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binki
fix comments and style, fix distrenjob_enqueue()
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/*
  Copyright 2009 Nathan Phillip Brink, Ethan Zonca, Matthew Orlando

  This file is a part of DistRen.

  DistRen is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  DistRen is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
  along with DistRen.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

*/

/* This file contains the code which both processes (renders) jobs as a slave, and the code which distributes frames to slaves after receiving them from the client portion of the codebase. */

#include "asprintf.h"
#include "distrenjob.h"
#include "execio.h"
#include "listen.h"
#include "options.h"
#include "protocol.h"
#include "slavefuncs.h"

#include <confuse.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <libxml/encoding.h>
#include <libxml/parser.h>
#include <libxml/tree.h>
#include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
#include <libxml/xmlreader.h>
#include <libxml/xmlwriter.h>

/* local defs */
#define NUMBER_ELEVEN 11

/* ******************* Structs ************************ */

struct general_info
{
  struct distrenjob head;

  struct distrend_config *config;

  int jobs_in_queue;
  unsigned int free_clients;
  unsigned int rendering_clients;
  unsigned int total_finished_jobs;
  unsigned int total_frames_rendered;
  unsigned int highest_jobnum;
  int hibernate;
  time_t timestamp;
  unsigned long total_render_power;
  unsigned long total_priority_pieces;
};



/*
  internally defined funcs's prototypes @TODO: Make all functions nice and proper 
*/
void distrenjob_remove(struct general_info *, struct distrenjob *bj);

struct distrenjob *distrenjob_get(struct distrenjob *head, jobnum_t jobnum);
int distrenjob_enqueue(struct general_info *, struct distrenjob *job);
int mortition(struct general_info *, struct distrenjob *job);
int update_xml_joblist(struct general_info *);
int createQueueFromXML(struct general_info*);
int reCreateQueueFromXML(struct general_info*, xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr current);
void update_general_info(struct general_info*);
int import_general_info(struct general_info*);
int updateJobStatsXML(struct distrenjob *job);

char *job_getserialfilename(struct general_info *, unsigned int jobnum);

/* ********************** Functions ************************* */

/** Dumps all data in RAM to an xml file (such as current jobs, etc) which is parsed by start_data. Remember to invoke this before shutting down! */
int xml_dump()
{
  return 0;
}
/**
   Performs command stored in a client's request.
*/
int distrend_do()
{
  return 0;
}
/**
   Frees the action
*/
void distrend_action_free()
{

}

/** 
    Fill variables at startup from XML dumps or defaults
 */
int start_data(struct general_info *general_info, char *datadir)
{
  struct stat buffer;

  /**
     defaults
   */
  memset(&general_info->head, '\0', sizeof(struct distrenjob));
  general_info->head.priority = 0;

  general_info->jobs_in_queue = 0;
  general_info->free_clients = 0;
  general_info->rendering_clients = 0;
  general_info->total_finished_jobs = 0;
  general_info->total_frames_rendered = 0;
  general_info->highest_jobnum = 0;
  general_info->hibernate = 0;
  general_info->timestamp = 0;
  general_info->total_render_power = 0;
  general_info->total_priority_pieces = 0;

  fprintf(stderr, "Initialized default global and queue states\n");

  if(stat("general_info.xml", &buffer) == 0)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "previous state file found, loading:\n");

      fprintf(stderr, "Parsing XML files and restoring previous state...\n");
      if(import_general_info(general_info))
	fprintf(stderr, "FAILURE\n");
      
      fprintf(stderr, "Restoring queue...\n");
      if(createQueueFromXML(general_info))
	fprintf(stderr, "FAILURE\n");
      
      fprintf(stderr, "done\n");
    }
  
  return 0;
}

/** Finish-Setter: Sets a frame to the "completed" status.*/
void finish_frame(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob *distrenjob, int frame)
{
  distrenjob->frameset[frame].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_DONE;
  distrenjob->total_render_time = distrenjob->total_render_time + (clock() - distrenjob->frameset[frame].start_time);
  distrenjob->completed_frames ++;
  distrenjob->assigned_frames --;
  geninfo->total_frames_rendered ++; /*< Increase total frames var for stats */

  update_general_info(geninfo);
  updateJobStatsXML(distrenjob);
}

/**
   checks to see if a job is actually done.
   - scans the folder of the job to make sure all output files are present
*/
int mortition(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob *job)
{
  short int isJobDone;
  int counter;
  char *path_and_number;
  struct stat buffer;

  isJobDone = 1;
  for(counter = 0; counter < job->total_frames; counter++)
    {
      _distren_asprintf(&path_and_number, "%s/stor/job%d/out/%d.%s",
			geninfo->config->datadir,
			job->jobnum,
			job->frameset[counter].num,
			job->output_format);
      if(stat(path_and_number, &buffer) == -1)
        {
	  /**
	     missing frame found
	   */
          job->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED;
          job->completed_frames--;
          geninfo->total_frames_rendered--;
          isJobDone = 0;
        }
      free(path_and_number);
    }

  if(isJobDone)
    {
      /**
	 all frames were accounted for
      */
      distrenjob_remove(geninfo, job);
      distrenjob_free(&job);
      geninfo->jobs_in_queue --;
      update_xml_joblist(geninfo);
    }
  else
    /**
       if the job isn't done, have frame_finder() start from the first frame, allowing it to see the frames that are now unassigned 
    */
    job->prev_frame_index = -1;

  update_general_info(geninfo);

  return 0;
}

/**
   scans the frames of a job to initialize a job after server
   @return 0 if the job is completely done and there are no missing frames,
           1 if missing frames are found.
*/
int restoreJobState(struct distrenjob *job)
{
  short int isJobDone;
  int counter;
  char *path_and_number;
  struct stat buffer;

  isJobDone = 1;
  for(counter = 0; counter < job->total_frames; counter++)
    {
      _distren_asprintf(&path_and_number, "stor/job%d/out/%d.%s", job->jobnum, job->frameset[counter].num, job->output_format); /*< @TODO this path is used in multiple places, construct/build/determine it in a central function */
      if(stat(path_and_number, &buffer) == 0)
        {
          job->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_ASSIGNED;
          job->completed_frames++;
        }
      else
        isJobDone = 0;
      free(path_and_number);
    }

  return !isJobDone;
}

/**
   creates a structure from starting data, then calls another
   function to actually add that struct to the queue.
*/
int prepare_distrenjob(struct general_info *geninfo, int type, char *name, char *submitter, char *email, int priority, int start_frame, int end_frame, int width, int height)
{
  int counter2;
  int counter;
  int tmp;
  char *path_with_num;
  char *serialfile;

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob;
  tmp = distrenjob_new(&distrenjob);
  if(tmp)
    return 1;

  geninfo->highest_jobnum ++;
  distrenjob->jobnum = geninfo->highest_jobnum;

  distrenjob->type = 1;
  distrenjob->name = name;
  distrenjob->submitter = submitter;
  distrenjob->email = email;
  distrenjob->priority = priority;
  distrenjob->width = width;
  distrenjob->height = height;
  /** sets the total number of frames in animation for status purposes */
  distrenjob->total_frames = (end_frame - start_frame + 1);
  distrenjob->frameset = malloc(sizeof(struct frameset) * distrenjob->total_frames);
  if(!distrenjob->frameset)
    {
      distrenjob_free(&distrenjob);
      return 1;
    }

  /** prepares all the frames by setting that status to "unassigned" */
  counter2 = start_frame;
  for(counter = 0; counter < distrenjob->total_frames; counter++){
    distrenjob->frameset[counter].num = counter2;
    distrenjob->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED;

    counter2++;
  }

  _distren_asprintf(&path_with_num, "stor/job%d/out/", distrenjob->jobnum);
  fprintf(stderr, ">>NOT<< creating dir ``%s''\n", path_with_num); /*< @TODO recursively create job directory */
  serialfile = job_getserialfilename(geninfo, distrenjob->jobnum);

  free(path_with_num);

  /**
     add job to queue
  */
  fprintf(stderr, "\nprepare_distrenjob: attempting distrenjob_serialize()\n");
  distrenjob_serialize(distrenjob, serialfile);
  free(serialfile);

  fprintf(stderr, "\nprepare_distrenjob: attempting distrenjob_enqueue()\n");
  distrenjob_enqueue(geninfo, distrenjob);

  geninfo->jobs_in_queue ++;
  fprintf(stderr, "\nprepare_distrenjob: attempting update_xml_joblist()\n");
  update_xml_joblist(geninfo);
  fprintf(stderr, "\nprepare_distrenjob: attempting update_general_info()\n");
  update_general_info(geninfo);
  fprintf(stderr, "\nprepare_distrenjob: attempting updateJobStatsXML()\n");
  updateJobStatsXML(distrenjob);

  return 0;
}


/**
   distrenjob_enqueue: This function adds the job to the queue based on its priority
*/
int distrenjob_enqueue(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob *job)
{
  struct distrenjob *prev_job;
  struct distrenjob *current_job;
  struct distrenjob *head;

  head = &geninfo->head;
  prev_job = head;

