[sr-dev] Should mi_xmlrpc be obsolete?

Muhammad Shahzad shaheryarkh at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 12:17:01 CEST 2013


Thanks for accepting the patch.

No, i don't think any change in documentation is needed.

Thank you.




On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Peter Dunkley <
peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have committed the patch.  Are there any updates that need to be made to
> the module documentation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 22 October 2013 03:34, Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I did a fresh install of debian 7.1 and centos 6.4 minimal. Then compiled
>> latest stable kamailio from git, including mi_xmlrpc, xmlrpc and db_mysql
>> modules. I observed bunch of warnings and missing declarations, which i
>> have fixed in attached patch.
>>
>> Debian 7.1:
>> debian:/usr/src/svn-src/kamailio/modules/mi_xmlrpc# xmlrpc-c-config
>> --version
>> 1.16.33
>>
>> debian:/usr/src/svn-src/kamailio/modules/mi_xmlrpc# make clean
>> debian:/usr/src/svn-src/kamailio/modules/mi_xmlrpc# make all
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_conf.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_conn.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_data.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_date.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_file.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_http.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_response.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_session.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_socket.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_socket_unix.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_thread_fork.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_token.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_trace.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_xmlrpc_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               mi_xmlrpc.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_parser.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_writer.o
>> make[1]: `libkmi.so.1.0' is up to date.
>> LD (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               mi_xmlrpc.so
>>
>>
>> CentOS 6.4:
>> [root at localhost svn-src]# xmlrpc-c-config --version
>> 1.16.24
>>
>> [root at localhost mi_xmlrpc]# make clean
>> [root at localhost mi_xmlrpc]# make all
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_conf.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_conn.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_data.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_date.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_file.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_http.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_response.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_session.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_socket.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_socket_unix.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_thread_fork.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_token.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_trace.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               abyss_xmlrpc_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               mi_xmlrpc.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_parser.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_server.o
>> CC (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               xr_writer.o
>> make[1]: `libkmi.so.1.0' is up to date.
>> LD (gcc) [M mi_xmlrpc.so]               mi_xmlrpc.so
>>
>>
>> I will try out OpenSuse 12.3 and Fedora 19 later today and see if they
>> are OK too with it. If there are any other distros i should test patch
>> with, do let me know.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> No, the patch does not update docs or Makefile. It just adds some ifdef
>>> to couple of header files which enables / disables or fixes the missing
>>> data structures. I am attaching patch here again for your reference.
>>>
>>> The version xmlrpc-c installed my production is 1.35.99 which is i guess
>>> is git version.
>>>
>>> ms11:/usr/src/svn-src# xmlrpc-c-config --version
>>> 1.35.99
>>>
>>> However, i did test it with wheezy default xmlrpc-c version 1.16.33 on
>>> my test machine. Both of these are working with Kamailio v4.0.1 (by manual
>>> patching using attached file) and v4.0.4 (patch already included in git
>>> source).
>>>
>>> ms11:/usr/src/svn-src# kamailio -version
>>> version: kamailio 4.0.4 (i386/linux) cabe58
>>> flags: STATS: Off, USE_IPV6, USE_TCP, USE_TLS, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS,
>>> DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MEM, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC,
>>> USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER,
>>> USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES
>>> ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS=1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_LISTEN 16,
>>> MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535, DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 4MB
>>> poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
>>> id: cabe58
>>> compiled on 04:24:52 Oct 15 2013 with gcc 4.7.2
>>>
>>>
>>> ms11:/usr/src/svn-src# vim /usr/local/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg
>>> ...
>>> loadmodule "mi_xmlrpc.so"
>>> ...
>>> # ----- mi_xmlrpc params -----
>>> modparam("mi_xmlrpc", "port", 8880)
>>> modparam("mi_xmlrpc", "log_file", "/var/log/abyss.log")
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> ms11:/usr/src/svn-src# netstat -pln
>>> ...
>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8880            0.0.0.0:*
>>> LISTEN      19149/kamailio
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't tested it on CentOS yet, I will check that tonight.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Peter Dunkley <
>>> peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Did your patch update the module documentation too?
>>>> What about the module Makefile?
>>>>
>>>> The module documentation for the devel branch states:
>>>>
>>>> libxmlrpc-c3-dev version 0.9.10 or version 1.06.[10-30].
>>>>
>>>> The module Makefile checks for these same versions and the build
>>>> process is very noisy if you don't have one of these versions.
>>>>
>>>> CentOS 6 (and CentOS 5) come with xmlrpc-c 1.16.24 and the latest
>>>> version from SourceForge is 1.25.26.  The versions from the documentation
>>>> are very old:
>>>>
>>>>    - 0.9.10 is from 2001
>>>>    - 1.06.10 is from 2007
>>>>    - 1.06.30 is from 2008
>>>>
>>>> I can't believe that the latest Debian is using versions of xmlpc-c
>>>> that are five years or more old.  Incidently, the module in Git master
>>>> won't build on CentOS at all.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21 October 2013 16:39, Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I send a patch last month which was i think has been merged to trunk
>>>>> and latest stable 4.0. This patch makes it compatible with newer versions
>>>>> of xmlrpc-c library. I tested myself with Debian 7.1 (wheezy).
>>>>>
>>>>> And yes this patch is useful in a number of ways. For example I have
>>>>> been using it with openxcap to have xcap service running on different
>>>>> machine then sip service. I also have a few monitoring applications using
>>>>> mi_xmlrpc. Therefore, i would request to continue this module. I would be
>>>>> happy to provide any patches needed to keep it up to date with kamailio
>>>>> core and newer Linux distros.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Peter Dunkley <
>>>>> peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was just looking at the dependencies for this and it requires a
>>>>>> specific (and very old) version of xmlrpc-c to run.  Even CentOS (both 5
>>>>>> and 6) contain much newer versions of xmlrpc-c.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This leads me to suspect that no-one is using it on up-to-date
>>>>>> systems, and if it is believed not to work with the versions of xmlrpc-c
>>>>>> shipping today should it still be supported in Kamailio 4.1.0?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Peter Dunkley
>>>>>> Technical Director
>>>>>> Crocodile RCS Ltd
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>>>>> Muhammad Shahzad
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>>> Muhammad Shahzad
>>> -----------------------------------
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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