new (%args)

internal_encoding [ = undef ]

Internal encoding. "undef" means wide perl characters (perl-5.8.1+)

external_encoding [ = utf-8 ]

External encoding. Which encoding to use in composed XML

request ($method, @args) : xml byte-stream, [ new call url ]

response (@args) : xml byte-stream

fault ($faultcode, $faultstring) : xml byte-stream

registerClass ($class_name,$encoder_cb)

Encoders description:

    # Generic:
    $simple_encoder_cb = sub {
        my $object = shift;
        # ...
        return type => $string;
    };

    # Encoder-dependent (XML::RPC::Enc::LibXML)
    $complex_encoder_cb = sub {
        my $object = shift;
        # ...
        return XML::LibXML::Node;
    };

Samples:

    $enc->registerClass( DateTime => sub {
        return ( 'dateTime.iso8601' => $_[0]->strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%S.%3N%z') );
    });

    # Encoder-dependent (XML::RPC::Enc::LibXML)
    $enc->registerClass( DateTime => sub {
        my $node = XML::LibXML::Element->new('dateTime.iso8601');
        $node->appendText($_[0]->strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%S.%3N%z'));
        return $node;
    });

decode ($xml) : $methodname, @args

decode ($xml) : @args

decode ($xml) : { fault => { faultCode => ..., faultString => ... } }

registerType ($xmlrpc_type,$decoder_cb)

$decoder_cb is depends on encoder implementation.

Samples for XML::RPC::Enc::LibXML

    $enc->registerType( base64 => sub {
        my $node = shift;
        return MIME::Base64::decode($node->textContent);
    });

    $enc->registerType( 'dateTime.iso8601' => sub {
        my $node = shift;
        return DateTime::Format::ISO8601->parse_datetime($node->textContent);
    });