Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit
2016.11.0
Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit
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In this example we create a client for the spell checker service we implemented in Example 6. This client monitors the dynamic availability of the spell checker service using the Service Tracker and is very similar in structure to the dictionary client we implemented in Example 5. The functionality of the spell checker client reads passages from standard input and spell checks them using the spell checker service. Our module uses its module context to create a ServiceTracker
object to monitor spell checker services. The source code for our module is as follows in a file called spellcheckclient/Activator.cpp
:
After running the usCoreExamplesDriver
program use the s
command to make sure that only the modules from Example 2, Example 2b, and Example 6 are loaded; use the load (l
) and un-load (u
) commands as appropriate to load and un-load the various tutorial modules, respectively. Now we can load our spell checker client module by entering l spellcheckclient
:
CppMicroServices-build> bin/usCoreExamplesDriver > l Starting to listen for service events. > l spellcheckservice Ex1: Service of type IDictionaryService/1.0 registered. > s Id | Name | Status ----------------------------------- - | dictionaryclient | - - | dictionaryclient2 | - - | dictionaryclient3 | - - | frenchdictionary | - - | spellcheckclient | - 1 | CppMicroServices | LOADED 2 | Event Listener | LOADED 3 | Dictionary Service | LOADED 4 | Spell Check Service | LOADED >
To trigger the registration of the spell checker service from our module, we load the frenchdictionary using the l frenchdictionary
command. If the module from Example 1 is still active, then we should see it print out the details of the service event it receives when our new module registers its spell checker service:
CppMicroServices-build> bin/usCoreExamplesDriver > l spellcheckservice > l frenchdictionary > l spellcheckclient Enter a blank line to exit. Enter passage:
When we start the module, it will use the main thread to prompt us for passages; a passage is a collection or words separate by spaces, commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, colons, or semi-colons. Enter a passage and press the enter key to spell check the passage or enter a blank line to stop spell checking passages. To restart the module, we must use the command s
command to get the module identifier number for the module and first use the u
command to un-load the module, then the l
command to re-load it.
Since this client uses the Service Tracker to monitor the dynamic availability of the spell checker service, it is robust in the scenario where the spell checker service suddenly departs. Further, when a spell checker service arrives, it automatically gets the service if it needs it and continues to function. These capabilities are a little difficult to demonstrate since we are using a simple single-threaded approach, but in a multi-threaded or GUI-oriented application this robustness is very useful.
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