PSClient-for-XML-RPC

Invoke Xml-RPC request by PowerShell client. A PowerShell module that help to send XML-RPC request. Suppoted by http://www.pstips.net/

Features

• Convert PowerShell object to XML-RPC object string.
• Convert XML-RPC object string to PowerShell object.
• Generate a XML-RPC request string with method name and parameters.
• Send XML-RPC request to RPC server.

Data types map

PowerShell Type	XML-RPC Data types
System.Array	array
System.Byte[]	base64
System.Boolean	boolean
System.DateTime	date/time
System.Double	double
System.Double.Int64	integer
System.String	string
PSCustomObject or System.Collections.Hashtable	struct

Examples

1.Convert .NET object to RPC XML object

# integer
$int_obj = 1919
ConvertTo-RPCXmlObject $int_obj

# double
$double_obj = '<double>6.4</double>'
ConvertTo-RPCXmlObject $double_obj

# string
$string_obj = '<string>www.pstips.net</string>'
ConvertTo-RPCXmlObject $string_obj

more to see ConvertTo-RPCXmlObject.

2.Convert RPC XML object to .NET object

# integer
$s1= '<i4>1919</i4>'
ConvertFrom-RPCXmlObject -XmlObject $s1

$s2= '<int>1989</int>'
ConvertFrom-RPCXmlObject -XmlObject $s2

# double
$s3= '<double>6.4</double>'
ConvertFrom-RPCXmlObject -XmlObject $s3

more to see ConvertFrom-RPCXmlObject.

3.New RPCMethod

# New RPCMethod
$method = 'wp.getPostTypes'
$params = @(1,'userName','Password')
$body = New-RPCMethod -MethodName $method  -Params $params

4.Invoke RPCMethod

# Invoke RPCMethod
$blogRpcUrl = 'http://www.pstips.net/my-rpc.php' 
Invoke-RPCMethod -RpcServerUri $blogRpcUrl -RequestBody $body