Client-server functionality for the SimPhoNy framework.

This packages provides a proxy engine which can be used to launch a wrapper on a remote host. This proxy wrapper follows the interface of ABCModelingEngine abstract class.

Simphony-network is hosted on github: https://github.com/simphony/simphony-network

• simphony-common >= 0.1.1
• gevent >= 1.0
• pyzmq >= 13.1.0
• msgpack-python >= 0.4.6
• msgpack-numpy >= 0.3.6
• zerorpc >= 0.5.1
• Fabric >= 1.10.2
• blinker >= 1.3

if the following import fails, the msgpack-python should be reinstalled after installing `cython`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython/.

The package requires python 2.7.x, and aforementioned dependencies. These dependencies are listed inside requirements.txt file which should be installed first:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/simphony/simphony-network.git

# Install required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

The next step is straight forward and is based on setuptools:

# build and install
python setup.py install

or:

# build for in-place development
python setup.py develop

After installation a new module called proxy will be added to the simphony.engine entry point. This module contains a proxy wrapper which accepts an instance of ABCModelingEngine and a host name as input parameters and proxies the wrappers methods to point to a wrapper which is running remotely on the provided host.

# Import the proxy wrapper from simphony.engine.proxy import ProxyEngine

# Create a proxy around an existing wrapper proxy = ProxyEngine(wrapper, host='pc-115')

# Access proxy methods proxy.run()

To run the full test-suite run:

python -m unittest discover

• simphony_network -- holds the package's implementation