Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
When we refactored the Zope 3 pubisher to work more closely with WSGI,
we decided to remove the response.write method. We should have written
a proposal for this, but we failed to do so. Over the last few weeks
there has been much discussion of this in which I asserted many times
that I didn't think any applications outside of Zope 3 itself used this
method. No one has disagreed with me. I want to double check this.
Does anyone have any Zope 3 applications that are using response.write?
Assuming that the answer is "no" (or that no one answers today), I'm
going to
more clearly document how to return long output and I'm going to add a
method that generates a hopefully helpful error.
Note that we may add this method (or something like it) back in the future
to support chunked streaming output,
Alas, I just realized from Adam Summer's posting to zope3-users two days
ago
(http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-December/001746.html)
that my book is using response.write(). I had totally forgotten about
it, though it isn't much of a problem. The book is about Zope X3 3.0 and
can't make guarantees about future versions. Just to be safe I've added
an entry to my errata page:
page 204, Example 12.24, line 17: Using the ``write()`` method of
HTTP-based responses does not provide a performance advantage in
Zope X3 3.0 and 3.1 and is not supported anymore in Zope 3.2 and
higher. To effectively return large data without holding it in
memory, it is now recommended to create a temporary file and return
that::
import tempfile
f = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
f.write(pdf.data)
return f
This will only work with Zope 3.2 and higher.
Yeah, this is definately a problem. I don't want to make it
hard for people who bought the book. I'd also rather not delay the
release any more. Hopefully, the new error message in 3.2 will
make this clearer.
Jim
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