My gzip-ed traces are imported successfully! Thanks a Lot! Johan
Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Johan Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm trying to upload my traces. It is a gziped file. >> >> But I receive a mail with the message that the import has failed. >> >> I tried to upload the same file, but uncompressed and it imported >> successfully. >> >> Is there anything wrong with the gzip support? >> > > It's more a case of ruby, as normal, sucking exceeding large > boulders through really, really teeny straws. > > The arose as a result of me moving the import daemon to a > different machine the other day. Unfortunately the new machine > is running ruby 1.8.4 rather than 1.8.5 like the old machine > and that was enough to break import of compressed traces. > > I'm quite impressed it's taken about 36 hours for anybody to > notice that it was broken... Hopefully it's fixed now as I have > now engaged it a bit more creative ruby hacking. > > If anybody really cares about the gory details, the problem is > that the ruby Tempfile class does not (as might seem obvious at > first glance) derive from the File class but rather from something > called DelegateClass(File). > > Now DelegateClass(File) is supposed to delegate calls which are > not handled by Tempfile methods to the File class but it does a > rather half assed job of it - in particular it does not ensure > that "kind_of? File" works, so Tempfile does not look like a File > object (or like an IO object which File derives from). > > So when the XML parser asked if the source it was being asked > to import from was "kind_of? IO" the answer was no and it threw > a wobbly. > > In ruby 1.8.5 the XML parser no longer does the "kind_of? IO" test > on the source - instead it uses "respond_to?" to make sure that the > source responds to the methods it needs. As DelegateClass does > handle "respond_to?" calls correctly this works. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
