Add better datetime support to xmlrpclib module.  Closes patch #1120353.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index df0893d..ed4c6d1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -34,16 +34,48 @@
                           xmlrpclib.loads(xmlrpclib.dumps((alist,)))[0][0])
 
     def test_dump_bare_datetime(self):
-        # This checks that an unwrapped datetime object can be handled
-        # by the marshalling code.  This can't be done via
-        # test_dump_load() since the unmarshaller doesn't produce base
-        # datetime instances.
+        # This checks that an unwrapped datetime.date object can be handled
+        # by the marshalling code.  This can't be done via test_dump_load()
+        # since with use_datetime set to 1 the unmarshaller would create
+        # datetime objects for the 'datetime[123]' keys as well
         dt = datetime.datetime(2005, 02, 10, 11, 41, 23)
         s = xmlrpclib.dumps((dt,))
-        r, m = xmlrpclib.loads(s)
-        self.assertEquals(r, (xmlrpclib.DateTime('20050210T11:41:23'),))
+        (newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=1)
+        self.assertEquals(newdt, dt)
         self.assertEquals(m, None)
 
+        (newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=0)
+        self.assertEquals(newdt, xmlrpclib.DateTime('20050210T11:41:23'))
+
+    def test_dump_bare_date(self):
+        # This checks that an unwrapped datetime.date object can be handled
+        # by the marshalling code.  This can't be done via test_dump_load()
+        # since the unmarshaller produces a datetime object
+        d = datetime.datetime(2005, 02, 10, 11, 41, 23).date()
+        s = xmlrpclib.dumps((d,))
+        (newd,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=1)
+        self.assertEquals(newd.date(), d)
+        self.assertEquals(newd.time(), datetime.time(0, 0, 0))
+        self.assertEquals(m, None)
+
+        (newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=0)
+        self.assertEquals(newdt, xmlrpclib.DateTime('20050210T00:00:00'))
+
+    def test_dump_bare_time(self):
+        # This checks that an unwrapped datetime.time object can be handled
+        # by the marshalling code.  This can't be done via test_dump_load()
+        # since the unmarshaller produces a datetime object
+        t = datetime.datetime(2005, 02, 10, 11, 41, 23).time()
+        s = xmlrpclib.dumps((t,))
+        (newt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=1)
+        today = datetime.datetime.now().date().strftime("%Y%m%d")
+        self.assertEquals(newt.time(), t)
+        self.assertEquals(newt.date(), datetime.datetime.now().date())
+        self.assertEquals(m, None)
+
+        (newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=0)
+        self.assertEquals(newdt, xmlrpclib.DateTime('%sT11:41:23'%today))
+
     def test_dump_big_long(self):
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, xmlrpclib.dumps, (2L**99,))
 
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index 13a7562..069ebcc 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@@ -357,7 +357,14 @@
             if datetime and isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
                 self.value = value.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S")
                 return
-            elif not isinstance(value, (TupleType, time.struct_time)):
+            if datetime and isinstance(value, datetime.date):
+                self.value = value.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S")
+                return
+            if datetime and isinstance(value, datetime.time):
+                today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d")
+                self.value = value.strftime(today+"T%H:%M:%S")
+                return
+            if not isinstance(value, (TupleType, time.struct_time)):
                 if value == 0:
                     value = time.time()
                 value = time.localtime(value)
@@ -394,6 +401,10 @@
     value.decode(data)
     return value
 
+def _datetime_type(data):
+    t = time.strptime(data, "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S")
+    return datetime.datetime(*tuple(t)[:6])
+
 ##
 # Wrapper for binary data.  This can be used to transport any kind
 # of binary data over XML-RPC, using BASE64 encoding.
@@ -714,6 +725,19 @@
             write("</dateTime.iso8601></value>\n")
         dispatch[datetime.datetime] = dump_datetime
 
