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• Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center : Using Operational Profiles to Install Packages and other Content

  - by LeonShaner

  Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides numerous ways to deploy content, such as through OS Update Profiles, or as part of an OS Provisioning plan or combinations of those and other "Install Software" capabilities of Deployment Plans.  This short "how-to" blog will highlight an alternative way to deploy content using Operational Profiles. Usually we think of Operational Profiles as a way to execute a simple "one-time" script to perform a basic system administration function, which can optionally be based on user input; however, Operational Profiles can be much more powerful than that.  There is often more to performing an action than merely running a script -- sometimes configuration files, packages, binaries, and other scripts, etc. are needed to perform the action, and sometimes the user would like to leave such content on the system for later use. For shell scripts and other content written to be generic enough to work on any flavor of UNIX, converting the same scripts and configuration files into Solaris 10 SVR4 package, Solaris 11 IPS package, and/or a Linux RPM's might be seen as three times the work, for little appreciable gain.   That is where using an Operational Profile to deploy simple scripts and other generic content can be very helpful.  The approach is so powerful, that pretty much any kind of content can be deployed using an Operational Profile, provided the files involved are not overly large, and it is not necessary to convert the content into UNIX variant-specific formats. The basic formula for deploying content with an Operational Profile is as follows: Begin with a traditional script header, which is a UNIX shell script that will be responsible for decoding and extracting content, copying files into the right places, and executing any other scripts and commands needed to install and configure that content. Include steps to make the script platform-aware, to do the right thing for a given UNIX variant, or a "sorry" message if the operator has somehow tried to run the Operational Profile on a system where the script is not designed to run.  Ops Center can constrain execution by target type, so such checks at this level are an added safeguard, but also useful with the generic target type of "Operating System" where the admin wants the script to "do the right thing," whatever the UNIX variant. Include helpful output to show script progress, and any other informational messages that can help the admin determine what has gone wrong in the case of a problem in script execution.  Such messages will be shown in the job execution log. Include necessary "clean up" steps for normal and error exit conditions Set non-zero exit codes when appropriate -- a non-zero exit code will cause an Operational Profile job to be marked failed, which is the admin's cue to look into the job details for diagnostic messages in the output from the script. That first bullet deserves some explanation.  If Operational Profiles are usually simple "one-time" scripts and binary content is not allowed, then how does the actual content, packages, binaries, and other scripts get delivered along with the script?  More specifically, how does one include such content without needing to first create some kind of traditional package?   All that is required is to simply encode the content and append it to the end of the Operational Profile.  The header portion of the Operational Profile will need to contain the commands to decode the embedded content that has been appended to the bottom of the script.  The header code can do whatever else is needed, and finally clean up any intermediate files that were created during the decoding and extraction of the content. One way to encode binary and other content for inclusion in a script is to use the "uuencode" utility to convert the content into simple base64 ASCII text -- a form that is suitable to be appended to an Operational Profile.   The behavior of the "uudecode" utility is such that it will skip over any parts of the input that do not fit the uuencoded "begin" and "end" clauses.  For that reason, your header script will be skipped over, and uudecode will find your embedded content, that you will uuencode and paste at the end of the Operational Profile.  You can have as many "begin" / "end" clauses as you need -- just separate each embedded file by an empty line between "begin" and "end" clauses. Example:  Install SUNWsneep and set the system serial number Script:  deploySUNWsneep.sh ( <- right-click / save to download) Highlights: #!/bin/sh # Required variables: OC_SERIAL="$OC_SERIAL" # The user-supplied serial number for the asset ... Above is a good practice, showing right up front what kind of input the Operational Profile will require.   The right-hand side where $OC_SERIAL appears in this example will be filled in by Ops Center based on the user input at deployment time. The script goes on to restrict the use of the program to the intended OS type (Solaris 10 or older, in this example, but other content might be suitable for Solaris 11, or Linux -- it depends on the content and the script that will handle it). A temporary working directory is created, and then we have the command that decodes the embedded content from "self" which in scripting terms is $0 (a variable that expands to the name of the currently executing script): # Pass myself through uudecode, which will extract content to the current dir uudecode $0 At that point, whatever content was appended in uuencoded form at the end of the script has been written out to the current directory.  In this example that yields a file, SUNWsneep.7.0.zip, which the rest of the script proceeds to unzip, and pkgadd, followed by running "/opt/SUNWsneep/bin/sneep -s $OC_SERIAL" which is the command that stores the system serial for future use by other programs such as Explorer.   Don't get hung up on the example having used a pkgadd command.  The content started as a zip file and it could have been a tar.gz, or any other file.  This approach simply decodes the file.  The header portion of the script has to make sense of the file and do the right thing (e.g. it's up to you). The script goes on to clean up after itself, whether or not the above was successful.  Errors are echo'd by the script and a non-zero exit code is set where appropriate. Second to last, we have: # just in case, exit explicitly, so that uuencoded content will not cause error OPCleanUP exit # The rest of the script is ignored, except by uudecode # # UUencoded content follows # # e.g. for each file needed, #  $ uuencode -m {source} {source} > {target}.uu5 # then paste the {target}.uu5 files below # they will be extracted into the workding dir at $TDIR # The commentary above also describes how to encode the content. Finally we have the uuencoded content: begin-base64 444 SUNWsneep.7.0.zip UEsDBBQAAAAIAPsRy0Di3vnukAAAAMcAAAAKABUAcmVhZG1lLnR4dFVUCQADOqnVT7up ... VXgAAFBLBQYAAAAAAgACAJEAAADTNwEAAAA= ==== That last line of "====" is the base64 uuencode equivalent of a blank line, followed by "end" and as mentioned you can have as many begin/end clauses as you need.  Just separate each embedded file by a blank line after each ==== and before each begin-base64. Deploying the example Operational Profile looks like this (where I have pasted the system serial number into the required field): The job succeeded, but here is an example of the kind of diagnostic messages that the example script produces, and how Ops Center displays them in the job details: This same general approach could be used to deploy Explorer, and other useful utilities and scripts. Please let us know what you think?  Until next time...\Leon-- Leon Shaner | Senior IT/Product ArchitectSystems Management | Ops Center Engineering @ Oracle The views expressed on this [blog; Web site] are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. 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• Fun with Aggregates

  - by Paul White

  There are interesting things to be learned from even the simplest queries.  For example, imagine you are given the task of writing a query to list AdventureWorks product names where the product has at least one entry in the transaction history table, but fewer than ten. One possible query to meet that specification is: SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p JOIN Production.TransactionHistory AS th ON p.ProductID = th.ProductID GROUP BY p.ProductID, p.Name HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) < 10; That query correctly returns 23 rows (execution plan and data sample shown below): The execution plan looks a bit different from the written form of the query: the base tables are accessed in reverse order, and the aggregation is performed before the join.  The general idea is to read all rows from the history table, compute the count of rows grouped by ProductID, merge join the results to the Product table on ProductID, and finally filter to only return rows where the count is less than ten. This ‘fully-optimized’ plan has an estimated cost of around 0.33 units.  The reason for the quote marks there is that this plan is not quite as optimal as it could be – surely it would make sense to push the Filter down past the join too?  To answer that, let’s look at some other ways to formulate this query.  This being SQL, there are any number of ways to write logically-equivalent query specifications, so we’ll just look at a couple of interesting ones.  The first query is an attempt to reverse-engineer T-SQL from the optimized query plan shown above.  It joins the result of pre-aggregating the history table to the Product table before filtering: SELECT p.Name FROM ( SELECT th.ProductID, cnt = COUNT_BIG(*) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th GROUP BY th.ProductID ) AS q1 JOIN Production.Product AS p ON p.ProductID = q1.ProductID WHERE q1.cnt < 10; Perhaps a little surprisingly, we get a slightly different execution plan: The results are the same (23 rows) but this time the Filter is pushed below the join!  The optimizer chooses nested loops for the join, because the cardinality estimate for rows passing the Filter is a bit low (estimate 1 versus 23 actual), though you can force a merge join with a hint and the Filter still appears below the join.  In yet another variation, the < 10 predicate can be ‘manually pushed’ by specifying it in a HAVING clause in the “q1” sub-query instead of in the WHERE clause as written above. The reason this predicate can be pushed past the join in this query form, but not in the original formulation is simply an optimizer limitation – it does make efforts (primarily during the simplification phase) to encourage logically-equivalent query specifications to produce the same execution plan, but the implementation is not completely comprehensive. Moving on to a second example, the following query specification results from phrasing the requirement as “list the products where there exists fewer than ten correlated rows in the history table”: SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) < 10 ); Unfortunately, this query produces an incorrect result (86 rows): The problem is that it lists products with no history rows, though the reasons are interesting.  The COUNT_BIG(*) in the EXISTS clause is a scalar aggregate (meaning there is no GROUP BY clause) and scalar aggregates always produce a value, even when the input is an empty set.  In the case of the COUNT aggregate, the result of aggregating the empty set is zero (the other standard aggregates produce a NULL).  To make the point really clear, let’s look at product 709, which happens to be one for which no history rows exist: -- Scalar aggregate SELECT COUNT_BIG(*) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = 709;   -- Vector aggregate SELECT COUNT_BIG(*) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = 709 GROUP BY th.ProductID; The estimated execution plans for these two statements are almost identical: You might expect the Stream Aggregate to have a Group By for the second statement, but this is not the case.  The query includes an equality comparison to a constant value (709), so all qualified rows are guaranteed to have the same value for ProductID and the Group By is optimized away. In fact there are some minor differences between the two plans (the first is auto-parameterized and qualifies for trivial plan, whereas the second is not auto-parameterized and requires cost-based optimization), but there is nothing to indicate that one is a scalar aggregate and the other is a vector aggregate.  This is something I would like to see exposed in show plan so I suggested it on Connect.  Anyway, the results of running the two queries show the difference at runtime: The scalar aggregate (no GROUP BY) returns a result of zero, whereas the vector aggregate (with a GROUP BY clause) returns nothing at all.  Returning to our EXISTS query, we could ‘fix’ it by changing the HAVING clause to reject rows where the scalar aggregate returns zero: SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) BETWEEN 1 AND 9 ); The query now returns the correct 23 rows: Unfortunately, the execution plan is less efficient now – it has an estimated cost of 0.78 compared to 0.33 for the earlier plans.  Let’s try adding a redundant GROUP BY instead of changing the HAVING clause: SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID GROUP BY th.ProductID HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) < 10 ); Not only do we now get correct results (23 rows), this is the execution plan: I like to compare that plan to quantum physics: if you don’t find it shocking, you haven’t understood it properly :)  The simple addition of a redundant GROUP BY has resulted in the EXISTS form of the query being transformed into exactly the same optimal plan we found earlier.  What’s more, in SQL Server 2008 and later, we can replace the odd-looking GROUP BY with an explicit GROUP BY on the empty set: SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID GROUP BY () HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) < 10 ); I offer that as an alternative because some people find it more intuitive (and it perhaps has more geek value too).  Whichever way you prefer, it’s rather satisfying to note that the result of the sub-query does not exist for a particular correlated value where a vector aggregate is used (the scalar COUNT aggregate always returns a value, even if zero, so it always ‘EXISTS’ regardless which ProductID is logically being evaluated). The following query forms also produce the optimal plan and correct results, so long as a vector aggregate is used (you can probably find more equivalent query forms): WHERE Clause SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p WHERE ( SELECT COUNT_BIG(*) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID GROUP BY () ) < 10; APPLY SELECT p.Name FROM Production.Product AS p CROSS APPLY ( SELECT NULL FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID GROUP BY () HAVING COUNT_BIG(*) < 10 ) AS ca (dummy); FROM Clause SELECT q1.Name FROM ( SELECT p.Name, cnt = ( SELECT COUNT_BIG(*) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID GROUP BY () ) FROM Production.Product AS p ) AS q1 WHERE q1.cnt < 10; This last example uses SUM(1) instead of COUNT and does not require a vector aggregate…you should be able to work out why :) SELECT q.Name FROM ( SELECT p.Name, cnt = ( SELECT SUM(1) FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th WHERE th.ProductID = p.ProductID ) FROM Production.Product AS p ) AS q WHERE q.cnt < 10; The semantics of SQL aggregates are rather odd in places.  It definitely pays to get to know the rules, and to be careful to check whether your queries are using scalar or vector aggregates.  As we have seen, query plans do not show in which ‘mode’ an aggregate is running and getting it wrong can cause poor performance, wrong results, or both. © 2012 Paul White Twitter: @SQL_Kiwi email: [email protected]

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• REST to Objects in C#

  RESTful interfaces for web services are all the rage for many Web 2.0 sites.  If you want to consume these in a very simple fashion, LINQ to XML can do the job pretty easily in C#.  If you go searching for help on this, youll find a lot of incomplete solutions and fairly large toolkits and frameworks (guess how I know this) this quick article is meant to be a no fluff just stuff approach to making this work. POCO Objects Lets assume you have a Model that you want to suck data into from a RESTful web service.  Ideally this is a Plain Old CLR Object, meaning it isnt infected with any persistence or serialization goop.  It might look something like this: public class Entry { public int Id; public int UserId; public DateTime Date; public float Hours; public string Notes; public bool Billable;   public override string ToString() { return String.Format("[{0}] User: {1} Date: {2} Hours: {3} Notes: {4} Billable {5}", Id, UserId, Date, Hours, Notes, Billable); } } Not that this isnt a completely trivial object.  Lets look at the API for the service.  RESTful HTTP Service In this case, its TickSpots API, with the following sample output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entries type="array"> <entry> <id type="integer">24</id> <task_id type="integer">14</task_id> <user_id type="integer">3</user_id> <date type="date">2008-03-08</date> <hours type="float">1.00</hours> <notes>Had trouble with tribbles.</notes> <billable>true</billable> # Billable is an attribute inherited from the task <billed>true</billed> # Billed is an attribute to track whether the entry has been invoiced <created_at type="datetime">Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:16 -0400</created_at> <updated_at type="datetime">Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:16 -0400</updated_at> # The following attributes are derived and provided for informational purposes: <user_email>[email protected]</user_email> <task_name>Remove converter assembly</task_name> <sum_hours type="float">2.00</sum_hours> <budget type="float">10.00</budget> <project_name>Realign dilithium crystals</project_name> <client_name>Starfleet Command</client_name> </entry> </entries> Im assuming in this case that I dont necessarily care about all of the data fields the service is returning I just need some of them for my applications purposes.  Thus, you can see there are more elements in the <entry> XML than I have in my Entry class. Get The XML with C# The next step is to get the XML.  The following snippet does the heavy lifting once you pass it the appropriate URL: protected XElement GetResponse(string uri) { var request = WebRequest.Create(uri) as HttpWebRequest; request.UserAgent = ".NET Sample"; request.KeepAlive = false;   request.Timeout = 15 * 1000;   var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;   if (request.HaveResponse == true && response != null) { var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); return XElement.Parse(reader.ReadToEnd()); } throw new Exception("Error fetching data."); } This is adapted from the Yahoo Developer article on Web Service REST calls.  Once you have the XML, the last step is to get the data back as your POCO. Use LINQ-To-XML to Deserialize POCOs from XML This is done via the following code: public IEnumerable<Entry> List(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate) { string additionalParameters = String.Format("start_date={0}&end_date={1}", startDate.ToShortDateString(), endDate.ToShortDateString()); string uri = BuildUrl("entries", additionalParameters);   XElement elements = GetResponse(uri);   var entries = from e in elements.Elements() where e.Name.LocalName == "entry" select new Entry { Id = int.Parse(e.Element("id").Value), UserId = int.Parse(e.Element("user_id").Value), Date = DateTime.Parse(e.Element("date").Value), Hours = float.Parse(e.Element("hours").Value), Notes = e.Element("notes").Value, Billable = bool.Parse(e.Element("billable").Value) }; return entries; }   For completeness, heres the BuildUrl method for my TickSpot API wrapper: // Change these to your settings protected const string projectDomain = "DOMAIN.tickspot.com"; private const string authParams = "[email protected]&password=MyTickSpotPassword";   protected string BuildUrl(string apiMethod, string additionalParams) { if (projectDomain.Contains("DOMAIN")) { throw new ApplicationException("You must update your domain in ProjectRepository.cs."); } if (authParams.Contains("MyTickSpotPassword")) { throw new ApplicationException("You must update your email and password in ProjectRepository.cs."); } return string.Format("https://{0}/api/{1}?{2}&{3}", projectDomain, apiMethod, authParams, additionalParams); } Thats it!  Now go forth and consume XML and map it to classes you actually want to work with.  Have fun! Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• Orchestrating the Virtual Enterprise

