[kepler-dev] [Bug 2978] New: - saving to actor library from kepler no longer consistently works and port information is lost

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2978

           Summary: saving to actor library from kepler no longer
                    consistently works and port information is lost
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 1.0.0beta3
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
        ReportedBy: sbowers at ucdavis.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org
                CC: sbowers at ucdavis.edu


It appears as though some new issues have cropped up w.r.t. the kepler actor
library, in particular: 

- when actors are added to the library from the canvas, they sometimes do not
appear in the library, sometimes require a change in another actor to appear,
and sometimes require kepler to be restarted to appear.  I haven't nailed down
exactly what sequence of events are causing this / needed to make an actor show
up.

- input/output port properties are no longer saved when an actor is saved to a
library (and dragged back to the canvas). This includes port data types as well
as port semantic types.  The same holds (i.e., port information is lost) when
an actor is built via buildkarlib as well. 

- the actor library interface appears to have changed, e.g., calling
entityList() returns a null pointer (it seems ...)

The above behavior occurs on a fresh cvs checkout ... 

Thanks,
-shawn