[Zope-dev] aq_inContextOf attribute error

2001-01-02 Thread Alex V Koval


Hello All !

After installing latest stable version of Zope (2.2.4) I tried to 
install ZFormulator version 0.2. And as result got 2 problems with
permissions system. First was in ZFormulator itself, and was corrected:

__roles__ = ('manager',)

was changed to 

__roles__ = ('Manager',)

but this bug correction worked fine for previous versions of Zope, 
and in current version adding of field produced error:

Attribute Error: aq_inContextOf in line 231 of
lib/python/AccessControl/User.py

I am nor Zope nor Python hacker, but I tried to correct this line a little,
and this worked for me. Please advice did I made it correct way or not.

User.py line 231:


Here was the original code (which produced error):

if not parent.aq_inContextOf(self.aq_parent.aq_parent,1):

Here is replacement (added check is attribute exists):

if hasattr(parent, 'aq_inContextOf') and not 
parent.aq_inContextOf(self.aq_parent.aq_parent,1):

After this correction everything works fine, but since I am not Zope/Python
guru, but just a user which wanted some program to start working, I keeping
changed locally, but of course I am interested was this correction OK.

Regards.

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Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog catalog_object

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
 
 Chris Withers wrote:
 
  ...in which case, I wonder why CatalogAwareness goes to the trouble of
  unindexing and then re-indexing?
 
 Because in older ZCatalog (before 2.3 and maybe before 2.2.4),
 catalog_object did not uncatalog automatically. When in doubt, assume
 ZCatalog is broken :p

Hmmm...

I wonder if Chris P or anyone else in the know could confirm the
recommended steps to recatalog an object?

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope-dev] Local Factories in Products

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Johan Carlsson wrote:
 
 In ZClasses it is possible to control where a ZClass instance
 should be permitted to be added, in other words show up
 in the factory listing in a ObjectManagers manage_main view.

Didn't Itamar have a proposal/project on this?

How did it work out?

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope-dev] CatalogAware

2001-01-02 Thread Michael Bernstein

Chris Withers wrote:
 
 Michael Bernstein wrote:
 
  Hmm. Aren't postings CatalogAware? If they're not, shouldn't
  they be?
 
 Why? ;-)
 
 Squishdot manages the cataloging, re-cataloging and un-cataloging of its
 own postings. I don't think CatalogAware would make that process any
 simpler or more reliable...

I guess it's just a matter of only reinventing the wheels
you have to, and writing less code as a result. Squishdot
seems like it would fall into the category covered by the
following howtos:

http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/inherit_ZCatalog
http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CatalogAware

But I'm probably overlooking something.

Cheers,

Michael Bernstein.

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[Zope-dev] dynamic permissions in zope

2001-01-02 Thread Heinz-Josef Claes

Hi,

I'm very new to zope and have to eximine, if it's usable for our
requirements.

The question I have, is very simple or perhaps very difficult, I don't
know.

Our requrements are a permissioning system which depends on a matrix:
There are two independend qualities which describe, if a user is allowed
to see a document. This can be displayed in a matrix. Only if *both*
qualities match, the user is allowed to see it.
As far as I understand zope, it is not possible to map this directly (as
by all other systems I know).

So my question:
Is it possible to connect a permission (or role) in zope with a method
(instead of a static flag which was set)? If it is possible, it should
be possible to call a special  algorithm with this request, which can
implement whatever is needed. So, it would be (easy) possible to
*integrate* this functionality.
(I called this permissions "dynamic", because the are evaluated when
requestet.)

Or does anybody has another (better) idea?

Any help is very apreciated,
Heinz-Josef Claes
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Re: [Zope-dev] Local Factories in Products

2001-01-02 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring

Chris Withers wrote:

  In ZClasses it is possible to control where a ZClass instance
  should be permitted to be added, in other words show up
  in the factory listing in a ObjectManagers manage_main view.
 
 Didn't Itamar have a proposal/project on this?

It's still unimplemented - you can view the details at
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/RestrictedCreation, and there's
some implementation suggestions from Jim Fulton in the discussion area.

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Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns example update....

2001-01-02 Thread Phillip J. Eby

At 03:08 PM 1/2/01 +1100, Itai Tavor wrote:
Hi Steve,

Steve Spicklemire wrote:

   "Itai" == Itai Tavor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Itai Maybe with this
 Itai SkinScript: WITH Doers.getItem(self.doerID) CALCULATE
 Itai self.doerID=RESULT.id or '' ?  But I'm not really sure about
 Itai this...

Ahh.. I think my brain just imploded in a recursive death spiral,
but I get intent of the idea. This would work I think:

WITH Doers.getItem(self.doerID) COMPUTE self.myDoer=RESULT or 
Doers.getItem('doNothing')

where there is a default 'doer' named 'doNothing' in one of the Doers
Racks.  This guy would 'fill in' for the ToDo's doer when no 'real'
doer can be found... I like that. ;-)

Yeah, this looks good... whether it's appropriate or not depends on 
how you expect the case where there's no Doer to behave - if you 
needed to know explicitly that a Doer doesn't exist, returning a 
'nothing' doer could confuse things. BTW, I can't see the recursion 
in my script... but maybe my brain is still in vacation mode :)

Your script uses an attribute (doerID) in the WITH clause that is provided
by the COMPUTE clause.  This is infinitely recursive in theory.  In
practice, it will result in the non-existence of the doerID attribute, as
ZPatterns treats recursive attribute references as non-existence of the
attribute.  The WITH clause will fail with an AttributeError.


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Re: [Zope-dev] Conflict Errors

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Chris McDonough wrote:
 
 The ZODB tries
 hard to avoid error conditions for you by retrying conflicting writes, but
 if you really pound the snot out of a particular object, it'll let you know.

That's gotta be one for the Zope quotes board, if I could onyl remember
the URL :-)

 and step through a real-world ConflictError situation.  Neither of which I
 have time to do right now... sorry, Chris.
 
 this one by saying "I don't know" because it's one of those things where
 learning exactly what is going on can chew up time like nobody's business,
 because I'd need to step through the code line-by-line.  I shouldn't even be
 in here.  :-(

Hey, no problem, the help was much appreciated :-)

However, if anyone does know what constitutes a 'seperate object' in
ZODB terms, it be really useful to know.
I'm guessing a class which inherits from Persistent? Dictionaries don't,
'cos they're python builtins, which I'm pretty certain was the problem
in my case...

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope-dev] Local Factories in Products

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
 
 Chris Withers wrote:
 
   In ZClasses it is possible to control where a ZClass instance
   should be permitted to be added, in other words show up
   in the factory listing in a ObjectManagers manage_main view.
 
  Didn't Itamar have a proposal/project on this?
 
 It's still unimplemented - you can view the details at
 http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/RestrictedCreation, and there's
 some implementation suggestions from Jim Fulton in the discussion area.

I think the point was missed slightly in the discussion.  Right now
containers can limit what kinds of objects they can contain.  It should
also be possible for objects to limit what kinds of containers can
contain them.

Shane

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Re: [Zope-dev] How to confuse the publishing process

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Steve Spicklemire wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
OK... you need to tell us where the index_html's are and what they have
 in them!  ;-)

Doesn't seem to matter what's in them...

Say there's one in folder1 and one in folder2, which one should be used?
Why are neither of them being used?

cheers,

Chris

 Do you have a
 
 dtml-var folderx
 
 somewhere?

don't think so...

 Chris If you go to a URL that ends in a folder, you get the
 Chris index_html in that folder, right?
 
 Chris Well, yes and no...
 
 Chris If you go to: http://server.com/folder1/folder2/folder1
 
 Chris ...where folder1 is a folder in your Zope's root, folder2
 Chris is contained in folder1, but doesn't itself contain a
 Chris folder1 (so the last folder1 in the url is also the first
 Chris one, just acquired), Zope returns the following:
 
 Chris htmlhead base
 Chris href="http://localhost:8080/testnav/normaltest/testnav/"
 Chris /head
 
 Chris body Folder instance at 014B3D80 /body /html

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Re: [Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: PartitionedFileStorage

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Chris Withers wrote:
 
 Shane Hathaway wrote:
 
  I just realized I could use the "patch" command to backport.  So I made
  a new tarball.  Have fun!
 
  
http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/PartitionedFileStorage/PartitionedFileStorage-0.0.1-2_2.tar.gz/view
 
 great :-)
 
 It's installed and running now. No problems yet, btu then I haven't seen
 any partitioning either... how long doI have to wait? ;-)

Until 512 MB.  However, you can change the default partition size in
FileStorage.py.  Note that it behaves correctly with partitions of
varying size, so you don't have to worry that it'll get confused if you
set it to a partition size of 10 MB when your first partition is already
50 MB.

BTW, Evan helped me find and correct a bug.  You'll only run into it if
you set your partition size to less than the size of the largest ZODB
objects.

--- PartitionedFile.py~ Wed Nov 22 16:14:27 2000
+++ PartitionedFile.py  Mon Dec 11 12:01:18 2000
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
 file = self.__seekToNextPartition()
 if file is not None:
 state = self.__state
-toAppend = file.read(size)
+toAppend = file.read(size - len(data))
 data = data + toAppend
 else:
 break

Shane

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[Zope-dev] PartitionedFileStorage - Eek!

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Shane Hathaway wrote:
 
 BTW, Evan helped me find and correct a bug.  You'll only run into it if
 you set your partition size to less than the size of the largest ZODB
 objects.

That's fixed in 0.0.2, right?

Well, anyway, I changed the line in FileStorage.py as follows:
# Use 0.5 GB partitions because that's what fits on a CD.
defaultOps = PartitionedFileOperations(
DefaultPartitionNamingStrategy(partlen=4))
#DefaultPartitionNamingStrategy(partlen=2L**29))

...so I could try and provoke a split, but, now, when I try to add
objects, I get:

Error Type: CorruptedDataError
Error Value: 41904222L

Traceback (innermost last):
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 222,
in publish_module
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 187,
in publish
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 221, in
zpublisher_exception_hook
(Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 171,
in publish
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160,
in mapply
(Object: manage_main)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 112,
in call_object
(Object: manage_main)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\App\special_dtml.py, line 120, in
__call__
(Object: manage_main)
(Info: E:\Zope\2.2.5b1\lib\python\OFS\main.dtml)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py,
line 528, in __call__
(Object: manage_main)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\App\special_dtml.py, line 120, in
__call__
(Object: manage_tabs)
(Info: E:\Zope\2.2.5b1\lib\python\App\manage_tabs.dtml)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py,
line 528, in __call__
(Object: manage_tabs)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_With.py, line
146, in render
(Object: _(manage_options=filtered_manage_options()))
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\App\PersistentExtra.py, line 114,
in locked_in_version
(Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZODB\Connection.py, line 432, in
modifiedInVersion
  File E:\Zope\22C38D~1.5B1\lib\python\ZODB\DB.py, line 364, in
modifiedInVersion
  File E:\Zope\2.2.5b1\lib\python\ZODB\FileStorage.py, line 679, in
modifiedInVersion
(Object: E:\Zope\2.2.5b1/var/Data.fs)
CorruptedDataError: (see above)

Any ideas?

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope-dev] dynamic permissions in zope

2001-01-02 Thread Steve Alexander

Steve Alexander wrote:


 I believe the latest LoginManager allows you to specify what roles a 
 user has, and compute these each request, based on the details of the 
 request.
 
 This is probably more useful than having dynamically computed 
 permissions; While I can see how a user's roles will vary according to 
 where they are, what they are doing and when they are doing it, I cannot 
 see why permissions need to change in that way.
 
 However, you mention that you are new to Zope. ZPatterns can be 
 difficult to understand and get into. Other than the creators of 
 ZPatterns, I haven't heard of anyone using this computed permissions 
 system.

What I forgot to mention: LoginManager is a Zope product that is built 
using ZPatterns, another Zope product.

When you are doing advanced things with LoginManager, you need to know 
how ZPatterns works.

There are a couple of HOWTO documents on using LoginManager. It will be 
only a small change to alter the "userRoles" method that returns the 
roles a user should have to calculate these roles based on other criteria.

See these documents for information about how to set up LoginManager.

   http://www.zope.org/Members/dlpierson/sqlLogin
   http://www.zope.org/Members/jok/SQL_based_LoginManager

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Software Engineer
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Re: [Zope-dev] OracleStorage, and possibly others

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Jim Fulton wrote:
 
   - Policies to control whether multiple revisions are stored
 or whether revisions are removed by packing on a object-by-object
 or transaction-by-transaction basis.

 You could keep significant historical revisions for important objects, such
 as Wiki pages, templates, scripts, etc., with a policy to decide
 which revisions are significant.
 
   - The ability to set policies to implement quotas.

 
 We are also working on ZEO storage replication. This may have a big
 impact on the storage API, or lead to specialized APIs for replicated
 storages.

very cool :-)

Any idea when these will be around to play with?

  Please help stamp out Data.fs! :-)

Nah... we like it, especially once Shane's PartionedFile storage makes
it into production...

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: PartitionedFileStorage

2001-01-02 Thread Steve Alexander

Shane Hathaway wrote:


 BTW, Evan helped me find and correct a bug.  You'll only run into it if
 you set your partition size to less than the size of the largest ZODB
 objects.

The new version of FileStorage.py in PartitionedFileStorage for 2.3 
overwrites some of the changes made the FileStorage locking protocol in CVS.

These are the ones using  _commit_lock_acquire _commit_lock_release.

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Re: [Zope-dev] What's 'section' in blocks[0] in block dtml tag?

2001-01-02 Thread Brett Carter

Lee, I've been diddling around with the same stuff.  It took me a lot
of introspection with printing of errors via MrCreosote/Spew.  To
answer your question, 'section' is an object which contains an
attribute 'blocks'.  If you want to render the dtml in there, you can
run the 'render_blocks' method in
'zope-instance/lib/Python/pDocumentTemplate.py' You pass it the
section.blocks object and a mapping dictionary which is the current
namespace stack that gets passed in as the only argument to the
'render' method in you tag definition.  If you just want the raw text,
check you the render_blocks method, so you can see how they take apart
the 'section.blocks' object.  As to the object hiarchy of everything,
your guess is as good as mine as to why there's a list of tuples of
blocks wrapped in a section object, wrapped in another blocks object,
I have know idea.  Perhaps the designer of the document templates
could answer...  
-Brett


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LEE Hi. I'm playing/struggling to make a custom block dtml tag.
LEE Let me call it, dtml-quote tag.
LEE dtml-quote tag is similar to dtml-comment tag except it will emit
LEE html_quoted, not rendered version of what lies 
LEE between dtml-quote ... /dtml-quote.
LEE (I feel it will be usefull when I show  write some dtml examples on my
LEE korean zope site).

LEE After seeing around some python sources,
LEE I finally got that tname is the name of the tag, args is args, and section
LEE is something, in the following code.

LEE def __init__(self, blocks):
LEE tname, args, section = blocks[0]

LEE and section seems to have 6 attributes/methods:
LEE '__name__', '_v_blocks', '_v_cooked', '_vars', 'blocks', 'globals', 'raw'

LEE But that mistic raw is null string, '' and blocks is no help for me.

LEE How can I retrieve the raw source string enclosed in a block tag pair?

LEE LEE Kwan Soo.

LEE ps. My English is evem more cryptic this morning. Sorry I've sat up alnight 
play 
LEE Kingdom Under Fire.

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Re: [Zope-dev] PartitionedFileStorage - Eek!

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Chris Withers wrote:
 
 Shane Hathaway wrote:
 
  BTW, Evan helped me find and correct a bug.  You'll only run into it if
  you set your partition size to less than the size of the largest ZODB
  objects.
 
 That's fixed in 0.0.2, right?

Should be, although I just realized I don't know whether 0.0.2 was
intended for Zope 2.2 or 2.3.

 Well, anyway, I changed the line in FileStorage.py as follows:
 # Use 0.5 GB partitions because that's what fits on a CD.
 defaultOps = PartitionedFileOperations(
 DefaultPartitionNamingStrategy(partlen=4))
 #DefaultPartitionNamingStrategy(partlen=2L**29))
 
 ...so I could try and provoke a split, but, now, when I try to add
 objects, I get:
 
 Error Type: CorruptedDataError
 Error Value: 41904222L

Ugh.  I have no idea what might have happened.  That's why I'm wary: if
something goes wrong, the symptoms will show up a long time after the
problems occur.

Now BerkeleyStorage is on its way and once that's ready,
PartitionedFileStorage will have such a small audience that it won't be
worth the trouble.  Oh well, it was a fun experiment.

Shane

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Re: [Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: PartitionedFileStorage

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Steve Alexander wrote:
 
 Shane Hathaway wrote:
 
 
  BTW, Evan helped me find and correct a bug.  You'll only run into it if
  you set your partition size to less than the size of the largest ZODB
  objects.
 
 The new version of FileStorage.py in PartitionedFileStorage for 2.3
 overwrites some of the changes made the FileStorage locking protocol in CVS.
 
 These are the ones using  _commit_lock_acquire _commit_lock_release.

Well, it's pretty easy to use diff and patch to correct it.

But like I told ChrisW, I think BerkeleyStorage will fill the need that
PartitionedFileStorage was only partitially addressing.

OTOH I've been running it for a while now on my box and have had no
signs of problems.

Shane

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Re: [Zope-dev] Conflict Errors

2001-01-02 Thread Chris McDonough

Y'know since replying to this message originally, I've learned a lot about
pickled representations of Zope objects and I think I can answer this more
cogently:

- Instances of classes which inherit from Persistence.Persistent are
represented as an individual pickle.  Their attributes are contained in this
pickle, unless those attributes are themselves instances of something that
inherits from Persistence.Persistent.

- References to persistent objects in other objects are kept as an object
identifier.  This means, for example, that a dictionary of integers to
persistent object instances looks something like this in a pickle::

  {1:oid 1, 2:oid 2, ...}

  If this dictionary is an attribute of a persistent object, adding,
changing, or removing items from it will modify its containing persistent
object.

It was this "reference by oid" concept that turned the light on for me here,
hopefully it can do the same for you.

One of the potential big wins with the current Zope implementation of a
BTree is that it exposes a mapping interface, so you can treat it just like
a dictionary.  However, internally, it's composed of a number of separate
persistent objects that can be changed independently of each other.  This
means that changing one item in a BTree will change one persistent object
that makes up a BTree, but will not necessarily effect the other persistent
objects that compose it.  Unortunately, currently, the BTree implementation
has some problems that cause that *not* to be the case in many situations,
and independent writes to it often conflict.  We are working on another
BTree implementation to resolve the issue.

- Original Message -
From: "Chris Withers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Chris McDonough" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Conflict Errors


 Chris McDonough wrote:
 
  The ZODB tries
  hard to avoid error conditions for you by retrying conflicting writes,
but
  if you really pound the snot out of a particular object, it'll let you
know.

 That's gotta be one for the Zope quotes board, if I could onyl remember
 the URL :-)

  and step through a real-world ConflictError situation.  Neither of which
I
  have time to do right now... sorry, Chris.
 
  this one by saying "I don't know" because it's one of those things where
  learning exactly what is going on can chew up time like nobody's
business,
  because I'd need to step through the code line-by-line.  I shouldn't
even be
  in here.  :-(

 Hey, no problem, the help was much appreciated :-)

 However, if anyone does know what constitutes a 'seperate object' in
 ZODB terms, it be really useful to know.
 I'm guessing a class which inherits from Persistent? Dictionaries don't,
 'cos they're python builtins, which I'm pretty certain was the problem
 in my case...

 cheers,

 Chris



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Re: [Zope-dev] PartitionedFileStorage - Eek!

2001-01-02 Thread Jason Cunliffe

Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Now BerkeleyStorage is on its way and once that's ready,
 PartitionedFileStorage will have such a small audience that it won't be
 worth the trouble.  Oh well, it was a fun experiment.

Can you pleae expand on this.. what about BerkeleyStorage is on its way and
when ?

Been using it for soem tests and like it very much, sincerely hoping it
might get rolled into Zope and Python before long.


thanks

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Re: [Zope-dev] PartitionedFileStorage - Eek!

2001-01-02 Thread Steve Alexander

Shane Hathaway wrote:


 Should be, although I just realized I don't know whether 0.0.2 was
 intended for Zope 2.2 or 2.3.

There is no difference between the PartitionedFile.py files in the 2.2 
and 2.3 versions, so I guess 0.0.2 will do as well for either.

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[Zope-dev] uncataloging objects

2001-01-02 Thread Robert Prosenc

hi there.

i have certain problems with the catalog class. i have something over 9000
objects (all of the same type) cataloged, and it does not only take REAL
long to reindex them (but hey, i could live with that), sometimes it also
makes the python-process sort of 'hang up' - it merly crushes the whole zope
process..

the even bigger problem is that it makes trouble when uncataloging
objectsthat seems to fail completely:
  here's some code from the class-definition, where i try to uncatalog the
object:

def killMe(self):
"deletes the record. in fact the record has to be
uncataloged first."
try:
 
self.Catalog.uncatalog_object('/'+self.absolute_url(1))
except:
return "couldn't uncatalog the record."
try:
self.records.manage_delObjects(ids=self.getId())
# 'records' is a folder, in which the objects are stored
except:
return "couldn't delete the record."
return Globals.MessageDialog(
titel='Record deleted',
message='Record deleted successfully.',
)

so i let my objects kill themselves;)
what really confuses me is the fact that while performing that function, no
exeption is raised. the uncataloging-call is inside a try/except, but it
seems to be performed regulary. but: it isn't!
the object, while already deleted, remains still cataloged, which leads to
some unpleasant error-pages (key-error) when contained inside the result-set
of a search.

i have a zope 2.2.2 under linux installed, with hotfixes 2000-10-02,
2000-10-11, 2000-12-08, 2000-12-15a and 2000-12-18, zcatalog 2.2.0 and some
selfwritten stuff

does anybody have an idea what goes wrong here?

regards, rob.



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[Zope-dev] ANN: CoreSessionTracking Release 0.4

2001-01-02 Thread Chris McDonough

Hello,

A new development release of the "Core Session Tracking" product (0.4) is
available at http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/CoreSessionTracking

This release makes substantial interface and feature changes including using
an internal mounted storage to provide an "internal" session data container
to each session data manager, autoexpiring session data objects, as well as
vastly improved documentation.

Please check it out!

Thanks,

Chris



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Re: [Zope-dev] dynamic permissions in zope

2001-01-02 Thread Tres Seaver

Steve Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Steve Alexander wrote:
 
 
  I believe the latest LoginManager allows you to specify what roles a
  user has, and compute these each request, based on the details of the
  request.
 
  This is probably more useful than having dynamically computed
  permissions; While I can see how a user's roles will vary according to
  where they are, what they are doing and when they are doing it, I cannot
  see why permissions need to change in that way.
 
  However, you mention that you are new to Zope. ZPatterns can be
  difficult to understand and get into. Other than the creators of
  ZPatterns, I haven't heard of anyone using this computed permissions
  system.
 
 What I forgot to mention: LoginManager is a Zope product that is built
 using ZPatterns, another Zope product.
 
 When you are doing advanced things with LoginManager, you need to know
 how ZPatterns works.
 
 There are a couple of HOWTO documents on using LoginManager. It will be
 only a small change to alter the "userRoles" method that returns the
 roles a user should have to calculate these roles based on other criteria.
 
 See these documents for information about how to set up LoginManager.
 
http://www.zope.org/Members/dlpierson/sqlLogin
http://www.zope.org/Members/jok/SQL_based_LoginManager


The workflow-as-finite-state-machine implementation I am working on
for the PTK has similar requirements:  the permission associated with
a particular method (e.g., 'edit'), depends on the workflow status of
the object (e.g., you need more privileges to edit the object once it
has been "published").

My temporary workaround is to have each method assert the appropriate
permission, as part of creating its audit trail entry.  I plan to
arrange
for the permission-role mapping computation to be handled by the
workflow
tool, as well.

Tres.
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[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-PTK] A subclass from PortalMember of Membership Product andObjectManager won't list contained objectsObjectManager won't list contained objects

2001-01-02 Thread Tres Seaver

Dirksen wrote:

 My site is installed with the Membership system. I want to
 store some photos in each member. So I create a new member
 ZClass, subclassing PortalMember and ObjectManager, and set the
 'manage_main' as the main view. Under the instance of this new
 member ZClass, I can add images, but I can't find them!
 'objectItems' always return None. Yet the image file is there.
 I can edit their properties as in
 '/test/acl_users/jay/photo1/manage_main', but
 '/test/acl_users/jay/manage_main' just won't show a thing!

I'm guessing you have installed the latest tarball of the PTK, and
not the CVS version;  that tarball shipped with a bug in PortalFolder,
which prevented classes which had not registered as "portal content"
from showing up in its objectItems()/objectValues/objectIds() lists.

