[Zope3-Users] Periodically refresh RSS feeds

[Florian Lindner]

Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 09:44 schrieb Thierry Florac:
> Le mardi 19 décembre 2006 à 08:17 +0100, Christian Theune a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Florian Lindner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have the following situation:
> > >
[...]
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a several problem to handle regular "alerts" which I solved in
> this way :
>  - scheduling in done via the "schedule" package, available from Zope3
> SVN ; I created an "AlertManager" utility which is a subclass of
> scheduler.CronTask (because my alerts are launched at fixed time, but
> you can use other classes)

That's what I already use.

>  - objects which can raise alerts are registered with a specific
> interface IAlert
>  - when the AlertManager is launched, it opens a new connection (via
> ZEO.ClientStorage), search for registered components (via
> zapi.getAllUtilitiesRegisteredFor(IAlert)) and call one of the
> interface's methods which may raise the alert. In my use case an email
> is sent, but it could be any kind of alert that Python can handle.

This is the same approach that Christian suggested. I have answered to his 
posting.

Thanks,

Florian