dict->XML->dict? Or, passing small hashes through text?

[mackstann]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:24:10AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> > xmsg would now be a string such as:
> > '<?xml version="1.0"?><foo>1</foo><bar>hello</bar><abc>text</abc></xml>'
> 
> (that's not valid XML: there can be only one toplevel element in an
> XML document.  that's easy to fix, of course)

Yes, I am nowhere near an XML expert, and heh, now that I look at it, I
have no idea why it made sense to me to have <?xml?> ... </xml>, but it
was just a mockup. :)


> here's a minimal implementation, based on my ElementTree module:
> 
<snip>
> 
> you can get the elementtree source code via this page:
> 
>     http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

I actually had downloaded the elementtree source and was looking through
it, but had not had time to work out any test or prototype yet.

> if the XML format doesn't really matter, you can use Python's
> standard xmlrpclib module:
> 
> import xmlrpclib
> 
> def xmlMessage(dict):
>     # dumps requires a tuple
>     return xmlrpclib.dumps((dict,))
> 
> def xmlMessage2dict(message):
>     result, method = xmlrpclib.loads(message)
>     return result[0] # unwrap

This is perfect!  I am now using this, and it works pretty much exactly
how I want it to work.  Days and days of googling, reading, looking
through code, etc.. and it comes down to a 6 line answer. :)

I came to the conclusion that SimpleXMLRPCServer didn't fit well within
my program, since the server basically just reads the messages into a
queue (a Queue.Queue to be precise), and the program clears them out
every so often and takes action in its own way.  The server is pretty
passive, and I saw no point in changing that.

Thanks, everyone that replied!

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