Highcharts numericSymbols when rendered server-side with Phantomjs - json

Is there a way to change the numericSymbols when rendering a Highchart on a server with Phantomjs?
I generate the JSON locally on the server and pass it to Phantomjs as a parameter along with the highcharts-convert.js script and my output file
My graphs are rendered to images fine but I need to in effect do the same server-side (or via JSON) that is done on a browser client by setting the global options with:
Highcharts.setOptions({
lang:{
numericSymbols: null
}
});
Is there a way of doing it with the callback maybe?
Or is there a JSON object that this can be done with?

This might help you:
http://forum.highcharts.com/highcharts-usage/setting-global-options-on-export-server-t28909/
It helped me to solve my decimalPoint problem.
If you are using the POST method, just follow the instructions in the link, if using the command line method (like me), just add globaloptions as a parameter:
phantomjs highcharts-convert.js -infile temp/test.js -outfile temp/chart.png -globaloptions temp/test2.js
And the content of temp/test2.js was in my case:
{
lang:{
decimalPoint:",",
thousandsSep:"."
}
};

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Formatting XAxis labels when rendering chart on server using phantomjs and JSON

I'm using phantomjs to render png images of a highchart using a json file from a commandline script.
As it's JSON obviously I can't using the xAxis.labels.formatter as I would in a web client version, but as these are for automated reports we don't want to have to generate them through a browser.
Is there anyway of formatting the xAxis labels to be something like the result of:
Highcharts.dateFormat('%d/%m/%y %H:%M',this.value)
Currently they are showing up as what I assume is the default. e.g. 10 Feb
This doesn't even tell us what year it is.
I'm using the default "highcharts-convert.js" file as the first parameter to phantomjs
Second paramater is my highcharts configuration as a json object
Third is the name of the output file
Is it possible to do it in the callback script if so how would I pass a function to the formatter?
I've tried iterating over the collection of labels but this didn't work:
function(chart) {
$.each( chart.xAxis.labels, function( index, value ){
chart.xAxis.labels[index] = Highcharts.dateFormat('%d/%m/%y %H:%M',value);
});
}
Or are there any other alternatives that are open to me?
You can simple use xAxis.labels.format, see more info.
And demo from docs.

AngularJS, JSON, and js restrictions. How read a JSON file from outside with $http.get and "file:///" URI?

Is there any known and consolidated alternative for defining a new Angular scope reading data from outside?
I am working on a demo that should make available a standalone html page which reads the data from the same html file position, and on client machines without any webserver.
This because the HTML is generated on the fly from a pdf.
Do you have any idea?
In my working code below I should change $http.get('data.json'.. to avoid the Google restriction (on Firefox my sample is working fine).
<script>
var isisApp = angular.module('isisApp', []);
isisApp.controller('ISISListCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
$http.get('data.json').success(function(data) {
$scope.IsisDocument = data;
etc.....
and this is the error I get from Chrome:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/temp/data.json. Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP. angular.js:8081
Error: A network error occurred.
Thanks in advance
Fabio
If you want to test your code, while developing, you have two options:
Use a local web server. You could use Node.js platform, using expressjs.
Start Chrome from the terminal with the –allow-file-access-from-files option

