[Zope] creating ZClass instances from an external method

[Maik Röder]

Hi Gary !

Gary Reynolds wrote:
> 
> I have a need to do some creating of objects from python code.
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that to add a new object, that is one of my
> products, I need to do something like:
> 
>   folder.manage_addProduct['ProductName'](id='foo', title='bar')
> 
> I have sample code to create simple things like using
> manage_addDTMLMethod, etc, but nothing for a product.
> 
> The way I've got my data stored is in a combination of dictionaries
> and lists... it was an ugly enough process to export it - now
> importing it seems worse.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

You may want to export your data into an XML file and reimport
that. I will write an external method that creates a ZClass
for a tag and an attribute for a property. The code already 
works for creating Folders, so have a look at my XML2Zope external

method. http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder

I have written some related notes on my weblog:

http://uzopia.editthispage.com/2000/11/15

Best regards,

Maik Röder