[kepler-dev] Questions for adding new actors

[jagan]

Hi Chad,

I have added few actors recently 450 to 453.  Hence 453 is  highest 
number I set in README file.

with regards,

Jagan Kommineni

Chad Berkley wrote:

>hmm, 500 is mine and is a temporary test that will be removed  
>shortly.  You should update the README to whatever the last number  
>(<500) is.  I guess just make them both 454.
>
>thanks,
>chad
>
>On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Zhijie Guan wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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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