[Zope] Getting a handle on the results of constructors
Dennis Allison
allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 03:19:38 -0700 (PDT)
In an External Method (that is, unrestricted python), for example, when
you create a Folder one writes:
self.manage_addProduct['OFSP'].manage_addFolder( id,title="folder")
one would think that it would return the object it just constructed so it
would be easy to use the new product to, say, create another folder or a
file inside. But that appears not to be the case. (In my example, the
folder was successfully created but the code
handle = self.manage_addProduct...
returned None. That made what I thought was the obvious way to handle
things, namely applying the constructor to the new folder using
handle = self.manage_addProduct...
fails as the constructor returns None. So, how do you get a reference to
the newly created object?