[armedbear-devel] ABCL on Google App Engine (progress)

[Alessio Stalla]

Erik,
you can take a look at the AbclScriptEngine class inside the scripting
package. IIRC it does load stuff from streams - you may be able to
adapt something from it.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Today, on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#abcl), Alex and I have been
>>> working on getting ABCL to run on GAE (Google App Engine).
>>>
>>> We didn't complete our work, but since this mailing list has a wider
>>> audience than the IRC channel, I thought I'd forward our progress (his
>>> typing) to the mailing list. Possibly there are additional people
>>> interested. If others want to join in this effort to get ABCL running
>>> on GAE, I could commit the code to the examples directory in the
>>> repository. From there, we could make this a joint effort.
>>
>> Well, I kept on experimenting yesterday. I downloaded the GAE SDK and
>> have been trying to run the code in the local GAE development server.
>> This morning I saw my first "Hello World" in my browser!
>>
>> Conclusion: it works! But it's not ready to be uploaded. I shortcut
>> the problem of finding the fasls to be loaded: I hard coded the local
>> HD path for now. Which immediately indicates the next step to be
>> taken.
>>
>>> One of the things we were running into is that we knew how to get a
>>> stream to the first-servlet.abcl file, but not how to get a path/URL
>>> to it. Can anybody contribute by answering how we should? When we
>>> know, we can do with the existing public functions, if there's not
>>> way, we need to make additional functions public.
>>
>> If you replace the 2 files by the same names in the zip I sent
>> yesterday by the 2 class files that I'm sending today, it should work
>> for you too.
>
> I found that the files in WEB-INF will *only* be available as
> resources, which means we'll need to make it possible to load file
> contents off streams. That's no problem: there are routines already to
> do that, but so far they have been private to the Load class. I'll
> change the accessibility later today. After that, it should be
> possible to run the code both in the local server as well as on the
> App Engine infrastructure.
>
> Good progress!
>
> Bye,
>
> Erik.
>
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