[Zope] External Method reloading

Jens Vagelpohl jens@zope.com
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:10:35 -0400


if they are concerned about security then these bosses shoul be aware that 
access to the external methods directory poses the very same risks...

jens


On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 07:57 , DA Loeffler wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>
>> have you ever investigated writing a real python product? it seems to me
>> that you're taking external methods a tad too far and you would get much
>> more mileage out af a full python product.
>>
>> jens
>>
>
> I know; in fact this was set up as a product initially, using the
> astoundingly useful Refresh mechanism, but my bosses are somewhat cagey
> about allowing access to the products directory on the UoB production
> Zope servers, so I had to write it as a family of External Methods that
> could live in the Extensions directory.
>
> David
>
>>
>> On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 06:24 , DA Loeffler wrote:
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>>> Is there some magic incantation I can call that will cause all my
>>> External Methods to reload themselves? I have a number of External
>>> Methods that act as factories for classes defined externally, all of
>>> which are subclassed from a single base class, and when I change this
>>> base class I have to reload each method separately, which is irritating.
>>> Does anyone know a workaround for this?
>>>
>>>
>>> David Loeffler
>>> University of Bristol