xmlrpc

Module providing an easy to use XML-RPC implementation.
A remote service can be used as if it is an object inside JavaScript.

classes

• XMLRPCMethod
  A class for creating a remote method.
• ServerProxy
  Creates proxy objects which resemble a remote service.

exceptions

• InvalidServerResponse
  Thrown if a server did not respond with response status 200 (OK)..
  properties:
  • status The status returned by the server.


• MalformedXmlRpc
  Thrown if an XML-RPC response is not well formed.
  properties:
  • xml The xml source which caused the exception.


• Fault
  Thrown if the RPC response is a Fault.
  properties:
  • faultCode The fault code returned by the rpc call.
  • faultString The fault string returned by the rpc call.

methods

• marshall(obj)
  Marshalls an object to XML-RPC(converts an object into XML-RPC conforming xml)
  by calling the object's _toXmlRpc function.
  
  parameters:
  • obj The object to marshall.
  
  return value:
  An xml representation of the object.



• unmarshall(xml)
  Unmarshalls an XML document to a JavaScript object(converts xml to JavaScript object).
  It parses the xml source and creates a JavaScript object.
  
  parameters:
  • xml The xml document source to unmarshall.
  
  return value:
  A JavaScript object.

exended classes

• Object.prototype._toXmlRpc()
• String.prototype._toXmlRpc()
• Number.prototype._toXmlRpc()
• Boolean.prototype._toXmlRpc()
• Date.prototype._toXmlRpc()
• Array.prototype._toXmlRpc()
Return the object's XML representation conforming to XML-RPC specs.

requirements

For xmlrpc to work basically the same requirements as for urllib and xml apply.