use jsonlib (if available) before using simplejson

[plcapi.git] / PLC / API.py

diff --git a/PLC/API.py b/PLC/API.py
index 783280f..0d228f7 100644 (file)
--- a/PLC/API.py
+++ b/PLC/API.py
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ import traceback
 import string
 
 import xmlrpclib
+import simplejson
+try:
+    # Try to use jsonlib before using simpljson. This is a hack to get around
+    # the fact that the version of simplejson avaialble for f8 is slightly 
+    # faster than xmlrpc but not as fast as jsonlib. There is no jsonlib 
+    # pacakge available for f8, so this has to be installed manually and
+    # is not expected to always be available. Remove this once we move away
+    # from f8 based MyPLC's         
+    import jsonlib
+    json = jsonlib
+except:
+    json = simplejson 
 
 # See "2.2 Characters" in the XML specification:
 #
@@ -207,3 +219,17 @@ class PLCAPI:
             data = buildSOAP(kw = {'%sResponse' % method: {'Result': result}}, encoding = self.encoding)
 
         return data
+
+    def handle_json(self, source, data):
+        """
+        Handle a JSON request 
+        """
+        method, args = json.loads(data)
+        try:
+            result = self.call(source, method, *args)
+        except Exception, e:
+            result = str(e)
+       
+        return json.dumps(result) 
+        
+