zbx_api/zabcon gruik code

gistfile1.rb

    #Somewhere in the 1.8.x cycle it was decided to do deprecate with user.authenticate
    #however it was not documented well, so we will try uer.login first, and fall
    #back to user.authenticate as user.login does not exist in 1.8.3
    login_methods=["user.login","user.authenticate"]

    begin
      result = do_request(json_obj(login_methods.first,{'user'=>l_user,'password'=>l_password}))
      @auth=result['result']

      #setup the version variables
      @major,@minor=do_request(json_obj('APIInfo.version',{}))['result'].split('.')
      @major=@major.to_i
      @minor=@minor.to_i
    rescue ZbxAPI_ExceptionLoginPermission => e
      login_methods.delete_at(0)
      if !login_methods.empty?
        retry
      else
        raise ZbxAPI_ExceptionBadAuth.new('Invalid User or Password',:error_code=>e.error_code)
      end
    rescue SocketError
      raise ZbxAPI_ExceptionBadServerUrl
    rescue JSON::ParserError
      raise ZbxAPI_ExceptionBadServerUrl
    rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED
      raise ZbxAPI_ExceptionBadServerUrl
    end