From: Jeremy Spewock <jspew...@iol.unh.edu>
When this XML-RPC server implementation was added, the docstring had to
be shortened in order to reduce the chances of this race condition being
encountered. Now that this race condition issue is resolved, the full
docstring can be restored.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Spewock <jspew...@iol.unh.edu>
---
.../testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py | 46 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py
b/dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py
index bf58ad1c5e..c3648134fc 100644
--- a/dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py
+++ b/dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py
@@ -128,9 +128,53 @@ def scapy_send_packets(xmlrpc_packets:
list[xmlrpc.client.Binary], send_iface: s
class QuittableXMLRPCServer(SimpleXMLRPCServer):
- """Basic XML-RPC server.
+ r"""Basic XML-RPC server.
The server may be augmented by functions serializable by the
:mod:`marshal` module.
+
+ Example:
+ ::
+
+ def hello_world():
+ # to be sent to the XML-RPC server
+ print("Hello World!")
+
+ # start the XML-RPC server on the remote node
+ # this is done by starting a Python shell on the remote node
+ from framework.remote_session import PythonShell
+ # the example assumes you're already connected to a tg_node
+ session = tg_node.create_interactive_shell(PythonShell, timeout=5,
privileged=True)
+
+ # then importing the modules needed to run the server
+ # and the modules for any functions later added to the server
+ session.send_command("import xmlrpc")
+ session.send_command("from xmlrpc.server import
SimpleXMLRPCServer")
+
+ # sending the source code of this class to the Python shell
+ from xmlrpc.server import SimpleXMLRPCServer
+ src = inspect.getsource(QuittableXMLRPCServer)
+ src = "\n".join([l for l in src.splitlines() if not l.isspace()
and l != ""])
+ spacing = "\n" * 4
+ session.send_command(spacing + src + spacing)
+
+ # then starting the server with:
+ command = "s = QuittableXMLRPCServer(('0.0.0.0',
{listen_port}));s.serve_forever()"
+ session.send_command(command, "XMLRPC OK")
+
+ # now the server is running on the remote node and we can add
functions to it
+ # first connect to the server from the execution node
+ import xmlrpc.client
+ server_url = f"http://{tg_node.config.hostname}:8000";
+ rpc_server_proxy = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy(server_url)
+
+ # get the function bytes to send
+ import marshal
+ function_bytes = marshal.dumps(hello_world.__code__)
+ rpc_server_proxy.add_rpc_function(hello_world.__name__,
function_bytes)
+
+ # now we can execute the function on the server
+ xmlrpc_binary_recv: xmlrpc.client.Binary =
rpc_server_proxy.hello_world()
+ print(str(xmlrpc_binary_recv))
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
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2.45.2
