[Zope] Zsyncer to Zuploader

[Charlie Reiman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Paul
> Winkler
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:52 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zsyncer to Zuploader
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:39:44PM +0100, Elena Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does anybody know what needs to be done to change the Zsyncer-Product so
> > that it just serves as an uploader without needing to be
> installed on the
> > client-side (if possible). Or is there an other solution to upload
> > Zope-Objects with properties (without zexp-import)
>
> when you say "client", do you mean the source?
> For starters, ZSyncer uses a push model, not a pull model.
> You push from the source to the destination.
> And it uses xml-rpc to call zsyncer methods on the destination.
> I don't know diddly about xml-rpc in zope, aside from
> what zsyncer does.  You'd have to replace those calls,
> if possible, with suitable rpc calls to things
> in the zope API, and if that won't do the job, you'll need
> to create some methods on the remote server. ZSyncer takes
> the latter approach by providing everything you need to
> be a source or a destination in one product.
>
> I think what you want is too different from the way zsyncer is
> designed, you might do better to start from scratch, maybe
> stealing ideas from zsyncer source.

I think (and I'm taking a wild stab here) that what Elena wants to do is use
zsyncer with freezope. freezope won't install zsyncer for security reasons,
since a zsyncer can pretty much install anything it wants.

If this is the case, a better approach might be to create a restricted
zsyncer that only creates objects from a pre-specified list of types. This
is not just a bit of hackery as it is a philosophical shift for zsyncer:
away from an admin-only mirroring tool and toward a user development tool.
You would have to make other changes as well (such as removing the logfile
pathname from the UI).

No, I'm not volunteering, though it sounds like a worthy project.