May 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Building ZPyGreSQLDA on Linux
by Hung Jung Lu 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi, I need help building the PostGreSQL database adapter on Linux. Sigh... why is installing everything on Linux such a nightmare? ZPyGreSQLDA installation is in such a primitive stage... I don't understand... it's like it's written to work with one very particular directory structure at the author's machine, and the heck with the rest of the world. :) Why not just write something to build the C Python module in place and then tell the user to move the compile C Python module (.so) to whereever it needs to be moved? The problem now is that the ZPyGreSQLDA/Makefile.pre.in has all kinds of settings of folder structures that don't match with my folder structure. I get the following error: (yes yes, I have played with PATH and the <prefix> variable mentioned inside Makefile.pre.in... and by the way, the FTP site ftp://www.eevolute.com/pub/python/ mentioned in README.linux no longer exists.) ---------------------------------------------------------- [hjlu@www src]$ make -f Makefile.pre.in boot rm -f *.o *~ rm -f *.a tags TAGS config.c Makefile.pre python sedscript rm -f *.so *.sl so_locations VERSION=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`; \ installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`; \ exec_installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`; \ make -f ./Makefile.pre.in VPATH=. srcdir=. \ VERSION=$VERSION \ installdir=$installdir \ exec_installdir=$exec_installdir \ Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope_current/lib/python/Products/ZPy GreSQLDA/src' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope/lib/python1.5/config/Ma kefile', needed by `sedscript'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope_current/lib/python/Products/ZPyG reSQLDA/src' make: *** [boot] Error 2 --------------------------------------------------------- Not that I like to complain, but every time I run into a trouble, dozens more people will run into the same problem. I still remember when I complained about some other database adapter, someone popped up and said "I have been running it with ZERO problem"... and 3 months later the same person was screaming about the very database adapter that that supposingly had "ZERO problem". Things do improve. I remember the days when Python couldn't be installed easily, but nowadays even the Tcl/Tk part of Python has been absorbed into a single installer on Windows system. And it's as trivial as one-click-does-it-all. PostGreSQL has been around for a while, now. And I guess we all could do a little bit more towards making the installation of the adapter easier. Hung Jung ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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RE: [Zope] file upload
by Stuart Foster 30 May '00

30 May '00

Take a look at this product sounds like what you need. http://yyy.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS -----Original Message----- From: Oai Luong [mailto:oluong@mitre.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:40 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] file upload i want to make a section in my web page where a net surfer can come to my page and upload image files and store it in directory i created in my linux filesystem? I can't seem to figure out a way to do it in zope since it cannot access a directory in my filesystem ? Is there a way to do this ? thanks, _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Use of lambda expression in DTML
by Nick Drew 30 May '00

30 May '00

I'm a newbie zopista, and python for that matter... In brief: I get a NameError when invoking "filter(...)" from DTML. I thought this was a built-in python method, so I'm a bit puzzled. In detail: 1) I want to display a dtml-tree of my folder hierarchy, but I want to exclude all Zwiki discussion groups. 2) In my index_html for the top level folder, I have the following: <dtml-tree Outline leaves=dtcTemplate > <dtml-if tree-item-expanded> <dtml-if expr="objectValues(['Folder'])"> <IMG SRC="<dtml-var BASE2>/Outline/OpenBook.gif" ALIGN="TOP" BORDER="0"> </dtml-if> <dtml-var title> <dtml-else> <dtml-if expr="objectValues(['Folder'])"> <IMG SRC="<dtml-var BASE2>/Outline/ClosedBook.gif" ALIGN="TOP" BORDER="0"> </dtml-if> <dtml-var title> </dtml-if> </dtml-tree> which is cribbed straight from QuickStart. 3) I only want to ignore Zwiki groups, but they are out-of-the-box folders, so I can't filter on meta-class. 4) My approach is just to add a property to the Zwiki folder ('blockTreeBranching') 5) In the dtml-tree tag, I change it to: <dtml-tree Technical leaves=dtcTemplate branches_expr="filter( lambda f: not f.hasProperty('blockTreeBranching', false), objectValues(['Folder']) )"> which, all things equal, should DoTheRightThang. 6) The code can be published, but when I view it, it spits out a NameError, choking on "filter". Argh. Ideas gratefully recieved... Nick HyperSpace Ltd,Birmingham Research Park, Edgbaston, UK, B15 2SQ (e) hyperspace(a)btinternet.com (t) +44 (0)121 414 7019

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file upload
by Oai Luong 30 May '00

30 May '00

i want to make a section in my web page where a net surfer can come to my page and upload image files and store it in directory i created in my linux filesystem? I can't seem to figure out a way to do it in zope since it cannot access a directory in my filesystem ? Is there a way to do this ? thanks,

