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  • How to verify object creation in Django ?

    - by Martin
    So.. this never crossed my head before but now I just can't figure out how to do that !! I want to verify that the object I created was really created, and return True or False according to that : obj = object(name='plop') try: obj.save() return True except ???: return False Any idea ? Cheers, -M

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  • global counter in application: bad practice?

    - by Martin
    In my C++ application I sometimes create different output files for troubleshooting purposes. Each file is created at a different step of our pipelined operation and it's hard to know file came before which other one (file timestamps all show the same date). I'm thinking of adding a global counter in my application, and a function (with multithreading protection) which increments and returns that global counter. Then I can use that counter as part of the filenames I create. Is this considered bad practice? Many different modules need to create files and they're not necessarily connected to each other.

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  • Rails forms: render different actions based on validation

    - by Martin Petrov
    Is it possible to render different actions based on what fails at validation? For example - I have one field in the form - email addres. It is validated like this: validates :email, :presence => true, :uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false } In the controller: def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) if @user.save redirect_to somewhere else # render :new if email is blank # redirect_to somwhere if email is taken end end

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  • Ruby on Rails in SpringSource tool suite?

    - by Martin Klosi
    I have been using Grails for some time now, but in school they are making us use Ruby on Rails. I have been trying to find an extension for ruby on rails for STS as there is for Grails, but I have failed. The only thing that comes close is a plugin so i can use ruby code in my Grails app using JRuby. I just want to make sure that a fully integrated extension DOESN'T exist. If that is the case, what would be the graphical IDE way of developing in ruby on rails, the same way one would use STS for Groovy on Grails development? (preferably free :) )

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  • Writing module to get video/audio from HDMI

    - by Martin
    I would like to write a small module that can check if anything is connected to my computer's HDMI input, and if so write a frame of video to bitmap once in a while. Can anyone point me to resources regarding grabbing audio/video from HDMI on windows?

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  • How can I get all the versions of a given file?

    - by Martin
    I would like to obtain all the versions of a given file in my SVN repository. For instance, let's say that the file ThirdPartyAssembly.dll was checked 3 times, is there a command that will get me all the version on my HD (e.g. ThirdPartyAssembly.dll.v1, ThirdPartyAssembly.dll.v2, ThirdPartyAssembly.dll.v3, etc.)? Thanks!

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  • Help with java threads or executors: Executing several MySQL selects, inserts and updates simmultane

    - by Martin
    Hi. I'm writing an application to analyse a MySQL database, and I need to execute several DMLs simmultaneously; for example: // In ResultSet rsA: Select * from A; rsA.beforeFirst(); while (rsA.next()) { id = rsA.getInt("id"); // Retrieve data from table B: Select * from B where B.Id=" + id; // Crunch some numbers using the data from B // Close resultset B } I'm declaring an array of data objects, each with its own Connection to the database, which in turn calls several methods for the data analysis. The problem is all threads use the same connection, thus all tasks throw exceptios: "Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction" I believe there is a way to write the code in such a way that any given object has its own connection and executes the required tasks independent from any other object. For example: DataObject dataObject[0] = new DataObject(id[0]); DataObject dataObject[1] = new DataObject(id[1]); DataObject dataObject[2] = new DataObject(id[2]); ... DataObject dataObject[N] = new DataObject(id[N]); // The 'DataObject' class has its own connection to the database, // so each instance of the object should use its own connection. // It also has a "run" method, which contains all the tasks required. Executor ex = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10); for(i=0;i<=N;i++) { ex.execute(dataObject[i]); } // Here where the problem is: Each instance creates a new connection, // but every DML from any of the objects is cluttered in just one connection // (in MySQL command line, "SHOW PROCESSLIST;" throws every connection, and all but // one are idle). Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks

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  • Best method to cache objects in PHP?

