[Zope-dev] brain.getObject and traversal

[Chris Withers]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Well of course no, but I never had to check a getObject() against 
> Unauthorized. Maybe it's because I only use it in a CMF setting where 
> unaccessible objects are filtered anyway.

Maybe,  but CMF isn't the only use of Zope ;-)

> OTOH you're a bit excessive in your "Whole array of possible distinct 
> errors".

Not really. I want to know the difference between:

- unauthorized: my object has problems and probably needs its 
permissions fixing

- not found: I want to know why an object is indexed that doesn't exist 
and fix that

- other random error: damn, big problems with catalog, need to post to lists

In all three cases, knowing the type of error and getting a sensible 
traceback in my logs is infinitely more useful than a random...

AttributeError: None has no attribute x

...error at some point in the future, which may be no-where near the 
actual catalog search.

cheers,

Chris

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