WikiFeatures: XmlRpcWikiInterface

A wiki with an interface to the outer world by XmlRpc. WikiPedia:XML-RPC, Wiki:XmlRpc .

XML-RPC is an simple way to link software over the web. Using XML-RPC is incredibly simple. It requires no knowledge of XML, RPC, or HTTP to use. It usually requires only two lines of code (one to connect to a server, the other to make a call) to use. Support is found in all major scripting languages and server libraries. XML-RPC returns native lists, dictionaries (“hashes”), strings, and numbers.

Here’s Python code to ask WikiFeatures for the list of all it’s pages:

#!python
import xmlrpclib
wikifeatures = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/?action=xmlrpc2")
print wikifeatures.getAllPages()

Whoah! Easy!

This page goes into the pragmatics of Wiki support for an XML-RPC interface. Details about what you can do with them are discussed on the page “MachineServices.” That is, on this page- we discuss wires; On MachineServices, we talk about what you can do with them, since there are other ways to interact with a Wiki than just XML-RPC.

Present Implementations

At present, most implementations are about:

Setting the contents of a page,
reading a specific page,
and reading RecentChanges.

Implementations

status	wiki engines
Implemented	MoinMoin, BayleShanks' Wiki Gateway
Developing	-
Intend to Develop	-
Considering	-
Rejected	-

Activity

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There are many inadequacies with the present XML-RPC libraries.

For example, there is presently no way to find the URL of a page of a given name..!

Terminology

XML-RPC - Extensible Markup Language - Remote Procedure Call - A way of sending messages from one program to another (and back again) over the Internet.