Well you could plug your own CommonsHttpClient to handle XML-RPC posts so that's why the class is alone
2005/10/21, Jimisola Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jochen Wiedmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <xmlrpc-dev@ws.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:35 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH]Patches and additions to make HttpClient work with > Apache XML-RPC > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I've made some additions/changes to get Commons HttpClient working > >> correctly > >> with Apache XML-RPC which I think can be helpful for others as well. > > > > Given the facts that the CommonsXmlRpcTransportTest works quite fine and > > that a real lot of people are using the CommonsXmlRpcTransport (me not > > included, to be honest), I wonder what your patches are good for? I think, > > there's some explanation required. > > > > > > Jochen > > > > Well, there were two of us at work that tried to get it to work but we could > not see how things were connected with the DefaultXmlRpcTransportFactory. > Then I realized that I don't think that DefaultXmlRpcTransportFactory can be > used to get instances of CommonsXmlRpcTransport. Or? > > Did not think to search for a test. However, I had a look at the > CommonsXmlRpcTransportTest now and it does not seem to do much more than > call the constructor...? When on tests, have this projects considered to use > a code (test) coverage tool? My project uses Cobertura (cobertura.sf.net) > and are _very_ pleased with what it has done for us. > > Anyway, as I mentioned initially that I forgot to use the CVS version of > CommonsXmlRpcTransport and therefore I added method for setting (read) > timeout and connection timeout (setTimeout and setConnectionTimeout). > However, I saw that the exact same method with the same javadocs (from > Commons HttpClient) had already been added, so my changes to > CommonsXmlRpcTransport probably does not have any value (or diffs other than > moving instance variables together). > > It might be that the CommonsHttpClientXmlRpcTransportFactory is unnecessary > as well, but I did not get DefaultXmlRpcTransportFactory to do the job. Can > it be used? Specifically, I want a factory class for CommonsXmlRpcTransport > that I can set default timeout values on the factory object so that > CommonsXmlRpcTransport classes are created with these timeout values. > > I don't like to take up your time like this. Think a lot of these > misunderstandings/uncertainties could have been eliminated if the > contribution documentation was more informative and information that is > out-of-date (CVS, Bugzilla, ...) was removed from home page. > > That said, this project is something that I have much use for and I might be > able to give it some time since I am not currently working with any > open-source project and would like to do so. > > Kind regards, > Jimisola > >
