[Zope-dev] Passing arguments to external methods

[Brian Lloyd]

> I'm currently trying to play with external methods using the 
> How-To written
> by "brian". 
> 
> cf. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods
> 
> When I'm trying to pass the REQUEST object to my external method, Zope
> complains:
> 
>    Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. 
> 
>    Error Type: TypeError
>    Error Value: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1
> 
> The method definition looks like "def helloWorld(self, 
> REQUEST)". And the
> call to the external methods looks like "<dtml-var 
> "helloWorld(REQUEST)">".
> So it looks to me like Zope is asking for the "self" 
> variable, which is a
> bit strange since this argument is supposed to be implicit.

You aren't trying to call it from another External Method 
by any chance, are you? Can you post the code/dtml that 
you are actually using to call the helloWorld method?


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
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