[Zope-dev] Trying to understand the nuances of a VerboseSecurity report ..

2003-02-20 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi all (and Shane in particular :)

I'm triggering this error:

  Unauthorized: The owner of the executing script is defined
  outside the context of the object being accessed.  Access to
  'basic' of (License_PropertySheetsClass instance at e204528)
  denied. Access requires Access_contents_information_Permission,
  granted to the following roles: ['Administrator', 'Manager',
  'Owner', 'Supporter']. The executing script is (PythonScript
  instance at e208eb8), owned by jean.

I can't understand why .. there is exactly one acl_users in this
Zope instance, in the root, where user 'jean' is defined. The
whole application normally works fine. Currently, the error is
being triggered by a ZUnit unit test. All the other unit tests
(adding, editing and deleting instances of various kinds) works
fine. The code where the error is occuring is this:


# Create a new License instance and grab its propertysheet
license_id  = context.ObjectCounters.newID('License')
new_license = container.newItem(license_id)
new_license_propertysheet = new_license.propertysheets.basic


All I can think is that that object 'basic' lacks context for
some reason (i.e. lacks an acquisition wrapper?). I can't think
why it lacks context .. we use that idiom all over the app, and
don't normally get any problems.

I'm trying to see if reading VerboseSecurity's source will
help, but all I've found so far is a suspect double negation:


def userHasRolesButNotInContext(user, object, object_roles):
'''Returns 1 if the user has any of the listed roles but
is not defined in a context which is not an ancestor of object.
'''


Surely either one of those 'not's should go?

--
Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za


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Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.5.1 with ZEO 2.0.2

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Withers
Brian R Brinegar wrote:

Hello,

We are trying to upgrade the ZEO component of our Zope 2.5.1 system from
ZEO 1.0 to ZEO 2.0.2. We are using Python 2.1.3, everything is compiled
from source.


I'm pretty sure ZEO 2 requires Zope 2.6.x...

cheers,

Chris


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Re: [Zope-dev] RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Lukasz Racon
 I just read the RDF article published here:

 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/rdflib.html

 I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood
 what makes it better than what we already have.  Now I think I get it:
 RDF theory is a new kind of database abstraction.

It is NOT just abstraction:)
The point is you can read RDF and understand it, and machine can understand
it too,
what makes Web a huge database (of course in future). Its not just HTML or
XML it is structured text, so for
example you can search web - based on logic (like searching in library
catalog), and not like to day - which is just matching words.
In other words now you have content, RDF gives you content and metadata
(content description).
Ontologies are next step which gives you relation between objects and so on.

  It's similar to a
 relational database in that you put pieces of data into the database and
 later search for data.  But it's much more ad-hoc than a relational
 database.

 Serialization of RDF into XML and the relationship between RDF and the
 Semantic Web are distinct concepts from RDF theory.


Semantic Web are based on RDF:
One path might be (not only one):
RDF - DAML+OIL - OIL - Description Logics further for example FaCT - ALC
and so on.


 This ad-hoc data storage made me think of TinyTables.  TinyTables is a
 good Zope product that fills the need for simple tables of data, but it
 needs attention.  What if it got replaced by some Zope product called
 RDFBucket?  An RDFBucket object would let you input data in a variety
 of ways, including object introspection, forms, and XML with embedded
 RDF.  It would let you run queries similar to ZCatalog.  Maybe it would
 also generate RDF for embedding metadata in web pages.


1st idea:
You can implement RDF almost in any SQL language, and be able to Query
rdfs.

2nd idea:
Besides any document in ZOPE can be RDF - special tags in html-header.
On the other hand Plone uses Dublin Core, so you can easily make RSS
(syndication), and RDF.
But its limited to documents and basic Plone types.
So you can, and Plone uses ZCatalog for searching

3rd idea:
I haven't done research on RDF and Zope/Python, yet, but it seams to be
a good idea to do something like RDFBucket especialy using ZODB (maybe not
derivied from TinyTable).
I also consider this idea but I would do it more like RDFS - Folder like
object with (rdf) properties containing other objects (subclasses). This is
about 5 minutes of programing.
My consideration are going further - I'm thinking, about further
develepment of this idea into OIL, DAML compatibile (restrictions,
constraints),
but I've to get check also OWL:)


 I'm wondering if I'm thinking in line with RDF theory, or if I've veered
 off track.  If you're familiar with RDF: What do you think?

 Shane


Hope this gives you some light:)
Lukasz


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Re: [Zope-dev] RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Lukasz Racon wrote:

I just read the RDF article published here:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/rdflib.html

I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood
what makes it better than what we already have.  Now I think I get it:
RDF theory is a new kind of database abstraction.



