On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jason Dobies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm testing an API call with the python client. The return from the call
>>> is a dictionary. Inside of that, there's a key "enabled" that should
>>> either be true or false.
>>>
>>> When it's true, the output reflects that:
>>>
>>> [{'enabled': True, ...
>>>
>>> When it's false, I'm not getting an entry for "enabled".
>>>
>>> I took a look at the XML body of the response. For the true case, it's
>>> sending:
>>>
>>> <member>
>>> <name>enabled</name>
>>> <value>
>>> <boolean>1</boolean>
>>> </value>
>>> </member>
>>>
>>> For the false case, there is no entry.
>>>
>>> Is there something special I have to do to send a boolean false across
>>> the wire? This feels like something we'd have seen before.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - J
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> It should work. I looked at the xmlrpc library code, and the relevant
>> parts are here:
>>
>> XmlRpcSerializer (see where it does a "value instanceof Boolean"):
>> http://xmlrpc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmlrpc/trunk/source/redstone/xmlrpc/XmlRpcSerializer.java?view=markup
>>
>> Seems to convert boolean primitives here:
>> http://xmlrpc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmlrpc/trunk/source/redstone/xmlrpc/XmlRpcValue.java?view=markup
>>
>> I'll take a look to see why it's doing this. The xmlrpc spec states it
>> should be 0 or 1. http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
>>
>> jesus
>>
>
> Looks like it works just fine :) Here's what I did:
>
> I added these 3 api methods to ApiHandler.java.
>
> public boolean isFalse() {
> return false;
> }
>
> public boolean isTrue() {
> return true;
> }
>
> public Map mapWithBoolean() {
> Map m = new HashMap();
> m.put("true_enabled", true);
> m.put("false_enabled", false);
> m.put("true_enabled_obj", Boolean.TRUE);
> m.put("false_enabled_obj", Boolean.FALSE);
> return m;
> }
>
> My python client calls it like this:
> print "--------------------------------------"
> print client.api.is_false()
> print "--------------------------------------"
> print client.api.is_true()
> print "--------------------------------------"
> print client.api.map_with_boolean()
>
> And here is the output:
> http://fpaste.org/paste/7263
>
> Maybe the serializer isn't properly passing the (B|b)oolean to the
> child serializers.
>
> jesus
>
Sorry I'm rambling, but is it possible that the "enabled" method is
returning a null for a Boolean object? That might lead it to return an
empty value instead of zero (0).
jesus
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