[Zope3-Users] Re: How can I get a viewlet's docstring from within aviewlet manager?

[Andreas Johnsen]

Thanks, that solved my problem. Now I can get hold of the docstring I
want with "viewlet.__class__.__base__.__doc__" 


Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope3-users-bounces at zope.org 
> [mailto:zope3-users-bounces at zope.org] On Behalf Of Philipp 
> von Weitershausen
> Sent: 14. juni 2008 11:22
> To: zope3-users at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope3-Users] Re: How can I get a viewlet's 
> docstring from within aviewlet manager?
> 
> Andreas Johnsen wrote:
> > Let's say I have defined 'class MyViewlet(viewlet.ViewletBase)' and 
> > registered it with the <browser:viewlet> directive. The class 
> > 'MyViewlet' has a docstring. How can I get this docstring from the
> > render() method in a viewlet manager?
> > 
> > In the viewlet manager the viewlet instance is an instance of 
> > 'zope.viewlet.metaconfigure.MyViewlet' and not my class 'MyViewlet'.
> 
> Yeah. Dynamic class generation sucks. For some reason, the 
> bad example led by browser:page et.al. has caught on and now 
> nearly all browser-related ZCML directives do it.
> 
> > Is there a path from 'zope.viewlet.metaconfigure.MyViewlet' to the 
> > class 'MyViewlet' or any other suggestions on how to get 
> the docstring 
> > defined in my class from a viewlet manager?
> 
> You could get the right base class from __bases__ and look at 
> that class's __doc__.
> 
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