1 """Simple XML-RPC Server.
3 This module can be used to create simple XML-RPC servers
4 by creating a server and either installing functions, a
5 class instance, or by extending the SimpleXMLRPCServer
8 It can also be used to handle XML-RPC requests in a CGI
9 environment using CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
11 A list of possible usage patterns follows:
15 server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
16 server.register_function(pow)
17 server.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add')
18 server.serve_forever()
20 2. Install an instance:
24 # make all of the string functions available through
28 def _listMethods(self):
29 # implement this method so that system.listMethods
30 # knows to advertise the strings methods
31 return list_public_methods(self) + \
32 ['string.' + method for method in list_public_methods(self.string)]
33 def pow(self, x, y): return pow(x, y)
34 def add(self, x, y) : return x + y
36 server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
37 server.register_introspection_functions()
38 server.register_instance(MyFuncs())
39 server.serve_forever()
41 3. Install an instance with custom dispatch method:
44 def _listMethods(self):
45 # this method must be present for system.listMethods
48 def _methodHelp(self, method):
49 # this method must be present for system.methodHelp
52 return "add(2,3) => 5"
54 return "pow(x, y[, z]) => number"
56 # By convention, return empty
57 # string if no help is available
59 def _dispatch(self, method, params):
63 return params[0] + params[1]
67 server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
68 server.register_introspection_functions()
69 server.register_instance(Math())
70 server.serve_forever()
72 4. Subclass SimpleXMLRPCServer:
74 class MathServer(SimpleXMLRPCServer):
75 def _dispatch(self, method, params):
77 # We are forcing the 'export_' prefix on methods that are
78 # callable through XML-RPC to prevent potential security
80 func = getattr(self, 'export_' + method)
81 except AttributeError:
82 raise Exception('method "%s" is not supported' % method)
86 def export_add(self, x, y):
89 server = MathServer(("localhost", 8000))
90 server.serve_forever()
94 server = CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler()
95 server.register_function(pow)
96 server.handle_request()
99 # Written by Brian Quinlan (brian@sweetapp.com).
100 # Based on code written by Fredrik Lundh.
103 from xmlrpclib
import Fault
105 import BaseHTTPServer
113 def resolve_dotted_attribute(obj
, attr
, allow_dotted_names
=True):
114 """resolve_dotted_attribute(a, 'b.c.d') => a.b.c.d
116 Resolves a dotted attribute name to an object. Raises
117 an AttributeError if any attribute in the chain starts with a '_'.
119 If the optional allow_dotted_names argument is false, dots are not
120 supported and this function operates similar to getattr(obj, attr).
123 if allow_dotted_names
:
124 attrs
= attr
.split('.')
129 if i
.startswith('_'):
130 raise AttributeError(
131 'attempt to access private attribute "%s"' % i
137 def list_public_methods(obj
):
138 """Returns a list of attribute strings, found in the specified
139 object, which represent callable attributes"""
141 return [member
for member
in dir(obj
)
142 if not member
.startswith('_') and
143 callable(getattr(obj
, member
))]
145 def remove_duplicates(lst
):
146 """remove_duplicates([2,2,2,1,3,3]) => [3,1,2]
148 Returns a copy of a list without duplicates. Every list
149 item must be hashable and the order of the items in the
150 resulting list is not defined.
158 class SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
:
159 """Mix-in class that dispatches XML-RPC requests.
161 This class is used to register XML-RPC method handlers
162 and then to dispatch them. There should never be any
163 reason to instantiate this class directly.
166 def __init__(self
, allow_none
, encoding
):
169 self
.allow_none
= allow_none
170 self
.encoding
= encoding
172 def register_instance(self
, instance
, allow_dotted_names
=False):
173 """Registers an instance to respond to XML-RPC requests.
