update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is
only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex
index 690e669..d8126e4 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
handles all the details of translating between conformable Python
objects and XML on the wire.
-\begin{classdesc}{Server}{uri\optional{, transport\optional{,
- encoding\optional{, verbose}}}}
-A \class{Server} instance is a server proxy that manages communication
+\begin{classdesc}{ServerProxy}{uri\optional{, transport\optional{,
+ encoding\optional{, verbose}}}}
+A \class{ServerProxy} instance is an object that manages communication
with a remote XML-RPC server. The required first argument is a URI
(Uniform Resource Indicator), and will normally be the URL of the
server. The optional second argument is a transport factory instance;
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
the remote server for the methods it supports (service discovery) and
fetch other server-associated metadata.
-\class{Server} instance methods take Python basic types and objects as
+\class{ServerProxy} instance methods take Python basic types and objects as
arguments and return Python basic types and classes. Types that are
conformable (e.g. that can be marshalled through XML), include the
following (and except where noted, they are unmarshalled as the same
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
arbitrary strings via XML-RPC, use the \class{Binary} wrapper class
described below.
+\class{Server} is retained as an alias for \class{ServerProxy} for backwards
+compatibility. New code should use \class{ServerProxy}.
+
\end{classdesc}
@@ -83,9 +86,9 @@
\end{seealso}
-\subsection{Server Objects \label{server-objects}}
+\subsection{ServerProxy Objects \label{serverproxy-objects}}
-A \class{Server} instance proxy object has a method corresponding to
+A \class{ServerProxy} instance has a method corresponding to
each remote procedure call accepted by the XML-RPC server. Calling
the method performs an RPC, dispatched by both name and argument
signature (e.g. the same method name can be overloaded with multiple
@@ -244,8 +247,8 @@
\begin{verbatim}
# simple test program (from the XML-RPC specification)
-# server = Server("http://localhost:8000") # local server
-server = Server("http://betty.userland.com")
+# server = ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000") # local server
+server = ServerProxy("http://betty.userland.com")
print server