  /**
     iterate through linked jobs
  */
  for(current_job = head->next; current_job; current_job = current_job->next)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "enqueue loop iteration\n");
    if(job->priority < current_job->priority)
      {
	/**
	   if job's priority is less than current_job's priority, insert job
	   keep in mind 1 is the highest priority given to jobs, head has a
	   priority of zero so it will always be before other jobs
	*/
	prev_job->next = job;
	job->next = current_job;
	fprintf(stderr, "adding job before jobname: %s\n", current_job->name);

	return 0;
      }

    prev_job = current_job;
  }

  /**
     if it has reached the end of the list, add job there
  */
  prev_job->next = job;
  fprintf(stderr, "adding job at end of queue\n");

  return 0;
}

/** Changes the priority of an existing (and maybe running) job. @arg head I may end up changing the head if job == head */
int change_job_priority(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob *job, int new_priority){
  struct distrenjob *current_job;
  struct distrenjob *prev_job;
  char *serialname;

  distrenjob_remove(geninfo, job);
  job->priority = new_priority;

  prev_job = &geninfo->head;

  if(job->frameset[0].status == FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED)
    /**
       if job was not yet started
    */
    {
      distrenjob_enqueue(geninfo, job);
      return 0;
    }

  /**
     iterate through linked list of jobs 
  */
    for(current_job = &geninfo->head;
	current_job != NULL
	  && job->priority > current_job->priority;
	current_job = current_job->next)
      prev_job = current_job;

    prev_job->next = job;
    job->next = current_job;


  update_xml_joblist(geninfo);
  /** reserialize after changes */
  serialname = job_getserialfilename(geninfo, job->jobnum);
  distrenjob_serialize(job, serialname);
  free(serialname);

  return 0;
}

/**
  Frame Finder: matches your computer up with a lovely frame to render, starts looking at oldest job first
  @TODO: We must return both jobnum and framenum
  @TODO: Add calls in main()
  @return 0 success, other: error
*/
int find_jobframe(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob **job, struct frameset **frame)
{
  if(geninfo->hibernate)
    return 1;

  unsigned int frame_counter;
  unsigned short int found;

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  found = 0;
  /* iterate through jobs from first to last */
  for(distrenjob_ptr = geninfo->head.next; distrenjob_ptr && !distrenjob_ptr->hibernate; distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)
  {
    for(frame_counter = (distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index + 1); frame_counter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; frame_counter ++)
    {
      if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status == FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED) // jobframe found
      {
    	found = 1;
    	distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_ASSIGNED;
    	distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].start_time = clock();
    	distrenjob_ptr->assigned_frames++;
    	distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index = frame_counter;
    	updateJobStatsXML(distrenjob_ptr);
      }

      if(found)
    	break;
    }

    if(found)
      break;
  }

  if(!found)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "No more jobs to render\n");
      sleep(1); /*< @todo eliminate the need for this line*/
      return 1;
    }

  *job = distrenjob_ptr;
  *frame = &distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter];

  return 0;
}

int find_jobframe_from_job(struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr, struct distrenjob **job, struct frameset **frame)
{
  unsigned int frame_counter;
  unsigned short int found;

  found = 0;
  for(frame_counter = (distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index + 1); frame_counter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; frame_counter ++)
  {
    if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status == FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED) // jobframe found
      {
    	found = 1;
		distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_ASSIGNED;
		distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].start_time = clock();
		distrenjob_ptr->assigned_frames++;
		distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index = frame_counter;
		updateJobStatsXML(distrenjob_ptr);
      }

    if(found)
      break;
  }


  if(!found)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "No more frames in this job number %d", distrenjob_ptr->jobnum);
      distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index = frame_counter;
      return 1;
    }

  *job = distrenjob_ptr;
  *frame = &distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter];

  return 0;
}

// find a frame to render when the job that the last frame was for no longer exists
int find_jobframe_new(struct general_info *geninfo, int rend_pwr, struct distrenjob **job, struct frameset **frame)
{
  if(geninfo->hibernate)
    return 1;

  float power_difference;
  float greatest_power_difference;
  unsigned short int found;
  struct distrenjob *job_to_render;

