[Midas] ParaView Web support for Midas

Zach Mullen zach.mullen at kitware.com
Wed Nov 6 07:10:11 EST 2013


This is indeed the issue I discovered yesterday. Some files were moved
within ParaView and it broke compatibility with the Midas plugin. I should
have a fix committed to next branch this morning.

Thanks,

Zach


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Patrick Reynolds <
patrick.reynolds at kitware.com> wrote:

> Brian,
>
> This looks like it could be related to the symbolic link of the vtkweb
> javascript. This may be related to an issue that Zach is tracking.
>
> --
> Patrick Reynolds
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919 869 8848
>
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 5:15 PM, BRIAN E CHAPMAN wrote:
>
>  Patrick,
>
>  I've been toggling the dynamic help and looking at the logs (apache and
> midas/log/dev.log). Here is what I am getting without and with dynamic help
> turned on
>
>  Dynamic help off:
>
>  [Tue Oct 29 15:06:08.706120 2013] [:error] [pid 25319] [client
> 155.100.62.145:54950] PHP Warning:  Unknown: function 'NULL' not found or
> invalid function name in Unknown on line 0, referer:
> http://155.100.62.142/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
>
>  2013-10-29 17:06:08 WARN (4): URL:
> http://155.100.62.142/midas/modules/pvw/public/import/lib/js/vtkweb-all.min.js
> Server IP: 155.100.62.142
> Client IP: 155.100.62.145
> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
> Server time: 2013-10-29 17:06:08
> RequestURI: /midas/modules/pvw/public/import/lib/js/vtkweb-all.min.js
> Referer: http://155.100.62.142/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
> <b>Message: Invalid controller specified (modules)</b>
>
>  Trace:
> #0 /usr/local/src/Midas3/library/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954):
> Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http),
> Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
> #1
> /usr/local/src/Midas3/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(97):
> Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
> #2 /usr/local/src/Midas3/library/Zend/Application.php(366):
> Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
> #3 /usr/local/src/Midas3/index.php(73): Zend_Application->run()
> #4 {main}
>
>  Request data: array (
>   'controller' => 'modules',
>   'action' => 'pvw',
>   'public' => 'import',
>   'lib' => 'js',
>   'module' => 'default',
> )
>
>  Session data:
> Dao: __PHP_Incomplete_Class::__set_state(array(
>    '__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name' => 'UserDao',
>    '_model' => 'User',
>    'key' => NULL,
>    '_key' => 'user_id',
>    'saved' => true,
>    'user_id' => '1',
>    'firstname' => 'Brian',
>    'lastname' => 'Chapman',
>    'email' => 'brian.chapman at utah.edu',
>    'thumbnail' => NULL,
>    'company' => NULL,
>    'hash_alg' => 'sha256',
>    'salt' => 'uirWyLLLBDcN9udgEy2o0ZwZulN17z8s',
>    'creation' => '2013-10-24 14:09:40',
>    'folder_id' => '1',
>    'admin' => '1',
>    'privacy' => '0',
>    'view' => '0',
>    'uuid' => '52696264c0b08ca6ba63fc546fe5b950545d654ae59cc',
>    'city' => '',
>    'country' => '',
>    'website' => '',
>    'biography' => '',
>    'dynamichelp' => '1',
> ))
>
>  Last database query: SELECT `setting`.* FROM `setting` WHERE (name =
> 'temp_directory') AND (module = 'core') LIMIT 1
>
>
>  Dynamic Help ON:
>
>  [Tue Oct 29 15:10:44.885671 2013] [:error] [pid 25321] [client
> 155.100.62.145:55013] PHP Warning:  Unknown: function 'NULL' not found or
> invalid function name in Unknown on line 0, referer:
> http://155.100.62.142/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
> [Tue Oct 29 15:10:44.894376 2013] [:error] [pid 25319] [client
> 155.100.62.145:55006] PHP Fatal error:  AppController::isDynamicHelp():
> The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete
> object. Please ensure that the class definition "UserDao" of the
> object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets
> called or provide a __autoload() function to load the class definition  in
> /usr/local/src/Midas3/core/AppController.php on line 424, referer:
> http://155.100.62.142/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
>
>  2013-10-29 17:10:44 CRIT (2): Fatal Error: Array
> (
>     [type] => 1
>     [message] => AppController::isDynamicHelp(): The script tried to
> execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please
> ensure that the class definition "UserDao" of the object you are
> trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or
> provide a __autoload() function to load the class definition
>     [file] => /usr/local/src/Midas3/core/AppController.php
>     [line] => 424
>     [typeText] => E_ERROR
> )
>
>
>  URL:
> http://155.100.62.142/midas/modules/pvw/public/import/lib/js/vtkweb-all.min.js
>
>  Server IP: 155.100.62.142
> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
> Server time: 2013-10-29 17:10:44
> Referer: http://155.100.62.142/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
> Parameters (post): Array
> (
> )
> Parameters (get): Array
> (
> )
>
>
>  Brian E. Chapman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Radiology
> University of Utah
>
>
>   From: Patrick Reynolds <patrick.reynolds at kitware.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:28 PM
> To: Brian Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
> Cc: "midas at public.kitware.com" <midas at public.kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Midas] ParaView Web support for Midas
>
>   Brian,
>
