[Zope] ODBC Test Queries

[Christian Tismer]

"Schmidt, Allen J." wrote:
> 
> Great! Thanks!
> 
> I should be able to give this a try shortly. I use it a lot so that
> functionality was sorely missed.

Well, the code change was five minutes.

But guess how long I waded through code, tried to figure out *which*
part of the REQUEST is used to format an URL part, and where and
how this occours at all? It took me a whole night, since I have
a very limited idea of Zope.
The REQUEST variable is a quite ambiguous object - there is the same
stuff in different places. Variables occour in the "form" attribute,
but the sequence-query doesn't use it - it wants to use the query
string directly. If it would use the form attribute, everything would
have worked by magic.

But things like this will be much faster next time - ly y'rs - chris

p.s.: Design question:
The QUERY_STRING attribute of the environment is one thing. It is
quite near to the (not really relevant) fact that we use a GET
in this context. The form attribute is a generalization, since there
is always a form attribute, regardless whether we chosed to use a GET
or a POST method.
The real point is about what part of the REQUEST is used to carry
state information. I think there is a missing concept for this:
You can see this if you do testing of a Z SQL method. Have a look
at the "ext" URL: The URL carries useless information, since the
value of the submit button is caried around, which nobody really
needs.
I'd like to introduce a "state" attribute for REQUEST:
This should be the set of attributes intended to be carried around
between stateful queries, nothing more and nothing less.
Maybe I will submit a proposal to zope-dev.

cheers again - chris

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