Hi,

I am experimenting with Real Thin Client SDK and I am wondering how to set up a ServerRequest to call a remote funcion?

Cheers,
Leslie

I suppose this is a general XMLRPC question.

Cheers,
Leslie

Leslie,

I have not tried the RTC but generally you need to figure out what
exactly is exchanged underneath since number of these solutions assume
their own code runs on both ends (some vendors auto-generate JavaScript
classes for client side so you can use that).

See if they have any notes on generic JavaScript access - usually this
might mean using certain (standard) format (XML-RPC like you said or
JSON) on server side.

More generically the ServerRequest is using JavaScript XMLHttpRequest i
believe so it's very flexible but at this time just takes raw data to
send so you need to build it out (or get some helper functions).

It might be easier on RTC side to just consume the raw data rather than
use their functions.

Raul

On 5/13/2012 11:28 AM, Leslie wrote:
> I suppose this is a general XMLRPC question.
>
> Cheers,
> Leslie
>

Raul, thanks. I have the XML for calling the RTC function, what I  am looking for is the exact syntax to send  the request from an  EWB app. How to fill the header, what needs to be placed to  requestcontent ... ? I am new to web development so these might be rookie questions obvious to most.

Cheers,
Leslie

I assume it's an http post with the xml as payload but to be sure you
would need an existing RTC server and client already (windows apps are
fine) and capture what exactly client sends.

Either log the raw received HTTP data (request, headers, data) on the
RTC server side or use something like http proxy to capture the actual
data (for example fiddler (http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/)).

This NG thread has an example on how to fill in a request and add
headers, content etc in EWB app:
http://www.elevatesoft.com/forums?action=view&category=ewb&id=ewb_demos&page=1&msg=71#71

Raul

On 5/13/2012 2:37 PM, Leslie wrote:
> Raul, thanks. I have the XML for calling the RTC function, what I  am looking for is the exact syntax to send  the request from an  EWB app. How to fill the header, what needs to be placed to  requestcontent ... ? I am new to web development so these might be rookie questions obvious to most.
>
> Cheers,
> Leslie
>

Raul,

Very helpful. Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Leslie

To answer my question:

RequestHeaders:

Content-Type: text/xml

RequestContent:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodCall><methodName>aRemoteProcName</methodName><params>
<param><value><struct>
<member><name>aParameterName</name><value><string>aStringParameter</string></value></member>
</struct></value></param>
</params></methodCall>

Session ID is communicted through Params:

ID=NEW /  ID=PreviouslyRecievedAndStoredSessionID  

ResponceContent will be something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse><params><param>
<value><struct>
<member><name>aParameterName</name><value><string>aStringParameter</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
</param></params></methodResponse>

Cheers,
Leslie

One more important thing:

Method:= rmPost;

Cheers,
Leslie

Raul,

Fiddler was extremly useful.

Thanks again,
Leslie

Cheers,
Leslie

Thanks Leslie for posting the results.

The RTC looks fairly straightforward - JS helper unit to (auto-)
generate/parse the xml would be helpful to speed things up though once
you have lot of functions/params.

I'm glad fiddler helped - i've used it myself numerous times.

Raul


On 5/14/2012 5:30 AM, Leslie wrote:
> Raul,
>
> Fiddler was extremly useful.
>
> Thanks again,
> Leslie
>
> Cheers,
> Leslie
>