experimental.gracefulblobmissing 0.1.0

Patch Plone to not brake when visiting file like contents where related BLOB is missing

Introduction

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

A minor reason I like is that: the Data.fs now is very little, and you can take it from customers server quickly, or deploying it for staging purpose without taking also all attachments that commonly only matters on production.

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

I don’t know if this is good or not (I opened an issue related to this), but for developers this can be a little boring.

This product will simply monkey-pach a pair of points in Plone, so visiting a ATFile without its BLOB available will not show any errors to visitors.

Requirements

This product has been tested on:

• Plone 3.3 (with plone.app.blob 1.3)

• Plone 4.0

Warning

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

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

0.1.0 (2010-11-19)

• Initial release