metadata and decorators are coming your way

Hi,

I've just checked in the first batch of changes for Pyro 4.27 where a new feature is
coming: object metadata querying.

This means that the the client (proxy) can ask the server about the methods and
attributes of the remote object. This query is done when the proxy is bound (connected).
For now, only the oneway methods are actually doing something: you don't have to
manually set _pyroOneway all the time on your proxy anymore!

I also want to add some extra features based on this. For instance the method names
could be used for client-side error checking on invalid method calls, and perhaps the
attribute names can be used to implement truly transparent remote attribute access again
(like we had in Pyro 3.x) - but no promises there.

For the oneway method metadata there's a new decorator @Pyro4.oneway that you can use on
the methods in your remote object, to mark them. I expect to add some more decorators,
see issue #44 on github.


If you have the time please check it out in the trunk version and let me know if you
have questions or ideas about all this!


Cheers

Irmen

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