keyword arguments for xml-rpc

[Diez B. Roggisch]

proteusguy at gmail.com wrote:

>     I've just noticed that I can't seem to use keyword arguments for
> xml-rpc requests even though the protocol itself encodes parameter
> names, types, and values when it sends the xml across the network.
> This becomes a bit problematic for me because I want to store some XML-
> RPC method dispatch signatures in a database and can't easily
> guarantee parameter order when I load it so being able to pass a
> dictionary of name/value pairs greatly eases the development effort
> and helps assure correct methods get invoked. Is this a limitation of
> the SimpleXMLRPCServer, the xmlrpclib.ServerProxy, or something
> completely different?

I don't see[1] the possibility to pass keyword arguments via XMLRPC. Where
did you get that impression from? You can pass structs though, maybe that
confused you?


Diez

[1] http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec