Hi Itamar, Well I have done this with an external method. Something on the lines of (untested in this form) def urlToobject(self, url=None): string.replace(url,'/','.') return eval(url) You migh need a bit more than that depending on whether you need to get it from the root or from a specific dir etc. But something on these lines should work. HTH Phil phil@WigWamWeb.net -----Original Message----- From: itamar@localhost.localdomain [mailto:itamar@localhost.localdomain]On Behalf Of Itamar Shtull-Trauring Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 8:35 AM To: Rafael Cordones Marcos Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Convert URL to object Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote:

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I have an attribute Link that contains the URL of an object How to I convert a URL into a reference to an object?

Maybe dereferencing the name?

<dtml-with "_[Link]"> ... </dtml-with>

Nope - that doesn't work. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! To receive general Zope announcements, see: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce For developer-specific issues, zope-dev@zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

OK try this, def urlToObject(self,url=None): from string import replace url=replace(url,'/','.') return eval("self.%s()" %url) which should be called by something like this: <dtml-var "urlToObject(url='tt_xml/index_html')"> However, this doesn't seem to work quite as you might expect. There must be a better way. Hmmm Phil phil@WigWamWeb.net -----Original Message----- From: itamar@localhost.localdomain [mailto:itamar@localhost.localdomain]On Behalf Of Itamar Shtull-Trauring Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 10:17 AM Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Convert URL to object Phil Harris wrote:

Well I have done this with an external method.

Okay, I have an external method: def urlToobject(url=None): from string import replace replace(url,'/','.') return eval(url) I get a Error Type: NameError Error Value: QuickStart when I give QuickStart as the url (urlToobject('QuickStart')) where my dtml method is at the top level. And QuickStart does exist, of course. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! To receive general Zope announcements, see: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce For developer-specific issues, zope-dev@zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

Phil Harris wrote:

Hi Itamar,

Well I have done this with an external method.

Something on the lines of (untested in this form)

def urlToobject(self, url=None): string.replace(url,'/','.') return eval(url)

There is an existing method that works better for this: <dtml-with "REQUEST.resolve_url(Link)"> blah </dtml-with> 'Link' must be well formed, I believe it must be an absolute URL, but I'm not sure. Maybe just a path '/x/y' will work. -Michel