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+/* A simple synchronous XML-RPC client written in C, as an example of
+ an Xmlrpc-c client. This invokes the sample.add procedure that the
+ Xmlrpc-c example server.c server provides. I.e. it adds to numbers
+ together, the hard way.
+*/
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <xmlrpc-c/base.h>
+#include <xmlrpc-c/client.h>
+
+#include "config.h" /* information about this build environment */
+
+#define NAME "Xmlrpc-c Test Client"
+#define VERSION "1.0"
+
+static void
+die_if_fault_occurred (xmlrpc_env *env) {
+ if (env->fault_occurred) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "XML-RPC Fault: %s (%d)\n",
+ env->fault_string, env->fault_code);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+}
+
+
+
+int
+main(int const argc,
+ const char ** const argv ATTR_UNUSED) {
+
+ xmlrpc_env env;
+ xmlrpc_value *result;
+ xmlrpc_int32 sum;
+ char * const serverUrl = "http://localhost:8080/RPC2";
+ char * const methodName = "sample.add";
+
+ if (argc-1 > 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "This program has no arguments\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /* Initialize our error-handling environment. */
+ xmlrpc_env_init(&env);
+
+ /* Start up our XML-RPC client library. */
+ xmlrpc_client_init2(&env, XMLRPC_CLIENT_NO_FLAGS, NAME, VERSION, NULL, 0);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+
+ printf("Making XMLRPC call to server url '%s' method '%s' "
+ "to request the sum "
+ "of 5 and 7...\n", serverUrl, methodName);
+
+ /* Make the remote procedure call */
+ result = xmlrpc_client_call(&env, serverUrl, methodName,
+ "(ii)", (xmlrpc_int32) 5, (xmlrpc_int32) 7);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+
+ /* Get our sum and print it out. */
+ xmlrpc_read_int(&env, result, &sum);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+ printf("The sum is %d\n", sum);
+
+ /* Dispose of our result value. */
+ xmlrpc_DECREF(result);
+
+ /* Clean up our error-handling environment. */
+ xmlrpc_env_clean(&env);
+
+ /* Shutdown our XML-RPC client library. */
+ xmlrpc_client_cleanup();
+
+ return 0;
+}
+