November 2001 - Zope

Logging to a database instead of to Z2.log
by Pieter Claerhout 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Hello, is it possible to redirect the output that is normally send to the Z2.log file to for example a MySQL database. If so, can someone give me a clue on where I should start looking to change this or how I should adapt my copy of Zope to do this? Thanks, Pieter

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RE: [Zope] Zbabel
by Stephan Richter 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

At 12:49 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, Jacob Singh wrote: >Okay, I tried that and ran into a couple of roadblocks, 1 MySQL has no >sequence function, I did modify it though so that it used the >LAST_INSERT_ID() function which basically serves the same purpose, see >if this follows the intended logic. Thanks a lot for the code!!! > from Globals import HTMLFile, get_request >ImportError: cannot import name get_request Okay, that is easy to fix. ZBabel requires Tim McLaughin's GlobalRequestPatch. After installing it, everything should work fine. :-) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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RE: [Zope] jcNTUserFolder & domain users
by Meilicke, Scott 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

I use jcntuserfolder to auth against an NT domain. My NT zope server is not a pdc. My users are not members of a local group on my zope server. So jcntuserfolder can see domain users without them having to be part of a local group. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lewandowski [mailto:kevinsl@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:51 PM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] jcNTUserFolder & domain users I'd like to add remote domain users to a local group on my server, then have jcntuserfolder see those domain users. Is this possible? It looks like it can only see local nt users.. thanks -Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.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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Add NESTED ZClasses Programatically -- Please Look
by Chris Bruce 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Ok, I understand how to add ZClasses in both dtml and Python, thanks all. But my problem is that I need to add a nested ZClass to another ZClass. Let me explain: I have a ZClass called ProfileDirectory that extends ObjectManager. Inside ProfileDirectory, I have another ZClass called Profile. The idea is that ProfileDirectory is the folder for Profiles. Now, in zope I have added a ProfileDirectory (with id=directory) to a folder (with id=consultants) that looks like: /consultants/directory Now I need to Programatically (In a python script) add Profiles to /consultants/directory If anybody understands what I just said and can help me, I would be greatly appreative!!! I have tried the following with no luck in a python script: context.consultants.directory.manage_addProduct['Profile'].Profile_add(_.None,_,NoRedir=1) context.consultants.directory.manage_addProduct['ProfileDirectory'].Profile_add(_.None,_,NoRedir=1) context.consultants.directory.manage_addProduct['ProfileDirectory'].Profile.Profile_add(_.None,_,NoRedir=1) context.consultants.directory.manage_addProduct['ProfileDirectory']['Profile'].Profile_add(_.None,_,NoRedir=1) context.consultants.directory.manage_addProduct['ProfileDirectory'].manage_addProduct['Profile'].Profile_add(_.None,_,NoRedir=1) In all cases I get an error saying that Profile is not found. Thanks, Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: [Zope] A Really Smart Form Chain
by Harlow Pinson 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Hi Mike and Steve, I'm probably missing some key step not mentioned in the wizard_keys document. Are there any examples of this in action, i.e a form chain with more than three steps? This method seems to collect all the form variable information in a fowardly direction just fine, but as soon as you start going backward more than a step, and then forward again, i.e. resubmitting a form in the chain, the current field information get's clobbered for the user, and they have to enter it again. I've been able to load the field info into the textarea value attributes as a workaround, but this does not seem to work for form select objects, and the form output turns into a lists of values which I then have to strip, and is getting awfully complicated. I'll take a look at the Marshalling example. Thanks! Harlow Pinson Indepth Learning Email: hpinson(a)indepthl.com Web: http://www.indepthl.com Voice: 505-994-2135 FAX: 208-475-7678

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RE: [Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Keep in mind that my production setup is still using Zope 2.3.2. YMMV. The only downside we found from hacking the splitter was that wildcard searches on single character keywords are bad, bad, bad (they consume a lot of resources). We are working on addressing this on an application by application basis (with our classifieds application, we rewrite users queries anyways to auto-add wildcards to words longer than 3 characters, so checking and this and stripping the wildcards from the search should be possible for words of 2 or less characters). Numbers cause no problems, for us, at least. Again, this was with Zope 2.3.2... Sean -----Original Message----- From: Richard Jones [mailto:richard@bizarsoftware.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:46 PM To: sean.upton(a)uniontrib.com; andreas(a)zope.com; c.duncan(a)nlada.org; zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers On Wednesday 14 November 2001 08:26, sean.upton(a)uniontrib.com wrote: > I think I'd have to jump on the bandwagon and agree that numbers should not > be stripped. I'll second the idea of a fish-bowl proposal. > > In a full text search of classified ads, for example, one wants to search > for a 2000 Ford F150; in Zope 2.3.x, Splitter.c stripped out both 2000 and > F150. The change was easy: just replace isalpha() with isalnum() in the > relevant part of the code. I'm not sure what the story is in 2.4, but it > sounds like people searching for a year 2000 truck are going to find ads > for ones built in 1982. This is the behaviour we want - have you experienced any negative side-effects from doing this? > I use a modified Splitter.so that allows numbers, as well as one-character > words, so people can search for "c programmer" in the classified ads. > > I'm curious about a few other things (that I really haven't tested): > - How does Zope's splitter handle hyphenated words? > - Is there a way to split words with period characters reliably, supposing > I wanted to be able to search for terms like "yahoo.com" or "Splitter.so" > or "Microsoft .NET" in text? ... or e-mail addresses. We currently sub the "@" and "." chars in e-mail addresses with "_" so they are indexed usefully. In your more case, I'm not sure that'd be appropriate. If you only have "keywords" in your TextIndex, I suppose the only stop chars you'd want are whitespace, and everything else is in. > I would think that the appropriate default behavior for ZopeSplitter would > be relaxed about stripping out things. My concern is that there's _specific_ code in there that does this stuff, and I want to know if there'll be any negative consquences of changing its behaviour... Richard

