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UltraDNS - Client API for the NeuStar UltraDNS Transaction Protocol
use UltraDNS;
# establish a secure connection
my $udns = UltraDNS->connect("$host:$port", $sponsor, $username, $password);
# Queue up one or more actions to be performed
$udns->CreateARecord($zone);
$udns->CreateCNAMERecord($zone);
# Send actions as a single transaction
$udns->commit(...); # throws exception on error
# queue up and commit more requests on the same connection
Getting multiple results:
# Actions can return results. Each return value is a reference
# to where the result will be stored when commit() is called.
$result_ref1 = $udns->GetZoneInfo($zone);
$result_ref2 = $udns->GetMXRecordsOfZone($zone);
$udns->commit(...);
# $result_ref values above now refer to the RPC::XML results for
# each method, use ($$result_ref1)->value to get the value
Getting a single result:
# utility method that calls commit and returns the dereferenced result
$result = $udns->do( ...some method that queues a request... );
$result = $udns->do( $udns->AutoSerialUpdateState );
# $result is either 1 or 0 (no need to deref or call value() method)
# also works for multiple method calls
@results = $udns->do( ...multiple method calls... );
A simple and efficient client for the NeuStar UltraDNS Transaction Protocol as defined in http://www.ultradns.net/api/NUS_API_XML.pdf (version 3.0, dated September 5, 2008).
All requests are batched and performed in transactions. A single secure connection is established and reused for any number of transactions. Multiple concurrent connections can be used if required.
All errors are reported via exceptions.
All UltraDNS methods are supported.
Experimentation and feedback are encouraged.
$udns = UltraDNS->connect($host_and_port, $sponsor, $username, $password, $attr);
Establish a secure https connection to the specified UltraDNS host and port,
and login using the specified $sponsor, $username, $password.
Returns an UltraDNS object. Throws an exception on error.
The optional $attr parameter is a reference to a hash of attributes:
Specifies the integer trace (debug) level. 0 for none, 1 for basic tracing, and
2 and above for more detailed, and more verbose, tracing. Trace messages are
output via warn.
Sets $Net::SSLeay::trace. 0=no warns, 1=only errors, 2=ciphers, 3=progress, 4=dump data. See Net::SSLeay for more information.
Specifies the protocol version argument value used in the UDNS_OpenConnection request.
See UltraDNS::Methods for a list of the UltraDNS Transaction Protocol methods you can call once a connection is established.
$udns->commit;
Submits the queued requests. An exception is thown on error.
$udns->rollback;
Discards the queued requests.
$result = $udns->do( $udns->SomeMethodThatReturnsAResult(...) );
A convienience method that calls commit() and returns the de-referenced argument. The one-line call has the same effect as these three lines:
$result_ref = $udns->SomeMethodThatReturnsAResult(...); $udns->commit; $result = $$result_ref; # de-reference to get return value
but is much more convienient when you just want to get a value from the server.
Multiple calls can be combined into a single request like this:
my ($a, $b, $c) = $udns->do(
$udns->MethodReturningA(...),
$udns->MethodReturningB(...),
$udns->MethodReturningC(...)
);
Just like the do method except any exception will be caught. This is useful for cases where an error is expected, such as deleting a record in the server that may not exist.
XXX currently it catches all exceptions, it's expected that in future it will only catch exceptions due to server-reported error.
$err = $udns->err;
Returns the error code from the server for the last transaction, else 0.
$errstr = $udns->errstr;
Returns the error message from the server for the last transaction, else an empty string.
$udns->trace($level); $prev = $udns->trace($level); $prev = $udns->trace;
Sets the new trace level, if a value is supplied. 0 = off, 1 = basic overview, 2+ = more details. Returns the previous level.
A transaction can only contain 10 requests by default because the UltraDNS module calls UDNS_NoAutoCommit on connection, to ensure reliability, and NeuStar impose the 10 requests per transaction limit. This shouldn't be a problem in practice because transactions are cheap (since they reuse the same connection) so you can issue your requests grouped into multiple transactions.
The NeuStar UltraDNS documentation never mentions character encoding. So, for better or worse, we don't explicitly use any either. That ought to mean UTF-8 encoding, but I've not tried to test what UltraDNS does on the server side. The underlying RPC::XML code (as of version 0.64) uses "us-ascii" but doesn't perform entity encoding. Overall it seems likely that non-ASCII values might get mangled.
NeuStar have dug a hole for themselves and their users with the handling of the boolean type. At the start of the docs it says:
Boolean (0-false, 1-true)
and, indeed, that all what their examples use. All, that is, except the "Zone ACL Requests" methods. For those the docs say:
Note: Specify Boolean values as either True or False.
Clearly something's wrong! Currently I'm taking the view that those methods should be changed to use a standard boolean, or a new UltraDNS specific type. So, for now, you're out of luck if you want to call those methods, unless you want to do a little hacking to get the UltraDNS code to treat the args to those methods as strings.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to
bug-ultradns@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at
http://rt.cpan.org.
