n2n/doc/Scripts.md
Hamish Coleman ae502d9181
JSON Reply Management API - feature parity with old management interfaces (#861)
* Ensure that recent code additions pass the linter

* Include some of the more obviously correct lint fixes to edge_utils.c

* Refactor edge JSON api into its own source file

* Use shorter names for static management functions

* Implement a JSON RPC way of managing the verbosity

* Tidy up help display in n2nctl script

* Make note of issue with implementing the stop command

* Implement a JSON RPC call to fetch current community

* Make n2nhttpd time value be more self-contained

* Make n2nhttpd order more closely match the existing management stats output

* Wire up status page to the verbosity setting

* Add JSON versions of the remainder of the edge management stats

* Add new file to cmake

* Properly define management handler

* Only update the last updated timestamp after a successful data fetch

* Function and types definition cleanup

* Force correct type for python scripts mgmt port

* Implement initial JSON API for supernode

* Fix whitespace error

* Use helper function for rendering peers ip4 address

* Proxy the auth requirement back out to the http client, allowing normal http auth to be used

* Ensure that we do not leak the federation community

* Use the same rpc method name and output for both edge and supernode for peers/edges

* Allow n2nctl to show raw data returned without resorting to tricks

* Make n2nctl pretty printer understandable with an empty table

* Use the full name for supernodes RPC call

* Use same RPC method name (but some missing fields) for getting communities from both edge and supernode

* Add *_sup_broadcast stats to edge packet stats output

* Refacter the stats into a packetstats method for supernode RPC

* Even if I am not going to prettyprint the timestamps, at least make all the timestamps on the page the same unit

* Simplify the RPC handlers by flagging some as writable and checking that in the multiplexer

* Remove invalid edges data

* Avoid crash on bad data to verbose RPC

* Avoid showing bad or inconsistant protocol data in communities RPC

* Minor clarification on when --write is handled

* Make linter happy

* Fix changed method name in n2nhttpd

* Move mainloop stop flag into the n2n_edge_t structure, allowing access from management commands

* Implement edge RPC stop command

* Move mainloop stop flag into the n2n_sn_t structure, allowing access from management commands

* Implement supernode RPC stop command

* Allow multiple pages to be served from mini httpd

* Extract common script functions into a separate URL

* Handle an edge case in the python rpc class

With a proper tag-based demultiplexer, this case should be a nop,
but we are single-threaded and rely on the packet ordering in this
library.

* Add n2nhttpd support to query supernode using urls prefixed with /supernode/

* Handle missing values in javascript table print

* Add another less filtering javascript key/value renderer

* Add a supernode.html page to the n2nhttpd

* Address lint issue

* Mention the second html page on the Scripts doc

* Remove purgable column from supernode edges list - it looks like it is rarely going to be set

* Add a simple one-line example command at the top of the API documentation

* Acknowledge that this is not the most efficient protocol, but point out that it was not supposed to be

* Make it clear that the n2nctl script works for both edge and supernode

* Fight with inconsistant github runner results

* Turn off the /right/ coverage generator
2021-10-23 11:05:05 +05:45

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Scripts

There are a number of useful scripts included with the distribution. Some of these scripts are only useful during build and development, but other scripts are intended for end users to be able to use. These scripts may be installed with n2n as part of your operating system package.

Short descriptions of these scripts are below.

scripts/hack_fakeautoconf

This shell script is used during development to help build on Windows systems. An example of how to use it is shown in the Building document

tools/test_harness

This shell script is used to run automated tests during development.

scripts/n2nctl

This python script provides an easy command line interface to the running n2n processes. It uses UDP communications to talk to the Management API. By specifying the right UDP port, it can talk to both the edge and the supernode daemons.

Example:

  • scripts/n2nctl --help
  • scripts/n2nctl help

scripts/n2nhttpd

This python script is a simple http gateway to the running edge. It provides a proxy for REST-like HTTP requests to talk to the Management API.

By default it runs on port 8080.

It also provides a simple HTML page showing some edge information, which when run with default settings can be seen at http://localhost:8080/ (Also a http://localhost:8080/supernode.html page for the supernode)

Example:

  • scripts/n2nhttpd --help
  • scripts/n2nhttpd 8087