Issue #26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags

instead of silently return incorrect result.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index 831a5a5..02d9f5c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -224,6 +224,20 @@ class XMLRPCTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertIs(type(newvalue), xmlrpclib.Binary)
             self.assertIsNone(m)
 
+    def test_loads_unsupported(self):
+        ResponseError = xmlrpclib.ResponseError
+        data = '<params><param><value><spam/></value></param></params>'
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+        data = ('<params><param><value><array>'
+                '<value><spam/></value>'
+                '</array></value></param></params>')
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+        data = ('<params><param><value><struct>'
+                '<member><name>a</name><value><spam/></value></member>'
+                '<member><name>b</name><value><spam/></value></member>'
+                '</struct></value></param></params>')
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+
     def test_get_host_info(self):
         # see bug #3613, this raised a TypeError
         transp = xmlrpc.client.Transport()