Re: [Orgmode] Error running ditaa

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Dov,

I agree with your point that the ditaa and dot aspects of
org-export-blocks could be fruitfully refactored, however those parts of
org-export-blocks are nearly deprecated and are only retained for
backwards compatibility.

Please use code blocks [1] for a more interactive and powerful means of
evaluating and exporting dot and ditaa (and many other) blocks of code.

Thanks -- Eric

Dov Grobgeld <address@hidden> writes:

> When running ditaa on Linux fedora 12 through java, I get the following
> errors:
>
> java -jar /usr/share/java/ditaa.jar -r -S /tmp/org-ditaa27392h-V
> blue_fd02b5c06d6a5cb80eaf27098c3c490dc81326ce.png
> Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/commons/cli/ParseException
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
>         at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
> Could not find the main class:
> org.stathissideris.ascii2image.core.CommandLineConverter. Program will exit.
>
> This can be taken care of by using the shell script that comes with ditaa,
> i.e.:
>
> ditaa  -r -S /tmp/org-ditaa27392h-V
>
> But to do this from within emacs I need to patch org-exp-blocks.el as
> follows:
>
> -    (unless (file-exists-p org-ditaa-jar-path)
> -     (error (format "Could not find ditaa.jar at %s" org-ditaa-jar-path)))
> :
> -        (message (concat "java -jar " org-ditaa-jar-path " " args " "
> data-file " " out-file))
> -        (shell-command (concat "java -jar " org-ditaa-jar-path " " args " "
> data-file " " out-file)))
> +        (message (concat "ditaa " args " " data-file " " out-file))
> +        (shell-command (concat "ditaa " args " " data-file " " out-file)))
>
> (You also need to erase the checking for the existance of dita.jar)
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to replace the variable org-ditaa-jar-path with
> a new variable org-ditaa-command that by default contains "java -jar
> /old/value/of/org-ditaa-jar-path"? This would allow replacing it with a
> shell script. Would a patch be accepted, or do you prefer to remain backward
> compatible?
>
> On a related question. Since there is quite a lot of common code between
> org-export-blocks-format-dot and org-export-blocks-format-ditaa (especially
> if my patch is accepted), wouldn't it make sense to create a
> org-export-blocks-format-meta that take all the differences between the
> various export-blocks as parameters? This would simplify adding additional
> org-export-blocks.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
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Footnotes: 
[1]  http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-With-Source-Code.html