[Zope] Acquisition with External Methods

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad McDaniel [mailto:chadm@sgi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:23 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Acquisition with External Methods
> 
> 
> I'm having some trouble with calling External Methods from DTML
> documents.
> I have DTML document "Query" that defines a form with action
> "View". "View" is also a DTML document containing a call to an
> External Method:
> <!--#var ExtMethod -->
> 
> Ext Method would like to get access to the form values passed 
> to View, 
> but I can't figure out how to do it. There doesn't seem to be a way
> for ExtMethod to acquire the values and I can't pass them as
> arguments.
> 

Try passing in the REQUEST mapping:

in DTML:

<!--#var "ExtMethod(REQUEST=REQUEST)"-->

in Python:

def ExtMethod(self, REQUEST):
	fv1 = REQUEST['form_var1']
	fv2 = REQUEST['form_var2']

This what your looking for?

-Michel

> any advice? 
> 
> thanks
> -- 
> -chad
> 
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