FKScript with args reference to RsiDB instance (GT-400 Development)

Resolution:

; TerminalStatus.txt

; Example of a Synchronously Executed XML-RPC Request
; being executed on a host within a function key script, with
; the output of the host call being displayed to the terminal
; user.

; We are using the terminal's XML-RPC Server to simulate
; a host based XML-RPC Service.

TABLE
 F1 TermStatus  FIRST LABEL "Term Status" OTHER
END

LIST TermStatus
 PROMPT "Terminal Status"
 COLS 2
 HEADER "Attribute" "Value"
 COLWIDTH 10 4
 NOSELECT ;Makes list read-only
 GET TermStatusList
 TACODE 80
END

PYTHON TermStatusList
BEGIN
# program to list the terminal status attributes
# that are returned from the terminal's XMLRPC
# server using the GetTerminalStatus() call.

# import the appropriate Python library packages
import socket
import xmlrpclib

rsiDB = args.GetRsiDB()

# obtain the terminal's IP address
termIPaddr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

svrURI = 'http://' + termIPaddr + '/'
svrProxy = xmlrpclib.Server(svrURI)
rsiDB.LogInfo('svrURI: %s' % svrURI)

try:
   # Sample XML-RPC Host Call
   termStatusRsp = svrProxy.GetTerminalStatus()
except:
   # If the host is not available, let the user know.
   return [('Error', 'XML-RPC Call Failed')]

attribTplList = []

keyList = list(termStatusResp.keys())
for key in keyList:
   attribName = key
   attribValue = termStatusResp[attribName]
   attribTplList.append((attribName, attribValue))

return attribTplList
END