Re: [Zope] adding dtml/zpt methods to product classes

28 Jan 2005

      On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:59:17PM -0600, Keith Alperin wrote:
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Greetings Zopistas!
I have been a Zope tinkerer for a few years and have never been able to 
adequately solve this problem:  When I create a Product class with 
DTML/ZPT methods, how can I make those methods members of the class 
rather than simply instance methods?  These examples should illustrate 
what I mean.
I feel like I must be misunderstanding the question.
Your examples are so odd, you must be trying to do something
unusual ;-)

But if you're asking what I think you're asking,
just do what nearly ever other zope Product on the planet does:

class Foo(SimpleItem):

    my_method1 = DTMLFile('dtml/my_method', globals())

    my_method2 = PageTemplateFile('zpt/my_other_method', globals())

In other words, set them as class attributes, not within
another method.

And to secure them, do this:

class Foo2(SimpleItem):

    security = AccessControl.classSecurityInfo()

    security.declareProtected('Some Permission', 'method1')
    method1 = PageTemplateFile('zpt/method1', globals())

    security.declarePrivate('method2')
    method2 = PageTemplateFile('zpt/method1', globals())

    security.declarePublic('method3')
    method3 = PageTemplateFile('zpt/method3', globals())

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com