[Zope] Pretend folders

Kevin Carlson khcarlso@bellsouth.net
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:32:17 -0400


How does one use the traverse_subpath binding to do this?

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
Florent Guillaume
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:31 AM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Pretend folders


Oliver Bleutgen  <myzope@gmx.net> wrote:
> Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> > What I want is to be able to pretend that a certain folder exists when 
> > it doesn't.
> >  From a database of directory structures I would like to be able to 
> > build up fake folders that don't exist.
> > So instead of http://host/directory?dir_id=345 I would like to have 
> > http://host/directory/Business/Entertainment/Music
> > 
> > How do I go abouts doing this?
> 
> 
> Maybe PathHandler, one of the nice products from the NIP guys, is a good 
> starting point:
> 
> "The Path Handler product lets you handle URLs which don't correspond to 
> objects.
> 
> For example, if ph is a Path Handler, then, in the following URL:
> 
> http://a.server/ph/1/2/3/4"
> 
> See:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler

Note that you can also do that easily with the traverse_subpath binding
of a Python Script.

Florent

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