January 23, 2008
using python’s xmlrpclib with OpenSim
filed mid-afternoon by DrScofield in: from the grid
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this morning ansi and i were wondering how we could do XmlRpc calls to OpenSim. well, this is what we found out:

to have a reasonable XmlRpc experience™ you should enable the remote admin interface, to do so just add the following lines to your OpenSim.ini file:

        [RemoteAdmin]
        enabled = true
        access_password = secret

next open up your-editor-of-choice™1 and use the following piece of python code2

#!/usr/bin/python
import xmlrpclib

# XML-RPC URL (http_listener_port)
gridServerURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:9000'

# instantiate server object
gridServer = xmlrpclib.Server(gridServerURL)

# invoke admin_alert: requires password and message
gridServer.admin_broadcast({'password': 'secret', 
                         'message': 'the answer is 42'})

run and you should see on OpenSim’s region console:

[RADMIN] [01-23 04:17:10] Broadcasting: the answer is 42

and, of course, an alert popup in your SL viewer:

message from god

  1. yep, found the “™” key combination for my keyboard ;-)  ↩

  2. i’m using a standalone OpenSim installation. ↩

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  1. What file do I put this in and where? Can I use Visual C#?

    comment by bailey — August 1, 2009 @ 22:40

  2. any file you like. re visual c#: no clue, would be surprised though, as this is python code. but who knows (am not a visual c# user myself)

    comment by DrScofield — August 2, 2009 @ 17:07

  3. Hey that works after running it thru sed:

    s/’/”/g

    comment by Bwild — August 29, 2009 @ 11:22

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