[Zope] Recursive Display Of All Folder Items

[J Cameron Cooper]

Francisco Chamorro wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am trying to get a dump of all the content currently in 
> our zope server.  Using DTML I was able to get the top level folders to 
> display their content but I am unable to recursively display the 
> contents of the sub-folders.
> 
> This is the code I am using for my top level folders, where "TV" is the 
> name of the folder I want to display.
> 
> <dtml-in "TV.objectValues()"><dtml-var id><br></dtml-in>
> 
> 
> My second attempt at displaying sub-folder content was the following:
> 
> <dtml-in "TV.objectItems()">
>     id: <dtml-var id>,<br>
>     type: <dtml-var meta_type><br>
>     <dtml-if "meta_type=='Folder'">
>         <dtml-in expr="objectValues(<dtml-var id>)">
>             id: <dtml-var id>,<br>
>             type: <dtml-var meta_type><br>
>         </dtml-in>
>     </dtml-if>
> </dtml-in>
> 
> But that also fails.  I searched the documentation and found a post 
> about recursively calling the same function but that did not work as I 
> get a "excessive recursion" error. Any help on this problem would be 
> greatly appreciated.

objectValues is acquired on all objects, even non-folderish ones. Thus 
recursion never stops. You must ask for it explicitly: 
aq_inner.aq_explicit or something like that if I remember directly.

	--jcc
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