[Zope3-Users] Using IPathAdapter on menuItem

[Garrett Smith]

I think you want this:

  principal/++adapter++hf/@@absolute_url

Personally, I don't care for the shortcut syntax -- it's not clear
what's going on (at all). It also doesn't appear to support what you're
trying to do.

 -- Garrett


Florian Lindner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 16:43 schrieb Garrett Smith:
>> I dont know whether action is evaluated or just passed through. But
>> I use the notation: 
>> 
>>   foo/++adapter++myadapter/bar
>> 
>> for path adapters. There might be a short-cut syntax, but I don't
>> recall what it is.
> 
> I've found at that the problem is another one:
> 
> Iterating of the keys of the object works:
> 
>         <div tal:repeat="itm request/principal/hf:keys">
>             <span tal:replace="itm">test</span>
>         </div>
> 
> hf returns a object derived from IContainer for the Interface and
> BTreeContainer for the Implementation.
> 
> But I want the URL of the object hf returns. Everything I tried with
> absolute_url does not work. Of course I can add a method which returns
> zapi.absoluteURL(self, self.context) to the object but I'm sure there
> a better way. How to get the URL of the object...
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
>> Florian Lindner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've a a IPathAdapter:
>>> 
>>>   <adapter
>>>       for="zope.security.interfaces.IPrincipal"
>>>       provides="zope.app.traversing.interfaces.IPathAdapter"
>>>       factory=".homefolder.getHomeFolder"
>>>       name="hf" />
>>> 
>>> (from Stephans HomeFolderManager)
>>> 
>>> Now I want a menu item that is pointing to that homefolder. How can
>>> I do that? 
>>> 
>>>     <menuItem
>>>         action="principal/hf"
>>> 	[...]" />
>>> 
>>> Does not work?
>>> 
>>> Thx,
>>> 
>>> Florian
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