IXmlRpcClient.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2005-2013 by Appcelerator, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 * Licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
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package org.python.pydev.shared_interactive_console.console;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException;

/**
 * Interface that determines what's needed from the xml-rpc server.
 *
 * @author Fabio
 */
public interface IXmlRpcClient {

    /**
     * Sets the port which the server is expecting to communicate. 
     * @param port port where the server was started.
     * 
     * @throws MalformedURLException
     */
    void setPort(int port) throws MalformedURLException;

    /**
     * @param command the command to be executed in the server
     * @param args the arguments passed to the command
     * @return the result from executing the command
     * 
     * @throws XmlRpcException
     */
    Object execute(String command, Object[] args) throws XmlRpcException;

}