[Zope] A corker

[Bruce Eckel]

Progress: I figured out that the string exists, but it's
being html-quoted, which suggests to me that the
information from the file is somehow being passed rather
than being opened by my 'DisplayFullRegInfo' DTML method. 

So I suspect I'm taking the wrong approach, and asking the
wrong question. I think the question should be:

Inside a DTML method that's called with an argument via
acquisition (I may be misusing the term here), if the
argument represents a DTML document name:

http://www.foobar.org/place/TheArgument/TheDTMLMethod

How do I 

(1) get TheArgument from inside TheDTMLMethod (methinks
PARENTS[0], but that seemed to be problematic)
(2) Open the DTML document, once I have the argument

Thanks...

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On 5/17/01 at 7:57 AM Bruce Eckel wrote:

>OK, I've figured this much out so far. I've created one
>DTML document for each registration. I'm using acquisition
>to pass that document to a DTML method that displays the
>document. The URL looks like:
>".../Yourfullname3b01efcd/DisplayFullRegInfo" where
>Yourfullname3b01efcd is the document name, and
>DisplayFullRegInfo is the DTML method.
>
>Now I want to get the information in the document (which
is
>a python dictionary in text form) and use eval() (which
>I've put in an external method) to parse it back into a
>python dictionary. To get the data in the document, it
>turns out all I have to do is say "PARENTS[0]". Now the
fun
>starts. This is in DisplayFullRegInfo:
>
><dtml-let data="PARENTS[0]">
><dtml-var data><hr>
><dtml-var expr="parseSeminarRegistration(data)">
></dtml-let>
>
>I keep getting weird error messages for
>parseSeminarRegistration(), which worked in a different
>DTML method just fine. The messages complain about the
>argument, so I decide to examine the argument type. Here's
>the external method, parseSeminarRegistration():
>
>import types
>def parseSeminarRegistration(code):
>  return 'your type is: ' + str(type(code))
>  #return eval(code)
>
>Normally I just use eval(), but this should indicate the
>type. Here's the output:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
-
>--------------------
>{'homephone': 'Your home phone (for emergencies)',
'email':
>'Your email address', 'admin_email': 'Their email
address',
>'price_dates': '(("2001-5-15", 1700), ("2001-7-4",
1800))',
>'semnumber': '1', 'busphone': 'Your business phone
number',
>'admin_contact': "Person we should contact about payment,
>if it's not you", 'admin_phone': 'Their phone number',
>'bill_to': 'Person or company paying for the seminar',
>'payment_date': '', 'admin_fax': 'Their fax number',
>'country': 'USA or your country', 'state': 'State or
>province', 'required_forms': '(("Limited Liability Form",
>"N",
>"http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/regFormParts/LimitedLiabi
l
>ity"), ("Activity Release Form", "N",
>"http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/regFormParts/ActivityRele
a
>seForm.html"))', 'name': 'Your full name', 'zip': 'Zip or
>postal code', 'city': 'City', 'invoice_number': '',
>'current_price': '', 'seminar_id': 'Design-A-Day Patterns
>Practicum July 30-August 3 ', 'paid': 'N',
>'purchase_order_id': '', 'registration_date': '2001/05/15
>20:11:07.26156 GMT-7', 'completed': 'N', 'address1':
>'Street address', 'address2': 'Second address line, if
>needed', 'fax': 'Your fax number, if you have one'}
>-----------------------------------------------------------
-
>--------------------
> your type is: 
>
>
>The external method is clearly called, but it simply gives
>a blank. No 'None', even, as if *no* argument is being
>passed (which I didn't think was possible).
>
>I'm clearly missing something here. (If there's a more
>appropriate way to get the data file then tell me to do
>that).
>
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Most current information can be found at:
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html
===================
Bruce Eckel    http://www.BruceEckel.com
Contains free electronic books: "Thinking in Java 2e" &
"Thinking in C++ 2e"
Please subscribe to my free newsletter -- just send any
email to:
join-eckel-oo-programming@earth.lyris.net
My schedule can be found at:
http://www.mindview.net/Calendar
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