Task->AddFiles Error

Guys

I have a workflow in which I am selecting multiple DCRs. Then i am running generate command to generate multiple outputs from each dcr and attach the output files to workflow using $task->AddFiles. The problem I am facing is that addfiles only works for 1st DCR, it fails to add files generated from rest of the DCRs.

is there any log I can look at to see why am i getting error trying to add files?

I already checked task is a valid task.

I am on teamsite 6.5 SP2 on windows 2000 server.

Thanks

Tanuj

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nipper

No log, you can check to see if addFiles returns an error code, but I would be willing to bet that there is an issue with the filename. You should dump that to a log and see.

Finally I know that if someone else has a file locked, addFiles will not work, but that would not cause this behavior.

Adam Stoller

No log, you can check to see if addFiles returns an error code, but I would be willing to bet that there is an issue with the filename. You should dump that to a log and see.

Finally I know that if someone else has a file locked, addFiles will not work, but that would not cause this behavior.

Another possibility is if the file is already attached to the workflow - I believe AddFiles throws an annoying error about the file already being attached instead of silently ignoring it.

However - adding debugging to verify the arguments you're giving to AddFiles and checking the return output in addition to the status is the best way to figure out what's going on.

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Tanuj

Looks like the error is because there is already that file attached in workflow.

Fish I found a old code from you to check for already attached file but that is not working for me some how. this was that code from you

my %files;
$files{$_} = 1 foreach($task->GetFiles());
if (!$files{$newfile}){
if (! $task->AddFile($newfile, "comment")){
# ERROR
}
}

is there anything else i can do?

Thanks

Tanuj

When I directly run clt iwaddtaskfile (my $rc = system ("iwaddtaskfile -s b2cqaloadtester $ENV{'TASKID'} $FilePath 'content'") Smiley Wink

I get error code 256.

any ideas what is error code 256?

ISCBorisB

When I directly run clt iwaddtaskfile (my $rc = system ("iwaddtaskfile -s b2cqaloadtester $ENV{'TASKID'} $FilePath 'content'") I get error code 256.

any ideas what is error code 256?

Firstly, your return code is really 1, not 256. Perl supplies rc in the upper byte of returned Integer, you'd have to shift it by eight.

Secondly, this is an indication of some error. So


my $return = qx(iwaddtaskfile -s b2cqaloadtester $ENV{'TASKID'} $FilePath 'content' 2>&1); # Redirect STDERR to STDOUT 
my $rc = $?;
if ($rc == 0) {
   # You Good!
}
else {
   # Oh, Oh...
   $rc = ($rc >> 8); # Shift Return code by eight
   log_it( qq(rc = $rc, $return) );   
}

Adam Stoller

Looks like the error is because there is already that file attached in workflow.

Fish I found a old code from you to check for already attached file but that is not working for me some how. this was that code from you

my %files;
$files{$_} = 1 foreach($task->GetFiles());
if (!$files{$newfile}){
if (! $task->AddFile($newfile, "comment")){
# ERROR
}
}

is there anything else i can do?

Thanks

The code without the context (e.g.: definition of what $newfile is) makes it a bit difficult to debug. The intention of the code is to create a hash of all the files already attached to the workflow and then to loop through the list of files you were planning to attach and only add them if they aren't part of the hash.

You can always add debugging code to see what's going on inside the loop.

Tanuj

Thanks guys for all your help. I found out by logging error that task was getting deactivated in between, and I then i found a file which was doing the callback and deactivating the task. Now it is fixed.

Thanks for all the help