Re: [Zope] How do I form an XML-RPC query to a remote server?
On 15/11/00 5:58 pm, "Michel Pelletier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm experimenting with collating data from a remote database that uses XML-RPC. I can send it messages like; import xmlrpclib medweb = xmlrpclib.Server("http://bogus.server.com") medweb.getImages('scar') '?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?\015\012\011data\015\012\011\011titleMedwebb Images/title \0 (lots of stuff snipped) But I just can't figure out how to send the XML version of the same query, ie ?XML VERSION="1.0"? methodCall methodNamegetimages/methodName params param valuestringscar/string/value /param /params /methodCall to the server. How does it fail? Did you set the right content type (text/xml I think?)? Thanks for the reply Michel, Yes the content type is text/xml, but I guess I'm doing something else wrong. Why do you want to send a hand built query to the server? That's what xmlrpclib is for. Oh definitely, but I'm trying to do it this way as I think the queries may get more complex... -Michel I've got a nasty feeling that when I get told how to do this, I'm going to slap my forehead bloody hard Do what I do, where a helmet to work. I like that! :) -- Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5116 A Zope list for UK HE/FE http://www.fmcc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/zope ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] How do I form an XML-RPC query to a remote server?
On 16/11/00 7:10 am, "Edward Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tony McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm experimenting with collating data from a remote database that uses XML-RPC. I can send it messages like; import xmlrpclib medweb = xmlrpclib.Server("http://bogus.server.com") medweb.getImages('scar') That looks right... Yup, that bit works! :) '?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?\015\012\011data\015\012\011\011titleMedwebb Images/title \0 (lots of stuff snipped) That doesn't ... I don't think they have a well formed XML-RPC document, so xmlrpclib can't parse it... I think that is ok XML. The \015\012 are just LF-CRs and are ignored. But I just can't figure out how to send the XML version of the same query, ie xmlrpclib handles the marshaling/un-marshaling to xml/from python for you... Absolutely, and it works fine when I do it from a Python prompt. ?XML VERSION="1.0"? methodCall methodNamegetimages/methodName params param valuestringscar/string/value /param /params /methodCall to the server. I'm really just trying to get a Zope equivalent of the Userland 'debugger' at http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1077 as I think these queries may get more complex. xmlrpc lib is already constructing this...or it should be,,, I've got a nasty feeling that when I get told how to do this, I'm going to slap my forehead bloody hard See above :-) I'll take Michels advice and wear a helmet to work! :) Cheers, Tone. -- Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5116 A Zope list for UK HE/FE http://www.fmcc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/zope ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] How do I form an XML-RPC query to a remote server?
Tony McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm experimenting with collating data from a remote database that uses XML-RPC. I can send it messages like; import xmlrpclib medweb = xmlrpclib.Server("http://bogus.server.com") medweb.getImages('scar') '?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?\015\012\011data\015\012\011\011titleMedwebb Images/title \0 (lots of stuff snipped) But I just can't figure out how to send the XML version of the same query, ie ?XML VERSION="1.0"? methodCall methodNamegetimages/methodName params param valuestringscar/string/value /param /params /methodCall to the server. I've got a nasty feeling that when I get told how to do this, I'm going to slap my forehead bloody hard As you can see the data is returned in XML format, and whilst I'm fine with Python code for XML parsing (usually use sgmlop), I'm a bit lost on where to start here. An External Method seems the best way, but I'd like the received wisdom on this. this probably isn't your problem, but in your above example getimages looks like it should be getImages. i'm not sure why you want work by hand on the xml-processing, since xmlrpclib already exists. if you want to debug your setup you can use shane hathaway's tcpwatch as a proxy which show you what goes out on the wire. as for the location of such code, it depends on what you're doing with the results, i think the choices are between a product and an external method. kapil ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] How do I form an XML-RPC query to a remote server?
Tony McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm experimenting with collating data from a remote database that uses XML-RPC. I can send it messages like; import xmlrpclib medweb = xmlrpclib.Server("http://bogus.server.com") medweb.getImages('scar') '?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?\015\012\011data\015\012\011\011titleMedwebb Images/title \0 (lots of stuff snipped) But I just can't figure out how to send the XML version of the same query, ie ?XML VERSION="1.0"? methodCall methodNamegetimages/methodName params param valuestringscar/string/value /param /params /methodCall to the server. How does it fail? Did you set the right content type (text/xml I think?)? Why do you want to send a hand built query to the server? That's what xmlrpclib is for. -Michel I've got a nasty feeling that when I get told how to do this, I'm going to slap my forehead bloody hard Do what I do, where a helmet to work. ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )