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    <title>webtool</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date></date>
    <rev></rev>
  </header>
  <module>webtool</module>
  <modulesummary>WebTool is a tool used to simplify the implementation of web based tools with Erlang/OTP.</modulesummary>
  <description>
    <p>WebTool makes it easy to use web based tools with Erlang/OTP. WebTool
      configures and starts the webserver httpd.</p>
  </description>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>start()-> {ok,Pid}| {stop,Reason}</name>
      <fsummary>Start WebTool.</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Start WebTool with default data, i.e. port 8888, ip-number
          127.0.0.1, and server-name <c>localhost</c>. If port 8888 is
          in use, port 8889 is tried instead. If 8889 is also in use,
          8890 is tried and so on. Max number of ports tried is 256.
          </p>
        <p>The <c>mime.types</c> file and WebTool's own HTML files
          are assumed to be in the directory
          <c><![CDATA[webtool-<vsn>/priv/root/conf]]></c>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>start(Path,Data)->{ok,Pid}|{stop,Reason}</name>
      <fsummary>Start WebTool with default configuration.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Path = string() | standard_path</v>
        <v>Data = [Port,Address,Name] | PortNumber | standard_data</v>
        <v>Port = {port,PortNumber}</v>
        <v>Address = {bind_address,IpNumber}</v>
        <v>Name = {server_name,ServerName}</v>
        <v>PortNumber = integer()</v>
        <v>IpNumber = tuple(), e.g. {127,0,0,1}</v>
        <v>ServerName = string()</v>
        <v>Pid = pid()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Use this function to start WebTool if the default port, 
          ip-number,servername or path can not be used.</p>
        <p><c>Path</c> is the directory where the <c>mime.types</c>
          file and WebTool's own HTML files are located. By default
          this is <c><![CDATA[webtool-<vsn>/priv]]></c>, and in most cases there
          is no need to change this. If <c>Path</c> is set to
          <c>standard_path</c> the default will be used.</p>
        <p>If <c>Data</c> is set to <c>PortNumber</c>, the default data
          will be used for ip-number (<c>127.0.0.1</c>) and server
          name (<c>localhost</c>).</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>stop()->void</name>
      <fsummary>Stop WebTool.</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Stop WebTool and the tools started by WebTool.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>debug_app(Module)->void</name>
      <fsummary>Debug a WebTool application.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Module = atom()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Debug a WebTool application by tracing all functions in the
          given module which are called from WebTool.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>stop_debug()->void</name>
      <fsummary>Stop debugging an application and format the trace log.</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Stop the tracing started by <c>debug_app/1</c>, and format
          the trace log.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>

  <section>
    <title>CALLBACK FUNCTIONS</title>
    <p>The following callback function must be implemented by each web
      based tool that will be used via WebTool. When started, WebTool
      searches the Erlang code path for *.tool files to locate all web
      based tools and their callback functions. See the <seealso marker="webtool_chapter">WebTool User's Guide</seealso> for more
      information about the *.tool files.</p>
  </section>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>Module:Func(Data)-> {Name,WebData}|error</name>
      <fsummary>Returns configuration data needed by WebTool to configure and start a tool.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Data = term()</v>
        <v>Name = atom()</v>
        <v>WebData = [WebOptions]</v>
        <v>WebOptions = LinkData | Alias | Start</v>
        <v>LinkData = {web_data,{ToolName,Url}}</v>
        <v>Alias = {alias,{VirtualPath,RealPath}} |  {alias,{erl_alias,Path,[Modules]}</v>
        <v>Start = {start,StartData}</v>
        <v>ToolName = Url = VirtualPath = RealPath = Path = string()</v>
        <v>Modules = atom()</v>
        <v>StartData = AppData | ChildSpec | Func</v>
        <v>AppData = {app,AppName}</v>
        <v>ChildSpec = {child,child_spec()}</v>
        <d>See the Reference Manual for the module supervisor in the STDLIB application for details about child_spec().</d>
        <v>Func = {func,{StartMod,StartFunc,StartArg}, {StopMod,StopFunc,StopArg}}</v>
        <v>AppName = StartMod = StartFunc = StopMod = StopFunc =atom()</v>
        <v>StartArg = StopArg =  [term()]</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This is the configuration function (<c>config_func</c>)
          which must be stated in the <c>*.tool</c> file.</p>
        <p>The function is called by WebTool at startup to retrieve the
          data needed to start and configure the tool. <c>LinkData</c> is
          used by WebTool to create the link to the tool. <c>Alias</c> is
          used to create the aliases needed by the webserver. <c>Start</c>
          is used to start and stop the tool.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>

  <section>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <p><seealso marker="start_webtool">start_webtool(1)</seealso>, 
      <seealso marker="webtool_chapter">WebTool User's Guide</seealso></p>
  </section>
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