Highcharts-Export Server 2.0.1 Errors Under Window

EDIT: Solution was to place all phatomJS related scripts into the Scripts directory and make sure none of the items are read-only for Windows. My scripts and phantomjs.exe all exist here: C:\jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3\webapps\ROOT\Scripts\phantomjs.

The app.properties file has this config:

# location of the phantomjs executable, could be for example /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
exec = C:/jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3/webapps/ROOT/Scripts/phantomjs/phantomjs.exe
# location of convert script used by phantomjs, optional to leave the script property empty, than it's using the script located in: /WEB-INF/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js. This is tested in TOMCAT, but specify a path if resource loading isn't working with the classloader (f.e. with Jetty server), script = a/path/to/my/phantomjs-script.js
script = C:/jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3/webapps/ROOT/Scripts/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js

I can now export via the demo loaded here http://localhost:8080/highcharts-export/demo and also call to it via our web site by using url: 'http://localhost:8080/highcharts-export/'

EDIT: Has anyone got a working app.properties file for working under Windows and Jetty?

I have resolved some of these issues listed below by making this modification to app.properties:

# location of the phantomjs executable, could be for example /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
exec = "C:\\jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3\\webapps\\ROOT\\Scripts\\phantomjs\\phantomjs.exe"

# location of convert script used by phantomjs, optional to leave the script property empty, than it's using the script located in: /WEB-INF/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js. This is tested in TOMCAT, but specify a path if resource loading isn't working with the classloader (f.e. with Jetty server), script = a/path/to/my/phantomjs-script.js
script = /WEB-INF/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js

Other variants of the exec value with the same results:

C:\\jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3\\webapps\\ROOT\\Scripts\\phantomjs\\phantomjs.exe
C:/jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3/webapps/ROOT/Scripts/phantomjs/phantomjs.exe
C:\jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3\webapps\ROOT\Scripts\phantomjs\phantomjs.exe

I can now get the demo up at http://localhost:8080/highcharts-export/demo butlooking at the output of jetty I am flooded with things like:

        [ERROR] [pool-1-thread-1 02:55:19] (TaskUtils.java:handleError:95) Unexpected error occurred in sche
duled task.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error, PhantomJS couldnot start
        at com.highcharts.export.server.Server.<init>(Server.java:56)
        at com.highcharts.export.pool.ServerObjectFactory.create(ServerObjectFactory.java:36)
        at com.highcharts.export.pool.ServerObjectFactory.create(ServerObjectFactory.java:14)
        at com.highcharts.export.pool.AbstractPool.createObject(AbstractPool.java:26)
        at com.highcharts.export.pool.AbstractPool.poolCleaner(AbstractPool.java:66)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.springframework.scheduling.support.ScheduledMethodRunnable.run(ScheduledMethodRunnabl
e.java:64)
        at org.springframework.scheduling.support.DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.run(DelegatingErro
rHandlingRunnable.java:53)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(Unknown S
ource)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Original question below: This is a follow up to this question. I can now successfully (according to maven at least) build the latest highcharts-export server. I have only modified the app.properties file like this:

# location of the phantomjs executable, could be for example /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
exec = C:/jetty-distribution-9.0.0.M3/webapps/ROOT/Scripts/phantomjs

Regardless of the configuration to the location of the phatomjs I get the error listed below.

However, when I load it into jetty I get the following error and am unable to work around this.

C:\hc-exporter>mvn jetty:run
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING]
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for com.highcharts.expor
t:highcharts-export:war:2.0.1
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin is missin
g. @ line 150, column 12
[WARNING]
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your
 build.
[WARNING]
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed pro
jects.
[WARNING]
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building highcharts-export 2.0.1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> jetty-maven-plugin:8.1.2.v20120308:run (default-cli) @ highcharts-export >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ highcharts-export ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) @ highcharts-export ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ highcharts-export ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\hc-exporter\src\test\resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ highcharts-export ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< jetty-maven-plugin:8.1.2.v20120308:run (default-cli) @ highcharts-export <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- jetty-maven-plugin:8.1.2.v20120308:run (default-cli) @ highcharts-export ---
[INFO] Configuring Jetty for project: highcharts-export
[INFO] webAppSourceDirectory C:\hc-exporter\src\main\webapp does not exist. Defaulting to C:\hc-expo
rter\src\main\webapp
[INFO] Reload Mechanic: manual
[INFO] Classes = C:\hc-exporter\target\classes
[INFO] Added extra scan target:C:\hc-exporter\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\pages
[INFO] Added extra scan target:C:\hc-exporter\src\main\webapp\resources
[INFO] Context path = /export
[INFO] Tmp directory = C:\hc-exporter\target\tmp
[INFO] Web defaults = org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/webdefault.xml
[INFO] Web overrides =  none
[INFO] web.xml file = file:/C:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
[INFO] Webapp directory = C:\hc-exporter\src\main\webapp
2013-05-21 09:00:07.656:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-8.1.2.v20120308
2013-05-21 09:00:07.987:INFO:oejpw.PlusConfiguration:No Transaction manager found - if your webapp r
equires one, please configure one.
2013-05-21 09:00:09.162:INFO:/export:No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath

2013-05-21 09:00:09.477:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/export,file:/C
:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/
2013-05-21 09:00:09.478:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/export,file:/C
:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/
2013-05-21 09:00:09.482:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/export,file:/C
:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/hc-exporter/src/main/webapp/
2013-05-21 09:00:09.532:INFO:/export:Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
[ERROR] [main 09:00:10] (ContextLoader.java:initWebApplicationContext:307) Context initialization fa
iled
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverObject
Factory': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
        at...

回答1:

You're getting a Beancreation exception because the @PostConstruct afterBeanInit method is failing.

When you leave the 'script' property in the app.properties file empty, it tries to load the highcharts-convert file with the ClassLoader. See here.

As stated in the app.properties file, this is only tested in Tomcat. Clearly this isn't working out of the box for Jetty. Perhaps, because the ClassLoader is different, or maybe you have to deploy the application as an exploded war?

But the easy way, is to specify the 'script' property in the app.properties file. Note that the mandatory files used by the highcharts-convert.js script must also be present in the same folder.

Code Sample of the property file, used by me under windows with Jetty.

#### phantomjs properties ####

# the host and port phantomjs listens to
host = 127.0.0.1
port = 7777

# location of the phantomjs executable, could be for example /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
exec = phantomjs

# location of convert script used by phantomjs, optional to leave the script property    empty, than it's using the script located in: /WEB-INF/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js. This is tested in TOMCAT, but specify a path if resource loading isn't working with the classloader (f.e. with Jetty server), script = a/path/to/my/phantomjs-script.js
script = C:/Users/gert/SRC/highcharts.com/exporting-server/java/highcharts-export/target/highcharts-export/WEB-INF/phantomjs/highcharts-convert.js

After I changed the app.properties file, I build the war with mvn clean package

and copied the war file to the Jetty webapps folder. and it worked.

回答2:

Your first example above indicates you are configuring to point at jetty 9.0.0.M3 (9.0.3.v20130506 is latest) but your second example shows you using the jetty-maven-plugin 8.1.2 (8.1.10.v20130312 is the latest) which does not make use of any jetty distribution, it uses an embedded instance of jetty that it wires up and starts via the maven plugin.

You need to decide how you are going to run jetty, either via a distribution (your first example) or via the maven plugin (org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-maven-plugin:9.0.3.v20130506 is probably one you should use) and configure your 'exec =' property accordingly.