Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Suggestion: Error "Failed to toad from URL"

When I use the search manager I always use the URL-Search feature. Some of my these searches are very “special”, so I get only a few results, sometimes only one result in a week.

If the search runs and there is no appropriate result, jbidwatcher reports “Failed to load from URL”.

This message made me think that there was some kind of “real” error like some parsing problem or other serious issues like a change in ebay’s way to display search results, but i’ve learned that it also appears when there is just no result to my search.

My suggestion: “Failed to load form URL” should only appear when there is a serious problem, while there could be another message like “no results on URL search” if the search had no results.

As always, a BIG “thank you” for this great application. Keep up the good work!

—evildude

Topic: That's SO beta! / Some Searches (URL Load) won't load

Hi Morgan!
When I click on “Load” in the Search manager I read in the bottom status bar: “Loading from URL…” and a second later: “Failed to load from URL…”

This happened on two searches so far. I drop the links here for you to check

http://shop.ebay.de/items/?_nkw=eckbank&_in_kw=...

http://shop.ebay.de/items/?_nkw=Postfahrrad+Pos…

At least the first one (“Eckbank”) shows several results when loaded in Firefox.
Console Output says:

Thu Sep 11 10:14:17 CEST 2008: Unable to find item count on page! URL: http://shop.ebay.de/items/?_nkw=eckbank&_in_kw=...
Thu Sep 11 10:14:17 CEST 2008: No items on page!

The second search (Postfahrrad, Postrad…) is very restrictive in options and only shows results about once a week. Today there were zero results in Firefox :-)

I’m using jbw 2b8 on Ubuntu. JRE Package ist sun-java6-jre 6-06-0ubuntu1.

Can you tell me If II am doing wrong something or if this points to a bug in JBW?

Thanx, Markus aka evildude

Topic: That's SO beta! / 2.0b7 Bugs with Mac OS 10.5.4

There’s only one thing I can recommend to you, max6166:

Try to start over with a “clean” installation by deleting /home/yourname/.jbidwatcher (don’t know where it is in Windows in case you’re using that) and start over with jbidwatcher.

I also had a messed up database with an earlier beta version and after clearing the directory and reinstalling (the latter might have been useless anyway) I’m only experiencing the usual beta issues but nothing that renders jbw unusable, It just sniped nice stuff when I was away some time ago…

Topic: That's SO beta! / beta 2.0b7 repeated items

While reading a bunch of messages about duplicate Items I just thought why I didn’t
experience this at all with b7.

Might the duplicate items-problem be connected to reading the “my ebay”-Items
from the web?

Some time ago (using v1.02 then) I have totally abandoned the “my ebay”-feature
and use the search-manager with “URL-Load” to drop its results into special tabs
I’ve created (see FAQ for further explanation on URL loading).

There are still problems with this approach (disappearing Tabs, see other thread),
but at least I don’t see repeated Items

I only know that the “my ebay”-Page with watched Items is formatted differently
from “normal” search results and it might be this difference that causes the
duplicate Items problem

Enough for now, greetings

Markus aka evildude

Topic: That's SO beta! / Can't keep Tabs deleted

Another addition to this:

I’ve tried to recreate a Tab that had disappeared since last shutdown, and after clicking ‘OK’, my terminal showed this:

• Fri Sep 05 17:18:41 CEST 2008: Exception during the check() operation of class com.jbidwatcher.ui.AuctionsManager
  java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:793) at java.util.HashMap$ValueIterator.next(HashMap.java:822) at com.jbidwatcher.ui.ListManager.checkEachList(ListManager.java:147) at com.jbidwatcher.ui.AuctionsManager.check(AuctionsManager.java:95) at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.TimerHandler.run(TimerHandler.java:56)

Topic: That's SO beta! / Can't keep Tabs deleted

Okay, I’ve tried it:
Added two tabs which disappeared before, moved an auction to the first one and left the second one alone.
Then I exit jbw and restarted it from a terminal window (always do this to see a beta-problem before eventually loosing a snipe) and got this:

The new tab with the auction is still there (but on another position, which is okay for me), the empty one is gone.

Here’s the Log from the terminal window:

1. Thu Aug 28 11:26:55 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Auction information database already exists.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Closed connection
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Database shut down normally
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:56 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:57 CEST 2008: Closed connection
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:57 CEST 2008: Database shut down normally
   Error setting up scripting: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jruby/runtime/builtin/IRubyObject
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 2 to 2
   Moving column 7 to 3
   Moving column 8 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 7 to 7
   Moving column 8 to 8
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 6 to 2
   Moving column 3 to 3
   Moving column 4 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 2 to 2
   Moving column 3 to 3
   Moving column 4 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 2 to 2
   Moving column 3 to 3
   Moving column 4 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 2 to 2
   Moving column 7 to 3
   Moving column 8 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 7 to 7
   Moving column 8 to 8
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 8 to 1
   Moving column 8 to 2
   Moving column 3 to 3
   Moving column 4 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Moving column 7 to 7
   Moving column 8 to 8
   Moving column 0 to 0
   Moving column 1 to 1
   Moving column 2 to 2
   Moving column 3 to 3
   Moving column 4 to 4
   Moving column 5 to 5
   Moving column 6 to 6
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:26:58 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:00 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:00 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:00 CEST 2008: Loaded the appropriate driver.
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:00 CEST 2008: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:03 CEST 2008: Getting the sign in cookie.
   Thu Aug 28 11:27:06 CEST 2008: Done getting the sign in cookie.

1. Error setting up scripting: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jruby/runtime/builtin/IRubyObject

Don’t know if that was significant to the problem…

cheers, Markus

Topic: That's SO beta! / Can't keep Tabs deleted

Forgot to mention: using jbw 2.0b7 on Ubuntu 8.04, Java-Package: sun-java6-jre 6-06-0ubuntu1

Topic: That's SO beta! / Can't keep Tabs deleted

Similar Problem here (jbw 2.0b7) :

I can’t keep tabs added. Once I restart jbw, they’re all gone. I reproduced this several times. There are some URL-searches that drop their results into these tabs. (Computer-Related to Tab “TECH” for example) I regularly check these Tabs, move the interesting results to “current and delete the others.

The problems with desappearing Tabs seems to only appear when the particular Tab is empty, but I have to check that again to be sure.

Hope this helps so far. I can send Logs if needed :-)

Greetings, Markus