[Zope] Getting a Handle to a ZODB object to store in another object

[Chris McDonough]

If getPhysicalPath doesn't return the physical path, it's a bug.  Can
you give a reproducible test case, maybe by sending me an export of
the object tree that exhibits this behavior?  What Zope version is
this?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Ziniti" <jziniti@speakeasy.org>
To: <chrism@zope.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Getting a Handle to a ZODB object to store in
another object


> Chris McDonough wrote:
>
> > What about ob.getPhysicalPath()?  This is unique for every
placeful Zope
> > object.  You can then resolve it back out to an object via
> > restrictedTraverse.
>
>
> I find those paths to be just as "fluffy" as absolute_url().  For
> example, I have the following structure:
>
> SRS11/Users/rejpz/20010115A/Sample1
>
> Users is a folder.  "rejpz" and "20010115A" are Product classes I
> am writing which inherit from ObjectManager.  "Sample1" inherits
> from SimpleItem.Item.
>
> But Sample1.getPhysicalPath returns
>
> (", 'SRS11', 'Users', 'Users', 'Users', 'Sample1')
>
> Am I missing something, or is that "fluffy"?
>
>