String [] nameArray) { boolean answer = false; for (int i = 0; i < logicalSize; i++) { if (nameArray[i].equals(appellation)) { //logicalSize = logicalSize - 1; answer = true; } else { answer = false; } } return answer; } } | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/300270-java-is-throwing-a-nullpointerexception-at-my-program/page__pid__1746834__st__0 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
I'm doing some practice with Lists in C# to get more experience, so I thought I could do some statistics with data stored in a database.
My idea:
I have a Sqlite DB with some data about customers calls. Who called, when did he call, how much time did the call last, and other values that I do not care about. Now I would like to get out theese values and calculate how many times every customer called per month and per year. Afterwards, calculate how much time was invested for every customer per month and per year.
How to do it:
The calculation in fact is not difficult and getting everything out of the DB aswell. I did that already. What I want, tough, is to create a well structured list to fill out.
How would you structure your list?
As there are over 200000 rows in the DB I thought it would be best to insert every customer only once in the list and than update the specified fields to increase the desired values. With this in mind I began with creating a class for my list:
public class KdStats { public Int32 customernumber { get; set; } public String customername { get; set; } public Int32 calls { get; set; } public Decimal time { get; set; } public Int32 month { get; set; } public Int32 year { get; set; } }
but I realized soon, that this way I can not make a calculation per month/year. So my first thought was: is there a possibility to define an array within my list's class? this would solve my problem, wouldn't it? I tried to define for example "public Int32[] calls { get; set; }" but afterwards I do not know where to inizialize the array. (in the class or in the function, where I modify the list's vlaues) I did not find anything while googling...
Do you have other suggestions on how to do something like that? Or would it really be possible to do it with an array in my list?
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Is that accurate, albeit pessimistic?
Think long-tail and conversion. Long-tail search and long-tail domain navigation tends to convert fairly well.
The days of 1 word domains are over, mostly. You can still cherrypick the aftermarket from time to time, just not in the forums. You need to go direct to the registrant.
Popular and valuable 2 and 3 word domains, that people will type-in, can still be found with a little effort. I'll venture a guess that a number of people, after reading this thread, have been busy.
Maybe we should run a thread on the subject of recently mined domains?
Nah. Someday, maybe, but not now. ;0)
What do you think the PUBLIC's reaction is?
Do you think they even care about the real ".biz"?
word order looks sensible most of the time, but you'll also see unusual permutations in the list. Does anyone have insight into this?
my concern is whether google/yahoo/msn treat .bz as been strictly relevant to Belize related searchs or, permit domains with this extention to rank well internationally
When you speak of mini sites, how many pages?
Also, if your intention is selling the site, are you making a mini site in order to gain page rank? links?
Or should we build a mini site in order for the domain to appear worth more?
Also, do you usually have a better chance of selling a domain name for a higher amount if there is a mini site? or just parked? I know YMMV, however, just wanted to see what is perhaps more common?
Just want to get a better understanding.
Thanks! ;)
[edited by: WolfLover at 1:46 am (utc) on Oct. 29, 2006]
httpwebwitch, I'd like to know the same thing. Sometimes I also get results for example: widget example example example new york city example
Sometimes it is completely nonsensical! Surely people do not type in keyword searches with the same word put in sometimes 5, 6, 7 times? And sometimes it shows a huge amount of searches for that.
I'd also like to know if anyone knows why this is and also why keywords are not pluralized.
As I said it's just a theory
Another theory: Yahoo parses multiple keywords from people who type a whole paragraph into the search box. "where can I find pizza in chicago because I'm in chicago and I want chicago pizza with anchovies" = "chicago chicago anchovies chicago pizza pizza"
that one isn't as plausible kinda getting off topic here
about a year ago i went on a buying spree with this idea,
i took a list of my country (USA) top cities, any will do but i like [citypopulation.de...] as it seems more up-to-date
and i then took my phone book yellow pages and made a list of popular goods / services showing lots of advertising and searched for those services combined with the largest US cities
I also took the time to see which search term was most popular for a given service, such as "City Title Company" is much more searched for than "City Title" but most companies prefer the shorter name.
Then I bought about 180 .coms of the top 25 cityGoods cityServices names and these search terms are 2 sometimes 3 and a few 4 words long. They range from about 2500 searchs per month at overture to over 100,000. Of course a home builder can pay more for a lead than can a tire dealer so i bought some of the lesser searched names.
Trouble is i haven't found a way to make enough money to justify keeping them. I tried parking with little success. I tried contacting end-users that could obviously benefit from the name but most of them seem to think my numbers are fiction or I'm trying to take advantage of them.
Any tips?
That's my analysis. I may be wrong.
If I'm not wrong then you and I are in the same league. We hold some nice local properties. You can either hold on and do what you can to reduce the cost of maintaining the inventory OR you might consider working on some minisites that address City+Service, add in some contextual advertising, offer limited commitment ads (1 year, max), etc.
I'm fairly certain that in that batch there's likely at least one domain that some local merchant or service provider will soon consider purchasing as a hedge against future PPC costs, etc. and that the price will likely cover the cost of the other 179 domains. In part, the domain value is based on the value of the sales leads - not the PPC revenue - the domain may throw off. A single CityPlumbing job might throw off $5-15,000 of revenue/income for a plumbing company. What's such a lead worth and, is a targeted domain name likely to filter for better sales leads?
Food for thought. More answers and analysis available at PubCon LasVegas. :0) Might be worth the cost of the trip to SinCity when weighed against the income of a future domain revenue/sales . . or income that you might produce from minisites.
It's a speculative realm, domain based marketing, but like any speculative venture you can address risk by research and analysis . . and the capacity to absorb risk. It looks like you hae taken some very important steps in research and analysis, though I can't say exactly how well it was executed without getting into a lot more detail. My domain bets have paid off, in the sense that the gains have more than covered the losses. Amen. The local search domains are not, as yet, as productive as the more global terms, but there are some very nice PPC clicks at the local level for most local issues that I target. I'm a patient man. Many of the more global domains I targeted in 1999-2000 are just beginning to deliver on their promise and, of those domains, the value of the sales leads will no doubt raise the PPC as the chosen markets awaken to the value of the traffic.
The real estate analogy holds true in many ways. That ugly "abandoned lot" on the edge of downtown was never really abandoned. It was just waiting for development to catch up with its location.
Keep them parked whilst you develop them and do what you can to optimize the parking pages with on domain topic keyword search related links.
[edited by: Webwork at 2:55 pm (utc) on Oct. 29, 2006]
You sure about that?
Why does it say "results" in the UI, then?
<number> results...
I'll go you one better.
I have a domain name that, when typed into Google (Suggest), returns 13,000,000 results.
Further, it is the #1 site returned by Google upon searching for that keyword.
I have web site up at the domain name. It consists of nothing but the name of the domain. (e.g. - it displays "<keyword><keyword>.com", and nothing else.)
I get about 10 uniques/day.
This is what makes me question whether the "results" from Google Suggest are, in fact, searches, or just - as suggested earlier, some kind of "result pages found" number.
My statistics suggest it is the latter. :)
A very good question. I remember reading a lot of stuff about how the results were the popularity of queries but I tend to agree with you that this is wrong and that the figure is related to the results but with some filtering hence the lower number:
for example try any domain name:
google.com - results 1
I'm sure more than 1 person is searching for google.com over the time period covered.
[edited by: Webwork at 3:17 am (utc) on Nov. 27, 2006] [edit reason] Charter [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]
A few questions for Webwork (btw, presentation at Pubcon was excellent):
- How do you see people searching more often 1) citydentist.tld or 2) citydentists.tld . I'd imagine #2 would be better for type ins, but #1 would be better for resale to an individual(?)...
- Have you had luck actively selling your domains to "cold" leads, or are you mostly in the wait for them to come to you game?
I'm not in the market to sell but, just like my shoes, if someone makes me the right offer than can have the shoes right off my feet. ;0)
Glad to read the positive review. Thanks.
My little tip would be to base your research around geographic placenames. Look for trends over time and get the jump on other developers. You can also map out who the local players are and conduct some competitive research.
Also try contacting some of the domain owners that have the name your after, you never know.
If all else fails go the 'brand''keyword'.com route and make sure you cover your namespace.
My main tip would be local search. Better conversion and heating up for sure.
Nice thread Webwork, also nice advice bhartzer. If you do bulk domain checks at the right places you can see if the domain has been developed, look for links or content you might get permission to reuse.
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Is there a preference or behavior difference between using:
if(obj.getClass().isArray()) {}
if(obj instanceof Object[]) {}
Hey anyone,
I got a question about Java Reflections: I have to checkout, if a certain field of a class is an array.
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Hi All, I am using Reflection (java 1.4.2) to read an object and display its instance variables and the values they hold. I am facing a problem with reading instance variables of type array. The difficulty is explained below: if( field.getType().isArray() ) { Objecy obj = field.getObj(); //The obj can be an array of a primitive or any //reference type. Now, ...
Hey, using reflections is considered a hint for a bad architecture of your program, so unless there is good reason and you really know what you're doing, don't use it. If you can't help it and still have to use reflections: The getClass() method of Object provide useful method you might want to check into.
I may not have made myself clear (then again, I may have). I would like to determine the array size from a Class> or Field object, not from an array object. That is: class Able { class NotAble { int ary = new int[20]; } public void method() { Class> c = NotAble.class; Field[] f = c.getDeclaredFields(); // Now, how do ... | http://www.java2s.com/Questions_And_Answers/Java-Collection/array/reflection.htm | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
> However, along with that itertools inspired iterator pipeline based
> design, I've also inherited Raymond's preference that particular *use
> cases* start life as recipes in the documentation.
I think it's important to remember where we are coming from. Many people
complain that using os.walk is too cumbersome. Proposing another
cumbersome solution doesn't really help.
So I'm not against walkdir *per se*, but I'm -1 on the idea that walkdir
can eliminate the need for practical functions that anybody can use
*easily*.
> >>> print '\n'.join(sorted(globtree('*.rst', '*.py')))
> ./conf.py
> ./index.rst
> ./py3k_binary_protocols.rst
> ./venv_bootstrap.rst
I think it's rather nice, but it should be available as a stdlib
function rather than a "recipe" in the documentation.
Recipes are really overrated: they aren't tested, they aren't
maintained, they aren't part of a module's docstrings or
(pydoc-generated) contents, it's not obvious what kind of quality you
can expect from them (do they handle all cases correctly), it's not
obvious which Python versions they support. Raymond may like the idea,
but that doesn't make it a "good practice" Python should follow for its
batteries.
> On a somewhat related note, I'd also like to see us start
> concentrating higher level shell utilities in the shutil namespace so
> users don't have to check multiple locations for shell-related
> functionality quite so often (that is, I'd prefer shutil.globtree over
> glob.rglob).
Well, if glob() already lived in shutil, this decision would be a
no-brainer :) Having glob() in the glob module and globtree() in the
shutil module, though, looks a bit weird.
(I agree having a separate module for glob isn't ideal) | http://bugs.python.org/msg152918 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
Using the Request-Acknowledge-Push Pattern to Display Progress of Long Running Tasks
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Many web sites need to deal with long-running tasks. However long-running tasks don't
play very well with the HTTP request-response paradigm. In this episode we'll
go through a very simple pattern: Request-Acknowledge-Push that enables a
simple, efficient, and scalable way of dealing with long running tasks.
