mysql , gnade and function hanging

mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
debug info

Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));


it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops

I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
without telling me.

Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Ludovic Brenta]

tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
> debug info
>
> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>
> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>
> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
> without telling me.
>
> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?

If you actually run the Put_Line in a task (with the Ada keyword
"task") then the language rules say that any exceptions will silently
cause the task to terminate. You should add an exception handler, log
the exception and decide whether or not to terminate the task.

You can also run your program in the debugger.

--
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
> debug info
>
> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>
> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>
> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
> without telling me.
>
> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?

I put the code in a straight procedure and I get a constraint error
which is

raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data

I am wondering what field types are good to use in a ada mysql
database connection and what I am doing wrong here - has anybody any
ideas ?

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Ludovic Brenta]

tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
>> debug info
>>
>> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>>
>> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>>
>> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
>> without telling me.
>>
>> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?
>
> I put the code in a straight procedure and I get a constraint error
> which is
>
> raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
>
> I am wondering what field types are good to use in a ada mysql
> database connection and what I am doing wrong here - has anybody any
> ideas ?

Looking at gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 (for gnade 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) indicates
that your variable TheHeaterQuery is not initialized.

--
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On 30 June, 10:23, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
> >> debug info
>
> >> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>
> >> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>
> >> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
> >> without telling me.
>
> >> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?
>
> > I put the code in a straight procedure and I get a constraint error
> > which is
>
> > raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
>
> > I am wondering what field types are good to use in a ada mysql
> > database connection and what I am doing wrong here - has anybody any
> > ideas ?
>
> Looking at gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 (for gnade 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) indicates
> that your variable TheHeaterQuery is not initialized.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Do you have some example code I can take a look at that retrieves a
string from a database?

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On 30 June, 10:29, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 June, 10:23, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> > > On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
> > >> debug info
>
> > >> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>
> > >> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>
> > >> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
> > >> without telling me.
>
> > >> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?
>
> > > I put the code in a straight procedure and I get a constraint error
> > > which is
>
> > > raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
>
> > > I am wondering what field types are good to use in a ada mysql
> > > database connection and what I am doing wrong here - has anybody any
> > > ideas ?
>
> > Looking at gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 (for gnade 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) indicates
> > that your variable TheHeaterQuery is not initialized.
>
> > --
> > Ludovic Brenta.
>
> Do you have some example code I can take a look at that retrieves a
> string from a database?

btw I use the Nbr_Of_Rows function and I get an answer of 2 which
indicates that the query has operated and retrieved the data correctly
and I try the query out in the mysql query browser to make sure the
query works so I do think the query has correctly initialised but its
when I go to access the string that things fall over. But I am very
confused about this problem as well ...

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Ludovic Brenta]

tonyg writes on comp.lang.ada:
>>>> On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
>>>>> debug info
>>>>>
>>>>> Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheHeaterQuery, 1)));
>>>>>
>>>>> it unfortunately hangs though and the task stops
>>>>>
>>>>> I am thinking perhaps the whole task has either hung or terminated
>>>>> without telling me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would gnat tell me if this task had crashed?
>>>>
>>>> I put the code in a straight procedure and I get a constraint error
>>>> which is
>>>>
>>>> raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering what field types are good to use in a ada mysql
>>>> database connection and what I am doing wrong here - has anybody any
>>>> ideas ?
>>>>
>>> Looking at gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 (for gnade 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) indicates
>>> that your variable TheHeaterQuery is not initialized.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ludovic Brenta.
>>
>> Do you have some example code I can take a look at that retrieves a
>> string from a database?
>
> btw I use the Nbr_Of_Rows function and I get an answer of 2 which
> indicates that the query has operated and retrieved the data correctly
> and I try the query out in the mysql query browser to make sure the
> query works so I do think the query has correctly initialised but its
> when I go to access the string that things fall over. But I am very
> confused about this problem as well ...

The closest thing to an example is the documentation in
gnu-db-mysql.ads; have you read it?  In particular, the Query_ID must be
the result of calling Query and the Query_ID must not have been dropped.

