xmlrpc4r - XML-RPC for Ruby

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 by Michael Neumann (mneumann@ntecs.de)

Released under the same term of license as Ruby.

What is XML-RPC ?

XML-RPC provides remote procedure calls over HTTP with XML. It is like SOAP but much easier. For more information see the XML-RPC homepage <URL:http://www.xmlrpc.com/>.

HOWTO

See here.

Documentation

• Base64
• DateTime
• Client
• Server

Features

Extensions

• Introspection
• multiCall
• optionally nil values and integers larger than 32 Bit

Server

• Standalone XML-RPC server
• CGI-based (works with FastCGI)
• Apache mod_ruby server
• WEBrick servlet

Client

• synchronous/asynchronous calls
• Basic HTTP-401 Authentification
• HTTPS protocol (SSL)

Parser

• NQXMLStreamParser
• NQXMLTreeParser
• XMLStreamParser (fastest)
• XMLTreeParser
• REXMLStreamParser
• XMLScanStreamParser

General

• possible to choose between XMLParser Module (Expat wrapper) and NQXML (pure Ruby) parsers
• Marshalling Ruby objects to Hashs and reconstruct them later from a Hash
• SandStorm component architecture Client interface

ChangeLog

See here.

Download

xmlrpc4r can be downloaded from here.

Further information

For more information on installation and prerequisites read the README file of the package.