Re: How to is the correct syntax for xmlrpc on a bash shell

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.xmlrpc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16. Jun 2005, at 16:08 Uhr, Henning Burow wrote:
> i want to use xmlrpc in a bash shell. How is the correct syntax for  
> a call, like inserting an appointment.

You can't in the shell. xmlrpc_call only works with flat arguments,  
not with structures.

Its probably easiest to do the call in a Python script.

> xmlrpc_call http://localhost:22000/RPC2 appointment.insert 
> ('2005-06-17 12:00:00','2005-06-27 13:00:00','XML Test')
>
> That command doesn't work, and there is no manpage for xmlrpc_call.

?:
---snip---
helge@groove$ xmlrpc_call
usage:    /Users/helge/GNUstep/Tools/xmlrpc_call <url> [<method- 
name>] [<arg1>,...]
   sample: /Users/helge/GNUstep/Tools/xmlrpc_call http://localhost: 
20000/RPC2 bc 1 2
---snap---

You can find a reference for XML-RPC calls somewhere on docs.

Helge
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