[one-users] OCCI: parsing bug, unsupported character?

[Javier Fontan]

Can you send us an example of the occi.xml that is causing you the
trouble? I don't see why that character can cause any problem but I
prefer to debug this myself.

Cheers

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marco Strutz <marco.strutz at desy.de> wrote:
> Hello developers.
>
>
> I might found a bug in the occi-context section related to a proper
> string parsing.
> In generel, the 'occi-compute create' command outputs error-message if
> unsupported characters (like '$') are detected:
>  [VirtualMachineAllocate] Error trying to CREATE VM Could not parse
> CONTEXT for VM.
>
> In my occi.xml I wanted to define a customized context-attribute
> containing the char '%'. This leads 'occi-compute create' into a timeout
> and a ruby process [1] gets a 100% cpu load:
>  Error timeout while connected to server (execution expired).
>  Server: localhost:4567
>
> I guess this syntax-issue is related to the use of "<% ...%>" of the
> ruby-occi-template definition [2] since percent-chars are used as well.
>
> This leads me to the following question: What can I do to have a
> '%'-char in my self-defined context-attributes. Is this even possible?
> In the end I need the %-char in the context.sh-file of the booted
> VirtualMachine.
>
>
>  [1] ruby /cloud/one/lib/ruby/cloud/occi/occi-server.rb
>  [2] $ONE_LOCATION/etc/occi_templates/common.erb
>
>
>
> thanks in advance
> Marco
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