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<?php

// $Id$

/**

 * @file

 * Functions which are required or useful when accessing and processing CDM Data Store Webservices

 *

 * Naming conventions:

 * ----------------------

 *

 *  - all webservice access methods are prefixed with cdm_ws

 *

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

 */

require_once ('xml2json.php');

require_once ('commons.php');

require_once ('uuids.php');

require_once ('cdm_node.php');

define(DEFAULT_TAXONTREE_RANKLIMIT, '');//TODO Genus UUID

/**

 * Implementation of hook_requirements()

 */

function cdm_api_requirements() {

  $requirements['cdm_api'] = array(

    'title' => t('CDM API')

  );

  if( function_exists('curl_init') ){

    $requirements['cdm_api']['description'] = ''; // description below title is not jet in use

    $requirements['cdm_api']['value'] =  'CURL php extension is available and will be used by the cdm api. HTTP requests thus will be up to 20x faster';

  } else {

    $requirements['cdm_api']['value'] =  'CURL php extension is missing. If CURL lib is installed HTTP requests will be up to 20x faster';

  }

  //FIXME: once _get_content_fsockopen is implemented change  severity to  REQUIREMENT_WARNING,

  $requirements['cdm_api']['severity'] =  (function_exists('curl_init') ? REQUIREMENT_OK : REQUIREMENT_INFO);

  return $requirements;

}

/**

 * Implementation of hook_menu()

 */

function cdm_api_menu($may_cache) {

  $items = array();

  if ($may_cache) {

    $items[] = array(

    // usage: url('cdm_api/proxy/'.urlencode($content_url)."/$theme");

      'path' => 'cdm_api/proxy',

      'callback' => 'proxy_content',

      'access' => true,

      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,

    );

    $items[] = array(

    // usage: url('cdm_api/proxy/'.urlencode($content_url)."/$theme");

      'path' => 'cdm_api/setvalue/session',

      'callback' => 'setvalue_session',

      'access' => true,

      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,

    );

  }

  return $items;

}

/**

 * Configures the settings form for the CDM-API module.

 *

 * @return Array Drupal settings form

 */

function cdm_api_settings_form(){

  $form['cdm_webservice'] = array(

      '#type' => 'fieldset',

      '#title' => t('CDM Web Service'),

      '#collapsible' => FALSE,

      '#collapsed' => FALSE,

  );

  $form['cdm_webservice']['cdm_webservice_url'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'textfield',

    '#title'         => t('CDM Web Service URL'),

    '#description'   => t('The URL of CDM Webservice which delivers the data to be published.'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_url', NULL),

  );

  $form['cdm_webservice']['taxontree_ranklimit'] =  array(

    '#type'          => 'select',

    '#title'         => t('Rank of highest displayed taxon'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('taxontree_ranklimit', DEFAULT_TAXONTREE_RANKLIMIT_UUID),

    '#options'       => cdm_rankVocabulary_as_option(),

    '#description'   => t('The rank of the highest displayed taxon in the taxontree.'),

  );

  $form['cdm_webservice']['cdm_webservice_cache'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'checkbox',

    '#title'         => t('Enable Caching'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_cache', 1),

    '#description'   => t('Enable caching of webservice responses on simple requests, '

    .'that is requests which only have one parameter generally a UUID or a concatenation of UUIDs')

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['proxy'] = array(

      '#type' => 'fieldset',

      '#title' => t('Proxy'),

      '#collapsible' => TRUE,

      '#collapsed' => TRUE

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['proxy']['cdm_webservice_proxy_url'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'textfield',

    '#title'         => t('Proxy URL'),

    '#description'   => t('If this proxy url is set the cdm api tries

    to connect the web service over the given proxy server.

