[Zope-dev] UserFolder and xmlrpc

[Richard Jones]

On Monday 10 September 2001 17:42, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 17:14, Richard Jones wrote:
> > The point of my post was that you can't currently XMP-RPC to add a user -
> > the manage_users method is not a usable method from an XML-RPC
> > perspective.
>
> Which is why I wrote alternative ones.

I'm trying to have this interface work with an unmodified Zope. Tall order, 
given some of the things I'm trying to get it to do :) As it stands, we're 
looking at replacing z2.py...


> Actualy, IIRC, there is a way to
> emulate a REQUEST object.

Oooh! This doesn't negate the goodness of cleaning up the API, but if you 
could recall how to emulate the REQUEST, I'd be VERY grateful!


> > We are developing our own Mac and Windows interfaces that have a slimmer
> > scope than ZMC (and also some extensions that ZMC won't ever have) and is
> > branded with our logos. We intend to release the source soon too - but it
> > sounds like it'd be of little use to your project, as it's written in C.
>
> You have this backward. Mine is *already* done. I was offering the code
> as an example of how to do it with XML-RPC. Actually, as I sit here an
> dlook at your post, I do not believe you know what the ZMC is.

*gak* I'm sorry! I got ZMC confused with another project! I have now done a 
web search and found ZMC and acquainted myself with it.


> You can't get much slimmer
> of a scope than mine, and still call it a means for managing users. All
> it does it let you delete a user, or change their roles via a GTK GUI.
> it doesn't allow, at this time, addition of users, but it is not a
> difficult add-on; I've just been busy on a much larger product.

Yep, that's what I've discovered - and it does appear that our scope is 
actually much fatter than yours. We have:

 . status, starting and stopping of the Zope server
 . admin user password setting, manager user adding
 . services (ports) configuration
 . environment (python binary, INSTANCE_HOME, SOFTWARE_HOME, user) config
 . log watching/clearing (only half done)

and as I mentioned above, we're looking at modifying z2.py to allow 
monitoring of startup progress.


> Oh, and if you release the source under a compatible license, and the
> extensions are of use, I wouldn't rule out ZMC acquiring them. ;^)

I'm not sure what you mean by "extensions"...


    Richard