perfsonar development work

["Maciej Matachowski" <>]

Thanks Roman, we have found a lot of useful information there.

What about the soap request for telnet service. Can you provide them ?

Kind Regards,
Maciek



2008/8/21 Roman Lapacz 
<>:
> Maciej Matachowski wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We want to test echo services of PErfSonar via SOAP requests on SOAPUI
>> tool, but where is the WSDL file located for the services?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> take a look here:
> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/geant2-java-rrd-ma/test/functional-testing/
> (that's for java rrd ma but also other services should have own soapui files
> prepared by testing team)
>
>
> Roman
>
>> Regards,
>> Maciek
>>
>> 2008/8/18 Roman Lapacz 
>> <>:
>>
>>>
>>> Jason Zurawski wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maciej;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for fast respond and redirecting my email (BTW should I also
>>>>> be signed to developer's mailing list to get the respond and
>>>>> participate in the discussion?)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your messages will be moderated, so signing up is not required (you may
>>>> do
>>>> so if you wish).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We need the general answer like: Can PerfSonar initiate SOAP Requests
>>>>> to other Web Services, if so how ?
>>>>> not necessarily to other PerfSonar Services, but also to third party
>>>>> Web Services ? so is  there a way to invoke other Web Service apart
>>>>> from the UI ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I may be missing your question here, but initiating a WS request is not
>>>> a
>>>> function that solely exists in perfSONAR, many languages support this.
>>>>  There are perfSONAR specific client libraries that exist to send
>>>> messages,
>>>> but it may be better to start using standard SOAP implementations
>>>> instead
>>>> (especially when talking about making requests to other WSs that do not
>>>> speak the perfSONAR protocol).
>>>>
>>>
>>> As Jason mentioned, perfSONAR web services do not use type mapping but
>>> simple sending SOAP messages (text) over HTTP. If you want to test some
>>> already running service you can send Echo request (or any other pS
>>> request)
>>> using command line tool cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/). This tool takes a
>>> request from text file and sends it to a service. This approach could be
>>> very useful for someone who is not yet familiar with pS client apps.
>>>
>>>
>>> example use:
>>>
>>>  curl --stderr /dev/null -H "SOAPAction: none" --data @soap-message.xml
>>> $SERVICE_URL > $RESPONSE_FILE
>>>
>>>
>>> Roman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In general the perfSONAR services do not have the ability to make an
>>>> arbitrary request on behalf of someone else, they function as a
>>>> standalone
>>>> piece of software that offers a set service (such as delivering some
>>>> form of
>>>> measurement data, or answering a discovery query).  Hope this helps;
>>>>
>>>> -jason
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/8/11 Jason Zurawski 
>>>>> <>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maciej;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are developing the Mediator which is between two PerfSonars
>>>>>>> "infrastructures" and user.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The infrastructures are established in our lab. We need some
>>>>>>> informations about the queries.We will need PerfSonar to call the
>>>>>>> mediator, then mediator will ask the query to the other PerfSonar to
>>>>>>> get reply and send back to the first perfsonar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My question is how to create Web Service Request from PerfSonar? and
>>>>>>> how to invoke PerfSonar Services via Web Services ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have searched  the website and I couldn't find any helpful
>>>>>>> information.
>>>>>>> Any help will be appreciate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>> Maciej Matachowski
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P.S. I couldn't find the Developer's mailing list so I don't know if
>>>>>>> this mailing list it a correct one. If not, please redirect my email.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  is the developers mailing list (moving the
>>>>>> discussion there).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First a question: which perfSONAR Services are you dealing with
>>>>>> specifically
>>>>>> (RRD MA, LS)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What you are using will change what the answer regarding what types of
>>>>>> messages to be sent.  The messages in general are sent using SOAP over
>>>>>> HTTP,
>>>>>> and the foramt is similar to these messages (using the RRD MA as an
>>>>>> example):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/geant2-java-rrd-ma/samples/requests/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The LS, SQL MA, Telnet MP, etc. messages would be slightly different
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> nature (the respective service authors can point you to examples once
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> know what you need), but the idea will be the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let us know some more info, and we should be able to get you further
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> project.
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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