[Zope] URL traversal

[Anthony Baxter]

use a python method with the magic traversal stuff turned on. :)



>>> Andy Dustman wrote
> I'd like to be able to do something similar to the URL traversal that ZSQL
> methods do, but more something like this:
> 
> http://localhost/blah/a/b/c/spam
> 
> would invoke blah.spam(args=['a','b','c']), i.e. args is a variable-sized
> list of each path item between the object and the method in sequence
> order.
> 
> 1) Is there a way to do this short of writing a Product?
> 
> 2) Having already figured out the answer to #1 was probably "no", I have
> tried to write a Product that does the job. It used a helper class,
> similar to OFS.Folder.Traverse. My main problem (which I probably have to
> punt on) is that I'm trying to use __getattr__ hooks instead of
> __getitem__ hooks; I may need to switch to doing the latter to get things
> to work.
> 
> The test Product (in theory) is essentially a Folder with the above
> semantics, because I needed something I could stick DTML Methods and other
> things into. This might be useful in general, as well.
> 
> 3) Is this even a reasonable thing to try to do? I have an existing CGI
> script that uses the PATH_INFO like this (mostly; it just takes
> everything past a certain point as arguments).
> 
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