I've developed a sick fascination with undo and have been working [hard] over the past few days trying to write some code for our internal frameworks to make Undo easy. Inspired by GMail's "Message Discarded (Undo Discard)" functionality, I've set about making something similar that does a modified version of zope.app.undo.browser's "Undo Last Action", which uses the 'undoPrincipalTransactions()' method of the ZODBUndoManager (zope.app.undo).
I've filed a collector issue, 529 http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/529 Basically, unless the request.principal comes from the global registry, a principal can't undo their own transactions (UndoError gets raised). Even when I tried to patch the code to get the user from zapi.principals() (which worked and put a principal object in the transaction entry information being retrieved), a later identity comparison of info['principal'] against request.principal failed, causing UndoError to be raised. I tried an equality check, but it didn't work either. If I'm logged in as a global principal defined in zcml, it works fine. 'getPrincipalTransactions' works fine, I'm assuming (or hoping) that as a workaround that once my code has the filtered transaction list, I could call 'undo' on the undo manager instead of undo principal transactions, so long as I remove the security proxy first. I'm fairly satisfied (enough for tonight) that the selected transaction I want the view to undo is the users own. I'm hoping that works so I can leave here in relative peace tonight, hurry home to my dog, and enjoy a ski day tomorrow :) _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list [email protected] Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
