[Zope3-Users] Re: URGENT RFC: Is anyone using response.write in Zope 3?

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:

> When we refactored the Zope 3 pubisher to work more closely with WSGI,
> we decided to remove the response.write method.  We should have written
> a proposal for this, but we failed to do so.  Over the last few weeks
> there has been much discussion of this in which I asserted many times
> that I didn't think any applications outside of Zope 3 itself used this
> method.  No one has disagreed with me.  I want to double check this.
> Does anyone have any Zope 3 applications that are using response.write?
> 
> Assuming that the answer is "no" (or that no one answers today), I'm
> going to
> more clearly document how to return long output and I'm going to add a
> method that generates a hopefully helpful error.
> 
> Note that we may add this method (or something like it) back in the future
> to support chunked streaming output,

IIRC, Christian Theune wrote that he had been using 'response.write';  I
think the note was in the "Twisted Publisher" thread about a week and a
half back.

CC'ing him to ensure he knows to respond today.


Tres.
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