I also am looking for a such thing, Lawrence, and I suppose TGWebservices do that, when I discover why it works only with tg_format=json in my case. I was reading documentation and seems by default it should returns data as xml ....
j On Mar 19, 3:07 pm, LawrenceAfloat <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wanting to have an easy way to turn any output into an xml > document as an alternate to exposing the data using json. And managed > to get this to work. No elegance here. > > -- to use > @expose('xml:users', content_type='text/xml') > # creates a root element called users and fills it from users in > template_vars > > -- add to app_cfg.py > > from xml_render import render_xml > base_config.render_functions.xml = render_xml > > -- xml_render.py > import logging, StringIO > > _log = logging.getLogger(__name__) > > def render_xml(template_name, template_vars, **kwargs): > # turn vars into an xml string. > st = StringIO.StringIO() > > def writeElem( obj): > if isinstance( obj, dict ): > for k in obj: > # create element and recurse > if isinstance( obj[k], list ): > # Add multiple elements. Each value should be a > dictionary. > for val in obj[k]: > st.write("<%s>" % k) > writeElem(val) > st.write("</%s>" % k) > > elif isinstance( obj[k], dict ): > # element > st.write("<%s>" % k) > writeElem(obj[k]) > st.write("</%s>" % k) > > else: > st.write("<%s>" % k) > st.write(str(obj[k])) > st.write("</%s>" % k) > > elif isinstance( obj, list ): > for val in obj: > writeElem(val) > else: > st.write(str(obj)) > > # main part of function > try: > st.write("<%s>" % template_name) > if template_vars.has_key(template_name): > writeElem(template_vars[template_name]) > st.write("</%s>" % template_name) > _log.debug("render_xml %s", st.getvalue() ) > except Exception,ex: > _log.exception("") > return st.getvalue() --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
