Re: [naviserver-devel] nsdsh - NaviServer shell for testing

[Vlad S. <vl...@cr...>]

I am using ncp module with socat which supports readline:

i have bash alias ncp="socat readline tcp4:localhost:2080" and then i 
can type/execute anything

there. Never thought about anything else since. The only thing that 
needs to be tested with browser
is connection stuff, like cookies/headers, but that wget is for, prepare 
file with everything and then just
call it, a lot of manual work but actually i donot use it very often, 
browser is s till real testing environment.

Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:09, Stephen Deasey wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure what the right way to go here is.  Would such an nsdsh be
>>useful, or should we just add more to the server binary, or should I
>>just be a bit more creative when writing tests..?
>>
> 
> 
> I do not know if this is what you'd need...
> 
> What we've done is to spawn a thread on server start which opens a
> named pipe on the filesystem. The location and naming convention of
> the named pipe is well known. The thread reads incoming data more/less
> the same as nscp and executes the command. We also wrote a very tiny
> utility in Tcl (and wrapped it into a single exectuable with mktclapp)
> which also connects to the same named pipe, reads stdin for commands
> and passes the input to the pipe.
> 
> This looks like:
> 
> zvlinux:/usr/local/homes/zv # cd /usr/local/aw
> zvlinux:/usr/local/aw # bin/nsdchat
> % srvinfo version
> 4.0
> 
> The "nsdchat" is this small utility. This way we can execute any
> server command on a running server instance. The thread which reads
> the pipe executes command in a secure Tcl interp and we have opened
> a special API for that. This need not be, of course.
> 
> So, this way we are actually using the server itself to run arbitrary 
> scripts. The nsdchat utility can also read files on the filesystem 
> and pass them to server for execution:
> 
> zvlinux:/usr/local/aw # echo "srvinfo version" > my.tcl
> zvlinux:/usr/local/aw # bin/nsdchat < my.tcl
> 4.0
> 
> Is this the functionality you're looking for?
> 
> Cheers
> Zoran
> 
> 
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