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Data.fs and blobs, whats in them and how might I access them?

Asked by mark mcdougall

Wondering about data.fs and blobs regarding what might be in each and whether they are accessible or changeable or as it were encrypted/unreadable?
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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#1

The blobs are binary data -- photos, pdfs, etc. Things which are separate files.

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mark mcdougall (mmcdouga) said : 		#2

how might I look into Data.fs ?

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#3

SchoolTool uses the Zope Object Database -- ZODB. It is not a relational database, so it doesn't have tables, and to introspect it directly you (more or less) have to create a Python script that imports the necessary objects from schooltool. You can't just peer into it like a regular relational database. This is, of course, a disadvantage. If we were starting over, we probably wouldn't do it this way, but it does work.

I'm not sure if we have an example of a script lying around.

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Emmanuel Awokoya (ewhothinks) said : 		#4

But in the newest version would you be starting over. Because to me schooltool should be the status quo for users using LInux/Ubuntu for Education especially in managing Schools and educational Institution. Having a relational database could help us modify to suit the purpose of the diversity of different school in different locality. Since most different school have different systems.

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Chirag Rajkarnikar (irfire13) said : 		#5

Is the example script to access the schooltool database available? If so, where can i find it?

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#6

OK, examples!

https://code.launchpad.net/~replaceafill/+junk/zodb_access_examples

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