Voyant Server: Eclipse Workspace Setup

[neelofarhassan]

I am trying to setup voyant server in eclipse to explore and run the code locally, but still unsuccessful. Is there any documentation or instructions available?

My target is to explore "Open" and "Upload" corpus functionality.

[sgsinclair]

It's out of date, but there's this: https://github.com/sgsinclair/Voyant/wiki/Voyant-Notebooks:-Eclipse-Workspace-Setup

Instead of fiddling with the DevLoader I now usually use maven to install both trombone and voyant, and that usually works. But it's notoriously finicky. I'll try to update the docs soon.

[neelofarhassan]

Thanks sgsinclair

[neelofarhassan]

Hello,
This link "https://github.com/sgsinclair/Voyant/wiki/Voyant-Notebooks:-Eclipse-Workspace-Setup" works fine for Voyant. Any suggestions for VoyantServer? I want to run VoyantServer for latest added fixes like "Open Menu".

I am using eclipse-oxygen and Tomcat7.

[sgsinclair]

have you cloned https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer ? Then it should be a matter of running the default task in in build. The one thing I can think of is that there's a data directory in the root (not in version control) that's the same data directory as the one that's distributed with the build.

[neelofarhassan]

|| have you cloned https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer
yes, but webapp directory is missing, which is present in https://github.com/sgsinclair/Voyant. May be that is why I am unable to run it on tomcat.

[sgsinclair]

Ahem, yeah, I have a file system symbolic link from project voyant/src/main/webapp to _app (in the VoyantServer folder). If you open the build.xml file you could see where _app is defined and maybe try the full path if the symbolic link is problematic on windows. Can you tell you'd be the second person on earth to have ever built Voyant this way? :)