ZSI Notes

alphabetical order of 'self.attribute_typecode_dict'

This should be irrelevant, although order is important for canonicalization for an entirely different matter.

I think you could retain your ordering by replacing the underlying dict with your own dict subclass that maintains a list too.

	Topic._attrs = OrderDict()

Something like Collection, although obviously this is a bit old.

from ZSI.wstools.Utility import Collection

class Collection(UserDict):
     """Helper class for maintaining ordered named collections."""
     default = lambda self,k: k.name
     def __init__(self, parent, key=None):
         UserDict.__init__(self)
         self.parent = weakref.ref(parent)
         self.list = []
         self._func = key or self.default

     def __getitem__(self, key):
         if type(key) is type(1):
             return self.list[key]
         return self.data[key]

     def __setitem__(self, key, item):
         item.parent = weakref.ref(self)
         self.list.append(item)
         self.data[key] = item

     def keys(self):
         return map(lambda i: self._func(i), self.list)

     def items(self):
         return map(lambda i: (self._func(i), i), self.list)

     def values(self):
         return self.list

Upgrade to ZSI-2.1a and this package is no longer required.

-josh


On May 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, freeav8r wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I’m new to ZSI and apache and I’m having
> difficulty getting my first ZSI web service up and
> running.
>
> I installed apache with no problems and also installed
> mod_python.  I ran the mod_python “hello world”
> test by changing the httpd.conf file with the
> following entry:
>
> <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software
> Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/test">
>   AddHandler mod_python .py
>   PythonHandler mptest
>   PythonDebug On
> </Directory>
>
> The “Hello world” worked fine.
>
> I tried the mod_python example (2.1.3) found here:
> http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html
>
> Because of the apache config entry above, I created
> the following to files with the below names:
>
> ========== mptest.py =========
> from ZSI import dispatch
> from mod_python import apache
>
> import MyHandler
> mod = __import__('encodings.utf_8', globals(),
> locals(), '*')
> mod = __import__('encodings.utf_16_be', globals(),
> locals(), '*')
>
> def handler(req):
>    dispatch.AsHandler(modules=(MyHandler,),
> request=req)
>    return apache.OK
> ========== end mptest.py =======
>
> =========MyHandler.py ========
> def hello():
>    return "Hello, world"
>
> def echo(*args):
>    return args
>
> def average(*args):
>    sum = 0
>    for i in args: sum += i
>    return sum / len(args)
> ========= end MyHandler.py ========
>
> When I request the mptest.py file I get the following
> error:
>
>
>  File "C:\Program
> Files\Python25\Lib\site-packages\ZSI\parse.py", line
> 54, in __init__
>    from xml.dom.ext.reader import PyExpat
>
> ImportError: No module named ext.reader
>
> I'm running python 2.5 and the lastest stable versions
> of apache, mod_python, and ZSI.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -freeav8r