ResourceContainer message field size limitation - google-app-engine

I am using a repeated Integer field to query information for a number of places. I am seeing a "No endpoint found for path" error if the number of placeIds is large. Here is the ResourceContainer definition.
IDS_REQUEST_CONTAINER = endpoints.ResourceContainer(
message_types.VoidMessage,
placeIds=messages.IntegerField(1, repeated=True))
If I split the request into requests of size 10 it all works fine. I tried to find an answer on the max size of a repeated field in a ResourceContainer online, but haven't been able to find it. Can anybody point me to a resource or tell me what it would be?

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Get number of items in a field that contain specific text

i have a field that lists all email address and i want to get the number of all email addresses with a certain domain, for example, "mydomain.com".
I can do this with a scorecard and a filter but I need to do this with a custom formula so i can also get the average. My finial goal is to get the average of "mydomain.com" email addresses vs. the total.
I tried this
COUNT(CONTAINS_TEXT(profile.email, "#mydomain.com"))
But, of course, this does not work.
Maybe a COUNTIF?
Bottom lime, i need to figure out how to get the number of email addresses from a specific domain in to a variable so i can then do some math on it ;)
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you!
Everything I've read points to using a CASE statement, however I've not actually managed to get one to work.
Here's the documentation: https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7020724

SSIS Conditional Split - Operation Failure

I wanted to learn the conditional split in SSIS. Therefore, I took the first 100 IDs from a column and wanted to split them into two groups:
Small_ids: all IDs < 50
Big_ids: all IDSs >= 50
However, I am getting this error message when I want to connect to the output source:
Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
Thank you!
I would only have 1 test:
ID < 50
the rest would be default output which you can rename to BIG.
You really haven't given enough information to solve your real problem though.
Is the source configured with a SQL statement? The error is an error where no metadata is present.
Also, please try not to use pictures and when you do you should take the pertinent information out of the image and put in text. You will open up your answer pool to a greater audience as there are a few that can't see image links from work computer.

Parsing text in Julia- Invalid ascii sequence

I'm trying to format a data file so that my other program will properly handle it. I am trying to handle the following data and I am getting a very weird error that I can't seem to put my finger on.
https://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-RfA.html
I am trying to format the data as [SRC TGT VOT], so I'd like the first two lines of my output file to be
1 2 1
3 2 1
because user 1 (stored in dictionary of users first) votes for user 2 with VOT 1 and then user 3 votes for user 2 with VOT 1. My problem is that when I try to run my code below, I always end up getting a very strange "invalid ascii sequence" error- can anyone help me identify the issue or perhaps find a way around this? It'd obviously be best if I could learn what I am doing wrong. Thank you!
Note, I understand that this is a bit specific of a question and I appreciate any help- I'm sort of baffled by this error and don't know how to resolve it at the moment.
f=open("original_vote_data.txt") #this is the file linked above
arr=readlines(f)
i=edge_count=src=tgt=vot=1
dict=Dict{ASCIIString, Int64}()
edges=["" for k=1:198275]
while i<1586200
src_temp=(arr[i])[5:end-2]
if (haskey(dict, src_temp))
new_src= dict[src_temp]
else
dict[src_temp]=src
new_src=src
src=src+1
end
tgt_temp=(arr[i+1])[5:end-2]
if (haskey(dict, tgt_temp))
new_tgt= dict[tgt_temp]
else
dict[tgt_temp]=tgt
new_tgt=tgt
tgt=tgt+1
end
vot_temp=(arr[i+2])[5]
edges[edge_count]=string(new_src)* " " * string(new_tgt)* " " *string(vot_temp)
edge_count=edge_count+1
i=i+8
end
Here we go - I'll write up my comment as an answer since it seems to have solved the question.
My hunch that the error stemmed from the fourth line (dict=Dict{ASCIIString, Int64}) was based on the fact that ASCIIStrings will error if you try to store non-ASCII characters in them. Since this file is coming from an international site, it's not unlikely that there are users with unicode characters in their names (or elsewhere in the data). So the simple fix is to change all instances of ASCIIString to UTF8String.
Just to make this answer a bit more complete, I downloaded the file and tried running the program. The simplest way to debug this is to run the script at top-level in the REPL and then inspect the program state after the error. After the error is thrown, i==3017. Now just try running each line of the while loop incrementally. You'll quickly see that line 3017 contains "SRC:Guðsþegn\n" — unicode, as I suspected. When you try to create a new entry in dict with that as the key, the error should have a backtrace to setindex! in dict.jl, where you'll see that it's trying to convert the key (a UTF8String) to an ASCIIString. So changing the dictionary type to have UTF8String keys solves the problem.
As it turns out, the edges array only contains strings of three integers (or sometimes a hyphen), so the ASCIIString there is ok, but still a little dangerous. I'd probably store that information in a more dedicated array of ints instead of converting it to a space-separated string: you know the first two elements in the string are ints, but the last element is unvalidated text from the file itself… which may be unicode or a space itself (which could mess up processing down the line).

