Adding the initial code for Omnibot multi-machine support

testing/legion/client_rpc_methods.py

+# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+"""Defines the client RPC methods."""
+
+import logging
+import subprocess
+import threading
+
+
+class RPCMethods(object):
+  """Class exposing RPC methods."""
+
+  def __init__(self, server):
+    self.server = server
+
+  def Echo(self, message):
+    """Simple RPC method to print and return a message."""
+    logging.info('Echoing %s', message)
+    return 'echo ' + message

[M-A Ruel, 2015/02/03 18:50:24]

I'd recommend return 'echo %s' % message in case someone passes junk in.

[Mike Meade, 2015/02/03 19:06:28]

Done.

+
+  def Subprocess(self, cmd):
+    """Run the commands in a subprocess.
+
+    Returns:
+      (returncode, stdout, stderr).
+    """
+    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+    return (p.returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+  def Quit(self):
+    """Call server.shutdown in another thread.
+
+    This is needed because server.shutdown waits for the server to actually
+    quit. However the server cannot shutdown until it completes handling this
+    call. Calling this in the same thread results in a deadlock.
+    """
+    t = threading.Thread(target=self.server.shutdown)
+    t.start()