[Midas] ParaView Web support for Midas
Zach Mullen
zach.mullen at kitware.com
Wed Nov 6 12:56:40 EST 2013
After looking into it, it looks like this is actually only the case
with the packaged version of ParaView, not one built from source.
Brian, are you using the downloaded paraview package or building from
source?
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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919-869-8858
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