Type:
Class
Constants:
USER_AGENT : "XMLRPC::Client (Ruby #{RUBY_VERSION})"

Provides remote procedure calls to a XML-RPC server.

After setting the connection-parameters with ::new which creates a new XMLRPC::Client instance, you can execute a remote procedure by sending the #call or #call2 message to this new instance.

The given parameters indicate which method to call on the remote-side and of course the parameters for the remote procedure.

require "xmlrpc/client"

server = XMLRPC::Client.new("www.ruby-lang.org", "/RPC2", 80)
begin
  param = server.call("michael.add", 4, 5)
  puts "4 + 5 = #{param}"
rescue XMLRPC::FaultException => e
  puts "Error:"
  puts e.faultCode
  puts e.faultString
end

or

require "xmlrpc/client"

server = XMLRPC::Client.new("www.ruby-lang.org", "/RPC2", 80)
ok, param = server.call2("michael.add", 4, 5)
if ok then
  puts "4 + 5 = #{param}"
else
  puts "Error:"
  puts param.faultCode
  puts param.faultString
end
new_from_uri
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

new_from_uri(uri, proxy=nil, timeout=nil) Class Public methods Alias for:

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call_async
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

call_async(method, *args) Instance Public methods Similar to

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proxy2
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

proxy2(prefix=nil, *args) Instance Public methods Almost the same like

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multicall
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

multicall(*methods) Instance Public methods You can use this method to execute

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proxy
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

proxy(prefix=nil, *args) Instance Public methods Returns an object of class

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new_from_hash
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

new_from_hash(hash={}) Class Public methods Alias for:

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new
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

new(host=nil, path=nil, port=nil, proxy_host=nil, proxy_port=nil, user=nil, password=nil, use_ssl=nil, timeout=nil)

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new3
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

new3(hash={}) Class Public methods Receives a

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method_missing
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client/XMLRPC::Client::Proxy

method_missing(mid, *args) Instance Public methods Every method call is forwarded

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timeout=
  • References/Ruby on Rails/Ruby/Classes/XMLRPC/XMLRPC::Client

timeout=(new_timeout) Instance Public methods Sets the Net::HTTP#read_timeout

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