Re: Pure Swing + EOF distribution channel

Hi Florijan,

I succeed to do what you are trying with lots  of help from Jonathan 
Rochkind.
You can find the exchange in the webobjects-dev Omni. Well... it seems 
broken right now !.
Tell me if you are not able to find the info.

Good luck.

Pierre

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florijan Stamenkovic" <[email protected]>
To: "EOF at Omni" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Pure Swing + EOF distribution channel


> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to get a Swing application running and connecting to an EOF 
> AppServer. I am trying to do it in a way that I have all and Swing only 
> UI control. No nibs, no rules, no XML, all written in Swing and a part  of 
> the distributed desktop application.
>
> The only lead Apple gives on this kind of applications is a two page 
> how-to that describes how to make a Swing project, add the client side 
> EOF jars, add an application URL property, and set the main class of  the 
> app to:
> com.webobjects.eoapplication.client.EOClientAppplicationSupport
>
> This approach results in the app turning all the control to 
> EOClientApplicationSupport, which then establishes a distribution 
> channel, but also generates the UI and sends it back to the client. As 
> described, this is NOT what I try to achieve.
>
> I was tampering with skipping the switching of the main class of the  app 
> to EOClientApplicationSupport, and tried to establish a connection  in my 
> own code (see below). Did manage to get a distribution channel  running, 
> made a distributed object store and an editing context that  took it as 
> it's parent, but when trying to fetch data I get the  exception (below) ON 
> THE APPLICATION SERVER project (that is running in  the background so I 
> could connect to from the Swing app).
>
> ANY kind of help would be very welcome as the only documentation I can 
> find on the issue is EOF API reference. Is there a way to use EOF and 
> it's ClientApplicationSupport without giving all the control to the 
> standard JC handling?
>
>
> App server exception:
> ------------------------
> [2005-11-08 14:10:53 CET] <WorkerThread9> <WOWorkerThread id=9 
> socket=Socket[addr=/192.168.25.46,port=55839,localport=55710]>  Exception 
> while creating request: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
> <com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest>: No URL was provided.; dropping 
> connection
> [2005-11-08 14:10:53 CET] <WorkerThread9> 
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:  <com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest>: 
> No URL was provided.
> at com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest.<init>(WORequest.java:212)
> at 
> com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.createRequest(WOApplication.java: 
> 1734)
> at 
> com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOHttpIO.readRequestFromSocket(WOHttpI 
> O.java:345)
> at 
> com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.runOnce(WOWorkerThread. 
> java:79)
> at 
> com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.run(WOWorkerThread.java 
> :254)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
>
>
>
>
> My client side app code (main class of the test app):
> -------------------------------
> import java.awt.*;
> import java.awt.event.*;
>
> import javax.swing.*;
>
> import com.webobjects.foundation.*;
> import com.webobjects.eocontrol.*;
> import com.webobjects.eoapplication.*;
> import com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.*;
>
> import client.*; //EOs
>
>
> public class JCTestClient extends JFrame {
> public JCTestClient() {
>
> super("");
>
> //set the distribution channel
> EODistributionChannel c = setupDistributionChannel();       // below
> EODistributedObjectStore doc = new EODistributedObjectStore(c);
> EOEditingContext ec = new EOEditingContext(doc);
>
> //fetch some data
> printSomeData(ec);
>
> setSize(640, 480);
> setVisible(true);
> }
>
>
> public static void main(String args[]) {
> new JCTestClient();
> }
>
> private EODistributionChannel setupDistributionChannel(){
>
> //create the connection dictionary
> NSMutableDictionary cd = new NSMutableDictionary();
> cd.setObjectForKey("http://hijkl.local:55710/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ 
> JCTestAppServer.woa", "applicationURL");     //direct connect, changes 
> every app server run
> cd.setObjectForKey("", "componentURL");
> cd.setObjectForKey("", "sessionID");
> cd.setObjectForKey("", "page");
>
> //get the channel
> EODistributionChannel e = 
> com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.EODistributionChannel.channelWithNa 
> me(
> "com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.EOHTTPChannel");
>
> //set the dictionary
> e.setConnectionDictionary(cd);
>
> e.establishConnection();
> return e;
> }
>
> private void printSomeData(EOEditingContext ec){
> EOFetchSpecification fs = new EOFetchSpecification("Student", null, 
> null);
> Object[] students = ec.objectsWithFetchSpecification(fs).objects();
> for(int i = 0 ; i < students.length ; i++){
> System.out.println(students[i]);
> }
> }
> }
>
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