Revision history for Perl extension RPC::XML.
0.62 Fri Sep 19 02:12:02 PDT 2008
t/40_server.t:
Extended the die message when $srv fails to allocate. Some testers are
getting a failure here but I have no idea how or why.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
Testers-service reports showed that the new i8 type was not auto-boxing
correctly on true 64-bit machines. Turns out I had bogus values for
the maximums and minimums, not just for 8-byte ints but also for plain
4-byte ones as well.
0.61 Mon Sep 15 01:38:44 PDT 2008
t/00_load.t:
Converted to Test::More due to some cpan-testers reports that showed
test 2 failing. Hoping this might provide better feedback if it
continues to fail.
t/40_server.t:
Changed a test for "localhost:$port" in the server URL method to
optionally allow localhost.localdomain, for those systems whose
/etc/hosts cause the former to convert to the latter. Was causing
false failures.
t/40_server.t:
t/50_client.t:
t/60_net_server.t:
Test suites armored against server processes that die as a result of
croak() or other calls within 3rd-party modules. The client and
net_server suites were also converted to Test::More at this time.
t/40_server.t:
Fix for RT ticket #36078, fix the URL testing on the server object to
be less strict. Instead of only allowing "localhost", now also allows
"localhost.localdomain" and does a look-up of "localhost" for the 127.*
IP address and permits that as well. In essence, this extends and
supercedes the second change listed above after more invariant cases
were discovered.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/10_data.t:
Per RT ticket #30354 and specific request from a large agency using
this package, implemented an "i8" type as an extension to the official
XML-RPC specification. Documentation and tests included. THIS SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED EXPERIMENTAL.
t/40_server.t:
t/60_net_server.t:
Some of the work in armoring the test suites against server-death
changed the counts on tests and on call-counts in the system.status
method. Some explicit re-starts didn't help.
0.60 Wed Apr 9 03:01:07 PDT 2008
t/00_load.t:
t/01_pod.t:
t/02_pod_coverage.t:
t/10_data.t:
t/11_base64_fh.t:
t/15_serialize.t:
t/20_parser.t:
t/30_method.t:
t/40_server.t:
t/50_client.t:
t/60_net_server.t:
Related to the main change of RT ticket #30849, fixes potential
problem in the creation of temporary file names if a test script is
run directly from the "t" directory. While at it, added a line with
the Subversion "Id" keyword and set the "svn:keywords" property on
all test scripts. The code-fix is based on suggestions from Jörg
Meltzer <joerg@joergmeltzer.de>.
lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm:
Per RT ticket #30849, fix problem caused by having colons in
temp-file names. Fix largely from patch suggested by Jörg Meltzer
<joerg@joergmeltzer.de>.
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Applied a modified form of a patch submitted by Mike Rylander
<miker@n2bb.com> to make things work under SSL.
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
t/41_server_hang.t:
Fixed the bug in RPC::XML::Server::process_request() could lead to an
infinite loop if the client shuts down the socket before the full
request is sent. Added a test script specific to this bug, to catch it
if it reappears.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/10_data.t:
Per RT ticket #30042, made a do-nothing branch in
RPC::XML::smart_encode actually die with an error when a
reference-type is passed in that cannot be converted. Added two
tests to cover this, and took the opportunity to convert 10_data.t
to Test::More.
t/40_server.t:
t/50_client.t:
Applied a patch from Chris Darroch to make the spawning of servers
work in some corner-cases that were failing. All that was required
was explicit specification of 'localhost' in the instantiation.
lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm:
t/20_parser.t:
Applied a patch from Masatake Daimon (大門正岳) to improve
the performance of the parser by reducing the (vast) number of
string-concat operations. During this change, re-wrote the parser
tests to use Test::More and have better diagnostics.
