[Zope] Restatement of list problem

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Schmidt, Allen J.]

> Maybe I over-complicated my original request.
>
> I have a form field that is a list:
> ['2 DR CONVERTIBLE','2 DR COUPE','2 DR HATCHBACK']
>
> The URL looks like this:
> vehicleList?bt=2+DR+CONVERTIBLE&bt=2+DR+COUPE&bt=2+DR+HATCHBACK
>
> When I pick for years 2002 and 2001 for the above body types, the URL
> changes a bit:
>
vehicleList?yr%3Alist=2002&yr%3Alist=2001&bt%3Alist=%5B%272+DR+CONVERTIBLE%2
> 7%2C+%272+DR+COUPE%27%2C+%272+DR+HATCHBACK%27%5D
>
> From this search, I get no results. If I manually take out the %5B and %3A
> etc. codes it works fine.
>
> How do I keep the above conversion from happening?
>

You can't -it's called URL encoding  and happens at the browser - but just
get the properties from the REQUEST, instead of from the url, then they will
be nice python-compatible lists.  Zope handles the URL decoding for you
automatically (it will do it for either POST or GET forms).  For example

REQUEST.yr

would return

['2002','2001']

Cheers,

Tom P