STZPT Debugged

It turns out that there were two remaining problems in STZPT. The first was my code was not returning the rendered edit form. For lack of a return, it got lost and the page displayed as blank. The second, the path traversal bug, turned out to be a feature of page templates. Acquisition works differently in page templates. So to work around the problem in displaying the red ball icon, I modified the url so that it starts with a "../", so the path does not include the page template. So I noe consider STZPT done, except for an independent test.

No Luck

I tried to identify the cause of the path traversal problem in STZPT, so far with no luck. I think I'll have to use the Wing debugger. Until I can, I'll turn my attention to other issues.

Bug Squashing

The day was spent trying to fix the two bugs in STZPT I mentioned yesterday. Getting the right set of management tags was only slightly difficult. The other problem, with restricted traverse, has proven more difficult. I'm trying to locate the problem with debugging prints, but haven't succeeded yet.

Getting Closer

I brought the Chart TWiki back online and protected the register script so that only Twiki administrators can register people. I also set up the mailnotify script. We will see tomorrow if it worked. I walked my preferred solution for pasunx and bubba past Otto and he approved it. So I implemented it, but the customer still is unhappy about the man pages. I got STZPT working to the point where you can add a new page and edit its metadata. But there still seems to be a problem with acquisition. And the properties tab should be deleted.

Back to Zope

I got back to working on STZPT. I moved the code over to battrra, wrote the code to glue it into the rest of STobjects, and started testing. Zope starts up without error, but the stsci tree is missing, so something is badly wrong. I got pulled into an emergency round of despamming the Chart Twiki, so I blocked access and looked for spam. I deleted two suspicious new users.

Mowing 'em Down

Setting up a cron job to run the htgroup script that I described yesterday didn't work. Instead I used the Windows scheduler. It doesn't run Perl scripts, so I looked up how to wrap the script as a batch job. It turns out that pl2bat.bat ships with the Windows version of Perl (in its bin directory) and does the trick. So we now have a way of build an Apache groups file from TWiki groups daily.

After finishing that, I looked at the problem Steve Hulbert had when he set the effective date of an ST File to a blank string. When this is done, a file is marked as not viewable, which is a bug not a feature. It turns out that the only value that STObjects code considers to mean "no effective date" is None. So I changed the _datify routine so that it sets invalid dates to None instead of the empty string. This fixes the problem Steve experienced, though the fix still needs to move through the Zope pipeline.

Working Calls

I got diff and rcs installed on bubba, but the user told me they want into installed elsewhere. So I'll have to look at that again. I worked a a solution to the TWiki registration problem and I'm running it by Gretchen. Plus I tried installing a more recent version of remedy with Greg but we ran into database connection problems.

RCS Again

I successfully installed rcs on pasunx, but failed on bubba. Otto says it's because the Sun C compiler is in a different directory on bubba. I'll try fixing that tomorrow. Plus I wrote a mail message to Gretchen explaining why access to registration needed to be controlled through Apache.

Finished Code

In the morning I finished the coding for the new class STZPT. I'll move it to battra when the new Zope instances are set up. I also repaired permissions on the chart TWiki and protected the registration script. But what I did turned out not to be what Gretchen wanted, so I yanked it.

STZPT

Most of the work today was on what's now called the Web Roadmap project. We developed an initial version of the project breakdown at our web domain meeting and I stared work on STZPT (the ST wrapper for Zope Paget Templates.)