Re: Call AppleScript from remote server. How?
Re: Call AppleScript from remote server. How?
- Subject: Re: Call AppleScript from remote server. How?
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:01:24 -0700
If you're using Mac OS X Server, AppleScript CGIs are supported
http://www.apple.com/applescript/guidebook/sbrt/pgs/sbrt.12.htm
If not using Mac OS X Server you can use ACGI Dispatcher (
http://www.sentman.com/acgi/ ) to do the same thing in Mac OS X client.
Andrew
:)
On 7/9/04 3:45 AM, "Simon Forster" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm looking at a project which will produce PDFs from InDesign
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templates. The actual process is going to be relatively simple - at
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least it should be once I've got my head around InDesign's object
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model. However, the process will be kicked off by a remote application
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on a PC somewhere requesting PDF 1234 for client XYZ. What methodology
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would you suggest for this communication between machines?
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Remote AppleEvents are out as the initiating box is a Wintel PC. For
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me, the obvious answer is an AppleScript CGI - but there doesn't seem
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to be an AppleScript module for Apache. After that we're looking at a
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CGI written in another language, Python would be favourite, which'll
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then initiate the AppleScript process. But that seems to be introducing
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another point of failure which I'd prefer to avoid.
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And while I'm rambling at you all, what about queuing requests? If the
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AppleScript is busy processing a request what happens then?
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How about CGI writes a simple text request to a folder; AppleScript
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checks folder every minute and if there's something there, processes
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the request? Does my queuing for me and breaks the process into a
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couple of logical chunks. All fine. Can I reduce the potential one
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minute lag by a process other than reducing the idle time in the
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AppleScript? Initially this time lag is no problem but there may be a
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desire to create the PDFs in real time.
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I realize that I'm rambling at you a bit but I don't have anyone to
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talk through these issues with so it's nice to get some other POV.
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TIA
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Simon Forster
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