[Zope-dev] exception views lost context on Zope 2.12

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> In Zope 2.10 exception views were acquisition-wrapped in the publisher
> context.

In Zope 2.10, exception views didn't exist in Zope2. They were only
introduced in Zope 2.11.

> This appears to have changed in Zope 2.12: exception views are
> now wrapped in the exception. This is problematic since it means you can
> no longer use the context when rendering an error page, so things like
> ++resource++ or anything else which relies on a working acquisition
> context, which is pretty much everything, break.
>
> Is this an unexpected regression from the acquisition changes, or a
> deliberate change?

The exception view support in Zope3 and Zope2 has always been a view
on the exception value and the request. There's no context involved.
Not sure which backport or monkey patch you have been using in 2.10
here.

Hanno