[cosmic-users] idl_to_picml problem

Fri Dec 8 15:50:26 CST 2006

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the info. I downloaded CosMIC and built IDLImporter
successfully (with ACE/TAO x.5.4). However, idl_to_picml crashes when I
first run it with Foo.idl is an input (before subsequent modifications
to the IDL to add an attribute). Perhaps I did something wrong. Did it
work for you?

Also, I initially had a build problem. It was with
IDL_TO_PICML_BE_Export.h. I guess it is malformed or new versions of ACE
require it to be different. When I regenerated it with
generate_export_file.pl it compiled just fine.

Thanks,
Abdul

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Parsons [mailto:j.parsons at vanderbilt.edu]
>>Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:21 PM
>>To: Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA); cosmic-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>>Cc: kitty at dre.vanderbilt.edu
>>Subject: RE: [cosmic-users] idl_to_picml problem
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Typing 'svn info' in my CoSMIC workspace gives
>>
>>https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CoSMIC/trunk/CoSMIC
>>
>>As for recompiling all of CoSMIC, that won't be needed.
>>idl_to_picml deals almost exclusively with the Interfaces
>>and PredefinedTypes folders of PICML models, which change
>>very rarely ;-).
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA) [mailto:abdullah.sowayan at lmco.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:07 PM
>>> To: Jeff Parsons; cosmic-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>>> Cc: kitty at dre.vanderbilt.edu
>>> Subject: RE: [cosmic-users] idl_to_picml problem
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> Great, that is awesome!!! I have one problem though. How do I
>>> get this stuff? I tried getting it from the repository
>>>
>>> svn checkout svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/cosmic
>>> svn: No repository found in
'svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/cosmic'
>>>
>>> But I was unable to. Where is the cosmic repository located?
>>>
>>> I assume that all I have to do is to compile
>>> CoSMIC/PIM/PICML/interpreters/IDLImporter to get the next
>>> idl_to_picml, and that would work with CosMIC 0.4.8, right?
>>>
>>> If not, I guess I have to compile all of CosMIC.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Abdul
>>>
>>> >>-----Original Message-----
>>> >>From: Jeff Parsons [mailto:j.parsons at vanderbilt.edu]
>>> >>Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:31 PM
>>> >>To: Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA);
cosmic-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>>> >>Cc: kitty at dre.vanderbilt.edu
>>> >>Subject: RE: [cosmic-users] idl_to_picml problem
>>> >>
>>> >>Hi Abdul,
>>> >>
>>> >>Finally got around to looking at this, just checked in a fix. In a
>>> >>nutshell, at some point I deferred the setting of the
>>> >>AttributeMember's "referred" GME attribute, in order to
>>> catch the case
>>> >>where the type of an IDL attribute is modified. I must have then
>>> >>forgot to go back and test and case where the IDL attribute
>>> is added
>>> >>(your
>>> >>case) or I would have found that the diagnostic output for
>>> the case of
>>> >>adding an IDL attribute was now making a call on a null pointer
;-).
>>> >>
>>> >>At any rate, we should now get the correct diagnostic in
>>> either case,
>>> >>and with no abort ;-).
>>> >>
>>> >>The details are in the ChangeLog entry, for anyone who's
>>> interested.
>>> >>Sorry it took so long to get to this.
>>> >>
>>> >>Jeff
>>> >>
>>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >>> From: cosmic-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>>> >>> [mailto:cosmic-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On
>>> Behalf Of
>>> >>> Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA)
>>> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:14 AM
>>> >>> To: cosmic-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>>> >>> Subject: [cosmic-users] idl_to_picml problem
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Sorry for cross posting. PRF says to post it here, I
>>> didn't realize
>>> >>> that initially.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ------------------------------
>>> >>> ACE_VERSION:    5.5.4
>>> >>> TAO_VERSION:    1.5.4
>>> >>> CIAO_VERSION:   0.5.3
>>> >>> GME_VERSION:    5.11.18
>>> >>> COSMIC_VERSION: 0.4.8
>>> >>>
>>> >>> First, do these type of questions go to the CIAO's users group?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Consider the following IDL file:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --------------------------------
>>> >>> #ifndef FOO_IDL_
>>> >>> #define FOO_IDL_
>>> >>>
>>> >>> interface Foo
>>> >>> {
>>> >>>   void Bar();
>>> >>>
>>> >>>   //attribute boolean ok;
>>> >>> };
>>> >>>
>>> >>> #endif /* FOO_IDL_ */
>>> >>> ---------------------------------
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Initially, the attribute is commented out.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I run the following command to import the IDL to PICML:
>>> >>> C:\IDL>idl_to_picml -I. -I%ACE_ROOT% -I%ACE_ROOT%/ace
>>> -I%TAO_ROOT%
>>> >>> -I%TAO_ROOT%/tao -I%CIAO_ROOT% -I%CIAO_ROOT%/ciao -x ABDUL
Foo.idl
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Everything works fine. It generates ABDUL.xme which I can import
>>> into
>>> >>> PICML.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Then, say I need to update the IDL above to add an
>>> attribute, so I
>>> >>> remove the comment from the attribute section, then I run the
>>> >>> following command to update the PICML model:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> C:\IDL>idl_to_picml -I. -I%ACE_ROOT% -I%ACE_ROOT%/ace
>>> -I%TAO_ROOT%
>>> >>> -I%TAO_ROOT%/tao -I%CIAO_ROOT% -I%CIAO_ROOT%/ciao -i ABDUL.xme
-x
>>> >>> ABDUL2 Foo.idl tao-idli_ZNBPo1.cpp Added Attribute ok in
>>> Object Foo
>>> >>> Unknown exception in BE_produce Fatal Error - Aborting
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I get the error above.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Is there a way to update the model, i.e., is the use case above
>>> >>> expected to work? Or should I recreate the whole model
>>> everytime I
>>> >>> need to add a new IDL file or modify the IDL.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks,
>>> >>> Abdul
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>>> >>>
>>>
>>>