[Zope-CMF] Re: getActionById replacement

[yuppie]

Hi Chris!


Chris Withers wrote:
> I'm trying to get Plone 2.1 to SFTU a bit more by shushing its 
> deprecation warnings...
> 
> Getting there but stumped as to what to do with their call to 
> getActionById in CMFPlone/Portal.py...
> 
> They use it to turn for example 'view' into 'base_view', but no 
> non-deprecated way to do this seems to exist :-(
> The deprecation warning also seems misleading:
> 
> getActionInfo()[\'url\']
> 
> ...will net you a TypeError explaining that getActionInfo takes a 
> argument that isn't supplied. Looking at the docs, an action_chain, but 
> I have no idea what one of them is...

'action_chain' is a sequence of 'action paths'. 'action paths' are the 
unique identifiers of Actions. 'view' doesn't identify an Action because 
there might be 'object/view' and 'foo/view'. 'action paths' have the 
format <category>/<id>.

The first available action in the 'action_chain' is returned.

> queryMethodID()
> 
> ..similarly takes an argument: alias.
> Smells like maybe what I should be going, but queryMethodID('view') 
> returns me a None :-(
> 
> Any ideas?

You have a different use case than those mentioned in the deprecation 
warning. getActionObject(action_path) is the method you are looking for.

But please note: The whole PloneGenerator class is nasty code and I'm in 
the process of removing its base class PortalGenerator from the CMF 
trunk. PloneGenerator will no longer work with the trunk / CMF 2.0.


Cheers,

	Yuppie