  - by John Murphy

  During the American Industrial Revolution, the Ford Motor Company did it all. It turned raw materials into a showroom full of Model Ts. It owned a steel mill, a glass factory, and an automobile assembly line. The company was both self-sufficient and innovative and went on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. Nowadays, it's unusual for any business to follow this vertical integration model because its much harder to be best in class across such a wide a range of capabilities and services. Instead, businesses focus on their core competencies and outsource other business functions to specialized suppliers. They exchange vertical integration for collaboration. When done well, all parties benefit from this arrangement and the collaboration leads to the creation of an agile, lean and successful "virtual enterprise." Case in point: For Sun hardware, Oracle outsources most of its manufacturing and all of its logistics to third parties. These are vital activities, but ones where Oracle doesn't have a core competency, so we shift them to business partners who do. Within our enterprise, we always retain the core functions of product development, support, and most of the sales function, because that's what constitutes our core value to our customers. This is a perfect example of a virtual enterprise.  What are the implications of this? It means that we must exchange direct internal control for indirect external collaboration. This fundamentally changes the relative importance of different business processes, the boundaries of security and information sharing, and the relationship of the supply chain systems to the ERP. The challenge is that the systems required to support this virtual paradigm are still mired in "island enterprise" thinking. But help is at hand. Developments such as the Web, social networks, collaboration, and rules-based orchestration offer great potential to fundamentally re-architect supply chain systems to better support the virtual enterprise.  Supply Chain Management Systems in a Virtual Enterprise Historically enterprise software was constructed to automate the ERP - and then the supply chain systems extended the ERP. They were joined at the hip. In virtual enterprises, the supply chain system needs to be ERP agnostic, sitting above each of the ERPs that are distributed across the virtual enterprise - most of which are operating in other businesses. This is vital so that the supply chain system can manage the flow of material and the related information through the multiple enterprises. It has to have strong collaboration tools. It needs to be highly flexible. Users need to be able to see information that's coming from multiple sources and be able to react and respond to events across those sources.  Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO) is a perfect example of a supply chain system designed to operate in this virtual way. DOO embraces the idea that a company's fulfillment challenge is a distributed, multi-enterprise problem. It enables users to manage the process and the trading partners in a uniform way and deliver a consistent user experience while operating over a heterogeneous, virtual enterprise. This is a fundamental shift at the core of managing supply chains. It forces virtual enterprises to think architecturally about how best to construct their supply chain systems.  Case in point, almost everyone has ordered from Amazon.com at one time or another. Our orders are as likely to be fulfilled by third parties as they are by Amazon itself. To deliver the order promptly and efficiently, Amazon has to send it to the right fulfillment location and know the availability in that location. It needs to be able to track status of the fulfillment and deal with exceptions. As a virtual enterprise, Amazon's operations, using thousands of trading partners, requires a very different approach to fulfillment than the traditional 'take an order and ship it from your own warehouse' model. Amazon had no choice but to develop a complex, expensive and custom solution to tackle this problem as there used to be no product solution available. Now, other companies who want to follow similar models have a better off-the-shelf choice -- Oracle Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO).  Consider how another of our customers is using our distributed orchestration solution. This major airplane manufacturer has a highly complex business and interacts regularly with the U.S. Government and major airlines. It sits in the middle of an intricate supply chain and needed to improve visibility across its many different entities. Oracle Fusion DOO gives the company an orchestration mechanism so it could improve quality, speed, flexibility, and consistency without requiring an organ transplant of these highly complex legacy systems. Many retailers face the challenge of dealing with brick and mortar, Web, and reseller channels. They all need to be knitted together into a virtual enterprise experience that is consistent for their customers. When a large U.K. grocer with a strong brick and mortar retail operation added an online business, they turned to Oracle Fusion DOO to bring these entities together. Disturbing the Peace with Acquisitions Quite often a company's ERP system is disrupted when it acquires a new company. An acquisition can inject a new set of processes and systems -- or even introduce an entirely new business like Sun's hardware did at Oracle. This challenge has been a driver for some of our DOO customers. A large power management company is using Oracle Fusion DOO to provide the flexibility to rapidly integrate additional products and services into its central fulfillment operation. The Flip Side of Fulfillment Meanwhile, we haven't ignored similar challenges on the supply side of the equation. Specifically, how to manage complex supply in a flexible way when there are multiple trading parties involved? How to manage the supply to suppliers? How to manage critical components that need to merge in a tier two or tier three supply chain? By investing in supply orchestration solutions for the virtual enterprise, we plan to give users better visibility into their network of suppliers to help them drive down costs. We also think this technology and full orchestration process can be applied to the financial side of organizations. An example is transactions that flow through complex internal structures to minimize tax exposure. We can help companies manage those transactions effectively by thinking about the internal organization as a virtual enterprise and bringing the same solution set to this internal challenge.  The Clear Front Runner No other company is investing in solving the virtual enterprise supply chain issues like Oracle is. Oracle is in a unique position to become the gold standard in this market space. We have the infrastructure of Oracle technology. We already have an Oracle Fusion DOO application which embraces the best of what's required in this area. And we're absolutely committed to extending our Fusion solution to other use cases and delivering even more business value.

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• Real tortoises keep it slow and steady. How about the backups?

  - by Maria Zakourdaev

    … Four tortoises were playing in the backyard when they decided they needed hibiscus flower snacks. They pooled their money and sent the smallest tortoise out to fetch the snacks. Two days passed and there was no sign of the tortoise. "You know, she is taking a lot of time", said one of the tortoises. A little voice from just out side the fence said, "If you are going to talk that way about me I won't go." Is it too much to request from the quite expensive 3rd party backup tool to be a way faster than the SQL server native backup? Or at least save a respectable amount of storage by producing a really smaller backup files?  By saying “really smaller”, I mean at least getting a file in half size. After Googling the internet in an attempt to understand what other “sql people” are using for database backups, I see that most people are using one of three tools which are the main players in SQL backup area:  LiteSpeed by Quest SQL Backup by Red Gate SQL Safe by Idera The feedbacks about those tools are truly emotional and happy. However, while reading the forums and blogs I have wondered, is it possible that many are accustomed to using the above tools since SQL 2000 and 2005.  This can easily be understood due to the fact that a 300GB database backup for instance, using regular a SQL 2005 backup statement would have run for about 3 hours and have produced ~150GB file (depending on the content, of course).  Then you take a 3rd party tool which performs the same backup in 30 minutes resulting in a 30GB file leaving you speechless, you run to management persuading them to buy it due to the fact that it is definitely worth the price. In addition to the increased speed and disk space savings you would also get backup file encryption and virtual restore -  features that are still missing from the SQL server. But in case you, as well as me, don’t need these additional features and only want a tool that performs a full backup MUCH faster AND produces a far smaller backup file (like the gain you observed back in SQL 2005 days) you will be quite disappointed. SQL Server backup compression feature has totally changed the market picture. Medium size database. Take a look at the table below, check out how my SQL server 2008 R2 compares to other tools when backing up a 300GB database. It appears that when talking about the backup speed, SQL 2008 R2 compresses and performs backup in similar overall times as all three other tools. 3rd party tools maximum compression level takes twice longer. Backup file gain is not that impressive, except the highest compression levels but the price that you pay is very high cpu load and much longer time. Only SQL Safe by Idera was quite fast with it’s maximum compression level but most of the run time have used 95% cpu on the server. Note that I have used two types of destination storage, SATA 11 disks and FC 53 disks and, obviously, on faster storage have got my backup ready in half time. Looking at the above results, should we spend money, bother with another layer of complexity and software middle-man for the medium sized databases? I’m definitely not going to do so.  Very large database As a next phase of this benchmark, I have moved to a 6 terabyte database which was actually my main backup target. Note, how multiple files usage enables the SQL Server backup operation to use parallel I/O and remarkably increases it’s speed, especially when the backup device is heavily striped. SQL Server supports a maximum of 64 backup devices for a single backup operation but the most speed is gained when using one file per CPU, in the case above 8 files for a 2 Quad CPU server. The impact of additional files is minimal.  However, SQLsafe doesn’t show any speed improvement between 4 files and 8 files. Of course, with such huge databases every half percent of the compression transforms into the noticeable numbers. Saving almost 470GB of space may turn the backup tool into quite valuable purchase. Still, the backup speed and high CPU are the variables that should be taken into the consideration. As for us, the backup speed is more critical than the storage and we cannot allow a production server to sustain 95% cpu for such a long time. Bottomline, 3rd party backup tool developers, we are waiting for some breakthrough release. There are a few unanswered questions, like the restore speed comparison between different tools and the impact of multiple backup files on restore operation. Stay tuned for the next benchmarks.    Benchmark server: SQL Server 2008 R2 sp1 2 Quad CPU Database location: NetApp FC 15K Aggregate 53 discs Backup statements: No matter how good that UI is, we need to run the backup tasks from inside of SQL Server Agent to make sure they are covered by our monitoring systems. I have used extended stored procedures (command line execution also is an option, I haven’t noticed any impact on the backup performance). SQL backup LiteSpeed SQL Backup SQL safe backup database <DBNAME> to disk= '\\<networkpath>\par1.bak' , disk= '\\<networkpath>\par2.bak', disk= '\\<networkpath>\par3.bak' with format, compression EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_backup_database @database = N'<DBName>', @backupname= N'<DBName> full backup', @desc = N'Test', @compressionlevel=8, @filename= N'\\<networkpath>\par1.bak', @filename= N'\\<networkpath>\par2.bak', @filename= N'\\<networkpath>\par3.bak', @init = 1 EXECUTE master.dbo.sqlbackup '-SQL "BACKUP DATABASE <DBNAME> TO DISK= ''\\<networkpath>\par1.sqb'', DISK= ''\\<networkpath>\par2.sqb'', DISK= ''\\<networkpath>\par3.sqb'' WITH DISKRETRYINTERVAL = 30, DISKRETRYCOUNT = 10, COMPRESSION = 4, INIT"' EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_ss_backup @database = 'UCMSDB', @filename = '\\<networkpath>\par1.bak', @backuptype = 'Full', @compressionlevel = 4, @backupfile = '\\<networkpath>\par2.bak', @backupfile = '\\<networkpath>\par3.bak' If you still insist on using 3rd party tools for the backups in your production environment with maximum compression level, you will definitely need to consider limiting cpu usage which will increase the backup operation time even more: RedGate : use THREADPRIORITY option ( values 0 – 6 ) LiteSpeed : use  @throttle ( percentage, like 70%) SQL safe :  the only thing I have found was @Threads option.   Yours, Maria

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• Why Is Vertical Resolution Monitor Resolution so Often a Multiple of 360?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Stare at a list of monitor resolutions long enough and you might notice a pattern: many of the vertical resolutions, especially those of gaming or multimedia displays, are multiples of 360 (720, 1080, 1440, etc.) But why exactly is this the case? Is it arbitrary or is there something more at work? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Trojandestroy recently noticed something about his display interface and needs answers: YouTube recently added 1440p functionality, and for the first time I realized that all (most?) vertical resolutions are multiples of 360. Is this just because the smallest common resolution is 480×360, and it’s convenient to use multiples? (Not doubting that multiples are convenient.) And/or was that the first viewable/conveniently sized resolution, so hardware (TVs, monitors, etc) grew with 360 in mind? Taking it further, why not have a square resolution? Or something else unusual? (Assuming it’s usual enough that it’s viewable). Is it merely a pleasing-the-eye situation? So why have the display be a multiple of 360? The Answer SuperUser contributor User26129 offers us not just an answer as to why the numerical pattern exists but a history of screen design in the process: Alright, there are a couple of questions and a lot of factors here. Resolutions are a really interesting field of psychooptics meeting marketing. First of all, why are the vertical resolutions on youtube multiples of 360. This is of course just arbitrary, there is no real reason this is the case. The reason is that resolution here is not the limiting factor for Youtube videos – bandwidth is. Youtube has to re-encode every video that is uploaded a couple of times, and tries to use as little re-encoding formats/bitrates/resolutions as possible to cover all the different use cases. For low-res mobile devices they have 360×240, for higher res mobile there’s 480p, and for the computer crowd there is 360p for 2xISDN/multiuser landlines, 720p for DSL and 1080p for higher speed internet. For a while there were some other codecs than h.264, but these are slowly being phased out with h.264 having essentially ‘won’ the format war and all computers being outfitted with hardware codecs for this. Now, there is some interesting psychooptics going on as well. As I said: resolution isn’t everything. 720p with really strong compression can and will look worse than 240p at a very high bitrate. But on the other side of the spectrum: throwing more bits at a certain resolution doesn’t magically make it better beyond some point. There is an optimum here, which of course depends on both resolution and codec. In general: the optimal bitrate is actually proportional to the resolution. So the next question is: what kind of resolution steps make sense? Apparently, people need about a 2x increase in resolution to really see (and prefer) a marked difference. Anything less than that and many people will simply not bother with the higher bitrates, they’d rather use their bandwidth for other stuff. This has been researched quite a long time ago and is the big reason why we went from 720×576 (415kpix) to 1280×720 (922kpix), and then again from 1280×720 to 1920×1080 (2MP). Stuff in between is not a viable optimization target. And again, 1440P is about 3.7MP, another ~2x increase over HD. You will see a difference there. 4K is the next step after that. Next up is that magical number of 360 vertical pixels. Actually, the magic number is 120 or 128. All resolutions are some kind of multiple of 120 pixels nowadays, back in the day they used to be multiples of 128. This is something that just grew out of LCD panel industry. LCD panels use what are called line drivers, little chips that sit on the sides of your LCD screen that control how bright each subpixel is. Because historically, for reasons I don’t really know for sure, probably memory constraints, these multiple-of-128 or multiple-of-120 resolutions already existed, the industry standard line drivers became drivers with 360 line outputs (1 per subpixel). If you would tear down your 1920×1080 screen, I would be putting money on there being 16 line drivers on the top/bottom and 9 on one of the sides. Oh hey, that’s 16:9. Guess how obvious that resolution choice was back when 16:9 was ‘invented’. Then there’s the issue of aspect ratio. This is really a completely different field of psychology, but it boils down to: historically, people have believed and measured that we have a sort of wide-screen view of the world. Naturally, people believed that the most natural representation of data on a screen would be in a wide-screen view, and this is where the great anamorphic revolution of the ’60s came from when films were shot in ever wider aspect ratios. Since then, this kind of knowledge has been refined and mostly debunked. Yes, we do have a wide-angle view, but the area where we can actually see sharply – the center of our vision – is fairly round. Slightly elliptical and squashed, but not really more than about 4:3 or 3:2. So for detailed viewing, for instance for reading text on a screen, you can utilize most of your detail vision by employing an almost-square screen, a bit like the screens up to the mid-2000s. However, again this is not how marketing took it. Computers in ye olden days were used mostly for productivity and detailed work, but as they commoditized and as the computer as media consumption device evolved, people didn’t necessarily use their computer for work most of the time. They used it to watch media content: movies, television series and photos. And for that kind of viewing, you get the most ‘immersion factor’ if the screen fills as much of your vision (including your peripheral vision) as possible. Which means widescreen. But there’s more marketing still. When detail work was still an important factor, people cared about resolution. As many pixels as possible on the screen. SGI was selling almost-4K CRTs! The most optimal way to get the maximum amount of pixels out of a glass substrate is to cut it as square as possible. 1:1 or 4:3 screens have the most pixels per diagonal inch. But with displays becoming more consumery, inch-size became more important, not amount of pixels. And this is a completely different optimization target. To get the most diagonal inches out of a substrate, you want to make the screen as wide as possible. First we got 16:10, then 16:9 and there have been moderately successful panel manufacturers making 22:9 and 2:1 screens (like Philips). Even though pixel density and absolute resolution went down for a couple of years, inch-sizes went up and that’s what sold. Why buy a 19″ 1280×1024 when you can buy a 21″ 1366×768? Eh… I think that about covers all the major aspects here. There’s more of course; bandwidth limits of HDMI, DVI, DP and of course VGA played a role, and if you go back to the pre-2000s, graphics memory, in-computer bandwdith and simply the limits of commercially available RAMDACs played an important role. But for today’s considerations, this is about all you need to know. Have something to add to the explanation? Sound off in the the comments. Want to read more answers from other tech-savvy Stack Exchange users? Check out the full discussion thread here.     

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• How To: Using SimpleMembserhipProvider with MySql Connector/Net.

  - by Francisco Tirado

  Now on Connector/Net 6.9 the users will have the ability to use SimpleMembership Provider on MVC4 templates. The configuration is very simple and also have compatibility with OAuth, in this post we'll explain step by step how to configure it in a MVC 4 Web Application. Requirements  The requirements to use SimpleMembership with Connector/Net are: Install Connector/Net 6.9, or download the No Install version. Net Framework 4.0 or greater. MVC 4  Visual Studio 2012 or newer version Creating and configuring a new project In this example we'll use VS2012 to create the project basis on the Internet Aplication template and using Entity Framework to manage the User model. Open VS 2012 and create a new project, we'll create a new MVC 4 Web Application and configure the project to use Net Framework 4.5. Type a name for the project and then click “Ok”. In the next dialog we'll choose the “Internet Application” template and use Razor as engine without creating a test project. Click “Ok” to continue. Now we have a new project with the templates necessaries to run a Web Application with the default values. We'll use the current files to continue working. If you have installed Connector/Net you can skip this step, if you don't have installed but you're planning to do it, please install it and continue with the next step. If you're using the No Install version of Connector/Net we'll need to add the references to our project, the assemblies needed are: MySql.Data, MySql.Data.Entities and MySql.Web. Be sure that the assemblies chosen match the Net Framework version used in our project and the MySql.Data.Entities is compatible with EF5 (EF5 is the default added by the project). Now open the “web.config” file, and under the <connectionStrings> node add a connection string that points to a MySql instance. We'll use the following connection configuration: <add name="MyConnection" connectionString="server=localhost;UserId=root;password=pass;database=MySqlSimpleMembership;" providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/> Under the node <system.web> we'll add the following configuration: <membership defaultProvider="MySqlSimpleMembershipProvider"><providers><clear/><add name="MySqlSimpleMembershipProvider" type="MySql.Web.Security.MySqlSimpleMembershipProvider,MySql.Web,Version=6.9.3.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d" applicationName="MySqlSimpleMembershipTest" description="MySQLdefaultapplication" connectionStringName="MyConnection"  userTableName="UserProfile" userIdColumn="UserId" userNameColumn="UserName" autoGenerateTables="True"/></providers></membership> In the previous configuration the mandatory properties are: connectionStringName, userTableName, userIdColumn, userNameColumn and autoGenerateTables. If the other properties are not provided a default value is set to it but if the mandatory properties are not set a ProviderException will be thrown. The valid properties for the MySqlSimpleMembership are the same used for MySqlMembership plus the mandatory fields. UserTableName: Name of the table where will be stored the user, this table is independent from the schema generated by the provider and can be edited later by the user. UserId: name of the column that will store the id for the records in the userTableName. UserName : name of the column that will store the name/user for the records in the userTableName. The connectionStringName property must match a connection string defined in web.config file. Once the configuration is done in web.config, we need to be sure that our database context for the Users Table point to the right connection string. In our case we just need to update the class UsersContext in the file AcountModel.cs in the Models folder. The file also contains the UserProfile class which match the configuration for our UserTable. Other class that needs to be updated is the SimpleMembershipInitializer in the file InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs in the Filters folder. In that class we'll see a call to the method “WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection”, in that call is where we need to update the parameters to match our configuration. If the database that you configure in your connection string doesn't exists, you need to create it empty. Now we're ready to run our web application, press F5 or the Run button in the tool bar. You'll see the following screen: If you go to your database used by the application you'll see some tables created, now we are using SimpleMembership. Now create a user, click on “Register” at the top-right in the web page. Type your user name and password, then click on “Register”. You'll be redirected to the home page and you'll see the name of your user at the top-right page. If you take a look on the tables just created in your database you will find the data about the user you just register. In our case the tables that contains the information are UserProfile and Webpages_Membership.  Configuring OAuth Other option to access your website will be using OAuth, so you can validate an user using an external account like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. In this post we'll enable the authentication for Google account in our application. Go to the class AuthConfig.cs in the folder App_Start. In the method “RegisterAuth” uncomment the last line where is the call to the method “OauthWebSecurity.RegisterGoogleClient”. Run the application. Once the application is running click on “Login”. You will see at the right side the option to login using a Google account, click on “Google”.  You will be asked for Google credentials. If your login is successful you'll see a message asking for your approval to give permission to your site to access your information. Click on “Accept”. Now a page to register your user will be shown, click on “Register”. Now your new user is logged in in your application. You can take a look of the user information created in the tables  UserProfile and Webpages_OauthMembership. If you want to use another external option to authenticate users you must enable the client in the same class where we enable the Google authentication, but for others providers is mandatory to register your Application in their site. Once you have register your application they will give you a token/key and the id for your application, that information you're going to use it to register the client. Thanks for reading.

