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issue2551142 - Import of retired node ... unique constraint failure. Title: Import of retired node with username after active node fails with unique constraint failure. More fixes needed for mysql and postgresql. mysql: add unique constraint for (keyvalue, __retired__) when creating class in the database. On schema change if class is changed, remove the unique constraint too. upgrade version of rdbms database from 5 to 6 to add constraint to all version 5 databases that were created as version 5 and didn't get the unique constraint. Make no changes on version 5 databases upgraded from version 4, the upgrade process to 5 added the constraint. Make no changes to other databases (sqlite, postgres) during upgrade from version 5 to 6. postgres: Handle the exception raised on unique constraint violation. The exception invalidates the database connection so it can't be used to recover from the exception. Added two new database methods: checkpoint_data - performs a db.commit under postgres does nothing on other backends restore_connection_on_error - does a db.rollback on postgres, does nothing on other backends with the rollback() done on the connection I can use the database connection to fixup the import that failed on the unique constraint. This makes postgres slower but without the commit after every imported object, the rollback will delete all the entries done up to this point. Trying to figure out how to make the caller do_import batch and recover from this failure is beyond me. Also dismissed having to process the export csv file before importing. Pushing that onto a user just seems wrong. Also since import/export isn't frequently done the lack of surprise on having a failing import and reduced load/frustration for the user seems worth it. Also the import can be run in verbose mode where it prints out a row as it is processed, so it may take a while, ut the user can get feedback. db_test-base.py: add test for upgrade from 5 to 6.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:52:05 -0400
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TAL - Template Attribute Language
---------------------------------

This is an implementation of TAL, the Zope Template Attribute
Language.  For TAL, see the Zope Presentation Templates ZWiki:

    http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/FrontPage

It is not a Zope product nor is it designed exclusively to run inside
of Zope, but if you have a Zope checkout that includes
Products/ParsedXML, its Expat parser will be used.

Prerequisites
-------------

You need:

- A recent checkout of Zope2; don't forget to run the wo_pcgi.py
  script to compile everything.  (See above -- this is now optional.)

- A recent checkout of the Zope2 product ParsedXML, accessible
  throught <Zope2>/lib/python/Products/ParsedXML; don't forget to run
  the setup.py script to compiles Expat.  (Again, optional.)

- Python 1.5.2; the driver script refuses to work with other versions
  unless you specify the -n option; this is done so that I don't
  accidentally use Python 2.x features.

- Create a .path file containing proper module search path; it should
  point the <Zope2>/lib/python directory that you want to use.

How To Play
-----------

(Don't forget to edit .path, see above!)

The script driver.py takes an XML file with TAL markup as argument and
writes the expanded version to standard output.  The filename argument
defaults to tests/input/test01.xml.

Regression test
---------------

There are unit test suites in the 'tests' subdirectory; these can be
run with tests/run.py.  This should print the testcase names plus
progress info, followed by a final line saying "OK".  It requires that
../unittest.py exists.

There are a number of test files in the 'tests' subdirectory, named
tests/input/test<number>.xml and tests/input/test<number>.html.  The
Python script ./runtest.py calls driver.main() for each test file, and
should print "<file> OK" for each one.  These tests are also run as
part of the unit test suites, so tests/run.py is all you need.

What's Here
-----------

DummyEngine.py		simple-minded TALES execution engine
TALInterpreter.py	class to interpret intermediate code
TALGenerator.py		class to generate intermediate code
XMLParser.py		base class to parse XML, avoiding DOM
TALParser.py		class to parse XML with TAL into intermediate code
HTMLTALParser.py	class to parse HTML with TAL into intermediate code
HTMLParser.py		HTML-parsing base class
driver.py		script to demonstrate TAL expansion
timer.py		script to time various processing phases
setpath.py		hack to set sys.path and import ZODB
__init__.py		empty file that makes this directory a package
runtest.py		Python script to run file-comparison tests
ndiff.py		helper for runtest.py to produce diffs
tests/			drectory with test files and output
tests/run.py		Python script to run all tests

Author and License
------------------

This code is written by Guido van Rossum (project lead), Fred Drake,
and Tim Peters.  It is owned by Digital Creations and can be
redistributed under the Zope Public License.

TO DO
-----

(See also http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/ZPTIssueTracker .)

- Need to remove leading whitespace and newline when omitting an
  element (either through tal:replace with a value of nothing or
  tal:condition with a false condition).

- Empty TAL/METAL attributes are ignored: tal:replace="" is ignored
  rather than causing an error.

- HTMLTALParser.py and TALParser.py are silly names.  Should be
  HTMLTALCompiler.py and XMLTALCompiler.py (or maybe shortened,
  without "TAL"?)

- Should we preserve case of tags and attribute names in HTML?

Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/