What is the status of ob-ditaa?

What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Jarmo Hurri]

Greetings.

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?

All the best,

Jarmo

Re: What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> 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).

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.

 

Re: What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Jarmo Hurri]

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

Re: What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Colin Baxter]

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>>>>> Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:

    > 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

Mine is at ~/local/bin/jar/ditaa.jar, not in $PATH but called via the
variable: (setq org-ditaa-jar-path "~/local/bin/jar/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


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Re: What is the status of ob-ditaa?

[Jarmo Hurri]

Hello again, Colin.

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>> Can you post both
>> - your location of ditaa.jar; mine is
>
>>   $ locate ditaa.jar /usr/share/java/ditaa.jar

> Mine is at ~/local/bin/jar/ditaa.jar, not in $PATH but called via the
> variable: (setq org-ditaa-jar-path "~/local/bin/jar/ditaa.jar")

So this is likely to be the contrib jar that was floating around (also
in my previous computer) when I last exported some ditaa
drawings. Thanks for sending the file, it will come to the rescue if
need be.

I have decided to try to write a patch for ob-ditaa which will hopefully
resolve this issue of mismatch between what ob-ditaa expects and what
out-of-the-box systems provide.

All the best,

Jarmo