Proper display of XMLRPCserver exceptions

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

To all using xmlrpclib,

I had trouble getting a proper display of my exceptions occuring on the 
server. Basically, xmlrpclib only display the exception itself without 
any traceback, on the client side.

Something like
<Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>:2">

Ok then there's a key error, but how the hell am I supposed to know 
where it occured ?

So I wrote this:
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(('localhost', 8000), logRequests=False, 
allow_none=True)
old_dispatch = server._dispatch
def _new_dispatch(method, params):
    try:
        return old_dispatch(method,params)
    except Exception, exc:
        import traceback
        traceback.print_exc()
        raise
server._dispatch = _new_dispatch


Pretty dirty, isn't it, accessing the private attributes (too lazy to 
subclass) ! I guess there's an obvious way to do this with xmlrpclib 
that I just missed. Anyone knows ?

JM