Generating a visualization manually does nothing

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Generating a visualization manually does nothing

stefanowb opened this issue 5 years ago · 13 comments

Hello,
I tried to generate a visualization. I followed the instructions under:
https://github.com/softvis-research/Getaviz/wiki/Usage =>
Generating a visualization manually (all platforms)

I attached my settings.properties file:
settings.zip
I am using Windows.

When I call http://localhost:8083/ I get the following message:
Visualization has been generated to the output directory.

But the output directory is empty. Just nothing happens.

I need a visualization for the rd metapher in aframe to test my code. There is only an example visualization in x3dom. If this problem is not easy to solve, could you upload the visualization somewhere so I can test on it.

Best regards,
Stefan

Answer 1 · 2019-08-22T21:02:43.000Z

Hello Stefan,

thanks for reporting the problem. Most likely this is just another issue with permissions. I'll have to check this later, I guess we have to adopt the docker file.

I attached the RD aframe visualization for the gradle example.
rd.zip

Cheers,
David

Answer 2 · 2019-08-26T11:26:35.000Z

Hello David,
thanks for the fast support. Could you also attach the gradle example for the city metapher, because it has much more classes than the bank example included in the repo.

Best regards,
Stefan

Answer 3 · 2019-08-27T21:07:53.000Z

Did you try to generate a visualization using the UI? With version 1.2 this should also work on Windows.

Answer 4 · 2019-08-29T12:47:35.000Z

I just pulled the latest version now and retried generatrion from UI and manually. In both cases the output / data-gen directory stays empty.

Answer 5 · 2019-08-29T14:25:54.000Z

Sure, but what happens when you start the generation from the UI?
The data-gen directory will stay empty anyways, since it is not synchronized with the host.

Answer 6 · 2019-08-29T17:09:47.000Z

Ah, okay. It takes some minutes and then it opens this url:
http://localhost:8082/ui/index.php?aframe=true&model=city-floor-gradle-aframe&setup=web_a-frame/default&srcDir=data-gen
Then it hangs on the window "Visualization is loading..." forever and nothing happens.

Answer 7 · 2019-08-29T22:22:55.000Z

But there is an error message printed to the web console, isn't it?

Most likely the bug is already fixed on development with commit ca713f5. Could you please test that? So, please checkout development and run docker-compose down and docker-compose up and try again.

Answer 8 · 2019-09-01T14:48:02.000Z

Good news! It worked now. I did not test it on the development branch last time.
So I can create a visualisation from the UI now.
How can I save this visualisation now to reuse it?

Answer 9 · 2019-09-01T17:15:15.000Z

Glad ot hear that. The visualization will be available under the shown URL even after restarting the container.

Answer 10 · 2019-09-04T12:43:15.000Z

Ah, okay. Many thanks!

Answer 11 · 2019-09-09T11:20:02.000Z

Hi, I am still not able to generate a visualization via UI. I have a quite simple .jar and I am hosting it on google drive. Tried it with the newest master and development branch. Same issue as Stefan. New link is opening, which says "Visualization is loading", but nothing is happening. Thanks for any help you can provide. Am Mi., 4. Sept. 2019 um 14:43 Uhr schrieb Stefan <notifications@github.com

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Answer 12 · 2019-09-09T18:26:50.000Z

Sure. Would you mind open a separate issue for this and provide more information about your setup? If you have updated to a newer version, please notice that you have to rebuild the container and make sure that you are using the new container. This is described here.

Additionally, please provide the log file of the generator. You can retrive it via docker cp BACKENDID:/var/lib/jetty/logs/jetty.log jetty.log. Replace BACKENDID with the actual id of the backend container.

Answer 13 · 2019-09-20T09:26:07.000Z

Currenlty we are working on migrating the visualizations to a database so we don't operate on file level anymore. This will make the output directory superfluous. Therefore, we will not fix this for the moment, just remove the documenation. If you like to copy the files, you can copy than from the docker container directly.