libs-ec/EcTest.h
Richard Frith-MacDonald 1207d5fd02 testing additions
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/** Enterprise Control Configuration and Logging
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
Date: March 2014
Originally developed from 1996 to 2014 by Brainstorm, and donated to
the FSF.
This file is part of the GNUstep project.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
*/
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>
@class NSData;
@class NSString;
/* The EcTest protocol provides remote diagnostic tools to use from
* one program to test the operation of an EcProcess based server.
*/
@protocol EcTest <NSObject>
/** Sends a command to the remote process and returns the string output.<br />
* Similar to issueing the command string at the console.
*/
- (bycopy NSString*) ecTestCommand: (in bycopy NSString*)command;
/* Gets the current configuration value in use by the process for the
* specified key.
*/
- (bycopy NSData*) ecTestConfigForKey: (in bycopy NSString*)key;
/* Sets a configuration value to be used by the remote process, overriding
* any existing value. Changes to the process configuration in Control.plist
* will NOT override this for the running process, though changes explicitly
* made from the Console may.<br />
* The supplied data is a serialised property list.<br />
* NB. This method is NOT oneway, it waits for the remote process to handle
* the configuration change before it returns, so the caller knows that the
* configuration update has taken place.
*/
- (void) ecTestSetConfig: (in bycopy NSData*)data
forKey: (in bycopy NSString*)key;
@end
/** This function obtains a Distributed Objects proxy to the EcProcess
* instance controlling the server with the specified name and host.<br />
* A nil or empty string for the host is taken to mean the local host,
* while an asterisk denotes any host on the local network.<br />
* The timeout is a time limit on how long it may take to get the
* connection (a value less than or equal to zero wiull cause the
* function to keep on trying indefinitely).
*/
extern id<EcTest>
EcTestConnect(NSString *name, NSString *host, NSTimeInterval timeout);
/** This function gets process configuration for the specified key
* and deserialises it to a property list object (returned) or nil
* if no value is configured for the specified key.
*/
extern id
EcTestGetConfig(id<EcTest> process, NSString *key);
/** This function sets process configuration by serialising the property
* list value and passing the resulting data to the remote process.<br />
* If the value is nil then the configuration for the remote process
* reverts to its default setting.
*/
extern void
EcTestSetConfig(id<EcTest> process, NSString *key, id value);