PDFBox adding white spaces within words

When I try to extract text from my PDF files, it seems to insert white spaces between severl words randomly.
I am using pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar (latest version) on following sample file in Downloads section of this page :
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/children/parents/6-11/pedestrian-training
I've tried with several other PDF files and it seems to be doing same on several pages.
I do the following:
java -jar pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar ExtractText -force -console ~/Desktop/ped training pdf.pdf
on the downloaded file and you will see spaces in following inserted wrongly in the result on console:
"• If ch ildren are able to walk to
schoo l safely this could reduce the
congestion. "
"• Develops good hab its for later life."
"www.sheff ield.gov.uk"
"Think Ahead!, wh ich is based on the"
etc etc.
As you can see several of words above have spaces between them for no reason I can fathom.
I am on ubuntu and running Sun's JDK 1.6.
I've tried this on several different PDF files and tried searching for solution on forums, there were similar bugs but all seemed to have been resolved.
Any help or if anyone else has same problem please comment. This is causing big problem in indexing the content properly for searching.
Unfortunately there is currently no easy solution for this.
Internally PDF documents simply contain instructions like "place characters 'abc' in position X" and "place characters 'def' in position Y", and PDFBox tries to reason whether the resulting extracted text should be "abc def" or "abcdef" based on things like the distance between X and Y. These heuristics are generally pretty accurate, but as you can see they don't always produce the correct result.
One way to improve the quality of the extracted text is to try a dictionary lookup on each extracted word or token. If the lookup fails, try combining the token with the next one. If a dictionary lookup on the combined token succeeds, then it's fairly likely that the text extractor has mistakenly added an extra space inside the word. Unfortunately such a feature does not yet exist in PDFBox. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1153 for the feature request filed for this. Patches welcome!
The class org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper (pdfbox-1.7.1) allows to modify the propensity to decide if two strings are part of the same word or not.
Increasing spacingTolerance will reduce the number of inserted spaces.
/**
* Set the space width-based tolerance value that is used
* to estimate where spaces in text should be added. Note that the
* default value for this has been determined from trial and error.
* Setting this value larger will reduce the number of spaces added.
*
* #param spacingToleranceValue tolerance / scaling factor to use
*/
public void setSpacingTolerance(float spacingToleranceValue) {
this.spacingTolerance = spacingToleranceValue;
}

Twitter name length in DB

I'm adding a field to a member table for twitter names for members on a site. From what I can work out the maximum twitter name length is 20 so it seems obvious that I should set the field size to varchar(20) (SQL Server).
Is this a good idea?
What if Twitter starts allowing multi-byte characters in the user names? Should I make this field nvarchar?
What if Twitter decides to increase the size of a username? Should I make it 50 instead and then warn a user if they enter a name longer than 20?
I'm trying to code defensively so that I can reduce the chances of modifying the code around this input field and the DB schema changes that might be needed.
while looking for the same info i found the following in a sort of weird place in the twitter help section (why not in the API docs? who knows?):
"Your user name can contain up to 15 characters. Why no more? Because we append your user name to your 140 characters on outgoing SMS updates and IM messages. If your name is longer than 15 characters, your message would be too long to send in a single text message."
http://help.twitter.com/entries/14609-how-to-change-your-username
so perhaps one could even get away with varchar(16)
While new accounts has a limit of 15 characters in the username and 20 characters in the name, for old accounts this limit seems to be undefined. The documentation here states:
Earlybirds: Early users of Twitter may have a username or real name longer than user names we currently allow. This is ok until you need to save changes to your account settings. No changes will save unless your user/real name is the appropriate length; this means you have to change your real name/username to meet our most modern regulations.
So you are probably better of having a long field and save yourself some time when you hit the border cases.
Nowadays, space is usually not a concern, so I'd use a mostly generic approach: use nvarchar(200).
When designing DB schemas you must think 2 steps ahead, even more than when programming. Or get yourself a good schema update strategy, then you'll be fine also with varchar(20).
Personally I wouldn't worry. Use something like 200 (or a nice round number like 256) and you won't have this problem. The limit then is on their API, so you might be best to do some verification that it is a real username anyway. That verification implicitly includes the length checking.
Twitter allows for 140 characters to be typed in as the message payload for transmission, and includes "[username]:" at the beginning of the SMS message. With an upper limit of 140 characters for the message combined with the messaging system being based on SMS, I think they would have to decrease the allowable message size to increase the username. I think it is a pretty safe bet that 20 characters would be the max username length. I'd use nvarchar just in case someone uses 16-bit characters, and maybe pad it a little. nvarchar(24) should work; I wouldn't go any higher than nvarchar(32).
If you're going to develop an app for their service, you should probably watch the messages on Twitter's API Announcements mailing list.
[opinion only]
Twitter works on SMS and the limit there is something like 256 characters, so the name has to be small to avoid hitting into the message.
nvarchar would be a good idea for all twitter text
If the real ID of a Twitterer is a cell-phone then the longest phone number is your max - 20 should easily cover it!
Defensive programming is always good :) !
[/opinion only]
There's only so much you can code defensively, I'd suggest looking at the twitter API documentation and following anything specified there. That said, from a cursory look through nowhere seems to specify the length of the username, annoyingly :/
One thing to keep in mind here is that a field using nvarchar needs twice as much space, since it needs 2 bytes to store each potential unicode character. So, a twitter status would need a size of 280 using nvarchar, PLUS some more for possible retweets, as those aren't inlcuded in the 140 char limit. I discovered this just today in fact!
For example:
RT #chatrbyte: here's some great tweet
that I'm retweeting.
The RT #chatrbyte: is not included in the 140 character limit.
So, assuming that a Twitter username has a 20 character limit, and wanting to also capture a ReTweet, a field to hold a full tweet would need to be a nvarchar of size 280 + 40 (for the username) + 8 (for the initial RT # before a retweet) +4 (for the :+space after a Retweet username) = 330.
I would say go for nvarchar(350) to give yourself a little room. That's what I am trying right now. If I'm wrong I'll update here.
I'm guessing you are managing the data entry on the Twitter name field in your application somewhere other than just in the database. If you open the field to 200 characters, you only have to change the code in one place or if you allow users to enter Twitters names with more than 20 characters, you don't have to worry about a change at all.

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