C# Client to Consume Google App Engine RESTful Webservice (rpc XML)

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Published on 2010-04-23T09:05:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 9:53 UTC
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I think I hit a problem when using C# client to consume Google App Engine Webservice. The Google App Engine code I use is here. This is how the python script on server would look like:

from google.appengine.ext import webapp                                        
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app                      
import logging                                                                 

from StringIO import StringIO                                                  
import traceback
import xmlrpclib
from xmlrpcserver import XmlRpcServer

class Application:
    def __init__(self):
        pass                    

    def getName(self,meta):                                                    
        return 'example'

class XMLRpcHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):                                    
    rpcserver = None

    def __init__(self):         
        self.rpcserver = XmlRpcServer()                                        
        app = Application()                                                    
        self.rpcserver.register_class('app',app)                               

    def post(self):
        request = StringIO(self.request.body)
        request.seek(0)                                                        
        response = StringIO()                                                  
        try:
            self.rpcserver.execute(request, response, None)                    
        except Exception, e:                                                   
            logging.error('Error executing: '+str(e))                          
            for line in traceback.format_exc().split('\n'):                    
                logging.error(line)
        finally:
            response.seek(0)  

        rstr = response.read()                                                 
        self.response.headers['Content-type'] = 'text/xml'                     
        self.response.headers['Content-length'] = "%d"%len(rstr)               
        self.response.out.write(rstr)

application = webapp.WSGIApplication(                                          
                                     [('/xmlrpc/', XMLRpcHandler)],
                                     debug=True)                               
def main():
  run_wsgi_app(application)                                                    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

The client side ( in Python) is this:

import xmlrpclib
s = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:8080/xmlrpc/')
print s.app.getName()

I have no problem in using Python client to retrieve values from Google App Engine, but I do have difficulties in using a C# client to retrieve the values. The error I got was 404 method not found when I am trying to GetResponse from the web request.

This is my code

        var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:8080/xmlrpc/app");

        request.Method = "GET";
        request.ContentLength = 0;
        request.ContentType = "text/xml";
        using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) //404 method not found error here.
        {

        }  

I think it must be that the url is wrong, but I don't know how to get it right. Any idea?

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