It is NOT just abstraction:)
The point is you can read RDF and understand it, and machine can understand
it too,
what makes Web a huge database (of course in future). Its not just HTML or
XML it is structured text, so for
example you can search web - based on logic (like searching in library
catalog), and not like to day - which is just matching words.
In other words now you have content, RDF gives you content and metadata
(content description).
Ontologies are next step which gives you relation between objects and so on.


That's all fine and good, but I'd like someone to confirm my thinking: 
that the *core principle* of RDF is a new database abstraction.  I 
believe that all the other concepts derive from this core principle.

It's similar to a
relational database in that you put pieces of data into the database and
later search for data.  But it's much more ad-hoc than a relational
database.

Serialization of RDF into XML and the relationship between RDF and the
Semantic Web are distinct concepts from RDF theory.




Semantic Web are based on RDF:
One path might be (not only one):
RDF - DAML+OIL - OIL - Description Logics further for example FaCT - ALC
and so on.


Please don't use so many new acronyms.  DAML and OIL are weird enough. 
FaCT?  ALC?  I have no idea what you just suggested. :-)

This ad-hoc data storage made me think of TinyTables.  TinyTables is a
good Zope product that fills the need for simple tables of data, but it
needs attention.  What if it got replaced by some Zope product called
RDFBucket?  An RDFBucket object would let you input data in a variety
of ways, including object introspection, forms, and XML with embedded
RDF.  It would let you run queries similar to ZCatalog.  Maybe it would
also generate RDF for embedding metadata in web pages.




1st idea:
You can implement RDF almost in any SQL language, and be able to Query
rdfs.


What does that mean?  Do you mean that an RDF database could have a SQL 
query interface?

3rd idea:
I haven't done research on RDF and Zope/Python, yet, but it seams to be
a good idea to do something like RDFBucket especialy using ZODB (maybe not
derivied from TinyTable).


I will not derive anything from TinyTable.  That would not be pretty.


I also consider this idea but I would do it more like RDFS - Folder like
object with (rdf) properties containing other objects (subclasses). This is
about 5 minutes of programing.


I don't know what you're suggesting.


Hope this gives you some light:)


Right now, I'm looking for milk, not meat. :-)

Shane


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Re: [Zope-dev] Trying to understand the nuances of a VerboseSecurityreport ..

2003-02-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jean Jordaan wrote:

All I can think is that that object 'basic' lacks context for
some reason (i.e. lacks an acquisition wrapper?). I can't think
why it lacks context .. we use that idiom all over the app, and
don't normally get any problems.


That's all I can think of also.  Try examining basic.aq_chain.


I'm trying to see if reading VerboseSecurity's source will
help, but all I've found so far is a suspect double negation:


def userHasRolesButNotInContext(user, object, object_roles):
'''Returns 1 if the user has any of the listed roles but
is not defined in a context which is not an ancestor of object.
'''


Surely either one of those 'not's should go?


Yes.  I think the first one should go.

Shane


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Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Bare except dangerous to ZODB?

2003-02-20 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 04:23, Toby Dickenson wrote:
 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 5:21 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
  On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:10, Shane Hathaway wrote:
 
  I'd like to do the transaction states, because it would keep the code in
  zodb3 and zodb4 similar. 
 
 There are application-level reasons to mark a transaction as doomed, and I 
 would like to keep *that* code looking similar ;-). The transaction states 
 approach would work in that context too, right?

Here's a late answer:

If an application needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it is supposed
to call get_transaction().abort().  If a transactional resource manager,
like a database connection, needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it:

  - returns False from prepare() -- the ZODB4 spelling
  - raises an exception in tpc_vote() -- the ZODB3 spelling

Jeremy



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Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Bare except dangerous to ZODB?

2003-02-20 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Thursday 20 February 2003 5:17 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

  There are application-level reasons to mark a transaction as doomed, and
  I would like to keep *that* code looking similar ;-). The transaction
  states approach would work in that context too, right?

 Here's a late answer:

 If an application needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it is supposed
 to call get_transaction().abort().  If a transactional resource manager,
 like a database connection, needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it:

   - returns False from prepare() -- the ZODB4 spelling
   - raises an exception in tpc_vote() -- the ZODB3 spelling

Thanks for that idea.

Normally in the Zope context, transaction and request boundaries are 
co-aligned. This assumption runs deep in zope. I can see problems because an 
application calling abort wont stop the publisher calling commit at the end 
of the request.

