[Zope-DB] Re: gadlfy/commit

[Dieter Maurer]

Dennis Allison writes:
 > ...
 > The database-operation raises a non-unique key exception so control passes
 > to the <dtml-except>.  The database is updated (non-unique keys be damned).
 > >From what you write, the <dtml-except> block has to raise and exception to 
 > cause a rollback.  That means the pattern is:
 > 
 > <dtml-try>
 > <dtml-try>
 > 	database-operation
 > <dtml-except>
 > 	<!-- here for exception for the operation -->
 > 	raise some-exception
 > </dtml-try>
 > <dtml-except>
 > 	<!-- report the problem -->
 > </dtml-try>
 > 
 > which seems a bit ugly, but if that's how it's done....
You can use "raise type=Redirect" to get the transaction aborted
and be redirected to the content of the "raise" tag.

An alternative might be my External Method "emulateRedirect".
It provides for transaction control.

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Dieter