NoisyGecko

To get a new site going from an old Plone 1.0.5 site, I decided to recreate everything from scratch rather than upgrading (not sure that would even be possible). Most of the content I will just manually convert since there isn't much of that to do.

But I wanted to move at least the old 'acl_users' list over programatically. I found this page which was pretty helful in that respect:

http://www.parit.ca/documentation/plonestuff/plone-training-part-7-scripting-users

So I have written the Python code shown below to do what I want. I put this code in the file 'acl_users_import.py' in the 'Extensions' directory of my Plone/Zope instance.

Then I went into the ZMI and created an "External Method" with the following entries:

Id:            acl_users_import
Title:         acl_users_import
Module Name:   acl_users_import
Function Name: acl_users_import

Here is the code I put in the 'PLONEHOME/Extentions' dirctory as 'acl_users_import.py':

def acl_users_import(self):
    """"""
    #self.doAddUser(name='foo', password='foo', roles=['Member'],
    #                         domains=[], groups=['Reviewers'])

    ret = 'Running acl_users_import.py.\n'
    
    pr = self.portal_registration

    filename = '/home/zope6/Extensions/acl_users_import_list.txt'
    ret += 'Reading tab separated file \"%s\".\n' % filename
    try:
        fp = open(filename, 'r')
    except IOError, msg:
        ret += 'Error: %s\n' % msg
        return ret

    ret += 'Skipping first line.\n'
    # Skip first line.
    fp.readline()
    
    for line in fp.readlines():

        line = line.strip()
        elements = line.split('\t')
        id = elements[0]
        pw = elements[1]
        email = elements[2]
        fullname = elements[3]
        roles=('Member',)

        ret += 'Adding %s (%s)\n' % (id, fullname)
        try:
            member = pr.addMember(id, pw, roles,
                                  properties={ 'username': id,
                                               'email' : email,
                                               'fullname': fullname,
                                               })

        except ValueError, msg:
            ret += '  Error: %s\n' % msg

    fp.close()

    return ret

Then I created a tab separated file with the info I wanted to import and put it in the 'PLONEHOME/Extensions' directory as well. The file path in the code above needs to be changed to reflect the full path to that file. Here is an example of the 'acl_users_import_list.txt' file:

ID pw email Name
foo foobar sim@noisygecko.com Foo
foo2 foobar sim@noisygecko.com Foo2
foo3 foobar sim@noisygecko.com Foo3