Introduction¶

The standard Python module multiprocessing got introduced in Python 2.6 and makes creating simple client/server applications extremely easy.

Here is an example that shows how to read and write local/remote files. Because it allows accessing arbitrary files it is probably a good idea to not use it exactly like this, but rather to extend, or at least adjust the password.

You can download a package with the following three files py_remote_file-20130730-1437.zip .

Example - Using py_remote_file_client.py in Squish test scripts¶

Prerequisites:

• Script py_remote_file_client.py must reside in test suite directory

• Script py_remote_file_server.py must running on the remote computer (started like this: python py_remote_file_server.py

function main()
{
    var remote_file_name = "C:\\test.txt";
    var local_file_name = "C:\\Users\\MyUser\\Desktop\\test.txt_from-remote";
    var cmd = 'python "' + squishinfo.testCase + '/../py_remote_file_client.py" '
        + 'get "' + remote_file_name + '" "' + local_file_name + '"';
    result = OS.system(cmd);
    if (result != 0) {
       test.log("An error occurred");
    }

    var local_file_name = "C:\\Users\\MyUser\\Desktop\\test.txt";
    var remote_file_name = "C:\\Users\\AnotherUser\\test.txt";
    var cmd = 'python "' + squishinfo.testCase + '/../py_remote_file_client.py" '
        + 'get "' + remote_file_name + '" "' + local_file_name + '"';
    result = OS.system(cmd);
    if (result != 0) {
       test.log("An error occurred");
    }
}

Example - Using py_remote_file_client.py without Squish¶

Prerequisites:

• Script py_remote_file_server.py must have been started on the remote computer

Executed in cmd.exe:

C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop> python py_remote_file_client.py get C:\ThatFileOverThere.txt .\ThatFile-from_remote_computer.txt

• scripting
• python
• remote-testing