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  greatest_power_difference = -10000;
  found = 0;
  /* iterate through jobs from first to last */
  for(distrenjob_ptr = geninfo->head.next;
      distrenjob_ptr && !distrenjob_ptr->hibernate;
      distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)
  {
	  if(distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index < (distrenjob_ptr->total_frames - 1))
	  {
	    /**
	       Why is the number 11 found here again? --ohnobinki
	     */
		  power_difference = (((float)geninfo->total_render_power / (float)geninfo->total_priority_pieces) * (NUMBER_ELEVEN - (float)distrenjob_ptr->priority));
		  power_difference = power_difference - (float)distrenjob_ptr->assigned_render_power;

		  fprintf(stderr, "job num %d\npower difference: %f\n", distrenjob_ptr->jobnum, power_difference);

		  if(power_difference > greatest_power_difference)
		  {
			  job_to_render = distrenjob_ptr;
			  greatest_power_difference = power_difference;
			  found = 1;
		  }
	  }
  }

  if(!found)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "No more jobs to render\n");
      return 1;
    }

  find_jobframe_from_job(job_to_render, job, frame);
  job_to_render->assigned_render_power = job_to_render->assigned_render_power + rend_pwr;

  return 0;
}

// gets a frame to render from the same job that the previously rendered frame was from
int find_jobframe_again(struct general_info *geninfo, int jobnum, int rend_pwr, struct distrenjob **job, struct frameset **frame)
{
  if(geninfo->hibernate)
    return 1;

  short int found;
  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_get(&geninfo->head, jobnum);

  // if the job was not found or there are no frames left in the job...
  if(!distrenjob_ptr || distrenjob_ptr->prev_frame_index >= (distrenjob_ptr->total_frames - 1))
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "Job number %d has been finished, finding new job\n", jobnum);

      // if previous job isn't yet finished the render power of the slave is removed from it
      if(distrenjob_ptr)
    	  distrenjob_ptr->assigned_render_power = distrenjob_ptr->assigned_render_power - rend_pwr;

      return find_jobframe_new(geninfo, rend_pwr, job, frame);
    }

  found = 0;
  found = find_jobframe_from_job(distrenjob_ptr, job, frame);

  if(found)
	  find_jobframe_new(geninfo, rend_pwr, job, frame);

  return 0;
}

/** Checks for dead, latent, or stale slaves */
void frame_watchdog(struct distrenjob *distrenjob_head)
{
  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;
  unsigned int counter;

  for(distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_head->next; distrenjob_ptr; distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)
  /* iterate through jobs */
  {
    /* if the job has been started, checks by seeing if either to first or second frame has been started */
    if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[0].status != FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED || distrenjob_ptr->frameset[1].status != FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED)
      /* iterate through all frames for this job: */
      for(counter = 0; counter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; counter ++)
	    /*watchdog_forgiveness = seconds of forgiveness before frame is re-assigned: */
        if((distrenjob_ptr->frameset[counter].start_time + distrenjob_ptr->watchdog_forgiveness) < clock())
        {
            /*
            If frame is not completed within the number of seconds specified by watchdog_forgiveness
            Then change the frame status to unassigned
            */
            distrenjob_ptr->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED;
            distrenjob_ptr->assigned_frames--;
        }

    updateJobStatsXML(distrenjob_ptr);
  }
}

/**
   Finds a distrenjob struct based on the jobnum
   @arg jobnum job number to search for
   @return NULL on job doesn't exist
 */
struct distrenjob *distrenjob_get(struct distrenjob *head, jobnum_t jobnum)
{
  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  /*
    The conditions of the for loop will leave distrenjob_ptr at NULL if the end of the list is reached. It will leave it pointing to the correct job if it is found.
   */
  for(distrenjob_ptr = head;
      distrenjob_ptr
        && distrenjob_ptr->jobnum != jobnum;
      distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next);

  return distrenjob_ptr;
}


/**
   Removes a distrenjob from the distrenjob linked list. It does not free the distrenjob, however. You should do that with distrenjob_free() from distrenjob.h

   @arg head pointer to the head of the linkedlist of distrenjobs
 */
void distrenjob_remove(struct general_info *geninfo, struct distrenjob *bj)
{
  struct distrenjob *previous_distrenjob;

  for(previous_distrenjob = &geninfo->head;
      previous_distrenjob
	&& previous_distrenjob->next != bj; /*< stop on the distrenjob that comes before bj */
      previous_distrenjob = previous_distrenjob->next)
    ;

  /*
    This removes references to bj from the linked list. I.E., we now skip bj when iterating through the list
  */
  previous_distrenjob->next = bj->next;

  geninfo->jobs_in_queue --;
}


/* Grabs config info from confs */
int distrend_do_config(int argc, char *argv[], struct distrend_config **config)
{
  unsigned int counter;

  cfg_opt_t myopts_listen[] =
    {
      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("type", NULL),
      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("path", NULL),
      CFG_SIMPLE_INT("port", NULL),
      CFG_END()
    };
  cfg_opt_t myopts[] =
    {
      CFG_SEC("listen",  /* this must be imported into struct listens (which must still be declared) */
          myopts_listen,
          CFGF_MULTI),
      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("datadir", NULL),
      CFG_END()
    };

