[Zope] How do I use Zope for XML-RPC?

[Loren Stafford]

Thanks for the pointers.

Indeed Client.py will do all I want, which is to encapsulate the
communication with the remote server.

--Loren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: michel@localhost.localdomain
> [mailto:michel@localhost.localdomain]On Behalf Of Michel Pelletier
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 14:58
> To: Loren Stafford
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] How do I use Zope for XML-RPC?
>
>
> Loren Stafford wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to use XML-RPC to communicate between a Zope on
> Sun/Solaris and a
> > Zope on Win NT. I thought I read somewhere that Zope supports
> XML-RPC, but I
> > can't see how it is done.
>
> Just call a Zope system with an XML-RPC lib.  Check out
> http://linux.userland.com/
>
> > Does Zope support XML-RPC out of box, or is some assembly required?
>
> Out of the box.
>
> > Does Zope ORB parse XML-RPC requests/responses? How does it know it's
> > getting XML-RPC? By the Content-Type?
>
> Yes and Yes.
>
> > Is there any support in Zope for a method to create XML-RPC requests and
> > responses, or does the method have to generate XML itself?
>
> Requests can be made from an external method or python product using the
> xmlrpc module written by Fredrik Lundh.  I belive it can be found at
> http://www.pythonware.com.  Look for downloads.
>
> If you're communicating between Zopes, it would probably be faster and
> simpler to use ZPublisher.Client, a Zope native HTTP RPC mechanism that
> is Zope specific.
>
> It is not documented, and seldom used except by the gurus.  There is
> some documentation in lib/python/ZPublisher/Client.py
>
> -Michel