trying out the hint from github issue

[plcapi.git] / php / plc_api.php

diff --git a/php/plc_api.php b/php/plc_api.php
index 9a08ad2..ea90a8c 100644 (file)
--- a/php/plc_api.php
+++ b/php/plc_api.php
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ class PLCAPI
     // Marshal the XML-RPC request as a POST variable. <nil/> is an
     // extension to the XML-RPC spec that is supported in our custom
     // version of xmlrpc.so via the 'allow_null' output_encoding key.
-    $request = xmlrpc_encode_request($method, $args, array('allow_null' => TRUE));
+    $request = xmlrpc_encode_request($method, $args, array('null_extension'));
+    error_log("ENCODED: " . $method . "(" . $args . ")");
+    error_log("OBTAINED: " . $request);
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
 
     // Construct the HTTP header
@@ -241,10 +243,15 @@ class PLCAPI
   }
 }
 
+// this tentatively allows to tune mainstream xmlrpc php lib
+// so as to achieve the same behaviour as with our patched lib
+$GLOBALS['xmlrpc_null_extension'] = true;
+$GLOBALS['$xmlrpc_null_apache_encoding'] = true;
+
 global $adm;
 
 $adm = new PLCAPI(array('AuthMethod' => "capability",
-                       'Username' => PLC_API_MAINTENANCE_USER,
+                       'Username'   => PLC_API_MAINTENANCE_USER,
                        'AuthString' => PLC_API_MAINTENANCE_PASSWORD));
 
 ?>