On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 03:07, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > I used XML-RPC for the first time this week (eg, WebKit.XMLRPCServlet) > but was disappointed by the dummied down data approach it requires, > especially the absence of None/nil/NULL.
This is definitely the most annoying part that I've encountered as well -- I've had some problem with transfering binary data, which XMLRPC supports but I'm not sure how to use from Python (it *should* just have an encoding attribute, but base64 is a whole different datatype). Anyway, it seems easier/better to fix XMLRPC -- maybe silently converting None to '' -- it could cover up bugs, but it would often be a reasonable translation. Alternatively, just add the not-quite-compatible <nil/> to it. I looked at xmlrpclib -- I believe there's a second implementation I haven't looked at (maybe the one that's now included in Python) -- but the one I looked at is very simple code. These should both essentially remain compatible with non-Python implementations as well, unless perhaps you returned <nil/>. You could use User-Agent to handle this if desired. proposal: http://www.ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.html XML-RPC seems to handle basic method calls quite well. It doesn't do distributed objects, but those are Hard and XML-RPC seems to be pretty good at doing Easy. > (BTW Sorry I haven't been on the list lately, but I'm practically > unemployed and currently distracted with economics.) Doesn't is suck that being unemployed doesn't make you feel any more free than being employed? Ian _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
