[Zope-dev] absolute_url: why not publishable?

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:08:35 -0500


Paul Winkler wrote:
> Visit foo/absolute_url and you will find that it 
> "has an empty or missing docstring".
> Is this by design, or is it just something that nobody has needed?
> I would like to propose making it callable TTW, unless somebody
> knows a reason it should not be.

I don't know whether absolute_url should be accessible via URL, but 
here's a way to get the same thing (almost): add a script at the root of 
your site called "AbsoluteURL", with the body "return 
context.absolute_url()".  Then just use 
"http://example.com/foo/bar/AbsoluteURL" instead of 
"http://example.com/foo/bar/absolute_url".

Shane