check license button no longer works

[goneall]

After updating to the latest release (1.2.3), clicking the check license button does not return anything.

In looking in the browser debug console message, it looks like it can't find the file https://tools.spdx.org/static/js/utils.js.

Perhaps the get static didn't execute successfully or it is in the wrong place.

Below is the console output:


submit_new_license/:422 
 GET https://tools.spdx.org/static/js/utils.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
submit_new_license/:896 Uncaught ReferenceError: findLicenseMatch is not defined
    at HTMLButtonElement.<anonymous> (submit_new_license/:896:5)

[goneall]

On the production server, there is a static directory, but it doesn't contain the utils.js.

Here's the contents of /spdx/src/app/static/js:

bootstrap.js      editor          jquery-ui.min.js  npm.js
bootstrap.min.js  html2canvas.js  jquery.min.js     warning.js

[goneall]

I could not locate the file utils.js in the docker instance.

I tried running the collect static command manually - here's the output:
collect-static-output.txt

[bact]

What is the expected behavior of the tool at https://tools.spdx.org/app/check_license/ ?

The interface itself does not very telling.

[goneall]

What is the expected behavior of the tool at https://tools.spdx.org/app/check_license/ ?

The interface itself does not very telling.

The expected behavior is to compare the submitted text against all listed licenses and listed license exceptions. The result of the compare would be one of "Exact Match", "Close Match" or "No Match". Exact match only if it matches using the license matching guidelines. The implementation of close match is it achieve a high score on a text matching algorithm (e.g. Sørensen Dice) but does not pass the full matching guidelines.

There are two main use cases:

• Check a found license during an analysis of open source licenses for compliance reasons
• Check a license before submitting a new license to the license list - avoid duplication

[bact]

Thank you

[bact]

I have tried

Apache
Apache 2.0
Apache-2.0
GPL

Nothing matched

[goneall]

I have tried

Apache Apache 2.0 Apache-2.0 GPL

Nothing matched

It works from the full text of the license - not the license ID.

Try copy/pasting the official license text from the website: https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html

[bact]

Got it. Thank you

[bact]

@goneall I think the app is working now. I have tested it with the full text from https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html, hit the "Check License" button and got a dialog box reporting a result as "Close match".

The button is working. -- Tested on Firefox 133, Chrome 131, and Safari 17.6

[bact]

The expected behavior is to compare the submitted text against all listed licenses and listed license exceptions. The result of the compare would be one of "Exact Match", "Close Match" or "No Match".

I put these usage/behaviour to the Check License UI in PR #545

[goneall]

The check license menu does work, but the "check license" button on the license submittal page still doesn't work on my web browser (chrome).

@bact - let me know if you see the same issue

[bact]

I see. That's a different page.
I will check that. Thank you

[bact]

On the production server, there is a static directory, but it doesn't contain the utils.js.

Here's the contents of /spdx/src/app/static/js:

bootstrap.js      editor          jquery-ui.min.js  npm.js
bootstrap.min.js  html2canvas.js  jquery.min.js     warning.js

Does it possible to copy https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/blob/main/src/app/static/js/utils.js over there?

[goneall]

Interesting - this should have been copied over during the docker build:

spdx-online-tools/dockerfile.prod

Line 29 in da1793a

COPY . .

It copied everything else. I didn't capture the output of the docker build - next time I do a release, I'll have to capture the output and see if there is a clue as to why it either didn't get copied or it got deleted.

[goneall]

BTW - I did verify it is in the directory for the server where the docker build was done. Here's the output of ls on the machine where I ran the docker build:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-15-78:~$ ls spdx-online-tools/src/app/static/js/
bootstrap.js      editor          jquery-ui.min.js  npm.js    warning.js
bootstrap.min.js  html2canvas.js  jquery.min.js     utils.js

and here's the output of the ls in the container:

root@35d7eebd8d77:/spdx/src/app# ls static/js
bootstrap.js      editor          jquery-ui.min.js  npm.js
bootstrap.min.js  html2canvas.js  jquery.min.js     warning.js
root@35d7eebd8d77:/spdx/src/app# exit
exit