Best way to get xml-rpc and django working together

Question

I have worked with Django for a while but I am new to xml-rpc. I have two Django servers running and the first needs to call functions from some modules of second server. I find xml-rpc easiest way to do so but don't want to run a separate server for this only.

What options do I have? Can I run Django's web-server and xml-rpc server with a single manage runserver command ?

Answer 1

Easily - we use http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/XML-RPC to add an xml-rpc server into our django server.

Answer 2

You may also consider David Fisher's rpc4django which supports both XMLRPC and JSONRPC within a single package. Features include:

• Detects request type (JSONRPC or XMLRPC) based on content
• Easy identification of RPC methods via a decorator
• Pure python and requires no external modules except Django
• Customizable RPC method documentation including reST
• Supports XMLRPC and JSONRPC introspection
• Supports method signatures (unlike SimpleXMLRPCServer)
• Easy installation and integration with existing Django projects
• Ties in with Django’s authentication and authorization