[Zope-dev] Python Product as DataSkin

[Michael R. Bernstein]

"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> 
> At 10:47 PM 2/18/01 -0800, Michael R. Bernstein wrote:
> >
> >Hmm. So I need to refactor the 'manage_add' method inside
> >the python product into two methods, 'manage_add' which
> >would be used by the 'normal' object creation process and
> >that would also call a second 'setup' method which could be
> >called by the specialists 'myadd' method directly, bypassing
> >the 'manage_add' method entirely.
> >
> >Is that correct?
> 
> Pretty much

Ok, but in that case a simple <dtml-call
"newItem(REQUEST.id)"> should at least execute without
error, and it doesn't:

Error Type: TypeError
Error Value: not enough arguments; expected 4, got 2

Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
line 222, in publish_module
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
line 187, in publish
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line
221, in zpublisher_exception_hook
    (Object: ProviderContainer)
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
line 171, in publish
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py,
line 160, in mapply
    (Object: addArchiveImage)
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
line 112, in call_object
    (Object: addArchiveImage)
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line
167, in __call__
    (Object: addArchiveImage)
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py,
line 502, in __call__
    (Object: addArchiveImage)
  File
/usr/local/Zope-2.2.0-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py,
line 337, in eval
    (Object: newItem(REQUEST.id))
    (Info: newItem)
  File &lt;string&gt;, line 0, in ?
  File /home/webmaven/Products/ZPatterns/Specialists.py,
line 40, in newItem
    (Object: ProviderContainer)
  File /home/webmaven/Products/ZPatterns/Rack.py, line 73,
in newItem
    (Object: ProviderContainer)
  File /home/webmaven/Products/ZPatterns/Rack.py, line 135,
in createItem
    (Object: ProviderContainer)
  File /home/webmaven/Products/ZPatterns/Rack.py, line 232,
in _RawItem
    (Object: ProviderContainer)
TypeError: (see above)

What am I doing wrong?

Michael Bernstein.