RE: [Zope] ftp editing methods
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bund [mailto:asbund@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] ftp editing methods
Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) writes:
This has been discussed before. There should probably be some better system for sniffing uploaded content and trying to figure out what sort of Zope object to create. This could be based on
* file extensions * http headers * the content of the uploaded object * Zope preferences
This is a fairly complex problem. For example, there should be some way for you to specify that uploaded files with a given file extension create instances of a given Z Class.
I've been thinking about it (on the user-level-side) too. I'm far to new to Zope and Python to try to implement anything, but here are some ideas:
Use 'site exec' to provide commands of the form 'If the file has extension foo, it's a bla' or 'All files from now on should be interpreted as bar'...
This is an interesting proposition, granted, automated FTP tools probably wouldn't understand to use the command set we set up. For tools like Emacs however, we could hack the existing lisp code, and command line tools the user could just use the interface straight up.
Another idea would be to make it possible using site exec to set a flag, whether or not the files are up- and downloaded with or without HTTP-Headers. Then it would be possible, to set a Content-Type Header. And I would find it extremely useful, if I could set Attributes in those headers too, because I often have documents, which need a standard set of attributes and it would be nice, if it were possible to edit them together with the content.
This is possible, I don't know how hard it would be to impliment. It would also involve up coming up with a few of our own Content Types. -Michel
Just my 2c...
Stefan.
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michel@digicool.com (Michel Pelletier) writes:
Use 'site exec' to provide commands of the form 'If the file has extension foo, it's a bla' or 'All files from now on should be interpreted as bar'...
This is an interesting proposition, granted, automated FTP tools probably wouldn't understand to use the command set we set up. For tools like Emacs however, we could hack the existing lisp code, and command line tools the user could just use the interface straight up.
Emacs was the tool i was thinking about ... :-) Stefan.
Would it be possible to have a comment of some sort on the top line of the file that would tell the server what type of file that it is? On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bund [mailto:asbund@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] ftp editing methods
Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) writes:
This has been discussed before. There should probably be some better system for sniffing uploaded content and trying to figure out what sort of Zope object to create. This could be based on
* file extensions * http headers * the content of the uploaded object * Zope preferences
This is a fairly complex problem. For example, there should be some way for you to specify that uploaded files with a given file extension create instances of a given Z Class.
I've been thinking about it (on the user-level-side) too. I'm far to new to Zope and Python to try to implement anything, but here are some ideas:
Use 'site exec' to provide commands of the form 'If the file has extension foo, it's a bla' or 'All files from now on should be interpreted as bar'...
This is an interesting proposition, granted, automated FTP tools probably wouldn't understand to use the command set we set up. For tools like Emacs however, we could hack the existing lisp code, and command line tools the user could just use the interface straight up.
Another idea would be to make it possible using site exec to set a flag, whether or not the files are up- and downloaded with or without HTTP-Headers. Then it would be possible, to set a Content-Type Header. And I would find it extremely useful, if I could set Attributes in those headers too, because I often have documents, which need a standard set of attributes and it would be nice, if it were possible to edit them together with the content.
This is possible, I don't know how hard it would be to impliment. It would also involve up coming up with a few of our own Content Types.
-Michel
Just my 2c...
Stefan.
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