Please try upgrading to the latest CVS and see if the problem persists 
(http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ has directions for getting the CVS
version).  Alternately, here is the patch for PTKBase/PortalFolder.py:

diff -u -r1.25 -r1.27
--- PortalFolder.py 2000/11/08 22:48:38 1.25
+++ PortalFolder.py 2000/11/21 21:36:17 1.27
@@ -110,9 +110,22 @@
  )
 
 def all_meta_types( self ):
-return ( self.content_meta_types
-   + PortalFolder.inheritedAttribute( 'meta_types' )
-   )
+
+names = {}
+types = []
+
+for cmt in self.content_meta_types:
+names[ cmt[ 'name' ] ] = 1
+types.append( cmt )
+
+superTypes = PortalFolder.inheritedAttribute( 'all_meta_types'
)( self )
+
+for smt in superTypes:
+if not names.has_key( smt[ 'name' ] ):
+names[ smt[ 'name' ] ] = 1
+types.append( smt )
+
+return tuple( types )
 
 def manage_addPortalFolder(self, id, title='',
REQUEST=None):
@@ -130,11 +143,13 @@
 listActions__roles__ = ()
 def listActions( self, info ):
 
-return [ { 'name'   : 'View'
+return ( { 'name'   : 'View'
  , 'url': info.folder_url
  , 'permissions': []
  , 'category'   : 'folder'
- } ]
+ }
+   ,
+   )
 
 _morphSpec__roles__ = ()
 def _morphSpec( self, spec ):


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RE: [Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: PartitionedFileStorage

2001-01-02 Thread Magnus Heino (Rivermen)


 But like I told ChrisW, I think BerkeleyStorage will fill the 
 need that
 PartitionedFileStorage was only partitially addressing.

How is the new BerkeleyStorage product coming along?

/Magnus
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[Zope-dev] Allowed characters in Zope ids

2001-01-02 Thread Dieter Maurer

I recently read RFC 2396 which defines the generic URI syntax
and especially the URL syntax.
I recognized, that

 * Zope forbids many characters in ids (with the error message
   "not allowed in URLs"), that are legal characters
   in URL path segments:

  generally allowed in URL's: -_.!~*'()
 Zope accepted:_. ~

  allowed in path segments:   :@=+$,
 Zope accepted: ,


   This, probably, is not a big problem.
   But, it would be easy to fix.


 * Zope allows space characters in (ObjectManager) id's.
   The space is not a valid URL character.

   Zope forbids spaces in property ids.


 * The URL path segment syntax provides for a parameter section
   suffix where each parameter is introduced with ';'.

   Future Zope versions should probably take care of this
   (recent) extension.

   It might, too, provide a good way to pass values
   in URLs without the pollution of the query string.


Dieter


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Re: [Zope] How to store a dictionary in propert sheet?

2001-01-02 Thread chas

At 12:08 AM 01/02/2001 -0800, Dirksen wrote:
Please give me a hint.

Get the product TinyTablesPlus.

You could create a "lines" property with something like:
key1:value1
key2:value2
Then string split it and create the dictionary just before
you need to use it. But I've found TinyTablesPlus to be 
very very handy.

chas

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Re: [Zope] standard_error_message woes!

2001-01-02 Thread John Chandler

Just catching up on my mail...

 Gaaah!  I'm totally miffed/pissed/confused/sad about this.
 
 I have Zope 2.2.4, and if I go to:
 http://docwhat.gerf.org:9673/fish  (an non-existant object)
 I get the HTTPResponse.py _error_html() function as called by
 notFoundError().

As already mentioned, not all errors (unfortunately) get handled by
standard_error_message - authorisation being the main culprit. In addition, if
an error occurs in a standard_error_message it'll also cause the plain, default
error page to be displayed.

Looks like you're handling a 404 (Not Found) so I'd advise checking your custom
page is correct first as an error there could be causing the custom error
message to be superceded.

All good fun :-/

Hope that's a useful starter...


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Re: [Zope] standard_error_message woes!

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

John Chandler wrote:
 
 As already mentioned, not all errors (unfortunately) get handled by
 standard_error_message - authorisation being the main culprit. In addition, if
 an error occurs in a standard_error_message it'll also cause the plain, default
 error page to be displayed.

Hurm... I would have thought/it would be nice if an error occurs in
standard_error_message then, the next standard_error_message up the
acquisition path would get used, resorting to the hard coded one only if
there isn't anything else...

Is that the case?

cheers,

Chris

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[Zope] [Ann] Squishdot 0.7.3 Released

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Withers

Squishdot 0.7.3 is now available to download from
http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/Squishdot/

The following major changes were made:

   - Fixed TinyTable detection that got broken in 0.7.2.

   - Fixed problems with moderated Squishdot sites and searching.

   - Fixed the behaviour of Squishdot's ZCatalog when Squishdot Sites 
 were moved, copied or renamed.

There were some other small changes and improvements.

If you run into problems, remember Squishdot has a mailing list at
eGroups and a bug collector on SourceForge.

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope] downgrading from 2.1.x from 2.2.0 to use NTuser authentication

2001-01-02 Thread Toby Dickenson

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:15:22 -0800, Erik Myllymaki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I would really like to use the jc/ntuserfolder products but see that they
haven't been brought up to speed with the new 2.2.x security model. Will
downgrading to 2.1.x render my site inaccessible? What will I have to change
security wise so I can use these pages from the old version?

Alternatively, I might take a stab at bring the jc/ntuserfolder up to date
with the new security model - any insight from those in the know
appreciated(am I underestimating that task?).

[You should be able to find several references to this in the
archives.]

Firstly, these old XXXUserFolder products still work acceptably unless
you are using the PTK (or other similar products). The incompatability
is not with Zope, but rather with these other products.

Adding to NUserFolder to keep up with API changes is probably not the
best solution, because the User Folder API has been significantly
extened. A better approach is to use a customisable User Folder
product like LoginManager.

It should be possible to transplant the authentication functions from
NTUserFolder. Ive not tried this, but it looks easy enough.

I hope this helps,

Toby Dickenson
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Re: [Zope] Zope vs. Enhydra

2001-01-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer

On Friday 29 December 2000, at 18 h 52, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 But really, has anyone had any experience with the *other*
 open source Web Application Server, Enhydra?

Why, *the* other? There is only one?

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Re: [Zope] terrible kludge to set password

2001-01-02 Thread Mike Renfro

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:29:24PM -0500, Kyler B. Laird wrote:

 I was unsuccessful at finding any examples of changing a user's
 password from DTML, but I did see a few requests for such
 functionality.

http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/user_settable_passwords

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Re: [Zope] Something missing in Python Methods

2001-01-02 Thread Pierre-Julien Grizel


Hi, Curtis...


You're right for the word "method"... But that's in fact why they are
not called "methods" anymore ! :-))

Don't blame Python Script team : it's a non-trivial problem, both for
security and... feasibility reasons !

I don't know wether it actually works for Python Methods, but you should
try to pass your environment, just as you would for DTML Methods, like
this :

dtml-var "MyPythonMethod (_.None, _)"


And then you should gain access to Zope environment. But remember this
is not elegant and may lead you to security problems.



Regards,


P.-J.


Curtis Maloney wrote:
 
 Greetings
 
 Yeh, yeh.. I know.. I should be using Python Scripts, or whatever... but for
 various reasons, I'm still using 2.1.6...
 
 What I want to know is, why can't Python Methods refer to anything not
 explicitly passed to them?  I don't want to have to make everything that
 invokes the method have to know to pass it half a dozen objects.
 
 Isn't the idea of a method to be executed in the namespace of it's parent?  I
 want my method to be able to access objects in it's own folder...
 
 What am I missing?
 
 Curtis
 
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[Zope] html_quote in python methods?

2001-01-02 Thread Jim Washington

I am using Python Methods a lot now.

Good:
no more dtml-with to get to the objects I need. Yay!
no more worrying about closing blocks. Yay!

OK, when I make a syntax error, there is no help in the traceback.  My
Python is getting better and better as a result.

To give something back, I have a hint that took me a while to figure
out:

print 'td width="33%"%s/td' % (self.thevariable)
will not work.  The first % needs to be escaped like so:

print 'td width="33%%"%s/td' % (self.thevariable)

Now, can I use html_quote in a Python Method?  I am letting people enter
data for redisplay, and I know some Bozo (TM) will somehow put in 
"table"
and break the page.

Can I keep this from happening?  html_quote does not seem to be in the
Python Method namespace.

