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Subject: RE: EpicsQT and Archiver Appliance
From: "Abdalla Ahmad" <[email protected]>
To: Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 11:48:56 +0000
Hello Michael

After enabling the '-d' option I get this:

[carchive.util.LimitedSite] DEBUG:carchiveutil build IPv4Address(TCP, 127.0.0.1, 41780) <twisted.web.http.HTTPChannel instance at 0x397d638
[HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1] 127.0.0.1 - - [01/May/2017:11:35:02 +0000] "POST /retrieval HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "libmaia/0.2"

Regarding your request for the channel archiver client source, I have included Andrew Starritt one of the EPICS Qt project developers, maybe he can elaborate more on this.

Best Regards,

Abdalla Ahmad
Control Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Davidsaver [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 4:37 PM
To: Abdalla Ahmad <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: EpicsQT and Archiver Appliance

On 04/27/2017 02:22 AM, Abdalla  Ahmad wrote:
> Hello Michael
> 
> Thank you for the tips, the proxy is now running as you pointed out:
> 
> Twistd -n a2aproxy -P 8888 -A localhost:8888/retrieval

Can you also add '-d' to turn on some extra debug output?

> but I think I missed something on the client side.
> 
> I have EPICS Qt 3.2.4 with Qt 5.6.0 installation on the same server as the AA and I exported QE_ARCHIVE_LIST as "localhost:8888/retrieval but running Archive Status in QEGui tool still gives me:

Do you (or anyone) know where the source for this channel archiver client can be found?

> INFO: Requesting PV name info from http://localhost:8888/retrieval
> ERROR: request failure from http://localhost:8888/retrieval

Does the a2aproxy log include any errors?  If the xmlrpc call results in a python exception, then something will be logged.

With debugging enabled you should see a line with 'archiver.names' for every client request.


It is also possible that a2aproxy is returning some xml which violates assumptions of the client code.  With xml the obvious candidate would be ordering.  a2aproxy builds xml using python dictionaries, which do not have stable/defined iteration ordering, which some xml parsers require.




> Best Regaerds,
> 
> Abdalla.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Davidsaver [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:17 PM
> To: Abdalla Ahmad <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: EpicsQT and Archiver Appliance
> 
> On 04/26/2017 06:50 AM, Abdalla  Ahmad wrote:
>> Dear Michael
>>
>> Can you please elaborate more on installing the proxy you wrote? I'm having difficulties running it on Scientific Linux 7 machine.
>>
>> First I have the requirements (numpy, twisted and protocol-buffer), then I did:
>>
>> python setup.py build
>> sudo python setup.py install
>>
>> After that I ran the command as in the README:
>>
>> twistd -n a2aproxy -P 8888 AA-SERVER-URL:17665
>>
>> And then I get "Wrong number of arguments". 
> 
> oops, the README was wrong!  '-A' is missing.  Now fixed.
> 
> An known working example from nsls2 can be seen in debian/channelarchiver-a2aproxy.default in the source tree.
> 
>> twistd a2aproxy -P 8889 -A
>> http://capp01.cs.nsls2.local:17665/mgmt/bpl/getApplianceInfo -d
> 
> 
>> Running "twistd a2aproxy" gives an error like "No module named EPICSEvent_pb2". Also when reordering the arguments it does not recognize the "-n" option.
> 
> twistd is picky about ordering of arguments as these are parsed by 
> different code.  Arguments before the application name ('a2aproxy' in 
> this case) are for twisted itself (run 'twistd -h').  The remaining 
> arguments are for the application.  (run 'twistd a2aproxy -h')
> 
> 
>> "No module named EPICSEvent_pb2"
> 
> Switch to some other directory and retry.
> 
> By default python searches the current directory before /usr/local.  I would guess that, after installation, your shell is still in the source directory, so 'import carchive' finds the copy in the source tree which doesn't contain the generated files.
> 
>> python -c 'import carchive; print carchive.__file__'
> 
> Will show the path of the module which was imported.
> 


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