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Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By : Aivars Kalvans
Book Image

Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By: Aivars Kalvans

Overview of this book

Despite being developed in the 1980s, Oracle Tuxedo still runs a significant part of critical infrastructure and is not going away any time soon. Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python will help you get to grips with the most important Tuxedo concepts by writing Python code. The book starts with an introduction to Oracle Tuxedo and guides you in installing its latest version and Python bindings for Tuxedo on Linux. You'll then learn how to build your first server and client, configure Tuxedo, and start running an application. As you advance, you'll understand load balancing and work with the BBL server, which is at the heart of a Tuxedo application. This Tuxedo book will also cover Boolean expressions and different ways to export Tuxedo buffers for storage and transmission, before showing you how to implement servers and clients and use the management information base to change the configuration dynamically. Once you've learned how to configure Tuxedo for transactions and control them in application code, you'll discover how to use the store-and-forward functionality to reach destinations and use an Oracle database from a Tuxedo application. By the end of this Oracle Tuxedo book, you'll be able to perform common Tuxedo programming tasks with Python and integrate Tuxedo applications with other parts of modern infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
6
Section 2: The Good Bits
12
Section 3: Integrations

Creating a server

Let's create our toupper.py server with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import tuxedo as t
class Server:
    def TOUPPER(self, req):
        return t.tpreturn(t.TPSUCCESS, 0, req.upper())
t.run(Server(), sys.argv)

The implementation of the Tuxedo server in Python starts with a shebang line telling you to use the Python 3 interpreter to run the file. And while we're at it, the file must be executable:

chmod +x toupper.py

We import the sys module to access command-line options and the tuxedo module for using Tuxedo. For the book, we will use a shorter single-letter name, t, for the tuxedo module so that the code fits on one page without breaking the lines, but you should not sacrifice readability in your production code.

Tuxedo servers must be implemented as a class and the method name must match the desired service name. In this case, the service will be called...