Sorry Jon, i've lead you down a slippery slope... unlike ttw dtml-methods and the rest of zope which relies on the security context soley, for a filesys python method to be exposed through the web via xml-rpc it must have a doc string as well as have proper credentials. looking through propertysheets there is no 'proper' way to do this... but i lead you down the path, so here is a way back out... there are a couple of options. the easiest is to have dtml_method for this zclass that functions as a helper method, like dtml method -- external_helper <dtml-var "propertysheets.propertyMap()"> and in the client x = root.subfolder.zclass.external_helper() meta_info=eval(x) print meta_info ({'id': 'vvv', 'type': 'int', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}, {'id': 'aaa', 'type': 'lines', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}, {'id': 'ssss', 'type': 'tokens', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}, {'id': '122', 'type': 'date', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}, {'id': 'ff', 'type': 'float', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}, {'id': '>>', 'type': 'text', 'meta': {}, 'mode': 'w'}) or if external_helper returned propertyItems() [('vvv', 1), ('aaa', ['bbbb']), ('ssss', ['ss', 'aa1113', '3', '4']), ('122', DateTime('1900/01/01')), ('ff', 455.0), ('>>', '')] if you're working with DateTime values in your propertysheets this will be trickier as you'll need to either retrieve the property you want independently or import Zope's DateTime module. also remember to set the security on the helper method so its not helping somebody hack your site. the rest of the ways are exercises in wasting time... IMO hope that helps out Cheers Kapil Jon Prettyman wrote:

Adding: try: for k in server.EBQ.id_company_apply_html.propertysheets.propertyIds(): print "%-15s:" % (k) except Error, v: print server print "ERROR", v

Gives me output, although I'm pretty shure it's not the right thing. Output: title base

Both of these are properties of server.EBQ.

-jon

Ender <kthangavelu@earthlink.net> writes:

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Jon Prettyman wrote:

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Well, I've gotten xmlprclib and fixed it up so I can talk to my server. So far I can retrieve objectIds and retrieve objects via an objectid, but I can't figure out how to get to the property sheets.

Here's what I've got:

server = Server( "http://jonprettyman.com" )

print server

for k,v in server.EBQ.id_company_apply_html.propertysheets.common.propertyItems(): print "%-15s: %s" % (k, v) -jon

hmmm...

try and take it a step back and query the propertysheet container for names of propertysheets it contains. you'll need to check out the ZQR for the syntax, i think its propertyIds().

you might also want to check that your authenticating with a user that has the proper security roles to query this info.

if you're still having problems tell me and i'll play with it once i get back from work.

Cheers

Kapil

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