MiscUtils.PickleRPC (version 1)
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PickleRPC.py
 
PickleRPC provides a Server object for connection to Pickle-RPC servers
for the purpose of making requests and receiving the responses.
 
        >>> from MiscUtils.PickleRPC import Server
        >>> server = Server('http://localhost/cgi-bin/WebKit.cgi/Examples/PickleRPCExample')
        >>> server.multiply(10,20)
        200
        >>> server.add(10,20)
        30
 
 
See also: Server, Webkit.PickleRPCServlet, WebKit.Examples.PickleRPCExample
 
 
UNDER THE HOOD
 
Requests look like this:
        {
                'version':    1,  # default
                'action':     'call',  # default
                'methodName': 'NAME',
                'args':       (A, B, ...), # default = (,)
                'keywords':   {'A': A, 'B': B, ...}  # default = {}
        }
 
Only 'methodName' is required since that is the only key without a
default value.
 
Responses look like this:
        {
                'timeReceived': N,
                'timeReponded': M,
                'value': V,
                'exception': E,
                'requestError': E,
        }
 
TimeReceived is the time the initial request was received.
TimeResponded is the time at which the response was finished, as
close to transmission as possible. The times are expressed as
number of seconds since the Epoch, e.g., time.time().
 
Value is whatever the method happened to return.
 
Exception may be 'occurred' to indicate that an exception
occurred, the specific exception, such as "KeyError: foo" or the
entire traceback (as a string), at the discretion of the server.
It will always be a non-empty string if it is present.
 
RequestError is an exception such as "Missing method
in request." (with no traceback) that indicates a problem with the
actual request received by the Pickle-RPC server.
 
Value, exception and requestError are all exclusive to each other.
 
 
SECURITY
 
Pickle RPC uses the SafeUnpickler class (in this module) to
prevent unpickling of unauthorized classes.  By default, it
doesn't allow _any_ classes to be unpickled.  You can override
allowedGlobals() or findGlobal() in a subclass as needed to
allow specific class instances to be unpickled.
 
Note that both Transport in this module and PickleRPCServlet in
WebKit are derived from SafeUnpickler.
 
 
CREDIT
 
The implementation of this module was taken directly from Python 2.2's
xmlrpclib and then transformed from XML-orientation to Pickle-orientation.
 
The zlib compression was adapted from code by Skip Montanaro that I found
here: http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/

 
Modules
       
types
zlib

 
Classes
       
SafeUnpickler
Transport
SafeTransport
Server
exceptions.Exception(exceptions.BaseException)
Error
RequestError
ResponseError
InvalidContentTypeError
ProtocolError(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.ProtocolError)

 
class Error(exceptions.Exception)
    The abstract exception/error class for all PickleRPC errors.
 
 
Method resolution order:
Error
exceptions.Exception
exceptions.BaseException
__builtin__.object

Data descriptors defined here:
__weakref__
list of weak references to the object (if defined)

Methods inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Data and other attributes inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x5d3320>
T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T

Methods inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__delattr__(...)
x.__delattr__('name') <==> del x.name
__getattribute__(...)
x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
__getitem__(...)
x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
__getslice__(...)
x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
 
Use of negative indices is not supported.
__reduce__(...)
__repr__(...)
x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
__setattr__(...)
x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value
__setstate__(...)
__str__(...)
x.__str__() <==> str(x)

Data descriptors inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__dict__
args
message
exception message

 
class InvalidContentTypeError(ResponseError)
    
Method resolution order:
InvalidContentTypeError
ResponseError
Error
exceptions.Exception
exceptions.BaseException
__builtin__.object

Methods defined here:
__init__(self, headers, content)
__repr__(self)
__str__ = __repr__(self)

Data descriptors inherited from Error:
__weakref__
list of weak references to the object (if defined)

Data and other attributes inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x5d3320>
T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T

Methods inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__delattr__(...)
x.__delattr__('name') <==> del x.name
__getattribute__(...)
x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
__getitem__(...)
x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
__getslice__(...)
x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
 
Use of negative indices is not supported.
__reduce__(...)
__setattr__(...)
x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value
__setstate__(...)

Data descriptors inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__dict__
args
message
exception message

 
class ProtocolError(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.ProtocolError)
    
Method resolution order:
ProtocolError
ResponseError
Error
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError
xmlrpclib.Error
exceptions.Exception
exceptions.BaseException
__builtin__.object

Data descriptors inherited from Error:
__weakref__
list of weak references to the object (if defined)

Methods inherited from xmlrpclib.ProtocolError:
__init__(self, url, errcode, errmsg, headers)
__repr__(self)

Methods inherited from xmlrpclib.Error:
__str__(self)

Data and other attributes inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x5d3320>
T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T

Methods inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__delattr__(...)
x.__delattr__('name') <==> del x.name
__getattribute__(...)
x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
__getitem__(...)
x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
__getslice__(...)
x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
 
Use of negative indices is not supported.
__reduce__(...)
__setattr__(...)
x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value
__setstate__(...)

Data descriptors inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__dict__
args
message
exception message

 
class RequestError(Error)
    These are errors originally raised by the server complaining about
malformed requests.
 