    - by Martin Bean
    Hi, I'm currently developing a large site that handles user registrations. A social networking website for argument's sake. However, I've noticed a lag in page loads and deciphered that it is the creation of objects on pages that's slowing things down. For example, I have a Member object, that when instantiated with an ID passed as a construct parameter, it queries the database for that members' row in the members database table. Not bad, but this is created each time a page is loaded; and called more than once when say, calling an array of that particular members' friends, as a new Member object is created for each friend. So on a single page I can have upwards of seven of the same object, but containing different properties. What I'm wanting to do is to find a way to reduce the database load, and to allow persist objects between page loads. For example, the logged in user's object to be created on login (which I can do) but then stored somewhere for retrieval so I don't have to keep re-creating the object between page loads. What is the best solution for this? I've had a look at Memcache, but with it being a third-party module I can't have the web host install it on this occasion. What are my alternatives, and/or best practices in my case? Thanks in advance.

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  • Dynamic search result when typing

    - by Martin
    I'm using asp.net and want to filter a search result everytime the user enter letters in a textbox. For exmaple this website do exactly what I want: http://www.prisjakt.nu/ (try searching in the right top corner). I have tried just putting my textbox and the gridview with the search result in an updatepanel, it's working but it's really slow, can I make it faster and how? Is there any articles or something about this?

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  • Notify the user on Facebook at some time

    - by martin.malek
    Let's say I have a Facebook application which is monitoring friends birthdays. I want to notify the user that her friend will have a birthday in next two days. The first part is only cron which will check the dates, but is there any way how to notify the user? I didn't found anything for this. It was there a year ago but all of the API changes it looks like the removed all offline messages. I don't want to send an email to the user, it will be much more better to stay with everything on Facebook.

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  • regex. How can I match the value between '+' and ':' ?

    - by martin
    I have this string: sometext +[value]:- I would like to match the value(1-3 numerical characters) (with regex, javascript) sometext may contain a +sign if i'm unlucky so I don't wanna end up with matching some +text +value:- I sat up last night banging my head against this, so I would be really glad if someone could help me.

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  • Swap function for a char*

    - by Martin
    I have the simple function below which swap two characters of an array of characters (s). However, I am getting a "Unhandled exception at 0x01151cd7 in Bla.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x011557a4." error. The two indexes (left and right) are within the limit of the array. What am I doing wrong? void swap(char* s, int left, int right) { char tmp = s[left]; s[left] = s[right]; s[right] = tmp; } swap("ABC", 0, 1); I am using VS2010 with unmanaged C/C++. Thanks!

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  • detect when a webpage is updated

    - by Martin Trigaux
    Hello, There is a website (very simple) which will be updated soon and I'd like to receive an alert at the moment it changes (like a sound, a popup,...) I guess I should send request every x minutes and compare the result with what's now but I don't know how to do that. I don't really care about the language used, I know java, python, php, a bit of c and bash (I'm on linux)... Thank you

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  • Help me with query string parameters (Rails)

    - by Martin Petrov
    Hi, I'm creating a newsletter. Each email contains a link for editing your subscription: <%= edit_user_url(@user, :secret => @user.created_at.to_i) %> :secret = @user.created_at.to_i prevents users from editing each others profiles. def edit @user = user.find(params[:id]) if params[:secret] == @user.created_at.to_i render 'edit' else redirect_to root_path end end It doesn't work - you're always redirected to root_path. It works if I modify it like this: def edit @user = user.find(params[:id]) if params[:secret] == "1293894219" ... 1293894219 is the "created_at.to_i" for a particular user. Do you have any ideas why?

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  • is there a 'git find'?

    - by Martin DeMello
    Is there a git find analogue of git grep, i.e., something that will find a filename by pattern in the tree? I've gone through a lot of git documentation and not found this, but I'm having a hard time believing it doesn't exist somewhere.

