Re: [py-xmlrpc-devel] py-xmlrpc 0.8.8

[Conrad S. <co...@he...>]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:03, Shilad Sen wrote:
> The latest version of py-xmlrpc has been released.  There are many feature
> improvements (mostly based on requests), and a few bugfixes.
> 
> This is probably the last releases (outside of a bugfix release) under this
> codebase.  I have the new codebase ready to go, and will post it as 'unstable'
> soon.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions / comments!

Hi Shilad

Thanks for the new release, it is appreciated :-)

Attached is a patch that I use to define a new method, called
parseRequestXML that takes input from a string and parses the XML-RPC
call it contains.

This method, along with buildResponse enables py-xmlrpc to be used in
mod_python in Apache for building a robust and scalable application
server.

E.g. in the handler function that mod_python uses:

def handler(req):
   pw = req.get_basic_auth_pw()
   user = req.connection.user     
   data=req.read()
   decoded=xmlrpc.parseRequestXML(data)

# "decoded" now contains the method name [0] and arguments [1]
# Call the method, and receive the return values in e.g. retval

   response=xmlrpc.buildResponse(retval)
   req.write(response)

The patch is against 0.8.7, but applies cleanly against 0.8.8 as well.
Using a stock Apache/mod_python from Mandrake 8.1 on an PIII/933 the
server can handle about 200 calls/s with each call serviced by a
different process. This setup is very stable and provides crash
protection for serving different clients.

Anyway, I would like to contribute the patch to py-xmlrpc if this seems
useful.

Cheers!

Conrad