[Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] mount zope server (was: Import from Zope-1 to Zope-2)

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 15:20
> To: Jay, Dylan
> Cc: zope-dev@zope.org; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Import from Zope-1 to Zope-2
> 
> 
> "Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> > 
> > related note heres another idea I had. How about a product 
> that can mount
> > one zope ODB into another. Using XML-RPC or something to 
> connect the two
> > sites togeather over  the internet. It may not be fast 
> enough for using that
> > way but at least it would be really easy for transfering 
> data between zope
> > odb's.
> 
> We are entertaining the possibility of putting ZPublisher.Client into
> the _ DTML Namespace.  I am primarily championing the idea.
> 
> 'Client' offers many cool uses.  'Client.Function' will call a remote
> 'Zope Method' which marshals simple types around (int, list, 
> tuple etc.)
> and act as Zope oriented RPC.  'Client.call' is a convienent wrapper
> around 'Client.Function'.  These both have the upshot of working with
> any
> URL, turning non 'object content' into file Message objects and return
> them in a list.
> 
> Even cooler, 'Client.Object' will create surrogate objects of remote
> Zope objects.  If you have a DTML Document on machine A, then 
> Machine B
> could say:
> 
> <dtml-with "_.Client.Object('http://A/YourDocument')">
>   <dtml-var id>
> </dtml-with>
> 
> and print 'YourDocument'.  You can pass autentication 
> information in to
> all of the calls to access restricted object.

So what would happen if this wrapper object was passed back using a
<dtml-return> call or even a __bobo_traverse_ method? Would further
resolution in the object happen using the link or would it break and start
trying to find objects in the local context?