In a previous post, I introduced SPQR and presented a couple of examples of how one could use SPQR to publish Ruby objects over QMF. Sometimes, though, you aren't starting from an application -- instead, you're starting from an XML QMF schema document. SPQR includes spqr-gen, a tool designed to automatically generate a skeleton SPQR application from a QMF schema. In this post, we'll see an example of spqr-gen in action.
First, let's look at a simple QMF schema for a class that exposes one method, echo, which returns its argument (note that the code examples may not show up if you're viewing this in a feed reader):
Running spqr-gen on this example produces two files: agent-app.rb and examples/codegen/EchoAgent.rb. As you can see, these two files contain all of the boilerplate we need to start implementing these QMF methods --- and, by chance, the boilerplate methods actually have the behavior that our agent is meant to!
spqr-gen is included in the ; the system as documented in the last two posts is tagged "".
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