Just sharing, in case someone will find the below information useful,
or worthy to add to some wiki or docs anywhere:
I have here a daemon written in FPC that communicates with clients by
very nice TSimpleIPCServer class (in SimpleIPC unit). Of course it's
trivial to send a message to such server from another FPC program (see
fcl-base/examples/ipcclient.pp). Turns out it's also trivial to send
a message from a Python program. Attaching the Python code. You can
probably easily add alternatives for any other programming language to
this :)
Note that this is specific to Unix, where SimpleIPC just uses a named
pipe, so it looks just like a writeable file (/tmp/server_name) to any
other process. I don't know how it looks for other OSes.
Michalis
#!/usr/bin/python
# Test that you can write from Python to ipcserver named pipe.
#
# FPC handles messages by very nice and comfortable FPC unit simpleipc.
# See packages/fcl-process/src/unix/simpleipc.inc.
# Message send/received is represented by
#
# TMsgHeader = Packed record
# Version : Byte; // always MsgVersion = 1
# MsgType : TMessageType; // actually anything, server ignores it,
# // but convention says SendStringMessage sets MsgType = mtString = 1.
# // TMessageType is just LongInt.
# MsgLen : Integer; // length in bytes of following data
# end;
#
# FPC hides this from ipcserver, but in Python program we have to be able
# to encode such thing "by hand".
import struct
def send_to_daemon(s):
f = open('/tmp/ipcserver', 'wb')
f.write(struct.pack('b', 1) +
struct.pack('l', 1) +
struct.pack('l', len(s)) +
s)
f.close()
send_to_daemon('blah')
send_to_daemon('')
send_to_daemon('Testing messad asd asd asdf asdfa sdf 123')
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