[kepler-dev] Questions for adding new actors

[Zhijie Guan]

Hi, Chad,

Ok. I'd like to update that README file. But here is the situation: the
actors and kars have over-numbered the number set in the README.

For kar files, the following scopes are taken:
1-332, 449-453, 500

For actors, the following scopes are taken:
1-447, 449-453, 500

Should I manually change those numbers back to make it sequentially, or we
just let them be and set the new maximum numbers (500) in README?

Zhijie


On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chad Berkley wrote:

> Yeah, we should add that to the README too.  Can you add that?  You
> can figure it out easily by building kepler then looking in
> the .kepler/cache/cacheobjects directory for the largest lsid filename.
>
> chad
>
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Zhijie Guan wrote:
>
> > 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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