[Zope3-Users] Zope3 startup
Giovannetti, Mark
giovanne at nrcan.gc.ca
Fri Mar 2 12:31:22 EST 2007
Hi Marius,
Thanks for confirming some of my questions! Is there a book
that you would recommend that explains how python deals with
all this? I have read Apress' Beginning Python and I have read
bits and pieces of the online python docs. I am willing to
pick up other python books if there are some good ones.
Other comments inline:
> From: Marius Gedminas
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:47:15AM -0500, Giovannetti, Mark wrote:
> > Hello,
[snip]
> >
> > 1. At zope startup, each *-configure.zcml in etc/package-includes
> > is read.
> > Q. The __init__.py file for each package is then executed, correct?
> > A. Yes, since my testing indicates this is the case. I had problems
> > understanding this since the idiom is to just place a comment in
> > the __init__ file and it seemed rather useless to a new user.
>
> The __init__.py file is executed when you import a package. That
> happens as a side effect when ZCML directives refer to classes and
> functions in packages. The purpose of a __init__.py is to
> define names that could be imported, and not to run some
> initialization code.
>
> In fact, this is how Python imports modules: it executes the
> .py file of the module. (It does this at most once during the
> program's execution, unless you explicitly ask it to reload
> modules. Zope 3 never asks.)
Great, now I think I have a good handle on what is going on. This
also explains why I have to restart zope when I make code changes
(something that puzzled me very briefly when I started learning).
So if I wanted to register utilities without using ZCML, I could
place the provideUtility(...) calls in an __init__.py or directly
within the utility's .py module. Yes?
>
> > 2. Each configure.zcml file in the package's root directory (the
> > one pointed to by the *-configure.zcml in package-includes) is
> > parsed.
> > Q. Does each class referred to in a <class..> directive have
> > the class' entire module loaded/executed or is the class just
> > registered somewhere for future use?
> > A. ?
>
> Yes, the module is imported.
Thank you.
>
> > 3. Utilities and such in zcml.
> > Q. Does each utility have its module executed to create the
> > instance (utilities are instances, right?)
> > A. I think so, but I'm not sure, see #2.
>
> Yes, the module is imported.
>
> > I hope someone can clear this up for me. I never managed to
> > find a good explanation of the flow of control for zope3
> > startup and initialization. I have read both books already.
>
> In brief, Zope 3 reads the configuration file (zope.conf),
> finds out the
> name of the root zcml file (site.zcml, usually), then loads the ZCML
> configuration (which involves parsing all the zcml files that include
> each other, importing Python modules and accessing names defined in
> those), executes the configuration (which involves modifying global
> registries of adapters, utilities, security declarations
> etc), opens or creates the ZODB database, and then starts
> listening on network ports.
>
> Marius Gedminas
I noticed that I could see this happening by watching the
output of:
# tail -F zope-instance/log/transcript.log
if I add the following 'level debug' option to zope.conf
(from a prior thread):
<eventlog>
# This sets up logging to both a file and to standard output
# (STDOUT). The "path" setting can be a relative or absolute
# filesystem path or the tokens STDOUT or STDERR.
level debug
<logfile>
path $LOGDIR/z3.log
formatter zope.exceptions.log.Formatter
</logfile>
<logfile>
path STDOUT
formatter zope.exceptions.log.Formatter
</logfile>
</eventlog>
I can see all of the zcml files being called.
Mark
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