# Authors: # Jason Gerard DeRose # # Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat # see file 'COPYING' for use and warranty information # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA """ Shared RPC client/server functionality. This module adds some additional functionality on top of the ``xmlrpclib`` module in the Python standard library. For documentation on the ``xmlrpclib`` module, see: http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html """ from types import NoneType from xmlrpclib import Binary, Fault, dumps, loads def xml_wrap(value): """ Wrap all ``str`` in ``xmlrpclib.Binary``. Because ``xmlrpclib.dumps()`` will itself convert all ``unicode`` instances into UTF-8 encoded ``str`` instances, we don't do it here. So in total, when encoding data for an XML-RPC packet, the following transformations occur: * All ``str`` instances are treated as binary data and are wrapped in an ``xmlrpclib.Binary()`` instance. * Only ``unicode`` instances are treated as character data. They get converted to UTF-8 encoded ``str`` instances (although as mentioned, not by this function). Also see `xml_unwrap()`. :param value: The simple scalar or simple compound value to wrap. """ if type(value) in (list, tuple): return tuple(xml_wrap(v) for v in value) if type(value) is dict: return dict( (k, xml_wrap(v)) for (k, v) in value.iteritems() ) if type(value) is str: return Binary(value) assert type(value) in (unicode, int, float, bool, NoneType) return value def xml_unwrap(value, encoding='UTF-8'): """ Unwrap all ``xmlrpc.Binary``, decode all ``str`` into ``unicode``. When decoding data from an XML-RPC packet, the following transformations occur: * The binary payloads of all ``xmlrpclib.Binary`` instances are returned as ``str`` instances. * All ``str`` instances are treated as UTF-8 encoded Unicode strings. They are decoded and the resulting ``unicode`` instance is returned. Also see `xml_wrap()`. :param value: The value to unwrap. :param encoding: The Unicode encoding to use (defaults to ``'UTF-8'``). """ if type(value) in (list, tuple): return tuple(xml_unwrap(v, encoding) for v in value) if type(value) is dict: return dict( (k, xml_unwrap(v, encoding)) for (k, v) in value.iteritems() ) if type(value) is str: return value.decode(encoding) if isinstance(value, Binary): assert type(value.data) is str return value.data assert type(value) in (unicode, int, float, bool, NoneType) return value def xml_dumps(params, methodname=None, methodresponse=False, encoding='UTF-8'): """ Encode an XML-RPC data packet, transparently wraping ``params``. This function will wrap ``params`` using `xml_wrap()` and will then encode the XML-RPC data packet using ``xmlrpclib.dumps()`` (from the Python standard library). For documentation on the ``xmlrpclib.dumps()`` function, see: http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html#convenience-functions Also see `xml_loads()`. :param params: A ``tuple`` or an ``xmlrpclib.Fault`` instance. :param methodname: The name of the method to call if this is a request. :param methodresponse: Set this to ``True`` if this is a response. :param encoding: The Unicode encoding to use (defaults to ``'UTF-8'``). """ if type(params) is tuple: params = xml_wrap(params) else: assert isinstance(params, Fault) return dumps(params, methodname=methodname, methodresponse=methodresponse, encoding=encoding, allow_none=True, ) def xml_loads(data): """ Decode the XML-RPC packet in ``data``, transparently unwrapped its params. This function will decode the XML-RPC packet in ``data`` using ``xmlrpclib.loads()`` (from the Python standard library). If ``data`` contains a fault, ``xmlrpclib.loads()`` will itself raise an ``xmlrpclib.Fault`` exception. Assuming an exception is not raised, this function will then unwrap the params in ``data`` using `xml_unwrap()`. Finally, a ``(params, methodname)`` tuple is returned containing the unwrapped params and the name of the method being called. If the packet contains no method name, ``methodname`` will be ``None``. For documentation on the ``xmlrpclib.loads()`` function, see: http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html#convenience-functions Also see `xml_dumps()`. :param data: The XML-RPC packet to decode. """ (params, method) = loads(data) return (xml_unwrap(params), method)