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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2004-09-03 00:04:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2004-09-03 00:04:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 0bbf137fbd53ba1354015a0f72ba7cc96a3c8975 (patch) | |
| tree | 96d24865a1379ff7712dff39f4cde64765c92aed | |
| parent | 15f611845b15ce8787e0b2399f2ecd686fe46f52 (diff) | |
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Make the api of the _dispatch() method more concrete. I have no idea if
this is the right way to document such things (Fred, help me out here :-),
but I got misled by the existing documentation and assumed the parameter
list was a *args sort of thing.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex index 44d14f5..dd486d9 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex @@ -59,8 +59,13 @@ simple, stand alone XML-RPC servers. Register an object which is used to expose method names which have not been registered using \method{register_function()}. If \var{instance} contains a \method{_dispatch()} method, it is called - with the requested method name and the parameters from the request; - the return value is returned to the client as the result. If + with the requested method name and the parameters from the request. Its + API is \code{def \method{_dispatch}(self, method, params)} (note tha + \var{params} does not represent a variable argument list). If it calls an + underlying function to perform its task, that function is called as + \code{func(*params)}, expanding the parameter list. + The return value from \method{_dispatch()} is returned to the client as + the result. If \var{instance} does not have a \method{_dispatch()} method, it is searched for an attribute matching the name of the requested method; if the requested method name contains periods, each component of the |