Having application state revert mid-request to the pre-transaction state seems 
like a bad idea. Commiting application changes made in the second half of the 
request seems bad too.

(All from theory - I ve not tested this)


-- 
Toby Dickenson
http://www.geminidataloggers.com/people/tdickenson

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[Zope-dev] Re: RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Everitt

Good grief, how did I miss this!!

Shane Hathaway wrote:

I just read the RDF article published here:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/rdflib.html


Yes indeed, that is a very good article.


I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood 
what makes it better than what we already have.  Now I think I get it: 
RDF theory is a new kind of database abstraction.  It's similar to a 
relational database in that you put pieces of data into the database and 
later search for data.  But it's much more ad-hoc than a relational 
database.

I think you are 100% correct, maybe 110%. :^)

In the last two years I made several attempts at grokking Mozilla and 
RDF was always the wall I ran into that prevented further progress.  In 
the last three months I slowly, surely, forced myself to study it. 
Write things down, take notes, rewrite them down, etc.

The light bulb has definitely gone off for me now, and I see things 
exactly the way you describe it:

1) It's an abstraction.  Once you start working with it, you realize 
what this means.  You take a bunch of information and throw it into a 
bucket.  You also throw in how the information relates to each other.

2) It's a database.  You have a pretty formal way of asking questions 
and making sense of the stuff in the bucket.  You also have a way to put 
things in the bucket, and also to rearrange the stuff in the bucket.

3) It's ad-hoc.  You don't have to know everything beforehand like SQL. 
 You also don't have to control the containment hierarchy like you do 
with XML.  (Took me a LONG time to realize the significance of the 
latter point.)

The ad-hoc part is, for me, the key.  Relational theory provided the 
theoretical foundation for modern online transaction processing.  But 
things like content management are a much different problem.  (One 
analyst states that unstructured content is 80% of the information in a 
business.)

RDF, in my view, is the equivalent of a set theory, a formal 
foundation, for content management.  Without it, everyone has to build 
their own framework for stitching things together, for connecting the 
dots.

Serialization of RDF into XML and the relationship between RDF and the 
Semantic Web are distinct concepts from RDF theory.

That's right.  I've always been surprised when I threw some RDF/XML into 
Mozilla, then got a dump of the serialized results.  What I put in 
doesn't look like what I get out.  That's because there is an abstract 
model.  The XML can look a couple of different ways, and you still have 
the same abstract model.

It took me a while, but I learned how to take advantage of this.  With 
Moztop, I'm taking a pretty loose, distributed approach to content 
managment.  I collect RDF from a bunch of different servers, throw it 
all into one big graph, and use this to draw widgets on the screen.

The ability to make an assertion into a completely different part of the 
tree is something you can't do in XML.

This ad-hoc data storage made me think of TinyTables.  TinyTables is a 
good Zope product that fills the need for simple tables of data, but it 
needs attention.  What if it got replaced by some Zope product called 

I will do everything in the universe to help such a project.  How is 
that? :^)

I know what the practical benefits that RDF can mean for content 
management.  And it isn't esoteric Semantic Gibberish.  I'm unable, 
though, to map it on the server side.  However, I'm having luck on the 
client side:

  http://www.zope-europe.org/Members/paul/tmp/moztop-pinstripe.png

RDFBucket?  An RDFBucket object would let you input data in a variety 
of ways, including object introspection, forms, and XML with embedded 

Yes, this is very similar to the client side model in Mozilla.  I'm 
doing things like:

  o Assembling a hierarchy

  o Making up new hierarchies where none existed before

  o Generating property sheets

  o Doing conditional display

  o Making rich connections between loosely-coupled objects, meaning,
  objects that didn't expect to be coupled

  o Allowing data from Zope 2 and Zope 3 sites to be
  collected, presented, and related in the same interface

Mozilla's template model is interesting to at least investigate.  What's 
interesting about it is the way you can follow relationships in the 
model to draw things on the screen:

  http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/template-primer.html

In this very simple example:

  http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/template-bindings.html

...note the last two resources shown in friends.rdf.  Instead of 
repeating information in every row, you get the equivalent of a join. 
 Except the result of that join can produce another join.  The template 
builder keeps following relationships.  Also, you can join to something 
on another server.

RDF.  It would let you run queries similar to ZCatalog.  Maybe it would 
also generate RDF for embedding metadata in web pages

I'm wondering if I'm thinking in line with RDF theory, 

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Bare except dangerous to ZODB?

