The ResourceSync Simulator simulates a changing Web data source.

A client is provided to synchronize a filesystem directory with the simulated resources.

Make sure Python 2.7.1 is running on your system:

python --version

Install the Tornado and SleekXMPP libraries:

sudo easy_install tornado
sudo easy_install sleekxmpp    
sudo easy_install PyYAML

Get the ResourceSync Simulator from Github:

git clone git://github.com/resync/simulator.git

Run the source simulator (with the default configuration in /config/default.yaml):

chmod u+x simulate-source
./simulate-source

Run the resync client against the simulated source

chmod u+x resync-client
./resync-client http://localhost:8888/sitemap.xml /tmp/sim 

Terminate the source simulator:

CTRL-C

Parameterized Use Cases can be defined by creating a configuration file config/example.yaml and defining a set of parameters:

source:
    name: Morvania National Library
    number_of_resources: 20000
    change_frequency: 0.5
    event_types: [create, update, delete]
    average_payload: 10000
    max_events: -1

Additional publisher and change memory implementations can be attached for simulation purposes. For instance, the following configuration attaches a change memory implemented in the DynamicChangeSet class.

changememory:
    class: DynamicChangeSet
    uri_path: /changes

See the examples in the /config directory for further details.

Implement your code, encapsulated in python objects, directly in the following files:

• publisher.py
• changememory.py

Run the simulator with your custom implementation by defining the classname in a configuration file and pass it to the main simulator script:

./simulate-source -c config/myusecase.yaml

Define the necessary XMPP settings in a config file and run the simulator, e.g.:

./simulate-source -c config/example_xmpp.yaml