[kepler-dev] Questions for adding new actors

[Zhijie Guan]

Hi, Chad,

Thanks! One more question:

The kar lsid is not recorded in README file. How do I know which is the
largest lsid?  Must this lsid be unique for any kar file? It seems the kar
files is alphabetically indexed according to their names. It's hard to add
a new actor directory following the alphabetical index -- I must change
all the lsid(s) in Manifest files for all the actors alphabetically
"larger" than the new actor.

~Zhijie

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chad Berkley wrote:

> Hi Zhijie,
>
> You have to add your actor to src/actors with unique lsids, then run
> 'ant buildkarlib' to create the kar file and add it to the kar
> library.  The 'entityId' lsid is kept track of in the README file.
> Don't worry about the class lsid as it's not being used right now.
> The important ones are the kar lsid (in the manifest) and the
> entityId (in the actor metadata file and the manifest).  If you add
> another actor, please update the README file and check it in.
>
> chad
>
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Zhijie Guan wrote:
>
> > Hi, All,
> >
> > Does anybody know how to add new actors into Kepler now?
> >
> > I know I should create a directory for the new actor under
> > $KEPLER/src/actors. And there should be two files (ActorName.xml and
> > MANIFEST.MF) in that directory. My question is if those two files are
> > automatically generated by the system? If yes, how to let the system
> > generate them? If no, how to manually write them?
> >
> > I notice there are two index lsid numbers in ActorName.xml: one is the
> > index number for actor, the other is for the actor class. For
> > example, the
> > "Add Grids" actor has 446 as its actor index number, and 1209 as
> > its class
> > index number. Are these index numbers unique in all of the actors
> > used in
> > Kepler? If so, how can I find the largest index number for actors
> > thus I
> > can use the next available number for my new actor? Should we write
> > those
> > largest index numbers on some place (like Readme.txt) so we can easily
> > access them?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Zhijie
> >
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