WOW, a jIdle sighting!! On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 1:58:16 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:55 PM Johan Liebenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply. >> Yes as I said, it works just fine on Linux. I am trying to send some data >> to another server, just a few headers with values. The code does not need >> to check status as it should not interrupt the current process if it fails >> for any reason whatsoever. >> > > I would probably not do this from jBASE at all then, just monitor a > transfer directory and write the data to be transferred there and move on. > Otherwise your main program will hang around waiting for the curl etc. I > don't know if the receiving end is jBASE or something else, but message > queues are your friend, or even something as simple as scp. Think in > parallel terms. > > > >> I will pick it up on the remote server if the process did not call in >> successfully. Anyway, taking the exact code out of the gosub fixed it. Same >> code, just no gosub and no return. Works fine on Linux, does not work on >> Windows. >> > > Which is why you should work out what is going on with your subroutine and > EXECUTE. You may have found a way to get around it by duplicating code, but > that is more likely to be masking the actual problem, which may come back > to bite you later. > > > >> >> I will rewrite some of it when I start using the jCurl command. Will have >> to figure out if it is available on the older versions of jBase. >> > > But is using a form of curl really the correct way to do this? > > > >> >> On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 3:13:46 PM UTC+10 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> I usually find that it is better to say what you are trying to do first. >>> Maybe your approach is not optimal? As in tell us: >>> >>> "I need to contact an http server at http:// and retrieve xyz" >>> >>> Whereas here you are assuming your approach is the correct one, then >>> saying it isn't working. we should probably work out why you are seeing >>> what you seem to be seeing, but it may well be that your approach is >>> incorrect. >>> >>> The compiler will not generate bad code for GOSUB and RETURN - if it >>> did, a lot more people would be complaining ;). It tends to make me think >>> that you are not executing the binary that you think you are. Maybe run >>> from a command line instead of jsh for instance. Also, when executing >>> external scripts, you would likely be better specifying EXECUTE with >>> CHAR(255):"<shell indicator":"curl ....." - not specifying a shell may well >>> be why EXECUTE of your command line is not working. >>> >>> You should also use the additional clauses in EXECUTE to capture exit >>> codes and errors etc. Your code is just assuming that it works, which is >>> never a good idea. >>> >>> I would also recommend Linux over Windows, but that's just a preference. >>> Things always seem to work better. >>> >>> So, what are you actually trying to do here? There are probably 20 >>> different ways if we know what you are doing. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:00 AM Johan Liebenberg <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> jBASE 5.2.31 on Windows Server 2012. >>>> >>>> Yes thanks I saw the jCURL command and I will investigate in future to >>>> do a switch over. Anyway, I got the batch file thing to work by not >>>> calling >>>> the subroutine and instead calling the same code in 3 different places. >>>> More cleanup to do later. >>>> >>>> Thanks :) >>>> >>>> On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 11:37:37 PM UTC+10 pfalson wrote: >>>> >>>>> What version of jBASE are you using? We support curl natively now >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://docs.zumasys.com/jbase/miscellaneous/jcurl/#additional-helper-functions >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 4, 2021, at 5:29 AM, Johan Liebenberg <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Building a small batch file to run on a Window jBase server. >>>>> >>>>> Batch file executes a curl command build inside the jBase program. >>>>> >>>>> I 1st tried to EXECUTE the curl command CAPTURING RESULTS, but the >>>>> remote server returns an error. I filtered all the illegal character out >>>>> of >>>>> the curl command just in case. No luck.This happens to work flawlessly on >>>>> a >>>>> Linux server. >>>>> >>>>> So the next approach is to create a DOS batch file and execute the >>>>> batch file with the curl command inside the batch file. Works 1st time >>>>> but >>>>> then the trouble starts: >>>>> >>>>> So I have a GOSUB RUNCMD that calls the sub below with the curl >>>>> command inside the CMD variable: >>>>> >>>>> RUNCMD: >>>>> >>>>> OSDELETE 'temp.bat' >>>>> >>>>> EXECUTE 'touch temp.bat' CAPTURING JUNK >>>>> >>>>> OSOPEN 'temp.bat' TO TEMPDOSFILE THEN >>>>> >>>>> OSBWRITE CMD ON TEMPDOSFILE AT 0 >>>>> >>>>> OSCLOSE TEMPDOSFILE >>>>> >>>>> EXECUTE 'temp.bat' CAPTURING RESULTS >>>>> >>>>> END >>>>> >>>>> OSDELETE 'temp.bat' >>>>> >>>>> RETURN >>>>> With the debugger turned on, outside RUNCMD sub, I can follow the >>>>> progress through the sub line by line, everything works and the remote >>>>> server receives the curl command correctly and returns the correct data >>>>> in >>>>> the RESULTS variable. All good. When the execution gets to the RETURN >>>>> command, one expects it to jump back to the 1st line after the GOSUB >>>>> RUNCMD, but instead it jumps back to the RUNCMD: label and it repeats the >>>>> sub over and over in a loop that you can not break out of. >>>>> >>>>> Surely I am very tired because it is late and I am missing something >>>>> really really obvious. 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