[kepler-dev] Questions for adding new actors

[Zhijie Guan]

Ok. The number for kars is added into the README file. Currently both of
those numbers are 454, after I added an actor for authentication.

Cheers!

Zhijie


On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, 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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