added basic API registration and connection mechanism

[osm/vim-emu.git] / emuvim / cli / __main__.py

diff --git a/emuvim/cli/__main__.py b/emuvim/cli/__main__.py
index e69de29..771049b 100644 (file)
--- a/emuvim/cli/__main__.py
+++ b/emuvim/cli/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+"""
+ For now only a dummy client. Connects to the zerorpc interface of the
+ emulator and performs some actions (start/stop/list).
+"""
+import time
+import zerorpc
+
+
+def main():
+    print "Example CLI client"
+    # create connection to remote Mininet instance
+    c = zerorpc.Client()
+    c.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:4242")
+
+    # do some API tests
+    print c.compute_action_start("dc2", "my_new_container1")
+
+    time.sleep(5)
+
+    print c.compute_action_stop("dc2", "my_new_container1")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()