[Zope] I'm clumsy with XML-RPC.

[Phil Harris]

Kyler,

xml-rpc doesn't accept named parameters, only positional ones.  Once you 
know this then the behaviour you see makes perfect sense.

Phil

Kyler Laird wrote:

>It's been a long time since I poked at Zope with XML-RPC.  I was hoping
>to start using it for a very public set of tools, but the only things I
>can do right now are very clumsy.
>
>I have a Python Script, "test", in Zope with parameters "first=None,
>second=None".  The Script just "prints" and returns the values.
>
>Trying what would seem to be an elegant way of calling it,
>	Zope_server.test(first='foo', second='bar')
>yields an error.
>	TypeError: __call__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'second'
>
>O.k., so I fall back to an old script I wrote that uses Meerkat (which
>still works!) and see that I can pass it a dictionary.  Try again.
>	Zope_server.test({'first': 'foo', 'second': 'bar'})
>	"first={'second': 'bar', 'first': 'foo'}\nsecond=None\n"
>That still doesn't give me access to "second".
>
>I've been looking in the obvious places for examples with multiple
>parameters but I've found none.  Any pointers?  (I think I originally
>worked from an article by Jon Udell at Byte but it seems to have
>disappeared.)  
>
>The obvious alternative is to ditch XML-RPC and just use plain HTTP. 
>Zope knows how to handle HTTP well enough and I'm quite comfortable with
>it, so it's almost my preference.  I just thought that XML-RPC seemed
>like a cleaner way to handle this (and I'd recommended it for some other
>uses so I thought I should get some real experience with it).
>
>Thank you.
>
>--kyler
>
>
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