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob;
  cfg_t *cfg_listen;

  int tmp;

  /*
   * test distrenjob_unserialize()
   */
  tmp = distrenjob_unserialize(&distrenjob, "distrenjob.xml.example");
  if(tmp)
    fprintf(stderr, "distrenjob_unserialize() returned %d. Try to cd to distren/doc if you want to test out the distrenjob_unserialize() function. (This will only fix this error if the error is due to an inability of the xml library to access distrenjob.xml.example)\n\n", tmp);
  else
    fprintf(stderr, "using email ``%s'' for user ``%s'' -- reading in XML files and pulling data from them using libxml2+XPath works!!!\n", distrenjob->email, distrenjob->submitter);

  fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d running config\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);

  *config = malloc(sizeof(struct distrend_config));
  myopts[1].simple_value = &(*config)->datadir;

  if(options_init(argc, argv, &(*config)->mycfg, myopts, "daemon", &(*config)->options))
    return 1;

  /**
     grab listen blocks:
   */
  (*config)->listens = malloc(sizeof(struct distrend_listen) * (cfg_size((*config)->mycfg, "listen") + 1));
  for(counter = 0; counter < cfg_size((*config)->mycfg, "listen"); counter ++)
    {
      cfg_listen = cfg_getnsec((*config)->mycfg, "listen", counter);
      (*config)->listens[counter].port = cfg_getint(cfg_listen, "port");
      (*config)->listens[counter].sock = -1;
    }
  memset(&(*config)->listens[counter], '\0', sizeof(struct distrend_listen));

  fprintf(stderr, "using %s as datadir\n", (*config)->datadir);

  return 0;
}
int distrend_config_free(struct distrend_config *config)
{
  options_free(config->options);
  free(config);

  return 0;
}
/* ************************** XML Functions ************************* */

// writes the general_info.xml file which is a copy of the general_info structure
// except that it doesn't hold free_clients and rendering_clients
void update_general_info(struct general_info *geninfo)
{
  xmlTextWriterPtr writer;
  char *tmp;

  writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename("general_info.xml", 0);
  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "utf-8", NULL);

  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"general_info");

  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", geninfo->jobs_in_queue);
  xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"jobs_in_queue", (xmlChar*)tmp);
  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", geninfo->total_finished_jobs);
  xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"total_finished_jobs", (xmlChar*)tmp);
  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", geninfo->total_frames_rendered);
  xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"total_frames_rendered", (xmlChar*)tmp);
  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", geninfo->highest_jobnum);
  xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"highest_jobnum", (xmlChar*)tmp);

  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);
  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);
}

// this reads the information from general_info.xml to the general_info structure
int import_general_info(struct general_info *general_info)
{
  xmlDocPtr doc;
  xmlNodePtr cur;

  doc = xmlParseFile("general_info.xml");
  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
  if (xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (xmlChar*)"general_info"))
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "xml document is wrong type");
      xmlFreeDoc(doc);
      return 1;
    }

  cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
  general_info->jobs_in_queue = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));
  cur = cur->next;
  general_info->total_finished_jobs = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));
  cur = cur->next;
  general_info->total_frames_rendered = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));
  cur = cur->next;
  general_info->highest_jobnum = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));

  general_info->hibernate = 0;
  general_info->free_clients = 0;
  general_info->rendering_clients = 0;
  general_info->timestamp = 0;
  general_info->total_render_power = 0;
  general_info->total_priority_pieces = 0;

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  return 0;
}


// extracts data from the xml created by above function and creates a job from it
// it returns a pointer to the created job
struct distrenjob *createJobFromXML(struct general_info *geninfo, unsigned int jobnum)
{
  xmlDocPtr doc;
  xmlNodePtr cur;
  char *file_name;
  struct distrenjob *distrenjob;
  int start_frame;
  int counter;
  int counter2;

  file_name = job_getserialfilename(geninfo, jobnum);

  doc = xmlParseFile(file_name);
  if(!doc)
    return NULL;

  distrenjob_new(&distrenjob);