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  • jquery small issue I need help with

    - by Martin
    Hi I need help with a bit of jquery, I am renaming dropdown lists when a checkbox next to them is clicked. I want to get the selected option value of the dropdown called 'Prev' in the code below and assign to the checkbox that is clicked. I hope it makes sense. Thanks $('.mutuallyexclusive').live("click", function() { checkedState = $(this).attr('checked'); $('.mutuallyexclusive:checked').each(function() { $(this).attr('checked', false); $(this).attr('name', 'chk'); }); $(this).attr('checked', checkedState); if (checkedState) { jQuery('#myForm select[name=cat.parent_id]').attr('name', 'bar') // here is the bit i need help with var prev = $(this).prev('select').attr("name", 'cat.parent_id'); } else { var prev = $(this).prev('select').attr("name", 'dd'); } }); });

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  • WhatsApp - writing a clone (iphone, android, wp7)

    - by Martin
    I am trying to create a instant messaging app very much like whatsapp I suppose. My resources I have available to me are Server development in C# (REST Service, dedicated server app etc) And currently an android development platform using eclipse (iphone, wp7 to follow later). I have done some development in Android before but I don't have any idea where to start an application like this. My guess would be it would work with UDP / TCP or similar ? I currently have a shared server for an asp.net website but I presume this wouldn't be ideal, I could essential setup a web service on the server and get a client to publish his messages there but then this would mean that the receivers would have to POLL (PULL) every 5 minutes or so - so I guess this wouldn't be real time Do I need to use UDP here ? And I presume platforms like Iphone, Android and WP7 will not have any issues sending msgs by UDP - if that is how its done. I look forward to any help or guidance.

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  • Download a file+

    - by Martin
    Hi, First PHP project and I'm stuck! I wish to allow users to click a button or a link and download a file. However, my PHP must first perform some tasks, choose the right file, record the download event in a db etc. This I can do, but how do I then send the file as a response to the user's click? Thanks for any help.

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  • C++ simple logging class with UTF-8 output [code example]

