[Zope-Coders] ZEO install/runtime issues fixed

[Chris McDonough]

Oh, and FWIW, here's a sample zodb_db that makes the main database a
clientstorage:

<zodb_db another>
    <zeoclient>
      server localhost:8001
    </zeoclient>
    mount-point /
</zodb_db>

- C


On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 14:01, Chris McDonough wrote:
> OK, I've made the changes necessary to allow database definitions via
> the config file.
> 
> I had to change the "zodb" section to "zodb_db" as Zope's database
> definitions are special in that they can have one or more "mount-point"
> keys and they should have a "name" (both for later DBTab-like
> functionality) .  The database with the mount point named "/" will
> become the "main" database (the zodb_db section's name is not actually
> meaningful except for UI and bookkeeping purposes).
> 
> - C
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 21:29, Richard Jones wrote:
> > On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > > The various schema components (component.xml) in
> > > ZODB, ZServer, and zLOG, as well as the master schema in Zope.Startup
> > > (zopeschema.xml) are the best sources of documentation for the config
> > > file at the moment.
> > 
> > Could I suggest that ZConfig spawn a feature that spits out the config 
> > schema as plain-text or HTML? I believe there's enough information in 
> > there to be able to generate a "template" config file from the schema, 
> > akin to what's in the skel/etc/zope.conf.in (minus the <<bits>> of 
> > course). The HTML would be really nice - auto-documenting the schemas 
> > would be a big plus.
> > 
> > On a related note, the zconfig command-line script is currently broken 
> > in the "installed" Zope tree due to path issues. I'd like to move it to 
> > the same scheme as the other scripts, where the bin/zconfig script is a 
> > thin generated wrapper that imports and runs the script functionality 
> > from the ZConfig lib. Or we could mutate the zconfig script as it's 
> > installed. Either way, something needs to be done.
> > 
> > In then end though, I can't seem to get a zeoclient section working 
> > using the zope.conf file. The following seems to be ignored:
> > 
> > <zodb>
> >    <zeoclient>
> >      server localhost:8082
> >    </zeoclient>
> > </zodb>
> > 
> > That is, my ZEO server doesn't receive a connection, and the client 
> > ends up with a local FileStorage being created. What I've got above 
> > _seems_ to be what I should put in there - after reading the various 
> > schema xml files, the ZConfig doc PDF and the ZConfig source code to 
> > figure what the socket-address value should be ... I still have no idea 
> > where the <zodb> section name comes from in the schema though, and 
> > would've been totally lost there if it wasn't for hints from other 
> > places like Chris' email :)
> > 
> > 
> > > I'm not sure about command-line options...
> > 
> > Surely they're defined somewhere... I can't even unravel _that_ much :)
> > 
> > 
> >     Richard
> > 
> > 
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