[Zope-dev] [Fwd: __str__, DMTLFolder adn Squishdot]

[Chris Withers]

Andy McKay wrote:
> 
> > Andy McKay wrote:
> > > I've given it a __call__ method, but not a __str__. Ive most problems
> > > resolve around the objects name, absolute_url, __name__, so perhaps
> fiddling
> > > with __str__ might be an answer.
> >
> > Sorry, but none of that made sense... What are the actual problems
> > you're having with names, absolute_url and __name__?
> 
> This is probably not going to make much sense.... but you can create a
> folderish DTML Document and on the surface it appears fine. However cracks
> appear when you:
> 
> - view it in a tree
> - copy and paste
> - catalog
>
> The reason being that the absolute_url of the object is wrong, it sometimes
> comes out as http://fork:8080/a/b/c/ElementWithAttributes. In some cases
> (cut and paste) __name__ is called, and that comes out wrong too.

Now that is weird. Can anyone shed any light on what's going on here?

> Ive given up on this now, I have an object and if I want some folderish
> objects created tied to that object, I create a folder and do the storage in
> that and it works fine.

That's probably going to be your best bet in the long run,

cheers,

Chris