[Zope] - HTMLFile-like class that heeds DTML mod time

[Robin Dunn]

Cool!  I was fiddling around last night trying to do the same thing, but
none of my attempts were this simple.  Thanks!

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-----Original Message-----
From: skip@calendar.com <skip@calendar.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 6:18 PM
Subject: [Zope] - HTMLFile-like class that heeds DTML mod time


>
>I got tired of having to restart my ZopeHTTPServer every time I twiddled a
>DTML file used by a published object, so I wrote the following simple class
>that checks the mod time of the DTML file when it's called, and recreates
>its HTMLFile instance if necessary.  I instantiate it instead of HTMLFile.
>
>    class Template:
>        def __init__(self, file):
>            self.file = file
>            self.template = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile(self.file)
>            self.ftime = os.stat(self.file)[stat.ST_MTIME]
>
>        def __call__(self, *args, **kargs):
>            ftime = os.stat(self.file)[stat.ST_MTIME]
>            if self.ftime < ftime:
>                self.ftime = ftime
>                self.template = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile(self.file)
>            return apply(self.template.__call__, args, kargs)
>
>I'm sure there's probably a simple way to integrate this into
>DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile directly, but this seemed easier to me, what with
>the mixins and such that are used in DocumentTemplates, and all I really
>need are __init__ and __call__ methods.
>
>Consider this a feature request (I also submitted it to the Zope web site.)
>
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