[Zope] Traversable DTML methods

[Ian Sparks]

Kevin Said :

>>
Hmm... what does it mean, exactly, to "traverse a DTML method"? DTML Methods
don't have subobjects, so it seems like you're basically trying to look up
other objects or information via information passed in the URL. That seems
like the kind of program logic that is much cleaner in python and that
people are trying to keep out of DTML. DTML really does start getting ugly
and hairy when you try to put complex logic in it.
<<

Dieter Said :

>>
Your DTML Methods have (keyword) parameters.

>From DTML: "<method>(_.None,_,param1=value1, param2=value2, ....)"
>From HTML: "<URL to method>?param1=value1&param2=value2&...."
           everything after "?" is URL(plus)encoded.
<<

Dieter is right, DTML methods can get parameters from the URL but they don't
do it in the same way as SQLMethods and that, to answer Kevins question, is
what I mean by making DTML Methods "traversable" (apologies if my
terminology is off).

I'd like to be able to pass a parameter to a "members" DTML method with a
syntax like :

www.mysite.com/members/ian

which is much nicer than :

www.mysite.com/members?user=ian

which is what Dieter suggests.

From my Zope-newbie perspective I don't see that allowing parameters to
DTMLMethods, framed as part of the URL is any more complex than what goes on
with SQLMethods but I admit this may be because I have not grasped the Zen
of Zope.

- Ian Sparks.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: "Ian Sparks" <isparks@wmute.u-net.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Traversable DTML methods


Ian Sparks writes:
 > It seems strange to me that SQLMethods are traversable out of the box and
 > "normal" DTML methods are not.
 >
 > It seems to me that traversable DTML methods would be useful (to me this
 > means DTML Methods with parameters).
Your DTML Methods have (keyword) parameters.

>From DTML: "<method>(_.None,_,param1=value1, param2=value2, ....)"
>From HTML: "<URL to method>?param1=value1&param2=value2&...."
           everything after "?" is URL(plus)encoded.


Dieter

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