[Zope] acquisition problem (I think???)

[Andrew Altepeter]

Hi,

I am writing a product through the ZMI (which extends Folder) that
contains products of the same type (basically a hierarchical system).  I
want to be able to delete an arbitrary item and all of it's sub-items. 
The method that does this is a recursive deleteMe() python script.  

Here is the code that I am using:

def deleteMe(root=1):
  children = context.objectIds('NavigationMenu')
  if (len(children)):
    for child in children:
      context[child].deleteMe(root=0)
    context.manage_delObjects(children)
  if (root==1):
    context.aq_parent.manage_delObjects(context.id)

So, to me this looks like your standard recursive function (well, sort
of).  However, when I get to the bottom of the tree, context.objectIds
contains siblings, not children.  I would expect that if there were no
children, objectIds would return [].

I have tried using container instead of context, but that does not work,
either.

As an example, say we have the following hierarchy:

menu1
 - menu2
 - menu3
 - menu4

If I were to delete menu1, I would get an error inside menu2 like:
BadRequest: m3 does not exist
Sometimes I get attribute errors (e.g. __getitem__ doesn't exist), or
keyerrors.

The problem either happens in ObjectManager._getOb, or
manage_delObjects.

I get the feeling that *somehow* the context becomes menu1, even though
the callback says it is really menu2.  Otherwise, I don't understand how
menu2.objectValues() would EVER know about it's siblings!

Any ideas why this is happening?  Do just not understand acquisition?

Thank you so much for the help,
Andy