Libiqxmlrpc

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.8

Notes:


Changes:
0.7.3 - 0.8

This release has several incompatibility points with previous ones:

  * Library does no longer support introspection through customized children classes of Method::Help. I am considering that technique quite ugly now and planning to re-implement introspection scheme in future. However system.listMethods still available.

  * With compilation fix for g++ 3.2 the Server class has lost register_method template method. Now one should prefer use free register_method functions instead of Server::register_method.

New features:

    * External method dispatchers. This feature allows users to create customized method dispatchers, which would do some problem-specific things. E.g map XML-RPC requests to CORBA method calls (as I do), etc.
    * Full-fledged Windows port.
    * Recursive printing of values in perl-like form 
      (iqxmlrpc::print_value function).

Bugfixes & code clean-ups (in order of importance):

    * Fix compatibility with another XML-RPC engines:
      - treat <value/> as empty string value (xmlrpc++);
      - ignore ';' symbol in media-type HTTP parameter (xmlrpc-c);
      - treat text values of HTTP paramters in case insensentive way.
    * Fix coredump that appears in multi-threaded server with many threads under high loads.  
    * Compilation fix for g++ 3.2
    * Get rid of dependecy on libxml++ in public headers.
    * Make Response object much more cheaper for copying.