Re: [naviserver-devel] Running TCLWS on NaviServer

[Gustaf N. <ne...@wu...>]

Am 30.12.16 um 19:00 schrieb Claudio Pasolini:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of upgrading several OpenACS instances and 
> migrating them from AolServer 4.5 to the latest NaviServer.
>
> One of the instances makes use of TCLWS for bulding a couple of SOAP 
> web services and I'm having trouble to make it work.
>
> Here are the first problems encountered:
>
>   * ns_ictl doesn't support the 'package' argument. I replaced the
>     command
>     ns_ictl package require log
>     with
>     ns_ictl trace allocate {package require log}
>
probably, using "package require log" will be sufficient as well.

>   * but I'm not sure about eventual side effects.
>   * In a proc called by ns_register_filter preauth I replaced
>     ns_rewrite with ns_internalredirect but I observed a strange
>     behaviour. ns_register_filter invokes the proc passing one
>     argument, but actually the proc receives two, prehauth being added.
>
you are probably referring to the old module "nsredirect". Calling 
ns_internalredirect should be fine.

Yes, there is a difference between the calling conventions in AOLserver 
and NaviServer:
NaviServer tells the developer the stage, at which the proc was invoked 
(the same proc
might be registered for multiple states (such as "preauth", "postauth" 
or "trace"). This
difference is as well handled in e.g. OpenACS since 10+ years.

>   * I stumbled in the same problem posted by Wolfgang Winkler
>     Error: can't set "xsltSchemaDom": var is read-only
>     and solved it thanks to Gustaf tip.
>
should not happen in recent versions of NaviServer
>
>   * Calling the sample EchoWebService I get a strange error
>     Error: invalid length: 779
>     executing the command
>     ns_conn copy 0 $length $fp
>
this comes probably from this section:
https://github.com/bovine/tclws/blob/master/AOLserver.tcl#L82

I would think that you can replace the section "Get POSTed data"
by something like:

         set data(query) [ns_getcontent -as_file false -binary false]

This has at least the following advantages
- less hacky
- works for http and https
- works also when spooling post data

all the best
-gn


> I wonder if someone (Wolfgang?) having already a production site 
> running TCLWS with NaviServer could suggest me how to proceed.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Claudio
>
>
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