Re: perl RPC::XML (blackperl)

On 23 March 2012 15:29, Bryan Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
> >Am I really coming at this backwards?
>
> I don't know if it's you, but somebody is coming at this backwards. You
> don't
> specfify an XML-RPC API with an XML document and have users reverse
> engineer
> it. The API in question should be documented something like this:
>
> Method name: "Gateway.SendMessage"
> One parameter, of type structure. Members:
>
> Service: type integer, meaning: ... example: 0
> Password: type string, meaning: ... example: "aPassword"
> Text: type string, meaning: ... example: "A demonstration short message"
> DeliveryTime: type datetime, meaning: ... example: April 21, 2005 ...
>
> I don't fancy my chances of surviving telling our oh so sociable
developers this! :-} But thank you so much for explaining this to me...
what you are saying makes much more sense than what they try and brush me
off with.

>
> Anyway, the way you specify RPC parameters is to add each as an argument to
> your $client->send_request(). You need one parameter, so your
> $client->send_request will have two arguments. That one parameter is a
> structure, which is represented in XML::RPC by a XML::RPC::struct. The
> constructor for XML::RPC::struct (see perldoc XML:RPC) takes a Perl hash
> reference as its argument. Since a Perl hash and an XML-RPC structure are
> virtually identical data structures, it's easy to see the correspondence,
> with
> the one complication that the hash values are references to XML::RPC data
> objects, not the normal Perl data structures. The Perl hash you start with
> is
> thus something like
>
> ('Service' => new RPC::XML::int(0),
> 'Password' => new RPC::XML::string('aPassword'),
> 'Text' => new RPC::XML::string('A demonstration short message'),
> ...)
>
> Lovely. Just the info I needed. Thank you

This'll keep me busy until I decide I want to set up my own RPC-XML server
to play with!

Bill

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