February 2002 - Zope

Automatically import a zexp
by Tille, Andreas 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hello, as a Debian maintainer I wonder if there is any clean method to import zexp products by a script (not using the import method from a browser). The idea is that installing Python products is simple by copying the python code to the right place and restart zope. Works fine in the Debian postinst script. But what to do with zexp products. I tried a very dirty hack like ZOPEUSER="<place the name of Zope administrator here>" PASSWD="<and his password>" ## For sure this is insecure. ## You should find a secure way using debconf to maintain this!!!! IMPORT=<product-name>.zexp LC_ALL=en_EN HOST=localhost PORT=9673 wget --proxy=off --http-user=${ZOPEUSER} --http-pass=${PASSWD} \ http://${HOST}:${PORT}/Control_Panel/Products/${prod}/manage_importObject?file=${IMPORT} but I think I really do not have to tell you that this can not be the recommended way to go. Any other idea? Kind regards Andreas.

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Re: [Zope] passing a dtml-var to another method: dtml-let has no effect?
by Panos Hilaris 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Thanks for your answer. I am new to zope and even though I am reading the zope book, I have not grasped completely the namespace stuff. For my problem, I used something like: <dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('x','foo')"> Also, thanks for your link. With friendly salutations, Panos Hilaris >From: Dieter Maurer <dieter(a)handshake.de> >Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:37:37 +0100 >To: Panos Hilaris <philaris(a)yahoo.com> >Cc: zope(a)zope.org >Subject: Re: [Zope] passing a dtml-var to another method: dtml-let has no effect? > >Panos Hilaris writes: > > .... > > However, if I try: > > > > <dtml-let x="'foo'"> > > <dtml-call sqlDistinct> > > </dtml-let> > > > > where sqlDistinct is a ZSQL Method having an argument with the name x, > > I get a KeyError. > > ... >You do not read documentation? > > ZSQL Methods get their parameters either from REQUEST or (exclusive) > from keyword parameters passed in. > >Suggested reading: the Zope Book or > > <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html> >

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Structured Text & Variables
by Learned 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Thanks Andreas, that's almost got it, but it raised a new question on something I thought I understood. <ul> <dtml-in expr="objectIds('DTML Document')"> <li><a href="showdoc?docId=<dtml-var sequence-item>"><dtml-var sequence-item></a></li><br> </dtml-in> </ul> is what you suggested, and I changed it to show the title of the document thus: <ul> <dtml-in expr="objectIds('DTML Document')"> <li><a href="showdoc?docId=<dtml-var sequence-item>"><dtml-var sequence-var-title></a></li><br> </dtml-in> </ul> It still returns the DocID, not the title. I also tried using dtml-var title by itself as my assumption was within a dtml-in block, the current variables would point to what ever document was being referrenced as it has been pushed onto the top of the stack. Neither worked. What obvious element of sequence vars am I missing?

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dir in Extensions
by John Hunter 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I have some python code in various files in a subdir, and I want to be able to access some functions in that module as an External Method in python In python, I use it like 'from SomeFolder.SomeModule import some_func' but in my external method, when I put SomeFolder.SomeModule as the Module name in the external method dialog, I get an error that the Module could not be found even though SomeFolder/SomeModule.py is in the Extensions directory. Is it possible to create subdirectories of Zope/Extensions/ and use the dir.file syntax to access their contents? Thanks, John Hunter

