Oops, that was my bad -- as I said, I had adapted that from another message.
The correct import should be:
from nox.coreapps.messenger.pyjsonmsgevent import JSONMsg_event
-- Murphy
On Jan 26, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Giorgio Mazza wrote:
> Thanks, I think I will specify a port.
>
> Another question...
> At the moment I get an error while importing the JSON_Msg event in the
> install() of my component.
>
> "in install
> from nox.coreapps.messenger.pymsgevent import JSONMsg_event
> ImportError: No module named pymsgevent "
>
> I blindly followed your instructions at first, but then I looked in my
> messenger folder without finding where this event is defined.
> Could you please tell me where is it, so that I can insert the correct path
> in my install function? I'm using the standard message folder.
> Thank you.
> Regards,
>
> Giorgio
>
> On 25/01/2012 22:28, Murphy McCauley wrote:
>>
>> I believe it defaults to port 2703. You should be able to set the port
>> number by specifying it on the commandline...
>> ./nox_core -i ptcp: jsonmessenger=tcpport=4096 your_app_here
>>
>> It listens on all IP addresses; there is currently no way to specify just
>> one.
>>
>> -- Murphy
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Giorgio Mazza wrote:
>>
>>> A question about the socket opened when invoking jsonmessenger.
>>> What are the IP address, the tcp port and the interface that this socket
>>> refers to? Is there any way to set them?
>>> I undersotood the mechanism, but I don't know where to send my messages
>>> from the external application.
>>> Thank you.
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Giorgio
>>>
>>> On 24/01/2012 13:49, Murphy McCauley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The minimum to get up and going should be something like this:
>>>>
>>>> 1) In your component's install function:
>>>> from nox.coreapps.messenger.pymsgevent import JSONMsg_event
>>>> JSONMsg_event.register_event_converter(self.ctxt)
>>>> self.register_handler(JSONMsg_event.static_get_name(), myHandler)
>>>>
>>>> 2) Implement a handler:
>>>> def myHandler (e):
>>>> import json
>>>> print json.loads(e.jsonstring)
>>>> e.reply(json.dumps({"msg":"Hello world"}))
>>>>
>>>> 3) Include jsonmessenger on the commandline or as a dependency
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That may not be exactly correct -- it's adapted from a quick writeup I did
>>>> in December about using the new Python support for the "regular" messenger
>>>> (as opposed to the JSON messenger), which has not yet been pushed to the
>>>> repository. For reference, that post was:
>>>> http://noxrepo.org/pipermail/nox-dev/2011-December/008382.html
>>>>
>>>> (If using the new version of messenger that I linked to in that post, you
>>>> remove the register_event_converter() call from step 1 and include
>>>> pyjsonmessenger instead of jsonmessenger in step 3.)
>>>>
>>>> Invoking the jsonmessenger component (on the commandline or by including
>>>> it as a dependency in your app's meta.json) will create the server socket
>>>> for you.
>>>>
>>>> You absolutely do not have to use the messenger.py class. I'm removing it
>>>> from that directory, because all it ever does is confuse people -- it
>>>> really doesn't belong there. messenger.py is a library for writing JSON
>>>> messenger *clients* (external programs) in Python. That may be useful to
>>>> you, but you don't need it for the NOX side of things.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> -- Murphy
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Giorgio Mazza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>> I try to sum up the operations I need to perform, to see if I understood
>>>>> correctly.
>>>>> Basically in my external application I have to set up a socket that sends
>>>>> json messages and this would be quite simple.
>>>>> In my nox component, instead, I have to import the "JSONMsg_event" and,
>>>>> within the "install()" instruction, to handle it with my specific method,
>>>>> that, in my case, would only save these json messages into a dictionary,
>>>>> for using them later, according to some conditions.
>>>>> Is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of things that I didn't understand:
>>>>> - I assume I also have to set up a server socket in my nox component, in
>>>>> order to receive json messages and handle JSONMsg_events. So, I think
>>>>> this socket has to be already up and running when I handle the event. So,
>>>>> when do I have to create it and how? Do I have to use messenger.py
>>>>> channel class?
>>>>> - Second question, probably related to the first. I think to be pretty
>>>>> confused about jsonmessenger: what are the jsonmessenger files I could
>>>>> look into in order to understand fields and methods that I would need to
>>>>> use? Are the jsonmessenger.cc and jsonmessenger.hh in
>>>>> nox/src/nox/coreapps/messenger? And, if it is the case, how can I
>>>>> integrate them into a python component?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>
>>>>> Giorgio
>>>>>
>>>>> On 24/01/2012 12:28, Kyriakos Zarifis wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Giorgio,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes, I think using jsonmessenger would be the best approach for this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> you need to implement a send/receive interface on the external
>>>>>> application and in your nox component. For the external application,
>>>>>> it's pretty straightforward - Connect to the jsonmessenger socket and
>>>>>> send json strings. In your nox application you need to register for JSON
>>>>>> messages, and handle them appropriately.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The wiki explains the communication in a few steps (specifically for the
>>>>>> GUI<->NOX, but it will be similar and simpler for any external app) here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you want to see a full example, the GUI and the monitoring component
>>>>>> in destiny could be a place to look. I'm afraid it's much more complex
>>>>>> than what you need, but the bits you need are in there if you dig in the
>>>>>> code a bit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Giorgio Mazza
>>>>>> <giorgio.mazza...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all!
>>>>>> I have written a simple component in python that works fine.
>>>>>> Now I would to improve it, making it to install flow entries depending
>>>>>> on parameters received from an external application.
>>>>>> In particular I want to pass those parameters via json messages to my
>>>>>> component, which, in my thougths, has to open a "permanent" socket
>>>>>> listening for them, save those parameters in a dictionary and, as a
>>>>>> consequence, decide the desired switch behaviour (whether install or not
>>>>>> a flow entry for the received parameters).
>>>>>> In previous threads I found that I have to use jsonmessenger (even in
>>>>>> python?) or to have a look to discovery.py, but I am not sure to have
>>>>>> understood what I have to do and where in order to realize such a
>>>>>> behaviour.
>>>>>> Could anyone, please, help me?
>>>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Giorgio Mazza
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