Frontman2 beta: strange startup error

[Pat Farrell]

I've been using Frontman version 2 doing beta testing for a few months with no problems.

Now I've got a problem that has me baffled.

Background: I started getting "index out of bounds" exceptions when I called

ctx.forwardToView(destination);


Most strange, so I decided, as a good beta tester, to debug it. To do this, I had to create a Netbeans project for Frontman, so the debugger could bind the source to the .class files.
Now, I can't get any of Frontman to work.

The logs show:


13:34:36,848 INFO CommandBroker:57 - Initializing FrontMan...
13:34:36,849 DEBUG CommandBroker:39 - commandVerbsProperties=null
13:34:36,849 DEBUG CommandBroker:39 - commandPackages(raw) = null
13:34:36,849 DEBUG CommandBroker:39 - viewNamesProperties=null
13:34:36,850 DEBUG CommandBroker:39 - viewsPath=/WEB-INF/pages
13:34:36,850 WARN CommandBroker:87 - At least one of commandPackages or commandVerbsProperties must be specified; CommandBroker is unavailable


I have not changed the web.xml, or my calling code. All I'm trying to do is link in a jar file that knows about the sources.....

[Pat Farrell]

more debugging info:

from web.xml

 
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>CommandBroker</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.bibeault.frontman.CommandBroker</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>viewsPath</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/pages</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>commandsPath</param-name>
            <param-value>com.fnfbook.bean</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>

[Bear Bibeault]

With Frontman 2, you can specify multiple base packages to search for auto-configured commands. So the init param has changed to commandPackages.

[Pat Farrell]

er, a change is OK, but why has it worked the past couple of months of Beta testing?

BTW: Probably should have a "change this" section added to the docs/

[Pat Farrell]

So, I made the fix:

        <init-param>
            <param-name>commandsPath</param-name>
            <param-value>com.fnfbook.bean</param-value>
        </init-param>

no joy. get a different runtime error

14:31:28,706 ERROR CommandBroker:48 - Error while finding command classes: java.lang.IllegalStateException: command verb login as attempted to be applied to Command class class com.fnfbook.bean.Login is already in use for class com.fnfbook.bean.Login
java.lang.IllegalStateException: command verb login as attempted to be applied to Command class class com.fnfbook.bean.Login is already in use for class com.fnfbook.bean.Login
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.addIfCommand(CommandFinder.java:216)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.findFolderResources(CommandFinder.java:169)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.findFolderResources(CommandFinder.java:165)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.findFolderResources(CommandFinder.java:165)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.findFolderResources(CommandFinder.java:165)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.utensils.CommandFinder.findCommandClasses(CommandFinder.java:114)
    at org.bibeault.frontman.CommandBroker.init(CommandBroker.java:119)

[Pat Farrell]

Looks like a cockpit error.