"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
At 09:49 PM 2/18/01 -0800, Michael R. Bernstein wrote:
Ok, assuming that the 'normal' instantiation is either solved or a non-issue, do I need to do anything special to get the newItem() method to call my products manage_add method?
newItem() will not do that. A Rack's newItem() method always takes only an 'id' method. You'll need a method on the object itself that can be given anything else you want to give it, which you'll call from a method you create on the specialist, e.g. a "myAdd" method that takes all four parameters and then does something like:
newObject = self.newItem(id) newObject.setup(extraParm1,extraParm2,...) return newObject
Hmm. So I need to refactor the 'manage_add' method inside the python product into two methods, 'manage_add' which would be used by the 'normal' object creation process and that would also call a second 'setup' method which could be called by the specialists 'myadd' method directly, bypassing the 'manage_add' method entirely. Is that correct? Is there anything else I would need to change? Thanks, Michael Bernstein.