How does thread::join run a script? - tcl

I see where thread::create creates a thread and thread::send sends a script to it. But thread::join has no script argument. thread::join is presented in the manual as if it is a alternate for thread::send, but I can't see how to send scripts to a thread if it's joinable.
I see it blocks, which an be useful for some apps, but I don't see the value statement in thread::join yet, please give an example of how thread::join can run scripts in a separate thread. Or better explain it's value in a way the manual does not make clear to me.

I do not know where you got the idea that thread::join runs a script; it doesn't. What it actually does is send a (C API level) message to the other thread to ask it to terminate gracefully and then waits for the thread to actually terminate; the thread::wait command knows how to handle such messages correctly, but most of that is just “run the event loop and watch in case a terminate message comes in” (which is why that command is supposed to always be used as the last one of a thread's body script if it is supposed to become responsive to events).
The actual joinability is about handling the reverse message signalling that a thread has really terminated.

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Exception handling with Realbrowserlocusts

In using realbrowserlocusts class it appears that I'm limited in any exception handling.
The only reference that partially works is: self.client.wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located ....
In a failed condition where the element is not found the script simply starts over again. With the script I'm working with I need to maintain a solid session state; I need to throw and exception(report an error), log the user out and then let the script start over again. I've been testing out the behavior with the locust.py script that Nick B. created with several approaches to "try, except" and they work running without realbrowserlocusts (selenium only) but with it the execution just stops.
Any examples would be greatly appreciated.
In its current format I've been able to run 3x the amount of a browser-based load per/agent/slave than our commercial tool. My goal is to replace it with a locust/selenium approach.
locust-plugins's WebdriverUser has a little bit better exception handling I think. A failure to find an element will log a failed request and if you use RescheduleTaskOnFail (as in the the example) it will restart the task when that happens.
https://github.com/SvenskaSpel/locust-plugins/blob/master/examples/webdriver_ex.py

google.script.run is NOT running every time it is called. Some times the function runs, other times it does nothing