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• Passing a parameter so that it cannot be changed – C#

  - by nmarun

  I read this requirement of not allowing a user to change the value of a property passed as a parameter to a method. In C++, as far as I could recall (it’s been over 10 yrs, so I had to refresh memory), you can pass ‘const’ to a function parameter and this ensures that the parameter cannot be changed inside the scope of the function. There’s no such direct way of doing this in C#, but that does not mean it cannot be done!! Ok, so this ‘not-so-direct’ technique depends on the type of the parameter – a simple property or a collection. Parameter as a simple property: This is quite easy (and you might have guessed it already). Bulent Ozkir clearly explains how this can be done here. Parameter as a collection property: Obviously the above does not work if the parameter is a collection of some type. Let’s dig-in. Suppose I need to create a collection of type KeyTitle as defined below. 1: public class KeyTitle 2: { 3: public int Key { get; set; } 4: public string Title { get; set; } 5: } My class is declared as below: 1: public class Class1 2: { 3: public Class1() 4: { 5: MyKeyTitleList = new List<KeyTitle>(); 6: } 7: 8: public List<KeyTitle> MyKeyTitleList { get; set; } 9: public ReadOnlyCollection<KeyTitle> ReadonlyKeyTitleCollection 10: { 11: // .AsReadOnly creates a ReadOnlyCollection<> type 12: get { return MyKeyTitleList.AsReadOnly(); } 13: } 14: } See the .AsReadOnly() method used in the second property? As MSDN says it: “Returns a read-only IList<T> wrapper for the current collection.” Knowing this, I can implement my code as: 1: public static void Main() 2: { 3: Class1 class1 = new Class1(); 4: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 1, Title = "abc" }); 5: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 2, Title = "def" }); 6: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 3, Title = "ghi" }); 7: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 4, Title = "jkl" }); 8:  9: TryToModifyCollection(class1.MyKeyTitleList.AsReadOnly()); 10:  11: Console.ReadLine(); 12: } 13:  14: private static void TryToModifyCollection(ReadOnlyCollection<KeyTitle> readOnlyCollection) 15: { 16: // can only read 17: for (int i = 0; i < readOnlyCollection.Count; i++) 18: { 19: Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", readOnlyCollection[i].Key, readOnlyCollection[i].Title); 20: } 21: // Add() - not allowed 22: // even the indexer does not have a setter 23: } The output is as expected: The below image shows two things. In the first line, I’ve tried to access an element in my read-only collection through an indexer. It shows that the ReadOnlyCollection<> does not have a setter on the indexer. The second line tells that there’s no ‘Add()’ method for this type of collection. The capture below shows there’s no ‘Remove()’ method either, there-by eliminating all ways of modifying a collection. Mission accomplished… right? Now, even if you have a collection of different type, all you need to do is to somehow cast (used loosely) it to a List<> and then do a .AsReadOnly() to get a ReadOnlyCollection of your custom collection type. As an example, if you have an IDictionary<int, string>, you can create a List<T> of this type with a wrapper class (KeyTitle in our case). 1: public IDictionary<int, string> MyDictionary { get; set; } 2:  3: public ReadOnlyCollection<KeyTitle> ReadonlyDictionary 4: { 5: get 6: { 7: return (from item in MyDictionary 8: select new KeyTitle 9: { 10: Key = item.Key, 11: Title = item.Value, 12: }).ToList().AsReadOnly(); 13: } 14: } Cool huh? Just one thing you need to know about the .AsReadOnly() method is that the only way to modify your ReadOnlyCollection<> is to modify the original collection. So doing: 1: public static void Main() 2: { 3: Class1 class1 = new Class1(); 4: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 1, Title = "abc" }); 5: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 2, Title = "def" }); 6: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 3, Title = "ghi" }); 7: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 4, Title = "jkl" }); 8: TryToModifyCollection(class1.MyKeyTitleList.AsReadOnly()); 9:  10: Console.WriteLine(); 11:  12: class1.MyKeyTitleList.Add(new KeyTitle { Key = 5, Title = "mno" }); 13: class1.MyKeyTitleList[2] = new KeyTitle{Key = 3, Title = "GHI"}; 14: TryToModifyCollection(class1.MyKeyTitleList.AsReadOnly()); 15:  16: Console.ReadLine(); 17: } Gives me the output of: See that the second element’s Title is changed to upper-case and the fifth element also gets displayed even though we’re still looping through the same ReadOnlyCollection<KeyTitle>. Verdict: Now you know of a way to implement ‘Method(const param1)’ in your code!

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• “It’s only test code…”

  - by Chris George

  “Let me hack this in, it’s only test code”, “Don’t worry about getting it reviewed, it’s only test code”, “It doesn’t have to be elegant or efficient, it’s only test code”… do these phrases sound familiar? Chances are if you’ve working with test automation, at one point or other you will have heard these phrases, you have probably even used them yourself! What is certain is that code written under this “it’s only test code” mantra will come back and bite you in the arse! I’ve recently encountered a case where a test was giving a false positive, therefore hiding a real product bug because that test code was very badly written. Firstly it was very difficult to understand what the test was actually trying to achieve let alone how it was doing it, and this complexity masked a simple logic error. These issues are real and they do happen. Let’s take a step back from this and look at what we are trying to do. We are writing test code that tests product code, and we do this to create a suite of tests that will help protect our software against regressions. This test code is making sure that the product behaves as it should by employing some sort of expected result verification. The simple cases of these are generally not a problem. However, automation allows us to explore more complex scenarios in many more permutations. As this complexity increases then so does the complexity of the test code. It is at this point that code which has not been architected properly will cause problems.   Keep your friends close… So, how do we make sure we are doing it right? The development teams I have worked on have always had Test Engineers working very closely with their Software Engineers. This is something that I have always tried to take full advantage of. They are coding experts! So run your ideas past them, ask for advice on how to structure your code, help you design your data structures. This may require a shift in your teams viewpoint, as contrary to this section title and folklore, Software Engineers are not actually the mortal enemy of Test Engineers. As time progresses, and test automation becomes more and more ingrained in what we do, the two roles are converging more than ever. Over the 16 years I have spent as a Test Engineer, I have seen the grey area between the two roles grow significantly larger. This serves to strengthen the relationship and common bond between the two roles which helps to make test code activities so much easier!   Pair for the win Possibly the best thing you could do to write good test code is to pair program on the task. This will serve a few purposes. you will get the benefit of the Software Engineers knowledge and experience the Software Engineer will gain knowledge on the testing process. Sharing the love is a wonderful thing! two pairs of eyes are always better than one… And so are two brains. Between the two of you, I will guarantee you will derive more useful test cases than if it was just one of you.   Code reviews Another policy which certainly pays dividends is the practice of code reviews. By having one of your peers review your code before you commit it serves two purposes. Firstly, it forces you to explain your code. Just the act of doing this will often pick up errors in your code. Secondly, it gets yet another pair of eyes on your code! I cannot stress enough how important code reviews are. The benefits they offer apply as much to product code as test code. In short, Software and Test Engineers should all be doing them! It can be extended even further by getting test code reviewed by a Software Engineer and a Test Engineer, and likewise product code. This serves to keep both functions in the loop with changes going on within your code base.   Learn from your devs I briefly touched on this earlier but I’d like to go into more detail here. Pairing with your Software Engineers when writing your test code is such an amazing opportunity to improve your coding skills. As I sit here writing this article waiting to be called into court for jury service, it reminds me that it takes a lot of patience to be a Test Engineer, almost as much as it takes to be a juror! However tempting it is to go rushing in and start writing your automated tests, resist that urge. Discuss what you want to achieve then talk through the approach you’re going to take. Then code it up together. I find it really enlightening to ask questions like ‘is there a better way to do this?’ Or ‘is this how you would code it?’ The latter question, especially, is where I learn the most. I’ve found that most Software Engineers will be reluctant to show you the ‘right way’ to code something when writing tests because they perceive the ‘right way’ to be too complicated for the Test Engineer (e.g. not mentioning LINQ and instead doing something verbose). So by asking how THEY would code it, it unleashes their true dev-ness and advanced code usually ensues! I would like to point out, however, that you don’t have to accept their method as the final answer. On numerous occasions I have opted for the more simple/verbose solution because I found the code written by the Software Engineer too advanced and therefore I would find it unreadable when I return to the code in a months’ time! Always keep the target audience in mind when writing clever code, and in my case that is mostly Test Engineers.  

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• REST to Objects in C#

  RESTful interfaces for web services are all the rage for many Web 2.0 sites.  If you want to consume these in a very simple fashion, LINQ to XML can do the job pretty easily in C#.  If you go searching for help on this, youll find a lot of incomplete solutions and fairly large toolkits and frameworks (guess how I know this) this quick article is meant to be a no fluff just stuff approach to making this work. POCO Objects Lets assume you have a Model that you want to suck data into from a RESTful web service.  Ideally this is a Plain Old CLR Object, meaning it isnt infected with any persistence or serialization goop.  It might look something like this: public class Entry { public int Id; public int UserId; public DateTime Date; public float Hours; public string Notes; public bool Billable;   public override string ToString() { return String.Format("[{0}] User: {1} Date: {2} Hours: {3} Notes: {4} Billable {5}", Id, UserId, Date, Hours, Notes, Billable); } } Not that this isnt a completely trivial object.  Lets look at the API for the service.  RESTful HTTP Service In this case, its TickSpots API, with the following sample output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entries type="array"> <entry> <id type="integer">24</id> <task_id type="integer">14</task_id> <user_id type="integer">3</user_id> <date type="date">2008-03-08</date> <hours type="float">1.00</hours> <notes>Had trouble with tribbles.</notes> <billable>true</billable> # Billable is an attribute inherited from the task <billed>true</billed> # Billed is an attribute to track whether the entry has been invoiced <created_at type="datetime">Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:16 -0400</created_at> <updated_at type="datetime">Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:16 -0400</updated_at> # The following attributes are derived and provided for informational purposes: <user_email>[email protected]</user_email> <task_name>Remove converter assembly</task_name> <sum_hours type="float">2.00</sum_hours> <budget type="float">10.00</budget> <project_name>Realign dilithium crystals</project_name> <client_name>Starfleet Command</client_name> </entry> </entries> Im assuming in this case that I dont necessarily care about all of the data fields the service is returning I just need some of them for my applications purposes.  Thus, you can see there are more elements in the <entry> XML than I have in my Entry class. Get The XML with C# The next step is to get the XML.  The following snippet does the heavy lifting once you pass it the appropriate URL: protected XElement GetResponse(string uri) { var request = WebRequest.Create(uri) as HttpWebRequest; request.UserAgent = ".NET Sample"; request.KeepAlive = false;   request.Timeout = 15 * 1000;   var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;   if (request.HaveResponse == true && response != null) { var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); return XElement.Parse(reader.ReadToEnd()); } throw new Exception("Error fetching data."); } This is adapted from the Yahoo Developer article on Web Service REST calls.  Once you have the XML, the last step is to get the data back as your POCO. Use LINQ-To-XML to Deserialize POCOs from XML This is done via the following code: public IEnumerable<Entry> List(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate) { string additionalParameters = String.Format("start_date={0}&end_date={1}", startDate.ToShortDateString(), endDate.ToShortDateString()); string uri = BuildUrl("entries", additionalParameters);   XElement elements = GetResponse(uri);   var entries = from e in elements.Elements() where e.Name.LocalName == "entry" select new Entry { Id = int.Parse(e.Element("id").Value), UserId = int.Parse(e.Element("user_id").Value), Date = DateTime.Parse(e.Element("date").Value), Hours = float.Parse(e.Element("hours").Value), Notes = e.Element("notes").Value, Billable = bool.Parse(e.Element("billable").Value) }; return entries; }   For completeness, heres the BuildUrl method for my TickSpot API wrapper: // Change these to your settings protected const string projectDomain = "DOMAIN.tickspot.com"; private const string authParams = "[email protected]&password=MyTickSpotPassword";   protected string BuildUrl(string apiMethod, string additionalParams) { if (projectDomain.Contains("DOMAIN")) { throw new ApplicationException("You must update your domain in ProjectRepository.cs."); } if (authParams.Contains("MyTickSpotPassword")) { throw new ApplicationException("You must update your email and password in ProjectRepository.cs."); } return string.Format("https://{0}/api/{1}?{2}&{3}", projectDomain, apiMethod, authParams, additionalParams); } Thats it!  Now go forth and consume XML and map it to classes you actually want to work with.  Have fun! Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch

  - by ChrisD

  Visual Studio LightSwitch has a bunch of screen templates that you can use to quickly generate screens. They give you good starting points that you can customize further. When you add a new screen to your project you see a set of screen templates that you can choose from. These templates lay out all the related data you choose to put on a screen automatically for you. And don’t under estimate them; they do a great job of laying out controls in a smart way. For instance, a tab control will be used when you select more than one related set of data to display on a screen. However, you’re not limited to taking the layout as is. In fact, the screen designer is pretty flexible and allows you to create stacks of controls in a variety of configurations. You just need to visualize your screen as a series of containers that you can lay out in rows and columns. You then place controls or stacks of controls into these areas to align the screen exactly how you want. If you’re new in Visual Studio LightSwitch, you can see this tutorial. OK, Let’s start with a simple example. I have already designed my data entities for a simple order tracking system similar to the Northwind database. I also have added a Search Data  Screen to search my Products already. Now I will add a new Details Screen for my Products and make it the default screen via the “Add New Screen” dialog: The screen designer picks a simple layout for me based on the single entity I chose, in this case Product. Hit F5 to run the application, select a Product on the search screen to open the Product Details Screen. Notice that it’s pretty simple because my entity is simple. Click the “Customize” button in the top right of the screen so we can start tweaking it. The left side of the screen shows the containership of controls and data bindings (called the content tree) and the right side shows the live preview with data. Notice that we have a simple layout of two rows but only one row is populated (with a vertical stack of controls in this case). The bottom row is empty. You can envision the screen like this: Each container will display a group of data that you select. For instance in the above screen, the top row is set to a vertical stack control and the group of data to display is coming from Product. So when laying out screens you need to think in terms of containers of controls bound to groups of data. To change the data to which a container is bound, select the data item next to the container: You can select the “New Group” item in order to create more containers (or controls) within the current container. For instance to totally control the layout, select the Product in the top row and hit the delete key. This will delete the vertical stack and therefore all the controls on the screen. The content tree will still have two rows, but the rows are now both empty. If you want a layout of four containers (two rows and two columns) then select “New Group” for the data item and then change the vertical stack control to “Two Columns” for both of the rows as shown here: You can keep going on and on by selecting new groups and choosing between rows or columns. Here’s a layout with 8 containers, 4 rows and 2 columns: And here is a layout with 7 content areas; one row across the top of the screen and three rows with two columns below that: When you select Choose Content and select a data item like Product it will populate all the controls within the container (row or column in a vertical stack) however you have complete control on what to display within each group. You can delete fields you don’t want to display and/or change their controls. You can also change the size of controls and how they display by changing the settings in the properties window. If you are in the Screen Designer (and not the customization mode like we are here) you can also drag-drop data items from the left-hand side of the screen to the content tree. Note, however, that not all areas of the tree will allow you to drop a data item if there is a binding already set to a different set of data. For instance you can’t drop a Customer ID into the same group as a Product if they originate from different entities. To get around this, all you need to do is create a new group and content area as shown above. Let’s take a more complex example that deals with more than just product. I want to design a complex screen that displays Products and their Category, as well as all the OrderDetails for which that product is selected. This time I will create a new screen and select List and Details, select the Products screen data, and include the related OrderDetails. However I’m going to totally change the layout so that a Product grid is at the top left and below that is the selected Product detail. Below that will be the Category text fields and image in two columns below. On the right side I want the OrderDetails grid to take up the whole right side of the screen. All this can be done in customization mode while you’re debugging the application. To do this, I first deleted all the content items in the tree and then re-created the content tree as shown in the image below. I also set the image to be larger and the description textbox to be 5 rows using the property window below the live preview. I added the green lines to indicate the containers and show how it maps to the content tree (click to enlarge): I hope this demystifies the screen designer a little bit. Remember that screen templates are excellent starting points – you can take them as-is or customize them further. It takes a little fooling around with customizing screens to get them to do exactly what you want but there are a ton of possibilities once you get the hang of it. Stay tuned for more information on how to create your own screen templates that show up in the “Add New Screen” dialog. Enjoy! The tutorial that might be interested: Adding Custom Control In LightSwitch