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
t/40_server.t:
Per RT ticket #29351, fixed a bug that caused a server to incorrectly
report the location and cause of an XML parsing error in the
request. The actual bug and solution were different than initially
reported in the ticket.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/10_data.t:
Per RT ticket #31818, fix to the XML serialization of double values
to conform to the XML-RPC spec, as it does not allow for exponential
notation. This also required changes to the tests, as values were
no longer being auto-truncated at 5 decimal places. Also finished
cleaning up the t/10_data.t test suite with diagnostic messages on
the tests that had not previously gotten them.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/20_parser.t:
In response to concerns raised by a report of parsing problems,
added XML entity encoding for ' and " (' and ") to the base
RPC::XML module, and added a test to the parser suite to make sure
it is correctly turning all core XML entities back into characters
during the parsing process.
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
t/40_server.t:
RT ticket #34557: Provide access to client-side connection info to
methods called on the server, by placing the data from get_peeraddr()
(as abstracted through existing methods in HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn
and Apache::Connection) into localized keys on the server object, as
is already done with the method_name and signature pseudo-keys. Tests
added to 40_server.t and docs updated.
etc/make_method:
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
Updated all copyright/redistribution information with current year
and correct/current URLs for Artistic and LGPL licenses.
0.59 Fri Jun 30 01:48:37 MDT 2006
t/10_data.t:
Eliminated the source of some "Modification of a read-only value..."
errors. Patch from Juan Camacho.
t/01_pod.t (ADD):
t/02_pod_coverage.t (ADD):
Two new unit-test suites added; the first checks the validity of the
POD docs in each module (correctness tests), the other checks that POD
covers all the publically-visible API routines (coverage tests).
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Fixes to POD documentation (and/or inline comments) as uncovered by
the added POD-oriented unit tests.
README.apache (DELETE):
MANIFEST:
The README.apache file is no longer relevant.
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
Fixed the logic around the setting of $no_def in new(); it was
handling the no_default method-argument backwards. Found by Eric
Cholet.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/01_data.t:
Applied a patch from Jos Boumans to add flexibility to the
smart_encode() hack that tries to match bare Perl data to RPC classes.
At the same time, added documentation of the $ENCODE global variable
in the documentation.
0.58 Thu May 12 03:24:23 PDT 2005
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/10_data.t:
Applied patches from Stephen Veiss to fix a small bug in the encoding
method of RPC::XML::string. Trying to encode the literal string "0"
would result in a null string. The patches provided the fix and a
specific test-case for the related suite.
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Applied a patch from Mike Pomraning to allow user-level functions to
return RPC::XML::fault objects directly without them being further
wrapped by intermediate layers.
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
Implemented a modified version of a patch from Lubomir Host that
addresses an intermittent IOCTL problem when reading XPL files.
Makefile.PL:
Incremented package version number and put in warning of the impending
move to XML::LibXML.
0.57 Fri Dec 24 03:02:48 PST 2004
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
Some minor changes to how values are read from the configuration, to
reduce "use of uninitialized value" warnings in regex operations.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
t/10_data.t:
Based on a report from Brian Phillips, made adjustments in the
smart_encode helper-routine to deal with blessed references. Anything
that is derived from HASH or ARRAY is encoded as a struct or array,
respectively. Anything derived from SCALAR is dereferenced and encoded
as per usual. Carried this over to the class constructors, with special
attention to the RPC::XML::simple_type class. Added tests to the suite
for all of this, as well.
lib/Apache/RPC/status.base:
lib/Apache/RPC/status.code:
lib/Apache/RPC/status.help:
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
methods/status.base:
methods/status.code:
methods/status.help:
t/40_server.t:
The "system.status" method (both the general one and the one that is
specific to Apache) now recognizes an optional boolean parameter that
can keep the status call from counting against the "total_requests"
struct value. This is to allow external monitors (status, health, etc.)
to use that call without running up the value of that field needlessly.
0.56 Thu Dec 9 01:06:24 PST 2004
etc/make_method:
Small change to the generated XML, to add an "encoding" setting to the
XML preamble.
t/10_data.t:
t/60_net_server.t:
Very minor changes, to make the test work with older Perls and/or Test
modules.
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
Add "encoding" settings to all XML preambles, and make the scalar
variable "$RPC::XML::ENCODING" an importable symbol, should users want
to change the default encoding. Not currently documented, since this is
technically a break from the XML-RPC spec.
