Alain Barthe wrote:
> Hi Michael, thanks for your reply.
>
> I realize that my original mail has been a bit garbagged, so you
> didn't understand my question.
> The question was : what is the syntax to set up a dictionary value
> through XMLRPC ?
>
> For scalar value, it is (as described in the wiki):
> remote.modify_distro(distro_id, 'name', 'example-distro',token)
> For a list, the following syntax works:
> remote.modify_distro(distro_id, 'users', ['admin'],token)
> But for a dictionary, I tried many syntaxes, none works.
Do what I suggested first and then it will tell you what the actual
error message is. Then come back here with that error
if neccessary and we can tell you more.
Dictionaries should work fine, the error may not be what it appears to
be. Do change the file first, restart cobblerd, and see what
message you get.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Alain.
>
> Others remarks are in the text below:
>
> 2008/10/7 Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com <mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com>>
>
> The error below is not a direct error from the above per se, but an
> error in the code that produces the actual exception text -- it's an
> error while telling you what the error is :). This is fixed on the
> latest development branch and I also applied this change just now to
> master.
>
> You can also fix this by adding the following line to remote.py
>
> "from utils import _"
>
>
> I tried it, but it does not work (maybe a too old version ? Mine is 1.2.4
>
>
>
> Once you do that and restart cobblerd, you'll get the actual error
> which
> will help you more. Both forms of input are accepted and correct.
>
> (As a sidenote, Generally you want to avoid uppercase in Python -- it
> implies a constant value, while COBSERVER is really a xmlrpc server
> proxy object and TOKEN is a string variable).
>
>
> In my context, they are constant values as I define them at the global
> scope of my module.
>
>
>
> This will be included in the 1.2.6 stable update, which will probably
> come out Friday.
>
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