| The class structure of these files is a little strange, and this README |
| explains it. |
| |
| Our goal is to make JSON::RPC and XMLRPC::Lite both work with the same code. |
| (That is, we want to have one WebService API, and have two frontends for it.) |
| |
| The problem is that these both pass different things for $self to WebService |
| methods. |
| |
| When XMLRPC::Lite calls a method, $self is the name of the *class* the |
| method is in. For example, if we call Bugzilla.version(), the first argument |
| is Bugzilla::WebService::Bugzilla. So in order to have $self |
| (our first argument) act correctly in XML-RPC, we make all WebService |
| classes use parent qw(Bugzilla::WebService). |
| |
| When JSON::RPC calls a method, $self is the JSON-RPC *server object*. In other |
| words, it's an instance of Bugzilla::WebService::Server::JSONRPC. So we have |
| Bugzilla::WebService::Server::JSONRPC inherit from Bugzilla::WebService. |