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• Introduction to Human Workflow 11g

  - by agiovannetti

  Human Workflow is a component of SOA Suite just like BPEL, Mediator, Business Rules, etc. The Human Workflow component allows you to incorporate human intervention in a business process. You can use Human Workflow to create a business process that requires a manager to approve purchase orders greater than $10,000; or a business process that handles article reviews in which a group of reviewers need to vote/approve an article before it gets published. Human Workflow can handle the task assignment and routing as well as the generation of notifications to the participants. There are three common patterns or usages of Human Workflow: 1) Approval Scenarios: manage documents and other transactional data through approval chains . For example: approve expense report, vacation approval, hiring approval, etc. 2) Reviews by multiple users or groups: group collaboration and review of documents or proposals. For example, processing a sales quote which is subject to review by multiple people. 3) Case Management: workflows around work management or case management. For example, processing a service request. This could be routed to various people who all need to modify the task. It may also incorporate ad hoc routing which is unknown at design time. SOA 11g Human Workflow includes the following features: Assignment and routing of tasks to the correct users or groups. Deadlines, escalations, notifications, and other features required for ensuring the timely performance of a task. Presentation of tasks to end users through a variety of mechanisms, including a Worklist application. Organization, filtering, prioritization and other features required for end users to productively perform their tasks. Reports, reassignments, load balancing and other features required by supervisors and business owners to manage the performance of tasks. Human Workflow Architecture The Human Workflow component is divided into 3 modules: the service interface, the task definition and the client interface module. The Service Interface handles the interaction with BPEL and other components. The Client Interface handles the presentation of task data through clients like the Worklist application, portals and notification channels. The task definition module is in charge of managing the lifecycle of a task. Who should get the task assigned? What should happen next with the task? When must the task be completed? Should the task be escalated?, etc Stages and Participants When you create a Human Task you need to specify how the task is assigned and routed. The first step is to define the stages and participants. A stage is just a logical group. A participant can be a user, a group of users or an application role. The participants indicate the type of assignment and routing that will be performed. Stages can be sequential or in parallel. You can combine them to create any usage you require. See diagram below: Assignment and Routing There are different ways a task can be assigned and routed: Single Approver: task is assigned to a single user, group or role. For example, a vacation request is assigned to a manager. If the manager approves or rejects the request, the employee is notified with the decision. If the task is assigned to a group then once one of managers acts on it, the task is completed. Parallel : task is assigned to a set of people that must work in parallel. This is commonly used for voting. For example, a task gets approved once 50% of the participants approve it. You can also set it up to be a unanimous vote. Serial : participants must work in sequence. The most common scenario for this is management chain escalation. FYI (For Your Information) : task is assigned to participants who can view it, add comments and attachments, but can not modify or complete the task. Task Actions The following is the list of actions that can be performed on a task: Claim : if a task is assigned to a group or multiple users, then the task must be claimed first to be able to act on it. Escalate : if the participant is not able to complete a task, he/she can escalate it. The task is reassigned to his/her manager (up one level in a hierarchy). Pushback : the task is sent back to the previous assignee. Reassign :if the participant is a manager, he/she can delegate a task to his/her reports. Release : if a task is assigned to a group or multiple users, it can be released if the user who claimed the task cannot complete the task. Any of the other assignees can claim and complete the task. Request Information and Submit Information : use when the participant needs to supply more information or to request more information from the task creator or any of the previous assignees. Suspend and Resume :if a task is not relevant, it can be suspended. A suspension is indefinite. It does not expire until Resume is used to resume working on the task. Withdraw : if the creator of a task does not want to continue with it, for example, he wants to cancel a vacation request, he can withdraw the task. The business process determines what happens next. Renew : if a task is about to expire, the participant can renew it. The task expiration date is extended one week. Notifications Human Workflow provides a mechanism for sending notifications to participants to alert them of changes on a task. Notifications can be sent via email, telephone voice message, instant messaging (IM) or short message service (SMS). Notifications can be sent when the task status changes to any of the following: Assigned/renewed/delegated/reassigned/escalated Completed Error Expired Request Info Resume Suspended Added/Updated comments and/or attachments Updated Outcome Withdraw Other Actions (e.g. acquiring a task) Here is an example of an email notification: Worklist Application Oracle BPM Worklist application is the default user interface included in SOA Suite. It allows users to access and act on tasks that have been assigned to them. For example, from the Worklist application, a loan agent can review loan applications or a manager can approve employee vacation requests. Through the Worklist Application users can: Perform authorized actions on tasks, acquire and check out shared tasks, define personal to-do tasks and define subtasks. Filter tasks view based on various criteria. Work with standard work queues, such as high priority tasks, tasks due soon and so on. Work queues allow users to create a custom view to group a subset of tasks in the worklist, for example, high priority tasks, tasks due in 24 hours, expense approval tasks and more. Define custom work queues. Gain proxy access to part of another user's tasks. Define custom vacation rules and delegation rules. Enable group owners to define task dispatching rules for shared tasks. Collect a complete workflow history and audit trail. Use digital signatures for tasks. Run reports like Unattended tasks, Tasks productivity, etc. Here is a screenshoot of what the Worklist Application looks like. On the right hand side you can see the tasks that have been assigned to the user and the task's detail. References Introduction to SOA Suite 11g Human Workflow Webcast Note 1452937.2 Human Workflow Information Center Using the Human Workflow Service Component 11.1.1.6 Human Workflow Samples Human Workflow APIs Java Docs

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• HTG Explains: Should You Buy Extended Warranties?

  - by Chris Hoffman

  Buy something at an electronics store and you’ll be confronted by a pushy salesperson who insists you need an extended warranty. You’ll also see extended warranties pushed hard when shopping online. But are they worth it? There’s a reason stores push extended warranties so hard. They’re almost always pure profit for the store involved. An electronics store may live on razor-thin product margins and make big profits on extended warranties and overpriced HDMI cables. You’re Already Getting Multiple Warranties First, back up. The product you’re buying already includes a warranty. In fact, you’re probably getting several different types of warranties. Store Return and Exchange: Most electronics stores allow you to return a malfunctioning product within the first 15 or 30 days and they’ll provide you with a new one. The exact period of time will vary from store to store. If you walk out of the store with a defective product and have to swap it for a new one within the first few weeks, this should be easy. Manufacturer Warranty: A device’s manufacturer — whether the device is a laptop, a television, or a graphics card — offers their own warranty period. The manufacturer warranty covers you after the store refuses to take the product back and exchange it. The length of this warranty depends on the type of product. For example, a cheap laptop may only offer a one-year manufacturer warranty, while a more expensive laptop may offer a two-year warranty. Credit Card Warranty Extension: Many credit cards offer free extended warranties on products you buy with that credit card. Credit card companies will often give you an additional year of warranty. For example, if you buy a laptop with a two year warranty and it fails in the third year, you could then contact your credit card company and they’d cover the cost of fixing or replacing it. Check your credit card’s benefits and fine print for more information. Why Extended Warranties Are Bad You’re already getting a fairly long warranty period, especially if you have a credit card that offers you a free extended warranty — these are fairly common. If the product you get is a “lemon” and has a manufacturing error, it will likely fail pretty soon — well within your warranty period. The extended warranty matters after all your other warranties are exhausted. In the case of a laptop with a two-year warranty that you purchase with a credit card giving you a one-year warranty extension, your extended warranty will kick in three years after you purchase the laptop. In that many years, your current laptop will likely feel pretty old and laptops that are as good — or better — will likely be pretty cheap. If it’s a television, better television displays will be available at a lower price point. You’ll either want to upgrade to a newer model or you’ll be able to buy a new, just-as-good product for very cheap. You’ll only have to pay out-of-pocket if your device fails after the normal warranty period — in over two or three years for typical laptops purchased with a decent credit card. Save the money you would have spent on the warranty and put it towards a future upgrade. How Much Do Extended Warranties Cost? Let’s look at an example from a typical pushy retail outlet, Best Buy. We went to Best Buy’s website and found a pretty standard $600 Samsung laptop. This laptop comes with a one-year warranty period. If purchased with a fairly common credit card, you can easily get a two-year warranty period on this laptop without spending an additional penny. (Yes, such credit cards are available with no yearly fees.) During the check-out process, Best Buy tries to sell you a Geek Squad “Accidental Protection Plan.” To get an additional year of Best Buy’s extended warranty, you’d have to pay $324.98 for a “3-Year Accidental Protection Plan”. You’d basically be paying more than half the price of your laptop for an additional year of warranty — remember, the standard warranties would cover you anyway for the first two years. If this laptop did break sometime between two and three years from now, we wouldn’t be surprised if you could purchase a comparable laptop for about $325 anyway. And, if you don’t need to replace it, you’ve saved that money. Best Buy would object that this isn’t a standard extended warranty. It’s a supercharged warranty plan that will also provide coverage if you spill something on your laptop or drop it and break it. You just have to ask yourself a question. What are the odds that you’ll drop your laptop or spill something on it? They’re probably pretty low if you’re a typical human being. Is it worth spending more than half the price of the laptop just in case you’ll make an uncommon mistake? Probably not. There may be occasional exceptions to this — some Apple users swear by Apple’s AppleCare, for example — but you should generally avoid buying these things. There’s a reason stores are so pushy about extended warranties, and it’s not because they want to help protect you. It’s because they’re making lots of profit from these plans, and they’re making so much profit because they’re not a good deal for customers. Image Credit: Philip Taylor on Flickr     

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• Restoring databases to a set drive and directory

  - by okeofs

   Restoring databases to a set drive and directory Introduction Often people say that necessity is the mother of invention. In this case I was faced with the dilemma of having to restore several databases, with multiple ‘ndf’ files, and having to restore them with different physical file names, drives and directories on servers other than the servers from which they originated. As most of us would do, I went to Google to see if I could find some code to achieve this task and found some interesting snippets on Pinal Dave’s website. Naturally, I had to take it further than the code snippet, HOWEVER it was a great place to start. Creating a temp table to hold database file details First off, I created a temp table which would hold the details of the individual data files within the database. Although there are a plethora of fields (within the temp table below), I utilize LogicalName only within this example. The temporary table structure may be seen below:   create table #tmp ( LogicalName nvarchar(128)  ,PhysicalName nvarchar(260)  ,Type char(1)  ,FileGroupName nvarchar(128)  ,Size numeric(20,0)  ,MaxSize numeric(20,0), Fileid tinyint, CreateLSN numeric(25,0), DropLSN numeric(25, 0), UniqueID uniqueidentifier, ReadOnlyLSN numeric(25,0), ReadWriteLSN numeric(25,0), BackupSizeInBytes bigint, SourceBlocSize int, FileGroupId int, LogGroupGUID uniqueidentifier, DifferentialBaseLSN numeric(25,0), DifferentialBaseGUID uniqueidentifier, IsReadOnly bit, IsPresent bit,  TDEThumbPrint varchar(50) )    We now declare and populate a variable(@path), setting the variable to the path to our SOURCE database backup. declare @path varchar(50) set @path = 'P:\DATA\MYDATABASE.bak'   From this point, we insert the file details of our database into the temp table. Note that we do so by utilizing a restore statement HOWEVER doing so in ‘filelistonly’ mode.   insert #tmp EXEC ('restore filelistonly from disk = ''' + @path + '''')   At this point, I depart from what I gleaned from Pinal Dave.   I now instantiate a few more local variables. The use of each variable will be evident within the cursor (which follows):   Declare @RestoreString as Varchar(max) Declare @NRestoreString as NVarchar(max) Declare @LogicalName  as varchar(75) Declare @counter as int Declare @rows as int set @counter = 1 select @rows = COUNT(*) from #tmp  -- Count the number of records in the temp                                    -- table   Declaring and populating the cursor At this point I do realize that many people are cringing about the use of a cursor. Being an Oracle professional as well, I have learnt that there is a time and place for cursors. I would remind the reader that the data that will be read into the cursor is from a local temp table and as such, any locking of the records (within the temp table) is not really an issue.   DECLARE MY_CURSOR Cursor  FOR  Select LogicalName  From #tmp   Parsing the logical names from within the cursor. A small caveat that works in our favour,  is that the first logical name (of our database) is the logical name of the primary data file (.mdf). Other files, except for the very last logical name, belong to secondary data files. The last logical name is that of our database log file.   I now open my cursor and populate the variable @RestoreString Open My_Cursor  set @RestoreString =  'RESTORE DATABASE [MYDATABASE] FROM DISK = N''P:\DATA\ MYDATABASE.bak''' + ' with  '   We now fetch the first record from the temp table.   Fetch NEXT FROM MY_Cursor INTO @LogicalName   While there are STILL records left within the cursor, we dynamically build our restore string. Note that we are using concatenation to create ‘one big restore executable string’.   Note also that the target physical file name is hardwired, as is the target directory.   While (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -1) BEGIN IF (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -2) -- As long as there are no rows missing select @RestoreString = case  when @counter = 1 then -- This is the mdf file    @RestoreString + 'move  N''' + @LogicalName + '''' + ' TO N’’X:\DATA1\'+ @LogicalName + '.mdf' + '''' + ', '   -- OK, if it passes through here we are dealing with an .ndf file -- Note that Counter must be greater than 1 and less than the number of rows.   when @counter > 1 and @counter < @rows then -- These are the ndf file(s)    @RestoreString + 'move  N''' + @LogicalName + '''' + ' TO N’’X:\DATA1\'+ @LogicalName + '.ndf' + '''' + ', '   -- OK, if it passes through here we are dealing with the log file When @LogicalName like '%log%' then    @RestoreString + 'move  N''' + @LogicalName + '''' + ' TO N’’X:\DATA1\'+ @LogicalName + '.ldf' +'''' end --Increment the counter   set @counter = @counter + 1 FETCH NEXT FROM MY_CURSOR INTO @LogicalName END   At this point we have populated the varchar(max) variable @RestoreString with a concatenation of all the necessary file names. What we now need to do is to run the sp_executesql stored procedure, to effect the restore.   First, we must place our ‘concatenated string’ into an nvarchar based variable. Obviously this will only work as long as the length of @RestoreString is less than varchar(max) / 2.   set @NRestoreString = @RestoreString EXEC sp_executesql @NRestoreString   Upon completion of this step, the database should be restored to the server. I now close and deallocate the cursor, and to be clean, I would also drop my temp table.   CLOSE MY_CURSOR DEALLOCATE MY_CURSOR GO   Conclusion Restoration of databases on different servers with different physical names and on different drives are a fact of life. Through the use of a few variables and a simple cursor, we may achieve an efficient and effective way to achieve this task.

