[Zope] "global name 'REQUEST' is not defined"

[Joseph A Knapka]

Er... OK... It works fine if I use a DTML /document/ rather
than a DTML /method/. So are DTML methods totally useless
or what? </flamebait>

Cheers,

-- Joe

Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> 
> Hello, all,
> 
> Once again, it seems I must be misunderstanding something
> very basic. I have a DTML method that's being called from
> a DTML document, and it contains the code:
> 
> <dtml-if expr="REQUEST.get(field_var)">
> ...
> </dtml-if>
> 
> where field_var is a dtml variable that has been set to
> the name of another dtml variable that certainly exists
> in the parent document. For example, field_var == "lastname",
> and the parent DTML document has either received
> "lastname=Blah" in its request, or has done
> "REQUEST.set('lastname','')" if not. But the code above
> yeilds an error:
> 
> "global name 'REQUEST' is not defined".
> 
> Since it's defined in the parent document, shouldn't it
> also be defined for the DTML method? According to "The
> Book of Zope" the REQUEST object is defined "for the
> duration of the web request"; surely that must include
> the invocation of DTML methods within the target
> document?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- Joe
> "I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
>  which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
>  problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
>  --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"
> 
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-- 
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"