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/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2011 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University * as Operator of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. * Copyright (c) 2011 Brookhaven National Laboratory. * EPICS archiver appliance is distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found * in file LICENSE that is included with this distribution. *******************************************************************************/ package org.epics.archiverappliance.retrieval.channelarchiver; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType; import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity; import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient; import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler; /** * A class that handles the XML-RPC portion of an existing channel archiver instance. * We pass in a SAXParser for all method calls; theoretically, this should be accommodate passing data out of the system in a streaming fashion * * @author mshankar * */ public class XMLRPCClient { private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(XMLRPCClient.class.getName()); /** * Internal method to make a XML_RPC post call and call the SAX handler on the returned document. * @param serverURL The Server URL * @param handler DefaultHandler * @param postEntity StringEntity * @throws IOException   * @throws SAXException   */ private static void doHTTPPostAndCallSAXHandler(String serverURL, DefaultHandler handler, StringEntity postEntity) throws IOException, SAXException { logger.debug("Executing doHTTPPostAndCallSAXHandler with the server URL " + serverURL); CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault(); HttpPost postMethod = new HttpPost(serverURL); postMethod.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml"); postMethod.setEntity(postEntity); logger.debug("Executing the HTTP POST" + serverURL); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(postMethod); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); if (entity != null) { logger.debug("Obtained a HTTP entity of length " + entity.getContentLength()); try (InputStream is = entity.getContent()) { SAXParserFactory sfac = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); sfac.setNamespaceAware(false); sfac.setValidating(false); SAXParser parser = sfac.newSAXParser(); parser.parse(is, handler); } catch (ParserConfigurationException pex) { throw new IOException(pex); } } else { throw new IOException("HTTP response did not have an entity associated with it"); } } /** * Call archiver.info on the Channel Archiver * @param serverURL The Server URL * @param handler DefaultHandler * @throws IOException   * @throws SAXException   */ public static void archiverInfo(String serverURL, DefaultHandler handler) throws IOException, SAXException { logger.debug("Getting channel archiver info with URL " + serverURL); StringEntity archiverInfo = new StringEntity("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" + "<methodCall>\n" + "<methodName>archiver.info</methodName>\n" + "<params></params>\n" + "</methodCall>\n", ContentType.APPLICATION_XML); doHTTPPostAndCallSAXHandler(serverURL, handler, archiverInfo); } /** * Call archiver.archives on the Channel Archiver * @param serverURL The Server URL * @param handler DefaultHandler * @throws IOException   * @throws SAXException   */ public static void archiverArchives(String serverURL, DefaultHandler handler) throws IOException, SAXException { logger.debug("Getting channel archiver archives with URL " + serverURL); StringEntity archiverInfo = new StringEntity("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" + "<methodCall>\n" + "<methodName>archiver.archives</methodName>\n" + "<params></params>\n" + "</methodCall>\n", ContentType.APPLICATION_XML); doHTTPPostAndCallSAXHandler(serverURL, handler, archiverInfo); } /** * Call archiver.names on the Channel Archiver - note this call can take a loooong time. * @param serverURL The Server URL * @param key   * @param handler DefaultHandler * @throws IOException   * @throws SAXException   */ public static void archiverNames(String serverURL, String key, DefaultHandler handler) throws IOException, SAXException { logger.debug("Getting channel archiver archives with URL " + serverURL); StringEntity archiverInfo = new StringEntity( "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" + "<methodCall>\n" + "<methodName>archiver.names</methodName>\n" + "<params>\n" + "<param><value><i4>" + key + "</i4></value></param>\n" + "<param><value><string></string></value></param>" + "</params>\n" + "</methodCall>\n", ContentType.APPLICATION_XML); doHTTPPostAndCallSAXHandler(serverURL, handler, archiverInfo); } }