Multiple XML-RPC calls over the same connection?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

The Fumigator wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I want to be able to create a persistent connection between an XML-RPC
> client and server... i.e. I want to be able to login once, carry
> out a number of calls and then logout rather than send login info 
> every call.
> Is there a way to do this with the xml-rpc code in the standard library?

Not to my knowlegde - and the reason is not python, but the primitiveness of
xmlrpc. It simply doesn't allow for connection state to be associated.

What I do is to create handles, and pass these around - that at least limits
and sort of normalizes the api usage:

proxy = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:7080/')
ak = proxy.authenticate(user, password)
print proxy.some_method(ak, argument)

If you want stateful connection, use better IPC-standards, as CORBA - its
way more advanced. SOAP gets attention lately, but its similarily limited
as xmlrpc, and while session state associoated with soap connections is
possible sometimes, its not standarized....


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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch