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EJB
by umun 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hi, As I am new to Zope, I hope I will not offend the people on the list if this question has been asked before. Does the Zope development platform support Enterprise Javabean Specs (1.0)? Don't get me wrong. As I am still evaluating Zope, I am very impressed with the features that Zope offers but would like to consider interoperating it with other EJB compliant frameworks like BEA WebLogic, etc. rdgs umun

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RE: [Zope-dev] Strange behavior by external methods - a bug?
by Michel Pelletier 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: julian(a)zereau.net [mailto:julian@zereau.net] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 11:26 AM > To: zope-dev(a)zope.org > Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] Strange behavior by external methods - a bug? > > > > On 10-Mar-99 julian(a)zereau.net wrote: > > I am having problems with external methods that > consistently work fine in the > > "Try It" tab of their management interface, and > consistenlty choke and die > > when > > called by  or by  > oops typo here, I meant  and  > Can you send: a method and a snip of DTML that reproduces this and the traceback -Michel > --- > Julian Morrison > Programmer (Zereau Ltd) > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > > (For non-developer, user-level issues, use the companion list, > zope(a)zope.org, http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) >

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Vairable Query of TinyTables
by Jason Spisak 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Friends, Humans, Zopians..lend me your ears: Has anyone had any luck inserting a variable into the "query" string of TinyTables. A thousand thanks to Ty Sarna for the Product by the way! Trying to customize documents based on user. A User object has no extra info, so I put the extra static properties into a TinyTable and want to get them out base on who is loged in. By variable query I mean for example:   <br>   Believe it or not, it doesn't choke, it just gives me nothing. I alos tried this   <br>   but that choked and there is no traceback in the HTML source. Anybody try this yet? All the best, Jason Spisak webmaster(a)mtear.com

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Setting/Creating variables
by James A. Hillyerd 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I posted something similar to the zope list, but this is a different message, so don't skip it, you probably haven't read it already! =) I have been playing around with Zope/ZPublisher/DocumentTemplate and have been extremely pleased with the ease of development, as well as the power of the Python language. Sometimes I have found myself wanting to save the results of an expression in my DTML code, for use later in the same page (or even an embedded DTML object). The only thing I have used that is similar to DTML is ColdFusion, which has a CFSET tag, ie: <cfset myvar = "test"> or <cfset total = subtotal * tax> After being pointed to the FAQ, I can see the recommended way to do this is  This is pretty ugly looking IMHO, and not really in the spirit of Zope, since DTML is supposed to be elegant and simple. (at least that was my impression of DTML's goals) I understand that having a #set command that adds values to the REQUEST object would be difficult, since you don't actually have to pass in a REQUEST to a Template when you call it. It's been a while since I've read the CF manuals, but I remember it having three or more namespaces, including: request/system variables, user defined variables, database query variables... It would be nice if a user defined variables namespace could be created inside a template (and attached to REQUEST if available?), and passed on to any embedded DTML calls. Then inside DTML documents there could be a set command, similar to:  or   (I'm not sure which syntax would be more in the spirit of DTML) The lifespan of the variables should only be that of the current request, they should not be attached to a session, or have any effect on any other REQUEST's variables. Anyways, I wanted to bounce this idea off of the Digicool people, and other long-time Zope users to find out if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It seems like something that needs to be done IMHO, because Zope are trying to appeal to ColdFusion users, many of which are looking for something easy to develop in, without having to learn Python. And something like REQUEST.set(var, val) might look a lot like programming to them. -james [] James A. Hillyerd <jamesh(a)altavista.net> Java Developer [] HyperGlyphics: http://www.hyperglyphics.com/ [] GPG Public Key Fingerprint for 1024D/9F956CDE (Expires 2000-02-01): [] C86F B073 92DF 1E24 EF0B 0118 6061 0FEC 9F95 6CDE

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Identifying the browser
by Eric Kidd 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I'm writing a product which relies on tables to present data. Obviously, this won't work very well in Lynx. Does anybody have a colletion of routines for answering questions like: "Does the user's browser support tables, or should I format everything using PRE?" Cheers, Eric

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Strange behavior by external methods - a bug?
by julian＠zereau.net 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I am having problems with external methods that consistently work fine in the "Try It" tab of their management interface, and consistenlty choke and die when called by  or by  --- Julian Morrison Programmer (Zereau Ltd)

