[Zope] Re: External http access.

[Michael Haubenwallner]

Ben Last (Zope) wrote:
> Okay, this is one of those times to ask the list rather than try and work it
> out... :)
> 
> The HOWTO at http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC assures me that
> methods like objectIds should be accessible via http access, as in
> http://mysite.com/Container/objectIds, yet this patently does not work (at
> least in my site), even with appropriate authentication provided in the URL.
> The result is the notorious "object does not have a docstring" error.  At
> least one comment by Dieter
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.devel/2800)
> suggests that this error is actually a "not found" response, and *also*
> appears to suggest that actions methods are not callable, unless wrapped
> (though I may well have understood the meaning of the term "action id").
> 
> The article
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=b1tu76%24ht
> 6%241%40norfair.nerim.net also states that objectIds isn't accessible via
> xmlrpc and needs a wrapper.
> 
> Whether via plain old http or xmlrpc, I can't get methods like objectIds to
> work.  I can, of course, use the ZMI manage_ methods via http to do what I
> need, but that's not amazingly convenient, since any errors are delivered
> back in HTML intended for a human, and I need to use tricks like modifying
> the standard_error_message template so that I can detect a given string and
> spot that an error's being flagged.
> 
> There must be something I'm missing here...
> 
> ben
> 

firstly: try it with a script as mediator...

## Script (Python) "objectids"
##bind container=container
##bind context=context
##bind namespace=_
##bind script=script
##bind subpath=traverse_subpath
##parameters=
##title=objectids
##

return obj.objectIds()

call that script through xmlrpc

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