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dtml-tree and REQUEST.form
by Pierre-Julien Grizel 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi, I'm currently implementing a tree using... dtml-tree. In the document I use, I just have the tree and a table which desplays results according both to the tree state and some form data (passed through REQUEST.form). I.e. my URLs should look like the following : http://xxx.xxx/xxx/yyy/zzz/MyPage?MyVar=toto when I first open the page, and it SHOULD look like http://xxx.xxx/xxx/yyy/zzz/MyPage?MyVar=toto&e-tree=<tree-stuff>. You guess - it doesn't look like this at all. This because the <dtml-tree> tag doesn't use the REQUEST.form dictionnary data to build its URLs. Instead, it just discards, in the URLs it builds, every single GET variable you wish to use. I'm currently patching the TreeTag.py file to support the REQUEST.form data, but I'd like to know if someone ever had this problem, and maybe corrected it - I hate patching. Also, if there is no other solution, I'd like to know if there are peolple intersted in this patch. Thanks, P.-J.

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ZClass Error
by Pete Kazmier 30 May '00

30 May '00

I've created a ZClass that was subclassed from a custom Python class. Everything is working well, thanks to the help of this mailing list, but I am having one problem that I am unable to figure out. If I add my subclass to the root of my Zope world, then I am unable to click on the Properties tab while managing it. However, if I create my ZClass anywhere else (ie not in the root), everything works fine. Here is the traceback that I receive. Any help would be appreciated, I am also using 2.2.0a1. Thanks. Traceback (innermost last): File /home/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 224, in publish_module File /home/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 189, in publish File /home/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook File /home/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 175, in publish File /home/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage) File /home/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: manage) File /home/zope/lib/python/App/special_dtml.py, line 121, in __call__ (Object: manage) (Info: /home/zope/lib/python/OFS/properties.dtml) File /home/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 500, in __call__ (Object: manage) File /home/zope/lib/python/App/special_dtml.py, line 121, in __call__ (Object: manage_tabs) (Info: /home/zope/lib/python/App/manage_tabs.dtml) File /home/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 500, in __call__ (Object: manage_tabs) File /home/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 146, in render (Object: _(manage_options=filtered_manage_options())) File /home/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 133, in render (Object: _(option=manage_options[a_])) File /home/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 333, in eval (Object: _(option=manage_options[a_])) (Info: manage_options) File <string>, line 0, in ? NameError: (see above) -- Peter Kazmier http://www.kazmier.com PGP Fingerprint 4FE7 8DA3 D0B5 9CAA 69DC 7243 1855 BC2E 4B43 5654

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ZClass and python subclass __init__ method
by Pete Kazmier 30 May '00

30 May '00

According to the Zope Developer's Guide, when you create a ZClass by subclassing from custom python classes "your subclass's __init__ method will not be called when instances of the Z Class are created." Could someone help explain why my __init__ method is being called? Is the document just out of date? What should be the correct behavior? Also, is there a simple way of detecting from my python class's init method if it is being called within the Zope environment? I'm trying to keep my python class as non-Zope centric as possible because I use that class in other programs as well. Oh, I am using the 2.2.0a1. Thanks, Pete -- Peter Kazmier http://www.kazmier.com PGP Fingerprint 4FE7 8DA3 D0B5 9CAA 69DC 7243 1855 BC2E 4B43 5654

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get objects "DTML Document" having Property "order"...
by QUIN Fr�d�ric 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hello, I want to do : <dtml-in "objectValues('DTML Document')" sort=order> ... </dtml-in> I have some DTML Documents which don't have the property "order", and I don't want to consider those documents in my loop. But if I put the "sort=order" option, Zope raises an error How can I do ??? Thanks a lot, Frederic

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SQLProperties - missing files?
by mywin＠iname.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

Does anyone have SQLProperties working? The product on Zope.org seems to be missing the 'dbspecific' directory of SQL files. If anyone can send me a sample of what those files should look like I would appreciate it. This product seems like it would help in my quest to reduce the size of my "data.fs" database. Shouldn't it? Also is there any way to use the Zope Catalog with SQL data? It would be great to have full text searching on my SQL data. Thanks, -Ben

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Uploading to Zclass help
by Bart Holthuijsen 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi Fellow Zopiasts! I'm working on a project to put documentation in Zope. I've come to the point of storing the files that are generated earlier in the process. The results up until now: - I made a Form to select an XML and XSL file - These are processed by a XSLT processor - HTML files are generated - The HTML files are parsed to extract file references. - The HTML files are edited to point to the CSS in the Zope way - The CSS is copied to a new file with extra header information This is all done in an external method and the result is a list of files that I want to upload. This is where you come in :) What is the best way to upload and store these files? I want to be able to search in there files, so I want to make a Catalog - aware object. Any pointers? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Bart Holthuijsen. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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