[Zope] Load a document in ExternalMethod

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 07 May 2003 09:49:39 +0100


Fabio Rolando wrote:
> Hi,
> forgive my probably dumm question.
> 
> I have some ZCatalog search results. I pass the 'data_record_id_' to an 
> ExternalMethod in which I need to load the documtent referenced by the 
> 'data_record_id_' in order to parse it. 

What's stopping oyu from just passing the brain to the external method?

If you did that, you could just do:

obj = brain.getObject()

cheers,

Chris

PS: Of course, why you need to use an External Method here would probably also 
be interesting to discuss ;-)