Source code of this episode can be found at:
You'll need to update both Web Role configuration and Worker Role configuraiton to use your own Service Bus namespace.
And the blog article mentioned in the video haishi bai. thanks. most welcome these type of subjects in presentations on channel 9. are you also willing to post the whole solution for download? your referred link to your blog shows detailed code snippets in the mentioned article but being able to play as developer with these implementations in vs2012 would be better in understanding the applied pattern. thx.
@peternl: Thank you for your kind comment. I've added source code link to the post. We'll have more episodes coming very soon, keep tuned
.
Most welcome. Thanks. Only the added link appears not to work now for download:
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I agree : the link is not working (yet)
Source code link is fixed.
Promises like: "We'll have more episodes coming very soon"
are easy to make, but seem hard to deliver..
Your "patients" are asked for a lot of patience !
LOL. Sorry for the typo. Fixed now | http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Cloud-Patterns/Episode-1-Long-running-tasks-Request-Acknowledge-Push-pattern?format=html5 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
nfc_tag_transceive_raw()
Write a RAW command to an ISO 14443 connection.
Synopsis:
#include <nfc/nfc.h>
NFC_API nfc_result_t nfc_tag_transceive_raw(const nfc_target_t *tag, const uchar_t *command, size_t command_length_in_bits, uchar_t *response, size_t max_response_length_in_bytes, size_t expected_response_length_in_bits, size_t *response_length_in_bits)
Arguments:
- tag
The tag returned from the nfc_get_target() function.
- command
A pointer to the buffer holding the command to be sent.
- command_length_in_bits
The length of the command in bits.
- response
A pointer to the response buffer.
- max_response_length_in_bytes
The length of the response buffer. The maximum length cannot be larger than the size of NFC_TRANSCEIVE_RESPONSE_MAX_BUFFER_LENGTH.
- expected_response_length_in_bits
The expected length of the response buffer in bits. This value must be set to 0 if expected response is longer then 8 bits.
- response_length_in_bits
The actual length of the response in bits.
Library:libnfc
Description:
This function writes a RAW command to an ISO 14443 connection.
Returns:
NFC_RESULT_SUCCESS, or one of the following:
- NFC_RESULT_INVALID_PARAMETER: A parameter is invalid.
- NFC_RESULT_SERVICE_CONNECTION_ERROR: The application is not connected to the NFC system.
- NFC_RESULT_OUT_OF_MEMORY: The system memory available for the NFC system to complete this operation is insufficient.
- NFC_RESULT_OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED: The operation is not supported by the target. | http://developer.blackberry.com/native/reference/bb10/nfc_libref/topic/nfc_tag_transceive_raw.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
kj wrote: > In <7figv3F2m3p0dU1 at mid.uni-berlin.de> "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes: > >> Classes are not scopes. Classes are objects. In particular, they are (by default) instances of class 'type'. Unless 'scopes' were instances of some other metaclass, the statement has to be true. I understand 'scope' as referring to a section of code, as opposed to a runtime object. Class statements introduce a new local namespace used to define the class. Whether one considers that as introducing a new 'scope' depends, I suppose, on one's exact definition of scope. > This looks to me like a major wart, on two counts. It is a 'wart' that a Python object is not a 'scope', whatever that is to you? I have trouble comprehending that claim. > First, one of the goals of OO is encapsulation, not only at the > level of instances, but also at the level of classes. Your comment > suggests that Python does not fully support class-level encapsulation. I really do not see how your claim follows from the comment. The irony of your 'two counts' is that the example of 'count 2' fails precisely because of the encapsulation that you claim does not exist as 'count 1'. > Second, my example shows that Python puts some peculiar restrictions > on recursion. I claim it does not. Name-based recursion inherently requires that a function be able to access itself by name at the time it is called. This can be a bit tricky, especially in a language with dynamic rather than static name binding and resolution, as it requires that code within the function be able to access a scope outside itself in which the function name is defined. In other words, it requires that function code *not* be completely encapsulated. It also require that the appropriate name be used when there is one. Neither of these is a 'peculiar restriction' imposed by Python. > class Demo(object): > def fact_rec(n): > if n < 2: > return 1 > else: > return n * fact_rec(n - 1) This function is just a function. It is not an instance method. It is not even a class method. It does not belong here and should not be here. If you insist on putting it where it does not belong, then you have to call it by a name that works. If you only call it after the class statement has finished, then 'Demo.fact_rec' works, as I believe someone else pointed out. If you want to call the function during class creation, before (in this case) Demo exists, then binding it to a local name works. With 3.1 class Demo: def f1(n): if n < 2: return 1 else: return n * Demo.f1(n - 1) def f2(n,f): if n < 2: return 1 else: return n * f(n - 1, f) cvar = f2(5, f2) print(Demo.f1(5), Demo.cvar, Demo.f2(5,Demo.f2)) # prints >>> 120 120 120 > Recursive functions should be OK wherever functions are OK. Iteration can and has been viewed as within-frame recursion. When iterative rather than recursive syntax is used, the naming issue is avoided. > Is there any good reason (from the point of view of Python's overall > design) for not fixing this? After reading the above, what, if anything, do you think still needs to be fixed? Before 2.2, Python functions were more encapsulated than they are today in that they could only access local and global namespaces but not outer function namespaces. It would be possible to further de-encapsulate them by giving them direct access to lexically surrounding class namespaces, but this would increase the problem of name clashes without solving any real problems in proper Python code. It could also break the intentional design principle that function code should mean the same thing whether placed within or without a class statement. This principle allows functions to be added to existing classes as attributes and work as methods that same as if they had been defined with the class. Terry Jan Reedy | http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-August/549398.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
Hi,
I've finished writing a code to display the integral and fractional part of a number. It's all working fine, however, when asked to enter a number, the program continues to go down to the next line until a letter is entered. Here is the code:
Here is a screenshot of the problem i'm having:Here is a screenshot of the problem i'm having:Code:/* Intgral and Fraction */ /* By Luke Sowersby */ #include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> #include <string.h> float fraction, number; char decision; int Round(float number) { return (int)(number); } float fraction2(float fraction) { fraction=(number-Round(number)); return fraction; } void main(void) { Start: printf("Please enter your number, including decimals:\n"); getchar(); scanf("%f%",&number); printf("The integral part of this fraction is: %d",Round(number)); printf("\nThe fractional part of this fraction is: %f",fraction2(fraction)); printf("\nWould you like to re-run the program? (Y or N)\n"); Ask: decision=getch(); if(decision!='Y' && decision!='N') goto Ask; if(decision=='Y') goto Start; }
Thanks, Luke. | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/113850-unwanted-line.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
CGLCreateContext()
Can share be the context we are creating? Should it be? Why do we need to share name space with a context?
Quote:CGLError CGLCreateContext(CGLPixelFormatObj pix, CGLContextObj share, CGLContextObj *ctx);
If not NULL, the context with which to share display lists and an OpenGL texture name space.
Can share be the context we are creating? Should it be? Why do we need to share name space with a context?
You would never pass the context you're currently creating, it has to be another context. If you wanted your new context to share textures and display lists with a context you have already created, you would pass the other context's address in the 'share' parameter.
The best example for this, I think, is to have a fullScreen context and a windowed conext with a shared namespace. You can then switch back and forth from fullscreen to windowed mode easily that way, without having to reload anything.
HTH
HTH | http://idevgames.com/forums/thread-6604-post-13091.html | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
New Packages (13):
* mssf-certman * gupnp-dlna * mssf-crypto * policy-settings-basic-n900 * meegotouch-qt-style * policy-settings-basic-mfld * pulseaudio-policy-enforcement * libtee * nokia-usb-networking * rygel * ngfd * pacrunner * libngf
Removed Packages (5):
* aegis-crypto * aegis-certman * libproxy * qt-web-runtime * audiomanager
Updated packages (59):
telepathy-mission-control-5.7.1-1.2
- Update to 5.7.1 (fixes BMC#12173)
libsignon-6.1-1.5
- Update to latest upstream version (fixes BMC#11920)
v8-2.4.8-2.2
- Make v8 compile for ARM, needed to resolve problem with pacrunner
(part of fix for BMC#10370)
libofono-qt-0.1.1-1.3
- Update to oFono Qt 0.1.1 (BMC#11664)
asio-1.4.1-5.2
- Add asio-openssl-1.0.0c.patch to fix build error because upgrade openssl to 1.0.0c (FEA#11623)
swi-prolog-5.6.50-2.2
- Moved runtime libraries to a separate package (FEA#6701) - Renamed prolog library packages to avoid confusion to dynamic libraries (FEA#6701) - Fixed soname in library linking (FEA#6701) - Change package group to System/Resource Policy (BMC#11618)
- Clean-up INDEX.pl generation - Moved boot32.prc to lib-core
- New packaging using upstream tar.gz and patches - New yaml to support spectacle - Generate a pkgconfig file and include it in the dev subpackage - Fixed documentation directory under /usr/share/doc/ - Added index.PL generation after installing/uninstalling prolog library - Fixed missing /usr/lib/libpl.so caused by Marko Saukko version
- Added specify support and did some cleanup for spec
meegotouch-feedbackreactionmaps-0.14.1.6-1.3
- Update to release tag 0.14.1-6 (BMC#11612) - Remove patch and use 'sed' expression - Add xcb BuildRequires
openssh-5.6p1-1.3
- Clean up some obsolete patches.
- Upgrade to 5.6p1 (#FEA 10919)
gammu-1.28.0-1.6
- Update to 1.28.0 - Remove useless bluez-utils Requires (BMC#12414) - Cleanup the package for MeeGo (build requires, descriptions)
krb5-1.7.1-9.2
- Add patch to build with EVP_PKEY_decrypt_old to be compatible with openssl 1.0.0 (#FEA11623,#BMC11994)
- Add patch for CVE-2010-1323,1324,4020,4021: Multiple checksum handling vulnerabilities
telepathy-sofiasip-0.7.0-1.2
- Update to latest upstream version (fixes BMC#12329)
meegotouch-theme-0.20.66-1.1
- dependency from libmeegotouch 0.20.70 - BMC#7117:Default configuration causes unwanted gconf warnings. - fixed
- BMC#10742: updated to release 0.20.63-1 - needed by libmeegotouch
meegotouch-inputmethodkeyboard-0.5.23-1.3
- Update to release tag 0.5.23-1 (BMC#12262) - Update BuildRequires version for imengine package
meegotouch-inputmethodengine-0.4.4-1.3
- Update to release tag 0.4.4-1 (BMC#12260) - Keep .pc file version up to date - Use available rpm macros for some operations
- Update to release tag 0.4.3-1 (BMC#11613)
libmeegotouch-0.20.70-1.3
- dependent on meegotouch-theme 0.20.66 - BMC#7117:Default configuration causes unwanted gconf warnings. - fixed
- removed dbus-1 dependency - update to 0.20.66-2 - additional changes needed for BMC#8164 - added temporary_enable_qdbus_link.patch to fix QDBus dependency
libdres-1.1.12-1.2
- Version update - Packaging now uses spectacle - Part of FEA#6701
dbus-1.4.1-1.1
- Update to 1.4.1 - Fix CVE 2010-4352: Reject deeply nested variants (BMC#11884) - Remove 00-start-message-bus.sh from the Source list (unused) - Fix case, it should be "D-Bus" instead of "D-BUS" - Add doxygen BuildRequires and enable doxygen documentation - Remove useless or unused variables - Convert the spec file to yaml file
libjingle-0.3.12-9.3
- Fix build error because openssl upgrade from 0.9.8m to 1.0.0c (FEA#11623)
libprolog-1.1.9-1.2
- Remove ldconfig scriptlets from prolog-resourcepolicy-extensions
- Packaging now uses spectacle - Version update - Part of FEA#6701
perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.10-9.2
- Delete requirements on perl modules which not exists. (bmc #11747)
pulseaudio-modules-meego-1.0-1.1
- This is part of fullfilling Fea 6701 Policy - Audio Policy for n900 - Dropped patch requiring PA version .21 - Changed into sane versioning, independent of PA version.
bluez-4.85-1.2
- upgrade to 4.85 - to partly support Bluetooth LE feature, FEA #7110
- Upgrade to 4.84
libcap-ng-0.6.5-1.2
- Upgrade to 0.6.5 fixing 2.6.36 kernel header issue - Remove already fixed patches, use spectacle
bash-3.2.51-1.2
- Reverted to version 3.2 patchlevel: 51 (BMC#11589)
openssl-1.0.0c-1.3
- Remove useless patches
- Install libssl in /usr/lib but keep libcrypto in /lib for mount.crypt
(BMC#7813)
- Remove patches cherry-picked upstream
- Upgrade to 1.0.0c (FEA#11623)
gupnp-av-0.7.1-1.2
- Update to 0.7.1 - Dependent feature: (FEA#8534)
qtcontacts-tracker-4.11.5.2-1.1
- Fixed: BMC#12240 - update qtcontacts-tracker to 0.4.11.5.2 - Fixes: qtcontacts-tracker deletes postal addresses inserted by camera - Changes: Display label and global presence not being calculated during fetch unless required by definition hint - Fixes: Possible Lockup in cellular guid algorithm if MSISDN is missing - Fixes: Synchronize sonumber with version number - Fixes: Synchronize sonumber with version number - Changes: Also read contextual details from contact itself - Switch to scalar query builder for fetch request - Fixes: "too many SQL variables" error when importing 500+ telepathy contacts - Changes: Save Other context detail within separate affiliation instead of the contact - New: QctUnmergeIMContactsRequest for unmerging merged instant messaging contacts. - New: unit test for - "too many SQL variables" error when importing 500+ telepathy contacts - New: adds method to deal with filters on custom details, bindCustomDetailFilter() - Changes: Don't fetch display label details unless requested - Changes: Added test for filterring on custom details - Changes: Properly handle fetch requests where the fetch hint doesn't contain unique - Changes: Update Cubi to 611d14db0cbc19d9caf1f1ee3bae4effffdd8e0e - Fixes: the files slots.{h,cpp} are now in ut_qtcontacts_trackerplugin_common, so remove from .pro files in old dirs - Changes: Update reference queries for 946b8b17eaa96ea0df4bb29e456de41a841119f3 - Changes: Update EXPECTFAIL file - Fixes: Properly fetch nao:Properties with custom values - Fixes: Control contacts was never saved in testFilterContactsMatchPhoneNumberWithShortNumber(), which made test hide a bug - Fixes: Call ui displays incorrect contact name - Fixes: QContactManager signal test - Changes: Liberate last pieces of the plugin from QtTracker \O/ - Update Cubi to ef060bd7f8046fb03e9f3572a880ca000fca54ca - Changes: Port QContactRemoveRequest to QSparql - Changes: Factor OPTIONALs better - Changes: Add missing setOptional on Organization::Name - Changes: Update QB UT data files to match Cubi queries - Changes: QB UT: Rename all variables and anonymous nodes to ease comparison - Changes: QB UT: Add more cleaning regexps to queries - Changes: Avoid "Too many SQL variables" warning in remove request - Changes: Sanitize cubidefines a bit. - Changes: Remove long time obsolete rdf-mapping tool - Changes: Cleanup Cubi namespace usage. - Changes: Improve command line parsing of configure script: "--prefix=/usr" works now. - Changes: Remove useless ut_qtcontacts_trackerplugin_sparql. - Changes: Add Other context to ut_qtcontacts_trackerplugin::testUrl - New: Introduce ontology compiler tool - New: Add generated ontology classes - New: QctContactMergeRequest for merging two contacts into one - New: Update Cubi to 030dbc075d0e594d7d8a07e4f6d80c66131b7359 - Fixes: Broken union filter - Fixes: GRAPH for contact only applies to insert part of contact - Fixes: Improve handling of restricted-valued properties - Fixes: Install all data files for ut_qtcontacts_tracker_plugin - Fixes: Massive amount of "unexpected contact" warnings - Fixes: Massive memory leak in sync qtcontacts-tracker API - Fixes: Online account retrieval working properly again (OPTIONAL handling was broken) - Fixes: don't drop detail when fetching contacts - Changes: Adapt to packaging changes of libqtsparql-tracker(-extensions) - Changes: Apply query filters to customDetail query too - Changes: Don't emit changed signal for removed contacts - Changes: Move cubi in-tree to avoid build-time dependency on git - Changes: Port ContactIdFetchRequest to Cubi - Changes: Port ContactSaveRequest to Cubi - Changes: Port FetchRequest querybuilder to cubi - Changes: Properly save restricted values - Changes: Update header location for TrackerChangeListener - Changes: Warn if value can't be converted in QTrackerContactDetailField::makeValue - Changes: respect prefix when installing shared lib - Changes: Remove ad-hoc ncal definitions from schema since QtTracker provides them now - Fixes: Contacts application crashes when selecting 'Add group' option in Contacts List view menu
test-definition-1.2.5-1.1
- Schemas support for obtaining and showing measurement data (BMC#11039)
- Enhanced the set of type attribute values (by Matti Salmi) - Test result XSLT complains about HTML in description elements (BMC#11202) - Feature coverage matrix removed and component coverage added (BMC#11650) - Added TOC for test cases in syntax xls (BMC#12084) - Added XSLT for result XMLs (BMC#8870)
libsatsolver-0.16.1-2.6
- Add 0001-Add-armv7hl-and-armv7nhl-support.patch to support two
new arch. fix BMC#12154
meegotouch-inputmethodframework-0.19.38-1.3
- Update to release tag 0.19.38-1 (BMC#12261) - Keep pc files properly updated - Add new BuildRequires package dependencies
- Update to release tag 0.19.35-1 (BMC#11614)
gst-plugins-bad-free-0.10.20-10.2
- Updated patch 0100-extend-photography-iface.patch to update photography interface (BMC #11910)
ofono-0.38-1.2
- upgrade to 0.38 for BMC #12501 - Change CalledLine* to ConnectedLine* properties. - Fix issue with calling presentation property. - Fix issue with network time and ISI modems. - Fix issue with timezone reporting and HSO modems. - Fix issue with SIM ready status and HSO modems. - Fix issue with hidden caller ID and STE modems. - Fix issue with handling of STK Setup Menu. - Fix issue with missing STK text and icon checks. - Fix issue with missing signal strength query.
obexd-0.39-1.3
- Upgrade to 0.39
fontforge-20100501-2.2
- Add fontforge-CVE-2010-4259.patch to fix BMC#11157
kernel-adaptation-medfield-2.6.35.3-7.3
- Add power button driver. BMC#12275 - Migrate WiFi drivers to compat-wireless-2010-12-13. BMC#12276
- Add an x86 lapic timer patch to increase max_delta to 31 bits. BMC#12188
- Re-enable eMMC/SDIO patches for runtime pm support. BMC#11960
- Add 8 SST audio patches for supporting various audio features. FEA#12120 - Add an atmel touchscreen patch to fix extra finger up/down events. BMC#12118 - Add an input-evdev patch to incr input_event circular buffer size. BMC#12119 - Change CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN setting from 0x100000 to 0x1000000. BMC#12122
- Add display/fb patches to enable multi-touch functionality. BMC#12123 - Add SMIA++ driver patches to enable ISP/CI use-cases. BMC#12124
build-compare-2009.10.14-26.3
- Update script from upstream with more checks
xdg-utils-1.1.0~rc1-1.2
- New upstream release (BMC#11885) - Replace xdg-utils-chromium.patch by meego_browsers.patch: add fennec to the
browser list and change the browser preference order. The default order is chromium-browser, google-chrome, fennec, etc...
- Update description and add xdg-settings - Set BuildArch to noarch
transifex-client-0.4-1.1
- added a totally unneeded bugzilla so we can update developer tools. (BMC#12180)
- version bump - needed due to API changes
sensorfw-0.6.32-2.7
- Updated ncdk conf to fix screen rotation (refs BMC#8743, BMC#10385) - Updated packaging: minor yaml/spec changes in %build and %install
- Fix mce tools package name. This one more fix related to BMC#11352, also
required to fix BMC#9662 (when mce-tools becomes available in Trunk)
kernel-adaptation-intel-automotive-2.6.35.10-8.1
- Fixed BMC #11982 11984 11979
- Fixed BMC #9241 11912 11955 11964 11965 11966 11967 11968 - Russellville regression
- Fixed BMC #12086. Integrate EMGD kernel driver, 1812 build.
- Fixed BMC #11985. Add intel KMS driver.
glibc-2.11.90-22.13
- Fixed syntax error from using %install_info MACRO, BMC#11918.
sreadahead-0.12-1.2
- add syslog debugging output to confirm sreadahead ran OK
* display size read, files read * display estimated throughput IO (BMC#12181)
libresource-0.21.0-1.1
- Version update - Packaging now uses spectacle - Part of FEA#6701 - Packet group changed to System/Resource Policy
m2crypto-0.20.2-4.2
- Fix build error with openssl 1.0.0c (#FEA11623,#BMC11993)
bootchart-1.9-1.2
- (BMC#10988) - bootcharts truncated
monitor-call-audio-setting-mid-1.0-3.1
- Rework of previous commit for use it with new pulseaudio based on PA-0.9.19 (BMC #11989)
farsight2-0.0.22-1.2
- Upgrade to 0.0.22 (BMC#10873)
+ SHM transmitter
libtrace-1.1.8-1.2
- Version update - Packaging now uses spectacle - Part of FEA#6701
meego-rpm-config-0.9-1.2
- Change _vendor macro from MeeGo to meego (bmc #11930)
meegotouch-feedback-0.10.5.9-1.3
- Update to release tag 0.10.5-9 (BMC#11610) - Remove patch and use 'sed' expression - Add BuildRequires: glib-2.0 and contextsubscriber-1.0
- BMC#9781: Require(post) /bin/ln - needed in order to run ln during postinstall
rpm-4.8.1-4.2
- armv7hl patch didn't contain %arm addition in macros
and installplatform.in changes for some reason. BMC#11429
- Fixed bmc #5546: include rpm.spec in rpm-python
- Added armv7hl and armv7nhl architectures, fixing BMC#11428 - Remove project.diff
linux-firmware-20100407-10.2
- Adding BT and WiFi firmware for Atheros
clutter-1.5.10-2.2
- Update to latest development release (BMC#12051)
PackageKit-0.6.11-3.8
- Add 0017-zypp-include-system-repo-when-install-local-rpm.patch
to make pkcon can install local rpm, fix BMC#3613, FEA#4847
- Add 0016-Only-try-to-populate-the-command-list-in-pkcon-after.patch
to call pk_console_get_summary after pk_control is initilized. fix BMC#12162
ohm-plugins-misc-1.1.59-1.2
- Packaging now uses spectacle - Version update - Part of FEA#6701 - Package group change to System/Resource Policy
clutter-gst-1.3.4-1.4
- Update to lastest development release (BMC#12169) - Remove upstreamed patch
ohm-1.1.14-1.1
- Fix post/postun requirements
- Fixed chkconfig registeration in installation - Changed package group to System/Resource Policy
- Packaging now uses spectacle - Version update - Part of FEA#6701
pulseaudio-0.9.19-1.5
- Downgrade pulseaduio to 0.9.19 and clean the patches - Added patches from Fabien Barthes for building specific mfld packages of pulseaudio (BMC#11252) - Added the handset specific alsa-mixer paths & profile-sets files to pulseaudio-mfld-settings package - Merged core-new-function-pa-module-update-proplist.patch which is required by pulseaudio-policy-enforcement(FEA #6701) - Merged alsa-source-old-give-correct-direction-to-pa_alsa_pa.patch which fixes typo in port feature of alsa-old-source, this is needed for resource policy audio input to work(FEA #6701)
testrunner-lite-1.4.3-7.1
- Possibility to run tests inside chroot environment (--chroot option, Tobias Koch) - Support for obtaining and evaluating measurement data (BMC#11041)
New Packages (1):
* pulseaudio-modules-mfld
Updated Packages (1):"
Added Packages: 0 Removed Packages: 0 Updated Packages: 0
Added Packages: 0 Removed Packages: 0 Updated Packages: 0
Updated Packages (2):
ivihome-1.17-1.3
- Fixed microphone icon display to use new icons - Relocated MTF apps to the right location - Changed input thread behavior to suspend automatically - Fixed BMC#9750 - Fixed a random crashing issue - Added a touchscreen offset value to fix accuracy - Changed default pocketsphinx language model path - Added sub category menu support - Updated dictionary for speech recognition - Added sanity checks to prevent segfaults"
* (N900) * More info on | http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Plans/1.2/1.1.80.15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | en | refinedweb |
mouseX property
inherited
The x-coordinate of the mouse relative to the local coordinate system of the display object.
If you need both mouseX and mouseY, it is more efficient to use the mousePosition getter.
Implementation
num get mouseX { var mp = mousePosition; return (mp != null) ? mp.x : 0.0; } | https://pub.dev/documentation/stagexl/latest/stagexl/InteractiveObject/mouseX.html | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
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PrimeReact is a rich set of open source UI Components for React.
Download
PrimeReact is available at npm, if you have an existing application run the following command to download it to your project.
npm install primereact --save npm install primeicons --save
Import
//import {ComponentName} from 'primereact/{componentname}'; import {Dialog} from 'primereact/dialog'; import {Accordion,AccordionTab} from 'primereact/accordion';
Dependencies
Majority of PrimeReact components (95%) are native and there are some exceptions having 3rd party dependencies such as Google Maps for GMap.
In addition, components require PrimeIcons for icons, classNames package to manage style classes and react-transition-group for animations.
dependencies: { "react": "^16.0.0", "react-dom": "^16.0.0", "react-transition-group": "^2.2.1", "classnames": "^2.2.5", "primeicons": "^1.0.0-beta.10" }
Styles
The css dependencies are as follows, note that you may change the theme with another one of your choice.
primereact/resources/themes/nova-light/theme.css primereact/resources/primereact.min.css primeicons/primeicons.css
If you are using a bundler such as webpack with a css loader you may also import them to your main application component, an example from create-react-app would be.
import 'primereact/resources/themes/nova-light/theme.css'; import 'primereact/resources/primereact.min.css'; import 'primeicons/primeicons.css'; | https://reactjsexample.com/a-rich-set-of-open-source-ui-components-for-react/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
Here is the last part of our analysis of the Tripadvisor data. Part one is here. In order to understand this, you will need to know Python and Numpy Arrays and the basics behind tensorflow and neural networks. If you do not, you can read an introduction to tensorflow here.
The code from this example is here and input data here. We create a neural network using the Tensorflow tf.estimator.DNNClassifier. (DNN means deep neural network, i.e., one with hidden layers between the input and output layers.)
Below we discuss each section of the code.
parse_line
feature_names is the name we have assigned to the feature columns.
FIELD_DEFAULTS is an array of 20 integers. This tells tensorflow that our inputs are integers and that there are 20 features. If we had used 1.0 it would declare those as floats.
import tensorflow as tf import numpy as np feature_names = ['Usercountry', 'Nrreviews','Nrhotelreviews','Helpfulvotes',]]
parse_line
DNNClassifier.train requires an input_fn that returns features and labels. It is not supposed to be called with arguments, so we use lambda below to iteratively call it and to pass it a parameter, which is the name of the text file to read..
We cannot simply use one of the examples provided by TensorFlow, such as the helloword-type one that reads Iris flower data, to read the data. We made our own data and put it into a .csv file. So we need our own parser. So, in this case, we use the tf.data.TextLineDataset method to read from the csv text file and feed it into this parser. That will read those lines and return the features and labels as a dictionary and tensor pair.
In del parsed_line[4] we deleted the 5th tensor from the input, which is the Tripadvisor score. Because that is an label (i.e., output) and not a feature (input).
tf.decode_csv(line, FIELD_DEFAULTS) creates tensors for each items read from the .csv file.
You cannot see tensors using they have value. And they do not have value until you run a tensor session. But you can inspect these values using tp.Print(). Note also that for debug purposes you could do this to test the parse functions:
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("/home/walker/TripAdvisor.csv") ds = df.map(parse_line)
Continuing with our explanation, dict(zip(feature_names, features)) create a dictionary from the features tensors and features name. For the label we just assign that label = parsed_line[4] from the 5th item in parsed_line.
def parse_line(line): parsed_line = tf.decode_csv(line, FIELD_DEFAULTS) tf.Print(input_=parsed_line , data=[parsed_line ], message="parsed_line ") tf.Print(input_=parsed_line[4], data=[parsed_line[4]], message="score") label = parsed_line[4] del parsed_line[4] features = parsed_line d = dict(zip(feature_names, features)) return d, label
csv_input
A dataset is a Tensorflow dataset and not a simpler Python object. We call parse_line with the dataset.map() method after having created the dataset from the .csv text file with tf.data.TextLineDataset(csv_path).
def csv_input_fn(csv_path, batch_size): dataset = tf.data.TextLineDataset(csv_path) dataset = dataset.map(parse_line) dataset = dataset.shuffle(1000).repeat().batch(batch_size) return dataset
Create Tensors
Here we create the tensors as continuous numbers as opposed to categorical. This is correct but could be improved. See the note below.
Note: User country, is a set of discrete values. So we could have used, for example, Usercountry = tf.feature_column.indicator_column(tf.feature_column. categorical_column_with_identity("Usercountry",47)) since there are 47 countries in our dataset. You can experiment with that and see if you can make that change. I got errors trying to get that to work since tf.decode_csv() appeared to be reading the wrong column in certain cases this given values that were, for example, not one of the 47 countries. So there must be a few rows in the input data that has a different number of commas than the others. You can experiment with that.
Finally feature_columns is an array of the tensors we have created.
Usercountry = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Usercountry").numeric_column("Travelertype") Pool = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Pool") Gym = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Gym") Tenniscourt = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Tenniscourt") Spa = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Spa") Casino = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Casino") Freeinternet = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Freeinternet") Hotelname = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Hotelname") Hotelstars = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Hotelstars") Nrrooms = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Nrrooms") Usercontinent = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Usercontinent") Memberyears = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Memberyears") Reviewmonth = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Reviewmonth") Reviewweekday = tf.feature_column.numeric_column("Reviewweekday") feature_columns = [Usercountry, Nrreviews,Nrhotelreviews,Helpfulvotes,Periodofstay, Travelertype,Pool,Gym,Tenniscourt,Spa,Casino,Freeinternet,Hotelname, Hotelstars,Nrrooms,Usercontinent,Memberyears,Reviewmonth, Reviewweekday]
Create Classifier
Now we train the model. The hidden_units [10,10] means the first hidden layer of the deep neural network has 10 nodes and the second has 10. The model_dir is the temporary folder where to store the trained model. The hotel scores range from 1 to 5 so n_classes is 6 since it must be greater than that number of buckets.
classifier=tf.estimator.DNNClassifier( feature_columns=feature_columns, hidden_units=[10, 10], n_classes=6, model_dir="/tmp") batch_size = 100
Train the model
Now we train the model. We use lambda because the documentation says “Estimators expect an input_fn to take no arguments. To work around this restriction, we use lambda to capture the arguments and provide the expected interface.”
classifier.train( steps=100, input_fn=lambda : csv_input_fn("/home/walker/tripAdvisorFL.csv", batch_size))
Make a Prediction
Now we make a prediction on the trained model. In practice you should also run an evaluation step. You will see in the code on github that I wrote that, but it never exited the evaluation step. So that remains an open issue to sort out here.
We need some data to test with. To we have the first line from the training set input and key it in here. That reviewer gave the hotel a score of 5. So our expected result is 5. The neural network will give the probability that the expected result is 5. The classifier.predict() method runs the input function we tell it to run, in this case. predict_input_fn(). It that returns the features as a dictionary. If we had been using running the evaluation we would need both the features and the label.
features = {'Usercountry': np.array([233]), 'Nrreviews': np.array([11]),'Nrhotelreviews': np.array([4]),'Helpfulvotes': np.array([13]),'Periodofstay': np.array([582]),'Travelertype': np.array([715]),'Pool' : np.array([0]),'Gym' : np.array([1]),'Tenniscourt' : np.array([0]),'Spa' : np.array([0]),'Casino' : np.array([0]),'Freeinternet' : np.array([1]),'Hotelname' : np.array([3367]),'Hotelstars' : np.array([3]),'Nrrooms' : np.array([3773]),'Usercontinent' : np.array([1245]),'Memberyears' : np.array([9]),'Reviewmonth' : np.array([730]),'Reviewweekday' : np.array([852])} def predict_input_fn(): return features expected = [5] prediction = classifier.predict(input_fn=predict_input_fn) for pred_dict, expec in zip(prediction, expected): class_id = pred_dict['class_ids'][0] probability = pred_dict['probabilities'][class_id] print ('class_ids=', class_id, ' probabilities=', probability)
We then print the results. The probability of a 5 is in this example is 38%. We would hope to get something close to, say, 90%. This could be an outlier value. We do not know since he have yet to evaluation the model.
