[Zope] Quick question.

[Wilson, Derek]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to setup the "stupid_log"
(no offense)

Thanks,
Derek Wilson


-----Original Message-----
From: Goldthwaite, Joe [mailto:joe at goldthwaites.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:37 AM
To: zope at zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Quick question.


I'm a newbie learning Python and Zope.  I'm trying to create a Zope
product for my application since programming is more familiar to me than
HTML.  I ran into a problem that caused me to join this list.  In the
process of figuring out how to best ask the question, I found the
answer.

I had created a package using the example in "The Book of Zope".  When I
first restarted the server, I got an error message in the list of
products saying that my package was broken.  It had an error log showing
the line (a
typo) that was causing the problem.  I fixed the line but restarting
Zope kept giving me the same error message on the same line that I had
fixed.  I decided that something funny was going on so I deleted the
package from the "Product Management at /Control_Panel/Products" screen
in the hopes that it would be recreated or I would at least get a new
error message.

The product went away completely and nothing I could do would get it
back. I tried moving it to a different directory, changing the metadata
name, changing the class names, nothing worked.  I could look in the
directory and see that my __init__.pyc file was being created so I knew
Zope was looking at it but it didn't seem to do anything with it.

After working on it for most of the day, I finally found the problem.
At some point, I had accidentally deleted the "s" from the end of the
constructors'  In other words, instead of this;


def initialize(context):
	"""Register the EIS class"""

	context.registerClass(
		EIS.EIS,
		constructors = (
			EIS.manage_addEISForm,
			EIS.manage_addEIS
		),
		permission = 'Add EIS',
		icon='www/icon.gif'
	)

I had This;


def initialize(context):
	"""Register the EIS class"""

	context.registerClass(
		EIS.EIS,
		constructor = (
			EIS.manage_addEISForm,
			EIS.manage_addEIS
		),
		permission = 'Add EIS',
		icon='www/icon.gif'
	)

Notice the missing "s" in "constructor =".  That was doing it.  Now,
here's my question, is there an error log anywhere that would have shown
what was causing the problem without searching for a needle in a
haystack?  I was looking all over the place for some kind of message as
to why the package wasn't showing up but couldn't find anything.  I'm
assuming I just don't know where to look.





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