2003-02-20 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:33, Toby Dickenson wrote:
 On Thursday 20 February 2003 5:17 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
 
   There are application-level reasons to mark a transaction as doomed, and
   I would like to keep *that* code looking similar ;-). The transaction
   states approach would work in that context too, right?
 
  Here's a late answer:
 
  If an application needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it is supposed
  to call get_transaction().abort().  If a transactional resource manager,
  like a database connection, needs to mark a transaction as doomed, it:
 
- returns False from prepare() -- the ZODB4 spelling
- raises an exception in tpc_vote() -- the ZODB3 spelling
 
 Thanks for that idea.
 
 Normally in the Zope context, transaction and request boundaries are 
 co-aligned. This assumption runs deep in zope. I can see problems because an 
 application calling abort wont stop the publisher calling commit at the end 
 of the request.

Good point.  One possibility is that the publisher should more
explicitly manage the relationship between transaction and request.  It
could call get_transaction() at the start of a request to get a
transaction object.  Store that object explicitly and call its abort()
or commit() method at the end of the request.

 Having application state revert mid-request to the pre-transaction state seems 
 like a bad idea. Commiting application changes made in the second half of the 
 request seems bad too.

That does seem like a bad idea, and explicitly using a single
transaction object would prevent it.

On the other hand, maybe Zope app code that detects an error should not
call abort().  Perhaps the publisher should be responsible for the
transaction and the app code should information the publisher that
something went wrong.

Jeremy



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[Zope-dev] Re: RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Paul Everitt wrote:


Shane Hathaway wrote:

I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood 
what makes it better than what we already have.  Now I think I get it: 
RDF theory is a new kind of database abstraction.  It's similar to a 
relational database in that you put pieces of data into the database 
and later search for data.  But it's much more ad-hoc than a 
relational database.


I think you are 100% correct, maybe 110%. :^)


Whew, that's good to know.


In the last two years I made several attempts at grokking Mozilla and 
RDF was always the wall I ran into that prevented further progress.  In 
the last three months I slowly, surely, forced myself to study it. Write 
things down, take notes, rewrite them down, etc.

The light bulb has definitely gone off for me now, and I see things 
exactly the way you describe it:

1) It's an abstraction.  Once you start working with it, you realize 
what this means.  You take a bunch of information and throw it into a 
bucket.  You also throw in how the information relates to each other.

2) It's a database.  You have a pretty formal way of asking questions 
and making sense of the stuff in the bucket.  You also have a way to put 
things in the bucket, and also to rearrange the stuff in the bucket.

3) It's ad-hoc.  You don't have to know everything beforehand like SQL. 
 You also don't have to control the containment hierarchy like you do 
with XML.  (Took me a LONG time to realize the significance of the 
latter point.)

With all this in mind, I just studied my Mozilla mimeTypes.rdf file 
again.  At first, this file looks nasty.  I've only defined handlers for 
two mime types, application/pdf and application/x-zope-edit, yet the 
string application/pdf shows up 8 times in the file!  I only typed it 
once. ;-)

But if I think of RDF files as database export files (or maybe the 
results of a database query), it all makes sense.

- The order in which the RDF elements appear in the file doesn't matter, 
just like the physical order of inodes on a hard disk doesn't matter.

- The obvious way to read this file is to search for XML elements that 
look like 'RDF:Description about=urn:mimetype:*'.  But that's not 
the right way: that's like scanning filesystem inodes sequentially. 
Instead, there is a root URI, urn:mimetypes, and the RDF elements make 
connections to other elements from there.

- RDF is hard to read, but legibility by humans isn't its primary focus. 
 It's more concerned with providing a way to declare any relationship 
about anything.

The ad-hoc part is, for me, the key.  Relational theory provided the 
theoretical foundation for modern online transaction processing.  But 
things like content management are a much different problem.  (One 
analyst states that unstructured content is 80% of the information in a 
business.)

RDF, in my view, is the equivalent of a set theory, a formal 
foundation, for content management.  Without it, everyone has to build 
their own framework for stitching things together, for connecting the 
dots.

So RDF seems like a replacement for, or maybe enhancement of, relational 
theory.  But I wonder how object-oriented databases fit in the mix?



Serialization of RDF into XML and the relationship between RDF and the 
Semantic Web are distinct concepts from RDF theory.


That's right.  I've always been surprised when I threw some RDF/XML into 
Mozilla, then got a dump of the serialized results.  What I put in 
doesn't look like what I get out.  That's because there is an abstract 
model.  The XML can look a couple of different ways, and you still have 
the same abstract model.

