Upgrade to Commons HttpClient

2002-09-10 Thread Ryan Hoegg
Some of you (Daniel?) may remember a discussion I started a couple of months back about changing the client classes to use the Commons HttpClient. Well, I finally began work on it as I am working on a project for which it would be useful. Of course as I get into it, I want to make sure I hav

Automatic support of XML-RPC introspection

2002-09-10 Thread Kevin Hester
Hi, I recently needed to add introspection support so a user could use one of the C++ auto glue generation frameworks. I found an OLD set of patches for this, but they were very out of date. Instead of using these, I kept the same usage pattern but made a new implementation based on the curr

Re: Automatic support of XML-RPC introspection

2002-09-10 Thread Ryan Hoegg
Hi, Forgive me for being rather ignorant on introspection, but is there any reason we want to require the XML-RPC server programmer to create public static fields instead of using properties? I do not speak for the rest of the list, so I can't answer your question about whether we want that.

XmlRpc class exception handling

2002-09-10 Thread Ryan Hoegg
Hello, I was wondering if there is any reason that XmlRpc.parse() throws a raw Exception? (line 342, XmlRpc.java, CVS from today about an hour ago) Why not create an IncompleteParserClassException or some such? Someone give the go ahead and I will do it and submit a patch. --ryan

Re: Automatic support of XML-RPC introspection

2002-09-10 Thread Kevin Hester
I'm fine with properties, however the _public definitions are handy in one regard: It is easy to mark methods that should be public inline in your source file, rather than some sort of external file. Any other opinions? I'm happy to go either way. The introspection spec used to be on www.xm