zopyx.existdb 0.1.12

Plone-ExistDB integration

zopyx.existdb
=============

``zopyx.existdb`` integrates Plone 4.3 and higher with
eXist-db providing the following features:

- mounts an arbitary eXist-db collection into Plone
- indexing support (limited to one content document per Connector
instance)
- ACE editor integration
- ZIP export from eXist-db
- ZIP import into eXist-db
- pluggable view mechanism for configuring custom views for XML database
content by filename and view name
- extensible architecture through Plone Dexterity behaviors
- support for XQuery scripts called through the RESTXQ layer of eXist-db
(allows you to call XQuery scripts and return the output format (JSON,
HTML, XML) depending on your application requirements)
- dedicated per-connector logging facility
- small and extensible

The primary usecase for ``zopyx.existdb`` is the integration of XML document
collections into Plone using eXist-db as storage layer. ``zopyx.existdb`` is
not storage layer for Plone content in the first place although it could be
used in some way for storing primary Plone content (or parts of the content)
inside eXist-db. There is no build-in support for mapping metadata as stored in
XML documents to Plone metadata or vice versa. However this could be
implemented easily in application specific code build on top of
``zopyx.existdb``. The design goal of ``zopyx.existdb`` is to provide the basic
functionality for integrating Plone with eXist-db without implementing any
further specific application requirements. Additional functionality can be
added through Dexterity behaviors, supplementary browser views, event lifecycle
subscribers and related technology.

Installation
------------

Add ``zopyx.existdb`` to the ``eggs`` and ``zcml`` options of your buildout
configuration, re-run buildout and install the connector through the add-ons
management of Plone.

Configuration
-------------

Goto the Plone control panel and click on the ``Exist-DB`` configlet and
configure the

- eXist-db server url e.g. ``http://localhost:6080``
- eXist-db username
- eXist-db password

Using zopyx.existdb
-------------------
The package provides a new content-types ``Connector`` that will include
eXist-db into Plone - either from the top-level collection of your eXist-db
database or from a subcollection. You can browse and traverse into
subcollections, view single documents or edit text-ish content through the web
(using the build-in ACE editor integration).

License
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This package is published under the GNU Public License V2 (GPL 2)


Source code
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See https://bitbucket.org/onkopedia/zopyx.existdb

Bugtracker
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See https://bitbucket.org/onkopedia/zopyx.existdb


Author
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| Andreas Jung/ZOPYX
| Hundskapfklinge 33
| D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany
| [e-mail]
| www.zopyx.com


Changelog
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0.1.12 (2014-09-05)
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- support for creating new collections TTW

0.1.11 (2014-08-21)
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- action "Clear log" added

0.1.10 (2014-08-05)
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- log() got a new 'details' parameter for adding extensive logging information

0.1.9 (2014-08-01)
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- human readable timestamps

0.1.8 (2014-07-31)
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- minor visual changes

0.1.7 (2014-07-29)
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- rewritten code exist-db browser code (dealing the correct
way with paths, filenames etc.)

0.1.6 (2014-07-29)
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- fixed improper view prefix in directory browser

0.1.5 (2014-07-13)
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- minor fixes and cleanup

0.1.4 (2014-07-12)
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- made webservice query API aware of all output formats (xml, html, json)

- timezone handling: using environment variable TZ for converting eXist-db UTC
timestamps to the TZ timezone (or UTC as default) for display purposes with
Plone

0.1.3 (2014-07-07)
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- added webservice API interface
- various bug fixes

0.1.2 (2014-06-30)
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- various bug fixes

0.1.0 (2014-06-20)
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- initial release