xmlrpclib and mx.DateTime

[Chuck Esterbrook]

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:04 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Chuck> Does anyone have a patch lying about to make xmlrpclib and
>     Chuck> mx.DateTime play nice together?
>
> Something like this modified (and untested) xmlrpclib.DateTime
> constructor ought to work:
>
>     try:
>         import mx.DateTime
>     except ImportError:
>         mx = None
>
>     ...
>
>     class DateTime:
>         ...
>         def __init__(self, value=0):
>             fmt = "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S"
>             if mx is not None and isinstance(value,
> mx.DateTime.DateTimeType): value = value.strftime(fmt)
>             else:
>                 if not isinstance(value, StringType):
>                     if not isinstance(value, TupleType):
>                         if value == 0:
>                             value = time.time()
>                         value = time.localtime(value)
>                     value = time.strftime(fmt, value)
>             self.value = value
>         ...

Thanks. That essentially works except for the missing dispatch:

    if mx:
        def dump_DateTime(self, value):
            DateTime(value).encode(self)
        dispatch[mx.DateTime.DateTimeType] = dump_DateTime

Next, xmlrpclib.py complained about None (I'm sending over a dict of 
information with various contents). So I put that in.

Now it complains that my longs are too big.

At this point I've decided XML-RPC is not for me. I'll enhance Webware 
to include a PickleRPCServlet to complement it's existing XMLRPCServlet.

Those wanting something Pythonic can use the former, and those wanting 
XML-RPC compliance can use the latter.


Thanks,
-Chuck