Re: Invalid conversion error when using TEXT datatype in INPUT

Looks like I've not refreshed the "noyacc" stuff - try making sure you have
flex and bison installed - and you might be alright..
I'll do a proper new build tomorrow which should fix it too..



On 9 November 2013 15:58, Walter Haslbeck <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Thanks Mike!
>
> this fixes the TUI, but in the XML UI this is still broken. (see attached
> debug log).
>
> Now to the CVS compilation problem:
> compilation stops at fcompile, here is a console dump:
>
> wh@lynch:~/AUBIT/build/aubit4glsrc-cvs/compilers/fcompile$ make
> gcc  -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wstrict-prototypes -g  -fPIC -DPIC -DSRC_TREE -DDEBUG -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I/home/wh/AUBIT/build/aubit4glsrc-cvs/incl
> -I/home/wh/AUBIT/build/aubit4glsrc-cvs  -fPIC -DPIC -I../../lib/libincl
> -I.   -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/rpc -I/usr/local   -c -o y.tab.o
> y.tab.c
> screen.yacc: In function ‘a4gl_form_yyparse’:
> screen.yacc:1980:6: warning: variable ‘n’ set but not used
> [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>    $<col_list>$->columns.columns_val[0].tabname=$<column>1.tabname;
>       ^
> In file included from screen.yacc:2387:0:
> lex.yy.c: At top level:
> lex.yy.c:166:14: warning: redundant redeclaration of ‘yyin’
> [-Wredundant-decls]
>  extern FILE *yyin, *yyout;
>               ^
> screen.yacc:947:23: note: previous declaration of ‘yyin’ was here
>
>                        ^
> In file included from screen.yacc:2387:0:
> screen.lex: In function ‘a4gl_form_yylex’:
> screen.lex:398:10: error: ‘NAMED_CASE_SPECIFIC’ undeclared (first use in
> this function)
>    return(NAMED_CASE_SPECIFIC);
>           ^
> screen.lex:398:10: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> for each function it appears in
> In file included from screen.yacc:2387:0:
> lex.yy.c: At top level:
> lex.yy.c:4167:12: warning: redundant redeclaration of ‘isatty’
> [-Wredundant-decls]
>  extern int isatty (int );
>             ^
> In file included from
> /home/wh/AUBIT/build/aubit4glsrc-cvs/incl/a4gl_libaubit4gl.h:709:0,
>                  from a4gl_fcompile_int.h:4,
>                  from screen.yacc:25:
> /usr/include/unistd.h:801:12: note: previous declaration of ‘isatty’ was
> here
>  extern int isatty (int __fd) __THROW;
>             ^
> In file included from screen.yacc:2387:0:
> lex.yy.c:3936:17: warning: ‘yyunput’ defined but not used
> [-Wunused-function]
>      static void yyunput (int c, register char * yy_bp )
>                  ^
> lex.yy.c:3981:16: warning: ‘input’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>      static int input  (void)
>                 ^
> make: *** [y.tab.o] Fehler 1
> wh@lynch:~/AUBIT/build/aubit4glsrc-cvs/compilers/fcompile$
>
>
>
>
> On 09.11.2013 15:29, Mike Aubury wrote:
>
>  Hmm - I think there is a problem with validation check - its trying to
> convert to a string so it can run some checks - but I'm really not sure it
> needs to run those on blobs..
>
>  I've committed the change to CVS - if you can try that and let me know if
> you're still having compilation issues - I can try to fix those too..
>
> If you just want to make the change on your own local source - try adding
> the "if" test in lib/libui/ui_curses/ioform.c :
>
>
> int
> A4GL_check_and_copy_field_to_data_area (struct s_form_dets *form,
>                                         struct struct_scr_field *fprop,
> char *fld_data, char *data_area, int var_dtype)
> {
>   int pprval;
>   int dsize;
>
>  // Add these 3 lines
>   if ((fprop->datatype & DTYPE_MASK) == DTYPE_BYTE || (fprop->datatype
> &DTYPE_MASK) == DTYPE_TEXT) {
>         return 1;
>   }
>
>
>  and see how you get on..
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9 November 2013 12:51, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> when I use the INPUT statement with a TEXT datatype I get an "Invalid
>> conversion" error after finishing the INPUT with the accept key.
>>
>> Here is a minimal example:
>> t1.4gl:
>> =====
>> main
>> define b1 text
>> open window w1 with form "f1"
>> locate b1 in file "/tmp/b1"
>> input b1 without defaults from myblob
>> close window w1
>> end main
>> =====
>>
>> f1.per:
>> =====
>> database formonly
>> screen
>> {
>> [a           ]
>> }
>> end
>> attributes
>> a = formonly.myblob type text;
>> =====
>>
>> compile with
>> 4glpc t1.4gl -o t1.4ae
>> fcompile f1.per
>>
>> then run t1.4ae, press "!" to start DBEDIT, write some text, close edtor,
>> finish INPUT with accept key:
>>  Err:Program ./t1.4ae stopped at 't1.4gl', line number 5.
>> Error status number -30284.
>> Invalid conversion.
>> 4gl function call stack :
>>     MAIN
>>
>> I seams the the INPUT statement accepts the datatype TEXT but returns it
>> als CHAR?
>>
>> see also the attached debug.out.gz
>>
>> I used version 1.2_34 from  aubit.com (not the latest CVS version, had
>> some problems to compile on my machine).
>> System: ubuntu linux 13.10 64bit (compiler: gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
>> 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1).
>> This happens with A4GL_UI=TUI and also with XML (ventas client).
>>
>>
>> thanks for any help!
>> Walter
>>
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