Makefile.PL:
t/50_client.t:
Traced a bug that was causing test failures in 50_client.t to a bug in
version 5.800 of the LWP package. Now, Makefile.PL explicitly requires
5.801 or higher, and the test suite skips the two tests that are broken
by it, in cases where the system is still at 5.800 or older.
lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm:
Adding the encoding to the request and response blocks messed up some
of the tests in the 10_data.t and 15_serialize.t suites. Fixed.
README:
etc/make_method:
etc/rpc-method.dtd:
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm:
lib/RPC/XML.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Changed all URL references to the Artistic License from the (no longer
valid) language.perl.com version to the (current, working)
www.opensource.org one.
0.55 Tue Nov 30 01:16:57 PST 2004
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Fix from Thomax G. to the loop-invariance near line 1403, for a bug
that mostly appears with openACS-based clients.
t/60_net_server.t:
Clarify in the message emitted why the tests are skipped when
Net::Server is not available.
lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm:
Fix based on input from several sources: The Content-Encoding header
was not being set correctly for responses when compression was applied
to the response message.
lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm:
Applied a fix from the Debian maintainer of this package for their
distribution, David Parrish: auto-reloading of methods was not actually
stuffing the new data into the calling object.
lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm:
Applied a patch from a user to fix a problem with reading PerlSetVar
values withing a <Location> block (worked fine in <Perl> blocks),
as well as a small addition to the examples in the docs.
0.54 Wed Apr 14 04:43:56 PDT 2004
Extended the $CLEAN list in Makefile.PL to also delete all *.ppd
files. Also bumped the package version number to 0.54.
Applied a patch from Tim Peoples that does three things: the 301
error code in RPC::XML::Procedure::call now includes signature info
when a signature mismatch occurs. RPC::XML::smart_encode turns undef
values into zero-length RPC::XML::string objects. Lastly, the
RPC::XML::string::as_string method turns undef into null values as
well.
Small change to the XML character-escaping in RPC::XML::string's
as_string method, so that a lookup-table is used. The same table
is now used to escape keys in structs, as well. Added tests to cover
this. This was suggested by Johnathan Kupferer.
Made a small change for the sake of syntax pedantry to t/20_parse.t.
Fix to the error-handling for a failed LWP::UserAgent->request call
in RPC::XML::Client::send_request (thanks to Jasper Cramwinckel).
Also got a small glitch covered in one of the calls to the inflate()
method in Compress::Zlib. Thanks to John Tobing for that one.
Dropped a regex-compare in favor of a string-compare for the special
case of the XML tag being dateTime.iso8601. In some locales, the 'lc'
caused problems. This is near RPC::XML::Parser line 288.
Applied a patch to Apache::RPC::Server (supplied by Tim Peoples) to
support "NoCompression" as a PerlSetVar directive, the function of
which is to disable compression support upon demand.
Fixed two minor typos in the Apache::RPC::Server docs, the names for
two of the PerlSetVar directives.
Added to the docs the fact that struct keys are now escaped. Also put
some coverage in the docs on the two ways of initializing a struct
object.
Applied a patch from Chris Darroch to allow better handling of
arguments in RPC::XML::Server::server_loop. While the HTTP::Daemon
portion was fine with collapsing the arg list into a hash, the
Net::Server portion actually has documented behavior when it sees the
same argument more than once, and collapsing to a hash caused these
extra arguments to be lost.
0.53 Tue Feb 25 01:12:11 PST 2003
Eliminated a warning under 5.00503 from t/40_server.t.
Changes to the opening of files for base64 data to accomodate Perl
5.00503. The old way (passing an undef scalar as the first argument
to open()) doesn't work in that version.
Added a one-byte offset to the filehandle-length tests in the
t/15_serialize.t suite to account for Win-ish systems.
Forgot to tag an newly-opened filehandle with binmode() at one point
in the base64 support within RPC::XML.
0.52 Mon Feb 10 01:37:05 PST 2003
Really got the warning in RPC::XML::Server.pm this time. Really. Also
got some potential errors that seem to be overlooked under auto-loading
but appear when auto-loading is disabled.