  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);

  distrenjob->name = (char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"name");
  distrenjob->submitter = (char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"submitter");
  distrenjob->priority = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"priority"));

  cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
  distrenjob->width = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"width"));
  distrenjob->height = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"number"));

  cur = cur->next;
  start_frame = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"start_frame"));
  distrenjob->total_frames = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"end_frame")) - start_frame + 1;
  distrenjob->output_format = (char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"output_format");

  cur = cur->next;
  distrenjob->watchdog_forgiveness = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  /** load up stats.xml file to retrieve data */
  _distren_asprintf(&file_name, "stor/job%d/stats.xml", jobnum);

  doc = xmlParseFile(file_name);
  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);

  distrenjob->total_render_time = (time_t)atol((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"total_render_time"));

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  distrenjob->frameset = malloc(sizeof(struct frameset) * distrenjob->total_frames);

  // change the status of all frames to "unassigned"
  counter2 = start_frame;
  for(counter = 0; counter <= distrenjob->total_frames; counter++){
    distrenjob->frameset[counter].num = counter2;
    distrenjob->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED;

    counter2++;
  }

  restoreJobState(distrenjob);
  return distrenjob;
}

int updateJobStatsXML(struct distrenjob *job)
{
	  xmlTextWriterPtr writer;
	  char *tmp; // temporarily holds strings to be given to the xml writer

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "stor/job%d/stats.xml", job->jobnum);

	  // create xml document at the location tmp with no compression
	  writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename(tmp, 0);
	  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "utf-8", NULL);

	  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"stats");
	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->assigned_frames);
	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"assigned_frames", (xmlChar*)tmp);
	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->completed_frames);
	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"completed_frames", (xmlChar*)tmp);
	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->total_render_time);
	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"total_render_time", (xmlChar*)tmp);

	  // end document
	  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);
	  // free writer and save xml file to disk
	  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);

	  return 1;
}

// returns 1 if successful
// updates job_list.xml which lists all the jobs in the queue
int update_xml_joblist(struct general_info *geninfo)
{
  struct distrenjob *job;
  xmlTextWriterPtr writer;
  char *tmp;
  char *tmp2;
  int counter;

  // update timestamp
  geninfo->timestamp ++;
  if(geninfo->timestamp > 65530)
    geninfo->timestamp = 0;

  writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename("job_list.xml", 0);
  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "utf-8", NULL);

  // create root element job_list
  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"job_list");

  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", geninfo->timestamp);
  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"timestamp", (xmlChar*)tmp);

  geninfo->total_priority_pieces = 0;
  counter = 0;
  for(job = geninfo->head.next; job; job = job->next)
    {
      _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "jobnum%d", counter);
      _distren_asprintf(&tmp2, "%d", job->jobnum);
      xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)tmp, (xmlChar*)tmp2);

      /*
	this is needed for the new frame finder to work 
      
	Why the random constant numeral 11? --ohnobinki
      */
      geninfo->total_priority_pieces = geninfo->total_priority_pieces + (NUMBER_ELEVEN - job->priority);

      counter++;
    }

  // close elements and end document
  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);

  // free writer and save xml file to disk
  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);
  return 1;
}

/**
 returns 0 if completed successfully
 this reads a list of jobs in the queue before DistRen was shut down
 and then adds the jobs to the queue, as if it were never shut down
*/
int createQueueFromXML(struct general_info *geninfo)
{
  int tmp;

  xmlDocPtr doc;  // holds xml document in memory
  xmlNodePtr cur; // points to the current xml element node

  // load xml document
  doc = xmlParseFile("job_list.xml");
  if(doc == NULL)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: document not found\n");
      return 1;
    }

  // have cur point to the root element of the xml document pointed to by doc
  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
  if(cur == NULL)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: document empty\n");
      return 1;
    }

  if(xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar*)"job_list"))
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: incorrect root element (%s)", (char*)cur->name);
    }

  // moves into the children elements of job_list
  cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;

  tmp = reCreateQueueFromXML(geninfo, doc, cur);

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  return tmp;
}

/**
   inserts jobs at front of queue, starting
   with the last job in the job_list xml file
   to preserve the order of the queue
*/
int reCreateQueueFromXML(struct general_info *geninfo, xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr current)
{
  struct distrenjob *holder; // holds the job that "was" after head, so that the new struct can be inserted after head
  struct distrenjob *job; // job to be added
  xmlChar *tmp;
  int job_num;
  if(current == NULL) // base case, if element doesn't exist then don't do anything
    return 0;

  /**
     recursively call itself so that the next job in
     the queue is added to the front before the current one
  */
  if(reCreateQueueFromXML(geninfo, doc, current->next))
    /**
       bail if failure recursevely
        ^-- is this the best thing to do in this case?
	@TODO bail-out cleanup
     */
    return 1;

