Hello everyone,
We are currently developing a web application utilizing Zope and our own ZODB database. We have a few DTML documents that call external methods (written in Python).
We would like to open a ZODB connection to a database and keep it open while passing the actual connection instance to other external methods which process/manipulate/return the dynamic data of the web pages. We have tried to use Netscape cookies to store a ZODB connection instance returned from an external method 'dbOpenConn' and pass the value of the cookie (ZODB connection instance) as a parameter to the 'dbCloseConn'. This only works in the following DTML document.
<dtml-var standard_html_header> <h3><dtml-var welcomeMCIF></h3> <form action="" name="form1" method="post"> <dtml-let retobj=dbOpenConn> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setCookie('wrkaround',retobj)"> <dtml-var "dbCloseConn(REQUEST.RESPONSE.cookies.get('wrkaround')['value'])"> </dtml-let> <input type="hidden" name="rt_from" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="rt_to" value="1"> <p><input type="submit" name="home2.html:action" value="Request CU Information"></p> <table name="home1"> <tr valign="top"> <td align="left"><a href="mrm">Member Service Tracking</a> |</td> <td align="left"><a href="mkt">Marketing Tracking</a></td> </tr> </table> </form> <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
We cannot pass the ZODB connection instance to the next page and then as a parameter to a 'dbCloseConn' on that page because ZODB instances cannot be stored in a session variable, Python cookie, or another class attribute (result: Unpickleable error). We can use a volatile attribute _v_ to store the instance temporarily, but not throughout the session.
We have also tried to pass a string representation to pages and call 'dbReturnDtml' to try and evaluate the string and put it in a command line to execute. The command line is 'dbCloseConn(<ZODB.Connection.Connection instance at 0xc098804>)' . Using rexec.RExec r_exec gives us the following error:
Zope Error
Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
Error Type: SyntaxError Error Value: invalid syntax (line 1)
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Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 159, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: mcif) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply (Object: home2.html) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object (Object: home2.html) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLDocument.py, line 127, in __call__ (Object: home2.html) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 473, in __call__ (Object: home2.html) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py, line 76, in render (Object: strrobj="_['wrkaround']") File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py, line 75, in render (Object: robj="dbReturnDtml(strrobj)") File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 159, in eval (Object: dbReturnDtml(strrobj)) (Info: dbReturnDtml) File <string>, line 2, in f File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMetho d.py, line 198, in __call__ (Object: dbReturnDtml) (Info: (('<ZODB.Connection.Connection instance at 0xc098804>',), {}, None)) File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/Extensions/mcif_driver.py, line 42, in dbReturnDtml File /usr/local/lib/python2.1/rexec.py, line 264, in r_exec SyntaxError: (see above)
Is there a way to get this to work or can anyone suggest a better way or better yet, the right way? The Python external method code we are using is provide below.
Your input is much appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support!
##mcif_driver.py (Zope external methods source)##
import os import rexec import modAccounts import Globals import string from Products.PythonScripts.standard import DTML
def dbOpenConn(fname='/usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/mcif.fs'): manager = modAccounts.ManageMCIF() print "Set connection to MCIF database" conn = manager.conDatabase(fname) print "Set!" print "Set instances to MCIF database" manager.iniInstances(conn) print "Set!" #manager.storeSession(conn) return conn
def dbCloseConn(dbconObj,fname='/usr/local/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/mcif.fs'): manager = modAccounts.ManageMCIF() manager.cloDatabase(dbconObj,fname) print "Connection closed successfully!!!"
def dbReturnDtml(objstr):
myString = '<dtml-var expr="dbCloseConn(' + objstr +')">' cmdline = eval("'dbCloseConn(' + objstr + ')'") print eval("cmdline") cotrll = rexec.RExec() cotrll.r_exec(cmdline) #error occurs with r_exec myDTML = DTML(myString) return myDTML()
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