[Zope] Questions re: REQUEST, external methods; newbie stupidity
at play
John Ziniti
jziniti@speakeasy.org
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:52:24 -0500
Bryan White wrote:
> I have actually begun to lament that I chose to go with Zope on this
> particular project (don't get me wrong - I am a near-religous Zope
> advocate) - this project is not about content management in the least,
> it's a big beast of a SQL / XML monster. Zope oddities have been more
> in my way than they have been helpful. Again, I am perfectly willing
> to believe that I am simply doing things WRONG. The only big win I get
> from Zope on this project so far is users/roles, and not having to
> code that stuff.
>
Me too. The security model of Zope is one of its great
features. Maybe I am missing something. I've gone
through the line of posts, but I still don't understand why
you can't do the entire thing in on External Method.
This lets you do all the work in Python, and avoid the
idiosyncracies of REQUEST.set; but you still get REQUEST
when you need it -- to get data *from* the client and
to return the results.
Or maybe I am missing something crucial? Is it the ZSQL
calls that "require" goign back and forth from EMs to DTML?
JZ