July 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Anyone for a Zope bonding experience at OSS con next week?
by Jeff Sasmor 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

This is a repeat of a previous post - the OSS con is next week. About 6 people have responded before, you don't need to respond again if you have done so already. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Zopistas, Anyone else in this list going to the OReilly Open Source SW convention July 17-20?. Anyone interested in having an informal Zopista.party.dinner.beerfest.splunge (or whatever...) one night during the con or perhaps Sunday nite July 16? If enough people are interested I'll try to set something up. Might be fun to hang out and share experiences &stuff; Since this is Off-Topic- probably you should respond via email to: Jeff Sasmor jeff(a)sasmor.com I'll post a summary to this list if enough people respond. PS: People from Digital Creations are welcome too!

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Accessing the namespace of another Product/Package ? (pb when th e superclass belong to another package) e superclass belong to another package)
by NABETH Thierry 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Hello, In order to have a system more modular, I have split a package (product) into several other product. In particular, I have a package (BaseClassesPackage) that define some kind of abstract classes, and other (more application specific) packages (Package1, Package2), that define some class that inherit some class defined in the BaseClassesPackage. BaseClassesPackage (Product) MyFolderClass Package1 MyClass1 (inherits MyFolderClass) Package2 MyClass2 (inherits MyFolderClass) The problem is that the namespace of BaseClassesPackage is not visible from the packages Package1 and Package2. Any idea to fixe this ? More generaly, do you know about any approaches / guidelines to make an application more modular (defined in several packages that use one another)? Does Zope 2.2 address this issue at some point ? I have already tried to look at the code without any success. For instance there are somewhere a few functions that can be relevant (open somewhat the namespace): <dtml-with manage_addProduct([anotherPackage])> # namespace of the package anotherPackage is available for object creation </dtml-with> <dtml-with "REQUEST.resolve_url(REQUEST.script + PointerToIUD)"> # the namespace of the package where the class of the object REQUEST.script + PointerToIUD # is define is available. </dtml-with> <dtml-except> <small>???? (the object does not exist)</small> </dtml-try> There are a few (python) function that seem to have something to do with namespace and acquisition, but it is not very clear for me how they have to be used. (in particular from within a dtml method). aq_acquire(), DT_Util.namespace(), ... Thanks Thierry Nabeth Research Fellow INSEAD CALT (the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies) http://www.insead.fr/CALT/

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exceptions.ImportError
by Jonathan Desp 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

BlankHi, I read all the past message in your mailing lists with the keyword: exceptions.ImportError in. I'm getting that problem: exceptions.ImportError Anyone is able to help me ? You know a way to fix it ? a patch or something ? Just email me at mailto:jonathandesp@atomasoft.com

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Adding comments to documents like in ACS ...
by Ramarao Kanneganti 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Hi, I am a long time ACS (Arsdigta Community System) user. I am checking out Zope recently and am impressed with its management Interface. One thing that I miss from Zope is the ability to add comments to existing documents by all the readers of the document. Does anybody know a product that does it? Or, can one write one and pass it on to me:-)? Since I do not read this high volume list regularly, can you please CC me if you have any suggestions? Thanks, Rama

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Document Title
by Terry Babbey 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

I am trying to get a document title to print out and am having problems. As part of my web page I would like to display the title of a document, and the document id is stored in a variable. But Zope is interpretting the information in the variable as a string and not as a document id. Any ideas, Terry -- __________________________________________________________________ Terry Babbey Technical Support Specialist Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada __________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Zope] Mirroring to IIS
by Jake LeBeau 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Hi Maik, I've been trying to use the ZMirror product and wget with varying degrees of success. See my response to Andy McKay for a description of where I am now. Of course, if I was a real Zopista, instead of a newbie, I would rewrite the ZMirror product to assign file extensions to its output, right? Thanks for your help, Jake <jlebeau(a)pobox.ci.boise.id.us> >>> Maik Roeder <roeder(a)berg.net> 07/10/00 12:40PM >>> Hi Jake ! Jake LeBeau wrote: > I'm attempting to mirror our Zope site to IIS 5.0 on a W2K Server, >and am having problems with Netscape Navigator. Because the files have > no file extension, Netscape keeps trying to download and save the >files to disk, rather than displaying the content as HTML. I've tried >several ways of specifying that the MIME content type header coming >from the server is "text/html", but nothing alters the behavior of > Netscape. Is there anyone else out there who may have had experience > with this and would be willing to help? Any advice would be appreciated. Try using a mirror tool like w3mir. Folders like http://localhost/w3mir/ will be mirrored to a folder: w3mir/ and an index.html file inside: w3mir/index.html Hope this helps. Regards, Maik Röder -- "The computing future is based on "cyberbodies" - self-contained, neatly-ordered, beautifully-laid-out collections of information, like immaculate giant gardens." The second coming - A manifesto. David Gelernter http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelernter_p1.html _______________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: [Zope] GUF Problem]
by Cesar A. K. Grossmann 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

