Mike, You need to create well formed xml, there are many ways to do this for your sample. One simple way is:
<value type="long int">1231231</value> which uses an attribute that tells the "type" of your value. It is then up to you to parse the returned value to determine the type to assigned it to. Mike K. mike marsh wrote: > > I learned about XMLRPC only a few days ago, so if it > sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about > then...I don't. > > MY QUESTION: > I think I want to know how to make my XmlRpcClient > understand <value><long int> 1524335 </long > int></value>. > > MY SITUATION: > I need to connect to a Zope database via XmlRpc. I > try calling a particular method, but an > XmlRpcException gets thrown. The exception string > says "cannot marshal <type 'long int'>. I suppose I > need an XmlRpc parser that can interpret <long int> > and create a Long object. Can someone tell me how to > modifiy org.apache.xml.XmlRpc.java? > > Below is some more info that may help explain my > problem. > > Thanks in advance, > mike > > STACK TRACE: > My code generates the following stack trace. > org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: Unexpected Zope > exception: cannot marshal <type 'long int'> objects > at > org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient$Worker.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:414) > at > org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:149) > at > ncmi.dbclient.DBClient.query(DBClient.java:42) > at ncmi.dbclient.Browser.main(Browser.java:91) > > Client calling procedure > 'EMDB.Groups.Group_1.Project_59.Microscopy.values' > with parameters [] > Beginning parsing XML input stream > startElement: methodResponse > startElement: value > startElement: struct > startElement: member > startElement: name > endElement: name > startElement: value > startElement: int > endElement: int > endElement: value > endElement: member > startElement: member > startElement: name > endElement: name > startElement: value > startElement: string > endElement: string > endElement: value > endElement: member > endElement: struct > endElement: value > endElement: fault > endElement: methodResponse > DEBUG: > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com
