baalexander's xmlrpc module
Fork ofpatched to make it work with the HomeMatic XML-RPC Interface.
Changes include:
- If NotFound Event is fired default reply is an empty string
- Generation of empty tags - HomeMatic doesn't like stuff like
<string/>
- so now it generates a Homematic compatible<string></string>
- You can explicitly set type double by using as param
{explicitDouble: 1}
- Add Content-Length Header
As an alternative when communicating with a HomeMatic CCU (rfd/hs485d) or for use with CUxD I suggest to use the Binary RPC Module (same interface, less overhead, smaller implementation).
Original Readme of baalexander's xmlrpc module
The What
The xmlrpc module is a pure JavaScript XML-RPC server and client for node.js.
Pure JavaScript means that the XML parsing and XML building use pure JavaScript libraries, so no extra C dependencies or build requirements. The xmlrpc module can be used as an XML-RPC server, receiving method calls and responding with method responses, or as an XML-RPC client, making method calls and receiving method responses, or as both.
The How
To Install
npm install homematic-xmlrpc
To Use
The file client_server.js in the example directory has a nicely commented example of using xmlrpc as an XML-RPC server and client (they even talk to each other!).
A brief example:
var xmlrpc = // Creates an XML-RPC server to listen to XML-RPC method callsvar server = xmlrpc// Handle methods not foundserver// Handle method calls by listening for events with the method call nameserverconsole // Waits briefly to give the XML-RPC server time to start up and start// listening
Output from the example:
XML-RPC server listening on port 9090
Method call params for 'anAction': aParam
Method response for 'anAction': aResult
Date/Time Formatting
XML-RPC dates are formatted according to ISO 8601. There are a number of formatting options within the boundaries of the standard. The decoder detects those formats and parses them automatically, but for encoding dates to ISO 8601 some options can be specified to match your specific implementation.
The formatting options can be set through
xmlrpc.dateFormatter.setOpts(options);
, where the options
parameter is an object, with the following (optional) boolean members:
colons
- enables/disables formatting the time portion with a colon as separator (default:true
)hyphens
- enables/disables formatting the date portion with a hyphen as separator (default:false
)local
- encode as local time instead of UTC (true
= local,false
= utc, default:true
)ms
- enables/disables output of milliseconds (default:false
)offset
- enables/disables output of UTC offset in case of local time (default:false
)
Default format: 20140101T11:20:00
UTC Example:
xmlrpcdateFormatter // encoding output: '2014-01-01T16:20:00.000Z'
Local date + offset example:
xmlrpcdateFormatter // encoding output: '2014-01-01T11:20:00-05:00'
Cookies support
It is possible to turn on cookies support for XML-RPC client by special options flag. If turned on then all the cookies received from server will be bounced back with subsequent calls to the server. You also may manipulate cookies manually by the setCookie/getCookie call.
var client = xmlrpc;client;//This call will send provided cookie to the serverclient;
Custom Types
If you need to parse to a specific format or need to handle custom data types that are not supported by default, it is possible to extend the serializer with a user-defined type for your specific needs.
A custom type can be defined as follows:
var xmlrpc = ;var util = ; // create your custom classvar { xmlrpcCustomType;}; // inherit everythingutil; // set a custom tagName (defaults to 'customType')YourTypeprototypetagName = 'yourType'; // optionally, override the serializerYourTypeprototype { var value = ; return xml;}
and then make your method calls, wrapping your variables inside your new type definition:
var client = xmlrpc;client;
To Test
XML-RPC must be precise so there are an extensive set of test cases in the test directory. Vows is the testing framework and Travis CI is used for Continuous Integration.
To run the test suite:
make test
If submitting a bug fix, please update the appropriate test file too.
The License (MIT)
Released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for the complete wording.
Contributors
Thank you to all the authors and everyone who has filed an issue to help make xmlrpc better.