[Zope] Flash XMLRPC clients for Zope ....

[Steve Spicklemire]

Oops... sorry.. somehow handleXML got nipped.. this might be handy for 
someone else wanting simple xml converted to dicts for easy python 
processing..

On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 03:43 AM, Steve Spicklemire wrote:

>
> Hi Nigel,
>
> On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 12:18 AM, Nigel Head wrote:
>
>> I saw an enquiry a while back about Flash XML-RPC clients. After some
>> spelunking I can add my 2 eurocents to the situation ...  
>> unfortunately not
>> good news.


handleXML:

#
# Handle XML input from Flash.
# Needs ParsedXML product installed.
#

if __name__=="__main__":
     """ For in 'IDE' testing.. """
     import sys
     sys.path.append('/usr/local/etc/Zope2b/lib/python')
     import ZODB

from Products.ParsedXML.DOM import ExpatBuilder

try:
     from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
     from StringIO import StringIO

def handleXML(xmlString, debug=0):
     return toDict(DOMParseString( None, xmlString), debug=debug)

def DOMParseString(self, xml):
     file = StringIO(xml)
     return ExpatBuilder.parse(file)

def toDict( xmlThing, currDict=None, debug=0 ):

     if currDict is None:
         currDict = {}

     if hasattr(xmlThing,'data'):
         currDict['data'] = xmlThing.data

     if hasattr(xmlThing, '_attributes'):
         if debug:
             print "checking attributes:",  xmlThing._attributes

         for attr in xmlThing._attributes:
             if currDict.has_key(attr[1]):
                 oldVal = currDict[attr[1]]
                 if type(oldVal)==type(''):
                     currDict[attr[1]]=[oldVal, attr[4]]
                 else:
                     oldVal.append(attr[4])
             else:
                 currDict[attr[1]] = attr[4]

     if hasattr(xmlThing, '_children'):
         for subThing in xmlThing._children:
             newDict = toDict(subThing)

             if hasattr(subThing, 'data'):
                 currDict['data'] = subThing.data

             elif hasattr(subThing, 'nodeName'):
                 if currDict.has_key(subThing.nodeName):
                     oldVal=currDict[subThing.nodeName]
                     if type(oldVal)==type({}):
                         currDict[subThing.nodeName]=[oldVal, newDict]
                     else:
                         oldVal.append(newDict)
                 else:
                     currDict[subThing.nodeName] = newDict

     return currDict

theXML = """<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<CD title="2 Against Nature">
<track title = "gaslighting abbie"/>
<track title = "what a shame about me"/>
<track title = "two against nature"/>
<track title = "janie runaway"/>
<track title = "almost gothic"/>
<track title = "jack of speed"/>
<track title = "cousin dupree"/>
<track title = "negative girl"/>
<track title = "west of hollywood"/>
<relatedItems artist = "Steely Dan"/>
<relatedItems artist = "Walter Becker"/>
<relatedItems artist = "Donald Fagen"/>
</CD>
"""

if __name__=="__main__":

     #print handleXML('<querySources level="/my/favorite/place"/>')
     print handleXML(theXML, debug=1)