[kepler-dev] DDFDirector + WebService actor infinite loop

[Daniel Crawl]

Hi Peter,

It sounds like one or more of the actors in your workflow
needs to have their firingCountLimit parameter set to 1.

Could you email me your workflow?

Thanks,

   --dan


On 2/11/10 2:00 PM, Peter Elespuru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I came across this older list entry:
>
> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/2008-November/013469.html 
>
>
> while attempting to remedy a similar problem by creating a custom 
> ArrayToSequence actor, only to realize I was using the wrong director 
> to begin with...
>
> My workflow is fairly straight forward. It obtains some data from a 
> web service, massages the proprietary ASCII format it receives into 
> something the SequencePlotter can handle, and plots the result.
>
> However, when changing to DDF (from SDF), my flow ends up in an 
> infinite loop unless stopped manually via the UI, or unless I specify 
> an exact number of iterations to the DDFDirector. Otherwise, it makes
> repeated calls to the web service and happily appends the results to 
> the plotter.
>
> I've combed through the user and dev mail archives, as well as Google 
> and haven't been able to come up with a solution so far.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> Regards,
> -Peter Elespuru
>
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