#!/usr/bin/env python
#*******************************************************************************
# ALMA - Atacama Large Millimiter Array
# (c) Associated Universities Inc., 2002 
# (c) European Southern Observatory, 2002
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# @(#) $Id: acssimGenericTest.py,v 1.3 2006/03/16 00:03:02 dfugate Exp $
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'''
Quite possibly the most generic component client throughout ALMA software.
'''
from sys import argv
import ACS
from Acspy.Clients.SimpleClient import PySimpleClient

compName = argv[1]
compMethod = argv[2]

print "Parameters to this generic test script are:", argv[1], argv[2]

# Make an instance of the PySimpleClient
simpleClient = PySimpleClient()
comp = simpleClient.getComponent(compName)

try:
    joe = eval("comp." + argv[2])
    print "The evaluated return value is:", joe
except Exception, e:
    print "The exception that occured was:", e
    
simpleClient.releaseComponent(compName)
simpleClient.disconnect()