[Zope] DTML batch processing w/external method

[David Chandek-Stark]

Here's the external method:

#
from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
def directory(skip, max):
    s = repr(skip)
    m = repr(max)
    server_url
= 'http://www.lib.duke.edu/texis/xmlrpc/directory/main.xml?skip='+s+'
&maxrecs='+m
    server = ServerProxy(server_url)
    return server()
#

It works fine when DTML passes literals:

<dtml-try>
  <dtml-in expr="directory(0,25)" mapping>
    <dtml-if sequence-start>
      <table>
    </dtml-if>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://www.lib.duke.edu/texis/directory/staff.html?id
=&dtml-ID;"><dtml-var Person></a></td>
      <td><dtml-var Phone></td>
    </tr>
    <dtml-if sequence-end>
      <table>
    </dtml-if>
  </dtml-in>
<dtml-except Fault>
  XML-RPC Error!
</dtml-try>

Thanks,
David
_____________________________________
David Chandek-Stark
Dept. of Web Services - Perkins Library, Duke University
E-mail: d.chandek.stark@duke.edu
Voice: 919.660.5859
Fax: 919.684.2855


                                                                                                               
                      Dylan Reinhardt                                                                          
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On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 14:01, David Chandek-Stark wrote:

> <dtml-in expr="external_method(start,size)" ...>
>
> doesn't work (NameError: global name 'start' is not defined).

The DTML looks OK.  Care to post the external method code?

Dylan