[Zope-dev] UserFolder and xmlrpc

[Richard Jones]

On Saturday 08 September 2001 04:00, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 18:58, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Are there any plans to "update" UserFolder to allow xmlrpc calls into it?
> > The addition of manage_addUser/manage_editUser/etc that wrap
> > _doAddUser/_doChangeUser/etc would probably suffice. The current
> > manage_users interface is not xml-rpc friendly, unfortunately :)
> >
> > The point of this, BTW, is to allow a user-friendly "control panel" on
> > the mac and windows to add (and possibly later edit) manager users. We
> > find that the process of [remembering|setting] the admin password and
> > then logging in, finding acl_users, adding a user, logging out (usually
> > quitting the browser), logging back in is quite a problem for our users.
> > Hence the control panel being able to add a manager user in one step.
>
> You may consider downloading the ZMC GUI, it does most of this, and uses
> XML-RPC. it is written in Python and GTK. I am owkring on one in
> wxPython, for X-Platform use.

The point of my post was that you can't currently XMP-RPC to add a user - the 
manage_users method is not a usable method from an XML-RPC perspective.

We are developing our own Mac and Windows interfaces that have a slimmer 
scope than ZMC (and also some extensions that ZMC won't ever have) and is 
branded with our logos. We intend to release the source soon too - but it 
sounds like it'd be of little use to your project, as it's written in C.


     Richard