Python DDS Example Scripts

• Admin Console Discovery Export XML analysis to Excel file ddsanalyze
• Admin Console Discovery Export XML csv export of DDS entities using Pandas ddsanalyzev3
• Live DDS system capture of endpoints and export to CSV for analysis ddscapture
• Live DDS System terminal UI to discover endpoints and subscribe for debugging ddspy

Tested with Python 3.8.10

dds_analyze.py

Dependencies:

• RTI Python API
• OpenPyXL

Connext Python API

• RTI Connext Python API modules

OpenPyXL

pip install openpyxl

Overview:

This script will parse through an Admin Console discovery export file and create an
XMLS spreadsheet with aggregated devices/participants/endpoints/topics. It will also create an analysis tab that provides high level insight into DDS Topics/Endpoints

Usage

python dds_analyze.py ./adminconsole.xml

dds_analyze_v3.py

Dependencies:

• RTI Python API
• Pandas

Connext Python API

• RTI Connext Python API modules

Pandas

pip install pandas

Overview:

This script will parse through an Admin Console discovery export file and output csv files for the following:

• Participants per domain
• All Devices
• Inconsistent Types
• Mismatch Reliable Readers
• Potential Multicast Readers
• Writers with no Readers
• Readers with no Writers

Usage

python dds_analyze_v3.py ./adminconsole.xml

dds_capture.py

Dependencies:

• RTI Python API

Connext Python API

• RTI Connext Python API modules

Overview:

• Captures all discovered participants (IP address and Name)
• Captures all discovered readers/writers
• Adds related Participant info to readers/writers
• Generates edge "matches" based on Topic and Type name match
• Exports all to csv's.

Usage:

python dds_capture.py

Let run for a few minutes. CTRL-C will stop capture and export entities discovered

dds_spy.py

Dependencies:

• RTI Python API
• Textual

Connext Python API

• RTI Connext Python API modules

Textual

pip install textual textual-dev

Overview

Example tool to deploy onto systems for use in integration debugging without a license
as it uses the Python libraries.

Implements a terminal based UI navigation to allow for headless/ssh use cases.

Usage:

python rtispy.py --domain 1