Traversal is not meant to have pretty urls. To do such, I would either : - add a Site Access Rule in the root folder that would rewrite the url from the "nice" form to the physical location of the script and add the parameters to the request object. - use Apache in front of Zope and some mod_rewrite magic Pascal -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Sent: 22 June 2005 16:15 To: David Pratt Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Traversal question ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>

I have gone over the zope book to see what I can do about calling a sql with a form and getting three additional parameters in the request and am wanting this to get better looking urls that calling the parameters directly in the url. I asked a similar question yesterday but perhaps it was not clear enough about what asking. It is really a traversal question and how to string together a sql query with a zpt form that also requires parameters from the request namespace.

I can call my zsql method and then my edit form like this: /employee_by_id/employee_id/42/employee_edit_form

or with simple direct traversal on the zsql method: /employee_by_id/42/employee_edit_form

Problem is I need three other parameters in the request for my edit form to satisfy my sorting so when the edit form returns it is back on the same batch page

Parameters passed in traversal go into the request namespace according to

the zope book so was hoping for something similar to this which doesn't work - and I can't see how it could.

/employee_by_id/employee_id/42/employee_edit_form/start/2/sort/ employee/reverse/0

The zope book examples are with python scripts so am not sure whether this is possible with a ZPT that also requires parameters from the request or will I need a script to be called in the path somewhere to pick up the results of the query and then pass parameters to the form - something like:

/employee_by_id/employee_id/42/some_other_script/start/2/sort/employee/ reverse/0/employee_edit_form

where some_other_script would be a script python. Any hints to help me understand what can be done with traversal like this would be appreciated

since I would rather have nice urls instead of stringing parameters directly in the url with all the ?= and &'s.

I am sure you don't want to hear this, but that's what '? = &' are for. If you really want to make your life complicated you could look into storing the parameters in cookies or session data, but those are pretty ugly work-arounds just so you can have pretty urls. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************