May 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

quoting id values
by Ross J. Reedstrom 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hey Zopists: I'm making a little tiny File Upload/Exchange site with Zope, and I've run into a liitle problem. I'd like to keep track of who uploads what, so I'm trying to set a property on each file equivalent to the AUTHENTICATED_USER. So, stealing from the 'Creating Folders' example, I've got this code:  <H4>Sorry! That name exists, try again</H4>    <H3>File Added</H3>  This works fine for adding files, but the manage_addProperty call bombs out if the 'id' has a dot in it. The manage_addFile method handles that fine - apparently it quotes the id sufficently, since it gets added if I comment out the addProperty part. If I set an id that does not contain a dot, everthing works. Any ideas? Ross -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(a)rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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ZPublisher Client
by Jordan B. Baker 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hi: I'm working with the ZPublisher/Client.py trying to develop an interface to dump some info. coming out of various scripts running on my system into documents in the POS. I'm trying the following: $ python Client.py -usuperuser:123 http://dev:9673/manage_addFile id=foobar3 file:file=/usr/people/jbb/test.html The problem is that it hangs at this point. I hit C-c and I get the following: Traceback (innermost last): File "Client.py", line 643, in ? main() File "Client.py", line 634, in main headers, body = apply(f,(),kw) File "Client.py", line 181, in __call__ if hasattr(v,'read'): return self._mp_call(kw) File "Client.py", line 295, in _mp_call response=reply.read() KeyboardInterrupt If I try the operation again it says the id is in use and exits normally. After I aborted this I went into the interface and saw that my file had been created and the contents were uploaded successfully. Any ideas about what is going on here? -jordan.

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RE: [Zope] pcgi on Solaris 2.6
by Scherer, Bill 14 May '99

14 May '99

Jeff - Thanks for the help. I had fogotten about pcgifile.py. Testing with it did point out some problems: Python couldn't find cgi_module_publisher or CGIResponse. So I fixed things up till pcgifile.py said it all looked OK. Still no luck. I was getting the same error. The error log said nothing more: interuppted system call (102) Failure during connect. I was thinking maybe the user Nobody was having a problem creating the files in /tmp. It could create the err log, but nothing else. So I changed the pcgi info file to move things around and put the three files (err, pid, and socket) in a different place. No help. Same error. Then I thought, well maybe if I create the files and make them world read/writeable, that might help. It didn't of course, but it did change the error message: Interrupted system call (115) connection refused. I can import the module to be published. The pcgiinfo file checks out, I'm lost here; I know this should work, and I've not had any problems doing this on Linux. I just don't seem to have enough info to track down the problem. Thanks again for any insight, Bill -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bauer To: Scherer, Bill Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' Sent: 5/14/99 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] pcgi on Solaris 2.6 Bill, Your pcgi should work okay on Solaris 2.6 because it's my primary development system. ;-) Check your log files and possibly run pcgifile.py against Zope.cgi. For details on the sanity checker: http://starship.python.net/crew/jbauer/persistcgi/pcgifile/ Good luck. Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc. > I'm trying to move a pcgi application from Linux to Solaris. The app works > fine under pcgi on Linux, and also works fine using ZopeHTTPServer on either > Linux or Solaris. However, when I try to start it under pcgi on Solaris, I > get the following relevant bits from the html source: > > (102) failure during connect >  > > Any ideas, everyone? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Getting a navigational guide (tree) to persist?
by Albert Kinderman 14 May '99

14 May '99

I am a new user of zope (this is my 4th day). I am building a web-site for the faculty governance structure of my university. I have an overall top folder, faculty governance, three sub folders, senate, executive committee, and standing committees (which contains 10 committee folders). Each folder (senate, exec comm, and the 10 standing committees) contains subfolders for agendas, minutes, and membership. Each folder contains an index_html that refers to the standard_html_header. The standard_html_header is in the top folder and is set up as a table with the first column a sidebar, standard_choices, consisting of <p>Navigational Guide </p> <A HREF= "   ">Faculty Governance</A>  <A HREF=""></A>  What baffles me is that if I navigate from the constructed tree in the sidebar (using the + marks to open the tree to display the subfolder of interest) and make a selection by clicking on a subfolder, the opened tree sometimes collapses back to a closed tree with just the three top level choices showing and sometimes stays open, showing everything that was displayed before I clicked on the subfolder. I would like the tree to remain in the state that exists at the time a user clicks on a particular folder. thanks for your help. Al -- Albert Kinderman California State University, Northridge Department of Management Science albert.kinderman(a)csun.edu

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Manage screen
by Tom Deprez 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hi, just to let you know about this little 'layout-bug' Go to properties sheet. Add a property : ---> the page shows the properties screen, but the Edit-tab is highlighted, not the Properties tab. Seen this in properties for ZClasses, don't know if this is also the case for dtml, folder properties Tom.

