[Webware-discuss] xmlrpc and init vs awake in a site page

[John Dickinson]

I'm using xmlrpc to access some back end functionality for a webware 
project I'm writing. All of my pages use the same xmlrpclib.ServerProxy 
instance to make the xmlrpc calls. When I try to set that site-wide 
variable in my site page's __init__ function, it doesn't work. But when 
I put it into the awake, it does work (code below). I know that the init 
is only called once, and the awake is called for every request. But I do 
set other variables (debug constant, other static variables) in the 
init, and they work.

The easy answer is "it works in awake, just put it there." Setting up 
the connection for every page request slows down response time. I'd like 
to be able to keep the response snappy as much as possible.

What is your experience with init vs awake? Why won't setting the xmlrpc 
server proxy in init work?

Example code:
 
class SitePage(Page): # Page is WebKit.Page
   def __init__(self):
      Page.__init__(self)
      self.__debug = MyConfigFile.debug
      #self.setLogicServer(MyConfigFile.logic_location) # does not work 
here (Webware hangs)
      # other code clipped

   def awake(self,trans):
      Page.awake(self,trans)
      self.setLogicServer(MyConfigFile.logic_location) # works here
      # other permissions code clipped
   def setLogicServer(self,location):
      initial_auth_key = 'xyz123'
      self.__logicServer = 
xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(location,transport=MyTransport(initial_auth_key))
      try:
         self.__logicServer.init_connection('foo','bar','baz')  
      except BadLoginError, msg:
         raise # do something smart

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