[Framework-Team] Plip : indexing files

[whit]

> At this time there are 2 new things to consider :
>
> - portal transforms may overload the zope server
>
> - there may be decorators that should be applied to files in order to
> handle properly specific extra fields (especially for multimedia files :
> metadata etc.)
>
> * Concerning overload of zope server : I think that we should have an
> asynchronous portal transform that may run as a separate twisted deamon.
> This may live together with portal_transforms and may be called
> asynchronous_portal_transform (APT). The only difference with
> portal_transforms is that we need to give a callback method to APT in
> order to allow it to send the result of the transform after a while.
> Therefore if a content type is APT-aware and APT is activated, APT is used
> instead of portal_transforms. This allow to move the overload to one or
> many dedicated servers for example. We may also take a look at BlueDCS (I
> just heard of it but never tried it)
>   
wicked.fieldevent allows you to register subscribers for fieldstorage 
events.  These subscribers could be asyncronous(maybe just some 
instructions that clockserver could handle later).   I would try this first.

-w

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