One reply I get from Mario: Mario Premke wrote: > > I remember I had the same problem. > In GUF's acl_user folder I gave the special_role > the same permissions as the anonymus role. > As far as I remember that did it ... -- César A. K. Grossmann ckant(a)usa.net http://members.xoom.com/ckant/

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Re: low level HTML in Zope
by Anser 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

"Henny van der Linde" <linde(a)inline-info.nl> wrote: > ...Zope forces you often to go to nitty gritty details of HTML programming. > I think that's a good thing (for me). GUI tools tend to make > you very lazy and often produce horrible HTML (for example Frontpage). Today's best WYSIWYG editors produce excellent HTML, including Dreamweaver and Allaire Homesite. (There should be a rule that nothing is every usefully compared to the hideous Frontpage.) Zope's text box interfaces do encourage you to mess with low level HTML, but there is no help or verification that you actually know what you're doing. Learning raw HTML is fun and can be useful, but if you program that way, you should always follow up with a *validator* like CSE HTML Validator or a recent build of Weblint. You will find errors! And errors do matter!

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FSSession used in Python???
by Dan Narkiewicz 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

I want to write my own Product in python that uses FSSession to store a very minimum amount of information... For the life of me i cannot figure out how to correctly create an instance of an FSSession that can be manipulated inside my own python written Zope product... Any help would be.. well... helpful.. At the moment the code looks somethign like this: ---------Start Python code----------------- from Products.FSSession.FSSession import FSSession --- a class definition --- def FStest(self): """fssession test""" self.a = FSSession() <---- error appears here self.a.set('hey','there') return 'done' ----------End Python code-------------- -----Start DTML------- <dtml-var "Zope_object_name.test()"> -----End DTML------- ----The error---- Error Type: TypeError Error Value: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [Zope] Mirroring to IIS
by Jake LeBeau 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

LOL Good catch, I was just about to e-mail more questions ;-) I've been banging my head on it for most of the day, and I think what it comes down to is - why does netscape have no problem displaying pages from ZServer that have no file extension, and yet try to save all files from IIS that don't have a file extension? I think it is because ZServer correctly sends the appropriate MIME type along with each file. IIS doesn't. Apparently IIS sends files without extensions as an "application/octet-stream" content-type. I've tried changing this in IIS by changing the ".*" MIME mapping, but to no avail. I'm afraid I'm getting far afield from the topic of Zope and need to address this to some IIS list or other :-P Thanks for your help, though yours, Jake <jlebeau(a)cityofboise.org> >>> "Andy McKay" <AndyM(a)ActiveState.com> 07/10/00 01:13PM >>> Oops of course you are mirroring to a static file that setting a header will do no good. Damn need more tea to wake me up. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy McKay" <AndyM(a)activestate.com> To: <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Mirroring to IIS > I did a similar thing and when I mirrored it to IIS as static files I > changed the filename by adding .html.... > > You can fix the header to always add the correct content type > (RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html')) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jake LeBeau" <JLeBeau(a)cityofboise.org> > To: <zope(a)zope.org> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:47 AM > Subject: [Zope] Mirroring to IIS > > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm attempting to mirror our Zope site to IIS 5.0 on a W2K Server, and am > having problems with Netscape Navigator. Because the files have no file > extension, Netscape keeps trying to download and save the files to disk, > rather than displaying the content as HTML. I've tried several ways of > specifying that the MIME content type header coming from the server is > "text/html", but nothing alters the behavior of Netscape. Is there anyone > else out there who may have had experience with this and would be willing to > help? Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Jake LeBeau <jlebeau(a)cityofboise.org> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 ) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ) > _______________________________________________ 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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