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• JavaOne Session Report: “50 Tips in 50 Minutes for GlassFish Fans”

  - by Janice J. Heiss

  At JavaOne 2012 on Monday, Oracle’s Engineer Chris Kasso, and Technology Evangelist Arun Gupta, presented a head-spinning session (CON4701) in which they offered 50 tips for GlassFish fans. Kasso and Gupta alternated back and forth with each presenting 10 tips at a time. An audience of about (appropriately) 50 attentive and appreciative developers was on hand in what has to be one of the most information-packed sessions ever at JavaOne!Aside: I experienced one of the quiet joys of JavaOne when, just before the session began, I spotted Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star Adam Bien sitting nearby – Adam is someone I have been fortunate to know for many years.GlassFish is a freely available, commercially supported Java EE reference implementation. The session prioritized quantity of tips over depth of information and offered tips that are intended for both seasoned and new users, that are meant to increase the range of functional options available to GlassFish users. The focus was on lesser-known dimensions of GlassFish. Attendees were encouraged to pursue tips that contained new information for them. All 50 tips can be accessed here.Below are several examples of more elaborate tips and a final practical tip on how to get in touch with these folks. Tip #1: Using the login Command * To execute a remote command with asadmin you must provide the admin's user name and password.* The login command allows you to store the login credentials to be reused in subsequent commands.* Can be logged into multiple servers (distinguish by host and port). Example:     % asadmin --host ouch login     Enter admin user name [default: admin]>     Enter admin password>     Login information relevant to admin user name [admin]     for host [ouch] and admin port [4848] stored at     [/Users/ckasso/.asadminpass] successfully.     Make sure that this file remains protected.     Information stored in this file will be used by     asadmin commands to manage the associated domain.     Command login executed successfully.     % asadmin --host ouch list-clusters     c1 not running     Command list-clusters executed successfully.Tip #4: Using the AS_DEBUG Env Variable* Environment variable to control client side debug output* Exposes: command processing info URL used to access the command:                           http://localhost:4848/__asadmin/uptime Raw response from the server Example:   % export AS_DEBUG=true  % asadmin uptime  CLASSPATH= ./../glassfish/modules/admin-cli.jar  Commands: [uptime]  asadmin extension directory: /work/gf-3.1.2/glassfish3/glassfish/lib/asadm      ------- RAW RESPONSE  ---------   Signature-Version: 1.0   message: Up 7 mins 10 secs   milliseconds_value: 430194   keys: milliseconds   milliseconds_name: milliseconds   use-main-children-attribute: false   exit-code: SUCCESS  ------- RAW RESPONSE  ---------Tip #11: Using Password Aliases * Some resources require a password to access (e.g. DB, JMS, etc.).* The resource connector is defined in the domain.xml.Example:Suppose the DB resource you wish to access requires an entry like this in the domain.xml:     <property name="password" value="secretp@ssword"/>But company policies do not allow you to store the password in the clear.* Use password aliases to avoid storing the password in the domain.xml* Create a password alias:     % asadmin create-password-alias DB_pw_alias     Enter the alias password>     Enter the alias password again>     Command create-password-alias executed successfully.* The password is stored in domain's encrypted keystore.* Now update the password value in the domain.xml:     <property name="password" value="${ALIAS=DB_pw_alias}"/>Tip #21: How to Start GlassFish as a Service * Configuring a server to automatically start at boot can be tedious.* Each platform does it differently.* The create-service command makes this easy.   Windows: creates a Windows service Linux: /etc/init.d script Solaris: Service Management Facility (SMF) service * Must execute create-service with admin privileges.* Can be used for the DAS or instances* Try it first with the --dry-run option.* There is a (unsupported) _delete-serverExample:     # asadmin create-service domain1     The Service was created successfully. Here are the details:     Name of the service:application/GlassFish/domain1     Type of the service:Domain     Configuration location of the service:/work/gf-3.1.2.2/glassfish3/glassfish/domains     Manifest file location on the system:/var/svc/manifest/application/GlassFish/domain1_work_gf-3.1.2.2_glassfish3_glassfish_domains/Domain-service-smf.xml.     You have created the service but you need to start it yourself. Here are the most typical Solaris commands of interest:     * /usr/bin/svcs  -a | grep domain1  // status     * /usr/sbin/svcadm enable domain1 // start     * /usr/sbin/svcadm disable domain1 // stop     * /usr/sbin/svccfg delete domain1 // uninstallTip #34: Posting a Command via REST* Use wget/curl to execute commands on the DAS.Example:  Deploying an application   % curl -s -S \       -H 'Accept: application/json' -X POST \       -H 'X-Requested-By: anyvalue' \       -F id=@/path/to/application.war \       -F force=true http://localhost:4848/management/domain/applications/application* Use @ before a file name to tell curl to send the file's contents.* The force option tells GlassFish to force the deployment in case the application is already deployed.* Use wget/curl to execute commands on the DAS.Example:  Deploying an application   % curl -s -S \       -H 'Accept: application/json' -X POST \       -H 'X-Requested-By: anyvalue' \       -F id=@/path/to/application.war \       -F force=true http://localhost:4848/management/domain/applications/application* Use @ before a file name to tell curl to send the file's contents.* The force option tells GlassFish to force the deployment in case the application is already deployed.Tip #46: Upgrading to a Newer Version * Upgrade applications and configuration from an earlier version* Upgrade Tool: Side-by-side upgrade– GUI: asupgrade– CLI: asupgrade --c– What happens ?* Copies older source domain -> target domain directory* asadmin start-domain --upgrade* Update Tool and pkg: In-place upgrade– GUI: updatetool, install all Available Updates– CLI: pkg image-update– Upgrade the domain* asadmin start-domain --upgradeTip #50: How to reach us?* GlassFish Forum: http://www.java.net/forums/glassfish/glassfish* [email protected]* @glassfish* facebook.com/glassfish* youtube.com/GlassFishVideos* blogs.oracle.com/theaquariumArun Gupta acknowledged that their method of presentation was experimental and actively solicited feedback about the session. The best way to reach them is on the GlassFish user forum.In addition, check out Gupta’s new book Java EE 6 Pocket Guide.

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• Solving the context menu problem with drag and drop in trees

  - by Frank Nimphius

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} The following drag-and-drop problem has been reported on OTN: An ADF Faces tree component is configured with a af:collectionDropTarget tag to handle drop events. The same tree component also has a context menu defined that is shown when users select the tree with the right mouse button. The problem now was - and I could reproduce this - that the context menu stopped working after the first time the tree handled a drop event. The drag and drop use case is to associate employees from a table to a department in the tree using drag and drop. The drop handler code in the managed bean looked up the tree node that received the drop event to determine the department ID to assign to the employee. For this code similar to the one shown below was used List dropRowKey = (List) dropEvent.getDropSite(); //if no dropsite then drop area was not a data area if(dropRowKey == null){    return DnDAction.NONE; }                tree.setRowKey(dropRowKey); JUCtrlHierNodeBinding dropNode = (JUCtrlHierNodeBinding) tree.getRowData(); Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} So what happens in this code? The drop event contains the dropSite reference, which is the row key of the tree node that received the drop event. The code then sets the key to the tree in a call to getRowDate() returns the node information for the drop target (the department). This however causes the tree state to go out of synch with its model (ADF tree binding), which is known to cause issues. In this use case the issue caused by this is that the context menu no longer shows up. To fix the problem, the code needs to be changes to read the current row key from the key, then perform the drop operation and at the end set the origin (or model) row key back //memorize current row key Object currentRowKey = tree.getRowKey();        List dropRowKey = (List) dropEvent.getDropSite(); //if no dropsite then drop area was not a data area if(dropRowKey == null){   return DnDAction.NONE;   }              tree.setRowKey(dropRowKey); JUCtrlHierNodeBinding dropNode = (JUCtrlHierNodeBinding) tree.getRowData(); ... do your stuff here .... //set current row key back tree.setRowKey(currentRowKey); AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(tree); Node the code line that sets the row key back to its original value.

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• Finding nuggets in ARC discussions

  - by alanc

  A bit over twenty years ago, Sun formed an Architecture Review Committee (ARC) that evaluates proposals to change interfaces between components in Sun software products. During the OpenSolaris days, we opened many of these discussions to the community. While they’re back behind closed doors, and at a different company now, we still continue to hold these reviews for the software from what’s now the Sun Systems Group division of Oracle. Recently one of these reviews was held (via e-mail discussion) to review a proposal to update our GNU findutils package to the latest upstream release. One of the upstream changes discussed was the addition of an “oldfind” program. In findutils 4.3, find was modified to use the fts() function to walk the directory tree, and oldfind was created to provide the old mechanism in case there were bugs in the new implementation that users needed to workaround. In Solaris 11 though, we still ship the find descended from SVR4 as /usr/bin/find and the GNU find is available as either /usr/bin/gfind or /usr/gnu/bin/find. This raised the discussion of if we should add oldfind, and if so what should we call it. Normally our policy is to only add the g* names for GNU commands that conflict with an existing Solaris command – for instance, we ship /usr/bin/emacs, not /usr/bin/gemacs. In this case however, that seemed like it would be more confusing to have /usr/bin/oldfind be the older version of /usr/bin/gfind not of /usr/bin/find. Thus if we shipped it, it would make more sense to call it /usr/bin/goldfind, which several ARC members noted read more naturally as “gold find” than as “g old find”. One of the concerns we often discuss in ARC is if a change is likely to be understood by users or if it will result in more calls to support. As we hit this part of the discussion on a Friday at the end of a long week, I couldn’t resist putting forth a hypothetical support call for this command: “Hello, Oracle Solaris Support, how may I help you?” “My admin is out sick, but he sent an email that he put the findutils package on our server, and I can run goldfind now. I tried it, but goldfind didn’t find gold.” “Did he get the binutils package too?” “No he just said findutils, do we need binutils?” “Well, gold comes in the binutils package, so goldfind would be able to find gold if you got that package.” “How much does Oracle charge for that package?” “It’s free for Solaris users.” “You mean Oracle ships packages of gold to customers for free?” “Yes, if you get the binutils package, it includes GNU gold.” “New gold? Is that some sort of alchemy, turning stuff into gold?” “Not new gold, gold from the GNU project.” “Oracle’s taking gold from the GNU project and shipping it to me?” “Yes, if you get binutils, that package includes gold along with the other tools from the GNU project.” “And GNU doesn’t mind Oracle taking their gold and giving it to customers?” “No, GNU is a non-profit whose goal is to share their software.” “Sharing software sure, but gold? Where does a non-profit like GNU get gold anyway?” “Oh, Google donated it to them.” “Ah! So Oracle will give me the gold that GNU got from Google!” “Yes, if you get the package from us.” “How do I get the package with the gold?” “Just run pkg install binutils and it will put it on your disk.” “We’ve got multiple disks here - which one will it put it on?” “The one with the system image - do you know which one that is? “Well the note from the admin says the system is on the first disk and the users are on the second disk.” “Okay, so it should go on the first disk then.” “And where will I find the gold?” “It will be in the /usr/bin directory.” “In the user’s bin? So thats on the second disk?” “No, it would be on the system disk, with the other development tools, like make, as, and what.” “So what’s on the first disk?” “Well if the system image is there the commands should all be there.” “All the commands? Not just what?” “Right, all the commands that come with the OS, like the shell, ps, and who.” “So who’s on the first disk too?” “Yes. Did your admin say when he’d be back?” “No, just that he had a massive headache and was going home after I tried to get him to explain this stuff to me.” “I can’t imagine why.” “Oh, is why a command too?” “No, _why was a Ruby programmer.” “Ruby? Do you give those away with the gold too?” “Yes, but it comes in the ruby package, not binutils.” “Oh, I’ll have to have my admin get that package too! Thanks!” Needless to say, we decided this might not be the best idea. Since the GNU package hasn’t had to release a serious bug fix in the new find in the past few years, the new GNU find seems pretty stable, and we always have the SVR4 find to use as a fallback in Solaris, so it didn’t seem that adding oldfind was really necessary, so we passed on including it when we update to the new findutils release. [Apologies to Abbott, Costello, their fans, and everyone who read this far. The Gold (linker) page on Wikipedia may explain some of the above, but can’t explain why goldfind is the old GNU find, but gold is the new GNU ld.]

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• FOUR questions to ask if you are implementing DATABASE-AS-A-SERVICE

  - by Sudip Datta

  During my ongoing tenure at Oracle, I have met all types of DBAs. Happy DBAs, unhappy DBAs, proud DBAs, risk-loving DBAs, cautious DBAs. These days, as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) becomes more mainstream, I find some complacent DBAs who are basking in their achievement of having implemented DBaaS. Some others, however, are not that happy. They grudgingly complain that they did not have much of a say in the implementation, they simply had to follow what their cloud architects (mostly infrastructure admins) offered them. In most cases it would be a database wrapped inside a VM that would be labeled as “Database as a Service”. In other cases, it would be existing brute-force automation simply exposed in a portal. As much as I think that there is more to DBaaS than those approaches and often get tempted to propose Enterprise Manager 12c, I try to be objective. Neither do I want to dampen the spirit of the happy ones, nor do I want to stoke the pain of the unhappy ones. As I mentioned in my previous post, I don’t deny vanilla automation could be useful. I like virtualization too for what it has helped us accomplish in terms of resource management, but we need to scrutinize its merit on a case-by-case basis and apply it meaningfully. For DBAs who either claim to have implemented DBaaS or are planning to do so, I simply want to provide four key questions to ponder about: 1. Does it make life easier for your end users? Database-as-a-Service can have several types of end users. Junior DBAs, QA Engineers, Developers- each having their own skillset. The objective of DBaaS is to make their life simple, so that they can focus on their core responsibilities without having to worry about additional stuff. For example, if you are a Developer using Oracle Application Express (APEX), you want to deal with schema, objects and PL/SQL code and not with datafiles or listener configuration. If you are a QA Engineer needing database copies for functional testing, you do not want to deal with underlying operating system patching and compliance issues. The question to ask, therefore, is, whether DBaaS makes life easier for those users. It is often convenient to give them VM shells to deal with a la Amazon EC2 IaaS, but is that what they really want? Is it a productive use of a developer's time if he needs to apply RPM errata to his Linux operating system. Asking him to keep the underlying operating system current is like making a guest responsible for a restaurant's decor. 2. Does it make life easier for your administrators? Cloud, in general, is supposed to free administrators from attending to mundane tasks like provisioning services for every single end user request. It is supposed to enable a readily consumable platform and enforce standardization in the process. For example, if a Service Catalog exposes DBaaS of specific database versions and configurations, it, by its very nature, enforces certain discipline and standardization within the IT environment. What if, instead of specific database configurations, cloud allowed each end user to create databases of their liking resulting in hundreds of version and patch levels and thousands of individual databases. Therefore the right question to ask is whether the unwanted consequence of DBaaS is OS and database sprawl. And if so, who is responsible for tracking them, backing them up, administering them? Studies have shown that these administrative overheads increase exponentially with new targets, and it could result in a management nightmare. That leads us to our next question. 3. Does it satisfy your Security Officers and Compliance Auditors? Compliance Auditors need to know who did what and when. They also want the cloud platform to be secure, so that end users have little freedom in tampering with it. Dealing with VM sprawl is not the easiest of challenges, let alone dealing with them as they keep getting reconfigured and moved around. This leads to the proverbial needle in the haystack problem, and all it needs is one needle to cause a serious compliance issue in the enterprise. Bottomline is, flexibility and agility should not come at the expense of compliance and it is very important to get the balance right. Can we have security and isolation without creating compliance challenges? Instead of a ‘one size fits all approach’ i.e. OS level isolation, can we think smartly about database isolation or schema based isolation? This is where the appropriate resource modeling needs to be applied. The usual systems management vendors out there with heterogeneous common-denominator approach have compromised on these semantics. If you follow Enterprise Manager’s DBaaS solution, you will see that we have considered different models, not precluding virtualization, for different customer use cases. The judgment to use virtual assemblies versus databases on physical RAC versus Schema-as-a-Service in a single database, should be governed by the need of the applications and not by putting compliance considerations in the backburner. 4. Does it satisfy your CIO? Finally, does it satisfy your higher ups? As the sponsor of cloud initiative, the CIO is expected to lead an IT transformation project, not merely a run-of-the-mill IT operations. Simply virtualizing server resources and delivering them through self-service is a good start, but hardly transformational. CIOs may appreciate the instant benefit from server consolidation, but studies have revealed that the ROI from consolidation would flatten out at 20-25%. The question would be: what next? As we go higher up in the stack, the need to virtualize, segregate and optimize shifts to those layers that are more palpable to the business users. As Sushil Kumar noted in his blog post, " the most important thing to note here is the enterprise private cloud is not just an IT project, rather it is a business initiative to create an IT setup that is more aligned with the needs of today's dynamic and highly competitive business environment." Business users could not care less about infrastructure consolidation or virtualization - they care about business agility and service level assurance. Last but not the least, lot of CIOs get miffed if we ask them to throw away their existing hardware investments for implementing DBaaS. In Oracle, we always emphasize on freedom of choosing a platform; hence Enterprise Manager’s DBaaS solution is platform neutral. It can work on any Operating System (that the agent is certified on) Oracle’s hardware as well as 3rd party hardware. As a parting note, I urge you to remember these 4 questions. Remember that your satisfaction as an implementer lies in the satisfaction of others.

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• Controlling the Sizing of the af:messages Dialog

  - by Duncan Mills

  Over the last day or so a small change in behaviour between 11.1.2.n releases of ADF and earlier versions has come to my attention. This has concerned the default sizing of the dialog that the framework automatically generates to handle the display of JSF messages being handled by the <af:messages> component. Unlike a normal popup, you don't have a physical <af:dialog> or <af:window> to set the sizing on in your page definition, so you're at the mercy of what the framework provides. In this case the framework now defines a fixed 250x250 pixel content area dialog for these messages, which can look a bit weird if the message is either very short, or very long. Unfortunately this is not something that you can control through the skin, instead you have to be a little more creative. Here's the solution I've come up with.  Unfortunately, I've not found a supportable way to reset the dialog so as to say  just size yourself based on your contents, it is actually possible to do this by tweaking the correct DOM objects, but I wanted to start with a mostly supportable solution that only uses the best practice of working through the ADF client side APIs. The Technique The basic approach I've taken is really very simple.  The af:messages dialog is just a normal richDialog object, it just happens to be one that is pre-defined for you with a particular known name "msgDlg" (which hopefully won't change). Knowing this, you can call the accepted APIs to control the content width and height of that dialog, as our meerkat friends would say, "simples" 1 The JavaScript For this example I've defined three JavaScript functions.   The first does all the hard work and is designed to be called from server side Java or from a page load event to set the default. The second is a utility function used by the first to validate the values you're about to use for height and width. The final function is one that can be called from the page load event to set an initial default sizing if that's all you need to do. Function resizeDefaultMessageDialog() /**  * Function that actually resets the default message dialog sizing.  * Note that the width and height supplied define the content area  * So the actual physical dialog size will be larger to account for  * the chrome containing the header / footer etc.  * @param docId Faces component id of the document  * @param contentWidth - new content width you need  * @param contentHeight - new content height  */ function resizeDefaultMessageDialog(docId, contentWidth, contentHeight) {   // Warning this value may change from release to release   var defMDName = "::msgDlg";   //Find the default messages dialog   msgDialogComponent = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId(docId + defMDName); // In your version add a check here to ensure we've found the right object!   // Check the new width is supplied and is a positive number, if so apply it.   if (dimensionIsValid(contentWidth)){       msgDialogComponent.setContentWidth(contentWidth);   }   // Check the new height is supplied and is a positive number, if so apply it.   if (dimensionIsValid(contentHeight)){       msgDialogComponent.setContentHeight(contentHeight);   } }  Function dimensionIsValid()  /**  * Simple function to check that sensible numeric values are   * being proposed for a dimension  * @param sampleDimension   * @return booolean  */ function dimensionIsValid(sampleDimension){     return (!isNaN(sampleDimension) && sampleDimension > 0); } Function  initializeDefaultMessageDialogSize() /**  * This function will re-define the default sizing applied by the framework   * in 11.1.2.n versions  * It is designed to be called with the document onLoad event  */ function initializeDefaultMessageDialogSize(loadEvent){   //get the configuration information   var documentId = loadEvent.getSource().getProperty('documentId');   var newWidth = loadEvent.getSource().getProperty('defaultMessageDialogContentWidth');   var newHeight = loadEvent.getSource().getProperty('defaultMessageDialogContentHeight');   resizeDefaultMessageDialog(documentId, newWidth, newHeight); } Wiring in the Functions As usual, the first thing we need to do when using JavaScript with ADF is to define an af:resource  in the document metaContainer facet <af:document>   ....     <f:facet name="metaContainer">     <af:resource type="javascript" source="/resources/js/hackMessagedDialog.js"/>    </f:facet> </af:document> This makes the script functions available to call.  Next if you want to use the option of defining an initial default size for the dialog you use a combination of <af:clientListener> and <af:clientAttribute> tags like this. <af:document title="MyApp" id="doc1">   <af:clientListener method="initializeDefaultMessageDialogSize" type="load"/>   <af:clientAttribute name="documentId" value="doc1"/>   <af:clientAttribute name="defaultMessageDialogContentWidth" value="400"/>   <af:clientAttribute name="defaultMessageDialogContentHeight" value="150"/>  ...   Just in Time Dialog Sizing  So  what happens if you have a variety of messages that you might add and in some cases you need a small dialog and an other cases a large one? Well in that case you can re-size these dialogs just before you submit the message. Here's some example Java code: FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();          //reset the default dialog size for this message ExtendedRenderKitService service =              Service.getRenderKitService(ctx, ExtendedRenderKitService.class); service.addScript(ctx, "resizeDefaultMessageDialog('doc1',100,50);");          FacesMessage msg = new FacesMessage("Short message"); msg.setSeverity(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR); ctx.addMessage(null, msg);  So there you have it. This technique should, at least, allow you to control the dialog sizing just enough to stop really objectionable whitespace or scrollbars. 1 Don't worry if you don't get the reference, lest's just say my kids watch too many adverts.

