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C-RPC

CREATED BY traumwind • LAST EDITED BY traumwind 2421 days AGO

C-RPC was born from an idea to reduce the amount of ASCII chars needed to encode simple values in XML-RPC.

XML-RPC: in it's current form is not really well suited to transfer simple values:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
 <methodName>doubleMe</methodName>
 <params>
 <param>
 <value><i4>16</i4></value>
 </param>
 <param>
 <array>
 <data>
 <value><i4>788 </i4></value>
 <value><i4>87827</i4></value>
 </data>
 </array>
 </param>
 </params>
</methodCall>

XML-RPC (streamlined): is a proposal to reduce the amount of chars by shortening the tagnames and simplyfing the structure

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<call>
 <name>doubleMe</name>
 16
 <array>
 788
 87827
 </array>
 
</call>

and now consider this: the same values as they could be encoded in, say, REBOL... (a format that should be reasonably easy to parse with other languages like Perl or Python)
C-RPC:

[call "doubleMe" [16 [array [788 87827]]]]

[ideas by chl and traumwind]