Re: [Soaplab2-dev] ACD outfile problem: how do you return a file?

[Tom C. <tc...@cs...>]

Hi,

[bringing up an old thread, original problem now solved...]

Martin Senger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It uses a -dumpAudio flag to output to a file
> 
> No, I am afraid it does not. The dumpAudio is a string, not an outout file.
> Soaplab has no idea that the underlying application uses this parameter as
> an output file - it just takes its value (e.g. the string 'output.wav'
> literally as a command-lien option but it does not do anything else with it.
> The only output file the Soaplab sees is the one defined in the 'output'
> paremeter (and Soaplab give it its own name).
> 
> If your applicatation has a hard-coded name for the output file, you are out
> of luck, at least now. 

Ah...is there any way I can get around this? I have an application that
output nine different text files, all with hard-coded names!

> You have to wrap you script into few lines that can
> map the hard-coded file name into the one given by Soaplab (in your exanple,
> it was:
> /home/tc/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp/_R_/SANDBOX/[text_to_speech.freetts]_4ca7ea84.11b07436c4e._7ffe/o_output).

But won't this change every time?

> I think that all your observed problems have the same cause: your
> application uses the -dumpAudio parameter for the output file, but Soaplab
> consideres the -output parameter as the one for the output.

Thanks,

Tom