[Zope-dev] getting size of zope.schema.List from a view in bluebream

23 Aug 2011

      Hello all,
	While trying to get the length of zope.schema.List field in a view
(like this: len(self.context.list_field) I get the following error

        ForbiddenAttribute: ('__len__', [])

Even though my zcml configuration for that class is defined as below

  <class class=".app.MyObject">

    <require
        permission="zope.Public"
        interface=".interfaces.IMyObject"
        />

    <require
        permission="zope.Public"
        set_schema=".interfaces.IMyObject"
        />
  </class>

I still get the above error. To circumvent this issue, I added a method
in the interface like say 'getListSize()' which has the following
implementation

        class MyObject(persistent.Persistent):
            implements(IMyObject)

            name = u''
            list_field = PersistentList()
            ...

            def getListSize(self):
                return len(self.list_field)

This solves my issue. However, I am curious to know whether is this the
only solution available to the above issue. Am I going in the right
direction?

Please guide me.

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Joshua Immanuel
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