[Zope] Transparent Folders curse strikes again: A play in two acts

[Itai Tavor]

Dieter Maurer writes:

>Itai Tavor writes:
>  > >Itai Tavor writes:
>  > >  > I've just been bitten with a Transparent Folder bug for the fourth
>  > >  > time. A Folder containting a Transparent Folder becomes itself
>  > >  > transparent, with the result that my whole ZODB is now a mess of
>  > >  > acquired objects that pretty much prevent anything from working
>  > >  > right. In the past the only way I found to clear the problem was to
>  > >  > delete the Transparent Folders, export everything, reimport and
>  > >  > recreate the TFs. But if it's just going to happen again, what's the
>  > >  > point?
>  > >This problem has been decribed recently (--> archives).
>  > >
>  > >Share responded:
>  > >
>  > >   found problem,
>  > >   should have prevented access to all names starting with "_",
>  > >   have a fix but want to check it for some time before making new
>  > >     release
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >Dieter
>  >
>  > Other than my own posting back in January and Shane's response to it,
>  > which did not result in a solution
>  > ....
>In the Transparent Folder "__getattr__" you find
>a line:
>
>   if tpids and not self._v_no_transparent and name[:3] != '_p_'
>
>Change this to:
>
>   if tpids and not self._v_no_transparent and name[:1] != '_'
>
>That's what Shane proposed but wanted to check for a while.

Thanks, I'll try that. I won't be able to tell if it does anything 
since I got rid of the messed up folders, so I'll just have to wait a 
while and see if the problem reappears.

Thanks again, Itai.

-- 
--
Itai Tavor                      -- "Je sautille, donc je suis."    --
itai@optusnet.com.au            --               - Kermit the Frog --
--                                                                 --
-- "If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything"      --