Console application through web service

• US 10,303,531 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2014
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Elia{hacek over (s)}, Filip, Nguyen, Filip
• Primary Examiner(s): Katsikis, Kostas J
• Application Number:
  US14/444,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20160026447A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,765 Days
• Field of Search: 709219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method performed by a server computing system includes generating an operation for a web service, the operation corresponding to at least one main method of a console application, receiving input data from a client device through the operation, writing the input data to a memory store, executing the console application using the input data of the memory store, injecting code into the console application, the code to change input/output streams from a console input/output to the memory store. The method further includes writing an output of the console application to the memory store.

Claims

1. A method performed by a server computing system, the method comprising:

deploying a console application instance on an application server, wherein the application server creates an instance of a console application for each remote system that requests use of the console application;

generating an operation for a web service, the web service providing use of the console application instance to a remote user, the operation corresponding to at least one main method of the console application instance;

receiving input data from a client device through the operation;

writing the input data to a memory store;

executing the console application instance using the input data of the memory store;

injecting code into the console application instance, the code to change input/output streams of the console application instance from a console input/output to a memory location input/output; and

writing an output of the console application instance to the memory location input/output.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, through the operation, providing the output stored at the memory store to the client.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprising two input parameters.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a first input parameter comprises command line arguments from the client.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein a second input parameter comprises inputs for the console application instance.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the inputs for the console application instance are separated by a new line.

7. The method of claim 5, where the inputs are provided by the remote user associated with the client device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein injecting the code into the console application instance comprises using Byteman to inject the code.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the memory store comprises one of:

a file stored on a non-volatile memory device and a volatile memory store.

10. A system comprising:

an application server comprising;

a processor; and

a memory comprising machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the application server to;

analyze a console application instance for a main method and deploy a web service, wherein the console application instance is deployed on the application server, wherein the application server creates an instance of a console application for each remote system that requests use of the console application, the web service comprising an operation corresponding to the main method, wherein the web service provides use of the console application instance to a remote user;

provide the web service to a client device; and

inject code into the console application instance in response to the console application instance being called by the operation, the code to change input/output streams of the console application instance from a console input/output to a memory location input/output.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operation comprises two input parameters.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the application server is to receive a first input parameter from the client device, the first input parameter comprising command line arguments for the console application instance.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the application server is to receive a second input parameter from the client device, the second input parameter comprising inputs for the console application instance.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the inputs for the console application instance are in a file format and separated by a new line.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the input parameters are received from the remote user associated with the client device, the input parameters being received through the web service.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the injection module comprises a code testing agent.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the code testing agent comprises a Byteman agent.

18. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising machine readable instructions, the machine readable instructions comprising:

code to deploy a console application instance on an application server, wherein the application server creates an instance of a console application for each remote system that requests use of the console application;

code to generate an operation for a web service, the web service providing use of the console application instance to a remote user, the operation corresponding to at least one main method of the console application instance;

code to receive input data from a client device through the operation, the input data comprising a first input parameter and a second input parameter;

code to store the first input parameter and the second input parameter to an input portion of a memory store;

code to create an output portion of the memory store;

code to create an injection rule for a main method of the console application instance, the injection rule to change console input of the console application instance to the input portion of the memory store and to change the console output of the console application instance to the output portion of the memory store;

code to execute the console application instance; and

code to provide data stored in the output portion of the memory store to the client device.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the first input parameter comprises command line arguments and the second input parameter comprises inputs for the console application instance.

20. The computer readable program product of claim 18, wherein the injection rule defines injection of code for a code testing agent.