[Zope] Trees with DTML Methods?
Art Hampton
arth@pacsg.css.mot.com
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:08:12 -0600
http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/tree-coding-tricks
"How-To: Some Neat Tricks with dtml-tree"
seems to imply that I can use trees on things other than ZODB objects.
But I've been banging my head against the wall on this for some time,
and I can't figure it out.
Here's what I've got:
An index_html document:
<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('eid', '1000')">
<dtml-tree id=eid branches_expr="GetEmployees(eid=eid)">
<dtml-var eid>
</dtml-tree>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>
A DTML Method called GetEmployees that returns test data:
<dtml-if "eid == '1000'">
<dtml-return "[1001, 1010]">
</dtml-if>
<dtml-if "eid == '1001'">
<dtml-return "[1002, 1003]">
</dtml-if>
<dtml-if "eid == '1010'">
<dtml-return "[1011, 1012]">
</dtml-if>
<dtml-return "[]">
What I get is an infinitely expanding tree of two pairs of 1000's:
- 1000
+ 1000
- 1000
+ 1000
- 1000
+ 1000
+ 1000
+ 1000
What I don't understand is how the stuff from branches_expr is supposed
to change things around. And, not coincidentally, that seems to be the
problem with this code....
Thanks for any help.