Fixed a potentially-confusing problem in the example code within the
RPC::XML::Client man page, just under "SYNOPSIS".
More work to the spec.in RPM specfile template. The Provides/Requires
list should be a lot cleaner now, and it also builds packages under
rpm 4.1, now.
Fixed a lurking bug in the Apache::RPC::Server class that was not
setting the headers properly on responses. Probably lived this long
because no one else but me was using it, and my client is lax enough
to ignore it.
0.51 Thu Jan 30 00:49:07 PST 2003
Removed an extraneous print line in t/11_base64_fh that caused a
warning on some systems.
Fixed calls to skip() in the test suites so that they work with
older versions of the Test module.
Calls to the encode_base64 routine from MIME::Base64 now pass a zero-
length second argument, to suppress newlines between Base64 lines
when stringifying the RPC::XML::base64 objects. This is to accomodate
a broken Java XML-RPC package.
Force a default value for the compress_re attribute in RPC::XML::Server
when none is otherwise present. All my tests have had Compress::Zlib
available, but when it isn't the compress_re attribute was triggering
warnings when used in a regex.
0.50 Mon Jan 27 03:24:45 PST 2003
Changed the usage of =head3 directives in the manual page for
RPC::XML::Procedure to a =over/=back block instead. The =head3
directive requires a newer set of pod utilities, and would mean the
package had trouble building on 5.005 installations.
Extended the RPC::XML::base64 class to allow for and handle being
given a filehandle object instead of straight data. The object is
kept as an open filehandle, and the buffer position is always noted
and reset when operated on, so that other parts of the process using
the handle don't get surprised. Added tests in t/11_base64_fh.t to
exercise this.
Added a serialize() method to all the data classes in preparation for
changing the client and server modules to stream XML over the line
rather than print it using in-memory strings. Added test suite
t/15_serialize.t to exercise this.
Modified RPC::XML::Parser to accept arguments to new() that instruct
it to spool Base64 data to a filehandle, using the new capabilities
of the base64 class described previously. Added tests to t/20_parser.t
and support for the parameters to the constructors of the client and
base server classes. Documented all around.
Re-engineered the test for the "bytes" pragma in RPC::XML, so that
it now works with Perl 5.005.
Fixed the credentials() method in RPC::XML::Client.
All the internal use of object attributes in RPC::XML::Client now use
accessors instead of the hash keys directly, to make it easier to
sub-class the package. The same was done in RPC::XML::Server and to
some degree in Apache::RPC::Server. The server classes are more likely
to have problems, though.
The parsing of incoming data in the client and both server classes is
now done to a streaming XML parser, eliminating the need for the
full message to ever be in memory at once. Likewise, the client and
server classes have new attributes and accessor methods to allow
them to spool outgoing messages to files if the messages threaten to
be too large to keep in memory (this is best used when dealing with a
lot of Base64 data that is being dealt with directly on disk as well).
0.46 Sun Dec 29 23:39:05 PST 2002
Applied a patch from Andrew Langmead to fix a bug in the uri() method
of RPC::XML::Client. Prior, retrieving the value could accidentally
reset it. Applied another fix from him to prevent a possible warning.
Applied another patch to better handle testing of the availability of
compression in the client.
Moving around some of the RPM spec-file generation caused problems
with some people trying to build the package if spec.in was missing.
Fixed this in Makefile.PL.
Fix to RPC::XML::Procedure per tip from Stig Porsgaard, to fix the
reading of 'signature' arguments to new() when providing all the
proc data directly. Reported by others as well, but Stig nailed it
down to a specific line.
0.45 Tue Oct 29 21:06:00 PST 2002
Fixed a problem in the test-usage of the bytes pragma in RPC::XML,
reported by Marc Jauvin.
Closed a potential security hole in the parsing of external entities,
pointed out by Gregory Steuck.
0.44 Fri Aug 30 23:44:08 PDT 2002
Cleaned up the exports list in RPC::XML.pm, which still had remnants
from when this package was intended to extend XML-RPC. There were no
routines to match the symbols, but the potential for error was there.
