Portability | non-portable (requires extensions and non-portable libraries) |
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Stability | experimental |
Maintainer | bjorn@bringert.net |
This module contains the client functionality of XML-RPC. The XML-RPC specifcation is available at http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec.
A simple client application:
import Network.XmlRpc.Client server = "http://localhost/~bjorn/cgi-bin/simple_server" add :: String -> Int -> Int -> IO Int add url = remote url "examples.add" main = do let x = 4 y = 7 z <- add server x y putStrLn (show x ++ " + " ++ show y ++ " = " ++ show z)
Documentation
:: Remote a | |
=> String | Server URL. May contain username and password on the format username:password@ before the hostname. |
-> String | Remote method name. |
-> a | Any function
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Call a remote method.
:: String | URL for the XML-RPC server. |
-> String | Method name. |
-> [Value] | The arguments. |
-> Err IO Value | The result |
Low-level method calling function. Use this function if you need to do custom conversions between XML-RPC types and Haskell types. Throws an exception if the response was a fault.
XmlRpcType a => Remote (IO a) | |
(XmlRpcType a, Remote b) => Remote (a -> b) |