[SR-Users] RPC, XMLRPC or other

Carsten Bock carsten at ng-voice.com
Tue Nov 13 07:22:25 CET 2012


Hi,

i use the XML-RPC-Client from the ZendFramework, at it works like a charm:

        private function getCPEInfo($id) {
                $xml_servers = array(
                                'http://127.0.0.1:5060/RPC',
                                );

                try {
                        if (!$this->xml_client) {
                                // Choose random Server
                                $this->xml_client = new
Zend_XmlRpc_Client($xml_servers[rand(0,count($xml_servers)-1)]);
                        }

                        $result = array();
                        $cpe = array();
                        $query_result = $this->xml_client->call('mi',
array('ul_show_contact', 'location', $id.'@localhost'));
                        foreach($query_result as $line) {
                                $cpe = array();
                                list($cpe['contact'], $rest) =
explode('>', $line, 2);
                                $cpe['contact'] = substr($cpe['contact'], 11);
                                $contents = explode(';', $rest);
                                foreach($contents as $entry) {
                                        list($key, $value) =
explode('=', $entry);
                                        switch($key) {
                                                case 'expires':
                                                case 'cflags':
                                                case 'user_agent':
                                                case 'received':
                                                        $cpe[$key] = $value;
                                                        break;
                                                default:
                                        }
                                }
                                if (isset($cpe['user_agent']))
$cpe['user_agent'] = substr($cpe['user_agent'], 1, -1);
                                if (isset($cpe['received']))
$cpe['received'] = substr($cpe['received'], 1, -1);
                                $result[] = $cpe;
                        }

                        return $result;
                } catch ( Exception $e ) {
                        return "Unable to connect (".$e->getMessage().")";
                }
        }

I definitely cannot explain, no matter how many entries i have per account:

1. Endgerät:
Kontakt-URI:   sip:xxx at xxx:4099
Gültigkeit:   noch 3392 Sekunden
NAT:   kein NAT erkannt
Endgerät:   Genexis OCG1018MX v1.7.1.1c

2. Endgerät:
Kontakt-URI:   sip:xxx at xxx:5060
Gültigkeit:   noch 3469 Sekunden
NAT:   kein NAT erkannt
Endgerät:   Patton SN-DTA 1BIS2V 00A0BA075803 R6.2 2012-07-13 H323 SIP
M5T SIP Stack/4.0.30.30

3. Endgerät:
Kontakt-URI:   sip:xxx at xxx:5060
Gültigkeit:   noch 954 Sekunden
NAT:   kein NAT erkannt
Endgerät:   Patton SN-DTA 1BIS2V 00A0BA0761CC R6.2 2012-07-13 H323 SIP
M5T SIP Stack/4.0.30.30

