Re: [Zope] vcXMLRPC with Zope?

5 Dec 2002

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I've a python script that works nicely from python xmlrpclib client. I'd
like to use it to work from the browser, preferably using vcXMLRPC library
( www.vcdn.org/Public/XMLRPC/).
You should have also posted your python script.

I don't use the the getService method in vcXMLRPC, my javascript code is below..

Zope's xmlrpc needs an exact argument count match to call a PythonScript.

So, all of my Python Scripts take two arguments:

rqType="", rqDict={}

where rqType is a string, and rqDict is a variable argument list.

Here's some javascript code:

    oStruct = {
      orgid:currentOrgID,
      profiletype:profiletype,
      profile:selectedValue,
      instanceDict:handler.getInstanceDict()
    }
    updateButtonObject.disabled = true;
    try {
        result = XMLRPC.call(OrgBaseURL,OrgBaseProcessRequest,"SelectProfile",oStruct);
        if(result != "true") 
             alert(result);
        else  {
             loadProfilesForOrg(currentOrgID);
        }
    }
    catch(err) {
        if(err instanceof Error)
            alert("Unexpected Error Org UpdateProfile:"+err.message);
        else
            alert("Unexpected Error Org UpdateProfile:"+err);
    }

oStruct ends up in rqDict in the Pythonscript, and rqType == 'SelectProfile'

OrgBaseURL and stuff is set like this:

var OrgBaseURL='<dtml-var "Orgs.absolute_url()">';
var OrgBaseProcessRequest = "Orgs.XMLRPCRequest_py";

Note that my javascript file is a DTML method.

XMLRPCRequest_py is the PythonScript id

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