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medusa and RESPONSE.redirects
by Dr. Ross Lazarus 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

I guess like me, many people are using methods which are "terminated" logically with a call to RESPONSE.redirect - this is what the prototype ZClass add function does for example. I never thought about it before, but checking some debug.log output, I found complaints about requests not ending which I immediately recognised as being methods which use redirects to avoid the "saved, click here to continue" type of unpleasant user experience..... Does zope's server mind the fact that potentially large numbers of transactions of this type (which appear not to end) might accumulate under load ? Might this induce any instability or resource leakage ?

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Re: [Zope] Installation help
by Michael Hamilton 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

If you're just starting out this might be a simpler way to go: How-To: Using Apache with ZServer (NOT Zope.cgi) http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver Here's the introductory paragraph: "The existing How-To's for combining Zope with the popular Apache server mostly require you to use the CGI interface to Zope, instead of the much faster, multithreaded ZServer. This incurs a big penalty in startup overhead for each run of the CGI, and it forces single threading of the Zope database." On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install Zope on my machine(SuSE 6.3, apache 1.3.9) with > FastCGI and am having a very tough time. > --- Michael Hamilton ( http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/michael.hamilton )

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Storing images in a database (sybase)
by jiva＠devware.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Can anyone point me to a howto or just give me some info on how I can display (from zope) images (like .gif's etc) that are stored in a database (sybase)? Thanks! -- If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. You're the sucker.

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[Fwd: Re: [Zope] Detecting which form button is pushed?]
by Michel Pelletier 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Zope] Detecting which form button is pushed? Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:11:13 -0800 From: Michel Pelletier <michel(a)digicool.com> To: Hung Jung Lu <hungjunglu(a)hotmail.com> CC: lstaffor(a)dynalogic.com, brett(a)pulse.itd.uts.edu.au References: <20000220180227.26691.qmail(a)hotmail.com> Hung Jung Lu wrote: > > >From: "Loren Stafford" <lstaffor(a)dynalogic.com> > >I don't know much about it, because I've never used it, but there Zope > >supports a ":method" type that you can but on form variables or on button > >names. Then Zope concatenates the name with the "action" value to create an > >action unique to the button. > > > >You'll have to search around for the details. Hope that helps. > > That helps a whole world. :) Thanks! It works exactly the > way you have described. > > I keep running into this kind of JavaScript tricks... > arghhh... those "...:..." tags. Now I know there are > "mySelection:list", "myMethod:method", "myVar:int", etc. > These kinds of little tiny patches makes JavaScript > look like Perl. :) This isn't javascript, this is all Zope. What Loren was explaining was a qualifier for ZPublisher's type marshaling mechanism. For example, in a form you can have: <input name="bob:int"> And ZPublisher will marshal the value from this input into a python integer (if it can, if it can't, it raises an error). 'method' is another qualifier that can be used, and it's a bit magical. Suppose you had a Folder called 'foo' with three DTML Methods in them called 'A', 'B', and 'C'. In an HTML form you could have the following code: <form action="URLtoFolder" method="POST"> <input type="submit" name="A:method" value="This will call A"> <input type="submit" name="B:method" value="This will call B"> <input type="submit" name="C:method" value="This will call C"> </form> Pressing a different button each time will call a different method. This is also quite a bit more graceful and flexible than a bunch of <dtml-if> statements to determine which button was pressed. -Michel

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Sybase DA Problems...
by jiva＠devware.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

I'm trying to use the sybase 2.0b2 db connector with sybase 11.9.2 and though it builds okay, when I go to zope, it shows up as a broken project with the following dump: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/OFS/Application.py", line 393, in import_products product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly) File "/usr/local/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/Products/SybaseDAv2/__init__.py", line 90, in ? import DA File "/usr/local/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/Products/SybaseDAv2/DA.py", line 91, in ? from db import DB File "/usr/local/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/Products/SybaseDAv2/db.py", line 87, in ? import sy_occ, string, DateTime ImportError: No module named sy_occ What's wrong? -- The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- Buckminster Fuller

