I think the issue is passing the file contents (by-value vs.
by-reference). Looks like I need to pass the file as a variable.
On Sunday, July 31, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Robert Garcia wrote:
If I understand right, you are saying you can read in a gif via a read
action in TAF, but when you call through a TCF it doesnt work.
I have done this many times in taf, but not in tcf. Wondering, maybe
the act of passing the binary data through the tcf interface, where it
may only handle text and arrays, is screwing it somehow.
Something to try, when you read in the gif data in the tcf, before
setting to out value, encode to base64. Then, when you read out when
you call the method, decode it back. Does that work? Base64 encoding
should have a fairly low overhead, or also try HEX. My guess is, if it
is the interface that is the problem, one of those should solve.
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Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
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On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Bill Conlon wrote:
Robert,
Thx. The problem is with a READ action within a TCF.
I've made a taf that first reads the GIF with a read action, and then
correctly writes the length and file content with a Results Action.
The taf then calls a method which which contains the same two actions
-- the call method fails.
I'm preparing a test case with a stripped-down TCF. One problem
could be with instantiating the object in my Application Scope,
which doesn't work on 5.0.1.065 on Linux (only the default
application stanza works). Maybe there are other problems with app
scope.
Bill
On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 10:40 PM, Robert Garcia wrote:
I have done this many times in the past, how are you reading in the
file? Maybe attach a simple taf that doesn't work?
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Bill Conlon wrote:
This definitely seems to be a problem reading binary data: Here's
a hex dump of the first line:
0000: 47 49 46 38 39 61 28 00 28 00 F7 9F 00 97 97 97
GIF89a(¿(¿˜ü¿óóó
It looks like Witango is choking on the NULL (00). I've tried it
with other file types and the READ action only stores up to the
NULL.
So does anyone know how I can read a binary file? Or do I have to
complete my action in another language (shell/perl/php script)?
On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Bill Conlon wrote:
Are there any tricks to reading a GIF or other binary data?
My log shows:
29/07/2005 11:29:09 66.219.95.118
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -1443935312 1 723
[File Action] Read_thumb
29/07/2005 11:29:09 66.219.95.118
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -1443935312 1 723
[Query] <@ASSIGN NAME=thumb VALUE="GIF89a(
Subsequently, I check the length of the file and it is indeed
seven bytes long. Yet, I've confirmed the file is complete:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -al /tmp/vcs/*thumb.gif
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1466 Jul 29 11:29
/tmp/vcs/6FB6C1AE0DF8BD7C42E9240D_thumb.gif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /tmp/vcs/6FB6C1AE0DF8BD7C42E9240D_thumb.gif
GIF89a((��������������������������������������������������������
�������������������������� ....
So it looks like it's choking on some binary data.
thx.
Bill
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