Getting DynamoDB working from Erlang - erlang

I am trying to use the Erlang ddb module to interface with amazon's DynamoDB and I am getting a strange error while trying to set things up. I call ddb_iam:credentials() and it returns 'ok', but the ddb_iam:token() function crashes with an error as such: (this example is taken right from the manual page.
ddb_iam:credentials(AccessKey, SecretKey).
{ok, Key, Secret, Token} = ddb_iam:token(129600).
** exception error: bad argument
in function ets:lookup/2
called as ets:lookup(ibrowse_lb,{"sts.amazonaws.com",443})
in call from ibrowse:send_req/6 (src/ibrowse.erl, line 313)
in call from ddb_aws:retry/4 (src/ddb_aws.erl, line 50)
in call from ddb_iam:token/1 (src/ddb_iam.erl, line 63)
8>

It sounds like ibrowse is not started:
ibrowse:start().

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NeoVim - Check if a Vim function exists from Lua

I plan on using vim-plug with NeoVim. So, my init.lua file will have function calls such as
vim.fn['plug#begin'](vim.fn.stdpath('data') .. '/plugged')
vim.fn['plug#']('hoob3rt/lualine.nvim')
However, I don't want to assume vim-plug is definitely installed. I want my init.lua file to degrade gracefully if vim-plug is not installed, rather than throwing an error
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: Vim:E117: Unknown function: plug#begin
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'plug#begin'
/Users/andy/.config/nvim/init.lua:8: in main chunk
How can I check if the vim-plug functions exist before attempting to call them?
I tried print(vim.fn['plug#begin']) but that for some reason prints a non-null value: function: 0x0104ba36f0, even though the function doesn't exist.
I tried print(vim.fn['plug#begin']) but that for some reason prints a non-null value: function: 0x0104ba36f0, even though the function doesn't exist.
Presumably it's returning a function that throws the error you are getting. I would thus recommend using pcall:
local success, error = pcall(vim.fn['plug#begin'], vim.fn.stdpath('data') .. '/plugged')
if not success then --[[fail gracefully]] end
caveat: this will catch any error, so you'll probably want to perform some check like if error:find"Unknown function" then ... end to only catch this specific error.

Service __len__ not found Unexpected error, recovered safely

python3.8
My code:
from googleads import adwords
def execute_request():
adwords_client = adwords.AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage(path="google_general/googleads.yaml")
campaign_service = adwords_client.GetService('CampaignService', version='v201809')
pass
context["dict_list"] = execute_request()
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/michael/pycharm-community-2019.3.2/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydevd_bundle/pydevd_xml.py", line 282, in frame_vars_to_xml
xml += var_to_xml(v, str(k), evaluate_full_value=eval_full_val)
File "/home/michael/pycharm-community-2019.3.2/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydevd_bundle/pydevd_xml.py", line 369, in var_to_xml
elif hasattr(v, "__len__") and not is_string(v):
File "/home/michael/PycharmProjects/ads3/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 694, in __getattr__
raise googleads.errors.GoogleAdsValueError('Service %s not found' % attr)
googleads.errors.GoogleAdsValueError: Service __len__ not found
Unexpected error, recovered safely.
googleads.yaml about logging
logging:
version: 1
disable_existing_loggers: False
formatters:
default_fmt:
format: ext://googleads.util.LOGGER_FORMAT
handlers:
default_handler:
class: logging.StreamHandler
formatter: default_fmt
level: DEBUG
loggers:
# Configure root logger
"":
handlers: [default_handler]
level: DEBUG
I've just started studying the API.
Namely, I'm trying to execute my first request (https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/first-api-call#make_your_first_api_call)
Could you help me with this problem? At least how to localize it more precisely.
This seems to be a problem which results from the way the PyCharm debugger inspects live objects during debugging.
Specifically, it checks if a given object has the __len__ attribute/method in the code of var_to_xml, most likely to determine an appropriate representation of the object for the debugger interface (which seems to require constructing an XML representation).
googleads service objects such as your campaign_service, however, use some magic to be able to call the defined SOAP methods on them without requiring to hard-code all of them. The code looks like this:
def __getattr__(self, attr):
"""Support service.method() syntax."""
if self._WsdlHasMethod(attr):
if attr not in self._method_proxies:
self._method_proxies[attr] = self._CreateMethod(attr)
return self._method_proxies[attr]
else:
raise googleads.errors.GoogleAdsValueError('Service %s not found' % attr)
This means that the debugger's check for a potential __len__ attribute is intercepted, and because the CampaignService does not have a SOAP operation called __len__, an exception is raised.
You can validate this by running your snippet in the regular way (i.e. not debugging it) and checking if that works.
An actual fix would seem to either require that PyCharm's debugger changes the way it inspects objects (not calling hasattr(v, "__len__")) or that googleads modifies the way it implements __getattr__, for example by actually implementing a __len__ method that just raises AttributeError.

