[Archive-access-discuss] Issues with the recent Wayback version

[Jackson, A. <And...@bl...>]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to use recent version of Wayback, and am hitting the same two
issue with 1.7.1-SNAPSHOT and 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT. The primary problem is
that we expect to use the XML Query mode, like this:

 

http://localhost:8080/wayback/archive/xmlquery.jsp?url=http://bits.wikim
edia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png

 

But instead of getting XML, we now get redirected to here:

 

http://localhost:8080/wayback/archive/*/http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-
1.18/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png
<http://localhost:8080/wayback/archive/*/http:/bits.wikimedia.org/skins-
1.18/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png> 

 

Note that this is our replay config:

---

<property name="query">

      <bean class="org.archive.wayback.query.Renderer">

        <property name="captureJsp"
value="/WEB-INF/query/CalendarResults.jsp" />

---

 

I tracked this redirect down to this method:

 

org.archive.wayback.archivalurl.requestparser.ArchivalUrlFormRequestPars
er.parse(HttpServletRequest, AccessPoint)

 

throwing a BetterURI exception, as a way of forcing a redirect to a URI
that is neater. However, in this case, the 'neat' URI is wrong, as I am
expecting XML. What should I do?

 

Well, once I found the cause, I tried to disable the redirect, like
this:

 

  <bean name="${wayback.port}:archive"
class="org.archive.wayback.webapp.AccessPoint">

    <property name="serveStatic" value="true" />

    <property name="bounceToReplayPrefix" value="false" />

    <property name="bounceToQueryPrefix" value="false" />

    

    <property name="forceCleanQueries" value="false" />

 

Which worked at first, but then came up against the second, different
problem, which is that the XMLCaptureResults JSP depends on a method
that is now private:

 

---

PWC6197: An error occurred at line: 38 in the jsp file:
/WEB-INF/query/XMLCaptureResults.jsp

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:

toCanonicalStringMap() has protected access in
org.archive.wayback.core.SearchResult

 

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:

/XMLCaptureResults_jsp.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.

---

OR

---

An error occurred at line: 40 in the jsp file:
/WEB-INF/query/XMLCaptureResults.jsp

The method toCanonicalStringMap() from the type SearchResult is not
visible

37:     <result>

38:     <%

39:     CaptureSearchResult result = itr.next();

40:     Map<String,String> p2 = result.toCanonicalStringMap();

41:     kitr = p2.keySet().iterator();

42:     

43:     while(kitr.hasNext()) {

---

 

I'm happy to help fix these issues, but both seem to relate to
systematic changes that I'm not fully aware of (introducing 'better'
URIs, and API changes), so I'd like some advice from the current
developers first.

 

Thanks,

Andy

 

 

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Dr Andrew N Jackson

Web Archiving Technical Lead

The British Library

 

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