  /** actual work is done now: add the job to the front of the queue */
  holder = geninfo->head.next;

  tmp = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, current->xmlChildrenNode, 1); // get job number
  job_num = atoi((char*)tmp);
  xmlFree(tmp);

  job = createJobFromXML(geninfo, job_num);
  if(job == NULL)
    return 1;

  /**
     insert job at front of the queue
  */
  geninfo->head.next = job;
  job->next = holder;

  return 0;
}

/* ************************** Test Functions ************************* */
int printFrameInfo(struct frameset *frame)
{
  char *status;

  status = NULL;

  switch(frame->status)
  {
    case FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED:
      _distren_asprintf(&status, "%s", "unassigned");
      break;
    case FRAMESETSTATUS_ASSIGNED:
      _distren_asprintf(&status, "%s", "assigned");
      break;
    case FRAMESETSTATUS_DONE:
      _distren_asprintf(&status, "%s", "completed");
      break;
    case FRAMESETSTATUS_CANCELED:
      _distren_asprintf(&status, "%s", "canceled");
  }

  printf("frame #: %d --> %s\n", frame->num, status);

  return 1;
}

int printJob(struct distrenjob *job)
{
  int counter;
  fprintf(stderr, "frame_num: status\n");
  for(counter = 0; counter < job->total_frames; counter++)
    {
      printFrameInfo(&job->frameset[counter]);
    }

  return 1;
}

int printJobInfo(struct distrenjob *job)
{
  fprintf(stderr, "type: %d\n", job->type);
  fprintf(stderr, "name: %s\n", job->email);
  fprintf(stderr, "submitter: %s\n", job->submitter);
  fprintf(stderr, "e-mail: %s\n", job->email);
  fprintf(stderr, "priority: %d\n", job->priority);
  fprintf(stderr, "completed: %d\n", job->completed_frames);
  fprintf(stderr, "assigned: %d\n", job->assigned_frames);
  fprintf(stderr, "total: %d\n", job->total_frames);
  fprintf(stderr, "watchdog: %d\n", job->watchdog_forgiveness);
  fprintf(stderr, "hibernate: %d\n", job->hibernate);
  fprintf(stderr, "prev_frame: %d\n", job->prev_frame_index);
  fprintf(stderr, "render power: %ld\n", job->assigned_render_power);

  return 1;
}

int printAllJobnums(struct distrenjob *head)
{
  struct distrenjob *current_job;
  int total_jobs;
  fprintf(stderr, "job numbers in the order they will be processed:\n");

  total_jobs = 0;
  for(current_job = head->next; current_job; current_job = current_job->next)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%d: %s\n", current_job->jobnum, current_job->name);
      total_jobs++;
    }

  fprintf(stderr, "\n%d jobs in queue\n\n", total_jobs);

  return 1;
}

/* ************************** Main ************************* */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

  /* Argument-parser */
  int counter;
  int test; // Interactive test mode if 1

  struct general_info general_info;

  int cont;
  struct distrend_clientset *clients;

  enum clientstatus
  {
    CLIENTSTATUS_UNINITIALIZED = 0,
    CLIENTSTATUS_BUSY = 1,
    CLIENTSTATUS_IDLE = 2
  } clientstatus;

  int command;
  jobnum_t jobnum;
  struct distrenjob *tmp_job;
  struct frameset *tmp_frame;
  int type;
  char *name;
  char *submitter;
  char *email;
  int priority;
  int width;
  int height;
  int start_frame;
  int end_frame;
  size_t read_buf;

  xmlinit();

  test = 0;
  for(counter = 0; counter < argc; counter ++)
    {
      if(strcmp(argv[counter], "-h") == 0)
      {
    	  fprintf(stderr, "Usage: distrend [option] \nStarts the distrend server\n\t-h\tshow this help\n\t-t\tlaunches queue testing interface \n");
		  return 2;
      }

      else if(strcmp(argv[counter], "-t") == 0)
      {
    	  fprintf(stderr, "Entering into test mode...\n\n");
		  test=1;
      }
    }
  cont = 1;

  if(distrend_do_config(argc, argv, &general_info.config))
    return 1;

  if(start_data(&general_info, general_info.config->datadir))
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: start_data() failed\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);
      return 1;
    }

