On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:03, Jeff Shell wrote:
zope.fssync
+1
0
It's too bad that this seems to have gone unfinished. The biggest
pain
(well, one of the big pains) we experience with Zope 3 is the lack of
anything like Zope 2's export/import. Or, going further back,
'manage_exportHack'. :). This is a side topic and I'm not going to
elaborate further except to beg for some low to medium level
export/import capability. It seems that fssync was one of the
alternatives, or could be, if I recall correctly.
The question is why you need it. zope.fssync was originally
developed for TTW
development via the filesystem. I think this use case has gone away.
Certainly TTW development has a much smaller future than once
envisioned,
but it is still done to some degree.
What use
cases do *you* have for using fssync?
I think fssync would be very useful for content management. I'd love
to be
able to use fssync to manage a wiki (or other collection of
documents) offline.
Of course, there is the use case that Jeff mentioned, which is export/
import.
I don't think a whole lot is needed to make fssync a reality:
1. Cure any bitrot that has set in. It would also ne nice to replace
existing
tests with modern doctests.
2. Provide a Python API. fssync originally had a Python API, but this
was
replaced with a web-based API. I think there should be both a
Python
API that wasn't encumbered in any way by security, and a
protected web-based
API. The Python API should really be Zope and even ZODB
independent.
I don't think this would be a lot of work. The original one
wasn't and would
be useful in many cases.
3. I think there should be a secure web-based interface. This will
require:
- Adding security checks that the user is allowed to access
serialization
and de-serialization adapters,
- Adding security declarations for these adapters,
I don't think any of these would require a great deal of work.
Sadly, I won't be able to work on fssync any time soon, but I'd be
willing to provide
some high-level advice and oversight if someone else was able and
interested
in working on it.
Jim
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