[Zope-CMF] Proposition: Favourite with absolute url AND the query - any idea

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 08:07, Yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
> > I was just playing around with CMF and favorites. While trying to save a 
> >  lsit of search results as a favorite, I noticed that it is not 
> > possible, since it only takes the absolute url of the object.
> 
> You can do that by customizing the addtoFavorites script in your skin. 
> But you'll run in some problems:
> 
> 1.) There's an inconsistency: invokeFactory/addFavorite needs a path 
> without query string as remote_url. But edit() allows you to use an url 
> with query string in remote_url.
> 
> 2.) getObject() and getIcon() might not give you the result you expect:
> getObject() gives you an ugly Traceback and getIcon() returns 'p_/broken'.

Right;  the favorite needs the 'remote_url' to work as a path reference
to the object.  To accomodate this idea, we would need to capture the
query string separately from the object URL.  Perhaps we could store the
individual name/value pairs in a structure (e.g., a PersistentMapping)
which would allow users to add / remove / edit individual pairs?

> > Would there be any idea to save the absolute_url and the query. I said 
> > that one reason why it would make sense, but are there downsides? 
> 
> Favorite doesn't save the absolute URL. So you can move your site easily 
> from one domain to another without breaking your favorites.
> 
> > Possible saving in the agruments also portal messages etc. that would be 
> > shown again and again after that?
> 
> Customize addtoFavorites the way you like it.

Tres.