Today's Work
The problems with tozope were caused by the regular expression I was using to parse the comma separated list. I replaced it with Text::Parsewords and it worked fine. I gave it to Mike and I guess he's happy with it. Then I backported the changes I made to the next great version of tozope, which will preserve metadata. That version is held up because of an obscure (naturally) problem with Zope that causes it to send the metadata of the folder rather than the metadata of the document. Then I revised the shell script that bulds the phonebook so that the publicly accesible files are put in a separate directory from the other files. And Francesca had some questions about parameterized synphot files that I tried to answer.
Posted on Fri, 31 Jan 2003 Tags: zope metadata phonebook tozope
Today's Work
Mike claims that tozope used to handle lists of values but now that feature is broken. I didn't think so, but I created a version of tozope that does handle lists by dumbing down my new metadata aware version of tozope. I also added better comma separated list parsing code. The code has some problems in testing that I haven't resolved. Harry gave another tutorial on the LDAP manager code in the afternoon. And there was a problem with the external methods fix in that some current content got lost on one of the pages and we had to recreate it.
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2003 Tags: metadata ldap tozope
Today's Work
Leigh found some problems with my external methods fix. I made some changes, she tested it again and the fix was approved for installation tomorrow. Leigh noticed that the printable_page exposes the url of the page, which is bad. She put in a call to fix the problem. I think I can call setVirtualRoot or setServerURL to get the "virtual" url. I wrote the script to automatically build the phonebook and tested it with cron. I then added some extra documentation on the LaTeX macros I defined. The remaining work is to decide how to expose the modifiable files via ftp.
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2003 Tags: latex phonebook
Today's Work
Leigh found some pages on the production web site that needed to be modified for the external methods fix. I copied them to the integration web site and modified them. Then I modified the phonebook LaTeX file so that it format correctly on letter sized paper, which seems to be the new phonebook standard. Tomorrow I'll write the shell script that runs the phone book script, runs LaTeX, and copies the file to the ftp directory.
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Tags: phonebook latex web
Today's Work
Today I went back to modifying tozope.pl to read metadata from existing files. The project ran into a roadblock: The method I am using to dump the metadata gets the metadata from the folder containing the object and not the object. Neither Harry or Jim could help me solve the problem.
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 Tags: metadata tozope
Today's Work
I wrote up the test plan for yesterday's fix. Mike has moved the change to test. I felt the need for better log file searching tools, so I modified scanlog.pl so it can perform ad hoc searches. Then I did some reporting for the LDAP project. The proposal submission deadline is past, so we seem to have weathered the web werver performance problem. I hope my two fixes will resolve the problem when they get in next week.
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2003 Tags: ldap web
Today's Work
I spent the day taking the three most commonly used Python scripts on our web site and converting them to external methods. And also converting the dtml code that calls them. The bug that is causing the slowness looks related to the Python scripts and it's my hope that getting rid of them will solve the problem.
Posted on Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Tags: python web
Today's Work
Today I modified STObjects to remove mutable method defaults, tested the changes, checked them into CVS, and wrote up a test plan.
Posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 Tags:
Today's Work
I read the Zope developers documentation overnight and it warned not to set a default argument in a function definition to a mutable variable. I checked out the code for STObjects and it turns out that we've been doing that. So I identified a short list of places in the code this was occurring and emailed a message to the group. Then Jim reminded me that I had promised to revise the torture script so we could benchmark gojira. I spent most of the day doing this and started the script running. I also started making the modifications to STObjects, I promised to have them done tomorrrow.
Posted on Tue, 21 Jan 2003 Tags: zope
Today's Work
I wrote a script that extracts a time range of hits from the web server log files. Tomorrow I've got to remember to write a similar script that extracts a range of days. Then I tested the modified tozope script. There is still some confusion in my mind on the proper way to handle metadata types. I spent some time looking at the server slowdown issue, which looks to be a problem with persistent objects.
Posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2003 Tags: tozope metadata web