[Zope] Re: Transactions in Zope?

25 Nov 2001

      I see the problem -- I was catching my own exceptions, so the
normal Zope mechanism wasn't being used.

But this brings up a bit of a quandary:

        try:
            self.MailHost.send("This is a test", 
              'Bruce@EckelObjects.com', form_data['email'], 
              "%s\n\n" % form_data['seminar-id'])
        except smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused:
            return "Invalid email address: please press your
browser's 'back' key and correct it"

I'd like to both
* catch the exception and produce an error message for the user
* use the rollback mechanism in Zope

Can I have my cake and eat it too?

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On 11/24/01 at 6:32 PM Chris McDonough wrote:
...
All you need to do is raise an exception.  Zope rolls back changes
to
the point at which the transaction was started (the beginning of
the
request).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Eckel" <Bruce@EckelObjects.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Cc: <ecofsky@theUNIXman.com>; <chrism@digicool.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Transactions in Zope?
...
I am creating an external method that makes a folder, creates a
dtml method in that folder, and then sends an email message. If
any
of these operations fail, I'd like to "roll back" to the state
before the method was called. I think I heard that zope has
transactions of some kind, and I'm making mods to the ZODB in my
external method, so is there a magic piece of code that would
roll
everything back?
Thanks!