[Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] xmlrpc calls require string results?

[Jeff Rush]

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:18:27 -0500, Dan Pierson wrote:

>Here are the method definitions, all in SquishSite in Squishdot.py:
>
>    def has_subjects(self):     
>        ''' returns true if site has subject topics defined'''     
>        return len(self.subjects)     
>     
>    def subject_count(self):     
>        ''' gives count of subject topics defined'''     
>        return self.has_subjects()     
>
>    def subjects_list(self):     
>        ''' lists all subjects '''    
>        subjects = self.subjects.keys()    
>        subjects.sort()    
>        return subjects    
>
>    def item_count(self):     
>        return len(self.data)     
>
>Maybe this is just a Squishdot problem, but I can't see any significant
>different between subject_count and item_count above, can you?

Uh, yes I can, a very big one.  The item_count() method is missing
a function-comment string, which means the ZPublisher module
won't allow it to be externally called.  That sure looks like your
problem.

-Jeff Rush