[Zope] mount zope server (was: Import from Zope-1 to Zope-2)
Jay, Dylan
djay@lucent.com
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:02:05 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 15:20
> To: Jay, Dylan
> Cc: zope-dev@zope.org; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Import from Zope-1 to Zope-2
>
>
> "Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> >
> > related note heres another idea I had. How about a product
> that can mount
> > one zope ODB into another. Using XML-RPC or something to
> connect the two
> > sites togeather over the internet. It may not be fast
> enough for using that
> > way but at least it would be really easy for transfering
> data between zope
> > odb's.
>
> We are entertaining the possibility of putting ZPublisher.Client into
> the _ DTML Namespace. I am primarily championing the idea.
>
> 'Client' offers many cool uses. 'Client.Function' will call a remote
> 'Zope Method' which marshals simple types around (int, list,
> tuple etc.)
> and act as Zope oriented RPC. 'Client.call' is a convienent wrapper
> around 'Client.Function'. These both have the upshot of working with
> any
> URL, turning non 'object content' into file Message objects and return
> them in a list.
>
> Even cooler, 'Client.Object' will create surrogate objects of remote
> Zope objects. If you have a DTML Document on machine A, then
> Machine B
> could say:
>
> <dtml-with "_.Client.Object('http://A/YourDocument')">
> <dtml-var id>
> </dtml-with>
>
> and print 'YourDocument'. You can pass autentication
> information in to
> all of the calls to access restricted object.
So what would happen if this wrapper object was passed back using a
<dtml-return> call or even a __bobo_traverse_ method? Would further
resolution in the object happen using the link or would it break and start
trying to find objects in the local context?