 
Method resolution order:
RequestError
Error
exceptions.Exception
exceptions.BaseException
__builtin__.object

Data descriptors inherited from Error:
__weakref__
list of weak references to the object (if defined)

Methods inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Data and other attributes inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x5d3320>
T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T

Methods inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__delattr__(...)
x.__delattr__('name') <==> del x.name
__getattribute__(...)
x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
__getitem__(...)
x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
__getslice__(...)
x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
 
Use of negative indices is not supported.
__reduce__(...)
__repr__(...)
x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
__setattr__(...)
x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value
__setstate__(...)
__str__(...)
x.__str__() <==> str(x)

Data descriptors inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__dict__
args
message
exception message

 
class ResponseError(Error)
    These are unhandled exceptions raised when the server was computing
a response. These will indicate errors such as:
        * exception in the actual target method on the server
        * malformed responses
        * non "200 OK" status code responses
 
 
Method resolution order:
ResponseError
Error
exceptions.Exception
exceptions.BaseException
__builtin__.object

Data descriptors inherited from Error:
__weakref__
list of weak references to the object (if defined)

Methods inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Data and other attributes inherited from exceptions.Exception:
__new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x5d3320>
T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T

Methods inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__delattr__(...)
x.__delattr__('name') <==> del x.name
__getattribute__(...)
x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
__getitem__(...)
x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
__getslice__(...)
x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
 
Use of negative indices is not supported.
__reduce__(...)
__repr__(...)
x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
__setattr__(...)
x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value
__setstate__(...)
__str__(...)
x.__str__() <==> str(x)

Data descriptors inherited from exceptions.BaseException:
__dict__
args
message
exception message

 
class SafeTransport(Transport)
    Handles an HTTPS transaction to a Pickle-RPC server.
 
 
Method resolution order:
SafeTransport
Transport
SafeUnpickler

Methods defined here:
make_connection(self, host)
send_host(self, connection, host)

Methods inherited from Transport:
parse_response(self, f)
parse_response_gzip(self, f)
request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0, binary=0, compressed=0, acceptCompressedResponse=0)
send_content(self, connection, request_body, binary=0, compressed=0, acceptCompressedResponse=0)
send_request(self, connection, handler, request_body)
send_user_agent(self, connection)

Data and other attributes inherited from Transport:
user_agent = 'PickleRPC/1 (by http://webware.sf.net/)'

Methods inherited from SafeUnpickler:
allowedGlobals(self)
Must return a list of (moduleName, klassName) tuples for all
classes that you want to allow to be unpickled.
 
Example:
        return [('mx.DateTime', '_DT')]
allows mx.DateTime instances to be unpickled.
findGlobal(self, module, klass)
load(self, file)
loads(self, str)

 
class SafeUnpickler
    For security reasons, we don't want to allow just anyone to unpickle
anything.  That can cause arbitrary code to be executed.
So this SafeUnpickler base class is used to control
what can be unpickled.  By default it doesn't let you unpickle
any class instances at all, but you can create subclass that
overrides allowedGlobals().
 
Note that the PickleRPCServlet class in WebKit is derived from this class
and uses its load() and loads() methods to do all unpickling.
 
  Methods defined here:
allowedGlobals(self)
Must return a list of (moduleName, klassName) tuples for all
classes that you want to allow to be unpickled.
 
Example:
        return [('mx.DateTime', '_DT')]
allows mx.DateTime instances to be unpickled.
findGlobal(self, module, klass)
load(self, file)
loads(self, str)

 
class Server
    uri [,options] -> a logical connection to an XML-RPC server
 
uri is the connection point on the server, given as
scheme://host/target.
 
The standard implementation always supports the "http" scheme.  If
SSL socket support is available (Python 2.0), it also supports
"https".
 
If the target part and the slash preceding it are both omitted,
"/PickleRPC" is assumed.
 
See the module doc string for more information.
 
  Methods defined here:
__getattr__(self, name)
__init__(self, uri, transport=None, verbose=0, binary=1, compressRequest=1, acceptCompressedResponse=1)
__repr__(self)
__str__ = __repr__(self)

 
ServerProxy = class Server
    uri [,options] -> a logical connection to an XML-RPC server
 
uri is the connection point on the server, given as
scheme://host/target.
 
The standard implementation always supports the "http" scheme.  If
SSL socket support is available (Python 2.0), it also supports
"https".
 
If the target part and the slash preceding it are both omitted,
"/PickleRPC" is assumed.
 
See the module doc string for more information.
 
  Methods defined here:
__getattr__(self, name)
__init__(self, uri, transport=None, verbose=0, binary=1, compressRequest=1, acceptCompressedResponse=1)
__repr__(self)
__str__ = __repr__(self)

 
class Transport(SafeUnpickler)
    Handles an HTTP transaction to a Pickle-RPC server.
 
  Methods defined here:
make_connection(self, host)
parse_response(self, f)
parse_response_gzip(self, f)
request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0, binary=0, compressed=0, acceptCompressedResponse=0)
send_content(self, connection, request_body, binary=0, compressed=0, acceptCompressedResponse=0)
send_host(self, connection, host)
send_request(self, connection, handler, request_body)
send_user_agent(self, connection)

Data and other attributes defined here:
user_agent = 'PickleRPC/1 (by http://webware.sf.net/)'

Methods inherited from SafeUnpickler:
allowedGlobals(self)
Must return a list of (moduleName, klassName) tuples for all
classes that you want to allow to be unpickled.
 
Example:
        return [('mx.DateTime', '_DT')]
allows mx.DateTime instances to be unpickled.
findGlobal(self, module, klass)
load(self, file)
loads(self, str)

 
Functions
       
StringIO(...)
StringIO([s]) -- Return a StringIO-like stream for reading or writing
Unpickler(...)
Unpickler(file) -- Create an unpickler.
dumps(...)
dumps(obj, protocol=0) -- Return a string containing an object in pickle format.
 
See the Pickler docstring for the meaning of optional argument proto.

 
Data
        __version__ = 1