start worked by sending protobuf

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/event.go b/event.go
index 261c48b..0705595 100644
--- a/event.go
+++ b/event.go
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ func dropletReady(d *pb.Droplet) (bool, string) {
 	return true, ""
 }
 
+// this must be bool in string because accumulated output is sometimes
+// written to STDOUT, sometimes to http
 func (h *HyperT) start(d *pb.Droplet) (bool, string) {
 	ready, result := clusterReady()
 	if !ready {
@@ -62,9 +64,19 @@ func (h *HyperT) start(d *pb.Droplet) (bool, string) {
 	}
 
 	url := "http://" + h.pb.Hostname + ":2520/start?start=" + d.Hostname
-	s := shell.Wget(url)
+	var msg string
+	var data []byte
+	msg = d.FormatJSON()
+	data = []byte(msg) // Convert the string to []byte
+	req, err := httpPost(url, data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, fmt.Sprintln("error:", err)
+	}
+	log.Info("http post url:", url)
+	log.Info("http post data:", msg)
+
 	result = "EVENT start droplet url: " + url + "\n"
-	result += "EVENT start droplet response: " + s.String()
+	result += "EVENT start droplet response: " + string(req)
 
 	// increment the counter for a start attempt working
 	d.Starts += 1
@@ -99,7 +111,7 @@ func Start(name string) (bool, string) {
 
 	dur := time.Since(me.unstable) // how long has the cluster been stable?
 	result = fmt.Sprintln("should start droplet", name, "here. grid stable for:", shell.FormatDuration(dur))
-	if dur < 17*time.Second {
+	if dur < me.unstableTimeout {
 		result += "grid is still too unstable"
 		return false, result
 	}