[x3d-public] X3DJSAIL under NetBeans. Wrong jar versions?

John Carlson yottzumm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 13:54:10 PDT 2021


Hmm. Looks like the NetBeans project under x3d/stylesheets/java does not 
build?   Something to do with the versions of jars required?  I haven't 
figured out how to resolve the jars, will probably have to figure out 
how to add/remove jars.

John

On 6/19/21 3:44 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>
> Looks like NetBeans 12.4 does not support Python projects????
>
> What do you use for x3d.py? An older version of NetBeans?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
> On 6/19/21 3:08 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>> (I’m in a better mood)
>>
>> I have been doing JSON schema generation for a long time in python, 
>> I’ve been adding validators in various languages, and I’ve been 
>> testing X3D Examples.   I’ve also added validating all the schemas 
>> against draft07.  The python generation code is stable, but 
>> undocumented, for the most part.  I think what you want is online 
>> documentation.   The Everit code base is what I use in Java.   I 
>> can’t setup Everit on your machine.  I tried to set up a reasonable 
>> testing environment for schemas copied from X3DJSONLD, but it still 
>> requires bash (which will download and compile jars, using maven), 
>> and does not conform to a NetBeans project.   The Java and JavaScript 
>> code is on GitHub under coderextreme/x3dschema.   Currently schema 
>> generation requires jsonlint, and one needs to run the driver script 
>> like:
>>
>> python3 generateSchemas.py
>> (under X3DJSONLD/src/main/python)
>>
>> I’m not mentally prepared to do the same in .xslt, I’ll leave that to 
>> the smart people with the appropriate tools.   I can read xslt well 
>> enough to make minor modifications in vim.
>>
>> Schemas will be found in ../schema or ../schemas or online at github, 
>> checked in under coderextreme/X3DJSONLD
>>
>> So my read on this is you want JSON schema in a NetBeans project.   I 
>> admit I’ve been using the master branch of Everit from GitHub. In a 
>> temporary folder that only gets checked out when I delete it.
>> ===========
>>
>> I have an existing test case for loading a JSON file into X3DJSAIL 
>> with X3DJSONLD.java  These things are under 
>> x3d/stylesheets/java/src/net/coderextreme on
>> sourceforge.   My understanding at this point is you want a NetBeans 
>> project with a proper test case, currently in JsonConversion.java.   
>> There are issues with the results from that test case.   I suggest 
>> searching your mail archives for JsonConversion.   I can trade a 
>> NetBeans project with an effort to patch the problems I found when 
>> comparing outputs with inputs.
>>
>> Note that I only recently brought up the stylesheets project under 
>> NetBeans.
>>
>> I do not feel comfortable checking code into sourceforge right now.
>>
>> I do feel that we could create an issue tracker for our projects 
>> under Mantis, or another installation of Mantis.  Or GitHub issues, 
>> or something under sourceforge. Feel free to add issues to my GitHub 
>> repositories.  Thanks!
>>
>> Using email for issue tracking is comparable to using vim for code 
>> editing.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 10:48 AM Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu 
>> <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks for your thoughts John.
>>
>>     We have everything we need for both data and metadata in the X3D4
>>     Architecture.
>>
>>     Our tasks at hand are to get corresponding file encodings and
>>     programming languages well defined (in specifications), well
>>     supported (in tools) and well demonstrated (in examples).
>>
>>     We are making steady progress on all counts.  We need to do well
>>     at those, work continues.  As we do so, many other things become
>>     relatively easy and will come our way.  No need to chase in every
>>     direction.
>>
>>     And so let's keep working on tasks at hand.
>>
>>     Am getting closer at CORS support for authors in X3D-Edit. 
>>     Tricky business, requires careful implementation that will help. 
>>     So I am not irritated about tools whatsoever, quite the
>>     opposite.  Am finding that all of the pieces/parts needed are out
>>     there, am putting them together in one place.  X3D-Edit beta is
>>     already helping with our improvement of X3D model production,
>>     onward we go.
>>
>>     Please advise where your latest greatest for the following key
>>     items might be, I'll continue working in that direction.
>>
>>     a. JSON Schema (can we finally autogenerate) and stable library
>>     support (Java please) for integrating in examples.
>>
>>     b. Example Java code to integrate in X3DJSAIL for loading JSON. 
>>     (hopefully testable in a simple program also utilizing the
>>     x3djsail full jar.)
>>
>>     Please do not just point at a url and say "Everything is Found in
>>     the Giant Hidden Valley Way Over Yonder."  Well intentioned no
>>     doubt, but unfortunately not actionable, I have no time
>>     permitting re-exploration of your journeys.
>>
>>     Small steps from something existing to something additional are
>>     much preferred.  So please curate and instead offer "here is the