    - by Andrew
    Hello everyone, I was working on one of my academic projects and for the first time I needed pure C++ without GUI. After googling for a while, I did not find any simple and easy to use implementation for logging and created my own. This is a simple implementation with iostreams that logs messages to screen and to the file simultaneously. I was thinking of using templates but then I realized that I do not expect any changes and removed that. It is modified std::wostream with two added modifiers: 1. TimeStamp - prints time-stamp 2. LogMode(LogModes) - switches output: file only, screen only, file+screen. *Boost::utf8_codecvt_facet* is used for UTF-8 output. // ############################################################################ // # Name: MyLog.h # // # Purpose: Logging Class Header # // # Author: Andrew Drach # // # Modified by: <somebody> # // # Created: 03/21/10 # // # SVN-ID: $Id$ # // # Copyright: (c) 2010 Andrew Drach # // # Licence: <license> # // ############################################################################ #ifndef INCLUDED_MYLOG_H #define INCLUDED_MYLOG_H // headers -------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <exception> #include <boost/program_options/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp> using namespace std; // definitions ---------------------------------------------------------------- // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // DblBuf class // Splits up output stream into two // Inspired by http://wordaligned.org/articles/cpp-streambufs // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class DblBuf : public wstreambuf { private: // private member declarations DblBuf(); wstreambuf *bf1; wstreambuf *bf2; virtual int_type overflow(int_type ch) { int_type eof = traits_type::eof(); int_type not_eof = !eof; if ( traits_type::eq_int_type(ch,eof) ) return not_eof; else { char_type ch1 = traits_type::to_char_type(ch); int_type r1( bf1on ? bf1->sputc(ch1) : not_eof ); int_type r2( bf2on ? bf2->sputc(ch1) : not_eof ); return (traits_type::eq_int_type(r1,eof) || traits_type::eq_int_type(r2,eof) ) ? eof : ch; } } virtual int sync() { int r1( bf1on ? bf1->pubsync() : NULL ); int r2( bf2on ? bf2->pubsync() : NULL ); return (r1 == 0 && r2 == 0) ? 0 : -1; } public: // public member declarations explicit DblBuf(wstreambuf *bf1, wstreambuf *bf2) : bf1(bf1), bf2(bf2) { if (bf1) bf1on = true; else bf1on = false; if (bf2) bf2on = true; else bf2on = false; } bool bf1on; bool bf2on; }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // logstream class // Wrapper for a standard wostream with access to modified buffer // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class logstream : public wostream { private: // private member declarations logstream(); public: // public member declarations DblBuf *buf; explicit logstream(wstreambuf *StrBuf, bool isStd = false) : wostream(StrBuf, isStd), buf((DblBuf*)StrBuf) {} }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Logging mode Class // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- enum LogModes{LogToFile=1, LogToScreen, LogToBoth}; class LogMode { private: // private member declarations LogMode(); short mode; public: // public member declarations LogMode(short mode1) : mode(mode1) {} logstream& operator()(logstream &stream1) { switch(mode) { case LogToFile: stream1.buf->bf1on = true; stream1.buf->bf2on = false; break; case LogToScreen: stream1.buf->bf1on = false; stream1.buf->bf2on = true; break; case LogToBoth: stream1.buf->bf1on = true; stream1.buf->bf2on = true; } return stream1; } }; logstream& operator<<(logstream &out, LogMode mode) { return mode(out); } wostream& TimeStamp1(wostream &out1) { time_t time1; struct tm timeinfo; wchar_t timestr[512]; // Get current time and convert it to a string time(&time1); localtime_s (&timeinfo, &time1); wcsftime(timestr, 512,L"[%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S %p] ",&timeinfo); return out1 << timestr; } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog class // Logs events to both file and screen // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class MyLog { private: // private member declarations MyLog(); auto_ptr<DblBuf> buf; string mErrorMsg1; string mErrorMsg2; string mErrorMsg3; string mErrorMsg4; public: // public member declarations explicit MyLog(string FileName1, wostream *ScrLog1, locale utf8locale1); ~MyLog(); void NewEvent(wstring str1, bool TimeStamp = true); string FileName; wostream *ScrLog; wofstream File; auto_ptr<logstream> Log; locale utf8locale; }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog constructor // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MyLog::MyLog(string FileName1, wostream *ScrLog1, locale utf8locale1) : // ctors mErrorMsg1("Failed to open file for application logging! []"), mErrorMsg2("Failed to write BOM! []"), mErrorMsg3("Failed to write to file! []"), mErrorMsg4("Failed to close file! []"), FileName(FileName1), ScrLog(ScrLog1), utf8locale(utf8locale1), File(FileName1.c_str()) { // Adjust error strings mErrorMsg1.insert(mErrorMsg1.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg2.insert(mErrorMsg2.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg3.insert(mErrorMsg3.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg4.insert(mErrorMsg4.length()-1,FileName1); // check for file open errors if ( !File ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg1); // write UTF-8 BOM File << wchar_t(0xEF) << wchar_t(0xBB) << wchar_t(0xBF); // switch locale to UTF-8 File.imbue(utf8locale); // check for write errors if ( File.bad() ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg2); buf.reset( new DblBuf(File.rdbuf(),ScrLog->rdbuf()) ); Log.reset( new logstream(&*buf) ); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog destructor // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MyLog::~MyLog() { *Log << TimeStamp1 << "Log finished." << endl; // clean up objects Log.reset(); buf.reset(); File.close(); // check for file close errors if ( File.bad() ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg4); } //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #endif // INCLUDED_MYLOG_H Tested on MSVC 2008, boost 1.42. I do not know if this is the right place to share it. Hope it helps anybody. Feel free to make it better.

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  • Only error showing is null, rss feed reader not working

    - by Callum
    I have been following a tutorial which is showing me how to create an rssfeed reader, I come to the end of the tutorial; and the feed is not displaying in the listView. So I am looking for errors in logCat, but the only one I can find is one just saying 'null', which is not helpful at all. Can anyone spot a potential problem with the code I have written? Thanks. DirectRSS(main class): package com.example.rssapplication; import java.util.List; import android.app.ListActivity; import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.ListView; public class DirectRSS extends ListActivity{ @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.directrss); //Set to portrait, so that every time the view changes; it does not run the DB query again... setRequestedOrientation (ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); try{ RssReader1 rssReader = new RssReader1("http://www.skysports.com/rss/0,20514,11661,00.xml"); ListView list = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list); ArrayAdapter<RssItem1> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RssItem1>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1); list.setAdapter(adapter); list.setOnItemClickListener(new ListListener1(rssReader.getItems(),this)); }catch(Exception e) { String err = (e.getMessage()==null)?"SD Card failed": e.getMessage(); Log.e("sdcard-err2:",err + " " + e.getMessage()); // Log.e("Error", e.getMessage()); Log.e("LOGCAT", "" + e.getMessage()); } } } ListListener1: package com.example.rssapplication; import java.util.List; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.net.Uri; import android.view.View; import android.widget.AdapterView; import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener; public class ListListener1 implements OnItemClickListener{ List<RssItem1> listItems; Activity activity; public ListListener1(List<RssItem1> listItems, Activity activity) { this.listItems = listItems; this.activity = activity; } @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setData(Uri.parse(listItems.get(pos).getLink())); activity.startActivity(i); } } RssItem1: package com.example.rssapplication; public class RssItem1 { private String title; private String link; public String getTitle() { return title; } public void setTitle(String title) { this.title = title; } public String getLink() { return link; } public void setLink(String link) { this.link = link; } } RssParseHandler1: package com.example.rssapplication; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import org.xml.sax.Attributes; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler; public class RssParseHandler1 extends DefaultHandler{ private List<RssItem1> rssItems; private RssItem1 currentItem; private boolean parsingTitle; private boolean parsingLink; public RssParseHandler1(){ rssItems = new ArrayList<RssItem1>(); } public List<RssItem1> getItems(){ return rssItems; } @Override public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { if("item".equals(qName)){ currentItem = new RssItem1(); } else if("title".equals(qName)){ parsingTitle = true; } else if("link".equals(qName)){ parsingLink = true; } // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.startElement(uri, localName, qName, attributes); } @Override public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException { if("item".equals(qName)){ rssItems.add(currentItem); currentItem = null; } else if("title".equals(qName)){ parsingTitle = false; } else if("link".equals(qName)){ parsingLink = false; } // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.endElement(uri, localName, qName); } @Override public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException { if(parsingTitle) { if(currentItem!=null) { currentItem.setTitle(new String(ch,start,length)); } } else if(parsingLink) { if(currentItem!=null) { currentItem.setLink(new String(ch,start,length)); parsingLink = false; } } // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.characters(ch, start, length); } } RssReader1: package com.example.rssapplication; import java.util.List; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; public class RssReader1 { private String rssUrl; public RssReader1(String rssUrl) { this.rssUrl = rssUrl; } public List<RssItem1> getItems() throws Exception { SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser(); RssParseHandler1 handler = new RssParseHandler1(); saxParser.parse(rssUrl, handler); return handler.getItems(); } } Here is the logCat also: 08-25 11:13:20.803: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.803: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.803: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.813: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.813: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.813: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.813: W/ApplicationPackageManager(26291): getCSCPackageItemText() 08-25 11:13:20.843: D/AbsListView(26291): Get MotionRecognitionManager 08-25 11:13:20.843: E/sdcard-err2:(26291): SD Card failed null 08-25 11:13:20.843: E/LOGCAT(26291): null 08-25 11:13:20.843: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:20.843: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.873: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 0 08-25 11:13:20.883: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.903: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.933: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.963: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:20.973: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.323: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called 08-25 11:13:21.333: D/AbsListView(26291): onVisibilityChanged() is called, visibility : 4 08-25 11:13:21.333: D/AbsListView(26291): unregisterIRListener() is called

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  • Translating with Google Translate without API and C# Code

    - by Rick Strahl
    Some time back I created a data base driven ASP.NET Resource Provider along with some tools that make it easy to edit ASP.NET resources interactively in a Web application. One of the small helper features of the interactive resource admin tool is the ability to do simple translations using both Google Translate and Babelfish. Here's what this looks like in the resource administration form: When a resource is displayed, the user can click a Translate button and it will show the current resource text and then lets you set the source and target languages to translate. The Go button fires the translation for both Google and Babelfish and displays them - pressing use then changes the language of the resource to the target language and sets the resource value to the newly translated value. It's a nice and quick way to get a quick translation going. Ch… Ch… Changes Originally, both implementations basically did some screen scraping of the interactive Web sites and retrieved translated text out of result HTML. Screen scraping is always kind of an iffy proposition as content can be changed easily, but surprisingly that code worked for many years without fail. Recently however, Google at least changed their input pages to use AJAX callbacks and the page updates no longer worked the same way. End result: The Google translate code was broken. Now, Google does have an official API that you can access, but the API is being deprecated and you actually need to have an API key. Since I have public samples that people can download the API key is an issue if I want people to have the samples work out of the box - the only way I could even do this is by sharing my API key (not allowed).   However, after a bit of spelunking and playing around with the public site however I found that Google's interactive translate page actually makes callbacks using plain public access without an API key. By intercepting some of those AJAX calls and calling them directly from code I was able to get translation back up and working with minimal fuss, by parsing out the JSON these AJAX calls return. I don't think this particular Warning: This is hacky code, but after a fair bit of testing I found this to work very well with all sorts of languages and accented and escaped text etc. as long as you stick to small blocks of translated text. I thought I'd share it in case anybody else had been relying on a screen scraping mechanism like I did and needed a non-API based replacement. Here's the code: /// <summary> /// Translates a string into another language using Google's translate API JSON calls. /// <seealso>Class TranslationServices</seealso> /// </summary> /// <param name="Text">Text to translate. Should be a single word or sentence.</param> /// <param name="FromCulture"> /// Two letter culture (en of en-us, fr of fr-ca, de of de-ch) /// </param> /// <param name="ToCulture"> /// Two letter culture (as for FromCulture) /// </param> public string TranslateGoogle(string text, string fromCulture, string toCulture) { fromCulture = fromCulture.ToLower(); toCulture = toCulture.ToLower(); // normalize the culture in case something like en-us was passed // retrieve only en since Google doesn't support sub-locales string[] tokens = fromCulture.Split('-'); if (tokens.Length > 1) fromCulture = tokens[0]; // normalize ToCulture tokens = toCulture.Split('-'); if (tokens.Length > 1) toCulture = tokens[0]; string url = string.Format(@"http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=j&text={0}&hl=en&sl={1}&tl={2}", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(text),fromCulture,toCulture); // Retrieve Translation with HTTP GET call string html = null; try { WebClient web = new WebClient(); // MUST add a known browser user agent or else response encoding doen't return UTF-8 (WTF Google?) web.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent, "Mozilla/5.0"); web.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptCharset, "UTF-8"); // Make sure we have response encoding to UTF-8 web.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; html = web.DownloadString(url); } catch (Exception ex) { this.ErrorMessage = Westwind.Globalization.Resources.Resources.ConnectionFailed + ": " + ex.GetBaseException().Message; return null; } // Extract out trans":"...[Extracted]...","from the JSON string string result = Regex.Match(html, "trans\":(\".*?