Elixir SLP

This is an application for accessing Service Location Protocol (SLP) services with Elixir. SLP is a widely used service discovery protocol.

See the Open SLP site for more information on SLP.

Installation

This package requires that the OpenSLP library is installed. It can be found at http://www.openslp.org/download.html

On OSX you can use brew install openslp in Linux it is likely that your package manager has the library.

1. Add slp to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

   def deps do

    [{:slp, "~> 0.0.1"}]

   end

2. Ensure that the slpd daemon is running and available on the network.

3. Ensure the slp Elixir application is started before your application:

   def application do

    [applications: [:slp]]

   end

Usage

You can advertise services on SLP with the register command.

iex> SLP.register("my.service:http://10.1.1.1:5560", [location: "australia"], 65535)
:ok

To find registered services use the find_services command.

iex> SLP.find_services("my.service")
["my.service:http://10.1.1.1:5560"]

Architecture

This application uses a C port program (slp_port) to make library calls.