[Zope] Execute a PageTemplate in another context

Mon Feb 4 11:35:48 EST 2008

Andrew Milton wrote:
> +-------[ Peter Bengtsson ]----------------------
> | Is it possible to execute a PageTemplate as if it was located somewhere 
> | else?
> | The PageTemplate has this code::
> | <html><br tal:replace="here/absolute_url_path"/></html>
> | 
> | And it's located in a folder called /foo/bar/ which are normal Zope 
> | Folder objects.
> | I'm executing this template object from Python code (not from URL 
> | travsersal) and the rendered result is:
> | <html>/foo/bar</html>
> | 
> | But what if I want to execute it as if it existed in another context, 
> | e.g. /barfoo
> | Is that possible?
> | 
> | I can imagine a some convoluted solutions but was hoping for something 
> | easy and obvious that I've missed.
> 
> context.foo.bar.barfoo.template_id(...) ?
> 
It's not done like that. I receive it the PageTemplate object as is 
already. I tried this::

  return apply(template_obj, (self.some.other.context, self.REQUEST), kw)

But that didn't work.

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