ejabberd - Comments for "mod_xmlrpc - XML-RPC Server"

send message to user

gauravtayal_appster — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 04:37:34 +0000

I am having issue while sending message to user through RPC2. if any one have suggestion please let me know.

How to compile xmlrpc-1.13-ipr2 for windows?

icaro56 — Fri, 23 May 2014 14:16:06 +0000

I am trying to compile it for windows, but this tutorial below don't work:

1. You need to get and install XMLRPC-Erlang.
You can download XMLRPC-Erlang binary files from
http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd_xmlrpc
or compile it yourself:
wget http://www.ejabberd.im/files/contributions/xmlrpc-1.13-ipr2.tgz
tar -xzvf xmlrpc-1.13-ipr2.tgz
cd xmlrpc-1.13/src
make
cd ../../
Then you can copy the *.beam files to ejabberd ebin directory,
or add an option like this to the ejabberd start script:
$ erl -pa '/home/jabber/xmlrpc-1.13/ebin' ...

Make command don't work. Is There a way to compile this module in Windows?

ProtocolError in python

NecmiKara — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:52:15 +0000

import xmlrpclib
print "hello"
# Create an object to represent our server.
server_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:4560';
server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);
# Call the server and get our result.
try:
    result = server.echothis("800")
    print result
except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, err:
    print "A protocol error occurred"
    print "URL: %s" % err.url
    print "HTTP/HTTPS headers: %s" % err.headers
    print "Error code: %d" % err.errcode
    print "Error message: %s" % err.errmsg

I obtain:

hello
A protocol error occurred
URL: 127.0.0.1:4560/RPC2
HTTP/HTTPS headers: None
Error code: -1
Error message:

I have the version 2.0.5, compiled myself the mod_xmlrpc (thus with erlang version 5.6.5) and got compiled .beams from the upload in this page for erlang-xmlrpc (thank you badlop) thus with erlang version r12b5-5.6.5 too.
I'm on windows.
Does anyone have an idea for the reason of that or how can I debug this?

Java example and PHP committed

mfoss — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:18:13 +0000

Thanks, I've added your Java example, and fixed the PHP example.

Wrong PHP example

calder — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:48:33 +0000

README.txt for mod_xmlrpc contains not working PHP example, due to improper request headers. Here is the code that works:

$param = array("user"=>"test_user","host"=>"example.com","password"=>"some_password");
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('check_password', $param, (array('encoding' => 'utf-8')));

$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
	'method' => "POST",
	'header' => "User-Agent: XMLRPC::Client mod_xmlrpc\r\n" .
				"Content-Type: text/xml\r\n" .
				"Content-Length: ".strlen($request),
	'content' => $request
)));

$file = file_get_contents('http://127.0.0.1:4560/RPC2', false, $context);

$response = xmlrpc_decode($file);

if (xmlrpc_is_fault($response)) {
	trigger_error("xmlrpc: $response[faultString] ($response[faultCode])");
} else {
	print_r($response);
}

You must also remember to set "allow_url_fopen = On" in the php.ini.

Java example

calder — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:47:49 +0000

Here's Java example client for mod_xmlrpc:

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient;
import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClientConfigImpl;

public class Test {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
		    XmlRpcClientConfigImpl config = new XmlRpcClientConfigImpl();
		    config.setServerURL(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4560/RPC2"));
		    XmlRpcClient client = new XmlRpcClient();
		    client.setConfig(config);

		    /* Command string */
		    String command = "check_password";

		    /* Parameters as struct */
		    Map struct = new HashMap();
		    struct.put("user", "test1");
		    struct.put("host", "localhost");
		    struct.put("password", "test");

		    Object[] params = new Object[]{struct};
		    Integer result = (Integer) client.execute(command, params);
		    System.out.println(result);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println(e);
		}
	}

}

Requires Apache XML-RPC available at http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/

Have you solved it yet?

ejab — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:49:10 +0000

edit: Apologies, this was meant to be in reply to wina's post "couldn't run mod_xmlrpc on my localhost"

I am running into the same problem were you able to find a solution? Thank you

had xmerl installed

wina — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:31:34 +0000

i have xmerl-1.1.4\ebin\*.beam files and xmlrpc-1.13\ebin\xmlrpc.beam file inside my lib directory.
i didnt pass the parameter, with your information i tried to add it but still doesn't work.

my bin\ejabberdctl configuration looks like below.

EJABBERD_XMERL="$ROOTDIR/lib/xmerl-1.1.4/ebin"

# start server
start()
{
exec $ERL $NAME $ERLANG_NODE $ERLANG_OPTS \
-pa $EJABBERD_XMERL \
-noinput -detached \
-mnesia dir "\"$EJABBERD_DB\"" \
-s ejabberd \
-ejabberd config \"$EJABBERD_CONFIG_PATH\" \
log_path \"$EJABBERD_LOG_PATH\" \
-sasl sasl_error_logger \{file,\"$SASL_LOG_PATH\"\}
}

did i set it wrong?

Installed XMLERL-1.3

darren.ferguson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:28 +0000

Have you installed xmlerl-1.3?

Do you in your start up script for ejabberd pass the -pa '/path/to/xmlerl/ebin' parameter to it??

This was what caused me not to be able to run it, i did not have in the startup the -pa and i modified the ejabberdctl file to add it as a configuration parameter for startup.

couldn't run mod_xmlrpc on my localhost

wina — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:40:51 +0000

hi,

I still couldnt install this module on my localhost(Window)
anybody could help? thanks in advance.

