272058 - Move XMLRPC component to web services

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[seth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
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The xml-rpc component (nsXmlRpcClient) should be moved from the XML group to the
Web Services group. It is, after all, designed for web services. It's function
is virtually identical to SOAP, which is listed under web services, and that is
exactly the purpose for which XML-RPC was created.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I don't know what you mean exactly, could you please elaborate? What needs to
happen?

Comment 2

[seth]

XML-RPC bugs all get filed under XML. SOAP bugs all get filed under Web
Services. XML RPC is a web service protocol, not generic xml.

I'm pushing for XMLRPC to be fixed and enhanced. For starters, I think it needs
to be categorized properly.

That's all. Sort of a metabug.

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> XML-RPC bugs all get filed under XML. SOAP bugs all get filed under Web
> Services. XML RPC is a web service protocol, not generic xml.

Ok, but I don't see any place where we specifically say people need to file
XML-RPC bugs under XML component, rather than Web Services component. This is my
confusion with this report. I still don't know what you want me to do.

Comment 4

[seth]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Ok, but I don't see any place where we specifically say people need to file
> XML-RPC bugs under XML component, rather than Web Services component. This is my
> confusion with this report. I still don't know what you want me to do.

Maybe this is a non-issue, but here's what I was thinking.

In the source, xml-rpc is in extensions
<http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/xml-rpc/>, but I think it
should be in Web Services along with SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL.

In bugzilla, all of the XML-RPC bugs are filed under XML, instead of Web
Services. They should be listed as Web Services bugs, just like SOAP, WSDL, or UDDI.

Like I said, maybe this is a non-issue. I'm probably just being anal, and in the
back of my mind I may have been hoping that moving xml-rpc to web services would
remind the right people that there are some serious bugs in nsXmlRpcClient.js.
Some of these bugs have been sitting around for a very long time, but they make
the xml-rpc component almost completely useless.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

So you are stepping up to own xml-rpc?

I have no problem with an xml-rpc component in bugzilla, not sure about being
part of webservices.  extensions/webservices already has too much in it (schema
for example).  We build xml-rpc by default right?

Comment 6

[seth]

(In reply to comment #5)
> So you are stepping up to own xml-rpc?

I'd certainly consider it. Not really sure what that would entail, frankly,
unless it means fixing stuff myself. That it?

> I have no problem with an xml-rpc component in bugzilla, not sure about being
> part of webservices.  extensions/webservices already has too much in it (schema
> for example). 

But my point is that xml-rpc *is* a web service tool, and that's really all it's
for. It's as much part of web services as is SOAP.

There are lots of words that being with 'm', but Webster decided *not* to file
them under 'q' and 'z', even though it would have been easy. 

>We build xml-rpc by default right?

Yes.

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Comment 8

[seth]

I still believe that XML-RPC should be classified as a web services component.
Doron seemed to agree with my, but I guess my somewhat cryptic reference to
Webster in my last message threw him off. ;-)

(My point was that the number of components already in web servcies is not a
reason to leave out XML-RPC. XML-RPC is *only* a web services protocol. Period.)

Comment 9

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

The XML-RPC component was removed (I think before Firefox 3).