[Zope] XML-RPC within ZOPE

[Chris Withers]

Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
> The problem is that it isn't my design, and the design is part of a
> contract. I can't really do anything about that (the major problem is
> that there will be SOAP components that might even need to be
> transparently integrated - which completely excludes ZEO). 

That depends on your thinking...

> I tried
> doing my own commits, but it doesn't work, it just bombs earlier (no
> matter where I do them). 

You;re not giving us a lot of info here, but I think you need to read 
the code in lib/python/ZPublisher in depth if you really need to play at 
this level...

> I really don't know why, my only guess is
> that something about the transaction management breaks terribly when
> you go back and forth between objects without them being able to track
> it. Only I cannot figure out what.

Well, you could start by showing us the errors you're getting...

> It is not possible to do _really_ explicit transaction management with
> ZODB, is it?

Of course it is. But you're talking about Zope here, not ZODB. Zope 
manages transactions so users don't often have to worry about them. If 
you want to manage transactions within Zope, the nyou have to understadn 
and co-operate with the transaction management that Zope does...

Chris

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