Re: using the RPC::XML perl module, getting started

I just happen to have been working with RPC::XML as your mail came in --
hadn't touched it in months.

I don't have the book you mention -- is the problem you need a server to
connect to to test? Or that you are not clear how to write the Perl code to
use the module?

For testing I often just start a web server and process requests using
RCP::XML.  And then write a small script to send requests and dump
responses.

Something as simple as this:

my $client = RPC::XML::Client->new( $endpoint );

my $response = $client->send_request( $method, \%request_data )
    || die 'failed to send';

print Dumper $response->value;


Maybe I'm not understanding your question, though.   Maybe you can provide
an example of the code you are trying to get working?



On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:11 PM, ted_pedersen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm just getting started with using XML-RPC, and I'm using the Perl module
> RPC::XML as my implementation tool, so far at least. :)
>
> There is a nice but incomplete RPC::XML example in a book called Web
> Services with Perl (by Ray and Kulkchenko) which has a server side program
> for a fortune cookie example, but doesn't provide the client side code. Does
> anyone have this (using RPC::XML) and if you could, would you be willing to
> share this? I just like to have something simple I can test to make sure
> things are basically working.
>
> There is a second example in the book based on the OReilly Meerkat service,
> and that's a complete example with client and server, but as best I can tell
> this service is no longer available (so I can't run the examples).
>
> I've checked out the book page and written to the authors without success
> so wanted to check here.
>
> http://www.blackperl.com/pwswp/
>
> And yes, I know I should just figure this out and it must not be too hard,
> but I'm in the early days of working with this and it just helps to convince
> myself that this module and paradigm works at all by running a simple
> example. So I am hoping some industrious reader of this boo might have
> already worked this out or that there's a client available somewhere...
>
> Also, if anyone has any good recommendations on starter materials for
> programming with XML-RPC in Perl (using RPC::XML or any other module). The
> book I've mentioned is ok, although the fact that I'm struggling a bit to
> get something really simple going might suggest it's missing a few details.
> I know Perl reasonably well and understand what XML-RPC is trying to do, so
> it's mostly the mechanics of using the Perl code that is tripping me up (I
> think).
>
> Cordially,
> Ted
>
>
>
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Bill Moseley
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