How do you (1) throw RDF into Mozilla and (2) get a dump of the results? 
 Is there a utility for doing this?  Are the results in RDF, and are 
they pretty much equivalent to cat file1 file2? :-)


It took me a while, but I learned how to take advantage of this.  With 
Moztop, I'm taking a pretty loose, distributed approach to content 
managment.  I collect RDF from a bunch of different servers, throw it 
all into one big graph, and use this to draw widgets on the screen.

The ability to make an assertion into a completely different part of the 
tree is something you can't do in XML.

This ad-hoc data storage made me think of TinyTables.  TinyTables is a 
good Zope product that fills the need for simple tables of data, but 
it needs attention.  What if it got replaced by some Zope product called 


I will do everything in the universe to help such a project.  How is 
that? :^)

I know what the practical benefits that RDF can mean for content 
management.  And it isn't esoteric Semantic Gibberish.  I'm unable, 
though, to map it on the server side.  However, I'm having luck on the 
client side:

  http://www.zope-europe.org/Members/paul/tmp/moztop-pinstripe.png

I can see that the benefits on the client side would be enormous.  For 
interfacing clients to Zope, we've always thought in two directions: 
either connect the client 

Re: [Zope-dev] RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Tim Hoffman
Hi Shane

In case your not aware Chandler OSAfoundation is basing their 
new PIM on RDF/ZODB/Python etc...

if you haven't already it might be worth having a look at how they see
RDF fitting into the picture.

http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_rel._0.1.htm

See ya

Tim


On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 03:21, Shane Hathaway wrote:
 I just read the RDF article published here:
 
 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/rdflib.html
 
 I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood 
 what makes it better than what we already have.  Now I think I get it: 
 RDF theory is a new kind of database abstraction.  It's similar to a 
 relational database in that you put pieces of data into the database and 
 later search for data.  But it's much more ad-hoc than a relational 
 database.
 
 Serialization of RDF into XML and the relationship between RDF and the 
 Semantic Web are distinct concepts from RDF theory.
 
 This ad-hoc data storage made me think of TinyTables.  TinyTables is a 
 good Zope product that fills the need for simple tables of data, but it 
 needs attention.  What if it got replaced by some Zope product called 
 RDFBucket?  An RDFBucket object would let you input data in a variety 
 of ways, including object introspection, forms, and XML with embedded 
 RDF.  It would let you run queries similar to ZCatalog.  Maybe it would 
 also generate RDF for embedding metadata in web pages.
 
 I'm wondering if I'm thinking in line with RDF theory, or if I've veered 
 off track.  If you're familiar with RDF: What do you think?
 
 Shane
 
 
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Re: [Zope-dev] RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 02/20/2003 09:06 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote:

In case your not aware Chandler OSAfoundation is basing their 
new PIM on RDF/ZODB/Python etc...

if you haven't already it might be worth having a look at how they see
RDF fitting into the picture.

http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_rel._0.1.htm

Wow, that's exactly what I was looking for.  I guess I'll find out more 
when they open up their CVS.  I hope it's soon.  If they've had any 
difficulty persisting ZODB objects to RDF, I bet I could help them.

Shane


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Re: [Zope-dev] Re: RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Craeg K Strong
Paul Everitt wrote:


On jeudi, fév 20, 2003, at 22:15 Europe/Paris, Shane Hathaway wrote:


- RDF is hard to read, but legibility by humans isn't its primary 
focus.  It's more concerned with providing a way to declare any 
relationship about anything.


Right.  That's what the graph tool at the W3C online validator is for. 
:^)  Just throw it some RDF and let it draw a picture for you. 

Fascinating discussion.  Could you please share the URL of this 
validator you mentioned? 
I am assuming it is based on GraphViz/IsaViz technology?  Or is it 
something totally new?

Thanks,

--Craeg


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Re: [Zope-dev] Re: RDF Musings and TinyTables

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Everitt

On Friday, Feb 21, 2003, at 04:16 Europe/Paris, Craeg K Strong wrote:


Paul Everitt wrote:


On jeudi, fév 20, 2003, at 22:15 Europe/Paris, Shane Hathaway wrote:


- RDF is hard to read, but legibility by humans isn't its primary 
focus.  It's more concerned with providing a way to declare any 
relationship about anything.


Right.  That's what the graph tool at the W3C online validator is 
for. :^)  Just throw it some RDF and let it draw a picture for you.

Fascinating discussion.  Could you please share the URL of this 
validator you mentioned?

http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/


I am assuming it is based on GraphViz/IsaViz technology?  Or is it 
something totally new?

Nope, it is indeed GraphVis underneath.

--Paul

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