[Moin-user] Including page changes attachment path resolution

[Nikolaus Rath]

"R.Bauer" <rb.proj at gmail.com> writes:
> Am 08.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
>>> I would like to include a static menu bar in every rendered page. The
>>> menu bar itself should be editable as a page.
>>>
>>> I came up with the following code to include another page:
>>>
>>>     def includepage(self, page_name):
>>>         request = self.request
>>>         inc_page = Page(request, page_name, formatter=request.formatter)
>>>         if not inc_page.exists():
>>>             return '<p><strong class="error">Page %s does not exist</strong></p>' % page_name
>>>
>>>         strfile = StringIO.StringIO()
>>>         request.redirect(strfile)
>>>         try:
>>>             inc_page.send_page(content_only=True,
>>>                                omit_footnotes=True,
>>>                                count_hit=False)
>>>             return strfile.getvalue()
>>>         finally:
>>>             request.redirect()
>>>
>>> This works nicely, but there is one problem: if, in any page, I refer to
>>> an attachment as [[attachment:bla.zip]], then MoinMoin looks for bla.zip
>>> in the "navibar" page rather than the page I'm actually viewing.
>
> some ideas:
>  * you may be want to use formatter.page.page_name
>
>  * there are themes on the ThemeMarket with an editable Sidebar based
>    on a wiki page, see http://moinmo.in/ThemeMarket/Mandarin
>
>  * wikiutil.renderText is also your friend.

Thanks! I worked backwards from the Mandarin theme and found that the
following works:

   inc_page = Page(request, page_name)

while this messes up the references:

   inc_page = Page(request, page_name, formatter=request.formatter


Can anyone explain to me why the second form is wrong?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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