[Zope] External methods and DTML ?

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Gardner,

why dont you just let your external methods handle data
in- and output and delegate rendering of html to
DTML-Methods in zope?

Regards
Tino Wildenhain

--On Montag, 14. Mai 2001 14:07 -0700 Gardner Pomper 
<gardner@networknow.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using Zope to build a front end to a bunch of Unix processes. I need
> to use external methods to read/write files and kick off the jobs. In
> these external methods, I use DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile() to build the
> HTML forms for data entry.
>
> My problem is that I don't seem to be able to hook the
> DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile() to a DTML file created in Zope. Therefore I
> have to create the DTML files manually. This isn't too bad, but when I
> change the DTML files during development, Zope seems to have cached the
> old copy and I often end up having to kill off the Zope server and
> restart it just to try out the new version of the DTML file. This is
> annoying and time consuming.
>
> Is there some way to get the files reread each time? Failing that, is
> there a way for an external method to access a DTML file that Zope knows
> about (and will that help me with this refresh problem)?
>
> I am pretty new to Zope (a week or so). If there is an easier way to do
> all this, I would be happy to hear it.
>
> - Gardner
>
>
>
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