dnscontrol/vendor/github.com/renier/xmlrpc/README.md
Jamie Lennox 7daa7a6467 Add SoftLayer DNS provider (#59)
Add SoftLayer DNS as a DomainServiceProvider.

The SoftLayer API is a bit of a mess and treats MX and SRV records
differently. This leads to some replication and custom handling issues
to work around.

In this patch I have to change the SRV test case to be _tcp instead of
_protocol because softlayer requires a "known" protocol which AFAICT is
tcp, udp or tls. I think this will be acceptable in most cases.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Lennox <jamielennox@gmail.com>
2017-09-26 13:14:53 -04:00

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## Overview
xmlrpc is an implementation of client side part of XMLRPC protocol in Go language.
## Installation
To install xmlrpc package run `go get github.com/kolo/xmlrpc`. To use
it in application add `"github.com/kolo/xmlrpc"` string to `import`
statement.
## Usage
client, _ := xmlrpc.NewClient("https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/xmlrpc.cgi", nil)
result := struct{
Version string `xmlrpc:"version"`
}{}
client.Call("Bugzilla.version", nil, &result)
fmt.Printf("Version: %s\n", result.Version) // Version: 4.2.7+
Second argument of NewClient function is an object that implements
[http.RoundTripper](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#RoundTripper)
interface, it can be used to get more control over connection options.
By default it initialized by http.DefaultTransport object.
### Arguments encoding
xmlrpc package supports encoding of native Go data types to method
arguments.
Data types encoding rules:
* int, int8, int16, int32, int64 encoded to int;
* float32, float64 encoded to double;
* bool encoded to boolean;
* string encoded to string;
* time.Time encoded to datetime.iso8601;
* xmlrpc.Base64 encoded to base64;
* slice decoded to array;
Structs decoded to struct by following rules:
* all public field become struct members;
* field name become member name;
* if field has xmlrpc tag, its value become member name.
Server method can accept few arguments, to handle this case there is
special approach to handle slice of empty interfaces (`[]interface{}`).
Each value of such slice encoded as separate argument.
### Result decoding
Result of remote function is decoded to native Go data type.
Data types decoding rules:
* int, i4 decoded to int, int8, int16, int32, int64;
* double decoded to float32, float64;
* boolean decoded to bool;
* string decoded to string;
* array decoded to slice;
* structs decoded following the rules described in previous section;
* datetime.iso8601 decoded as time.Time data type;
* base64 decoded to string.
## Implementation details
xmlrpc package contains clientCodec type, that implements [rpc.ClientCodec](http://golang.org/pkg/net/rpc/#ClientCodec)
interface of [net/rpc](http://golang.org/pkg/net/rpc) package.
xmlrpc package works over HTTP protocol, but some internal functions
and data type were made public to make it easier to create another
implementation of xmlrpc that works over another protocol. To encode
request body there is EncodeMethodCall function. To decode server
response Response data type can be used.
## Contribution
Feel free to fork the project, submit pull requests, ask questions.
## Authors
Dmitry Maksimov (dmtmax@gmail.com)