Tom said he would like to see an example SIF Agent using Iron Python. We'll... since I'm always up for learning yet another programming language, I gave it a shot. I used the Iron Python 1.0 beta 1 distribution(which runs on .Net 2.0). Here's the code...

from Edustructures.SifWorks import *
from Edustructures.SifWorks.Infra import *
Adk.Initialize()
agent = Agent( "SimpleGetZoneStatus" )
agent.Initialize()
zone = agent.ZoneFactory.GetInstance( "TestZone",
                  "http://localhost:8080/TestZone" )
zone.Connect( ProvisioningFlags.Register )
zs = zone.GetZoneStatus()
print "Received response from zone %1s (%2s:%3s)" 
        % (zs.ZoneId,zs.SIF_Vendor.SIF_Product,zs.SIF_Vendor.SIF_Version)
for sn in zs.SIF_SIFNodes.GetSIF_SIFNodes():
 print "Agent %1s" % (sn.SIF_Name)
 for v in sn.GetSIF_Versions():
   print "   supports version %1s" % (v)

Being a newbie to Iron Python, I'm not sure what the best way is to add a reference to the ADK, which is a single assembly, Edustructures.SIFWorks.Adk.dll. What I did was I opened up the Iron Python Console, ran "import clr" and then ran "clr.AddReference("Edustructures.SifWorks.Adk") before running this script.

Also, I'm not sure if I used the best string formatting method, but it worked. If someone has a better way to do it, please let me know.


Tagged: sif | python

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Posted 01-05-2006 1:14 by admin