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• How can I render multiple windows with DirectX 9 in C++?

  - by Friso1990

  I'm trying to render multiple windows, using DirectX 9 and swap chains, but even though I create 2 windows, I only see the first one that I've created. My RendererDX9 header is this: #include <d3d9.h> #include <Windows.h> #include <vector> #include "RAT_Renderer.h" namespace RAT_ENGINE { class RAT_RendererDX9 : public RAT_Renderer { public: RAT_RendererDX9(); ~RAT_RendererDX9(); void Init(RAT_WindowManager* argWMan); void CleanUp(); void ShowWin(); private: LPDIRECT3D9 renderInterface; // Used to create the D3DDevice LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 renderDevice; // Our rendering device LPDIRECT3DSWAPCHAIN9* swapChain; // Swapchain to make multi-window rendering possible WNDCLASSEX wc; std::vector<HWND> hwindows; void Render(int argI); }; } And my .cpp file is this: #include "RAT_RendererDX9.h" static LRESULT CALLBACK MsgProc( HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam ); namespace RAT_ENGINE { RAT_RendererDX9::RAT_RendererDX9() : renderInterface(NULL), renderDevice(NULL) { } RAT_RendererDX9::~RAT_RendererDX9() { } void RAT_RendererDX9::Init(RAT_WindowManager* argWMan) { wMan = argWMan; // Register the window class WNDCLASSEX windowClass = { sizeof( WNDCLASSEX ), CS_CLASSDC, MsgProc, 0, 0, GetModuleHandle( NULL ), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, "foo", NULL }; wc = windowClass; RegisterClassEx( &wc ); for (int i = 0; i< wMan->getWindows().size(); ++i) { HWND hWnd = CreateWindow( "foo", argWMan->getWindow(i)->getName().c_str(), WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, argWMan->getWindow(i)->getX(), argWMan->getWindow(i)->getY(), argWMan->getWindow(i)->getWidth(), argWMan->getWindow(i)->getHeight(), NULL, NULL, wc.hInstance, NULL ); hwindows.push_back(hWnd); } // Create the D3D object, which is needed to create the D3DDevice. renderInterface = (LPDIRECT3D9)Direct3DCreate9( D3D_SDK_VERSION ); // Set up the structure used to create the D3DDevice. Most parameters are // zeroed out. We set Windowed to TRUE, since we want to do D3D in a // window, and then set the SwapEffect to "discard", which is the most // efficient method of presenting the back buffer to the display. And // we request a back buffer format that matches the current desktop display // format. D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS deviceConfig; ZeroMemory( &deviceConfig, sizeof( deviceConfig ) ); deviceConfig.Windowed = TRUE; deviceConfig.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD; deviceConfig.BackBufferFormat = D3DFMT_UNKNOWN; deviceConfig.BackBufferHeight = 1024; deviceConfig.BackBufferWidth = 768; deviceConfig.EnableAutoDepthStencil = TRUE; deviceConfig.AutoDepthStencilFormat = D3DFMT_D16; // Create the Direct3D device. Here we are using the default adapter (most // systems only have one, unless they have multiple graphics hardware cards // installed) and requesting the HAL (which is saying we want the hardware // device rather than a software one). Software vertex processing is // specified since we know it will work on all cards. On cards that support // hardware vertex processing, though, we would see a big performance gain // by specifying hardware vertex processing. renderInterface->CreateDevice( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, hwindows[0], D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, &deviceConfig, &renderDevice ); this->swapChain = new LPDIRECT3DSWAPCHAIN9[wMan->getWindows().size()]; this->renderDevice->GetSwapChain(0, &swapChain[0]); for (int i = 0; i < wMan->getWindows().size(); ++i) { renderDevice->CreateAdditionalSwapChain(&deviceConfig, &swapChain[i]); } renderDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_CULLMODE, D3DCULL_CCW); // Set cullmode to counterclockwise culling to save resources renderDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_AMBIENT, 0xffffffff); // Turn on ambient lighting renderDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE, TRUE); // Turn on the zbuffer } void RAT_RendererDX9::CleanUp() { renderDevice->Release(); renderInterface->Release(); } void RAT_RendererDX9::Render(int argI) { // Clear the backbuffer to a blue color renderDevice->Clear( 0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB( 0, 0, 255 ), 1.0f, 0 ); LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 backBuffer = NULL; // Set draw target this->swapChain[argI]->GetBackBuffer(0, D3DBACKBUFFER_TYPE_MONO, &backBuffer); this->renderDevice->SetRenderTarget(0, backBuffer); // Begin the scene renderDevice->BeginScene(); // End the scene renderDevice->EndScene(); swapChain[argI]->Present(NULL, NULL, hwindows[argI], NULL, 0); } void RAT_RendererDX9::ShowWin() { for (int i = 0; i < wMan->getWindows().size(); ++i) { ShowWindow( hwindows[i], SW_SHOWDEFAULT ); UpdateWindow( hwindows[i] ); // Enter the message loop MSG msg; while( GetMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0 ) ) { if (PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0U, 0U, PM_REMOVE ) ) { TranslateMessage( &msg ); DispatchMessage( &msg ); } else { Render(i); } } } } } LRESULT CALLBACK MsgProc( HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam ) { switch( msg ) { case WM_DESTROY: //CleanUp(); PostQuitMessage( 0 ); return 0; case WM_PAINT: //Render(); ValidateRect( hWnd, NULL ); return 0; } return DefWindowProc( hWnd, msg, wParam, lParam ); } I've made a sample function to make multiple windows: void RunSample1() { //Create the window manager. RAT_ENGINE::RAT_WindowManager* wMan = new RAT_ENGINE::RAT_WindowManager(); //Create the render manager. RAT_ENGINE::RAT_RenderManager* rMan = new RAT_ENGINE::RAT_RenderManager(); //Create a window. //This is currently needed to initialize the render manager and create a renderer. wMan->CreateRATWindow("Sample 1 - 1", 10, 20, 640, 480); wMan->CreateRATWindow("Sample 1 - 2", 150, 100, 480, 640); //Initialize the render manager. rMan->Init(wMan); //Show the window. rMan->getRenderer()->ShowWin(); } How do I get the multiple windows to work?

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• LINQ – SequenceEqual() method

  - by nmarun

  I have been looking at LINQ extension methods and have blogged about what I learned from them in my blog space. Next in line is the SequenceEqual() method. Here’s the description about this method: “Determines whether two sequences are equal by comparing the elements by using the default equality comparer for their type.” Let’s play with some code: 1: int[] numbers = { 5, 4, 1, 3, 9, 8, 6, 7, 2, 0 }; 2: // int[] numbersCopy = numbers; 3: int[] numbersCopy = { 5, 4, 1, 3, 9, 8, 6, 7, 2, 0 }; 4:  5: Console.WriteLine(numbers.SequenceEqual(numbersCopy)); This gives an output of ‘True’ – basically compares each of the elements in the two arrays and returns true in this case. The result is same even if you uncomment line 2 and comment line 3 (I didn’t need to say that now did I?). So then what happens for custom types? For this, I created a Product class with the following definition: 1: class Product 2: { 3: public int ProductId { get; set; } 4: public string Name { get; set; } 5: public string Category { get; set; } 6: public DateTime MfgDate { get; set; } 7: public Status Status { get; set; } 8: } 9:  10: public enum Status 11: { 12: Active = 1, 13: InActive = 2, 14: OffShelf = 3, 15: } In my calling code, I’m just adding a few product items: 1: private static List<Product> GetProducts() 2: { 3: return new List<Product> 4: { 5: new Product 6: { 7: ProductId = 1, 8: Name = "Laptop", 9: Category = "Computer", 10: MfgDate = new DateTime(2003, 4, 3), 11: Status = Status.Active, 12: }, 13: new Product 14: { 15: ProductId = 2, 16: Name = "Compact Disc", 17: Category = "Water Sport", 18: MfgDate = new DateTime(2009, 12, 3), 19: Status = Status.InActive, 20: }, 21: new Product 22: { 23: ProductId = 3, 24: Name = "Floppy", 25: Category = "Computer", 26: MfgDate = new DateTime(1993, 3, 7), 27: Status = Status.OffShelf, 28: }, 29: }; 30: } Now for the actual check: 1: List<Product> products1 = GetProducts(); 2: List<Product> products2 = GetProducts(); 3:  4: Console.WriteLine(products1.SequenceEqual(products2)); This one returns ‘False’ and the reason is simple – this one checks for reference equality and the products in the both the lists get different ‘memory addresses’ (sounds like I’m talking in ‘C’). In order to modify this behavior and return a ‘True’ result, we need to modify the Product class as follows: 1: class Product : IEquatable<Product> 2: { 3: public int ProductId { get; set; } 4: public string Name { get; set; } 5: public string Category { get; set; } 6: public DateTime MfgDate { get; set; } 7: public Status Status { get; set; } 8:  9: public override bool Equals(object obj) 10: { 11: return Equals(obj as Product); 12: } 13:  14: public bool Equals(Product other) 15: { 16: //Check whether the compared object is null. 17: if (ReferenceEquals(other, null)) return false; 18:  19: //Check whether the compared object references the same data. 20: if (ReferenceEquals(this, other)) return true; 21:  22: //Check whether the products' properties are equal. 23: return ProductId.Equals(other.ProductId) 24: && Name.Equals(other.Name) 25: && Category.Equals(other.Category) 26: && MfgDate.Equals(other.MfgDate) 27: && Status.Equals(other.Status); 28: } 29:  30: // If Equals() returns true for a pair of objects 31: // then GetHashCode() must return the same value for these objects. 32: // read why in the following articles: 33: // http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2010/02/28/138234.aspx 34: // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371328/why-is-it-important-to-override-gethashcode-when-equals-method-is-overriden-in-c 35: public override int GetHashCode() 36: { 37: //Get hash code for the ProductId field. 38: int hashProductId = ProductId.GetHashCode(); 39:  40: //Get hash code for the Name field if it is not null. 41: int hashName = Name == null ? 0 : Name.GetHashCode(); 42:  43: //Get hash code for the ProductId field. 44: int hashCategory = Category.GetHashCode(); 45:  46: //Get hash code for the ProductId field. 47: int hashMfgDate = MfgDate.GetHashCode(); 48:  49: //Get hash code for the ProductId field. 50: int hashStatus = Status.GetHashCode(); 51: //Calculate the hash code for the product. 52: return hashProductId ^ hashName ^ hashCategory & hashMfgDate & hashStatus; 53: } 54:  55: public static bool operator ==(Product a, Product b) 56: { 57: // Enable a == b for null references to return the right value 58: if (ReferenceEquals(a, b)) 59: { 60: return true; 61: } 62: // If one is null and the other not. Remember a==null will lead to Stackoverflow! 63: if (ReferenceEquals(a, null)) 64: { 65: return false; 66: } 67: return a.Equals((object)b); 68: } 69:  70: public static bool operator !=(Product a, Product b) 71: { 72: return !(a == b); 73: } 74: } Now THAT kinda looks overwhelming. But lets take one simple step at a time. Ok first thing you’ve noticed is that the class implements IEquatable<Product> interface – the key step towards achieving our goal. This interface provides us with an ‘Equals’ method to perform the test for equality with another Product object, in this case. This method is called in the following situations: when you do a ProductInstance.Equals(AnotherProductInstance) and when you perform actions like Contains<T>, IndexOf() or Remove() on your collection Coming to the Equals method defined line 14 onwards. The two ‘if’ blocks check for null and referential equality using the ReferenceEquals() method defined in the Object class. Line 23 is where I’m doing the actual check on the properties of the Product instances. This is what returns the ‘True’ for us when we run the application. I have also overridden the Object.Equals() method which calls the Equals() method of the interface. One thing to remember is that anytime you override the Equals() method, its’ a good practice to override the GetHashCode() method and overload the ‘==’ and the ‘!=’ operators. For detailed information on this, please read this and this. Since we’ve overloaded the operators as well, we get ‘True’ when we do actions like: 1: Console.WriteLine(products1.Contains(products2[0])); 2: Console.WriteLine(products1[0] == products2[0]); This completes the full circle on the SequenceEqual() method. See the code used in the article here.

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• JavaMail not sending Subject or From under jetty:run-war

  - by Jason Thrasher

  Has anyone seen JavaMail not sending proper MimeMessages to an SMTP server, depending on how the JVM in started? At the end of the day, I can't send JavaMail SMTP messages with Subject: or From: fields, and it appears other headers are missing, only when running the app as a war. The web project is built with Maven and I'm testing sending JavaMail using a browser and a simple mail.jsp to debug and see different behavior when launching the app with: 1) mvn jetty:run (mail sends fine, with proper Subject and From fields) 2) mvn jetty:run-war (mail sends fine, but missing Subject, From, and other fields) I've meticulously run diff on the (verbose) Maven debug output (-X), and there are zero differences in the runtime dependencies between the two. I've also compared System properties, and they are identical. Something else is happening the jetty:run-war case that changes the way JavaMail behaves. What other stones need turning? Curiously, I've tried a debugger in both situations and found that the javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage instance is getting created differently. The webapp is using Spring to send email picked off of an Apache ActiveMQ queue. When running the app as mvn jetty:run the MimeMessage.contentStream variable is used for message content. When running as mvn jetty:run-war, the MimeMessage.content variable is used for the message contents, and the content = ASCIIUtility.getBytes(is); call removes all of the header data from the parsed content. Since this seemed very odd, and debugging Spring/ActiveMQ is a deep dive, I created a simplified test without any of that infrastructure: just a JSP using mail-1.4.2.jar, yet the same headers are missing. Also of note, these headers are missing when running the WAR file under Tomcat 5.5.27. Tomcat behaves just like Jetty when running the WAR, with the same missing headers. With JavaMail debugging turned on, I clearly see different output. GOOD CASE: In the jetty:run (non-WAR) the log output is: DEBUG: JavaMail version 1.4.2 DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.providers DEBUG: Tables of loaded providers DEBUG: Providers Listed By Class Name: {com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc]} DEBUG: Providers Listed By Protocol: {imaps=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], imap=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], smtps=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc], pop3=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc], pop3s=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], smtp=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]} DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.address.map DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "mail.authsmtp.com", port 465, isSSL false 220 mail.authsmtp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.2/8.14.2/Kp; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:35:24 +0100 (BST) DEBUG SMTP: connected to host "mail.authsmtp.com", port: 465 EHLO jmac.local 250-mail.authsmtp.com Hello sul-pubs-3a.Stanford.EDU [171.66.201.2], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 52428800 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "PIPELINING", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "8BITMIME", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "SIZE", arg "52428800" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "AUTH", arg "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "DELIVERBY", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "HELP", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Attempt to authenticate DEBUG SMTP: check mechanisms: LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 AUTH LOGIN 334 VXNlcm5hjbt7 YWM0MDkwhi== 334 UGFzc3dvjbt7 YXV0aHNtdHAydog3 235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated DEBUG SMTP: use8bit false MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> 250 2.1.0 <[email protected]>... Sender ok RCPT TO:<[email protected]> 250 2.1.5 <[email protected]>... Recipient ok DEBUG SMTP: Verified Addresses DEBUG SMTP: Jason Thrasher <[email protected]> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself From: Webmaster <[email protected]> To: Jason Thrasher <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: non-Spring: Hello World MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World: message body here . 250 2.0.0 n5I0ZOkD085654 Message accepted for delivery QUIT 221 2.0.0 mail.authsmtp.com closing connection BAD CASE: The log output when running as a WAR, with missing headers, is quite different: Loading javamail.default.providers from jar:file:/Users/jason/.m2/repository/javax/mail/mail/1.4.2/mail-1.4.2.jar!/META-INF/javamail.default.providers DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=imap, className=com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=imaps, className=com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=smtp, className=com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=smtps, className=com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=pop3, className=com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=pop3s, className=com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null Loading javamail.default.providers from jar:file:/Users/jason/Documents/dev/subscribeatron/software/trunk/web/struts/target/work/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/mail-1.4.2.jar!/META-INF/javamail.default.providers DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=imap, className=com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=imaps, className=com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=smtp, className=com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=smtps, className=com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=pop3, className=com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: loading new provider protocol=pop3s, className=com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore, vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc, version=null DEBUG: getProvider() returning provider protocol=smtp; type=javax.mail.Provider$Type@98203f; class=com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport; vendor=Sun Microsystems, Inc DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth false DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "mail.authsmtp.com", port 465, isSSL false 220 mail.authsmtp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.2/8.14.2/Kp; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:51:46 +0100 (BST) DEBUG SMTP: connected to host "mail.authsmtp.com", port: 465 EHLO jmac.local 250-mail.authsmtp.com Hello sul-pubs-3a.Stanford.EDU [171.66.201.2], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 52428800 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "PIPELINING", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "8BITMIME", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "SIZE", arg "52428800" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "AUTH", arg "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "DELIVERBY", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "HELP", arg "" DEBUG SMTP: Attempt to authenticate DEBUG SMTP: check mechanisms: LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 AUTH LOGIN 334 VXNlcm5hjbt7 YWM0MDkwhi== 334 UGFzc3dvjbt7 YXV0aHNtdHAydog3 235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated DEBUG SMTP: use8bit false MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> 250 2.1.0 <[email protected]>... Sender ok RCPT TO:<[email protected]> 250 2.1.5 <[email protected]>... Recipient ok DEBUG SMTP: Verified Addresses DEBUG SMTP: Jason Thrasher <[email protected]> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself Hello World: message body here . 250 2.0.0 n5I0pkSc090137 Message accepted for delivery QUIT 221 2.0.0 mail.authsmtp.com closing connection Here's the actual mail.jsp that I'm testing war/non-war with. <%@page import="java.util.*"%> <%@page import="javax.mail.internet.*"%> <%@page import="javax.mail.*"%> <% InternetAddress from = new InternetAddress("[email protected]", "Webmaster"); InternetAddress to = new InternetAddress("[email protected]", "Jason Thrasher"); String subject = "non-Spring: Hello World"; String content = "Hello World: message body here"; final Properties props = new Properties(); props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp"); props.setProperty("mail.host", "mail.authsmtp.com"); props.setProperty("mail.port", "465"); props.setProperty("mail.username", "myusername"); props.setProperty("mail.password", "secret"); props.setProperty("mail.debug", "true"); props.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true"); props.setProperty("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory"); props.setProperty("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false"); Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props); Message message = new MimeMessage(mailSession); message.setFrom(from); message.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, to); message.setSubject(subject); message.setContent(content, "text/plain;charset=UTF-8"); Transport trans = mailSession.getTransport(); trans.connect(props.getProperty("mail.host"), Integer .parseInt(props.getProperty("mail.port")), props .getProperty("mail.username"), props .getProperty("mail.password")); trans.sendMessage(message, message .getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO)); trans.close(); %> email was sent SOLUTION: Yes, the problem was transitive dependencies of Apache CXF 2. I had to exclude geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec from the build, and just rely on javax's mail-1.4.jar. <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId> <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId> <version>2.2.6</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId> <artifactId>geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> Thanks for all of the answers.

