November 2008 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Class::DBI vs DBIx::Class
by Rick Welykochy 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

First off, a note to Galen. I reported to you that I had experience with DBIx::Class. Make that Class::DBI instead. I am reading up on DBIx::Class now. It seems that DBIx::Class grew out of Class::DBI and might be more sophisticated for our purposes. There is a perl monks comparison of these two here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=700283 with some pros and cons for each. What I like about Class::DBI is that it created a data model object for each table, i.e. something like Ourspace::Itemtype for the itemtype table. Instances of that object are loaded and initialised from the database. In the examples I have been reading kindly posted by Andrew Moore I am seeing field (attribute) accesses like the following using DBIx::Class ... $row->get_column('cn_source') This is not much different than the following: $hash->{cn_source} IMHO. Part of the advantage in an OR mapper is having first class data model objects, i.e. the above would become: $obj->cn_source and changing the value of the cn_source attribute is accomplished quite simply by $obj->cn_source('new_value') There might be some concern of the extra overhead involved in creating data objects for each database fetch. cheers rick -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix

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Koha 3 with Active Directory
by Yusdanis Feus Perez 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hello, I' am starting to develop Koha and I would like to know how to authenticate Koha with Active Directory. Thanks in advance, Feus. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Est. Yusdanis Feus Pérez Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI) Facultad # 10: "Software Libre" Linux Registered User # 434013

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Binding option
by mallikarjun dora 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi can anyone tell me, koha (serial module) upcoming version full fledged binding option will come . Thanks

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Failing make test for Koha installation
by Sean Toczko 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hello All - Having trouble withe the installation of Koha 3.00.00 on a Linux LAMP server running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Have downloaded and untarred the koha tar ball, have MySQL 5.0.51 running, Apache 2.2.8 and zebra installed, and according to the installation file within Koha, I also went ahead and downloaded CGI::Session::serialize::yaml (ver. 4.14) directly from CPAN. when running sudo make test, the make fails on scrubber test: ~:/build/koha-3.00.00$ sudo make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 KOHA_CONF=blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml /usr/bin/ perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/ PERL_MODULE_DIR', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/Amazon....................ok t/Barcodes_PrinterConfig....ok t/Bookfund..................ok t/Bookseller................ok t/Boolean...................ok t/Branch....................ok t/Calendar..................ok t/Charset...................ok t/Debug.....................# BEFORE use: $debug is not defined # BEFORE use: $cgi_debug is not defined t/Debug.....................ok 1/3# AFTER use: $debug is 0 # AFTER use: $cgi_debug is 0 # Done. t/Debug.....................ok t/dummy.....................ok t/Input.....................ok t/Koha......................ok t/Languages.................ok t/Maintainance..............ok t/Output....................ok t/Record....................ok t/Review....................ok t/Scrubber.................. # Failed test 'use C4::Scrubber;' # in t/Scrubber.t at line 10. # Tried to use 'C4::Scrubber'. # Error: Can't locate HTML/Scrubber.pm in @INC (@INC contains: / build/koha-3.00.00/t /build/koha-3.00.00/blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR /build/ koha-3.00.00/blib/arch /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/ share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 / usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /build/koha-3.00.00/ blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR/C4/Scrubber.pm line 20. # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Scrubber.t line 10. # Compilation failed in require at (eval 5) line 2. # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 2. t/Scrubber..................NOK 1# Note: scrubber test output will have whitespace collapsed for readability Can't locate object method "new" via package "C4::Scrubber" at t/ Scrubber.t line 48. # Looks like you planned 10 tests but only ran 1. # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1 run. # Looks like your test died just after 1. t/Scrubber..................dubious Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 1-10 Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay t/Stats.....................ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- t/Scrubber.t 255 65280 10 19 190.00% 1-10 Failed 1/19 test scripts, 94.74% okay. 10/47 subtests failed, 78.72% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 OK, how do I progress beyond this point? Advice very much appreciated. Sean

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icu diacrtics and search problems
by Chadwick, John, DCA 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Okay, here is a very good mystery for everyone. Koha 3.01.00.002 on Ubuntu 8. When we use the default.idx file with Koha and the word-phrase-utf.chr file, Koha searches perfectly fine and life is good, except for diacritics. So, we modify the default.idx file and use the icu.xml file and diacritics work correctly. Searching is a different matter. Keyword searching fails unless the search term has kw= in front of the term. Also, the search term followed by an asterisk also works. Title, author and all the other search functions work. I got the following from the opac error log: [Thu Nov 06 11:06:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2399:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2425 [Thu Nov 06 11:06:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2860:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2886 I am ready to entertain any ideas or suggestions. Thanks, John +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----+ John Chadwick, Ed.D. Information Technology Manager New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9740 Cell: 505-629-8116 Fax: 505-476-9761 john.chadwick(a)state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.

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GetMember() cardnumber vs. firstname search
by Galen Charlton 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, C4::Members::GetMember(), when used to look up a patron by cardnumber, retries the search on borrowers.firstname if there are no rows that have the barcode in borrowers.cardnumber. This is not exactly beautiful, and I assi,e it was inspired by some library that for whatever reason needed to overload the firstname field. Does anybody know of a reason (or a current user) why this odd fallback should be retained? Regards Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Software error: substr outside of string
by harry wykman 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

In performing a z39.50 search in my new koha installation, I get the following error: Software error: substr outside of string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Charset.pm line 241. CGI::Carp Any ideas? Thanks, Harry _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] error in Amazon.pm script?
by Rick Welykochy 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Emrys Minnig wrote: > Something that might be of interest to the development team... > I think there's a small oversight in C4/Amazon.pm. On line 101 it reads: > > my $uri = "http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/$isbn/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#rea…"; > > This line ignores the locale settings (in my case UK) which the majority of times breaks the 'Search Inside' capability. Which raises another question: why is there a URL such as the above hard-coded in the software? This kind of data should be treated as data ... and stored in the configuration database. cheers rickw

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Whitespace fixes
by Galen Charlton 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi, As was pointed out in connection with a recent patch, it can be difficult to evaluate patches that combine both functional and whitespace fixes, particularly if a significant amount of the patch simply changes indentation. If you find it necessary to reformat a large chunk of code, please consider structuring your patches so that whitespace fixes are completely separate from functional changes. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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problem with CGI::Session (Auth ERROR : cannot get_session() )
by Paul POULAIN 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hello, The maintainers of the CGI::Session package have splitted the package in smaller pieces. If you install or upgrade CGI::Session to 4.38, you won't have CGI::Session::serialize::yaml, and Koha won't work anymore at all (impossible to get a session, so, you'll get a nasty "Auth ERROR: Cannot get_session()" The solution is to install the CGI::Session::serialize::yaml package, it's simple ! We will update Koha installer for 3.0.1 to check for this dependancy explicitly. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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