[Zope] how to get number of users accessing a resource at any given time ...

[Dieter Maurer]

ralph s writes:
 > i have this script which is going to be called by a
 > lot of anonymous users to search the database ... is
 > there anyway i can determine how many of them are
 > accessing the script at a given time ...so that as
 > soon as another user comes in ...he can be informed of
 > his status in the queue ...
 > 
 > would using the keys method of the
 > TransientObjectContainer class be a solution ?
It would give you the number of currently known sessions.

   This is not directly a queue length...

 > but
 > security restricitions prevent me from accessing this
 > method ... and if this can be used how do i use it ?
You can use External Methods or (XXPythonScripts) to avoid
security restrictions.

When you want to present queue states, I would implement
the queue the states of which you want to show.
My modune "SharedResource" may help you 

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Dieter