Setting up test for XML-RPC

[Moosebumps]

OK, I tried the obvious and it worked.  : )  I just changed the call to
server.pow(3,5) and it returns the correct result.  I wonder why they aren't
set up that way in the first place.

But the second question still stands.  I am running both the client and
server on my own machine now (Windows 2000).  Would I just need Python and
web server if they were different machines?  I would like to avoid
installing a bunch of software on the 20 machines if possible.

thanks,
MB

"Moosebumps" <crap at crud.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to test out Python XML-RPC for the first time, and can't find
> anything that executes a call end to end.
>
> I thought that I would use SimpleXMLRPCServer to run a simple server on
> localhost, and xmlrpclib to run a client that connects to it, but they
don't
> seem to register the same functions.  The server test code registers 'pow'
> and 'add' (in the Python 2.3 distribution) but the client seems to call
> "print server.examples.getStateName(41)".  It doesn't seem like they were
> meant to work together as a unit test, although that would seem logical.
>
> Can anyone help me just get a single XML-RPC call to execute (and I want
to
> see both the client and server code)?  I have googled extensively and
> haven't come up with anything.
>
> Also -- I'm investigating this for a nightly build process involving many
> machines.  There is going to be a master machine that sends requests to 20
> other machines to build things.  They're just a bunch of Windows XP
> machines, with almost no software on them.  What software would I need to
> install to run XML-RPC servers on them to receive requests?  Just Python
and
> a web server like Apache?
>
> If there are any other _very_ lightweight RPC mechanisms, I would
appreciate
> hearing about them.  I am writing some build scripts in Python, and while
I
> could for example schedule a task on 20 machines separately, it would be
> nicer to have a master machine control when the build happened, etc. and
be
> able to manage dependencies by waiting for a return result, etc.  All I
want
> to do is execute a python function on a remote machine and get a result
> back.  It is all done in a local, secure environment.
>
> Thanks for all the previous responses to my questions -- this newsgroup
has
> been very helpful.
>
> MB
>
>