Scribd
Upload
47 views2 pages

How To Make An XML-RPC Call: The Weblogsnotificationproxy

Uploaded by

Rodrigo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
47 views2 pages

How To Make An XML-RPC Call: The Weblogsnotificationproxy

Uploaded by

Rodrigo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

How To Make an XML-RPC Call

By: Scott Watermasysk


Published: 12/11/2002

I never thought I would have gotten as many comments about my little weblog. I was
thinking at one point of making all of TripleASP’s source code available, but I think in the
short run, I am going to put together a small downloadable weblog, so look for that
hopefully by the end of the year.

In the mean time, I know there are a bunch of you writing your own weblog’s at the
moment. In my brief weblogging life time, I have learned a little about XML-RPC. To be
honest, I don’t know too much about it yet, but I did find a pretty nifty library to help
make XML-RPC calls almost a no-brainer. Charles Cook's CookComputing

As a quick example, the downloadable code below will illustrate how to notify
WebLogs.com that you have made an update to your blog.

The WeblogsNotificationProxy

using System;
using CookComputing.XmlRpc;

namespace TripleASP.Components
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WeblogsNotificatinProxy.
/// </summary>
[XmlRpcUrl("http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2")]
public class WeblogsNotificatinProxy : XmlRpcClientProtocol
{
public WeblogsNotificatinProxy()
{

private string errormessage = "No Error";


public string ErrorMessage
{
get{return errormessage;}
}

public bool Ping(string name, string url)


{
bool result = false;
try
{
XmlRpcStruct rpcstruct = Notifiy(name,url);
if(rpcstruct.ContainsKey("flerror"))
{
//Weblogs.com return false if there is no error
//I want to return true, indicating a successful notification
result = !(bool)rpcstruct["flerror"];
if(!result)
{
if(rpcstruct.ContainsKey("message"))
{
errormessage = (string)rpcstruct["message"];
}
else
{
errormessage = "Unknown Error";
}
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
errormessage = "Error: " + ex.Message;
}
return result;

[XmlRpcMethod("weblogUpdates.ping")]
public XmlRpcStruct Notifiy(string name, string url)
{
return (XmlRpcStruct) Invoke("Notifiy",new object[] {name,url});
}
}
}

The Implementation
WeblogsNotificatinProxy wp = new WeblogsNotificatinProxy();
if(wp.Ping("ASP.NET and Me","http://TripleASP.Net/Weblog"))
{
wlMessage.Text = "Weblogs was notified and accepted";
}
else
{
wlMessage.Text = wp.ErrorMessage;
}

Questions? Comments? Contact me at: Contact Copyright © 2001


TripleASP.Net. All rights reserved. Your Privacy

You might also like