Twisted JSON-RPC

My clients/partner companies use web services a great deal. To be honest, WS have made my life easier in many respects... but they can be a real pain. And implementations can be pretty lacking...

For reasons I won't get into (business, politics, and AJAX), I discovered today that I needed to convert an XML-RPC server to a JSON-RPC server. I looked at several implementations and they were either not general enough for my use, or they were horrible.

So, I hacked a copy of twisted.web.xmlrpc and turned it into jsonrpc using the simplejson library. Right now, it's doing JSON over HTTP, but I fully intend to write a TCP implementation as well. The problem, though, is this: as I was putting this together today, all I could think about was ways to make the code general enough to provide a common basis for use in implementing *-RPC. Ah, down that path lies madness. And it's one of those things you just can't avoid thinking about...

I'm currently writing some twisted.trial tests for it, but I also need to add some more stuff to make this generally useful (not to mention easier to debug). Hmmm, I'm actually really looking forward to doing a twisted TCP implementation of JSON-RPC. That should be fairly fast. And clean. Maybe.

And, of course, I'm sure I'll do a twisted.web2 implementation as well.

I have an amazing headache now, and need to get some food.

Update: All twisted.trial tests are passing and I am running a twisted JSON-RPC server now.

Update: For those wanting to use this code, please read the comments on this entry (dated May 5, 2006) and then see thi s post.

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