Obviously we need to go back and evaluation the model and try again with additional data. One would think that hotel scores are indeed correlated with the Tripadvisor data that we have given it. But the focus here is just to get the model to work. Now we need to fine tune in and see if another ML model might be more appropriate.
class_ids= 5 probabilities= 0.38341486
Addendum
You can try these to make the discrete value columns as mentioned above:",22)))) | https://www.bmc.com/blogs/using-tensorflow-neural-network-for-machine-learning-predictions-with-tripadvisor-data/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
Prof. Dr. Frank Leymann / Olha Danylevych
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
University of Stuttgart
Loose Coupling and Message-based Integration
WS 2012
Exercise 2
Date: 24.08.12 (13:00 – 14:30, Room 38.03 or 38.02)
Task 2.1 – Guaranteed Delivery
a) What does the term “guaranteed delivery” mean?
b) What are the pros and cons of guaranteed delivery? Provide examples when
guaranteed delivery would be necessary and when it would instead be "overkill"
(i.e. a waste of resources/performance/etc.).
c) How can guaranteed delivery be realized in JMS?
Task 2.2 – JMS Header Information
JMS messages have headers that can convey varied information. Many types of
headers are specified in the JMS specifications, and custom ones may be added
by particular vendor implementations. Describe (a) which values should be
assigned to which header fields and (b) who may assign these header fields in
order to:
● Deliver a message with high priority
● Specify the destination of a reply message
● Specify the timestamp of its creation
● Message is valid only within a certain time interval
Task 2.3 – JMS Properties
JMS does not provide any means to guarantee the security aspects of the
message exchanges in terms of (1) sender authentication and (2) encryption of
the message contents.
How can JMS properties be used to enrich the messages with the data relevant
to security? Assume the usage of login and passwords as well as encryption via
public/private key.
Define an appropriate protocol that satisfies the following requirements:
1. user authentication
2. establishing of a secure channel between the communicating parties
Task 2.4 – JMS Message Types
Assume a message structured as:
({companyName, stock price}+)
which contains the current stock prices of several companies (identified by
name) at a particular point in time. These data can be packed into different JMS
message types, e.g. TextMessage, MapMessage. Provide examples of different
formatting of the data for each of the various JMS message types.
Task 2.5 – JMS Message Selectors
A message selector allows the JMS consumer to filter undesired, incoming JMS
messages before they are processed. A selector is defined as a boolean
expression combining header fields and properties in a way reminiscent of the
WHERE statement of an SQL query.
Assume the following scenarios:
1. An insurance application uses a message queue to collect complains from
its clients. The application needs to select from the queue all the messages
that are come from chemists and physicists that work for the University of
Stuttgart.
2. A producer wants to receive a message as soon as it is posted to his
queue an order of at least 100 pieces of the article with the inventory
number “SFW374556-02”.
Define for each of the above scenarios a selector and describe which header
fields and properties have to be included in the message.
Task 2.6 – JMS Topics
Define a hierarchy of JMS topics that describes the German stock market. The
topic German stock market should include the indexes (DAX, MDAX, TECDAX,…)
as well as different industrial sectors as (sub-)topics. The companies enlisted in
the stock market can be represented in different sectors, e.g. a company can
publish its messages over the Topic DAX, as well as over a topic “Diversified
industrials”.
In the scope of the JMS Topic hierarchy resulting from above, consider the
following cases:
● BMW wants to publish messages about its stocks. To which (sub-)topics
should those messages be published?
● A customer wants to receive the messages from every company listed in
the DAX index, as well as from Puma (which is listed in MDAX). Which
topics has the customer to subscribe to?
Task 2.7 Chat Application 1
For this task you may use NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 Java EE Bundle (comes already
with GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1:) or any other tooling of your choice.
Your task is to develop a chat application that run from command-line using JMS
pub/sub API1. In a nutshell, the chat application receives the name of the user
as launch parameter (i.e. as args[] in the method main). After its launch, the
chat application reads the messages given input by the user from command line
(System.in). Each message is terminated by a carriage return (i.e. the message
is not processed by the chat application unless the user presses the “return”
button). The messages are published on a predefined JMS topic. Incoming
messages are pulled by the very same JMS topic, which the chat application
must subscribe. All incoming and outgoing messages should be also displayed on
the console in the form: [name of the originating user]: [message text]
The following hints should help you while developing your chat application:
1 This task is based on the Chapter 2 from the book “Java Message Service” by Richard Monson and
David A. Chappell
Create the Connection Factory and Topic required for the chat application
in your GlassFish using the management console.
Create a NamingProperties.java (extends Hashtable) with the
configurations of Connection Factory name, Topic name etc.
Your application will need to obtain a JNDI connection to the JMS
messaging server and look up all required JMS administered objects;
create the corresponding JMS session objects as well as JMS publisher and
subscriber (here you have to set a JMS message listener), start the JMS
connection to the predefined topic. These steps could be done e.g. in the
constructor of the class Chat.
That Chat class should implement the interface the
javax.jms.MessageListener and implement the corresponding onMessage
method to react on the messages received from the topic.
For reading the messages typed by the user on the command line, you
may use the method readLine shown here:
Create a method writeMessage(String text) to form a JMS message and
publish it on the topic whenever user has typed a message on the console.
Additional Task: modify your chat application to filter out the messages
from specific users. | https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/22406972/loose-coupling-and-message-based-integration-ws-2012-iaas | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
A set of higher-order components to turn any list into an animated sortable list
React Sortable (HOC)
A set of higher-order components to turn any list into an animated, touch-friendly, sortable list.
Features
Higher Order Components – Integrates with your existing components
Drag handle, auto-scrolling, locked axis, events, and more!
Suuuper smooth animations – Chasing the 60FPS dream rainbow
Works with virtualization libraries: react-virtualized, react-tiny-virtual-list, react-infinite, etc.
Horizontal lists, vertical lists, or a grid ↔ ↕ ⤡
Touch support ok_hand
Installation
Using npm:
$/umd/react-sortable-hoc.js"></script>
Usage
Basic Example
import React, {Component} from 'react'; import {render} from 'react-dom'; import {SortableContainer, SortableElement, arrayMove} from 'react-sortable-hoc'; const SortableItem = SortableElement(({value}) => <li>{value}</li> ); const SortableList = SortableContainer(({items}) => { return ( <ul> {items.map((value, index) => ( <SortableItem key={`item-${index}`} index={index} value={value} /> ))} </ul> ); }); class SortableComponent extends Component { state = { items: ['Item 1', 'Item 2', 'Item 3', 'Item 4', 'Item 5', 'Item 6'], }; onSortEnd = ({oldIndex, newIndex}) => { this.setState({ items: arrayMove(this.state%" | https://reactjsexample.com/a-set-of-higher-order-components-to-turn-any-list-into-an-animated-sortable-list/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
So... is anyone here part of the Microsoft Creators Program?
I applied and was accepted to the beta program.
I've been working on updating my XNA game as a Monogame UWP, and I think I have it all working. On my local PC, at least. I don't own an Xbox One, but I feel like I'm in the right position to buy one, put it in Developer Mode, and see if my game works on it.
If anyone else has been accepted to the MSCP, I'd love to hear from you, where you are in your setup, etc. There appears to be a lot of "paperwork" to fill out on the developers site. Ratings, metadata, screenshots, etc.
Or, any other general discussion regarding the MSCP, as I don't see a thread about it yet.
I'm a little new here, so I hope this isn't inappropriate. Thanks!
So, first question...
The SDK comes in configuration for both UWP and XDK, for both C++ and WinRT. If you are part of the Xbox Live Creator’s Program, you can only use C++ for UWP. If you want to use C#, you must use Unity.
So... using Monogame, how do I access the Xbox Live SDK if I can only use the C++ one?
There was mention of a transpiler, Konaju or Tom should drop by here shortly and let you know where to go...
I wanted to join but not having an Xbox at present nor a game in development, felt a bit too early to sign up... however I am happy to learn anything possible in advance so just tagging in here...
Can you PInvoke it ?
The C#-to-C++ transpiler is for games using the XDK. UWP-based games still use C# and the .NET runtime.
Where did you see "you can only use C++ for UWP"? Post a link?
I found it.
I'm not sure why they say that. I don't have a Xbox One myself, and haven't touched UWP apps yet. The Xbox Live Creators Program is only a week old, so we're still learning as well.
I'm not part of the Creators Program yet, but I do have a Dev Center account and I've been deploying and testing UWP apps to my Xbox One for the last few days. So I might be able to answer some questions about Monogame UWP apps on the Xbox One, but this is all very new to me as well.
If you'd like to read about the deployment process and some issues I've encountered, check out the Xbox One Development section in this guide I've been working on:
Hope this helps.
THANK YOU!
That's such a relief!
I should add, using the UWP Share feature will fail your app, this happened to my apps recently and as almost all my current apps make use of this feature, I had to skip XBOX as a platform, hmm I do have one that does not use such a feature, will try to add it to the supported platform list and see if it throws any other fails on my next update...
But as long as you do not use the share charm feature, you should not have that issue.
Well, like I said, I have my XNA-to-UWP game up and running on my Windows 10 PC. Maybe I'm ahead of the curve here.
Visual Studio 2015 is all linked up with my dev accout/store stuff, and I can upload the package to the dev site. I've filled in all the metadata stuff that I can, and everything appears to pass muster. That is, the package is verified when I create a package locally, as well as when I upload it.
My assumption is that I'll get my Xbox set up, put it into Dev Mode, and be able to deploy my game to it and see it work.
After that, it would be nice to fold in some Xbox Live features. Really the only thing I would like would be to get the Gamertag for each player... I currently have no idea how to do that, or if it's a show-stopping requirement.
I'll keep you updated.
There is a comparison list here:
Scroll down a little...
Alternatively, you could create your own system using a custom ASP.NET app... but how that works on XBOX, I do not know... don't EA and the lot use their own user services? or do they integrate XBLive members and cross reference everything or something?
Worth investigating...
EDIT
Found the below
I am assuming WinRT means C#... No idea...
Now, when it says...
Multiplayer Not supported for the Creator's Program...
Does it disable certain network access? hmm...
I think I need an Xbox at some point... perhaps Project Scorpio...
It would be really great if this could be integrated with the built-in XNA namespaces (if I recall correctly there was this Guide class that could be used and worked at some point with the iOS Game Center - not sure if it is still there).
I found a solution. Microsoft has a C# version of the Xbox Live API. It works like the C++ version:
We should promote that repo.
How?
Ta ta daa da da dee dum... [Well had to add more text...]
Nice. Thanks for the link to the C# Xbox Live SDK. I'll give that a shot.
In other news, my Xbox One arrived last night. I didn't have a whole lot of time, but I was able to put it into Developer Mode and get my game deployed. As far as I can tell, it ran perfectly! So that feels like pretty good news. It's not bad news, at least.
I still need to get myself familiar with the Xbox dev stuff. There's a lot of settings for Portals and Sandboxes and test accounts and stuff that I don't wholly understand. But I'm splashing around.
this github project is no longer available. Is there a replacement?
EDIT: ok, it seems to be nuget-based now.
Can you link the NuGet here?
