Re: XML-RPC Java Call

On 18.08.2004, at 00:32, Christoph Guse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i want to write my diploma thesis about Macromedia Flex and 
> OpenGroupware. Further information can be found on 
> http://guse.conquer.de .
> In order to provide Ogo Data to Macromedia Flex i want to use Java and 
> XML-RPC. Today i managed to configure the Ogo server properly, so 
> simple XML-RPC calls work fine. But i'm not able to execute a more 
> complex call like person.fetch, because i'm not able to give over the 
> complex argument. The example i found in the xml-rpc-de.pfd is for 
> python.
> I found the JOGI project, but i'm probably forced to make my own 
> interface. Can you guys give me a little piece of code where i can 
> learn the correct give over of the complex arguments?

Using Apache's XmlRpcClient (http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/) it should 
work like this:


     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, 
XmlRpcException {
         XmlRpcClient  xmlRpcClient = new 
XmlRpcClient("http://myogoserver:8050/RPC2");

         xmlRpcClient.setBasicAuthentication("root", "ogo");

         Hashtable fetchSpec = new Hashtable();
         String qualifier = "name = 'root'";
         fetchSpec.put("qualifier", qualifier);
         Vector sortOrdering = new Vector();
         sortOrdering.add("name");
         fetchSpec.put("sortOrdering", sortOrdering);

         Vector params = new Vector();
         params.add(fetchSpec);
         Object result = xmlRpcClient.execute("person.fetch", params);

         System.out.println("Result class: " + result.getClass());
         System.out.println("Result: " + result);
     }

The output should look like this:

Result class: class java.util.Vector
Result: [{isAccount=true, url=, name=root, 
id=skyrix://myogoserver/Sx_hampton/300750, phones={02_tel={type=02_tel, 
number=, info=, telephoneId=300810}, 03_tel_funk={type=03_tel_funk, 
number=, info=, telephoneId=300820}, 10_fax={type=10_fax, number=, 
info=, telephoneId=300840}, 15_fax_private={type=15_fax_private, 
number=, info=, telephoneId=300850}, 01_tel={type=01_tel, number=, 
info=, telephoneId=300800}, 05_tel_private={type=05_tel_private, 
number=, info=, telephoneId=300830}}, owner={}, phoneTypes=[01_tel, 
02_tel, 03_tel_funk, 05_tel_private, 10_fax, 15_fax_private], 
number=SKY300750, addresses={location={type=location, 
id=skyrix://myogoserver/Sx_hampton/300790}, private={type=private, 
id=skyrix://myogoserver/Sx_hampton/300770}, mailing={type=mailing, 
id=skyrix://myogoserver/Sx_hampton/300780}}, isPrivate=false, 
extendedKeys=[email1, email2, email3, job_title, other_title1, 
other_title2], login=root, extendedAttrs={}, objectVersion=2, 
isComplete=true}]

Apache's XmlRpcClient wants a list of parameters encoded in a 
java.util.Vector even if you only one parameter. The person.fetch 
XMLRPC needs a FetchSpecification as a 'struct' which is represented in 
Apache's XmlRpcClient as a java.util.Hashtable (see: 
http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/types.html). There you have to put a 
qualifier (String) and optional a sortordering.

If you use "name like 's*'" as qualifier you'll get all persons with a 
name starting with s sorted by name.

Hope this helps.

-Stefan