NOTE: All credit for this code goes to Crast in irc.freenode.net:#django... This uses SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher which is part of the standard Python lib in 2.4 (And possibly earlier versions). In discussing ways of handling XML-RPC for Django, I realised I really needed a way to do it without patching Django's code. Crast in #django came up with a great solution, which I have modified and tweaked a bit. I've included it here. Feel free to fiddle with it and make it your own ... All this code is '''post-mr''' Any crappy & garbage code is completely mine; I'm still learning Python so bear with me. The hacks I added for self-documentation output are just that; any improvements to them would probably be a good thing. First, setup your urls.py to map an XML-RPC service: {{{ #!python urlpatterns = patterns('', # XML-RPC (r'^xml_rpc_srv/', 'yourproject.yourapp.xmlrpc.rpc_handler'), ) }}} Then, in the appropriate place, create a file called xmlrpc.py {{{ #!python # Patchless XMLRPC Service for Django # Kind of hacky, and stolen from Crast on irc.freenode.net:#django # Self documents as well, so if you call it from outside of an XML-RPC Client # it tells you about itself and its methods # # Brendan W. McAdams # SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher lets us register xml-rpc calls w/o # running a full XMLRPC Server. It's up to us to dispatch data from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher from django.http import HttpResponse # Create a Dispatcher; this handles the calls and translates info to function maps #dispatcher = SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher() # Python 2.4 dispatcher = SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher(allow_none=False, encoding=None) # Python 2.5 def rpc_handler(request): """ the actual handler: if you setup your urls.py properly, all calls to the xml-rpc service should be routed through here. If post data is defined, it assumes it's XML-RPC and tries to process as such Empty post assumes you're viewing from a browser and tells you about the service. """ response = HttpResponse() if len(request.POST): response.write(dispatcher._marshaled_dispatch(request.raw_post_data)) else: response.write("This is an XML-RPC Service.
") response.write("You need to invoke it using an XML-RPC Client!
") response.write("The following methods are available:") response.write(' Made with Django.') response['Content-length'] = str(len(response.content)) return response def multiply(a, b): """ Multiplication is fun! Takes two arguments, which are multiplied together. Returns the result of the multiplication! """ return a*b # you have to manually register all functions that are xml-rpc-able with the dispatcher # the dispatcher then maps the args down. # The first argument is the actual method, the second is what to call it from the XML-RPC side... dispatcher.register_function(multiply, 'multiply') }}} That's it! You can pretty much write a standard python function in there, just be sure to register it with the dispatcher when you're done. Here's a quick and dirty client example for testing: {{{ #!python import sys import xmlrpclib rpc_srv = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000/xml_rpc_srv/") result = rpc_srv.multiply( int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2])) print "%d * %d = %d" % (sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], result) }}} Based on experience, I do recommend that you use Dictionaries for your args rather than long args, but I think that's personal preference (It allows named arguments, eliminates 'out of order' argument issues and it makes the code more self-documenting). Have fun! - [mailto:bwmcadams@NOSPAM.gmail.com Brendan W. McAdams ] ---- I wrote up [http://www.personal-api.com/train/2007/feb/01/pingbacks-xml-rpc-and-django/ a modified version of the XML-RPC view] that uses a template for documentation. -- [mailto:hackerblinks+django@gmail.com Adam Blinkinsop ] ---- I've taken the basics of the SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher above and have turned it into a distributable Django app, [http://code.google.com/p/django-xmlrpc django_xmlrpc]. -- [mailto:graham.binns+django-xmlrpc@gmail.com Graham Binns] ---- I've wrote [http://code.google.com/p/django-pingback pingback implementation] on top of this XML-RPC dispatcher. --[http://piranha.org.ua/about/ Alexander Solovyov]