[Zope] Recursive Display Of All Folder Items

[Dennis Allison]

Read the documentation for <dtml-tree>.  You should be able to use it 
to generate the information you want.

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, J Cameron Cooper wrote:

> 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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