Enterprise content management

2 years ago, I proposed a ctypes-based Documentum extension for python, DctmAPI.py. While it did the job, it was quite basic. For example, its select2dict() function, as inferred from its name, returned the documents from a dql query into a list of dictionaries, one per document, all in memory. While this is OK for testing and demonstration purpose, it can potentially put some stress on the available memory; besides, do we really need to hold…

A few weeks ago, as the final steps of a cloning procedure, I wanted to check if the cloned repository was OK. One of the tests was to peek and poke around in the repository and try to access its content. This is typically the kind of task for which you’d use a GUI-based program because it is much quicker and easier this way rather than by sending manually typed commands to the server from…