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Recipe 425043: Simple Threaded XML-RPC Server

Make the standard-lib SimpleXMLRPCServer multi-threaded by using a simple mix-in construction.

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# Guyon Morée
# http://gumuz.looze.net/

import SocketServer
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer,SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler
 
# Threaded mix-in
class AsyncXMLRPCServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn,SimpleXMLRPCServer): pass
 
# Example class to be published
class TestObject:
    def pow(self, x, y):
        return pow(x, y)
 
    def add(self, x, y) :
        return x + y
 
    def divide(self, x, y):
        return float(x) / float(y)
 
 
# Instantiate and bind to localhost:8080
server = AsyncXMLRPCServer(('', 8080), SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler)
 
# Register example object instance
server.register_instance(TestObject())
 
# run!
server.serve_forever()

Discussion

This implementation will probably have some scalability issues and it can't compete with the feature-set which for example Twisted has.

But I like the fact it's totally build out of standard library python modules and great for prototyping XML-RPC ideas.

As presented here: http://gumuz.looze.net/wordpress/index.php/archives/2004/12/13/async-xml-rpc-server/

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