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How safe is "view management screens"?
by Lalo Martins 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Since one of my sites doesn't use any password-protected database connection, or anything else that I can't let my users see, and since the site is primarily directed at the Free Software community, I'm considering a way of allowing users to view all my source code. Just adding a ``view source'' method may not cut it, because cross-method calls would obscure a lot of the thing. I was thinking that perhaps the most easy and powerful way would be giving ``View management screens'' to Anonymous. Assuming I don't give them any add/change/delete permissions, that should be safe enought, no? Or am I missing something? (If I can do that, it would be also very cool because I'd be showing off what Zope can do. Of course I'd have to make the Products I use available for download somewhere else, but that's a given anyway.) []s, |alo +---- -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@webcom.com pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --- http://www.debian.org Brazil of Darkness -- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar

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Re: [Zope] how does dtml-if evaluate REQUEST variables?
by J C Lawrence 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:32:25 +0100 Ulrich Wisser <u.wisser(a)luna-park.de> wrote: > <dtml-if entryid> > evalutes true when > http://server/dtml.doc?entryid=0 > is called. I thought 0 would evaluate to false. How can I tell > dtml to evalute to false? In case you haven't gotten a reply already (I don't see one on quick scan). My observation is that when variables are passed in the URL they aee typed as strings, and thus you end up with (effectively): entryid="0" which most certainly isn't false. Try this: <dtml-if "_.int(entryid)"> -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Re: data.fs corruption
by alan runyan 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

I hope you dont mind, but im cc'ing the list-- ppl need to see this one of the scariest things i can imagine is a customer calling up saying the entire *monolithic* database is corrupt. the entire workday would grind to a halt and someone would have to jump through lots of hoops to just get the database (zope filesystem) back in order :(((( this is unacceptable (period) for some of the uses i had in store for Zope. is zope going to support multiple databases? jim f. said the ZODB is a SPOF -- are there any plans on fixing this? is there anyway to 'block all writes' while backing up the ZODB? w/o taking the entire website down/mostly reads anyways? is there a way you can 'scan' to see if the ZODB is intact? i.e. having a process scan the ZODB and return whether or not it is valid? what was the 'offending' transaction? thanks ~alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Adam Kendall" <mak(a)kha0s.org> To: "alan runyan" <runyaga(a)thisbox.com> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:52 AM Subject: RE: data.fs corruption > Of course, you probably aren't going to like this answer, > but I spent about 4.5 hours with the Tranalyzer product, > and a good hex editor hacking away at my Data.fs. The good > news: I recovered all my data. The bad news: I have alot > less hair now.. > > I basically used Tranalyzer to figure out where it blew up, > and then from the comments in FileStorage.py in the Zope source > I was able to figure out the file format for the Data.fs. At > least I knew how many bytes record/field lengths were supposed > to be. Then using the hex editor I manipulated the Data.fs until > I had ripped out the offending transaction record. > > Worked like a charm but was a very long drawn out process.. > I would say that Digital Creations needs to provide a tool > for easy data recover from corrupt Data.fs. > > Adam >

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TextIndex of DTMLDocument
by Sin Hang Kin 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

How can I make a TextIndex of the textual content of DTMLDocument? I do not known what name is to place in the Add Index : Box. Rgs, Kent Sin

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Modify an objet
by Francois-Regis CHALAOUX 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Thanks for my previous question on PARENTS. I'm so stupid, python slices are so cool. Another question : <dtml-call "mePerso.manage_changeProperties({ 'company':'world-company', 'name':'Sylvestre', 'surname':'joe', 'e-mail':name+'.'name+'@'+idomain, 'idomain':'world-company' })"> should change my object properties. But nothing append Any suggestion? mePerso is an instance of ZClass I created. FR

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