[ZPT] absolute url of a page template

[Chris Withers]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> absolute_url has a meaning for "objects", not "methods". And the
>> PageTemplateFile you're using definitely looks like a method (that is, a
>> View in Z3 terms).
> 
> You're right, but methods in Zope have URLs too. :-)  Notice the 
> trailing slash... the problem is that the absolute_url() method thinks 
> the PageTemplateFile has an empty string for an ID.  There is a 
> collector issue for it.

http://collector.zope.org/Zope/620

My workaround is to do something icky in the class:

     # Templates
     security.declareProtected(permissions.use,'issues')
     issues = PageTemplateFile('templates/issues',globals())
     issues.id='issues' # *sigh*

cheers,

Chris