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
Copyright (c) 2009, TigerLead.com. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
Thanks to Randy J Ray for RPC::XML, and Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for RPC::XML::Parser::LibXML (on which UltraDNS::Parser is based).
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package UltraDNS; use warnings; use strict; use Carp; our $VERSION = '0.06';
use Symbol qw(gensym); use Data::Dumper; use IO::Socket::INET; use Net::SSLeay qw(die_now die_if_ssl_error); use UltraDNS::Parser; use UltraDNS::Type; use UltraDNS::Methods; # initialise Net::SSLeay Net::SSLeay::load_error_strings(); Net::SSLeay::SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms(); Net::SSLeay::randomize();
sub connect { ## no critic (ProhibitBuiltinHomonyms) my ($class, $host_and_port, $sponsor, $username, $password, $attr) = @_; $host_and_port ||= "api.ultradns.net:8755"; my $version = $attr->{version} || '3.0'; # create an underlying raw socket and connect it to the UltraDNS server my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host_and_port) or croak ("Error connecting to $host_and_port: $!"); # create a new SSL instance and link it to the socket $Net::SSLeay::trace = $attr->{ssl_trace} if $attr->{ssl_trace}; my $ctx = Net::SSLeay::CTX_new() or die_now("Failed to create SSL_CTX $!"); my $ssl = Net::SSLeay::new($ctx) or die_now("Failed to create SSL $!"); Net::SSLeay::set_fd($ssl, fileno($socket)); # Must use fileno # connect and negotiate at the SSL level my $resp = Net::SSLeay::connect($ssl); die_if_ssl_error("SSL connect failed"); my $self = bless { peer_addr => $host_and_port, user => $username, fh => $socket, # just to hold ref to underlying socket ssl => $ssl, queue => [], err => 0, errstr=> '', } => $class; $self->trace($attr->{trace} || $ENV{ULTRADNS_TRACE}); $self->_send_xml( join "", "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>", "<session>", ); # no reply at this point $self->OpenConnection($sponsor, $username, $password, $version); $self->NoAutoCommit(); # for transaction safety my $commit = $self->commit; # sanity check - probably not needed as commit() throws an exception # if the server returns a fault response $self->_throw_error("Initial setup failed: $$commit") unless $$commit eq 'Transaction succeeded'; return $self; } sub DESTROY { # nothing extra needed, just let perl look after it }
sub commit { my ($self) = @_; my $queue = $self->{queue}; # reset the object state $self->{queue} = []; $self->{err} = 0; $self->{errstr} = ''; $self->_trace(sprintf "committing %d requests (+1 transaction)\n", scalar @$queue); my $xml = join "\n", map { $_->{xml} } @$queue; $self->_send_xml( "<transaction>\n$xml</transaction>\n" ); $self->{stats}{transactions}++; my ($responses, $response_xml) = $self->_get_responses; # Shift the @$responses into the result slots in @$queue. # We expect one more item in @$responses than @$queue because @$responses # should have an extra 'Transaction succeeded' at the end. while (@$queue) { croak "Didn't get responses for all methods in transaction" if @$responses == 0; my $slot = shift @$queue; my $response = shift @$responses; my $xml = shift @$response_xml; $self->_throw_error("Unexpected response: $response ($xml)") if not UNIVERSAL::can($response, 'is_fault'); $self->_throw_fault($response->value, $slot->{shortmess}) if $response->is_fault; $slot->{result} = $response->value; } my $response = shift @$responses; $self->_throw_fault($response->value, "commit") if $response->is_fault; $self->_throw_error("Unexpected extra responses after commit") if @$responses; return $response->value; } sub _throw_fault { my ($self, $fault, $what) = @_; # record the error details in the object my $err = $self->{err} = $fault->code; my $errstr = $self->{errstr} = $fault->string; my $msg = "$what failed with server-side error $err: $errstr"; return $self->_throw_error($msg); # doesn't return }
sub rollback { shift->{queue} = []; return; }
sub do { my ($self, @result_refs) = @_; croak "Can't call do() without an UltraDNS object reference" unless ref $self and UNIVERSAL::isa($self, __PACKAGE__); my $queue = $self->{queue}; $self->_throw_error(sprintf "do() called with %d arguments but %d actions are queued (%s)", scalar @result_refs, scalar @$queue, join(", ", map { "$_->{method} at $_->{shortmess}" } @$queue) ) if scalar @result_refs != scalar @$queue; $self->_throw_error("do() called in scalar context but with more than one argument") if not wantarray and @result_refs > 1; # we're asked to do nothing, so we return nothing return unless @result_refs; $self->commit; my @results = map { ($$_)->value } @result_refs; return $results[0] if not wantarray; return @results; }
sub eval { ## no critic (ProhibitBuiltinHomonyms) my @results = eval { shift->do( @_ ) }; return @results; # empty if do() threw an exception }
