[Zope] PyXML and SOAPpy installation for Zope

[Charlie Jones]

I have it working...aside from not having my methods returning anything  
<blush>...I restarted Zope, and that seemed to fix something.

thanks for all your help.


On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Charlie Jones wrote:

> Ok..the suggestions below seem to have worked for installing the libs.  
>  I can now run the test scripts that came with SOAPpy with the Zope  
> python interpreter.  Now I am trying create some External Methods  
> based off of these test scripts.  I am running into a problem.  I  
> think it's related to the import statements I am using.
>
> Here's the imports I'm doing for the methods, these are taken directly  
> from the test scripts that run fine against the Zope python  
> interpreter:
>   import os, re
>   import sys
>   from SOAPpy import SOAPProxy
>
> When I try to access the external methods I get the following error  
> from Zope:
>   Error Type: ImportError
>   Error Value: cannot import name SOAPProxy
>
> Other than the import statements above, the only other references to  
> SOAPProxy are in the following form:
>   server = SOAPProxy(SoapEndpointURL, http_proxy=proxy)
>
> The parameter variables are set before this statement.  As I mentioned  
> before, running the test scripts against the Zope version of python  
> works fine.  Does Zope handle importing differently than python?
>
> Here's the method code I created in the Extensions directory.   
> Creating the External Methods works fine, it's just when I try to  
> access them via dtml.
> --------------------------------------------------
> import os, re
> import sys
> from SOAPpy import SOAPProxy
>
> def getTemp(zip):
>   try:
>      proxy_url=os.environ['http_proxy']
>      phost, pport =  
> re.search('http://([^:]+):([0-9]+)',proxy_url).group(1,2)
>      proxy = "%s:%s" % (phost, pport)
>   except:
>      proxy = None
>
>   SoapEndpointURL =  
> 'http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap/servlet/rpcrouter'
>   MethodNamespaceURI = 'urn:xmethods-Temperature'
>
>   # Do it inline ala SOAP::LITE, also specify the actually ns
>
>   server = SOAPProxy(SoapEndpointURL, http_proxy=proxy)
>   result = server._ns('ns1', MethodNamespaceURI).getTemp(zipcode=zip)
>
> def translate(to, phrase):
>   try:
>      proxy_url=os.environ['http_proxy']
>      phost, pport = re.search('http://([^:]+):([0-9]+)',  
> proxy_url).group(1,2)
>      proxy = "%s:%s" % (phost, pport)
>   except:
>      proxy = None
>
>   server =  
> SOAPProxy("http://services.xmethods.com:80/perl/ 
> soaplite.cgi",http_proxy=proxy)
>   babel = server._ns('urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish')
>
>   result = babel.BabelFish(translationmode = to,sourcedata = phrase)
>
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Fred Yankowski wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:23:46PM -0400, Charlie Jones wrote:
>>> I am trying to create some External Methods in Zope to access some
>>> simple web services.  I have both these packages working under the
>>> default Python installation on my server, but I don't have a clue on
>>> how to get them to install in the python setup for Zope.
>>
>> You should be able to install them in the zope SOFTWARE_HOME and then
>> import and use them as usual (for python programs) from your External
>> Methods.  If you installed a binary version of Zope that comes with
>> its own python executable, you could do this to install the software:
>>
>> 	cd some_distutils_compatible_python_package
>> 	/usr/local/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86/bin/python setup.py install
>>
>> If you are running some other python executable, you can add command
>> line arguments to the above 'install' command to direct it to install
>> the software into the Zope SOFTWARE_HOME.  Or you could let it install
>> in that python's default library -- it's all the same as far as being
>> importable into an External Method.
>>
>> -- 
>> Fred Yankowski      fred@ontosys.com           tel: +1.630.879.1312
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>>
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