Regards,

-- Jim Washington

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Re: [Zope] Something missing in Python Methods

2001-01-02 Thread Evan Simpson

From: Curtis Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 What I want to know is, why can't Python Methods refer to anything not
 explicitly passed to them?  I don't want to have to make everything that
 invokes the method have to know to pass it half a dozen objects.

 Isn't the idea of a method to be executed in the namespace of it's parent?
I
 want my method to be able to access objects in it's own folder...

Yep.  You just need to make the first parameter of your method 'self', and
not have any parameters with default values.  For example, method plusX::

  paramsself, x/params
  return len(self.objectIds()) + x

...can be called like 'folder.plusX(3)'.  You can also acquire objects that
your method needs from 'self'.

Cheers,

Evan @ digicool  4-am


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[Zope] manage_users( ) method

2001-01-02 Thread Mohan Baro

Happy new year everyone, all the best.

Question:
Where can I get the specifications for acl_users.manage_users()?

Mohan.


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Subject: [Zope] terrible kludge to set password



I was unsuccessful at finding any examples of
changing a user's password from DTML, but I
did see a few requests for such functionality.
I bumped around quite awhile today trying to
figure out how to do it.  I didn't come up
with a good way, but I did find something that
works.

So, although it's terribly ugly, I thought I'd
throw my example out.  Perhaps it'll save
someone else some time.
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('name', 'k.laird.1')"
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('password', '5678')"
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('confirm', '5678')"
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('roles', ['CRUP_admin'])"
dtml-call "acl_users.manage_users('Change', REQUEST, RESPONSE)"

--kyler

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Re: [Zope] UNEXPECTED: Acquisition.Explicit may acquire implicitly

2001-01-02 Thread Pierre-Julien Grizel

Dieter Maurer wrote:
 
 While trying to understand, what the "bself= self.aq_explicit"
 in "OFS.DTMLMethod.__call__" should do, I detected an unexpected
 behaviour:
 
 usually, this "bself" acquires implicitly from
 its container (though not from its context)
 
 More precisely:
 
 if "bself.aq_self" is itself an implicit acquisition
 wrapper, the "bself.aq_explicit" acquires implicitly
 from "bself.aq_self.aq_parent".
 
 The following Python module demonstrates the behaviour:
 
 ---
 from Acquisition import Implicit
 
 class C(Implicit): pass
 
 b= C()
 b.i= 0
 b.d= C()
 b.h= C()
 
 e_bd= b.d.aq_explicit
 try:
 e_bd.i
 print 'e_bd implicitly acquired i'
 except AttributeError: pass
 
 e_bhd= b.h.d.aq_explicit
 try:
 e_bhd.i
 print 'e_bhd implicitly acquired i'
 except AttributeError: pass
 ---
 
 At first, I thought this were a bug.
 At second thought, however, it appears to be quite
 natural, though unexpected:
 
 if o is self.__of__(parent), then
 getattr(o.aq_explicit,k) = getattr(self,k).__of__(o)
 
 If "self" is an implicit wrapper itself,
 then acquisition may be used to look up "k".
 
 This implies, that the idiom
 
 dtml-if "_.hasattr(o.aq_explicit,)"
 
 cannot be used safely to test, whether "o" has attribute
  itself (rather than acquired it).
 We probably should have a standard function for this kind
 of test.



Mhhh  Something like "dtml-if "_.hasattr(o.aq_base,)"" ?




P.-J.



 
 Dieter
 
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[Zope] Re: Can't import objects ... is transparent folder still the reason ?

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Didier Georgieff wrote:
 
 I have a problem importing objects (Yihaw Folder derived from Object Manager) on
 2.2.4 and Transparent Folder (see traceback at the end).
 
 Some months ago i had some similar problem with the first/removed Transparent
 Folder version.
 Is this same problem still there on Transparent Folder 0.3, or do i have to search 
the
 problem elsewhere for a workaround ?

I wonder if you might consider installing ZDebug, which might give you a
little more info.  Zope 2.2.5b1 also has some modified code that may
affect the results.

BTW the idea of hooking traversal to implement TF didn't work out.  But
the latest version, 0.3, solves the acquisition problems, meaning that
Zope's security policies should work correctly now for transparent
objects.

Shane

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[Zope] dtml-in: total??

2001-01-02 Thread Edwin Martin

Hello,

I'm making a generic DTML-method which shows a bar like
AltaVista does:

[  previous] [1] [2] [3] [4] [next  ]

I need to know the number of rows the database returned.

In appendix A of the Zope book, I see I can use total-name etc.

How can I get the total number of rows, independent of
column names?

Can I do it without rewriting the SQL-queries?

Bye,
Edwin Martin.

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Re: [Zope] Editing the z2.py File

2001-01-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer

On Friday 22 December 2000, at 18 h 56, the keyboard of Michael Bernstein 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Umm, even if *everything* else fails, you can still manually
 truncate the Data.fs file to remove the last transaction

Well, this file is not human-readable so I do not really see how to truncate it 
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Re: [Zope] Zope vs. Enhydra

2001-01-02 Thread Luciano Ramalho

You may be interested to know that the HiperDOM project, currently in
development by DC and my company, aims ot bring to Zope a template
system similar to the XMLC of Enhydra. Check it out:

http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/HiperDom

In my opinion, you really can't compare Enhydra with Zope. Enhydra is
exclusively a programmers tool. Zope, through it's friendly UI, enables
you to delegate many maintenance activities to end-users, where they
belong.

Regards,

Luciano Ramalho
Hiperlogica
Sao Paulo - Brazil

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[Zope] Re: decline description (KMM493282C0KM)

2001-01-02 Thread Download.com Support

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[Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Steve McMahon

I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-var
prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
the "properties" tab.

I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then
a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
another document, then setting the selection value
to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
source_doc.lines_prop."

Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
to good documentation!
_
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Re: [Zope] html_quote in python methods?

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

Can you do an import in python methods? Still have to install and play with
them. If so you can:

from DT_Util import html_quote

Theres probably a better way... as per DT_var.py

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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 6:32 AM
Subject: [Zope] html_quote in python methods?


 I am using Python Methods a lot now.

 Good:
 no more dtml-with to get to the objects I need. Yay!
 no more worrying about closing blocks. Yay!

 OK, when I make a syntax error, there is no help in the traceback.  My
 Python is getting better and better as a result.

 To give something back, I have a hint that took me a while to figure
 out:

 print 'td width="33%"%s/td' % (self.thevariable)
 will not work.  The first % needs to be escaped like so:

 print 'td width="33%%"%s/td' % (self.thevariable)

 Now, can I use html_quote in a Python Method?  I am letting people enter
 data for redisplay, and I know some Bozo (TM) will somehow put in
 "table"
 and break the page.

 Can I keep this from happening?  html_quote does not seem to be in the
 Python Method namespace.

 Regards,

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Re: [Zope] Sendmail examples

2001-01-02 Thread Marcus Mendes

steve smith wrote:
 
 Anyone have any good, real-world examples using DTML-Sendmail tags? Would
 especially appreciate examples integrating SQL queries.
 
 Ta!
 
 Steve
 
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Hello,

I've an example here. I'm using sql to find and check passwd/user. If
this sql_check_passwd is true, i'll find in another table, the user's
e_mail. Then i'll send an e-mail for him.

Here is:


  dtml-in sql_check_passwd
 dtml-in sql_find_e_mail  
   dtml-if "code == _['sequence-item'].code_table" 

 
dtml-sendmail mailhost=MailHost
to: dtml-var e_mail
from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: dtml-var subject

- here, you put the message

/dtml-sendmail
scriptalert("Your message was send successfully")/script
br

  
/dtml-if cod_pesq 

  /dtml-in sql_find_e_email

dtml-else
  scriptalert("User/Passwd incorrect.")/script
/dtml-in sql_check_passwd

[]'s


Marcus Mendes

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Re: [Zope] CZAN Anyone?

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

 Lots of reasons, mainly motivated by laziness^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H me not
 having the time to keep up with everything, I want to be informed
 automatically :)

 Cya
 Jonathan

:) laziness is good, otherwise people would just keep doing things the hard
way...


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Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

Im not sure what you mean by "hide it from the user", it all depends upon
the rights you give your user.

If I create a lines property on my root folder called selection_list, I can
then in folder /test/ make a property test_selection, type selection, value
selection_list. The problem you
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From: "Steve McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs


 I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
 for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-var
 prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
 the "properties" tab.

 I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
 able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
 2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then
 a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
 lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
 another document, then setting the selection value
 to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
 source_doc.lines_prop."

 Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
 to good documentation!
 _
 Steve McMahon, SunType Publishing Systems
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

 Im not sure what you mean by "hide it from the user", it all depends upon
 the rights you give your user.

 If I create a lines property on my root folder called selection_list, I
can
 then in folder /test/ make a property test_selection, type selection,
value
 selection_list. The problem you

may have is that you are trying to put it on another document, rather than
on a folder in the acquistion path.

 --
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   ActiveState.


 - Original Message -
 From: "Steve McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:36 AM
 Subject: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs


  I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
  for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-var
  prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
  the "properties" tab.
 
  I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
  able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
  2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then
  a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
  lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
  another document, then setting the selection value
  to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
  source_doc.lines_prop."
 
  Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
  to good documentation!
  _
  Steve McMahon, SunType Publishing Systems
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  voice  fax: (530) 757-7682
  http://www.suntype.com
 
 
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Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Steve McMahon

At 10:08 AM 1/2/01, Andy McKay wrote:
  Im not sure what you mean by "hide it from the user", it all depends upon
  the rights you give your user.

In this case, I just meant that it shouldn't appear in the properties list 
for the particular page. I want to give the editor of the particular page's 
properties the ability to make a selection, but not the ability to change 
the list of possible selections.

  If I create a lines property on my root folder called selection_list, I
can
  then in folder /test/ make a property test_selection, type selection,
value
  selection_list. The problem you
may have is that you are trying to put it on another document, rather than
on a folder in the acquistion path.

You're diagnosis is dead-on. I added my lines property to the containing 
folder and it worked perfectly. I'm still mystified, though, as to why I 
couldn't put the lines property in another document in the same folder and 
use the notation 'doc_id.lines_id' to refer to the lines property in the 
other document.

Thanks, Steve



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ActiveState.
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: "Steve McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:36 AM
  Subject: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs
 
 
   I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
   for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-var
   prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
   the "properties" tab.
  
   I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
   able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
   2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then
   a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
   lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
   another document, then setting the selection value
   to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
   source_doc.lines_prop."
  
   Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
   to good documentation!
   _
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   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   voice  fax: (530) 757-7682
   http://www.suntype.com
  
  
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Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

Because acquistion can't find it. It can find all the objects in the folder
and all the properties on a folder, but it doesn't go into each object and
look at its properties...

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From: "Steve McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs


 At 10:08 AM 1/2/01, Andy McKay wrote:
   Im not sure what you mean by "hide it from the user", it all depends
upon
   the rights you give your user.

 In this case, I just meant that it shouldn't appear in the properties list
 for the particular page. I want to give the editor of the particular
page's
 properties the ability to make a selection, but not the ability to change
 the list of possible selections.

   If I create a lines property on my root folder called selection_list,
I
 can
   then in folder /test/ make a property test_selection, type selection,
 value
   selection_list. The problem you
 may have is that you are trying to put it on another document, rather
than
 on a folder in the acquistion path.

 You're diagnosis is dead-on. I added my lines property to the containing
 folder and it worked perfectly. I'm still mystified, though, as to why I
 couldn't put the lines property in another document in the same folder and
 use the notation 'doc_id.lines_id' to refer to the lines property in the
 other document.

 Thanks, Steve



   --
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 ActiveState.
  
  
   - Original Message -
   From: "Steve McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:36 AM
   Subject: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs
  
  
I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-va
r
prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
the "properties" tab.
   
I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property,
then
a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
another document, then setting the selection value
to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
source_doc.lines_prop."
   
Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
to good documentation!
_
Steve McMahon, SunType Publishing Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
voice  fax: (530) 757-7682
http://www.suntype.com
   
   
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Re: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs

2001-01-02 Thread Tim Cook

Steve McMahon wrote:
 
 I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties
 for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using dtml-var
 prop_name in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on
 the "properties" tab.
 
 I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be
 able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice
 2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then
 a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the
 lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in
 another document, then setting the selection value
 to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable
 source_doc.lines_prop."
 
 Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me
 to good documentation!


In order to give users a set of configurable options throughout
the application this is what I did.

In the root folder of the application I defined a lines type
property for each option. For example, telephone number types
(home, work, cell etc.) 

The selection looks like this:
trtdPhone Type: /tdtd
SELECT name="phone_type"
  dtml-in valid_phone_types
OPTION value="dtml-var sequence-item"dtml-var
sequence-item/OPTION
   /dtml-in
/SELECT
/td/tr

The DTML Method valid_phone_types just returns a list of what it
found in the phone_types property:

dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('the_list', [])"
  dtml-in phone_types
 dtml-let current_item=sequence-item
   dtml-call expr="the_list.append(current_item)"
 /dtml-let
   /dtml-in
dtml-return the_list





This is the form entry for the user to edit the lines property.
Note it is in a table with others but the key thing to look at is
the way the line break is in the middle of the 'dtml-var'. If you
don't do this you will end up with extra/empty lines in your
property.

tr
td valign="middle"bPhone Types:/b/td

tdtextarea name="phone_types:lines" rows="10" cols="30" 
dtml-in phone_typesdtml-let cur_item=sequence-itemdtml-var 
"_.string.strip(cur_item)"
/dtml-let/dtml-in
/textarea
/td
/tr


HTH,

-- Tim Cook, President --
Free Practice Management,Inc. | http://www.FreePM.com
Office: (901) 884-4126
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Re: [Zope] CZAN Anyone?

2001-01-02 Thread Andy McKay

I did actually start toying with this on the holidays for the hell of it.
But then got bored and started relaxing instead. Basically my first task was
putting basic product info in a more friendly xml format...
http://zope.agmweb.ca/Zope/products

--
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  ActiveState.


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  Lots of reasons, mainly motivated by laziness^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H me not
  having the time to keep up with everything, I want to be informed
  automatically :)
 
  Cya
  Jonathan

 :) laziness is good, otherwise people would just keep doing things the
hard
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[Zope] HELP re: MailHost and Hotfix 2000_-12-08

2001-01-02 Thread Norman Khine

Hello,
I am having difficulty in setting up the MailHost on the Zope Server.
Every time I try I get an error:

Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

Debugging Notice

Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.
Cannot locate object at: zope/manage_addProduct/MailHost/manage_addMailHost

I am having the same problem as a post I found on the eGroups list

Hello,

after the installation of the 12-08 fix you can't add MailHost anymore. I
see
that the product use a "legacy" method. Any solution?

Thank you in advance.

--
Best regards,
 Salvatore Sciacco

I too have installed this Hotfix_2000-12-08

Thanks for all your help

Norman


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Re: [Zope] dtml-in: total??

2001-01-02 Thread Jonothan Farr

dtml-var sequence-length

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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: [Zope] dtml-in: total??


 Hello,
 
 I'm making a generic DTML-method which shows a bar like
 AltaVista does:
 
 [  previous] [1] [2] [3] [4] [next  ]
 
 I need to know the number of rows the database returned.
 
 In appendix A of the Zope book, I see I can use total-name etc.
 
 How can I get the total number of rows, independent of
 column names?
 
 Can I do it without rewriting the SQL-queries?
 
 Bye,
 Edwin Martin.
 
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 it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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[Zope] Problem installing zope products

2001-01-02 Thread Darrin Nova

Hello,

I am having problems installing zope products (*.zexp files) using the import 
function.

I have tried several products including TimeTracker-0.0.3.zexp, 
EvTracker.zexp, ZPhotoAlbum-1.0.zexp and others. I get the same error when 
trying to install these three.

For example with Time Tracker I get...

The object TimeTracker does not support this operation
   
Traceback (innermost last):
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 222, in 
publish_module
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in 
publish
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in 
zpublisher_exception_hook
(Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in 
publish
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in 
mapply
(Object: manage_importObject)
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in 
call_object
(Object: manage_importObject)
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 537, in 
manage_importObject
(Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
  File /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/OFS/CopySupport.py, line 406, in 
_verifyObjectPaste
(Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
Copy Error: (see above)


I am running zope 2.2.4 on Debian Linux (Potato). I installed this from source 
instead of from the .deb in the /opt/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/ directory as you can 
see from the error mesages.

I can't understand why these errors occur. The scripts under zope are all 
owned by the user nobody.

Some help or guidance would be greatly appreciated since these products seem 
quite powerfull and usefull.

Thanks.

Darrin


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Re: [Zope] manage_users( ) method

2001-01-02 Thread Aleksander Salwa

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mohan Baro wrote:
 Where can I get the specifications for acl_users.manage_users()?

