Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How do I use the Gnuradio GRC XML RPC client or server components?

[numeric]

Thank you Marcus for your reply.

Yes; to answer your question. The Linux version is Freepascal with the
Lazarus IDE. It is very much like Delphi with a useful exception. No BDE
(Borland Database Engine) is required. 

You have given me an idea for a plan to solve my question. If the XMLPRC is
a DLL then freepascal can directly import the DLL and gain access to it's
functions. No need to pipe the string to a convertor. 
Today my USB drive got messed up. I have to re-load Linux, gnuradio and
Lazarus to continue the effort. A day or two should complete the
restoration; the "BOSS " (not the boss at work) permitting.

Rob 





Marcus Müller-3 wrote
> Now, for almost any language out there exist XML-RPC implementations, I
> guess -- however, if that is the case for Pascal (I guess you're using
> freepascal?), I don't know. 
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe you'll have to swallow the pill and
> either write a "Pascal-writes-stuff-into-a-pipe" to XML-RPC converter in
> your language of choice (in python, that would be but this much code,
> approximately, untested:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python2
> import xmlrpclib
> s = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:8080')
> commanddict = { "frequency": lambda x: s.set_freq(float(x))  ,
>                 "gain": lambda x: s.set_gain(float(x)),
>                 "taps": lambda x:
> s.set_filtertaps(list(map(float,x.split(",")))),
>                 "stop": lambda x: s.stop()
>               }
> inputfile = open("/path/to/the/fifo", "r")
> while True:
>     line = inputfile.readline()
>     if line.lower().startswith("exit"):
>         break
>     command, valuestring = line.split(":")
>     #now, get command from dictionary and apply it to string
>     try:
>         commanddict[command](valuestring)
>     except: #this happens if the command is not in the dict, or
> something went wrong doing RPC
>         pass # don't do anything, just wait for the next command
> 
> Now, of you'll need to
> mkfifo /path/to/the/fifo
> 
> and have your pascal program write lines of the scheme
> 
> gain:34
> taps:1,2,3,4.0
> stop:nowtheflowgraphdiesandthiscommandjustneedsaparameter
> exit
> 
> to that filename.
> 
> I assume things are equally easy in C++, but I've never tried XML-RPC
> from C++, and all the string-juggling really gets easy in python, imho.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcus





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