[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-Coders] Roundtrip-safe DAV

[Andreas Jung]

Please post your patches to the Zope Collector. This list is not the right 
place
to submit patches since they might get lost.

-aj

--On Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 20:43 Uhr +0100 Emiliano Heyns 
<emiliano.heyns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello people,
>
> I'm currently working with some content editors that would like to
> keep their current WYSIWYG tools and use them in combination with
> Zope/Plone, and using the DAV interface seemed like the best approach,
> and it does indeed mostly work. One of the larger problems we face
> using this approach is that quite a few products expose objects via
> DAV that are not roundtrip-safe; getting-then-putting will result in
> unwanted behaviour in some cases, and for other objects I don't see
> much value in allowing them to be accessed over DAV (like the contents
> of acl_users).
>
> I wrote the attached monkey patch to address this (be kind, I'm pretty
> new to Python), and Sidnei da Silva (author of DavPack) suggested I
> post the patch on these lists to see if there was an interest into
> this approach.
>
> What it does is disable DAV access for non-collection resources in
> general and then selectively turns it on for some (non-exhaustive)
> list. Folderish objects are enabled by default but can be turned off.
> Objects/classes can also disable or enable themselves by explicitly
> setting __dav_resource__ to 0 or 1. I'm not suggesting this particular
> list is the correct one.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> With kind regard,
> Emiliano Heyns