sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:

I really like the idea of extending OFS:File to support different file types, but what I would like to see is something that is format/filter/library agnostic.

Please have a look at the "Hookable PUT" proposal (which has already been implemented for 2.3): http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/Proposals/HookablePUTCreation This project adds an API to the handler for HTTP/FTP PUT requests to non-existent objects (so that you can specify/tweak the object which is created). Handling PUT in the object directly (for WebDAV/FTP/HTTP "uploads") would be the job of your File-like object. The PTK's content objects do this now, for limited types of content (structured text with RFC822-style headers for the metadata); we plan to add other filters there, as well. We'd be glad of your help definining the API. Could you take the text of your message and create a "fishbowl" proposal with it on the dev.zope.org site? Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org