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bwizzy
bwizzy

Reputation: 1599

How to do a wiredump of XMLRPC::Client in ruby?

I'm working on some code using XML RPC in ruby and need to see some debug info, how do you do that?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 2101

Answers (2)

troelskn
troelskn

Reputation: 117507

Fine answer here, but do note that the http-level dump may often be gzip encoded and thus not very good for debugging through. Another option is to use client.http_last_response. E.g.:

server = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping")
result = server.call("weblogUpdates.ping", "Copenhagen.rb", "http://www.copenhagenrb.dk/")
puts server.http_last_response.body

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Y
Andrew Y

Reputation: 5107

Reading the source of the package, XMLRPC::Client uses Net::HTTP in turn as its transport.

So I think you should be able to monkey-patch a method into the XMLRPC::Client accordingly:

require 'pp'

# the magic happens here
class XMLRPC::Client
  def set_debug
    @http.set_debug_output($stderr);
  end
end

server = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping")
server.set_debug
result = server.call("weblogUpdates.ping", "Copenhagen.rb", "http://www.copenhagenrb.dk/")
pp result

(sample for XMLRPC snarfed from here).

Upvotes: 20

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