175 Only one instance can be installed at a time.
177 If the registered instance has a _dispatch method then that
178 method will be called with the name of the XML-RPC method and
179 its parameters as a tuple
180 e.g. instance._dispatch('add',(2,3))
182 If the registered instance does not have a _dispatch method
183 then the instance will be searched to find a matching method
184 and, if found, will be called. Methods beginning with an '_'
185 are considered private and will not be called by
188 If a registered function matches a XML-RPC request, then it
189 will be called instead of the registered instance.
191 If the optional allow_dotted_names argument is true and the
192 instance does not have a _dispatch method, method names
193 containing dots are supported and resolved, as long as none of
194 the name segments start with an '_'.
196 *** SECURITY WARNING: ***
198 Enabling the allow_dotted_names options allows intruders
199 to access your module's global variables and may allow
200 intruders to execute arbitrary code on your machine. Only
201 use this option on a secure, closed network.
205 self
.instance
= instance
206 self
.allow_dotted_names
= allow_dotted_names
208 def register_function(self
, function
, name
= None):
209 """Registers a function to respond to XML-RPC requests.
211 The optional name argument can be used to set a Unicode name
216 name
= function
.__name
__
217 self
.funcs
[name
] = function
219 def register_introspection_functions(self
):
220 """Registers the XML-RPC introspection methods in the system
223 see http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/reserved.html
226 self
.funcs
.update({'system.listMethods' : self
.system_listMethods
,
227 'system.methodSignature' : self
.system_methodSignature
,
228 'system.methodHelp' : self
.system_methodHelp
})
230 def register_multicall_functions(self
):
231 """Registers the XML-RPC multicall method in the system
234 see http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1208"""
236 self
.funcs
.update({'system.multicall' : self
.system_multicall
})
238 def _marshaled_dispatch(self
, data
, dispatch_method
= None):
239 """Dispatches an XML-RPC method from marshalled (XML) data.
241 XML-RPC methods are dispatched from the marshalled (XML) data
242 using the _dispatch method and the result is returned as
243 marshalled data. For backwards compatibility, a dispatch
244 function can be provided as an argument (see comment in
245 SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler.do_POST) but overriding the
246 existing method through subclassing is the prefered means
247 of changing method dispatch behavior.
251 params
, method
= xmlrpclib
.loads(data
)
254 if dispatch_method
is not None:
255 response
= dispatch_method(method
, params
)
257 response
= self
._dispatch
(method
, params
)
258 # wrap response in a singleton tuple
259 response
= (response
,)
260 response
= xmlrpclib
.dumps(response
, methodresponse
=1,
261 allow_none
=self
.allow_none
, encoding
=self
.encoding
)
263 response
= xmlrpclib
.dumps(fault
, allow_none
=self
.allow_none
,
264 encoding
=self
.encoding
)
266 # report exception back to server
267 response
= xmlrpclib
.dumps(
268 xmlrpclib
.Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (sys
.exc_type
, sys
.exc_value
)),
269 encoding
=self
.encoding
, allow_none
=self
.allow_none
,
274 def system_listMethods(self
):
275 """system.listMethods() => ['add', 'subtract', 'multiple']
277 Returns a list of the methods supported by the server."""
279 methods
= self
.funcs
.keys()
280 if self
.instance
is not None:
281 # Instance can implement _listMethod to return a list of
283 if hasattr(self
.instance
, '_listMethods'):
284 methods
= remove_duplicates(
285 methods
+ self
.instance
._listMethods
()
287 # if the instance has a _dispatch method then we
288 # don't have enough information to provide a list
290 elif not hasattr(self
.instance
, '_dispatch'):
291 methods
= remove_duplicates(
292 methods
+ list_public_methods(self
.instance
)
297 def system_methodSignature(self
, method_name
):
298 """system.methodSignature('add') => [double, int, int]
300 Returns a list describing the signature of the method. In the
301 above example, the add method takes two integers as arguments
302 and returns a double result.
