xmlrpclib and SimpleXMLRPCServer questions

[Jeff McNeil]

Have a look at the XMLRPC specification @ http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec.
There is no representation of NULL/None, thus server refuses to
Marshall the 'None' value.  Update your server methods to return a
value other than None and that message will go away.

The other option is to set 'allow_none' to True on the Marshaller
object. Doing so will turn your 'None' return values into XML-RPC
'<nil/>' entities.  The 'nil' type is defined as an XMLRPC extension
(I'm not sure how widely adopted it is, though).  See
http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php.  I'm not sure you can do
that without inheriting from the dispatcher code and "rolling your
own."

I find it much easier to 'return True' and ignore the value.

-Jeff

On 9/12/07, xkenneth <xkenneth at gmail.com> wrote:
> So i've been trying to set up a simple server and client through
> XMLRPC in python.
>
> Here's my code:
>
> SERVER
>
> import SimpleXMLRPCServer
>
>
> class DataServer:
>     def __init__(self):
>         pass
>
>     def test(self,test):
>         self.this = test
>
>     def show(self):
>         print self.this
>
> server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8005))
> server.register_instance(DataServer())
> server.serve_forever()
>
> CLIENT
> import xmlrpclib
> server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:8005')
> server.test(5)
> server.show()
>
>
> Now, I'm getting the most odd callback from the client side:
>
> >>> server.show()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/
> lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/
> lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
>     verbose=self.__verbose
>   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/
> lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
>     return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
>   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/
> lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in _parse_response
>     return u.close()
>   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/
> lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
>     raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
> xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: 'exceptions.TypeError:cannot marshal None
> unless allow_none is enabled'>
>
> What is causing this? The server recieves the data and seems to
> respond properly regardless of this error, so by all means i can
> always catch it, but that sounds stupid.
>
> Here I can verify the server process is indeed recieving the data
> (calling the client with two different values):
>
> localhost - - [12/Sep/2007 14:35:18] "POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 200 -
> 5
> localhost - - [12/Sep/2007 14:35:41] "POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 200 -
> 10
>
> Looking at the documentation:
>
> class SimpleXMLRPCServer(       addr[, requestHandler[,
> logRequests[allow_none[, encoding]]]])
>
> I'm not sure how to specify the allow_none value or it's type, how can
> i find out more?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Regards,
> Ken
>
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