[Grok-dev] how to read config from zope.conf

[Christian Klinger]

Hey Shrek,

i think the following steps are needed to read a custom configuration 
form zope.conf...

1) You have to create your config at the end of the etc/zope.conf.ini file:

# Extra configuration lines can be added to zope_conf's extra option. 
Put for
# instance productconf sections in here.
${zope_conf:extra}

<product-config database>
    dbname oracle
</product-config>

2) run bin/buildout

3) To access theses configuration in your python module you can do the 
following

from zope.app.appsetup.product import getProductConfiguration
config = getProductConfiguration('database')
dbname = config.get('dbname', 'default')


HTH Christian