[Zope-dev] Re: Request typing (to get the xmlrpc layer discussion finished)

[Jim Fulton]

Good job! :)

I agree that this is really annoying.

Really, this needs to get unscrewed.  I'm skeptical that this is  
"released in 3.4" since a dependency on an unreleased alpha egg is  
involved.

Jim


On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> I also have zero opinion about this but I'll note as the dedicated  
> whiner, that, delta some policy change, until this gets worked out,  
> the Cheese Shop is broken for people who want to install zope.app*  
> packages (and other related packages).  A release of zope.traversing  
> has a dependency on another release that doesn't exist in the  
> index.  Somebody made the decision to keep it as-is until this issue  
> gets worked out.  It has been broken now for roughly two and a half  
> weeks.
>
> - C
>
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:13 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>>> a couple of weeks ago there was some discussion about the skin/ 
>>> layer support for XML-RPC which I implemented without asking  
>>> (shame on me). As some time has passed now everybody could have  
>>> some fresh thoughts about it.
>>> Let me first summarise:
>>> * Skin and layers should be seen as typing the request.
>>> * There are no general objections against having layers for XML-RPC.
>>> * There are objections against using ++skin++ for XML-RPC, ++api++  
>>> would be fine.
>>
>> I don't really have time to read this whole discussion, but note  
>> that Grok's REST support uses ++rest++<protocolname> and then  
>> provides a rest layer (for that protocol) to the request. That  
>> sounds quite similar to what you are proposing for XMLRPC.
>>
>> It's still ugly as POST and GET need to be handled by something  
>> else than PUT and DELETE, unfortunately; you can't use a different  
>> publisher (publication? whatever the name is for this handle) for  
>> GET and POST as the interface isn't set at the point it kicks in.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Martijn
>>
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