use jsonlib (if available) before using simplejson

[plcapi.git] / PLC / API.py

diff --git a/PLC/API.py b/PLC/API.py
index 9d61ed9..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:
 #
@@ -111,7 +123,7 @@ class PLCAPI:
                 other_methods_map[method] = fullpath
 
     all_methods = native_methods + other_methods_map.keys()
-    
+
     def __init__(self, config = "/etc/planetlab/plc_config", encoding = "utf-8"):
         self.encoding = encoding
 
@@ -121,15 +133,21 @@ class PLCAPI:
 
         # Load configuration
         self.config = Config(config)
-       
-       # Initialize database connection
+
+        # Initialize database connection
         if self.config.PLC_DB_TYPE == "postgresql":
             from PLC.PostgreSQL import PostgreSQL
             self.db = PostgreSQL(self)
-
         else:
             raise PLCAPIError, "Unsupported database type " + self.config.PLC_DB_TYPE
 
+        # Aspects modify the API injecting code before/after method
+        # calls. As of now we only have aspects for OMF integration,
+        # that's why we enable aspects only if PLC_OMF is set to true.
+        if self.config.PLC_OMF_ENABLED:
+            from aspects import apply_aspects; apply_aspects()
+
+
     def callable(self, method):
         """
         Return a new instance of the specified method.
@@ -138,7 +156,7 @@ class PLCAPI:
         # Look up method
         if method not in self.all_methods:
             raise PLCInvalidAPIMethod, method
-        
+
         # Get new instance of method
         try:
             classname = method.split(".")[-1]
@@ -201,3 +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) 
+        
+