XML RPC Client and Server - meet xmlrpc-d

[Flamaros]

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 19:50:47 UTC, Pavel Kirienko wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working on some D-based project that needs to call and 
> serve XML-RPC procedures with multiple output parameters. Quick 
> lookaround revealed that:
> 1. There are no XML-RPC servers implemented in D, or wrapped in 
> D;
> 2. There are some simple XML-RPC clients, but no one supports 
> methods with multiple output parameters.
>
> So I decided to write ultimate XML-RPC library that could 
> follow XML-RPC standard as close as ... well, as I could manage 
> it. :)
>
> Grab your copy here: https://github.com/pavel-kirienko/xmlrpc-d
>
> D's compile-time introspection is utterly amazing, it enables 
> such features as automatic conversion of a value which type is 
> not known at compile-time to something predefined. This makes 
> possible to define XML-RPC methods in the simplest way possible 
> (as regular functions), all the boring job of turning the 
> function parameters into XML-RPC types and vice versa is 
> carried out by compiler with the help of the Variant type:
>
> ----------
> real multiply(real a, real b) { return a * b; }
> xmlrpcServer.addMethod!multiply();
> ----------
>
> Which also makes possble such weird things like that:
>
> ----------
> // multiply() expects two arguments of type 'real' and returns 
> 'real',
> // but we call it with strings:
> string ret = client.call!("multiply", string)("6", "9");
> ----------
>
> Take a look into the 'example' directory on the Github page to 
> see more examples.
>
> It is worth to mention that this is my first project in D - I 
> was concurrently studying "The D Programming Language" by 
> Andrei Alexandrescu (great book Andrei!), thus the code may 
> need some review.
>
>
> Good luck with your projects,
> Pavel.

We'll need RPC for our projects, we are interested.

I hope you'll made pull requests for an integration to phobos.


Good luck.