Asynchronous XML-RPC Client for JavaScript

This package allows you to make XML-RPC requests and receive XML-RPC responses asynchronously using JavaScript. The asynchronous calls are handled by the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object that allows XML-RPC calls to be made without causing a full page request.

This XML-RPC client library is derived from the version 0.10 of the Sajax PHP library written by ModernMethod, Inc. and licensed under a BSD style license. See http://modernmethod.com/sajax/ for more details. This package itself is released under the LGPL.

Remote procedure calls from the XML-RPC client occur as follows:

var client = new XML_RPC_Client('https://www.myhost.com/my/endpoint');
client.callProcedure(
  'myMethodName',
  function (response) {
    // parsed XML-RPC response
    console.log(response);
  },
  [arg1, arg2, arg3],
  [type1, type2, type3]
);

The second parameter to callProcedure() is a callback that is fired when the XML-RPC response is received and parsed.

Types are passed as an array of strings. If types are not passed, type inference is used. JavaScript types do not map directly to XML-RPC types so this may not always work perfectly.

The client-side XML-RPC response parser creates an appropriately typed JavaScript object automatically. This means arrays are returned as Array values and structs are returned as Object hash-maps.

There are several JavaScript objects being used:

XML_RPC_Client

Makes asynchronous XML-RPC client requests

XML_RPC_Response

Parses and unmarshells XML-RPC responses

XML_RPC_Request

Creates XML-RPC requests

XML_RPC_Exception

Thrown in various situations by this package

Types

Each XML-RPC data type has a corresponding JavaScript object to handle marshalling and unmarshalling data.

• XML_RPC_Date
• XML_RPC_Array
• XML_RPC_String,
• XML_RPC_Double
• XML_RPC_Int
• XML_RPC_Boolean
• XML_RPC_Struct

Installation

Make sure the silverorange composer repository is added to the composer.json for the project and then run:

composer require silverorange/xml-rpc-ajax