Ticket #356: rpc.py

import sys
import time
import xmlrpclib

from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponse
from django.conf import settings

from django.core.rpcdispatch import dispatcher

DEBUG = 0
if hasattr(settings, 'DEBUG_RPC'):
        DEBUG = settings.DEBUG_RPC

def call(request):
        """
        This is the view you need to map into your URL space to process RPC
        calls.
        """
        p, u = xmlrpclib.getparser()
        p.feed(request.raw_post_data)
        p.close()
        args = u.close()
        method = u.getmethodname()
        func = dispatcher().find(method)
        if DEBUG: print method, func, args
        if func is not None:
                try:
                        result = func(*args)
                        xml = xmlrpclib.dumps((result,), methodresponse=1)
                        if DEBUG: print result
                except Exception, e:
                        if DEBUG: print e
                        xml = xmlrpclib.dumps(xmlrpclib.Fault(-32400, 'system error: %s' % e), methodresponse=1)
                if DEBUG: print
        else:
                xml = xmlrpclib.dumps(xmlrpclib.Fault(-32601, 'method unknown: %s' % method), methodresponse=1)
        return HttpResponse(xml, mimetype='text/xml; charset=utf-8')