[Zope] Allowing access to Zope Product in Control Panel

[kapil thangavelu]

On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:02 pm, Itai Tavor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a python Product MyProduct, defining a class MyClass. I want
> to be able to do two things with this class from a Python Script:
>
> - Access a property defined in the class without creating an instance
> of the class
>
>    class MyClass(SimpleItem):
>        menu = ('a', 'b', 'c')
>
>    In Python Script: menu =
> context.Control_Panel.MyProduct.MyClass.MyClass.menu
>
> - Create an instance of MyClass without doing registerClass on it.
>
> The question is, how do I create the right permissions so the above
> can be done? I tried playing with the various methods detailed in
> PythonScripts/module_access_examples.py but didn't get anywhere.

i would do the above with some accessor functions in a Utility module of the 
product and then use PythonScripts Modules allow access  utility for example.

#Utils.py 
from Products.PythonScripts.Utility import allow_module
from MyModule import MyClass

allow_module('MyProduct.Utils')

def myclass_factory(*args):
     return MyClass(*args)

def myclass_attr_access(name):
      return getattr(MyClass, name, None)

in a python script

from MyProducts.Utils import myclass_attr_access

etc...

-kapil