Rupert Redington wrote:
> The utility is responsible for generating a PDF snapshot of a view - as
> seen by the invoking user at the point when the utility is invoked. To
> do this I open an HTMLDOC subprocess which needs a url to go to, and
> which needs to know which user to pretend to be so that
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
> That already sounds like bad design. Why would the local utility worry
> about URLs at all?
>
It probably is :-)
The utility is responsible for generating a PDF snapshot of a view - as
seen by the invoking user at the point when the utility is invoked. To
d
Rupert Redington wrote:
>> The hack displayed above (going thru the security interaction) should
>> not be considered a standard procedure for getting at the request in
>> places where you don't have it. Content objects are dull. They do
>> nothing. Other stuff does things *to* them. Mats' solution
Rupert Redington wrote:
John Smith wrote:
No zapi?
How did I miss that? Where do I get my utilities,
parents, roots, adapters from now?
I think the right answer to that is "wherever zapi got them from in the
first place"
Well said.
--
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
John Smith wrote:
> --- Rupert Redington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I realise that I shouldn't use zapi anymore... apart
>
>
> Good gracious!
>
> No zapi?
>
> How did I miss that? Where do I get my utilities,
> parents, roots, adapters from now?
>
> John.
>
> (dazed and confused)
>
--- Rupert Redington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realise that I shouldn't use zapi anymore... apart
Good gracious!
No zapi?
How did I miss that? Where do I get my utilities,
parents, roots, adapters from now?
John.
(dazed and confused)
___
Well, I always like to do things the way the experts
recommend :)
Are there any suggestions for this use case?:
I have a content class, which consists of 2
attributes:
1. a user comment
2. the name of the logged in user
So far, I have been using the browser:addform
directive to add instances,
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Marco Mariani wrote:
>> Rupert Redington wrote:
>>> from zope.security.management import getInteraction
>>>
>>> request = getInteraction().participations[0]
>>>
>>> Why this works is outlined (IIRC) in zope/app/securitypolicy/zopepolicy.txt.
>>>
>>> There may well
Marco Mariani wrote:
> Rupert Redington wrote:
>> from zope.security.management import getInteraction
>>
>> request = getInteraction().participations[0]
>>
>> Why this works is outlined (IIRC) in zope/app/securitypolicy/zopepolicy.txt.
>>
>> There may well be better ways to fish for the request tha
