[LDTP-Dev] RPC error when trying to connect to cobra-winldtp
Thomas Andrews
tandrews at grok.co.za
Tue Jan 14 21:32:22 PST 2014
Thanks Nagappan, I installed the debs from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan:/ldtp2:/deb/
and the problem is solved, so the issue was indeed the Debian packages
being too old.
Many thanks
Thomas
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan:/ldtp2:/deb/>
On 01/14/2014 08:22 PM, Nagappan Alagappan wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Try installing latest LDTP on your Linux box, it should work fine. I
> guess that might be the issue, probably the Debian package wasn't
> updated. Linux LDTP released version is 3.5.
>
> Thanks
> Nagappan
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Thomas Andrews <tandrews at grok.co.za
> <mailto:tandrews at grok.co.za>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Nadappan,
>
> I think the firewall is not the problem because it makes no
> difference if I disable the Windows firewall completely.
>
> Can it be that ldtp version 2.3.1-1 (on the Linux PC) is
> incompatible with version 4.0.0 of CobraWinLDTP ?
>
> When I set LDTP_DEBUG=1 on the Windows machine, I can see that
> there is communication between the two machines as soon as I
> execute "from ldtp import *" on python on the linux PC:
>
>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
> C:\Program Files\VMware\CobraWinLDTP>CobraWinLDTP.exe
>
> Command Prompt - CobraWinLDTP.exe
> Listening on all interface
> Total Commander 7.50a - Thomas Andrews
> Waiting for clients
> Lister - [c:\Program Files\VMware\CobraWinLDTP\README.txt]
> Command Prompt
> Program Manager
>
> Command Prompt - CobraWinLDTP.exe
> Total Commander 7.50a - Thomas Andrews
> Lister - [c:\Program Files\VMware\CobraWinLDTP\README.txt]
> Command Prompt
> Program Manager
> Command Prompt
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> Processing request
> Waiting for clients
> etc.... many more of these...
>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
>
> This is what I see on the Linux machine:
>
>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
> $ export LDTP_SERVER_ADDR=xp-pc
> $ export LDTP_DEBUG=1
> $ python
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14)
> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
>
> >>> from ldtp import *
> >>> getapplist()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ldtp/client.py", line 70,
> in __call__
> return self.__send(self.__name, args)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1578, in __request
> verbose=self.__verbose
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ldtp/client.py", line
> 187, in request
> raise e
>
> xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 0: 'Request contains too many param
> elements based on method signature.'>
> >>>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
>
> By the way, I have installed python on the server (Windows
> machine) and I can execute the same test locally on that machine
> successfully:
>
>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>
> >>> from ldtp import *
> >>> getapplist()
> ['explorer', 'cmd', 'TOTALCMD', 'explorer', 'pythonw', 'taskmgr',
> 'gvim', 'sh']
>
> >>>
> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
>
> So it looks to me like it is just an incompatibility between ldtp
> and cobrawinldtp. Can this be?
>
> Many thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
> On 01/13/2014 09:55 PM, Nagappan Alagappan wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> You can set the following environment variables on Windows box:
>>
>> set LDTP_DEBUG=1 # If you need debug output printed on console
>> set LDTP_LISTEN_ALL_INTERFACE=1 # If you need to listen other
>> than localhost, default is listen only on localhost
>>
>> On Linux side:
>>
>> export LDTP_DEBUG=1
>>
>> I tried your scenario after setting above environment variables.
>> More over, have enabled inbound firewall rule on my windows box
>> to accept request on port 4118. Everything worked as expected.
>>
>> Side note: I tried LDTP git head on Ubuntu 13.10.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nagappan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Andrews
>> <tandrews at grok.co.za <mailto:tandrews at grok.co.za>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get the following error when I try to connect from a linux
>> machine to a windows machine:
>>
>> xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 0: 'Request contains too many param
>> elements based on method signature.'>
>>
>>
>> On the server (windows XP machine called xp-pc) I am doing this:
>>
>> CobraWinLDTP.exe
>>
>> On the client (debian linux machine) I am doing this in a
>> bash shell:
>>
>> export LDTP_SERVER_ADDR=xp-pc
>> then:
>> python
>> >>> from ldtp import *
>> >>> getapplist()
>>
>>
>> The client can connect to port 4118 on the server no problem,
>> but the server appears to somehow not understand the request
>> from the client. I downloaded a copy of VisualUIAVerify, and
>> it can see the windows programs running no problem.
>>
>> I used wireshark to capture the RPC transaction from TCP/IP
>> and this is what I got:
>>
>> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
>> >From the client (Linux PC):
>>
>> POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.1
>> Host: xp-vm:4118
>> Accept-Encoding: gzip
>> User-Agent: xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1 <http://xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1>
>> (by www.pythonware.com <http://www.pythonware.com>)
>> Content-Type: text/xml
>> Content-Length: 155
>> <?xml version='1.0'?>
>> <methodCall>
>> <methodName>getapplist</methodName>
>> <params>
>> <param>
>> <value><struct>
>> </struct></value>
>> </param>
>> </params>
>> </methodCall>
>>
>> Then response from the server (windows PC):
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Content-Length: 485
>> Content-Type: text/xml
>> Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/1.0
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:41:16 GMT
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <methodResponse>
>> <fault>
>> <value>
>> <struct>
>> <member>
>> <name>faultCode</name>
>> <value>
>> <i4>0</i4>
>> </value>
>> </member>
>> <member>
>> <name>faultString</name>
>> <value>
>> <string>Request contains too many param elements
>> based on method signature.</string>
>> </value>
>> </member>
>> </struct>
>> </value>
>> </fault>
>> </methodResponse>
>> 8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
>>
>> So it looks to me like the RPC communication is fine.
>> I installed Cobra-winldtp using CobraWinLDTP-4.0.0.msi from
>> http://code.google.com/p/cobra-winldtp/
>> On linux I have LDTP version 2.3.1-1 installed (Debian).
>>
>> Can anyone help, please?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Thomas
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>>
>> --
>> Cross platform GUI testing
>> Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project -
>> http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
>> Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra
>> ATOMac - Mac GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom
>> http://nagappanal.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cross platform GUI testing
> Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project -
> http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
> Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra
> ATOMac - Mac GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom
> http://nagappanal.blogspot.com
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