Network.XmlRpc.Client

haxr-3000.0.0: XML-RPC client and server library.

Portability	non-portable (requires extensions and non-portable libraries)
Stability	experimental
Maintainer	bjorn@bringert.net

Description

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)

Synopsis

remote :: Remote a => String -> String -> a

call :: String -> String -> [Value] -> Err IO Value

class Remote a

Documentation

remote

:: 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 `(XmlRpcType t1, ..., XmlRpcType tn, XmlRpcType r) => t1 -> ... -> tn -> IO r`
Call a remote method.

call

:: 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.

class Remote a

Instances

(XmlRpcType a, Remote b) => Remote (a -> b)

XmlRpcType a => Remote (IO a)

Produced by Haddock version 0.8