I know it's not the best answer, but you can read the
source: ZOPE_DIR/lib/python/AccessControl/User.py


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Re: [Zope] HELP re: MailHost and Hotfix 2000_-12-08

2001-01-02 Thread Shane Hathaway

Norman Khine wrote:
 
 Hello,
 I am having difficulty in setting up the MailHost on the Zope Server.
 Every time I try I get an error:
 
 Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
 
 Debugging Notice
 
 Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.
 Cannot locate object at: zope/manage_addProduct/MailHost/manage_addMailHost
 
 I am having the same problem as a post I found on the eGroups list

Two solutions:

1) Temporarily move Hotfix_2000-12-08 to a different place on your
system, restart Zope, create the MailHost, move the product back, and
restart again.

2) Upgrade to Zope 2.2.5b1.

Shane

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[Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Bowyer, Alex

Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I
am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow
project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular
skills or projects.

I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database
linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text
files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I
assume it can't search Word format directly?).

Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on
how to index/search a load of documents in Zope?

Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Alex

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RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread sean . upton

I've been thinking about doing this. I wonder if there are any C filter
libraries that read word docs. The word 2000 docs are supposedly non-binary,
so you could proabaly write a parser of sorts in python or C/Lex; I used to
write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these days
I will figure out how to extend python with C and do this.  I'm thinking
about doing this type of thing in order to make PDFs searchable (as well as
IPTC catopn data in JPG files).

Perhaps in the mean time, one could set up a macro in normal.dat template
file that ftps the doc to zope on every save and updates properties
containing the full text for the document.  Sort of kludgy, but I assume it
would work, if you were familiar with VBA coding, and had access to a http
client component.

Doing it this way would make it so you would likely have to manually reindex
the catalog.  There might be a way around that though, to automate it...

Sean

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-Original Message-
From: Bowyer, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 2:45 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?


Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I
am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow
project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular
skills or projects.

I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database
linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text
files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I
assume it can't search Word format directly?).

Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on
how to index/search a load of documents in Zope?

Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Alex

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IT Consultant, Logica Australasia
Tel: +61 2 9202 8130
Fax: +61 2 9922 7466
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.logica.com.au/
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[Zope] Zope Projects in NL/Europe?

2001-01-02 Thread Jonathan

Hi all,

Just wondering: are there any Zope projects are available in the
Netherlands/Benelux/Europe? We did one last year but they seem hard to
find. Are there commercial projects available or is Zope mostly used on
internal projects? Is there any demand for Zope expertise around here?

Reason I'm asking is that I'd love to continue working with Zope, but
it's hard to justify in a company focused on Microsoft and Oracle,
especially if there is no money to be made. I can learn Perl on company
time and Linux is our internet server OS of choice, but JSP/Java and
.NET (the latter is not that bad, uses SOAP/XML-RPC) is next if we don't
find a use for our Zope expertise.

Thnx
Jonathan


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[Zope] Logica bruker Zope (...)

2001-01-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen

Se her dah..

-Morten

[Alex Bowyer]
| Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I
| am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow
| project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular
| skills or projects.
| 
| I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database
| linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text
| files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I
| assume it can't search Word format directly?).
| 
| Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on
| how to index/search a load of documents in Zope?
| 
| Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome.
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Alex
| 
| ==
| Alex Bowyer
| IT Consultant, Logica Australasia
| Tel: +61 2 9202 8130
| Fax: +61 2 9922 7466
| E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| WWW: http://www.logica.com.au/
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[Zope] ANN: CoreSessionTracking Release 0.4

2001-01-02 Thread Chris McDonough

Hello,

A new development release of the "Core Session Tracking" product (0.4) is
available at http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/CoreSessionTracking

This release makes substantial interface and feature changes including using
an internal mounted storage to provide an "internal" session data container
to each session data manager, autoexpiring session data objects, as well as
vastly improved documentation.

Please check it out!

Thanks,

Chris



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Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Jonothan Farr

I used to
 write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these days
 I will figure out how to extend python with C and do this.  

Here's one that's written entirely in Python:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/

I've seen a couple of other implementations out there.

--jfarr



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Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Phil Harris

Alex,

If your running Zope on Win32 you could use COM to snatch the text fairly 
easily and quickly.

The COM interface to Word is well documented in the help files (if they're 
not installed, you'll find them on the CD).

I used this technique to create XML from Word in the past and it works (was 
too slow for my needs tho, YMMV)

hth

Phil
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On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Bowyer, Alex wrote:
 Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I
 am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow
 project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular
 skills or projects.

 I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database
 linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text
 files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I
 assume it can't search Word format directly?).

 Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on
 how to index/search a load of documents in Zope?

 Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome.

 Thanks,

 Alex

 ==
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 IT Consultant, Logica Australasia
 Tel: +61 2 9202 8130
 Fax: +61 2 9922 7466
 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 WWW: http://www.logica.com.au/
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RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread sean . upton

Cool.  I'll have to take a look at this.  Does anyone know if there is any
effort aimed at writing document filters for use with Zope?  A lot of
commercial products used for knowledge management (like NextPage
LivePublish, some Intranet search engines, etc) already have features like
this, and I would think that a project for document filters would be a good
idea, if something like this doesn't already exist.

Possible things that could be filtered for input:
- The IPTC header data from a JPG/TIF image - comtains a few things like the
caption (the same one that you can edit in photoshop) - This would be a good
addition to various Image classes.
- Office documents (word, excel, powerpoint, wordperfect, staroffice, etc)
- PDF and Postscript documents
- Illustration files (Illustrator, CorelDraw)

The value of such filters to Zope for use in knowledge-management and
digital asset management would be great; I'm wondering if anyone is working
on anything like this?

Sean

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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?


I used to
 write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these
days
 I will figure out how to extend python with C and do this.  

Here's one that's written entirely in Python:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/

I've seen a couple of other implementations out there.

--jfarr


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[Zope] browser window as canvas for configurable objects?

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Sidebotham

I'm new to zope, so maybe these questions are naive.

I have several objects that I want to display on my browser screen
simultaneously. Each object lives in its own zope directory, and I can
trivially include them in a bigger canvas using a table and dtml-with
and dtml-var. So far so good.

Each of the sub objects can put up its own links for configuration,
etc. Some of the sub objects might be pageable (e.g. have links to next
10 items, previous 10), or they might be configurable (you could go to
a screen to establish filtering parameters for that object).

What I'm looking for is the simplest possible effective way to manage
these links so that after the customization operation or the next page
oeration, or whatever is handled, the original page is displayed (and
of course any affected objects are updated). In some cases there may be
a side-excursion made before the page is re-displayed (e.g. for "next
10 items", there is no side excursion), for "update filtering
parameters" or update object, a separate form will be brought up).

I should mention that the same objects may appear in the same or
different forms on different pages, i.e. there isn't just one main
page.

Some alternatives I can see are:

1. Use javascript, and do a history.go(-1) or -2, as the case may be to
go back to the original page. Disadvantage: requires an extra
round-trip, probably would have to make sure page wasn't cached, may
break user's model of how navigation works (if he made a mistake in the
configuration, he'd have to go forward, rather than backward, to
retrieve the configuration form, for example).

2. Use a pop-up window. Redraw the original when done. Advantage: by
labelling the main window "main" or whatever, it's easy for unrelated
objects to "return" to the main application by (1) causing "main" to
reload and (2) deleting their own window.

3. Use frames. Seems overly complex. But maybe this is just a general
aversion to hacking to much html.

4. Use existing zope infrastructure to finesse this. I'm not sure how
to do this--my main confusion centers around how much state to I have
to preserve (and where?) to re-create exactly the same request that I
had at a previous level--in a totally generic fashion.

5. Build some sort of Product that represents this model directly. This
seems the most promising, if not the easiest. Can someone point me to
any prior art on this, or offer any suggestions?

It seems to me that since zope is supposed to be about "object
publishing", then this application should (ideally) be dead-easy. But
at the moment I'm scratching my head.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

P.S. Does anyone else think this facility would be useful?

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Re: [Zope] Logica bruker Zope (...)

2001-01-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen

[Morten W. Petersen]

| Se her dah..

Sorry guys.

-Morten

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Re: [Zope] Zope Projects in NL/Europe?

2001-01-02 Thread Henny van der Linde

Hi,

From the Netherlands,

- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Zope Mailinglist" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:43 AM
Subject: [Zope] Zope Projects in NL/Europe?


