[Zope-CMF] ?how to override default content-type when putting files with FTP

[Tres Seaver]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Tim Hoffman wrote:

> I am building a CMF site, with a number of customized (ZClass
> based for the moment) Portal content types.
> 
> I will need to bulk upload images (which have a new Portal type
> based on CMFOptions ExtImage) which I am calling ArtWorkMedia,
> the parent Folder is ArtWorkFolder.  ArtWorkFolder is defined
> to only allows content-types of ArtWorkMedia and
> ArtWorkMediaThumbnail, however when I upload images into an
> ArtWorkFolder they are uploaded as Portal Image, which is
> pretty much what I expected (though I half expected an error).
> 
> Obviously I have to override the default behaviour/portal_type
> for the images uploaded by ftp/webdav but I am having trouble
> working out how/where I can/should do this.
> 
> Could someone give me a pointer.

You can customize the PUT handling of a folder by adding a
ContentTypeRegistry object to it, and then configuring it to
convert PUTs with Content-type='image/*' to your ArtWorkMedia
class.

Tres.
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