mirroring object attributes using xml-rpc

[Fredrik Lundh]

sashang at gmail.com wrote:

> Then the client code can get the value of i like this:
> c = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("address")
> c.geti()
> 
> but why can't I get the value of i like this?
> 
> c.i

you can't.  the XML-RPC protocol only supports method calls, not 
attribute accesses.

 > How can I implement such behaviour?

you could use reflection to automatically wrap attributes on the server 
side; e.g.

     class foo:
	x = 10
	# generic getter
	def __getattr__(self, key):
	    if not key.startswith("get_"):
		raise AttributeError
	    value = getattr(self, key[4:])
	    return lambda: value

     f = foo()
     print f.x
     print f.get_x()

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