[Zope] Passing lists through forms

[Colyn Brown]

Nevermind. I've come up with a solution:

<dtml-in myIDS>
<input type="hidden" name="myIDS:list" value="<dtml-var sequence-item>">
</dtml-in>

---colyn


>From: "Colyn Brown" <colynb@msn.com>
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] Passing lists through forms
>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:55:45 -0700
>
>I've been struggling with trying to pass a list though a form on one page 
>(method1) to a another page (method2). Now it sounds pretty straight 
>forward, but for some reason I cannot get it to work. Here's what I have 
>for method1:
>
><form action=method2 method=post>
><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('myIDS',[])">
>
><dtml-in mySQL_query>
><dtml-call "myIDS.append(idFromQuery)">
></dtml-in>
>
><input TYPE="hidden" name="myIDS:list" value=" <dtml-var myIDS> ">
><input type="Submit" VALUE=" Submit ">
>
></form>
>
>Then in method2 I just put the REQUEST to see what got passed:
>
>form
>myIDS [" ['8', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7'] "]
>
>As you can see, myIDS got turned into a ONE item list that contains a 
>string that LOOKS like a list.
>
>What have I missed? I think I remember doing this before with no problems. 
>I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong this time.
>
>Oh yeah, I figured out a way to turn that string into a list using 
>string.replace to remove the brackets and then string.split on the commas 
>to turn it into a workable list. I don't know about any of you, but to me 
>that seems like way too much work for something that I know can be done a 
>lot simpler.
>
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>Colyn Brown
>
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