[Zope] Setting a ZObject's title in its constructor

[Rob Thorne]

Folks,

I got this working.  Since the fix wasn't obvious, I'm documenting it here.

ZClass objects inherit from ZObject.  Apparently, either a ZObject does 
not have a "title" attribute, or at the very least, does not have a 
"title" attribute that you can change.

The fix is to make sure that your ZClass has a "title" property.

Once you do this, constructor code like the example below will set the 
"title" property without error, and a title for the object will appear 
in the ZMI.

Cheers,
Rob
Rob Thorne wrote:

> Using 2.6.1, I'm trying to get the constructor of a ZClass to 
> dynamically assign the ID, and set the title from data passed to the 
> constructor.   Setting the ID works fine; setting the title isn't 
> working at all.
>
> From the constructor:
>
>    *# Create an ID dynamically
>    timestamp = "SHLH-%X" % int(context.ZopeTime())
>    request.set('id', timestamp)
>
>    request.set('title', 'My title')
>    #request.set('title', request.form['Sender_Name'])
>
>    instance = container.MyZClass.createInObjectManager(request['id'],
>    request)
>    *
>
> Why does this work for 'id', but not for 'title'?  Older code samples 
> using dtml seem to have set both attributes the same way.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob**
> **
>
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Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
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