Eric,
First, thanks for contributing back to the STAF project.
Yes, the patch file procedure for submitting changes is current (at
http://staf.sourceforge.net/contributions.php). Once you have approval
for the Statement of Origin, you can follow that procedure to submit a
patch for the Namespace service. When submitting a patch, you can set the
Category field to "Service::Namespace" (which I just added) and leave the
Group field at its default value of "None". Note that you can always just
leave these fields set to "None" when submitting a patch.
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Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
"Eric Kadison" <ekadi...@istor.com>
08/17/2009 08:17 PM
To
Sharon Lucas/Austin/i...@ibmus
cc
<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject
RE: [staf-users] Namespace error display
Sharon,
Thank you for the fast response. Your solution worked great. I already
had code to test the result but I never looked at result.result.
We did plan to develop a GUI and Namespace file writer to allow a user to
set up a test and ensure reliability of the Namespace files. But
priorities have not yet permitted its development. So I have a number of
users who must manually edit XML files. Guess what: they sometimes make
mistakes.
We have made a change to the Namespace Service source code that I would
like to give back. The change adds the passing of optional arguments. If
the PARMS keyword is present, then the first argument after PARMS is the
absolute path to the location of the xml file and the second argument is
the file name with extension. If the PARMS keyword is not present, then
the Namespace service operates as it does now. This allows us to use n
Namespace services that utilize n files of different names in a single
directory, which simplifies our configuration management. I'm currently
getting approval from someone who will have to sign the Statement of
Origin. The change affected 2 Java files. A quick look at the
SourceForge site (referenced on the STAF web site) makes me wonder how I
would fill out the Category and Group fields.
Is the patch file procedure for submitting changes still current? If not,
then tell me how.
Eric
From: Sharon Lucas [mailto:luc...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:17 PM
To: Eric Kadison
Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [staf-users] Namespace error display
Eric,
When registering the Namespace service dynamically via a STAF SERVICE ADD
request, if an error occurs you should get a non-zero return code and the
result string contains any additional information provided. So, check
these when you get an error. For example, if you are registering the
Namespace service via a request submitted via a Java program, you could
print out result.rc and result.result if an error occurred as follows:
STAFHandle handle = new STAFHandle("MyApplication");
String machine = "local";
String service = "SERVICE";
String namespaceServiceName = "Namespace";
String request = "ADD SERVICE " + namespaceServiceName +
" LIBRARY JSTAF EXECUTE
{STAF/Config/STAFRoot}/services/namespace/Namespace.jar";
STAFResult result = handle.submit2(machine, service, request);
if (result.rc != STAFResult.Ok)
{
System.out.println(
"ERROR: STAF " + machine + " " + service + " " + request +
" failed. RC: " + result.rc + ", Result: " + result.result);
}
Note that you shouldn't have any errors in the Namespaces.xml file though
if you're using the NAMESPACE service's SET VAR request to set variables
in a namespace.
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Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
"Eric Kadison" <ekadi...@istor.com>
08/17/2009 05:07 PM
To
<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
cc
Subject
[staf-users] Namespace error display
When a Namespace service is created as part of STAF startup (i.e. the
Namespace service is created within the STAF.cfg file), and there is an
error in the Namespaces.xml file, then error information is printed in the
"terminal" window showing the line where the error was detected, which is
quite helpful. The application we've written makes heavy use of the
Namespace service and we commonly use 5 Namespace services in a test run.
I recently changed our code to create the Namespace services dynamically
rather than in the STAF.cfg file, and this is working fine. Is there a
way to get the error information, if any, when creating the service in
this way? We are using Windows (XP and Server 2Kx) and STAF 3.3.3 without
STAX.
Thanks,
Eric
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