GrassField

Hi,

I have taken a short break! There are many more error messages, which are keep on accumulating behind the screens. But I am so lazy to put them in grassfield.

Anyway, today I got interrupted with an interesting exception

java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence

The scenario was, I am trying to parse an xml string. I am taking the byte array from the xml string, and give that array as input to xml reader stream. I have used java.lang.String.getBytes() for this.

Unfortunately, I got a chinese (or any other funny) characters as a value of one node in the xml. Ooof. I got up with the above error. Later, I found that getBytes() method supports only the western encoding, not UTF-8. So by using java.lang.String.getBytes("UTF-8") method, we solved the issue! nice na!

Today I was trying to extract the windows eventlog entries in my win-xp box. I have used Eldump to do this. please see my earlier post about this tool http://blog.grassfield.org/2007/06/24/fetch-your-eventlog-entries-with-eldump/ . I have used runtime.exec() to execute this command and extracted the information from the process streams.

The program was extracting the log entries, but hang in between, and went for endless sleep; i.e, the process never ended. Later with some googling, I was adviced to read error stream first, and then process output stream. Also both the streams need to be read concurrently with two threads. This could solve my issue. Try then!

Yesterday, 14th March, is celebrated as Pi (mathematical constant π) Day!

One of my friend had forwarded some information regarding Pi research! that was interesting for a guy like me who knows only πr² and 2πr!

Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day to know such interesting things!