3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/actionwebservice/CHANGELOG b/actionwebservice/CHANGELOG
index 8b2d63e804..e21a9e73ba 100644
--- a/actionwebservice/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionwebservice/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added ActionWebService::API::Base.soap_client and ActionWebService::API::Base.xmlrpc_client helper methods to create the internal clients for an API, useful for testing from ./script/console
+
 * ActionWebService now always returns UTF-8 responses.
 
 *0.8.1* (11 July, 2005)
diff --git a/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb b/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb
index b28d57d00e..1bce496a7b 100644
--- a/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb
+++ b/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 require 'action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol/marshaler'
 require 'soap/streamHandler'
+require 'action_web_service/client/soap_client'
 
 module ActionWebService # :nodoc:
+  module API # :nodoc:
+    class Base # :nodoc:
+      def self.soap_client(endpoint_uri, options={})
+        ActionWebService::Client::Soap.new self, endpoint_uri, options
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   module Protocol # :nodoc:
     module Soap # :nodoc:
       def self.included(base)
diff --git a/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb b/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb
index 2ee5af7c3f..53b67ced4c 100644
--- a/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb
+++ b/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'xmlrpc/marshal'
+require 'action_web_service/client/xmlrpc_client'
 
 module XMLRPC # :nodoc:
   class FaultException # :nodoc:
@@ -7,6 +8,14 @@ module XMLRPC # :nodoc:
 end
 
 module ActionWebService # :nodoc:
+  module API # :nodoc: 
+    class Base # :nodoc:
+      def self.xmlrpc_client(endpoint_uri, options={})
+        ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new self, endpoint_uri, options
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   module Protocol # :nodoc:
     module XmlRpc # :nodoc:
       def self.included(base)