[Zope] name of top object in ZDB?

[Martijn Pieters]

At 12:14 25/03/99 , Wade Leftwich wrote:
>> I'm trying to put together an External Method that needs to operate 
>> on several different objects within the ZDB (a/k/a ZODB, BoboPOS).
>> 
>> How do I specify an object ID and retrieve the relevant object? sorry to
>> be obtuse, but I can't find an example anyplace. In the online 
>docs
>
>If I have a URL like '/manny/moe/jack', I know that from within the 
>top-level object, I can retrieve the object 'jack' as 'manny.moe.jack'.
>
>But if the context is jack, how do I specify the top level so I can 
>talk about manny?
>

From an external method, self is the object the Externel Method is called
from. If you have REQUEST passed in, you can access PARENTS[0], which is
the top object. From there you can traverse down the hierarchy.

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