[Zope] Explicitly avoiding acquisition, how?

Alexander Staubo alex@mop.no
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:33:01 +0200


Thanks! Just what I needed, and about time too :-)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
>Pavlos Christoforou
>Sent: 14. juni 1999 22:07
>To: Alexander Staubo
>Cc: Zope Mailing List (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: [Zope] Explicitly avoiding acquisition, how?
>
>
>On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Alexander Staubo wrote:
>> 
>> I'd like to get at an attribute or folder subobject without going
>> through implicit acquisition. For example, I'd like to have a DTML
>> Method that checks its parent folder if that folder and 
>_not_ its parent
>> folders carry a specific attribute. In other words, I want 
>to test for
>> the _existence_ of an attribute. Same for folder subobjects.
>
>the aq_base attribute of your object returns the 'unwrapped' object. 
>
>so <!--3 var "spam.aq_base"--> gets the object without the acquisition
>wrappers.
>
>Pavlos
>
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