Found the magic acquisition method: person.aq_acquire('instructor-name') It's frustrating to feel like I'm stumbling around in the dark, hoping to find these things. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/25/01 at 8:55 PM sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
Hopefully I understand the problem here... Correct me if I am wrong.
Part of the problem with acquisition is that if propertyItems() exists within person's namespace it will only render within that, meaning that unless propertyItems() itself harvests properties from other areas above person in the acquisition stack, acquisition won't help here.
What I have done in the past is create, recursively, flat property registries returning dictionaries, with underlying logic using getPhysicalPath() and restrictedTraverse(); one method recursively builds a stack of the hierarchy using getPhyicalPath and custom logic to determine where to stop in the hierarchy, turns the stack into a queue, and then returns it; another method then walks that path (as a queue) to get all properties in the path, provided there are no name collisions for those properties, and returns them all as a big dictionary... I haven't done this with properties, but data stored in several ParsedXML docs, but the same idea should apply. Not entirely graceful (or as magic as acquisition), but it works.
Sean
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Eckel [mailto:Bruce@EckelObjects.com] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:29 PM To: zope@zope.org Cc: chrism@digicool.com Subject: [Zope] Finding acquired properties in an external method
If you say: person.propertyItems() In an external method, you get ONLY the properties of person, not any properties that person "inherits" by acquisition.
How do you access the "inherited" properties? Thanks.
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