Fixed a typo in the docs for RPC::XML::Client, and some documentation
goofs in RPC::XML::Server (regarding the timeout method/option). A
few doc fixes in RPC::XML::Procedure, for good measure.
Implemented two fixes sent in by Marc Liyanage: a fix for setting the
Content-Length headers on messages that takes the length in bytes
rather than characters; the second is a fix around the compression
support that makes certain an undef isn't evaluated against the
regex.
The above added an exported function to RPC::XML, so that got
documented. In the process, it occurred to me to document the helper
functions like RPC_BOOLEAN, RPC_DOUBLE, etc.
0.43 Sun Aug 18 22:19:30 PDT 2002
Changed methods/methodSignature.code, t/40_server.t and
t/60_net_server.t so that the provided system.methodSignature follows
the accepted API (returns a list of lists, rather than list of
strings). Pointed out by Bjoern Stierand.
Added a missing helper (RPC_I4) to RPC::XML.pm.
Fixed a bad bug with the newly-added compression support in
Apache::RPC::Server::handler. Because $self was defined earlier,
strict failed to point out that my object in that scope was called
$srv, rather than $self. And $self->compress didn't work, amazingly
enough. Found and reported by Scott Fagg.
Added a credentials() method to the RPC::XML::Client class to set
Basic Authentication credentials on the underlying LWP::UserAgent
object. Per suggestion and sample implementation from Stuart Clark.
Fixed a docs-nit in RPC::XML::Server, and did some major clean-up in
the docs for RPC::XML. In particular, added documentation for one
of the data class methods that had been overlooked ("type").
0.42 Thu Aug 1 00:51:12 PDT 2002
Changed the test in Apache::RPC::Server of the Content-type header so
that it accepts a header that contains "text/xml", as opposed to only
accepting a header that exactly equalled that string. Allows for
things like SOAP::Lite's XMLRPC::Lite which include a charset in the
header.
time2iso8601() in the RPC::XML module now allows defaulting of the
$time argument to time() (which means no timezone specification).
Found a bug in RPC::XML::Parser where base64 data being parsed in a
request/response message wasn't being properly passed to the c'tor
for RPC::XML::base64. Reported by Chris Brierley.
Added a line in Apache::RPC::Server to set the Content-Type header
on HEAD responses. Apache won't take this from the usual header()
method, it has to be explicitly set with content_type().
Two of the tests in t/40_server.t could cause fatal errors since a
return value wasn't tested for ref-ness before having a method called
on it. Fixed.
Compress::Zlib-based compression is now supported in RPC::XML::Server,
RPC::XML::Client and Apache::RPC::Server. It should be compatible with
the XMLRPC::Lite package's compression.
0.41 Wed May 22 02:50:47 PDT 2002
Wrapped the call to XML::Parser::parse (lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm) in an
eval {} so that parse failures don't kill a server or client. Reported
by Kevin Greene.
An intended clone-operation in RPC::XML::response::new (lib/RPC/XML.pm)
was never actually written, which allowed for a corner case that could
result in new() return undef when it shouldn't. Related to the bug
reported by Sergey Scherbinin.
The RPC::XML::Procedure::call method (lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm) had one
error-check loop that was returning a full RPC::XML::response object,
instead of just a RPC::XML::fault. Reported by Sergey Scherbinin.
0.40 Sat May 4 00:42:18 PDT 2002
Fixed some grammar problems in error messages, and some formatting.
Fixed a bug in the new() method of Apache::RPC::Server where it was
expecting the value of the "apache" key to be an object of the
Apache::Server class, but it was actually getting an object of the
Apache class.
Created RPC::XML::Function class, which is a type of server-side
encapsulator that doesn't bother with signature tests of any kind.
The DTD and make_method tool support the new type.
Changed the encoding of the Perl code in etc/make_method as follows:
If the code does not already contain either of the two sequences,
']]>' or '__DATA__', then the code is wrapped in a <![CDATA[ ]]>
section, with #!/usr/bin/perl (actually, $Config{startperl}) at the
head and __DATA__ at the end. Besides leaving the Perl code readable,
the *.xpl files can now be syntax-checked with "perl -cx". Thanks to
the mod_perl guys for this idea, cribbed from their manual page.