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• ant ftp doesn't download files in subdirectories

  - by Kristof Neirynck

  Hello, I'm trying to download files in subdirectories from an ftp server with ant. The exact set of files is known. Some of them are in subdirectories. Ant only seems to download the ones in the root directory. It does work if I download all files without listing them. The first ftp action should do the exact same thing as the second. Instead it complains about "Hidden files" and seems to prefix the paths with "\\". Does anyone know what's wrong here? Is this a bug in commons-net? build.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <project name="example" default="example" basedir="."> <taskdef name="ftp" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP" /> <target name="example"> <!-- 2 files retrieved --> <ftp action="get" verbose="true" server="localhost" userid="example" password="example"> <fileset dir="downloads" casesensitive="false" includes="root1.txt,root2.txt,a/a.txt,a/b/ab.txt,c/c.txt" /> </ftp> <!-- 5 files retrieved --> <ftp action="get" verbose="true" server="localhost" userid="example" password="example"> <fileset dir="downloads" casesensitive="false" includes="**/*" /> </ftp> </target> </project> run_ant.bat @ECHO OFF PUSHD %~dp0 SET CLASSPATH= SET ANT_HOME=C:\apache-ant-1.8.0 SET ant=%ANT_HOME%\bin\ant.bat SET antoptions=-nouserlib -noclasspath -d SET ftpjars=^ -lib lib\jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar ^ -lib lib\commons-net-2.0.jar CALL %ant% %antoptions% %ftpjars% > output.txt POPD output.txt Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\PROGRA~1\Java\jre6\lib\tools.jar Apache Ant version 1.8.0 compiled on February 1 2010 Trying the default build file: build.xml Buildfile: G:\ftp\build.xml Adding reference: ant.PropertyHelper Detected Java version: 1.6 in: C:\PROGRA~1\Java\jre6 Detected OS: Windows 7 Adding reference: ant.ComponentHelper Setting ro project property: ant.file -> G:\ftp\build.xml Setting ro project property: ant.file.type -> file Adding reference: ant.projectHelper Adding reference: ant.parsing.context Adding reference: ant.targets parsing buildfile G:\ftp\build.xml with URI = file:/G:/ftp/build.xml Setting ro project property: ant.project.name -> example Adding reference: example Setting ro project property: ant.project.default-target -> example Setting ro project property: ant.file.example -> G:\ftp\build.xml Setting ro project property: ant.file.type.example -> file Project base dir set to: G:\ftp +Target: +Target: example Adding reference: ant.LocalProperties parsing buildfile jar:file:/C:/apache-ant-1.8.0/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml with URI = jar:file:/C:/apache-ant-1.8.0/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml from a zip file Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP loaded from parent loader (parentFirst) Setting ro project property: ant.project.invoked-targets -> example Attempting to create object of type org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor Adding reference: ant.executor Build sequence for target(s) `example' is [example] Complete build sequence is [example, ] example: [ftp] Opening FTP connection to localhost [ftp] connected [ftp] logging in to FTP server [ftp] login succeeded [ftp] getting files fileset: Setup scanner in dir G:\ftp\downloads with patternSet{ includes: [root1.txt, root2.txt, a/a.txt, a/b/ab.txt] excludes: [] } will try to cd to A where a directory called a exists testing case sensitivity, attempting to cd to A remote system is case sensitive : false [ftp] Hidden file \\a\b\ assumed to not be a symlink. filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files [ftp] Hidden file \\a\b\ assumed to not be a symlink. filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files [ftp] Hidden file \\a\a.txt assumed to not be a symlink. filelist map used in listing files [ftp] Hidden file \\a\a.txt assumed to not be a symlink. filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files filelist map used in listing files [ftp] transferring root1.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\root1.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\root1.txt copied from localhost [ftp] transferring root2.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\root2.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\root2.txt copied from localhost [ftp] 2 files retrieved [ftp] disconnecting [ftp] Opening FTP connection to localhost [ftp] connected [ftp] logging in to FTP server [ftp] login succeeded [ftp] getting files fileset: Setup scanner in dir G:\ftp\downloads with patternSet{ includes: [**/*] excludes: [] } will try to cd to A where a directory called a exists testing case sensitivity, attempting to cd to A remote system is case sensitive : false [ftp] transferring a\a.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\a\a.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\a\a.txt copied from localhost [ftp] transferring a\b\ab.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\a\b\ab.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\a\b\ab.txt copied from localhost [ftp] transferring c\c.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\c\c.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\c\c.txt copied from localhost [ftp] transferring root1.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\root1.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\root1.txt copied from localhost [ftp] transferring root2.txt to G:\ftp\downloads\root2.txt [ftp] File G:\ftp\downloads\root2.txt copied from localhost [ftp] 5 files retrieved [ftp] disconnecting BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds server log (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> Connected, sending welcome message... (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220-FileZilla Server version 0.9.34 beta (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220-written by Tim Kosse ([email protected]) (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220 Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> USER example (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 331 Password required for example (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> PASS ******* (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 230 Logged on (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> TYPE I (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Type set to I (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> SYST (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 215 UNIX emulated by FileZilla (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,232 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD A (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/A" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD a (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD b (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD //a/b (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,233 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,234 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD //\\a\b\ (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD //\\a\b\ (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/a/b" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD a (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD //a (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/a" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,235 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,236 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR root1.txt (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,237 (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR root2.txt (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> QUIT (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 221 Goodbye (000153) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> disconnected. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> Connected, sending welcome message... (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220-FileZilla Server version 0.9.34 beta (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220-written by Tim Kosse ([email protected]) (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220 Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> USER example (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 331 Password required for example (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> PASS ******* (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 230 Logged on (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> TYPE I (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Type set to I (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> SYST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 215 UNIX emulated by FileZilla (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,239 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD A (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/A" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PWD (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 257 "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,240 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:12 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD a (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,241 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD //a/ (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD b (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/a/b" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,242 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CDUP (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 CDUP successful. "/a" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CDUP (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 CDUP successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD c (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/c" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,243 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> LIST (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for directory list. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CDUP (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 CDUP successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CDUP (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 CDUP successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> CWD / (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,244 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR a/a.txt (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,245 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR a/b/ab.txt (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,246 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR c/c.txt (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,247 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR root1.txt (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> PORT 127,0,0,1,207,248 (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 200 Port command successful (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> RETR root2.txt (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 226 Transfer OK (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> QUIT (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> 221 Goodbye (000154) 7/05/2010 19:46:13 - example (127.0.0.1)> disconnected.

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• Help! cant login to my forum after .htaccess changes

  - by MrRioku

  I'm running a phpbb forum and I installed an SEO friendly URL Mod. After I installed it I wasn't able to login as the admin nor any other users... Well I've been messing around with this problem for a bit and I did find out that it was the .htaccess file that was causing me not to be able to login. I found out if I comment the canonical part out in the .htaccess file, my website allows me to login and see the working mod just fine but I get "http://phone7forum.com/" instead of what I want which is "http://www.phone7forum.com/ : enter code here # HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO FORCE CANONICAL DOMAIN # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.phone7forum\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.phone7forum.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301] enter code here I definitely want the "http://www." since its the best method and holds the best weight.. But when I un-comment it, it will not allow me to login as the admin nor any user... Is there anything I can do to fix this matter??? I'd like to add, before I found this website I installed the Mod "Canonical URL" found here: http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/canonical_url/ Possibly this might be part of my issue? Maybe I should go undo everything that Mod told me to do and then try un-commenting the canonical section in the .htaccess file? Here is my complete .htaccess file as of now that produces the "http://phone7forum.com/" and allows me to login: [code] # Lines That should already be in your .htacess <Files "config.php"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Files> <Files "common.php"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Files> # You may need to un-comment the following lines # Options +FollowSymlinks # To make sure that rewritten dir or file (/|.html) will not load dir.php in case it exist # Options -MultiViews # REMEBER YOU ONLY NEED TO STARD MOD REWRITE ONCE RewriteEngine On # Uncomment the statement below if you want to make use of # HTTP authentication and it does not already work. # This could be required if you are for example using PHP via Apache CGI. # RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] # REWRITE BASE RewriteBase / # HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO FORCE CANONICAL DOMAIN # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.phone7forum\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.phone7forum.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301] # DO NOT GO FURTHER IF THE REQUESTED FILE / DIR DOES EXISTS RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule . - [L] ##################################################### # PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES ALL MODES ##################################################### # AUTHOR : dcz www.phpbb-seo.com # STARTED : 01/2006 ################################# # FORUMS PAGES ############### # FORUM INDEX REWRITERULE WOULD STAND HERE IF USED. "forum" REQUIRES TO BE SET AS FORUM INDEX # RewriteRule ^forum\.html$ index.php [QSA,L,NC] # FORUM ALL MODES RewriteRule ^(forum|[a-z0-9_-]*-f)([0-9]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ viewforum.php?f=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC] # TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER ALL MODES RewriteRule ^(forum|[a-z0-9_-]*-f)([0-9]+)/(topic|[a-z0-9_-]*-t)([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?f=$2&t=$4&start=$6 [QSA,L,NC] # TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM ALL MODES RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?(topic|[a-z0-9_-]*-t)([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$3&start=$5 [QSA,L,NC] # PHPBB FILES ALL MODES RewriteRule ^resources/[a-z0-9_-]+/(thumb/)?([0-9]+)$ download/file.php?id=$2&t=$1 [QSA,L,NC] # PROFILES ALL MODES WITH ID RewriteRule ^(member|[a-z0-9_-]*-u)([0-9]+)\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$2 [QSA,L,NC] # USER MESSAGES ALL MODES WITH ID RewriteRule ^(member|[a-z0-9_-]*-u)([0-9]+)-(topics|posts)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?author_id=$2&sr=$3&start=$5 [QSA,L,NC] # GROUPS ALL MODES RewriteRule ^(group|[a-z0-9_-]*-g)([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC] # POST RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC] # ACTIVE TOPICS RewriteRule ^active-topics(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?search_id=active_topics&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC] # UNANSWERED TOPICS RewriteRule ^unanswered(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?search_id=unanswered&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC] # NEW POSTS RewriteRule ^newposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?search_id=newposts&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC] # UNREAD POSTS RewriteRule ^unreadposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?search_id=unreadposts&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC] # THE TEAM RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC] # HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES # FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM ALL MODES # THESE THREE LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC] # FIX RELATIVE PATHS : FILES RewriteRule ^.+/(style\.php|ucp\.php|mcp\.php|faq\.php|download/file.php)$ $1 [QSA,L,NC,R=301] # FIX RELATIVE PATHS : IMAGES RewriteRule ^.+/(styles/.*|images/.*)/$ $1 [QSA,L,NC,R=301] # END PHPBB PAGES ##################################################### [/code] Does anyone have any clues as to what I need to do? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Justin

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• where is this function getting its values from

