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* [Pljava-dev] Subject: Re: Loading of native libraries in PLJAVA
@ 2005-03-11 10:27  
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From:  @ 2005-03-11 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,
Once again posting in developer forum.Help appreciated.Below running mail
posted in other forum.

thx
Rao

 We are facing 2 problems in loading files from Pljava. 
 
 1. Loading Native C library from Pljava trigger.
 
 From Pljava trigger, we were trying to load native 
 library, Using System.loadLibrary("<library_name>"), which is specified in
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

The likely cause of this is that this library in turn have dependencies 
to something not specified in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or that you have some 
mismatch in function naming. That in turn should be apparent from the 
exception message (can't tell since you didn't convey it here)( one of
members reply)


 Also specified the library file under /var/lib/pljava 
 where all the pljava specifc "*.so" files are located, which has an 
 entry in the postgresql.conf - 
 dynamic_library_path for "/var/lib/pljava",
 
 
 Both theses cases failed to load native library.
 
 we are getting this error in both cases- 
 UnSatisfiedLinkedError

The dynamic_library_path is only used by the PostgreSQL backend when it 
loads a module. It has no effect whatsoever on the System.loadLibrary 
method.(one of members reply)

(Nageshwar) We are using a ping utility (libping.so - freeware) to ping
network devices.
We have written a insert trigger on network table, when there is any
insertion in the table , ipaddress will be 
fetched from the triggereddata and we call a C library via JNI to ping the
device. The error still remains the same.
can you replicate the same error at your end and help us in fixing the
error.
> 
> 2. Loading Properties file from trigger. (using 
> Properties.load(<properties_name.properties>))
> We are unable to load properties file from 
> Properties.load("<properties_name.properties>").
> we have included properties file in jar file and 
> installed the jar and set the jar file in the classpath using 
> "sqlj.set_classpath".
> 
To my knowledge there's Properties.load method that takes a String argument.
You have to use the Class.getResourceAsString() in order to obtain an 
InputStream for a resource stored in a jar file. The class in question 
should be in the same package as the resource (i.e. your properties
file).(one of members reply)

(Nageshwar) We have written a insert trigger on network table, when ever
there is insertion in the table, we are reading a property file and modify
the values with the inserted data and insert the modified values in another
table.
We are unable to read the properties file (which is present in the installed
jar file at the root as well as at the class file level)

Here is the hierarchy structure, where i have placed properties files
			gis.jar
				gis.properties
				com
					me
						mis
							pgtrigger
	
PropertiesTrigger
	
gis.properties

.

Here is the code to access gis.properties file

	PropertiesTrigger.java

	Properties properties = new Properties
	InputStream is =
this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("gis.properties");
	SOP ("INPUTSTREAM "+is);
	properties.load(is);
	is.close();

	null at SOP for the inputstream.

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* [Pljava-dev] Re: Subject: Re: Loading of native libraries in PLJAVA
@ 2005-03-11 10:49  
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From:  @ 2005-03-11 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Nageshwar Rao wrote:
> We are using a ping utility (libping.so - freeware) to ping 
> network devices.
> We have written a insert trigger on network table, when there is any 
> insertion in the table , ipaddress will be
> fetched from the triggereddata and we call a C library via JNI to ping 
> the device. The error still remains the same.
> can you replicate the same error at your end and help us in fixing the 
> error.
I could, but I don't see any JNI interface in libping. Do you have your 
own C library for that? If so, I'll need that too. If not, where do I 
find the JNI?

- thomas





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* [Pljava-dev] Re: Subject: Re: Loading of native libraries in PLJAVA
@ 2005-03-11 12:38  
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From:  @ 2005-03-11 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)

Nageshwar Rao wrote:

>Hi,
>You can find JNI interface in
>http://www.teamlinux.org.uk/saxm/projects/icmp/, there is PingClient java
>file, which calls a JNI ping utility. 
>
>Steps to replicate the error:-
>
>	Basically we need to create a jar file of PingUtility and install
>the jar file in PLJava and set the classpath then insert record in the
>referenced table to invoke the trigger and the trigger should call the ping
>utility via JNI.
>  
>
I have no linker problems loading and running libping from within 
PL/Java so there must be an error in your setup. I run into another 
perhaps bigger problem though. ping.c creates a RAW socket. Only root is 
allowed to do that. PostgreSQL refuses to run as root (rightly so, that 
would be a major security hole).

Here's a quote from the teamlinux page: "Unfortunately, it requires root 
(at least, on a Linux box) - as ping.c creates a raw packet, which can 
only be done by the super-user."

Perhaps you should consider skip using libping altogether and go for 
J2SE 5.0 instead and then use java.net.InetAddress.isReachable()?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren





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