Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of SvnBot/Design

Timestamp:

Mar 11, 2006, 11:23:03 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

simon

Comment:

Added some description of SvnBot's use of XML-RPC

SvnBot/Design

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+= SvnBot Design =
+
+== Communication ==
+SvnBot is controlled by sending it method calls using [http://www.xmlrpc.com/ XML-RPC], an [http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML] based encoding for remote procedure calls (RPC) over [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ HTTP].  An XML-RPC client connects to SvnBot, sends a command to it, and SvnBot obeys by sending something to an IRC channel.  In Python, this is really simple to do.   Just instantiate a server object to connect to the bot, then call any method on that object to make it do something, like so:
+{{{
+#!python
+import xmlrpclib, sys
+s = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:7080/')
+s.showCommitSummary('123', 'simon')
+}}}
+If the above code seems familiar, it is probably because it is what the simplest [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] hook script for SvnBot does!