[Zope-dev] form variables and **kw

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 9:31 am, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:

> Hi all, I have some questions.
> Say I have a external method/product method return_vars which I call
> from a form:
>
> def return_vars(self, var=3DNone, **kw):
>    return "var: %s, kw: %s" % (var,kw)
>
>
> Is it correct that any passed form variable besides "var" will get lost=
,

It wont be copied into kw.

> i.e. that ZPublisher will _not_ marshall the other variables into the
> method call?

Would you really want all of them? All those that come from query string?=
 http=20
headers? cookies? environment variables?

You can get sane access to all of these through the REQUEST parameter. Im=
 sure=20
you know that.

> Where does this marshalling happen, in ZPublisher/mapply.py?

yes