peb_connect fails

[jordillonch]

After start an erlang node, peb_connect fails first time I run my script. If I try again it works. You can try this code: https://gist.github.com/videlalvaro/324043

I have last peb version from github, PHP 5.4.12 and Erlang R16B (erts-5.10.1) on Mac.

[videlalvaro]

Any logs or errors reported on either side?

[videlalvaro]

The problem seems to be in the timeout argument passed to the peb_connect function here: https://gist.github.com/videlalvaro/324043#file-ets-php-L98

If you don't provide any timeout value the code works.

Perhaps the meaning of the timeout value changed, from seconds to milliseconds. If yes I'd have to investigate.

[marcosQuesada]

As you say @videlalvaro , if no timeout is provided the code works, but is not fully my case, I've an strange issue where peb_rpc("ets", "new", $x, $this->link) returns the expected ets name, but when i query about it as ets:info i get undefined response.

After talk with @jordillonch , he told me that it can be related with timeout values, so i've been trying to use peb_connect passing high timeout values (200) , with no success, getting "violacion de segmento" , without any other errors , the main diference with @jordillonch encironment is that my system is running on ubuntu 12.10 . In fact, 'violacion de segmento' issue was the root case that force me to do not use timeout parameter under linux environments.

[videlalvaro]

As you know I haven't been using this library for a while.

It's basically a wrapper over this library http://erlang.org/doc/man/ei.html

It seems the timeout parameter now is in milliseconds: http://erlang.org/doc/man/ei_connect.html#ei_connect_tmo

If you want to debug it and submit a patch I'm happy to apply it.

I would suggest that if you want to debug this issue, create a simple gen_server where you log every handle_info call so you can see what messages are you getting

[videlalvaro]

Here you have another usage example of peb: https://github.com/tnc/rac in case you wanted to see more

[marcosQuesada]

Don't get me wrong @videlalvaro , i'm quite sure that maybe i'm doing something not propertly, Thank you about rac example, i've see that connection is created like: $this->link = peb_connect(RABBITMQ_HOST, RABBITMQ_COOKIE); So i understant that timeout is just an option.:)

[videlalvaro]

No worries @marcosQuesada in the code cited by @jordillonch about the ETS examples, the timeout is clearly wrong, because it's just 1 millisecond. I think the ei API changed that at some point