[Zope] Constructing 'Friendly' URLs in products

[Phillip Hutchings]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:49:11 -0500, Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:52:02PM +1300, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> > solution? About the best I could come up with was chaining a series of
> > persistant classes which subclass Item.Folder (iirc that's the one),
> > sort of like this:
> > Blog->BlogYear(id=2004)->BlogMonth(id=11)->BlogDay(id=04)->BlogPost(id=wow-zope-is-cool),
> > just a containment hierarchy. Is this good or bad thinking?
> 
> you could do that... although i suspect that for many of those you
> could get by with standard Folder.

Duh! You have a very valid point there ;) Just create standard folders
and populate that through an interface of sorts. So I guess it'd be a
couple of scripts to do the posting, and the product to do the
comments and things...
 
> > I was also
> > thinking of a single class that used something like __getattr__ to
> > process a function or something, but I haven't though of how that
> > would work. Probably like this myPosts =
> > {'2004':{'11':{'04':{'wow-zope-is-cool':getBlogPost}}}}, but I'm not
> > sure if that would even work.
> 
> Close.  define __bobo_traverse__(REQUEST, name) instead of
> __getattr__.  The latter is already heavily used by security
> and acquisition and attempting to overload it is likely to
> lead to pain and frustration.

Ah, OK, I'll look at it.

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Phillip Hutchings
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