[Zope-dev] time-travel how to?

Damien Morton Morton@dennisinter.com
Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:02:47 -0500


How do you access the fabled time travel features of Zope?

Reading through the source I see that you can open a database in read only
mode and specify the point in time that that view is for. 

Would it be possible to mount the same data.fs multiple times in read-only
mode, each mounting with a different temporal view?

Is there some other mechanism by which the time-travel feature can be
accessed? Ideally it would be possible to create a temporal view of the
database much like one would create a version, but that the view would be
enabled by traversing through that view in the URL. 

For example, http://foo.com/nov3/x/y/z would be a view of the database at
nov3, where the actual time and date of the view would be specified in the
nov3 object.