[Zope] Calling ZClass constructors programmatically...

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

For some reason, it doesn't work (at least for my ZClass, which subclasses
ZCatalog:CatalogAware, and OFS:Folder), with code like:

container.manage_addProduct['Classifieds'].AdFolder_add(...)

I can't seem to publish 'Classifieds' - I get an AttributeError in
Product.py for 'Classifeds'. 

Classifieds is a product created (only) within the ODB and contains a few
ZClasses.  The thing that seems strange is that this technique works fine
for OFS:Folder:

container.manage_addProduct['OFSP'].manage_addFolder(...)

I feel fairly confident that if the
container.manage_addProduct['Classifieds'] namespace could be published
(shouldn't it be able to be seen?), that I would have no problem calling its
constructor this way.

I may end up swithching my project to the product API instead of using
ZClasses just to avoid all this confusion, though; I've just already spent a
bunch of time setting up 

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:40 AM
To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Calling ZClass constructors programmatically...


sean.upton@uniontrib.com writes:
 > I have been trying a bunch of different things to instantiate a ZClass
 > instance...
The documentation (Zope help -> API-Reference -> ObjectManager)
speaks of a standard way to instantiate anything:

       <container>.manage_addProduct[<product_name>].<constructor>(....)

Have you tried it?


Dieter

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