Understanding JSON-RPC in Perl

I am trying to understand the concept of JSON RPC and it's Perl implementation. Though I can fin d a lot of examples for Python/Java, I find surprisingly little or no examples for it in Perl.
I am following this example but am not sure it is complete. The example I had in mind was to add 2 integers. Now I have a very basic HTML page set up, like so:
<html>
<body>
<input type="text" name="num1"><br>
<input type="text" name="num2"><br>
<button>Add</button>
</body>
</html>
Next, based on the example above, I have 3 files:
test1.pl
# Daemon version
use JSON::RPC::Server::Daemon;
# see documentation at:
# https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/JSON-RPC/lib/JSON/RPC/Legacy.pm
my $server = JSON::RPC::Server::Daemon->new(LocalPort => 8080);
$server -> dispatch({'/test' => 'myApp'});
$server -> handle();
test2.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use JSON::RPC::Client;
my $client = new JSON::RPC::Client;
my $uri = 'http://localhost:8080/test';
my $obj = {
method => 'sum', # or 'MyApp.sum'
params => [10, 20],
};
my $res = $client->call( $uri, $obj );
if($res){
if ($res->is_error) {
print "Error : ", $res->error_message;
} else {
print $res->result;
}
} else {
print $client->status_line;
}
myApp.pl
package myApp;
#optionally, you can also
use base qw(JSON::RPC::Procedure); # for :Public and :Private attributes
sub sum : Public(a:num, b:num) {
my ($s, $obj) = #_;
return $obj->{a} + $obj->{b};
}
1;
While I understand what these files individually do, I am at a complete loss when it comes to combining them and making them work together.
My questions are as follows:
Does the button in the HTML page come inside a tag (like we would normally do in a CGI-based program)? If yes, what file does that call? If no, then how do I pass the values to be added?
What is the order of execution of the 3 Perl files? Which one calls which one? How is the flow of execution?
When I tried to run the perl files from the CLI, i.e using $./test2.pl, I got the following error: Error 301 Moved Permanently. What moved permanently? which file was it trying to access? I tried running the files from withing /var/www/html and /var/www/html/test.
Some help in understanding the nuances of this would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Does the button in the HTML page come inside a tag (like we would
*normally do in a CGI-based program)? If yes, what file does that call?*
If no, then how do I pass the values to be added?
HTML has nothing at all to do with JSON-RPC. While the RPC call is done via an HTTP POST request, if you're doing that from the browser, you'll need to use XMLHttpRequest (i.e: AJAX). Unlink an HTML form post the Content-encoding: header will need to be something specific to JSON-RPC (e.g: application/json or similar), and you'll need to encode your form data via JSON.stringify and correctly construct the JSON-RPC "envelope", including the id, jsonrpc, method and params properties.
Rather than doing this by hand you might use a purpose-build JSON-RPC JavaScript client like the jQuery-JSONRP plugin (there are many others) -- although the protocol is so simple that implementations usually are less than 20 lines of code.
From the jQuery-RPC documentation, you'd set up the connection like this:
$.jsonRPC.setup({
endPoint: '/ENDPOINT-ROUTE-GOES-HERE'
});
and you'd call the server-side method like this:
$.jsonRPC.request('sum', {
params: [YOURNUMBERINPUTELEMENT1.value, YOURNUMBERINPUT2.value],
success: function(result) {
/* Do something with the result here */
},
error: function(result) {
/* Result is an RPC 2.0 compatible response object */
}
});
What is the order of execution of the 3 Perl files? Which one calls
*which one? How is the flow of execution?*
You'll likely only need test2.pl for testing. It's an example implementation of a JSON-RPC client. You likely want your client to run in your web-browser (as described above). The client JavaScript will make an HTTP POST request to wherever test1.pl is serving content. (e.g: http://localhost:8080).
Or, if you want to keep your code as HTML<-->CGI, then you'll need to make JSON-RPC client calls from within your Perl CGI server-side code (which seems silly if it's on the same machine).
When test1.pl calls dispatch, the MyApp module will be loaded.
Then, when test1.pl calls handle, the sum function in the MyApp package will be called.
The JSON::RPC::Server module takes care of marshalling from JSON-RPC to perl datastructures and back again around the call to handle. die()ing in sum should result in a JSON-RPC exception being transmitted to the calling client, rather than death of the test1.pl script.
When I tried to run the perl files from the CLI, i.e using
*$./test2.pl, I got the following error: Error 301 Moved Permanently.*
What moved permanently? which file was it trying to access? I tried
*running the files from withing /var/www/html and /var/www/html/test.*
This largely depends the configuration of your machine. There's nothing obvious (in your code) to suggest that a 301 Moved Permanently would be issued in response to a valid JSON-RPC request.

