[Zope3-Users] Re: Blobs in Z3 anyone?

[David Pratt]

Thanks Phillip for this info.
Regards,
David

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> David Pratt wrote:
>> Hi I had asked this question about a week ago with no response.
>> Filesystem blobs are a valuable means of storing large object data in
>> the filesystem instead of the ZODB.  I have previously written a
>> repository product in zope2 for blobs but would like to migrate to Z3.
>> Does Z3 have an equivalent stream iterator of that of zpublisher? How
>> are large objects currently handled in Z3 to get them into the DB
>> efficiently if this is not the case? Many thanks.
> 
> Christian Theune and Chris McDonough have been working on ZODB blob
> support for a while. The ZODB as our persistence layer is the right
> level to add blob support, not Zope 3. Once in the ZODB, blobs can be
> used across both Zope versions.
> 
> Perhaps you might want to contact them and ask them whether you can help
> with something so that blobs will make it into ZODB 3.7 (scheduled to be
> released with Zope 2.10/3.3)
> 
> Philipp
> 
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