Without your full sources it is very difficult to diagnose your problem
any further.  From what you say, I have a hunch that maybe you issue the
query in one task and then try to use it in another task?  Don't do that
:)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

I've sanistised this source of the password and ip address

with GNU.DB.MySQL;
with GNU.DB;
use GNU.DB.MySQL;
use GNU.DB;
with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io;
with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;

procedure trymysql is

TheDatabase : MySQL.Object;
TheQuery    : MySQL.Query_Id;
TheField	: MYSQL.Field_Number;
begin
Initialize(TheDatabase);
User (TheDatabase, "heating");
Password (TheDatabase,"");
Connect (TheDatabase,"");
Select_DB (TheDatabase, "heating");

   TheQuery := Query (TheDatabase, "select * from userid ");
   TheField := Get_Field_Number (TheDatabase, TheQuery, "email");

   put_line ("Number of Rows :" &
Integer'Image(Nbr_of_Rows(TheDatabase,TheQuery)));

	put_line (" Field Number of Email field : " &
Integer'Image(TheField));


    Put_Line(Natural'image (Get_Field_Length(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
1)));
    Put_Line(Field_Type'image(Get_Field_Type(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
1)));

    Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheQuery,
"email")));
end trymysql;




Out put is

tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$ ./trymysql
Number of Rows : 4
 Field Number of Email field :  1
 14

raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$


Other information is that the email field in the database table is a
VARCHAR(80) and a primary key

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Ludovic Brenta]

tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> I've sanistised this source of the password and ip address
>
> with GNU.DB.MySQL;
> with GNU.DB;
> use GNU.DB.MySQL;
> use GNU.DB;
> with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io;
> with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
> use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
>
> procedure trymysql is
>
> TheDatabase : MySQL.Object;
> TheQuery    : MySQL.Query_Id;
> TheField        : MYSQL.Field_Number;
> begin
> Initialize(TheDatabase);
> User (TheDatabase, "heating");
> Password (TheDatabase,"");
> Connect (TheDatabase,"");
> Select_DB (TheDatabase, "heating");
>
>    TheQuery := Query (TheDatabase, "select * from userid ");
>    TheField := Get_Field_Number (TheDatabase, TheQuery, "email");
>
>    put_line ("Number of Rows :" &
> Integer'Image(Nbr_of_Rows(TheDatabase,TheQuery)));
>
>         put_line (" Field Number of Email field : " &
> Integer'Image(TheField));
>
>     Put_Line(Natural'image (Get_Field_Length(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
> 1)));
>     Put_Line(Field_Type'image(Get_Field_Type(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
> 1)));
>
>     Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheQuery,
> "email")));
> end trymysql;
>
> Out put is
>
> tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$ ./trymysql
> Number of Rows : 4
>  Field Number of Email field :  1
>  14
>
> raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
> tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$
>
> Other information is that the email field in the database table is a
> VARCHAR(80) and a primary key

It seems the exception is not raised in the String_Field line as you
initially said, but in the previous line that calls Get_Field_Type
directly (String_Field also calls Get_Field_Type). The exception
message "invalid data" indicates an uninitialized variable. At first I
thought this would be the TheQuery (of type Query_ID) but now I'm not
so sure anymore. I suggest you run this small program in a debugger
and inspect all the parameters passed to Get_Field_Type.

I do not use gnade myself, or MySQL. I no longer maintain gnade in
Debian; Stephe Leake took over and dropped support fro MySQL because
it was out of sync with recent versions of MySQL. So that, in fact,
might be the cause of your problems.

What platform do you use?
What version of gnade?
What version of MySQL?

Maybe you should use the ODBC interface instead; it is more stable
than the MySQL-specific API.

--
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On Jul 1, 10:44 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
>
>
> > I've sanistised this source of the password and ip address
>
> > with GNU.DB.MySQL;
> > with GNU.DB;
> > use GNU.DB.MySQL;
> > use GNU.DB;
> > with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io;
> > with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
> > use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
>
> > procedure trymysql is
>
> > TheDatabase : MySQL.Object;
> > TheQuery    : MySQL.Query_Id;
> > TheField        : MYSQL.Field_Number;
> > begin
> > Initialize(TheDatabase);
> > User (TheDatabase, "heating");
> > Password (TheDatabase,"");
> > Connect (TheDatabase,"");
> > Select_DB (TheDatabase, "heating");
>
> >    TheQuery := Query (TheDatabase, "select * from userid ");
> >    TheField := Get_Field_Number (TheDatabase, TheQuery, "email");
>
> >    put_line ("Number of Rows :" &
> > Integer'Image(Nbr_of_Rows(TheDatabase,TheQuery)));
>
> >         put_line (" Field Number of Email field : " &
> > Integer'Image(TheField));
>
> >     Put_Line(Natural'image (Get_Field_Length(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
> > 1)));
> >     Put_Line(Field_Type'image(Get_Field_Type(TheDatabase,TheQuery,
> > 1)));
>
> >     Put_Line(To_String(String_Field (TheDatabase, TheQuery,
> > "email")));
> > end trymysql;
>
> > Out put is
>
> > tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$ ./trymysql
> > Number of Rows : 4
> >  Field Number of Email field :  1
> >  14
>
> > raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gnu-db-mysql.adb:883 invalid data
> > tony@tony-laptop:~/snugbug/main/adastuff/heating/src$
>
> > Other information is that the email field in the database table is a
> > VARCHAR(80) and a primary key
>
> It seems the exception is not raised in the String_Field line as you
> initially said, but in the previous line that calls Get_Field_Type
> directly (String_Field also calls Get_Field_Type). The exception
> message "invalid data" indicates an uninitialized variable. At first I
> thought this would be the TheQuery (of type Query_ID) but now I'm not
> so sure anymore. I suggest you run this small program in a debugger
> and inspect all the parameters passed to Get_Field_Type.
>
> I do not use gnade myself, or MySQL. I no longer maintain gnade in
> Debian; Stephe Leake took over and dropped support fro MySQL because
> it was out of sync with recent versions of MySQL. So that, in fact,
> might be the cause of your problems.
>
> What platform do you use?
> What version of gnade?
> What version of MySQL?
>
> Maybe you should use the ODBC interface instead; it is more stable
> than the MySQL-specific API.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Thanks for your help Ludovic, I'll try the odbc or another binding.

