[Zope-CMF] Re: getActionById replacement

[yuppie]

Hi Chris!


Chris Withers wrote:
> yuppie wrote:
> Okay, so how would you get the url for an action from inside a skin 
> script or template?

obj.getActionInfo('object/view')['url'] for type actions or
provider.getActionInfo('user/join')['url'] for other actions.

> Just to emphasise further, I'm looking to document by way of mailing 
> list archives, what the correct way to replace getActionById calls is, 
> regardless of whether you're using Plone, CPS, or just plain CMF...
> 
> Also, can you explain what type_info.getActionInfo('object/view')['url'] 
> is supposed to return?

getActionInfo() returns an ActionInfo object as defined in 
interfaces.portal_actions.ActionInfo. (Note that ActionInfo and 
ActionInformation are two different classes: ActionInformation is the 
class of the persistent action object, not of the info dict created 
based on that object.)

       - url (string): URL to access the action

This is the result of the url expression in the current request context. 
It is always useful if you want a link or redirect target - for 
traversal use queryMethodID instead.

Please read the interfaces and grep for examples in the CMF source.


Cheers,

	Yuppie