[Zope3-dev] Finding context in a vocabulary

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 30 September 2004 01:00, Peter Mayne wrote:
> I can follow the instructions in the handbook to create a vocabulary,
> but within the vocabulary class, I can't see how to ascertain where in
> the database my object is. The example in the handbook uses a container
> class, so the folder is implicit in the class, but in my case my
> vocabulary gets an instance of my non-container class, and I can't see
> how to discover the folder in which it exists. Besides, in the future, I
> may want to add sub-folders, peer folders, etc.

You can go up the tree using zapi.getParent(obj). You have to inspect your 
context manually and specifically for your use case to collect the data. Look 
at the ManagableVocabulary code in the bug tracker for another advanced 
example.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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