[Zope-dev] Finding specific parent object with acquisition ?

Martijn Jacobs mart@eastsite.nl
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:41:24 +0200


> Instead of saying self.<id>, which gives me the object I want by id, I want
> to do something like self.getObject("Special Folder"), where I want to find
> the first instance of  a specific type, for example the (made-up) product
> "Special Folder". Is this also possible finding it by acquisition?

Ow damm. Once you understand it, it's so simpel :)
if self.objectIds("Special Folder") != []:
   #you found a Special Folder!

it's doing acquisition is this way also.

Thank you for the help anyway!!!!!

 martijn jacobs
 eastsite
 www.eastsite.nl