Re: [Soaplab-users] Problem with Infile Path

[Sebastien M. <Seb...@un...>]

> Hi Martin,
> 
>>         One other option would be to write an input data adaptor class
>>         in Java
>>         that should implement the interface
>>         org.soaplab.services.adaptor.DataAdaptor.
>>
>> I am afraid that it may not be true. The adaptors are in charge when
>> data arrives from a user and before the Soaplab service processes
>> them. But Sebastien's problem occurs when Soaplab calls an external,
>> command-line, application. In that moment all input data are already
>> "adapted" (if there was any adaptor for them) and they sit in a
>> Soaplab's internal file whose name is passed to the external
>> application. And here the name is the problem - not the data inside
>> the file.
> 
> I was looking at the InputManyFiles adaptor (for some EMBASSY
> applications which expects directory name rather than list of file
> names), given some input objects it returns a string with the list of
> input file names. It seems Soaplab should not make problem if this
> adaptor returns a string without these special characters.
> 
> Meantime, I noticed the following method in echo.acd.
> 
> #   comment: 'method foreachs (str, " ", "-&&# $str")'
> 
> I don't know much about the substitution support in Soaplab. Is it
> possible to use the existing substitution support for this problem?
> 
> Mahmut

I made several tests and it is clearly a problem from my application.
The path works fine in interactive mode but not in command line !

So, is there a way to do a kind of 'cd path/' and then to run 
applications with infiles and outfiles from the current directory.

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