- Patch #7458 by chx: merged the XML-RPC multicall support into xmlrpc() and...

- Patch #7458 by chx: merged the XML-RPC multicall support into xmlrpc() and use lazy-loading for the XML-RPC libraries.(performance improvement).

includes/common.inc

@@ -1826,6 +1826,34 @@ function drupal_implode_autocomplete($array) {
   return implode('||', $output);
 }
 
+/**
+* Performs one or more XML-RPC request(s).
+*
+* @param $url
+*   An absolute URL of the XML-RPC endpoint.
+*     Example:
+*     http://www.domain.com/xmlrpc.php
+* @param ...
+*   For one request:
+*     The method name followed by a variable number of arguments to the method.
+*   For multiple requests (system.multicall):
+*     An array of call arrays. Each call array follows the pattern of the single
+*     request: method name followed by the arguments to the method.
+* @return
+*   For one request:
+*     Either the return value of the method on success, or FALSE.
+*     If FALSE is returned, see xmlrpc_errno() and xmlrpc_error_msg().
+*   For multiple requests:
+*     An array of results. Each result will either be the result
+*     returned by the method called, or an xmlrpc_error object if the call
+*     failed. See xmlrpc_error().
+*/
+function xmlrpc($url) {
+  require_once './includes/xmlrpc.inc';
+  $args = func_get_args();
+  return call_user_func_array('_xmlrpc', $args);
+}
+
 function _drupal_bootstrap_full() {
   static $called;
   global $locale;
@@ -1840,7 +1868,6 @@ function _drupal_bootstrap_full() {
   require_once './includes/tablesort.inc';
   require_once './includes/file.inc';
   require_once './includes/unicode.inc';
-  require_once './includes/xmlrpc.inc';
   require_once './includes/image.inc';
   // Set the Drupal custom error handler.
   set_error_handler('error_handler');

includes/xmlrpc.inc

@@ -340,25 +340,21 @@ function xmlrpc_base64_get_xml($xmlrpc_base64) {
   return '<base64>'. base64_encode($xmlrpc_base64->data) .'</base64>';
 }
 
-/**
- * Perform an XML-RPC request.
- *
- * @param $url
- *    An absolute URL of the XML-RPC server
- * @param $method
- *    The method to be executed
- * @param ...
- *   A variable number of arguments of the method.
- * @return
- *   The return value of the method on success or FALSE. On FALSE, see
- *   xmlrpc_errno() and xmlrpc_error_msg().
- */
-function xmlrpc() {
+function _xmlrpc() {
   $args = func_get_args();
   $url = array_shift($args);
-  $method = array_shift($args);
+  if (is_array($args[0])) {
+    $method = 'system.multicall';
+    $multicall_args = array();
+    foreach ($args[0] as $call) {
+      $multicall_args[] = array('methodName' => array_shift($call),'params' => $call);
+    }
+    $args = array($multicall_args);
+  }
+  else {
+    $method = array_shift($args);
+  }
   $xmlrpc_request = xmlrpc_request($method, $args);
-//  $request .= "Content-Type: text/xml$r";
   $result = drupal_http_request($url, array("Content-Type" => "text/xml"), 'POST', $xmlrpc_request->xml);
   if ($result->code != 200) {
     xmlrpc_error(-$result->code, $result->error);
@@ -380,30 +376,6 @@ function xmlrpc() {
   return $message->params[0];
 }
 
-/**
- * Perform multiple calls in one request if possible.
- *
- * @param $url
- *    An absolute URL of the XML-RPC server
- * @param $calls
- *    An array of calls. Each call is an array, where the first element
- *    is the method name, further elements are the arguments.
- * @return
- *    An array of results.
- */
-function xmlrpc_multicall() {
-  $args = func_get_args();
-  $url = $args[0];
-  foreach ($args[1] as $call) {
-    $method = array_shift($call);
-    $calls[] = array(
-      'methodName' => $method,
-      'params' => $call
-    );
-  }
-  return xmlrpc($url, 'system.multicall', $calls);
-}
-
 /**
  * Returns the last XML-RPC client error number
  */

xmlrpc.php

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
  * PHP page for handling incoming XML-RPC requests from clients.
  */
 
-include_once 'includes/bootstrap.inc';
+include_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
 drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
-include_once 'includes/xmlrpcs.inc';
+include_once './includes/xmlrpc.inc';
+include_once './includes/xmlrpcs.inc';
 
 xmlrpc_server(module_invoke_all('xmlrpc'));
 ?>