In Google apps script when using a client sided .HTML file you can call a server sided script using google.script.run.(Function name).
You can see the related documentation here: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/reference/run
Now this script has been working with no problems over the first 6 months of its lifetime or so. I have not touched the program and I have not been notified or have located any newly deprecated code.
Over the course of the last couple months however, my users have been reporting that when they finish interacting with the HTML document, nothing happens when they close it and they have to repeat the entire process 3 or sometimes even 4 times before they will get it to go through.,
This means that when the user closes the client sided HTML window, the server sided function should be called to handle the remaining tasks but in some cases is not. This issue is completely random, and does not seem to be caused by anything specific.
I have taken some steps myself to attempt to solve the issue. I have wrapped the entirety of the code in try catch blocks, including the .HTML and .GS files. This means that if literally ANYTHING goes wrong in ANY script, I will be notified of it immediately. However, despite this being the case I am yet to receive any emails of it failing even though I watch it fail with my own eyes. I have added log commands before and after this function to see if it stops working all together or continues. In every case regardless of whether the function call is successful or not the log commands go through.
To me this can only mean that for some reason the function google.script.run is not working properly, and is failing to run the associated function, but is not returning an error message or stopping the script.
I am at an absolute loss since I have no error message, no reproducible steps, and no history of this being a problem before while suddenly starting to get worse and worse over time. I have checked Google's issue tracker to no results. If anyone else is using this function and is having problems I would love you to share your experiences here. If you have a solution please let me know as soon as possible. If I can't fix this issue I am going to have to use a new platform entirely.
Edit 10/2:
After looking further into this issue I have discovered a list of all executions on this project. I can see what functions were executed, when, and how long they took to execute. I can see that when the function that opens the HTML service is ran, the next function that should run does not always appear in the list. And when it doesn't, I can see that the user repeated their steps until it did run. This supports my theory that the function just isn't running when it should be after being called my script.run
Tl;dr: The affected computers are running so slowly that google.script.host.close would run before google.script.run.functionName() is able to be called and the information passed from the client to server, causing the function to never run but also not return an error. Adding Utilities.sleep(1000) fixes the issue.
I'm answering here in the situation that someone stumbles upon this thread in the future because they're having similar problems.
I was able to fix the issue by adding two lines of code between
google.script.run and google.script.host.close.
I added Google's Utilities.sleep(1000) to force the computer to wait one second between executing the function and closing the HTML window. I also added an HTML alert that shows that the function was called and didn't suffer from a runtime error.
I don't know exactly why this seems to have fixed the issue but I have a theory.
I have about 20 computers this spreadsheet runs on. Only about 6 of them were having the issue, and this wasn't brought to my attention until recently. As it turns out the 6 computers that were having the issue were the slowest computers of the bunch.
My theory is that the computers were so slow, and the internet bandwidth was fluctuating so much that the computer simply didn't have time to call google.script.run and pass off the information from the client sided HTML window that it simply got closed and cut off when google.script.host.close was run. This means that the function will not exist in the execution transcripts or history, nor will there be any sort of runtime error. All of those things were true in my situation. This also explains why I never had the issue on any of my own equipment in a testing environment since it didn't suffer from any slowdowns the other computers were having.
By adding both Utilities.sleep(1000) and the UI alert this forces the javascript to not continue to google.script.host.close until the user interacts with the UI alert (Which is just a confirmation window with an OK button) and afterwards waits a full second. This sacrifices a tiny bit of user friendly-ness for a more functional script. Since I have implemented this "fix" none of my users are reporting any issues and all of my execution history looks just fine.
Hopefully this helps any future passerbys.
In the comments you posted this function snippet:
Here is a basic copy of the script that utilizes google.script.run:
function onFailure(error) {
MailApp.sendEmail("sparkycbass#gmail.com", "Order book eror", "ERROR: " + error.message);
google.script.host.close();
}
function handleFormSubmit(formObject) {
google.script.run.withFailureHandler(onFailure).processForm(formObject)
google.script.host.close();
}
The problem here is that google.script.run is asynchronous - the call to your server-side function processForm is not guaranteed to be even initiated before the call to google.script.host.close() is made:
Client-side calls to server-side functions are asynchronous: after the browser requests that the server run the function doSomething(), the browser continues immediately to the next line of code without waiting for a response. This means that server function calls may not execute in the order you expect. If you make two function calls at the same time, there is no way to know which function will run first; the result may differ each time you load the page. In this situation, success handlers and failure handlers help control the flow of your code.
A proper pattern is to only call "destructive" commands - such as closing the host and therefore unloading all the relevant Apps Script instances - after the server has indicated the async operation completed. This is within the success handler of the google.script.run call:
.html
function onFailure(error) { // server function threw an unhandled exception
google.script.run.sendMeAnEmail("Order book error", "ERROR: " + error.message);
console.log(error);
document.getElementById("some element id").textContent = "There was an error processing that form. Perhaps try again?"
}
function onSuccess(serverFunctionOutput, userObj) {
// do stuff with `serverFunctionOutput` and `userObj`
// ...
google.script.host.close();
}
function handleFormSubmit(formObject) {
google.script.run
.withFailureHandler(onFailure)
.withSuccessHandler(onSuccess)
.processForm(formObject);
}
.gs
function processForm(formData) {
console.log({message: "Processing form data", input: formData});
// ...
}
function sendMeAnEmail(subject, message) {
console.log({message: "There was a boo-boo", email: {message: message, subject: subject}});
MailApp.sendEmail("some email", subject, message);
}

my nodejs script is not exiting on its own after successful execution

I have written a script to update my db table after reading data from db tables and solr. I am using asyn.waterfall module. The problem is that the script is not getting exited after successful completion of all operations. I have used db connection pool also thinking that may be creating the script to wait infinitly.
I want to put this script in crontab and if it will not exit properly it would be creating a hell lot of instances unnecessarily.
I just went through this issue.
The problem with just using process.exit() is that the program I am working on was creating handles, but never destroying them.
It was processing a directory and putting data into orientdb.
so some of the things that I have come to learn is that database connections need to be closed before getting rid of the reference. And that process.exit() does not solve all cases.
When my project processed 2,000 files. It would get down to about 500 left, and the extra handles would have filled up the available working memory. Which means it would not be able to continue. Therefore never reaching the process.exit at the end.
On the other hand, if you close the items that are requesting the app to stay open, you can solve the problem at its source.
The two "Undocumented Functions" that I was able to use, were
process._getActiveHandles();
process._getActiveRequests();
I am not sure what other functions will help with debugging these types of issues, but these ones were amazing.
They return an array, and you can determine a lot about what is going on in your process by using these methods.
You have to tell it when you're done, by calling
process.exit();
More specifically, you'll want to call this in the callback from async.waterfall() (the second argument to that function). At that point, all your asynchronous code has executed, and your script should be ready to exit.
EDIT: As pointed out by #Aaron below, this likely has to do with something like a database connection being active, and not allowing the node process to end.
You can use the node module why-is-node-running:
Run npm install -D why-is-node-running
Add import * as log from 'why-is-node-running'; in your code
When you expect your program to exit, add a log statement:
afterAll(async () => {
await app.close();
log();
})
This will print a list of open handles with a stacktrace to find out where they originated:
There are 5 handle(s) keeping the process running
# Timeout
/home/maf/dev/node_modules/why-is-node-running/example.js:6 - setInterval(function () {}, 1000)
/home/maf/dev/node_modules/why-is-node-running/example.js:10 - createServer()
# TCPSERVERWRAP
/home/maf/dev/node_modules/why-is-node-running/example.js:7 - server.listen(0)
/home/maf/dev/node_modules/why-is-node-running/example.js:10 - createServer()
We can quit the execution by using:
connection.destroy();
If you use Visual Studio code, you can attach to an already running Node script directly from it.
First, run the Debug: Attached to Node Process command:
When you invoke the command, VS Code will prompt you which Node.js process to attach to:
Your terminal should display this message:
Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9229/<...>
For help, see: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector
Debugger attached.
Then, inside your debug console, you can use the code from The Lazy Coder’s answer:
process._getActiveHandles();
process._getActiveRequests();

