BoboTraverse

BoboTraverse is just one of the many functions that get called when ZPublisher? is working out which object to Publish. ZPublisher/BaseRequest.py.

Publishing steps:

1. Path is broken down into a list eg a/b/c becomes [c,b,'a']? and stored as request['TraversalRequestNameStack']?
2. The current objects __before_publishing_traverse__ method is called, and return values are ignored:

         __before_publishing_traverse__(object, request)
   
         See Shared/DC/Scripts/Bindings.py for an example of __before_publishing_traverse__. 
         There, the excess URL bits are stripped off, and assigned to traverse_subpath::
   
         path = request['TraversalRequestNameStack']
         subpath = path[:]
         path = [:]
         subpath.reverse()
         request.set('traverse_subpath', subpath)
   

3. BoboTraverse is then called. There are two possible types of return values :

         subobject = __bobo_traverse__(request, entryname)
         parents, parents, ..., parents, object, subobject = __bobo_traverse__(request, entryname)
   

Before