Running server methods using XML-RPC

With XML-RPC, no session is maintained and the authentication credentials are sent with every request. This adds some overhead to the protocol, but makes it simpler to use.

 

 

Next, we set up access to the server methods that need a login to be accessed. These are exposed at the /xmlrpc/2/object endpoint, as shown in the following:

>>> api = client.ServerProxy('%s/xmlrpc/2/object' % srv)
>>> api.execute_kw(db, uid, pwd, 'res.partner', 'search_count', [[]])
42

Here, we are accessing the server API for the first time, performing a count on the Partner records. Methods are called using the execute_kw() method that takes the following arguments:

• The name of the database to connect to
• The connection user ID
• The user password
• The target model identifier name
• The method to call
• A list of positional arguments
• An optional dictionary with keyword arguments (not used in the example)

The preceding example calls the search_count method of the res.partner model...