[ic] Lock up with custom shipping UserTag

Webmaster of Infothai webmaster@infothai.com
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:16:09 +0700


On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:45:00 -0500, Mike Heins wrote:

Thanks, Mike. I tried it (again) and the 'f' version did work. 
Since I tried it before, I must have failed to restart the 
catalog after uploading the new shipping.asc. Duh!

Mike

>Quoting Webmaster of Infothai (webmaster@infothai.com):
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm running Interchange 4.6.3 on FreeBSD 4.2 with Perl 5.005_03. I've created 
>> a UserTag as follows:
>> 
>> 	UserTag thship Order weight
>> 	UserTag thship Routine <<EOR
>> 	sub {
>> 	 my ($weight) = @_;
>> 	 my $cost=$weight * 4;
>> 	 return $cost;
>> 	}
>> 	EOR
>> 
>> If I call this usertag from a page, it works as expected.
>> 
>> However, when I use this in shipping.asc:
>> 
>> 	test:	Test Custom
>> 		criteria	weight
>> 
>> 		min	0
>> 		max	0
>> 		cost	e Nothing to ship!
>> 
>> 		min	0
>> 		max	200
>> 		cost	m [thship weight="2.3"]
>> 
>> 		min	200
>> 		max	999999
>> 		cost	e @@TOTAL@@ lbs too heavy for UPS
>> 
>> then Interchange will lock up forever. I see two Interchange 
>> processes, and both must be manually killed (kill -3) to get 
>> them to terminate. The above usage was suggested by Mike Heins 
>> in a previous message to the list, but I must not be reading 
>> it or doing it correctly.
>
>Using "f" is correct for this.
>
>m is a special mode which allows you to iterate over the shopping cart
>and assign a shipping cost per item, and pass the results to chain_cost. I
>don't see why it would loop endlessly here, but it is possible it could.
>
>You should not have that problem with "f", and I can't see why you
>would short of forgetting to reconfig the catalog after changing
>from m.
>
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