[Zope] LocalFS

[Keith J. Farmer]

Code is best when it's not a hack.

The normal default directory browsing mixes files and subdirectories.
While you can sort by type and id, this isn't a particularly enthralling
solution.  For example, if you just want directories gathered at the top
of the list, but don't want files sorted any further than id.

Also, if you give a spec of '*.jpg', this will exclude directories
(which have a spec of '*/' or '*\'). =20

Internally, LocalFS will place directories at the top, if they are
included in the spec.  This, however, leads to boring and stupid urls
while browsing (always having to include '*/').

I could use tpValues(), but that doesn't deal with the spec, which
LocalFS appends internally to the url variable for directories (that it
adds this spec information without asking is a coding mistake, imho).

.. hmm.. perhaps I should remove that mistake, rewrite methodBrowse to
explicitly add spec as needed, and have done with it?

As I said.. code is best when it's not a hack.  Code is best when it
allows modification without hackification.

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Keith J. Farmer
kfarmer@thuban.org
http://www.thuban.org


-----Original Message-----
From: John Ziniti [mailto:jziniti@speakeasy.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 21:23

I mess around a lot with LocalFS .. but I'm not sure what you mean by=20
"direcotories
alwys at top ..." etc ...can you clarify a little bit about what you are

trying to do?