Roy's musings

Sometimes I have a long sequence of command line pipes that end in less command. For e.g. cvs log main.c | egrep "^revision " | less So what is the best way to save the contents that are being viewed in less? You cannot view those contents by typing the letter "v". If you do so you will get an error message saying "Cannot edit standard input (press RETURN)". The solution is simple. First type "g" to go to the beginning of the file. Then type "|". Then you will be prompted for the "mark:" and enter "$" (which denotes the end of file). Then you can enter a command for which the entire contents of less will be piped. For e.g. I will give the following: cat > /tmp/savefile.txt Thats it! You have saved the contents to the file /tmp/savefile.txt. Now you have a problem. Since you have moved to the beginning of the contents, you might want to go back to the same place where you were before saving the contents. Just typ...

One of the most critical and least documented features of Quartz is the concept of misfiring and how misfiring is handled. If a trigger was supposed to carry out a job a certain time, and for some reason it was not carried out at that time, it is a misfired trigger. But not any trigger could be treated as a misfired trigger. For e.g. if a trigger is long due for 2 hours from its actual firing time, does it make sense to treat that as a misfired trigger? To make that decision Quartz scheduler relies upon a configurable parameter called misfireThreshold . It is specified in milliseconds. Whenever a trigger is due for misfireThreshold or lesser amount of time, it will be treated as a misfired trigger and triggered depending on the misfire policy specified in the job detail. For e.g. on a certain situation you might want a misfired trigger to be fired immediately, on a certain other situation you might decide its okay to reschdule the same trigger to the next firing time. For SimpleTrigger...

This is a quick follow up to my earlier post on JDBC batch update return codes. There are two constants that you can conveniently make use of to check the error codes available in java.sql.Statement: SUCCESS_NO_INFO - The UPDATE or INSERT corresponding to this input values has succeeded but the number of rows that it affected is unknown. EXECUTE_FAILED - The UPDATE or INSERT corresponding to this input values has failed.

Today while I was trying to synchronize my code with CVS repository and I got the following error: Problems reported while synchronizing CVS Workspace. 0 of 1 resources were synchronized. An error occurred synchronizing /abcd: I/O exception occurred: java.io.IOException: channel is broken I/O exception occurred: java.io.IOException: channel is broken java.io.IOException: channel is broken I was scratching my head for sometime and searched Internet for an answer, but none seemed to be appropriate for my case. Then when I tried to do the check out from command line using plink, I got a message from my CVS server stating that my password had expired and I needed to change my password. So I changed my password and everything started working fine. If you get the error message above, one possible and easy to check root causes is your password expiry.

Recently I had to make use of the JdbcTemplate.batchUpdate() facility in Spring. I was connecting to the Oracle database using Oracle JDBC driver. As per the documentation, the batchUpdate() function is supposted to return an integer array. Each element in the array contains the number of rows affected the respective INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE query in the batch. But during my testing I found that, I was always getting all the elements to be -2. Initially I was thinking it was a bug in the driver code. Then when I was referring to the JDBC Programmers Guide , I figured the following: For a prepared statement batch, it is not possible to know the number of rows affected in the database by each individual statement in the batch. Therefore, all array elements have a value of -2 . According to the JDBC 2.0 specification, a value of -2 indicates that the operation was successful but the number of rows affected is unknown. There are more examples and explonation of error codes in the same page . ...