[Zope] Newbie questions

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

Matt,

Thanks for the quick reply!

As far as the modules are concerned, I read quickly through it, but I'm just
concerned
about the security implications.  The module I need to work with for
instance takes a
config file as input, normally from the file system.  This has been disabled
by default
for obvious secuity reasons, will I be able to get around it? Actually, if I
use Zope
specific methods, I suppose I should be able to open the file and pass the
object to the module's 
method instead of the file name and it should work ok?  th efurthest I got
was to import the module,
if I didn't get security errors, I got prompted for passwords, but even the
admin password
wasn't working, not sure what I was doing wrong, I'm probably moving a bit
too fast on this :)

As for the database, you have the entore site  going on PostgreSQL ? That's
what I'd like
to do eventually as well.  I noticed you can create "connection objects" and
so on, but
I'd prefer storing the ENTIRE site in an efficient database if possible. I'd
be inetersted to know
how they go about storing large images in PostgreSQL though, I guess you
need post 7.1
in order to have TOAST ?  Other binary type objects are just BLOBs I suppose
?
If you can point me to any docs concerning this I'd love to see them :)

Thanks,
J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Matt Hand[SMTP:matt@bitflip.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, August 24, 2001 5:05 PM
> To: 	Doyon, Jean-Francois
> Subject: 	Re: [Zope] Newbie questions
> 
> Jean-Francois, 
> 
>   I'm no guru, but I'll try to help where I can.
>  
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > - My main issue is the integration of a python module (MapServer) into
> Zope.
> > This is a module compiled using SWIG, which ends up with a .py, .pyc and
> .so
> > file.  I've allready tried, quickly importing this module but without
> > success, I guess I will have to learn more about the security framework
> of
> > Zope.  The big thing is access to the file system.  Can I allow it in
> any
> > way? Can I trick the module into using Zope Objects instead of the file
> > system? Or can I override the default built-in security provisions that
> > prevent such access?  This is crucial to me.  The said module reads a
> > variety of data from the file system normally, and I need a way to make
> it
> > work under Zope.  I'm allready quite familair with it's perl version.
> 
> You'll need to create a python module which passes calls to and from Zope
> and place it
> the /path/to/zope/Extensions directory. See the Zope Book at www.zope.org
> for 
> proper syntax in order to import the method into Zope (External Method). I
> use 
> external methods to access a PostgreSQL database and an xmlrpc server and
> return
> the results to a dtml document or method.
> 
> > - The database where basic content of the site is kept, how stable is
> it?
> > How big a site can it hold? I noticed that the entire site seems to live
> > within one file.  The current, standard HTMl/Filesystem site takes
> around
> > 600MB, how robust is the Zope storage back-end? What about performance
> with
> > large sites?
> 
> The installed database seems pretty stable and makes rolling back
> transactions
> very easy; however, I use a Postgres database for production work and use 
> Zope as a front end. It was a little trickier to set up than I'd
> anticipated, 
> but with some digging and a little help from the zope-list I got it up and
> running nicely. 
> 
> I hope this helped a little.
> 
> Matt Hand
> matt@bitflip.com
> 
>