[Zope] Need large Zen for manage_clone and getitem...

[Heiko Stoermer]

Rik Hoekstra wrote:

> Date sent:              Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:16:54 +0200
> From:                   Heiko Stoermer <heiko@mig.net>
> To:                     Zope Mailing List <zope@zope.org>
> Subject:                [Zope] another problem with manage_clone
>
> > hi
> > I already posted this on monday, but I really don't have a solution yet,
> > so please be patient...
> > The situation is nearly the same as in the CMG(Chapter "Creating a
> > Configuration Interface"), except for the fact that the document to be
> > cloned is not in the current namespace but in some other folder in the
> > zope tree:
> > I want to manage_clone an object into the current folder that lives
> > _somewhere_, let's say in "foo":
> >
> > /_root
> >         |_foo
> >         |      |_Object
> >         |
> >         |_bar
> >               |_current_folder
> >
> > there are two DTML-Documents a and b where a is an input form that
> > contains a list of all objects in foo.
> > a calls b.
> > b is supposed to do the following:
> > <!--#call "manage_clone(foo.Object,'new_html',REQUEST)"-->
>
> try something like
>
> <!--#call "manage_clone(_.getitem(foo,Object),'new_html', REQUEST)" --
> >
>
> where Object is the value from the form.

o.k., the form field is named "input", so I tried:
..._clone(_.getitem(foo.input),...) => Attribute error, error value input

or even:
..._clone(_.getitem(_.string.join(['foo',REQUEST['input']],'.'))  => produces
the correct ID "foo.Object", but produces a key error...

so I tried to test a hardcoded name in getitem() and put this into the code:
..._clone(_.getitem('foo.thename',0),...     where 'thename' is an existing
ID in the folder foo
=> key error.
I think getitem() somehow cannot handle the object path.
I didn't even find the place in the source where getitem() is defined
The problem is that my application relies on this. I can't proceed...
:-(



thanks so far,
Heiko


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