HttpServletInvocationTests

HttpServletInvocationTests.py

'''
HttpServletInvocationTests.py

A simple test harness to invoke servlet on web server to provide a simple
REST architectured service, in this simple test case a servlet that simply
returns the string format of a Java Date object instance. this is chosen
because of its simplicity but also because re-running it clearly shows
that the output is dynamic and not static and so fits nicely with the
REST architecture I am attempting to build serverside and the REST client
running on the mobile device. for this test case/Usecase I am using
the urllib2.module, part of standard python library 2.x-3x.

it is also a protototype of using Pythonista to generate a stanalone
client to be built in Xcode and deployed to the ios device as a standalone
.ipa or ios application. The actual serverside sevice is irrelevant so
long as it acuurately represents the REST architecure and represents
any arbitrarily complex service.

So too the client-side code is not intended to represent ptoduction
code but only to test viability of using Pythonista to build clients
in Python exported to Xcode for the final packaging and means of
distibution.
'''

import urllib2, webbrowser, console
 
port = ':9080'
currIP = '192.168.0.11'
#currIP = 'swosnick-pc'
url = 'http://'+ currIP + port + '/HelloWorldWeb/HelloWorldServlet'

console.clear()
print 'Trying to open url ' + url

request = urllib2.Request(url,None)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
print (response)