[Catalog-sig] pypi xmlrpc interface

[Stephen Thorne]

G'day,

I get a traceback from the server when I try to list releases of a
package using the xmlrpc interface.

The specific example used on the wiki reproduced here does this:

>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
>>> server.package_urls('roundup', '1.1.2')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1150, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1440, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1204, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1343, in _parse_response
    return u.close()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 790, in close
    raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n ...'>
>>> 

That traceback-from-the-server-on-a-stick-in-a-string looks like this when
rendered nicely:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/pypi/src/pypi/rpc.py", line 23, in handle_request
    xml = xmlrpclib.dumps((response,), methodresponse=True, allow_none=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1080, in dumps
    data = m.dumps(params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 623, in dumps
    dump(v, write)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 635, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 695, in dump_array
    dump(v, write)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 635, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 716, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 633, in __dump
    raise TypeError, "cannot marshal %s objects" % type(value)
TypeError: cannot marshal <type 'mx.DateTime.DateTime'> objects

-- 
Regards,
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
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