22 May 2014
A strange property of putting logic in dexterity content types has bitten me a couple of times. Here’s the issue; You are advised, if you wish to override the given accessors and mutators of the object, to do something like the following:
@property
def my_field(self):
# get some attribute
@my_field.setter
def my_field(self, value):
# do something else before setting the value
This is fine, and is a usual python convention, except that the ‘self’ object will not be acquisition wrapped.
This means that if you try to do anything which relies on acquisition, which is pretty much anything in Plone, then you will run into problems. If you find that you are running into permissions issues, or authentication issues in code within your object, it’s probably to do with this issue.
The simple fix here would just be to change the setter to something like:
def set_my_field(self, value):
# do something else before setting the value
‘self’ would now be acquisition wrapped.
The other option of course is to move any business logic like this out of the model, which is probably what I would advise.