[Zope] "REQUEST" a string object?

[Jonothan Farr]

I couldn't reproduce this. The following code works for me in Zope 2.1.6,
verbatim.

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('spec', '*')">
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('num_dir_columns', 3)">
<table>
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ctr', 0)">
<dtml-in "local.fileValues(REQUEST.get('spec', _.None))">
  <dtml-if "type == 'directory'">
    <dtml-if "ctr % num_dir_columns == 0">
      <tr>
    </dtml-if>
    <td><a href="<dtml-var URL1>/<dtml-var url>"><dtml-var "id"></a><br>
    <dtml-if "ctr % num_dir_columns == num_dir_columns - 1">
      </tr>
    </dtml-if>
    <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ctr', _.int(ctr) + 1)">
  </dtml-if>
</dtml-in>
<dtml-comment> In case we end in the middle of a row... </dtml-comment>
<dtml-if "ctr % num_dir_columns != 0">
  </tr>
</dtml-if>
</table>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

Maybe you can play with this as a starting point.

I added a couple of REQUEST.set() calls at the top to simulate variables passed
from a form, I assume.

'local' is my LocalFS object. Are you using this code in a <dtml-with> statement
or are you actually serving it as a .dtml file from the local file system?

--jfarr

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