[Zope] ExternalMethod for exporting un-pickled Office files to the filesystem etc

[michael nt milne]

Cheers, thanks a lot for that. I'll give it a go. I still may be interested
in sponsoring a version with the improvements you mention etc and possibly
more. Would that code be compatible for Unix and also for Windows NTFS?

Thanks

On 6/22/06, Tino Wildenhain <tino at wildenhain.de> wrote:
>
> michael nt milne schrieb:
> > Hi
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone has written or attempted to write a script
> > which would read through a site built using Zope and write all
> > attached/uploaded files (Word, PDF, Excel) etc to a filesystem location
> > in an un-pickled format. Therefore the files would be usable by their
> > native application and be accessible outside of Zope. The business logic
> > behind this is to be able to create, say once a day at night, a copy of
> > all digital business assets for extra back-up and recovery purposes in
> > case of disaster. Also this would be good for migration purposes if
> > required.
> >
> > If not, how long would it take to create such a script? I could probably
> > source a sponsor for it. I realise that it's best to do this at the
> > application level and at the moment this would be through Plone.
> >
> > I've demoed all the Plone external storage products and also checked out
> > DirectoryStorage but all these store pickled files etc.
>
> ----------- snip ----------
> import os
> import sys
>
> try:
>      targetdir=sys.argv[1]
> except IndexError:
>      print "usage: zopectl run %s <target dirrectory>" % sys.argv[0]
>
> def filedump(resulttuple,basedir):
>      pathname,fileobject=resulttuple
>      print "dumping %s (%d Bytes)" % (fileobject.getId(),fileobject.size)
>      o=open(os.path.join(basedir,pathname.replace
> ('/','_')+fileobject.getId()),"wb")
>      o.write(str(fileobject.data))
>
>
> for res in app.ZopeFind(app,obj_metatypes=['File'])
>      filedump(res,targetdir)
>
>
> --------- snip -----------
>
> and run this over ZEO via zopectl run thescript.py somewhere/to/targetdir
>
>
> There are possibly many improvements (creating subdirectories, fixing
> extensions
> and so on)
>
> Regards
> Tino Wildenhain
>
>
>


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michael
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