-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Abramson wrote:
> In my Zope 2.7 Product, I'm trying to implement a special folder, which > intercepts the publishing call to any subobject and wraps the entire > call in another. > > A concrete example: where the default action would be to traverse > /MyProduct/SpecialFolder/something, and publish the attr 'something' > from SpecialFolder, I want this to happen instead: > > doSomethingBeforeCallingTheRequestedObj() > try: > return mapply( something, blahblah...) > finally: > doSomethingAfterCallingTheRequestedObj() > > Why? I need to do stuff to the REQUEST before the object is called (this > part wasn't difficult), and then do something *after* it's called - no > matter what the results were. But only for publishables that live in or > beneath the Special Folder. Sounds like you want what AccessRules provide, which is a way to provide a configurable hook into the publishing traversal process. The following thread explains the rationale for that hook, from before it was included in Zope proper: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002667.html > In fact I have something working, but one big problem - it breaks > management screens in a bad way. The implementation is pasted below. > Is there some much simpler way to accomplish this behavior? And am I > short-circuiting security machinery in some dangerous way? Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCi5L0+gerLs4ltQ4RAvexAJ9jh3QN7Nk5HN+zjdjQzUeshX4NAwCfQgEF fhJpTReSx95BQ4aR3KG69IM= =LsRY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )