Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Cees de Groot
Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's one reason ZODB is so nice. You can write an application without writing a formal schema. One of the reasons I am seriously considering to migrate our production database from PostgreSQL to ZODB. I am about to implement our product database, and it

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Withers
Shane Hathaway wrote: Kapil gave Jim and I a good introduction to SmartObjects yesterday. So far, it seems a lot like ZPatterns in that it mandates a new database access API rather than trying to be transparent like ZODB. The other is TransWarp, which has a slightly different focus, but

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Grrr... Python Scripts

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Withers
Chris McDonough wrote: Here Chris, I'll try to solve your pain (untested): from AccessControl import ModuleSecurityInfo ModuleSecurityInfo('Products').declarePublic('Catalog') ModuleSecurityInfo('Products.Catalog').declarePublic('CatalogError') Could that we added to

[Zope-dev] CoreSessionTracking 0.8 strangeness

2001-05-11 Thread Bjorn Stabell
Hi, We're developing a shopping cart using the CoreSessionTracking product v0.8, but we've run into a strange problem; once in a while getSessionData() will create a new session data object (the token value remains the same), and us that for a while. Now we'll end up having two different

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
Hi! Do you know that there already is a project for OR-Mapping in Zope (actually there are two ...)? Yes, and I think the projects need to look into replacing parts of ZODB rather than adding complexity. ZODB has pieces that can be split apart and replaced as needed, such as caching,

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
So, if I had a.n.other SQL table containing some attributes, how would you see that mappign to Zope objects? What meta_type would they be? Where would they show up? That's why we need an API and can't just do everything transparently ;-) We have the conept of SmartAttributeSheets (names

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
But storage of binary pickles was never the intention anyway. I created a little interface that would allow you to store different classes in different PostgreSQL tables. Before I got to implementing anything, Is this much like the ZPatterns approach? Which part of ZPatterns are

[Zope-dev] Xron

2001-05-11 Thread Homan Els
Hi, I did install the xron product from Istaffor, but it doesn't work. I am using Zope - .2.3.2, and installed xron. But, when I want to access the zope - server, I get a zero response back. Does anyone no the answer to this problem ? Thanks, Els Homan

[Zope-dev] : XCRON

2001-05-11 Thread Homan Els
Hi, I did install the xron product from Istaffor, but it doesn't work. I am using Zope - .2.3.2, and installed xron. But, when I want to access the zope - server, I get a zero response back. Does anyone no the answer to this problem ? Thanks, Els Homan Ps. Log-file: --

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
The other motivations for an RDBMS are (1) people have existing schemas and want Zope to access the same data as their existing apps, and they want it to be transparent, and (2) tables with millions of entries are easily stored in Zope but the perception is that the catalog isn't as fast as

Re: [Zope-dev] CoreSessionTracking 0.8 strangeness

2001-05-11 Thread Chris McDonough
This is very odd, as cst depends on ZODB locking just like everything else in Zope, and uses the same transaction facilities and semantics. Now this may *be* the problem... some other folks have explained a problem where newly-created session data disappears if the long-running request that

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Grrr... Python Scripts

2001-05-11 Thread Chris McDonough
We actually need to do something to make a whole bunch of default stuff importable and usable from within Python Scripts, it's just a matter of which modules/classes to add security declarations for. It's also a matter of when, and who. This needs to go through the fishbowl, likely. Now if

Re: [Zope-dev] New IOBTrees have no 'map' method

2001-05-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Chris Withers wrote: R. David Murray wrote: My guess, after searching for the keyword 'map' and finding an interface that calls for the implementation of __getitem__ and says this allows 'for' loops and 'map' iterations, is that you can just drop the call to the .map method and use

Re: [Zope-dev] New IOBTrees have no 'map' method

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Withers
Chris McDonough wrote: Untested... return map(lambda x, data=self.data, self=self: data[x].__of__(self), ids) ah, I see :-) Would that be faster than my little function? cheers, Chris ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Grrr... Python Scripts

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Withers
Chris McDonough wrote: We actually need to do something to make a whole bunch of default stuff importable and usable from within Python Scripts, it's just a matter of which modules/classes to add security declarations for. Maybe this could be bundled into the RestrictedPython work? It's

Re: [Zope-dev] New IOBTrees have no 'map' method

2001-05-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Chris Withers wrote: Chris McDonough wrote: Untested... return map(lambda x, data=self.data, self=self: data[x].__of__(self), ids) ah, I see :-) Would that be faster than my little function? Probably not appreciably... unless it is, of course. ;-) It depends how many things

Re: [Zope-dev] : XCRON

2001-05-11 Thread Espen Sorbye Frederiksen
Hi, I have installed it as well and can neither get it to work. It does nearly what it is supposed to by scheduling the scripts to execute, but the final execution does never occur. ANy tricks out there are good news for me as well, Espen On Fri, 11 May 2001, Homan Els wrote: Hi, I did

Re: [Zope-dev] New IOBTrees have no 'map' method

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Withers
Chris McDonough wrote: Probably not appreciably... unless it is, of course. ;-) It depends how many things you're iterating over. self.data can often contain several thousand objects. Might even be slower... it'd require testing and its probably not worth it. Hehe, I'll leave it then,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Grrr... Python Scripts

