Hello there, It looks like everyone is stratching an itch nowadays. I've written 0.01 version of any_srv. It is a rpc client/server that takes the approach if knowing as little as possible to serve metakit (by its approach it could serve even something like the string library).
It is at: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/pytunnel/any_srv.py http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/pytunnel/meta_client.py It is an asynchat server (which means it is single threaded which is what metakit needs). My goal is to also be able stay as close as possible to the metakit library syntax. Rather than explicitly map everything with code, the client automatically forwards everything (via getattr). Anything that is not pickleable is returned as an object reference. This means the client for any_srv is 100% stupid. And the server except for importing metakit, is also 100% stupid. The advantage is that if metakit changes, the client/server code doesn't need to know about it. It also support iterators. Any iterable object references are kept as that. So, the client can iterate through the rows as it needs to. The entire row result from a query is not sent back. Start the server with: python any_srv.py Here is example client code: mclient=any_server.Client() #Create a database: db = mclient.storage("datafile.mk",1) print 'Create a view' vw = db.getas("people[first:S,last:S,bowling:I]") print 'Add a couple of rows' vw.append(first='Fred',last='Flint',bowl=250) vw.append(first='Barney',last='Rubble',bowl=150) print 'Commit the changes to file:' db.commit() print 'Show a list of all people:' for r in vw: print r.first(), r.last(),r.bowl() mclient.any_server_clean() 2 things to think about: Need to explicity kill the object references with mclient.any_server_clean() Currently, attributes as well as methods end in (). The code is rough and needs to have more features/documentation added but it seems to work well. Any comments would be appreciated. john __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit
