I am writing a test case in TTCN-3 using eclipse. In one of the test case, I got the response from simulator a XML string which is containing the multiple records, as below:
<Templates><Template><Id>1001</Id><Category>refill</Category><Description>Template description</Description><ApplicationId>AIR</ApplicationId><Name>Template name</Name><SchemaVersion>3.3.14</SchemaVersion></Template><Template><Id>1002</Id><Category>refill</Category><Description>Template Description 1</Description><ApplicationId>AIR</ApplicationId><Name>Template name</Name><SchemaVersion>3.3.14</SchemaVersion></Template></Templates>
Now, I need to parse this xml string and get the template objects out of it to use them further in the test case.
Here is Template Object definition:
public type record Template
{
charstring id,
charstring category,
charstring description,
charstring applicationId,
charstring name,
charstring schemaVersion
}
public type record of Template Templates;
I am new to TTCN, so any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
You mentioned Eclipse, and in that case it can be either Spirent's TTWorkbench propriertary solution, or Eclipse's (Ericsson) TITAN open-source implementation of TTCN-3 compiler and executor. Here I will take as example the open-source TITAN.
Titan has internal codec for XML that is explained here and here. As you can see in the second example:
external function enc_AccessControlPolicy(in AccessControlPolicy pdu) return octetstring
with { extension "prototype (convert) encode(XER:XER_EXTENDED)" }
external function dec_AccessControlPolicy(in octetstring stream) return AccessControlPolicy
with { extension "prototype (convert) decode(XER:XER_EXTENDED)" }
This will convert the XML to TTCN-3 structure and vice-versa.
You can also define new functions in C/C++ and write a codec by yourself, using the aforementioned method (if you add a new file with 'dec_AccessControlPolicy' and 'enc_AccessControlPolicy' as functions). This can be useful for some complex and (sometimes) non-standards-compliant protocols (see MQTT, CoAP and other codec implementations in Titan).
Related
I'd like to understand how to transmit the contents of a C++ class between processes or across a network.
I'm reading the Google Protobuf tutorial:
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/cpptutorial
and it seems you must create an abstracted, non-C++ interface to represent your class:
syntax = "proto2";
package tutorial;
message Person {
optional string name = 1;
optional int32 id = 2;
optional string email = 3;
enum PhoneType {
MOBILE = 0;
HOME = 1;
WORK = 2;
}
}
However, I'd prefer to specify my class via C++ code (rather than the abstraction) and just add something like serialize() and deserialize() methods.
Is this possible with Google Protobuf? Or is this how Protobuf works and I'd need to use a different serialization technique?
UPDATE
The reason for this is I don't want to have to maintain two interfaces. I'd prefer to have one C++ class, update it and not have to worry about a second .proto interface/definition. Code maintainability.
That's how Protobuf works. You have to use something else if you want to serialize your manually-written C++ classes. However, I'm not sure you really want that, because you then will have to either restrict yourself to very simple fields with no invariants (just like in Protobuf) or write custom (de)serialization logic yourself.
You could make a simple protocol buffer to hold binary information, but it sort of breaks the point of using Protocol buffers.
You can sort of cheat the system by using SerializeToString() and ParseFromString() to simply serialize binary information into a string.
There is also SerializeToOstream() and ParseFromIstream().
The real value of protocol buffers is being able to use messages across programs, systems and languages while using a single definition. If you aren't making messages using the protocol they've defined; this is more work than simply using native C++ capabilities.
I have a method with input param as Array. When I generate stub out of it creates List type.
But I want to know how to create a wrapper class around array type e.g. for class Apple it should create ArrayOfApple.
Is there any change needs to be done in class or any specific plugin need to be used?
Note: I am using JAXWS with Apache CXF implementation
Below is the sample code:
EmployeeService.java:
#WebService(endpointInterface="com.test.EmployeeService")
#SOAPBinding(style=Style.DOCUMENT)
public class EmployeeService {
public String updateEmpRoles(#WebParam(name="EmpRoles")EmpRole[] empRoles) {
return "SUCCESS";
}
}
EmpRole.java :
#XmlType(name="EmpRole")
public class EmpRole {
private String empRole;
public String getEmpRole() {
return empRole;
}
public void setEmpRole(String empRole) {
this.empRole = empRole;
}
}
After publishing, wsdl is getting generated as below -
But what I expect is WSDL should create ArrayOfEmpRole and it should wrap List<EmpRole>.
