Hi Danny,

thanks for answering. please see my comments inline.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:03, Danny Sokolsky
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jakob,
>
> Debugging things on the task server can be a little tricky...
>
> When you say manually it works, what do you mean?  If you do an:
>
> xdmp:invoke("/app/backend/update.xqy") it works?

yes, it does.

> The exception you are seeing can happen if the document 
> /app/backend/update.xqy is not loaded as a text document, or if the document 
> cannot be found (or if there is a permission issue causing it not to be 
> found, but since you are running as admin that should not be the 
> case--assuming your admin user has the admin role).  So the first thing to 
> verify is that the doistats-database database has the app/backend/update.xqy 
> document loaded as a text file.
>
> For example, if you load a main module as follows, then you can confirm it is 
> a text document as follows:
>
> xdmp:document-insert("/test/test.xqy", text {"'hello'"}) ;
>
> if ( doc("/test/test.xqy")/node()
>       instance of text() )
> then "text"
> else "not text"

doing this for my xquery file returns, as hoped for, "text".

> And yes, to change a scheduled task you must delete it and then recreate it.

yes, this has become an RFE, it seems. :)

so, does this mean, on paper everything works as it should?  what's
the next step to test?  could you explain the idea behind the task
root property, I haven't grasped it so far.

> -Danny

thanks,
Jakob.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:09 AM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] scheduled task (task root?)
>
> I've created a scheduled task in MLS 4.1.  It does not run:
>
> not with "/" as the task root
> 2009-08-08 21:32:00.106 Notice: TaskServer: XDMP-TEXTNODE:
> /app/backend/upate.xqy -- Server unable to build program from non-text
> document
> 2009-08-08 21:32:00.106 Notice: TaskServer: in /app/backend/upate.xqy [1.0-ml]
>
> nor with "http://server:8004/";
> 2009-08-10 12:00:00.050 Notice: TaskServer: XDMP-TEXTNODE:
> http://server:8004/app/backend/update.xqy -- Server unable to build
> program from non-text document
> 2009-08-10 12:00:00.050 Notice: TaskServer: in /app/backend/update.xqy 
> [1.0-ml]
>
> manually, it works (of course).
>
> I have searched the marklogic mailing list for discussions with this
> kind of problem and only found one message from May 2008 which had
> encountered this type of exception
> (http://markmail.org/thread/nk26f2eizhqy3scy).  In my case, it seems
> to be a problem with the "task root" property of the scheduled task
> which is explained in the help as follows:
>
> "task root specifies the root directory (files [sic] system) or URI
> root (database) that contains the module."
>
> I'm in the latter case where the xquery sits in the
> "doistats-database" database in the /app/backend/ directory.  Or could
> the problem lie somewhere else (permissions? I'm running this as admin
> with all privileges)?
>
> here are the task details:
>
> task path: /app/backend/update.xqy
> task root: /
> task type: daily
> task period: 1
> task start time 9:32 PM
> task database: doistats-database
> task modules: doistats-database
> task user: admin
> task host: server
>
>
> BTW, it seems a scheduled task cannot be modified, but only deleted?
> (I filed a case with support@).
>
> thanks,
> Jakob.
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