[Product-Developers] Re: UID() - should all content objects have it, and how?

[Martin Aspeli]

Daniel Dekany wrote:
> I noticed that Products.TinyMCE assumes that all objects it founds with
> folder listing has an UID() method (otherwise it raises exceptions, etc.).

Uh-up, that's bad. This is not generally a safe assumption, as UID() is 
Archetypes specific.

> That's easy to satisfy with the AT-based content types (as those are
> Products.Archetypes.Referencable-s), but I have mxm DynamicPage-s and that
> type isn't AT-based  (it just extends Products.CMFCore.PortalContent and
> DefaultDublinCoreImpl). After some fiddling they now seem to work on Plone
> 3.32, except this UID() thing... Is that really strictly needed, or it's
> just TinyMCE that assumes too much? What's the best (fastest...) way of
> adding UID support to mxm DynamicPages?

The same will happen with any Dexterity based content.

Which version of Products.TinyMCE are you on? I'm pretty sure it used to 
work fine with Dexterity content, so maybe something has changed?

Martin

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