helma.xmlrpc
Class XmlRpcClient

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--helma.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient

All Implemented Interfaces:

XmlRpcHandler

public class XmlRpcClient

extends java.lang.Object

implements XmlRpcHandler

A multithreaded, reusable XML-RPC client object.

Constructor Summary

XmlRpcClient(java.lang.String url)
Construct a XML-RPC client for the URL represented by this String.

XmlRpcClient(java.lang.String hostname, int port)
Construct a XML-RPC client for the specified hostname and port.

XmlRpcClient(java.net.URL url)
Construct a XML-RPC client with this URL.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	execute(java.lang.String method, java.util.Vector params) Generate an XML-RPC request and send it to the server.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Just for testing.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XmlRpcClient

public XmlRpcClient(java.net.URL url)

Construct a XML-RPC client with this URL.

XmlRpcClient

public XmlRpcClient(java.lang.String url)
             throws java.net.MalformedURLException

Construct a XML-RPC client for the URL represented by this String.

XmlRpcClient

public XmlRpcClient(java.lang.String hostname,
                    int port)
             throws java.net.MalformedURLException

Construct a XML-RPC client for the specified hostname and port.

Method Detail

execute

public java.lang.Object execute(java.lang.String method,
                                java.util.Vector params)
                         throws XmlRpcException,
                                java.io.IOException

Generate an XML-RPC request and send it to the server. Parse the result and return the corresponding Java object.

Specified by:

execute in interface XmlRpcHandler

Throws:

XmlRpcException: - If the remote host returned a fault message.

IOException: - If the call could not be made because of lower level problems.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.lang.Exception

Just for testing.