[Zope] Weird paths in the filesystem using Photo and ExtFile

[Stefan H. Holek]

Hi Pablo,

This comment from the ExtFile source code may shed some light on the  
issue. Photos can for historical reasons, and without changes to the  
Photo product, not take advantage of ZODB_PATH = PHYSICAL.

     # XXX: The Photo product uploads into unwrapped ExtImages.
     # As we can not reliably guess our parent object we fall back
     # to the old behavior. This means that Photos will always
     # use ZODB_PATH = VIRTUAL independent of config settings.

Stefan


On 25. Aug 2006, at 21:54, Pablo Ziliani wrote:

> For example, if I call these "real" urls:
> - http://zopeserver.com:8080/sites/site1/images/image.jpg? 
> display=whatever
> - http://zopeserver.com:8080/sites/site2/images/image.jpg? 
> display=whatever
>
> in the filesystem I would have something like:
> - $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/sites/site1/images/image.jpg/ 
> image_whatever.jpg
> - $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/sites/site1/images/image.jpg/ 
> image_whatever.jpg
>
> but if I call the same via the virtual url:
> - http://www.virtualsite1.com/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
> - http://www.virtualsite2.com/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
>
> I only get:
> $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/images/image.jpg/image_whatever.jpg

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