Kindly help
In short - I want something that Björn doesn't want in below link. (In his case, it's automatically creating ArrayOfXXX, this is what I need) - Arrays in SOAP method Parameters generated via JAX-WS?
I would switch from Code first to a Contract first approach which means start with the WSDL and generate a stub using wsdl2java from it. This way you can ensure that the WSDL looks like the way you want.
If you want to stick to the current approach, the easiest way to achieve a wrapper is probably to introduce another class.
In google protocol buffer, there exists a textual version of message. When parsing this textual message, can we define ourselves the callback functions in order that we could store the information parsed into our own data structure?
For example, if we have defined .proto:
message A {
required string name = 1;
optional string value =2;
repeated B bList =3;
}
message B {
required string name =1;
optional string value =2;
}
And we have textformat message:
A {
name: "x"
value: "123"
B {
name: "y"
value: "987"
}
B {
name: "z"
value: "965"
}
}
The protobuf compiler generates the corresponding class named "A", class named "B". The parser can parse this text format into the instance of A. However, if user want to defined our own version of class "A", or there exists a version of A used before. Now as we would like to replace the old exchange format by google protocol buffer, we are willing to parse the google protocol buffer text format version directly into the old data structure. If not, we will have to first of all have the generated data structure (class "A") filled then adapt the generated data structure to the legacy data structure. It occupies two times the memory than necessary. It can be much less efficient than we wanted.
The traditional method used for integrating a parser is to have a parser that can callback self-defined functors to be accustomed to the new data structure.
So, does there exist a way to inject the self-defined callback function into the text format parser?
No, the protobuf TextFormat implementation does not support such extensions.
That said, TextFormat (in at least C++, Java, and Python) is implemented as a self-contained module that operates only on public interfaces (mainly, the reflection interface). You can easily clone it and then make your own modifications to the format, or even write a whole new module in the same style that implements any arbitrary format. For example, many people have written JSON parsers / encoders based on Protobuf reflection, using the TextFormat implementation as a guide.
I'm trying to use the Code Templates feature with PHP in NetBeans (7.3), however I'm finding it rather limited. Given the following desired output:
public function addFoo(Foo $foo) {
$this->fooCollection[] = $foo;
}
I'm trying to have every instance of "foo"/"Foo" be variable; so I used a variable:
public function add${name}(${name} $$${name}) {
$this->${name}Collection[] = $$${name};
}
Of course, when expanded there isn't any regard given to the desired capitalization rules, because I can't find a way to implement that; the result being (given I populate ${name} with "Foo"):
public function addFoo(Foo $Foo) { // note the uppercase "Foo" in the argument
$this->FooCollection[] = $Foo; // and collection property names...
} // not what I had in mind
Now, I've read that NetBeans supports FreeMarker in it's templates, but that seems to be only for file-templates and not snippet-templates like these.
As far as I can tell, the FreeMarker version would look something like the following; however, it doesn't work, and ${name?capitalize} is simply seen as another variable name.
public function add${name?capitalize}(${name?capitalize} $$${name}) {
$this->${name}Collection[] = $$${name};
}
Passing "foo", allowing capitalize to fix it for type-names, second-words, etc.
Is there any way to get FreeMarker support here, or an alternative?
I'm open to any suggestions really; third-party plugins included. I just don't want to have to abandon NetBeans.
Addendum
The example given is trivial; an obvious solution for it specifically would be:
public function add${upperName}(${upperName} $$${lowerName}) {
$this->${lowerName}Collection[] = $$${lowerName};
}
Where upper/lower would be "Foo"/"foo" respectively. However, it's just an example, and I'm looking for something more robust in general (such as FreeMarker support)
There are frameworks for Java and other languages that help connect protocol buffers to JSON, but I have not seen a native solution in C++.
Is there a library/framework that I can use to connect C++ protocol buffer objects to JSON?
I'm developing one. I'm using the protobuf's reflection mechanism to parse any generated protobuf. Here http://corbasim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/protobuf2json_exported.zip you can find an initial implementation of this idea. It currently just parse string fields, but I want to support any type as soon as possible.
For a message Foo:
message Foo {
optional string text = 1;
}
it can parse instances of Foo by this way:
Foo foo;
const std::string json_foo = "{\"text\": \"Hello world\"}";
protobuf2json::json::parse(foo, json_foo)
By the same way, I want to write a JSON serializer from protobuf generated types.
There is a similar question here:
C++ Protobuf to/from JSON conversion
pb2json is another library that can be used.