I have slightly modified the WebClient to support jsonrpc. I am not sure everything is correctly covered, but it is suiting my needs.
In case you are interested, you can see the changes here: https://github.com/gonvaled/web2py/tree/webclient_add_jsonrpc The biggest problem I had was that opener.addheaders.append((key,str(value))) is not working as (I) expected: the content-type is not rewritten: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13920211/not-possible-to-set-content-type-to-application-json-using-urllib2 On Monday, December 17, 2012 6:38:30 PM UTC+1, Daniel Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to understand how to use the included WebClient to test a > JSONRPC interface. One showstopper for me at the moment is that I see the > following in WebClient.post: > > # time the POST request > data = urllib.urlencode(data) > t0 = time.time() > self.response = opener.open(self.url,data) > self.time = time.time()-t0 > > When doing JSONRPC accesses I do not want the data to be urlencoded. > Actually, I will prepare the data with json.dump, and I want WebClient to > POST it transparently (I guess this goes in the body of the POST request). > Is this at all possible? Is there an example of WebClient usage > for JSONRPC interfaces somewhere? > > Thanks, > Daniel Gonzalez > --
