<?php
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include_once 'XML/RPC2/Client.php';

/**
 * @classDescription Factory for PEAR XML rpc2 clients
 * @author Stefan Meyer <meyer@leifos.com>
 * @version $Id$
 */
class ilRpcClientFactory
{
	
	/**
	 * Create an XML_RPC2 client instance
	 * 
	 * We use Php as backend, since xmlrpc encodes utf8 as html entity 
	 * 
	 * @param string $a_package	 Package name
	 * @return 
	 */
	public static function factory($a_package)
	{
		include_once './Services/WebServices/RPC/classes/class.ilRPCServerSettings.php';

		$client = XML_RPC2_Client::create(
			ilRPCServerSettings::getInstance()->getServerUrl(),
			array(
				'prefix'	=> $a_package.'.',
				'encoding'	=> 'utf-8',
				'backend'	=> 'Php',
				'debug'		=> false
			)
		);
		return $client;
	}
}
