[Zope3-Users] Traverse to nearest site in menu action

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:23, Florian Lindner wrote:
> it works: When I'm calling
> http://horus.local:8080/++skin++centershock/cs/++site++ I see the contents
> of the root folder (my nearest site).
>
> Now I want to use for a menu item:
>
>     <menuItems
>         menu="CSnavMenu"
>         for="*"
>         layer="centershock">
>        
>         <menuItem
>             title="home2"
>             action="++site++" />
>            
>     </menuItems>
>
> Resulting in:
>
>   File "/home/florian/Zope3/src/zope/app/publisher/browser/menu.py", line
> 180, in getMenu
>     return menu.getMenuItems(object, request)
>   File "/home/florian/Zope3/src/zope/app/publisher/browser/menu.py", line
> 55, in getMenuItems
>     if item.available():
>   File "/home/florian/Zope3/src/zope/app/publisher/browser/menu.py", line
> 123, in available
>     if not canAccess(view, '__call__'):
>   File "/home/florian/Zope3/src/zope/security/checker.py", line 114, in
> canAccess
>     checker.check_getattr(obj, name)
> ForbiddenAttribute: ('__call__', <zope.app.folder.folder.Folder object at
> 0xb6ee2d6c>)
>
>
> How do I have to call it?

This is because the menu code makes the assumption that any view specified in 
the action provides a '__call__' method. Clearly your custom namespace does 
not. Maybe we should look for a different method that is always available.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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