[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:19:47 -0500

Bill Bumgarner writes:

It had been closed or moved out of the SF bug queue by Fred about the same time he left python-dev, I believe. I had sent the HTTPTransport source to Fred, but that sounds like a dead end these days.

Sorry; I've just been really busy on other things. I'm on python-dev these days, though I skim the messages very quickly.

Found it: 648658 ... I haven't tested, but looking at the implementation, I don't think it will.

I wish you were wrong on this, but I don't think you are. ;-(

In my case, I'm using xmlrpclib in the context of a Cocoa/Python based application that frequently uses Objective-C sourced strings as a part of the RPC request. The PyObjC bridge now bridges NSStrings as a subclass of unicode. ... So, no, it doesn't do subclasses properly. The workaround [for me] was easy... and bogus:

import xmlrpclib Marshaller.dispatch[type(NSString.stringWithString_(''))] = Marshaller.dispatch[type(u'')]

Yeah, not too pretty.

For things like this, where some manner of dispatch is needed based on type, but the type itself doesn't provide some appropriate method, there's a real problem associating the right bit of code, and I'm quite torn as to the right approach to take. ;-(

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation