XMLRPCGateway Improvement

[Jason Stephenson]

The below branch adds a fieldmap_struct function to XMLRPCGateway.pm. It also modifies the unwrap_perl function to use the fieldmap_struct function to create Fieldmapper objects for RPC::XML::struct objects whose __class__ is a valid Fieldmapper id.

This permits update and create methods to work over XML-RPC. (Well, update is easier than create.)

This branch requires that Fieldmapper-class-for-hint branch is also applied.

The branch is available from git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/Evergreen.git in the user/dyrcona/xml-rpc-gateway-improvement branch.

I am attaching a program that you can use to test it. It will require you to pass a hostname, user, password and workstation id on the command line. It will then authenticate, retrieve the user information for the logged in user, change the first and last name for the user to be all lower case, and then update the user in the database. Stupid, but demonstrates the code working or not.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Never mind this implementation. I think most of this code should be moved to Fieldmapper, so I'll implement this again.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Resurrecting this three-year-old bug because I will actually implement the improvement now that from_hash has gone into the Perl Fieldmapper.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Never mind. I can't even get a simple login to work any more. I'm not really interested in using XML-RPC anyway.

Think I'll focus anything that I was going to do in that direction on the translator.