# xmlrpc.server --- Basic XML-RPC servers — CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

> The CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler class can be used to handle XML-RPC requests sent to Python CGI scripts.

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The CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler class can be used to handle XML-RPC requests sent to Python CGI scripts.

Register a function that can respond to XML-RPC requests. If name is given, it will be the method name associated with function, otherwise function.name will be used. name is a string, and may contain characters not legal in Python identifiers, including the period character.

This method can also be used as a decorator. When used as a decorator, name can only be given as a keyword argument to register function under name. If no name is given, function.name will be used.

Register an object which is used to expose method names which have not been registered using register_function. If instance contains a _dispatch method, it is called with the requested method name and the parameters from the request; the return value is returned to the client as the result. If instance does not have a _dispatch method, it is searched for an attribute matching the name of the requested method; if the requested method name contains periods, each component of the method name is searched for individually, with the effect that a simple hierarchical search is performed. The value found from this search is then called with the parameters from the request, and the return value is passed back to the client.

Register the XML-RPC introspection functions system.listMethods, system.methodHelp and system.methodSignature.

Register the XML-RPC multicall function system.multicall.

Handle an XML-RPC request. If request_text is given, it should be the POST data provided by the HTTP server, otherwise the contents of stdin will be used.

class MyFuncs: def mul(self, x, y): return x y

handler = CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler() handler.register_function(pow) handler.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add') handler.register_introspection_functions() handler.register_instance(MyFuncs()) handler.handle_request()

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