[Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload successful" message

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Mon Aug 12 09:57:27 BST 2013


>http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git

I'm sure this makes a lot of sense to some people...

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 12 August 2013 09:56
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload successful" message

You then should have a complete git repository that needs to be put on github

Op 12-8-2013 10:52, Tom Reijnders schreef:
> This is the guide I used in my test:
>
> http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git
>
>
> Op 12-8-2013 10:17, Julian Tenney schreef:
>> OK, I'll do that, I'll delete the repo and import it properly. Does
>> that cause anyone (John?) any problems? I'll wait for the thumbs up...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom
>> Reijnders
>> Sent: 12 August 2013 09:14
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload
>> successful" message
>>
>> I understand what you did, and I think that's a good way to
>> familiarize yourself with git. But you can move a svn repo to git
>> including all branches and change history. Not only the latest
>> working copy.
>>
>> That's the way I would like to move from googlecode  to github.
>>
>> Op 12-8-2013 10:10, Julian Tenney schreef:
>>>> My suggestion would be to keep on working on svn, decide (this
>>>> week) how we want to do things. Close svn for commits and move to git.
>>> That's fine with me.
>>>
>>> What did you mean by 'let's start again...'? When I made the repo, I
>>> just exported a set of files from the svn, and added them to the git
>>> repo; I wasn't expecting any change history to go across with it,
>>> more to start getting my head around git, and try some stuff out. So
>>> we can delete it and start again by all means.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom
>>> Reijnders
>>> Sent: 12 August 2013 09:07
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload
>>> successful" message
>>>
>>> No I think I placed John suggested fix in the wizard, but somehow
>>> forgot to commit it. Will do that when we are clear on svn/git.
>>>
>>> My suggestion would be to keep on working on svn, decide (this week)
>>> how we want to do things. Close svn for commits and move to git.
>>>
>>> Op 12-8-2013 9:43, Smith, John schreef:
>>>> I thought you added the Shift+Play for subpages going to the
>>>> correct parent page...
>>>>
>>>> This was a way to use file_exixts after a "successful" file upload
>>>> to confirm that the upload was indeed successful... would be a huge
>>>> help debugging the forum...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>>> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences
>>>> | Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
>>>> Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
>>>> Sent: 11 August 2013 21:20
>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload
>>>> successful" message
>>>>
>>>> I think I did it? Or was that something else?
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
>>>> [J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk]
>>>> Sent: 11 August 2013 06:51
>>>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload
>>>> successful" message
>>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> Just following up on some emails and wondered if you managed to get
>>>> these changes into the wizard? I think it might help debug some of
>>>> the Forum issues with that pesky "Upload successful" message when
>>>> it's not...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>>> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences
>>>> | Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Smith, John
>>>> Sent: 01 August 2013 15:19
>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong
>>>> "Upload successful" message
>>>>
>>>> Yes, remove that too Tom... I realized I shouldn't have left that
>>>> in.... it is for debug purposes but could be a possible security
>>>> risk, although that folder is probably best not to be writable on
>>>> live systems...
>>>>
>>>> Or replace with a debug statement as you say, there was a legacy
>>>> thing in there writing a file and I just piggybacked on that...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> John Smith
>>>> Learning Technologist
>>>> School of Health & Life Sciences
>>>> Glasgow Caledonian University
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom
>>>> Reijnders
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 3:08 PM
>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Change to wizard to catch wrong "Upload
>>>> successful" message
>>>>
>>>> Yes I'll add this.
>>>>
>>>> Also there is a file called error.txt that's being written upon an
>>>> error in upload.php. It's in a strange location
>>>> (modules/xerte/engine) and I don't know the intended purpose, but
>>>> we could use it for trouble shooting. or else add more loggin
>>>> through _debug.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Op 1-8-2013 15:21, Smith, John schreef:
>>>>> Thanks Tom,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you look at adding this to the wizard (I don't have write
>>>>> permissions to the xerte SVN - I also get some font error when I
>>>>> publish).
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that we get a lot of people saying "It says it uploaded
>>>>> ok, but it won't preview" or similar and wondered if we can do
>>>>> things better in the wizard... anyway, we get no feedback in AS2
>>>>> from the uploader as to whether it was successful or not BUT we do
>>>>> have file_exists.php
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, have changed my install to use this code (at around line
>>>>> 2600 in the wizard.fla file)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                     listener.onComplete =
>>>>> function(file:FileReference):Void  {
>>>>>                             var file_exists_result_lv:LoadVars =
>>>>> new LoadVars();
>>>>>
>>>>>                             file_exists_result_lv.progWin =
>>>>> this.progWin;
>>>>>                             file_exists_result_lv.onLoad =
>>>>> function(success:Boolean) {
>>>>>                                     if (success) {
>>>>>                                             if
>>>>> (file_exists_result_lv.return_value=="true"){
>>>>>
>>>>> Alert.show("Upload successful");
>>>>>
>>>>> button.files = file.name;
>>>>> button.fileUploaded(button);
>>>>>                                             }
>>>>>                                             else {
>>>>> Alert.show("Upload failed: Check permissions");
>>>>>                                             }
>>>>> this.progWin.deletePopUp();
>>>>>                                     }
>>>>>                             }
>>>>>
>>>>>                             var file_exists_lv:LoadVars = new
>>>>> LoadVars();
>>>>>                             file_exists_lv.file_name =
>>>>> _root.rlovariable + file.name;
>>>>> file_exists_lv.sendAndLoad(_root.preview_path,
>>>>> file_exists_result_lv, "POST");
>>>>>                     };
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So after a success it tests with file_exists.php to see if the
>>>>> file is actually there... the messages could be made international
>>>>> (there are lots of English messages still hardwired in here
>>>>> though) but other than that it works...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you give it a quick test and commit if you are happy with it
>>>>> as it's another level of useful feedback for the user...
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> John Smith
>>>>> Learning Technologist
>>>>> School of Health & Life Sciences
>>>>> Glasgow Caledonian University
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom
>>>>> Reijnders
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:59 PM
>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: upload.php in 2.0 not working for .mp4
>>>>> files??
>>>>>
>>>>> No problems. Removed for now, until we now it actually helps....
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 1-8-2013 13:40, Smith, John schreef:
>>>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry... Yes please either remove the moov atom re-write from v2
>>>>>> or transfer the code - that code wasn't supposed to be in v2 yet
>>>>>> but the upload files obviously got mixed up when I made that last
>>>>>> fix for the safari cookie bug...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Smith
>>>>>> Learning Technologist
>>>>>> School of Health & Life Sciences
>>>>>> Glasgow Caledonian University
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
>>>>>> Tom Reijnders
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:28 PM
>>>>>> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] upload.php in 2.0 not working for .mp4 files??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could it be that you pushed the trunk upload.php to 2.0 and
>>>>>> forgot to add tools/moovrelocator to 2.0?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had an HTTP error when trying to upload a .mp4 (Chrome reported
>>>>>> an error 500 on the post).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It turned out that:
>>>>>> a. I didn't have tools/moovrelocator in my installation b. When I
>>>>>> installed it by hand, Moovrelocator couldn't find atom/Atom.php
>>>>>> because of some path manipulations for a require_once. It
>>>>>> replaces the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] with an empty string. That
>>>>>> results in an invalid file name being required.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After I fixed that, things seem to work again. I didn't have time
>>>>>> whether the file is pseudo streaming yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, should I push tools/moovrelocator to 2.0 or shall we remove
>>>>>> it from upload.php?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
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