[Zope3-Users] handling a mass of images/files

[David Pratt]

Hi Dominique. Tramline pkg provides this capability with Apache and 
mod_python. Alernatively, you could likely construct a paste package to 
handle the data as middleware. Blobs are good and data will be saved 
within the transaction.

Regards,
David

Dominique Lederer wrote:
> hi
> 
> i´m just thinking about, how to handle a lot of images within my zope3 application.
> 
> what would you recommend to do:
> a) save all images into the zodb
> b) use z3c.extfile
> 
> i looked a bit into z3c.extfile´s documentation, an found, that i returns
> file-data from the filesystem, which are stored there in a hashdir.
> 
> i wonder if this would be quicker than accessing the images from the zodb?
> 
> a third approach, similar to b) would be to serve the hashdir with apache, and
> let the z3c.extfile just return the path to the image. i just did not find out
> how to achieve that with the package. maybe someone could give me a hint on this?
> 
> i would be glad, if you could give me your option on this.
> 
> thanks a lot
> regards, Dominique
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