[Zope-dev] robustness in management interface.

[Toby Dickenson]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:16 am, Adrian van den Dries wrote:

> > Your idea of <dtml-try> does have merit IMHO.  Should the ZMI really
> > assume existence of anything other than "id" for objects?
>
> Definitely not.

Its worse than that ;-) The management interface currently assumes that 
objects do not have certain attributes. It is possible to break the 
management interface using the 'properties' tab, by adding attributes with 
carefuly chosen names.

It will be hard to fix all of this before zope 3.
-- 
Toby Dickenson
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