Re: RFC822Marshaller for all content uploaded with FTP/Webdav

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:14 -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:09:48PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote:
> | On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:50 -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> | > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:35:16PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote:
> | > | I won't have time to write a PLIP and I need to fix this for the client
> | > | now. I'd like to fix this in a way that might be usable by you.
> | > | 
> | > | I am hoping for an implementation that is a bit more intelligent as
> | > | opposed to just having good defaults. IMO a very simple fix would be to
> | > | not try to demarshall a file using RFC822Marshaller if it is not
> | > | appropriate. Maybe even better would be to have an über marshaller that
> | > | uses RFC882 when appropriate and upload files that are clearly not
> | > | RFC822 compliant as files, not Plone documents.
> | > 
> | > That is exactly what I have in mind.
> | 
> | Actually, thinking about it more, I am more inclined to not have
> | Marshallers handle more than their name suggest. Would it not be clearer
> | to decide which marshaller to use in the PUT factory? In addition to
> | this, all that is needed is to define new marshallers for unknown text
> | files and binary files.
> | 
> | The decision made in the PUT factory can be made configurable TTW per
> | mimetype in the mimetypes registry or in an altogether different tool.
> 
> That's what Marshall does. It has a 'ControlledMarshaller' that looks
> at a tool 'marshaller_registry' and evaluates a set of predicates to
> decide which marshaller to use. One such predicate could 'sniff' if
> the file looks like rfc822.

Great! So one basically needs to develop the sniffer predicate and use
the ControlledMarshaller in Archetypes?

-- 
Roché Compaan
Upfront Systems                   http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za



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