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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex index 690e669..d8126e4 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ structured data. This module supports writing XML-RPC client code; it handles all the details of translating between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire. -\begin{classdesc}{Server}{uri\optional{, transport\optional{, - encoding\optional{, verbose}}}} -A \class{Server} instance is a server proxy that manages communication +\begin{classdesc}{ServerProxy}{uri\optional{, transport\optional{, + encoding\optional{, verbose}}}} +A \class{ServerProxy} instance is an object that manages communication with a remote XML-RPC server. The required first argument is a URI (Uniform Resource Indicator), and will normally be the URL of the server. The optional second argument is a transport factory instance; @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ server supports the introspection API, the proxy can also be used to query the remote server for the methods it supports (service discovery) and fetch other server-associated metadata. -\class{Server} instance methods take Python basic types and objects as +\class{ServerProxy} instance methods take Python basic types and objects as arguments and return Python basic types and classes. Types that are conformable (e.g. that can be marshalled through XML), include the following (and except where noted, they are unmarshalled as the same @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ an XML-RPC request that isn't well-formed XML. If you have to pass arbitrary strings via XML-RPC, use the \class{Binary} wrapper class described below. +\class{Server} is retained as an alias for \class{ServerProxy} for backwards +compatibility. New code should use \class{ServerProxy}. + \end{classdesc} @@ -83,9 +86,9 @@ described below. \end{seealso} -\subsection{Server Objects \label{server-objects}} +\subsection{ServerProxy Objects \label{serverproxy-objects}} -A \class{Server} instance proxy object has a method corresponding to +A \class{ServerProxy} instance has a method corresponding to each remote procedure call accepted by the XML-RPC server. Calling the method performs an RPC, dispatched by both name and argument signature (e.g. the same method name can be overloaded with multiple @@ -244,8 +247,8 @@ Trivially convert any Python string to a \class{Binary} object. \begin{verbatim} # simple test program (from the XML-RPC specification) -# server = Server("http://localhost:8000") # local server -server = Server("http://betty.userland.com") +# server = ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000") # local server +server = ServerProxy("http://betty.userland.com") print server |