[mod_python] ZSI and mod_python

Robert Synnott wrote:
> On 8/11/06, justind <justind at ussonet.net> wrote:
>> I posted on the ZSI board to, thought I better here just to cover all
>> the bases.
>>
>> Has anyone used ZSI with mod_python? If so, there is an example of how
>> to use ZSI with mod_python in ZSI's documentation.
>>
>> This feels  like a "I'm being stupid and forgetting/overlooking
>> something obvious" type of problem.
>>
>>  From the example below, there is a module called MyHandler that has 3
>> functions (hello,echo and average). You expose these functions through
>> the dispatch.AsHandler() function in the mod_python code.
>> Suppose that I only wanted to expose the hello and echo functions, but
>> not the average function. I want to keep the average function in the
>> module because some other function(s) I will make later will use it.
>>
>> (Section 2.1.3).
>>
>> The following is a complete example of a simple handler. The soap
>> operations are implemented in the MyHandler module:
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Dispatching from within mod_python is achieved by passing the
>> aforementined MyHandler module to |dispatch.AsHandler()|. The following
>> code exposes the operations defined in MyHandler via SOAP:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> I don't THINK the underscore trick works for mod_python. You really
> have two options; you could put the offending functions in a separate
> module, or you could write your own handler (if you want to do the
> whole wsdl2py, wsdl2dispatch thing you'll have to do that anyway,
> currently).
> Rob

I was actually suggesting that it was a ZSI trick, as it certainly is
not a mod_python trick (except when using publisher). What I was
suggesting was that ZSI seems to be doing some introspection of
MyHandler, and *it* might be choosing to treat methods prepended with an
underscore as private. But then, I know absolutely nothing about ZSI. :)

Jim