Hey Albert,

That code should actually work ok, but you've managed to tickle a bug in our
runtime. I've filed an
issue<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2028>for
you here. The fix for this probably won't make the next release, but
it
should come shortly thereafter.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Albert Attard <albertatt...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi  Toby:
> Thanks for you feedback.
>
> I've did a small prototype: http://ask-me.appspot.com/ . It's working fine
> locally, but it's throwing the following exception when executed on the
> app-engine:
>
> javax.servlet.ServletContext log: Exception while dispatching incoming RPC
> call
> com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.UnexpectedException: Service method 'public
> abstract com.albertattard.askme.client.utils.AssessmentTO
> com.albertattard.askme.client.AssessorService.assessCode(java.lang.String)'
> threw an unexpected exception: java.lang.VerifyError: (class:
> org/codehaus/janino/ByteArrayClassLoader, method: findClass signature:
> (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;) Illegal type in constant pool
>  at
> com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForFailure(RPC.java:360)
> at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:546)
>  at
> com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:166)
> at
> com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.doPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:86)
>  at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:713)
> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
>  at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
> at
> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty.SaveSessionFilter.doFilter(SaveSessionFilter.java:35)
> at
> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.utils.servlet.TransactionCleanupFilter.doFilter(TransactionCleanupFilter.java:43)
> at
> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
>  at
> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)
> at
> org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
>  at
> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
> at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712)
>  at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty.AppVersionHandlerMap.handle(AppVersionHandlerMap.java:237)
>  at
> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
> at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313)
>  at
> org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:506)
> at
> org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:830)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty.RpcRequestParser.parseAvailable(RpcRequestParser.java:76)
> at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:381)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty.JettyServletEngineAdapter.serviceRequest(JettyServletEngineAdapter.java:139)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime.handleRequest(JavaRuntime.java:235)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.base.RuntimePb$EvaluationRuntime$6.handleBlockingRequest(RuntimePb.java:4823)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.base.RuntimePb$EvaluationRuntime$6.handleBlockingRequest(RuntimePb.java:4821)
>  at
> com.google.net.rpc.impl.BlockingApplicationHandler.handleRequest(BlockingApplicationHandler.java:24)
> at com.google.net.rpc.impl.RpcUtil.runRpcInApplication(RpcUtil.java:359)
>  at com.google.net.rpc.impl.Server$2.run(Server.java:820)
> at
> com.google.tracing.LocalTraceSpanRunnable.run(LocalTraceSpanRunnable.java:56)
>  at
> com.google.tracing.LocalTraceSpanBuilder.internalContinueSpan(LocalTraceSpanBuilder.java:516)
> at com.google.net.rpc.impl.Server.startRpc(Server.java:775)
>  at com.google.net.rpc.impl.Server.processRequest(Server.java:348)
> at
> com.google.net.rpc.impl.ServerConnection.messageReceived(ServerConnection.java:436)
>  at
> com.google.net.rpc.impl.RpcConnection.parseMessages(RpcConnection.java:319)
> at
> com.google.net.rpc.impl.RpcConnection.dataReceived(RpcConnection.java:290)
>  at com.google.net.async.Connection.handleReadEvent(Connection.java:428)
> at
> com.google.net.async.EventDispatcher.processNetworkEvents(EventDispatcher.java:762)
>  at
> com.google.net.async.EventDispatcher.internalLoop(EventDispatcher.java:207)
> at com.google.net.async.EventDispatcher.loop(EventDispatcher.java:101)
>  at
> com.google.net.rpc.RpcService.runUntilServerShutdown(RpcService.java:251)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime$RpcRunnable.run(JavaRuntime.java:374)
>  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
> Caused by: java.lang.VerifyError: (class:
> org/codehaus/janino/ByteArrayClassLoader, method: findClass signature:
> (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;) Illegal type in constant pool
>  at
> org.codehaus.janino.SimpleCompiler.compileToClassLoader(SimpleCompiler.java)
> at org.codehaus.janino.SimpleCompiler.cook(SimpleCompiler.java)
>  at org.codehaus.janino.Cookable.cook(Cookable.java)
> at org.codehaus.janino.Cookable.cook(Cookable.java)
>  at org.codehaus.janino.Cookable.cook(Cookable.java)
> at
> com.albertattard.askme.server.DemoSwapAssessor.assess(DemoSwapAssessor.java:21)
>  at
> com.albertattard.askme.server.AssessorServiceImpl.assessCode(AssessorServiceImpl.java:15)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
>  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.security.shared.intercept.java.lang.reflect.Method_$3.run(Method_.java:149)
>  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.security.shared.intercept.java.lang.reflect.Method_.privilegedInvoke(Method_.java:147)
>  at
> com.google.apphosting.runtime.security.shared.intercept.java.lang.reflect.Method_.invoke(Method_.java:120)
> at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:527)
>  ... 43 more
>
>
> The janino ByteArrayClassLoader is not working well (not accepted) on the
> app-engine :(
>
> Any other options?
>
> Cheers,
> Albert Attard
>
> Marie von 
> Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marie_von_ebnereschenbac.html>
>  - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
>
> 2009/8/14 Toby Reyelts <to...@google.com>
>
>
>> We don't have any near term plans to whitelist javax.tools. Do you think
>> something like janino <http://www.janino.net/> might work for you?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Albert Attard <albertatt...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone:
>>>
>>> Background about the problem:
>>> I'm a Java lecturer and would like to create an automated question
>>> web application similar to a multiple choice questions and answers but where
>>> the students can practice coding instead of simply selecting an answer.
>>>
>>> Multiple choice questions are very popular in web exams as these
>>> are fully automated. You do the test and the system corrects it for you and
>>> gives you the results there and then. I would like to go one step further
>>> and have the student to supply a code fragment or even a class(es) and have
>>> the system automatically correcting it in a similar fashion to the multiple
>>> choice questions.
>>>
>>> Example (in a nutshell):
>>> The student is asked to write a method: that given an array of int
>>> and two indices of type int (between 0 and the size of the array - 1), this
>>> method will swap the elements at the given indices. The student
>>> will write the method in the provided text area and submit it. Then the
>>> system will include this method into a class, compile it and by
>>> using reflection executes it with an array of values (similar to JUnit) to
>>> ensure that it is working as expected. During this process the system will
>>> be awarding the student marks and will display the final result together
>>> with comments as required.
>>>
>>> Google Appengine
>>> I have a prototype and it works great on Tomcat. Yes I know that it
>>> is subject to Java code injection but that's not an issue at this
>>> stage. This issue can be fixed at a later stage. Unfortunately I cannot
>>> implement it on the Google Appengine as most of the
>>> required functionality, such as writing to a file or JavaCompiler is
>>> disabled . I've managed to compile the classes to database (without writing
>>> to the file system) and load classes from database (without reading from the
>>> file system), which can integrate well with the provided datastore.
>>> Is there a way (or a procedure) of implementing such a system on
>>> the Google Appengine? This application will be a free education tool
>>> for everyone who would like to use it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Albert Attard
>>>
>>> Ted Turner <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/ted_turner.html> - 
>>> "Sports is like a war without the killing."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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