[jira] Commented: (COUCHDB-393) Cannot discover currently running http port if ini file specifies port 0

["Benoit Chesneau (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benoit Chesneau commented on COUCHDB-393:
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discussed on irc. Also needed to make desktop-couch portable and allowing any other alternative. 

Actually desktop-couch on ubuntu use an ugly hack to do it. I propose to create a file "couch.uri" containing these infos. This file could be located where the pidfile is. so in /var/run which sound the right place
This file will contain the CouchDB uri on one line :

http://host:port 


What do you think ? Patch follow

> Cannot discover currently running http port if ini file specifies port 0
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-393
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-393
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>         Environment: Ubuntu 9.04
>            Reporter: Stuart Langridge
>            Assignee: Noah Slater
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.12
>
>         Attachments: couchctl.patch
>
>
> It is currently not possible, if the ini file specifies port 0 as the http port (so that the OS chooses a random port) to discover which port the OS actually chose.
> It would be nice if the currently running port was made available in the statusline output (couchdb -s), but a log statement would be adequate; some way that an external script can discover which port a running CouchDB is listening on.
> Edited discussion from #couchdb:
> <bitdiddle> aquarius: well at a glance it appears couch_http passes the 0 to mochiweb_http which passes it to the mochiweb_socket_server, which passes it to gen_tcp, an erlang module that lets the underlying OS assign it. mochiweb_socket_server then grabs that port and stores it. It has a get method to retrieve properties but that needs to be exposed to mochiweb_http so it would take a little work to do it. It's probably a JIRA ticket, unless someone else sees a quicker approach
> <davisp> bitdiddle: you got that far and didn't find it?
> <aquarius> davisp: is there a better way to find the port?
> <davisp> oh, is that not the bind port?
>  I was just thinking a log statement
> <aquarius> davisp: the problem is if you specify 0 as the bind port (so the OS chooses a port), how do you find out what was chosen?
> <davisp> aquarius: you have to look at the port returned by the socket
>  aquarius: in other words, CouchDB was never written to do that
> <davisp> AFAIK
> <bitdiddle> davisp: I found it, just needs some work to expose it
> <davisp> aquarius: and by do that, I mean, we never put in a statement to log that
> <bitdiddle> mochiweb_http is the module that needs to bubble it up
> <aquarius> davisp: I don't really mind whether it's a log statement or it's exposed to couchdb -s (the latter seems tidier to me, but whichever), I just want to be able to start couch on port 0 and then later find out which port got chosen :)
> <davisp> aquarius: for the time being you can use something like netstat or lsof, but we'll get a log statement in there or something

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