    Otherwise proxy usage is deactivated.'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_url', false),

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['proxy']['cdm_webservice_proxy_port'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'textfield',

    '#title'         => t('Proxy Port'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_port', '80'),

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['proxy']['cdm_webservice_proxy_usr'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'textfield',

    '#title'         => t('Login'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_usr', false),

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['proxy']['cdm_webservice_proxy_pwd'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'textfield',

    '#title'         => t('Password'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_pwd', false),

    );

    $form['cdm_webservice']['cdm_webservice_debug'] =  array(

    '#type' => 'checkbox',

    '#title'         => t('Debug CDM Web Service'),

    '#default_value' => variable_get('cdm_webservice_debug', 1),

    '#description'   => t('Enable CDM Web Service debugging messages. Only visible for the super administrator or for users having the permission <em>administer cdm_api</em>!')

    );

    return $form;

}

/**

 * Implementation of hook_cron().

 *

 * Expire outdated cache entries

 */

function cdm_api_cron() {

  cache_clear_all(NULL, 'cache_cdm_ws');

}

function cdm_api_perm() {

  return array(

      'administer cdm_api'

      );

}

// ----------------------------------------------------------- //

/**

 * Converts an array of TagedText items into a sequence of corresponding html tags whereas

 * each item will provided with a class attribute which set to the key of the TaggedText item.

 *

 * @param array $taggedtxt

 * @param String $tag

 * @param String $glue the string by which the chained text tokens are concatenated together.

 *       Default is a blank character

 * @return String of HTML

 */

function cdm_taggedtext2html(array &$taggedtxt, $tag = 'span', $glue = ' ', $skiptags = array()){

  $out = '';

  $i = 0;

  foreach($taggedtxt as $tt){

    if(!in_array($tt->type, $skiptags) && strlen($tt->text) > 0){

      $out .= (strlen($out) > 0 && ++$i < count($taggedtxt)? $glue : '').'<'.$tag.' class="'.$tt->type.'">'.t($tt->text).'</'.$tag.'>';

    }

  }

  return $out;

}

/**

 * Finds the text tagged with $$tag_type in an array of taggedText instances

 *

 * @param array $taggedtxt

 * @param string $tag_type

 * @return the text mapped by $tag_type or an empty string

 */

function cdm_taggedtext_value(array &$taggedtxt = array(), $tag_type){

  foreach($taggedtxt as $tagtxt){

    if($tagtxt->type == $tag_type)

    return $tagtxt->text;

  }

  return '';

}

/**

 * media Array [4]

 *   representations Array [3]

 *       mimeType  image/jpeg

 *       representationParts Array [1]

 *           duration  0

 *           heigth  0

 *           size  0

 *           uri http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/cichorieae/media/protolog/jpeg/Acanthocephalus_p1.jpg

 *           uuid  15c687f1-f79d-4b79-992f-7ba0f55e610b

 *           width 0

 *       suffix  jpg

 *       uuid  930b7d51-e7b6-4350-b21e-8124b14fe29b

 *   title

 *   uuid  17e514f1-7a8e-4daa-87ea-8f13f8742cf9

 *

 * @param unknown_type $media

 * @param array $mimeTypes

 * @param unknown_type $width

 * @param unknown_type $height

 * @return unknown

 */

function cdm_preferred_media_representations($media, array $mimeTypes, $width = 400, $height = 300){

  /**

  *

  */

  $prefRepr = array();

  if(!isset($media->representations[0])){

    return $prefRepr;

  }

  while(count($mimeTypes) > 0){

    // getRepresentationByMimeType

    $mimeType = array_shift($mimeTypes);

    foreach($media->representations as $representation){

      if($representation->mimeType == $mimeType){

        // preffered mimetype found -> erase all remaining mimetypes to end loop

        $mimeTypes = array();

        $dwa = 0;

        // look for part with the best matching size

        foreach($representation->parts as $part){

          $dw = $part->width * $part->height - $height * $width;

          if($dw < 0){

            $dw *= -1;

          }

          $dwa+= $dw;

        }

        $dwa = (count($representation->parts)>0) ? $dwa / count($representation->parts) : 0;

        $prefRepr[$dwa.'_'.$mimeTypeKey] = $representation;

      }

    }

  }

  // sort

  krsort($prefRepr);

  // return

  return $prefRepr;

}

/**

 * expects an ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * of the form yyyy-MM-dd and returns the year as String.

