From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T05:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: xmlrpc frustration

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 06:23 +0900, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> argh
> 
> % cat server.rb
> require 'xmlrpc/server'
> 
> class ClusterManager
>   def start_application args
>     p args
>     return "ok"
>   end
> end
> 
> server = XMLRPC::Server.new 1998, `hostname`.strip
> server.add_handler "ClusterManager", ClusterManager.new
> server.serve

Hi Joe -

Hey, I'm doing some XMLRPC things at the moment too.  When I run your
test server and client I get:

==============
$ ruby client.rb
client.rb:6: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
ok
==============

Yours,

Tom
> 
> 
> % cat test.rb
> require 'xmlrpc/client'
> 
> client = XMLRPC::Client.new "fatire", nil, 1998
> 
> begin
>   puts client.call "ClusterManager.start_application", "oogie boogie woogie"
> rescue XMLRPC::FaultException => e
>   p e
>   p e.faultCode
>   p e.faultString
> end
> 
> 
> % ruby test.rb
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:535:in `do_rpc': HTTP-Error:
> 500 Internal Server Error (RuntimeError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:409:in `call2'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:399:in `call'
>         from test.rb:7
> 
> What's up with the 500 Internal Server Error?
>  (btw, "oogie boogie woogie" printed in the server output).
>