[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Looping through a folder's contents...

[jiva@devware.com]

What would the "Recurse_Subfolder" method do?

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:12:05PM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> +-------[ jiva@devware.com ]----------------------
> | I would like to loop through the contents of a folder, and the
> | contents of the subfolders of that folder.  I know I can do this to a
> | singular level by doing something like:
> | 
> | <dtml-in "subfolder.objectValues('Folder')">
> | <dtml-var title>
> | </dtml-in>
> | 
> | Should give me a list of the titles of all the subfolders of the
> | folder called "subfolder".  So, once I get there, how do I loop
> | through the subobjects of each of those folders?
> | 
> | In other words, I have a subfolder inside of the folder called
> | "subfolder" and I want to see the contents of that folder.  How do I
> | do it?
> 
> I'll give you the general case for 'all' folders:-
> 
> Make a Method...  Recurse_SubFolder.
> 
> <dtml-in "root.objectValues('Folder')">
> <dtml-in "_.range(depth)">&nbsp;</dtml-in><dtml-var title>
> <dtml-var "Recurse_SubFolder(root=this(),depth=depth+1)">
> </dtml-in>
> 
> 
> <dtml-var "Recurse_SubFolder(root=subfolder, depth=0)">
> 
> 
> You can obviously expand this to also take a 'type' for objectValues,
> and pass the namespace etc.
> 

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