There seems to be a problem with DataSource editing in the newer 8.0 SC EVAL nightly builds, as recent as 2011-01-06
Opening the datasource editor in Visual Builder fails.
Steps to reproduce:
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unzip the SC archive, launch start_embedded_server.bat, open the web browser to localhost:8080, go into tools/Visual builder.
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select a datasource like “countryDS” from the DataSources window, and click Edit.
I get a dialog that says “loading datasource ‘CountryDS’” and the shaded gradient portion at the bottom of what should be the datasource editor window. It then gets stuck this way until I reload the whole thing.
(I’d attach a screenshot, but I don’t see a way to do that in this forum)
Doesn’t seem to matter which dataset I choose. The server log messages printed after I click the edit button are below, but don’t seem especially informative.
A similar problem happens when you try to create a new datasource.
I’ve tried Firefox (3.6.13), IE (8), Chrome and the result is always the same. This is using Windows 7 as the host with JRE 1.6.0_23
I also installed a version on linux with a slightly older JRE and ran the server there, but ran the same browsers back on my desktop. Same results.
I recalled that this feature worked when I tested it during my first pass evals a few weeks ago. (This product is now in the shortlist of things that I’m trying more in-depth experiments on).
I went back and downloaded the version dated 2010-12-22 and this feature works fine. So, somewhere along the way this bug was introduced.
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,080 [sor6] INFO RequestContext - URL: '/tools/visualBuilder/vbOperations.jsp', User-Agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)': Moz (Gecko) with Accept-Encoding header
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,095 [sor6] DEBUG XML - Parsed XML from (in memory stream): 0ms
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,095 [sor6] DEBUG RPCManager - Processing 1 requests.
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,111 [sor6] DEBUG RPCManager - Request #1 (DSRequest) payload: {
appID:"builtinApplication",
operation:"countryDS_loadSchema",
values:{
},
criteria:{
}
}
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,142 [sor6] DEBUG AppBase - [builtinApplication.countryDS_loadSchema] No userTypes defined, allowing anyone access to all operations for this application
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,142 [sor6] DEBUG AppBase - [builtinApplication.countryDS_loadSchema] No public zero-argument method named '_countryDS_loadSchema' found, performing generic datasource operation
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,142 [sor6] INFO DSResponse - [builtinApplication.countryDS_loadSchema] DSResponse: List with 1 items
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,158 [sor6] DEBUG RPCManager - Content type for RPC transaction: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,174 [sor6] DEBUG RPCManager - non-DMI response, dropExtraFields: false
=== 2011-01-06 15:27:29,174 [sor6] INFO Compression - /tools/visualBuilder/vbOperations.jsp: 2147 -> 587 bytes