Sounds like you're running into pesky persistence problems. In essence, your objects don't live in memory, they live on disk. They get tossed and reloaded more or less at random. As a result, things like threads, file handles, and network or database connections require special tricks. I see two options for you. 1) Xron or some similar separate scheduler product. 2) Module scoped objects If you have an object with module scope, it will persist in memory for the server lifetime. You should be able to make a thread object that lives there. However, I've never tried to access Zope objects from a module object, only vice versa. Given the strangeness that is acquisition, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work. OTOH, xron does manage to do something like this, so it clearly must be possible.
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of GimsMail Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Polling a folder
Hi all,
What's the best way to Poll a folder in Zope (I want to check the folder every now and again for new items, perform some actions, etc.)
I have tried creating a polling object that runs a loop in a thread and does the work I want it to do. I do this with a Zope Object inheriting from SimpleItem.SimpleItem. I invoke this object's run method in a thread with thread.start_new_thread(self.run,()). Zope doesn't seem too happy if I inherit from SimpleItem.SimpleItem and threading.Thread at the same time!
The strange thing is I get acquisition problems that I'm battling to solve.
Things like: self.aq_parent.Tables.id == 'Tables' self.aq_parent.Tables.QMessages.id == 'Tables' (??? Seems like QMessages is the same object as Tables) self.aq_parent.Tables.QMessages.sqlGet() == Attribute Error (it claims sqlGet does not exist, it does).
Also, when using the ZMI to navigate to the offending folder (to see if the folders are there etc.) then the acquisition will suddenly start working again.
I'm not sure if the fact that I'm polling in a thread has got anything to do with my problems, but I am sure that I'm sooooo confused!
Etienne
P.S. I'm currently battling Outlook to get it to send Plain Text mails, so please bear with me if this is in HTML!
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