2001-05-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Chris Withers wrote: Maybe this could be bundled into the RestrictedPython work? I think it needs to be its own project... the RestrictedPython work is being done at a much lower level than this. ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Grrr... Python Scripts

2001-05-11 Thread Evan Simpson
From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could that we added to PythonScripts/standard.py so I don't have to do it all the time? This is just part of a general security review that needs to happen. I suppose we need a place to collect suggestions about objects that ought to be exposed to

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Shane Hathaway
Joachim Werner wrote: Hi! Do you know that there already is a project for OR-Mapping in Zope (actually there are two ...)? Yes, and I think the projects need to look into replacing parts of ZODB rather than adding complexity. ZODB has pieces that can be split apart and

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Ken Manheimer
On friday, 11 May, Joachim Warner wrote: The other motivations for an RDBMS are (1) people have existing schemas and want Zope to access the same data as their existing apps, and they want it to be transparent, and (2) tables with millions of entries are easily stored in Zope but the

RE: Subject: [Zope-dev] change ownership

2001-05-11 Thread Tim McLaughlin
Magnus, OK, here goes the evil workaround It seems that getUser does not return an acquisition wrapped object, so make your external method this to wrap it (thus giving ownerinfo the ability to determine the user db): def setOwner(self, username): #note: this assumes that the closest

RE: [Zope-dev] Xron

2001-05-11 Thread Loren Stafford
This is a known problem. Search back thru the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Xron and you will find some helpful information. I'll also try to find the relevant email and forward it to you separately. -- Loren (lstaffor) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] New IOBTrees have no 'map' method

2001-05-11 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Chris Withers wrote: Probably not appreciably... unless it is, of course. ;-) It depends how many things you're iterating over. Hehe, I'll leave it then, unless someone complains abotu Squishdot being dog slow... If you haven't already read it, you might be

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Casey Duncan
Cees de Groot wrote: Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's one reason ZODB is so nice. You can write an application without writing a formal schema. One of the reasons I am seriously considering to migrate our production database from PostgreSQL to ZODB. I am about to implement

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread David Brown
At 11:45 AM 5/11/2001 -0600, Casey Duncan wrote: One of the biggest limitations in my mind is the lack of a general query language for the ZODB like what you get with most OODBMS and all RDBMS. I used to think this as well. But isn't Python a decent query language? Isn't it nice to be able to

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
As a matter of fact, we did a quick CMF demo that has the content of the zope list, zope-dev, and many of the other zope.org lists, and the comp.lang.python list for the past few years. The catalog searches are very very fast, i can't recall if the demo was set up with some interesting

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
But isn't Python a decent query language? Isn't it nice to be able to have all of the facilities of Python at your disposal when manipulating data, rather than hoping that whatever database you are using doesn't have a brain-damaged implementation of SQL? Most of the time nobody will need

RE: [Zope-dev] : XCRON

2001-05-11 Thread Loren Stafford
1. Be sure to use the STUPID_LOG_FILE or run Zope in debug mode. That's the only way you will know what Xron's Dispatcher is doing. 2. Xron DTML Methods run as Anonymous User. You may have to give your Xron DTML Methods proxy roles so that they can execute the functions you want them to. This is

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
It sounds like you are tackling a lot of things at once. You might consider dividing into separate projects. Yep, that's what is happening right now. We are still collecting feature requests. Then we will sort them out. A lot of the stuff will also be useful in different contexts than we have

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Casey Duncan
David Brown wrote: At 11:45 AM 5/11/2001 -0600, Casey Duncan wrote: One of the biggest limitations in my mind is the lack of a general query language for the ZODB like what you get with most OODBMS and all RDBMS. I used to think this as well. But isn't Python a decent query language?

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread David Brown
At 08:38 PM 5/11/2001 +0200, you wrote: E.g. how would you handle objects beloning to more than one container? In SQL this is easy (Just have a table that matches key pairs from the container table and the item table). I could do the same thing with Python, creating a dictionary that does

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with

2001-05-11 Thread Casey Duncan
Cees de Groot wrote: David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But isn't Python a decent query language? Isn't it nice to be able to have all of the facilities of Python at your disposal when manipulating data, rather than hoping that whatever database you are using doesn't have a brain-damaged

Re: [Zope-dev] Question about import code

2001-05-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
Shane Hathaway writes: Fred Wilson Horch wrote: Importing multiple objects simultaneously could result in a fair amount of confusion... Can you elaborate? When you import a folder, for example, it imports the folder and all objects in it. If there are some objects in the

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with

2001-05-11 Thread Cees de Groot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only problem with this is that lambdas are not safe for TTW scripting 8^(. I think that TTW scripting and heavy duty application development are very incompatible with each other, so that's not a problem :-) -- Cees de Groot

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:01 AM 5/11/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: Joachim Werner wrote: The current design plans of SmartObjects are mainly based on the assumption that we will not be able to change Zope itself. This is not a dogma for us, however. I guess doing OR-mapping in the Zope core would be fine

Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Shane Hathaway
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:01 AM 5/11/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: Joachim Werner wrote: The current design plans of SmartObjects are mainly based on the assumption that we will not be able to change Zope itself. This is not a dogma for us, however. I guess doing OR-mapping in

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments with ORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Cees de Groot
Joachim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...]. E.g. how would you handle objects beloning to more than one container? In SQL this is easy (Just have a table that matches key pairs from the container table and the item table). And I don't know any good way of implementing many-to-many relations in