On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:38:21PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
In order to avoid zodb implosion, is it sufficient to raise an xmlrpclib Fault object from a method where some validation was not successful?
yes.
Will zope abort transactions
yes.
and avoid an other avoidable bad things from happening?
as long as your application is designed well with regard to transaction boundaries, you'll be fine. Inconsistencies could arise if your app does something weird like manually commit a transaction and start a new one before the exception is raised...
Do I have to use fault or can I raise just any error an ZPublisher.xmlrpc will marshall it into <fault></fault>?
The latter. Try it and see :) AFAICT any uncaught exception will be published as an xmlrpc fault. But then I think you don't have control of the fault code, if you care about that. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com