# Mount RPC client -- RFC 1094 (NFS), Appendix A # This module demonstrates how to write your own RPC client in Python. # Since there is no RPC compiler for Python (yet), you must first # create classes derived from Packer and Unpacker to handle the data # types for the server you want to interface to. You then write the # client class. If you want to support both the TCP and the UDP # version of a protocol, use multiple inheritance as shown below. import rpc from rpc import Packer, Unpacker, TCPClient, UDPClient MOUNTPROG = 100005 MOUNTVERS = 1 FHSIZE = 32 # Packer derived class for Mount protocol clients. # The only thing we need to pack beyond basic types is an 'fhandle' class MountPacker(Packer): def pack_fhandle(self, fhandle): self.pack_fopaque(FHSIZE, fhandle) # Unpacker derived class for Mount protocol clients. # The important types we need to unpack are fhandle, fhstatus, # mountlist and exportlist; mountstruct, exportstruct and groups are # used to unpack components of mountlist and exportlist and the # corresponding functions are passed as function argument to the # generic unpack_list function. class MountUnpacker(Unpacker): def unpack_fhandle(self): return self.unpack_fopaque(FHSIZE) def unpack_fhstatus(self): status = self.unpack_uint() if status == 0: fh = self.unpack_fhandle() else: fh = None return status, fh def unpack_mountlist(self): return self.unpack_list(self.unpack_mountstruct) def unpack_mountstruct(self): hostname = self.unpack_string() directory = self.unpack_string() return (hostname, directory) def unpack_exportlist(self): return self.unpack_list(self.unpack_exportstruct) def unpack_exportstruct(self): filesys = self.unpack_string() groups = self.unpack_groups() return (filesys, groups) def unpack_groups(self): return self.unpack_list(self.unpack_string) # These are the procedures specific to the Mount client class. # Think of this as a derived class of either TCPClient or UDPClient. class PartialMountClient: # This method is called by Client.init to initialize # self.packer and self.unpacker def addpackers(self): self.packer = MountPacker().init() self.unpacker = MountUnpacker().init('') # This function is called to gobble up a suitable # authentication object for a call to procedure 'proc'. # (Experiments suggest that for Mnt/Umnt, Unix authentication # is necessary, while the other calls require no # authentication.) def mkcred(self, proc): if proc not in (1, 3, 4): # not Mnt/Umnt/Umntall return rpc.AUTH_NULL, '' if self.cred == None: self.cred = rpc.AUTH_UNIX, rpc.make_auth_unix_default() return self.cred # The methods Mnt, Dump etc. each implement one Remote # Procedure Call. Their general structure is # self.start_call() # # self.do_call() # This does the actual message exchange # # self.end_call() # return # If the call fails, an exception is raised by do_call(). # If the reply does not match what you unpack, an exception is # raised either during unpacking (if you overrun the buffer) # or by end_call() (if you leave values in the buffer). # Calling packer methods with invalid arguments (e.g. if # invalid arguments were passed from outside) will also result # in exceptions during packing. def Mnt(self, directory): self.start_call(1) self.packer.pack_string(directory) self.do_call() stat = self.unpacker.unpack_fhstatus() self.end_call() return stat def Dump(self): self.start_call(2) self.do_call() list = self.unpacker.unpack_mountlist() self.end_call() return list def Umnt(self, directory): self.start_call(3) self.packer.pack_string(directory) self.do_call() self.end_call() def Umntall(self): self.start_call(4) self.do_call() self.end_call() def Export(self): self.start_call(5) self.do_call() list = self.unpacker.unpack_exportlist() self.end_call() return list # We turn the partial Mount client into a full one for either protocol # by use of multiple inheritance. (In general, when class C has base # classes B1...Bn, if x is an instance of class C, methods of x are # searched first in C, then in B1, then in B2, ..., finally in Bn.) class TCPMountClient(PartialMountClient, TCPClient): def init(self, host): return TCPClient.init(self, host, MOUNTPROG, MOUNTVERS) class UDPMountClient(PartialMountClient, UDPClient): def init(self, host): return UDPClient.init(self, host, MOUNTPROG, MOUNTVERS) # A little test program for the Mount client. This takes a host as # command line argument (default the local machine), prints its export # list, and attempt to mount and unmount each exported files system. def test(): import sys if sys.argv[1:]: host = sys.argv[1] else: host = '' mcl = UDPMountClient().init(host) list = mcl.Export() for item in list: print item try: mcl.Mnt(item[0]) except: print 'Sorry' continue mcl.Umnt(item[0]) return #test()