 * In case the year is unknown (= ????) null is returned.

 *

 * @param ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * @return String

 */

function partialToYear($partial){

  if(is_string($partial)){

    $year = substr($partial, 0, 4);

    if($year != '??'){

      return $year;

    }

  }

  return;

}

/**

 * expects an ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * of the form yyyy-MM-dd and returns the month as String.

 * In case the month is unknown (= ???) null is returned.

 *

 * @param ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * @return String

 */

function partialToMonth($partial){

  if(is_string($partial)){

    $month = substr($partial, 5, 2);

    if($month != '??'){

      return $month;

    }

  }

  return;

}

/**

 * expects an ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * of the form yyyy-MM-dd and returns the day as String.

 * In case the day is unknown (= ???) null is returned.

 *

 * @param ISO 8601 time representations of a org.joda.time.Partial

 * @return String

 */

function partialToDay($partial){

  if(is_string($partial)){

    $day = substr($partial, 7, 2);

    if($day != '??'){

      return $day;

    }

  }

  return;

}

/**

 *

 * @param $uri_pattern

 * @param $pathParameters an array of path elements, or a single element

 * @param $query  A query string to append to the URL.

 * @return unknown_type

 */

function cdm_compose_url($uri_pattern, $pathParameters = array(), $query = NULL ){

  $request_params = '';

  $path_params = '';

  /* (1)

   * substitute all place holders ($0, $1, ..) in the

   * $uri_pattern by the according element of the $pathParameters array

   */

  static $helperArray = array();

  if($pathParameters && !is_array($pathParameters)){

    $helperArray[0] = $pathParameters;

    $pathParameters = $helperArray;

  }

  $i = 0;

  while(strpos($uri_pattern, "$".$i) !== FALSE){

    if(count($pathParameters) <= $i){

      drupal_set_message('cdm_compose_url(): missing pathParameters', 'debug');

    }

    $uri_pattern = str_replace("$".$i, rawurlencode($pathParameters[$i]), $uri_pattern);

    ++$i;

  }

  /* (2)

   * Append all remaining element of the $pathParameters array as path elements

   */

  if(count($pathParameters) > $i){

    // strip trailing slashes

    if(strrchr($uri_pattern, '/') == strlen($uri_pattern)){

      $uri_pattern = substr($uri_pattern, 0, strlen($uri_pattern) - 1);

    }

    while(count($pathParameters) > $i){

      $uri_pattern .= '/' . $pathParameters[$i];

      ++$i;

    }

  }

  /* (3)

   * Append the query string supplied by $query

   */

  if (isset($query)) {

    $uri_pattern .= (strpos($uri_pattern, '?') !== FALSE ? '&' : '?') . $query;

  }

  $path = $ws_name.$uri_pattern;

  $uri = variable_get('cdm_webservice_url', '').$path;

  return $uri;

}

function proxy_content($uri, $theme = null){

  $args = func_get_args();

  $uriEncoded = array_shift($args);

  $uri = urldecode($uriEncoded);

  $theme = array_shift($args);

  //find comma sepatated string in all args

  foreach($args as &$arg){

  	if(strpos($arg, ',')){

  		$arg = explode(',', $arg);

  	}

  }

  $request_method = strtoupper($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]);

  if($request_method == "POST"){

    $parameters = $_POST;

    $post_data = array();

    foreach ($parameters as $k=>$v)

    {

      $post_data[] = "$k=".utf8_encode($v);

    }

    $post_data = implode(',', $post_data);

    // testing

    $data = cdm_http_request($uri, "POST", $post_data);

    print $data;

  }else if(strpos($theme, '/') > 0){ // must be a mimetype

    header('Content-Type: '.$theme);

