[Zope] how to use setattr in init method

6 Aug 2002

      Hi all,

I want to clean up my code by setting my arguments dynamically at
initialization. I use the manage_afterAdd method for this, but isn't
there an other way to do this?

This is my code now:

    def __init__(self, id, title=''):
        """Initialization Product, a form is added at init"""
        self.form = self.init_form()
        self.Add_Form()

    def manage_afterAdd(self, item, container):
        """magical method"""
        for (name, value) in self.REQUEST.form.items():
            setattr(self, name, value)

This is my add Form ( in short ):

<dtml-var manage_page_header>
<dtml-var manage_tabs>

<form action="addMail" method="post" enctype="text/html">

<input type="hidden" name="intro" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="subscription" value="">

    Id
    <input type="text" name="id" size="40" />

    Title
    <input type="text" name="title" size="40" />

    <input class="form-element" type="submit" name="submit" value="  Add  ">

</form>

<dtml-var manage_page_footer>

Can't this also be done with:

	def __init__( self, id='', **kw ):
		"""initialization simple object"""
		self.id = id
		for (key,value) in kw.items():
			setattr(self, key, value)

Greetz Nico

[Zope] how to use setattr in __init__ method

Nico de Boer

[Zope] how to use setattr in init method