Parameters in python

http://wiki.futuretoby.com/Parameter_List_Chaining_in_Python

JBoss Cache

JBoss 4.2.3 includes JBoss Cache 1.4.7

Guide to JBoss Cache
http://galder.zamarreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hibernate-jbosscache-guide.pdf

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/06/jboss-cache-interview

http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbosscache/freezone/docs/2.1.1.GA/userguide_en/html/transactions.html#d0e3653

Good T-SQL tutorial

For those of you who would like to know T-SQL

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3087431/T-SQL-Programming-Part-1---Defining-Variables-and-IFELSE-logic.htm

An example T-SQL script


declare @jobId int

declare JobList cursor for select id from tsktask where fkparenttaskid is not null


OPEN JobList
FETCH NEXT FROM JobList INTO @jobId

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

declare @parentTaskId int
SET @parentTaskId = (select fkParentTaskId from TskTask where id = @jobId)

declare @runNo varchar(25)
SET @runNo = (select identifier from tsktask where id = @parentTaskId)

update tsktask
set identifier = @runNo
where id = @jobId


FETCH NEXT FROM JobList INTO @jobId
END

CLOSE JobList
DEALLOCATE JobList

In Junit you can group your tests together into a suite, so they can be run altogether. This is useful for running all your module tests in your IDE in the one go, to get a nice overview.

In Junit4 you create a test suite by creating and running a class like example below:

@RunWith(Suite.class)
@SuiteClasses({
      ConfigModuleMgmtApiTest.class,
      ConfigMgmtApiTest.class,
      ConfigHelperTest.class,
      DataTypeHelperTest.class
})
public class ConfigTestSuite {

}

Unable to install Terminal Services ActiveX Client

Trying to login via the POTA portal with IE7. When trying to get a web RDP session to one of the servers, it prompted me to Install the add on "Terminal Services ActiveX Client". I would click "Run ActiveX Control" and then Run when it popped up, but this would just do nothing.

The fix was:

- In IE go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security (2nd tab) -> Trusted sites.
- Click Sites button and add your Terminal Server's FQDN, or IP. Uncheck "Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone" if your server doesn't use https. Click Close.
- Click on the Custom level... button about 1/3rd up from the bottom of the Security Window and scroll down to "Download unsigned ActiveX controls" and change the radio button from Disable to Prompt.
- Click OK and you should be set.

From
http://msmvps.com/blogs/steveb/archive/2007/07/30/blocked-in-ie7-from-connecting-to-your-desktop-in-remote-web-workplace.aspx

Crazy javascript

What is that InstallFunction doing?

 
function doAdd() {
 server.Add($('num1').value, $('num2').value, onAddSuccess);
}

function InstallFunction(obj, name) {
   obj[name] = function() { Request(name, arguments); }
}

var server = {};
InstallFunction(server, 'Add'); 


Where Request is a method that encapsulates and simplifies an AJAX call

Things I like about Django Templates

If you use variables, values are automatically escaped.

Python packages

We tried to create packages for our controllers and there is code like below. But I don't want to have to write an import for every class I use, and I don't want to have to put all my classes in one file. I want it to be like Java - you can import a package (a directory) and you get access to all the classes within it.

from controllers.main_page import *
from controllers.book_owning_create import *
from controllers.book_yearning_create import *

application = webapp.WSGIApplication([
                                      ('/', MainPage),
                                      ('/bookowning/create', BookOwningCreate),
                                      ('/bookyearning/create', BookYearningCreate)
 

What I want to do is

from controllers import  *

application = webapp.WSGIApplication([
                                      ('/', MainPage),
                                      ('/bookowning/create', BookOwningCreate),
                                      ('/bookyearning/create', BookYearningCreate)

It seems there is no really easy way to do it (that doesn't involve more typing). Also it seems to general consensus is to group classes in a module (ie. file).

The way I could do it would be to import all those classes in the __init__.py file of the controllers package. Like such:

(in __init__.py)

from book_owning_create import BookOwningCreate
from book_yearning_create import BookYearningCreate

Using SUPPORTS transaction attribute doesn't work when a transaction has become inactive

In our message receivers, we are sending an event after an exception has occured.

In our receiver method:

            h.handle(message);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            logger.error("Error in handling message", ExceptionUtils.getRootCause(e));
            MessageProcessingErrorEvent mpe = new MessageProcessingErrorEvent(userManagement.getUserBusUnitGuid(),
                                                                              e);
            mpe.send();
            throw new XmRuntimeException(e.toString(),e);
        }

The sending of the event fails because we look up the user's busUnitGuid and this requires a transaction. The receiver method is being run in a transaction itself.

I thought one solution to this problem would be to put SUPPORTS transaction attribute on the getUserBusUnitGuid() method. The SUPPORTS attribute says that it will go under a transaction if one is present, otherwise it will run without a transaction.

It didn't fix the problem though, it was still saying that the transaction was inactive. Probably JBoss realised there was a transaction attached, so tried to use it, but then discovered it was inactive.

Hibernate Classpath problems in Eclipse

Getting NoSuchMethodException when trying to run XmLocationInternal test in Eclipse - something about ClassValiditor - I think there was a clashing jar in my JBoss 4.2.3 Client library - after positioning this library after the JBoss 4.2.3 library in my classpath, it worked again.