collective.plone.gsxml 0.4.5

A package for importing and exporting content from Plone

collective.plone.gsxml

An XML import/export add-on for Plone.

Installation

collective.plone.gsxml is a egg, so installation is easy if you use buildout. You just need to add collective.plone.gsxml to your plone part’s eggs AND zcml option.

A example buildout is available here:

https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/gsxml/buildout/trunk

This package needs lxml, see the buildout example.

Usage

After installation, you’ll get two new items in Plone’s action menu, one for import, and one for export.

Bugs, Annoyances, Caveats

This package relies pretty much on the Marshal_ product for plone (which is shipped with Plone). This product, is, while offering great functionality, a bit convoluted and does not allow to hook in using the ZCA.

Also, this package tries to export references, and this is currently done using pickles, which is not safe. References should be exported by using adapters defined by those who actually use the references and know how to export them (it’s impossible to do this in a generic way IMHO).

Bugs

• exports references using pickles

• messes with the internals of the Marshal product due to lack of hooks

• uses pickles, this is not secure

• manifest XML is not yet parsed

Annoyances

• convoluted code. The code of this package needs cleanup. This will be done in due course.

Caveats

• This package can export AT based content only.

• This package does NOT export dynamically marked interfaces

• This package does NOT export annotations on content

Change history

2008-07-23 seletz <[e-mail]>

• worked on the ImportExport view. Added more metadata to the report of list_exportable_items method.

2008-07-20 seletz <[e-mail]>

• register ‘@@gsxml’ view for *

• add security for ‘@@gsxml’ view

• add ‘list_exportable_items’ method to ‘@@gsxml’

• removed junk code

2008-07-19 seletz <[e-mail]>

• BUGFIX: id set in config.py, UIDs are now no longer exported. This allows for importing the sam eimport twice, whcih would have resulted in UID clashes otherwise.

• @@gsxml view: added view to allow for external access of import/export functionality using XMLRPC

• renamed package from “inquant.plone.gsxml’ to ‘collective.plone.gsxml’

• reformatted documentation to match PyPi standards better

Detailed Documentation

Section TBD

Contributors

(in no particular order. These are the nicks on #plone)

• fschulze

• magnon

• ramonski

• seletz

• hannosch

• witsch

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