[Twisted-Python] Any examples of an authenticating XMLRPC server?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Matt Goodall wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:15 -0500, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
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>>Stephen Waterbury wrote:
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>>>Critiques or razberries welcomed, as long as they're
>>>constructive razberries!  :)
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>>>
>>This is extremely illuminating.  The key approach/idea that I was 
>>missing is this:
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>>   You can create a root web.resource.Resource() and add a child ""
>>   that handles all URLs not otherwise matched by a known child.
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>This is incorrect. A child of "" matches the empty path segment. Most of
>the time this is used to handle a URL that ends in a "/" but an empty
>segment is also legitimate in the middle of a URL.
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I stand corrected, though somewhat confused as to how Stephen's code is 
working, then.  My own experience does back up your statement, though.

>In Nevow, you handle unmatched children by overriding locateChild(self,
>ctx, segments) or, in the case of a rend.Page subclass, providing a
>childFactory(self, ctx, name) method.
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Indeed, as I discovered in implementing this. Still, Stephen's approach 
works fine, I was just wrong about thinking it was implemented 
automatically for the "" case. To make it work with a Nevow site, I 
created a root resource like this:

    class SiteRoot( object ):
        __implements__ = (inevow.IResource, )
        isLeaf = False
        def __init__( self, root ):
            """Initialise the overall root"""
            self.root = root
            self.RPC = webservices.XMLRPCServer()
        def locateChild(self, ctx, segments):
            """Locate child, return as inevow.IResource"""
            if segments:
                if segments[0] == 'RPC':
                    return self.RPC, segments[1:]
            return self.root, segments
        def renderHTTP( self, ctx, **named ):
            """Render this resource on an HTTP request"""
            raise ValueError( """You shouldn't be able to view this
    node!""" )

then wrap the SiteRoot instance in a nevow.appserver.NevowSite instance 
(it won't work if you try to use a twisted.web site, because that site 
class doesn't know how to traverse Nevow resources).  You also AFAICS 
should not wrap the "root" in an appserver.NevowSite instance (it seems 
there should only be one site instance for any given web-server).

So, to recap:

    nevow.appserver.NevowSite

        SiteRoot( root )

            root = guard.SessionWrapper( portal.Portal( realm.YourRealm(
            rootResourceForNormalSite ) ) ) -- with the appropriate
            credential checkers registered.

Enjoy, and thanks all,
Mike

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