Hello

I am trying to export a Ruby framework via XML-RPC. However I am having some problems when trying to call a method from a class not directly added as a handler to the XML-RPC server. Please see my example below:

I have a test Ruby XML-RPC server as follows:

require "xmlrpc/server"

class ExampleBar
  def bar()
    return "hello world!"
  end
end

class ExampleFoo
  def foo()
    return ExampleBar.new
  end

  def test()
    return "test!"
  end
end

s = XMLRPC::Server.new( 9090 )

s.add_introspection

s.add_handler( "example", ExampleFoo.new )

s.serve

And I have a test Python XML-RPC Client as follows:

import xmlrpclib

s = xmlrpclib.Server( "http://127.0.0.1:9090/" )

print s.example.foo().bar()

I would expect the python client to print "hello world!" as it is the equivalent of the following ruby code:

example = ExampleFoo.new
puts example.foo().bar()

However it generates an error: "xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for 127.0.0.1:9090/: 500 Internal Server Error>".

print s.example.test() works fine.

I dont expect the new ExampleBar object to go over the wire but I would expect it to be 'cached' server side and the subsequent call to bar() to be honoured.

Can XML-RPC support this kind of usage or is it too basic?

So I guess my question really is; how can I get this working, if not with XML-RPC what with?