added script for querying http server in bulk
diff --git a/scripts/support/query_http.py b/scripts/support/query_http.py
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+#!/bin/env python
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+Allows a file to be queried against a Joshua HTTP server. The file should be tokenized
+and normalized, with one sentence per line. This script takes that file, packages it up
+into blocks of size 100 (changeable with -b), and sends it to the server. The JSON output
+is dumped to STDOUT. If you wish to only dump the "curl" commands instead of calling them,
+add "--dry-run".
+
+Usage:
+
+ query_http.py --dry-run -s localhost -p 5674 /path/to/corpus
+
+"""
+
+import sys
+import urllib
+import argparse
+import subprocess
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Send a (tokenized) test set to a Joshua HTTP server')
+parser.add_argument('-s', '--server', dest='server', default='localhost', help='server host')
+parser.add_argument('-p', '--port', dest='port', type=int, default=5674, help='server port')
+parser.add_argument('-b', '--blocksize', dest='size', type=int, default=100, help='number of sentences at a time')
+parser.add_argument('--dry-run', default=None, action='store_true', help='print curl commands only (don\'t run')
+parser.add_argument('test_file', help='the (tokenized) test file')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+sentences = []
+def process(sentence = None):
+ global sentences
+
+ if sentence is None or len(sentences) == args.size:
+ urlstr = '{}:{}/translate?{}'.format(args.server, args.port, urllib.urlencode(sentences))
+ cmd = 'curl -s "{}"'.format(urlstr)
+ if args.dry_run:
+ print cmd
+ else:
+ subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)
+ sentences = []
+
+ if sentence is not None:
+ sentences.append(('q', sentence.rstrip()))
+
+for line in open(args.test_file):
+ process(line.rstrip())
+
+process()
+
