[Zope] Scripting rather than using the management GUI ...

Paul Everitt Paul@digicool.com
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 06:32:24 -0400


...and of course, you can just shut down your server and import
everything into the interactive interpreter.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross J. Reedstrom [mailto:reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:55 AM
> To: Darran Edmundson
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Scripting rather than using the management GUI ...
> 
> 
> Darran - 
> take a look at
> 
> <Zope root>/lib/python/ZPublisher/Client.py
> 
> as an example of connecting to a running Zope system from a 
> command line.
> This should allow you to at least automate that last step.
> 
> Ross
> 
> On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 06:49:27PM +1000, Darran Edmundson wrote:
> > 
> > Can I bypass the management GUI and just use python 
> > scripts to make changes to my Zope Object Database?
> > For example, I'd like to traverse my entire database
> > correctly setting the height and width properties of 
> > all images.  I'll give myself RSI doing this via the
> > GUI.  The other option that I can see is to write
> > an external method, put this in the root folder, and
> > call it through the management interface.  The last
> > step seems gratuitous and I'm left feeling that there
> > must be a simpler solution.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
> Computer and Information Technology Institute
> Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005
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