[Zope-dev] Serving large files

[Stefan H. Holek]

FileCacheManager does the copy-to-file-and-serve-as-iterator dance  
for you.

http://www.dataflake.org/software/filecachemanager

Stefan


On 17. Sep 2006, at 21:09, Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> One thing that is problematic today is serving large files
> from the ZODB (ignoring the upcoming blob support).
>
> a) You can't return an iterator that reads from the ZODB, because by
>    the time the iterator is consumed the connection has already been
>    closed. I believe the iterator is not consumed in the same thread,
>    which can cause yet more issues.
>
> b) If you dump the data to a temp file and return that as a file
>    iterator, it can potentially take twice the time.

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