-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Weiner [mailto:weiner@tu-harburg.de] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 5:36 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Handling lists in requests?

Hi,

is there a way to handle lists in requests properly?

For Example:

I have a form getting a list containing a few 'inner' lists from an external method 'ldif' (maybe that's already ugly). I want to give this list-construct via a request to an action form.

<FORM action="show_it" method="post"> <!--#call "REQUEST.set('adr_list',ldif(filename))"--> <input type = "hidden" name="adr_list" value="<!--#var adr_list-->">

Hidden input types aren't smart enough to pass around things like lists. You'll have to build the list from a compound list of hidden inputs. <!--#in adr_list--> <input type="hidden" name="adr_list:list" value="<!-- #sequence-item-->"> <!--#/in--> This little kludge will end up making ZPublisher (upon recieving the request) to marshal all of the hidden values into a list (note the ':list') called 'adr_list'. -Michel

<!--#in adr_list sort--> doing some stuff <!--#/in adr_list sort-->

The <!--#in adr_list--> action works fine, but when trying the same <!--#in adr_list--> in 'show_it' I receive an Error:

Error type: InError Error value: Strings are not allowed as input to the in tag.

How should I handle this?

thanks Thomas -- fon: ++49 (0)40 42878 3781 fax: ++49 (0)40 42878 2728

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