Re: getting an object x in an external method that can be passed as context to ContentInit( ... ).initialize(context)

Enrique Pérez Arnaud wrote:
> I am trying to write a folderish Archetypes-based content type (by name 
> of 'Almacen') that, on instantiation, will create a new content type on 
> the fly. This creation starts from a mutator of a text field of the 
> 'Almacen' content type, from which the new content type takes its name. 
> The idea is to have its schema managed by the 'Almacen' instance, which 
> inherits from SchemaEditor from ATSchemaEditorNG. I also want to be able 
> to establish relations (from the Relations product) between different 
> content types, so I cannot work on the lines of GenericPloneContent (I 
> guess i need a fully fledged archetype.) What I am doing, is to create a 
> class in the mutator with type.__new__(type, ... ), call registerType, 
> and then call an external method that installs the new content type.
> The problem I am finding is getting an object (in the external method or 
> in the mutator method) that can be passed as context to ContentInit( ... 
> ).initialize(context), i.e., an object x that can do x.registerClass(...).
> I am using Zope-2.8.3 and Plone-2.1.1
> 

You can say:

     import Zope
     root = Zope.app()

and get another Connection to the physical root of the site.

Just remember to say:

     get_transaction().commit()
     root._p_jar.close()

when you are finished, so you dont get conflict errors.


Suresh



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