I just found out that I forgot to cc this to the list: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Zope] External files Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:59:33 +0200 From: Thomas Olsen <tol@tanghus.dk> To: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> OK - I'll try to be a bit more clear :-) The File('www/my.jar') was simply my unqualified guess that when you could make a DTMLMethod object using DTMLFile('dtml/editForm', globals()) then maybe you could create a File Object doing something similar ;-} - but that wasn't so... What I wan't to do is to create some File objects using python containing a jar file (application/x-jar) and a java class file (application/x-java). When I do it using the web management screens (Select type to add... => File) everything works ok but I cant find out how to do it programmatically. On Tuesday 10 July 2001 20:30, you wrote:

Thomas Olsen writes:

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This is propably an FAQ but I couldn't find an answer to it: I'm extending a product which has a java applet on one of the management screens. How do I get the class file and the jar? I've tried something like:

--cut------------- def my_jar(self, REQUEST): return self._my_jar

_my_jar = File('www/my.jar') --cut-------------

but that absolutely didn't work...

And what happened?

A few more questions (we need more context):

* what is the "File" above. Where did you get it from?

* usually, you should not simply return objects but rather their content.

If "_my_jar" is really a "OFS.Image.File" object, then you may succeed, as ZPublisher will convert the object returned into a string, which give the content for a "File" object.

Dieter

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