On Mar 28, 6:45 am, breal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive me for this question which is most likely stupid...
The contents of your question are not stupid. The subject however does invite a stupid answer like: len(the_string). Disclaimer: I know nothing about SOAP except that it's usually capitalised :-) Now read on: > How do I determine the number of bytes a string takes up? I have a > soap server that is returning a serialized string. Serialised how? UTF-8? > It seems that when > the string goes over 65978 characters it does not return to the soap > client. Why does it seem so? How did you arrive at such a precise limit? > Instead I get an error: > error: (35, 'Resource temporarily unavailable') Is this error from the client or the server? Any error or logfile record from the other side? Is there anything in the documentation about maximum sizes? > > This makes me think the problem exists on the soap client side with > some sort of max return length. Think? Can't you verify this by inspecting the source? > If I knew how many bytes the 65978 > character string was, then I could try to up this value. How do you know the string is 65978 characters? If you are debugging the server, can't you do len(serialise(the_65978_char_string))? 65978? Are you sure? Looks suspiciously close to 65535 aka 0xFFFF aka (2 ** 16 - 1 ) to me. If you have the server, you presumably have the source code for both client and server. Some options for you: (1) Look at the traceback(s), look at the source code, nut it out for yourself. If there is some kind of max other than an implicit 16-bit limitation in the client code, it shouldn't be too hard to find. (2) Post the traceback(s) here, along with other details that might be useful, like what SOAP server s/w you are using, what version of Python, what platform. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
