"""Simple XML-RPC Server. This module can be used to create simple XML-RPC servers by creating a server and either installing functions, a class instance, or by extending the SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler class. A list of possible usage patterns follows: 1. Install functions: server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000)) server.register_function(pow) server.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add') server.serve_forever() 2. Install an instance: class MyFuncs: def __init__(self): # make all of the string functions available through # string.func_name import string self.string = string def pow(self, x, y): return pow(x, y) def add(self, x, y) : return x + y server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000)) server.register_instance(MyFuncs()) server.serve_forever() 3. Install an instance with custom dispatch method: class Math: def _dispatch(self, method, params): if method == 'pow': return apply(pow, params) elif method == 'add': return params[0] + params[1] else: raise 'bad method' server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000)) server.register_instance(Math()) server.serve_forever() 4. Subclass SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler: class MathHandler(SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler): def _dispatch(self, method, params): try: # We are forcing the 'export_' prefix on methods that are # callable through XML-RPC to prevent potential security # problems func = getattr(self, 'export_' + method) except AttributeError: raise Exception('method "%s" is not supported' % method) else: return apply(func, params) def log_message(self, format, *args): pass # maybe do something fancy like write the messages to a file def export_add(self, x, y): return x + y server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000), MathHandler) server.serve_forever() """ # Written by Brian Quinlan (brian@sweetapp.com). # Based on code written by Fredrik Lundh. import xmlrpclib import SocketServer import BaseHTTPServer import sys class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): """Simple XML-RPC request handler class. Handles all HTTP POST requests and attempts to decode them as XML-RPC requests. XML-RPC requests are dispatched to the _dispatch method, which may be overriden by subclasses. The default implementation attempts to dispatch XML-RPC calls to the functions or instance installed in the server. """ def do_POST(self): """Handles the HTTP POST request. Attempts to interpret all HTTP POST requests as XML-RPC calls, which are forwarded to the _dispatch method for handling. """ try: # get arguments data = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers["content-length"])) params, method = xmlrpclib.loads(data) # generate response try: response = self._dispatch(method, params) # wrap response in a singleton tuple response = (response,) except: # report exception back to server response = xmlrpclib.dumps( xmlrpclib.Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value)) ) else: response = xmlrpclib.dumps(response, methodresponse=1) except: # internal error, report as HTTP server error self.send_response(500) self.end_headers() else: # got a valid XML RPC response self.send_response(200) self.send_header("Content-type", "text/xml") self.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response))) self.end_headers() self.wfile.write(response) # shut down the connection self.wfile.flush() self.connection.shutdown(1) def _dispatch(self, method, params): """Dispatches the XML-RPC method. XML-RPC calls are forwarded to a registered function that matches the called XML-RPC method name. If no such function exists then the call is forwarded to the registered instance, if available. If the registered instance has a _dispatch method then that method will be called with the name of the XML-RPC method and it's parameters as a tuple e.g. instance._dispatch('add',(2,3)) If the registered instance does not have a _dispatch method then the instance will be searched to find a matching method and, if found, will be called. Methods beginning with an '_' are considered private and will not be called by SimpleXMLRPCServer. """ func = None try: # check to see if a matching function has been registered func = self.server.funcs[method] except KeyError: if self.server.instance is not None: # check for a _dispatch method if hasattr(self.server.instance, '_dispatch'): return self.server.instance._dispatch(method, params) else: # call instance method directly try: func = _resolve_dotted_attribute( self.server.instance, method ) except AttributeError: pass if func is not None: return apply(func, params) else: raise Exception('method "%s" is not supported' % method) def log_request(self, code='-', size='-'): """Selectively log an accepted request.""" if self.server.logRequests: BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.log_request(self, code, size) def _resolve_dotted_attribute(obj, attr): """Resolves a dotted attribute name to an object. Raises an AttributeError if any attribute in the chain starts with a '_'. """ for i in attr.split('.'): if i.startswith('_'): raise AttributeError( 'attempt to access private attribute "%s"' % i ) else: obj = getattr(obj,i) return obj class SimpleXMLRPCServer(SocketServer.TCPServer): """Simple XML-RPC server. Simple XML-RPC server that allows functions and a single instance to be installed to handle requests. """ def __init__(self, addr, requestHandler=SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler, logRequests=1): self.funcs = {} self.logRequests = logRequests self.instance = None SocketServer.TCPServer.__init__(self, addr, requestHandler) def register_instance(self, instance): """Registers an instance to respond to XML-RPC requests. Only one instance can be installed at a time. If the registered instance has a _dispatch method then that method will be called with the name of the XML-RPC method and it's parameters as a tuple e.g. instance._dispatch('add',(2,3)) If the registered instance does not have a _dispatch method then the instance will be searched to find a matching method and, if found, will be called. Methods beginning with an '_' are considered private and will not be called by SimpleXMLRPCServer. If a registered function matches a XML-RPC request, then it will be called instead of the registered instance. """ self.instance = instance def register_function(self, function, name = None): """Registers a function to respond to XML-RPC requests. The optional name argument can be used to set a Unicode name for the function. If an instance is also registered then it will only be called if a matching function is not found. """ if name is None: name = function.__name__ self.funcs[name] = function if __name__ == '__main__': server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000)) server.register_function(pow) server.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add') server.serve_forever()