Edit Skins Over Webdav

by Laurence Rowe — last modified Dec 30, 2008 03:01 PM
Some webdav clients (Mac OS X) create new files on every write, losing the object type information. This script gets webdav editing to work for page templates, css files and images in portal_skins.

Tested With

  • Zope 2.7.3
  • Mac OS X 10.3.5 (as the webdav client)

What to do

The following script has been hacked together from many sources found googling for PUT_factory. Name it put_factory.py and put it in the Extensions folder of your Zope instance, then add an external method to portal_skins with id PUT_factory module put_factory : 

  from Products.PythonScripts.PythonScript import PythonScript
  from Products.PageTemplates.ZopePageTemplate import ZopePageTemplate
  from OFS.DTMLMethod import DTMLMethod
  from OFS.Image import Image
  from OFS.Image import File

  def PUT_factory(self, name, typ, body):
    ''' Try to guess the right object type
    '''
    if typ=='text/x-python' or (body and body[0]=='#'):
        ob = PythonScript(name)
    elif name.endswith('.css'):
        ob = DTMLMethod(name, body)
    elif typ.startswith('text'):
        ob = ZopePageTemplate(name, body, content_type='text/html')
    elif typ.startswith('image')
        ob = Image(name, '', body, content_type=typ)
    else:
        ob = File(name, '', body, content_type=typ)

    return ob

Note

You will still lose usable undo history for the objects as on a file save OS X renames the old file, uploads the file as new and finally deletes the renamed old file.

Contributed by Laurence Rowe