Re: Deprecated warnings

very strange; i suspect its not a java 6 vs java 7 problem, but an old 
jar file somehow in the classpath on your laptop ????

On 10/21/2013 6:38 PM, Schmunk, Robert B. (GISS-611.0)[TRINNOVIM, LLC] 
wrote:
> John,
>
> Something else odd came up over the weekend, and this time I need to ask 
> whether the latest netcdfAll-4.3.jar download on the NJ website was compiled 
> using Java 6 or Java 7?
>
> I am still using Java 6 on my desktop, but the latest Java 7 when I use my 
> laptop.
>
> Using the laptop on Saturday, I downloaded the latest netcdfAll-4.3. After making some 
> minor change to Panoply, I started a new compile and suddenly started seeing a bunch of 
> "cannot find symbol" errors for the methods getShortName() and getFullName() in 
> ucar.nc2.Dimension.
>
> This problem does not happen when using the desktop machine with Java 6. Since 
> I can compile Panoply and link to netcdfAll-4.3 with this set-up, I'd assume 
> that netcdfAll-4.3 was built using Java 6.
>
> Again, this compilation problem seems really bizarre. I would think if there 
> was any issue related to the Java version to build netcdfAll-4.3, the machine 
> using the older Java would be more likely to croak on it.
>
> rbs
>
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2013, at 16:23, Robert Schmunk wrote:
>
> > It's compiler output when I am building Panoply and linking to the latest 
> > netcdfAll-4.3.jar. For example,
> >
> > compile:
> >     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/rschmunk/Devo/java/Panoply/classes
> >     [javac] Compiling 294 source files to 
> > /Users/rschmunk/Devo/java/Panoply/classes
> >     [javac] 
> > /Users/rschmunk/Devo/java/Panoply/src/gov/nasa/giss/netcdf/NcArray.java:178: 
> > warning: [deprecation] getDataType() in ucar.nc2.Variable has been deprecated
> >     [javac]         DataType dt     = varDS_.getDataType ( );
> >     [javac]                                 ^
> >     [javac] 
> > /Users/rschmunk/Devo/java/Panoply/src/gov/nasa/giss/netcdf/NcVariable.java:298: 
> > warning: [deprecation] getDataType() in ucar.nc2.Variable has been deprecated
> >     [javac]         DataType dt = varDS_.getDataType ( );
> >
> > and a bunch more because I manage to call getDataType() 13 times. In the above 
> > examples, varDS_ is  simply a ucar.nc2.dataset.VariableDS.
> >
> > I was seeing similar deprecation notices about the use of getName(), but there 
> > the API made it plain that the method was indeed deprecated and what the 
> > recommended alternative was.
> >
> > Having looked at the ucar.nc2.Variable source, it makes no sense that I am 
> > seeing this warning. Hence my tossing it your way to see if you had ever seen 
> > it before.
> >
> > rbs
>
>
>
>
>
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