Re: [RFC] Xend XML-RPC Refactoring

[Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to give the list a heads up about something a number of us 
> discussed at the recent XenSummit.
> 
> We would like to simplify Xend by utilizing more of the standard Python 
> library and relying on less of our own code.  The most obvious thing 
> here is the current S-Expression/HTTP RPC interface.  We would like to 
> replace this with XML-RPC using Python's builtin support (xmlrpclib and 
> SimpleXMLRPCServer).
> 
> I've got some initial code and more details on the wiki 
> (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xend/XML-RPC).  Early estimates are 
> that this would reduce the code in Xend by about 33% (5k slocs).  We 
> would also like to standardize this XML-RPC interface so that 
> third-parties write apps to this interface without worrying about 
> massive breakage.


I think moving from s-exp's to XML is a bad move. If you want, use your 
s-expression library from LANL; it's used worldwide, and has done the 
job for a lot of projects.

I know of at least one project that moved from XML to s-exp's, using our 
library, because XML is just plain unwieldy.

thanks

ron