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jcNTUserFolder & domain users
by Kevin Lewandowski 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

I'd like to add remote domain users to a local group on my server, then have jcntuserfolder see those domain users. Is this possible? It looks like it can only see local nt users.. thanks -Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com

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ZSwGenerator
by Jacob Singh 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Does anyone use this? It looks really cool, but I can't figure out how the swift-generator script fits in. If you want to find out about this Product (a wrapper for swift-generator for on the fly flash content) Check out http://www.zope.org/Members/sherpya/ZSwGenerator

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RE: [Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

I think I'd have to jump on the bandwagon and agree that numbers should not be stripped. I'll second the idea of a fish-bowl proposal. In a full text search of classified ads, for example, one wants to search for a 2000 Ford F150; in Zope 2.3.x, Splitter.c stripped out both 2000 and F150. The change was easy: just replace isalpha() with isalnum() in the relevant part of the code. I'm not sure what the story is in 2.4, but it sounds like people searching for a year 2000 truck are going to find ads for ones built in 1982. I use a modified Splitter.so that allows numbers, as well as one-character words, so people can search for "c programmer" in the classified ads. I'm curious about a few other things (that I really haven't tested): - How does Zope's splitter handle hyphenated words? - Is there a way to split words with period characters reliably, supposing I wanted to be able to search for terms like "yahoo.com" or "Splitter.so" or "Microsoft .NET" in text? I would think that the appropriate default behavior for ZopeSplitter would be relaxed about stripping out things. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jung [mailto:andreas@zope.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:08 AM To: Casey Duncan; richard(a)bizarsoftware.com.au; zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers Zope 2.4.X allows to have multiple splitters. So you can write your own splitter. The only disadvantage is that there is currently no offical API (except monkeypatching) to add custom splitters (but there is a already a proposal in the fishbowl to address this problem). Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Duncan" <c.duncan(a)nlada.org> To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas(a)andreas-jung.com>; <richard(a)bizarsoftware.com.au>; <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 13:52 Subject: Re: [Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers > On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:05 am, Andreas Jung allegedly wrote: > > The answer is - as always - in the sources ;-) The splitting algorithm is > > pretty dumb. Roughly spoken it splits the text in words but not into > > numbers. > > To test the splitter try this: > > > > from ZopeSplitter import ZopeSplitter > > print list(ZopeSplitter('abc 123 t353 nmj')) > > > > gives ['abc', 't353', 'nmj'] > > > > > > Andreas > > Has there been any thought in changing this behavior? I smell a fish bowl > prop... > > /---------------------------------------------------\ > Casey Duncan, Sr. Web Developer > National Legal Aid and Defender Association > c.duncan(a)nlada.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 )

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RE: Experience with Zope and Access
by Schmidt, Allen J. 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Well, not really an issue now. Following Tom P's advice (and something that should have been obvious, I added new indexes to the 3 tables I was pulling from and the query went from 35 seconds to 2 inside Zope using MySQL...I can live with that. The last Access connection will be dropped within minutes... Thanks to all who responded... Allen -----Original Message----- From: Harlow Pinson [mailto:hpinson@indepthl.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:28 PM To: Schmidt, Allen J. Subject: RE: Experience with Zope and Access Hi Allen, >only until the next query comes in. Yes > Example Well, this is what I use in Cold Fusion:  <cfquery datasource="#Application.DSN#">Delete locked .ldb datafile on server now</cfquery> In Zope and ZSQL Method something like: (using the DSN) SELECT something_bogus FROM some table; Harlow Pinson Indepth Learning Email: hpinson(a)indepthl.com Web: http://www.indepthl.com Voice: 505-994-2135 FAX: 208-475-7678

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