    $data = _http_request_binary($uri);

    print $data;

    exit;

  } else {

    // in all other cases perform a simple get request

    //TODO reconsider caching logic in this function

    if(!$theme){

      // print out JSON, the cache cannot be used since it contains objects

      $data = cdm_http_request($uri);

      print $data;

      exit;

    } else {

      $obj = cdm_ws_get($uri, null, null, null, TRUE);

      array_unshift($args, $theme, $obj);

      print call_user_func_array('theme', $args);

    }

  }

}

function setvalue_session(){

  if(strlen(arg(3)) > 0){

    $keys = explode('|', arg(3));

  }

  $val = arg(4);

  // prevent from malicous tags

  $val = strip_tags($val);

  $var = &$_SESSION;

  $i = 0;

  foreach($keys as $key){

    $hasMoreKeys = ++$i < count($var);

    if($hasMoreKeys && (!isset($var[$key]) || !is_array($var[$key]))){

      $var[$key] = array();

    }

    $var = &$var[$key];

  }

  $var = $val;

}

function uri_uriByProxy($uri, $theme = false){

  // usage: url('cdm_api/proxy/'.urlencode($content_url)."/$theme");)

  return url('cdm_api/proxy/'.urlencode($uri).($theme?"/$theme":''));

}

/**

 * Enter description here...

 *

 * @param String $resourceURI

 * @param pageSize

 *            the maximum number of entities returned per page (can be null

 *            to return all entities in a single page)

 * @param pageNumber

 *            the number of the page to be returned, the first page has the

 *            pageNumber = 1

 * @return unknown

 */

function cdm_ws_page($resourceURI, $pageSize, $pageNumber){

  return cdm_ws_get($resourceURI, null, queryString(array("page" => $pageNumber, 'pageSize'=>$pageSize)));

}

function cdm_ws_taxonomy_find($uuid, $rank = null, $viewUuid = null){

  return cdm_ws_get(CDM_WS_TAXONOMY, null, queryString(array("uuid" => $uuid, 'rank'=>$rank)));

}

/**

 * Enter description here...

 *

 * @param unknown_type $secUuid

 * @param unknown_type $path

 * @return unknown

 */

function cdm_ws_taxonomy($path = null){

  return cdm_ws_get(cdm_ws_taxonomy_compose_resourcePath($path));

}

function cdm_ws_taxonomy_compose_resourcePath($path = null){

  $viewrank =  _cdm_taxonomy_compose_viewrank();

  return CDM_WS_TAXONOMY . '/' . ($viewrank ? $viewrank : '' ) . ($path ? '/' . $path : '') ;

}

/**

 * Enter description here...

 *

 * @param UUID $secUuid

 * @param String $path

 * @return unknown

 */

function cdm_ws_taxonomy_pathFromRoot($path){

  $viewrank =  _cdm_taxonomy_compose_viewrank();

  return cdm_ws_get(CDM_WS_TAXONOMY .  ($viewrank ? '/' .$viewrank : '' )  . '/' . $path . '/path' );

}

/**

 * Enter description here...

 *

 * @param UUID $viewUuid

 * @param String $rank

 * @return unknown

 */

function _cdm_taxonomy_compose_viewrank(){

  $viewUuid = variable_get('cdm_taxonomictree_uuid', false);

  if(!$viewUuid){

    return;

  }

  $rank = variable_get('taxontree_ranklimit', DEFAULT_TAXONTREE_RANKLIMIT);

  return $viewUuid . (empty($rank) ? '' : ','.$rank);

}

function cdm_rankVocabulary_as_option(){

  global $rankVocabularyOptions;

  if(!$rankVocabularyOptions){

    $vocab = cdm_ws_get(CDM_WS_TERMVOCABULARY, UUID_RANK);

    $rankVocabularyOptions = array();

    foreach($vocab->terms as $term){

      $rankVocabularyOptions[$term->uuid] = t($term->representation_L10n);

