[Zope-CMF] Reference Objects in CMF

[Carl Rendell]

This is a second posting with [hopefully] more clarity in my explanation of 
what I'm looking for.

Initially I thought I would use something that acted like a symbolic link 
(symlink), but after searching for and looking at the behavior scripted in 
Shane Hathaway's 'PortableHoles' product I realized that symbolic link 
behavior is not what I'm after.

I don't want an object to appear in two places at once. What I really want 
is a 'reference' to an object that has it's own meta information (primarily 
expiration), and localized security behavior [the reference object not the 
'target'].

It appears that what I need is to get the unrestricted traversal path for 
the object I want to reference (is this essentially the Unique ID?), and 
then when accessing attributes of the referenced object I need to use that 
path to call the object directly. Something on the order of getObject(), 
but with the unique id as opposed to the data_record_id_.

Can someone let me know if I'm on the right path, and perhaps reference the 
python or dtml calls that would facilitate this behavior?

Thanks,

~C

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Carl E. Rendell
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