[Zope-dev] XML-RPC "To Do" List

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:09:36 -0500


At 02:28 PM 7/26/99 -0400, Eric Kidd wrote:
>Since Zope is heading towards a 2.0 release, I want to clean up some of the
>niggling problems with Zope XML-RPC. Here are the problems I know about:
>
> 2) Zope XML-RPC methods cannot return 0, '', or other values which Python
>    considers to be false. These values get mangled somewhere between the
>    External Method and ZPublisher/xmlrpc.py.
>
>But one of these problems is tricky: (2). Zope may have good reasons for
>throwing away false values, and I don't want to hack on this code until I
>know what the issues are.
>

Jim Fulton already put in a patch to fix that problem, a few weeks ago.
Check that you have the latest version of ZPublisher.