Abstracted some of the invocation code out of the server class and
into the RPC::XML::Procedure class, where it really belonged. This
aided in further eliminating redundancy in the server class in the
same general area. I may yet want to tune this area, but I'm a good
deal happier with the reduction in complexity and repetition.
0.37 Fri Mar 22 22:16:08 PST 2002
Applied a patch to RPC::XML::Server from Tino Wuensche
(<tino_wuensche@yahoo.com>) that fixed some of the signal-handling
and exit-case-handling in server_loop().
Fixed a bug in RPC::XML::Procedure found by a user (a former
co-worker from my Denver days, coincidentally enough) that would
trigger when auto_methods was set to 1 on a server object, but the
request had no matching file anywhere in the search path.
0.36 Tue Jan 29 12:11:30 PST 2002
The file util.pl in the t directory was accidentally omitted from the
0.35 release. This release is meant only to correct that oversight.
0.35 Sun Jan 27 16:29:19 PST 2002
Fixed a small bug in make_method that would have caused a failure if
anyone used the command-line switches to specify data, rather than a
base-file (specifically, the handling of the --code argument). Also
clarified a few places in the man page.
Found bugs in both versions of the system.status server method (both
the basic and the Apache flavor). Both were neglecting to set the
"methods_known" value. Also found a bug in system.methodHelp. Amazing
what writing the regression tests can uncover.
RPC::XML::Method is now a skeleton file, slated to be removed by or
before 1.0. It has been renamed to RPC::XML::Procedure, and the
RPC::XML::Method class is declared as an empty subclass of the
RPC::XML::Procedure class. Procedures differ from methods in that they
do not get the server object instance as a first parameter in the list
that gets passed in.
Support for RPC::XML::Procedure (and general procedure vs. method)
added to the DTD and the make_method tool. All the routines in the
ex/ directory are declared as procedures, to further illustrate the
concept.
When code blocks for XPL files are eval'd, they are given a "package"
statement to force subsequent calls to be in the RPC::XML::Pprocedure
namespace, rather than defaulting to main (a potentially dangerous
assumption). The docs on routine-calling in RPC::XML::Server have been
updated to discuss this.
Many more tests added to the suite for RPC::XML::Server.
Created the test suite for RPC::XML::Client.
RPC::XML::Client no longer returns a full RPC::XML::response object
from any of its routines. Rather, simple_request still does what it
always has, and send_request now returns a data-type value. All the
data-type classes have a method called "is_fault" that returns false
for all except (of course) RPC::XML::fault. This lets callers of
send_request test the return value to see if it is a fault.
Added callback support for errors and faults to the RPC::XML::Client
class. This allows programmers to tie specific actions to cases where
a call returns a RPC::XML::fault object, or an outright error.
Created a separate test suite for RPC::XML::Server when used in
conjunction with the Net::Server package (it skips if the latter is
not installed on the system).
Almost all of the method-manipulation routines in RPC::XML::Server (all
but add_default_methods()) now have counterparts called by the same
name after s/method/proc/. This is purely for syntactical sugar and
symmetry. Except in the case of add_proc(), where it actually ensures
that a hash-reference calling convention is geared correctly to add a
RPC::XML::Procedure object rather than RPC::XML::Method.
0.30 Thu Jan 3 01:57:29 PST 2002
- first beta release
Apache::RPC::Server::list_servers no longer sorts the list before
returning it. No reason to assume it matters, or to levy that tax
against those who don't care.
RPC::XML::Server::url now constructs saner strings for HTTPS and for
HTTP on port 80.
The new() method in RPC::XML::Server wasn't quite handling the "host"
and "port" arguments that Apache::RPC::Server sent it correctly.
Added a patch to the RPC::XML::Server class from Christopher Blizzard
(blizzard@redhat.com) to allow control over the timeout interval that
HTTP::Daemon uses in answering new connections.
