[Zope-dev] Zope client? (invitation for developers)

[Bill Anderson]

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> 
> Bill Anderson wrote:
> > > I've written one already in wxPython, so it runs on Windows, too.  Check out
> > > http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site.  Make sure you follow the
> > > instructions on altering Zope or it won't work.  It uses both XML-RPC and
> > > ZPublisher.Client for historical reasons, but evnetually it'll use XML-RPC
> > > only, since XML-RPC is a lot more powerful.
> >
> > But has isssues with ZSQL Methods. :(
> 
> That's a Zope security issue, really.

AIUI, the problem isn't a security issue, it is how/what ZSQL methods
return.

>  Client would most likely have the
> same problem.  But let me explain why I used XML-RPC:  ZPublisher.Client
> always returns it's results a string, while XML-RPC pickles Python objects
> into XML and then unpickles them back into Python objects.  This means that
> if a method returns a list, using Client you'll get "['a', 'b', 'c']", the
> string represnetation of the list, while with XML-RPC yopu'll get the actual
> list.

Which, IUIC, is part of the problem with ZSQL over XML-RPC