[Zope] Problems programatically creating an instance of LocalFS

[Paul Winkler]

> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:30:51PM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am pretty sure the reason I cannot create a LocalFS instance 
> > > is something stupid, but I can't seem to track it down.  Any help
> > > would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > I am using Version 1.0 of LocalFS which I believe is the latest,
> > > Script(Python), and Zope 2.6.1.
> > > 
> > > # code fragment to create the LocalFS instance
> > > p = container.manage_addProduct['LocalFS']
> > > p = p.manage_addLocalFS
> > > p( id, title=title, basepath=basepath)
> > 
> > I guess that's because REQUEST is None, try to add it to the p(id ...) 
> > line.

IMHO this is a bug in LocalFS. manage_addFoo should not require
a non-None request.  

a fix is to change the last line of manage_addLocalFS to this
common idiom:

    if REQUEST is not None:
            return self.manage_main(self, REQUEST)

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