Hi, I'd like to make a proposal that extends Plip #177 http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/177
We developed a plone component that stores a file with its html preview : ATFilePreview . This does the following : - make the file available for download - create a html preview of the file - index the file's content in full text It has the following advantages : - it uses mimetypes registry in order to detect mimetypes - it uses portal transforms in order to create the preview and uses this preview in order to extract the text that has to be indexed - it stores both html preview and all subobjects into the object, as persistant sub-objects - it's totally generic : obviously it does preview and indexes for opendocuments, ms documents, pdf, rtf, html, python etc. It may also show a preview for zip files, video files, audio files or whatever you can imagine. Let's take the example of a video file : you may decide that all video that is uploaded will be transcoded to mkv format and streamed in the page via a java applet that displays the video. You only need to have a video_to_html transform that will achieve it. The result will be stored together with the original file and the html preview will be displayed. - the trunk (it's in collective) stores everything inside the object in zodb, so it has no dependency and can take place of normal file objects - there is another version that stores file, html and subobjects in the filesystem. It currently uses FSS but we'd like to move that to BlobFile as FSS is a bit too complex for our usecase. - we don't need all the TING mechanics in order to get the fulltext indexing : we only need the UnicodeLexicon as far as portal transforms send unicode results (tested in france ; you can imagine ;-) ) - we already have the transforms for all office files in AROfficesTransform, for which we are currently doing the integration into archetypes. At this time there are 2 new things to consider : - portal transforms may overload the zope server - there may be decorators that should be applied to files in order to handle properly specific extra fields (especially for multimedia files : metadata etc.) * Concerning overload of zope server : I think that we should have an asynchronous portal transform that may run as a separate twisted deamon. This may live together with portal_transforms and may be called asynchronous_portal_transform (APT). The only difference with portal_transforms is that we need to give a callback method to APT in order to allow it to send the result of the transform after a while. Therefore if a content type is APT-aware and APT is activated, APT is used instead of portal_transforms. This allow to move the overload to one or many dedicated servers for example. We may also take a look at BlueDCS (I just heard of it but never tried it) * Concerning the decorators : there should be a kind of decorators_registry that would allow to add decorators based on mimetypes What do you think of all these points ? Best regards, Thierry. -- atReal http://www.atreal.net _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list Framework-Team@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
