[Zope] ANN: Zope XML-RPC!

[Robin Becker]

In article <19990619175850.S14374@moebius.dartmouth.edu>, Eric Kidd
<eric@userland.com> writes
>On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
>> xml_hello_world inside <ZOPEROOT>/Extensions/test.py and with my browser
>> http://jessikat:9673/xml_hello_world?name=xxx returns the expected
>> Hello, xxx!
>
>Looks good so far.
> 
>> when I run the xmlrpclib route as in
>> 
>> >>> import xmlrpclib
>> >>> s=xmlrpclib.Server("http://jessikat:9673")
>
>Hmmm. You tripped over a strange default in xmlrpclib. You really meant to
>write:
>
>  s=xmlrpclib.Server("http://jessikat:9673/") # Notice the final '/'
>
>If you omit the final '/', xmlrpclib defaults to the following URL:
>
>  http://jessikat:9673/RPC2
agreed about xmlrpclib default, but sorry still bad
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> s=xmlrpclib.Server("http://jessikat:9673/")
>>> print s.xml_hello_world('aaa')
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in ?
    print s.xml_hello_world('aaa')
  File "C:\Python\Lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 457, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "C:\Python\Lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 496, in __request
    headers
ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for jessikat:9673/: -1 Status: 200 OK
>
>>> 
the external method still works and is available anonymously. I'm using
Win95 could that have anything to do with it?
>
>This is because the XML-RPC methods on most servers are attached to a
>top-level object named 'RPC2' (I have no clue why). Zope has no 'RPC2'
>object, so this default is useless.
>
>> a bit of debugging reveals that the parse into method and args happens
>> ok, but inside xmlrpc somewhere a fault is happening; it seems that the
>> standard error return from Zope is shoved into the response body.
>
>Yes. The error-handling machinery in Zope 2.0 is due for an overhaul. I
>won't improve the XML-RPC error reporting until everthing stops changing.
>
>If you have any more problems (or feedback), please don't hesitate to ask.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric
>
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-- 
Robin Becker