My Java Tools

Issues running MyJavaTools on Windows XP
Environment:

C:\myjavatools\com\myjavatools\lib>java -version
java version "1.3.1_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_09-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_09-b03, mixed mode)

If I execute "List filesToRepost = Files.find(START_DIR, fileName);"

where START_DIR is a directory name and fileName is a valid file name that lives underneath START_DIR, I do not get anything back in the list.

START_DIR is of the form "/a/b/c/d".

I've tried pre-pending the directory path with "C:".
I've tried pre-escaping the slashes so that they won't be interpreted as part of the regexp, etc.

Are there any known issues with using MyJavaTools on Windows?

Thanks,
Wes Gamble

foundation library, version 6.
The biggest addition is two-parameter maps. An article will be published soon on DevX.

Version 1.2. of Run From Web
>Version 1.2 of "Run From Web" program - added '-newer' flag that lets download executable only if it is newer than the local file.

The command looks like this:

run [-overwrite|-newer] <url> <parameters>

('-overwrite' means that if the file already exists in cache, it is overwritten from the web)
('-newer' means that if the file already exists in cache, and it is older than the one on the server, it is overwritten)

Url can point to a file on a disk drive as well.

The archive contains the source code,, together with Windows, Mac, Solaris and Linux executables. If your platform does not support these, you can always run

java -jar runajar.jar

Sending multipart/form data
I recently stumbled upon the Sending multipart/form data ClientHttpRequest.java and was very interested. I am very new to java and still dont understand some basic concepts. I just need some clarifacation. By chance do you have example code of how to use ClientHttpRequest. I dont understand how to use:
InputStream serverInput = post(URL url, Map parameters);
I keep on getting an error that says cannot be referenced from a static context.
what do i have to do in order to have this file in a package, reference it then call the post method.
sorry if this is really simple. I just need to visually see something in cation to fully understand how it works. Also is it possible to submit a form receive a cookie from that request and re-send the cookie with a normal http request. It is for a site that uses cookies to verify a person is logged in, so in order to use what is behind the password protected area i would have re send the cookie with every request made to the server.
Thanks for your time.
-evan

version 5 of XML library just published
XML and RSS classes are converted to Java 5 style, with generics.

Links:
http://www.myjavatools.com/
docs
article on DevX

two new methods for Files class
Got a letter:

"I was trying your files utility on http://myjavatools.com/ & found the methods very useful. Was wondering why following were not considered as another install method ?

public static boolean install(String archiveName, File location) throws IOException
{
URL url = new URL(archiveName);
ZipInputStream is = new ZipInputStream(url.openStream());
return unzip(is,location);
}

public static boolean install(String archiveName, String location) throws IOException
{
URL url = new URL(archiveName);
ZipInputStream is = new ZipInputStream(url.openStream());
return unzip(is,new File(location));
}

Where archiveName could be something like : file:/C:/downloads/examples.jar (or a zip file), as this eliminates the creation of the 'Class' object required for the existing install methods.

Looking forward to hearing from you...

Regards,

Rajeev Chugh"

It's a great idea; and I've just added these two methods.

Yes, a couple of news.

An article published on DevX, com.myjavatools.Files. http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/27367
Another article, regarding foundations classes, is here: http://www.myjavatools.com/projects/v.5.0/foundations.html

Also - RSS reader has been fixed for non-UTF8 charsets.

rss with french charachters??
Hi,

I recently used the

com.myjavatools.xml.Rss
com.myjavatools.xml.Rss.Item

libraries to parse rss,
however it seems that special charachters such as à é are bieng converted to unicode charachter /ufffd

so when i print out the string finally you get stuff like:

La lumiére se met au service de la sécurité
which is printed out as
La lumi?re se met au service de la s?curit?

i used the following rss channel as a test:
http://www.zdnet.fr/feeds/rss/techupdate/
but other french rss channels exhibit the same issue...

Is this an issue in the library, or am i setting my encoding wrong somewhere??

Thanks,
Marc
(marcorbiscommunications.com)

update: foundation classes for Java 5
Version 5.0 of myjavatools library is being posted to the site.

A new package, foundations, was added. Strings class tends to be usable with collections and varargs; chars is a convenient method to scan through characters:


CharSequence cs = "abcd".subsequence(2,4);

for (char c : chars(cs)) {
  System.out.println(c);
}


Files has similar new methods:

for (char c : chars(new File("mytext.txt"))) {
  System.out.println(c);
}

for (byte b : bytes(new File("notepad.exe"))) {
  System.out.println(b);
}

for (String s : lines(new File("mytext.txt"))) {
  System.out.println(s);
}


Did I mention that Files.copy() method was rewritten to use memory-mapped files from nio library?

posting a form
I have just started trying to use this tool. It looks good, but I can't quite achieve sucess. I am trying to automatically validate an xml document against its schema using this site:
http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdvalidator/Default.aspx

I can get the basic form downloaded successfully.

I have deciphered the form and entered what I think are the correct parameters, _VIEWSTATE, the SchemaFile, the XmlFile, NamespaceUri as "" and "Validate","Submit".

However, after setting those parameters, post() returns an InputStream that only has the basic form, without the vaidating results I achieve when I actually use the form manually. Any thoughts how I can proceed to resolve this? I wasn't sure what to do about the form information : name="PageForm" id="PageForm" I tried omitting it and including it. No apparent difference.

Thanks.

xml/rss library updated
XML preserves xmlns attributes in cleanAttributes() call;
RSS is now compatible with slashdot.com version or RSS version 1.0.

ServerHttpRequest: bug fixed
A dramatic bug was just fixed.

WHen one POST request parameter ends with carriage return (as a part of its value), the next request parameter is ignored. That was the wrong behavior that was just fixed.

projects/web... ServerHttpRequest update
This class that is indispensable in parsing multipart requests in a servlet or JSP, underwent a real-life test, and, hence, a robustness upgrade.

The problem was with weird (okay, buggy) Tomcat 5 reader in its connector. This new implementation does not use reader; instead it uses the original requests, byte-based ServletInputStream, and, to improve performance, uses its own adaptive size buffer. It still did not always work with the build of Tomcat 5 that is provided withing JBoss 3.2 distribution (at times it does, at times it does not) - but the one in JBoss 4 is perfectly okay, and you can just update your JBoss 3.2.

Let me know if you encounter problems with this.

See http://www.myjavatools.com/projects/v.1.4.2/web/mjweb.zip

just opened
Hi,

This community is the place for discussing the tools, the ideas and the bugs originating from http://myjavatools.com

I just discovered that I read livejournal way more often than my email, and that here problems and ideas may be discussed much more efficiently.

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