    }

    array_reverse($rankVocabularyOptions);

  }

  return $rankVocabularyOptions;

}

function cdm_ws_descriptions_by_featuretree($featureTree, $descriptions, $isDescriptionsSeparated = false){

  if(!$featureTree){

    drupal_set_message('cdm_ws_descriptions_by_featuretree() - No feature supplied', 'error');

    return false;

  }

  $mergedTrees = array();

  if($isDescriptionsSeparated){

    // merge any description into a sparate feature tree

    foreach($descriptions as $desc){

      $mergedNodes = _mergeFeatureTreeDesciptions($featureTree->root->children, $desc->elements);

      $mergedTree = clone $featureTree;

      $mergedTree->root->children = $mergedNodes;

      $mergedTrees[] = $mergedTree;

    }

  } else {

    // combine all descripions into one feature tree

    foreach($descriptions as $desc){

      $mergedNodes = _mergeFeatureTreeDesciptions($featureTree->root->children, $desc->elements);

      $featureTree->root->children = $mergedNodes;

    }

    $mergedTrees[] = $featureTree;

  }

  return $mergedTrees;

}

function _mergeFeatureTreeDesciptions($featureNodes, $descriptionElements){

  foreach($featureNodes as &$node){

    // append corresponding elements to an additional node field: $node->descriptionElements

    foreach($descriptionElements as $element){

      if($element->feature->uuid == $node->feature->uuid){

        if(!isset($node->descriptionElements)){

          $node->descriptionElements = array();

        }

        $node->descriptionElements[] = $element;

      }

    }

    // recurse into node children

    if(is_array($node->children)){

      foreach($node->children as $nodes){

        $mergedChildNodes = _mergeFeatureTreeDesciptions($nodes, $descriptionElements);

        $node->children = $mergedChildNodes;

      }

    }

  }

  return $featureNodes;

}

/**

 * Send a HTTP GET request to the RESTService and deserializes

 * and returns the response as object.

 * The response objects coming from the webservice configured in the 'cdm_webservice_url' variable

 * are beeing cached in a level 1 (L1) and or in a level 2 (L2) cache.

 *

 * Since the L1 cache is implemented as static variable of the cdm_ws_get() function,

 * this cache persists only per each single page executiuon. Any object coming from the webservice is stored into it by default.

 * Incontrast to this default cacheich mechanism the L2 cache only is used if the 'cdm_webservice_cache' varialby is set to TRUE

 * which can be set using the modules administrative settings section. Object stored in this L2 cache are serialized and stored

 * using the drupal cache in the '{prefix}cache_cdm_ws' cache table. So the objects are sored in a database will persist as

 * log as the drupal cache is not beeing cleared and are availabel across multiple sript executions.

 *

 * @param $uri

 * @param $pathParameters

 * @param $query

 * @param $method the HTTP method to use, valuid values are "GET" or "POST";

 * @param $absoluteURI

 * @return unknown_type

 */

function cdm_ws_get($uri, $pathParameters = array(), $query = null, $method="GET", $absoluteURI = false){

  static $cacheL1;

  if(!isset($cacheL1)){

    $cacheL1 = array();

  }

  // transform the given uri path or patthern into a proper webservice uri

  if(!$absoluteURI){

    $uri = cdm_compose_url($uri, $pathParameters, $query);

  }

  $is_cdm_ws_uri = str_beginsWith($uri, variable_get('cdm_webservice_url', '#EMPTY#'));

  $use_cacheL2 = variable_get('cdm_webservice_cache', 1);

  $cacheL1_obj = $cacheL1[$uri];

  //print $cacheL1_obj;

  $set_cacheL1 = false;

  if($is_cdm_ws_uri && !$cacheL1_obj){

    $set_cacheL1 = true;

  }

  // only cache cdm webservice URIs

  $set_cacheL2 = $use_cacheL2 && $is_cdm_ws_uri && $set_cacheL1;

