Massimo, thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this ! So :
1) as usual, you are right :-) 2) your "quick fix" doesn't work, maybe because my column type is datetime.date, not datetime.datetime ? 3) it doesn't matter for now, because I added a three-line hack instead to replace the datetime.date objects with strings before uploading, so everything works again :-) 4) I understand that using an "internal object" is bad practice and leads to this sort of breakage. What should I use instead in this case, to avoid this in the future ?... Many thanks, fp PS: having web2py in my pocket never ceases to amaze me... Sharp Zaurus, then Nokia N810 and N900, now an Android phone... it just works :-) On 18 jan, 15:55, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Got it. The problem is that you are using an internal object here > (rows.response) > > status, response.flash = client.accept(rows.colnames, > rows.response) > > and something has changed in there. Notice the error is not in the > server but in the client. rows is a Rows object generated by > db(....).select(). > Somehow before, it was returning strings for dates. Now it is > returning datetime.date objects from data and the ServerProxy client > does not know how to serialize that. when sending the request to the > server. > > Try replace > > client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(target+'/current/ > handle',allow_none=True) > > with > > client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(target+'/current/ > handle',allow_none=True,use_datetime=True) >
