Ok, on the tails of Andrew Evers' refactoring patch, I have created a new patch which adds some more fields to XmlRpcRequest, and deprecates all execute calls with multiple parameters in favor of execute calls with a single XmlRpcRequest object, on both client and server. Included is also accumulation of headers which are now part of the XmlRpcRequest object.
This patch is one in a series I hope to introduce in baby steps (which is why it doesn't look like the headers are actually *used* for anything at this point). I would like to merge the introspection patch after this patch, which would touch the SystemHandler to handle special "system." introspection calls, the Invoker, to be able to return introspection information on introspectable handlers, XmlRpcHandlerMapping interface to add new methods to return an enumeration of handler names, and a new call getHandlerSpec which returns a HandlerSpec which is a structure holding the handler object and the function name (which is significant for introspection because in the presence of a period in the handler name the method name will be a suffix), and XmlRpcServer, to hold, and pass along an allow_introspection boolean. After that, or perhaps at a peer level since they are rather independent, I would like to add in interceptors/filters based on the new XmlRpcRequest (this should shorten the parameter list significantly). The patch is here: http://aeolus.cit.cornell.edu/xmlrpc/xmlrpcreq.patch Aaron Hamid CIT/I&D Cornell University
