XML-RPC in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I know there is a library for .NET to use XML-RPC - but does anyone know if it can be used in the ASP.NET MVC environment or not?

Answer 1

XML-RPC.NET can be used with ASP.NET MVC.

Define an interface for your XML-RPC service, for example:

using CookComputing.XmlRpc;

public interface IStateName
{
  [XmlRpcMethod("examples.getStateName")]
  string GetStateName(int stateNumber);
}

Implement the service:

using CookComputing.XmlRpc;

public class StateNameService : XmlRpcService, IStateName
{
  public string GetStateName(int stateNumber)
  {
    if (stateNumber < 1 || stateNumber > m_stateNames.Length)
      throw new XmlRpcFaultException(1, "Invalid state number");
    return m_stateNames[stateNumber - 1];
  }

  string[] m_stateNames
    = { "Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas",
        "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut", "Delaware", "Florida",
        "Georgia", "Hawaii", "Idaho", "Illinois", "Indiana", "Iowa", 
        "Kansas", "Kentucky", "Lousiana", "Maine", "Maryland", "Massachusetts",
        "Michigan", "Minnesota", "Mississipi", "Missouri", "Montana",
        "Nebraska", "Nevada", "New Hampshire", "New Jersey", "New Mexico", 
        "New York", "North Carolina", "North Dakota", "Ohio", "Oklahoma",
        "Oregon", "Pennsylviania", "Rhose Island", "South Carolina", 
        "South Dakota", "Tennessee", "Texas", "Utah", "Vermont", "Virginia", 
        "Washington", "West Virginia", "Wisconsin", "Wyoming" };
}

Implement a custom route handler:

using System.Web;
using System.Web.Routing;

public class StateNameRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
  public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
  {
    return new StateNameService();
  }
}

Register the custom route in global.asax.cs:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
  routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

  routes.Add(new Route("api/statename", new StateNameRouteHandler()));

  // ...

}

Check that everything is working by pointing your browser to the url for the handler, for example something like http://localhost:33821/api/statename in this case when running from Visual Studio. You should then see an automatically generated help page for the service. If this is ok then point your XML-RPC client to the service and start making calls.

Answer 2

The Cook Computing xml-rpc.net library can be used with any ASP.NET project, including ASP.NET MVC.

http://xml-rpc.net/