Hello There Leland, Be welcome. Are you calling Userland Frontier server with that XML-RPC code?
Well, let my curiosity be put aside and let us get back to business. Our XML-RPC library is barebones, it works but it is basically some convenient methods wrapping our XML generation library. Mind you that some time ago, LiveCode (then known as Revolution) had no multidimensional arrays, so building structs and more complex objects was not trivial since we could not match them to some of our data types. Now LiveCode has multidimensional arrays which are not actually arrays but hash tables. So we could map back and forth complex structs/arrays with ease but no one bothered to write those routines. I bet people here have their own home cooked solution. I built in dozens of lines a routine to pick an array (LiveCode one) and build a struct out of it. Works well and is used internally for testing on the company I work for. I haven't build the reverse routine to pick from XML-RPC response and decode it back to something addressable. Mind you that building that routine is not actually difficult, it is just tedious and error prone but it is simple. These days I am somewhat busy but as soon as I have free time, I will address this problem. In the mean while, I suggest that you use a combination of XML-RPC and XML routines to extract your data. You can make it generic enough so that you can feed it any XML-RPC response and get an array back, the trick is the iteration routine to recursively extract arrays and structs from inside arrays and structs. So making a summary, right now, you don't have fancy routines for making an XML-RPC a nice object if the response contains complex structures but you have helper XML and XML-RPC methods that make building such function an approachable task that can be finished in couple hours. sorry for not being more helpful right now. andre PS: I am somewhat disornganized with my projects, there might be the case that I've built this function in the past and forgot about it. Will check out. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
