July 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Re: [Zope] Zope + Apache on FreeBSD 4.0 problems
by Peter Haight 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

>I'm having trouble getting pcgi working for Zope 2.16 on Apache 1.3.12 >on FreeBSD 4.0. I had hope the BSd ports would set it up but it seems >that there is a problem of some sort with my install. > >Zope.cgi produces output but kind of maimed. > >I did get Zope.cgi working with IIS and NT (ugh) at work. > >Any tricks or anything would be appreciated. I did run into a problem myself it might be the same as yours. I kept getting: Temporarily Unavailable The resource you requested is temporarily unavailable - please try again later. (116) unable to connect, fd=4 The pcgi log would say: Sun Jul 16 20:04:25 2000 pcgi-wrapper: Error receiving stdout (116) unable to connect, fd=4 After much debugging I found that if you looked at the PCGIPublisher::handler method in pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py, it would do a conn.send(stdout) and if you looked at the return value you would find that it only would send 8192 bytes no matter how long the stdout string was. This is due to some sysctl settings: net.local.stream.recvspace and net.local.stream.sendspace. They are set to 8192. I adjusted mine to 65536 using the following two commands: sysctl -w net.local.stream.recvspace=65536 sysctl -w net.local.stream.sendspace=65536 Now it seems to be working well. I'm not sure whose bug this is. I think it is probably a problem with FreeBSD. I'll upgrade to 4.0-STABLE soon and see if is still a problem. If this is not the problem you are having, you really need to elaborate more on what you mean by 'maimed' output.

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RE: [Zope] request for advice
by Chris McDonough 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

Steve Spicklmire has also written the ZCVSMixin product (which I've never actually used) that might let you integration filesystem versioning with Zope more easily as well... > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Lewis [mailto:pl@teleport.com] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:50 PM > To: 'zope(a)zope.org' > Subject: Re: [Zope] request for advice > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:29:01PM +0100, Seb Bacon wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I'm just beginning to design my first big Zope application. > I'm writing to > > ask zopististitiatatas for some advice, since I'm a bit of > a newbie and I > > want to make sure: > > > > [a] I reuse as much code as possible > > [b] I make my code as reusable as possible > > [c] my application is stable and scalable > > > > 1. Background to the application > > > > I'm building an extranet product in Zope. Much of it will > be centered > > around a 'VersioningObject'. > > > > An example of such an object might be an image, a Word > document. The > > objects will have a preview view associated with them. For > word docs, this > > will be a html-ised version, for photos it will be a > thumbnail. Perhaps in > > the future each object will also have rudimentary online > editing facilities. > > > > The objects will all support versioning. This means each > object can be > > superceded by another object of the same type. The version > number will be > > incremented. Versions will also have Confera forums > associated with them, > > and ACLs. > > > > Now as I see it, I want a VersioningObject to be a > Folderish object that can > > contain a set of Versions, which are just a load of File > objects of the same > > type. The folder has a method which slects its most recent > child file > > object and displays it by calling its preview method. > Older versions are > > read-only and are listed by title only. > > > > 2) My questions: > > > > i) I'm worried about the sheer volume of binary data that > would accrue in > > the VersioningObject: a single VersioningObject might be a > Word doc of 25Mb. > > If it has 10 versions and there are 10 such objects, that's > 2.5Gb in the > > ZOBD. I presume this would be a bad idea performance-wise; > any suggestions? > > ii) I'm interested in using ZPatterns because I reckon they > sound like they > > might enhance the reusability etc. of the code; I know > there have been some > > pointers recently, but which ZPatterns could I benefit > from? or are they > > too arcance to worry about for now? > > iii) Is there any other miscellaneous advice? e.g. has > anything like this > > been done already? > > > > > > Thanking you all, ladies and gentlemen. > > > > Seb. > > A couple of ideas: > > - Don't save your data (documents, images) in the ZODB. > Instead, save it > to disk using the Local File System product. This will > prevent the ZODB > from getting too big for most OSes. > > - I think it would be kind of interesting to use RCS for > something like > this on the backend. Build your methods in Zope to manipulate RCS, and > then you get all the functionality of RCS "for free", and > don't have to > reinvent the wheel. You may run into problems with people not > working with > the most current document (I grab something from the database, Jill > commits some changes to the same document, I make some changes, commit > them, and destroy Jill's changes), but you would have that > problem anyway > as you initially described it. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Patrick Lewis <pl(a)teleport.com> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Zope] create DTML-Source-link like on zope.org
by Chris Withers 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

Deryk Barker wrote: <snip how-to for view source> > > Well I did and get a NameError looking for document_src. What object are you trying to view the source of? It's only work (and only makes sense) on things like DTML methods and DTML documents. cheers, Chris

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boolean property bug
by Aleksander Salwa 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

Probably I found a bug in handling boolean properties in Zope 2.2.0. I can only set them "on", and then can't turn "off". I can have default value "off" (in ZClass definition), but after first switch to "true", it can't be changed. It only refers to handling properties via Zope's management screens. API functions manage_changeProperty, manage_editProperty work fine, so maybe it's an error in generated HTML forms, or in processing of these forms. ololo

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RE: [Zope] Bi-directional update of Data.fs
by Chris McDonough 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

