Set the default Int maxvalue to the maximum XML-RPC can handle.

Also handle marshalling errors thrown by xmlrpclib more gracefully.

ticket 770

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/rpc.py b/ipalib/rpc.py
index dd8507630..3457640e4 100644
--- a/ipalib/rpc.py
+++ b/ipalib/rpc.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import errno
 from xmlrpclib import Binary, Fault, dumps, loads, ServerProxy, Transport, ProtocolError
 import kerberos
 from ipalib.backend import Connectible
-from ipalib.errors import public_errors, PublicError, UnknownError, NetworkError, KerberosError
+from ipalib.errors import public_errors, PublicError, UnknownError, NetworkError, KerberosError, XMLRPCMarshallError
 from ipalib import errors
 from ipalib.request import context
 from ipapython import ipautil, dnsclient
@@ -373,3 +373,5 @@ class xmlclient(Connectible):
             raise NetworkError(uri=server, error=e.errmsg)
         except socket.error, e:
             raise NetworkError(uri=server, error=str(e))
+        except (OverflowError, TypeError), e:
+            raise XMLRPCMarshallError(error=str(e))