WebTool makes it easy to use web based tools with Erlang/OTP. WebTool
configure and start the webserver httpd. If WebTool not has write access
to it's priv directory copy it to another location and use
webtool;start/2
to start WebTool.
start()-> {ok,Pid}| {stop,Reason}
Start WebTool with default, port 8888, ip-number 127.0.0.1, and
server-name localhost. The configuration data is assumed to be in
the directory webtool-vsn/priv
.
start(Path,Data)->{ok,Pid}|{stop,Reason}
Use this function to start WebTool if the default port, ip-number,servername or path to the configuration data not can be used.
If Data
is set to PortNumber
, the ip-number and server-
name will be retreived by calling inet:gethostname/0
and
inet:getaddr/2.
If Path
is set to standard_path
the configuration data is
assumed to be in the directory webtool-vsn/priv
.
If Data
is set to standard_data
the default port ip-number and servername is used.
Stop WebTool and the tools started by WebTool.
The following callback function must be implemented by each web based tool that will be used via WebTool. WebTool search the path for *.tool files to find the callback function, see WebTool user's Guide for more information.
Module:Func(Data)-> {Name,WebData}|error
The function is called by WebTool at startup to retrieve the
data needed to start and configure the tool. LinkData
is
used by WebTool to create the link to the tool. Alias
is
used to create the aliases needed by the webserver. Start
is used to start and stop the server.
for more information
about child_spec
see supervisor:start_child/3.
WebTool User's Guide.