It is a hack to make the URL readable by the ReadFile piece
The ReadFile takes the data from the hacked URL and saves it into Base64 according to “Output Format”. Additionally in the Ouput I see the base64 there.
It sends the ReadFile.Base64 into the Whisper.
I get this error:
{
"audio": [
"Expected file url or base64 with mimeType, but found value: //uQZAAAAz8UNIVhgAIAAA0goAABG------------ truncated 600kB of data ------------3groXykxBTUUzLjEwMKqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqo="
]
}
I run ActivePieces in a docker and it has not a public URL.
I saw that the Drive piece wrongly assumes that you actually have a public URL and it assumes it’s on port 80. So it gives me a wrong URL starting with my Public IP (I guess it went to the internet to do some ping and get the IP back).
This is completely broken as I don’t plan to give this ActivePieces a public URL. It will also break for any user running it behind a reverse-proxy.
I discovered that ReadFile instead of reading the file internally tries to read from some URL, so I had to substitute my IP for “localhost:xxxx” adding also the local port, so ActivePieces can read from itself.
This is a poor architecture design at the core. I don’t understand why the pieces seem to “try to seem more intelligent that what they are requested to do”. It breaks the S in the SOLID principle. The Drive thing is not responsible for getting an external IP from where I connect to the internet. It is responsible solely to interact with GDrive and nothing else. Any “extra fancy thing” they try to add, adds a potential break.
But that’s not the topic of question. I tackle that “file loading thing” in this other question here How do I read a file from Google Drive to be locally used? - The question here is "once I have the file in the ReadFile box, how do I forward it to the OpenAi piece.
I’d be more than happy to discuss architecture design in a videoconf with whoever is responsible of it. But my previous experience in other open source tools like n8n, Mautic and others where I found architecture failures was “this is how it is, if you don’t like it, don’t use it”. See if ActivePieces is different.