Importing local json file using d3.json does not work

I try to import a local .json-file using d3.json().
The file filename.json is stored in the same folder as my html file.
Yet the (json)-parameter is null.
d3.json("filename.json", function(json) {
root = json;
root.x0 = h / 2;
root.y0 = 0;});
. . .
}
My code is basically the same as in this d3.js example
If you're running in a browser, you cannot load local files.
But it's fairly easy to run a dev server, on the commandline, simply cd into the directory with your files, then:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
(or python -m http.server using python 3)
Now in your browser, go to localhost:3000 (or :8000 or whatever is shown on the commandline).
The following used to work in older versions of d3:
var json = {"my": "json"};
d3.json(json, function(json) {
root = json;
root.x0 = h / 2;
root.y0 = 0;
});
In version d3.v5, you should do it as
d3.json("file.json").then(function(data){ console.log(data)});
Similarly, with csv and other file formats.
You can find more details at https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md
Adding to the previous answers it's simpler to use an HTTP server provided by most Linux/ Mac machines (just by having python installed).
Run the following command in the root of your project
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then instead of accessing file://.....index.html open your browser on http://localhost:8080 or the port provided by running the server. This way will make the browser fetch all the files in your project without being blocked.
http://bl.ocks.org/eyaler/10586116
Refer to this code, this is reading from a file and creating a graph.
I also had the same problem, but later I figured out that the problem was in the json file I was using(an extra comma). If you are getting null here try printing the error you are getting, like this may be.
d3.json("filename.json", function(error, graph) {
alert(error)
})
This is working in firefox, in chrome somehow its not printing the error.
Loading a local csv or json file with (d3)js is not safe to do. They prevent you from doing it. There are some solutions to get it working though. The following line basically does not work (csv or json) because it is a local import:
d3.csv("path_to_your_csv", function(data) {console.log(data) });
Solution 1:
Disable the security in your browser
Different browsers have different security setting that you can disable. This solution can work and you can load your files. Disabling is however not advisable. It will make you vulnerable for all kind of threads. On the other hand, who is going to use your software if you tell them to manually disable the security?
Disable the security in Chrome:
--disable-web-security
--allow-file-access-from-files
Solution 2:
Load your csv/json file from a website.
This may seem like a weird solution but it will work. It is an easy fix but can be unpractical though. See here for an example. Check out the page-source. This is the idea:
d3.csv("https://path_to_your_csv", function(data) {console.log(data) });
Solution 3:
Start you own browser, with e.g. Python.
Such a browser does not include all kind of security checks. This may be a solution when you experiment with your code on your own machine. In many cases, this may not be the solution when you have users. This example will serve HTTP on port 8888 unless it is already taken:
python -m http.server 8888
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &
Open the (Chrome) browser address bar and type the underneath. This will open the index.html. In case you have a different name, type the path to that local HTML page.
localhost:8888
Solution 4:
Use local-host and CORS
You may can use local-host and CORS but the approach is not user-friendly coz setting up this, may not be so straightforward.
Solution 5:
Embed your data in the HTML file
I like this solution the most. Instead of loading your csv, you can write a script that embeds your data directly in the html. This will allow users use their favorite browser, and there are no security issues. This solution may not be so elegant because your html file can grow very hard depending on your data but it will work though. See here for an example. Check out the page-source.
Remove this line:
d3.csv("path_to_your_csv", function(data) { })
Replace with this:
var data =
[
$DATA_COMES_HERE$
]
You can't readily read local files, at least not in Chrome, and possibly not in other browsers either.
The simplest workaround is to simply include your JSON data in your script file and then simply get rid of your d3.json call and keep the code in the callback you pass to it.
Your code would then look like this:
json = { ... };
root = json;
root.x0 = h / 2;
root.y0 = 0;
...
I have used this
d3.json("graph.json", function(error, xyz) {
if (error) throw error;
// the rest of my d3 graph code here
}
so you can refer to your json file by using the variable xyz and graph is the name of my local json file
Use resource as local variable
var filename = {x0:0,y0:0};
//you can change different name for the function than json
d3.json = (x,cb)=>cb.call(null,x);
d3.json(filename, function(json) {
root = json;
root.x0 = h / 2;
root.y0 = 0;});
//...
}

invalid xml request for calculator service

I'm completely new to axis2c and I've just downloaded and unpacked
axis2c 1.6 for Windows (binary release).
I've followed the installation instructions and have successfully
started axis2_http_server.
Trying to access the Calculator service's WSDL works fine but any call to
the service's add method returns "invalid XML in request" as well as the
same text is shown in the console window where axis2_http_server is
running.
I've also tried soapUI. The request shown is:
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:typ="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/services/Calculator/types">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<typ:add>
<param_1>1.0</param_1>
<param_2>1.0</param_2>
</typ:add>
The response is
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Sender</faultcode>
<faultstring>Invalid XML format in request</faultstring>
</soapenv:Fault>
The problem is issued in in calc.c (function axis2_calc_add()), where
seq_node = axiom_node_get_first_child(complex_node, env);
returns NULL.
Calculator service example has multiple issues that prevents it to work.
Firstly, implementation of add operation is invalid, it expects request like that (here is only contents of soap body):
<typ:add>
<complex_node>
<seq_node>
<param_1>1</param_1>
<param_2>2</param_2>
</seq_node>
</complex_node>
</typ:add>
Looks like someone committed that code by mistake.
Secondly, code that is implemented in Calculator service does not allow to have whitespaces between request elements. It takes any first node hoping it is an element, but fails, because takes text node between elements.
To start that example without modification of the service:
use one of sub, div, mul operations.
remove all whitespaces in request element like that:
<typ:sub><param_1>3</param_1><param_2>2</param_2></typ:sub>
Then you will be able to call the service.
If you want to see fully working Calculator service, you can compile Axis2/C from axis2-unofficial project (or install it from binary archive).
Or, you can apply that changes to the original source code and recompile it.