[Zope] Acquisition: crazy idea

[Dieter Maurer]

Paul Winkler writes:
 > ...
 > What if there were an (optional?) extension to
 > the acquisition rules such that, if the current
 > acquisition process finishes and no object is found,
 > we try to to replace the aq_parent with the next object
 > of the same id found further up the acquisition chain?
 > And then do this recursively back up the acquisition chain
 > until finally we run out of places to look?
 > 
 > So instead of saying "I found images/ but it doesn't contain
 > bar.gif', zope would say "hmm, I didn't find what I wanted, 
 > there's no bar.gif in here, let me go looking for another images/
 > and try again."
I would not put this into the acquisition rules, but provide
a specialized folder (you would use for your "images") that does
something like this.


Dieter