  $cacheL2_entry = false;

  if($use_cacheL2){

    // try to get object from cacheL2

    $cacheL2_entry = cache_get($uri, 'cache_cdm_ws');

  }

  if($cacheL1_obj){

      //

      // The object has been found in the L1 cache

      //

      $obj = $cacheL1_obj;

      _add_debugMessageStr('Using cacheL1 for: '.$uri);

    } else if($cacheL2_entry) {

      //

      // The object has been found in the L2 cache

      //

      $obj = unserialize($cacheL2_entry->data);

      if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_debug', 1) && user_access('administer')){

        _add_status_message_toggler();

        _add_debugMessageStr('Using cacheL2 for: '.$uri);

      }

    } else {

      //

      // Get the object from the webservice and cache it

      //

      $time_get_start = microtime(true);

      // request data from webservice JSON or XML

      $datastr = cdm_http_request($uri, $method);

      $time_get = microtime(true) - $time_get_start;

      $time_parse_start = microtime(true);

      // parse data and create object

      $obj = cdm_load_obj($datastr);

      $time_parse = microtime(true) - $time_parse_start;

      if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_debug', 1) && user_access('administer')){

        $success_msg = $obj || $datastr == "[]" ? 'valid':'invalid';

        _add_debugMessage($uri, $time_get, $time_parse, strlen($datastr), $success_msg);

      }

      if($set_cacheL2) {

        // store the object in cacheL2

        cache_set($uri, 'cache_cdm_ws', serialize($obj), CACHE_TEMPORARY);

      }

  }

  if($obj){

    // store the object in cacheL1

    if($set_cacheL1) {

      $cacheL1[$uri] = $obj;

    }

  }

  return $obj;

}

function _add_debugMessageStr($msg){

  _add_status_message_toggler();

  drupal_set_message($message, 'debug');

}

function _add_debugMessage($uri, $time_get, $time_parse, $datasize, $success_msg){

  static $cummulated_time_parse;

  static $cummulated_time_get;

  _add_status_message_toggler();

  $cummulated_time_get += $time_get;

  $cummulated_time_parse += $time_parse;

  // decompose uri into path and query element

  $uri_parts = explode("?", $uri);

  if(count($uri_parts) == 2){

    $path = $uri_parts[0];

    $query = $uri_parts[1];

  } else {

    $path = $uri;

  }

  $message = '<span class="uri">'.$uri.'</span><br />';

  $message .= '[fetched in: '.sprintf('%3.3f', $time_get).'s('.sprintf('%3.3f', $cummulated_time_get).'s); ';

  $message .= 'parsed in '.sprintf('%3.3f', $time_parse).' s('.sprintf('%3.3f', $cummulated_time_parse).'s); ';

  $message .= 'size:'.sprintf('%3.1f', ($datasize / 1024)).' kb of '.$success_msg.' data: ';

  $message .= '<a href="'.url($path.'.xml', $query).'" target="data" class="'.$success_msg.'">xml</a>,';

  $message .= '<a href="'.url($path.'.json', $query).'" target="data" class="'.$success_msg.'">json</a>';

  $message .= '] ';

  drupal_set_message($message, 'debug');

}

function cdm_load_obj($datastr){

  // NOTICE: the cdm dataportal currently does not support xml so the line below are commented out

  /*

   // if the web service delivers XML convert it into json

   if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_type', 'json') == 'xml'){

   $datastr = xml2json::transformXmlStringToJson($datastr);

   }

   */

  $obj = json_decode($datastr);

  if(!(is_object($obj) || is_array($obj)) ){

    ob_start();

    $obj_dump = ob_get_contents();

    ob_clean();

    return false;

  }

  return $obj;

}

/**

 *

 * @param $uri

 * @param $method the HTTP method to use, valuid values are "GET" or "POST"; efaults to "GET" even if null,

 *        false or any invalid value is supplied.

