Hi Sharon,
Thanks for the quick reply. Got a couple follow-up questions re STAF Ant.
- Are there any plans to update the STAF Ant service to optionally return
marshalled data?
- If not, can I submit changes for review and inclusion into the service?
Thanks,
-T
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Sharon Lucas <luc...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> See my answer inline (in blue) below.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sharon Lucas
> IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
> (512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
>
>
>
>
> From: Tennis Smith <tennis_sm...@yahoo.com>
> To: Sharon Lucas/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
> Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: 01/05/2013 01:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [staf-users] Getting Key/Values From Results Data
> Sent by: tennis.n.sm...@gmail.com
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> Hi Sharon,
>
> Follow-up question. See inline below.
>
> -T
>
> PS -- Ever thought of writing one of those O'Reilly "Definitive Guide"
> books for STAF/STAX? :) AFAIK, there really isn't anything out there
> right now.
>
> $0.02.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sharon Lucas
> <*luc...@us.ibm.com*<luc...@us.ibm.com>>
> wrote:
> Hi Tennis,
>
> Yes, you can do this if you submit this STAF service request via a program
> using a STAF API for Java, C/C++, Python, Perl, or Tcl instead of using the
> STAF command line executable which just returns a string
>
> Is this correct for the Staf Ant Task as well? It seems to return
> unmarshalled data only. Or, can the individual fields be accessed there as
> they are via Python,Perl, Java, etc. ?
>
> The STAF Ant Task only provides the result as a string.
>
> containing the result because then you can access the individual fields
> (such as jobID and status) in the unmarshalled result object directly.
> For examples, see the following documents accessible via the STAF
> Documentation web page at
> *http://staf.sourceforge.net/docs.php*<http://staf.sourceforge.net/docs.php>for
> the programming language of your choice:
> - STAFJava User's Guide - This document describes STAF's V3 support for
> the Java language. It includes information on the core STAF Java APIs.
> - STAF Python User's Guide - This document describes STAF's V3 support for
> the Python language. It includes information on the core STAF Python APIs.
> - STAF Perl User's Guide - This document describes STAF's V3 support for
> the Perl language. It includes information on the core STAF Perl APIs.
> - STAF Tcl User's Guide - This document describes STAF's V3 support for
> the Tcl language. It includes information on the core STAF Tcl APIs.
> - STAF User's Guide sections "6.2 C" and "6.3 C++" - These sections
> document STAF's support for C/C++.
>
> The STAX Users's Guide describes the result format returned by a STAX
> "EXECUTE FILE <FileName> WAIT RETURNRESULT" request in section "EXECUTE",
> sub-section "Results" at *
> http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAX/staxug.html#Header_Execute*<http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAX/staxug.html#Header_Execute>.
> See where it talks about when this request is successful and the WAIT
> option and RETURNRESULT option are specified (but not the DETAILS option)
> and says the result will contain a marshalled
> <Map:STAF/Service/STAX/JobResult> representing the job result and it
> defines this map and its fields (including "jobID" and "status").
>
> For example, here's a Java program that submits an "EXECUTE FILE
> <FileName> WAIT RETURNRESULT" request to the STAX service on the local
> machine and accesses the fields named "jobID" and "status" in the result:
>
> import com.ibm.staf.*;
> import java.util.Map;
>
> public class RunSTAXJob
> {
> public static void main (String[] args)
> {
> new RunSTAXJob();
> }
>
> public RunSTAXJob()
> {
> STAFHandle stafHandle = null;
>
> try
> {
> stafHandle = new STAFHandle("MyTest");
> String machine = "local";
> String service = "STAX";
> String xmlFileName = "C:/stax/test1.xml"; // XXX: Change this
> to your STAX xml job name
> STAFResult result = null;
>
> // You should use helper method STAFUtil.wrapData() for any
> values
> // that may contain spaces
>
> String request = "EXECUTE FILE " +
> STAFUtil.wrapData(xmlFileName) +
> " WAIT RETURNRESULT";
>
> result = stafHandle.submit2(machine, service, request);
>
> if (result.rc != STAFResult.Ok)
> {
> System.out.println(
> "Error submitting request STAF " + machine + " " +
> service + " " + request + "\nRC: " + result.rc +
> " Result: " + result.result);
> System.exit(1);
> }
>
> // Pretty print the result (if desired)
> System.out.println(result.resultContext);
>
> // The result from the STAX EXECUTE WAIT RETURNRESULT is a
> // marshalled map. Access the data from the map (e.g. jobID,
> // status, result) in the root object of the result.
>
> Map jobResultMap = (Map)result.resultObj;
> String jobID = (String)jobResultMap.get("jobID");
> String jobStatus = (String)jobResultMap.get("status");
>
> if (!jobStatus.equals("Normal"))
> {
> System.out.println(
> "STAX Job ID " + jobID + " failed with a " +
> jobStatus + " status.");
> System.exit(1);
> }
>
> String jobResult = (String)jobResultMap.get("result");
>
> System.out.println(
> "STAX Job ID " + jobID +
> " completed successfully returning: " + jobResult);
>
> stafHandle.unRegister();
> }
> catch (STAFException e)
> {
> System.out.println("STAFException creating handle: " +
> e.getMessage());
> }
> }
> }
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sharon Lucas
> IBM Austin, *luc...@us.ibm.com* <luc...@us.ibm.com>*
> **(512) 286-7313* <%28512%29%20286-7313> or Tieline 363-7313
>
>
>
>
> From: Tennis Smith <*tennis_sm...@yahoo.com*<tennis_sm...@yahoo.com>
> >
> To:
> *staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net*<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>,
>
> Date: 12/26/2012 09:26 PM
> Subject: [staf-users] Getting Key/Values From Results Data
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm confused about the best way to access the contents of results when I
> run a stax job. For example, when this is the output:
> {
> Job ID : 3
> Start Date-Time: 20101028-14:35:01
> Stop Date-Time : 20101028-14:39:19
> Status : Normal
> Job Log Errors : []
> Result : None
> Testcase Totals: {
> Tests : 1
> Passes: 1
> Fails : 0
> }
> }
>
> How can i get the value for "Job ID" without grep or some other utility?
> Is there a "native" way to access the jobid key/value pairs?
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> --
> Tks,
> -Tennis
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