[Zope] Question regarding acquisition behaviour.

[Dylan Reinhardt]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:51, Alec Munro wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> It is my understanding that while acquisition will traverse up the 
> directory tree, it will only do so until it finds a match, and then it 
> will restart from that directory.

Sort of.  It works fist by containment (physical path) then by context
(how things are arranged in the URL).  If it finds a match by
containment, it won't look at context.


> So if I'm in script 'someScript' looking for 'container.HTML.pageX' and 
> my hierarchy looks something like this:
> 
> someSite
> -HTML
> --pageX
> -subSite1
> --about
> ---HTML
> ----pageA
> ----pageX
> --contact
> ---HTML
> ----pageA
> 
> if someScript is in 'someSite/subSite1/about' then I will get the 
> result: 'someSite/subSite1/about/HTML/pageX'
> But if someScript is in 'someSite/subSite1/contact' I won't get 
> anything. 

That seems correct.

> It will find the HTML folder

The one *in* someSite/subSite1/contact

> , and give up when there's no 
> 'pageX'

There isn't one... not that can be found from the folders you're in
and/or have acquired.


> . What I would like is the result: '/someSite/HTML/pageX'

Then you should ask for that result.  Try this:

.../container/someSite/HTML/pageX

A better answer, long-term is not to re-use folder names so liberally. 
The more unique they are, the easier it will be to know whether
acquisition is working and why it isn't when it's not.

HTH,

Dylan