Serving up a ZODB on demand from a repozo backup

Since I said I would on the mailing list/forum.

Here it is:

import os
import shutil
import tarfile
import tempfile

def application(environ, start_response):
  status = '200 OK'

  tempdir  = tempfile.mkdtemp()
  datafile = '%s/Data.fs' % tempdir
  tarball = '%s.tar.bz2' % os.path.join(tempdir,
                                        os.path.basename(datafile))

  ## If I were smarter or had more time
  ## I would import from repozo or at
  ## least use subprocess
  os.system("/usr/local/zope/2.9.7/bin/repozo.py -v -z -R -r \
         /usr/local/zope/sites/2.9.7/msrd/zeo/var/backup/ -o %s" % datafile)

  out = tarfile.TarFile.open(tarball, 'w:bz2')
  os.chdir(tempdir)
  out.add('Data.fs')
  out.close()


  response_headers = [('Content-type', 'application/octet-stream'),
                      ('Content-Length', str(len(open(tarball).read()))),
                      ('Content-Disposition',
                       'inline; filename="Data.fs.tar.bz2"')]

  start_response(status, response_headers)
  try:
      return [open(tarball, 'rb').read()]
  finally:
      shutil.rmtree(tempdir)

I did it really quick. But it solved my problem very well. It gets a copy of the Data.fs from the last repozo backup. So all developers don't need shell access to the server...

A couple things I could see doing that would make this cooler are:

• Not using os.system
• implement a method to do HEAD requests with the time of the last repozo delta so I don't compress and transfer this beast if there are no changes...
  

If you have mod_wsgi installed and working you just need to add something like:

WSGIScriptAlias /Data.fs.tar.bz2 /usr/local/apps/getDataArchived.py

to the appropriate configuration file.