[Zope-Moz] Extreme Zope Development?

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:57:42 +0200


On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:54:49PM +0530, Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:
> Martijn Pieters wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:30:52PM +0530, Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:
> > > Martijn Pieters wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Nothing will stop you however from opening multiple windows
> > > > for multiple servers. With some D'n'D pixydust you then should be able to
> > > > move/copy objects and/or properties between servers.
> > >
> > > Umm. Wouldn't this require some extra functionality from Zope too?
> >
> > No. All this could be done in Zope Studio. On receiving a drop, all data
> > related to the object being dropped coul be copied over and ZS only has to
> > create a new object on the server with this data.
> 
> So this will work only for some objects that ZS knows how to create?
> 
> The only thing I can think of for making this work with all objects is to use
> export and import, but import doesn't allow a client to upload the data
> (afaik).

I haven't yet figured out how to implement it exactly. I may use a form of
import/export, or indeed only support objects ZS knows about. Not yet
determined.

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