>  Are you able to get to the admin page and disable dynamic help?
>
>  That should yield an improved error message.
>
>  --
>  Patrick Reynolds
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919 869 8848
>
> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 6:58 PM, BRIAN E CHAPMAN wrote:
>
>   Hi Zach, et al.,
>
>  I'm making progress here. I looked at Sebastien's suggestion of using
> VirtualGL but decided to go back and build a VM with X11 support. I've got
> Midas running and ParaView web configured as per the web site and Zach's
> instructions. When I got to view an object (a 3D CT stored in .mha format)
> I get a blank canvas with "Volume rendering: pe0017s4.mha" on the top and a
> bunch of control widgets on the right.
>
>  When I look at the apache2 logs I see the following.
>
>  acces.log: 111.222.33.444 - - [24/Oct/2013:16:38:02 -0600] "GET
> /midas/modules/pvw/public/import/lib/js/vtkweb-all.min.js HTTP/1.1" 500 936
> "http://111.222.33.555/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1" "Mozilla/5.0
> (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0"
>
>  error.log [Thu Oct 24 16:38:02.468812 2013] [:error] [pid 7303] [client
> 111.222.33.444:34502] PHP Fatal error:  AppController::isDynamicHelp(): The
> script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete
> object. Please ensure that the class definition "UserDao" of the
> object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets
> cal
>
>  The midas log file is as follows:
>
> dev.log
> Referer: http://111.222.33.555/midas/pvw/paraview/volume?itemId=1
> Parameters (post): Array
> (
> )
> Parameters (get): Array
> (
> )
>
> Any ideas as to what is going wrong?
>
>  Brian
>
>  Brian E. Chapman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Radiology
> University of Utah
>
>
>   From: Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:54 AM
> To: Brian Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
> Cc: Patrick Reynolds <patrick.reynolds at kitware.com>, "
> midas at public.kitware.com" <midas at public.kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Midas] ParaView Web support for Midas
>
>   Hi Brian,
>
>  Answered your questions inline.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:49 PM, BRIAN E CHAPMAN <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>wrote:
>
>   Patrick,
>
>  That saved a lot of time! A couple of dummy questions. In
> /var/www/midas/modules there is already a pvw directory. So where am I
> supposed to create the symbolic link to $PARAVIEW_ROOT/lib/paraview-4.0/www?
>
>
>  You should create a symlink at /var/www/midas/modules/pvw/public/import,
> and it should point to the paraview-4.0/www dir.
>
>
>  Also, just because I'm kind of dense, do I need to set the DISPLAY
> environment variable. The pop-up help says "If the DISPLAY env var should
> be set…" I don't know if it should be.
>
> It depends what environment you are running in. If you plan on running
> this headlessly as a server, you will probably need to set the environment
> variable. If you are running the server within an already existing X
> environment, you probably won't need to set it. If you open a terminal and
> type
>
>  echo $DISPLAY
>
>  It will show you the current value of your display ID.
>
>
>  Finally, is there a tutorial or demo for the Midas/ParaView interface?
>
>
>  We just finished transitioning the demo application to the latest
> version of ParaViewWeb. The demo of the old capabilities is here:
> http://50.58.123.185/external/midas/visualize/paraview/volume?itemId=44
>
>  There isn't much currently in the way of developer-oriented
> documentation for the module; for that you might have to just consult us
> with your questions :)
>
>  Thanks,
>
>
>  Thanks for the help.
>
>  Brian
>
>
>   From: Patrick Reynolds <patrick.reynolds at kitware.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:12 AM
> To: Brian Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
> Cc: "midas at public.kitware.com" <midas at public.kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Midas] ParaView Web support for Midas
>
>   Brian,
>
>  You'll need to build Paraview Web from Source or download binaries. It
> comes with paraview, so you should be able to follow the instructions
> stemming from this wiki page:
>
>  http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaViewWeb
>
>  HTH.
>
>  --
>  Patrick Reynolds
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919 869 8848
>
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, BRIAN E CHAPMAN wrote:
>
>   Hello Midas World,
>
>  I'm trying to build an instance of Midas with ParaviewWeb enabled. I'm
> working on an Ubuntu 12.04 instance. Midas built fine, but I'm having a
> difficult time getting Paraview to build. Just curious if the
> paraview-python package that is available in the ubuntu distribution is
> sufficient for this purpose? If it is, curious about the details of the
> configuration for the instructions: "Make sure to symlink the www directory
> of your ParView build directory…"
>
>  I'm suspicious of the package since when I try to run pvpython I get an
> error:
>
>  "Error converting executable file "/usr/bin/../lib/paraview/pvpython" to
> real path: no such file or directory"
>
>
>  Brian E. Chapman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Radiology
> University of Utah
>
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>  --
> Zach Mullen
> R & D Engineer
> Kitware Inc.
> 919-869-8858
>
>
>
>


-- 
Zach Mullen
R & D Engineer
Kitware Inc.
919-869-8858
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