At this point I can only help improve the docs by reporting what I find
when I follow the instructions.
I only know what the docs tell me.
I really only want to find out if I can set up an order with a backorder
and properly account for transactions i 2 currencies.
If I could fix the docs, I would not be reading them so closely!!!
Re: Number 8)
I took a bit of a flyer by actually reading the configuration file even
though I do not have any idea about what the function of the "delegator"
is and why the code requires a "delegator". The wiki's installation page
doesn't actually describe what the relationship is between each of the
elements in the file or even what a "delagator" is. As far as I know (44
years of writing code) delegator is not a well defined Computer Science
term.
No idea if I should even care about a "test delegator" or how it is used.
I just read the comment in the XML and noticed that the docs do not
include the warning that the XML file does.
Perhaps this needs to be added to the wiki or deleted from the XML if
it is not required.
Re: Number 10)
I did not see anything in the docs about the need to create the
database but I did that anyway since it seems like the normal thing to
do if you are going to write a specification for the MySQL connector -
must have DB and name and password of a user that has all the "right"
privs on the db that you want to use so I did create it first.
I suspect that I missed a note (perhaps invisible) about how the
delegator knows which type of database definition (group-map) to look for.
I will investigate that further and see if I missed something or if the
docs are missing the instructions about what else you need to change to
use a db other than Derby. This is edging towards "helping" me which I
will request in the user forum since it is not really a developer topic
unless I find out that it is problem in the wiki not in my reading (or
misreading) of it.
I just hope that my comments are helpful in improving the experience for
the next person.
Ron
On 01/06/2014 1:07 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 01/06/2014 07:42, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
I am working my way through this in the hope that I will end up with
a working system.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
I have found some information that is wrong or missing. I notice that
the page has not been changed since 2012.
1) It says that you need to have ant installed. That is not enough.
You also need to have ant-apache-regexp or you will get
"java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpRegexp"
I have removed the section about ant needed to be installed. You
should better use the embedded ant following the way I documented in
the page above this afternoon (ie use ./ant on *nix systems, always
from OFBiz root on any plaftorm
I which case did you get the Jdk14RegexpRegexp ClassNotFoundException?
Doing what I mean? Could you retry using ./ant ?
2) It says that you should run ant as "ant run-install" but when you
do, the script says that you should have actually run "ant load-demo".
I will fix that one, the 1st is to be used before R12.04 release (and
branch) the 2nd after
3) There are a lot of warnings about deprecrated methods
You are welcome to help about that
4) Not sure if this matters Warning : Module classpath component
'/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64' is not valid and will be ignored...
You can normally neglect such warning, just an information about your
system
5) A lot of these: "warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set
in conjunction with -source 1.6"
This is because you compile with Java 7. You can use it (and it's
better/faster) but if you want to run tests (ant run-tests) then you
need to use an *Oracle* JDK 6.
6) Warning that "
/usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/accounting/specialpurpose/scrum/src/org/ofbiz/scrum/ScrumServices.java
uses unchecked or unsafe operations."
That's interesting, I will have a look at it
7) When trying to follow this "Find the "default" delegator near the
top of the file and change the datasource-name attribute value in the
group-map tag under it to the name of the data source you modified or
created. ", you find that the default delegator has several
group-names commented out and several not commented out. In my case,
I want to use mySQL which is commented out so I changed that and
commented out every other one. The instructions should be a bit
clearer about what this means and what is the right configuration of
coments and group-maps.
You are welcome to help improving the documentation in the open wiki.
As explained at the top of its pages, you must register in Confluence
and then ask us for a write access.
8) In changing the database, the actual : ${ofbiz install
dir}/framework/entity/config/entityengine.xml file has a note about
making the test delegator match the default. This is missing in the
documentation.
Are you referring to a specific part of the documentation? Again you
are welcome to help improving the documentation in the open wiki, but
if it's in a part (Confluence workspace) you can't have access then
let us know and we will add/amend there.
9) The ant run ends with a wonderful combination of a series of
warnings followed by a null pointer and "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" with no
tables created in the mySQL database.
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,232 (main) [
ModelViewEntity.java:551:WARN ] [ExampleStatusDetail]: Conversion for
complex-alias needs to be implemented for cache and in-memory eval
stuff to work correctly, will not work for alias: statusDelay
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,570 (main) [
ModelReader.java:436:INFO ] FINISHED LOADING ENTITIES - ALL FILES;
#Entities=863 #ViewEntities=300 #Fields=9049 #Relationships=2961
#AutoRelationships=2186
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,679 (main) [
GenericDelegator.java:234:INFO ] Doing entity definition check...
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,694 (main) [
ModelEntityChecker.java:508:INFO ] [initReservedWords] array length=1023
[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.getEntityFieldType(GenericDelegator.java:541)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.model.ModelEntityChecker.checkEntities(ModelEntityChecker.java:107)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.<init>(GenericDelegator.java:235)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:33)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:25)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilObject.getObjectFromFactory(UtilObject.java:202)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactory.getDelegator(DelegatorFactory.java:51)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.loadContainer(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:272)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.start(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:236)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.container.ContainerLoader.start(ContainerLoader.java:230)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.startStartLoaders(Start.java:362)
[java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.start(Start.java:337)
[java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.main(Start.java:139)
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:33,679 (Thread-0) [
ContainerLoader.java:246:INFO ] Shutting down containers
[java] Java Result: 99
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 31 seconds
Only when using the embedded Derby you can expect OFBiz to wipe and
create the DB for you. When using another DBMS you must 1st create the
DB in it.
I hope that these comments help.
Thanks for sharing, yes that helps...
I will try to see what I did to cause the null pointer since the
person writing the code did not think that any error was possible at
that point!
Perhaps I commented out too many group-map entities.
I will take this up on the user forum until the wiki gets fixed.
You must have done something specific, yes
Jacques
Ron.
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