[z3-five] BrowserView and AttributeError on getPhysicalPath

[Tim Hicks]

Rob Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:07:42 +0100, Tim Hicks wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a view.py module that looks like:
>>
>>    # Five imports
>>    from Products.Five import BrowserView from
>>    Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile \
>>        import ZopeTwoPageTemplateFile as PageTemplateFile
>>
>>
>>    class TopicView(BrowserView):
>>        """
>>        """
>>
>>        topic_listing  = PageTemplateFile('./topic_listing.pt')
>>        author_listing = PageTemplateFile('./author_listing.pt') topic_view
>>            = PageTemplateFile('./topic_view.pt')
>>
>>
>> I have a ZCML snippet that looks like:
>>
>>    <browser:page
>>        for=".interfaces.IWeblog"
>>        class=".browser.view.TopicView"
>>        attribute="topic_listing"
>>        permission="zope2.View"
>>        name="topics" />
> 
> i don't know what, exactly, is causing your error, but to accomplish the
> same result i'd usually just use the "template" attribute on the
> browser:page directive rather than using attribute.  then you can remove
> the attributes from the view class.
> 
> this may not fix your problem, but it's worth trying, anyway.

Hi Rob,

Yeah, using the "template" attribute does fix the problem.  The reason I 
was trying to put things in a custom view class were twofold:

   1. I was under the impression that this is somehow more correct;

   2. I was actually trying to debug a separate issue with my traversal 
and view code, and wanted to have a bit more control over the view class 
to help with tracking that down.  I feel a separate email to this list 
coming on discussing that issue, though.

Once I hit this getPhysicalPath error, I figured that something wasn't 
right, and that I should try to track down the problem anyway.

Has anyone else got view-ish templates working successfully with Plone? 
  (I have had them working in the past, but am not sure what has changed.)

Thanks,

Tim