David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
There are some example content objects in
src/examples for you to try out, for example:

ant -Dcontent.object.dir=[FORREST2_HOME]/src/examples/helloWorld -Dcontent.object.start.uri=helloWorld.html run

I hope you have more success with this, of course, let me know if you don't
Doesn't work for me: "Mac OS X" Java5:

svn up
cd /svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core
ant clean; ant compile-core
ant -Dcontent.object.dir=src/examples/helloWorld -Dcontent.object.start.uri=helloWorld.html run
...
...
[java] 0 [main] INFO org.apache.forrest.core.Controller (?:?) - Using Spring Context definition in src/forrestContext.xml [java] org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from file [/svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core/src/examples/helloWorld/svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core/src/examples/helloWorld/src/forrestContext.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core/src/examples/helloWorld/src/forrestContext.xml (No such file or directory) [java] Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core/src/examples/helloWorld/src/forrestContext.xml (No such file or directory)
   [java]     at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
...

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Seems to be mangling the pathname somehow. Also tried with
full pathname for content.object.dir with same result.
That forrestContext.xml file should exist in the location indicated (assuming svn/asf/forrest/whiteboard/forrest2/core is the path to your forrest2 code). See [1]

Can you please verify that is the case.
I checked all that before sending the errors.

As i said, please note the mangled paths and the missing leading slash
on the Exception messages.
Sorry for being dense, I only looked at the "Caused by:" part of the report, not the original IO Exception. Interestingly they give two different paths.

The first path is mangled, the second path is missing the leading slash.
Perhaps as a result of the first mess.

Anyway, I note your ANT command is:

ant -Dcontent.object.dir=src/examples/helloWorld -Dcontent.object.start.uri=helloWorld.html run

This works OK for me (Cygwin on Windows XP), so I guess this is a MacOS thing.

My unsaid question is: Is there specific code anywhere in forrest2
that builds that pathname? It might have some "file:" handling which
is a typical thing that causes pathname errors between UNIX/Windows.

I really am trying to do too many things tonight (the Ashes have start as well, so that's me out of the real world for 5 days)

It's in http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/forrest2/core/src/core/org/apache/forrest/core/Controller.java?revision=477949&view=markup

The CLI calls the default constructor which calls this("src/locationmap.xml", "src/forrestContext.xml");

The file resolution is in the parameterised constructor and consists of two parts:

final File file = new File(contextPath);

and

this.context = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(file .getAbsolutePath());

(contextPath in the first line is the "src/forrestContext.xml")

The problem is that getAbsolutePath() should be getPath().

I've made the change, please test.

Ross