experimental.gracefulblobmissing 2.0

Patch for Plone. Don't raise errors for file contents with missing BLOB file

Contents

• How to use

• Requirements

• Warning

• Credits

• Authors

• Changelog

  • 2.0 (2023-08-03)

  • 1.0 (2022-03-11)

  • 0.5.0 (2018-12-14)

  • 0.4.0 (2015-04-29)

  • 0.3.0 (2011-09-30)

  • 0.2.0 (2011-06-06)

  • 0.1.0 (2010-11-19)

How to use

The BLOB support in Plone is amazing for a lot of reasons.

However Plone will raise errors when you visit a file content that use BLOB support without also having the BLOB file.

For developers this can be a little bit boring. It’s quite common to copy a production Data.fs for developing using production data, but you don’t always want to copy all blobs.

This product monkey-patches parts of Plone, so that visiting objects that store content in the blob storage without having the BLOB available will not lead to errors. Instead a file only containing the string “File created by experimental.gracefulblobmissing.” is created in the place where the blob-file should be.

Requirements

This product has been tested on:

• Plone 5.1

• Plone 5.2

For Plone 4 / Archetypes compatibility stay below version 2.0. For Plone 3 compatiblity stay on version 0.3.0 or lower.

Warning

This is designed only for development/staging environment. Do not use in production if you are not 100% sure of what you are doing!

Credits

Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

2.0 (2023-08-03)

• Remove Archetypes compatibility code. [thet]

1.0 (2022-03-11)

• Add support for relstorage. [pbauer]

• Create dummy image blobs on the fly. [ale-rt, mauritsvanrees]

0.5.0 (2018-12-14)

• Only patch plone.app.blob and Products.ATContentTypes if they are installed. This makes this package compatible with a Archetypes-free Plone. [gforcada]

0.4.0 (2015-04-29)

• modify patch to not touch every file but only create file with a string in it when it is missing [pbauer]

• patch ZEO to create missing blob-files [pbauer]

• add logging-message when creating a missing blog-file [pbauer]

• fixed errors when reindexing SearchbleText index [keul]

• Added a patch for ZODB egg that Create the blob folder path and create (touch) an empty file for each blob file if it’s missing. [sneridagh]

0.3.0 (2011-09-30)

• fixed dependency on collective.monkeypatcher >= 1.0 [keul]

• pached also getScale method, used by some atct views [keul]

0.2.0 (2011-06-06)

• fixed dependencies [keul]

• direct access to files with missing blobs now redirect to the view with a warning [keul]

0.1.0 (2010-11-19)

• initial release