[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] New Java exception when moving from rc3

[Ben Clifford]

I was a similar exception a couple of days ago on something i was playing 
with but moved onto other stuff and never got round to looking closer - 
the -debug option didn't give a stack trace and I never started digging 
through the code.

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Chad Glendenin wrote:

> I'm still trying to run a workflow that worked with VDL rc3. With Swift
> snapshot 070301, the command-line argument works again, but now I get a Java
> exception:
> 
> $ swift minmax.kml -list=filelist.txt
> Swift V 0.0405
> RunID: flkjse5yhp1c0
> Execution failed:
>        java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
> 
> Here's the code I'm trying to run.
> 
> //////
> type file_t {};
> type filelist_t {
>    file_t file;
> }
> 
> (file_t output, file_t error) minmax (file_t input) {
>    app {
>        wrapper @input stdout=@output stderr=@error;
>    }
> }
> 
> //filelist_t dataset[] <csv_mapper; file="filelist.txt">;
> filelist_t dataset[] <csv_mapper; file=@arg("list")>;
> foreach f in dataset {
>    file_t out <regexp_mapper; source=@f.file, match="([^/]+).tar",
> transform="\1.out">;
>    file_t err <regexp_mapper; source=@f.file, match="([^/]+).tar",
> transform="\1.err">;
>    (out, err) = minmax(f.file);
> }
> //////
> 
> Here's my input file, 'filelist.txt':
> 
> file
> /scratch20/chad/src/workflow/driventurb_3d_direct_plt_cnt_000340.tar
> /scratch20/chad/src/workflow/driventurb_3d_direct_plt_cnt_000341.tar
> 
> Any idea what's causing the exception?
> 
> By the way, the only reason I'm trying to upgrade is so that I can get
> disk-space management to work ("<profile namespace="SWIFT"
> key="storagesize">40000000000</profile>" in sites.xml). My understanding is
> that if I use VDL rc3, it could overrun the available scratch space and crash:
> I have 13.3 TB of data to process, but the UC/ANL TG site only has 1.1 TB of
> scratch space available. So if there's a way to enable scratch-space
> management in rc3, that should be good enough for now. (I'm a Swift user, not
> a developer, so I'd rather not be on the bleeding edge if I don't have to.)
> 
> Thanks,
> ccg
> 
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