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icon5.gif   elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Fri Aug 19 19:39:50 2016 
    icon2.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Rudy Taraschi on Fri Aug 19 22:43:21 2016 
       icon14.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 18:32:13 2016 
          icon2.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Rudy Taraschi on Thu Aug 25 18:45:48 2016 
             icon2.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 19:04:11 2016 
    icon2.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Aug 20 12:17:10 2016 
       icon2.gif   Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 18:18:57 2016 
Message ID: 68404     Entry time: Thu Aug 25 18:18:57 2016     In reply to: 68387
Icon: Reply  Author: Darren Hollinrake  Author Email: hollinrakedp@gmail.com 
Category: Question  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: V3.1.1-3f311c5 
Subject: Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces. 
Thanks for the reply. You're correct that the "Start Time" attribute is a datetime field. I tried your suggestion and placed "0" for that field but it still returns the same error: Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"
I tested after commenting out the required attribute line and the command was accepted. However, the datetime field does not display a valid date/time just a dash "-". It was a dash with both the "0" set and my previous format as well.

I did a bit more troubleshooting and if I removed the "Start Time" attribute from the list of required attributes, then my command would also be accepted. It was only choking on the datetime field as it appears I'm supplying it an invalid value. I just gave it a current epoch time and it functioned normally when a datetime attribute is not required. If I require my "Start Time" attribute and give it a valid epoch time (1472144295), it again throws the error that I'm missing a required attribute.


Andreas Luedeke wrote:
If the "Start Time" attribute is of the type "datetime", then you cannot assign a date string to it.
Instead you'll have to assign the seconds of the epoch.
Try assigning a "0", that should be the 1st of January 1970.

I hope that helps,
Andreas

Darren Hollinrake wrote:
I was setting of a local test copy of my logbooks on my Windows 7 PC to begin testing automation of submissions without spamming the live logbooks. While trying to make entries from the command line I get an error that I am missing a required attribute. I have multiple attributes that have spaces in them an the verbose output indicates that the space in the name is being changed to an underscore. Is this the expected behavior or a bug when submitting to the elog client in Windows?

Command being entered:

Quote:
C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG>elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 443 -s -l "Oceana Logbook" -u j
ohn.smith john.smith -v -n 0 -a Platform=LSOT -a "Start Time"="Fri, 19 Aug 2016
12:58:01 -0500" -a "Author=John Smith" -a "Device=2H111-1" -a "Action Type"=Mai
ntenance -a "Maint Type"=Unscheduled -a "System=Device" -a "Downtime=No" -a "Man
Hours"=1.0 -a MAF="" -a "Lost Time"="" -m "testing"

You can see where I have multiple attributes with spaces. Below you see where the name shows an underscore instead of a space.


Quote:
Successfully connected to host 127.0.0.1, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /Oceana+Logbook/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------22C602B76
C41
Host: 127.0.0.1:443
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 1790


Content sent to host:
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"

Submit
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"

john.smith
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"

JUl77l/.kXYBzfoOZpsy.URRZEZpg2SHZNZIum6Rh/5
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"

Oceana Logbook
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"

ELCode
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Platform"

LSOT
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Start_Time"

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:58:01 -0500
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Author"

Bruce Slack
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Device"

2H111-1
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Action_Type"

Maintenance
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Maint_Type"

Unscheduled
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="System"

Device
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Downtime"

No
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Man_Hours"

1.0
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAF"


---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Lost_Time"


---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"

testing 123
---------------------------22C602B76C41

Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 3.1.1-3f311c5
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: Close

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG error</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="elog.css">
</head>
<body><center>
<table class="dlgframe" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"<tr><td class
="errormsg"><i>Error: Attribute <b>Start Time</b> not supplied.</i><p>
Please go back and enter the <b>Start Time</b> field.
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="errormsg"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type=button onClick=history.back()>Back</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
Please use your browser's back button to go back
</noscript>
</td></tr>
</table>
</center></body></html>

Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"

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