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KeywordIndex: Find empty list?
by Thomas Güttler 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi! Is it possible to find the objects which have an empty list with a KeywordIndex? If I search for {myattribute:[]} I get all objects returned. thomas

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no 'operator' query option with zctextindex?
by Richard Ettema 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi, I'm currently upgrading a site to run on 2.6.1 (previously 2.5.1). I have been testing the search facility with textindex replaced with zctextindex. ZCTextIndex Settings: 1. Okapi BM25 Rank Lexicon Settings: 1. Splitter 2. CaseNormalizer 3. StopWordAndSingleCharRemover If I do a search on the text 'bike helmet' (without quotes) I would like any item with the word 'bike' or 'helmet' to be returned. (An 'OR' search by default). The user has the ability to choose a drop-down for "any words" or "all words" to over-ride the default to an "OR" or "AND". This passes the chosen 'operator' to the catalog with {'query':'bike helmet', 'operator':'or'}. ZCTextIndex only returns items matching the whole phrase "bike helmet", the original textindex worked fine by matching the individual words. I have found in zctextindex.py the query options available is only the 'query'. Is there a reason why zctextindex doesn't allow an operator to be passed like textindex? TextIndex was working fine, I am interested in using ZCTextIndex for its improved relevance scoring. Also a question about the relevance scoring. Is the relevance score of returned items available in the results, or something to pass to make them available? Thanks for your help with this. Richard --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.493 / Virus Database: 292 - Release Date: 25/06/03

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Highly Available Zope
by David A. Riggs 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

From my understanding of ZEO, a single ZODB is shared between multiple Zope application clients, giving a performance boost by offloading onto the multiple app clients. This leaves the ZODB machine as a single point of failure. We've had success in the past using DRBD to make relational databases highly available across multiple machines, I'm curious if anyone has done something similar to make the ZODB highly available in this manner, or if I'm misunderstanding a part of ZEO which handles this single point of failure. Thanks! -- - David A. Riggs <lukewarm(a)ultrasoul.com>

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Re: [Zope] Zope Freezing up with multiple threads accessing objects.
by Etienne Labuschagne 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

At 09:21 PM 16/7/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Etienne Labuschagne wrote at 2003-7-16 00:48 +0200: > > ... > > The above is abbreviated, but I can send you a more verbose list with > stack > > traces for each step. I printed out the > > threading.currentThread().getName()s every step to check which threads > are > > doing what. > >I am not really interested in a detailed log :-) > >"Storage._transaction" is set in "tpc_begin" and reset in >"tpc_abort" and "tpc_finish". > >When the check "transaction is self._transaction" fails, >look at "self._transaction". >When is is None, then >someone (maybe a different thread) called "tpc_abort" or "tpc_finish" >or (not likely "tpc_begin" was not executed). >When it is not None, then its value specifies the transaction >that most recently executed "tpc_begin". This must be a different >thread (since there is one transaction per thread and "transaction" >is ours). > > >Dieter Hi there, Thanks again for the pointers above - I helped me find my problem. I made one critically wrong assumption: I assumed a piece of code that I called doesn't change any ZODB objects, so I need not call get_transaction().commit() or abort(). Well, the code DID change a Zope object! This had the wonderful side effect that the object stayed in the Transaction object. This would probably have the effect of causing a memory leak, but for one thing: since Transactions are identified according to thread ids, and thread ids are re-used after previous threads using them exited (well, in Windows anyway), new threads ended up using Transaction objects which still have uncommitted objects in them. These objects are then mixed with the new thread's changed objects which has the same effect as changing ZODB objects from multiple threads - (so you WERE right saying I changed objects from multiple threads! ;) I assume it is safe to call get_transaction().abort() if I'm not sure if the code changed anything and doesn't care if changes are lost? This is probably better than having unfinished transactions lurking around to bite me. Thanks again! Etienne

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Running an instance of Zope (with INSTANCE_HOME) as a windows service
by Sune W�ller 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi all, i have been trying to set several instances of zope up on one server (each runningon a different port number or ip), and have succeeded in creating an instance following the recipe here: http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome This means that each instance runs on the same zope-install, but with each their own data, products etc. (still dont know what to do about zope.cgi, though) But i would like each instance to run as a service under windows 2k. Any suggestions ?? I'm running zope 2.6.1 is it possible to see the code for the install script (that registers the zope install as a service) somewhere ? greetings, Sune B. Woeller

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Issue Tracker
by Christophe Cornil 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi all, I'm newbie in zope. I saw that there's an opportunity to use a issue tracker (http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/IssueTrackerProduct) But one thing I don't understand for the installation is the CVS stuff. What am I sensing to do? Browse the CVS Root? Install a CVS client and do something? Thanks

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Inconsistent property values
by Miguel Lara Alday 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi! We have a python script which updates a property. When we go to see the property management form we see the correct values, but when we reload it we get sometimes the new values, sometimes the previous values and sometimes even older values. The same happened with an python script we made to display the property values we need to change. Is it some kind of object caching? Is there a way to stop Zope from using old values of an updated property? Miguel Lara Alday

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Re: [Zope] Zope Freezing up with multiple threads accessing objects.
by Etienne Labuschagne 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

>> Etienne Labuschagne wrote at 2003-7-14 13:29 +0200: >> > Ok, I have narrowed down my problem to the following, when calling >> > get_transaction().commit(), the : >> > ... >> > in ZODB.BaseStorage.BaseStorage >> > >> > tpc_finish line 155: if transaction is not self._transaction: return >> >> It appears as if the same connection were used in two different >> threads. Do not do that... >> >> >> Dieter Hi Dieter, That was my initial though too (since that was how I was originally introduced to opening my own connections!). I'm quite sure it's not that as a typical debug run would go like this: Thread 703 - Start of Commit Thread 703 - Acquire DB Lock Thread 703 - Release DB Lock Thread 703 - Acquire DB Lock Thread 703 - End of Commit The above is abbreviated, but I can send you a more verbose list with stack traces for each step. I printed out the threading.currentThread().getName()s every step to check which threads are doing what. Coming to think of it, the above probably only proves that the commit happens in one thread, not that the objects that are committed weren't changed by multiple threads. Anyway, I will go through my code with a fine comb again as me being sure I don't use a connector from different threads does not mean it isn't so! At the least I will try and give more information trying to prove it isn't so :) Thanks anyway. Etienne

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IOError when packing database
by hostmaster 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi, I am getting this error every time I try to pack my database from the web interface: ------------ Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. IOError Sorry, a site error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 150, in publish_module * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 114, in publish * Module Zope, line 171, in zpublisher_exception_hook * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 98, in publish * Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object * Module App.ApplicationManager, line 353, in manage_pack * Module ZODB.DB, line 499, in pack * Module ZODB.FileStorage, line 1440, in pack IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ------------ My 'Data.fs' files are all owned by 'apache' user and I start my Zope server with a '-u apache' command line. Could someone please tell me what is going on. Thanks.

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Locked out of acl_users
by Kevin Rattai 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Not realizing what I was doing would be a _bad_ thing, I mistakenly changed the default manager account to a ownership account. All other users are ownership, not manager. Now, I cannot get into acl_user regardless of what user I try to log in as. I keep getting: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: Unauthorized Error Value: You are not authorized to view this object. ~~~~~~~~~ Is there any way to get myself set back up as a manager? :-) thx, Kevin

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