March 1999 - Zope-Dev

RE: [Zope-dev] BoboPOS component
by Paul Everitt 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Jeff wrote: > I've noticed on the components page that ZPublisher and > ZTemplates are available, but no BoboPOS. I can slice > BoboPOS out of the normal Zope source distribution, but > was curious if there was a reason not to release it as > a component. The reason? Oversight. I'd like to see the 1.11 release establish a pattern where there are separate downloads for Python (the bulk of the binary release is Python) and a number of separate packages including the database. > Even more trivially: What is the new 'Z' nomenclature > for the persistent store? ZPOS? ZBase? ZPersist? I'd also like to settle on the final name for the database. Choices are: a. ZDB b. ZBase c. ??? Comments? --Paul

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Re: [Zope-dev] BoboPOS component
by Simon Michael 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Michael Bernstein <mbernstein(a)profitscape.net> writes: > How about ZOD (you know - one of the evil kryptonians in Superman:The > Movie - played by Terence Stamp) for Z Object Database? Actually I like this. It has that certain.. je ne sais quoi that the others don't.

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Re: [Zope-dev] BoboPOS component
by Simon Michael 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Paul Everitt <Paul(a)digicool.com> writes: > a. ZDB > b. ZBase > c. ??? > > Comments? I think ZDB identifies what it is, more clearly than zbase or zstore.

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RE: [Zope-dev] BoboPOS component
by Kevin Dangoor 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

---Paul Everitt <Paul(a)digicool.com> wrote: > Jeff wrote: > > Even more trivially: What is the new 'Z' nomenclature > > for the persistent store? ZPOS? ZBase? ZPersist? > > I'd also like to settle on the final name for the database. Choices > are: > > a. ZDB > b. ZBase > c. ??? ZBase sounds too much like "dBase". I've tended to call it the Zope ODB. You could call it Z POS, but people might think it's a point of sale system. ZDB or ZODB is probably good, unless someone comes up with a great marketing-friendly term (Z Whizzo!). Kevin _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Who did Pil integration? How's that Calendar coming along?
by Brad Clements 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Yes, I'm begging for code. I now need to create a new image class called "photo" with some new properties, and I'd like to be able to generate thumbnails on-the-fly and cache them (with an automatic expiry from Bobo/ZDB). Someone on this list said they'd gotten Pil integrated with Zope, can you point me towards some hints? Also, two months ago someone showed a possible Calendar layout. I'm looking for something to do an event calendar for aviation events. What I'd like to do is add vCalendar support so a person could automatically download a whole bunch of events to their desktop if they desire. If I had a some kind of calendar code to start with, I could get vCalendar added much quicker.. Give me a boost, and I'll give it back to Z community.. ;-) Brad Clements, bkc(a)murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com ICQ: 14856937

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Security tab in home grown Product
by James A. Hillyerd 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

I have made my first Product (a little message wall that people can post colored messages to), but I am having some trouble with the Security tab. When I press the tab, I get a Permissions screen that looks as it should, but when I click the change button (no matter what permissions I change, if any), I get the following error: Sorry, an error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 877, in publish_module File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 590, in publish (Info: /wall/manage_changePermissions) File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/Role.py, line 194, in manage_changePermissions (Object: RoleManager) File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/Permission.py, line 166, in setRoles AttributeError: manage_main I don't doubt that I am causing this, but since it isn't occuring in my code, I don't know how to go about finding the source of the problem. Thanks for any help you can give. -james [] James A. Hillyerd <jamesh(a)altavista.net> Java Developer [] HyperGlyphics: http://www.hyperglyphics.com/ [] GPG Public Key Fingerprint for 1024D/9F956CDE (Expires 2000-02-01): [] C86F B073 92DF 1E24 EF0B 0118 6061 0FEC 9F95 6CDE

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Uploading products through Zope
by Scott Robertson 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

Any body have a clue as to what kind of security problems might be encountered if we were to give users the ability to upload/install Products through Zope? We were thinking about writing an External Method that would take a tgz file and uncompress it under /Products/. Curently we let users install their own products through ftp but it would be one less service we would have to configure and run if we gave them that abillity. The only issue I can think of is that only certain accounts should be allowed to upload or replace products. --------------------------------------------------- - Scott Robertson Phone: 714.972.2299 - - CodeIt Computing Fax: 714.972.2399 - - http://codeit.com - ---------------------------------------------------

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RE: [Zope-dev] Want to test if User Equal to a Property
by Shaw, Howard 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

I would expect that you need the single quotes. When you say _[object] you are looking up the result of object. That is, if object is a property containing the string 'test' then _[object] is identical to _['test']. If you have a property "object" containing the string 'owner' then you need to use _['object'] to evaluate to 'owner'. That is, _['object']=='owner', while _[object]==_['owner']. Good luck. ---------- From: Jason Spisak [SMTP:webmaster@mtear.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 7:21 AM To: zope-dev(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Want to test if User Equal to a Property Zopsters, I am attempting to tailor the way information gets viewed based on a person's login. When the user get's to the page described by the following code, I would like the page to look one way if the 'owner' property in the parent folder is equal to the user, and look the other way if they are not equal. The following code makes sense, but does not work.        The _[owner] property is stored as a string. And AUTHERNTICAED_USER.getUserName() returns a string if I'm not mistaken. The look-up for _[owner] without single quotes is because I'm not looking up an object, but a property, right? The document is a DTML Method. Do I have to reference the Parent in the lookup? All the best, Jason Spisak webmaster(a)mtear.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev (For non-developer, user-level issues, use the companion list, zope(a)zope.org, http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )

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New version of the MailHost Product
by Martijn Pieters 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

As promised, I made a new patch for the MailHost product. After previous suggestions made by me, DC updated the MailHost object to, among others encode the body of ALL messages to Quoted-Printable. This however breaks those messages that take care of their own encoding, or use multipart tricks. Confera reply notification were broken because of this, for example. My patch updates the MailHost Product to version 1.1.0. Encoding is now optional, set with the 'encode' attribute to the  tag. You can now choose from base64, uuencode and quoted-printable encoding. I also made sure MailHost permissions show up in the Folder security screens, so MailHost objects can acquire them from a Folder. Oh, and I also added a version.txt file, so the Products screen shows the MailHost version. You can download the patch from: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zmj/Zope/ MailHost.txt reads: This patch updates the MailHost Product that comes with Zope version 1.10.2 to version 1.1.0. Features Added - Sendmail tag now has optional encode attribute, which results in the body of the email message being encoded using the designated encoding, and the proper headers being added. Choices are: base64, quoted-printable and uuencode. - The version number is now visible in the Product screen Bugs Fixed - MailHost object permissions now show op in the security list of Folder objects. Applying The Patch Execute the command 'patch -E < path/to/MailHost.diff' in the lib/python/Products/MailHost directory. The -E switch will remove empty files (there will be one). If all goes according to plan, you can then remove all .orig files. Don't forget to restart Zope. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-6254545 Fax: +31-35-6254555 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------

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BoboPOS component
by Jeff Bauer 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

Hi all. I'm about to begin an application migration from Bobo to Zope, using the Zope components. For do-it-yourselfers like me, there's no way I'm gonna download Zope and have a content manager running in 15 minutes ;-) More relevant, actually, is that production apps tend to migrate at glacial speeds. I've noticed on the components page that ZPublisher and ZTemplates are available, but no BoboPOS. I can slice BoboPOS out of the normal Zope source distribution, but was curious if there was a reason not to release it as a component. Even more trivially: What is the new 'Z' nomenclature for the persistent store? ZPOS? ZBase? ZPersist? Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.

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