Learning Forum

[Etienne Tachouzin]

When a chemical component contains parentheses in its name, there is a bug during CLI import and export.

For example, I have a .ftsim project with the components oil(l) and oil(vapor). I want to automate part of the setup using the CLI.

My initial approach was to export the data using:

forte.sh CLI -project my_project.ftsim -export my_setup.txt

Then I edited the exported file (for example, to change the pressure and other parameters).

After that, I tried to import the modified file using:

forte.sh CLI -project my_project.ftsim -import my_new_setup.txt

However, the import fails because the file contains the component name oil(l).

The most surprising part is that exporting a file and then importing the exact same file—without making any changes—also causes the import to fail.

In other words, the export operation produces a file that cannot be imported back, making the export/import process non-reversible.

Exception in thread "main" com.reactiondesign.core.textio.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 481, column 10.  Encountered: "(" (40), after : ""
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammarTokenManager.getNextToken(ForteGrammarTokenManager.java:648)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.jj_scan_token(ForteGrammar.java:667)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.jj_3R_7(ForteGrammar.java:521)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.jj_3_4(ForteGrammar.java:384)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.jj_3_3(ForteGrammar.java:391)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.jj_2_3(ForteGrammar.java:234)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.section(ForteGrammar.java:61)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.section(ForteGrammar.java:69)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.section(ForteGrammar.java:69)
        at com.reactiondesign.core.textio.ForteGrammar.parse(ForteGrammar.java:38)
        at com.reactiondesign.cfd.amg.commands.ImportProjectText.findParameterInTextFile(ImportProjectText.java:311)
        at com.reactiondesign.cfd.amg.commands.ImportProjectText.importText(ImportProjectText.java:430)
        at com.reactiondesign.cfd.amg.commands.ImportProjectText.main(ImportProjectText.java:1121)