[Zope3-Users] Sending object modified event on FTP upload - best practice?

[Jim Fulton]

Jeff Shell wrote:
> I'm about to get working on a project in Zope 3 that will be our first
> major project for a paying customer (in fact, our marquee customer and
> one of our marquee sites). This project will be replacing an aging
> Zope 2 site, which relied heavily on FTP for its content management.
> When content is uploaded by FTP to an existing object, the catalog is
> reindexed. Nicely, in Zope 3 I can depend on object modification
> events to handle cataloging.
> 
> In looking at how FTP support is written in zope.app.ftp, I notice
> that ObjectCreatedEvent notifications are sent off when new objects
> are created. But when zope.app.ftp.FTPView._overwrite(...) is used to
> write to an existing object via an IWriteFile adapter, the FTP View
> does not send an object modified event.
> 
> I'm assuming that it's the responsibility of my IWriteFile adapter to
> send notifications of this event?

Yes.

 > Or is this something that should be
> in the FTPView's implementation?

No.  The FTPView isn't actually modifying the object, the IWriteFile
viw is.  It's possible that the write-file adapter could be modifying
a different object than the one it adapts.

Jim

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