I am new to zope. I am looking for an application server. I want to know if I can call zope objects and methods from a script run OUTSIDE of zope (say python, to make it easy). Is this possible? So far, all the API/call information that I have found either relates to calling system functions (APIs) from inside methods, or calling external methods. Nothing about calling the app server from an external program. I get the impression that I have to execute an http call, and clumsily parse the output. Is this true, or is there something that I have overlooked in the output? The types of calls that I need to make is to search for objects with certain properties, create new objects, and update old objects. I need to retrieve object properties, and execute methods. I need to have basic security enforced (userid identification or userid/password). The reason why is that it is contractually necessary to provide an api into the server. Thanks, jr John Riehl
Hi John, Please see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/01/xmlrpc/index.html for information about using XML-RPC with Zope. - C ----- Original Message ----- From: <jr@i-bucks.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:18 PM Subject: [Zope] calling zope
I am new to zope. I am looking for an application server.
I want to know if I can call zope objects and methods from a script run OUTSIDE of zope (say python, to make it easy). Is this possible? So far, all the API/call information that I have found either relates to calling system functions (APIs) from inside methods, or calling external methods. Nothing about calling the app server from an external program.
I get the impression that I have to execute an http call, and clumsily parse the output. Is this true, or is there something that I have overlooked in the output?
The types of calls that I need to make is to search for objects with certain properties, create new objects, and update old objects. I need to retrieve object properties, and execute methods. I need to have basic security enforced (userid identification or userid/password).
The reason why is that it is contractually necessary to provide an api
into
the server.
Thanks,
jr John Riehl
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jr@i-bucks.com writes:
I am new to zope. I am looking for an application server.
I want to know if I can call zope objects and methods from a script run OUTSIDE of zope (say python, to make it easy). Is this possible? You can.
You have already been pointed to XML-RPC. I think, you should go for this solution. But you can also use Python directly to access the ZODB. As only a single process can open the ZODB at any time (protected by a lock), you must either bring down Zope while your Python script makes modifications or you need to use ZEO. In this case, both Zope and your Python script would access the storage not directly but indirectly through the ZEO server.
I need to have basic security enforced (userid identification or userid/password). If you expose the ZODB interface directly, there will not be authentication or security restrictions. If your user get access to the Python interpreter and is allowed to "import ZODB", all security is lost.
That's a major reason to have the API external, e.g. through XML-RPC. Dieter
It only works on the local machine, so it's probably not what you want, but it's worth pointing out that you can connect to a running ZODB through the monitor_client. See docs/DEBUGGING.txt for info. seb * Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> [010619 20:31]:
jr@i-bucks.com writes:
I am new to zope. I am looking for an application server.
I want to know if I can call zope objects and methods from a script run OUTSIDE of zope (say python, to make it easy). Is this possible? You can.
You have already been pointed to XML-RPC. I think, you should go for this solution.
But you can also use Python directly to access the ZODB.
As only a single process can open the ZODB at any time (protected by a lock), you must either bring down Zope while your Python script makes modifications or you need to use ZEO. In this case, both Zope and your Python script would access the storage not directly but indirectly through the ZEO server.
I need to have basic security enforced (userid identification or userid/password). If you expose the ZODB interface directly, there will not be authentication or security restrictions. If your user get access to the Python interpreter and is allowed to "import ZODB", all security is lost.
That's a major reason to have the API external, e.g. through XML-RPC.
Dieter
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