On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:49:55 -0000, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
So, I'm serving static content like Apache, I'm interpreting file
types like Apache and I'm using .htaccess files like Apache. But I'm
using Zope.
Why am I not just using Apache?
Would I be learning this beast that is Zope?
The content is not necessarily static. If you drop a .zpt file in the
directory, and some ZCML has mapped .zpt to PageTemplateFile, the result
is generated on the fly. It's a rapid prototyping tool and a gentle
entry into the world of Zope. You're using Zope because your friends
recommended it or it's because you already know it. You believe that
the prototype can evolve fairly easily into a Python package, if you
later need it.
If you have friends who recommend Zope, you are probably already quite
familiar with Zope ;-)
But ... if this is about offering an alternative for the
content/run-time-configuration-space ZODB, why would you encourage putting
ZPTs and Python scripts there? Isn't that a step back to the Zope 2 days,
where content and logic got intermixed in the same database?
Part 3: One kind of file we can put in the web root serves as a
gateway into an object database.
Or use RewriteRules?
RewriteRules only work externally. One possible use of a .zodb file is
to mount a catalog or an object store, which requires an internal
reference.
P.S. I would be more excited if there was a similarly integrated story
for RDBMS.
Are you saying you want to put code and templates in an RDBMS, that you
want content to be stored in an RDBMS, or that you want to talk to an
RDBMS without putting SQL scripts in an OODBMS?
No, not at all. But I don't to put code or templates in the ZODB either, I
want to put them in python modules. I would like the option of storing my
content in an RDBMS more transparently, possibly via some ORM mapping like
SQLAlchemy so that it's transparent to me as the python developer. I have
no idea if it's technically feasible, but imagine how great it would be if
deriving form Persistent and configuring that particular class via some
ZCML directive as being RDMBS-stored with a given OR mapping (to map my
fields to a particular datbase schema, much like Hibernate does in the
Java world) simply made that class be stored in the RDBMS.
And I'd like to make it easier to talk to RDBMS' in Zope, although I think
libraries like SQLOS or SQLAlchemy sound like nicer paths to that end as
opposed to having Zope invent something of its own (not that I've used
either, of course, I've only read a bit). Anyway, didn't mean to hijack
your thread.
However, a similar story for on-filesystem content storage would be
interesting, although that would require some sort of marshalling
technology (storing python pickles in files is not that interesting, since
it's still a black box). I suppose the WebDAV file representations of
objects that exist today would work just as well on the filesystem, though.
Martin
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