Re: [mh] Problem connecting to xPL

[Bruce W. <wi...@ch...>]

Gregg Liming wrote:

> 	See attached revised xAP_Items.pm.  It addresses the following:
> 1) changes source header var to use hyphen '-' rather than period '.' as
> first delimiter (your specific problem)
> 2) checks existence of xap_send and xpl_send ports prior to attempting
> any send action.  This should reduce the many but harmless error
> messages if either xap or xpl is disabled
> 3) checks existence of xap_send and xpl_send ports prior to attempting
> any check for data (receive).  This would otherwise have produced an
> error (your specific problem)
> 4) resolved an error associated with tracking a remote xpl item's state
> (a rather obscure error that apparently didn't affect anyone)
> 5) added support to have finer control over xap header vars (necessary
> to support upcoming xAP BSC)
> 6) added support for xAP UID generation to support xAP BSC endpoints

Thanks for the update Gregg!   There was a minor problem with the the 
send_heartbeat sub.   The 2nd 2 lines here were missing needed .= 
instead of =

     $msg  = "xap-hbeat\n{\nv=12\nhop=1\n";
     $msg .= "uid=" . &_get_xap_base_uid() . "00" . "\n";
     $msg .= "class=xap-hbeat.alive\n";


Bruce