+        def dump_date(self, value, write):
+            write("<value><dateTime.iso8601>")
+            write(value.strftime("%Y%m%dT00:00:00"))
+            write("</dateTime.iso8601></value>\n")
+        dispatch[datetime.date] = dump_date
+
+        def dump_time(self, value, write):
+            write("<value><dateTime.iso8601>")
+            write(datetime.datetime.now().date().strftime("%Y%m%dT"))
+            write(value.strftime("%H:%M:%S"))
+            write("</dateTime.iso8601></value>\n")
+        dispatch[datetime.time] = dump_time
+
     def dump_instance(self, value, write):
         # check for special wrappers
         if value.__class__ in WRAPPERS:
@@ -742,7 +766,7 @@
     # and again, if you don't understand what's going on in here,
     # that's perfectly ok.
 
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, use_datetime=0):
         self._type = None
         self._stack = []
         self._marks = []
@@ -750,6 +774,9 @@
         self._methodname = None
         self._encoding = "utf-8"
         self.append = self._stack.append
+        self._use_datetime = use_datetime
+        if use_datetime and not datetime:
+            raise ValueError, "the datetime module is not available"
 
     def close(self):
         # return response tuple and target method
@@ -867,6 +894,8 @@
     def end_dateTime(self, data):
         value = DateTime()
         value.decode(data)
+        if self._use_datetime:
+            value = _datetime_type(data)
         self.append(value)
     dispatch["dateTime.iso8601"] = end_dateTime
 
@@ -968,17 +997,23 @@
 #
 # return A (parser, unmarshaller) tuple.
 
-def getparser():
+def getparser(use_datetime=0):
     """getparser() -> parser, unmarshaller
 
     Create an instance of the fastest available parser, and attach it
     to an unmarshalling object.  Return both objects.
     """
+    if use_datetime and not datetime:
+        raise ValueError, "the datetime module is not available"
     if FastParser and FastUnmarshaller:
-        target = FastUnmarshaller(True, False, _binary, _datetime, Fault)
+        if use_datetime:
+            mkdatetime = _datetime_type
+        else:
+            mkdatetime = _datetime
+        target = FastUnmarshaller(True, False, _binary, mkdatetime, Fault)
         parser = FastParser(target)
     else:
-        target = Unmarshaller()
+        target = Unmarshaller(use_datetime=use_datetime)
         if FastParser:
             parser = FastParser(target)
         elif SgmlopParser:
@@ -1081,7 +1116,7 @@
 #     (None if not present).
 # @see Fault
 
-def loads(data):
+def loads(data, use_datetime=0):
     """data -> unmarshalled data, method name
 
     Convert an XML-RPC packet to unmarshalled data plus a method
@@ -1090,7 +1125,7 @@
     If the XML-RPC packet represents a fault condition, this function
     raises a Fault exception.
     """
-    p, u = getparser()
+    p, u = getparser(use_datetime=use_datetime)
     p.feed(data)
     p.close()
     return u.close(), u.getmethodname()
@@ -1122,6 +1157,9 @@
     # client identifier (may be overridden)
     user_agent = "xmlrpclib.py/%s (by www.pythonware.com)" % __version__
 
+    def __init__(self, use_datetime=0):
+        self._use_datetime = use_datetime
+
     ##
     # Send a complete request, and parse the response.
     #
@@ -1168,7 +1206,7 @@
 
     def getparser(self):
         # get parser and unmarshaller
-        return getparser()
+        return getparser(use_datetime=self._use_datetime)
 
     ##
     # Get authorization info from host parameter
@@ -1362,7 +1400,7 @@
     """
 
     def __init__(self, uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=0,
-                 allow_none=0):
+                 allow_none=0, use_datetime=0):
         # establish a "logical" server connection
 
         # get the url
@@ -1376,9 +1414,9 @@
 
         if transport is None:
             if type == "https":
-                transport = SafeTransport()
+                transport = SafeTransport(use_datetime=use_datetime)
             else:
-                transport = Transport()
+                transport = Transport(use_datetime=use_datetime)
         self.__transport = transport
 
         self.__encoding = encoding