Make a dummy REQUEST object in Zope debugger

published May 23, 2012 11:42 by admin ( last modified May 23, 2012 11:42 )

It is listed on zope.org, but I'll just paste it in here from their pages in case it disappears:

from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager
from AccessControl.SecurityManager import setSecurityPolicy 
from Testing.makerequest import makerequest 
from Products.CMFCore.tests.base.security import PermissiveSecurityPolicy, OmnipotentUser 
_policy=PermissiveSecurityPolicy() 
_oldpolicy=setSecurityPolicy(_policy) 
newSecurityManager(None, OmnipotentUser().__of__(app.acl_users)) 
app=makerequest(app)

and then the request object is in app.REQUEST i noticed. I used the code snippet today to figure out why something did not work in portal_transforms in Plone.

Some things you may want to call in the debugger may require a real REQUEST object, as if they were being published on the web. This zopelabs recipe shows how to make one: