Thread: Re: [Ogoglio-developers] Ogoglio-developers post from michel.m.denis@orange.fr requires approval

Oh, ok, I have a theory:  This may be a locale problem and a bug in the 
parsing code.  The immediate workaround would be to set your locale for 
java (or perhaps the whole machine if that can't be done--use the 
windows regional settings control panel) to be English (en) with the 
region being US.  The problem is that the french locale (probably set to 
something like fr, FR_EURO) using "," as the separator for floating 
point numbers and parts of our code must depend on "." being the 
separator (which is the case with en, US). 

http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.util/SetDefLocale.html


If you want to try to actually fix the problem (to great applause from 
Europe!) I'd look at the XMLElement.java file (in 
ogoglio-common/src/main/java/nanoxml) around line 1114.  
Float.parseFloat isn't interantionalized

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4449157

so I would figure that it could be changed to use DecimalFormat

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html

Please advise if you get this to work!
thanks
ian smith

Argh, I'll fix the tutorial and sample server.xml right now.  That's my 
fault.

However, you should make the value of simFilter = "false" for a 
development machine.  You can use any value for simFilterPort, but I use 
"0".  When simFilter is false, the simFilterPort will not be used. 

FYI: The only time you need simFilter turned on is when you are running 
a production machine and you don't want "outside" connections to it's 
sim port.  That's why those configuration options are in there at all.

I believe that tomcat is smart enough to "fix" pathnames like 
conf/users.xml when on a windows machine.

thanks for tracking this down on windows!

ian

 <Environment name="simFilter" value="false" type="java.lang.String"/>
        <!-- simFilterPortDoesn't matter unless simFilter is true and 
developers don't want that-->
        <!-- but you want to keep in here so that tools that examine 
this file can find it -->
        <Environment name="simFilterPort" value="0" 
type="java.lang.String"/>



Michel DENIS wrote:
>
> Ian: yeh your theory seems correct: as a first step I changed the 
> Windows regional settings to English/US, rebooted and it works. Later 
> I will attempt the clean way .. but first I'd like to see the whole 
> thing working...
> After that I maven'ed again, had to correct the tomcat.home, maven'ed 
> again and broke on a mismatch between server.xml (from tomcat) and 
> context.xml (from ogoglio-server): simFilter and simFilterPort are in 
> context.xml but not in server.xml (the Ogoglio Developer Tutorial does 
> not ask for these 2 lines to be added) .. the run suggests to add 
> these to server.xml but I don't know the "values" to enter inline:
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [INFO] Building Unnamed - com.ogoglio:ogoglio-server:war:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
>
> [INFO] task-segment: [clean, install]
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [INFO] [clean:clean]
>
> [INFO] Deleting directory C:\tmp\trunk\ogoglio-server\target
>
> [INFO] [resources:resources]
>
> [INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
>
> [INFO] [og:verifyEnvironment {execution: verifyXMLProperties}]
>
> [INFO] Verifying project context variables against server.xml config 
> in tomcat.
>
> [ERROR] Bad tomcat config file server.xml. You seem to be missing:
>
> [ERROR] <Environment name="simFilterPort" value="someValue" 
> type="java.lang.String"/>
>
> [ERROR] <Environment name="simFilter" value="someValue" 
> type="java.lang.String"/>
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [INFO] Failed to verify that server.xml and context.xml are in sync!
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Do you know which values (for "someValue"'s) I should enter ?
>
> BTW i just see that I did not modify the pathname for UserDatabase in 
> server.xml: I left it to "conf/tomcat-users.xml" and did not get an 
> error (yet) .. for Windows I suspect that here too I should change the 
> / into a \ .. ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> -michel
>
>     > Message du 28/12/07 01:47
>     > De : "Ian Smith"
>     > A : "Michel DENIS" , ogo...@li...
>     > Copie à :
>     > Objet : Re: Ogoglio-developers post from
>     mic...@or... requires approval
>     >
>     > Oh, ok, I have a theory: This may be a locale problem and a bug
>     in the
>     > parsing code. The immediate workaround would be to set your
>     locale for
>     > java (or perhaps the whole machine if that can't be done--use the
>     > windows regional settings control panel) to be English (en) with
>     the
>     > region being US. The problem is that the french locale (probably
>     set to
>     > something like fr, FR_EURO) using "," as the separator for floating
>     > point numbers and parts of our code must depend on "." being the
>     > separator (which is the case with en, US).
>     >
>     > http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.util/SetDefLocale.html
>     >
>     >
>     > If you want to try to actually fix the problem (to great
>     applause from
>     > Europe!) I'd look at the XMLElement.java file (in
>     > ogoglio-common/src/main/java/nanoxml) around line 1114.
>     > Float.parseFloat isn't interantionalized
>     >
>     > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4449157
>     >
>     > so I would figure that it could be changed to use DecimalFormat
>     >
>     > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html
>     >
>     > Please advise if you get this to work!
>     > thanks
>     > ian smith
>     >
>     >
>     > [ iansmith.vcf (0.3 Ko) ]
>

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