From: e deleflie <edeleflie@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T23:10:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to send a file via XML RPC

bingo! ....  .... just needed to encode the binary data into base64
before sending it (and do the reverse at the server end).

thanks
Etienne


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:31 PM, lists <lists@kalama.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 6:56 PM, e deleflie wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have some sample code showing how to send a file via XML RPC?
> >
>
>  I can't remember where I first saw this.
>
>  $ cat client.rb
>  #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
>  require 'xmlrpc/client'
>  require 'base64'
>
>  data = IO.read('/tmp/test.jpg')
>  encoded_file = Base64.encode64(data)
>
>  server = XMLRPC::Client.new3({'host'=>'localhost', 'port'=>8888,
> 'timeout'=>30})
>
>  if server.call("put_file", encoded_file)
>   puts "ok"
>  end
>  puts result
>
>  $ cat server.rb
>  #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
>  $SAFE = 1
>
>  require "xmlrpc/server"
>  require 'base64'
>
>  s = XMLRPC::Server.new(8888)
>  s.add_handler("put_file") { |encoded_file|
>   Dir.chdir('/tmp/test')
>   File.open('test.jpg', 'w+') { |file|
>       file.puts( Base64.decode64(encoded_file) )
>     }
>     true
>  }
>
>  s.serve
>
>
>
>