7. Discovering and Using MD API, and Generating Client Interfaces

The procedures in this chapter use the xmlrpc-c tools. The unmodified versions of these tools can be used for the purposes of this chapter (but see below) and any version later than about 2007 should work. Aside from any issues with dependencies on your platform the package should be usable as is to connect to the master daemon running here.

The facilities in this chapter allow generation of a client from the live interfaces of a MD and it is a feature of this design that this should work with the standard package.

The examples given are for running on the project staging server and assume you have an account on it. The account name will be your first initial and last name. The password is 'openauc'. If you are running the client programs somewhere else, substitute auc.meansofproduction.biz for localhost.

Once logged in you can check that the MD is running with:

auser>ps -C auc-md

While the generic xmlrpc client tools work as far as basic XMLRPC processing is concerned, you can only use them to test the correctness of the XMLRPC interfacing of a client with the MD.

To actually test with the MD you will need to use the custom client for this project or build one as described later in this chapter. Also the server here is software only with no devices so operational testing is impossible and must be done on the delivery server or other auc-md instance with actual devices.