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Can't get this SQL-based login to work...
by Robin Smidsrød 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I've tried to use the guide on http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/zope-List/445507 to make an SQL-capable acl_users using LoginManager. Everything looks ok, but when I try to log in as a user in the database, I get the following error: Error Type: KeyError Error Value: _v_parent Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 162, in publish File /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/ZPublisher/BaseRequest.py, line 450, in traverse File /var/zope/Products/LoginManager/LoginManager.py, line 237, in validate (Object: acl_users) File /var/zope/Products/LoginManager/LoginMethods.py, line 147, in findLogin (Object: Basic Auth Login) File /var/zope/Products/LoginManager/LoginManager.py, line 194, in getItem (Object: acl_users) File /var/zope/Products/ZPatterns/Rack.py, line 59, in getItem (Object: UserSource) File /var/zope/Products/LoginManager/UserSources.py, line 517, in retrieveItem (Object: UserSource) File /var/zope/Products/ZPatterns/Rack.py, line 235, in _RawItem (Object: UserSource) File /usr/share/zope/lib/python/OFS/CopySupport.py, line 480, in _setId (Object: ) File /var/zope/Products/ZPatterns/DataSkins.py, line 254, in __set_attr__ (Object: ) File /var/zope/Products/ZPatterns/DataSkins.py, line 240, in _canonicalForm (Object: ) KeyError: _v_parent Using: LoginManager-0-8-8b1 ZPatterns-0-4-3p2 Zope Version (Zope 2.4.3 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.1, linux2) Python Version 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 13 2001, 19:37:40) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)] I've been trying to find good documentation about this for several days now. A HOWTO would be greatly appreciated!!! -- Robin

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Deleting an object from ZCatalog search results
by Nuno Maltez 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi, What do you consider to be the easiest way to delete an object "returned" in a ZCatalog search. I can get the object by using getObject on the data_record_id_, but how can I delete it? Do I need to do some sort of traversal to the folder that contains the object? Is there a method for an object to delete itself? Something like <dtml-call "object.self_destruct()"> Thanks in advance, Nuno

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Structured Text (Again)
by Learned 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I'm sorry to be so dense about this, but I seem to be missing something fundamental. I see where you are going with that, but I'm still hitting a brick wall on one piece. Assume the following code is building my dynamic menu of documents: <ul> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('DTML Document')"> <li><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a></li><br> </dtml-in> </ul> how does the href get coded to utilize showdoc? I thought I had it, but any version I've tried abends on me. Thanks for your patience.

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Is there dev for ZopeLDAP ?
by olpa＠sybcom.de 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi there, I wanted to know if development has stop with ZopeLDAP or if there are any new bugfixes / modifications in this product... Greats... oliver --- Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched ? -- Calvin --- Oliver Pabst .-------------------------. mailto:olpa@sybcom.de : : phone :+49 681 56600600 : project department : SYBCOM GmbH fax :+49 681 56600660 : : http://www.sybcom.de

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RE: [Zope] Is there dev for ZopeLDAP ?
by Schmidt, Allen J. 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I may have a need for one to connect into Microsoft's Active Directory to get to some data stored therein. -----Original Message----- From: olpa(a)sybcom.de [mailto:olpa@sybcom.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:00 AM To: Jens Vagelpohl Cc: olpa(a)sybcom.de; zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Is there dev for ZopeLDAP ? On Today, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > Delivered-To: olpa(a)sybcom.de > Subject: Re: [Zope] Is there dev for ZopeLDAP ? > Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 08:59:59 -0500 > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > To: olpa(a)sybcom.de > From: Jens Vagelpohl <jens(a)zope.com> > > no there are not at this point > > jens How interesting is a LDAP-Method / connection for the community ? --- Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched ? -- Calvin --- Oliver Pabst .-------------------------. mailto:olpa@sybcom.de : : phone :+49 681 56600600 : project department : SYBCOM GmbH fax :+49 681 56600660 : : http://www.sybcom.de _______________________________________________ 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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Structured Text
by Learned 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I understand and have played with that aspect of presenting structured text. Where I am getting hung up is how to build a dynamic list of structured text documents and present them so they show up formatted. For example: FolderA: Document1 Document2 Document3 Document4 Assume all documents in FolderA are structured text documents. How can I build a list of all those documents on the fly in such a way that when the user selects one, he will get the display formatted. I understand how to display Structured Text, and I understand how to build a list of links, but I don't see how to tie the two together. > To display a DTML Document as structured text you must use > the following: > <dtml-var yourStxDocument format="structured-text"> > - aj

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