xmlrpc-message-umd

UNMAINTAINED | This project is not maintained anymore (as of 2016 November 14).

About

xmlrpc-message-umd is an XMLRPC message builder, written in Javascript.

This module only provides a string builder; it does not make any HTTP request by itself. Basically, it is just a small set of utils that create a valid "ready-to-be-sent" XMLRPC string, also meaning it works with any HTTP request module.

Installation for production

with Node.js

xmlrpc-message-umd is available on NPM

You can install it with the following command:

npm install xmlrpc-message-umd

Browser globals and AMD

xmlrpc-message-umd is available on Bower

To install it from Bower, just run

bower install xmlrpc-message-umd

Installation for development

You also can download the whole project (and build it from its source; see below).

Either use git clone command to get it:

git clone https://github.com/t1st3/xmlrpc-message-umd.git

Or download the latest version of the whole project.

Then, get the dependencies of the project from both Bower and NPM:

npm install
bower install

Usage

To create an XML-RPC message, just add parameters to a new instance of the lib, like the following:

var a = ["chicken","duck","goose"];
var obj = new Object();
obj.x = 20;
obj.y = "cow";
obj.z = 3.14;
var date = new Date();
var msg = new XMLRPCMessage();
msg.setMethod("system.myMethod");
msg.addParameter("mississippi");
msg.addParameter(7);
msg.addParameter(false);
msg.addParameter(a);
msg.addParameter(obj);
msg.addParameter(date);
msg.xml();

msg.xml() would then return the complete XML string.

By default, the type of the parameters is automatically detected. You can prevent this behavior and force the type of a parameter, for example:

var msg = new XMLRPCMessage();
msg.setMethod("system.myMethod");
msg.addParameter("qwerty", "base64");

As described on Apache Sofftware Foundation's XMLRPC documentation, the following types are available for XMLRPC:

• i4 or int
• boolean
• string
• double
• dateTime.iso8601
• base64
• struct
• array

Finally, you can also force types of elements within a struct element or an array element:

var obj = new Object();
obj.x = 20;
obj.y = {data: "cow", type: "base64"};
var msg = new XMLRPCMessage();
msg.setMethod("system.myMethod");
msg.addParameter(obj);

Build from source

First, see "Installation for development" above. Do not forget to get the dependencies!

Then, you also need to install Gulp globally to build the project.

npm install -g gulp

See more at the "Getting started with Gulp" page.

Once you got the dependencies and installed Gulp globally, to get info about the package from the command line, just run:

gulp info

You are now ready to build!

The source is located in the "src" folder; the built target is located in the "dist" folder.

To build, just run:

gulp build

Tests

To test, you can use either the npm test command or the gulp test command:

npm test

or

gulp test

Serve and livereload

You can also use the serve task to load the html pages from ./test/ in your browser.

gulp serve

Once it has loaded the page in the browser, this task watches for any modification in the source. If changes happen in the source, the task automatically reloads the page in the browser (livereload).

License

This piece of code is triple-licensed: MIT / BSD / GPL licenses

Initial author

t1st3