AW: [Zope-dev] Request typing (to get the xmlrpc layer discussionfinished)

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Christian

> Betreff: [Zope-dev] Request typing (to get the xmlrpc layer 
> discussionfinished)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a couple of weeks ago there was some discussion about the 
> skin/layer support for XML-RPC which I implemented without 
> asking (shame on me). 
> As some time has passed now everybody could have some fresh 
> thoughts about it.
> 
> 
> Let me first summarise:
> 
> * Skin and layers should be seen as typing the request.
> 
> * There are no general objections against having layers for XML-RPC.
> 
> * There are objections against using ++skin++ for XML-RPC, 
> ++api++ would be fine.

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I whould be very happy if we could implement the XML-RPC
package as a independent server addon. I think not everyone uses
XML-RPC and likes to have such a server option built-in.

What do you think can you move it to a top level package
if you refactor this part.

btw,
I implemented z3c.json and z3c.jsonprc. This package
uses a own JSON-RPC skin type. I was choosing this additional
layer implementation because I like to separate the registered
methods to such requests. And we do not have the BrowserRequest
at this servers at all. 

We also started to implement some core server applications 
with only JSON-RPC APIs.  There is no browser/page based UI
at all installed. All is managed by JSON from another Zope
server via remote (JSON-RPC) access. 

If anybody likes to implement a XML-RPC API without any
browser view for a server, I think it should be possible too.

Whould be great if you could take a look at z3c.jsonrpc
and tell me if there is somethig to improve.

Regards
Roger Ineichen