[ensembl-dev] ENSEMBL Genomes installation: AJAX error, Trailing commas

[ek]

bacteria plugin fixed as well

thanks for reporting the issue
Eugene
On 2013-02-26 12:49, Rafael Hernández wrote:
> Hi Ensembl devs,
>
> I've installed a local version of Ensembl Genomes release 17 70 and I
> find some troubles with AJAX webpage refreshing.
> When I start the httpd process (for example Ensembl fungi), an error
> message is showed as follows:
>
> 
> /usr/local/ensembl_bacteria/htdocs/minified/2726da28aef31bfd2ae4c565379d344e.js.tmp:12878:
> ERROR - Parse error. Internet Explorer has a non-standard
> intepretation of trailing commas. Arrays will have the wrong length
> and objects will not parse at all.
> });
>  ^
>
> 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
> In spite of this error, the httpd process continues and the Ensembl
> fungi starts. However this error causes that the generated javascript
> file ("/minified/xxxxxxxxxxxx.js) doesn't work correctly and the
> webpages never updates after a query (no AJAX refreshing).
> The cause of this problem is in the new version of the
> file _/eg-plugins/common/htdocs/components/99_ZMenu.js_ (revision
> 1.23), a trailing comma that breaks the javascript generation
> (yesterday this problem was fixed in branch ensemblgenomes-17-70a).
> Removing this trailing comma, Ensembl fungi, metazoa, plants and
> protists works, however Bacteria still not working.
>
> For bacteria module, the /eg-plugins/bacteria/htdocs/components/
> directory contains some files used for the _minified _javascript
> generation_ _and I think that there could be the problem.
> When I remove the trailing comma
> in _/eg-plugins/common/htdocs/components/99_ZMenu.js, _2
> more similar errors are thrown. 
> I'm trying to fix the problem but I can't find the cause. Any idea?
>
> Thank you and regards,
>
> Rafa Hernández de Diego
>
> SLU-Global Bioinformatics Center
>
> Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
> Gerda Nilssons väg 2,  
>  Box 7023, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.