[Grok-dev] Get files

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 3/19/10 16:33 , Sebastian Ware wrote:
> if you store files in src/[appname]/static they will be reachable with
>
>     host:port/[app_instance_name]/@@/[appname]/path/relative/to/
> static.pdf
>
> You can also create a view that returns files you have stored on the
> filesystem:
>
> class Index(grok.View):
>       grok.name('index.html')
>       grok.require('zope.Public')
>
>       def render(self):
>           self.response.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'inline')

You probably want to provide a filename with that header as well.

>           self.response.setHeader('Content-Type',
> self.context.content_type)
>           file = open('local/file/system/path.pdf', 'rb')
>           data = file.read()
>           file.close()
>
>           return data

This works, but a performance killer when serving large files since 
you'll keep a thread blocked during the download. You should to able to 
return a file iterator instead.

Wichert.