[Zope] filesystem directory view

[David Pratt]

Hi David.  I would recommend at the blob product. I have been using it 
with success in CMF. I would consider it a starting point for where you 
may want to take it.  If you are looking for something already 
developed and ready to go, I would recommend ATManagedFile from Enfold 
if you plan on using Plone. It can do a great job of managing files on 
the filesystem where your objects also behave as proper citizens in 
zope.  It is subclassed from ExternalFile and CMFManagedFile.  I 
contributed documentation for it a while back and it also worked 
nicely. Hope that helps.

Regards,
David

On Friday, September 23, 2005, at 02:23 PM, David Bear wrote:

> I have cmf1.4.7 installed on zope 2.7.4.
> I also have plone installed. All seems to work well.
>
> I'm trying to use the file system directory view product to build a 
> simple graphics library. My thinking was to store all images on the 
> unix file system, then let some store some meta data on each image. 
> Trouble is, I'm not finding any 'beginning' documentation on using 
> file system directory view. seach zope.org yeilds hundreds of hits.
>
> I've looked through the install tree for zope and cmf and am not 
> finding any usefull README's there either.
>
> so my first question is where is a good HOWTO on using filesystem 
> directory view (I've got both the fdv that came with cmfcore and one 
> that came with plone).
>
> my second question is, .. is file system directory view what I want. 
> Again, I want to store files in the unix file system, expose those to 
> zope, then store meta data on each of those image in zodb.
>
>
> --
> David Bear
> What's the difference between private knowledge and public knowledge?
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