On Jan 30, 8:12 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > Quoth flagg <ianand0...@gmail.com>: > > > I am working on a very basic xmlrpc server, which will expose certain > > functions for administering BIND zone files. The big problem I am > > having is parsing the incoming xmlrpc request. Basically part of the > > xmlrpc request will help deterime which zone file is edited. I have > > been looking at the do_POST() method from SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher and > > it seems like I could code something which overides that method, > > however I am new to programming am at a loss, i might even be making > > this tougher than it needs to be. Is there a way to parse the > > incoming xmlrpc request before the function it is calling is executed? > > Wouldn't you be overriding '_dispatch' on SimpleXMLRPCServer instead? > > It's been a while since I looked at XMLRPC, but why wouldn't you have > a operation names, with the zone file to operate on as an argument? > Then you'd just be defining your operations as methods on your > SimpleXMLRPCServer, and they'd use the argument to determine which file > to operate on. > > If that doesn't make sense, either I've forgotten how XMLRPC works, > or you should explain your requirements a bit more. > > --RDM
Let me see if i can elaborate on the requirements. I have 20+ different zone files. I want the xmlrpc server to be able to determine what zone file to open by looking at the incoming xml request. For example one of the functions I have now is to show a DNS record (I am using dnspython for most of this work) If i send an xmlrpc request that uses the 'showRecord' function with params of 'oracle1.foo.bar.com' I want to parse the "params" piece and then instruct the xml-rpc server to open foo.bar.com.zone for reading. The reason why i was looking at do_Post() and _dispatch was to attempt to read the incoming params and do exactly that. Do you think there is an easier way of accomplishing this, than the way I am going about it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
