{"id":1223,"date":"2022-05-22T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2022-05-22T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T06:11:33","slug":"mcrover-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"mcrover updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent some weekend time updating mcrover this month.  I had two motivations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I wanted deeper tests for two web applications: WordPress and piwigo.  Plex will be on the list soon, I&#8217;m just not thrilled that their API is XML-based (Xerces is a significant dependency, and other XML libraries are not as robust or complete).<\/li><li>I wanted a test for servers using libDwmCredence.  Today that&#8217;s mcroverd and mcweatherd.  dwmrdapd and mcblockd will soon be transitioned from libDwmAuth to libDwmCredence.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I created a web application alert, which allows me to create code to test web applications fairly easily and generically.  Obviously, the test for a given application is application-specific.  Applications with REST interfaces that emit JSON are pretty easy to add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alerts and code to check servers using libDwmCredence allow me to attempt connection and authentication to any service using Dwm::Credence::Peer.  These are the steps that establish a connection; they are the prologue to application messaging.  This allows me to check the status of a service using Dwm::Credence::Peer in lieu of a deeper (application-specific) check, so I can monitor new services very early in the deployment cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some weekend time updating mcrover this month. I had two motivations: I wanted deeper tests for two web applications: WordPress and piwigo. Plex will be on the list soon, I&#8217;m just not thrilled that their API is XML-based (Xerces is a significant dependency, and other XML libraries are not as robust or complete). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mcrover updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}