In the nuget manager in VS, just type "xbox live" and the packages appear. EDIT: Creating an XboxLiveUser crashes though, so I don't know how good my "solution" is
The NuGet is Microsoft.Xbox.Live.SDK.WinRT.UWP
Open your MonoGame project in VS17 and do the following:1/ Right click references2/ Click Manage NuGet packages3/ Click Browse4/ Type Xbox in the search and choose Microsoft.Xbox.Live.SDK.WinRT.UWP, then click install5/ Close the solution and open it again6/ Click to expand References and click the Visual C++ reference with a yellow exclamation mark to clear it
To confirm this has worked type Using Microsoft.Xbox.Services; at the top of your project (better to type instead of paste so you can see if the autopredict can see the reference)
You will also need Microsoft.Xbox.Services.System
To pass certification at a minimum you will need to have a signed in user and display the gamer tag
Now that you have the Xbox library working you can declare the variable XboxLiveUser user;
Unfortunately this is as far as I managed to get
When I do user = new XBoxLiveUser(); in the initialize section I get a stack overflow errorWhen I put it in the game loop (using a Boolean to ensure it is called once) the game crashes out with no error
This website describes the process but in another language
Another tip is Unity comes with VS17 and it has the Xbox cs files (in C#) accessible. Follow this link
And then do the "Import plugin" step
Go to the Assets\Xbox Live\Scripts path of your project and you'll see files written in C# for users, profiles, leaderboards etc...
Some of it is hard to read as it is unity language. Others require jumping from one file to another as you attempt to follow what is going on. It will take some time for somebody to reverse engineer this and adapt it to monogame. Particularly as simply calling a new XboxLiveUser() doesn't seem to be working in three different spots I have tried
I hope I have given somebody a boost in the right direction but I really hope somebody can work this out and document it for the MonoGame community
I should be a simple step by step process that shows the minimum code required and where it needs to be implemented (just like the link I posted with the javascript version)
Thanks in advance
actually I'm at the same point as you: crash creating the XBoxLiveUser. Will report if I find a solution.
There are some extra steps I've done. I've created a new app in the Windows Store devcenter and created a sandbox to test, activated it, and added xbox live accounts .( it is very well explained in the first steps of this tutorial: here . )
However I'm unable to log in with the test account in the XBox once I change the sandbox, so I can't test the game in the new sandbox at all.
(my "theory" was that once the sandbox is created, the user creation would no longer crash, but I'm not sure of that because a function call should never fail like that, even if it hasn't permisions to use XBox Live SDK) | http://community.monogame.net/t/monogame-xbox-one-and-the-creators-program/8847?u=mrvalentine | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
WebBrowser control.
I've done things a bit differently in this article: Instead of starting off with a very limited example and then adding to it, I've create just one but more complex example. It illustrates how easy you can get a small web browser up and running. It's very basic in its functionality, but you can easily extend it if you want to. Here's how it looks:
So let's have a look at the code:
<Window x: <Window.CommandBindings> <CommandBinding Command="NavigationCommands.BrowseBack" CanExecute="BrowseBack_CanExecute" Executed="BrowseBack_Executed" /> <CommandBinding Command="NavigationCommands.BrowseForward" CanExecute="BrowseForward_CanExecute" Executed="BrowseForward_Executed" /> <CommandBinding Command="NavigationCommands.GoToPage" CanExecute="GoToPage_CanExecute" Executed="GoToPage_Executed" /> </Window.CommandBindings> <DockPanel> <ToolBar DockPanel. <Button Command="NavigationCommands.BrowseBack"> <Image Source="/WpfTutorialSamples;component/Images/arrow_left.png" Width="16" Height="16" /> </Button> <Button Command="NavigationCommands.BrowseForward"> <Image Source="/WpfTutorialSamples;component/Images/arrow_right.png" Width="16" Height="16" /> </Button> <Separator /> <TextBox Name="txtUrl" Width="300" KeyUp="txtUrl_KeyUp" /> <Button Command="NavigationCommands.GoToPage"> <Image Source="/WpfTutorialSamples;component/Images/world_go.png" Width="16" Height="16" /> </Button> </ToolBar> <WebBrowser Name="wbSample" Navigating="wbSample_Navigating"></WebBrowser> </DockPanel> </Window>
using System; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Input; namespace WpfTutorialSamples.Misc_controls { public partial class WebBrowserControlSample : Window { public WebBrowserControlSample() { InitializeComponent(); wbSample.Navigate(""); } private void txtUrl_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if(e.Key == Key.Enter) wbSample.Navigate(txtUrl.Text); } private void wbSample_Navigating(object sender, System.Windows.Navigation.NavigatingCancelEventArgs e) { txtUrl.Text = e.Uri.OriginalString; } private void BrowseBack_CanExecute(object sender, CanExecuteRoutedEventArgs e) { e.CanExecute = ((wbSample != null) && (wbSample.CanGoBack)); } private void BrowseBack_Executed(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e) { wbSample.GoBack(); } private void BrowseForward_CanExecute(object sender, CanExecuteRoutedEventArgs e) { e.CanExecute = ((wbSample != null) && (wbSample.CanGoForward)); } private void BrowseForward_Executed(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e) { wbSample.GoForward(); } private void GoToPage_CanExecute(object sender, CanExecuteRoutedEventArgs e) { e.CanExecute = true; } private void GoToPage_Executed(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e) { wbSample.Navigate(txtUrl.Text); } } }
The code might seem a bit overwhelming at first, but if you take a second look, you'll realize that there's a lot of repetition in it.
Let's start off by talking about the XAML part. Notice that I'm using several concepts discussed elsewhere in this tutorial, including the ToolBar control and WPF commands. The ToolBar is used to host a couple of buttons for going backward and forward. After that, we have an address bar for entering and showing the current URL, along with a button for navigating to the entered URL.
Below the toolbar, we have the actual WebBrowser control. As you can see, using it only requires a single line of XAML - in this case we subscribe to the Navigating event, which occurs as soon as the WebBrowser starts navigating to a URL.
In Code-behind, we start off by navigating to a URL already in the constructor of the Window, to have something to show immediately instead of a blank control. We then have the txtUrl_KeyUp event, in which we check to see if the user has hit Enter inside of the address bar - if so, we start navigating to the entered URL.
The wbSample_Navigating event makes sure that the address bar is updated each time a new navigation starts. This is important because we want it to show the current URL no matter if the user initiated the navigation by entering a new URL or by clicking a link on the webpage.
The last part of the Code-behind is simple handling of our commands: Two for the back and forward buttons, where we use the CanGoBack and CanGoForward to decide whether they can execute, and the GoBack and GoForward methods to do the actual work. This is very standard when dealing with WPF commands, as described in the commands section of this tutorial.
For the last command, we allow it to always execute and when it does, we use the Navigate() method once again.
Summary
As you can see, hosting and using a complete webbrowser inside of your application becomes very easy with the WebBrowser control. However, you should be aware that the WPF version of WebBrowser is a bit limited when compared to the WinForms version, but for basic usage and navigation, it works fine.
If you wish to use the WinForms version instead, you may do so using the WindowsFormsHost, which is explained elsewhere in this tutorial. | https://www.wpf-tutorial.com/ro/66/misc-controls/the-webbrowser-control/ | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | en | refinedweb |
Building Extendable Oracle ADF
Applications with Embedded Mule ESB
Miroslav Samoilenko
January 2008
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Building.
In this article I discuss a technique of building extension points into an ADF BC4J application using
Mule ESB.
Building a Demo ADF BC4J/JSF Application
Oracle 10g database ships with an HR schema. This schema contains data for a simple HR application
which we’ll be using in our example. The schema contains DEPARTMENT and EMPLOYEE tables.
Each employee is assigned to one department and each department has one manager.
We will design an ADF BC4J/JSF application which changes the manager to a department.
The application consists of two pages. The Department Search page allows you to select the
department for which we want to change the manager.
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Once the department is selected, you navigate to the Employee Select page. Here, you select the
new manager and either commit or rollback the transaction.
The pages are served by one HR service. The service contains two independent views:
DepartmentView for the department search page, and EmployeeView for the employee select page.
Since we are building the most generic application, we allow any employee become a manager of a
department.
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All actions on our pages bind standard operations which are provided by application modules and
view objects, except for the action for the button ‘Set As Manager’. Action for this button binds to a
method in the HR service.
public void setDepartmentManager() {
Row departmentRow = this.getDepartmentView().getCurrentRow();
BigDecimal departmentId = igDecimal)departmentRow.getAttribute(“DepartmentId”);
BigDecimal managerId =
(BigDecimal)getEmployeeView().getCurrentRow(). getAttribute(“EmployeeId”);
departmentRow.setAttribute(“ManagerId”, managerId);
getDBTransaction().postChanges();
getDBTransaction().commit();
}
How much flexibility does a solution like this give to the consultants implementing this software at a
customer site? What if the customer insists on certain business rules about who can become a
manager? For example, the same person cannot manage more than two departments? Or, the
manager of the department must first be assigned to that department? Or, if the customer does not
want to allow to change managers at all, or only a designated HR manager can change those?
Answers for these questions ask for an extension point inside setDepartmentManager method. The
solution we would like to explore is throwing a synchronous event using an ESB to which
consultants can subscribe new handlers. But to do this, we need to introduce an ESB to the
application.
Building Extendable Oracle ADF Applications with Embedded Mule ESB
Miroslav Samoilenko
The key component of our simplified ESB framework is the interface EnterpriseServiceBus. This
interface defines the contract which a concrete ESB implements in order to communicate with our
application. In this interface we define two methods. sendSynchronousEvent is design to raise
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synchronous events. It accepts three parameters: event name, payload specific to the event, and
context of execution. sendAsynchronousEvent is design to raise asynchronous events. It accepts
the same parameters as its synchronous counterpart.
In our Oracle ADF we implement EnterpriseServiceBus interface at the database transaction level by
extending the standard class DBTransactionImpl2. The implementation delegates execution of the
synchronous and asynchronous events to an adapter EnterpriseServiceBusAdapter. The adapter
executes the synchronous events immediately, while caches the asynchronous events until the
database transaction commits or rolls back. Adapter also shields the actual ESB implementation from
the application.
At this point we need to decide what ESB implementation we want to use. As the title of this article
suggests, we decided to use Mule ESB. Once the ESB implementation is selected, we need to
implement our ESB contract specific to the selected implementation. The class EnterpriseService-
BusImpl does the job. The following listing shows implementation of sendSyncrhonousEvent method.
public Object sendSynchronousEvent(String eventName, Object payload, Object context) throws
Exception
{
Object result = null;
try {
UMOMessage message = null;
synchronized (muleClient) {
Map parameters = new HashMap();
if (context != null) {
parameters.put(“context”, context);
}
message = muleClient.send(eventName, payload, parameters);
}
result = (message == null) ? null : message.getPayload();
} catch(MalformedEndpointException ex)
{
// if end point is not registered, nothing serious.
;
}
if (result instanceof Exception) {
throw (Exception)result;
}
return result;
}
There are two points which we would like to emphasize. If there is no handler for the passed
business event, Mule throws MalformedEndpointException. Since we are shipping our application
without any default event handlers for extension points, this exception will always be thrown. We
decided to suppress it, since this exception does not inform us of a real problem.
The second point is exceptions thrown by custom handlers. The convention which we adopt is that
the custom event handler should never throw an exception. Instead, it returns the exception as the
result of execution. EnterpriseServiceBusImpl recognizes the result of execution and throws the
exception if necessary.
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Complexity of the ESB framework is hidden from the application by façade ESBUtils. This class
provides two methods for sending synchronous and asynchronous events from an application
module.
