def clientMain(serverIP, serverPort):
'''Starts the client
Args:
- serverIP -- ip address of server to connect to
- serverPort -- port on which the server is listening
'''
#initialization of values
#timeName = time.strftime("%d%b%Y%H%M%S", time.localtime()) # a unique id created from the time when the script starts
messageQueue = multiprocessing.Queue() # the queue where all log messages are written to.
logControlValue = multiprocessing.Value('i',int(True)) #A boolean indicating the the logging process should continue to run. There is no type for bool, so we use int
resultsDirectory, logsDirectory = UtilityFunctions.initializeClientFolderStructure() #directories where results and logs should be stored respectively
UtilityFunctions.deleteContentsOfDirectory('./client/temp')
#-------------start logging module
loggingProcess = multiprocessing.Process(target = LoggingModule.log, args=(logControlValue,messageQueue,logsDirectory))
loggingProcess.start()
#communicate with server
handleConnection(messageQueue, serverIP,serverPort,resultsDirectory)
#exit note that we only get here once the server closes the connection
logControlValue.value = int(False)
loggingProcess.join()
sys.exit(0)
