[Zope] calling zope

[seb bacon]

It only works on the local machine, so it's probably not what
you want, but it's worth pointing out that you can connect to a
running ZODB through the monitor_client.  See docs/DEBUGGING.txt for
info.

seb


* Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> [010619 20:31]:
> jr@i-bucks.com writes:
>  > I am new to zope.   I am looking for an application server.   
>  > 
>  > I want to know if I can call zope objects and methods from a script run
>  > OUTSIDE of zope (say python, to make it easy).  Is this possible?
> You can.
> 
> You have already been pointed to XML-RPC.
> I think, you should go for this solution.
> 
> But you can also use Python directly to access the ZODB.
> 
> As only a single process can open the ZODB at any time
> (protected by a lock), you must either bring down
> Zope while your Python script makes modifications
> or you need to use ZEO. In this case, both
> Zope and your Python script would access the storage
> not directly but indirectly through the ZEO server.
> 
>  > I need to have basic
>  > security enforced (userid identification or userid/password).
> If you expose the ZODB interface directly, there will not
> be authentication or security restrictions.
> If your user get access to the Python interpreter and
> is allowed to "import ZODB", all security is lost.
> 
> That's a major reason to have the API external, e.g. through XML-RPC.
> 
> 
> 
> Dieter
> 
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