\"),\"", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups[1].Value; if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(result)) { this.ErrorMessage = Westwind.Globalization.Resources.Resources.InvalidSearchResult; return null; } //return WebUtils.DecodeJsString(result); // Result is a JavaScript string so we need to deserialize it properly JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer(); return ser.Deserialize(result, typeof(string)) as string; } To use the code is straightforward enough - simply provide a string to translate and a pair of two letter source and target languages: string result = service.TranslateGoogle("Life is great and one is spoiled when it goes on and on and on", "en", "de"); TestContext.WriteLine(result); How it works The code to translate is fairly straightforward. It basically uses the URL I snagged from the Google Translate Web Page slightly changed to return a JSON result (&client=j) instead of the funky nested PHP style JSON array that the default returns. The JSON result returned looks like this: {"sentences":[{"trans":"Das Leben ist großartig und man wird verwöhnt, wenn es weiter und weiter und weiter geht","orig":"Life is great and one is spoiled when it goes on and on and on","translit":"","src_translit":""}],"src":"en","server_time":24} I use WebClient to make an HTTP GET call to retrieve the JSON data and strip out part of the full JSON response that contains the actual translated text. Since this is a JSON response I need to deserialize the JSON string in case it's encoded (for upper/lower ASCII chars or quotes etc.). Couple of odd things to note in this code: First note that a valid user agent string must be passed (or at least one starting with a common browser identification - I use Mozilla/5.0). Without this Google doesn't encode the result with UTF-8, but instead uses a ISO encoding that .NET can't easily decode. Google seems to ignore the character set header and use the user agent instead which is - odd to say the least. The other is that the code returns a full JSON response. Rather than use the full response and decode it into a custom type that matches Google's result object, I just strip out the translated text. Yeah I know that's hacky but avoids an extra type and firing up the JavaScript deserializer. My internal version uses a small DecodeJsString() method to decode Javascript without the overhead of a full JSON parser. It's obviously not rocket science but as mentioned above what's nice about it is that it works without an Google API key. I can't vouch on how many translates you can do before there are cut offs but in my limited testing running a few stress tests on a Web server under load I didn't run into any problems. Limitations There are some restrictions with this: It only works on single words or single sentences - multiple sentences (delimited by .) are cut off at the ".". There is also a length limitation which appears to happen at around 220 characters or so. While that may not sound  like much for typical word or phrase translations this this is plenty of length. Use with a grain of salt - Google seems to be trying to limit their exposure to usage of the Translate APIs so this code might break in the future, but for now at least it works. FWIW, I also found that Google's translation is not as good as Babelfish, especially for contextual content like sentences. Google is faster, but Babelfish tends to give better translations. This is why in my translation tool I show both Google and Babelfish values retrieved. You can check out the code for this in the West Wind West Wind Web Toolkit's TranslationService.cs file which contains both the Google and Babelfish translation code pieces. Ironically the Babelfish code has been working forever using screen scraping and continues to work just fine today. I think it's a good idea to have multiple translation providers in case one is down or changes its format, hence the dual display in my translation form above. I hope this has been helpful to some of you - I've actually had many small uses for this code in a number of applications and it's sweet to have a simple routine that performs these operations for me easily. Resources Live Localization Sample Localization Resource Provider Administration form that includes options to translate text using Google and Babelfish interactively. TranslationService.cs The full source code in the West Wind West Wind Web Toolkit's Globalization library that contains the translation code. © Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2011Posted in CSharp  HTTP   Tweet (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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  • CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, March 25, 2010

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So now it...WPF Dynamic Data Display: Silverlight DynamicDataDisplay v0.2 - Spring 2010: Silverlight version of WPF DynamicDataDisplay charting library The version 0.2 shows a greater performance comparing with version 0.1 while having...Most Popular ProjectsMetaSharpRawrWBFS ManagerASP.NET Ajax LibrarySilverlight ToolkitMicrosoft SQL Server Product Samples: DatabaseAJAX Control ToolkitLiveUpload to FacebookWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)ASP.NETMost Active ProjectsRawrjQuery Library for SharePoint Web ServicesFarseer Physics EngineBlogEngine.NETFacebook Developer ToolkitNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModulePHPExcelTable2ClassFluent Ribbon Control SuiteLINQ to Twitter

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