304 This server does NOT support system.methodSignature."""
306 # See http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/sysmethodsig.html
308 return 'signatures not supported'
310 def system_methodHelp(self
, method_name
):
311 """system.methodHelp('add') => "Adds two integers together"
313 Returns a string containing documentation for the specified method."""
316 if self
.funcs
.has_key(method_name
):
317 method
= self
.funcs
[method_name
]
318 elif self
.instance
is not None:
319 # Instance can implement _methodHelp to return help for a method
320 if hasattr(self
.instance
, '_methodHelp'):
321 return self
.instance
._methodHelp
(method_name
)
322 # if the instance has a _dispatch method then we
323 # don't have enough information to provide help
324 elif not hasattr(self
.instance
, '_dispatch'):
326 method
= resolve_dotted_attribute(
329 self
.allow_dotted_names
331 except AttributeError:
334 # Note that we aren't checking that the method actually
335 # be a callable object of some kind
340 return pydoc
.getdoc(method
)
342 def system_multicall(self
, call_list
):
343 """system.multicall([{'methodName': 'add', 'params': [2, 2]}, ...]) => \
346 Allows the caller to package multiple XML-RPC calls into a single
349 See http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1208
353 for call
in call_list
:
354 method_name
= call
['methodName']
355 params
= call
['params']
358 # XXX A marshalling error in any response will fail the entire
359 # multicall. If someone cares they should fix this.
360 results
.append([self
._dispatch
(method_name
, params
)])
363 {'faultCode' : fault
.faultCode
,
364 'faultString' : fault
.faultString
}
369 'faultString' : "%s:%s" % (sys
.exc_type
, sys
.exc_value
)}
373 def _dispatch(self
, method
, params
):
374 """Dispatches the XML-RPC method.
376 XML-RPC calls are forwarded to a registered function that
377 matches the called XML-RPC method name. If no such function
378 exists then the call is forwarded to the registered instance,
381 If the registered instance has a _dispatch method then that
382 method will be called with the name of the XML-RPC method and
383 its parameters as a tuple
384 e.g. instance._dispatch('add',(2,3))
386 If the registered instance does not have a _dispatch method
387 then the instance will be searched to find a matching method
388 and, if found, will be called.
390 Methods beginning with an '_' are considered private and will
396 # check to see if a matching function has been registered
397 func
= self
.funcs
[method
]
399 if self
.instance
is not None:
400 # check for a _dispatch method
401 if hasattr(self
.instance
, '_dispatch'):
402 return self
.instance
._dispatch
(method
, params
)
404 # call instance method directly
406 func
= resolve_dotted_attribute(
409 self
.allow_dotted_names
411 except AttributeError:
417 raise Exception('method "%s" is not supported' % method
)
419 class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer
.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
):
420 """Simple XML-RPC request handler class.
422 Handles all HTTP POST requests and attempts to decode them as
426 # Class attribute listing the accessible path components;
427 # paths not on this list will result in a 404 error.
428 rpc_paths
= ('/', '/RPC2')
430 def is_rpc_path_valid(self
):
432 return self
.path
in self
.rpc_paths
434 # If .rpc_paths is empty, just assume all paths are legal
438 """Handles the HTTP POST request.
440 Attempts to interpret all HTTP POST requests as XML-RPC calls,
441 which are forwarded to the server's _dispatch method for handling.
444 # Check that the path is legal
445 if not self
.is_rpc_path_valid():
450 # Get arguments by reading body of request.
451 # We read this in chunks to avoid straining
452 # socket.read(); around the 10 or 15Mb mark, some platforms
453 # begin to have problems (bug #792570).
454 max_chunk_size
= 10*1024*1024
455 size_remaining
= int(self
.headers
["content-length"])
457 while size_remaining
:
458 chunk_size
= min(size_remaining
, max_chunk_size
)
459 L
.append(self
.rfile
.read(chunk_size
))
460 size_remaining
-= len(L
[-1])
463 # In previous versions of SimpleXMLRPCServer, _dispatch
464 # could be overridden in this class, instead of in
465 # SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher. To maintain backwards compatibility,
466 # check to see if a subclass implements _dispatch and dispatch
467 # using that method if present.
