XML-RPC calls look nicer!
You can call any method onto objects of that class - the object handles XMLRPC::Client::Proxy#method_missing
and will forward the method call to a XML-RPC server.
Don’t use this class directly, instead use the public instance method XMLRPC::Client#proxy
or XMLRPC::Client#proxy2
.
require "xmlrpc/client" server = XMLRPC::Client.new("www.ruby-lang.org", "/RPC2", 80) michael = server.proxy("michael") michael2 = server.proxy("michael", 4) # both calls should return the same value '9'. p michael.add(4,5) p michael2.add(5)
# File tmp/rubies/ruby-2.3.8/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb, line 607
def initialize(server, prefix, args=[], meth=:call, delim=".")
@server = server
@prefix = prefix ? prefix + delim : ""
@args = args
@meth = meth
end
Creates an object which provides XMLRPC::Client::Proxy#method_missing
.
The given server
must be an instance of XMLRPC::Client
, which is the XML-RPC server to be used for a XML-RPC call.
prefix
and delim
will be prepended to the method name called onto this object.
An optional parameter meth
is the method to use for a RPC. It can be either, call, call2, call_async, call2_async
args
are arguments which are automatically given to every XML-RPC call before being provided through method_missing
.
# File tmp/rubies/ruby-2.3.8/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb, line 619
def method_missing(mid, *args)
pre = @prefix + mid.to_s
arg = @args + args
@server.send(@meth, pre, *arg)
end
Every method call is forwarded to the XML-RPC server defined in XMLRPC::Client::Proxy#new.
Note: Inherited methods from class Object
cannot be used as XML-RPC names, because they get around method_missing
.