April 2001 - Zope-Dev

Re: [Zope-dev] Trying to set roles/permissions programmatically - Now I have a headache!
by Dieter Maurer 28 Apr '01

28 Apr '01

Danny William Adair writes: > I want to set the roles of a permission and turn acquisition of a permission > (mapping) on and off programmatically. And of course I want to get a > permission by its name. This looks definitely more complex than simply > changing an object's property! My standard response to questions like this: You know, you can do this via the Management Interface. Its code will tell you, how you can do it: the necessary method names and their parameters. After you know the names, you look for further documentation: the Zope Help, maybe the new Zope Developer Guide, the source. The source for the updating of permissions is "AccessControl/dtml/access.dtml". The methods are defined in various Python files in "AccessControl". Dieter

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Permissions to change Acquire Permissions?
by Tim R Ansell 28 Apr '01

28 Apr '01

I was wondering if it would be possible for a new permission to be created, this permission would let (or stop) people from changing the Acquire Permissions check boxes found in the Security Tab. The reason I would like a permissions like this is that some users that need to give people permissions are exactly trusted. This means that they could change the acquire permissions and circumvent people with "Manager" or higher privileges. This type of permission could be very useful for zope to have but would most properly require changing of how permission changing is handled? Mithro

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ZStyleSheets
by Romain Slootmaekers 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Yo, when trying to use the ZStyleSheets, we only found a zip, but no tarball. After unzipping, it didn't work because appearantly the zip was made for some OS that has a case-insensitive file-system. after renaming the files (zstylesheet* -> ZStyleSheets* aso) everything behaved as expected. It's a cool product though. you guys be warned. have fun, Sloot

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manage_debug
by Andy McKay 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Clicking on manage_debug kills Zope, honest. Anyone else seen this? Nothing printed to stderr or anything useful. Sigh. B 29501752 2001-04-27T17:50:02 GET /Control_Panel/DebugInfo/manage_main I 29501752 2001-04-27T17:50:02 0 Windows 2K, Zope 2.3.0. Cheers. -- Andy McKay.

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Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog comments
by Dieter Maurer 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Chris Withers writes: > > + - an empty query mapping (or a bogus REQUEST) returns all > > + items in the > > + catalog. > > Is it only me that finds this really irritating? Surely a blank query mapping > should return nothing, not everything? > (at the least it'd be nice if this was configurable ;-) No! Please not! It is very natural that an empty query returns everything when subqueries are combined with "AND". Any time, you add a subquery, the result set is a subset of the former one. For this to work out without boundary exceptions (we all hate them, I hope!), the empty query must be the complete set. Of course, if subqueries are combined with "OR", the empty query should return no hits.... > > + Depending on the type of index you are querying, you may be > > + able to provide more advanced search parameters that can > > + specify range searches or wildcards. These features are > > + documented in The Zope Book. > > Wildcards? Hmmm... that's enticing, where and how will they be supported? Did you look in the Zope Book? The section above says, your question would be answered there. Dieter

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.2 released
by Brian Lloyd 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Hello all, Zope 2.3.2 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.2/ Zope 2.3.2 contains no changes from 2.3.2 beta 2 other than two small fixes that were accidentally committed to the release branch (it was supposed to be frozen between the final beta and the final release). Since the changes were tiny and easily verifiable, we verified them and left them in. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.2/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.2/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Re: [Zope-dev] makerequest.py
by Dieter Maurer 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Chris Withers writes: > I do have memories that REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER has been deprecated. In > which, case, how should you get hold of the current user's object and can this > be made to work in a testing environment? Your company is hosting these great searchable list archives? They help memory very much. Your question has been answered some days ago... "getSecurityUser" documented in "AccessControl.DTML" Dieter

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Re: [Zope-dev] url traversal
by Dieter Maurer 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Brett Carter writes: > I have the classic problem of wanting my method 'foo' to work like: > http://localhost/foo/a/b/c > where a,b,c are parameters passed to foo. I've found some info in the > mailing list archives, namely: > http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-May/005197.html > > Has the 'Traversal' interface been implemented? What are the > specifics of implementing something like I describe above? Traversal has been implemented for Python Scripts, when they define the "sub_traversal" binding. Dieter

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RE: [Zope-dev] CST 0.8 Updater Fixed...
by Schmidt, Allen J. 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Sorry to contradict you Chris, but it was actually Sgt. Shultz who stated that famous line. It's not often I can contribute so I thought I would give something back! <8^) Allen (active member of ZA - -Zopaholics Anonymous) -----Original Message----- From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@digicool.com] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:21 PM To: Chris Withers; zope-dev(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] CST 0.8 Updater Fixed... > I stopped the above by wrapping the code as follows: > <snip> Cool! > I wonder why it's necessary? Something to do with the weirdy mounted internal > session data container? As Colonel Klink says so well, "I see nussing!" _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )

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Updaters for ZCatalog and Core Session Tracking Available
by Chris Withers 27 Apr '01

27 Apr '01

Hi, I've done some Updaters to help with the move to the new ZCatalog and Core Session Tracking implementations. These updaters help you quickly update all objects of a particular type in a ZODB. The and information about them can be found at: http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/UpdateSupport cheers, Chris

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