Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in modules and in documentation.

Lib/xmlrpc/client.py

@@ -1460,18 +1460,18 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     # simple test program (from the XML-RPC specification)
 
-    # server = ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000") # local server
-    server = ServerProxy("http://time.xmlrpc.com/RPC2")
+    # local server, available from Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
+    server = ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000")
 
     try:
         print(server.currentTime.getCurrentTime())
     except Error as v:
         print("ERROR", v)
 
-    # The server at xmlrpc.com doesn't seem to support multicall anymore.
     multi = MultiCall(server)
-    multi.currentTime.getCurrentTime()
-    multi.currentTime.getCurrentTime()
+    multi.getData()
+    multi.pow(2,9)
+    multi.add(1,2)
     try:
         for response in multi():
             print(response)

Lib/xmlrpc/server.py

@@ -967,10 +967,24 @@ class DocCGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(   CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler,
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import datetime
+
+    class ExampleService:
+        def getData(self):
+            return '42'
+
+        class currentTime:
+            @staticmethod
+            def getCurrentTime():
+                return datetime.datetime.now()
+
     server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
     server.register_function(pow)
     server.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add')
+    server.register_instance(ExampleService(), allow_dotted_names=True)
+    server.register_multicall_functions()
     print('Serving XML-RPC on localhost port 8000')
+    print('It is advisable to run this example server within a secure, closed network.')
     try:
         server.serve_forever()
     except KeyboardInterrupt: