I am new at using RPC-XML. Some suggested to use Frontier::Client, and it seems pretty easy. My problem is constructing the arguments to pass through. I have a hash of key-value pairs, but when I debug it the XML request doesn't look like it should.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Frontier::Client;

my $server = Frontier::Client->new('url' => 'http://somexmlrpcsite.com
+/service.php', 'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1', 'debug' => 1);
my $method = 'search';
my %paramfields = [{
                    'this'          =>  'thisvalue',
                    'that'          =>  'thatvalue',
                    'something'     =>  'somevalue'
                    }];

my $result = $server->call($method, %paramfields);

print "My result is \n\n: $result\n";
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And the debugger gives something like this:

---- request ----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>searchres</methodName>
<params>
<param><value><array><data>
<value><struct>
<member><name>this</name><value><string>thisvalue</string></value></me
+mber>
<member><name>that</name><value><string>thatvalue</string></value></me
+mber>
<member><name>something</name><value><string>somevalue</string></value
+></member>
</struct></value>
</data></array></value></param>
</params>
</methodCall>
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What it should put out is something like this:

---- request ----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>search</methodName>
<params>
    <param>
        <value>
                <struct>
                        <member>
                                <name>this</name>
                                <value>
                                        <string>thisvalue</string>
                                </value>
                        </member>
                        <member>
                                <name>that</name>
                                <value>
                                        <string>thatvalue</string>
                                </value>
                        </member>
                        <member>
                                <name>something</name>
                                <value>
                                        <string>somevalue</string>
                                </value>
                        </member>
                </struct>
        </value>
    <param>
</params>
</methodCall>
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So the difference is the:

<value><array><data>
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I need to get rid of those because it is throwing off the server and giving me an error that they can't find one of the key-value pairs.

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