[Zope3-dev] Re: JSON

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 12:53, Jim Washington wrote:
> 
>>I would rather not alter and maintain the foundation-level code in
>>zope.app.pub*.  Would it be possible to do this as a product?  Presuming
>>it is bad form to monkey-patch zope.app.publication.httpfactory, is
>>there a more component-ish way to do the same thing?  Or would it be
>>best to set-up a collaboration and put it in the core?
> 
> 
> Here is how to do it for the current trunk.
> 
> 1. Create your custom HTTPPublicationRequestFactory implementation, basically 
> extending the __call__() method.
> 
> 2. Create a server type using your own factory; see zope.app.server.http.
> 
> 3. Register you custom server type as a utility, see 
> zope.app.server/configure.zcml.
> 
> 4. In zope.conf use your custom server type.
> 
> 5. Implement the protocol similar to XML-RPC.

If you're looking for an example of how an external package provides 
another server type, see the davuseragent package I wrote once with Paul 
Everitt (http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/davuseragent/trunk/). It's written 
for Zope X3.0 but could easily be adapted to 3.1.

Philipp