Mysterious error on collation attempt

[tla]

Hi - I have run into an error when trying to collate the attached JSON input, which doesn't give much idea of the problem. If I remove the first witness (Bz449) then it works, but I can't see anything obviously wrong in the Bz449 input. Any hints would be very welcome.

Taras-iMac:collatex tla$ collatex -t --format json milestone-455.json > /dev/null
Unexpected error
null
Taras-iMac:collatex tla$

milestone-455.json.gz

[tla]

(p.s. collatex is a local wrapper that sets JAVA_HOME and executes the JAR file.)

[rhdekker]

Hi,

Tried this on the latest code in the master branch and I can replicate the error. It gives me a little bit more information.

java -jar collatex-tools-1.8-SNAPSHOT.jar -t --format json ~/Downloads/milestone-455.json
Unexpected error
null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at eu.interedition.collatex.dekker.DekkerAlgorithm.collate(DekkerAlgorithm.java:187)
at eu.interedition.collatex.tools.CollationPipe.start(CollationPipe.java:153)
at eu.interedition.collatex.tools.CollateX.main(CollateX.java:45)

I am not yet sure what actually causes the error but at least this brings us a step further.

[rhdekker]

Hi,

I tried to collate the input data with the latest experimental version of the collation algorithm in a development branch and it returns without error. I included the output as an attachment to this message. Can you take a look at it and give feedback what you think of the quality of the alignment?

output_tara.json.zip

Best,
Ronald

[tla]

Finally she replies...! Insofar as the input isn't regularised, I think the alignment is fine. Thanks, belatedly, for looking into this!

[tla]

A follow-up question: which development branch has the working version, and how might I build it?

[rhdekker]

The working version is in the master branch. The only reason I have not released this code is that this algorithm does not yet support transposition detection, which would be a feature reduction and would most likely result in complains. Building is done using apache maven, I think the proper command is mvn package. A target directory will be created which contains the jar file. On 15 Feb 2018, at 18:21, tla <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A follow-up question: which development branch has the working version, and how might I build it? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#44 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAzAKJxitEmHCaAOiuQBaZyspHuSPltUks5tVGetgaJpZM4PRiGX>.