[Zope-dev] access to ZCatalog-data via xmlrpc

[Toby Dickenson]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:35 am, Joachim Schmitz wrote:

> > You could hack xmlrpclib to marshall those object, but I dont recomme=
nd
> > it.  Those objects can be big (but lazily evaluated), and you would b=
e
> > opening a  significant denial of service vulnerability in your server=
=2E
>
> But it also can be very interesting for exporting data from a Zope site=
, to
> be used in other applications.

Sure, but you dont want to to marshall your whole zope site into one huge=
=20
in-memory string.

> Now that works, but I think the xmlrpclib.py, should be able to marshal=
l
> the "None" type.

Yes. updating xmlrpclib.py is on the todo list for zope 2.6. I hope a cha=
nge=20
similar to this will be included.