transmogrify.ploneremote 1.0b2

Transmogrifier blueprints for uploading content via xmlrpc to a plone site

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Introduction
--------------

*transmogrifier.ploneremote* is package of transmogrifier blueprints for
uploading content via Zope XML-RPC API to a Plone site.

Plone site does not need any modifications, but vanilla Zope XML-RPC is used.

Usage
-----

Five different blueprints are provided.

Remote constructor
====================

TODO: How to guess the type and location to be created

Example::

#
# Create remote item on Plone site
#
[ploneuploader]
blueprint = transmogrify.ploneremote.remoteconstructor



Remote schema updater
========================================

This will use XML-RPC to call Archetypes setXXX() mutator methods remotely
to set field values.

TODO: How to input schema fields

Example::

#
# Update the remote item with new extracted content from Sphinx documentation
#
[schemaupdater]
blueprint = transmogrify.ploneremote.remoteschemaupdater

Portal transform
====================

TODO: No idea

Workflow updater
====================

Triggers the state transition of the remote item workflow i.e.
publishes the item if it is not public.

Takes the following parameters:

* *path-key*: which blueprint item dictionary key is used to extract the remote path information
or the item. Default value *path* .

* *transitions-key*: which blueprint item dictionary key is used as the transition name
for the item.

* *target*: Remote site URL


Redirector
==========

This blueprint adds redirection aliases to those content items that have changed
it's paths during tranmogrification process. It takes into account item's
*_orig_path* key set by webcrawler blueprint. Redirection uses
Products.RedirectionTool Aliases form to add appropriate redirections. So this
is required to install that addon in order to make
*transmogrify.ploneremote.redirector* blueprint work.

If *path* is not equal to *orig_path* then appropriate aliases is being added
to local Plone utility (IRedirectionStorage) using Aliases form.

Takes the following parameters:

* *path-key*: which blueprint item dictionary key is used to extract the remote
path information or the item. Default value *path* .

Example::

#
# Add content aliases for content that changed it's paths
#
[redirector]
blueprint = transmogrify.ploneremote.remoteredirector


Making remote site URL configurable
-----------------------------------

All blueprints take remote site URL parameter.
Instead of hardcoding this to your *pipeline.cfg*
you can make it configurable from the command line using the following
*buildout.cfg* snippet to create a helper script::

#
# Recipe to create toplone command.
#
# It will walk through all blueprints defined
# in pipeline.cfg and override their target parameter
# to be a remote Plone site given on the command line.
# This all happeins in initialization= magic.
#
# Also Python logger is initialized to give us verbose
# output. Some blueprints use logging module for the output.
#
[toplone]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
transmogrify.htmltesting
transmogrify.webcrawler
transmogrify.siteanalyser
transmogrify.htmlcontentextractor
transmogrify.pathsorter
transmogrify.ploneremote
Products.CMFCore
initialization =
from urllib import pathname2url as url
from sys import argv
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
args = dict(webcrawler=dict(site_url=url('build')),
localconstructor=dict(output=url('ploneout')),
ploneuploader=dict(target=argv[1]),
schemaupdater=dict(target=argv[1]),
publish=dict(target=argv[1]),
redirector=dict(target=argv[1]),
)
arguments = 'pipeline.cfg', args
entry-points = toplone=transmogrify.htmltesting.runner:runner
extra-paths = ${zope2:location}/lib/python



Authors
--------------

In the order of apperance

* Dylan Jay, [e-mail]

* Mikko Ohtamaa, [e-mail], http://mfabrik.com

* Vitaliy Podoba, [e-mail]

1.0b2 (2010-12-13)
------------------

- better logging


1.0b1 (2010-11-08)
------------------

- Added remote folder pruning ["Mikko Ohtamaa"]

- skips if there are no target ["Dylan Jay"]

- add remoteredirector blueprint ["Vitaliy Podoba"]

- Added exclude_from_nav remote setting ["Mikko Ohtamaa"]

- added remote workflow updater ["Mikko Ohtamaa"]


1.0a1 (2010-03-22)
----------------

- split from pretaweb.funnelweb and released
["Dylan Jay"]