[Zope-CMF] Uploading news items with FTP

[Jonathan Corbet]

I'm still working on how to upload news items with FTP.  As far as I can
tell from my digging so far, it can't be done.  I'd be overjoyed if
somebody told me otherwise...

If you look at http://cmf.zope.org/doc/user/BasicContent.txt/view, it says,
among other things:

      the CMF checks the incoming data to see if it has a piece of metadata
      called Type. The value of this metadata property would instruct the
      CMF to create, for instance, a NewsItem.

But, as far as I can tell, that simply is not true.  A couple of content
types (Document, NewsItem) use parseHeadersBody to grab metadata and set
things like the title, but that is done *after* the object has been
created.  There is nothing, currently, which looks at headers before the
object is created.

So, even though NewsItem defines a PUT_factory method, nothing ever calls
it.

I could perhaps bash out a hacky solution in PortalFolder.PUT_factory that
would make things work.  I get a sense, though, from the code that the
whole portal_types mechanism is intended to be used in this sort of role,
and I haven't done anywhere near enough time staring at the code to figure
out how I might make that happen...

Thoughts?

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net