[Zope] KeyError when HTMLFile returned from subobject of main instance

[Jason Bush]

<dtml-var manage_tabs> are taken from the
manage_options portion of your python code and set up the tabs across the top
of the
management window.

The following is taken from DTMLDocument.py:
    manage_options=(
        DTMLMethod.manage_options[:2] +
        PropertyManager.manage_options +
        DTMLMethod.manage_options[2:]
        )
and to create your own tabs use Key:Value pairs:
   manage_options = (
      {'label':'Edit', 'action': 'editContentForm'},
      {'label':'View', 'action': 'index_html'},
      {'label':'Properties', 'action': 'viewProperties'},
Where the actions are dtml files in my_product folder.
I am not sure if this answers your question or not (I'm still a Zope/Python
newbie)
but it would seem that your KeyError would mean that Zope can not access one
of the items in the manage_options code.

Tim Hicks wrote:

> Following up to myself.
>
> If I change to a DTMLFile, I get an AttributeError: aq_parent error
> reported.  Don't know if that aids others in helping.
>
> tim
>
> ps. Am not really clear on the difference between DTMLFile and HTMLFile
> except to guess that HTMLFile may behave like a DTML Document, while
> DTMLFile is like a DTML Method.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Hicks
> To: zope
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:19 PM
> Subject: [Zope] KeyError when HTMLFile returned from subobject of main
> instance
>
> I have a product that takes various 'plugins' to actually provide the
> functionality for the system.  Essentially, the main class provides an API
> (along with various management methods and forms) that the plugins actually
> implement.  I've based it on exUserFolder code.
>
> I want to have TTW configuration of each plugin, which will necessarily be
> different for each one.  To do so, I defined a method of the main class:
>
> def manage_editConverterForm(self, REQUEST):
>     """ """
>     return self.currentConverter.manage_editConverterForm(self, REQUEST)
>
> The problem is, I get 'KeyError' raised when zope reaches <dtml-var
> manage_tabs> in the HTMLFile ('manage_editForm') defined in the
> currentConverter object.  I presume it's because I'm not passing in the
> correct arguments, but I don't know what they should be if not what I've
> got.
>
> Anyone with enlightenment?
>
> tim
>
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