Objects in transaction-Object do not support absolute_url() (was: Re: [Zope] Catch Object Changes)

[Casey Duncan]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:20:50 +0100
Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:

> Holger Schmidt wrote at 2003-12-3 19:28 +0100:
[snip]
> 
>  > Is there a chance to get the path to the object?
> 
> In Zope3, but (I fear) not in Zope2.
> 
>   Zope3 abandons acquistion (or more generally: "context wrapper"s)
>   and puts an explicit parent attribute in objects.
> 
> If you have control over the objects, you can emulate
> Zope3 behaviour in some sense. E.g. you can code
> the path in an attribute of the object (be carefull
> with copy/move/rename).

You could store the path as an _v_ attribute perhaps when the object is registered. That should alleviate problems with copy/move since _v_ attrs aren't persisted.

-Casey