Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: XML-RPC Spec Update
Author: Hannes Wallnöfer Posted: 2/10/1999; 6:51:40 AM Topic: XML-RPC Spec Update Msg #: 2799 (In response to 2774) Prev/Next: 2798 / 2800
I agree it's important to have version info for in the next version of XML-RPC.However, I think the current encoding and WDDX are too similar to coexist in any version. I would propose to couple the argument encoding with the version of XML-RPC. For example, XML-RPC 1 (the current version) will always use the current encoding, while version 2 may always use WDDX. RPC2 servers could easily understand RPC 1 requests (simply requests without version info) and switch to RPC 1 responses for these. RPC2 clients could be set to send RPC1 requests for older servers.
I think having completely pluggable argument encodings would make XML-RPC libraries too complex or incompatible, and not really offer a lot of advantages for users/programmers.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: XML-RPC Spec Update, Dave Winer, 2/10/1999; 7:28:16 AM
- Re: XML-RPC Spec Update, Simeon Simeonov, 2/19/1999; 7:52:22 AM
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