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namespaces
by kent＠tiamat.goathill.org 14 May '99

14 May '99

In the following example, "columns" is a method that returns the list of columns wrapped in a Results object. "col2" is the name of one of the columns. Line 3 and line 5 provide the correct answer. Line 6, however is looking at the columns namespace to render the results and there's no data there. 1:  2:  3:  4:  5:  6:  7:  8:  9:  1) Why are "_[colname]" and "_['count-'+colname]" given different namespaces? 2) how do I get "_['count-'+colname]" to have the table namespace instead of the columns namespace? Thanks

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problem
by Philip Aylesworth 14 May '99

14 May '99

I am having a problem with a form that has check boxes on it. If several checkboxes are checked it works great. If only one is checked then it gives the following error: Traceback (innermost last): File lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 151, in __call__ (Object: editmanystatus.dtml) File lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 513, in __call__ (Object: editmanystatus.dtml) File lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.py, line 628, in renderwob (Object: nums) InError: Strings are not allowed as input to the in tag. I can see that it is because instead of a list it now has a single string but I don't know how to handle this. Is there a way to force an object to be a list whether it is a list or a single string? Or, do I have to test for this as a special case? Right now I have:     where nums is a check box input from my form. Phil A

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Re: [Zope] Zope under Linux -- duh?
by Christopher Petrilli 14 May '99

14 May '99

> Have you guys ran Zope 1.11 under Linux 2.0.x with Python 1.5.2? I can't > get the thing to work. As of today, we're still only "certifying" 1.5.1, not 1.5.2, simply because we haven't had the time to really beat 1.5.2 enough to make sure it works. This will definitely happen after we get back from Linux Expo next week. > Problem 1: If I try running the version of Python that comes with the > Zope sources, I get "bash: ./python: No such file or directory". None of > our resident Linux experts could explain this, as the file was seemingly > not corrupted. Naturally the install script does not work because of > this, and neither does Zope. Check your #! header in the files, this can cause that problem all over the place ;-) It's another one of UNIX's features! > So, what's the deal here? Surely a _lot_ of people are running Zope on > Linux. Yup, we do most of our development on Linux of some form (I run FreeBSD, some people use NT), but like I said, we're all still frozen on 1.5.1 for now. We'll get this settled in the next week or two I think. Definitely 2.0 will be 1.5.2 compatible :-) Hopefully I'm not speaking out of turn, but 1.11 is "dead" in that we're not going to release any more versions of it. We've decided that ZClasses and everything else will come with 2.0, it's just too big an overhaul to call it a minor release. This will be the May 19th alpha that is released. Chris -- Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations petrilli(a)digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] ZServer Problems
by Brian Lloyd 14 May '99

14 May '99

> I have ZServer up and running on both Solaris 2.6 and Linux. > > I can get it to serve pages doing http and pcgi through > Netscape Enterprise > Server. > > WebDAV works when done through ZServer, but not Enterprise > Server. I thought > I had read somewhere that this would work regardless of the > web server being > used (but I have not the slightest idea why it should). Well, you sure didn't read that here! :^) WebDAV support is totally at the mercy of the server you use, since it is a web server's perogative to refuse to pass through HTTP methods that it doesn't understand. I'm pretty well certain that DAV just plain won't work correctly under NS servers of any kind. ZServer is the best way to get DAV working with a minimum of fuss (as you've found out). Even Apache requires a (one-line) patch to let back-end applications handle OPTIONS requests, a requirement for correct WebDAV functionality. I'll be submitting that patch for inclusion in the next Apache iteration after the Linux Expo. > > I have noticed that both on Solaris and Linux, I can ftp to > the ZServer and > create folders, but I cannot change to nor see the folders > and files already > there. > > What am I missing? I'll have to defer to Amos on this one... Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] Apache/Zope/NT: Can't login to management screens
by Rob Page 14 May '99

14 May '99

> * <Directory "d:/apache/cgi-bin"> > AllowOverride None > Options ExecCGI > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> Try taking the drive letter our of the directory declaration... --Rob

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