Products.GroupServer

The core GroupServer product

Author

Michael JasonSmith

Contact

Michael JasonSmith <mpj17@onlinegroups.net>

Date

2015-05-22

Organization

GroupServer.org

Copyright

This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License by OnlineGroups.net.

Introduction

The main task of this product is to set up the initial GroupServer instance, and the first site. This product also contains the GroupserverSite class, which forms the core of a GroupServer instance, not a site (despite its name). This product does very little, as most of the functionality of GroupServer is provided by the many gs.* eggs.

Set up

The setup of the initial GroupServer instance and site is handled by the functions (yes, functions) in the Products.GroupServer.creation module. The entry-point is the manage_addGroupserverSite function.

GroupServerSite

The Products.GroupServer.GroupserverSite class is based on OFS.OrderedFolder, but it provides three extra methods.

1. get_site returns the GroupServerSite instance. This is useful to find the acl_users, Contents, or ListManager instances:

   s = self.context.get_site() # Almost everything has self.context
   acl_users = s.acl_users     # Get the acl_users instance.
   contents = s.Contents       # The folder that contains the sites
   ListManager = s.ListManager # The folder that contains the mailing lists

2. standard_error_message over-rides the standard Zope2 error message, and calls the messages in gs.errormesg.
3. The fail method provides the "page" /fail, which is used for testing the error-handling system.

Resources

• Documentation: http://groupserver.readthedocs.org
• Code repository: https://github.com/groupserver/Products.GroupServer/
• Questions and comments to http://groupserver.org/groups/development
• Report bugs at https://redmine.iopen.net/projects/groupserver