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RE: [Zope-dev] The Spanish Aquisition
by Michel Pelletier 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Spisak [mailto:webmaster@mtear.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 4:57 PM > To: zope-dev(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope-dev] The Spanish Aquisition > > > Zopistas, > > I am trying to reference a property of a Folder that is in a totally > spearate hirearchy of Zope. When inserted below the folder > Iwish to grab > the property of it works fine, but when moves elsewhere it dies. > >  >  >  > Hmm.. I'm not sure I understand the problem you want to solve, but have you tried:  If the folder is one of your ancestors (ie above you and in your path) you can just reference it's attributes like they were your own. If the folder you are targeting is above you but not in your path (ie not an ancestor) but is a child of one of your ancestors, you must first aquire the folder, and then reference it's property, like this:  The rule is: If a folder is an ancestor of yours, you can just say  If a folder is a child of one of your ancestors, but not one of your ancestors (like a cousin), you can say , because you must first aquire the folder. Remember that when it comes to aquisition, DTML Methods and DTML Documents behave differently. Documents aquire from their perspective, and Methods aquire from the perspective of the folder than contains them (Note: see the ZDP FAQ entry on the difference between Methods and Documents). -Michel > name is the property, and candidate1 is the folder id. > > I have tried _.namespace and the #with and #in tags, all have the same > problem. > > Here is the traceback > >  > > Do I have to know the folder that separates the hirearchy and put that > in somewhere? > > Zope-on! > > Jason Spisak > webmaster(a)mtear.com > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > > (For non-developer, user-level issues, use the companion list, > zope(a)zope.org, http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) >

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Pb using Document Template
by Stephane Tallard 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Hi all, I have a problem using DocumentTemplate.String. I try to use the python extended string syntax use it to generate C++ code . I want DocumentTemplate to call a method for me and put the result in the output file. But unfortunatly the doc is not that clear for that particular use. I'm not sure that anyone here uses DocumentTemplate in that way ... Could you check my example code , where french people will recognize typical french idioms, and tell me where is the misuse ? The resulting error message is : Document Template Parse Error: Document Template Parse Error: Invalid attribute name, ""_['toto'].myprint()"", for tag %(call "_['toto'].myprint()")s, on line 2 of <string><p> Note that the first call doen't make an error, but is not interpreted as a command. Thanks Stephane my code ====================== import DocumentTemplate l__att_type= "ATTTYPE" l__att_name= "ATTTRIBUTE" l__att_member_name = "ATTRIBUTEMEMBER" results = """\ %(call "coucou()")s %(call "_['toto'].myprint()")s """ class TOTO: def __init__(self): self.coucou = "coucou" print self.coucou def myprint(self): print self.coucou toto = TOTO() def coucoucoucou(): print coucoucou dic = {'is_date_att':1,'att_type':l__att_type,'att_name':l__att_name,'att_member':l__att_member_name, 'toto' : toto} print dic print dic['toto'].myprint() print DocumentTemplate.String(results)(None, dic)

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Re: [Zope] [Fwd: [Zope-dev] The Spanish Aquisition]
by Jason Spisak 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Martijn Pieters wrote: Thank you M.J.! I knew you had to know the relative path at the top. Just didn't know the syntax. Thanks for all your help. Jason Spisak webmaster(a)mtear.com > > At 13:43 10/03/99 , Jason Spisak wrote: > >This doesn't work. My paths are like, /staff/candidates/candidate1, and > >staff/companies/company1/job1/submission1/MyDocument. I am trying to > >reference a property of the candidate1 folder in the MyDocument > >document. > > > >  will work. > > candidates is the object that is the common ancestor, and from there you > can reference objects down that path. You will have to place the expression > into quotes, however. > > -- > M.J. Pieters, Web Developer > | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl > | Tel: +31-35-6254545 Fax: +31-35-6254555 > | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj > | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 > ------------------------------------------

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Re: [Zope-dev] [DTML] I give UP!!!! (well, almost... ;))
by Butch Landingin 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

---Martijn Pieters <mj(a)antraciet.nl> wrote: > > At 09:12 10/03/99 , Butch Landingin wrote: > >I've been trying to figure this out, and I've given up (at least for > >the day...:(). > >How do I change the value of a temporary variable that I created with > >a namespace method? > >e.g.: <...text deleted...> Thanks. That solved my problem. Butch Landingin butchland(a)yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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