[Zope-dev] Redirecting from the manage interfaces.

[Erik Enge]

Hi.

I've been browsing through the Zope and Zope-dev archives without finding
anything related to this, please stop me if it has already been dealt
with. :)

technical person = someone who doesn't mind fuzzing around with the
	           manage_main pages

non-technical person = someone who needs everything in bright nice colors
		       and would start crying if they saw the manage_main
	               page, or anything similar.

I have a Product that allows a customer of mine to add some nice pictures
(Image object) to a folder.  The add-method is nice and doesn't display
any horrible technical information.  I wasn't very keen on making a 
add-method for both the technical person and the non-technical person, so
I hacked the source code a bit.  I changed the the lib/python/OFS/Image.py

It used to look like this:

"""
def manage_addImage(self, id, file, title='', precondition='', 
 		    content_type='', REQUEST=None):

[...]
    if REQUEST is not None:
        try:    url=self.DestinationURL()
        except: url=REQUEST['URL1']
        REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect('%s/manage_main' % url)
    return id
"""

Which I changed into:

"""
def manage_addImage(self, id, file, title='', precondition='', 
                    content_type='', REQUEST=None, redir=None):

[...]
    if redir is not None:
        REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect('%s' % redir)
    elif REQUEST is not None:
        try:    url=self.DestinationURL()
        except: url=REQUEST['URL1']
        REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect('%s/manage_main' % url)
"""

Now I can redirect the victim... erm.. customer to the method I want to,
and they are pleased that they don't have to see the management interface.

This saves me a lot of time, since I don't have to make several
add-methods, and maintainace is a more joyable happening. :)

This 'redir' thing is something I've stuck into a lot of .py files
(for example, I use it in the manage_delObjects and others).  And
it is something I do every time a new Zope release comes out.  Could this
be to any use for anybody besides me?  And if it could, how about adding
it to the next release?