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Hi Howard- > You are right. The returned CSV contains the header only. there was no real > data. > The problem disappeared after getting data. I put in a check for this so the error is a bit more understandable. It will be in the next nightly build. Don. > Unidata IDV Support wrote: > > Hi Howard- > > > >> I got the following error with clicking "Add Source" button with my own > >> data chooser (referenced WxTextChooser & > >> MesowestChooser). What could be the cause and how toi resoove this? > > > > It looks like the number of observations you got back was 0 and we don't > > check for that, thus the error. We should probably pick that up. Is there > > a way you can print out the CSV structure that you are sending to > > TextPointDataSource so I can track this down a little further (e.g., > > whatever the URL sends back). I assume I can't get to the server from here. > > > > Don Murray > > > >> There was an error loading the data: > >> Error creating data source:FILE.POINTTEXT with: > >> http://maui:8080/obsServer/download?dataType=ATECLightning&startTime=2009-24-24T17%3A28&endTime=2009-24-24T17%3A28 > >> Making grid parameters > >> GriddedSet: each grid length must be at least 1 (length#0 > >> is 0 > >> > >> > >> > >> visad.SetException: GriddedSet: each grid length must be at least 1 > >> (length#0 is 0 > >> at visad.GriddedSet.init_lengths(GriddedSet.java:87) > >> at visad.GriddedSet.<init>(GriddedSet.java:73) > >> at visad.Gridded1DSet.<init>(Gridded1DSet.java:130) > >> at visad.Gridded1DSet.<init>(Gridded1DSet.java:99) > >> at visad.Linear1DSet.<init>(Linear1DSet.java:116) > >> at visad.Linear1DSet.<init>(Linear1DSet.java:88) > >> at visad.Linear1DSet.<init>(Linear1DSet.java:51) > >> at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.readit(TextAdapter.java:1053) > >> at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.<init>(TextAdapter.java:210) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:389) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:333) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:1627) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:906) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:1635) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1743) > >> at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1492) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1967) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1884) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1818) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1791) > >> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:907) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.AtecChooser.doLoadInThread(AtecChooser.java:300) > >> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > >> at > >> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > >> at > >> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > >> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > >> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1033) > >> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1061) > >> > >> > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: PAR-344847 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Open > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PAR-344847 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open