Revision history for Perl extension RPC::XML.

0.35	Sun Jan 27 16:29:19 PST 2002

	Fixed a small bug in make_method that would have caused a failure if
	anyone used the command-line switches to specify data, rather than a
	base-file (specifically, the handling of the --code argument). Also
	clarified a few places in the man page.

	Found bugs in both versions of the system.status server method (both
	the basic and the Apache flavor). Both were neglecting to set the
	"methods_known" value. Also found a bug in system.methodHelp. Amazing
	what writing the regression tests can uncover.

	RPC::XML::Method is now a skeleton file, slated to be removed by or
	before 1.0. It has been renamed to RPC::XML::Procedure, and the
	RPC::XML::Method class is declared as an empty subclass of the
	RPC::XML::Procedure class. Procedures differ from methods in that they
	do not get the server object instance as a first parameter in the list
	that gets passed in.

	Support for RPC::XML::Procedure (and general procedure vs. method)
	added to the DTD and the make_method tool. All the routines in the
	ex/ directory are declared as procedures, to further illustrate the
	concept.

	When code blocks for XPL files are eval'd, they are given a "package"
	statement to force subsequent calls to be in the RPC::XML::Pprocedure
	namespace, rather than defaulting to main (a potentially dangerous
	assumption). The docs on routine-calling in RPC::XML::Server have been
	updated to discuss this.

	Many more tests added to the suite for RPC::XML::Server.

	Created the test suite for RPC::XML::Client.

	RPC::XML::Client no longer returns a full RPC::XML::response object
	from any of its routines. Rather, simple_request still does what it
	always has, and send_request now returns a data-type value. All the
	data-type classes have a method called "is_fault" that returns false
	for all except (of course) RPC::XML::fault. This lets callers of
	send_request test the return value to see if it is a fault.

	Added callback support for errors and faults to the RPC::XML::Client
	class. This allows programmers to tie specific actions to cases where
	a call returns a RPC::XML::fault object, or an outright error.

	Created a separate test suite for RPC::XML::Server when used in
	conjunction with the Net::Server package (it skips if the latter is
	not installed on the system).

	Almost all of the method-manipulation routines in RPC::XML::Server (all
	but add_default_methods()) now have counterparts called by the same
	name after s/method/proc/. This is purely for syntactical sugar and
	symmetry. Except in the case of add_proc(), where it actually ensures
	that a hash-reference calling convention is geared correctly to add a
	RPC::XML::Procedure object rather than RPC::XML::Method.

0.30	Thu Jan  3 01:57:29 PST 2002
	- first beta release

	Apache::RPC::Server::list_servers no longer sorts the list before
	returning it. No reason to assume it matters, or to levy that tax
	against those who don't care.

	RPC::XML::Server::url now constructs saner strings for HTTPS and for
	HTTP on port 80.

	The new() method in RPC::XML::Server wasn't quite handling the "host"
	and "port" arguments that Apache::RPC::Server sent it correctly.

	Added a patch to the RPC::XML::Server class from Christopher Blizzard
	(blizzard@redhat.com) to allow control over the timeout interval that
	HTTP::Daemon uses in answering new connections.

	Replaced a GNU Make-centric dependancy rule for the XPL files with
	a more portable .SUFFIXES-based one. This is unfortunate, as the %
	syntax of GNU make is much cleaner. But GNU Make isn't universal. Yet.

	This release marks the debut of Apache::RPC::Status, a monitor similar
	in nature and design to Apache::Status, for running RPC servers under
	Apache/mod_perl. See the manual page for details.

	Documentation for Apache::RPC::Server was updated based on trials and
	travails in trying to actually set up a configuration inside <Perl>
	blocks. This isn't very clear in the mod_perl documentation, but at
	least the docs for this module reflect exactly what I have configured
	on my development box, so I know it works.

0.29	Sun Dec  2 22:41:39 PST 2001

	Added share_methods(), copy_methods() and delete_method() calls to the
	RPC::XML::Server class (and thus to the Apache class as well). Had
	already added an INSTALL_DIR method to retrieve the class-specific
	installation dir to the Apache class, so mirrored it here, as well.

	Added list_servers() static method to Apache::RPC::Server, to allow
	for abstract retrieval of the ID-tags of the current known servers.
	This is mainly so Apache::RPC::Status can use it in conjunction with
	get_server() to examine the server objects for the sake of stats and
	such.

	Added list_methods() to RPC::XML::Server, to list the object's known
	(published) methods by name. Mainly for use in the regression suites,
	but worth documenting in the API in case someone else finds it
	useful.

	Four of the provided methods in the introspection API
	(system.introspection, system.listMethods, system.methodHelp and
	system.methodSignature) needed to be updated to use the newer API for
	the XML::RPC::Method class when retrieving information from the server.

	Started the test suites for RPC::XML::Method and RPC::XML::Server.
	The tests that are delivered as part of this build are not fully
	complete, but should be a reasonable start.

0.28	Sun Oct  7 21:27:39 PDT 2001

	Found a subtle-but-nasty bug in the handling of RPC::XML::string
	objects. Thanks to Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com> for pointing
	me in the right direction.

	Started down the path of making the suite as a whole geared more
	towards real use than illustrative example. The XML data-classes now
	no longer use indention (or any superfluous whitespace) in their
	stringification. This shortened the code quite a bit, and will also
	mean shorter messages. This could not have been done cleanly without
	the tests in t/10_data.t.

	Extracted the method-manipulation code into a new class, called
	RPC::XML::Method. This should make method-sharing easier, and pull
	a lot of method-specific code out of RPC::XML::Server and
	Apache::RPC::Server.

	Clarified some issues in the new() constructor of the
	Apache::RPC::Server class, and also changed the calling convention.
	It no longer treats the first few arguments in any special way at all.
	The arguments are all consistently taken as option/value pairs, just
	as with RPC::XML::Server. The documentation reflects this. This may
	break things built on the old style, but in the long run it should
	prove much better.

0.27	Sun Jul  8 16:25:51 PDT 2001

	Removed a -w warning from RPC/XML.pm. Fixed some cases in the new()
	method of RPC::XML::boolean that would have permitted invalid data.
	Added two convenience methods to RPC::XML::fault, called code() and
	string(), that fetch the faultCode and faultString member values as
	native Perl values. The RPC::XML::base64 class was using the wrong
	container tags in the as_string method.

	Clarified and expanded some of the documentation in RPC/XML/Server.pm.

	Adjusted the PREREQ_PM hash in Makefile.PL so that it correctly looks
	for LWP, and also looks for File::Spec 0.8 or newer (needed to ensure
	that the splitpath() method is available).

	Cleaned up the load-tests (t/00_load.t) to use the Test harnessing
	package. Added test suites for the RPC::XML data classes (t/10_data.t,
	96 tests) and the RPC::XML::Parser container-class (t/20_parser.t,
	7 tests).

0.26	Mon Jun 25 22:30:18 PDT 2001

	Fixed some doc errors in RPC::XML::Server. Mainly things I had
	simplified, but not updated the docs to reflect.

	Added a fair amount to the docs in Apache::RPC::Server. In particular,
	a new section was added that illustrates using <Perl> configuration
	sections to create the server objects in the master Apache process,
	so that they are automatically inherited by children.

0.25	Tue Jun 12 22:35:09 PDT 2001

	This is the initial release.
