[Zope] Questions re: REQUEST, external methods; newbie stupidity at play

[John Ziniti]

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