[Zope-dev] script location and traversal question

[Joost van Lawick]

Hi,

Suppose you have have your products in a folder Main, scripts in a subfolder Scripts
and object instances in a subfolder Things, i.e. something like this:

Main
----
 |___ Scripts
 |
 |___ Things

Now call a script doit on an object Obj:

 http://localhost/Main/Scripts/Things/Obj/doit

If I want to redirect this call, and context is Obj, I do it like this:

 url = context.restrictedTraverse('Scripts').absolute_url() + '/' + \
       context.absolute_url(relative=1) + '/doit'
 return context.REQUEST.REDIRECT(url)

The first line creates: http://localhost/Main/Scripts/
the second line Things/Obj/doit

It works but is it good code? Is there a better way to doit?

Maybe the problem is more in the organization of Zope scripts and objects. For now,
I group scripts into Folders directly under Main and things of users of the site in 
Main/Members/...
If a member wants to access some script, I have to include the script Folder into the
path, which leads to more 'complex' code. If I stuff all scripts into Main directly, without
subfolders, I don't have to insert the first line, but then I end up with a Main directory
loaded with scripts. How should one handle this?


Cheers,

Joost


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