{"id":455,"date":"2010-07-30T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2010\/07\/30\/project-announcement-telemeter-widget-plasmoid\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:07:43","slug":"project-announcement-telemeter-widget-plasmoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2010\/07\/30\/project-announcement-telemeter-widget-plasmoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Project announcement: Telemeter widget \/ plasmoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been running low on my internet download\/upload quota. Although my ISP (Telenet<\/a>) trippled my quota<\/a>, a combination of new suse release<\/a>, new steam games<\/a> and my isp failing to reset my quota (bug in upgrade process I guess), I managed to reach its limit inadvertently at 200 MB left. Since a) my ISP offers a webservice to access your usage data, b) I always wanted to write a useful plasmoid<\/a> and c) wanted to try out soap services using Qt, I contemplated to write a quota monitor widget \/ plasmoid. This evening I gave it a shot.<\/p>\n

After comparing available c++ toolkits for web services, I stuck to gSOAP<\/a> rather than QtSoap<\/a> as gSOAP seems the de facto standard when it comes to soap and cpp. gSOAP has some handy JAXB<\/a>-ish utils to convert your wsdl into proxy classes. For a moment, I was afraid I would have to give up the nice and easy Qt network support (proxy, ssl,..) but it seems gSOAP has abundant support. All in all, in a few hours I had it up and running. Actually, I lost most of the time finding the relevant webservice url (you have to subscribe to a private wiki although eventually someone mailed it to me through a fairly private mailinglist I found on a user forum). In the meantime I found that putting a #define in my main is not the same as adding it as a compiler flag even when you rebuild everything. \ud83d\ude09 Adding a compiler flag the right way using qmake, goes like this:
\n
\nQMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -DWITH_OPENSSL
\n<\/code>
\nWhen I finally could connect to the webservice, I received bogus data, all 0 usage! Only to find out that this was a problem with my account only. Btw, I good and cross platform tool to try out \/ debug webservices is SoapUI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To keep it a little sexy, I threw in the QNeedleIndicator<\/a> I recently stumbled upon on qt-apps.org and adapted it a bit to my needs and voila, we have an alpha:<\/p>\n

\"Telemeter<\/center>
\nIt is not a plasmoid yet and credentials are hardcoded so it’s not useful to anybody but I couldn’t wait to blog. \ud83d\ude09 Note that in the screenshot I seem to have plenty of quota left. That’s only because it shows my parent’s account usage. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It is currently developed as a Qt app but I definitely plan on wrapping it in a plasmoid. Maybe I’ll keep the Qt app alive for some poor windows users. After I clean it up a bit I will post the code on gitorious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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