Sample script for socket

The following sample Perl script connects to a socket and sends data. This sample was written for an agent that runs on UNIX, with the product code k00 and an attribute group called SocketData.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
# SocketTest.pl 
# A simple Agent Builder Socket client using IO:Socket 
#------------------------ 

use strict; 
use IO::Socket; 

# Initialize socket connection to the agent 
#----------------------- 
my $host = '127.0.0.1'; 
my $port = 0; 
# This sample is for an agent with the k00 product code.  The product code is
# used in the following line to find the file containing the port number to use.
open PORTFILE, "/tmp/k00_cps.properties" || die "Port file not found $!\n"; 
while (<PORTFILE>) { 
    if (/^CP_PORT=([0-9]+)/) { 
        $port = $1; 
    } 
} 

if ($port == 0) { 
    die "Could not find port to use to connect to agent.\n"; 
} 

my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => $port, 
Proto => 'tcp'); $sock or die "no socket :$!"; 

# The following call sends 2 rows of data to the agent.  Each row contains 1 
# String attribute and 3 numeric attributes.
syswrite $sock, "<socketData><attrGroup name=\"SocketData\"><in><a v=\"A message 
from perl\"/>  \<a v=\"1\"/><a v=\"2\"/><a v=\"123\"/></in><in><a v=\"More from 
perl\"/><a v=\"456\"/>  \<a v=\"123\"/><a v=\"789\"/></in></attrGroup>
</socketData>\n"; 

close $sock;