 * @param $parameters

 * @param $header

 * @return unknown_type

 */

function cdm_http_request($uri, $method="GET", $parameters = array(), $header = false){

  global $locale;  // drupal variable containing the current locale i.e. language

  static $header;

  if($method != "GET" && $method != "POST"){

    $method  = "GET";

  }

  if(!$header){

    $header = array();

    $header['Accept'] = (variable_get('cdm_webservice_type', 'json') == 'json' ? 'application/json' : 'text/xml');

    $header['Accept-Language'] = $locale;

    $header['Accept-Charset'] = 'UTF-8';

  }

  if(function_exists('curl_init')){

    // use the CURL lib if installed it is supposed to be 20x faster

    return _http_request_using_curl($uri, $header, $method, $parameters);

  } else {

    return _http_request_using_fsockopen($uri, $header, $method, $parameters);

  }

}

function _http_request_using_fsockopen($uri, $header = array(), $method = "GET"){

 $response = drupal_http_request($uri, $header, $method);

 return $response->data;

}

/**

 * Return string content from a remote file

 *

 * @param string $uri

 * @return string

 *

 * @author Luiz Miguel Axcar (lmaxcar@yahoo.com.br)

 */

function _http_request_using_curl($uri, $headers = array(), $method = "GET", $parameters = array())

{

  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uri);

  // set proxy settings

  if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_url', false)){

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_url', ''));

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_port', '80'));

    if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_usr', false)){

      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_usr', '').':'.variable_get('cdm_webservice_proxy_pwd', ''));

    }

  }

  // modify headers array to be used by curl

  foreach($headers as $header_key=>$header_val){

    $curl_headers[] = $header_key.': '.$header_val;

  }

  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curl_headers);

  // set method if not default

  if($method != "GET"){

    if($method == "POST"){

      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parameters);

    }else{

      // other obscure http methods get passed to curl directly

      // TODO generic parameter/body handling

      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);

    }

  }

  ob_start();

  curl_exec ($ch);

  if(curl_errno($ch)){

    watchdog('CDM_API', '_http_request_curl() - '.curl_error($ch).'; REQUEST-METHOD:'.$method.' URL: '.substr($uri.' ', 0, 150), WATCHDOG_ERROR);

    if(variable_get('cdm_webservice_debug', 1)  && user_access('administer') ){

      drupal_set_message('_http_request_curl() - '.curl_error($ch).'; REQUEST-METHOD:'.$method.' URL: '.substr($uri.' ', 0, 150), 'error');

    }

  }

  curl_close ($ch);

  $string = ob_get_contents();

  ob_end_clean();

  return $string;

}

function cdm_api_secref_cache_prefetch(&$secUuids){

  global $secref_cache;

  if(!is_array($secref_cache)){

    $secref_cache = array();

  }

  $uniqueUuids = array_unique($secUuids);

  $i = 0;

  $param = '';

  while($i++ < count($uniqueUuids)){

    $param .= $secUuids[$i].',';

    if(strlen($param) + 37 > 2000){

      _cdm_api_secref_cache_add($param);

      $param = '';

    }

  }

  if($param){

    _cdm_api_secref_cache_add($param);

  }

}

function cdm_api_secref_cache_get($secUuid){

  global $secref_cache;

  if(!is_array($secref_cache)){

    $secref_cache = array();

  }

  if(!array_key_exists($secUuid, $secref_cache)){

    _cdm_api_secref_cache_add($secUuid);

  }

  return $secref_cache[$secUuid];

}

function cdm_api_secref_cache_clear(){

  global $secref_cache;

  $secref_cache = array();

}

function _cdm_api_secref_cache_add($secUuidsStr){

  global $secref_cache;

  $ref = cdm_ws_get(CDM_WS_REFERENCE, $secUuidsStr);

  // batch fetching not jet reimplemented thus:

  /*$assocRefSTOs = array();

   if($refSTOs) {

   foreach($refSTOs as $ref){

   $assocRefSTOs[$ref->uuid] = $ref;