You may want to try the ZSyncer product: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/ZSyncer Anyhow, here you have some hints for your current purpose:

myAction is 'manage_addPythonScript'

myAction should be 'manage_addProduct/PythonScripts/manage_addPythonScript' . PythonScripts need to be created this way, when using an URL.

#### but the upload of the properties does not work params = urllib.urlencode({'id': prop, 'value':propValue,'type':propType})

That should work fine, for string properties. Nonetheless, try to add the type to the 'id' key: (untested) params = urllib.urlencode({'id': '%s:%s' % (prop, propType), 'value':propValue,'type':propType}) Ausum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elena Schulz" <elena.schulz@gmx.net> To: "Ausum Studio" <ausum_studio@hotmail.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] change properties in external methods (was get properties ....)

Hi Ausum,

ok I'll get more into detail even if some problems are already solved. I want to upload object's with properties of different meta_types from a local Zope to a remote Zope just via HTTP (no zexp etc. cause I have no access and cannot add any Products to the remote Zope) :-(

I will do it with an external method based on uploadfile.py @ zope-cookbook by pieterb

1. problem: I managed to upload files, folder, ... with title just python scripts don't work (I'll show the code later...) 2. problem: I cannot add other properties upto now

Can anybody give some hints?

-- many thanks for your replies, Elena

the relevant codesnippets:

import urllib

.....

# use authentication and set the user agent urllib._urlopener = MyUrlOpener()

.....

if objectType != 'Folder': objectSource = object.read() ### I get the script-body with bindings and params

if objectType == 'Script (Python)': params = urllib.urlencode({'id': objectId, 'file':objectSource}) ##### this doesn't work else: params = urllib.urlencode({'id': objectId, 'title':objectTitle, 'file':objectSource}) ##### this works nicely

myAction = actionDict[objectType] callURL = '/'.join([myHost, objPath, myAction]) ## if objectType == 'Script (Python)' myAction is 'manage_addPythonScript'

# send the file to zope f=urllib.urlopen(callURL, params) ##### this works nicely exept for 'Script (Python)' type

# add properties callURL = '/'.join([myHost, objPath, 'manage_addProperty']) for prop in object.propertyIds(): if prop != 'title' or objectType != 'Script (Python)': ### title exists already, scripts don't have properties propValue = object.getProperty(prop) propType = object.getPropertyType(prop) ### up to here it works

#### but the upload of the properties does not work params = urllib.urlencode({'id': prop, 'value':propValue, 'type':propType})

#urllib._urlopener = MyUrlOpener() ### I tried to set the opener again, but no change f=urllib.urlopen(callURL, params)