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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +\&\fBxpamb: the \s-1XPA\s0 Message Bus\fR +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +The xpamb program can act as a \*(L"classical\*(R" message bus interface +between clients and servers. A client can send a data request to +the message bus, which then interfaces with multiple servers and +returns the data back to the client. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.IX Header "OPTIONS" +For xpaset, several optional switches are used to save data and +manipulate the stored data: +.IP "\(bu" 4 +\&\fB\-data [name]\fR +.Sp +Add the supplied data buffer to a pool of stored data buffers, +using the specified name as a unique identifier for later retrieval. +An error occurs if the name already exists (use either \fBreplace\fR +or \fBdel\fR to rectify this). The \fB\-add\fR switch is supported +for backwards compatibility with xpa 2.0. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +\&\fB\-replace [name]\fR +.Sp +Replace previously existing stored data having the same unique name +with new data. This essentially is a combination of the \fBdel\fR +and \fBdata\fR commands. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +\&\fB\-info [\*(L"'info string'\*(R"]\fR +.Sp +When adding a data buffer, you can specify an informational +string to be stored with that data. This string will be returned +by xpaget: +.Sp +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb foo \-info +.Ve +.Sp +(along with other information such as the date/time of storage and the size of +the data buffer) if the \-info switch is specified. If the info string contains +spaces, you must enclose it in \fBtwo\fR sets of quotes: +.Sp +.Vb 1 +\& cat foo | xpaset xpamb \-store foo \-info "\*(Aqthis is info on foo\*(Aq" +.Ve +.Sp +The first set of quotes is removed by the shell while the second is used to +delineate the info string. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +\&\fB\-send [name]\fR +.Sp +Broadcast the stored data buffer to the named template. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +\&\fB\-del [name]\fR +.Sp +Delete the named data buffer and free all allocated space. +.PP +Switches can be used in any combination that makes sense. For example: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& cat foo.fits | xpaset xpamb \-store foo \-info "FITS" "DS9:*" fits foo.fits +.Ve +.PP +will broadcast the foo.fits image to all access points of class +\&\fB\s-1DS9\s0\fR. In addition, the foo.fits file will be stored under the +name of \fBfoo\fR for later manipulation such as: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaset \-p xpamb \-send foo "DS9:*" fits foo.fits +.Ve +.PP +will re-broadcast the foo.fits image to all access points of class \*(L"\s-1DS9\s0\*(R". +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +A \*(L"classical\*(R" message bus (such as ToolTalk) consists of servers and +clients, along with a mediating program that transfers data between +different processes. \s-1XPA\s0 takes a slightly different approach in that +communication between clients and servers is direct. This generally +is the correct technique when there is only one connection (or even a +small number of connections), but can become inefficient for the +serving program if a large amount of data is being transferred to many +clients. For example, if a real-time data acquisition program is +broadcasting a \s-1FITS\s0 image to several clients, it would need to +transmit that image to each client individually. This might interfere +with its own processing cycles. The preferable mechanism would be to +pass the image off to an intermediate program that can then broadcast +the data to the several clients. +.PP +The \fBxpamb\fR program can alleviate such problems by functioning +as a message bus in cases where such an intermediary process is +wanted. It pre-defines a single access point named +\&\fBXPAMB:xpamb\fR to which data can be sent for re-broadcast. You +also can tell \fBxpamb\fR to save the data, and associate with that +data a new access point, so that it can be retrieved later on. +.PP +All interaction with \fBxpamb\fR is performed through +\&\fBxpaset\fR and \fBxpaget\fR (or the corresponding \s-1API\s0 +routines, \fB\f(BIXPASet()\fB\fR and \fB\f(BIXPAGet()\fB\fR) to the +\&\fBXPAMB:xpamb\fR access point. That is, \fBxpamb\fR is just +another XPA-enabled program that responds to requests from +clients. The paramlist is used to specify the targets to which +the data will be for re-broadcast, as well as the re-broadcast paramlist: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& data | xpaset xpamb [switches] broadcast\-target broadcast\-paramlist +.Ve +.PP +Optional switches are used to store data, and manipulate stored data, +and are described below. +.PP +In its simplest form, you can, for example, send a \s-1FITS\s0 image to xpamb for +broadcasting to all ds9 image simply by executing: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& cat foo.fits | xpaset xpamb "DS9:*" fits foo.fits +.Ve +.PP +Since \fB\s-1DS9\s0\fR is the class name for the ds9 image display +program, this will result in the \s-1FITS\s0 image being re-sent to all fits +access points for all active image display programs. +.PP +You can send stored data and new data to the same set of access points at +the same time. The stored data always is send first, followed by the new +data: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& cat foo2.fits | xpaset xpamb \-send foo "DS9:*" fits foo.fits +.Ve +.PP +will first send the foo.fits file, and then the foo2.fits file to all +access points of class \fB\s-1DS9\s0\fR. Notice that in this example, +the foo2.fits file is not stored, but it could be stored by using the +\&\fB\-store [name]\fR switch on the command line. +.PP +The \fBxpaget\fR command can be used to retrieve a data from \s-1XPA\s0 +access points or from a stored data buffer, or retrieve information +about a stored data buffer. If no arguments are given: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb +.Ve +.PP +then information about all currently stored data buffers is returned. This +information includes the data and time at which the data was stored, the +size in bytes of the data, and the supplied info string. +.PP +If arguments are specified, they will be in the form: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb [\-info] [\-data] [name [paramlist]] +.Ve +.PP +If the optional \fB\-info\fR and/or \fB\-data\fR switches are specified, then +information and/or data will be returned for the named data buffer +following the switches. You can use either or both of these switches +in a single command. For example, if the \-info switch is used: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb \-info foo +.Ve +.PP +then the info about that stored data buffer will be returned. +If the \-data is used with a specific name: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb \-data foo +.Ve +.PP +then the stored data itself will be returned. If both are used: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb \-info \-data foo +.Ve +.PP +then the info will be returned, followed by the data. Note that it is an +error to specify one of these switches without a data buffer name and that +the paramlist will be ignored. +.PP +If neither the \fB\-info\fR or \fB\-data\fR switch is specified, then +the name refers to an \s-1XPA\s0 access point (with an optional paramlist +following). +For example: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget xpamb ds9 file +.Ve +.PP +is equivalent to: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& xpaget ds9 file +.Ve +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +See xpa(n) for a list of \s-1XPA\s0 help pages |