[Zope] Help me with acquisition and custom types

[Dieter Maurer]

Mark Gibson wrote at 2005-8-21 12:38 -0600:
>I've created two objects, A folderish object called myfolder, and a
>document-type object called mydocument.  Here's how my classes are
>defined...
>
>class mydocument(
>           CatalogAware,
>           Implicit,
>           Persistent,
>           RoleManager,
>           PropertyManager,
>           Item):
>class myfolder(
>           CatalogAware,
>           Implicit,
>           Persistent,
>           RoleManager,
>           PropertyManager,
>           Folder)
>
>So, say I have a hierarchy like this...
>
>/
>/ObjectA
>/folder
>/folder/mydocument ( an instance of mydocument)
>/folder/myfolder (an instance of myfolder)
>/folder/myfolder/ObjectA
>
>Ok.. I want to be able to call
>
>http://mysite/folder/mydocument/ObjectA 
>  - this works fine
>http://mysite/folder/myfolder/ObjectA
> - this works fine
>http://mysite/folder/myfolder/mydocument/ObjectA
> - this returns the ObjectA at '/ObjectA', I'd like it to return ObjectA
>at '/folder/myfolder/ObjectA'
>
>Any ideas how I would go about making this happen?

It will not work as acquisition works differently...

You should read Jim's acquisition lecture "Containment before Context".
It tells you why acquisition will not do what you like.

-- 
Dieter