uPortal IRC Logs-2011-11-02

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[10:03:05 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yay file upload is working again for portlets

[10:03:10 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> spring was being too helpful (tongue)

[10:06:49 CDT(-0500)] <athena> lol

[10:06:57 CDT(-0500)] <athena> less helping!

[10:07:40 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah the DispatcherServlet apparently automatically parses out multipart requests

[10:07:50 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> which is a problem for the rendering pipeline dispatcherservlet

[10:07:59 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> as the multipart request is destined for a portlet

[10:08:07 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and you can only parse them once

[10:10:27 CDT(-0500)] <athena> ah

[10:53:55 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so the read only svn mirror is proving to be more complicated than I had originally though :/

[10:54:02 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> still doable

[10:54:04 CDT(-0500)] <athena> oh (sad)

[10:54:05 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> just more work

[10:54:27 CDT(-0500)] <athena> that sucks

[10:54:30 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the git svn tools have no way to represent a git merge in SVN

[10:54:39 CDT(-0500)] <athena> oh (sad)

[10:54:59 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so I can't just take the master branch and push commits from it to svn

[10:55:22 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I think what I need to do is create svn specific branches in the git repo

[10:55:36 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and do a special merge type that removes the merge commits

[10:55:39 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> its weird

[10:56:45 CDT(-0500)] <athena> huh, that is weird

[10:56:56 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah

[10:57:04 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and I have to cleanup the jasig svn repo too

[10:57:15 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> since I kinda borked up the uPortal folder trying to get it working yesterday (tongue)

[10:57:26 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'm going to get this working in a clone of the repo

[10:57:31 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> then get it setup for real (tongue)

[11:04:39 CDT(-0500)] <athena> oops (smile)

[14:10:11 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> EricDalquist: Hello

[14:10:20 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> hi

[14:10:35 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> I'm still getting the No Initial URL after copying the configuration

[14:11:58 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you copied over all the portlet preferences from the 4.0 export into the portlet preferences UI in the 3.1 portlet manager?

[14:22:59 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Yep

[14:23:42 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Made a new portlet from the Web Proxy (not the simplified Web Proxy) and chose the same choices as in teh 4.0

[14:23:43 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> the

[14:24:00 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> I got a General Rendering Error

[14:24:21 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Looked in the portal log and Saw thesame No Initial URL configured

[14:24:48 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Looking back at the configuration there is indeed a URL saved

[15:01:20 CDT(-0500)] <athena> what's the status of 4.0.2? is that today?

[15:06:08 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> probably

[15:06:18 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'm trying to see if I can get the git->svn stuff working

[15:06:25 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but I'm about to give up on it for a bit (sad)

[15:06:34 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Git to svn ?

[15:06:44 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> that's an interesting direction

[15:06:52 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah, we were planning on maintaing a read-only svn mirror of our git repo

[15:07:02 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I thought git svn dcommit could do it

[15:07:10 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but it barfs on the first merge commit it hits

[15:07:19 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so I'm playing with other approaches

[15:07:24 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> :/

[15:13:28 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Yeah you do need some little custom scripts to ease that

[15:26:02 CDT(-0500)] <athena> are most of the 4.0.2 fixes in now? thinking i might update our demo instance w/ all the recent patches

[15:26:04 CDT(-0500)] <athena> know there are a lot of htem

[15:26:24 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yes

[15:26:29 CDT(-0500)] <athena> ok, cool (smile)

[15:26:32 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I don't think anything else will be in before 4.0.2

[15:26:32 CDT(-0500)] <athena> seems like a good time to do that then

[15:38:36 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Do you know any way that the no initial URL configured error could be thrown with an actual URL there?

[15:39:22 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> my only guess is it is configured incorrectly but it has been quite a while since I've played with the portlet management UI in 3.1

[15:44:08 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Hmmm

[15:44:18 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> ok I'll delete all the web proxies and try again

[15:45:58 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> if you could share a screen shot of your portlet preferences config page in the portlet manager in 3.1

[15:46:00 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that might help

[15:46:12 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Ok hold on

[15:54:34 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> http://wstaw.org/m/2011/11/02/WebProxyPortletConfig1.png

[15:54:57 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> http://wstaw.org/m/2011/11/02/WebProxyPortletConfig2.png

[15:55:10 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> http://wstaw.org/m/2011/11/02/WebProxyPortletConfig3.png

[15:55:22 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> http://wstaw.org/m/2011/11/02/WebProxyPortletConfig4.png

[15:55:27 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> ahhhh ... ok so I forgot, uProtal 3.1 had the old CWebProxy channel as well

[15:55:43 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Yes (smile)

[15:55:47 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> which is actually different and what I believe that UI is for

[15:55:54 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Oh Hmm

[15:56:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'd try setting this up as a plain old portlet

[15:56:58 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> specify the portlet webapp name & portlet name yourself (you can look in the portlet's portlet.xml file for the portlet name)

[15:57:31 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> http://wstaw.org/m/2011/11/02/plasma-desktopo13124.jpg

[15:57:54 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> There are three Web Proxies listed there

[15:58:17 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> considering the problems you're having I wouldn't trust any of them

[15:58:31 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and I'd go directly with Portlet

[15:58:42 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and point it to the web proxy portlet deployed with your uPortal instance

[15:58:54 CDT(-0500)] * EricDalquist forgot how gross the old channel manager was :/

[16:01:18 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> EricDalquist: Sorry I don't quite understand the pointing at the Web Proxy portlet

[16:01:47 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so when you publish a new Portlet (using that generic Portlet type) you'll be asked for the portlet descriptor key (or something like that)

[16:01:54 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that is a string that looks like:

[16:02:06 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> PortletWebApplicationName.PortletNameFromPortletXml

[16:03:10 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> Ah >_> and I just deleted the Web Proxy portlet

[16:03:16 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> ok let me remake that

[16:03:34 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so for your 3.1 install I think it is something like: WebProxyPortlet.WebProxyPortlet

[16:04:16 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> its easy enough to verify if you have access to tomcat

[16:04:25 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> look in webapps/ for the proxy portlet webapp

[16:04:40 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> then look in webapps/ProxyPortletWebapp/WEB-INF/portlet.xml for the portlet name

[16:05:40 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> ah thanks

[16:06:17 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> So I make a web proxy portlet first?

[16:06:26 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> or it is just using a generic one?

[16:06:37 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> there should be one that is deployed with uPortal 3.1

[16:06:46 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> what is listed in your tomcat/webapps directory?

[16:07:46 CDT(-0500)] <Daskreech> EricDalquist: Ah yes there is one there. I just wanted to know if Ineeded an instance or just the option