Kuksa VISS Client

kuksa.val is a part of the opensource project eclipse kuksa. More about kuksa.val can be found under the root README.md.

Installation

pip install kuksa-viss-client

Test client

kuksa_viss_client is a command-line test client. After you have installed the kuksa-viss-client package via pip you can run the test client directly by executing

$ kuksa_viss_client

The jwt tokens for testing can either be found under kuksa_certificates/jwt or you can also use following command inside kuksa_viss_client to find the via pip installed certificate directory.

Test Client> printTokenDir

Refer help for further information

VSS Client> help -v

Documented commands (use 'help -v' for verbose/'help <topic>' for details):

Communication Set-up Commands
================================================================================
authorize           Authorize the client to interact with the server
connect             
disconnect          Disconnect from the VSS Server
getServerAddress    Gets the IP Address for the VSS Server
setServerAddress    Sets the IP Address for the VSS Server

Info Commands
================================================================================
info                Show summary info of the client
printTokenDir       Show token directory
version             Show version of the client

Kuksa Interaction Commands
================================================================================
getMetaData         Get MetaData of the path
getValue            Get the value of a path
setValue            Set the value of a path
updateMetaData      Update MetaData of a given path
updateVISSTree      Update VISS Tree Entry

Using the testclient, it is also possible to update and extend the VSS data structure. More details can be found here.

Docker

You can build a docker image of the testclient using the Dockerfile. Not the most effcient way to pack a small python script, but it is easy to get started. The Dockerfile needs to be executed on the parent directory (so it include the needed certificates and pip package configuration).

To run the builded image:

docker run --rm -it --net=host <image-id-from docker-build>

--rm ensures we do not keep the docker continer lying aroind after closing the vss-testclient and --net=host makes sure you can reach locally running kuksa.val-server or kuksa-val docker with port forwarding on the host using the default 127.0.0.1 address.

Python SDK

If you would like to develop your own kuksa.val client, you can use the python sdk to interact with the kuksa.val server in a very easy way.

Usage

import the sdk

>>> import kuksa_viss_client
>>> kuksa_viss_client.__version__
'<your version, e.g. 0.1.7>'

Setup a thread to connect with the kuksa.val server. The following properties for the connection can be configured:

• ip default: "127.0.0.1"
• port default: 8090
• insecure default: False
• cacertificate default: "../kuksa_certificates/CA.pem"
• certificate default: "../kuksa_certificates/Client.pem"
• key default: "../kuksa_certificates/Client.key"

>>> config = {} 
>>> client = kuksa_viss_client.KuksaClientThread(config)
>>> 
>>> # Start the client thread to connect with configured server
>>> client.start()
>>>
>>> # Close the connection and stop the client thread
>>> client.stop()

You have the following methods to interact with the kuksa.val server:

# Do authorization by passing a jwt token or a token file
def authorize(self, token, timeout = 2)

# Update VISS Tree Entry 
def updateVISSTree(self, jsonStr, timeout = 5)

# Update Meta Data of a given path
def updateMetaData(self, path, jsonStr, timeout = 5)

# Get Meta Data of a given path
def getMetaData(self, path, timeout = 1)

# Set value to a given path
def setValue(self, path, value, timeout = 1)

# Get value to a given path
def getValue(self, path, timeout = 5)

# Subscribe value changes of to a given path.
# The given callback function will be called then, if the given path is updated:
#   updateMessage = await webSocket.recv()
#   callback(updateMessage)
def subscribe(self, path, callback, timeout = 5)