[Zope] acquisition problem

[bdorn@vup.at]

kosh@aesaeion.com wrote:

>I am trying to make an object behave like a dtml-method but with one
>exception. I want it to look in itself first to find the data then look
>around it like a dtml-method does. So lets say my ojbect is called a and
>it exists in the folder foo in /foo/bar/baz/a I want it to look in its own
>vars first for the data it needs to render the dtml then look in baz bar
>foo just like a dtml-method does. Mainly I need this for my dtml to html
>generation function. Right now I am calling it with
>
>HTML(string, globals())(self, self.REQUEST) That works for giving the
>behavior that a dtml-document has but not for a dtml-method type behavior
>at least not so far.
>
>Thanks
>
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try this:

context = self.this()
container = self.this().aq_parent


context is where the instance of your prod. lives


- bernd