POST results in ERROR: no method pointer(ASCIIString,)

[mlimotte]

This is reproducible in the repl (Julia 0.2.1):

$ exec '/Applications/Julia-0.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'
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_ _ | | __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics
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| | || | | | (| | | Version 0.2.1 (2014-02-11 06:30 UTC)
/ |_'|||__'| | Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0

julia> using HTTPClient.HTTPC
julia> result = HTTPC.post("http://localhost:9999/foo/bar","foo")
ERROR: no method pointer(ASCIIString,)
in _put_post at /Users/marc/.julia/v0.2/HTTPClient/src/HTTPC.jl:480
in put_post at /Users/marc/.julia/v0.2/HTTPClient/src/HTTPC.jl:454
in post at /Users/marc/.julia/v0.2/HTTPClient/src/HTTPC.jl:388

[amitmurthy]

This was due to a 0.3 dependency. Have updated METADATA accordingly. You can try removing and adding HTTPClient again (after a Pkg.update() i.e.).

Closing the issue, Do reopen if the problem is not solved.

[mlimotte]

Hmm, update fails like this:

_julia> _Pkg.update()

INFO: Updating METADATA...

INFO: Updating DataFrames...

INFO: Computing changes...

WARNING: julia is fixed at 0.2.1 conflicting with requirement for
HTTPClient: [0.3.0-,∞)

INFO: Removing Stats v0.1.0

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Amit Murthy notifications@github.comwrote:

This was due to a 0.3 dependency. Have updated METADATA accordingly. You
can try removing and adding HTTPClient again (after a Pkg.update() i.e.).

Closing the issue, Do reopen if the problem is not solved.

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[amitmurthy]

OK. That was just a warning. Now, can you do a Pkg.rm("HTTPClient") followed by Pkg.add("HTTPClient")

[mlimotte]

Ok. I'm still seeing the same issue, though. Where is your change? In
github, it looks like the last commit on master is from March 25th:

https://github.com/amitmurthy/HTTPClient.jl/commits/master

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Amit Murthy notifications@github.comwrote:

OK. That was just a warning. Now, can you do a Pkg.rm("HTTPClient")followed by
Pkg.add("HTTPClient")

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[amitmurthy]

The change is in METADATA - JuliaLang/METADATA.jl@976fe64 where I specifically marked dependency of the latest HTTPCient on julia version 0.3

The latest HTTPClient that can work with julia 0.2 is the previous version, i.e., JuliaLang/METADATA.jl@f714311

[amitmurthy]

So, once you tried re-installing HTTPClient, I expected the package manager to get the previous version of HTTPClient which is compatible with julia 0.2

[amitmurthy]

What does Pkg.resolve() display?

[mlimotte]

Interesting. I was able to get the 0.1.0 pkg installed, but I had to do
Pkg.rm("HTTPClient") twice. The first time, it removed it from "Required
packages", but as shown here, the "0.1.1" pkg was still listed under
"Additional packages".

julia> Pkg.status()
Required packages:

• DataFrames 0.4.2
• JSON 0.3.5
• Stats 0.1.0
  Additional packages:
• Blocks 0.0.2
• DataArrays 0.0.2
• GZip 0.2.12
• HTTPClient 0.1.1 master
• LibCURL 0.1.1
• SortingAlgorithms 0.0.1
• StatsBase 0.2.10

After doing the Pkg.rm statement again, and then add, I finally had 0.1.0.

marc

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Amit Murthy notifications@github.comwrote:

What does Pkg.resolve() display?

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[amitmurthy]

Cool! You should not be seeing those errors on a HTTP POST now.

[mlimotte]

Yes. Confirmed that POST works now.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Amit Murthy notifications@github.comwrote:

Cool! You should not be seeing those errors on a HTTP POST now.

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