Passing com object from simple xmlrpc server to client

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Nov 27 14:56:17 EST 2006


tsjuan schrieb:
> Hello python users,
> 
> I am just learning on how to use xmlrpc and stumbled upon how to pass
> com object
> from server to client side.
> 
> The client side complain about can't marshall the com object. I don't
> know what type
> of marshall command I should use to pass the object.

you can't do that. COM is a interprocess-communication facility that 
doesn't have a value - which is what marshalling tries to accomplish: 
create a wire-representation of a value.

If you are using COM anyway, why don't you use DCOM instead of XMLRPC - 
then things could work.

Diez



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