egroupware_official/phpgwapi/doc/xmlrpc/perl.txt
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/* $Id$ */
Perl interfacing to egroupware:
The Frontier::RPC module available at CPAN is capable of logging into an
egroupware server. To authenticate your session after the initial login,
however, requires a patch to Frontier. This patch causes Frontier to create
an Authentication header using username/password values. We use the assigned
sessionid and kp3 for this.
NOTE: sessionid/kp3 values in this file are not valid.
TODO:
1. Apply the patch at the end of this file to Frontier-RPC-0.06.
2. Install Frontier.
3. Try the following method using rpc-client.pl in the examples subdirectory for
the Frontier source:
rpc-client.pl \
http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/xmlrpc.php \
system.login \
"{domain => '',username => 'demo', password => 'guest'}"
4. Take the returned sessionid and kp3, e.g.:
$result = HASH(0x826d4b0)
'domain' => 'default'
'kp3' => 'e0219714614769x25bc92286016c60c2'
'sessionid' => '36f9ec1e4ad78bxd8bc902b1c38d3e14'
5. Place these on the commandline for a new request:
rpc-client.pl \
http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/xmlrpc.php \
--username 36f9ec1e4ad78bxd8bc902b1c38d3e14 \
--password e0219714614769x25bc92286016c60c2 \
service.contacts.read \
"{ id => '4'}"
6. This should return record #4 from the addressbook application.
Here is the patch:
----CUT HERE----
--- Frontier-RPC-0.06/lib/Frontier/Client.pm Sat Nov 20 18:13:21 1999
+++ Frontier-RPC-0.06-me/lib/Frontier/Client.pm Wed Aug 22 15:25:36 2001
@@ -24,22 +24,27 @@
bless $self, $class;
die "Frontier::RPC::new: no url defined\n"
- if !defined $self->{'url'};
+ if !defined $self->{'url'};
$self->{'ua'} = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$self->{'ua'}->proxy('http', $self->{'proxy'})
- if(defined $self->{'proxy'});
+ if(defined $self->{'proxy'});
$self->{'rq'} = HTTP::Request->new (POST => $self->{'url'});
+ if(defined $self->{'username'} and defined $self->{'password'})
+ {
+ use MIME::Base64;
+ $self->{'rq'}->header('Authorization: Basic', encode_base64($self->{'username'} . ":" . $self->{'password'}));
+ }
$self->{'rq'}->header('Content-Type' => 'text/xml');
my @options;
if(defined $self->{'encoding'}) {
- push @options, 'encoding' => $self->{'encoding'};
+ push @options, 'encoding' => $self->{'encoding'};
}
if (defined $self->{'use_objects'} && $self->{'use_objects'}) {
- push @options, 'use_objects' => $self->{'use_objects'};
+ push @options, 'use_objects' => $self->{'use_objects'};
}
$self->{'enc'} = Frontier::RPC2->new(@options);
@@ -53,8 +58,8 @@
my $text = $self->{'enc'}->encode_call(@_);
if ($self->{'debug'}) {
- print "---- request ----\n";
- print $text;
+ print "---- request ----\n";
+ print $text;
}
$self->{'rq'}->content($text);
@@ -62,21 +67,21 @@
my $response = $self->{'ua'}->request($self->{'rq'});
if (substr($response->code, 0, 1) ne '2') {
- die $response->status_line . "\n";
+ die $response->status_line . "\n";
}
my $content = $response->content;
if ($self->{'debug'}) {
- print "---- response ----\n";
- print $content;
+ print "---- response ----\n";
+ print $content;
}
my $result = $self->{'enc'}->decode($content);
if ($result->{'type'} eq 'fault') {
- die "Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code " . $result->{'value'}[0]{'faultCode'} . ": "
- . $result->{'value'}[0]{'faultString'} . "\n";
+ die "Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code " . $result->{'value'}[0]{'faultCode'} . ": "
+ . $result->{'value'}[0]{'faultString'} . "\n";
}
return $result->{'value'}[0];
--- Frontier-RPC-0.06/examples/rpc-client.pl Thu Sep 2 15:16:49 1999
+++ Frontier-RPC-0.06-me/examples/rpc-client.pl Wed Aug 22 15:32:07 2001
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Copyright (C) 1998 Ken MacLeod
# See the file COPYING for distribution terms.
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- rpc-client [--debug] [--encoding ENCODING] [--proxy PROXY] \
+ rpc-client [--debug] [--username] [--password] [--encoding ENCODING] [--proxy PROXY] \
URL METHOD ["ARGLIST"]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -31,6 +32,12 @@
The `C<--debug>' option will cause the client to print the XML request
sent to and XML response received from the server.
+The `C<--username>' option will force an Authorization:Basic header
+to be generated, if used in conjunction with the `C<--password>' option
+
+The `C<--password>' option will force an Authorization:Basic header
+to be generated, if used in conjunction with the `C<--username>' option
+
The `C<--encoding>' option will supply an alternate encoding for the
XML request. The default is none, which uses XML 1.0's default of
UTF-8.
@@ -57,9 +64,11 @@
my $encoding = undef;
my $proxy = undef;
-GetOptions( 'debug' => \$debug,
+GetOptions( 'debug' => \$debug,
'encoding=s' => \$encoding,
- 'proxy=s' => \$proxy );
+ 'proxy=s' => \$proxy,
+ 'username=s' => \$username,
+ 'password=s' => \$password);
die "usage: rpc-client URL METHOD [\"ARGLIST\"]\n"
if ($#ARGV != 1 && $#ARGV != 2);
@@ -68,10 +77,12 @@
my $method = shift @ARGV;
my $arglist = shift @ARGV;
-$server = Frontier::Client->new( 'url' => $url,
- 'debug' => $debug,
+$server = Frontier::Client->new( 'url' => $url,
+ 'debug' => $debug,
'encoding' => $encoding,
- 'proxy' => $proxy );
+ 'proxy' => $proxy,
+ 'username' => $username,
+ 'password' => $password);
my @arglist;
eval "\@arglist = ($arglist)";