[Zope-dev] Security validation issue

[Chris Withers]

Herman Geldenhuys wrote:

> I've written a Zope product that exposes a "MenuItem". I add a menuItem 
> in a Zope folder, and I have no difficulty accessing and editing it via 
> the ZMI. I've written an xml-rpc-like protocol for Zope, that basically 
> validates the security "manually".

What do you mean by "manually"?

> This code works for any other default Zope type, but not mine. Did I 
> perhaps forgot a permission or something?

Did you do security declarations for that method?

> I can access this fine via the ZMI, but when I validate it this way, 
> python just starts cursing at me.

Why are you doing you own validation? ;-)

cheers,

Chris