Unable to hit IPL file from FormAPI function on Unix environment

Env: TS6.5 SP2
OS: Unix

Hi,
I am working in a UNIX environment. I have implemented IWDatacapture.callServer function in a JS for a datatype as below:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

It is unable to hit the IPL file but, the following is working in Windows environment:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/source/callouts/setattr.ipl", params, false);

I have even tried specifying all combinations of relative paths for Unix env but could not hit the IPL file. Can someone please tell me how do I specify the path in Unix - starting from /?/....

Thanks in advance.

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Faizi

Env: TS6.5 SP2
OS: Unix

Hi,
I am working in a UNIX environment. I have implemented IWDatacapture.callServer function in a JS for a datatype as below:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

It is unable to hit the IPL file but, the following is working in Windows environment:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/source/callouts/setattr.ipl", params, false);

I have even tried specifying all combinations of relative paths for Unix env but could not hit the IPL file. Can someone please tell me how do I specify the path in Unix - starting from /?/....

Thanks in advance.

Try using this,

IWDatacapture.callServer("http://server"+"/iw-bin/source/callouts/setattr.ipl", params, false);

Adam Stoller

Env: TS6.5 SP2
OS: Unix

Hi,
I am working in a UNIX environment. I have implemented IWDatacapture.callServer function in a JS for a datatype as below:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

It is unable to hit the IPL file but, the following is working in Windows environment:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/source/callouts/setattr.ipl", params, false);

I have even tried specifying all combinations of relative paths for Unix env but could not hit the IPL file. Can someone please tell me how do I specify the path in Unix - starting from /?/....

Thanks in advance.

You shouldn't need the http://+server stuff (as in the other response) Have you verified that the IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin/setattr.ipl:

You might also look through the log files (especially those in IWHOME/local/logs/iwui/)

Samir_Friend

Hi Faizi,

Thanks for the reply but as I suspected that the http:// thing misses the deployed application's name in it, it won't work, it didn't. I am not very sure if a relative path in Unix is specified using "/" like Windows, or it needs to contain "//" or "\\", although I've tried all of this stuff and it didn't work....

Frederik

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

this exact line works for us just fine. We don't add server (as previous poster suggested).

Where on disk is your setattr.ipl (should be at iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/ ) ? and is it executable by world?

--
EDIT: seems I was a bit late ;-)

Samir_Friend

All the below conditions are satisfied:

1. Starts with the correct #! line at the very beginning of line 1
2. Does not have ^M's as the EOL marker (especially on line 1)
3. Is executable (chmod 755)

Still I am not able to hit the file. I even tried this:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/app/teamsite/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl /app/teamsite/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/setattr.ipl");

but of no use!

How and from where(starting) do I need to specify the path of the setattr.ipl file?

Pawan

Lets narrow down the problem.
You should try with an existing valid .ipl file and see whether its the problem with your callout or your file.
You should run the file setattr.ipl other ways and see if its works.
What JS error does it give when making a call to this file?

jbonifaci

All the below conditions are satisfied:

1. Starts with the correct #! line at the very beginning of line 1
2. Does not have ^M's as the EOL marker (especially on line 1)
3. Is executable (chmod 755)

Still I am not able to hit the file. I even tried this:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/app/teamsite/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl /app/teamsite/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/setattr.ipl");

but of no use!

How and from where(starting) do I need to specify the path of the setattr.ipl file?

It's just a cgi script, so try to hit it directly from your browser:

http://<server>/iw-bin/setattr.ipl

That should work if the file is directly under iw-home/httpd/iw-bin. And by work, I mean it will likely give you some error, as your script isn't getting anything it wants, but it will do something which means it is hitting the script. And if it's hitting the script, then a callserver to /iw-bin/setattr.ipl should hit the script.

If it doesn't, do any cgi scripts work? If so, it is something with this specific script.

Have you tried compiling the cgi to see if it compiles ok?

iwperl -c <scriptName>

new_report_5.rptdesign

image.xml

Migrateduser

Does your show_env.cgi program work? Maybe something is wrong with your webserver?

Adam Stoller

All the below conditions are satisfied:

1. Starts with the correct #! line at the very beginning of line 1
2. Does not have ^M's as the EOL marker (especially on line 1)
3. Is executable (chmod 755)

Still I am not able to hit the file. I even tried this:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/app/teamsite/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl /app/teamsite/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/setattr.ipl");

That last example is just wrong - assuming the path shown is correct - it should just be:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

(where the last two parameters are based on the initial posting)

If you run:

/app/teamsite/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl -w -c /app/teamsite/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/setattr.ipl

from your shell - what happens?

Can you post your setattr.ipl code? (if reasonably short, inline within [html]...[/html] tags, otherwise as a *.txt attachment)

Samir_Friend

Hi,

It was a petty issue which I have figured out now:

Normally, I don't have -w parameter in my other working IPLs' first line but for this one, I just included "-w" in the very first line of the setattr.ipl file which looks like this now:

#!/app/teamsite/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl -w

....and used the following to invoke it:

IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/setattr.ipl", params, false);

It worked!
Thanks to all of you for your suggestions!

Cheers!

Frederik

for what it's worth:

I have never heard of adding -w on #! /path/to/perl fixing a script. If anything, it'll cause your script to push out more warnings...

So I suspect you unknowingly did something else (possibly clean up a ^M on the first line) to fix your situation.

Oh well ;-)

mdang

Agree, the "-w" must not be the culprit.

Samir_Friend

Hi,

I partially agree with you guys that -w should not be the only culprit but also pls note that:

Firstly, I have already stated in my previous post that the IPL satisfied the following conditions:

1. Starts with the correct #! line at the very beginning of line 1
2. Does not have ^M's as the EOL marker (especially on line 1)
3. Is executable (chmod 755)

Secondly, the IPL stops working(does not get hit) as soon as I remove the -w option from the IPL's first line. This means that the reason is just the -w parameter.

I cannot fully explain this unsual behaviour but rather would require you guys to please suggest something:

1. Can this unpredictable behaviour be there due to lack of memory space or memory leak on Teamsite server? If so, how?
2. Can the Teamsite Server be configured in such a way that it does not execute external tasks/IPLs if their generated warnings are not thrown?

I would appreciate your replies on this.