Can I send files through xmlrpc connections?

[dcrespo]

....If the answer is Yes, can you give me an example either in the
server side and the client side?

I googled a lot, but I can't find nothing regarding this.

A lot of thanks.

Daniel

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

...If the answer is Yes, can you give me an example either in the
server side and the client side?

I googled a lot, but I can't find nothing regarding this.

the XML-RPC specification

http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec

mentions the following data types

four-byte signed integer
boolean: 0 (false) or 1 (true)
string
double-precision signed floating point number
date/time
base64-encoded binary data
structs
arrays

file isn't in that list.

however, you can of course read the file into a variable, and send
that variable over the wire (as either a string or a binary data value,
depending on what kind of data you have in your files)

(if the files are large, you might be better off using plain HTTP)

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[dcrespo]

I'm sorry, I didn't the right question... Of course that I can break
the file and rewrite it on an xmlrpc protocol for transmition, or send
a byte each time through the socket lib. I meant is there a program
already developed that sends and receives files based on xmlrpc calls?

Thanks.

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I'm sorry, I didn't the right question... Of course that I can break
the file and rewrite it on an xmlrpc protocol for transmition, or send
a byte each time through the socket lib. I meant is there a program
already developed that sends and receives files based on xmlrpc calls?

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, really, but here's a
program to send files based on xmlrpc calls:

import sys, xmlrpclib
xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(sys.argv[1]).store(open(sys.argv[2], "rb").read())

to receive files based on xmlrpc calls, see:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-SimpleXMLRPCServer.html

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[ookoi]

hi,

You can try this recipe, it should provides what you need.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413404

The key is: xmlrpclib.Binary(my_file_object.read())