[Zope-dev] How to trigger Zope externally (mail)

[Shane Hathaway]

On 02/26/2003 07:16 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I am working on a poll/survey type product and want to handle
> responses by email as well as the web.  If you have any advice about
> the best architecture, I would appreciate it.  I'm currently using
> Zope 2.5 on Linux, though it would be nice if the solution weren't too
> platform dependent.

My favorite solution is to run a short-lived ZEO client for each 
incoming email.  You just set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to 
point to <zope>/lib/python (and INSTANCE_HOME if you need it), then in 
your Python script you "import Zope; app = Zope.app()".  "app" now has 
unrestricted access to the whole database.  When you're done, 
get_transaction().commit() and exit the process.  From what I've seen, 
the ZEO connection setup overhead is usually less than one second.

Shane