Ruby XMLRPC sockets changes

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I have rewritten how i changed the socket in XMLRPC are modified in a more Ruby style way.

A new class, in XMLRPC module, called ClientS (in a file called xmlrpcs.rb). It is a subclass of the Client class to ease the implementation of other kind of trasport system if the Net::HTTP based one doesn’t fit your needs.

require 'xmlrpc/client'

class XMLRPC::ClientS < XMLRPC::Client
        def initialize(info)
            @info = info
        end

        private

        # create new socket
        def new_socket(info,async)
            raise "Must be subclassed"
        end

        # write xmlrpc request in the previously created socket
        def write_request(socket,request)
          if socket.write(request) != request.length then
              raise "Not all the data has been sent"
          end
        end

        # read response from the socket
        def read_response(socket)
            socket.read()
        end

        # do_rpc working with custom sockets
        def do_rpc( request, async )
          sock = new_socket(@info,async)
          write_request(sock,request)
          return read_response(sock)
        end
    end
end

This makes it very simple to extend the class by just subclassing ClientS or just redefining the function new_socket.
To avoid to close the socket at each request, which may be not the right choice for every code, you can redefine the do_rpc
The info field is used to pass some arguments to create the socket, for instance

require 'xmlrpcs'
require 'socket'

class XMLClient < XMLRPC::ClientS
    def new_socket( info, async )
        UNIXSocket.new(info)
    end
end

c=XMLClient.new("/path/to/sock")
c.call(..)

The code can be found in the code page

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