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

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2/23/10 11:09 , Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> 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.

And yet they work beautifully in a Plone 3 site.

>> 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.

perhaps plone.app.linkintegrity did something. At any rate without being 
able to access the context exception views are pretty much worthless, so 
we'll have to figure out some way of making it accesible.

Wichert.