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[plcapi.git] / PLC / API.py

diff --git a/PLC/API.py b/PLC/API.py
index dec2e08..9f13f38 100644 (file)
--- a/PLC/API.py
+++ b/PLC/API.py
@@ -5,15 +5,26 @@
 # Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2006 The Trustees of Princeton University
-# $Id$
-# $URL$
 #
 
+import os
 import sys
 import traceback
 import string
 
 import xmlrpclib
+import simplejson
+try:
+    # Try to use jsonlib before using simpljson. This is a hack to get around
+    # the fact that the version of simplejson avaialble for f8 is slightly 
+    # faster than xmlrpc but not as fast as jsonlib. There is no jsonlib 
+    # pacakge available for f8, so this has to be installed manually and
+    # is not expected to always be available. Remove this once we move away
+    # from f8 based MyPLC's         
+    import jsonlib
+    json = jsonlib
+except:
+    json = simplejson 
 
 # See "2.2 Characters" in the XML specification:
 #
@@ -111,7 +122,7 @@ class PLCAPI:
                 other_methods_map[method] = fullpath
 
     all_methods = native_methods + other_methods_map.keys()
-    
+
     def __init__(self, config = "/etc/planetlab/plc_config", encoding = "utf-8"):
         self.encoding = encoding
 
@@ -121,19 +132,47 @@ class PLCAPI:
 
         # Load configuration
         self.config = Config(config)
-       
-       # Initialize database connection
+
+        # Initialize database connection
         if self.config.PLC_DB_TYPE == "postgresql":
             from PLC.PostgreSQL import PostgreSQL
             self.db = PostgreSQL(self)
         else:
             raise PLCAPIError, "Unsupported database type " + self.config.PLC_DB_TYPE
 
-        # Aspects modify the API injecting code before/after method
-        # calls. As of now we only have aspects for OMF integration,
-        # that's why we enable aspects only if PLC_OMF is set to true.
+        # Aspects modify the API by injecting code before, after or
+        # around method calls. -- http://github.com/baris/pyaspects/blob/master/README
+        # 
+        # As of now we only have aspects for OMF integration, that's
+        # why we enable aspects only if PLC_OMF is set to true.
         if self.config.PLC_OMF_ENABLED:
-            from aspects import apply_aspects; apply_aspects()
+            from aspects import apply_omf_aspect
+            apply_omf_aspect()
+        
+        if self.config.PLC_RATELIMIT_ENABLED:
+            from aspects import apply_ratelimit_aspect
+            apply_ratelimit_aspect()
+
+
+        # Enable Caching. Only for GetSlivers for the moment.
+        # TODO: we may consider to do this in an aspect like the ones above.
+        try:
+            if self.config.PLC_GETSLIVERS_CACHE:
+                getslivers_cache = True
+        except AttributeError:
+            getslivers_cache = False
+
+        if getslivers_cache:
+            os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE']='plc_django_settings'
+            from cache_utils.decorators import cached
+            from PLC.Methods.GetSlivers import GetSlivers
+
+            @cached(7200)
+            def cacheable_call(cls, auth, node_id_or_hostname):
+                return cls.raw_call(auth, node_id_or_hostname)
+            
+            GetSlivers.call = cacheable_call
+            
 
 
     def callable(self, method):
@@ -144,7 +183,7 @@ class PLCAPI:
         # Look up method
         if method not in self.all_methods:
             raise PLCInvalidAPIMethod, method
-        
+
         # Get new instance of method
         try:
             classname = method.split(".")[-1]
@@ -207,3 +246,17 @@ class PLCAPI:
             data = buildSOAP(kw = {'%sResponse' % method: {'Result': result}}, encoding = self.encoding)
 
         return data
+
+    def handle_json(self, source, data):
+        """
+        Handle a JSON request 
+        """
+        method, args = json.loads(data)
+        try:
+            result = self.call(source, method, *args)
+        except Exception, e:
+            result = str(e)
+       
+        return json.dumps(result) 
+        
+