Name
ServerProxy
Synopsis
class ServerProxy(url
)
If the server at the given url
supports
introspection, s
supplies an attribute
s
.server
that in turn
supplies three methods:
-
s
.server.listMethods( )
Returns a list of strings, one per each method supported by the server.
-
s
.server.methodSignature(
name
)
Returns a list of strings, each a signature of method
name
on the server. A signature string is composed of type names separated by commas: first the type of the return value, then the type of each argument. When methodname
has no defined signature,s.server.methodSignature(
name
)
returns some object that is not a list.-
s
.server.methodHelp(
name
)
Returns a string with help about method
name
. The string can be either plain text or HTML. When the methodname
has no defined help,s.server.methodHelp(
name
)
returns an empty string ''.
The following example uses xmlrpclib
to access
O’Reilly’s Meerkat open wire
service (see http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
for more information about Meerkat) and displays the last few news
items about Python.
import xmlrpclib proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( 'http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/xml-rpc/server.php') results = proxy.meerkat.getItems({'search':'Python', 'num_items':7}) want_keys = 'title link description'.split( ) n = 0 for result in results: n = n + 1 for key in want_keys: print '%d. %s: %s' % (n, key.title( ), result.get(key)) print
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