[Zope] Passing Parameters to External Methods

[Asad Habib]

Hi Cameron. You are right but the self parameter is implicitly passed.

- Asad


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, J Cameron Cooper wrote:

> Asad Habib wrote:
>> Hello. I am trying to use the Python version of the PHP script written by 
>> Jason Rust called 'HTML_ToPDF.php'. I have represented this script using an 
>> External Method since it uses functions, such as open, which cannot be used 
>> in Zope Python scripts for security reasons. The python code for the script 
>> consists of a class definition and so I have had to create a python 
>> function which instantiates an object of this class. However, I am having 
>> toruble passing parameters to this function which are needed by the class 
>> constructor to instantiate an object of this class. Can parameters be 
>> passed to external methods? Whenever I try to pass parameters to function 
>> 'createHtmlToPdf', Zope returns an error stating that no such function 
>> exists. Other on the hand, if I pass no parameters this call is successful 
>> but the init function fails complaining that three parameters are expected. 
>> I have provided a snippet of my code below. Any help would be greatly 
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>
>> def createHtmlToPdf(in_htmlFile, in_domain, in_pdfFile):
>>    return html2pdf(in_htmlFile, in_domain, in_pdfFile)
>
> Functions in external methods generally start with the 'self' parameter. Your 
> description of the error messages doesn't entirely support my supposition, 
> but you could try it.
>
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