[Zope] DTML Methods and Acquisition...

Rik Hoekstra rik.hoekstra@inghist.nl
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:17:06 +0100


Curtis Maloney wrote:
> 
> Greetings again....
> 
>         I'm starting to wonder why I took so long in signing onto this list..
> (o8
> 
> Anyway...
> 
> Firstly, thanks to all those who helped with my GUF / SiteAccess problem... all
> is settled in the land, the peasants are pleased.
> 
> However, there seems to be a problem with DTML methods and Acquisition.  As I
> understood it, a DTML method should be able to use all the same objects
> available to it's caller.  This, however, is NOT the case.

? How so?

> 
> The symptoms of this drove me to use GUF in my last adventure, where i couldn't
> access the "FSSession" from a DTML method.  This time, i couldn't use an SQL
> method.

I'm afraid I missed that one. Perhaps you could be a bit more specific
as to the problems you're running into. Acquisition _is_ powerful, but
it can also be complicated, especially when combined with the Zope
security system. 

> 
> What am I missing?

How could we tell?

Rik