>>     simple implementation, and example test."  That is easier to
>>     examine, implement, evaluate and add.
>>
>>     Hope this helps.  Thanks for your important efforts.
>>
>>
>>     On 6/18/2021 2:10 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>     >
>>     > Seeking better tools: irritated too.   We have ways to get
>>     text, image, price/product, math, geo and video results from a
>>     search engine, but not meshes, graphs, systems (do we have good
>>     ways to make systems searchable?), and networks, except for
>>     social connections, perhaps.   Where are 3, 4 and fractional
>>     dimensional results?  I’m aware of what Princeton has shown with
>>     shapes.   I think the main issue may be we don’t have good ways
>>     to query such things…neo4j query language perhaps? GraphQL? Are
>>     there demos on the web?  SPARQL?   Where are the VR results?
>>     >
>>     > What ways are there to search across the 3D web?  Can I search
>>     for 3D house models?   Net-lists? How can the web be better
>>     oriented for 3D search?  What if we could develop something for
>>     searching Minecraft servers?
>>     >
>>     > What is the equivalent of grep for 3D?   Is there a better X3D
>>     encoding for searching?  I’m aware of metadata.   Say I want to
>>     pull all <Shape>’s out of a file system or remote folder and
>>     display/browse or save them? How do I grep STL files?
>>     >
>>     > ===============
>>     >
>>     > For bash-sql
>>     >
>>     > I agree, Don, seems like the best approach is to keep a log of
>>     test results, but I don’t know if I should create a separate
>>     script or not.  That is, maintain a script for transient results
>>     in addition to a script that keeps results in version control for
>>     comparison.
>>     >
>>     > I looked into GitHub Actions for a bit, I’m not sure if I can
>>     introduce a custom shell script that  takes a lot of CPU time.
>>     >
>>     > I don’t really like databases anyway—I don’t have the mindset
>>     for it.   If there was a good integration between bash and SQL I
>>     might be more interested.   I assume that power-shell might have
>>     something, but I’m not sure of cross platform compatibility.
>>     >
>>     > Note: both vim and emacs have database integrations.
>>     >
>>     > I guess I could write my own scripting language? Hmm.    What
>>     are people missing from their current environments?
>>     >
>>     > Does Tcl or Ant do pipelines?  I guess include/exclude may
>>     solve that issue.
>>     >
>>     > Perhaps it’s time for me to write up some requirements to go
>>     shopping for a different environment.
>>     >
>>     > I haven’t bought into the graphical IDE mindset at the moment. 
>>     I’m not sure why.  Perhaps if I could grep and find across web
>>     pages easily (wget? curl? lynx?).  I know eclipse has a way to
>>     search across files.
>>     >
>>     > =======
>>     >
>>     > I’m sorry I’m such a noob.
>>     >
>>     > John
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 11:00 AM Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu
>>     <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu> <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu
>>     <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >     On 6/17/2021 6:35 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>     >      > Anyone know of a command-line database client?
>>     >
>>     >     dozens, see Vince email
>>     >
>>     >      > Are you interested in a possible ant integration, Don?
>>     >
>>     >     no, they require a lot of upkeep and break or get garbled
>>     over time
>>     >
>>     >     XML and catalogs preferred, inspectable and doesn't break.
>>     >
>>     >     even better is consistent file naming and directory
>>     structures, ant just handles that.  see our 4000 examples.
>>     >
>>     >      > I will be using it for inserting and selecting test
>>     results.   It should probably keep track of test runs, for example.
>>     >
>>     >     if you wish - no problem with that, but not advisable as a
>>     shared resource.
>>     >
>>     >     all the best, Don
>>     >     --
>>     >     Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br
>>     brutzman at nps.edu <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu>
>>     <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu>>
>>     >     Watkins 270,  MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA 
>>      +1.831.656.2149
>>     >     X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics
>>     http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman <http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman>
>>     <http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman <http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman>>
>>     >
>>
>>     all the best, Don
>>     -- 
>>     Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br
>>     brutzman at nps.edu <mailto:brutzman at nps.edu>
>>     Watkins 270,  MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA
>>      +1.831.656.2149
>>     X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics
>>     http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman <http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman>
>>
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