[nm-wg] developer guide progress

[Dan Gunter]

Hi all,

Not much to report on the developer guide, sorry. But I did find the 
time to develop a "helper" tool for generating WSDL files.

Basically, my problem with WSDL is that it has an extremely complex and 
redundant syntax for the really very simple task of specifying that you 
want the output message to be "X" and the input message to be "Y".

So, I wrote a Python program that takes as input a template WSDL files 
with all the crazy namespace junk filled in, and a configuration file 
(in Windows .ini format, because there's a Python module to read that) 
that specifies just the few actual parameters that I need: namespace for 
service, name of service operation, name of XML Schema file, namespace 
of the XML Schemas, and the actual network location of the service.

I tested it on traceroute and it seemed to work. Steps performed:

1) translate *.rnc -> *.xsd, using Trang. Attached just .xsd files.
2) write config file (nmwg_service.cfg)
3) run ezwsdl.py with the config file as output, and "template.wsdl" 
providing the bulk of the WSDL info -> traceroute.wsdl
4) check validity of results by generating python stubs from .wsdl file

Only step #4 is python-specific. It would be nice if someone could try 
it with the Java, too. Also, I was thinking that we could extend this to 
be the standard approach for generating the WSDL files for all our 
examples (iperf, ping, etc.) and document the whole mess in the 
developer guide. But then, I need to sleep occasionally. Any volunteers 
to help out with this?

-Dan

p.s. Mark, is there going to be a call tomorrow morning?
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