The listing below shows how synchronous events are sent.
static public Object sendSynchronousEvent(ApplicationModule applicationModule, String
eventName, Object payload) throws Exception {
Transaction dbTransaction = applicationModule.getTransaction();
if (dbTransaction instanceof EnterpriseServiceBus) {
EnterpriseServiceBus esbClient = (EnterpriseServiceBus)dbTransaction;
return esbClient.sendSynchronousEvent(eventName, payload, applicationModule);
}
return null;
}
As you can see from the listing, the context of execution of a synchronous event is the application
module which throws it. Since we are using Mule embedded into our Oracle ADF implementation,
this approach gives the custom handler access to the service which raised the business event.
Now, we are ready to add the extension point. The method to change the manager to a department
now looks as follows:
protected void raiseEvent(BigDecimal departmentId, BigDecimal managerId) throws
JboException {
try {
Map payload = new HashMap();
payload.put(“DepartmentId”, departmentId);
payload.put(“EmployeeId”, managerId);
ESBUtils.sendSynchronousEvent(this, “setDepartmentManager”, payload);
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new JboException(ex);
}
}
public void setDepartmentManager() {
Row departmentRow = this.getDepartmentView().getCurrentRow();
BigDecimal departmentId = (BigDecimal)departmentRow.getAttribute(“DepartmentId”);
BigDecimal managerId = (BigDecimal)this.getEmployeeView().getCurrentRow().
getAttribute(“EmployeeId”);
raiseEvent(departmentId, managerId);
departmentRow.setAttribute(“ManagerId”, managerId);
this.getDBTransaction().postChanges();
this.getDBTransaction().commit();
}
How do we communicate the extension points to our consultants? The more important question,
how do we ensure that application patching does not affect extensions built by consultants?
The answer to these questions lies in the separation of Mule configuration files. The application ships
with two Mule configuration files. One file contains endpoint definitions and handlers which are
necessary for the normal execution of the application. The second Mule configuration file is an
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empty file. This file is designed for consultants to add their handlers to business events. This second
file is never updated by patches.
<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE mule-configuration PUBLIC “-//MuleSource //DTD mule-configuration XML
V1.0//
“”>
<mule-configuration id=”CustomerConfig” version=”1.0”>
<mule-environment-properties serverUrl=””>
<threading-profile maxThreadsActive=”20” maxThreadsIdle=”20”
maxBufferSize=”500” poolExhaustedAction=”WAIT”/>
<pooling-profile exhaustedAction=”GROW” maxActive=”20” maxIdle=”20”
maxWait=”-1” initialisationPolicy=”INITIALISE_ALL”/>
<queue-profile maxOutstandingMessages=”5000”/>
</mule-environment-properties>
<agents>
<agent name=”JmxAgent” className=”org.mule.management.agents.JmxAgent”/>
</agents>
<endpoint-identifiers>
</endpoint-identifiers>
<model name=”CustomerHandlers”>
</model>
</mule-configuration>
Building an Extension
Once our application is deployed at a customer site, consultants start its configuration to fit the
customer needs. One of the requirements which customer brought to the consultants team is to
make sure that the employee is assigned to the department before she or he can become
department manager.
Consultants investigated documentation to the application and located a synchronous business event
which the application raises before it assigns the new manager to a department.
Consultants build a new service customer.demo.model.services.ExtentionHrAppModule which is
designed to be a subservice to the standard HR service. The new service validates that the selected
manager is assigned to the same department as the one he or she is about to head. In case of a
difference, the service throws an exception.
public void extraValidation() {
ApplicationModule parentModule = this.getRootApplicationModule();
ViewObject emlpoyeeView = parentModule.findViewObject(“EmployeeView”);
ViewObject departmentView = parentModule.findViewObject(“DepartmentView”);
BigDecimal employeeDeptId = (BigDecimal)emlpoyeeView.getCurrentRow().
getAttribute(“DepartmentId”);
BigDecimal departmentId = (BigDecimal)departmentView.getCurrentRow().
getAttribute(“DepartmentId”);
if ( ! departmentId.equals(employeeDeptId)) {
throw new JboException(“Manager must work for the same department which he or
she is managing”);
}
}
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Next, consultants build a Mule action handler. Since the event is synchronous, the context of the
event is the root service. This root service will become the parent service to the new extension.
The Mule action handler is presented in the listing below:
public class ExtendedDepartmentManagerMuleAction2 implements Callable{
public Object onCall(UMOEventContext umoEventContext) {
Object context = umoEventContext.getMessage().getProperty(“context”);
if (context instanceof ApplicationModule) {
try {
Map payload = (Map)umoEventContext.getMessage().getPayload();
ExtentionHrAppModuleImpl appModule =(ExtentionHrAppModuleImpl)getCustomEx
tension((ApplicationModule)context);
appModule.extraValidation();
} catch(Exception ex) {
return ex;
}
}
return null;
}
protected ApplicationModule getCustomExtension(ApplicationModule context) {
ApplicationModule result = context.findApplicationModule(“CustomApplicationModul
e”);
return (result == null) ? context.createApplicationModule(“CustomApplicationModule”,
“customer.demo.model.services.ExtentionHrAppModule”) : result;
}
}
All pieces come together with updated Mule configuration file. The changes to the Mule
configuration file is present in the following listing:
<endpoint-identifiers>
<endpoint-identifier name=”setDepartmentManager”
value=”vm://danko.demo.model.service.hr.setDepartmentManager”/>
</endpoint-identifiers>
<model name=”CustomerHandlers”>
<mule-descriptor name=”SetDepartmentManager” inboundEndpoint=”setDepartmentMa
nager”
implementation=”customer.demo.model.mule.ExtendedDepartmentManagerMuleAction2”>
</mule-descriptor>
</model>
Since this configuration file is meant to be changed by consultants, it is guaranteed that the extension
will not be overwritten by a patch.
So, now, when you assign a new manager to a department which he or she does not yet work for,
you will be getting an error message like the following example:
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Oracle JDeveloper 10g,
Mule ESB 1.4.3,
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ISO Updates C Standard 378
An anonymous reader writes )."
First post!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, who cares about that?
Seriously, though, am I the only one who finds it strange that one has to buy copies of the standard?
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Not really, a lot of books cost money. Why would this one be different?
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Informative)
Oh? $300? For a PDF file? Heh.
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Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh? $300? For a PDF file? Heh.
But these limited-edition PDFs are signed and numbered.
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You laugh. But the PDFs we get at work through a subscription to a site that provides various standards are "limited to view for 48 hours". Unfortunately the limited to view bit is simply a javascript code that checks to see if the file was downloaded more than 4 days ago (date imprinted on each PDF when you download) and then covers the screen with a big denied message blocking the text.
DRM at its finest. Pity I have Javascript disabled in Acrobat. Also you can simply print the PDF to CutePDF to strip out
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Insightful)
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I cannot say for the C standard, but in my work, we do some standards development under ISO. None of this work is funded by ISO -- it is either funded by my employer, or government agencies, commercial end-users, or others that have in interest in the technology getting standardized. This process can be quite expensive -- salaries, travel, meetings, but none of that is paid by ISO. It is all paid by the participants (or funding they can acquire from other interested parties.).
ISO basically acts as a mi
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Not yet, the C++ standard is on there though: [thepiratebay.org]
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Not really, a lot of books cost money. Why would this one be different?
First of all, it's not a book. It's a PDF. Second of all, the Netherlands is a member body of ISO, so I have already paid for it through my taxes. I should be able to use the fruits of ISO without additional cost (or maybe some nominal fee). Third of all, an ISO standard has the status of a law: you'd better do it this way, or else. So they're telling me the law has changed, and then charging me 300 euros to find out precisely what the new law is. I believe that's called extortion.
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)
The new standard have been on display for free at the Alpha Centauri planning office for the last fifty years.
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The free sample in alpha centauri is in a filing cabinet in a dark basement guarded by leopards.
Your time dilation assumes c towards Alpha Centauri, instant deceleration to 0, collect pdf and instant acceleration to c towards earth. Wont work.
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Your time dilation assumes c towards Alpha Centauri, instant deceleration to 0, collect pdf and instant acceleration to c towards earth. Wont work.
Is that c 9x or c 1x? Must be 9x else you wouldn't be going to Alpha Centauri to get the new c spec.
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I'm not realy sure, but here are my best three guesses:
1. I am a funny guy (in general)
2. There is a grammatical mistake I didn't catch before clicking Submit
3. It references The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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This, so very much. I've always found it mindboggling to pay for standards like this.
Pay for the work creating the standard, sure. But copies? (digital no less) wtf? Don't they want people to adopt the standard?
I can see if it's some small industry-specific council perhaps, but the ISO?!
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Informative)
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Because it's not a book but a language standard. If you want your standards to be recognized, keep them open and free of charge.
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Re:First post!! (Score:5, Informative)
Grab the original file from here [thepiratebay.org].
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Oh what am I saying? Developers won't write standards compliant code even if they do know what the standards are!
Re:First post!! (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, when he's not doing that, he's advocating necrophilia [stallman.org] and "voluntary pedophilia" [stallman.org]. Maybe not the best spokesperson to get behind.
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Here's the quote you refer to:).
That sounds like a jest to me.
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Do they sell them by the C-shore?
Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)
yes, if you have 300 clams.
Re:First post!! (Score:4, Funny)
Let's get C99 right first (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Insightful)
COBOL is king, always will be.
Solid and reliable code that works period!
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What OS kernel is written in Cobol again? I seem to have forgotten. Real mission critical stuff at Boeing? NASA? All that stuff then right?
Most critical software is written in COBOL (Score:4)
Real mission critical stuff at Boeing? NASA? All that stuff then right?
Actually their most critical software is probably written in COBOL, their payroll software. Without that COBOL based software nothing gets done.
:-)
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Interesting)
Hi, I'm a Windows developer.
I'll take C# over C any day, and I have 20 years of C experience.
I believe that's kinda the parent poster's point. For a windows developer MS make their proprietary C# language easy, and C hard work. Now for most stuff that's fine, but sometimes a lower level language is needed. Ever tried writing a kernel mode driver in C#?
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For a windows developer MS make their proprietary C# language easy, and C hard work. Now for most stuff that's fine, but sometimes a lower level language is needed.
Interesting, it's like you've never heard of C++ which MS does fully support [slowly] and is standard. I know pure C is a sacred cow but writing pure procedural code in C++ won't kill you, in fact, it will probably make the code much easier to read since you can't just arbitrarily cast back and forth between void pointers and other types without explicit type brackets.
Ever tried writing a kernel mode driver in C#?
MS has been experimenting with that but it seems more likely that they'll just hoist most drivers into user space services so you can use any
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Informative)
Microsoft
Microsoft Research has an interesting project called Singularity - an operating system running (mostly) in managed code. Some initialization routines are done in Assembly/C/C++, but the kernel itself and respective drivers are written entirely in managed code. Check [wikipedia.org].
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Yes and no – it's more that for programming applications, a higher level language is a good idea –not dealing with memory management and every low level detail is exactly what you want there. This is why Apple keeps taking Objective-C more and more away from C too (though it's still way closer - still a strict superset - than most HLLs).
Don't get me wrong – C is a fine language for coding OSes, non-safety-critical embedded systems, etc in. But there's absolutely no denying that C# is bet
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Interesting)
Who cares about Microsoft these days? Any damage they cause by lagging behind standards is only to themselves, unlike the bad old days. In the modern world GCC is the bar by which Microsoft is measured, and usually found lacking.