  - by user295189

  I have the JS file below that I am working on and I have a need to know this specific function pg.getRecord_Response = function(){ } within the file. I need to know where are the values are coming from in this function for example arguments[0].responseText? I am new to javascript so any help will be much appreciated. Thanks var pg = new Object(); var da = document.body.all; // ===== - EXPRESS BUILD [REQUEST] - ===== // pg.expressBuild_Request = function(){ var n = new Object(); n.patientID = request.patientID; n.encounterID = request.encounterID; n.flowSheetID = request.flowSheetID; n.encounterPlan = request.encounterPlan; n.action = "/location/diagnosis/dsp_expressBuild.php"; n.target = popWinCenterScreen("/common/html/empty.htm", 619, 757, ""); myLocationDB.PostRequest(n); } // ===== - EXPRESS BUILD [RESPONSE] - ===== // pg.expressBuild_Response = function(){ pg.records.showHiddenRecords = 0; pg.loadRecords_Request(arguments.length ? arguments[0] : 0); } // ===== - GET RECORD [REQUEST] - ===== // pg.getRecord_Request = function(){ if(pg.records.lastSelected){ pg.workin(true); pg.record.recordID = pg.records.lastSelected.i; var n = new Object(); n.noheaders = 1; n.recordID = pg.record.recordID; myLocationDB.Ajax.Post("/location/diagnosis/get_record.php", n, pg.getRecord_Response); } else { pg.buttons.btnOpen.disable(true); } } // ===== - GET RECORD [RESPONSE] - ===== // pg.getRecord_Response = function(){ //alert(arguments[0].responseText); if(arguments.length && arguments[0].responseText){ alert(arguments[0].responseText); // Refresh PQRI grid when encounter context if(request.encounterID && window.parent.frames['main']){ window.parent.frames['main'].pg.loadQualityMeasureRequest(); } var rec = arguments[0].responseText.split(pg.delim + pg.delim); if(rec.length == 20){ // validate record values rec[0] = parseInt(rec[0]); rec[3] = parseInt(rec[3]); rec[5] = parseInt(rec[5]); rec[6] = parseInt(rec[6]); rec[7] = parseInt(rec[7]); rec[8] = parseInt(rec[8]); rec[9] = parseInt(rec[9]); rec[10] = parseInt(rec[10]); rec[11] = parseInt(rec[11]); rec[12] = parseInt(rec[12]); rec[15] = parseInt(rec[15]); // set record state pg.recordState = { recordID: pg.record.recordID, codeID: rec[0], description: rec[2], assessmentTypeID: rec[3], type: rec[4], onsetDateYear: rec[5], onsetDateMonth: rec[6], onsetDateDay: rec[7], onsetDateIsApproximate: rec[8], resolveDateYear: rec[9], resolveDateMonth: rec[10], resolveDateDay: rec[11], resolveDateIsApproximate: rec[12], commentsCount: rec[15], comments: rec[16] } // set record view pg.record.code.codeID = pg.recordState.codeID; pg.record.code.value = rec[1]; pg.record.description.value = rec[2]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.type.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.type.options[i].value == rec[4]){ pg.record.type.selectedIndex = i; break; } } for(var i=0; i<pg.record.assessmentType.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.assessmentType.options[i].value == rec[3]){ pg.record.assessmentType.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[5]){ if(rec[6] && rec[7]){ pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.onsetDate.value = rec[6] + "/" + rec[7] + "/" + rec[5]; pg.record.onsetDate.format(); } else { pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 1; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.selectedIndex = rec[6]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.onsetDateYear.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.onsetDateYear.options[i].value == rec[5]){ pg.record.onsetDateYear.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[8]) pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.checked = true; } } else { pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 2; } if(rec[9]){ if(rec[10] && rec[11]){ pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.resolveDate.value = rec[10] + "/" + rec[11] + "/" + rec[9]; pg.record.resolveDate.format(); } else { pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 1; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.selectedIndex = rec[10]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.resolveDateYear.options[i].length; i++){ if(pg.record.resolveDateYear.options.value == rec[9]){ pg.record.resolveDateYear.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[12]) pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.checked = true; } } else { pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 2; } pg.record.lblCommentCount.innerHTML = rec[15]; pg.record.comments.value = rec[16]; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.innerHTML = "* Last updated by " + rec[13] + " on " + rec[14]; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.title = "Updated by: " + rec[13] + "\nUpdated on: " + rec[14]; pg.record.linkedNotes.setData(rec[18]); pg.record.linkedOrders.setData(rec[19]); pg.record.updates.setData(rec[17]); return; } } alert("An error occured while attempting to retrieve\ndetails for record #" + pg.record.recordID + ".\n\nPlease contact support if this problem persists.\nWe apologize for the inconvenience."); pg.hideRecordView(); } // ===== - HIDE COMMENTS VIEW - ===== // pg.hideCommentsView = function(){ pg.recordComments.style.left = ""; pg.recordComments.disabled = true; pg.recordComments.comments.value = ""; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - HIDE code SEARCH - ===== // pg.hidecodeSearch = function(){ pg.codeSearch.style.left = ""; pg.codeSearch.disabled = true; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - HIDE RECORD - ===== // pg.hideRecord = function(){ if(arguments.length){ pg.loadRecords_Request(); } else if(pg.records.lastSelected){ var n = new Object(); n.recordTypeID = 11; n.patientID = request.patientID; n.recordID = pg.records.lastSelected.i; n.action = "/location/hideRecord/dsp_hideRecord.php"; n.target = popWinCenterScreen("/common/html/empty.htm", 164, 476); myLocationDB.PostRequest(n); } } // ===== - HIDE RECORD VIEW - ===== // pg.hideRecordView = function(){ pg.record.style.left = ""; pg.record.disabled = true; // reset record grids pg.record.updates.state = "NO_RECORDS"; pg.record.linkedNotes.state = "NO_RECORDS"; pg.record.linkedOrders.state = "NO_RECORDS"; // reset linked record tabs pg.record.tabs[0].click(); pg.record.tabs[1].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[2].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[1].all[1].innerHTML = "Notes"; pg.record.tabs[2].all[1].innerHTML = "Orders"; // reset record state pg.recordState = null; // reset record view pg.record.recordID = 0; pg.record.code.value = ""; pg.record.code.codeID = 0; pg.record.description.value = ""; pg.record.type.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.assessmentType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.checked = false; pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.checked = false; pg.record.lblCommentCount.innerHTML = 0; pg.record.comments.value = ""; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.innerHTML = ""; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.title = ""; pg.record.updateComment = ""; pg.recordComments.comments.value = ""; pg.record.active = false; pg.codeSearch.newRecord = true; pg.blocker.className = ""; pg.workin(false); } // ===== - HIDE UPDATE VIEW - ===== // pg.hideUpdateView = function(){ pg.recordUpdate.style.left = ""; pg.recordUpdate.disabled = true; pg.recordUpdate.type.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.onsetDate.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.description.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.resolveDate.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.assessmentType.value = ""; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState(); pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - INIT - ===== // pg.init = function(){ var tab = 1; pg.delim = String.fromCharCode(127); pg.subDelim = String.fromCharCode(1); pg.blocker = da.blocker; pg.hourglass = da.hourglass; pg.pageContent = da.pageContent; pg.blocker.shim = da.blocker_shim; pg.activeTip = da.activeTip; pg.activeTip.anchor = null; pg.activeTip.shim = da.activeTip_shim; // PAGE TITLE pg.pageTitle = da.pageTitle; // TOTAL RECORDS pg.totalRecords = da.totalRecords[0]; // START RECORD pg.startRecord = da.startRecord[0]; pg.startRecord.onchange = function(){ pg.records.startRecord = this.value; pg.loadRecords_Request(); } // RECORD PANEL pg.recordPanel = myLocationDB.RecordPanel(pg.pageContent.all.recordPanel); for(var i=0; i<pg.recordPanel.buttons.length; i++){ if(pg.recordPanel.buttons[i].orderBy){ pg.recordPanel.buttons[i].onclick = pg.sortRecords; } } // RECORDS GRIDVIEW pg.records = pg.recordPanel.all.grid; alert(pg.recordPanel.all.grid); pg.records.sortOrder = "DESC"; pg.records.lastExpanded = null; pg.records.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.record_click); pg.records.orderBy = pg.recordPanel.buttons[0].orderBy; pg.records.attachEvent("onrowmouseout", pg.record_mouseOut); pg.records.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.getRecord_Request); pg.records.attachEvent("onrowmouseover", pg.record_mouseOver); pg.records.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.loadRecords_Response); // BUTTON - TOGGLE HIDDEN RECORDS pg.btnHiddenRecords = myLocationDB.Custom.ImageButton(3, 751, 19, 19, "/common/images/hide.gif", 1, 1, "", "", da.pageContent); pg.btnHiddenRecords.setTitle("Show hidden records"); pg.btnHiddenRecords.onclick = pg.toggleHiddenRecords; pg.btnHiddenRecords.setState = function(){ this.disable(!pg.records.totalHiddenRecords); } // code SEARCH SUBWIN pg.codeSearch = da.subWin_codeSearch; pg.codeSearch.newRecord = true; pg.codeSearch.searchType = "code"; pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = true; pg.codeSearch.onkeydown = function(){ if(window.event && window.event.keyCode && window.event.keyCode == 113){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchType == "DESCRIPTION"){ pg.codeSearch.searchType = "code"; pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType.innerHTML = "ICD-9 Code"; } else { pg.codeSearch.searchType = "DESCRIPTION"; pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType.innerHTML = "Description"; } pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } // SEARCH TYPE pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType = pg.codeSearch.all.lblSearchType; // SEARCH STRING pg.codeSearch.searchString = pg.codeSearch.all.searchString; pg.codeSearch.searchString.tabIndex = 1; pg.codeSearch.searchString.onfocus = function(){ this.select(); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onblur = function(){ this.value = this.value.trim(); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onkeydown = function(){ if(window.event && window.event.keyCode && window.event.keyCode == 13){ pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } // -- "SEARCH" pg.codeSearch.btnSearch = pg.codeSearch.all.btnSearch; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.tabIndex = 2; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.onclick = pg.searchcodes_Request; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.baseTitle = "Search diagnosis codes"; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.setState = function(){ pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.disable(pg.codeSearch.searchString.value.trim().length < 2); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onkeyup = pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.setState; // START RECORD / TOTAL RECORDS pg.codeSearch.startRecord = pg.codeSearch.all.startRecord; pg.codeSearch.totalRecords = pg.codeSearch.all.totalRecords; pg.codeSearch.startRecord.onchange = function(){ pg.codeSearch.records.startRecord = this.value; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } // RECORD PANEL pg.codeSearch.recordPanel = myLocationDB.RecordPanel(pg.codeSearch.all.recordPanel); pg.codeSearch.recordPanel.buttons[0].onclick = pg.sortcodeResults; pg.codeSearch.recordPanel.buttons[1].onclick = pg.sortcodeResults; // DATA GRIDVIEW pg.codeSearch.records = pg.codeSearch.all.grid; pg.codeSearch.records.orderBy = "code"; pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.updatecode); pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.searchcodes_Response); // BUTTON - "CANCEL" pg.codeSearch.btnCancel = pg.codeSearch.all.btnCancel; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.tabIndex = 4; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.onclick = pg.hidecodeSearch; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.title = "Close this search area"; // SEARCH FAVORITES / ALL pg.codeSearch.optSearch = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.codeSearch.all.optSearch); pg.codeSearch.optSearch[0].onclick = function(){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites){ pg.codeSearch.searchString.focus(); } else { pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = true; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } pg.codeSearch.optSearch[1].onclick = function(){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites){ pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = false; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } else { pg.codeSearch.searchString.focus(); } } // -- "USE SELECTED" pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected = pg.codeSearch.all.btnUseSelected; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.tabIndex = 3; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.onclick = pg.updatecode; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.baseTitle = "Use the selected diagnosis code"; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.setState = function(){ pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.disable(!pg.codeSearch.records.lastSelected); } pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.setState); // RECORD STATE pg.recordState = null; // RECORD SUBWIN pg.record = da.subWin_record; pg.record.recordID = 0; pg.record.active = false; pg.record.updateComment = ""; // -- TABS pg.record.tabs = myLocationDB.TabCollection( pg.record.all.tab, function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[0].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.style.display = "none"; pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "none"; pg.record.btnSave.style.display = "block"; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.style.display = "block"; pg.record.pnlRecord_shim.style.display = "none"; } else { pg.record.pnlRecord_shim.style.display = "block"; pg.record.btnSave.style.display = "none"; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.style.display = "none"; pg.record.btnOpen.setState(); pg.record.btnOpen.style.display = "block"; if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "none"; //pg.record.btnViewLabs.setState(); //pg.record.btnViewLabs.style.display = "block"; } else { pg.record.chkSelectAll.setState(); pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "block"; //pg.record.btnViewLabs.style.display = "none"; } } } ); pg.record.tabs[1].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[2].disable(true); pg.record.pnlRecord_shim = pg.record.all.pnlRecord_shim; pg.record.code = pg.record.all.code; pg.record.code.codeID = 0; pg.record.code.tabIndex = -1; // -- CHANGE code pg.record.btnChangecode = myLocationDB.Custom.ImageButton(6, 107, 22, 22, "/common/images/edit.gif", 2, 2, "", "", pg.record.all.pnlRecord); pg.record.btnChangecode.tabIndex = 1; pg.record.btnChangecode.onclick = pg.showcodeSearch; pg.record.btnChangecode.title = "Change the diagnosis code for this problem"; pg.record.description = pg.record.all.description; pg.record.description.tabIndex = 2; pg.record.type = pg.record.all.type; pg.record.type.tabIndex = 3; pg.record.assessmentType = pg.record.all.assessmentType; pg.record.assessmentType.tabIndex = 9; // ONSET DATE pg.record.onsetDateType = pg.record.all.onsetDateType; pg.record.onsetDateType.tabIndex = 4; pg.record.onsetDateType.onchange = pg.record.onsetDateType.setState = function(){ switch(this.selectedIndex){ case 1: // PARTIAL pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(false); pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "visible"; break; case 2: // UNKNOWN pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "visible"; break; default: // "WHOLE" pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "visible"; break; } } pg.record.onsetDate = myLocationDB.Custom.DateInput(30, 364, 80, pg.record.all.pnlRecord, 1, 1, 0, params.todayDate, 1); pg.record.onsetDate.tabIndex = 5; pg.record.onsetDate.style.textAlign = "LEFT"; pg.record.onsetDate.calendar.style.zIndex = 6000; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.left = "448px"; pg.record.onsetDate.setDateRange(params.birthDate, params.todayDate); pg.record.onsetDateYear = pg.record.all.onsetDateYear; pg.record.onsetDateYear.tabIndex = 6; pg.record.onsetDateMonth = pg.record.all.onsetDateMonth pg.record.onsetDateMonth.tabIndex = 7; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown = pg.record.all.onsetDateUnknown; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.tabIndex = 8; pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate); pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.setTitle("Onset date is approximate"); pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); // RESOLVE DATE pg.record.lblResolveDate = pg.record.all.lblResolveDate; pg.record.resolveDateType = pg.record.all.resolveDateType; pg.record.resolveDateType.tabIndex = 10; pg.record.resolveDateType.lastSelectedIndex = 0; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState = function(){ switch(this.selectedIndex){ case 1: // PARTIAL pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(false); pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "visible"; break; case 2: // UNKNOWN pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "visible"; break; default: // "WHOLE" pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "visible"; break; } } pg.record.resolveDateType.onchange = function(){ this.lastSelectedIndex = this.selectedIndex; this.setState(); } pg.record.resolveDate = myLocationDB.Custom.DateInput(55, 364, 80, pg.record.all.pnlRecord, 1, 1, 0, params.todayDate, 1); pg.record.resolveDate.tabIndex = 11; pg.record.resolveDate.style.textAlign = "LEFT"; pg.record.resolveDate.calendar.style.zIndex = 6000; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.left = "448px"; pg.record.resolveDate.setDateRange(params.birthDate, params.todayDate); pg.record.resolveDate.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.assessmentType.value == 15){ pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(pg.record.resolveDateType.value != "PARTIAL"); pg.record.resolveDate.disabled = false; pg.record.lblResolveDate.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = pg.record.resolveDateType.lastSelectedIndex; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState(); pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.disable(false); pg.record.resolveDateType.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateYear.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.disabled = false; } else { pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.disable(true); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 2; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState(); pg.record.resolveDate.disabled = true; pg.record.lblResolveDate.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateType.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateYear.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.disabled = true; } } pg.record.assessmentType.onchange = pg.record.resolveDate.setState; pg.record.resolveDateYear = pg.record.all.resolveDateYear; pg.record.resolveDateYear.tabIndex = 11; pg.record.resolveDateMonth = pg.record.all.resolveDateMonth pg.record.resolveDateMonth.tabIndex = 12; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown = pg.record.all.resolveDateUnknown; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.tabIndex = 13; pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkResolveDateIsApproximate); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.setTitle("Resolve date is approximate"); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); // -- UPDATES pg.record.updates = pg.record.all.pnlUpdates.all.grid; pg.record.lblUpdateCount = pg.record.all.lblUpdateCount; pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.showRecordView); pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.showUpdateView); // -- "VIEW SELECTED" pg.record.btnViewUpdate = myLocationDB.PanelButton(pg.record.all.btnViewUpdate); pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setTitle("View details for the selected problem update"); pg.record.btnViewUpdate.onclick = pg.showUpdateView; pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState = function(){ pg.record.btnViewUpdate.disable(!pg.record.updates.lastSelected); } pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState); // -- COMMENTS pg.record.comments = pg.record.all.comments; pg.record.pnlComments = pg.record.all.pnlComments; pg.record.lblCommentCount = pg.record.all.lblCommentCount; // -- UPDATE COMMENTS pg.record.btnUpdateComments = myLocationDB.PanelButton(pg.record.all.btnUpdateComments); pg.record.btnUpdateComments.onclick = pg.showCommentView; pg.record.btnUpdateComments.title = "Update this record's comments"; // -- LINKED NOTES pg.record.linkedNotes = pg.record.all.linkedNotes.all.grid; pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.linkedRecordClick); pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.openLinkedNote); pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.setLinkedNotes_Count); // -- LINKED ORDERS pg.record.linkedOrders = pg.record.all.linkedOrders.all.grid; pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.linkedRecordClick); pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.openLinkedOrder); pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.setLinkedOrders_Count); // -- "CLOSE" pg.record.btnClose = pg.record.all.btnClose; pg.record.btnClose.tabIndex = 15; pg.record.btnClose.onclick = pg.hideRecordView; pg.record.btnClose.title = "Close this record panel"; // -- LAST UPDATED BY pg.record.lblUpdatedBy = pg.record.all.lblUpdatedBy; // -- "SELECT ALL" pg.record.chkSelectAll = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkSelectAll); pg.record.chkSelectAll.onclick = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ if(pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked){ pg.record.linkedNotes.selectAll(); } else { pg.record.linkedNotes.deselectAll(); } } else { if(pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked){ pg.record.linkedOrders.selectAll(); } else { pg.record.linkedOrders.deselectAll(); } } pg.record.btnOpen.setState(); //pg.record.btnViewLabs.setState(); } pg.record.chkSelectAll.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked = pg.record.linkedNotes.selectedRows.length == pg.record.linkedNotes.rows.length; } else { pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked = pg.record.linkedOrders.selectedRows.length == pg.record.linkedOrders.rows.length; } } // -- "OPEN SELECTED" pg.record.btnOpen = pg.record.all.btnOpenSelected; pg.record.btnOpen.tabIndex = 14; pg.record.btnOpen.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.record.btnOpen.title = "Open the selected record"; pg.record.btnOpen.onclick = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.openLinkedNote(); } else if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.openLinkedOrder(); } else { pg.record.btnOpen.disable(true); } } pg.record.btnOpen.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.disable(!pg.record.linkedNotes.lastSelected); } else if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.disable(pg.record.linkedOrders.selectedRows.length != 1); } else { pg.record.btnOpen.disable(true); } } // -- "SAVE" pg.record.btnSave = pg.record.all.btnSave; pg.record.btnSave.tabIndex = 14; pg.record.btnSave.onclick = pg.updateRecord_Request; pg.record.btnSave.title = "Save changes to this record"; // RECORD UPDATE SUBWIN pg.recordUpdate = da.subWin_update; pg.recordUpdate.lblUpdatedBy = pg.recordUpdate.all.lblUpdatedBy; pg.recordUpdate.lblUpdateDTS = pg.recordUpdate.all.lblUpdateDTS; pg.recordUpdate.type = pg.recordUpdate.all.type; pg.recordUpdate.onsetDate = pg.recordUpdate.all.onsetDate; pg.recordUpdate.description = pg.recordUpdate.all.description; pg.recordUpdate.resolveDate = pg.recordUpdate.all.resolveDate; pg.recordUpdate.assessmentType = pg.recordUpdate.all.assessmentType; // -- "CLOSE" pg.recordUpdate.btnClose = pg.recordUpdate.all.btnClose; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.tabIndex = 1; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.onclick = pg.hideUpdateView; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.title = "Close this sub-window"; // COMMENTS SUBWIN pg.recordComments = da.subWin_comments; pg.recordComments.comments = pg.recordComments.all.updateComments; pg.recordComments.comment

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