[Zope] Tip: do scheduled site imports using load_site.py

[Maarten Slaets]

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Problem:
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You have a certain directory structure that needs to be imported into zope
every day. If you just put 

python z-load_site.py -p /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher -u
user:password -v http://zope.site/dir  /localdir/*

in your crontab, it will fail the second time it runs, because it tries to
import objects with id names that are already existing.


Solution:
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One solution could be to wrap the manage_add calls to catch these exceptions
(Oleg-way:-). I didn't succeed in doing that, but I found another solution
already built into Zope:

modify 'def _checkId(self, id, allow_dup=0)' in
'/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py' to 'def _checkId(self, id, allow_dup=1)'

This auto-overwrites existing objects with the same name. 
Only drawback: if you upload a directory that way, the existing one is
removed + all its contents at that time.

Hope this can be useful.

PS: I've attached a patch for ObjectManager.py for Zope 2.0.1 (yeah I know,
it's old). To use it:

patch -iObjectManager.py.diff ObjectManager.py

you may need to modify '-iObjectManager.py.diff' to point to another
directory...

-- 
Maarten Slaets
Web Developer
KPNQwest Belgium
http://www.fonky.com/vcard/MaartenSlaets/
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