Glacier2 with PHP

[trivian]

Hi,

Is it possible (in an easy manner) to connect to glacier2 with username/password from the PHP bindings? getDefaultRouter() seems to be missing.

[xdm]

Hi Thorvald

You can connect to Glacier2 from php, but session would expire with each request as the connection could not keep open in php.

For configure the default router you could use "Ice.Default.Router" property.

You need something similar this code with normal Exception handling for php

$router = $this->ice->propertyToProxy("Ice.Default.Router");
$router = $router->ice_uncheckedCast("::Glacier2::Router")->ice_router(null);
$session = $router->createSession($username, $password);

Regards,
José

[trivian]

Hi,

Instead of using a default router, I'd rather specify the router in the php since that avoids using the same router for the entire profile.

I had to fix a small bug in $obj->ice_router() in Ice-3.3.0 (patch appended); I'm not sure if it was in the patches yet or not, but at least it's not in the RPMs and had me stumped for a while

Anyway, I still have the problem that if I have a method on the server that returns a proxy (pointer to another instance), that proxy will get the default (null) router in the client.

For example:

$s = $meta->getServer();

Here $meta is a proxy for a remote object (as is $s). Before I can use $s, I have to do the equivalent of

$s->ice_router($meta->ice_getRouter());

Is there a way to specify on the server that it should return a proxy with the same routing/whatever that was used to reach the method that returns the proxy?

[mes]

Originally Posted by trivian

I had to fix a small bug in $obj->ice_router() in Ice-3.3.0 (patch appended); I'm not sure if it was in the patches yet or not, but at least it's not in the RPMs and had me stumped for a while

Thanks for the patch, we'll fix this for the next release (along with a similar bug in ice_locator).

Is there a way to specify on the server that it should return a proxy with the same routing/whatever that was used to reach the method that returns the proxy?

No, there's no way to do that. The router is a strictly local configuration that is not included in a proxy's marshaled form.

Take care,
Mark