[ome-devel] importer installation

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Nico,

When you installed OME, did you enable the "developer's install" option?

Also, it seems Apache/mod-perl can be finicky about updates to Perl 
modules. The easiest way to ensure your changes are recognized is to do 
"sudo apachectl restart" before testing each time.

If you still have trouble, perhaps others can comment further.

-Curtis

Nico Stuurman wrote:

> So I bit the bullet and started working on a BMP importer this 
> weekend.  It seems straight forward, and I made something that should 
> be getting close.  I 'installed' the file by calling it 'BMPreader.pm' 
> and adding it to /Library/Perl/5.8.1/OME/ImportEngine and to add 
> 'OME::ImportEngine::BMPreader' to field 'value' of table 
> 'configuration' (b.t.w., I had to change the type of that field to 
> 'text' from varchar(256), otherwise the addition would not fit).  
> However, when the importer runs, I get the following in the httpd 
> error logs:
>
> 05/02/21 08:00:42 serve.pl[5561]: Error getting groups via format 
> OME::ImportEngine::BMPreader: Can't locate object method "new" via 
> package "OME::ImportEngine::BMPreader" at 
> /Library/Perl/5.8.1/OME/ImportEngine/ImportEngine.pm line 262.
>
> This happens, even when I copy TIFFreader.pm to BMPreader.pm, showing 
> that it is not something in the code (there obviously is a 'sub 
> new').  It looks like I am missing a step in the installation of the 
> importer, but I have no idea what.  Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Nico