[Zope] manipulating zodb from independent database connection

[Stefan H. Holek]

On 11. Apr 2007, at 07:19, Tim Nash wrote:

>
> I'm using zope 2.5 (matches a book I like) and doing like so:

This is a *very* old release (5 years?).

> >>> from ZODB import FileStorage, DB
>>>> storage = FileStorage.FileStorage('Data.fs')
>>>> db = DB(storage)
>>>> connection = db.open()
>>>> root = connection.root()
>
> Also, can the ZODB be altered this way on a running Zope instance? I
> would like to have a script run on cron and insert objects and remove
> objects from the ZODB while the zope instance application is running.
> I'd like these newly inserted objects to be Zpublishable as well.

To access the ZODB from separate processes you have to run ZEO.

Stefan

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