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How to use curl to execute a RPC

29. March 20171. April 2017 by volker

If you want to execute a RPC from the command line on your host system, then you should use the following commands.

# Login
curl --request POST --cookie-jar cookies.txt --data '{"service":"session","method":"login","params":{"username":"admin","password":"<PASSWORD>"}}' <URL>/rpc.php
# Execute the RPC
curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"<NAME>","method":"<NAME>","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php
# Logout
curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"session","method":"logout","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php

# Login

curl --request POST --cookie-jar cookies.txt --data '{"service":"session","method":"login","params":{"username":"admin","password":"<PASSWORD>"}}' <URL>/rpc.php

# Execute the RPC

curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"<NAME>","method":"<NAME>","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php

# Logout

curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"session","method":"logout","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php

Example:

curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"system","method":"noop","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php

1	curl --request POST --cookie cookies.txt --data '{"service":"system","method":"noop","params":null}' <URL>/rpc.php

Results from SUSE Hack Week

27. February 201728. February 2017 by volker

Here are the final results from the SUSE Hack Week 2017:

Finished the omv-confdbadm CLI tool to administrate the configuration database.
PHP and Python unit tests have been implemented. Some bugs were found and fixed in OMV3.
The PHP5-PAM Debian package has been adapted to PHP7.
OMV4 has been adapted to Debian 9 (Stretch). OMV is working, but there are still issues to be adapted.
ExtJS6 is used in OMV4.
Bugfixes in the OMV4 WebUI has been backported to OMV3.

The release name of OMV4 will be Arrakis. The work on OMV4 will be stopped or slowed down now because the main priority is the release of OMV3 as soon as possible. Please don’t expect OMV4 before Debian 9.1 is released. For example it is currently not possible to cross build required Debian packages with pbuilder for other platforms except AMD64 and i386. Hopefully this will be fixed with the final Debian 9.

Finally here are some screenshots from the OMV4 WebUI.

SUSE Hack Week

17. February 201717. February 2017 by volker

Because of the SUSE hack week i will have a look on the following issues for the openmediavault project:

Finish the omv-confadm CLI tool
Add more PHP and Python unit tests
Create php7-pam package
Start adapting OMV4 to Debian 9 (Stretch)
Have a look on Sencha ExtJS 6
Evaluate WebUI unit test frameworks