ztfy.utils 0.3.13

ZTFY utility functions and classes for Zope3

Contents

• What is ztfy.utils ?
• How to use ztfy.utils ?
• Changelog
  • 0.3.13
  • 0.3.12
  • 0.3.11
  • 0.3.10
  • 0.3.9
  • 0.3.8
  • 0.3.7
  • 0.3.6
  • 0.3.5
  • 0.3.4
  • 0.3.3
  • 0.3.2
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.3
  • 0.2.1
  • 0.2
  • 0.1

What is ztfy.utils ?

ztfy.utils is a set of classes and functions which can be used to handle many small operations.

Internal sub-packages include :

• date : convert dates to unicode ISO format, parse ISO datetime, convert date to datetime
• request : get current request, get request annotations, get and set request data via annotations
• security : get unproxied value of a given object ; can be applied to lists or dicts
• timezone : convert datetime to a given timezone ; provides a server default timezone utility
• traversing : get object parents until a given interface is implemented
• unicode : convert any text to unicode for easy storage
• protocol : utility functions and modules for several nerwork protocols
• catalog : TextIndexNG index for Zope catalog and hurry.query “Text” query item
• text : simple text operations and text to HTML conversion
• html : HTML parser and HTML to text converter
• file : file upload data converter
• tal : text and HTML conversions for use from within TAL

How to use ztfy.utils ?

A set of ztfy.utils usage are given as doctests in ztfy/utils/doctests/README.txt

Changelog

0.3.13

• added ZEO connection interface, utility and tools
• added “ztfy.utils.container” utility module
• added a persistent utility to store ZEO connection settings
• added “TextLine list” schema field and widget
• added request and session cached properties
• added Python 2.7 compatibility code and timeout parameter to XML-RPC protocol helper
• changed request “data:” TAL namespace to basic HTTP request so it can be used in views called via JSON-RPC or XML-RPC

0.3.12

• updated package source layout

0.3.11

• added dotted decimal schema field, not handling locales :-/

0.3.10

• upgraded for ztfy.jqueryui 0.6.0
• added Color schema field and widget
• added StringLine schema field
• added “text:translate” TAL adapter
• moved ITransactionManager adapter from ztfy.scheduler package

0.3.9

• added HTTP client based on httplib2, handling authentication and proxies

0.3.8

• corrected encodings vocabulary

0.3.7

• added encodings vocabulary

0.3.6

• corrected code and translations in MissingPrincipal class
• added permissions on TextIndexNG index

0.3.5

• re-add IList and IDict interfaces forgotten from bad merge :-(

0.3.4

• better check for missing requests

0.3.3

• Added “fanstatic:” TALES expression

0.3.2

• Mark ztfy.utils.security functions and classes as deprecated

0.3.1

• Updated signature in ztfy.utils.catalog.index to match last hurry.query release

0.3

• Switched to ZTK-1.1.2 and Python 2.6
• Added “getAge” function in date module
• Added session module and TALES adapter to get/set session values
• Check None value in catalog.getObjectId(…) and catalog.getObject(…) methods

0.2.1

• Added ‘site.locateAndRegister’ facility function
• Update ServerTimezoneUtility parent classes

0.2

• Added ‘data’ namespace to access request data

0.1

• Initial release