20.24. `SimpleXMLRPCServer` — Basic XML-RPC server¶

Note

The SimpleXMLRPCServer module has been merged into xmlrpc.server in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0.

New in version 2.2:

New in version 2.2.

The SimpleXMLRPCServer module provides a basic server framework for XML-RPC servers written in Python. Servers can either be free standing, using SimpleXMLRPCServer, or embedded in a CGI environment, using CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.

class SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(addr[, requestHandler[, logRequests[, allow_none[, encoding[, bind_and_activate]]]])¶

Create a new server instance. This class provides methods for registration of functions that can be called by the XML-RPC protocol. The requestHandler parameter should be a factory for request handler instances; it defaults to SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler. The addr and requestHandler parameters are passed to the SocketServer.TCPServer constructor. If logRequests is true (the default), requests will be logged; setting this parameter to false will turn off logging. The allow_none and encoding parameters are passed on to xmlrpclib and control the XML-RPC responses that will be returned from the server. The bind_and_activate parameter controls whether server_bind() and server_activate() are called immediately by the constructor; it defaults to true. Setting it to false allows code to manipulate the allow_reuse_address class variable before the address is bound.

Changed in version 2.5:

Changed in version 2.5: The allow_none and encoding parameters were added.

20.24.1. SimpleXMLRPCServer Objects¶

The SimpleXMLRPCServer class is based on SocketServer.TCPServer and provides a means of creating simple, stand alone XML-RPC servers.

SimpleXMLRPCServer.register_function(function[, name])¶

Register a function that can respond to XML-RPC requests. If name is given, it will be the method name associated with function, otherwise function.__name__ will be used. name can be either a normal or Unicode string, and may contain characters not legal in Python identifiers, including the period character.

SimpleXMLRPCServer.register_instance(instance[, allow_dotted_names])¶

Register an object which is used to expose method names which have not been registered using register_function(). If instance contains a _dispatch() method, it is called with the requested method name and the parameters from the request. Its API is def _dispatch(self, method, params) (note that params does not represent a variable argument list). If it calls an underlying function to perform its task, that function is called as func(*params), expanding the parameter list. The return value from _dispatch() is returned to the client as the result. If instance does not have a _dispatch() method, it is searched for an attribute matching the name of the requested method.

If the optional allow_dotted_names argument is true and the instance does not have a _dispatch() method, then if the requested method name contains periods, each component of the method name is searched for individually, with the effect that a simple hierarchical search is performed. The value found from this search is then called with the parameters from the request, and the return value is passed back to the client.

Warning

Enabling the allow_dotted_names option allows intruders to access your module’s global variables and may allow intruders to execute arbitrary code on your machine. Only use this option on a secure, closed network.

Changed in version 2.3.5,:

Changed in version 2.3.5,: 2.4.1 allow_dotted_names was added to plug a security hole; prior versions are insecure.

from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler # Restrict to a particular path. class RequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler): rpc_paths = ('/RPC2',) # Create server server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000), requestHandler=RequestHandler) server.register_introspection_functions() # Register pow() function; this will use the value of # pow.__name__ as the name, which is just 'pow'. server.register_function(pow) # Register a function under a different name def adder_function(x,y): return x + y server.register_function(adder_function, 'add') # Register an instance; all the methods of the instance are # published as XML-RPC methods (in this case, just 'div'). class MyFuncs: def div(self, x, y): return x // y server.register_instance(MyFuncs()) # Run the server's main loop server.serve_forever()

import xmlrpclib s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:8000') print s.pow(2,3) # Returns 2**3 = 8 print s.add(2,3) # Returns 5 print s.div(5,2) # Returns 5//2 = 2 # Print list of available methods print s.system.listMethods()

20.24.2. CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler¶

The CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler class can be used to handle XML-RPC requests sent to Python CGI scripts.

CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.register_function(function[, name])¶

Register a function that can respond to XML-RPC requests. If name is given, it will be the method name associated with function, otherwise function.__name__ will be used. name can be either a normal or Unicode string, and may contain characters not legal in Python identifiers, including the period character.

CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.register_instance(instance)¶

Register an object which is used to expose method names which have not been registered using register_function(). If instance contains a _dispatch() method, it is called with the requested method name and the parameters from the request; the return value is returned to the client as the result. If instance does not have a _dispatch() method, it is searched for an attribute matching the name of the requested method; if the requested method name contains periods, each component of the method name is searched for individually, with the effect that a simple hierarchical search is performed. The value found from this search is then called with the parameters from the request, and the return value is passed back to the client.

CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.register_introspection_functions()¶

CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.register_multicall_functions()¶

CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.handle_request([request_text = None])¶

Handle a XML-RPC request. If request_text is given, it should be the POST data provided by the HTTP server, otherwise the contents of stdin will be used.

Example:

class MyFuncs:
    def div(self, x, y) : return x // y


handler = CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler()
handler.register_function(pow)
handler.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add')
handler.register_introspection_functions()
handler.register_instance(MyFuncs())
handler.handle_request()

20.24. `SimpleXMLRPCServer` — Basic XML-RPC server¶

20.24.1. SimpleXMLRPCServer Objects¶

20.24.1.1. SimpleXMLRPCServer Example¶

20.24.2. CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler¶

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