[Zope-dev] Object to string

[Jason Spisak]

Shaw,

Thanks a bundle!!  

Sometimes those objects want object, sometimes strings, and sometimes I
jsut miss it in the source.  Thanks again.

Jason Spisak
webmaster@mtear.com


Shaw, Howard wrote:
> 
> Nope. Nothing wrong here. Just wrap the two instances of unique_id in
> quotes. Sorry for not catching that in Pavlos' code.
> 
> like so:
> > <!--# call "manage_addFolder('unique_id','unique_id',0,0,REQUEST)"-->
> the fields are id and title, and both take a string. The traceback was
> telling you that it could not find the object unique_id which it was
> trying to evaluate to generate a string to pass.
> 
> Howard C. Shaw III
> Programmer/SysAdmin
> St. Thomas High School
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         Jason Spisak[SMTP:webmaster@mtear.com]
> > Sent:         Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:02 AM
> > To:   Shaw, Howard; zope-dev@zope.org
> > Subject:      Re: [Zope-dev] Object to string
> >
> > Maybe their's something wrong with my Zope, but I can't get the
> > manage_addFolder to work by itself, let alone with properties from a
> > root folder. Odd.  It try this code:
> >
> > <!--# call "manage_addFolder(unique_id,unique_id,0,0,REQUEST)"-->
> >
> > This should create a folder at that level of the hirearchy with id of
> > 'unique_id', but instead I get this traceback--
> >
> >
> > <!--
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 877, in publish_module
> >   File lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 590, in publish
> >     (Info: /staff/test)
> >   File lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 155, in __call__
> >     (Object: test)
> >   File lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 151, in __call__
> >     (Object: test)
> >   File lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 513, in __call__
> >     (Object: test)
> >   File lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 266, in eval
> >     (Object: manage_addFolder(unique_id,unique_id,0,0,REQUEST))
> >   File &lt;string&gt;, line 0, in ?
> > NameError: (see above)
> >
> > -->)
> >
> >
> > Can I not give the name 'unique_id' to a new folder?
> >
> > Jason Spisak
> > webmaster@mtear.com
> >
> > Shaw, Howard wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, guess I wasn't clear enough. What I am thinking should work
> > is
> > > ...
> > >
> > > <!--# call
> > > "PARENTS[0].manage_addFolder(unique_id,unique_id,0,0,REQUEST)"-->
> > > <!--# call
> > "PARENTS[0].manage_changeProperties(counter=counter+1)"-->
> > > <!--# call
> > >
> > "PARENTS[0].manage_changeProperties(unique_id='MyFolder'+_.str(counter
> > ))
> > > "-->
> > >
> > > Howard C. Shaw III
> > > Programmer/SysAdmin
> > > St. Thomas High School
> >
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Jason Spisak
webmaster@mtear.com