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Getting to the properties as a sequence or dictionary
by albert boulanger 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

I want to write something like: defvar  {  -   }; In order to write something like defvar max_processors { -type int -min 1 -max 24 -default 24 -balloon "Max Processors" -label "Max Processors" }; Where max_processors is a dtml document and the attributes are properties of the document. What is the ???? that is need to access the properties of a document? All examples I have seen explicitly name the properties. I don't want to do it this way since there may be varying properties. (This is part of a tclet script built dynamically from DTML.) Also, is there a utility to take a tarball (say from the export feature of BSCW) and make a zope doc tree from it? Regards, Albert Boulanger aboulanger(a)ldeo.columbia.edu

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ANN: Zope XML-RPC!
by Eric Kidd 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Hello! As some of you may have guessed, I've finally gotten around to implementing XML-RPC for Zope. You can thank the following people: * Jim Fulton of Digital Creations, for adding XML-RPC hooks to ZPublisher and answering my stupid questions. * Fredrik Lundh of PythonWare, for his excellent Python XML-RPC module. * Dave Winer of UserLand Software, who wrote the XML-RPC spec (and who pays my salary). Please give all your thanks to these folks; they really *did* do all of the work. However, I may have plugged their components together incorrectly, so send all the blame and hate mail to me. :-) What is XML-RPC? ---------------- XML-RPC is a very simple RPC protocol that runs over HTTP. The function name and arguments are encoded as XML. XML-RPC isn't the fastest way to call a function on remote server, but it might be one of the easier to understand. (See http://www.xmlrpc.com/ for details.) An XML-RPC request looks like this: POST /z2/ 1.0 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 170 <?xml version='1.0'?> <methodCall> <methodName>test.string_length</methodName> <params> <param> <value><string>foo</string></value> </param> </params> </methodCall> The response looks like this: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 122 Content-Type: text/xml <?xml version='1.0'?> <methodResponse> <params> <param> <value><int>3</int></value> </param> </params> </methodResponse> Fredrik Lundh of PythonWare wrote a very nice XML-RPC library for Python. (See http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/ to get a copy.) Using his code, I could call the above function as: >>> import xmlrpclib >>> s = xmlrpclib.Server("http://localhost/z2/") >>> s.test.string_length("foo") 3 In other words, XML-RPC lets you treat a remote Zope object almost like a local Python object. Think of it as a super-simple cousin to CORBA and DCOM, and you'll get the right idea. XML-RPC for Zope ---------------- Thanks to all the aforementioned people, you can now use Zope as an XML-RPC server. It's easy. Here's the source code for 'test.string_length', which is loaded into Zope as an ordinary external method: def string_length(string): return len(string) See what I meant by "easy"? To use XML-RPC for Zope, you'll need to get the latest version of Zope from CVS and read the release notes on UserLand's site: http://linux.userland.com/stories/storyReader$18 Future Directions ----------------- Zope XML-RPC still has a few rough edges. If you discover any bugs which aren't mentioned on the site, or have any ideas for improvement, drop me a line. Thank you to all the people who helped out! Cheers, Eric

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RE: [Zope] how do I calculate a value in DTML ?
by Alexander Staubo 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Here's one way:  Yes, I know, it's a little lame; there should be a way to deal with temporary variables without associating them with REQUEST. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "It has taken the planet Earth 4.5 billion years to discover it is 4.5 billion years old." --George Wald >-----Original Message----- >From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of >Joachim Schmitz >Sent: 22. juni 1999 22:33 >To: zope(a)zope.org >Subject: [Zope] how do I calculate a value in DTML ? > > > >hi, > >this is certainly a silly question, but I don't find an example for it. > >I simply want to do for example: > >i = i + 1 without displaying the value. > >Gruß > >Joachim Schmitz > > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, >zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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how do I calculate a value in DTML ?
by Joachim Schmitz 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

hi, this is certainly a silly question, but I don't find an example for it. I simply want to do for example: i = i + 1 without displaying the value. Gruß Joachim Schmitz

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RE: [Zope] Updating object's modification timestamp?
by Brian Lloyd 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

> Is there any way of updating an object's modification timestamp > (_p_mtime or bobobase_modification_time(), from what I gather from the > sources) programmatically through Python? How? Sure - just modify the object ;) The modification time reflects the last time the object was actually modified in the db, and is _depended on_ by the database, so you should not try to modify it yourself... Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Updating object's modification timestamp?
by Alexander Staubo 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Is there any way of updating an object's modification timestamp (_p_mtime or bobobase_modification_time(), from what I gather from the sources) programmatically through Python? How? -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "It has taken the planet Earth 4.5 billion years to discover it is 4.5 billion years old." --George Wald

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RE: [Zope] New version of mod_pcgi
by Paul Everitt 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Martijn wrote: > >But I'd like to hold off on that and see > >if people really run multiple Zope processes on the same server. > > Of course they will. Especially Zope hosting providers want > to do this. ZDP > runs alongside other Zope processes on one Apache server. And with the client-server commercial version of ZODB, people can spread one logical object system (website) across multiple Zope applications. Though mod_pcgi doesn't need to think about this within the next two months, very quickly after that we'll be interested in how requests get routed to a Zope. I *only* bring this up as an FYI. This isn't something that needs attention yet. The focus should be on accomplishing what the current PCGI does, but in a easier to figure out and higher performance way. --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909 ----------------------------------------- The Open Source Zope application server http://www.zope.org/ -----------------------------------------

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Zope Network Clients ?
by Petru Paler 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

What are Zope Network Clients ? I saw a reference on them at the bottom of the ZSQL guide. -Petru

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Hoeray!
by Tom Deprez 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Hoeray! My site reached the 1000siest visitor. Thanks all for passing by. >From yesterday on : a new topic, named news : In which you can find a summary of Amos's weekly news. Handy for finding these links.... Regards, Tom.

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two different trees in one dtml method
by Clarence T. Pate 22 Jun '99

22 Jun '99

Hey all, I am trying to create two different trees in one DTML Method, and I am failing miserably. The first tree works fine, but the second gives an error message: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'append'. If I comment out the first tree, the second tree will work. I have a folder called trouble. Inside the folder are two folders - answers and questions. Inside of the index_html for trouble I have the following:  <SPAN CLASS="tree">  </SPAN>   <SPAN CLASS="tree">  </SPAN>  It is not necessary for me to be able to do this, but any help would be appreciated. Clarence

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