How to control triggering of email for the same error in ssis using event handlers?

I am using ssis event handler to trigger an email whenever an error occured in the entire package(PACKAGE+ONEEROR). Here number of emails triggered is equal to number of errors generated.How can I restrict it to one mail eventhough the same error occured 10 times.
Please suggest....
You have a few options. The problem with setting an ONERROR email at the package level is that it will send an email for each error the package encounters. This gets ugly if you have a deep level transform fail, which will error as it fails back up to the package level.
I suggest that you either:
1) Setup ONERROR events at the task level and remove the package level event. Usually this will be good enough. Most tasks will only have one error to report. Be careful with Data Flows, they can act in a similar fashion as the package level events.
2) Setup some sort of advance logging. I’ve seen this done several ways. I’ve seen some people setup Script tasks to log the errors (at the task level) to a variable, and then send a final email containing the variable in the body (at control flow level). I have also seen people call stored procedures (at the task level and package level) for each error that occurs. The sproc would log errors to the DB and allow the package to continue on to the next step/container. The logged errors can then be dumped into a csv and emailed as an attachment.
If you like your current setup, you can try changing the error properties for each container/task. I haven't ever done this, but I do know you can change the way tasks handle errors! I don't like this option because you would possibly be missing errors (maybe? kind of guessing).
update From another solution - If you want to keep your current email ONERROR and simply prevent certain errors from "bubbling" up and sending emails, you can follow this link to learn how to gracefully handle errors. You could prevent certain tasks errors from reaching your ONERROR event at the package level. good luck.

How do BundleActivator, ManagedService, and my application interact on start/stop?

I had a non-OSGi application. To convert it to OSGi, I first bundled it up and gave it a simple BundleActivator. The activator's start() started up a thread of what used to be the main() of my app (and is now a Runnable), and remembered that thread. The activator's stop() interrupted that thread, and waited for it to end (via join()), then returned. This all seemed to be working fine.
As a next step in the OSGiification process, I am now trying to use OSGi configuration management instead of the Properties-based configuration that the application used to use. So I am adding in a ManagedService in addition to the Activator.
But it's no longer clear to me how I am supposed to start and stop my application; examples that I've seen are only serving to confuse me. Specifically, here:
http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-config-admin.html
They no longer seem to do any real starting of the application in BundleActivator.start(). Instead, they just register a ManagedService to receive configuration. So I'm guessing maybe I start up the app's main thread when I receive configuration, in the ManagedService? They don't show it - the ManagedService's updated() just has vague comments saying to "apply configuration from config admin" when it is passed a non-null Dictionary.
So then I look here:
http://blog.osgi.org/2010/06/how-to-use-config-admin.html
In there, it seems like maybe they're doing what I guessed. They seem to have moved the actual app from BundleActivator to ManagedService, and are dealing with starting it when updated() receives non-null configuration, stopping it first if it's already started.
But now what about when the BundleActivator's stop() gets called?
Back on the first example page that I mentioned above, they unregister the ManagedService. On the second example page, they don't show what they do.
So I'm guessing maybe unregistering the ManagedService will cause null configuration to be sent to ManagedService.updated(), at which point I can interrupte the app thread, wait for it to end, and then return?
I suspect that I'm thoroughly incorrect, but I don't know what the "real" way to do this is. Thanks in advance for any help.
BundleActivator (BA) and ManagedService (MS) are callbacks to your bundle. BundleActivator is for the active state of your bundle. BA.start is when you bundle is being started and BA.stop is when it is being stopped. MS is called to provide your bundle a configuration, if there is one, or notify you there is no configuration.
So in BA.start, you register your MS service and return. When MS is called (on some other thread), you will either receive your configuration or be told there is no configuration and you can act accordingly (start app, etc.)
Your MS can also be called at anytime to advice of the modification or deletion of your configuration and you should act accordingly (i.e. adjust your app behavior).
When you are called at BA.stop, you need to stop your app. You can unregister the MS or let the framework do it for you as part of normal bundle stop processing.