[Zope] WebDAV or FTP "type"s?

[Andreas Jung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Bickers" <rbickers-dated-1008706084.07bddd@logicetc.com>
To: "Derek Simkowiak" <dereks@realloc.net>; "Andreas Jung"
<andreas@zope.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 15:08
Subject: RE: [Zope] WebDAV or FTP "type"s?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Derek
> > Simkowiak
>
> > I must write my own custom code to do this.  There is
> > no config file or U.I. option for specifying what "type" an uploaded
file
> > is.  Is that true?
>
> That is true, yes.  I thought I read somewhere (or maybe it was in a
hopeful
> dream) that a future Zope would make this more easily configurable.
>
> > If so, my demo schedule just jumped from 3 days to a couple of
> > weeks.
>
> Instead of creating a Product, you can just put an External Method in the
> root of your site.   Below is one that I use for creating Zope Page
> Templates on FTP upload instead of DTML Documents.  You could modify it
for
> the different content types you're interested in.
>
> The nutshell explanation is that you have PUT_factory return the type of
> object you want to create based on the content type of what's being
> uploaded.  I don't recall what all the parameters can be used for, but to
a
> search on PUT_factory and you should find more info.
>
> def PUT_factory(self, name, typ, body):
>     """Make Page Template the default type for ftp uploads."""
>     from Products.PageTemplates.ZopePageTemplate import ZopePageTemplate
>
>     if typ == 'text/html':
>         return ZopePageTemplate(name)
>     return None


Excellent solution !

Andreas