 Just wondering: are there any Zope projects are available in the
 Netherlands/Benelux/Europe?

What do you mean by 'available'?

 We did one last year but they seem hard to
 find.

What do you mean by 'hard to find' ? Where did you look?
I'ts a matter of analyzing your clients needs/wishes etc. and matching the
outcome of this process with the right tools, platform etc.
When in comes down to interactive, database driven web applications in
combination with decentralized content management we think Zope is the best
platform around
(btw it's our firm believe that these kind of websites will be very much in
demand, so there is money to be made). It's a matter of convincing the
client. Basically your client has to find Zope with your aid.

 Are there commercial projects available or is Zope mostly used on
 internal projects?

I guess you mean projects developed inhouse versus outhouse. It's my
impression that most Zope projects are at this moment developed inhouse
(BeNeLux). That doesn't mean that there isn't room for commercial
enterprises. It has more to do with 'playing safe', and lack of creativity
from the commercial perspective.

 Is there any demand for Zope expertise around here?

You have to create the demand (based on ... see above).

 Reason I'm asking is that I'd love to continue working with Zope, but
 it's hard to justify in a company focused on Microsoft and Oracle,
 especially if there is no money to be made.

I think there is (lots of) money to make, but if your company has no
strategy for Zope (only a, short sighted, strategy based, only on the major
brand names) you are going nowhere with your Zope expertise within your
company. Btw, if you have Zope knowledge you know that  Zope has no problems
with Microsoft and Oracle.

I can learn Perl on company
 time and Linux is our internet server OS of choice, but JSP/Java and
 .NET (the latter is not that bad, uses SOAP/XML-RPC) is next if we don't
 find a use for our Zope expertise.

(Repeat myself) What did you do to find it? Btw Zope can be integrated with
JSP/Java, SOAP/XML-RPC and Perl.

My background,
I''m co-president/owner of a Dutch based ICT consultancy firm (founded in
1987). Our strategy is now focussed on Zope webapplications based on our
'crystal ball' (content management is the keyword) and input from our
clients.
Besides that I'm one of the keymembers of a small team that developes
webapplications, with Zope, for the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Leiden
University. Part of this system is an advanced webbased learning system.



 Thnx
 Jonathan


regards,

Henny van der Linde



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[Zope] Core Session Tracking kudos namespaces

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Sidebotham

1. The Core Session Tracking looks like it will be really helpful. I AM
BLOWN AWAY BY THE QUALITY OF THE DOCUMENTATION. Congratulations for
making really readable, easy to use installation and use instructions.
Part of the reason I'm so blown away, of course, is that the quality of
this documentation is so very much superior to most of the existing
documentation. The author obviously put himself in the position of
someone who didn't know anything about the topic, and wrote the
documentation to satisfy this person (i.e. me). Thanks!

2. Question. The interface to the session data object, requiring
set/get calls to get key/value pairs seems a little inconsistent with
the very simple existing interfaces for other zope namespaces. As a
newbie, I admit to being very confused about namespaces in zope, and
the GOOD THING about the core session tracking is that it is very clear
that you're accessing a variable from that scope. There's no way you
can accidently acquire something else. On the other hand, the ability
to access the session variables with simple variable references seems
like it would be a win (especially if they were safely qualified by the
session object). I really just want to do something like
"SESSION.varname". Is this something that can be wrapped on top of the
existing interface?

Bob Sidebotham
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Re: [Zope] Core Session Tracking kudos namespaces

2001-01-02 Thread Chris McDonough

 1. The Core Session Tracking looks like it will be really helpful. I AM
 BLOWN AWAY BY THE QUALITY OF THE DOCUMENTATION. Congratulations for
 making really readable, easy to use installation and use instructions.
 Part of the reason I'm so blown away, of course, is that the quality of
 this documentation is so very much superior to most of the existing
 documentation. The author obviously put himself in the position of
 someone who didn't know anything about the topic, and wrote the
 documentation to satisfy this person (i.e. me). Thanks!

Thanks for the kudos!

 2. Question. The interface to the session data object, requiring
 set/get calls to get key/value pairs seems a little inconsistent with
 the very simple existing interfaces for other zope namespaces. As a
 newbie, I admit to being very confused about namespaces in zope, and
 the GOOD THING about the core session tracking is that it is very clear
 that you're accessing a variable from that scope. There's no way you
 can accidently acquire something else. On the other hand, the ability
 to access the session variables with simple variable references seems
 like it would be a win (especially if they were safely qualified by the
 session object). I really just want to do something like
 "SESSION.varname". Is this something that can be wrapped on top of the
 existing interface?

Yes.  I will think about this, because I'm not very happy about the current
data object interface.  It definitely needs work.

I had orignally intended to use a straight mapping (dictionary) interface,
but we've got a lot of DTML code that looks like "_[[['']]]" already, so I
didn't want to perpetuate the problem by encouraging __getitem__ and
__setitem__ access in DTML.  :-)  That's why you can't do SESSION['varname']
right now, and instead you need to use SESSION.get('varname').  This lends
itself better to things like:

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-with getSessionData
  dtml-var "get('a')"
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

  which potentially has the same rhythm as

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-with getSessionData
  dtml-call "set('a', 'b')"
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

  as opposed to the following combination

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-let SESSION=getSessionData
  dtml-var "SESSION['a']"
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

  vs

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-let SESSION=getSessionData
  dtml-call "SESSION.set('a', 'b')"
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

The enforced parity in the former set of DTML snippets between get and set
methods makes the data object a little easier to explain to non-Python
people.  And it's easier to explain to Python people that the data object
isn't a mapping than to explain to non-Python people what a mapping is in
the first place and how and why they need to do all the funny quoting and
bracketing.  :-)

The __getattr__ interface for retrieval and .set() for insertion might work
better, however, because it doesn't require quoting at all.  It still has
the problem that you may want to use an indirect variable name, in which
case you'd need to use something like "_.getattr(sessiondataobject, aname)",
which is just as evil.  You also can't do assignments in DTML, so you'd
still need a 'set' method.

A potential rhythm, however, might look like:

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-with getSessionData
  dtml-call "set('a', 'b')"
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

   and

  dtml-with sessionmanager
dtml-with getSessionData
  dtml-var a
/dtml-with
  /dtml-with

I sorta like it the original way now that I've written that down.  :-)  It's
easier to explain, AFAICS.



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Re: [Zope] Core Session Tracking kudos namespaces

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Sidebotham

The advantage of the last form (below), is that you can use
acquisition, and don't need to know whether the variable came from the
session or from elsewhere. If you *really* want it to come from the
session only, you can always add the "only" tag to the dtml-with call.

In conjunction with this, it might be nice to have a special call that
sets the variable, if defined by acquisition, in the session. Something
like dtml-call "sessionmanager.getSessionData.set('a')" would set "a"
to the acquired value for "a", leave it undefined if not defined, and
not change it if it was not acquirable elsewhere (the acquired value
would take precedence over the session value).

Even better would be if I could just say dtml-call
"SESSION.set('a')".

Bob

--- Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 A potential rhythm, however, might look like:
 
   dtml-with sessionmanager
 dtml-with getSessionData
   dtml-call "set('a', 'b')"
 /dtml-with
   /dtml-with
 
and
 
   dtml-with sessionmanager
 dtml-with getSessionData
   dtml-var a
 /dtml-with
   /dtml-with
 
 I sorta like it the original way now that I've written that down. 
 :-)  It's
 easier to explain, AFAICS.
 
 


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Re: [Zope] Core Session Tracking kudos namespaces

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Sidebotham

And as I've just figured out by trying to convert some stuff to
sessions, a not unconsequential result of allowing session variables to
be acquired (if only for read purposes), is that existing code is
easier to adapt. I might now call a script without burying form
variables or parameters in the URL. If I use implicit acquisition
(where the posted form data and URL data is read FIRST), then I can
gracefully upgrade these scripts without changing anything. With the
current scheme I have to go and search out all occurences of variables
like "customer_id" and change them to session syntax.

So I guess I'm arguing that the read case and write cases are
fundamentally different, that you basically want to support the
introduction of session variables into the namespace for read purposes
through acquisition, and it's (marginally) OK if read/write don't share
the same syntax.

Bob

Bob Sidebotham wrote:
 The advantage of the last form (below), is that you can use
 acquisition, and don't need to know whether the variable came from
the
 session or from elsewhere. If you *really* want it to come from the
 session only, you can always add the "only" tag to the dtml-with call.

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