Call an Erlang function to create a user in ejabberd

I am using erlang 18, ejabberd 15.09. I am trying to create chat application. For that I have to create user for ejabberd using Erlang.
I used the erlang function ejabberd_auth:try_register for that:
ejabberd_auth:try_register(<<"username">>, <<"example.com">>, <<"secret_password">>).
It produced the following error:
exception error: undefined function stringprep:nameprep/1
in function jlib:nameprep/1 (src/jlib.erl, line 331)
in call from ejabberd_auth:auth_modules/1 (src/ejabberd_auth.erl, line 429)
in call from ejabberd_auth:is_user_exists/2 (src/ejabberd_auth.erl, line 323)
in call from ejabberd_auth:try_register/3 (src/ejabberd_auth.erl, line 187)
How to resolve the issue?
You do not seem to have the stringprep dependency installed. the p1_stringprep (https://github.com/processone/stringprep) dependency is downloaded automatically during build or included in official packages.
Your error suggest an incorrectly build or incorrectly installed ejabberd.

What causes a "not mocked" error when using meck (Erlang)?

I'm a meck (and Erlang) newbie and I'm struggling a bit with meck. I'm getting the following error:
=ERROR REPORT==== 27-Jan-2014::16:20:05 ===
Error in process <0.1825.0> with exit value: {{not_mocked,substatsDb},
[{meck_proc,gen_server,3,[{file,"src/meck_proc.erl"},{line,443}]},{meck_code_gen,exec,4,
[{file,"src/meck_code_gen.erl"},{line,147}]},{substats,loop,1,
[{file,"/Users/uyounri/gitsandbox/subpub/src/su...
At the beginning of my test I declare the module to be mocked:
meck:new(substats)
At the very end of my test the last thing I do is to unload the module that was mocked mocked:
meck:unload(substats)
The mocking seems to be working as expected until towards the end of the test when the above error is produced.
Thanks,
Rich
EDIT
Adding 2 ?debugFmt() lines seems to have fixed the problem; at least I no longer get the error. Here's the complete function that was modified:
stop(_) ->
meck:expect(substatsDb, stop, 1, fun(dbconn) -> ok end),
substats:stop(),
%% Note: this and the next ?debugFmt() calls prevent a meck
%% exit error. They both have to be present to prevent the error
?debugFmt("stop:~n", []),
meck:unload(substatsDb),
?debugFmt("stop: exit~n", []).
Have you tried adding the option passthrough when mocking the module?
meck:new(substatsDb, [passthrough])
Also, you are using the module "substatsDb" in the meck:expect call, but doing the meck:new for another module (substats), you should be doing everything for the same modules (new, expect, and unload)
hope it helps!

Lua: How to call error without stack trace

I'm using Lua to parse scripts written in some language (let's call it L) and create Lua-code that can be run by e.g. LuaJIT. But to simplify debugging for the users, I want to map the run time errors given by Lua/LuaJIT to the correct line in the L-files. I do this by xpcalling the created Lua-code, translating the error message and stacktrace and then calling error with this message. Unfortunately this gives me two stack traces, one created by me and one tracing back to the function that called error. Is it possible to get rid of this stack trace, or is there some better way of doing this?
local status, err = xpcall(loadedCode, debug.traceback)
if not status then
error(createANewErrorMessageWithPrettyTraceback(err),0)
end
Output:
luajit: ./my/file.name:5: Some error message
stack traceback:
my pretty traceback
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
./my/file/calling/error.lua:44: in function <./my/file/calling/error.lua:26>
./my-main:16: in main chunk
[C]: at 0x00404180
I know that e.g. Moonscript does something similar to this, but as far as I can see they just write the new error message to stderr and then continues as normal, instead of stopping the program which is what I want to do.
There is a possibility of doing this and then calling error with no arguments, which will make the program fail (actually I think it's error that fails), but this feels like quite an ugly solution, so I'll rather keep the stupid second trace than doing that.
PS: I assume what the title asks actually doesn't work (as error only takes two arguments), so what I'm actually asking is more how something like this can be achieved. (Are there other functions that do similar things perhaps, or where I should look to figure out how to write that function myself.)
Edit: Is it perhaps possible to edit the function that error's using to get its traceback, as it is with debug.traceback?
I wanted to do something similar (only from Lua directly) and I ended up overwriting debug.traceback function itself to change the stack trace to suit my needs. My code is below; see if this method works for you as well:
local dtraceback = debug.traceback
debug.traceback = function (...)
if select('#', ...) >= 1 then
local err, lvl = ...
if err and type(err) ~= 'thread' then
local trace = dtraceback(err, (lvl or 2)+1)
if genv.print == iobase.print then -- no remote redirect
return trace
else
genv.print(trace) -- report the error remotely
return -- don't report locally to avoid double reporting
end
end
end
-- direct call to debug.traceback: return the original.
-- debug.traceback(nil, level) doesn't work in Lua 5.1
-- (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-06/msg00574.html), so
-- simply remove first frame from the stack trace
return (dtraceback(...):gsub("(stack traceback:\n)[^\n]*\n", "%1"))
end
You could simply display the modified traceback that you want and exit.
local function errh(err)
print(createANewErrorMessageWithPrettyTraceback(debug.traceback(err, 2)))
os.exit(-1) -- error code
end
local status, result = xpcall(loadedCode, errh)
-- The script will never reach this point if there is an error.
print(result)

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