Ankit @ankit@mastodon.online

Hey everyone, I switched from my private Mastodon instance to a public one. Hope to find and interact with more awesome people in the Fediverse 🎉

On The Web: April 4, 2021: https://ankitrgadiya.in/2021/04/04/on-the-web.html

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/03/global-telescope-creates-exquisite-map-of-black-holes-magnetic-field

Onto implementing decoding for the structs today.

#Golang #XMLRPC

BTW because of this little project, I got a pretty good exposure to reflect package now. Honestly I was always scared of using it because a lot of methods default to panic and do not return errors but I learned that panics can be avoided easily by just reading the documentation.

#Golang

I implemented the decoding for Arrays finally. Next it Structs now.

https://github.com/ankitrgadiya/xmlrpc/pull/1/

#XMLRPC #Golang

I just had this realisation that no religious text (that i know of) is written by a woman 🤔

#XMLRPC Implementation in #Golang: Figured out a way to implement custom Unmarshaler for dynamic values with user-given datatypes. I'm kinda proud of it 😅.

I implemented the decoding for primitive datatypes, just need to implement structs and arrays now.

For decoding #XMLRPC, I want to expose functionality for caller to specify a list of parameter types to parse the values into. But I don't know how to implement it by implementing the Unmarshaller interface alone.

#golang

Got the basic working encoder now

https://twitter.com/Tixie_/status/1370091395017547777

There are some reflection based XMLRPC implementations for Go but none seems to be updated. But I found a library for messing with dynamic XML. I might implement a simple XMLRPC codec package.

https://github.com/antchfx/xmlquery

Its kinda sad watching this but I really appreciate them coming out really honest about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDHQTg8Cj5s

Published the article

https://ankitrgadiya.in/2021/03/12/xmlrpc.html