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Interesting)
Not being a C or C++ developer, I'm not sure who to believe - in the Firefox compilation story a few days ago, there were a fair few highly modded up posts extoling the virtues of the quality and speed of binaries output by the MS C and C++ compiler over GCC.
Any thoughts on that?
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:5, Informative)
Simply put, gcc beats VC on standard compliance, and VC beats gcc on optimization quality.
Anyway, VC is primarily a C++ compiler. C support is largely legacy, and hasn't been updated for a long time now.
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VC and GCC are equally shit at standards compliance *Grumbles*
If either is specified to be used in a project, it means extra work to adapt existing portable code that is strict ISO C to perform well when compiled with either of them.
ICC has quite good ISO C compliance, and the whole thing regarding AMD processors not being optimized for was overexaggerated(and there are some technically valid reasons for it: Some of the intrinsics handling involves microcode level, and Intels and AMD's can look very differe
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move on (Score:5, Insightful)
Many of us gave up waiting on Microsoft for our development tools.
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How is C in anyway dependent on Microsoft VS support? VS as far as I can tell is for writing User level applications on managed code where C is terrible. Even GTK have realized that objects are good for writing most Applications.
The reason c is still around is to write the low level stuff that you can't swap out in windows. If MS could set the programming languages, C would not have been taught for at least 10 years and everything would be full of the lag and bloat that comes with non native code.
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The big problem is that you can't compile C programs that make use of GCC extensions using Visual C++. This includes even the most basic stuff, like declaring variables in the middle of your code. It's actually a GCC extension to C, despite being a standard feature of C++.
The only way to compile such programs on Visual Studio is to force the compiler to use C++ mode instead of C mode. Then you get a bunch of compiler errors, because C++ is a different language than C, and gives errors when you assign poi
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Informative)
"This includes even the most basic stuff, like declaring variables in the middle of your code. It's actually a GCC extension to C"
No it's not— it's part of ISO C99.
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Insightful)
If your program relies on the presence of GCC extensions, you did it wrong in the first place.
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That is one of the reasons why I find so many FSF supporters to be such hypocrits, they blather on about standards compliance, yet they use and abuse GCC extensions etc. The Linux kernel is horribly tainted in that way.
Linux can be compiled using the Intel C compiler [linuxjournal.com]
See include/linux/compiler*.h in your kernel source
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That's because Intel specifically had to introduce the GCCisms(and early on you also needed to patch serious parts of the kernel sources).
It's still bad though, because you have seriously non-standard stuff. The whole situation is just the same as what people have complained about Microsoft for: Implementing non-standard stuff, but instead of ruthless closed-source for-profit, GCC spread theirs with a draconic ideology and religious zealotry. The GCC project in particular has shown itself to play a serious
The GCC project didn't try to patent IsNot (Score:2)
The whole situation is just the same as what people have complained about Microsoft for: Implementing non-standard stuff
Not necessarily. The GCC project doesn't try to patent [slashdot.org] language extensions so that others can't implement the extension compatibly, such as using the name "IsNot" for a reference identity operator.
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Patenting is not the same thing as shoddy standards-compliance/developing and extending non-standard stuff.
Also, I did point out Microsofts ruthless for-profit mentality AS OPPOSED to FSF's religious zealotry.
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You can't write an OS kernel in standard C anyway. It's in some ways inherently lower level stuff.
What would be the obstacle to writing an OS kernel in C99? What would one need the extensions for?
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Lots of Irritating Superfluous (curly) Parentheses (Score:3)
Declaring variables at the beginning of their scope
But do you really want to start a new scope every time you declare a variable? Then your code would be filled with so many }}}}}}}}} that it'd look like a curlier version of Lisp.
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Declaring variables at the beginning of their scope makes the code more readable and easier to debug.
Not even a little! It does the absolute exact opposite!
Why on earth would it make code more readable to declare a variable away from the place where it is actually used? That makes no sense whatsoever.
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Microsoft Visual Studio doesn't support a lot of things in whatever language.
It's hardly the standard by which to judge programming languages.
Although the fact that it is included in some form basically means the language is imporant enough that Microsoft couldn't replace it with one of their own languages.
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Fortunately, there are alternatives to Visual Studio even on Windows.
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The position on native (read: C++) vs managed has been effectively reversed in Win8. All new APIs are implemented as native, and have direct C++ bindings. Win8 dev preview that you mentioned has VS11 Express pre-beta pre installed that only supports targeting Metro for all languages, not just for C++. That's because the purpose of dev preview is to showcase Metro app development. Full version of VS supports everything supported in past releases, and a prerelease can be separately downloaded and installed on
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The pre-release Visual Studio contained in the Windows 8 technical preview won't even allow you to write non-Metro applications
If you can't get Metro applications anywhere but the Store, then how are you supposed to test Metro applications that you've compiled?
Re:Let's get C99 right first (Score:4, Insightful)
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You should not use Microsoft Visual Studio for writing programs since it is non-free.
So is the BIOS or EFI of every computer sold on the mass market. So is the software running on the microcontroller in your computer's mouse. What workaround do you recommend?
So... (Score:3)
I'm not willing to pony up 300 swiss Francs, so can anybody tell me, basically, how it is different ? Is it just the stuff that has creeped through in the last few years by means of gcc, or is it totally new ?
Re:So... (Score:5, Informative) [wikipedia.org]
Re:So... (Score:5, Informative)
Some of the not-so-nice features include threads.h, which is equivalent to pthreads but with a different function names (and ones that seem quite likely to cause conflicts with existing code).
Static asserts have been around for a long time (Score:2)
Static assertions, so you can do things like _Static_assert(sizeof(int) == 4, "This code path should not be used in ILP64 platforms!"); and get a compile-time error if it is.
There was already a macro for that, involving declaring an array whose size is 1 when true or -1 (and thus invalid in a way that produces a diagnostic) when false.
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If my very cursory reading of threads.h is correct, it's designed to provide better portability between platforms, without having to use a lot of POSIXisms, for example some embedded stuff that have no use for it, but can make use of threading.
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I'd like to see them standardize the interaction between alloca and VLAs.
And are VLAs more than just a type-safe version of alloca?
Draft available for free (Score:5, Informative)
For those interested, the last draft before the official version is available for free here: [open-std.org]
C90 * (Score:2)
I put C90 (ANSI C) on my resume, because it is more marketable. A serious employer wants to know that I know how to write C90, not just vaguely understand the C language. The fact is if your write ANSI C, it will work with just about any compiler (with the exception of any platform specific code). Many embedded compilers only support a subset of C99 anyway (usually, most, but that's the point, it's not all). ISO fussing with a new C revision is laughable.
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C90 does not contain a standard type that has a 64-bit range. C99 defines long long, which must have a range greater than or equal to a 64-bit binary number. It also defines int64_t and uint64_t, which must have exactly the range of a 64-bit binary number. More usefully, it also defines [u]intptr_t, which must have the same size as void*. There is no C90 integer type that is guaranteed to be the same size as a pointer, and the fact that a lot of people assume that sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*) is one of
Fail-fast pointer types (Score:2)
the fact that a lot of people assume that sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*) is one of the things most likely to be responsible for code not being portable.
The following is technically not portable, as it's possible for an implementation to choose types that make it fail. But at least it fails fast [wikipedia.org], using an idiom for a static assertion that works even on pre-C11 compilers:
I wouldn't hire anyone who wrote C90 these days. There's simply no excuse for it.
Other than a major compiler publisher's tools not fully supporting any standard newer than C90, perhaps?
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There is nothing in C90 that forbids 64-bit integers.
It doesn't forbid them but it doesn't standardise them either. Whether they are provided or not and the mechanism used to provide them is up to the individual implementation and as such any code that relies on them becomes implementation dependent.
Any 64-bit ints in C++? (Score:2)
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Fucking markup. Here's a version you can read.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int64_t a = 50000000000LL;
int64_t b = 100000000000LL;
int64_t c = 0;
c = a + b;
printf("%lld\n", c);
return 0;
}
Looks like story is already dated... (Score:5, Informative)
The standard is known unofficially as C1X
GCC already says: [gnu.org].)
Syntax is everything in C.
Poul-Henning's take on this. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Poul-Henning's take on this. (Score:5, Insightful)
His complaint about _Noreturn and similar keywords is silly. First, they were there 12 years ago already, in C99 - _Bool, _Complex etc. The reason for this scheme is that if they just made noreturn a keyword, existing valid C programs that use it as identifier would become illegal. On the other hand, underscore followed by capital letter was always reserved for implementations, so no conforming program can use it already. And then you can opt into more traditionally looking keywords, implemented via #define to the underscore versions, by explicitly including the appropriate header.
WTF is "ISO C"? (Score:3, Insightful)
I spent my early years programming K&R C on Unix systems.
When the ANSI standards were ratified, ANSI took over.
But WTF is "ISO C"? With a core language whose goal is portability and efficiency, why would I want the language trying to can platform-specific implementations like threading? C is not a general purpose language -- it's power comes from tying to the kernels and platform libraries of the industry at the lowest levels possible to maximize performance.
If you don't need that maximum performance, you use C++ or another high-level language.
ANSI C is the assembler of the modern computing age, not a general purpose programming language.
Now get off my lawn!
But... C Was Perfect... (Score:3)
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Why would Dennis Ritchie have anything against it?
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Microsoft-designed "secure function" cancer?
I'm beginning to think we need a new "law" styled somewhat after Godwin's Law - let's call it "93 Escort Wagon's Law". It goes as follows:
"As any online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone mentioning Microsoft in a derogatory manner approaches 1."
It might also make sense to add a "Slashdot Corollary" under which Microsoft and Apple are interchangeable.
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I think we can generalise it a bit better than that.
"As any online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone mentioning anyone or anything in a derogatory manner approaches 1."
And just those two and no others, because no-one ever says mean things about (let's say
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"As any online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone mentioning Microsoft in a derogatory manner approaches 1."
I think we can generalise it a bit better than that.
"As any online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone mentioning anyone or anything in a derogatory manner approaches 1."
It's actually a variant of the typing monkey thing: As any online discussion grows longer (by monkeys typing on their keyboards), the probability of some monkey mentioning *anything* approaches 1.
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No, no, no. This riff only applies to a memoryless process. Long discussion threads are more like star formation. Once you get above a critical mass of Gates, Jobs, Portman, Hitler, Netcraft, emacs, vi, fiat currency, Russian dyslexia, and dcxk intelligent thought can only form at the event horizon, and the fragment emitted is barely visible against the entropic background.
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Re:Can't we please let C die? (Score:5, Insightful)
You have that exactly backwards. It's C+++ that should die.
-jcr
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Bring it on, tough guy.
-jcr
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It is, because it helps write libraries in C which remain usable from C++.
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If C++ code can't call C code, that's a bug for C++ people to fix. All the competently designed languages deal with C just fine.
-jcr
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No, no, no. That's not the issue. C++ can automatically call any C code using 'extern "C"'. The issue is, how will C++ do *COMPILING* C source in C++ mode. C++ is not a true superset of C, so C is not a true subset of C++. Anything that makes them closer to being a super/sub set pair is a Good Thing.
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Objective-C, of course. | https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/24/0145238/iso-updates-c-standard | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | en | refinedweb |
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