[Zope] Passing all POST variables?

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Fri, 26 May 2000 11:05:23 +0100


Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:
> 
> I almost got around to doing this for GUF. It would involve interrogating
> REQUEST.form, and generating a load of hidden controls.
> 
> One problem to be solved is that in some cases Zope will have messed
> with your form data before your code sees it (The name="myname:int"
> notation). It would be possible to handle some of these cases using
> an external method to interrogate the data type and generate the correct
> <input type=hidden name="myname:int"> code, but I can't see how to
> handle :record or :method etc.

Here's a very silly idea:

Could you pickle and Base64 encode the data you want to pass, and then
shove it in a single hidden control?

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited