Hi, I am interested to run web2py on an android tablet pc. Please could you describe what you have done?
Thx, Martin Am 17.01.2012 20:49 schrieb "fpp" <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I have this very old web2py app that has been working 24/7 since early > 2008... > > One instance runs on my phone (Nokia N900, a Linux device), another on > my home server (also Linux). > > The mobile instance frequently "pushes" database records to the server > instance, using XMLRPC, by calling the relevant method on the remote, > something like : > > client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(target+'/current/handle', > allow_none=True) > rows = db(db.current.id>0).select() > status, response.flash = client.accept(rows.colnames, > rows.response) > > This has been running flawlessly for four years, although both ends > have sometimes been upgraded : > > * the mobile instance runs a semi-recent version of web2py (1.94.5) on > an old version of Python (2.5.4) > * the server instance does the opposite (Python 2.7 and web2py > 1.56.1 !) > * so this is a fairly change-resistant combination so far... > > However, today I tried the latest web2py (1.99.4), because I wanted to > host the mobile instance on an Android phone. After fighting my way > through Android and SL4A to the underlying Linux core, I got it to run > nicely, except for that "push" code above, which fails on the third > line with : > > TypeError: cannot marshal <type 'datetime.date'> objects > > Now, obviously, one of the columns in rows.response contains a > datetime.date value. But why is this suddenly a problem ? I moved the > whole thing to a Windows box (with Python 2.6.5) and got the same > result. > > Could this be caused by the newer version of web2py ? Where to start > looking ? > > Thanks for any ideas, > fp >
