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

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?

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?

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/

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.

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

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}]}

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 am trying to use xmlrpc and want to rpc to dot net. I've formulated the call below, which is an online xmlrpc service to return the current time. This call keeps failing with a bad request error response (pasted below). Can't figure out why.

xmlrpc:call("time.xmlrpc.com", 80, "/", {call, currentTime.getCurrentTime, []}).
{error,"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request\r\n"}

Any pointers as to what I’m doing wrong would be really appreciated.

How do i bind xml_rpc to a specific IP address?

Hi,

According to this page (https://support.process-one.net/doc/display/MESSENGER/ejabberd+integrati...), mod_xmlrpc has been integrated with ejabberd in the latest installer version. This means that the XMLRPC server is already installed and preconfigured. But when I edit the config file and uncomment the line that contains mod_xmlrpc I get :

Any help would be appreciated.

Is this module could help to ask ejabberd about active chatrooms and chatrooms confs ?
I think not but I'm not sur to understand usage of tellme, tellme_title and tellme_value.

Thanks for answers.

Hello.

Is there any type of authentication with rpc module ?

I think it must be at least two passwords: for readonly commands and for readwrite commands.

( And module starting can look like {mod_xmlrpc, [{rpcreadpass,"12345"},{rpcwritepass,'54321'}]} )

Also It can be several access levels, like:

level 1 - readonly
level 2 - can add info (or accounts)
level 3 - can change info
level 4 - can delete info

etc, with different passwords.

Hi,

From erlang I can create an account (or modify it)

Eshell V5.5.1  (abort with ^G)
1> xmlrpc:call({127, 0, 0, 1}, 4560, "/", {call, create_account,
1> [{struct, [{user, "ggeo"}, {host, "example.com"}, {password, "gogo11"}]}]}).
{ok,{response,[1]}}

But how does this translate to say python? According to the python docs (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html), a structure maps to a dictionary, so, and this might be naive, this is my python code:

server_url = 'http://localhost:4560';
server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);

params = {}
params["user"] = "ggeo"
params["host"] = "example.com"
params["password"] = "gogo11"

result = server.create_account(params)
print result

But all I get is:

xmlrpclib.Fault: "Fault -1: 'Unknown call: {call,create_account,\n 
 [{struct,[{host,"example.com"},\n {password,"gogo11"},\n {user,"ggeo"}]}]}'"

What happens here? And I still cant get any logging into the ejabberd.log, even with the piece of code mentioned below.

Please, can you help me again?

Regards, Dirk

Hi,

After I rebuild everyting with otp_src_R11B-1 mod_xmlrpc works in erlang:

Eshell V5.5.1  (abort with ^G)
1> xmlrpc:call({172,16,29,6}, 4560, "/", {call, echothis, [800]}).
{ok,{response,[800]}}

But when I try call ejabberd/mod_xmlrpc from another language (I tried Ruby, Python and C++) I cannot get good results. Ruby and Python fail always, C++ has one in ten times the 'echothis' call succeeds (The other calls dont work).

Ruby:

  require 'xmlrpc/client'

  host = "172.16.29.6:4560"
  timeout = 3000000
  client = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://#{host}", "#{host}", timeout)
  result = client.call("echothis", "800")
  puts result 

result =
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `sysread': end of file reached (EOFError)
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `rbuf_fill'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'

Python:

  import xmlrpclib

  # Create an object to represent our server.
  server_url = 'http://172.16.29.6:4560';
  server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);

  # Call the server and get our result.
  result = server.echothis("800")
  print result

result =
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for 172.16.29.6:4560/RPC2: -1 >

C++:

  XmlRpc::XmlRpcClient xmlrpc_client("172.16.29.6", 4560);
  
  {
    XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue buf, result;
    buf[0] = "800";

    if (xmlrpc_client.execute("echothis", buf, result))
      std::cout << result << std::endl;
    else
      std::cout << "Error calling 'echothis'" << std::endl;
  }

result =
XmlRpcSocket::nbWrite: send/write returned 258.
XmlRpcClient::writeRequest: wrote 258 of 258 bytes.
XmlRpcSocket::nbRead: read/recv returned -1.
XmlRpcClient::readHeader: client has read 0 bytes

So what a I doing wrong here? And how can I see what's going on inside ejabberd/erlang?

To me it looks like mod_xmlrpc is not responsive all the time.

Can you help me?

Regards, Dirk

Hi,

I recompiled ejabberd with v0.2.3 (and all depencies mentioned in the xml_rpc docs), but I still get a

{error,closed}

Without any further info. So I tried to raise the log level by setting debug flags (there is a howto somewhere on this forum), but I could not see any change in output ...

Well, erlang is new to me :)

If I play around with the function call:

xmlrpc:call({172, 16, 29, 6}, 4560, "/", {call, echothis, [800]}).

I can get this:

** exited: {function_clause,[{gen_tcp,send,
                                      [{172,16,29,6},
                                       ["POST ",
                                        4560,
                                        " HTTP/1.1\r\n",
                                        "Content-Length: ",
                                        "140",
                                        "\r\n",
                                        "User-Agent: Erlang XML-RPC Client 1.13\r\n",
                                        "Content-Type: text/xml\r\n",
                                        "Connection: close\r\n",
                                        "\r\n",
                                        ["<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><methodCall><methodName>",
                                         "echothis",
                                         "</methodName>",
                                         ["<params>",
                                          ["<param><value>",
                                           ["<int>"|...],
                                           "</value></param>"],
                                          "</params>"],
                                         "</methodCall>"]]]},
                             {xmlrpc,call,5},
                             {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
                             {shell,exprs,6},
                             {shell,eval_loop,3}]} **

this sort of looks like valid xmlrpc to me.

So why do I get this {error,closed}?

Interestingly enough, tcpdump dos not see any activity on 172.16.29.6, but netstat says the port is open.

Can you help me?

Regards, Dirk

Hi,

I was wondering how t get rid of the error message:

=ERROR REPORT==== 26-Oct-2006::10:43:52 ===
E(<0.37.0>:gen_mod:47): {undef,[{mod_xmlrpc,start,["localhost",[]]},
{gen_mod,start_module,3},
{lists,foreach,2},
{ejabberd_app,start,2},
{application_master,start_it_old,4}]}

I recompiled ejabberd, so there is a mod_xmlrpc.beam in my ejabberd/ebin dir and I added this line to my ejabberd.cfg:

{mod_xmlrpc, []}

Note, if I change it to:

{mod_xmlrpc, [{port, 4560}, {ip, {172,16,29,6}}]}

I get the same error. I also tried to increase ejabberd's loglevel, but nothing happens so I dont have more info. I use ejabberd-1.1.2, xmlrpc-1.13 with the ip patch and xmerl-1.0.3 and erlang otp_src_R10B-10 with the epoll patch.

So what should I do? I sort of really need this functionality.

Regards, Dirk

Hi,

I was wondering where to get the 0.2.3 version, the 'source link' gives 'v0.1 - 4 April 2005' and 'http://www.ejabberd.im/files/efiles/mod_xmlrpc' gives 0.2.2.

I would like to get the latest version, if possible.

Dirk