[Zope] Help! Cascade initialization and acquisition

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:06:05 +1100


Look at the SiteAccess product - it provides a hook that
allows you to do exactly this.

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess

Anthony

>>> "Hung Jung Lu" wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I guess this is a well-known problem and must have
> a well-known answer.
> 
> I have subfolders inside folders and sub-subfolders
> inside subfolders, etc.
> 
> I would like to store some initialization actions
> in a method called init_dtml inside some of these
> folders. (Much like constructors.) Now, when a user
> visit the sub-sub-...-subfolder, before displaying
> the index_html, I would like to invoke these init_dtml
> methods from the top of the folders down to the
> sub-sub-...-subfolder.
> 
> All this is much like the cascade constructors in
> object-oriented programming languages: you invoke
> the base class constructor before the subclass
> constructor.
> 
> The big question is: how do I do this? I have
> cracked my head without reaching a simple solution.
> Sometimes acquistion is just too evil. :)
> 
> (Note that some of the folders may not have init_dtml.)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Hung Jung
> 
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