[Tilecache] tilecache refetch configuration

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:06:11PM +0200, Pavel Iacovlev wrote:
> My knowledge of phyton is very limited but as I understood correctly
> this is the line that checks file modification date:
> 
> cfgs = cfgs + (configFile,)
> try:
> cfgTime = os.stat(configFile)[8]
> fileChanged = lastRead[configFile] < cfgTime
> except:
> pass

Are you sure this code is in your TileCache version? It may not
be in the most recent release.

> I see the code, but I don't get this behavior. I test it like this:
> 1. Make a WMS request to tilecache
> 2. Get image as a result
> 3. Change the layer configuration to an invalid WMS URL, or in general
> make the config file invalid by adding random text
> 4. Make the same WMS request
> 5. And as a result I still get the image, until I reload apache
> 
> Here is my apache configuration of mod_python maybe it will help:
> 
> <Directory /home/ue/Projects/yagis-dev/public/tilecache/>
> # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> # Options +ExecCGI
> 
> AddHandler python-program .py
> PythonHandler TileCache.Service
> PythonPath "['/home/ue/Projects/yagis-dev/public/tilecache/'] + sys.path"
> PythonOption TileCacheConfig /home/ue/Projects/yagis-dev/configs/tilecache.cfg
> </Directory>
> 
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Frederic Junod
> <frederic.junod at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This job is already done, see:
> > http://svn.tilecache.org/trunk/tilecache/TileCache/Service.py (function handler)
> >
> > The config file is reloaded if needed (based on the file modification date)
> >
> > fredj
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Pavel Iacovlev
> > <iacovlev.pavel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am using tilecache through apache + mod_python and as I understood
> >> correctly tilecache loads the tilecache.cfg into the memory to improve
> >> performance. So to reload the configuration I need to restart apache.
> >>
> >> My question: Is there a way to tell tilecache to reload it's
> >> configuration file without reloading apache ? In my case the
> >> configuration file is created by a 3rd party app and it be nice to
> >> call some "script" that tell tilecache to reload it's configuration
> >> files.
> >>
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> > Frédéric Junod
> > Camptocamp SA
> >
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