I have a project for which being able to write xmlrpc server code in python would be vastly preferable to the second choice solution for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, pretty much everything I see on the net in the way of documentation appears either insufficient or outdated.
The example given in the Python documentation for SimpleXMLRPCServer is more or less incomprehensible. That example is as follows: class MyFuncs: def div(self, x, y) : return div(x,y) handler = CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler() handler.register_function(pow) handler.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add') handler.register_introspection_functions() handler.register_instance(MyFuncs()) handler.handle_request() I don't see where the "div(x,y)" which is returned in the class function definition comes from. I don't see any relationship between the class MyFuncs and the rest of the program. I don't see where the returned function "pow" comes from or what its relevance is. I don't see what "lambda" is or how a lambda function is supposed to be construed as adding two numbers together. I don't see how this server is supposed to be used. I also find an example written by Dave Warner: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/01/17/xmlrpcserver.html which is about four years old and dated. In particular, the include file xmlrpcserver which he imports no longer exists. And then, I find one example in an IBM reference which actually does work as stated on a single computer: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth10.html The test client provided looks like: mport xmlrpclib server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8888";) month = server.getMonth(2002, 8) print month which actually works. Nonetheless I need this thing to work across machines. I have a primitive network here usingVerizon DMS and a Linksys router which sees the three computers on it as 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, and 192.168.1.102 as usual. Question is, what does it take to run the server on 102 and a client on 100? Changing the obvious line in the client program to: server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://192.168.1.102:8888";) doesn't work. Aside from that, I'd like to get the CGI version of the thing which uses .py files in the CGI bin to work as well and again the only example I see of that (in the Python documentation) is undecipherable. I'd appreciate any suggestions or info anybody might have. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