Kind regards,
Carsten

2012/11/13 Carlos Ruiz Díaz <carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been through this problem a few weeks ago with my module that exports nested structures through xmlrpc. Apparently, there's a limitation in the technology itself that makes the nested structures to be overwritten everytime the response XML is parsed, if you look closely, you will notice that this makes sense since the structures are indexed by the name of the field, which is the same for every record. That's the reason of only one row being displayed even though the whole recordset was sent out.
>
> I tried with three different php libraries, even with xmlrpc_decode() that is the official function for decoding xmlrpc responses in php.
>
> I didn't find a solution but I ended up using a workaround sending the values using CSV format which was later parsed by the PHP in charge of displaying the data.
>
> Regards.
>
> Carlos.
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not a python parameter, but seems a limitation of the xmlrpc_test2.py tool, the tcp dump shows that the records are sent back in the xmlrpc response.
>>
>> You will have to look inside/troubleshoot the xmlrpc_test2.py and see why it fails.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On 11/12/12 9:58 AM, Kristofer Signer wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> running kamailio 3.3.2.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/12/12 10:02 AM, Kristofer Signer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to dig in to the kamailio XMLRPC interfaces and the limitations I read in http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/stable/modules/xmlrpc.html#xmlrpc.implementation.limitations
>>>>
>>>> is really a no go for us.
>>>
>>> which one is a 'no go'? Nested structures are supported in the last version, iirc, the readme does not seem to be updated for this case.
>>
>> the 'no go' is the structure {AoR, HashID, Contact, AoR, HashID, Contacts, ...}
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> For example, when to retrieve user locations and list of dialogs we get a xml document which is not so well formatted and we can not successfully parse it in an xmlrpc-parser.
>>>>
>>>> Is there other options for xmlrpc module?
>>>
>>>
>>> If the body is not successfully parsed, it is a bug. The limitation is about not supporting all the data types, but when a reply is xmlrpc sent, it should be valid. Can you test it with 1-2 location records that fail and post the xmrpc here as well as the log error messages from the xml parser?
>>
>>
>> Actually, I don't get any errors. I'm using the python example provided in kamailio src and that example will only parse out one record.
>>
>>
>> [krsi at vera examples]$ python xmlrpc_test2.py ul.dump foo
>> {'Domain': 'location', 'Stats': {'Records': 2, 'Max-Slots': 1}, 'AoRs': {'HashID': 1731621673, 'AoR': 'jkp-01', 'Contacts': {'Contact': {'Ruid': 'uloc-50a0ea3c-124bf-1', 'Received': '[not set]', 'Path': '[not set]', 'Reg-Id': 0, 'Expires': 99, 'Flags': 0, 'User-Agent': 'Jitsi1.0-Linux', 'Q': 0.0, 'Instance': '[not set]', 'State': 'CS_SYNC', 'CSeq': 11, 'Methods': 18446744073709551615L, 'CFlags': 0, 'Address': 'sip:jkp-01 at 192.168.0.214:25060;transport=udp;registering_acc=foo_bar_com', 'Call-ID': '61ac73a44826f3887a5db2371b044275 at 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0', 'Socket': 'udp:192.168.0.82:5060'}}}, 'Size': 512}
>>
>> As you can see,. there should be two records but only one is parsed.
>>
>>
>> Here is the response body from tcpdump
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <methodResponse>
>> <params>
>> <param>
>> <value><struct>
>>   <member><name>Domain</name><value><string>location</string></value></member>
>>   <member><name>Size</name><value><int>512</int></value></member>
>>   <member>
>>     <name>AoRs</name>
>>     <value><struct>
>>       <member><name>AoR</name><value><string>jkp-02</string></value></member>
>>       <member><name>HashID</name><value><int>1731621670</int></value></member>
>>       <member>
>>         <name>Contacts</name>
>>         <value><struct>
>>           <member>
>>             <name>Contact</name>
>>             <value><struct>
>>               <member><name>Address</name><value><string>sip:jkp-02 at 192.168.0.214:35060</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Expires</name><value><int>768</int></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Q</name><value><double>0.000000</double></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Call-ID</name><value><string>rcilzqsjfpnuihl at vera.foo.com</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>CSeq</name><value><int>383</int></value></member>
>>               <member><name>User-Agent</name><value><string>Twinkle/1.4.2</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Received</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Path</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>State</name><value><string>CS_SYNC</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Flags</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>               <member><name>CFlags</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Socket</name><value><string>udp:192.168.0.82:5060</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Methods</name><value><int>6111</int></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Ruid</name><value><string>uloc-50a0ea3c-124c0-1</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Instance</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>               <member><name>Reg-Id</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>             </struct></value>
>>           </member>
>>         </struct></value>
>>       </member>
>>       <member>
>>         <name>AoR</name><value><string>jkp-01</string></value></member>
>>         <member><name>HashID</name><value><int>1731621673</int></value></member>
>>         <member>
>>           <name>Contacts</name>
>>           <value><struct>
>>             <member>
>>               <name>Contact</name>
>>               <value><struct>
>>                 <member><name>Address</name><value><string>sip:jkp-01 at 192.168.0.214:25060</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Expires</name><value><int>185</int></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Q</name><value><double>0.000000</double></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Call-ID</name><value><string>61ac73a44826f3887a5db2371b044275 at 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>CSeq</name><value><int>12</int></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>User-Agent</name><value><string>Jitsi1.0-Linux</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Received</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Path</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>State</name><value><string>CS_SYNC</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Flags</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>CFlags</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Socket</name><value><string>udp:192.168.0.82:5060</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Methods</name><value><int>18446744073709551615</int></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Ruid</name><value><string>uloc-50a0ea3c-124bf-1</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Instance</name><value><string>[not set]</string></value></member>
>>                 <member><name>Reg-Id</name><value><int>0</int></value></member>
>>               </struct></value>
>>             </member>
>>           </struct></value>
>>         </member>
>>       </struct></value>
>>     </member>
>>     <member>
>>       <name>Stats</name>
>>       <value><struct>
>>         <member><name>Records</name><value><int>2</int></value></member>
>>         <member><name>Max-Slots</name><value><int>1</int></value></member>
>>       </struct></value>
>>     </member>
>>   </struct></value>
>> </param>
>> </params>
>> </methodResponse>
>>
>>
>>
>> and for reference, the same command from kamctl:
>>
>>  [krsi at sipproxy1 ~]$  kamctl mi ul_dump
>> Domain:: location table=512 records=2 max_slot=1
>>         AOR:: jkp-02
>>                 Contact:: sip:jkp-02 at 192.168.0.214:35060 Q=
>>                         Expires:: 1961
>>                         Callid:: rcilzqsjfpnuihl at vera.foo.se
>>                         Cseq:: 383
>>                         User-agent:: Twinkle/1.4.2
>>                         State:: CS_SYNC
>>                         Flags:: 0
>>                         Cflag:: 0
>>                         Socket:: udp:192.168.0.82:5060
>>                         Methods:: 6111
>>                         Ruid:: uloc-50a0ea3c-124c0-1
>>                         Reg-Id:: 0
>>         AOR:: jkp-01
>>                 Contact:: sip:jkp-01 at 192.168.0.214:25060 Q=
>>                         Expires:: 298
>>                         Callid:: 61ac73a44826f3887a5db2371b044275 at 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
>>                         Cseq:: 10
>>                         User-agent:: Jitsi1.0-Linux
>>                         State:: CS_SYNC
>>                         Flags:: 0
>>                         Cflag:: 0
>>                         Socket:: udp:192.168.0.82:5060
>>                         Methods:: 4294967295
>>                         Ruid:: uloc-50a0ea3c-124bf-1
>>                         Reg-Id:: 0
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> ./Kristofer
>>
>>>
>>> For example, siremis uses the xmlrpc interface and all is ok with handling the replies. It uses a library from php pear.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
>>> http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
>> http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
>>
>>
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