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Invokes the method named method with the parameters given by args on the XML-RPC server.

The method parameter is converted into a String and should be a valid XML-RPC method-name.

Each parameter of args must be of one of the following types, where Hash, Struct and Array can contain any of these listed types:

• Fixnum, Bignum

• TrueClass, FalseClass, true, false

• String, Symbol

• Float

• Hash, Struct

• Array

• Date, Time, XMLRPC::DateTime

• XMLRPC::Base64

• A Ruby object which class includes XMLRPC::Marshallable (only if Config::ENABLE_MARSHALLING is true). That object is converted into a hash, with one additional key/value pair _class___ which contains the class name for restoring that object later.

The method returns the return-value from the Remote Procedure Call.

The type of the return-value is one of the types shown above.

A Bignum is only allowed when it fits in 32-bit. A XML-RPC dateTime.iso8601 type is always returned as a XMLRPC::DateTime object. Struct is never returned, only a Hash, the same for a Symbol, where as a String is always returned. XMLRPC::Base64 is returned as a String from xmlrpc4r version 1.6.1 on.

If the remote procedure returned a fault-structure, then a XMLRPC::FaultException exception is raised, which has two accessor-methods faultCode an Integer, and faultString a String.