coserver client library

server URL configuration

a list of server URLs can be passed via the constructor of CoClient, or configured via the method setServerUrls, or configured by default via environment variables or client.ini files:

• first, a server list is read from the environment variable COSERVER_URLS, which should be a space-separated list of urls, for example co4://coserver1.my.org/ co4://coserver2.my.org/ localhost
• if this list is empty, a single server url is set from COSERVER_HOST
• if the list is still empty, it is filled from the ini file $HOME/.coserver/client.ini using keys server_0, server_1 and so on in the [server] section
• if the list is still empty, /etc/coserver/client.ini (actually, ${sysconfdir}/coserver/client.ini) is read
• if the list i
  • then use defaults
  • configuration options: server list, attempt_to_start_server, server_command

client configuration

The client tries to start a server if it does not receive a response from an URL is regards as local. The command to start the server may be configured via setServerCommand, or via client.ini using the key server_command. This is actually the filename of the executable, which will be passed arguments -d, -u, and <URL> as coserver4 expects them.

Attempts to start a server can be disabled with setAttemptToStartServer or attempt_to_start_server = False in client.ini.

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