SvnBot Design

Communication

SvnBot is controlled by sending it method calls using ​XML-RPC, an ​XML based encoding for remote procedure calls (RPC) over ​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:

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 ​Subversion hook script for SvnBot does!