Userdata / Settings - ERROR

[KnutLohse]

Kitodo 3.0.0-alpha.2 bug

Logged in as 'testUser', Showing 'Userdata/Settings' page throws an error:

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An Error Occured:

javax.el.ELException: Error reading 'cssFiles' on type de.sub.goobi.forms.HelperForm
viewId=/pages/userConfiguration.xhtml
location=/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/kitodo/pages/userConfiguration.xhtml
phaseId=RENDER_RESPONSE(6)
Caused by:
java.util.NoSuchElementException - Error reading 'cssFiles' on type de.sub.goobi.forms.HelperForm
  at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.nextService(ServiceLoader.java:365)
/WEB-INF/templates/includes/userConfiguration/userSettings.xhtml at line 44 and column 82 value="#{HelperForm.cssFiles}"

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[beatrycze-volk]

Problem is caused by missing modules directory.

[KnutLohse]

O.K. - that may be. ;-) And how can I fix it? What is the modules directory for? Is there any documentation?

[beatrycze-volk]

Modules directory you can get after build application from source files: mvn clean install

As default this modules are in Kitodo directory but adviced way is to set up variable moduleFolder (kitodo_config.properties) to local directory. After that modules during build will be copied there and application will search for them there.

[KnutLohse]

I installed the latest 3.x relase and want to use it - I DO NOT want to build anything. Should I open an issue "release is broken"? ;-)

[Erikmitk]

Thanks for checking out the 3.x release. The 3.x version is still in active development and the current release is still in an alpha state and intended for developers only. I can understand that you just want to use it but currently you still have to put in some work to do so. We will gladly give you some pointers though, like @Beacze did. :)

Future releases that are regarded as stable are a different story but at the moment that’s how it works. In the future we plan to update the documentation further so that "just using it" will hopefully be easier.

[KnutLohse]

Thanks for clarification. But I don't understand, why a war is provided if it is not ready for use. Please consider removing the compiled application - maybe this prevents some confusion... ;-)

[KnutLohse]

Next step: I built the application with

mvn compile
mvn package

I see the login screen, but cannot log in (testAdmin/test don't work). What to do next? Can I use the environment setted up with my first try (following the installation guide for 3.x) and how? Is there a default user to log in? Any documentation?

If I try the demo mode (as given in Docs » Getting started » Build integrated demo) with

 mvn clean install -Pdemo,!development

it ends up with

-bash: !development: event not found

Without ,!development it works after some hacking (stopping tomcat8, mysql, elasticsearch), I see the login screen and entered the given credentials... waiting... waiting longer... and finally: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to open JDBC Connection for DDL execution

Any hints?

[tim-boerner]

About the demo mode: For linux bash the command would be:

mvn clean install '-Pdemo,!development'

I will correct this in the Docs.

This demo mode was introduced for the next alpha release 3 and can be used for manual testing and a quick first look with some sample data. It is still under development in current master. Some needed local config files are still missing, so e.g. the creation of new proesses out of templates will not work yet.

[tim-boerner]

About your normal build: If you are still on alpha release 2 you can use your environment which u setted up by following the installation guide. If you are on current master, you have to repeat the procedure.

[KnutLohse]

Thanks, Tim! But which files have to be copied to point Kitodo to the environment created earlier? May be (as two examples, repeating for all file types in that place):

service tomcat8 stop
cp /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/kitodo/WEB-INF/classes/*.xml /var/lib/tomcat8/wepapps/kitodo-3.0-sbb/WEB-INF/classes/
cp /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/kitodo/WEB-INF/classes/*.properties /var/lib/tomcat8/wepapps/kitodo-3.0-sbb/WEB-INF/classes/
...
service tomcat8 start

And how can I create an user or how to log in?

[tim-boerner]

Dear Knut, we have updated the installation guide: https://github.com/kitodo/kitodo-production/wiki/Installationsanleitung-f%C3%BCr-Kitodo.Production-3.x

We are going to provide the modules as seperate download for alpha release 2. You are informed when the download is ready.

For now you can run the following Maven command in the source code folder of alpha release 2 to build the modules:

mvn clean install '-P!development'

After that, the compiled modules should be in the source code folder at ../kitodo/modules You need to copy the jar files to /usr/local/kitodo/modules

Please keep me informed if you still have problems.

[Erikmitk]

@KnutLohse The modules folder is now available on the release:

https://github.com/kitodo/kitodo-production/releases/tag/kitodo-production-3.0.0-alpha.2

[Erikmitk]

@KnutLohse Did this solve your issue or do you still get these issues?

[rstockm]

Hi, we decided to stop the actual testing of the 3.x branch and focus on other tasks until this gets into a beta state - but thank you very much for your effort.

[solth]

Since the old custom CSS designs only worked for Kitodo 2.x and earlier versions, we decided to remove them and the corresponding option in the user settings completely (see https://github.com/kitodo/kitodo-production/pull/1784). This should resolve the reported issue.