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[jira] [Commented] (AIRAVATA-779) Xbaya: handling of StringArray is
not consistent with URIArray
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-779?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13741737#comment-13741737 ]
Kenno Vanommeslaeghe commented on AIRAVATA-779:
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This problem is still causing us (PARAMCHEM) pain. We have a service that accepts 3 arrays. Because Airavata doesn't delimit the arrays, there's no way of knowing for sure where one array stops and the next one starts. Obviously, we implemented a workaround for this, but it is somewhat brittle; if something unexpected happens, the arrays flow into each other leading to a situation that is confusing to debug. I still feel quoting the arrays would be the best solution, ie. the back-end application is called as follows:
application "array1_element1 array1_element2 ..." "array2_element1 array2_element2 ..."
This is very easy to parse with basic shell commands; the following sample shell script is way simpler than the big ugly complicated parser I had to put in place to work around the problem.
#!/bin/sh
array1="$1"
array2="$2"
parse_array () {
arrnam=$1
shift 1
for i in `seq $#` ; do
eval ${arrnam}$i=\"\$$i\"
done
}
parse_array array1_element $array1
parse_array array2_element $array2
# Example
echo $array1_element3
echo $array2_element2
> Xbaya: handling of StringArray is not consistent with URIArray
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AIRAVATA-779
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-779
> Project: Airavata
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: GFac, XBaya
> Reporter: Suresh Marru
> Fix For: 0.9
>
>
> Reported by Airavata user at - https://gateways.atlassian.net/browse/PARAMCHEM-115
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