[ww-devel] Making Perl modules available

Davide P. Cervone dpvc at union.edu
Mon Jun 29 14:13:38 EDT 2015


Try 

	\{ Data::Dumper->Dump(@$matrix) \}

and see if that works.

Davide


On Jun 29, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:

> The Data prefix didn't help.  Here's a minimal example.
> 
> PG file:
> 
> DOCUMENT();        
> 
> loadMacros(
>     "PGstandard.pl",
>     "MathObjects.pl",
>     "PGML.pl",
>     "PGchoicemacros.pl",
>     "PGauxiliaryFunctions.pl",
>     "gameTheory.pl",
> );
> 
> TEXT(beginproblem);
> 
> $matrix = [ [1,2], [3,4] ];
> 
> BEGIN_TEXT
> 
>     \{ Data::Dumper @$matrix \}
>     
> END_TEXT
> 
> ENDDOCUMENT();      
> 
> 
> The output:
> 
> 
> Warning -- there may be something wrong with this question. Please inform your instructor including the warning messages below.
> (0 pts) Problems/GameTheory/datadumper.pg
> \{
> Data::Dumper ARRAY(0xdc49220)ARRAY(0xdc491f0)
> 
> \}
> 
> Edit2 Edit3
>  Show correct answers 
> 
> You have attempted this problem 2,000 times.
> Your overall recorded score is 0%. (This problem will not count towards your grade.)
> You have unlimited attempts remaining.
> 
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> 
> Warning messages
> 
> ERROR in old_safe_ev, PGbasicmacros.pl: <PRE>
> ## There is an error occuring inside evaluation brackets \{ ...code... \}
> ## somewhere in an EV2 or EV3 or BEGIN_TEXT block.
> ## Code evaluated:
> ## Data::Dumper @$matrix
> ##syntax error at line 2 of (eval 1261), near "Data::Dumper @"
> ##</PRE><BR/>
> at (eval 1181) line 1671
> Request information
> 
> Time	Mon Jun 29 13:54:07 2015
> Method	GET
> URI	/webwork2/NewGenEd/Undefined_Set/1/
> 
> 
> In my defaults.config I have:
> 
> ${pg}{modules} = [
>         [qw(HTML::Parser)],
>         [qw(HTML::Entities)],
>     [qw(DynaLoader)],
>     [qw(Exporter)],
>     [qw(GD)],
>     [qw(AlgParser AlgParserWithImplicitExpand Expr ExprWithImplicitExpand utf8)],
>     [qw(AnswerHash AnswerEvaluator)],
>     [qw(WWPlot)], # required by Circle (and others)
>     [qw(Circle)],
>     [qw(Complex)],
>     [qw(Complex1)],
>     [qw(Distributions)],
>     [qw(Fraction)],
>     [qw(Fun)],
>     [qw(Hermite)],
>     [qw(Label)],
>     [qw(ChoiceList)],
>     [qw(Match)],
>     [qw(MatrixReal1)], # required by Matrix
>     [qw(Matrix)],
>     [qw(Multiple)],
>     [qw(PGrandom)],
>     [qw(Regression)],
>     [qw(MatrixWithElemOps MatrixReal1 Matrix)],
>     [qw(SysLinEq MatrixReal1 Matrix MatrixWithElemOps)],
>     [qw(Select)],
>     [qw(Units)],
>     [qw(VectorField)],
>     [qw(Parser Value)],
>     [qw(Parser::Legacy)],
>         [qw(Statistics)],
> #    [qw(SaveFile)],
>     [qw(Chromatic)], # for Northern Arizona graph problems 
> #                    #  -- follow instructions at libraries/nau_problib/lib/README to install
>     [qw(Applet FlashApplet JavaApplet CanvasApplet GeogebraWebApplet)],
>     [qw(PGcore PGalias PGresource PGloadfiles PGanswergroup PGresponsegroup  Tie::IxHash)],
>     [qw(Locale::Maketext)],
>     [qw(WeBWorK::Localize)],
>     [qw(JSON)],
>     [qw(Data::Dumper)]
> ];
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/29/2015 01:50 PM, Davide P. Cervone wrote:
>> You will probably need to use the explicit namespace, since that is what is imported into the safe compartment:
>> 
>> 	Data::Dumper @$socwelbest
>> 
>> Give that a try.  Of not, can you post the complete problem so that we can reproduce your situation?  It is hard to tell without seeing what you are actually doing.
>> 
>> Davide
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
>> 
>>> I should to my earlier message that I did restart httpd.  I'm running Arch Linux.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I thought it would be handy to make Perl's Data::Dumper available for debugging.  So on my office computer I added the line 
>>> 
>>>     [qw(Data::Dumper)]
>>> 
>>> to ${pg}{modules} in defaults.config.  But it didn't work, I still get an error.
>>> 
>>> This is the code in my pg file to display debugging info.
>>> 
>>> BEGIN_TEXT
>>> 
>>>     \{ Dumper @$socwelbest \}
>>>     
>>> END_TEXT
>>> 
>>> The display is this.
>>> 
>>> <Mail Attachment.png>
>>> 
>>> Here's the error message.
>>> 
>>> Warning messages
>>> 
>>> ERROR in old_safe_ev, PGbasicmacros.pl: <PRE>
>>> ## There is an error occuring inside evaluation brackets \{ ...code... \}
>>> ## somewhere in an EV2 or EV3 or BEGIN_TEXT block.
>>> ## Code evaluated:
>>> ## Dumper @$socwelbest
>>> ##syntax error at line 2 of (eval 1132), near "Dumper @"
>>> ##</PRE><BR/>
>>> at (eval 1051) line 1671
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It actually works fine when I use my own dumper function, defined in a pl file (apart from the fact that my dumper isn't as nice as Perl's).
>>> 
>>> What's the correct way to do this, i.e. add a aPerl module to webwork?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Andrew Dabrowski   || ...my suspicion is that the universe is
>>> Indiana University || not only queerer than we suppose, but
>>> Swain East 117     || queerer than we can suppose. -JBS Haldane
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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