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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst23
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py18
-rw-r--r--Lib/xmlrpc/client.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
5 files changed, 42 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
index 3cb19d1..6f14227 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ grouped under the reserved :attr:`system` attribute:
no such string is available, an empty string is returned. The documentation
string may contain HTML markup.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.5
+
+ Instances of :class:`ServerProxy` support the :term:`context manager` protocol
+ for closing the underlying transport.
+
A working example follows. The server code::
@@ -208,9 +213,9 @@ The client code for the preceding server::
import xmlrpc.client
- proxy = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000/")
- print("3 is even: %s" % str(proxy.is_even(3)))
- print("100 is even: %s" % str(proxy.is_even(100)))
+ with xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000/") as proxy:
+ print("3 is even: %s" % str(proxy.is_even(3)))
+ print("100 is even: %s" % str(proxy.is_even(100)))
.. _datetime-objects:
@@ -518,14 +523,14 @@ Example of Client Usage
from xmlrpc.client import ServerProxy, Error
# server = ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000") # local server
- server = ServerProxy("http://betty.userland.com")
+ with ServerProxy("http://betty.userland.com") as proxy:
- print(server)
+ print(proxy)
- try:
- print(server.examples.getStateName(41))
- except Error as v:
- print("ERROR", v)
+ try:
+ print(proxy.examples.getStateName(41))
+ except Error as v:
+ print("ERROR", v)
To access an XML-RPC server through a proxy, you need to define a custom
transport. The following example shows how:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index f11291b..b18bcd2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ New Modules
Improved Modules
================
-* None yet.
+* :class:`xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy` is now a :term:`context manager`
+ (contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`20627`).
Optimizations
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index 99b3eda..120c54f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -713,6 +713,23 @@ class SimpleServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
conn.request('POST', '/RPC2 HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: 100\r\n\r\nbye')
conn.close()
+ def test_context_manager(self):
+ with xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL) as server:
+ server.add(2, 3)
+ self.assertNotEqual(server('transport')._connection,
+ (None, None))
+ self.assertEqual(server('transport')._connection,
+ (None, None))
+
+ def test_context_manager_method_error(self):
+ try:
+ with xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL) as server:
+ server.add(2, "a")
+ except xmlrpclib.Fault:
+ pass
+ self.assertEqual(server('transport')._connection,
+ (None, None))
+
class MultiPathServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
threadFunc = staticmethod(http_multi_server)
@@ -898,6 +915,7 @@ class ServerProxyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(self.url, transport=t)
self.assertEqual(p('transport'), t)
+
# This is a contrived way to make a failure occur on the server side
# in order to test the _send_traceback_header flag on the server
class FailingMessageClass(http.client.HTTPMessage):
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
index c2ae707..567554d 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
@@ -1449,6 +1449,12 @@ class ServerProxy:
return self.__transport
raise AttributeError("Attribute %r not found" % (attr,))
+ def __enter__(self):
+ return self
+
+ def __exit__(self, *args):
+ self.__close()
+
# compatibility
Server = ServerProxy
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ccc1f57..3c7ac56 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #20627: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager.
+
- Issue #19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of
PendingDeprecationWarning.