Replaced a GNU Make-centric dependancy rule for the XPL files with
a more portable .SUFFIXES-based one. This is unfortunate, as the %
syntax of GNU make is much cleaner. But GNU Make isn't universal. Yet.
This release marks the debut of Apache::RPC::Status, a monitor similar
in nature and design to Apache::Status, for running RPC servers under
Apache/mod_perl. See the manual page for details.
Documentation for Apache::RPC::Server was updated based on trials and
travails in trying to actually set up a configuration inside <Perl>
blocks. This isn't very clear in the mod_perl documentation, but at
least the docs for this module reflect exactly what I have configured
on my development box, so I know it works.
0.29 Sun Dec 2 22:41:39 PST 2001
Added share_methods(), copy_methods() and delete_method() calls to the
RPC::XML::Server class (and thus to the Apache class as well). Had
already added an INSTALL_DIR method to retrieve the class-specific
installation dir to the Apache class, so mirrored it here, as well.
Added list_servers() static method to Apache::RPC::Server, to allow
for abstract retrieval of the ID-tags of the current known servers.
This is mainly so Apache::RPC::Status can use it in conjunction with
get_server() to examine the server objects for the sake of stats and
such.
Added list_methods() to RPC::XML::Server, to list the object's known
(published) methods by name. Mainly for use in the regression suites,
but worth documenting in the API in case someone else finds it
useful.
Four of the provided methods in the introspection API
(system.introspection, system.listMethods, system.methodHelp and
system.methodSignature) needed to be updated to use the newer API for
the XML::RPC::Method class when retrieving information from the server.
Started the test suites for RPC::XML::Method and RPC::XML::Server.
The tests that are delivered as part of this build are not fully
complete, but should be a reasonable start.
0.28 Sun Oct 7 21:27:39 PDT 2001
Found a subtle-but-nasty bug in the handling of RPC::XML::string
objects. Thanks to Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com> for pointing
me in the right direction.
Started down the path of making the suite as a whole geared more
towards real use than illustrative example. The XML data-classes now
no longer use indention (or any superfluous whitespace) in their
stringification. This shortened the code quite a bit, and will also
mean shorter messages. This could not have been done cleanly without
the tests in t/10_data.t.
Extracted the method-manipulation code into a new class, called
RPC::XML::Method. This should make method-sharing easier, and pull
a lot of method-specific code out of RPC::XML::Server and
Apache::RPC::Server.
Clarified some issues in the new() constructor of the
Apache::RPC::Server class, and also changed the calling convention.
It no longer treats the first few arguments in any special way at all.
The arguments are all consistently taken as option/value pairs, just
as with RPC::XML::Server. The documentation reflects this. This may
break things built on the old style, but in the long run it should
prove much better.
0.27 Sun Jul 8 16:25:51 PDT 2001
Removed a -w warning from RPC/XML.pm. Fixed some cases in the new()
method of RPC::XML::boolean that would have permitted invalid data.
Added two convenience methods to RPC::XML::fault, called code() and
string(), that fetch the faultCode and faultString member values as
native Perl values. The RPC::XML::base64 class was using the wrong
container tags in the as_string method.
Clarified and expanded some of the documentation in RPC/XML/Server.pm.
Adjusted the PREREQ_PM hash in Makefile.PL so that it correctly looks
for LWP, and also looks for File::Spec 0.8 or newer (needed to ensure
that the splitpath() method is available).
Cleaned up the load-tests (t/00_load.t) to use the Test harnessing
package. Added test suites for the RPC::XML data classes (t/10_data.t,
96 tests) and the RPC::XML::Parser container-class (t/20_parser.t,
7 tests).
0.26 Mon Jun 25 22:30:18 PDT 2001
Fixed some doc errors in RPC::XML::Server. Mainly things I had
simplified, but not updated the docs to reflect.
Added a fair amount to the docs in Apache::RPC::Server. In particular,
a new section was added that illustrates using <Perl> configuration
sections to create the server objects in the master Apache process,
so that they are automatically inherited by children.
0.25 Tue Jun 12 22:35:09 PDT 2001
This is the initial release.