Re: What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:
>
>     > I just tried to export an org file with bunch of ditaa images and
>     > got the infamous error:
>
>     > Error: Unable to initialize main class
>     > org.stathissideris.ascii2image.core.CommandLineConverter Caused
>     > by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>     > org/apache/commons/cli/ParseException
>
>     > This is under Fedora 40 with org 9.6.15. I do have ditaa.jar, but
>     > from the looks of the shell script /usr/bin/ditaa that runs the
>     > jar it needs to be run differently than what ob-ditaa does at the
>     > moment.
>
>     > In the past I think this was solved by downloading a contrib
>     > version of ditaa.jar. Now I can not find this under org contrib.
>
>     > https://github.com/emacsmirror/org-contrib
>
>     > Is there a working solution?
>
> ditaa works for me, using Org mode version 9.8-pre
> (release_9.7.14-156-g1c9873). Would you like me to email you my
> version of ditaa.jar? I'm on Debian 9.13 (it's old but it works).

Greetings Colin.

Can you post both

- your location of ditaa.jar; mine is

  $ locate ditaa.jar
  /usr/share/java/ditaa.jar

  (this will tell me something about where your jar file came from)

- the contents of your jar; the first couple of files in mine are

  $ jar -tf `locate ditaa.jar` | head -10
  META-INF/
  META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
  org/
  org/stathissideris/
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/core/
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/graphics/
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/text/
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/core/CommandLineConverter.class
  org/stathissideris/ascii2image/core/ConfigurationParser$XMLHandler.class

I think I saw somewhere a request to rewrite ob-ditaa.el. Unfortunately
my calendar looks awful atm, we should do something about this.

All the best,

Jarmo