[Zope3-Users] Using attributes in a nameChooser

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 05 August 2005 06:25, Florian Lindner wrote:
> in a Containers chooseName function I want to use a attribute of the
> created object:
>
>     def chooseName(self, name, object):
>         return object.name
>
>
>   File
> "/home/florian/Desktop/zope/lib/python/CS/ContentFolder/contentfolder.py",
> line 15, in chooseName
>     return object.name
> AttributeError: 'Link' object has no attribute 'name'
>
>
> Even though apidoc says there is a attribute name.
>
> Or is it impossible to access the attributes at this time of the creation
> process?

Simply start the debugger to see what's going on.

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

inside the chooseName method and you can inspect the object. You might have to 
say "up" once first to access it.

Regards,
Stephan
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