[Zope3-dev] Re: Third party application configuration

[Tres Seaver]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
>> Our application needs some configuration settings, specifically a path 
>> to a Java VM and some Java library paths.
>>
>> Is there a way to tap into Zope's 'zope.conf' machinery? I.e. it would 
>> be very nice to override our app settings via the command line when 
>> starting Zope.
> 
> 
> On a related note, we're using Lucene as our full text indexer (thus the 
> need for the JVM info) and want to store all of the application 'data' 
> in a single directory structure, which will include the zodb files.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like to see something like this for our zope.conf:
> 
>   datadir <path to data dir>
>   ...
>   <zodb>
>     <filestorage>
>       path $datadir/db.fs
>     </filestorage>
>   </zodb>
>   ...
>   <java>
>     jvm <path to JVM program>
>     libdir <path to our Java libs>
>   </java>
>   <textindex>
>     path $datadir/text
>   </textindex>
> 
> Is this approach going to require a hack to the zope server main module, 
> or are there hooks available?

ZConfig allows you to register extensions to the schema via the 
'%import' directive:

   http://cvs.zope.org/StandaloneZConfig/ZConfig/doc/zconfig.pdf

Tres.
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