Re: [syndication] Syndication Subscription

[Jeff Bone <jbone@jump.net>]

BTW returning a list / array of function names is necessary but not sufficient:
one needs to be able to programatically discover both argument typing / structure
and similar for returns...  anybody up to it?

(Been pondering this for over a year;  no answers yet.  Need to avoid CORBAlike
bloat.  How to do this?)

jb

Jeff Bone wrote:

> Yes!  Interface discovery is IMO the biggest missing piece of XML-RPC.
> "getFunctions" is a stab.  Anybody care to flesh out the semantics / specifics?
>
> jb
>
> Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
> > Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> wrote:
> >
> > > A "getFunctions" call that returns, as an array of strings, the functions
> > > that a given implementation supports. This'll help us with versioning
> > > issues.
> >
> > I wonder if this is the best way to do this. This seems like something that
> > would be valuable to add to XML-RPC on a global level. Does anyone know if
> > there's already work on this being done?
> >
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