From: chad fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2001-02-25T08:54:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11499] Re: XML-RPC and KDE


> > The Python code has the nice feature, that remote
> > calls look as if they
> > were instance methods of the client class:
> > 
> > >     server = Server("http://localhost:" + port
> > +"/kdesktop")
> > >    
> > server.KDesktopIface.popupExecuteCommand(auth);
> > 
> > Could something like that be done in Ruby?
> Possibly
> > with the help of
> > method_missing?
> 
<snip-my-bad-code/>

Here's a version that actually works with *very*
limited testing:

module XMLRPC
  class Client
        def method_missing(sym, *args)
                if(@objects == nil) then @objects =
Hash.new end
                if(@objects.has_key? sym) then return
@objects[sym] end
                @objects[sym] = Proxy.new(sym, self)
                return @objects[sym]
        end
  end
  class Proxy
        def initialize(sym, client)
                @client = client
        end
 
        def method_missing(sym, *args)
                return @client.call(sym.id2name,
*args)
        end
  end
end   

And, with this one, you can call something like:
     server.KDesktopIface.popupExecuteCommand(auth)

Chad

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