ST 4U 275: Deploying Web Services in VA Smalltalk
Today's Smalltalk 4 You puts the pieces together on WS* in VA Smalltalk - we'll deploy our simple example. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Today we'll go back to the Web Services example we had been building in VA Smalltalk. To get started, recall the simple example we'll be using - a "counter" class:
The first thing we'll need is a server to listen on a port. Start that this way:
server := SstHttpServerExample runAt: 'http://:7777' in: ('C:\Program Files\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.5\xml').
The file path should be to wherever you have VA looking for the XML files, as specified in your ini file.
If you do that correctly, you should see a console window like the following appear:
That window will log what's happening, so if anything goes wrong, you can examine the results. Next, you'll need to deploy the container for your WS* application:
SstWSContainer clearAll. "create server container" [ | aContainer | aContainer := SstWSContainer createContainerNamed: 'ServerContainer' using: (SstWSContainerConfiguration defaultConfiguration). aContainer startUp. aContainer deploy: 'http://localhost:7777/CounterServer.xml'] fork.
You should see some reporting in the server log after doing this:
Now, we are ready to actually set up and invoke the code through a client. Here's the code for that:
"create client container" [ "| cContainer counterService |" cContainer := SstWSContainer containerNamed: 'ClientContainer' ifNone: [SstWSContainer createContainerNamed: 'ClientContainer']. cContainer deploy: 'http://localhost:7777/CounterClient.xml'. "two ways to retrieve the service from the client" "counterService := (SstWSContainer containerNamed: 'ClientContainer') allServices first. " counterService := (SstWSContainer containerNamed: 'ClientContainer') serviceNamed: 'Counter' inNamespace: 'http://www.Counter.com/Counter-impl'. "result should be the string returned from the Counter class methods" (counterService addValue: '5') inspect. (counterService subtractValue: '10' ) inspect ] fork.
Notice the lines at the end where we invoke the service. If everything went well, you'll see two signs that it all worked - lines in the Transcript from the code, and more entries in the log:
Finally, if you want to experiment with the example, you may need the following "clean up" code - to clear out your listeners and start fresh:
(SstWSContainer containerNamed: 'ServerContainer') shutDown. (SstWSContainer containerNamed: 'ClientContainer') shutDown
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