sub err { return shift->{err} } sub errstr { return shift->{errstr} }
sub trace { ## no critic (RequireArgUnpacking) my $self = shift; my $prev = $self->{trace} || 0; $self->{trace} = shift || 0 if @_; $self->_trace("trace level set to $self->{trace}") if $self->{trace} or $prev; return $prev; } # --- sub _description { my $self = shift; return sprintf "UltraDNS %s@%s", $self->{user}, $self->{peer_addr}; } # _throw_error message shouldn't have newline at end sub _throw_error { my $self = shift; $self->_trace("error: @_\n"); croak $self->_description . " error: @_"; } sub _warn { carp shift->_description . ": @_\n"; return } # _trace message argument should have newline at end sub _trace { warn "UltraDNS: @_" if shift->{trace}; return } sub _send_xml { my ($self, $xml) = @_; $self->_trace("_send_xml $xml") if $self->{trace} >= 2; Net::SSLeay::write($self->{ssl}, "$xml\r\n") or $self->_throw_error("sending request: $!"); return; } sub _get_xml { my $self = shift; $self->_trace("_get_xml awaiting response") if $self->{trace} >= 2; # if we always use a transaction then we can use </methodResponses> (note the plural) # to identify the end of the server response to our request, saving ourselves # a whole bunch of headaches and inefficiencies my $response_body = Net::SSLeay::ssl_read_until($self->{ssl}, "</methodResponses>"); $self->_trace(Dumper($response_body)) if $self->{trace} >= 2; return $response_body; } sub _get_responses { my ($self) = @_; my $response_body = $self->_get_xml; # RPC::XML can't handle the UltraDNS methodResponses (plural) # so we chop out and process each individual methodResponse in turn my @response_xml; my @responses; while ($response_body =~ s{(<methodResponse>.*?</methodResponse>)}{}m) { my $xml = $1; push @response_xml, $xml; my $resp = UltraDNS::Parser->_parse_rpc_xml($xml); push @responses, $resp; print "XML: $xml:\nPerl: ".Dumper($resp) if $self->{trace} >= 3; } $self->_throw_error("No responses found in $response_body") unless @responses; $self->_trace("_get_responses received ".scalar(@responses)." responses") if $self->{trace} >= 2; # cleanse and sanity check the remaining rump of $response_body $response_body =~ s{<\?xml version=".*?"\?>}{}; $response_body =~ s{\s*<methodResponses>\s*</methodResponses>\s*}{}; if ($response_body ne '') { $self->_warn("Unprocessed remnants in response body: '$response_body'"); } return \@responses unless wantarray; return (\@responses, \@response_xml); } sub AUTOLOAD { ## no critic (RequireArgUnpacking) (my $method = our $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*::(?:UDNS_)?//; my $self = shift; # sanity check to avoid obscure errors when users do odd things croak sprintf "Can't call %s->%s() because '%s' isn't an UltraDNS object reference", $self, $method, $self unless ref $self and UNIVERSAL::isa($self, __PACKAGE__); return $self->_enqueue_method_call($method, \@_); } sub _shortmess { # much faster version of Carp::shortmess my ($self, $what) = @_; my ($pkg, $file, $line, $level); do { ($pkg, $file, $line) = caller(++$level) } while $pkg =~ /^UltraDNS\b/; my $shortmess = "$file line $line"; $shortmess = "$what at $shortmess" if $what; return $shortmess; } sub _enqueue_method_call { my ($self, $method, $args) = @_; my $shortmess = $self->_shortmess($method); $self->_trace($shortmess) if $self->{trace}; $self->{stats}{methods}{$method}++; my $xml = $self->_xml_for_method_call($method, $args); return $self->_enqueue_xml($xml, { method => $method, args => $args, shortmess => $shortmess, }); } sub _enqueue_xml { my ($self, $xml, $meta) = @_; my $queue = $self->{queue}; push @$queue, { %{ $meta || {} }, xml => $xml, result => undef }; # return reference to the slot that will hold the result value for this method call return \$queue->[-1]{result}; } sub _xml_for_method_call { my ($self, $method, $args) = @_; my $method_info = UltraDNS::Methods->_method_spec("UDNS_$method") or croak "Can't call unknown method '$method'"; # XXX could allow later my $arg_info = $method_info->{arg_info}; if (@$args < @$arg_info) { croak sprintf "%s called with too few parameters (has %d parameters but %d only arguments were given)", $method, scalar @$arg_info, scalar @$args; } if (@$args > @$arg_info) { croak sprintf "%s called with too many parameters (has %d parameters but %d arguments were given)", $method, scalar @$arg_info, scalar @$args unless $method_info->{last_arg_repeats}; # clone and pad out arg_info with copies of the final arg $arg_info = [ @$arg_info ]; push @$arg_info, $arg_info->[-1] while @$arg_info < @$args; } my @value_xml; for my $arg_info (@$arg_info) { my $value = shift @$args; my $class = "RPC::XML::$arg_info->{type}"; my $value_obj = $class->new($value); push @value_xml, sprintf "<param><value>%s</value></param>\n", $value_obj->as_string; } return "<methodCall><methodName>UDNS_$method</methodName><params>\n@value_xml</params></methodCall>\n"; } 1; __END__