=ERROR REPORT==== 2008-04-24 14:16:15 ===
E(<0.36.0>:gen_mod:66) : {undef,[{mod_xmlrpc,start,["localhost",[]]},
{gen_mod,start_module,3},
{lists,foreach,2},
{ejabberd_app,start,2},
{application_master,start_it_old,4}]}

It works now...

Prasad Panchangam — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:45:28 +0000

The problem was that the /lib/ejabberd-1.1.4/ebin directory was missing the UCS app and beam files.
Once I dropped those in, things started to work fine.

Thanks/Prasad

Receiving {error, closed} when I test xmlrpc

Prasad Panchangam — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:34:36 +0000

my config:
fedora Core 6
erlang-R11B-2.3.fc6
ejabberd 1.1.4
xmerl-0.20
xmlrpc-1.13-ipr2

/conf/ejabberd.cfg contains the following line:
{mod_xmlrpc,[{port, 4560},{timeout, 60000}]}

contents of directory /ejabberd-1.1.4/lib/ejabberd-1.1.4/ebin:

acl.beam ejabberd_auth_odbc.beam ejabberd_s2s.beam extauth.beam mod_last.beam mod_sms.beam tcp_serv.beam xmerl_xlate.beam
adhoc.beam ejabberd.beam ejabberd_s2s_in.beam gen_iq_handler.beam mod_last_odbc.beam mod_stats.beam tls.beam xmerl_xml.beam
configure.beam ejabberd_c2s.beam ejabberd_s2s_out.beam gen_mod.beam mod_muc.beam mod_time.beam translate.beam xmerl_xpath.beam
cyrsasl_anonymous.beam ejabberd_config.beam ejabberd_service.beam iconv.beam mod_muc_log.beam mod_vcard.beam transliteration.beam xmerl_xpath_parse.beam
cyrsasl.beam ejabberd_ctl.beam ejabberd_sm.beam idna.beam mod_muc_room.beam mod_vcard_ldap.beam xmerl.app xmerl_xpath_pred.beam
cyrsasl_digest.beam ejabberd_hooks.beam ejabberd_sup.beam jd2ejd.beam mod_offline.beam mod_vcard_odbc.beam xmerl.beam xmerl_xpath_scan.beam
cyrsasl_plain.beam ejabberd_http.beam ejabberd_tmp_sup.beam jlib.beam mod_offline_odbc.beam mod_version.beam xmerl_eventp.beam xmerl_xs.beam
ejabberd_admin.beam ejabberd_http_poll.beam ejabberd_update.beam mod_adhoc.beam mod_privacy.beam mod_xmlrpc.beam xmerl_html.beam xml.beam
ejabberd.app ejabberd_listener.beam ejabberd_web_admin.beam mod_announce.beam mod_private.beam odbc_queries.beam xmerl_lib.beam xmlrpc.beam
ejabberd_app.beam ejabberd_local.beam ejabberd_web.beam mod_configure2.beam mod_pubsub.beam randoms.beam xmerl_otpsgml.beam xmlrpc_decode.beam
ejabberd_auth_anonymous.beam ejabberd_logger_h.beam ejabberd_zlib.beam mod_configure.beam mod_register.beam sha.beam xmerl_scan.beam xmlrpc_encode.beam
ejabberd_auth.beam ejabberd_odbc.beam ejd2odbc.beam mod_disco.beam mod_roster.beam shaper.beam xmerl_sgml.beam xmlrpc_http.beam
ejabberd_auth_external.beam ejabberd_odbc_sup.beam eldap.beam mod_echo.beam mod_roster_odbc.beam ssmtp.beam xmerl_simple.beam xmlrpc_util.beam
ejabberd_auth_internal.beam ejabberd_receiver.beam eldap_filter.beam mod_irc.beam mod_service_log.beam stringprep.beam xmerl_text.beam xml_stream.beam
ejabberd_auth_ldap.beam ejabberd_router.beam ELDAPv3.beam mod_irc_connection.beam mod_shared_roster.beam stringprep_sup.beam xmerl_validate.beam XmppAddr.beam

When I start ejabberd: no errors with mod_xmlrpc

Listener started on port 4560

But when I try to execute xmlrpc:call({127, 0, 0, 1}, 4560, "/", {call, echothis, [800]}). I get {error, closed}

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks/Prasad

I don't think so !

cstar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:26:24 +0000

From my limited tests (getting multhis and echothis to work correctly with a Ruby client) Xmerl 0.20 is not required anymore with Erlang 5.5/OTP R11B (I have ejabberd built from source so one may have to check for the binary installer).

I guess you can safely remove the Xmerl 0.20 dependency from the documentation.

http://www.cestari.info

Is Xmerl 0.20 still required nowadays?

mfoss — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:32:00 +0000

cstar wrote:

I figured so. I had xmlrpc working with xmerl 1.1.4 without issues

Is Xmerl 1.1.4 the version included in recent Erlang/OTP releases? If so, do you mean that it's not required to install this Xmerl 0.20 library for mod_xmlrpc to work correctly?

Followup

cstar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:25:11 +0000

badlop wrote:

Thanks for your reports. I've updated the copy of Erlang xmlrpc library that is hosted here, with your two small patches, and I call it xmlrpc-1.13-ipr.tgz. The added r is for Ruby :)

great ! BTW the ruby client behavior has apparently changed from Ruby 1.8.2 and Ruby 1.8.4 (which added the charset=utf-8 thingy in the header)

badlop wrote:

Well, maybe the Erlang library does not send UTF-8 characters, as Ruby expects. If that's the problem, maybe you find some useful hints somewhere in ejabberd or Yaws source code.

I figured so. I had xmlrpc working with xmerl 1.1.4 without issues, and this version contains a very interesting xmerl_ucs module which should help.