Question

I have an issue with obtaining data from Windows Azure’s runtime using the newest (at the time of writing) PHP SDK from Github. Here is a test I am running on one of our hosted services:

<?php

include 'WindowsAzure/WindowsAzure.php';
use \WindowsAzure\ServiceRuntime\RoleEnvironment;
use \WindowsAzure\ServiceRuntime\Internal\RoleEnvironmentNotAvailableException;

try {
    echo RoleEnvironment::getDeploymentId();
}
catch (RoleEnvironmentNotAvailableException $Exception) {
    die('Failed to find deployment id');
}

RoleEnvironmentNotAvailableException is always thrown. Looking at the source, it seems to try sending commands through a named pipe (\.\pipe\WindowsAzureRuntime). Do I need to specify something within my ServiceConfiguration.csdef/cscfg in order to have access to this named pipe?

Any advice would be most welcome!

Answer 1

Got confirmation from MS EMEA Developer Support that current SDK does not support this function. They suggested similar workaround to jonnu above – use the previous SDK’s functionality for role environment / configuration settings.