[Zope] getting object given path

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamars@ibm.net
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:17:27 +0200


"R. David Murray" wrote:

> I know I've seen reference to a function to get an object reference
> given a URL path, but I can't seem to find it.  It doesn't help
> that I've been up for more than 24 hours trying to get this code to
> work.

REQUEST.resolve_url().  URL should be unurl-quoted.

> I'm desperate to get this working for the client.  getpath returns
> the correct value, so I think if I can turn that path into an
> object I can access the property sheets and get them updated.  But I
> also want to know what is going wrong with my Catalog and/or
> the getobject method thereof.  I'm not sure where to start looking....

getobject actually uses REQUEST.resolve_url and getpath, IIRC, so this may
not help.  But give it a try.

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net