RHN XML-RPC system.setChildChannels issue

Chris St. Pierre stpierre at NebrWesleyan.edu
Wed Dec 19 15:15:08 UTC 2007


I'm trying to use the RHN XML-RPC API (yes, that was 4 TLAs in a row)
to automatically subscribe my systems to a set of channels.  Here's
the request I send (with added whitespace for legibility) with Perl's
RPC::XML::Client:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<methodCall>
   <methodName>system.setChildChannels</methodName>
   <params>
     <param><value><string>3543551944xec1c4bd26c181f4f045f65b33d2f0cda</string></value></param>
     <param><value><int>1234567890</int></value></param>
     <param><value><array><data>
       <value><int>6958</int></value>
       <value><int>6962</int></value>
     </data></array></value></param>
   </params>
</methodCall>

(SystemID and session string have both been changed, but format
retained.)

The error I get back is:

unhandled internal exception: java.lang.Integer (-2)

I've looked over the API, and it's expecting three arguments of
string, int, and array type, respectively.  The array appears to be an
array of ints, as far as I can tell.

At this point in the script, I've logged in and gotten a list of the
child channels, both of which requests work just dandy.

What am I doing wrong?

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University




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