If you're doing little or nothing in the way of Python development in base classes (e.g. you're doing all of your development in the instance or in ZClasses), you may want to take a look at ZEO (http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO) Setting up the ZEO "storage server" overseas and using a local Zope client as a sort of object cache might make the situation bearable and solve your synchronization problem. ZEO caches objects until they're invalidated by the storage server, so the object is read once and can be accessed many times until invalidated without needing to cross the wire to the storage server. If you are doing development on Python-based Products, you can still do this, but it's complicated badly by need to be very careful that the two installations keep "shared" Python modules (ala Product files) synchronized as well, as if they get out of sync, one of the two of you is going to end up with a broken Zope incessantly. It's not an ideal setup. There is no generic diff or merge facility for two arbitrarily modified Data.fs files. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brenton Bills [mailto:fud@mail.theinternet.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 12:47 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Bi-directional update of Data.fs > > > > Hi, > At the moment I am in a situation where I am working > for a company > overseas across the Internet. Because of the lag between us > and the fact > that I am working over a modem we have chosen both to have a > copy of the > Data.fs files and when I complete a project (or at the end of > the day) I > export the files I have modified. The only problem is at the > end of a hard > day of working remembering which files I have changed. What would be a > better solution is somesort of syncronisation between both > copies of our > Data.fs files so I can see the updates they have made and > they can see the > updates I have made at the end of each day. > > Is this possible and how can I do it? > > Thanks all, > Brenton Bills. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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2.2.0, LoginManager and ZPatterns
by Aleksander Salwa 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hmm..., so I've decided to upgrade to Zope 2.2.0. Most of my site works fine :) I used GUF lately, now I want to use LoginManager, but I can't get it working. Even on fresh install of Zope 2.2.0 (Linux x86, binary release of Zope), when I want to create an instance of Login Manager with default settings in folder 'test1', I get following error: Error Type: TypeError Error Value: keyword parameter redefined Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/ Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/ Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/Zope/ __init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/ Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/ mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_addLoginManager) File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/ Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: manage_addLoginManager) File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/ LoginManager/LoginManager.py, line 237, in manage_addLoginManager File /usr/local/digicool/Zope-2.2.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/ ZPatterns/PlugIns.py, line 313, in _constructPlugIn TypeError: (see above) I've tried installing ZPatterns from sources and from binary release (both 0.3.0) - same results. LoginManager - 0.8.6. Of course I've created user with manager role in root folder's acl_users folder. What's wrong, Zopistas ? ololo

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From a Folder to a Product
by Cesar A. K. Grossmann 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hi! I'm pretty satisfied with a group of reports I have done in Zope, and want to put a copy of it in every customer's folder I have in the Zope Server. Are there a document/tutorial I can use as a guide or tutorial to do this? If someone wants to point some general guidelines, the folder contains only the dtml docs/methods and SQL connection/SQL Queries used to do the report, and the only thing that changes from one to another customer is the SQL connection (every different customer have his own database). Even the security properties are the same. It can be draft as bellow: / +-- Report +----- SQL Connection (PostgreSQL) +----- SQL queries +----- Reports based on the SQL queries +----- Forms that are used to chose parameters and call the Reports +----- index_html, standart_error, standart_html_header/footer TIA -- César A. K. Grossmann ckant(a)usa.net http://members.xoom.com/ckant/ http://www.halcyon.com/sciclub/cgi-pvt/instr/instr.html

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Permissions question.
by Jeff K. Hoffman 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hello, I am having a permissions problem, and am hoping someone on the list will see the error in my ways. I have a ZClass, called a FooManager, that inherits from ObjectManager. It is responsible for creating (and managing) Foo objects. In the FooManager ZClass, I created a DTMLMethod called 'addFoo', and a form called 'fooForm'. Following the "How to Create ZClass Instances Programmatically" How-To, I modified my 'Foo_add' constructor to avoid redirecting if the request contains a noRedir parameter. In my 'addFoo' method, I have: <dtml-with "manage_addProduct['FooProduct']"> <dtml-call "Foo_add(_.None, _, noRedir=1)"> </dtml-with> and I set it's Proxy role to 'Manager'. My form, obviously, calls 'addFoo' with: <form action="addFoo" method="..."> When I submit the form, I get: Unauthorized. You are not authorized to access FooObject. 'FooObject' is the name of my ZClass. The traceback is: ... File /d1/zope/pcalc.ptec.com/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 331, in eval (Object: FooObject.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)) (Info: FooObject) File /d1/zope/pcalc.ptec.com/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 189, in validate (Object: addFoo) File /d1/zope/pcalc.ptec.com/lib/python/AccessControl/SecurityManager.py, line 139, in validate File /d1/zope/pcalc.ptec.com/lib/python/AccessControl/ZopeSecurityPolicy.py, line 209, in validate Unauthorized: (see above) I can fix the problem by going directly to my 'FooManager' instance and giving Anonymous permission to 'Add a Foo Object'. However, I don't want to do this on a general basis, nor do I want to have to manually adjust each instance of 'FooManager'. I ONLY want my 'addFoo' method to be able to do it. I thought the Proxy role in the ZClass's 'addFoo' method would do the trick, but it did not. Sorry if I haven't explained this well. As you can probably tell, ZClass permissions are not exactly my strong suit in Zope. Anyone have any ideas? --Jeff --- Jeff K. Hoffman 704.849.0731 x108 Chief Technology Officer mailto:jeff.hoffman@goingv.com Going Virtual, L.L.C. http://www.goingv.com/

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ZUBB / ZDiscussions Users or Examples
by J. Atwood 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

I have started a page (http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/ZUBB/EXAMPLES) to list sites that are building / using ZUBB or ZDiscussions. I would love if you are using it to send me a link and you permission to add you to the list. I will also add you to a mailing list to let you know what the future looks like it. Thanks, J

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newbie question: how do I adjust field width?
by Joe Hewitt 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hi, I'm making an input form. When I try to change the form's input field width, it automagically displays 30 char for each field. Is there any way to adjust the width? Different question: where can I find some good examples of how to validate input? Thanks. -- Joe Hewitt email: joe(a)apollo.wuacc.edu Linux Coordinator Washburn University Law School

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