G'Day,
I have just recovered from an illness and thought I would begin the
port of the xmlrpc module to
openacs4.
As the present functionality of the module stands (I don't even know
whether it is module) it parses an xmlrpc call string, creating the
relevant data structures, resolves the method name and calls the
method. In addition to that I declared a proc xmlrpc_proc - this is
similar to proc_doc/ad_proc etc. In that it hides a lot of the detail
of aliasing arguments etc so that writing a xmlrpc function is almost
like writing a standard tcl proc.
However Rob and Ben both suggested that I try to integrate it tighter
with the ACS. I am not exactly sure how to do this? At the top of my
head I could add options to xmlrpc_proc such that a proc checks that
you are logged in or not and automatically checks for the first
argument being a session object. Also I could implement a methodname
resolution framework that would allow a standard function in the acs
(that accepts strings and lists) to be called.
Is there anything else? Any suggestions.
Cheers,
Hafeez
