DistributedSystems/week3_TinsaeGhilay/Task 2/README.md

Task 2

Structure

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1. lib: .jar files downloaded from apache. the downloaded file is extracted and the contents of the lib directory copied in here.
2. out: output binaries in packages server and client
3. src: source code in 2 packages client and server

How to run

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1. First we compile the code (in linux using the following command)

   # the "lib/*" tells jvm to include these libraries
   javac -cp "lib/*" -d out $(find src -name "*.java")
   

2. Then we start the server. again run the following command

   java -cp "out:lib/*" server.Server
   

3. And finaly we run the client as such

   java -cp "out:lib/*" client.Client
   

Server commands:

// list of valid commands
private String[] commands = {
    "add",
    "subtract",
    "multiply",
    "divide",
    "mod",
    "power",
    "root",
    "exit"
};

inspecting packets using wireshark.

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Normal functions

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I installed wireshark-cli and run

sudo tshark -i lo -f "tcp port 8080" -z follow,tcp,ascii,0

In Client program the interaction looked like this

Enter an integer: 4
Enter an integer: 6
The sum is: 10

And the output of wireshark was as follows

POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml
User-Agent: Apache XML RPC 3.0 (Sun HTTP Transport)
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 195

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>sample.sum</methodName>
    <params>
        <param>
            <value><i4>4</i4></value>
        </param>
        <param>
            <value><i4>6</i4></value>
        </param>
    </params>
</methodCall>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache XML-RPC 1.0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 129

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
    <params>
        <param>
            <value><i4>10</i4></value>
        </param>
    </params>
</methodResponse>

I believe this is the expected result.

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Intentional error

I changed the messge call string to sample.add instead of the correct sample.sum and run the program. obviously it threw an exception. the http response from wireguard was as follows

POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml
User-Agent: Apache XML RPC 3.0 (Sun HTTP Transport)
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 196

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>sample.add</methodName>
        <params>
            <param>
                <value><i4>23</i4></value>
            </param>
            <param>
                <value><i4>4</i4></value>
            </param>
        </params>
    </methodCall>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache XML-RPC 1.0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 265

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
    <fault>
        <value>
            <struct>
                <member>
                    <name>faultCode</name>
                    <value><i4>0</i4></value>
                </member>
                <member>
                    <name>faultString</name>
                    <value>No such handler: sample.add</value>
                </member>
            </struct>
        </value>
    </fault>
</methodResponse>

Again the expected results. I only tested it in one machine. so time will be done may be another time.