Re: [mh] Problem connecting to xPL

[Gregg L. <gr...@li...>]

Bruce Winter wrote:

> 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";
>
Yikes!  Good catch, Bruce.  FWIW--that was the area that I was moding 
for xAP BSC:--so any xPL users would be unaffected.