  // pre-loaded jobs for testing
  prepare_distrenjob(&general_info, 1, "awesome", "LordOfWar", "onlylordofwar@gmail.com", 8, 1, 100, 640, 480);
  prepare_distrenjob(&general_info, 1, "hamburger", "Ohnobinki", "ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net", 3, 1, 50, 1280, 720);

  while(test == 1)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "Welcome to DistRen Alpha Interactive Test Mode\n\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t1 \tPrint all frames in a job\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t2 \tExamine certain job\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t3 \tGet a frame to render\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t4 \tAdd a job\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t5 \tDelete a job\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t6 \tPrint jobnums in queue\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t7 \tPrint general info\n");
    fprintf(stderr, "\t8 \tQuit\n");

    scanf("%d", &command);

    switch(command)
    {
    case 1:
      fprintf(stderr, "Job number: ");
      scanf("%d", &jobnum);
      printJob(distrenjob_get(&general_info.head, jobnum));
      break;
    case 2:
      fprintf(stderr, "Job number: ");
      scanf("%d", &jobnum);
      printJobInfo(distrenjob_get(&general_info.head, jobnum));
      break;
    case 3:
      general_info.total_render_power ++;
      if(!find_jobframe_again(&general_info, -1, 1, &tmp_job, &tmp_frame))
      {
    	  fprintf(stderr, "frame was found, details below\n");
          fprintf(stderr, "Job#:%d\n", tmp_job->jobnum);
          fprintf(stderr, "Frame#:%d\n", tmp_frame->num);
      }

      break;
    case 4:
      name = NULL;
      submitter = NULL;
      email = NULL;

      fprintf(stderr, "\nType: \n\t 1 \t blender\n\t 2 \t povray\n"); scanf("%d", &type);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nName: ");        scanf("\n"); getline(&name, &read_buf, stdin);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nSubmitter: ");                getline(&submitter, &read_buf, stdin);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nEmail: ");                    getline(&email, &read_buf, stdin);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nPriority: ");                 scanf("%d", &priority);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nStart frame: ");              scanf("%d", &start_frame);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nEnd frame: ");                scanf("%d", &end_frame);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nWidth: ");                    scanf("%d", &width);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nHeight: ");                   scanf("%d", &height);
      prepare_distrenjob(&general_info, type, name, submitter, email, priority, start_frame, end_frame, width, height);
      break;
    case 5:
      fprintf(stderr, "\nJob number: ");
      scanf("%d", &jobnum);
      distrenjob_remove(&general_info, distrenjob_get(&general_info.head, jobnum));
      break;
    case 6:
      printAllJobnums(&general_info.head);
      break;
    case 7:
      fprintf(stderr, "\nHighest job number: %d", general_info.highest_jobnum);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nJobs in queue: %d", general_info.jobs_in_queue);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nTotal frames rendered: %d", general_info.total_frames_rendered);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nTimestamp: %lu", (long)general_info.timestamp);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nTotal priority pieces: %ld", general_info.total_priority_pieces);
      fprintf(stderr, "\nTotal render power: %ld\n", general_info.total_render_power);
      break;
    case 8:
      fprintf(stderr,"Goodbye.\n");
      return 0;
    default:
      fprintf(stderr, "Invalid input, please try again.\n");
    }
  }

  distrend_listen(general_info.config, &clients);
  /* This is called the "main loop" */
  while(cont)
    {
      struct distrend_action *action;
      int clientsays = 0; /*< temporary example variable, will be replaced when we can handle messages */

      distrend_accept(general_info.config, clients, &action);
      cont = distrend_do(action);

      /* Make the following code more event-driven */
      frame_watchdog(&general_info.head);


      struct frameset *frame;
      struct distrenjob *job;

      /* If the client is idle, must be modified for climbing through linked list of clients (client->clientnum) */
      if(clientstatus == CLIENTSTATUS_IDLE)
	{
	  int returnnum = find_jobframe(&general_info, &job, &frame); // Finds a frame to render
	  if(returnnum)
	    {
	      fprintf(stderr,"No frames are available to render at this time. Idling...\n");
	      sleep(10);
	    }
	  else
	    remotio_send_to_client(frame->num, job->jobnum); // Pseudo-sends data to client
	}
      /* If the client states that they finished the frame */
      	if(clientsays == DISTREN_REQUEST_DONEFRAME){
      	  clientstatus = CLIENTSTATUS_IDLE; // Sets the client back to idle
      	  finish_frame(&general_info, job, frame->num); // @TODO: Make sure this actually works.
      	}

      distrend_action_free(action);
    }

  distrend_unlisten(general_info.config->listens, clients);
  distrend_config_free(general_info.config);

  xmlcleanup();

  return 0;
}

/**
   constructs the filename for a distrenjob's serialized XML
   to be stored/retrieved from/in.
 */
char *job_getserialfilename(struct general_info *geninfo, unsigned int jobnum)
{
  char *filename;

  _distren_asprintf(&filename, "%s/stor/job/%d/distrenjob.xml",
		    geninfo->config->datadir,
		    jobnum);

  return filename;
}