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Stephen Leake]

tonyg <tonythegair@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 30 June, 09:34, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I am calling this gnade function in the mysql package to get some
>> debug info

Please don't use the GNADE MySQL package. It is severly broken.

GNADE ODBC and SQLite work well. You can access a MySQL database via
ODBC.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[J-P. Rosen]

Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> Maybe you should use the ODBC interface instead; it is more stable
> than the MySQL-specific API.
> 
I concur; I have an application that runs ODBC over MySQL (with the
MySQL ODBC connector), and never had any problem.

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------
           J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On 1 July, 14:38, "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta a écrit :> Maybe you should use the ODBC interface instead; it is more stable
> > than the MySQL-specific API.
>
> I concur; I have an application that runs ODBC over MySQL (with the
> MySQL ODBC connector), and never had any problem.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>            J-P. Rosen (ro...@adalog.fr)
> Visit Adalog's web site athttp://www.adalog.fr

Thanks for your help Guys, now I know :), the mysql machine I am using
is remote, I assume I will have to install a mysql odbc connector on
it, is there any extra setup I will have to do for the local machine I
writing the code for ?

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:05:40 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:45:09 -0700 (PDT), tonyg
> <tonythegair@googlemail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help Guys, now I know :), the mysql machine I am using
>> is remote, I assume I will have to install a mysql odbc connector on
>> it, is there any extra setup I will have to do for the local machine I
>> writing the code for ?
> 
> 	Hypothesizing, as I don't have experience with ODBC other than via
> Python... I /think/ the ODBC connector would go one the local machine --
> the connector "knows" how to talk to a MySQL engine, and that should
> include handling a connection string that specifies a remote engine. It
> is just the local application that needs access to the local ODBC layer
> for translation...

Yes. The thing is called "data source." Data sources are configured for a
specific ODBC driver, in this case MySQL ODBC driver. Under Windows it is
managed under Control Panel -> Administrative Tasks -> Data Sources. Under
Linux it is usually unixODBC configuration.

When you configure the data source, then depending on the driver you
specify the server's host, IP port, user name, password etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Re: mysql , gnade and function hanging

[tonyg]

On Jul 3, 11:07 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:05:40 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:45:09 -0700 (PDT), tonyg
> > <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
> >> Thanks for your help Guys, now I know :), the mysql machine I am using
> >> is remote, I assume I will have to install a mysql odbc connector on
> >> it, is there any extra setup I will have to do for the local machine I
> >> writing the code for ?
>
> >    Hypothesizing, as I don't have experience with ODBC other than via
> > Python... I /think/ the ODBC connector would go one the local machine --
> > the connector "knows" how to talk to a MySQL engine, and that should
> > include handling a connection string that specifies a remote engine. It
> > is just the local application that needs access to the local ODBC layer
> > for translation...
>
> Yes. The thing is called "data source." Data sources are configured for a
> specific ODBC driver, in this case MySQL ODBC driver. Under Windows it is
> managed under Control Panel -> Administrative Tasks -> Data Sources. Under
> Linux it is usually unixODBC configuration.
>
> When you configure the data source, then depending on the driver you
> specify the server's host, IP port, user name, password etc.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Thanks for the detailed and informative replys Guys, looks like my way
forward after Gnatcoll seemed to be mysql less :)