[gen] Extended the HTTP-XML system to be able to call a method via a HTTP POST containing XML data (SOAP or REST-like).

fields/phase.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class Phase:
            <img src=":url('edit')" title=":_('object_edit')"/></a>
           <a if="editable and locked">
            <img style="cursor: help"
-                var="lockDate=tool.formatDate(locked[1]);
+                var="lockDate=ztool.formatDate(locked[1]);
                      lockMap={'user':ztool.getUserName(locked[0]), \
                               'date':lockDate};
                      lockMsg=_('page_locked', mapping=lockMap)"

gen/installer.py

@@ -286,6 +286,13 @@ class ZopeInstaller:
             if role not in roles: roles.append(role)
         self.app.__ac_roles__ = tuple(roles)
 
+    def patchZope(self):
+        '''Patches some arts of Zope.'''
+        # Disables XMLRPC. This way, Zope can transmit HTTP POSTs containing
+        # XML to Appy without trying to recognize it himself as XMLRPC requests.
+        import ZPublisher.HTTPRequest
+        ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.xmlrpc = FakeXmlrpc()
+
     def installDependencies(self):
         '''Zope products are installed in alphabetical order. But here, we need
            ZCTextIndex to be installed before our Appy application. So, we cheat
@@ -297,6 +304,7 @@ class ZopeInstaller:
     def install(self):
         self.logger.info('is being installed...')
         self.installDependencies()
+        self.patchZope()
         self.installRoles()
         self.installAppyTypes()
         self.installZopeClasses()

gen/mixins/__init__.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 import os, os.path, sys, types, urllib, cgi
 from appy import Object
+from appy.px import Px
 from appy.fields.workflow import UiTransition
 import appy.gen as gen
 from appy.gen.utils import *
@@ -479,7 +480,7 @@ class BaseMixin:
     def xml(self, action=None):
         '''If no p_action is defined, this method returns the XML version of
            this object. Else, it calls method named p_action on the
-           corresponding Appy wrapper and returns, as XML, the its result.'''
+           corresponding Appy wrapper and returns, as XML, its result.'''
         self.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','text/xml;charset=utf-8')
         # Check if the user is allowed to consult this object
         if not self.allows('read'):
@@ -492,6 +493,12 @@ class BaseMixin:
             appyObj = self.appy()
             try:
                 methodRes = getattr(appyObj, action)()
+                if isinstance(methodRes, Px):
+                    res = methodRes({'self': self.appy()})
+                elif isinstance(methodRes, file):
+                    res = methodRes.read()
+                    methodRes.close()
+                else:
                     res = XmlMarshaller().marshall(methodRes, objectType='appy')
             except Exception, e:
                 tb = Traceback.get()
@@ -1378,9 +1385,24 @@ class BaseMixin:
         return res
 
     def index_html(self):
-        '''Redirects to /view.'''
+        '''Base method called when hitting this object.
+           - The standard behaviour is to redirect to /view.
+           - If a parameter named "do" is present in the request, it is supposed
+             to contain the name of a method to call on this object. In this
+             case, we call this method and return its result as XML.
+           - If method is POST, we consider the request to be XML data, that we
+             marshall to Python, and we call the method in param "do" with, as
+             arg, this marshalled Python object. While this could sound strange
+             to expect a query string containing a param "do" in a HTTP POST,
+             the HTTP spec does not prevent to do it.'''
         rq = self.REQUEST
-        if rq.has_key('do'):
+        if (rq.REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST') and rq.QUERY_STRING:
+            # A POST method containing XML data.
+            rq.args = XmlUnmarshaller().parse(rq.stdin.getvalue())
+            # Find the name of the method to call.
+            methodName = rq.QUERY_STRING.split('=')[1]
+            return self.xml(action=methodName)
+        elif rq.has_key('do'):
             # The user wants to call a method on this object and get its result
             # as XML.
             return self.xml(action=rq['do'])

gen/wrappers/__init__.py

@@ -476,8 +476,9 @@ class AbstractWrapper(object):
         <!-- Locked -->
         <a if="editable and locked">
          <img style="cursor: help"
-              var="lockDate=tool.formatDate(locked[1]);
+              var="lockDate=ztool.formatDate(locked[1]);
-                   lockMap={'user':tool.getUserName(locked[0]),'date':lockDate};
+                   lockMap={'user':ztool.getUserName(locked[0]), \
+                            'date':lockDate};
                    lockMsg=_('page_locked', mapping=lockMap)"
               src=":url('lockedBig')" title=":lockMsg"/></a>
        </td>