468 response
= self
.server
._marshaled
_dispatch
(
469 data
, getattr(self
, '_dispatch', None)
471 except: # This should only happen if the module is buggy
472 # internal error, report as HTTP server error
473 self
.send_response(500)
476 # got a valid XML RPC response
477 self
.send_response(200)
478 self
.send_header("Content-type", "text/xml")
479 self
.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response
)))
481 self
.wfile
.write(response
)
483 # shut down the connection
485 self
.connection
.shutdown(1)
487 def report_404 (self
):
489 self
.send_response(404)
490 response
= 'No such page'
491 self
.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")
492 self
.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response
)))
494 self
.wfile
.write(response
)
495 # shut down the connection
497 self
.connection
.shutdown(1)
499 def log_request(self
, code
='-', size
='-'):
500 """Selectively log an accepted request."""
502 if self
.server
.logRequests
:
503 BaseHTTPServer
.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
.log_request(self
, code
, size
)
505 class SimpleXMLRPCServer(SocketServer
.TCPServer
,
506 SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
):
507 """Simple XML-RPC server.
509 Simple XML-RPC server that allows functions and a single instance
510 to be installed to handle requests. The default implementation
511 attempts to dispatch XML-RPC calls to the functions or instance
512 installed in the server. Override the _dispatch method inhereted
513 from SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher to change this behavior.
516 allow_reuse_address
= True
518 def __init__(self
, addr
, requestHandler
=SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler
,
519 logRequests
=True, allow_none
=False, encoding
=None):
520 self
.logRequests
= logRequests
522 SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
.__init
__(self
, allow_none
, encoding
)
523 SocketServer
.TCPServer
.__init
__(self
, addr
, requestHandler
)
525 # [Bug #1222790] If possible, set close-on-exec flag; if a
526 # method spawns a subprocess, the subprocess shouldn't have
527 # the listening socket open.
528 if fcntl
is not None and hasattr(fcntl
, 'FD_CLOEXEC'):
529 flags
= fcntl
.fcntl(self
.fileno(), fcntl
.F_GETFD
)
530 flags |
= fcntl
.FD_CLOEXEC
531 fcntl
.fcntl(self
.fileno(), fcntl
.F_SETFD
, flags
)
533 class CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
):
534 """Simple handler for XML-RPC data passed through CGI."""
536 def __init__(self
, allow_none
=False, encoding
=None):
537 SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
.__init
__(self
, allow_none
, encoding
)
539 def handle_xmlrpc(self
, request_text
):
540 """Handle a single XML-RPC request"""
542 response
= self
._marshaled
_dispatch
(request_text
)
544 print 'Content-Type: text/xml'
545 print 'Content-Length: %d' % len(response
)
547 sys
.stdout
.write(response
)
549 def handle_get(self
):
550 """Handle a single HTTP GET request.
552 Default implementation indicates an error because
553 XML-RPC uses the POST method.
558 BaseHTTPServer
.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
.responses
[code
]
560 response
= BaseHTTPServer
.DEFAULT_ERROR_MESSAGE
% \
566 print 'Status: %d %s' % (code
, message
)
567 print 'Content-Type: text/html'
568 print 'Content-Length: %d' % len(response
)
570 sys
.stdout
.write(response
)
572 def handle_request(self
, request_text
= None):
573 """Handle a single XML-RPC request passed through a CGI post method.
575 If no XML data is given then it is read from stdin. The resulting
576 XML-RPC response is printed to stdout along with the correct HTTP
580 if request_text
is None and \
581 os
.environ
.get('REQUEST_METHOD', None) == 'GET':
584 # POST data is normally available through stdin
585 if request_text
is None:
586 request_text
= sys
.stdin
.read()
588 self
.handle_xmlrpc(request_text
)
590 if __name__
== '__main__':
591 print 'Running XML-RPC server on port 8000'
592 server
= SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
593 server
.register_function(pow)
594 server
.register_function(lambda x
,y
: x
+y
, 'add')
595 server
.serve_forever()