[Grok-dev] Get files

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

Check gp.fileupload, to use a middleware to handle that.

2010/3/19 Steve Schmechel <steveschmechel at yahoo.com>:
> In the simplest sense, if all you want to do is serve static files a web
> server like Apache does that quite well and you do not need a web
> application built using Grok.
>
> Of course, even a web application needs to serve up static files at
> times.  Generally, these are image files and style sheets that are used
> with the pages generated by the web application.
>
> To serve this type of content, just place the files in the "static"
> directory located under the project folder created by grokproject.
> You can then access the files from the browser by appending
> "@@/<project name>/<filename>  to the URL of an application instance.
> (i.e. http://localhost:8080/myapp/@@/myproject/mypicture.jpg)
>
> This is rather clumsy, so if you are using page templates you can define
> the static files there, and it will handle all the details.
> (i.e. <a tal:attributes="href static/mypicture.jpg">See my picture.</a>
>  -- or --
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href static/adder.css">)
>
> See this documentation for more details:
> http://grok.zope.org/doc/current/grok_overview.html#static-content
>
> If you end up dealing with lots of resource-type files (Javascript
> libraries, etc) included in your application, you may want to look at
> something like megrok.resource to make managing these files easier.
> http://grok.zope.org/about/useful-libraries#static-resource-handling
>
> If you want to deal with user-supplied static files, including being
> able to upload, download and delete them, you need to look into file
> utilities.  The following how-to should help you get started:
> http://grok.zope.org/documentation/how-to/uploading-file
>
> Hope this helps,
> Steve
>
> --- On Thu, 3/18/10, zavi <osishkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: zavi <osishkin at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Grok-dev]  Get files
>> To: grok-dev at zope.org
>> Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 10:43 AM
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to grok (and web servers in general
>> unfortunately).
>> I'm using Grok with Apache/mod_wsgi, and managed to build
>> and run some
>> simple example apps.
>> What I want to do next is to build an app that serves
>> files.
>> That is, when I send an http request which specifies a file
>> name, I would
>> like to send back that file.
>>
>> However I could not find an example for such a simple grok
>> app.
>> I would appreciate your help
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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