[Zope] webdav interface

[Brian Lloyd]

> Is Zope's webdav interface documented anywhere, such that I could find the
> necessary methods that I must write to webdav-enable a custom class?  The
> situation is such that my product will define a single Zope class.  An
> application will use only one instance of this class, which will pull the
> strings of a relational database and a file system, rather than objects in
> the ZODB.  The relational data dynamically defines the navigational
> structure of the documents stored on disk.  Thus, the webdav
> behaviors that
> my class automatically inherits will not work for me, BUT I assume that if
> I override Zope's default webdav methods I can provide similar
> functionality.  I essentially need to know the webdav interface, i.e. what
> methods Zope calls to list folder contents, retrieve a file, lock a file,
> etc, etc.  I would be grateful even if someone would just point me to the
> particular file(s) where this code is implemented in Zope...
>

You want to look in lib/python/webdav. The Resource and Collection classes
implement the 'default' DAV behavior that most objects inherit through
either SimpleItem or ObjectManager.

hope this helps,

Brian Lloyd        brian at zope.com
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