[Zope] Re: ObjectManagerItem parent

[Thierry Florac]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 00:10, Maik Jablonski wrote:
> Clemens Robbenhaar wrote:
> > Maik Jablonski writes:
> >  > Thierry Florac wrote:
> >  > > Given an object accessed directly (for example, through a call to
> >  > > Catalog().getObject()), how can I get access to his parent folder in a
> >  > > Python script or a Zope product ??  What the property or method name
> >  > > pointing to the folder the object ?
> >  > 
> >  > try:
> >  > 
> >  > .aq_parent
> > 
> >  Well, in a Zope product on the file system code.
> > 
> > Maybe even '.aq_inner.aq_parent' is better to remove any acquisition
> > context?
> > (Thierry: You can look this up in the ZopeDevelopers guide, chapter
> > Acquisition, if You wonder what this means ;-)
> 
> If you want no acquisition context, then .aq_inner.aq_parent is the way 
> you should do it,
> that's right. But in most cases you want acquisition, I would guess...;-)

No, what I'd like to get is the "physical" parent of an object : if an
image is stored in a folder, for example, what I want to get is a
pointer to this folder, independently of the way I access this image
(direct request from URL or throught catalog requests).

Thanks,

  Thierry