CCS: Connecting to DSS from multiple processes

Brandon Wetzel

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Is it possible to connect to i.e. "DebugServer.1" from multiple processes? I want to start a DSS session in one process, and connect to it as needed in other spawned processes to control the target in an annoyingly-designed automated test scenario.

In my experimentation, I connected to "DebugServer.1" in process A and connected to a target, uploaded code, etc and then am sitting in a loop so the process doesn't die. In process B, I again connect to "DebugServer.1" (which I WOULD THINK is the same server), on which I call "getConfig()" but instead of returning the loaded configuration, it returns "null" implying that I have NOT indeed connected to the same server.

I assume I am misunderstanding how DSS is supposed to work.

Worst case, I could open a pipe to the JS process, but I would like to take advantage of a client-server type communication if possible.

Thanks,

-Brandon

over 8 years ago

0 Ki over 8 years ago

TI__Guru**** 472311 points

Hi Brandon,
Check out the DSS Test Server example that ships with DSS. More details in the readme.txt found in: ccsvx\ccs_base\scripting\examples\TestServer

I believe this is what you are looking for.

Thanks
ki

0 Brandon Wetzel over 8 years ago in reply to Ki

TI__Prodigy 650 points

Brilliant, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks much,

Brandon

0 Ki over 8 years ago in reply to Brandon Wetzel

TI__Guru**** 472311 points

Great! Note that the example was written some time ago and has seldom been updated. Hence the example it comes with won't work out of the box since it relies on a simulator that no longer comes with CCS. But it should give you an idea of how it works.

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