Add failover to the XML-RPC client

433506

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/ipaxmlrpc.py b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/ipaxmlrpc.py
index 9a126d669..95f2352aa 100644
--- a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/ipaxmlrpc.py
+++ b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/ipaxmlrpc.py
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ class ModXMLRPCRequestHandler(object):
         self.funcs = {}
         self.traceback = False
         #introspection functions
+        self.register_function(self.ping, name="ping")
         self.register_function(self.list_api, name="_listapi")
         self.register_function(self.system_listMethods, name="system.listMethods")
         self.register_function(self.system_methodSignature, name="system.methodSignature")
@@ -240,6 +241,10 @@ class ModXMLRPCRequestHandler(object):
                           'args': args})
         return funcs
 
+    def ping(self,opts):
+        """Simple test to see if the XML-RPC is up and active."""
+        return "pong"
+
     def _getFuncArgs(self, func):
         args = []
         for x in range(0, func.func_code.co_argcount):
diff --git a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/test/test_methods.py b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/test/test_methods.py
index bb77439b9..88fcd9339 100644
--- a/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/test/test_methods.py
+++ b/ipa-server/xmlrpc-server/test/test_methods.py
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ from ipa import config
 
 ipa.config.init_config()
 
-url = "http://" + config.config.get_server() + "/ipa"
+serverlist = config.config.get_server()
+url = "http://" + serverlist[0] + "/ipa"
 s = xmlrpclib.Server(url, KerbTransport())
 
 print "A list of all methods available on the server."