[Zope] help! url <-> object mapping?

[Mark Anquoe]

I see what you're saying.
If the site I'm working on wasn't frames based, then it would all make 
much more sense to me, zope-wise.

If a folder is asked for directly and its index_html writes out a 
frameset that calls navbar_html and content_html, then when navbar_html 
is rendering itself, how is it supposed to know that a folder type 
object was originally asked for?


John Ziniti wrote:

> This is not exactly a very "Zope-y" way of thinking about this
> problem.  In Zope, you would probably have each type of object
> know how to generate that "html page returned in the frameset"
> all by itself, so Zope will map the URL to the object, hand the
> request to the object, and the object will generate the HTML
> that you want.
>
> HTH,
> John Ziniti
>
> Mark Anquoe wrote:
>
>> I am relatively new to zope. Thank you in advance for any help.
>> here is my situation:
>>
>> user enters url
>> zope maps url to object
>> zope stitches together a frames html page according to my structure 
>> of inherited attributes.
>> one of the html pages in the returned frameset needs to change itself 
>> depending on what type of object was asked for by the initial url 
>> request.
>>
>> I know I can get the initial requested url through the request object
>>
>> request = container.REQUEST
>>
>> and I know that all these objects have meta_type attributes.
>> But how do I find a reference to the object to which zope has mapped 
>> the requested url that I can then test for its meta_type?
>> I keep coming back to this bit of code in the page:
>>
>> fullpath = request.get('full')
>> if not fullpath:
>>  fullpath = '0:%s' % url_quote(request.URL1)
>>
>> bookmarkid = context.db.get_link_id(fullpath)
>>
>> something related to the unique ID looks promising, but I have found 
>> no api that details the various methods available to call on the 
>> context or db objects.
>>
>> any help is appreciated.
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>>
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